• 8 Album Covers With A Childhood Photo Of The Artist

    Childhood is generally not the most badass part of a person's life, which is why childhood photos are often brought out by your parents when they feel like embarrassing you. However, these eight artists embraced these childhood photos, and ended up using them to create iconic album covers.

  • Wu-Tang Clan's Chemistry Isn't 'Good Right Now': RZA

    The production of the Wu-Tang Clan's latest album "A Better Tomorrow" was reportedly a long and painful process, and in a new interview with "NME," Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA reveals how difficult it was to get the whole Clan to work together. According to RZA, the chemistry within the group is "not all that good right now," and even suggests that it may have had a negative influence on the quality of "A Better Tomorrow." "There was a lot of opposition within the Wu-Tang circle to doing the album," RZA reveals to "NME." "I'll level with you, the chemistry's not all that good right now ... We've all done this long enough to know this process isn't just like, you make an album, then that's that. It's like a presidential campaign. You don't just make the policies then sit back. You create your platform, then you gotta take it out to the people." When discussing how the group's poor chemistry may have negatively affected "A Better Tomorrow," RZA compares the album to a baby that "comes out with one arm. You gonna love that child, make the best out of that situation and help it have the best life it can."

  • Killer Mike, Young Thug, 34 Others Featured On 42-Minute Track "The Rap Monument" [WATCH]

    Have you ever listened to a rap song and found yourself wishing that it was about 40 minutes longer and had a thousand guest verses? If you have, then you're in luck, because Noisey has released its massive, Hudson Mohawke-produced "The Rap Monument," which features 36 rappers doing what they do best (rapping) for 42 minutes, more than twice as long as Eminem's 16-minute "Detroit vs. Everybody" remix. If you'd like some context, it's about two minutes longer than the entirety of Illmatic.

  • Wu-Tang Clan 'A Better Tomorrow' Vid Features Footage from Michael Brown, Eric Garner Protests [WATCH]

    Wu-Tang Clan dropped a video for the title track off their new album "A Better Tomorrow," and it is one powerful, political visual. The group used footage from protests revolving around the recent decisions to not indict police officers who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York. Both grand jury verdicts have caused unrest throughout the country and political debates among friends, family and famous personalities. The video opens with a snippet of an address by President Barack Obama, who says the incidents are part of larger issues that have been in the public eye for four decades. Scenes from protests follow, with police sporting riot gear and citizens chanting "Hands up, don't shoot." "We want justice," Raekwon raps. "Police are supposed to protect and serve / And then they shoot us down like wild animals, the nerve / Of them cold-hearted killers with blue suits / Slaying our black youth." Check out the video below.

  • Stream Wu-Tang Clan's New Album 'A Better Tomorrow,' '8 Diagrams' Follow-up is Out December 2 [LISTEN]

    Wu-Tang Clan will drop its sixth studio album, A Better Tomorrow, on Dec. 2, but anxious fans can stream the record now on YouTube. It's been seven years since RZA, Ghostface Killah and Method Man all collaborated on an album (2007's 8 Diagrams). Despite feuding between leaders Raekwon and RZA, the group managed to work out its problems and finish the album, releasing the singles "Ruckus in B Minor," "Ron O'Neal," "Keep Watch" and "Necklace" previously.

  • Wu-Tang Clan Share Title Track From Upcoming Album 'A Better Tomorrow' [LISTEN]

    We're less than one week away from the new Wu-Tang Clan album A Better Tomorrow, which gives the New York rap crew enough time to share one more track before the album drops. The latest song to be shared from the album is its title track, though in a rather confusing twist, Wu-Tang Clan already released a song titled "A Better Tomorrow" on their 1997 album Wu-Tang Forever, which is totally different from the one they shared today.

  • LL Cool J Shares New Single "Break Your Face" From Upcoming Album 'G.O.A.T. 2" [LISTEN]

    Though there's no release date yet for LL Cool J's upcoming album G.O.A.T. 2, the legendary Queens rapper has shared one of the album's tracks "Break Your Face," which you can check out below. As the title implies, the 808 Mafia-produced track offers a pretty heavy beat and some intense flow from LL, who makes references to Malcolm X, Al Qaeda, and his notorious Brad Paisley collaboration "Accidental Racist."

  • Ghostface Killah Says The Notorious B.I.G.'s Death Was Sadder Than Tupac's

    The murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. were two defining moments in the story of ‘90s hip-hop, and though they’re usually lumped together into one tragedy, rapper Ghostface Killah claims that one was more painful than the other. In a recent interview with XXL, the Wu-Tang MC says that he was more hurt by Biggie’s death than by Tupac’s, for deeply personal reasons.

  • Mobb Deep Releasing Unheard Wu-Tang Clan Verses with New Album

    One of the most prominent hip-hop duos of the '90s is getting back to work on its first album in nearly eight years, and it might have some help from another well-known rap collective. No, we're not talking about Outkast...but rather Mobb Deep. Member Prodigy told XXL that fans should expect to hear new verses from members of the Wu-Tang Clan when Mobb drops a new record during 2014.
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