WeSc x RZA Chambers by RZA Unboxing

Vote For Young Dirty Bastard's new singe "Welfare"

We need all Friends, Families, Fans, Associates, Wu disciples to go VOTE for YOUNG DIRTY BASTARD SINGLE "Welfare" on the Coast2Coast Mixtapes Vol 193 Hosted By ACE HOOD!!!

http://coast2coastmixtapes.com/audiodetail.aspx?audioid=96084

RZA Gives Jay-Z Advice On Being a Father

In a few months Jay-Z will be a father, and through much of his music we've already heard anecdotes of his relationship with his dad and what he envisions for himself and his offspring. The most recent track to visit that topic is "New Day" on Hov and Ye's Watch The Throne.

Rap legend and producer Rza collaborated with The Throne on the fatherly track. Rza in turn recently sat down with XXL to offer the rap mogul some advice on what it takes to be a father.

Read what RZA had to say below.

What can I say? It's hard to tell somebody about their own. A father is not only He Who Fat Her; no, but it's somebody who also furthers. Further the education of others. And if you could do that for your seed, then you doing what you do. You doing the right thing. We grew up without fathers. I'm quite sure he had the same situation as me: father absent. So we turned to the streets, music, and other things for a father.

Be there. You know what I mean? Because a father is the one who will further a child's education.

I did a song that I put out for ODB's memory, it's called "Gone." I said a line in there, it says: "Through our seeds, we all reach eternity." I believe that. Through our children—now you immortal. Now you are immortal. Your genes will go, go, go, go.

You get married, and the preacher says, "What God has joined, let no man put asunder." That's impossible. "Asunder" means separate. Our divorce rate is big in our country. The true marriage is the sperm and the egg. Because when those two things combine and form a life, you can't separate. You can't separate your father and your mother out of you. Nor will your children be able to. It's eternally enjoined.

What do you think about RZA's advice?

Source: xxlmag.com

Inspiration / Quote of the Day by RZA

"I’ll just say this last thing, I’ve got a buddy named John Frusciante [who is the lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers], and he said something to me that changed my whole perspective. He said, “RZA, I don’t do music for money. I do music for music. And my music belongs to the world.”

It’s like, it’s so personal. I was doing it for fun at first, when I was young. Then I started doing it for money. I started getting paid for it. Then if you don’t pay me, you don’t get the beat. Yet, I’m still making them. If nobody’s buying them, now what’s happening? They’re accumulating and shit.

He freed my mind to be like, “Yo, it’s music, man. It belongs to the world, whether I get paid for it or not.” Of course, I prefer to get paid for it, because my equipment is expensive, and I’ve got bills and shit, but since he opened my mind that helped me give away all these beats. I didn’t ask nobody for nothing. I’ve got a manager that’ll probably go back and charge these brothers and shit, but as far as I’m concerned? Help yourself. "

-- The RZA

Interview: The RZA Talks Headphones, Hollywood, and Working On “Watch The Throne”

BY INSANUL AHMED | DEC 5, 2011 | 1:18 PM | PERMALINK

There are few people in hip-hop that deserve to be called an auteur (the French word for author, a title reserved for consummate creators) as much as The RZA. The de-facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, he’s more than just a legendary producer. From the earliest days of the Wu, Rzarector was their creative visionary.

He’s also a savvy businessman who helped the Wu-Tang Clan change not just the sound of hip-hop, but the business model too. Wu was the first team to land a group record deal as well as a variety of solo deals. With Wu Wear, he became one of the first rappers with a clothing brand. He’s also written a book (The Wu-Tang Manual), composed and recorded original scores for movies like Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai and Kill Bill, and he even claims he helped create the technology behind Serato and Final Scratch. Oh, and he’s directing his own upcoming film, The Man With The Iron Fists. Needless to say, the man has always been at the forefront of hip-hop culture.

And now he’s got one more notch to add to his black belt in hip-hop: Headphones. Since Dr. Dre ushered in the headphone boom with his ubiquitous Beats By Dre, everyone from 50 Cent to Ludacris has been trying to get in on the action. However, unlike 50 or Luda, The Abbot actually knows a thing or two about decibels, kilohertz, and the basics of sound quality. And just like with hip-hop production in the early ‘90s, he’s one of the few people who can rival Dr. Dre’s sound with his Chambers By RZA headphones.

With the headphones going on sale today on the WeSC website as well as Guitar Center locations (they'll become more widely available at additional retailers in the coming weeks), we sat down with The RZA to talk headphones, hip-hop, and Hollywood.

Yes, he also responded to Method Man’s claims that GZA wrote many of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s rhymes, revealed that he had to censor Raekwon and Ghostface Killah on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and claimed he recently gave away 10 beats to Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli, and Nas...

