A PERFECT COMPANION READ TO THE SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY, Wu-Tang CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire Couldn\'t put it down.
U-God\'s unforgettable first-person account of his journey, from the streets of Brooklyn to some of the biggest stages around the world, is not only thoroughly affecting, unfiltered, and explosive but also captures, invivid detail, the making of one of the greatest acts in American music history..
Brought up by the streets, and bonding over their love of hip-hop, they sought to pursue the impossible: music as their ticket out of the ghetto.
But, along the way, he met and befriended those who would eventually form the Clan\'s core: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ol\' Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Masta Killa.
And surviving in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was no easy task--especially as a young black boy living in some of the city\'s most ignored and destitute districts.
Raised by a single mother and forced to reckon with the hostile conditions of project life, u-god learned from an early age how to survive.
Lamont u-god Hawkins was born in Brownsville, New York, in 1970.
Here, for the first time, the quiet one speaks.
Remarkably, none of the founding members have told their story--until now. --Lamont u-god Hawkins The Wu-Tang Clan are considered hip-hop royalty.
It\'s time to write down not only my legacy, but the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life--scrappin\' and hustlin\'and tryin\' to survive in the urban jungle of New York City--and turned that Into something bigger than we could possibly imagine, something that took us out of the projects for good, which was the only thing we all wanted in the first place. - The Washington Post The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historicrise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont u-god Hawkins. - The New Yorker A classic. - Shea Serrano Cathartic. - Raekwon da Chef Insightful, moving, necessary. - Charlamagne Tha God Mesmerizing.
A PERFECT COMPANION READ TO THE SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY, Wu-Tang CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire Couldn\'t put it down
