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Wu-Tang Clan: A Resume | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Friday, August 31, 2007

Wu-Tang Clan: A Resume

 •  Rockin' and ringin'

Advertiser Staff

Why is it so hard to get the members of the Wu-Tang Clan together for group projects like the upcoming "8 Diagrams" CD and the "Rock the Bells" concert tour? Easy: solo successes. Each member of the clan can claim some degree of individual success in music — and even film and television — outside the Wu.

"We wasn't designed as a group that's gonna always do group things," said Raekwon, in Wu-Tang's electronic press kit. "We all got different goals. We all got different motivations. We all got different styles."

Of its five studio albums, Wu-Tang has collected a Billboard Top 200 album chart No. 1 disc (1997's "Wu-Tang Forever") and two Billboard R&B/hip-hop album chart-toppers ("Wu-Tang Forever" and 2000's "The W").

Here's a look at a few of the notable solo projects current Wu members have done outside the clan.

GHOSTFACE KILLAH

ALBUMS

  • "Ironman" (1996) (Billboard Top 200 album chart: No. 2/Billboard R&B/hip-hop album chart: No. 1)

  • "Supreme Clientele" (2000) (No. 7/No.2)

  • "Bulletproof Wallets" (2001) (No. 34/No. 2)

  • "The Pretty Toney Album" (2004) (No. 6/No. 4)

  • "Fishscale" (2006) (No. 4/No. 2)

    FILM AND TELEVISION

    "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" (1996), "Black And White" (1999), "The Source Awards" episode of "30 Rock" (2006)

    GZA

    ALBUMS

  • "Liquid Swords" (1995) (No. 9/No. 2)

  • "Beneath the Surface" (1999) (No. 9/No. 1)

    FILM

    "Coffee and Cigarettes" (2004)

    INSPECTAH DECK

    ALBUMS

  • "Uncontrolled Substance" (1999) (No. 19/No. 3)

  • "The Movement" (2003) (No. 137/No. 29)

    MASTA KILLA

    ALBUMS

  • "No Said Date" (2004) (No. 136/No. 31)

  • "Made In Brooklyn" (2006) (No. 176/No. 42)

    METHOD MAN

    ALBUMS

  • "Tical" (1994) (No. 4/No. 1)

  • "Tical 2000: Judgement Day" (1998) (No. 2/No. 1)

  • "Blackout!" (1999) (No. 3/No. 1)

  • "Tical 0: The Prequel" (2004) (No. 2/No. 1)

  • "4:21 ... The Day After" (2006) (No. 8/No. 4)

    FILM AND TELEVISION

    "Garden State" (2004), "Soul Plane" (2004), "How High" (2001), "Method and Red" television series with tour mate Redman (2004), television appearances in "Oz," "The Wire," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"

    GRAMMY AWARD

    Best rap performance by a duo or group for "I'll Be There For You/You're All I Need To Get By" (with Mary J. Blige) (1995)

    RAEKWON

    ALBUMS

  • "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx" (1995) (No. 4/No. 2)

  • "Immobilarity" (1999) (No. 9/No. 2)

  • "The Lex Diamond Story" (2004) (No. 102/No. 18)

    RZA

    ALBUMS

  • "RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo" (1998) (No. 16/No. 3)

  • "The RZA Hits" (1999) (No. 61/No. 30)

  • "Birth of a Prince" (2003) (No. 49/No. 20)

    FILM AND TELEVISION

    "Coffee and Cigarettes" (2004), "Derailed" (2005), "American Gangster" (2007); film scores for "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999), "Blade: Blade Trinity" (2004), "Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2" (2003-04)

    U-GOD

    ALBUM

  • "Golden Arms Redemption" (1999) (No. 58/No. 15)
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