Name: The Impact of Wu-Tang Clan
Uploaded: 2022-05-03T17:37:18.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Impact of Wu-Tang Clan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Impact of Wu-Tang Clan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-03. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- Because there's a whole another level
of training to Wu-Tang.
Like if you specifically put Wu-Tang on to train,
like I kind of get your mentality
and that internal, you know, feeling that you get.
Because yeah, that's one of my, not my last fight,
but the fight before I walked out to protect your neck.
- Yes!
- And like that, just that mentality,
like the beat and the drums.
- Oh yeah.
- You just feel like this, I don't know,
like a badass martial artist and a street martial artist.
- When we drive to shows, like when we leave the hotel
and then we go to the arena, whenever I'm doing comedy,
we listen to protect your neck.
That's the first thing we listen to, we get in the car,
either gravel pit or protect your neck.
- A gravel pit's crazy, right?
- Oh, that's great.
- They're like ding, ding, ding.
- Check out my gravel pit.
- I get it.
- Man, that era of hip hop to me is just like,
I mean, obviously I'm old.
So like that era was when I was young
and it was like when I was really getting into hip hop.
But there's something about that era of hip hop because it was,
hip hop was only a couple of decades old then.
- Yup.
- You know, really didn't, I mean, Sugar Hill Gang was like,
what, 1979, 78?
Like when, when was Rapper's Delight?
- Ooh, I mean, way before my time, I was born 90.
So like I think it was like 78 or 79.
- It could have been, it could have been.
- Do you know?
- 1980.
- 1980.
- Okay. So yeah.
So that's, that's when rap was essentially,
modern rap was essentially born.
And then, you know, 10 years later, 15 years later,
you know, you got Cool G rap and DJ Polo.
You got all those nineties hip hop guys.
- Yup.
- Correct. That's officially released on September 16th, 1979.
- Wow. There you go.
- Did you get to see the Wu-Tang Saga at all on Hulu?
- No.
- Joe Rogan, you gotta watch it.
- Really?
- Oh my God.
- Yeah?
- Okay. I hadn't been excited about a show in a long time.
I saw the Wu-Tang Saga and some people have certain,
you know, whatever their opinions on it,
but I think to be able to see the background
of every single member of Wu-Tang, right?
So it follows like each character individually
and how they all came together.
And Ashton Sanders, Saunders, who plays the RZA.
And just, there is a scene in season two
where he's sampling the music
and it takes him into this like all black room
where the, I can't even remember the,
the group that it, that, that he was sampling,
but they pop up and they're each playing their instruments.
And then like, as he turns it down on the keyboard
or on, you know, as he turns it down on the board,
then like the guy's still singing,
but like you can't hear him anymore.
Apparently he was on set for,
for a lot of the like scenes and stuff,
just kind of overseeing everything
or given his input on like, you know, this is how it is.
But yeah, being someone who loves to make music
and produce beats and stuff, it,
when I saw that scene, like I had to rewind it.
I had to replay it because I'm like, yeah, exactly.
You, when you're listening,
when you're trying to create music
and maybe if you're sampling, you might just hear the guitar
and you don't want the drums or you don't want the sing.
So you like turn that down and you're like, ah,
that's the feeling that I want to sample.
So when I saw that, I mean, that was season two,
but I was already sold on the show before, you know.
- How many seasons are there?
- I think only two and the third is coming.
Yeah. The third one's coming out.
- The interesting thing about hip hop
is that it was the first musical genre,
at least a popular musical genre that sampled stuff.
Like in that they, and they, it, what, you know,
it made the songs more interesting
because you heard a little bit of an old song in there
and you're like, oh, I remember that beat.
But then it's all these new lyrics over that beat
that changes what that beat is.
And it's like, there was this, you know,
there was like a lot of debate in the early days of sampling.
Like, is this stealing?
Like, what is this?
It's like, no, cause the other song still exists.
And it's obvious that this is a piece of that other song,
but it, you know, like, but it enhances new music.
- Yeah, exactly.
- It's a totally different thing.
Like taking little pieces of stuff
and combining it together is an art form in and of itself.
- Personally, as it's a, it's a, it's an appreciation, right?
It's like someone created this masterpiece already.
And I took my favorite part from it
and maybe just looped it or sped it up.
