The Tao of Wu by The RZA (Paperback)

Nonfiction - Music - Rap & Hiphop - Biography & Autobiography RELEASE DATE: 11/02/2010 The “unusually compelling...artist memoir, ghetto narrative and manual of divine mathematics” (Rolling Stone (4-star review)) from hip-hop's most exalted wise man. From the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan—celebrating their 25th anniversary this year—an inspirational book for the hip hop fan.The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he's found it, he distills here the wisdom he's acquired into seven "pillars," each based on a formative event in his life-from the moment he first heard the call of hip-hop to the death of his cousin and Clan- mate, Russell Jones, aka ODB. Delivered in RZA's unmistakable style, at once surprising, profound, and provocative, The Tao of Wu is a spiritual memoir the world has never seen before, and will never see