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The inspiration of The Thirty-Sixth Chamber and the idea of teaching "the knowledge of Shaolin" to the world stuck with the RZA, whose creative mind was buzzing as he grew up in the middle of intense violence. And it changed me, for real." ( The Wu-Tang Manual, 59) The idea of self-discipline, of re-creating yourself.
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The 36th chamber requires the disciple "to teach the knowledge of Shaolin to the rest of the world." RZA recalls that this movie "opened my mind. I could relate to that on a lot of levels." The master in The Thirty-Sixth Chamber eventually moves through 35 chambers of kung fu discipline. So this schoolteacher was teaching his students about sacrifice and righteousness They didn't know they were oppressed, they figured that's how it's always been. The film itself was a life-changing experience: "You had the government oppressing all the people, but the young didn't even know that they were oppressed. In The Wu-Tang Manual, he describes the experience of seeing a preview for a movie called The Thirty-Sixth Chamber, set to be released on June 6th, 1979. He was particularly drawn to the strategy, discipline, and numerologies of kung fu. RZA remembers getting turned on to kung fu movies at a young age. RZA is the keeper of Wu-Tang's mystical knowledge-a highly idiosyncratic blend of kung-fu discipline, the numerological speculations of the Five Percent Nation (a split-off sect from the Nation of Islam), chess lore, street smarts, the Bible, mafia mythology, black capitalism, millenarian anxiety, extraterrestrial visions and superhero fantasies. But the Wu-Tang Clan had a fresh, strange set of ideas on numerous levels: economic, musical, and even spiritual.Īs Rolling Stone explains, RZA, the group's producer and mastermind, had all the ingredients in mind for the Wu-Tang mixture: Kung Fu RappersĪt first glance, they seemed like a lot of young rappers from the projects, aspiring to break out of a life-threatening spiral of poverty and drugs. A few of them fronted money for the group to lay down some tracks in a studio and the Wu-Tang Clan was born. In 1992, RZA got together with GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and Raekwon. The Wu-Tang Clan, according to RZA's vision, would take the hip-hop world by storm, and eventually claim a massive percentage of the market through careful planning and in-your-face skills. He wanted to form a huge crew, inspired by the discipline and organization of kung fu and the strategy and smarts of chess, and call it the Wu-Tang Clan. RZA, GZA, and Ol' Dirty Bastard originally came together as a group called Force of the Imperial Master, which had one popular underground single before the RZA decided to push a new idea. The remaining six were friends they made in school or around Staten Island's Park Hill and Stapleton housing projects. Of the nine original members, three were cousins: RZA (Robert Diggs), GZA (Gary Grice), and Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones). The Wu-Tang Clan came together out of family ties and high school friendships in Staten Island-referred to as Shaolin Land in this song-and Brooklyn in the 1980s. Economic realism is just a gateway: Raekwon and Inspectah Deck have plenty of reasons to take a realistic, gritty outlook on the whole world. Like Charles Dickens in Hard Times, these Wu-Tang guys are more interested in telling the story of society's failures than in painting some sort of optimistic picture of them "bettering themselves." And, like Charles Dickens, the Wu-Tang Clan are powerful, innovative, and edgy storytellers. Living in the world, no different from a cell Inspectah Deck, the Wu-Tang Clan's secret weapon, follows that up with his own tales of street life, prison time, and narrow escapes, showing more sorrow than bravado about what he's been through:īut as the world turns I learned life is Hell And that's "C.R.E.A.M.," in a nutshell.īut is the song just a simple justification for ruthless capitalism? Hardly.īefore the message even has a chance to sink in, Raekwon the Chef comes in with a story about the extreme risks he took as a young drug dealer who couldn't get ahead. "Cash rules everything around me," says Method Man.