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For as long as there have been music awards, there have been musicians with opinions about those music awards, and the Grammys are no exception. Depending on your point of view, Arcade Fire trumping commercial heavyweights Lady Gaga, Eminem and Katy Perry for Album of the Year at last year's ceremony was either the event's salvation or the moment it jumped the shark.
That polarizing victory reignited a decades-old debate about the relevance and future direction of the awards show. Grammy nominees — and Grammy wannabes — have long argued over whether the music industry's most prestigious trophy has become meaningless in the face of commercialization, and whether an artist's sales figures and cultural impact should be taken into account when choosing Grammy winners. Jump below to see 10 of the most famous Grammy beefs in recent memory. More »
Posts Tagged ‘Wu-Tang Clan’
Watch Method Man And The Sour Patch Kids’ “World Gone Sour”
Tue Oct 4 2011 by Erika Brooks Adickman
Method Man has teamed up with a new surprising crew for his new track "World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids)": the Sour Patch Kids. Yes, as in those brightly colored tart-tasting gummys. In Meth's music video, one of his pals rips open a bag of the chewy candy and the Kids start reeking havoc all over the rapper's house. "Till now i bet you thought this was a promo, but no-no/this is Boba Fett meets Han Solo," the Wu-Tang Clan member raps. Actually, it is a promo for the upcoming Sour Patch Kids video game that shares the song's title. Below, watch the SPK get into mischief while we make a candy run.
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Kanye West And Justin Bieber To Collaborate On A Song—Thanks, Twitter!
Wed Aug 18 2010 by Becky Bain
Are you ready for this, world? Wu-Tang rapper Raekwon announced that a Justin Bieber/Kanye West collaboration is "definitely gonna happen." And you can credit Twitter for bringing these two superstars together. More »
No. 40: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and the Wu-Tang Clan, “For Heaven’s Sake 2000”
Mon Oct 26 2009 by Christopher R. Weingarten
At least when Limp Bizkit made rap-metal, they had a vague understanding of what “rap” was. More »
Thu Jun 4 2009 by Maura
Ghostface’s new album is going to be more of an R & B record, thanks in large part to the personal growth he’s experienced since he first burst on the scene with the Wu-Tang Clan: “I don’t sell crack, yo. I ain’t movin’ no bricks or none of that other shit. I ain’t shoot nobody in like…since the early 90’s, man. How long you gonna be 40 years old and actin’ like you still sellin’ cracks and you on the block and you doin’ this and you doin’ that when times is more serious, man. We in a fuckin’ recession, B! Ain’t nobody gettin’ no money, man!” [Unkut via bg5000] More »
Alice Cooper To Hit The Midway
Wed Apr 29 2009 by Maura
In today’s wrapup of headlines: Alice Cooper prepares to come face-to-face with fried foodstuffs, Lil Wayne gets litigious, Chris Brown goes back to court, and the Wu-Tang Clan is still together. More »
Mon Apr 27 2009 by Maura
Oliver Wang charts the story of the Charmels’ 1967 ballad “As Long As I’ve Got You,” which served as the backbone for the Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” some 26 years later. [NPR via yaicanstringafewwordstogether] More »
When Rappers Cry
Wed Apr 15 2009 by Dan Gibson
I spend a somewhat absurd amount of time thinking about themed mixes, despite the fact that I haven’t made all that many in the last few years (and haven’t even started on a few that I’ve promised people earlier this year). Nonetheless, the one idea that every few months I kick around but never get around to putting to disc is a collection of depressing rap tracks. Not “depressing” in the sense of being of poor quality, or even emo-rap tracks by Atmosphere or artists of that sort, but just songs where the braggadocio slips away and the sensitive side shows for three or four minutes. Today seems like a good day to get a little help from this site’s hyperintelligent peanut gallery. The first songs I thought of to go with the Slick Rick classic “All Alone” (above) are behind the cut.
RZA Too Much Of A Businessman To Consider Another Wu-Tang Album
Thu Jun 26 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Even though I know that he’s giving an honest and realistic response following the clumsy release of 8 Diagrams, it’s vaguely depressing to hear RZA say that attempting another Wu-Tang Clan album would be “bad business.” Its members’ varying degrees of solo success (and RZA’s own control-freak tendencies) have made it extremely hard for the group to come together, and it’s no surprise that collective enthusiasm is at a new low. But to hear it from the RZA himself guarantees the group is basically done for: “I don’t know, really, to tell you the truth. Wu-Tang is forever, I think, and we’ll be making the same sounds, whether we make it together or separately. But as far as making an album together, I don’t know.”
