![]() ![]() ![]() The History of WuRZA formed the Wu-Tang Clan in 1993 with his cousins and friends from Staten Island, New York. Now, RZA told CNN, he wishes he would've been tougher with ODB about his drug problem. RZA tried to leave, he writes, but ODB wouldn't let him. RZA writes in the book that he once witnessed ODB force his own son to watch him do drugs. Two days before his 36th birthday in 2004, ODB died in a New York recording studio from an overdose of cocaine and painkillers. RZA, whose real name is Robert Diggs and whose stage name is pronounced "Rizza," also talked about his role in the death of his cousin, Russell Jones, better known as Ol' Dirty Bastard or ODB. The year before the group formed in 1993, RZA was acquitted on an attempted murder charge that could have put him behind bars for eight years, he writes in "The Tao of Wu," out Thursday.Įxpanding on the book's anecdotes in an interview with CNN, RZA explained that if he had been imprisoned or if Method Man, aka Clifford Smith, had been killed, the band never would have come to fruition. It wasn't the only close call RZA said could have snuffed the band that rewrote the rule book for hip-hop acts. A buddy of ours, Poppy, an innocent, school-going, nice guy - he was shot and killed right there." Interactive: Where's the Wu been? » A few seconds later - pow-pow-pow-pow-pow! - a guy started shooting up the front of 160. "Come over here, yo!" RZA beckoned, according to "The Tao of Wu" (Riverhead). Meth was walking to buy marijuana at 160 Park Hill Avenue in Staten Island - the house in Wu-Tang's "Protect Ya Neck" video - when RZA saw him across the street, he writes in the book. Method Man, the group's most recognizable voice, was nearly killed before the band formed, Wu-Tang's chief producer, RZA, writes in his forthcoming memoir.
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