Because for a suburban white kid, Staten Island is so far away it might as well actually be a mountain in China. And to me there’s something beautiful but a little sad about the mythology the Wu-Tang Clan immediately created, the way Staten Island becomes Shaolin. But “C.R.E.A.M.” is one of the big moments where these guys tell you where they’re from, and what it’s like where they’re from, and what it’s like for them to know how clueless you likely are about where they’re from. “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit.” “Protect Ya Neck.” “Method Man” the song. It’s aggressive, it’s grimy, it’s blunt, it’s winter all the time, it’s electrifying, and it’s fun.
And then suddenly nearly a dozen individual voices, rappers, personalities, stars are all fighting for oxygen, for playing time.
WU TANG CLAN CREAM MOVIE
The first thing you hear is a sample from Shaolin and Wu Tang, a 1983 movie that you most likely haven’t seen. Had second-hands, Moms bounced on old man I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side Not everybody got the whole point right away, even though the point of “C.R.E.A.M.” was abundantly clear, starting with the opening lines of Raekwon’s opening verse. This disconnect between artist and fan got to be a problem for the group, and maybe for rap music as a whole, the more popular and dominant the genre became. But prior to “C.R.E.A.M.,” I’m guessing the vast majority of the people who’d soon be wearing those T-shirts-lotta suburban teenagers, for starters-had no idea what winter in Staten Island was like for a young, poor, Black person. And as Enter the 36 Chambers blew up and the ’90s rumbled on, that logo was everywhere: scrawled on notebooks, carved into school desks, and emblazoned on, like, 10 billion T-shirts. The Wu-Tang Clan are one of the biggest rap groups in history, and the Wu-Tang logo, the black and yellow W, is one of the biggest logos in rap history.
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