The Wu-Tang Clan has been eligible since 2017 for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and have yet to be on the ballot. But speaking to Rolling Stone, RZA says it’s time for the institution to rectify this mishap. “I think we should [get in], and I do care,” the group’s leader says. “It may take some time to get in there. I think it’s good for us and I think it’s good for rock & roll, because hip-hop is a form of music that grabs from every genre, but definitely grabs from rock & roll.”
“Rock & roll has a certain spirit; it was the spirit of the Sixties and Seventies youth,” he says. “Hip-hop is the Eighties, Nineties, up to now, the youth. It’s called hip-hop, but it’s in the same spirit of rock & roll at the end of the day. Lyrical, stories, music, unorthodox, dissonant sometimes, energetic, all the things that rock is and was, hip-hop embodies.”
RZA points to “Bring da Ruckus,” an aggressive, confrontational highlight from the group’s debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), as blurring the line between the two genres.
“Listening to a song like ‘Bring da Ruckus,’ I thought I was making hip-hop, but shit, it has a motherfuckin’ rock & roll groove like a motherfucker. I don’t know how the fuck I did that. I go back and listen to some of the Beatles progressions and some of [Led] Zeppelin’s progressions and movements, like, okay, I was on some shit, though.”
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