After this, it was kept in a vault in Morocco until it was auctioned last year to highest bidder Martin Shkreli, for $2 million, making it the most valuable album in existence. Or who knows? Maybe there's an even higher purpose to this move? Be it as it may, though, the fact of the matter is that this mystery album called Once Upon A Time In Shaolin exists in a single vinyl copy and was recorded in secret over the course of six years. We're guessing this is a way of ensuring that their legacy lives on for at least some reasonable time after they are no longer. However, there is an album of theirs, comprised of thirty-one tracks that have never been heard yet and the band has made sure that none probably will.
No, the Wu-Tang Clan doesn't plan to be to still be alive and making music nearly a century from now. Also of note, the famous Wu-Tang Logo was supposedly first drawn by DJ and producer Allah Mathematics, an old friend of GZA, and frequent collaborator. So, thanks to the photographer's creativity, the cult album had a cult cover to go with it. Thus, Hastings came up with the grand plan of hiding their faces and instead emphasizing on Wu-Tang, as opposed to the individuals in the group. But, as this was a fresh formation, nobody could guarantee the success of which, they couldn't take the chance of investing even more time and money and had to work with what they had. Something that would later become a sort of trademark of the group (more about that later). As photographer Daniel Hastings shared in an interview, three of the group's members did not come to the shoot, for whatever reason. Well, the idea actually came as a sort of necessity, as a result of a no-show of some of the members. But have you ever wondered about the album cover? The picture, in which six figures are lined up, standing behind one another, wearing stocking masks? This was Wu-Tang's first official album and it definitely sealed their name in the history of rap. It is regarded as one of the top most influential ones in the genre and is also thought to have paved the way for a number of artists that rose to fame after the album's creation, like The Notorious B.I.G, Nas, Mobb Deep and even Jay Z. 15 Why The Masks On The First Album Cover?Įnter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is truly one of hip hop's most remarkable albums ever released.
We've dedicated this list to some of the least-known and most interesting facts about this old-school hip hop formation and its members. And what's most important is that all of the individual Wu-Tang Clan members, whom we all very well know by name and for their independent work and who are their own wholesome artists, are just as important to the genre separately, as they are as a group. Even to this day, the Wu-Tang Clan is dubbed to be one of the pillars of the golden age of hip hop, sculpting today’s most popular music type and paving the way for younger artists.Īnyone, who grew up in the nineties, even those as far from the hip hop lifestyle and genre as can be, are well aware of these giants of East Coast gangster rap, whose fame and accomplishments put them well in the category of legends of the music world. This legendary rap group is, in fact, by far one of the strongest influences in the genre and has become a symbol of old school hip hop, with millions of fans and followers across the world. This story has been viewed 769 times.The Wu-Tang Clan is among the most iconic hip hop formations that helped shape the 90s the way we remember them today. 158,286 TLC’s ‘sMothered’ finale recap: Babies, blowups close Season 2
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