The Wu Tang Clan and the Shared DNA Between Comics and Hip Hop

When the opening lyrics of the debut single from the legendary hip-hop group The Wu-Tang Clan hit my ears, I knew had a new favorite artist. On a lazy Sunday, during my sophomore year of high school, I sat on the bottom bunk of the bunk bed my brother and I shared and endeavored to explore new music for the first time in years. My music taste up to this point was largely exclusive to the music introduced to me by my father, and although his pallet was eclectic, I felt the typical adolescent urge to explore on my own and develop a taste that was unique to me. Several years prior I picked up an affinity for rapper/singer/songwriter Childish Gambino, perhaps the first artist that I began listening to of my own accord. I once read that Donald Glover, the multitalented artist behind Childish Gambino, gained his alias from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator. I had heard references to the group before, most notably in the Harold and Kumar stoner comedies and Dave Chapelle’s television series The Chapelle Show from the early 2000s, but I never actually listened to their music, so I decided to give it a try. I began with their first album, eponymously titled Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). <a href="https://medium.com/@dhkull6/the-wu-tang-clan-and-the-shared-dna-between-comics-and-hip-hop-bd00a34ef17">Read More</a>