{"id":481358,"date":"2019-01-25T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784661"},"modified":"2019-01-25T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:40:10","slug":"wu-tang-clan-reflect-on-staten-island-in-first-of-mics-and-men-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/wu-tang-clan-reflect-on-staten-island-in-first-of-mics-and-men-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu-Tang Clan Reflect on Staten Island in First \u2018Of Mics and Men\u2019 Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wu-tang-of-mics-and-men.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ahead of <em>Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men<\/em>\u2018s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wu-tang-clan-docuseries-of-mics-and-men-heading-to-showtime-781047\/\">Showtime-bound four-part docuseries<\/a> unveiled its first trailer Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-minute preview opens on the rap group\u2019s native Staten Island and their childhood on the New York borough they dubbed \u201cShaolin.\u201d \u201c[It was] almost like a police state, a lot of people don\u2019t leave,\u201d the RZA said in the trailer. \u201cWasn\u2019t no $300 Jordans,\u201d Ghostface Killah added.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wu-tang-clan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wu-tang-clan\" data-tag=\"wu-tang-clan\">Wu-Tang Clan<\/a> is next captured through archival footage and concert video, as well as interviews with all living Wu-Tang Clan members and rappers like Nas. \u201cThe black, red, yellow, brown and white were all rockin\u2019 with us,\u201d the RZA said of the group\u2019s quick ascension in hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p>The preview concludes with the Wu-Tang Clan reunited in an empty theater, ready to discuss their legacy.<\/p>\n<p>The first two episodes of <em>Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men<\/em> will debut January 28th at Sundance, with Showtime set to broadcast the full series this spring.\u00a0Showtime\u2019s Vinnie Malholtra previously said in a statement, \u201cThe Wu-Tang Clan is a seminal group that deserves a seminal documentary. [Director] Sacha Jenkins delivers just that, not only reminding us of their powerful history through vintage footage, but also placing their impact in modern-day perspective that will be meaningful both to their diehard fans and music fans in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wu-tang-clan-of-mics-and-men-trailer-784661\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men\u2018s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the Showtime-bound four-part docuseries unveiled its first trailer Friday. The two-minute preview opens on the rap group\u2019s native Staten Island and their childhood on the New York borough they dubbed \u201cShaolin.\u201d \u201c[It was] almost like a police state, a lot of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:35:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}