Wu-Tang Clan

The saga of Wu-Tang Clan’s extremely limited edition seventh album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, and how it came to belong to incarcerated “pharma-bro” Martin Shkreli, is already the stuff of internet legend, and like so many juicy stories, it’ll soon take the logical next step and head to Netflix.

Music nostalgia tends to move in 20-year cycles, so early 2000s rap is unsurprisingly leaving a mark on today’s new rap music. Here are 25 albums from that era that hold up especially well today…

Listen to new songs by Lydia Loveless, Matmos, Will Butler, Roosevelt, Dikembe, Maxwell Stern/Laura Stevenson, JeGong (mem MONO), The Ocean, Chynna, RZA/Ghostface, Death Valley Girls, and more…

”You know what’s funny, yo?” RZA asks. ”We don’t mind saying ‘happy birthday’ because we know that when your day is born, it changes the whole world, yo. So we can change the world together. Wu-Tang forever.”

Back in March, Wu-Tang Clan urged everyone to ”protect ya neck against the coronavirus,” and now they’ve helped launch a new line of hand sanitizer to help you do just that.

Remy Ma and Papoose, DJ EFN, Doug E Fresh, Dave East, Kid N Play, Sugarhill Gang and many more have been added to the massive livestreamed hip hop festival which starts today (4/23) at 6 PM.

Wu-Tang are distributing prints around NYC with suggestions of how to protect yourself and others during this crisis, and encouraging people in other cities to do the same.

We are shocked to learn that basketball legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash at age 41. Tributes have also come in from Taylor Swift, Vince Staples, Liz Phair, Cardi B, Killer Mike, Ryley Walker, and more.

The Miami festival also includes Kaytranada, Caribou, Amon Tobin, Tycho, Moses Sumney, Ariel Pink, 100 gecs, Yves Tumor, (Sandy) Alex G, and more…

GZA’s classic Liquid Swords turns 25 this year, and he’s touring North America this month and in February to celebrate.