First time you heard the Wu?

[Jimmy the gent]

Thinking about it this morning, sometime in '94 friend of mine was telling me bout a group outta NYC. I was heavy on my Cube/ west coast shyt at the time. Yeah , so he let me borrow a tape. Ol' Dirty - Brooklyn Zoo was the first song i ever heard from them. After that it was a wrap. Was all about the Wu...

 

[NVious]

It was 1996, I was in 7th grade, and my friend let me borrow 36 Chambers. I remember bugging out to Clan In Da Front, and I've been a GZA stan since.

I had to catch up to all the Wu releases after that. I digested so much classic shyt in a 3 month period.

I thought it would be like that forever brehs.

 

[mson]

Older brother put me on in 93. It was all about Onyx before them. They came through with all these aliases and their unique styles. Great times.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

First time i heard wu?... I turned it off

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

M.e.t.h.o.d. Man

Didn't realize there was 8 other dudes in the Crew.




The beat was raw as hell and unlike anything I had heard of.


The only other producer to throw me for a loop like that would be timbaland with the rain song with missy elliot

 

[SirBiatch]

1997 probably. M.E.T.H.O.D Man was the joint that blew me away, and I became a Method Man fan primarily.

 

[smokeurobinson]

1993, Wendy Williams playing Protect Ya Neck on Kiss FM. Kiss played it before Hot 97.

 

[kingdizzy01]

First time i heard wu?... I turned it off

i cant front, i was deep on my death row steez during this era.

 

[SunZoo]

1997 probably. M.E.T.H.O.D Man was the joint that blew me away, and I became a Method Man fan primarily.

Heard it on the radio like 3 times one day, I said fukk that, got a blank tape and caught it on a mix and played that shyt til it I could go steal a copy from the store

 

[SilverSamurai]

Protect Ya Neck came on during gym class

 

[jaguar paw]

It was either C.R.E.A.M. on Teen Summit or M.E.T.H.O.D Man on Yo MTV Raps. I was a baby but ignorant rap shyt was always around me.

 

[Self_Born7]

stretch and bobbito 89 tech 9
come to think of it.. .i always heard shyt first from listening to them. sometimes, weeks or months before cats hear it...

 

[PaperEnterprise]

It was either C.R.E.A.M. on Teen Summit or M.E.T.H.O.D Man on Yo MTV Raps. I was a baby but ignorant rap shyt was always around me.

Wu Tang is for the babies!!!

My homie in the 7th grade had the tape, he dubbed like 5 onto maxell tapes. I was selling the tapes for 3 to 5 bucks

Sold like 3 and kids were mad hyped and i was lemme listen to this shyt im hussling....i was amazed and became a stan...i was heavy into snoop, onyx and other rappers...

Craziest thing about it all, 36th Chamber was released on my 12th birthday and best part about it all, I was able to tell RZA how i was introduced to the WU lol he thought it was hilarious

To this day i can name tge 9 members government names

I use to read every fukking thing in the booklets

 

[Jimmy the gent]

First time i heard wu?... I turned it off

Really, didnt like none of their stuff?

 

[DaveyDave]

93, might have been early 94 I was at a mates place and he had an older homie down the street who used to buy EVERY rap cd at the store. He had a copy of 36 Chambers and we were listening to it while playing basketball. Bacdafucup was a big thing just before 36 Chambers too just like @mson said. But it was mainly Wu, Onyx and Death Row then Bone shortly thereafter.