{"id":2442216,"date":"2019-03-27T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=812957"},"modified":"2019-03-27T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:33:07","slug":"rza-wu-tang-clan-belong-in-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/rza-wu-tang-clan-belong-in-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"RZA: Wu-Tang Clan Belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was a bit late to the game when it came to including hip-hop in its ranks. But since 2007, when Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five became the first rap group inducted into the hall, the powers that be have been slowly welcoming the genre with the induction of Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, N.W.A and, most recently, Tupac Shakur in 2017.<\/p>\n

The Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>, eligible since 2017, have yet to be on the ballot. But speaking to Rolling Stone<\/em>, RZA<\/a> says it\u2019s time for the institution to rectify its Wu-less order. \u201cI think we should [get in], and I do care,\u201d the group\u2019s leader says. \u201cIt may take some time to get in there. I think it\u2019s good for us and I think it\u2019s good for rock & roll, because hip-hop is a form of music that grabs from every genre, but definitely grabs from rock & roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rapper-producer likened the \u201cspirit\u201d of rock to rap as it relates to youth culture. \u201cRock & roll has a certain spirit; it was the spirit of the Sixties and Seventies youth,\u201d he says. \u201cHip-hop is the Eighties, Nineties, up to now, the youth. It\u2019s called hip-hop, but it\u2019s in the same spirit of rock & roll at the end of the day. Lyrical, stories, music, unorthodox, dissonant sometimes, energetic, all the things that rock is and was, hip-hop embodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

RZA points to \u201cBring da Ruckus,\u201d an aggressive, confrontational highlight from the group\u2019s debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)<\/em>,  as blurring the line between the two genres.<\/p>\n

\u201cListening to a song like \u2018Bring da Ruckus,\u2019 I thought I was making hip-hop, but shit, it has a motherfuckin\u2019 rock & roll groove like a motherfucker. I don\u2019t know how the fuck I did that. I go back and listen to some of the Beatles progressions and some of [Led] Zeppelin\u2019s progressions and movements, like, okay, I was on some shit, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group has been in a nostalgic mood recently, prepping for the May release of the four-part, career-spanning Showtime docuseries Of Mics and Men<\/em><\/a> and the completion of Wu-Tang: An American Saga<\/em><\/a>, an upcoming scripted Hulu series on the group\u2019s formation co-created by the RZA.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place Friday night at Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center. Def Leppard, Radiohead, Janet Jackson, the Zombies, the Cure, Stevie Nicks and Roxy Music will all be inducted.<\/p>\n

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was a bit late to the game when it came to including hip-hop in its ranks. But since 2007, when Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five became the first rap group inducted into the hall, the powers that be have been slowly welcoming the genre with the induction […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 04:13:32","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}