The Wu Tang Manual by The RZA (book)

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Finally copped this gem. I kept mistaking it for Tao of the Wu. The Toronto library never had the manual but has the Tao.

fukking Wu Tang man. So many classic albums you can revisit - ALWAYS!

And honestly The Wu Manual is great. Like a reference book. Talks about each Wu Member, the philosophy behind Wu and the lyrics.

It's cool Kendrick got the Pulitzer but look at all the great books that Hip Hop produced.

RZA wrote the manual at 36 years old!
Raekwon's book is great.
U God's book is surprisingly great - I couldn't put it down he's an author that has you excited for every word.

Prodigy's boom is phenomenal.

Rza's Tao is great.

What do you think of the Manual?

What other great hip hop books are there?

Jay Z's decoded is cool. More like a coffee table book.

The ego trip book of lists was cool.

The 3 kings book on Puffy, Jay and Dre is dope.

The Big Payback is insanely great - about the history of the hip hop music business.
 
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I just finished Buddha Monk's book on ODB:

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It's...ok. Standard bio type. But the majority of the book is Monk bytching about not getting production credits, claims he ghost produced a couple of tracks on The Dirty Version and RZA never gave him credit.

As far as ODB's story, didn't break new ground. It's all the stuff we already know. It came out in 2014 and it's funny Monk talks about Barson (ODB's son who now performs on the NYSOM tour as Young Dirty b*stard) saying Barson wanted to be his own artist, not just be a carbon copy of his dad...
 

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