The mathematics should’ve worked out. 819 days after the death of Ol’ Dirty Bastard {8 + 1 + 9 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9}, The RZA announced the forthcoming arrival of Wu-Tang Clan’s fifth release and first in nearly six years. Breaking down the digits, it all added up to 9, and there couldn’t be a number more abiding of the single greatest hip-hop group of all time. Not only does the seductively top-heavy numeral enumerate the group’s original members and their own genesis but also the origin of us all; there are 9 months in the gestation period of a human embryo. The number is so definitive to the New York crew that it now stands out as an era lost to the cruelly neutral cosmos of mathematics. You can’t mention 9 and Wu-Tang in …
If there is one thing more infinitely sprawling than the amount of content on YouTube, it’d be the output of the Wu-Tang Clan. While we all sit around and wait for 8 Diagrams, URB.com scoured the video-hosting site for our favorite videos from the Clan’s group and solo outputs. While some videos didn’t make it because they simply aren’t on YouTube (”All That I Got Is You”), others lost their eligibility because a Wu MC wasn’t the primary artist (”Woo-ha! Got You All In Check”).
Lists are worthless without debate, so feel free to stroll through these next 20 pages and start voicing your winters of discontent. Without further ado, here they are, starting at #20, the greatest Wu-Tang videos of all-time:
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