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O.N.E. The Duo Carve Their Own Path From Wu-Tang Roots to Country Music
O.N.E. The Duo could’ve taken the easy way into the music biz. The mother-daughter duo of Tekitha Washington and Prana Supreme Diggs was already hip-hop royalty — as in Prana’s father is RZA, while Washington (known professionally by only her first name) can be heard on a number of Wu-Tang Clan group and solo tracks across her 25-year career — and likely would’ve coasted into a secure space within the rap or R&B worlds pretty easily. Instead, O.N.E. (which stands for “Observant, Noetic, and Effervescent”) decided to delve into arguably the most difficult corner of the music realm they could enter: country. As the only Black mother-daughter combination in country — a genre which has often been challenging for women and minorities alike — the Nashville-based duo is carving their own way ...
Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Widow Sues Wu-Tang Clan Productions For Unpaid Royalties
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bob Berg / Getty It’s been almost 18 years since the untimely death of Hip-Hop icon, Russell Tyrone Jones a.k.a Ol Dirty Bastard, and while his music still bumps in all corners of the Hip-Hop world his widow, Icelene Jones, is claiming that she isn’t getting any royalties from his music catalogue. According to Variety, Jones has filed a lawsuit against Wu-Tang Clan Productions on Tuesday (February 8) alleging that the production company hadn’t paid any royalties to the estate from 2011 to 2021, when it had sent a check for $130,000. Though the estate did receive some payments from Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp in 2019 and 2020, they allege that it was only a fraction of what they’re owed. In the suit the Jones estate state that over the last 10 ye...
Bong Bong: RZA Files $2M Lawsuit Against Bootleggers Selling Fake Wu Merchandise
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sakura/WENN.com / WENN The RZA promotes peace and unity but he is still about his coin. He has filed suit against several parties who have been selling unauthorized Wu-Tang Clan merchandise. As spotted on Complex The Abbott is claiming different websites are profiting from his group’s logo without paying the proper licensing fees. According to documentation obtained by Complex RZA says that these merchants are guilty of “trademark infringement, counterfeiting, and false designation of origin”. Additionally the bootleggers, who are have been identified as all China based, are also passing the goods as genuine articles. “Many defendants also deceive unknowing consumers by using the Wu-Tang Clan Trademarks without authorization within the content, text, and/...
Further Secrets of the Wu Universe
It feels like the Wu-Tang Clan has been around forever, and their rise to fame is certainly a well-documented one. Between group member autobiographies (RZA’s Wu-Tang Manual and The Tao of Wu, U-God’s Raw, Buddah Monk’s ODB The Dirty Version, Raekwon’s From Staircase to Stage) and documentaries (Showtime’s Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men and Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga) it might be assumed that every angle of the Clan’s story has been examined. The epic From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga (Hachette Books) proves that is decidedly not the case. (Credit: Alice Arnold) Billed as “the most three-dimensional portrait of Wu-Tang to date,” this revelatory book is the work of S.H. Fernando, a golden-era hip-hop journalist present for some of the Clan’s most legendary studio sessions, ...
Government Releases Photos Of Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ Album
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Department of Justice / buzzfeed The Hip-Hop community has just gotten a better understanding of one of the most unique Rap releases of all time. The government has released photos of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin. Source: Department of Justice / buzzfeed This week BuzzFeed News has acquired some additional visuals from the one of one project that only few people have had the chance to hear. On July 26, 2021 United States Marshals Service auctioned off the release and found it a new home with digital art collective PleasrDAO. With this legally binding transaction a bill of sale had to be prepared detailing the purchase. Along with the paperwork the federal agency visually documented everything related to the release including the je...
The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to history—the sounds we partied with, copulated to, fought about, and wept over—everyone has an opinion. That ours should be more valid than yours is debatable. But hey—it’s our magazine. What, then, you ask, constitutes “greatest”? Don’t even start. Suffice it to say that, after much heated discussion and countless veiled insults, it came down to the factors of both remarkable artistry and cultural shock value. Sometimes a record’s knock-you-off-your-Skechers impa...
