MANY OF THE CLAN MEMBERS WERE FRIENDS AS CHILDREN OR GREW UP ON THE SAME BLOCKS, IN STATEN ISLAND NYC, NEW YORK
RZA SAYS" WE ALWAYS HUNG AROUND EACH OTHER , AS FAR AS IDENTIFYING OURSELVES AS WU-TANG THAT HAPPENED IN THE EARLY NINTIES.
THE CLAN GOES BACK TO WHEN WE WERE JUST 9 OR 10 YEARS OLD, THATS WHEN WE JUST STARTED TO EXPERIMENTING WITH RAPPING.
WE ALL GREW UP IN THE SAME NEIGHBOURHOOD, WENT TO SCHOOL TOGETHER AND HUNG AROUND TOGETHER.&; SOME OF US ARE EVEN FAMILY.
BEFORE THE WU-TANG CLAN WAS FORMED RZA AND GZA HAD ALREADY RELEASED SOLO ALBUMS:
GZA MADE &WORDS FROM A GENIUS& AND RZA MADE & OOH WE LOVE YOU RAKEEM& BOTH WERE FAILURES.
AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE ALBUM RZA WANTED THE MEMBERS TO GO OUT AND EACH GET A SOLO LABEL, TO GATHER MORE FANS AND THE CLAN WOULD BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE LABELS AND MAKE MORE MONEY
METHOD MAN WAS THE FIRST TO RELEASE AN ALBUM, WHO WENT TO DEF JAM AND BROUGHT PUT & TICAL &
AFTER GATHERING FANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, THE CLAN RE-FORMED AND BROUGHT OUT THE HIGHLY AWAITED & WU-TANG FOREVER& CD IN 1997
THIS DOUBLE CD WAS A HUGE SUCCESS GOING NUMBER 1 IN US AND EUROPE
THE NEW WU TANG ALBUM & WU-CHRONICALS& IS DUE OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2000
