The Wu-Tang saga started in the streets of Staten Island, and now it continues on the Vegas Strip. The legendary group is embarking on its Wu-Tang Clan: The Saga Continues… residency at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas this week with four shows. The first two will be this weekend, in tandem with Super Bowl weekend also happening in Vegas.
RZA says that the residency is a litmus test not just for them, but for the lasting power of the hip-hop residency. “There’s not a lot of shows...
RZA says that the residency is a litmus test not just for them, but for the lasting power of the hip-hop residency. “There’s not a lot of shows...
- 2/8/2024
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
Latino creators from all corners of music, art, and fashion will be at the center of The Art of Being Latin — a two-day event during Miami Art Week. Tainy, Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto, Sofía Reyes, and other artists are among those who’ll make appearances at the event hosted on Dec. 9 and 10.
The event — hosted by Ntertain, a company led by CEO Lex Borrero — will open with a panel titled “Crafting the Celebrity Image” featuring Storm Pablo, who has styled the likes of Bad Bunny and Jack Harlow.
The event — hosted by Ntertain, a company led by CEO Lex Borrero — will open with a panel titled “Crafting the Celebrity Image” featuring Storm Pablo, who has styled the likes of Bad Bunny and Jack Harlow.
- 12/7/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
With the release of his long-delayed album, Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater, just weeks away, RZA has dropped “Fate of the World” — his second single from the DJ Scratch-produced record.
Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater, which is available for pre-order starting today and is slated for release on March 4, is a concept album which finds RZA pitted against his aggressive alter-ego, Bobby Digital — a persona the rapper first adopted with the release of Bobby Digital In Stereo in 1998.
Produced by RZA and Danny Hastings, the “Fate of the World...
Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater, which is available for pre-order starting today and is slated for release on March 4, is a concept album which finds RZA pitted against his aggressive alter-ego, Bobby Digital — a persona the rapper first adopted with the release of Bobby Digital In Stereo in 1998.
Produced by RZA and Danny Hastings, the “Fate of the World...
- 2/18/2022
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
RZA has teamed up with legendary producer DJ Scratch for his upcoming full-length album, Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater. The long-delayed album, out March 4, takes its name from the Wu-Tang Clan producer’s streaming series, Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater with RZA, where he provided running commentary on martial arts movies.
“Lyrically the hip-hop part of me had a chance to re-emerge during quarantine,” RZA said in a release. “Giving Scratch the reins as a producer and me taking the reins as an Mc, that’s what frees me up...
“Lyrically the hip-hop part of me had a chance to re-emerge during quarantine,” RZA said in a release. “Giving Scratch the reins as a producer and me taking the reins as an Mc, that’s what frees me up...
- 2/5/2022
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Wu-Tang Clan are issuing a limited edition photography book, Wu-Tang Clan: Legacy. The large format photography book features more than 300 pages of images and comes encased in a 400-pound sculpted chamber.
“From conception to the present day, this is the story of the undisputed greatest hip-hop group of all time being unveiled through rare and never before seen photos,” John “Mook” Gibbons, CEO of Wu-Tang Clan Management, said in a statement.
According to the book’s official website, only 36 editions will be produced, and each comes signed, dated and numbered,...
“From conception to the present day, this is the story of the undisputed greatest hip-hop group of all time being unveiled through rare and never before seen photos,” John “Mook” Gibbons, CEO of Wu-Tang Clan Management, said in a statement.
According to the book’s official website, only 36 editions will be produced, and each comes signed, dated and numbered,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
'We almost killed Nas,' Danny Hastings tells Mixtape Daily.
By Rob Markman
Danny Hastings
Photo: MTV News
Celebrity Favorites: Danny Hastings
Nas proclaimed hip-hop was dead with the title of his 2006 album, but celebrity photographer Danny Hastings recalls that it was God's Son who almost met his demise in 1999 during their photo shoot for Nas' third LP, I Am.
The concept of the album art was to take the cover theme from Nas' debut, Illmatic, and build on it. The 1994 LP featured a picture of a young Nasir Jones, with the Queensbridge projects as the backdrop. On the Mc's 1996 follow-up, It Was Written, Nas appeared in front of the same backdrop, just a bit older. For his third album, Hastings wanted to continue to document the rapper's growth.
"The first one, you have him being a boy, very young. The second was a little bit older. And the third one,...
By Rob Markman
Danny Hastings
Photo: MTV News
Celebrity Favorites: Danny Hastings
Nas proclaimed hip-hop was dead with the title of his 2006 album, but celebrity photographer Danny Hastings recalls that it was God's Son who almost met his demise in 1999 during their photo shoot for Nas' third LP, I Am.
The concept of the album art was to take the cover theme from Nas' debut, Illmatic, and build on it. The 1994 LP featured a picture of a young Nasir Jones, with the Queensbridge projects as the backdrop. On the Mc's 1996 follow-up, It Was Written, Nas appeared in front of the same backdrop, just a bit older. For his third album, Hastings wanted to continue to document the rapper's growth.
"The first one, you have him being a boy, very young. The second was a little bit older. And the third one,...
- 5/24/2011
- MTV Music News
'When they played me those 10, 11 tracks, I felt like it's a wrap for everybody,' Danny Hastings tells MTV News about Eminem and Royce Da 5'9".
By Rob Markman
Photo: MTV News
When bad meets evil, there's sure to be a catastrophe, at least that's what photographer/filmmaker Danny Hastings envisioned when he was tapped to shoot the album cover for Eminem and Royce Da 5'9"'s new collabo Ep, Hell: The Sequel.
"I interpreted hell not being a satanic place, I interpreted hell as, 'Ok, this is what I've been through — you're coming in next.' In the sense like, 'Prepare for the sequel,' " said Hastings, who famously shot the cover for Wu-Tang Clan's debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), as well as albums for Big Pun, Gang Starr and Nas.
Hastings also lent his lens to the inside art for Em's 1998 debut, The Slim Shady LP.
By Rob Markman
Photo: MTV News
When bad meets evil, there's sure to be a catastrophe, at least that's what photographer/filmmaker Danny Hastings envisioned when he was tapped to shoot the album cover for Eminem and Royce Da 5'9"'s new collabo Ep, Hell: The Sequel.
"I interpreted hell not being a satanic place, I interpreted hell as, 'Ok, this is what I've been through — you're coming in next.' In the sense like, 'Prepare for the sequel,' " said Hastings, who famously shot the cover for Wu-Tang Clan's debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), as well as albums for Big Pun, Gang Starr and Nas.
Hastings also lent his lens to the inside art for Em's 1998 debut, The Slim Shady LP.
- 5/20/2011
- MTV Music News
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