LAMONT U-GOD HAWKINS - Raw My Journey Into The Wu-Tang Hip Hop

LAMONT U-GOD HAWKINS - Raw My Journey Into The Wu-Tang Hip HopThe Wu Tang Clan is American hip hop royalty. Rolling Stone called them the 'best rap group ever' and their debut album is considered one of the greatest of all time. Since 1992, they have released seven gold and platinum studio albums with sales of more than 40 million copies. So how did nine kids from the Brownsville projects go from nothing to global icons? Remarkably, no one has told their story until now. Raw is the incredible first person

They watched their city from a distance reconstructing its energy from their studio in Berlin

then Brown Rice is its equivalent for the '70s

By that time Hubert had gained two Grammy awards for Stephanie Mills' albums

and definitely British

The resulting eleven tracks are as cinematic as pop songs can be

perhaps in the end more about the love you find than the love you lose

1981's 'Joy'

bringing down the tempo and intensity

"A good remix deconstructs

they released As Heard OnRadio Soulwax Pt

Standard black vinyl that has been cut from high-resolution digital files (96 khz / 24 bit transfers from the analog master tapes) by award-winning engineer John Dent at loud mastering

who operated his Voice Of The People Sound System