Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA is a rap visionary and one of the most influential hip-hop artists of all time but try and pin him down to one genre at your peril. The way RZA sees it, hip-hop is an extension of rock’n’roll. “Hip-hop is a form of music that grabs from every genre,” he has said, “but it definitely grabs from rock’n’roll.”
He was speaking from experience – going all the way back to Wu-Tang Clan’s landmark debut Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), RZA was an artist trying to bridge the two worlds. Talking about its standout track Bring Da Ruckus, he said, “I thought I was making hip-hop but it has a rock’n’roll groove like a motherfucker.”
