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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is a Boom bap act. Their sound grew out of A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Rakim and Biz Markie. Those roots explain a lot about how Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Method Man, Ol' Dirty Bastard, GZA/Genius, Method Man & Redman and Inspectah Deck, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nas, Mobb Deep, The Notorious B.I.G. and JAY-Z, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), reaching back through A Tribe Called Quest and forward to Nas. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Enter the Wu-Tang , often referred to as simply 36 Chambers, is the debut studio album by the American hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, released on November 9, 1993, by Wu-Tang Records, Loud Records, RCA Records, and Bertelsmann Music Group. The recording sessions took place during late 1992 to early 1993 at Firehouse Studio in New York City, and the album was produced by the group's de facto leader RZA. Its title originates from the martial arts films Enter the Dragon (1973) and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978).
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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) connections
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) grew out of A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Rakim and Biz Markie, shares an orbit with Method Man, Ol' Dirty Bastard, GZA/Genius and Method Man & Redman, went on to shape Nas, Mobb Deep, The Notorious B.I.G. and JAY-Z. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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