And then kind of made a version of it,
not to like compete with this other song,
but it's like an appreciation, like, thank you.
You've just made this amazing, you know, piece of music
that I can now listen to on repeat
or listen to in a way that, you know,
translates to me in a certain way and to millions more.
- Yes.
- I don't know.
I don't see a problem with it.
I think it's cool.
- Yeah. It's not like they're pretending they didn't do that.
You know what I mean?
Like stealing is like, there's, there's been bands
that have gotten in trouble because they have a riff
that sounds exactly like an old riff that's on a record
and they don't give the other band credit.
It's not a sample.
They're just trying to copy it.
And then they wind up losing all the royalties.
Well, you know, that's the business of the business.
- Yeah.
You gotta get your cut too though, right?
You can't be mad at the other guy.
- That music business is a weird business.
You know, like guys who are in a band together.
The band could be massive, but two guys are like
the head guys in the band and they make all the money.
- Yeah.
- And then the other guys get pissed, you know?
- Yeah. I mean, kind of going back to Wu-Tang,
I feel like that there was a little, a little bit of that.
- Wasn't it?
- Yeah, right.
- So many members in Wu-Tang at one point in time, right?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- But I think one of the things was, um, the guys didn't really understand the
music business.
RZA was like the brains behind it.
He was the one who like, you know, had all of the kind of like business
decisions and like,
Hey, I need you guys to sign this.
I need you guys to sign these contracts so we can get this money to make this
music.
And, um, you know, they kind of trusted him and, and did it.
And, uh, I guess it just, it didn't end up really being like a good deal for
everybody.
Um, they go over it a little bit in the show, but I think there's another
documentary that kind
of goes a little bit more in depth, you know, with all that stuff.
But yeah, man, the music is dirty, business is dirty, it's a dirty game
business.
- Ah, yes it is.
- With so many people and so many different, you know.
- Yeah, man, we all got to get paid.
- Yeah.
- That's just the fact that they brought those dudes together though, is so
interesting.
that the Wu-Tang Clan existed at all.
And it's so iconic, you know, like Wu-Tang is probably the most iconic hip hop
band of all time.
- Yeah.
I mean, off the top of my head, I really can't think of someone else to, that,
to compare.
- No, that doesn't, no one compares.
It's a different thing.
- Yeah.
- Like Wu-Tang is like a mindset.
- Yeah.
- Like when Dave Chappelle says Wu-Tang is a punchline sometimes.
- Yeah.
- Like they'll say something and just go Wu-Tang.
- Wu-Tang!
- You can't use any other band for that.
- You really can't.
- Yeah.
- You really can't.
And they're, I mean, they're, they're, their logo, their symbol, they're known
everywhere.
- Yeah.
- You can go to, you know, Jakarta, Indonesia, and it's like, they know who Wu-Tang
is,
or they've seen the symbol or something.
- And the people in it vary so wildly.
You got Old Dirty Bastard, who was just fucking crazy.
- Yep.
- And then you got the Jizza, who's like, he's an elite chess player.
- Genius, yeah.
- And I think he's done like Ted Talks and shit.
- No, the guy's a genius.
- Yeah, like a legit genius.
- Like Jizza the genius is a genius.
- Yeah.
- I think he actually, he studied and has a degree in something like, very like-
- Like physics or something.
- Yeah, like physics.
- Yeah.
- I think he has like a physics degree or something like that.
- Yeah.
- Like the guy, the guy's a genius.
- What was his Ted Talk?
- See if you can find out what the Jizza's Ted Talk is, because I guarantee he
did a Ted Talk.
Yeah, look at that.
The genius of science, the Jizza and the science genius at TEDxTeen.
- Yeah.
- I mean, what the fuck, man?
That's incredible.
- Yeah, I mean, when you listen to some of his bars, you're like, wow, how do
you-
- Exactly.
- How do you even put those things together?
- That's the other thing about 90s hip-hop and like that era and Wu-Tang Clan
in particular,
like the lyrics were so good.
There was, you would hear lyrics and you would just go, oh, shit.
- Like how did you put those together to make that scenario happen and yeah.
- Lyrics to me are everything.
I mean, the beat is everything too.
I mean, it's all together, obviously, but it's like, man, just something about
like sharp lyrics.
It's exciting.