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A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, hip-hop's most exalted wise man.
Riverhead
October 2009
On Sale: October 20, 2009
224 pages ISBN: 1594488851 EAN: 9781594488856 Hardcover
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The RZA, the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop culture's
most dynamic genius, imparts the lessons he's learned on the
journey that's taken him from the Staten Island projects to
international superstar, all along the way a devout student
of knowledge in every form he's found it-on the streets, in
religion, in martial arts, in chess, in popular culture.
Part chronicle of an extraordinary life and part spiritual
and philosophical discourse, The Tao of Wu is a
nonfiction Siddhartha for the hip-hop generation -an
engaging, seeking book that will enlighten, entertain, and
inspire.
The legions of Wu-Tang fans are accustomed
to this heady mix-their obsession with the band's puzzlelike
lyrics and elaborate mythology has propelled the group
through fifteen years of dazzling, multiplatform success. In
his 2005 bestseller The Wu-Tang Manual, the RZA
provided the barest glimpse of how that mythology worked. In
The Tao of Wu, he takes us deep inside the complex
sense of wisdom and spirituality that has been at the core
of his commercial and creative success.
The book is
built around major moments in the RZA's life when he was
faced with a dramatic turning point, either bad (a potential
prison sentence) or good (a record deal that could pull his
family out of poverty), and the lessons he took from each
experience. His points of view are always surprising and
provocative, and reveal a profound, genuine, and abiding
wisdom-consistently tempered with humor and peppered with
unique, colloquial phraseology. It is a spiritual memoir as
the world has never seen before, and will never see again.
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