Read Me: Raekwon’s From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan
Thirty years ago, Raekwon (or Corey Woods, as the government knows him) was just a young man from Staten Island with a passion for rapping. A year later, he and his childhood friend, now known as Ghostface Killah, joined seven other kids from New York City’s fifth borough to form Wu-Tang Clan. The rest is well-documented hip-hop history. In his new memoir, From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan, Raekwon and co-author Anthony Bozza take readers on a journey from the very beginning to the present. It peels back the curtain on the ups and downs of life not only within one of the most successful rap groups of all time but also for one of the most prolific and influential solo artists of his time. With Raekwon’s raw and unfiltered memoir out now via Gallery Books, SP...
3LAU Is Giving Away a Singular Copy of a New Song And Its Rights—As an NFT
3LAU is continuing to define the future of NFT technology with an innovative project that will reward one investor with an exclusive song they can personally call their own. The project, titled “WAVEFORM,” is the marquee offering in a collaboration between the Christie’s auction house, NFT platform OpenSea, and 3LAU’s own Royal business venture, which is dedicated to facilitating the tokenization of music on the blockchain. “WAVEFORM” is the title of an original 3LAU track with only one copy in existence. Whomever takes it home at auction will enjoy full mastering and publishing rights to the intellectual property, meaning the owner can choose to distribute, monetize, remix, and even rename the track as they see fit. The NFT also includes a physical...
Hulu’s ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’ Renewed for 3rd Season
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JOHNNY NUNEZ / Johnny Nunez Fans of the Wu-Tang Clan will undoubtedly have some mixed feelings as it was announced that Wu-Tang: An American Saga will return for a third – and final season – on Hulu. Wu-Tang: An American Saga is the story of the rise of the group from their hardscrabble beginnings on the borough of Staten Island in New York City in the early 1990’s as the crack cocaine epidemic was in full effect. Bobby Diggs, aka The RZA, is someone who has a unique vision to create a new path involving music and the involvement of other young Black men he knows from the streets. Their path would lead them to become one of the most innovative and unconventional groups ever in Hip-Hop culture and music overall. The second season, which ended in October, s...
RZA Regrets Selling Once Upon a Time in Shaolin to Martin Shkreli
RZA admitted his regret about selling Wu-Tang Clan‘s controversial, one-and-only compact disc copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin to Martin Shkreli in a Hot 97 radio interview on Wednesday. “It was in the wrong hands in reality,” RZA said. “He made the deal before it was revealed of his character, his personality, and all of the insidious things he would go on to do. That wasn’t the guy I met, but he definitely unfolded into that guy.” Last week, crypto collective PleasrDAO purchased the CD at a government auction, which had previously been seized from “pharma bro” Shkreli who had purchased it directly from RZA for $2 million in 2015. The pharmaceutical executive, Shkreli, was sentenced to prison on securities fraud and charges three years later. “Now that PleasrDAO has it, there...
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Crypto Group Revealed As New Owners Of 1-Of-1 Wu-Tang Clan Album [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Griffin Lotz for Rolling Stone / Griffin Lotz for Rolling Stone It seems there might be some new hope for fans of Wu-Tang Clan. Their Once Upon a Time In Shaolin album has been purchased by a crypto collective. Source: Griffin Lotz for Rolling Stone / Griffin Lotz for Rolling Stone The mythical project has finally found a new home. Interestingly enough how it was purchased this second round is also very unique. Rolling Stone recently covered the transaction in a lengthy feature that confirms that a group of 74 crypto enthusiasts, who formed like Voltron, and secured the rare release. The group is called PleasrDAO and have a passion for buying digital collectibles and honoring “anti-establish rebels”. “This beautiful piece of art, this ultimate protes...
N.O.R.E. Walks Back “Flunkies” Jab Towards Wu-Tang Clan Affiliates
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty N.O.R.E. has become one of the most prominent voices in media today via his Drink Champs podcast series with co-host DJ EFN. Given the nature of the show’s program and the looseness of conversation, the Queens veteran took a swipe at Wu-Tang Clan affiliates but has since walked back the jab after calling members of the collective “flunkies.” During an episode of Drink Champs featuring Mickey Factz, Asher Roth, and Blu, N.O.R.E. referred to Shyheim and the Sunz Of Man as “flunkies” which prompted some laughs from the guests. Shyheim, not taking kindly to N.O.R.E.’s jab, responded via Instagram and let it be known that he’s never been anyone’s flunky. Shyheim also made sure to defend other crew affiliates such as La The Darkman, Royal F...
