If you ask GZA whether he thinks we’re in a golden age of hip-hop, he’ll laugh in your face. “Nowhere near,” he scoffs over the phone. “It’s not even the silver or the bronze age.” In fact, the last ...

Chess obsession, a writerNs joy in discussing his craft, songs born of word games—in the hip-hop Voltron that is the Wu-Tang Clan, GZA is the brain for good reason. GZA, a.k.a. the Genius (or Gary ...

GZA’s 1995 masterpiece, Liquid Swords is considered by many to rank among the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. To put it simply, there’s something beautiful and jangly and strange about the ...

Pete Rock is not the only elder statesman in hip-hop who frowns at today’s rap music. Wu-Tang Clan lyricist GZA is not impressed with some of the current rhymers who are making waves in the music ...

“This place is tiny, yo,” Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA proclaimed to the beyond-sold-out crowd halfway through his solo set at New York’s Knitting Factory late last night. “We’re doing two nights here, we could ...

I recently watched the video for GZA’s “Liquid Swords,” from the Wu-Tang Clan’s poet laureate’s classic 1995 album of the same name, for the first time since the Clinton era, and I found the shadow ...

GZA has an easy job. On Friday, he performed stone-cold classic Liquid Swords in its entirety, but really all he had to do was press play on that Shogun Assassin sample and let the floodgates open.

Date: May 31, 2007 Venue: The Parish Better Than: Meeting the GZA alone in an abandoned subway tunnel. “I’m going to die face down in an alley tomorrow.” That’s pretty much all I could think about ...

At 5 p.m. Friday, people lounged around The Weed Spot in Deep Ellum, waiting for their chance to meet GZA, aka “The Genius,” one of the original founding members of Wu-Tang Clan. The meet-and-greet, ...

GZA is in the midst of the 3 Chambers Tour with fellow Wu-Tang members Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, where they’re celebrating GZA’s Liquid Swords, as well as Ghostface’s Ironman, and Raekwon’s Only ...

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 ...

Is there anything GZA can’t do? Following appearances at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and preceding the imminent launch of his new website, the Wu-Tang Clan alum has revealed ...