GZA, Columbia Professor Bringing Hip-Hop to the Classroom
As education continues to evolve, it has become a requirement for teachers to constantly be searching for new ways to engage their students in the many subjects that fill up a curriculum. For that reason, it seemed like a match made in heaven when Columbia University professor Dr. Christopher Edmin, a lifelong hip-hop fan, and legendary rapper Gza of the Wu-Tang Clan met this past summer as guests on a radio show in New York City.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsWatch Santigold's New Video For "The Keepers"
Santigold goes all Stepford Wife on us in her the video for “The Keepers” from her newest album, Master of My Make Believe, available now.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGZA Announces New Album Dark Matters
Wu-Tang Clan rapper GZA will release a quantum physics and astronomy-influnced album titled _Dark Matters_, Prefix Magazine reports. The rapper stopped working on a different album last November to focus on this new project. read more
Found in: Music, NewsWu-Tang's GZA to Speak at Harvard
A report by Rolling Stone yesterday indicated that the GZA, a founding member of hip-hop collective the Wu-Tang Clan, will get to wax philosophical about his lyrics and music at Harvard University on Dec. 1. read more
Found in: Culture, NewsWu-Tang Clan Announces Tour Dates for December and January
After completing their Rebirth Tour in Europe this summer, the renowned hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan recently rolled out more tour dates, this time in the U.S. The N.Y.C.-based collective will play shows on both coasts throughout December and January. The short leg of dates kicks off in New Jersey and wraps up in Los Angeles at Club Nokia. read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsWu-Tang Clan's GZA Inspires FX Comedy
A Wu-Tang Clan member’s life is in development to become FX’s newest sitcom.... read more
Found in: TV, NewsGZA Shelves Liquid Swords Sequel, Announces New Album
Despite the recent promising news regarding a Liquid Swords follow-up, the proposed GZA album Liquid Swords 2: The Return of the Shadowboxer has now been postponed for the foreseeable future. One of the alleged reasons for the delay stems from RZA, GZA’s intended producer for the sequel, who is currently busy working on directing martial-arts movie, Man With The Iron Fist.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsMobbed Up: Hip-Hop's Eight Best Posse Cuts
The best times are always better when you’ve got friends to share them with. That’s true of almost everything, and it’s doubly, triply true of hip-hop. There’s even a specific word for getting your crew together on a song in the rap world—the posse cut, where four or more rappers trade verses in a song. Now granted, DJ Khaled has made a living by clowning on this most respectable of traditions, but that hardly means that every other posse cut is all about shrieking “We the best!” For your consideration then: the eight best posse cuts that totally aren’t by... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayDavid Cross, Bob Mould, Ezra Koenig, GZA, More Contribute to Fucked Up Christmas Song
For its own version of a 1984-turned-classic holiday track, Canadian hardcore punkers Fucked Up have created quite the Christmas choir.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDevendra Banhart Talks Potential New Album With Wu-Tang Clan's GZA
"He's a legend. He's untouchable. He's an avatar, an iconoclast," gushes the hirsute folkie... read more
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