Ear Candy Update Icons - The Wu-Tang Clan

An Ear Candy Update Icons episode dedicated entirely to the Wu-Tang Clan's rich legacy.

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The Wu-Tang Clan is what happens when nine well-organized people who are in on a joke also happen to be world class MCs. No, for really real. World class. These motherfuckers were and are still on some different shit. Nothing sounded like them before or since. They have a unique style and that will be immediately noticable on first listen. They possess the sort of lyrical dexterity that sends frail egos wailing into a corner. They stomped a mudhole throughout the '90s and into the 2000s. When they arrived the Boom Bap of the early 1980s was on the downslide. The West Coast G Funk was in full effect. The Gangsta Rap of the late '80s and early '90s was still important. Socially conscious rappers like Chuck D of Public Enemy and Q-Tip of Tribe Called Quest were on the forefront. History remembers the iconoclasts - the ones who struggled against type and time and style to reveal themselves only years later as groundbreakers. The Wu-Tang Clan remain the greatest hip-hop group of all time. Run-DMC were fun but the rhyme schemes were easy. NWA had exactly one good record. The Beastie Boys were fun, to be sure, but they lacked the edge that a great collective needs to catapult them over the top. Colorful, flamboyant, aggressive, swaggering, confident... I could exhaust my vocabularly of superlatives trying to describe them. What's still important is that you want to throw up the W and shout WU TANG! Yeah... you know you do. 

The tracks:
Protect Ya Neck
Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit
C.R.E.A.M.
Method Man
Bring the Pain
I'll Be There for You
Release Yo' Delf
Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Brooklyn Zoo
Criminology
Incarcerated Scarfaces
Ice Cream
Duel of the Iron Mic
4th Chamber
Shadowboxin'
Assassination Day
Winter Warz
Daytona 500
All That I Got Is You
Reunited
Severe Punishment
A Better Tomorrow
Triumph
Impossible
Hellz Wind Staff
Got Your Money
Nutmeg
Cherchez la Ghost
Wu Banga 101
Careful (Click, Click)
Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)
Gravel Pit
Uzi (Pinky Ring)
People Say