First and foremost, happy born day to Gary “Genius/GZA” Grice, aka “Justice” for you god bodies, who is a wise 46 years-old today. This box set for the Wu-Tang Clan rapper’s classic sophomore album, ...

The second studio album of the artist formerly known as The Genius is rightly considered one sprawling Wu-Tang Clan's best solo works. The lore of the album has been recorded in interviews many times ...

On September 15, 2015, nearly 20 years after it was first released, GZA finally received a platinum record in the mail from the RIAA for his seminal ‘90s masterpiece Liquid Swords. “It’s a good ...

On May 28, 2014, anyone privy to the premiere of “Lifestyle” by Rich Gang caught a startling glimpse into the future as Young Thug squalled these immortal words ...

"We form like Voltron, and GZA happen to be the head." -- Method Man, "36 Chambers" Slotted second to last on Sunday's fun Project Pabst lineup, GZA, The Genius, born Gary Grice, cousin to RZA and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

1995: Few albums freeze the blood in your veins quite like Genius/GZA's 1995 classic, Liquid Swords. Released in the midst of Wu-Tang Mania, Liquid Swords is a chilly New York classic that cements GZA ...

Wu-Tang Clan is one of the most important rap groups in rap history. Coming out of Staten Island, the crew, which consisted of nine members (some from the Island while others from Brooklyn) the Clan ...

Discovering an older musician from some far-off land can be a frustrating pursuit. His discography hasn't been subjected to the usual canonization that English-language rock typically is. So there can ...

"Then, one night, the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father, but they didn’t… That was the night everything changed." For hiphop fans of a certain age, the ...

Pardon what appears to be an opening digression, but there’s a point here, which I’ll get too in reasonably short order, I promise. They may have patterned their concepts on kung-fu and mafia movies ...