{"id":792171,"date":"2019-01-18T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=781047"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T17:00:28","slug":"wu-tang-clan-docuseries-of-mics-and-men-heading-to-showtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/wu-tang-clan-docuseries-of-mics-and-men-heading-to-showtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu-Tang Clan Docuseries \u2018Of Mics and Men\u2019 Heading to Showtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-74309245Q.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/showtime\/\" id=\"auto-tag_showtime\" data-tag=\"showtime\">Showtime<\/a> announced Friday that it has acquired the television rights to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wu-tang-clan\/\">Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>: Of Mics and Men<\/em>, a four-part docuseries about the legendary hip-hop group. The first two episodes of <em>Of Mics and Men<\/em>, directed by Mass Appeal Sacha Jenkins, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28th, with the docuseries scheduled to air on Showtime this spring.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men<\/em> features interviews with the group\u2019s nine surviving members as well as never-before-seen archival footage and concert video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe series follows the founding members \u2013\u00a0RZA, GZA,\u00a0Ol\u2019 Dirty Bastard, Inspectah\u00a0Deck, Raekwon, U-God,\u00a0Ghostface, Method Man, Masta\u00a0Killa and Cappadonna \u2013 many of whom were childhood friends in the hardscrabble world of \u201970s and \u201980s Staten Island and Brooklyn,\u201d Showtime said of the docuseries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit brought them together to overcome the poverty, violence and oppression of their neighborhoods. But it was music and\u00a0their shared lyrical genius\u00a0that allowed them to form the most recognized musical movement in the world, all while walking the treacherous tightrope that links business with brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Showtime\u2019s Vinnie Malholtra added in a statement, \u201cThe Wu-Tang Clan is a seminal group that deserves a seminal documentary. 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>In October 2018, Hulu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wu-tang-clan-tv-show-hulu-rza-736645\/\">announced the 10-episode <em>Wu-Tang: An American Saga<\/em><\/a>, a RZA-centric series about the group\u2019s rise in the Nineties. RZA said at the time, \u201cThis opportunity to continue the Wu-Saga in a 10-episode series will exponentially increase our inspirational style of entertainment. In the immortal words of ODB \u2018Wu-Tang is for the Children.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wu-tang-clan-docuseries-of-mics-and-men-heading-to-showtime-781047\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime announced Friday that it has acquired the television rights to Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, a four-part docuseries about the legendary hip-hop group. The first two episodes of Of Mics and Men, directed by Mass Appeal Sacha Jenkins, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28th, with the docuseries scheduled to [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:44:18","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}