Author: Lamont “U-God” Hawkins
Hawkins, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan was reared by a single mother in the projects of New York in the ’70s and ’80s, where he honed his survival instinct. Throughout the way he found the creative collaborators in his fellow Wu-Tang members, who would change the face of hip-hop. In this timely reminiscence, Hawkins’ reflects on his childhood—a period when drugs exacerbated the violence in the streets—and the heady years of fame that followed, revealing a man thankful for the music that saved his life.
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MY Journey into the Wu-Tang
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