Just months after Showtime's terrific 'Of Mics and Men,' The RZA is back with another telling of the Wu-Tang Clan origin story, this time a scripted drama on Hulu.
Even in a musical genre built on self-mythologizing, few acts have crafted a narrative as varied and outsized as the Wu-Tang Clan. With a core in the vicinity of 10 rappers , each boasting multiple aliases, plus a family of associated acts in the dozens, the Wu built a brand based on the street-level drama of their primarily Staten Island upbringing, but filtered through lenses as eclectic as martial arts movies, comic books and 5 Percenter doctrine.
It's fitting, then, that 2019 has seen TV take two approaches to the Wu-Tang Clan legacy, very different tellings, yet each featuring an assortment of Wu members as executive producers, like if you asked The RZA to break this down a hundred times, it'd never get told the same way twice.Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, which he created with Alex Tse.
starts in Staten Island in the early '90s, introducing a teenage Bobby Diggs , caught between two versions of the American Dream. Bobby wants to make music, but Bobby's older brother Divine is applying an untrained business savvy to the drug game in the hopes of moving the entire family to a better life.
There's a burgeoning feud that you'd expect to turn deadly if you didn't know that Bobby is going to be The RZA, Dennis will eventually be Ghostface Killah, Sha is on his way to becoming Raekwon, Gary is The GZA and Shotgun is Method Man-bound. Or maybe you don't know those things.
This is one of those prequels that runs on dramatic irony, because if you don't already know where the story is going, it's frequently hard to be engaged by where the story actually is.
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