Cappadonna (Wu-Tang Clan Chapter 6): Someone Else’s Crack Rocks, Turning State’s Evidence, and a Rat in the Inner Circle
DISGRACELAND
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Cappadonna may have taught a lot of the guys in Wu-Tang Clan how to rhyme, but he wasn’t around when the group first formed and released their incredible debut album. Because Cappadonna was in Rikers Island, doing time for someone else’s crack rocks. When Cap was released, the Clan welcomed him as the honorary tenth member of the group. But he brought someone else into the fold, too. A shady character who, unbeknownst to Cap and the rest of the guys, wasn’t what he seemed … a federal informant testifying in two major cases, one involving the mob.
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| 0:00.0 | Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:19.6 | The stories about Wu-Tang Clan's Capadonna are insane. |
| 0:24.9 | He was arrested for possession of someone else's crack. |
| 0:28.8 | He did time at Rikers Island. |
| 0:31.0 | At the very same time, Wutang Clan was being formed without him. |
| 0:35.6 | He joined Wutang once they were already famous, but he unknowingly |
| 0:39.9 | brought a rat into their inner circle. He hired a manager with a criminal past, who is actually |
| 0:46.3 | a federal informant testifying in two cases, one involving the mob. And despite making a questionable hire, |
| 0:55.8 | Capadonna made great music. |
| 0:59.1 | Some of the greatest hip-hop music |
| 1:00.7 | on some of the biggest hip-hop albums |
| 1:02.9 | from the Wu-Tang universe. |
| 1:05.5 | Unlike that clip I played for you at the top of the show, |
| 1:08.6 | that wasn't great music. |
| 1:10.5 | That was a preset loop for my |
| 1:12.6 | Melotron called Wolf Kisses MK1. I played you that clip because I can't afford the rights to |
| 1:20.7 | Maria Maria by Santana featuring the product GMB. And why would I play you that specific slice of nylon-stringed cheese |
| 1:30.6 | could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on May 23, 2000. And that was the day |
| 1:39.7 | the village voice ran a bombshell expose that revealed Capadonna's manager to be a shady Al Capone |
| 1:46.7 | wannabe who had turned state's evidence and gotten cozy with the vets. |
| 1:52.3 | On this episode, someone else's crack, doing time, criminal pass, a rat in the inner circle, |
| 2:00.9 | and Wu-Tang Clan's Capadonna. |
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