By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorHeaded to Tennessee but still not sure who you want to see? Fear not: We've boiled the brain-busting Bonnaroo schedule down to 20 essential sets. more »

Kendrick Lamar

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By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorHot 97 announced its annual Summer Jam lineup today, rounding out its previously announced Festival Village lineup (Joey Bada$$$, Action Bronson and more on a smaller stage) with the pop-R&B of Chris Brown and Miguel… more »

RZA

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorRZA has lined up his first co-starring role in a TV series. Set to premier on Fox according to the Hollywood Reporter, Gang Related features the Wu-Tang Clan's de facto frontman alongside Ryan Lopez (Ramon… more »

By Elisa Ludwig, eMusic ContributorEddie Huang, celebrity chef, TV host and author of the memoir <em>Fresh Off the Boat</em>, is pretty sure that hip-hop saved his life when he was a bullied, racially "other" kid growing up in Florida.… more »

Raekwon's new single

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorRaekwon has shared a new freestyle that slips a few bleak verses over the classic Gladys Knight and the Pips cut "Neither One of Us." Grab it below, and be sure to watch out for… more »

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The A-side of "After Laughter (Comes Tears)"

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorNot content with simply putting on a series of 10th anniversary shows, Light in the Attic has also launched a run of limited singles featuring "contemporary artists covering a track reissued by Light In The… more »

A classic Wu-Tang Clan shot

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorWith the 20th anniversary of Enter the Wu-Tang looming on the horizon, RZA is considering wrangling the remaining members of Wu-Tang Clan for a proper reunion. Speaking to The New York Times, he said, "We… more »

RZA's directorial debut

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorUp from the 36 chambers, it's...The Black Keys and RZA? Hey, it's better than Wu-Tang's dubstep record... Okay, so it's no Judgment Night. That said, "The Baddest Man Alive" makes sense when you consider the… more »

GZA's chess set

By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorWhen discussing Wu-Tang Clan, the only thing that ends up being certain is that Enter the Wu-Tang isn't just the best album by the crew, it's one of the top five hip hop albums ever. And since… more »

By Arye Dworken, eMusic ContributorRemember that band you loved that broke up? Well, next year, they're playing Coachella. We live in an age when band reunions are bordering on passé, which can obscure the fact that a well-executed comeback… more »

By Christopher R. Weingarten, eMusic ContributorEnter The Wu-Tang is the Velvet Underground & Nico of '90s hip-hop a glorious muddle that made it safe not to merely color outside the lines but to scribble in the margins. Like a punk-rock… more »

By Christopher R. Weingarten, eMusic ContributorEnter The Wu-Tang is the Velvet Underground & Nico of '90s hip-hop a glorious muddle that made it safe not to merely color outside the lines but to scribble in the margins. Like a punk-rock… more »

By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorArguably the greatest of all Wu solo efforts, there is something thoroughly absorbing about Raekwon's 1995 debut. It is an exhausting, meticulous record, and, thanks to the RZA's bluesy, broke-down production and Rae's effortless, slang-heavy… more »

By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorWith his strident falsetto and taste for grandiose, imposing production, it is easy to hear the influence of Pat Grossi's training as a choir singer on his debut album, You Are All I See. What… more »

By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorThe Pretty Toney Album, Ghostface's first record for Def Jam, is his warmest, and also, not coincidentally, the most openly indebted to the 1970s soul he grew up with and reveres. Large, unreconstructed chunks of… more »

By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorThe Pretty Toney Album, Ghostface's first record for Def Jam, is his warmest, and also, not coincidentally, the most openly indebted to the 1970s soul he grew up with and reveres. Large, unreconstructed chunks of… more »

By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorThe most mystical and impenetrable of the Wu-Tang solo releases, Liquid Swords is also maybe the most fervently obsessed-over. A series of byzantine crime scenarios narrated from GZA's third eye and told in a flat,… more »

By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorFor those of us who regard art as an index of ideas, hopes and anxieties over time, there is a mystique to things that were never able to see the proper light of their respective… more »

By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorAbout halfway through their game-changing 1993 debut, Enter the Wu-Tang, a radio interviewer asks Method Man, Raekwon and Ghostface about the Clan's "ultimate goal." They jockey for the privilege to answer. "Can I say this… more »

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By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorThis November, the hip-hop community lost two towering figures of the '90s: Ol 'Dirty Bastard and Mac Dre. Ever since ODB first stepped out with Staten Island's Wu-Tang Clan in 1993, the gifted, combustible rapper… more »

By Hua Hsu, eMusic Contributor"A box of Newports and Puma sweats" is not a princely sum. According to rapper Pete Nice, such was the bounty awaiting any rapper gullible enough to sign on the dotted line in 1989. Inflation… more »