Many times that he would see death up close. The concrete steps would resonate with me forever.” It was the first of Up at her till my neck was stiff,” he writes. Roof of a neighboring building, threatening to jump. Old he followed the music outside, where he saw a woman standing on the Minnie Riperton’s “Loving You” playing on a radio when he was five years One of his earliest memories, Hawkins writes, is of hearing Would learn that his mother had become pregnant with him after she was Hawkins never knew his father-eventually, he Who moved to Staten Island, then in the throes of “urban renewal,”īecause she was drawn to the idea of raising her son in an aspirational, He was the only child of a hopeful and hard-working mother,
Hawkins, who was born in 1970, spent his earliest years in Brooklynīefore moving to Staten Island, where he would meet his future Wu-TangĬompatriots. That makes his memoir, “ Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang,” unexpectedly
Strangeness, and even fragility, of Hawkins’s proximity to the group (In 2016, Hawkins launched a lawsuitĪgainst the group for unpaid royalties.) But it’s precisely the Nickname, “the four-bar killer,” speaks to his scant role in one of Overlooked member of the group-that would be the inscrutable and Taste: gruff, workmanlike, more of a bully than a poet. The rapper U-God, though, who was born Lamont Hawkins, is an acquired Their own, colorfully absurdist, tag-team spin on traditionalĬrime-talk a credible argument could even be made for the spry and Group’s entire sound and ethos and Ghostface Killah and Raekwon crafted Human embodiment of a James Brown grunt RZA conceptualized the Old-fashioned flow and the foreboding intellect Method Man oozesĬunning and charisma the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard was pure funk, like the
Strong case for at least two-thirds of the nonet: GZA has the Most fans of the Wu-Tang Clan have a favorite member. In “Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang,” U-God, born Lamont Hawkins, has found the right language and perspective with which to come to terms with his past.
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