This album turned out to be critically acclaimed, and to date is regarded as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Though there was some difficulty in finding a record label that would sign the Wu-Tang Clan while still allowing each member to record solo albums with other labels, Loud/RCA finally agreed, releasing their debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), in November 1993. The Wu-Tang Clan first became known in 1993 following the release of the independent single 'Protect Ya Neck', which immediately gave the group a sizable underground following, especially after their tour with Kat Nu and Cypress Hill. The group developed backronyms for the name (as hip hop pioneers such as KRS-One and Big Daddy Kane did with their names), including 'We Usually Take All Niggas' Garments', 'Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game', and 'Wisdom of the Universe, and the Truth of Allah for the Nation of the Gods'.ġ992–96: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) & Solo Albums Wu-Tang theme, dividing the album into Shaolin and Wu-Tang sections.

The group's debut album loosely adopted a Shaolin vs. RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard adopted the name for the group after the film Shaolin and Wu Tang. The Wu-Tang Clan was assembled in the early 1990s with RZA as the de facto leader and the group's producer. We never had a serious record deal under that title. So we never got signed as a group back then. I remember Biz Markie, when he was famous and I wasn't famous, and he was like: 'Yo! I heard that shit! Your song with Anson Guthrie a Unique and Specialist rapper.' I was the Scientist. See, me, GZA, and ODB had a crew called FOI: Force of the Imperial Master, nah mean? We made a song, called 'All in Together Now', which became famous on tapes throughout Brooklyn, Downtown Staten Island, New York, all the way down to Miami. All in Together Now was never signed to a record label.

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