Cuban Linx was a diverse, theatrical criminological epic that saw RZA move away from the raw, stripped-down beats of the early albums and towards a richer, cinematic sound more reliant on strings and classic soul samples. Late summer, and early fall of 1995 saw the release of Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx., and GZA's Liquid Swords, which would turn out to be the group's two most significant and well-received solo projects. His debut album Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version was released in March 1995, and is considered a hip hop classic. The track "All I Need" from Tical was the winner of the "Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group" at the 1995 Grammy Awards.Īfter the release of Method Man's Tical, Ol' Dirty Bastard was the next member to launch a solo career. RZA's hands-on approach to Tical extended beyond his merely creating the beats to devising song concepts and structures. It was entirely produced by RZA, who for the most part continued with the grimy, raw textures he explored on 36 Chambers. In November 1994 his solo album Tical was released. It had always been planned for Method Man to be the first breakout star from the group's lineup, with the b-side of the first single being his now-classic eponymous solo track. The Gravediggaz released 6 Feet Deep in August 1994, which became one of the best known works to emerge from hip hop's small sub-genre of horrorcore. RZA was the first to follow up on the success of Enter the Wu-Tang with a side project, founding the Gravediggaz with Prince Paul and Frukwan (both of Stetsasonic) and Poetic. So what do you wanna diversify.? Your assets? We reinvented the way hip hop was structured, and what I mean is, you have a group signed to a label, yet the infrastructure of our deal was like anyone else's We still could negotiate with any label we wanted, like Meth went with Def Jam, Rae stayed with Loud, Ghost went with Sony, GZA went with Geffen Records, feel me? And all these labels still put "Razor Sharp Records" on the credits Wu Tang was a financial movement. RZA spoke on the Wu-Tang Clan's unorthodox business model: The success of Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers established the group as a creative and influential force in mid-1990s hip hop, allowing Ol' Dirty Bastard, GZA, RZA, Raekwon, U-God, Method Man, and Ghostface Killah to negotiate solo contracts.
This album turned out to be critically acclaimed, and to date is regarded as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Though there was some difficulty in finding a record label that would sign the Wu-Tang Clan while still allowing each member to record solo albums with other labels, Loud/RCA finally agreed, releasing their debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), in November 1993. The Wu-Tang Clan first became known in 1993 following the release of the independent single "Protect Ya Neck", which immediately gave the group a sizable underground following, especially after their tour with Kat Nu and Cypress Hill. The group developed backronyms for the name (as hip hop pioneers such as KRS-One and Big Daddy Kane did with their names), including "We Usually Take All Niggas' Garments", "Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game", and "Wisdom of the Universe, and the Truth of Allah for the Nation of the Gods".ġ992–96: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) & Solo Albums
Wu-Tang theme, dividing the album into Shaolin and Wu-Tang sections. The group's debut album loosely adopted a Shaolin vs. RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard adopted the name for the group after the film Shaolin and Wu Tang. The Wu-Tang Clan was assembled in the early 1990s with RZA as the de facto leader and the group's producer. We never had a serious record deal under that title. So we never got signed as a group back then. I remember Biz Markie, when he was famous and I wasn't famous, and he was like: "Yo! I heard that shit! Your song with Anson Guthrie a Unique and Specialist rapper." I was the Scientist. See, me, GZA, and ODB had a crew called FOI: Force of the Imperial Master, nah mean? We made a song, called "All in Together Now", which became famous on tapes throughout Brooklyn, Downtown Staten Island, New York, all the way down to Miami. All in Together Now was never signed to a record label.
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