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Article: Wu World Order
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Wu World Order
The Clan, the Killah, and the Path to Global Domination
BY SAM MICKENS
The Wu-Tang Clan w/Dyme Def, Cancer Rising, Furious Styles
Sun Dec 30, Showbox Sodo, 8 pm, $37.50 adv/$40 DOS, 21+.
In the beginning, there was RZA and Ghostface.
Back in 1992, the Staten Island roommates recorded "Tearz," which became the first official Wu-Tang Clan song and later appeared as the most overtly emotional cut on the group's debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Though the conceptual DNA of the clan had been germinating among RZA and his cousins GZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard, "Tearz" was the moment of crystallization, the year zero for the Wu-Tang Clan. This month finds releases from both ...