East Coast hip-hop pioneer GZA celebrated 28 years of his album Liquid Swords and three decades of the Wu-Tang Clan at The Englert on Tuesday, Aug. 29 with help from the Phunky Nomads and hometown ...

The Genius of Wu-Tang Clan delivered a dark, brooding classic that cemented his legend both within and apart from his iconic ...

The second studio album of the artist formerly known as The Genius is rightly considered one sprawling Wu-Tang Clan's best solo works. The lore of the album has been recorded in interviews many times ...

1995: Few albums freeze the blood in your veins quite like Genius/GZA's 1995 classic, Liquid Swords. Released in the midst of Wu-Tang Mania, Liquid Swords is a chilly New York classic that cements GZA ...

During a brief pause between “Cold World” and “Labels,” tracks five and six of GZA’s haunting, yet grimly funny 1995 masterpiece Liquid Swords, I saw out of the corner of my eye a hand zip by my head, ...

The GZA, the Genius, the Curator. For those attending Friday’s Fillmore show — at which the Wu-Tang veteran performed all of his classic 1995 solo album, Liquid Swords — it was something of a night at ...

First and foremost, happy born day to Gary “Genius/GZA” Grice, aka “Justice” for you god bodies, who is a wise 46 years-old today. This box set for the Wu-Tang Clan rapper’s classic sophomore album, ...

At the time, Method Man, Raekwon, and Old Dirty Bastard had already cemented themselves as boundary-pushing acts with three ...

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.

“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 ...

View more photos in Timothy Norris' “GZA @ Echoplex” slideshow. In high school Spanish, freshman year, there was a skater named Steve who knew all of the words to Liquid Swords. I sat next to him – ...