On this day in Hip Hop history, in 1991, GZA stepped to the forefront with his debut solo album Words From the Genius, released years before the world would fully understand the power of the Wu-Tang ...

GZA (pronounced Jizza), aka The Genius, born Gary Grice August 22, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York City is an American rapper. He is most well known as a founding member of the seminal hip-hop group the Wu ...

On episode 3 of 'The Almanac of Rap,' 9th Wonder and Reuben Vincent push back on the idea that younger artists don’t understand hip-hop’s depth or history. “Liquid Swords” is obviously the most famous ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Chess obsession, a writerNs joy in discussing his craft, songs born of word games—in the hip-hop Voltron that is the Wu-Tang Clan, GZA is the brain for good reason. GZA, a.k.a. the Genius (or Gary ...

ALL THE RIGHT MOVES ‘I play chess every day, I play individuals from my clan—when we do meet up. I study openings, games, everything,’ GZA said. (Photo by Azuree Witala) Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return to ...

2002 laid to rest any remaining doubt: Hip-hop has officially been coopted by mainstream pop music. Actually, not all Hip-hop has been seized by a mass audience, though certainly the mindless, ...

On this day in Hip-Hop History, in 1991, Wu-Tang Clan member GZA released his debut, pre-Wu-Tang album Words From the Genius. This album was one of two pre-Wu-Tang Clan albums from one of the members, ...

There are few hip-hop groups that command as much respect as Staten Island's Wu-Tang Clan. A super crew of emcees whose sound -- hard-knocking drums, dusty samples and razor-wire lyricism -- helped to ...