Following the rebirth of Kendrick Lamar's Kung Fu Kenny alter ego, revisit several kung fu-inspired hip-hop tracks. By Rob LeDonne When Kendrick Lamar unleashed his fourth studio album DAMN. last week ...
Why are Wu-Tang Clan named after the obscure 1983 Hong Kong martial arts film Shaolin and Wu Tang, anyway? We asked leader RZA on the group’s first visit to the city Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa ...
Ditching school in New York City in the early 1980s to watch kung fu movies on 42nd Street was not without its perils. Truant officers wise to the drawing power of the Deuce patrolled the area, ...
When Robert Diggs was growing up on the North Shore of Staten Island in the 1970s and '80s, one of his favorite pastimes was running off to local cinemas to watch classic kung fu flicks like "Five ...
Shifu Shi Yan Ming defected from China, partially because he didn't agree with the monastery's strictures.Matt Doyle Shi was born in Henan Province, China on Chinese New Year, February 13, 1964. Then, ...
Wu-Tang leader RZA has been in the lab cooking up his next project and just released his new single “Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater.” The track is the first single from his forthcoming album, RZA ...
Ever wonder where Wu-Tang Clan got their amazing samples from? Watch as Wu-Tang's producer, rapper and founder, RZA, takes you through scenes from "Master of the Flying Guillotine," "Executioners from ...
An influential rap collective is hard to find. When voices and rhythms, each with their own dynamic eccentricities, come together, some artists are overshadowed and individuality fades away. Then ...
The long-awaited Brooklyn location of Austin-based cinema chain the Alamo Drafthouse hadn’t even been open two weeks on Thursday, serving up its distinctive blend of movie-centric special events, but ...
Much has been afoot in Gary Grice’s professional life lately. The Wu-Tang Clan colonel better known as GZA or Genius is working on a new astronomy/physics-inspired record called Dark Matter and a ...
Brothers battle a powerful vampire and a beautiful ghost in Kung Fu Vampire, and dynasty warriors employ secret techniques against the Manchus in Hidden Darts, two martial arts flicks from the Wu Tang ...