Like Mario Conde, our most (an)alpha banker, the rapper and producer RZA, the leader of the Wu Tang Clan collective, also has his own book of tao, or a cocktail of wisdom in truth, which he makes in addition to memoirs of the streets where he cut his teeth… and not in a figurative sense: Rakeem Zig Zag Allah (King-Wisdom-Understanding) went to preventive detention after a self-defense shooting for which he was asked for eight years. He was saved and reborn, RZA-Rector, “as if he could save others and return them to the right path. But I discovered the truth: the first person you have to save is yourself. Originally published in 2009, and now here in Spain at Blackie Books, ‘The Tao of Wu’ stands out for the interweaving of ‘gangsta’ adventures and the need for a system of self-knowledge and spiritual discipline to not succumb to thuggery, drug trafficking , addictions and other ways out of poverty and here is the crux: born Robert Fitzgerald Diggs in 1969 in Brooklyn is a gifted person who took up chess, kung-fu and eastern philosophies to survive. And hip-hop, of course. And everything also like a dirty mirror that could also reflect the bodybuilder ‘coach’ Amadeo Llados: a system of early mornings and ‘gym’ to avoid a bad life and a bad death, with a view to God, and a faith that covers a transcendent structure of self-control, in purity. And what does this have to do with God or a Higher Being, I wonder… By the way, he is not the only member of the Wu with a book of this type, there is the one from U-God, also involved in that sect of crazy Islamists which is the Nation of the 5%: «The laymen do not know much and are easily fooled, they make up 85%. “Those who know the truth but use it to deceive and exploit others are 10%.” And then them, the cracks. In 1991, RZA, walking around Staten Island for several hours for several days, meditating on everything, just meditating, at the age of 22, after avoiding prison for almost a decade but living in a shared room (not an apartment) with his woman, her baby and more people, imagine the potato, fell into something like Newton with the apple: an obvious thing that was there and that is brilliant: I’m going to set up a supergroup with my superpeople from the parks, the ‘corners’ and the streets: with Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, GZA… and the rest is hip-hop history.
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