On this day in Hip Hop history, in 1991, GZA stepped to the forefront with his debut solo album Words From the Genius, released years before the world would fully understand the power of the Wu-Tang ...

GZA (pronounced Jizza), aka The Genius, born Gary Grice August 22, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York City is an American rapper. He is most well known as a founding member of the seminal hip-hop group the Wu ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

This week’s new music Friday also features Paul Wall, Tierra Whack, Shaboozey, Vybz Kartel, and Pitbull with Lil Jon. “Liquid Swords” is obviously the most famous song on the album, a Wu standard that ...

On this day in Hip-Hop History, in 1991, Wu-Tang Clan member GZA released his debut, pre-Wu-Tang album Words From the Genius. This album was one of two pre-Wu-Tang Clan albums from one of the members, ...