Subject: GZA (Rapper)

• The Rub's 'History of Hip-hop' Mixtape Series

  Brooklyn trio the Rub have done some insanely thorough curating with their series of yearly rundowns of the best (in their learned opinions) hip-hop tracks. They've strung together dozens of gems for every year from 1979 to 1999 (you can access the MP3 files here). That is some serious dedication and edification, boom-bap aficionados. Below are a few videos from some of my faves that the Rub have included in their pantheon. Just-Ice's “Cold Gettin' Dumb” (1986) Gang Starr's “Who's Go

  March 28, 2008

• Letters

  August 12, 2004

• On-Sale Tomorrow: Stung Out, GZA at Detroit Bar

  Couple shows coming to Detroit Bar in the near future with tickets going on sale tomorrow: veteran soCal punks Strung Out are playing on April 3, with support from Year Long Disaster. They played Chain Reaction back in November; Doug Wallen wrote about them for us in advance of that gig. $15, on sale tomorrow (2/20) at 10 a.m. GZA of the Wu-Tang clan is also on his way to the Costa Mesa venue, on March 6. He released his latest solo album, Pro Tools, last summer; tickets are $15 in advance, $20

  February 19, 2009

• Club Pick: GZA at Detroit Bar TONIGHT!!!

  There are some things that are hard to imagine. It's the kind of stunning news that you usually have to hear a couple of times before you actually believe it. When a flyer for a live performance by the GZA of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan appeared on the Detroit Bar website, you probably thought it had to be some mistake. GZA? At Detroit Bar? No way. Then you got hit with it again in this weeks article [see Rex Reason's story here] on the platinum-selling MC. Okay, now it has to be real, because yo

  March 6, 2009

• Slideshows: GZA, Slipknot, Pretenders = Busy Weekend

  Mmhmm. This weekend we had folks all over, be it John Gilhooley shooting Sunday's Pretenders show at the Grove of Anaheim, or Robert Fayette pulling double at both GZA (haha, "jizz-a") at Detroit Bar on Friday and Slipknot at the Great Western Forum on Saturday.  That's the Pretenders pictures up there, of course, but you've surely figured that out by now. We hope.

  March 9, 2009

• Big weekend at Detroit...again, yeeesh.

  Okay, so most of you who read this blog probably get the sense that us Heard Mentality goons generally like what happens at Detroit Bar on a weekly basis. Sometimes we write about them way too much considering that there are about 100 or so perfectly good (or at least mediocre) places to get drunk and dance in Orange County. But you have to understand, they really don't make it fair for us sometimes. Barely a week after hosting fucking GZA of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan these guys produce another

  March 20, 2009

• GZA: Wu-Tang's Genius at Work

  March 5, 2009

• Cream of Elite

  Sporting perhaps the greatest hip-hop bill ever, Rock the Bells enshrines rap's history—and foreshadows its future

  August 9, 2007

• The Black Lips with...the GZA????

  Self-described "flower punk" Atlanta quartet the Black Lips have teamed with the Wu-Tang's GZA. Maybe that sounds like an unusual mix, but now you can decide for yourself.Click the link to hear the track "The Drop I Hold."

  April 30, 2009

• ALSO TONIGHT: The GZA Returns to Detroit

  There's something to be said for the credibility of a music venue when an artist like GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan decides to stop by once and do a show. But twice? Detroit Bar must be doing something right these days. And for anyone who shelled out the $20 for his last appearance at this South County watering hole remembers what a crazy night that was, filled with guest appearances, packed crowds and ridiculous flows courtesy of  The Genius and his crew.Tonight should be no different, perhaps e

  May 15, 2009

• Incoming: Unsurprisingly, More Cool Shows are Coming to Detroit Bar (GZA, Little Dragon, More)

  Detroit Bar is bringing some more neat stuff to town, including Little Dragon, pictured. The Swedish group is currently on tour with TV on the Radio, and once that wraps up, they'll be hitting Detroit on May 22.One week earlier (and only a little more than two months since his last Detroit appearance), GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan will return to Costa Mesa. Yup, May 15. Also returning to Detroit: Fabrizio Moretti's Little Joy, the new project from the Strokes member, on June 4. They played the venue

  April 23, 2009

• Incoming: Raekown, As Tall as Lions Coming to Detroit Bar

  The Wu-Tang invasion of Detroit Bar continues. Following GZA's show in March, fellow Wu-Tang member Raekwon will hit the westside Costa Mesa venue on August 7, a mere month before the release of his much anticipated Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II, quite clearly the sequel to 1995's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. I guess it's one of those sequels that take forever to come out, like Toy Story 3, or, uh, Rocky Balboa and Live Free or Die Hard. Let's hope it's better than some of those. Tickets are on sale no

  July 1, 2009

• [CD Review] Various Artists, 'Wu-Tang Chamber Music' (E1 Music)

  July 9, 2009

• TONIGHT: RAEKWON of Wu-Tang Clan at Detroit Bar

  ​As the legendary members of Wu-Tang make their trek one by one to the Detroit Bar stage, you have to wonder if  the club's owner, Jon Reiser, made some kind of pact with the devil to get such a great reputation among New York's finest emcee collective. Already the club has hosted GZA (twice) and Cappadonna . Eventually, they should just say fuck it and do a full-on Wu-Tang concert with all nine surviving members.But tonight offers another jam packed installment for the Wu watchers of OC

  August 7, 2009

• 'nother Wu Member Coming to Detroit

  Somehow Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar has become the local spot for any of the 37 dudes in the Wu-Tang Clan to perform solo. Next on the list (after two recent shows by the GZA) is Cappadonna, who might be a member of a contributor, depending on how you define those things. All I know is, he's more of a member than I am and that's good enough for me. The show is June 13. Tickets are $15. On sale now. 

  June 4, 2009