Macklemore, who referenced Wu-Tang Clan in his “Can’t Hold Us” single, recently reviewed Wu’s Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).
“I remember starting to listen to it when I was in the sixth grade, so I was probably a little bit late from when it first dropped, but once I found it, it became the soundtrack to my entire existence,” Macklemore said in a review of the album on xxlmag.com. “The styles were just so different than anything that I had ever heard before. I grew up on a lot of West Coast gangster rap up until that point, and when I first got introduced to Wu-Tang, it was like all these different voices and cadences and personalities, and the charisma was completely different. You had Snoop [Dogg] with this really silky, pimp delivery, and then you had somebody that’s a complete, polar opposite like an Ol’ Dirty Bastard or a Method Man, where it was grimy, where it sounded like four-track recordings of spitting saliva.”
Macklemore also spoke about the album’s “raw” nature.
“It brought a level of grime to the game,” Macklemore said. “It brought a raw, malt liquor, my-hair-half-braided element of ‘I don’t give a fuck.’ That’s what was refreshing about it to me. There was something that Wu-Tang grabbed onto that felt real and organic. They felt very free. It wasn’t manufactured. They were capturing a moment in their recording and doing it in a way that was completely innovative in its own way, and no one really had a sound like that when Wu-Tang came out. ‘Protect Ya Neck’ was one that stood out, ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ But the whole project, I could literally listen to the whole thing. What’s crazy is that these guys still do Rock The Bells damn near every year, and there’s always a new generation of Wu-Tang fans. They’ve solidified their place as the greatest Hip Hop group of all time.”
On “Can’t Hold Us,” Macklemore says that Wu-Tang Clan raised him. “That’s what you get when Wu-Tang raised you,” Mack raps on the track.
Wu-Tang Clan released Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993 via Loud Records. The group is celebrating the album’s twentieth anniversary this month.
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Seriously. Dude u are one of those computer nerds who caught on to Wu Tang in the youtube era.
hes 30 years old. when he was in sixth grade there was no such thing as youtube you fucking hater
im younger than him and i aint have the internet until i hit 9th grade and that was on some dial up modem shit
Youtube started in 2005 and didnt catch on until a year or so later. Macklemore had already been rapping for for 5+ years but keep hatin.
white people should not be allowed to listen to Wu-Tang Clan
Let em listen, they can learn some Supeeme Wisdom and 120. LOL.
what are you smoking?
your mother loves white people
LOL they dont even know what 120 is. Peace
Top 5 Racist Rappers:
1. Lord Jamar
2. Dead Prez
3. Lauryn Hill
4. Immortal Technique
5. Ghostface Killah
You forgot that faggot eminem and his racist tapes against black woman. He should be number one on your list.
50 cent should be there to for being racist against his own kind. Krs One used to putwhites in check too and you might want to add nas too
yeah fuck 50 cent for feeding kids in africa, thats so fuckin racist
stfu all of you faggots
stfu that’s not even true and your a faggot ass troll
funny how racist whites and racist blacks find commonality
in their hate of “faggots”, ya’ll need to hug it out!
I was reading this article and I was wondering why eminem signed crooked and joe burden. peep the comments they made about him being racist
http://escobar300.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/eminem-vs-benzino-beef-revisited/
The truth is eminem is racist.
LOL they sellout for a little bit of money
reminds me of how everyone on MMG used to shit talk Rick Ross for being a fraud but now they all signed to his label and best friends
Stop lying fuckboy aiint nann one of them Black folk on MMG talked any shit about Ross worth him tripping over and they damn sure ain’t on that white boy shit calling people frauds like 50 Cents zombie Stans
Rockie Fresh did
meek Mill did
Just curious as to why these comments seem to always find their way over to race. This article has nothing to do with race.
cause people hate on dude cause he’s white
OR MAYBE BECAUSE HE’S WACK
all caps don’t make an opinion MORE VALID
This silly vanilla ass clown never listened to Wu Tang. Get the fuck outta here.
how would you know
I bet your ass smells like chestnuts
so all u have to do now is rap and pay homage to a former rap group or artist and u get rep points… fuk outta here
he had nothing to gain here by paying homage to wu-tang. im sure they asked him his thoughts on the project for the 20th anniversary.
he got a single thats 7x plat independently, an album thats platinum independently… he sold more in the last year than everyone on wu-tang put together has in the last 10 year bruh he aint have to say shit about them for no rep points
GTFO here with he sold more then all teh Wu combined over the last 10 years. The Wu 1st two albums have sold more then anything this dude will ever release stop trying to hate on the LEGENDS
im not hating on them but those are facts. he doesnt need to big them up for rep points when hes going plat independtly and doing it bigger in 2013 than anyone in wu
if anything Wu should be calling up Macklemore for some features on his next album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpe1QieFGBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8zRiaLOkfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSMwErPs7Q
no no no no gtfo. just stop rapping please.
lol