It’s all about Hip-Hop and aliens on this week’s Scottscope
podcast! Hosts Scott Wilson, Chicago
Wind, and Iron Lion will take listeners from the slums of Shaolin to the
deepest reaches of space. First on the docket
is the 15th anniversary of the Wu-Tang Clan’s second album, Wu-Tang Forever. Has it aged well over the last decade and
change? Next is up is the Alien Prequel Prometheus. Is it a worthy
addition to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi resume?
Also this week, Steven Spielberg’s all time box office hit E.T. the Extraterrestrial celebrates its
30th anniversary. Is it still
the heartwarming classic it’s remembered to be?
Last but not least, the Scottscope
roundtable discusses Nas attempted mock lynching of Jay-Z at the 2002 Hot
97 Summer Jam. Did Godson take it just a
tad too far?
Monday, June 11, 2012
Viva La Revolución: ‘Wu-Tang Forever' Turns 15
At the dawn of the late 1990’s, Hip-Hop was in a
transitional period. The murder of Tupac
Shakur brought the reign of Death Row Records to a tragic end. It also seemed to signal the death knell for
west coast gangsta rap as a whole.
Likewise, the murder of the Notorious B.I.G seemed to signal the end of
New York’s reemergence on the national rap radar. Though the Hip-Hop nation was in mourning,
the time was clearly right for a new regime to assert its authority. Since the fall of 1993, Staten Island
supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan had been carrying out a silent coup. In the wake of the East Coast/West Coast
wars, they were poised to deliver their collective finishing move. Their five year plan would culminate in a
massive double album opus. 1997 might
have been the year that the greatest rapper of all time died, but it was also
to be the year of the Wu.
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