‘From Staircase to Stage’: Raekwon on growing up in N.Y. and the Wu-Tang Clan

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To hear the broadcast version of this interview, use the audio player below. “Park Hill was a pretty nice environment — the buildings were very clean and they had doormen, intercoms in order to get in the building,” recalls Raekwon, the legendary rapper best known as a core member of the canonical Wu-Tang Clan, of some early memories. In a …

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The revered avant-garde rockers finally get the rock-doc treatment

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You don’t have to be a mystic, or even religious, to understand that coincidences don’t really exist. Indeed, any student of rock n’ roll knows that the history of the canon is littered with chance encounters and ripe scenes made up of unusually heterogeneous mixtures of characters.  In 1957, a 15-year-old Paul McCartney paid threepence to watch a popular Liverpool …

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