Inspectah Deck says that the Wu-Tang Clan purposefully wanted to create an iconic logo.
“The Wu-Tang logo is definitely up there with Batman, man, or the actual W-B Warner Brothers,” he says to VladTV. “That’s what we was looking at it as, like we wanted it to be that type of W. When you see that, it means, like ‘Warner Brothers.’ Bow.”
The Wu-Tang rapper says that the logo, designed by DJ Allah Mathematics, shows how the group is now bigger than any of the individual members.
Deck says that he enjoys seeing the logo tattooed on people’s bodies or printed on merchandise.
“Whether it’s commercially available or it’s fan-created, it’s all just beautiful to me,” he says. “To be part of this movement and to be 20 years later still at that, and to still have these die-hard, like we got die-hard fans. We don’t got them fans that they like you today and they gone tomorrow. Our fans have been down since day one.”
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As much as I hate to admit, the Wu-logo nowadays are mostly in the mainstream because of Drake. The logo is as classic hip-hop as it gets, yet most people rocking it because of fashion without probably being able to name 3 Wu-songs from the top of their heads. It’s a shame, really. It reminds me to the days when suddenly every hipster started listening UGK, or at least claimed to be.
Because of Drake?? How so?
What kind of odd logic is this?
B’cauz of who? U must b nuts
Hint: the key word is “mainstream” (and to less extent “nowadays”).
That logo will be forever immortalized. Been listening to Wu-Tang long before Drake.