Interview by Insanul Ahmed (@Incilin)

Read full interview here

Raekwon Gives Kids From His Hood A Chance

Wu-Tang Clan member and solo artist Raekwon, who grew up in the low-income housing complex of Park Hill in Staten Island, NY, is involved in a new not-for-profit, Children's Literacy Society, to help the kids of his community.

"It's definitely needed because it's so rough in my neighbourhood that we worry about these kids and we try to give 'em as much hope as we can," Raewkon toldwww.samaritanmag.com.

"It's just us trying to give them a sense of direction from a older big brother or big sister point of view and really just try to commend them when at least they're trying."

Children's Literacy Society provides funds and resources for after-school enrichment programs, such as reading, writing, sports, music, art, dance and nutrition, for at-risk children in Staten Island with a concentration in Richmond County.

"Our goal is to instill confidence and motivation in children to become productive and successful individuals," it states on the organization's web site. "CLS develops, guides, nurtures and supports our future generation with respect and dignity; collaboration with local schools and organizations to connect our programs with families, we continue to be able to 'give a child a chance.'"

Raekwon, now 41, was born Corey Woods. In the late 80s, when he was a teenager, his Park Hill neighbourhood was nicknamed "Crack Hill" because of all drug dealing and addiction. When he linked up with eight other hip hop guys to form the nine-member Wu-Tang Clan in 1992, it became his ticket out. The influential collective has sold millions of albums in its 20-year history and Raekwon, like all the members of Wu-Tang, became a successful solo artist and businessman. He just opened a Toronto office for his record label, Ice H2O.

"I feel like, in my lifetime, I slipped through the cracks and made it," says Raekwon. "But it's really rough for these kids and it gets rougher every year.

"So you wonder why kids do the things that they do? [It] is because nobody's paying attention to them no more. They feel they on their own. They feel like they don't have no hope and this is something that we really gotta start thinking about, saying, 'Yo, is it cute to see a 16 year old kid with a baby or a little 14-year-old male in jail because he killed somebody for something stupid?'

"[Children's Literacy Society] started with the people and it starts with the community and it starts from the media and it starts from the artists. We have to really take a look at our young generation and try to help 'em."

In October of 2010, Children's Literacy Society held its first fundraising gala in Staten Island that was hosted by RZA of Wu-Tang Clan. The Society has big plans.

"Our ultimate goal will be to implement a Center of Excellence, a facility that provides a commendable range of effective after-school enrichment programs for children in need in a number of NYC locations," it states on the web site. "This Center of Excellence will be a model to be replicated in the United States and around the world for at-risk youth."

"We're just starting to get the right people involved," Raekwon tells www.samaritanmag.com. "We have a couple of government official friends as well that are gonna wanna be involved with this. So we're just trying to put together the best thing for my neighbourhood and for everybody's neighbourhood where I come from."

Source:
BY KAREN BLISS

Update on release party for Chambers By Rza headphones

Producer extraordinaire and Wu Tang Clan member Rza, recently held a party to celebrate the release of his Chambers By Rza headphones. Many guests were in attendance such as Marilyn Manson, Talib Kweli, and Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas, to name a few, to support the artist’s new venture.

Mike Epps hosted the party which took place in Los Angeles, before Talib Kweli took to the stage to perform, the Rza produced, “Be Noticed”. The footage shows a clip of the Brooklyn hot spitta’ doing his thing for the crowd, looked hype! Check out the clip after the jump, let us know how you feel about the new headphones.

Kinetic (Killarmy) Working On The Movie Soundtrack "Formless" / The Art of Marrese Crump

Kinetic (He has decided to drop the "9") recently dropped a new track entitled "Rebel Rowser" featuring his Killarmy brethren Shogun Assassin and is featured on this latest video "The Art Of Marrese Crump - Vol. 1: Paradigm Shift (Teaser)". With music produced by Kinetic and video shot and directed by Anesti Vega of Maluco Studios, The Paradigm Shift is a fundamental change in approach or acceptance by the majority of a belief, attitude or methodology, and The Art Of Marrese Crump is a multi-volume documentary video series outlining the training and philosophy of a dedicated martial artist.

The track itself will be available on iTunes very soon.

As covered on a recent Interview with Kinetic by Wu-International, it was quite apparent that he has been keeping busy with numerous projects, as well as moving up into bigger and major things recently, We covered his current collaboration with European rapper Iron Kap but have just also discovered that Kinetic will be fully producing the soundtrack to the movie "Formless", a martial arts movie starring Marrese Crump.

Marrese Crump is a world renowned martial artist, a close friend and associate to Wu-Tang own's RZA, Marrese was RZA's martial arts double in his upcoming movie "The Man with the Iron Fists".

