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Yep, another Wu-Mas has successfully come and gone. It's time to take down the tree, throw away the platters of cookies and gin that were set by the fire, and put the sheet over the golden eagle's birdcage. We're done. It's over. Onward to 2026!This site's going to take a bit of a break now, but don't worry: the Patreon will still get regular updates, and I might just add some stuff here if
Supreme Clientele 2 is the long-awaited sequel to Ghostface Killah's widely-praised second solo album, Supreme Clientele. Sure, that project was released in 2000 while its follow-up just dropped as a part of the 2025 Legend Has It... series Mass Appeal commissioned last year, but time is relative, right? The common denominator is Ghostface Killah, surely he is fully capable of recording and
Back in the late 1990's, RZA was working every angle he possibly could to reach his goal of complete world domination. He had actually managed to secure outside record deals with the rest of his Wu-Tang Clan brethren, so he figured he could do the same with the myriad affiliates the group had collected since their debut like so many grains of sand in their respective shoes after a trip to the
It may seem like there are a lot of Bronze Nazareth write-ups these days on the site, and you aren't wrong. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based producer and emcee has quietly become one of the most prolific artists in our chosen culture, not just the Wu, whether he's offering production assistance to one of his many friends in the industry (typically handling the beats for entire full-length albums)
The story goes like this: actor Tom Hardy has always been a fan of hip hop, underground hip hop in particular, and was particularly fond of this crew who named themselves Czarface, a comic book alien ambiguously-motivated hero-type, created as a love letter to the type of superheroes and supervillains rappers Esoteric and Inspectah Deck, along with producer DJ 7L, grew up reading about. Tom Hardy
Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman is another one of those Wu-Tang Clan albums that isn't officially credited to the Clan proper for a variety of reasons, many of them having to do with its production process. An indirect follow-up to the 2017 compilation project The Saga Continues, Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman is also entirely produced by Allah Mathematics, the Wu-Element who also
Today's Wu-Mas gift is something that I've been working toward for just over a year now, and... well, would you look at that, today just so happens to be Wednesday. Huh.RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #54 (THE GRAND FINALE) This is it, folks: the grand finale of the RandoMax Radio Wu-Wednesdays side project. With this week’s entry, we’ve worked through fifty-four weeks of Wu-Tang,
Ekphrasis is defined as the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device. It is also the title of a collaborative project from Wu-Tang producer Bronze Nazareth and Brownsville criminal poetry influencer Roc Marciano, one where the beats fall on Marcy's shoulders more often than not. The word choice is understandable, given our hosts, as it sounds plausibly pretentious
Today's contribution to the 2025 edition of The Twelve Days of Wu-Mas is an exclusive-to-the-free-site brief write-up for a Wu-Tang side project that, somehow, it just occurred to me to write about this month. I must be slipping in my old age. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! Various Artists - Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style a/k/a Wu-Tang: Taste the Pain (December 2, 1999) The Wu-Tang Clan might
In 2021, rapper Killah Priest and mostly producer, sometime rapper True Master joined forces for Divine Intervention, a full-length collaborative project that you'd think they would have done at least twenty years prior, given how long both artists have been a part of the Wu-Tang Clan's story. Priest has obviously been around since the very beginning, helping form what would become Sunz of Man,
Grand Rapids, Michigan rapper-slash-entrepreneur Willie "Willie the Kid" Jackson may not be an actual Wu-Tang Clan affiliate, but that certainly hasn't stopped him from periodically popping up here and there with the lore of the group. Even though his older brother is La the Darkman, Willie made his own way into the hip hop space, first through mixtape czars The Aphilliates and then on his own,
Cut Throat City is a heist film released in 2020 that takes place in a post-Katrina New Orleans. It was directed by The RZA, but not written by him - that credit goes to Paul Cuschieri in what appears to be his only credit. It features big-name actors such as Terrance Howard, Wesley Snipes, and Ethan Hawke playing alongside Shameik Moore (Miles Morales in the Spiderverse animated films),
Hello, and welcome to the annual Twelve Days of Wu-Mas program, in which we spend almost the entire next two weeks celebrating the Wu-Tang Clan in various different ways, a lot of which involve writing or different podcast-slash-mix shows exposing the two readers to the music of the group and their extended families. Longtime readers will know what to expect (to a degree), while newbies will
You likely have more pressing holiday concerns eating away at you today, or if you don’t happen to celebrate, you might just be busy with work or something, so I’ll keep this brief. The Wu-Wednesdays side project will be wrapping up next week, after which point I’ll obviously still enjoy listening to the Wu-Tang Clan, but I won’t be setting aside extra time to track down samples and record
The holiday season is upon us once again – it seems that living in hell on earth doesn’t stop the planet from rotating on its axis, who knew? – which tends to mean one thing with regard to this very blog. Longtime readers will know what I’m talking about, but for the rest of you two, all I can say is that you should pay closer attention around the time Santa begins his journey. Until then, we
With the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel beginning to blink, which I think means it’s running out of battery life, we continue to chug along with the Wu-Wednesdays series. This week we present ten additional songs produced by various beatmakers within the Wu’s orbit for those outside of their immediate bubble, with both older and newer acts represented. I tried to exclude every member
We’ve reached a milestone over here on the Wu-Wednesdays side project. This week’s episode marks fifty consecutive weeks that the series has run, and the light at the end of the tunnel is very near, which means I can soon look forward to not having to pore over thousands of music files in order to bring you the best the Wu-Tang has to offer. (This has been fun for me, obviously, because why else
This week’s entry into the Wu-Wednesdays catalog has no real theme, apart from the interludes, which always seem to be related in some fashion unless they very clearly aren’t. Look, in the United States it’s a holiday week, so a lot of our minds are elsewhere, and sometimes you just need to hear good music without having to overthink shit. This week is perfect for that, whether you use this
Heads that dare to press ‘play’ on this week’s installment of the ongoing Wu-Wednesdays side project will be greeted with some shining examples of rare and off-the-radar Wu-Tang wonderment, some of which you two may not be all that familiar with. Hopefully you two will wind up finding something new to love on here, as it was difficult to cull this one down to just ten tracks. Ultimately, this
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Episode forty-four of the ongoing RandoMax Radio Wu-Wednesdays miniseries eschews all of the myriad affiliates and friends of friends in favor of getting back to basics. The ten tracks selected this week represent some of the Wu-Tang Clan’s more mainstream offerings, measured by either potential or actual crossover appeal, and one thing I noticed while compiling this chapter is just how often
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Episode forty-two of this limited Wu-Wednesdays series shifts the focus, once again, to the Wu-Tang Clan’s B-team. However, this time around I don’t simply mean “every affiliate that isn’t in the proper group.” No, this time we’re dealing with a tiered system, folks, which begs the question: what qualifies someone to be on the team that is thisclose to joining the big league? Considering this is