In 1992, RZA got together with GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and Raekwon. The Wu-Tang Clan, according to RZA's vision, would take the hip-hop world by storm, and eventually claim a massive percentage of the market through careful planning and in-your-face skills. He wanted to form a huge crew, inspired by the discipline and organization of kung fu and the strategy and smarts of chess, and call it the Wu-Tang Clan. RZA, GZA, and Ol' Dirty Bastard originally came together as a group called Force of the Imperial Master, which had one popular underground single before the RZA decided to push a new idea. The remaining six were friends they made in school or around Staten Island's Park Hill and Stapleton housing projects. Of the nine original members, three were cousins: RZA (Robert Diggs), GZA (Gary Grice), and Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones). The Wu-Tang Clan came together out of family ties and high school friendships in Staten Island-referred to as Shaolin Land in this song-and Brooklyn in the 1980s. Economic realism is just a gateway: Raekwon and Inspectah Deck have plenty of reasons to take a realistic, gritty outlook on the whole world. Like Charles Dickens in Hard Times, these Wu-Tang guys are more interested in telling the story of society's failures than in painting some sort of optimistic picture of them "bettering themselves." And, like Charles Dickens, the Wu-Tang Clan are powerful, innovative, and edgy storytellers.
Living in the world, no different from a cell Inspectah Deck, the Wu-Tang Clan's secret weapon, follows that up with his own tales of street life, prison time, and narrow escapes, showing more sorrow than bravado about what he's been through:īut as the world turns I learned life is Hell And that's "C.R.E.A.M.," in a nutshell.īut is the song just a simple justification for ruthless capitalism? Hardly.īefore the message even has a chance to sink in, Raekwon the Chef comes in with a story about the extreme risks he took as a young drug dealer who couldn't get ahead. "Cash rules everything around me," says Method Man.
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