Marrese and Anesti Vega of Maluco Studios have in store plans to do more collaborations with The RZA and Kinetic based around the "Real Martial Arts Real Hip-Hop" concept. Stay tuned to this site for further and future updates.

Source:

Raekwon Announces New Mixtape & Release Date

The Chef cooks up a giveaway set to drop during the holidays.

Raekwon has announced the release of the upcoming mixtape UnExpected Victory, due December 25th (via HHNM).

Though details about the tape are yet to be revealed, the mixtape announcement comes shortly after the Wu-Tang Clan member said that he is currently working on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx III, which he expects to release in 2012.

"I got a lot of things coming up," he said. "You got the 20-year Wu anniversary about to jump off. You know we scheming on some things. Going back on the road, doing something legendary again."

Source

The Black Keys sitting on unreleased RZA collaboration

One of the surprise packages of 2009 was Blackroc, the collaboration between The Black Keys and some of the more notable names in the hip-hop community.

The release saw the scuzzy blues-rockers provide backing for hip-hop alumni such as Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris, Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, as well as Wu-Tang Clan members Raekwon, RZA and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard.

Well in a recent interview with TheVine, Black Keys drummer and producer Parick Carney revealed that the band are sitting on a second Blackroc album of nine songs that "were never released that are pretty much done," with no plans to ever be released. But more interestingly, that they recorded an entire album's worth of material solely with RZA, that has also been resigned to the archives.

"We have a lot of hip-hop stuff that we did with other people that is just never gonna come out," Carney told us. "Like, we did basically a full record with RZA in Los Angeles. Then we have these nine songs from this second Blackroc session. But y’know, a lot of it’s just experimenting. Some of it’s really good, I think, and some of it is not so good. But I think there’s just too much of a novelty factor to keep doing it over and over again. Doing it once was enough. I think it might get old if we keep revisiting it. But maybe one day that stuff will see the light of day. I don’t know.

So Wu Disciples, what do you think? is this going to be another case of the classic unreleased Wu-Tang related projects? Ol' Dirty Bastards - "A Son Unique"?, "Achozen Project"? The Black Knights East coast recordings with RZA? what do you think?? some things are meant to stay saved or do you think this should be released?

Weekend Supercut Of Wu-Tang Clan Shouts Outs On Its Albums

By Conor Lastowka (Village Voice)

Genius/GZA's Time At Havard Yesterday

A packed auditorium erupted in applause on Thursday evening as the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA delivered some original rhymes and reflected on his life and career in an event hosted by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum in the Science Center.

Although GZA, born Gary Grice, has spent much of his adult life in front of sold-out venues, the rapper expressed nervousness as he began his monologue.

“This is the first time for me. I should be learning from you all,” GZA said. “I’m actually shaking right now, crazy,” he added with a laugh.

As he took the stage, a lecture hall full of fans greeted him with shouts of the trademark Wu-Tang phrase, “Peace.”

The artist, also known as The Genius, began by taking the audience through his childhood in “Shaolin”—Wu-Tang lingo for Staten Island—where his first encounters with wordplay came from a book of nursery rhymes. By his teenage years, GZA and future group-mates RZA and Ol’ Dirty Bastard were trekking across the boroughs of New York City in search of the best rap battles they could find.

“Everything we did revolved around hip hop,” he said. “I would ask around, ‘Who’s the best?’ and I would go look for them.”

“[It was] just like the flicks,” he added. “One dude would roll up, another dude rolls up, and there’s 40 people waiting outside the building.”

GZA went on to recount the humbling experience of going back to work after his first record deal in the late 1980s didn’t pan out. He had a job as a bicycle messenger just six months before his career took off with the release of Wu-Tang’s first single, “Protect Ya Neck,” in 1992.

He interspersed his discussion of his musical influences and creative process with a cappella verses and witty rhymes.

“To write a story is to create a world of your own,” he said. “I think every being in the universe is connected somehow ... and when I write a song, it’s a lot like building a puzzle.”

During the event, GZA responded to an audience question about his opinion on mainstream hip-hop today.

“I hear songs like [50 Cent’s] ‘Window Shopper,’” he said, quoting lyrics from the 2005 song and suggesting that the lyrics did not meet his own standards.

“Do you think that equates with some of the lyrics that I was kicking?’” he said.

The event attracted fans from beyond the Harvard community.

“I definitely expected him to talk more about music and the group,” said Andrew Lacombe, a sophomore at Dean College who made the trip from Franklin, Mass. “But him talking about life was a lot better.”

GZA closed his lecture with some advice for those that had turned out.

“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.”


Source by By James M. Acer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER