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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Wu-Tang Clan—“C.R.E.A.M.”

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

The Ringer

Music

4.7849 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Rob explores the Wu-Tang Clan’s 1993 genre-defining classic “C.R.E.A.M.” and the unique circumstances that were seminal to the group’s identity. This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Lex Pryor Producer: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Get started at anchor.fm slash music and talk.

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0:26.3

A lot of spelling there, but just do it.

0:30.2

In 2019, Showtime ran a four-episode, four-hour documentary on the Wu-Tang Clan called

0:37.0

Wu-Tang Clan of Mike's and Men.

0:40.0

It was great. It was long. It was quite long. If you remember Wu-Tang forever, the album,

0:45.5

how long that was, this was more than twice as long. My favorite part is early in the second episode.

0:52.2

The members of the Wu-Tang Clan, the Rizza, the Jiza, Method Man,

0:55.6

Rayquan, inspected Deck, ghost face-killa, Mastakila, U-God, and Capadana, with Old Dirty

1:01.5

Bastard, who died in 2004, very much there in spirit, they're sitting in a beautiful old movie

1:06.9

theater in their home base of Staten Island, watching old footage of themselves and

1:11.5

reminiscing. And in this moment, they're arguing about who first suggested they named themselves

1:17.2

the Wu-Tang Clan, and by extension, who first saw the 1983 Hong Kong martial arts movie

1:24.0

where that name comes from. Here is just part of that argument.

1:28.3

I don't know you seen it. I don't know you seen it, but I told you to watch this

1:32.3

shit like this like, yo.

1:33.3

No, no, no, no.

1:36.3

What's going on?

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