When Wu Tang first came on the scene were they seen as cool or weird ?

[AnonymityX1000]

Honestly, “street ni66@z” wasn’t really a thing back then....

What does that mean? The Hit Squad was out and they were street.

 

[cheek100]

First my niccas told me about them after jack the rapper in 93, then I heard protect ya neck, then I saw the meth video. It was no question they were finna be a problem nationwide.
Them niccas was a movement, more than just popular.

 

[Curioser]

What does that mean? The Hit Squad was out and they were street.

I mean it was way less of an emphasis. No one cared if a rapper was street or not and they certainly wouldn’t use the term “street ni66@z” during that era.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Breh

You missed it

Break dancing is straight outta Kung Fu flicks

We used to watch them like mad

So the Wu just folded that into the actual music

It was like "Damn. Why didn't I think of that"

 

[FeloniousMonk]

With the emergence and dominance of West Coast hip hop, Wu Tang brought a refreshing aspect back to street music-gritty beats and raw unadulterated stable of unique emcees.

At the time, nobody but Rza knew what was about to take place.

Besides the group, his business acumen acquired him to negotiate a contract typically unheard of in the record business. (Steve Rifkind is the only label exec to entertain the terms)

I still remember the protect ya neck promo singles I got and never played them until a couple months later, I was at an event an somebody mentioned ever hearing of them I was like "naw", he was like "Yooooooooooooooooooo(literally), you never head of THE WU?! "

I was djin back then so he matter of factly expected me to be informed (which I should, I had the records, which I'm suppose to break and had to give feedback to the dj pool)

So there was no weirdness about them, more like a curiosity to the infectiousness of what is Wu.

For me personally, it was the production and how Rza crafted his beats and how cohesive the rhymes where.

After watching the interviews, the documentary and American Saga, it comes full circle and makes sense.

 

[Ashtrey]

I was only listening to G-Funk at the time (1993). They were so "cool" and original they got me back to buying East Coast albums again.

 

[DrexlersFade]

fukk kind of thread is this they the Wu

 

[Waterproof]

Being in High School when Wu dropped, and grew up off of NWA and Bay Area Mobb Music. I was like they just a bunch of Wild East Coast nikka doing that Raaahhhhh, Raaaaahhhhh wild screaming New York shyt that was popular on the East Coast

 

[DrexlersFade]

Being in High School when Wu dropped, and grew up off of NWA and Bay Area Mobb Music. I was like they just a bunch of Wild East Coast nikka doing that Raaahhhhh, Raaaaahhhhh wild screaming New York shyt that was popular on the East Coast

Real is real no matter the circumstances you either dope or you not period.

 

[RAX 010]

Wu Tang was never weird...I feel bad for those who didnt grow up through that era it seems like many of yall are unable to "feel"
The vibes of that era ...

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

You gotta remember that a lot of music that you heard back then was on a dubbed tape from somebody else.

Nobody knew what they looked like, shyt was intriguing.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

this was my first memory of the Wu. Man when we got Yo MTV Raps and Fab 5 Freddy it was over for me. I was in the south and we always caught stuff from up there late lol anyway. I was wondering what was going on with Ghostface. Then when he took the mask off I was like why. They were always dope to me, there was nothing wrong with them at all to me.

 

[Ziggiy]

Whether they were cool or weird what was always understood from jump is that they were NOTHING to fukk wit

 

[QU Hectic]

I remember being scared shytless when Protect Ya Neck first debuted on Video Music Box back in the day. As amazing as the song was, the video was raw and gritty as fck. I never forget the scene at the end when some dude gets his head chopped clean off. I've tried years looking for that version of the video but never could find it.

 

[scuba]

They were weird but weird was considered good at the time. Like it was more props to have a style that no one else came with. And there steez was soooo far out there...