History Trivia / WuTangClan

* CreatorBacklash: Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Raekwon are ''not'' keen with ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', Meth finding the infamous "88 year ban" enforcement a bit too much (even more so when the media changed his words around), Killah saying it's "Not a Wu-Tang Clan album", and Raekwon finding the "88 year ban" in his words, 'bullshit'. Killah was more or less furious when the album was sold to Shkreli and has even said the album belongs to the people.

* OldShame: RZA and GZA's albums before the Clan was formed. GZA, for his part, said he thought his rhymes were good on his first album, but the beats were lacking.

* NamesTheSame: Ghostface Killah made a song called "Baby" and it has nothing to do with the other [[Music/LLCoolJ "Baby"]] or the ''other'' other [[Music/JustinBieber "Baby"]]

* ReferencedBy: Forever, an orangutan Stand user from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', is named after the Wu-Tang Clan album ''Wu-Tang Forever''. Interestingly, the chapter that Forever was introduced in was released in 1989, whereas ''Wu-Tang Forever'' was released in 1997, meaning that writer Hirohiko Araki only named him as such in post.

* CreatorBacklash: Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Raekwon are ''not'' keen with ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', Method Man finding the infamous "88 year ban" enforcement a bit too much (even more so when the media changed his words around), Killah saying it's "Not a Wu-Tang Clan album", and Raekwon finding the "88 year ban" in his words, 'bullshit'. Killah was more or less furious when the album was sold to Shkreli and has even said the album belongs to the people.

* ReferencedBy: Forever, an orangutan Stand user from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', is named after the Wu-Tang Clan album ''Wu-Tang Forever''. Interestingly, the chapter that Forever was introduced in was released in 1989, whereas ''Wu-Tang Forever'' was released in 1997, meaning that writer Hirohiko Araki only named him as such in post.

* OldShame: RZA and GZA's albums before the Clan was formed.
* ReferencedBy: Forever, an orangutan Stand user from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', is named after the Wu-Tang Clan album ''Wu-Tang Forever''. Interestingly, the chapter that Forever was introduced in was released in 1989, whereas ''Wu-Tang Forever'' was released in 1992, meaning that writer Hirohiko Araki only named him as such in post.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Ol' Dirty Bastard, who passed away in 2004.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', given only ''one'' copy was made: The sole copy came with a ''huge'' black box that held a medium sized nickle box that ''also'' housed a casing which ''within that'' held a CD-like case that held the two [=CDs=] of the album. The sole copy also came with a 180 page book that contained the liner notes of the album, the lyrics, and even the album track list (which the only known ones by fans are "Intro", "The Magnificent Butchers", "Stone Him", a title track, and "Dirty Bomb"). Other known factors that were sold were '''speakers''' that bared the Wu-Tang logo and the words "ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHAOLIN..." on the bottom. The album was originally owned by controversial business man Martin Shkreli before it was seized by the government due to frauds.

* OneOfUs: Most if not all of them, but the GZA in particular. You'll notice many of them have a nickname referencing [[Comicbook/IronMan comic]] [[Comicbook/GhostRider books]].
** He's also a huge chess fan, hence the song "Da Mystery Of Chessboxing" and the cover of ''Liquid Swords''.
** Method Man referenced ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' in "P.L.O. Style" from ''Tical''.
** Inspectah Deck - 'Swinging through your town like your neighborhood Spiderman'
** Raekwon has tracks on ''Only Built For Cuban Linx Pt. 1'' and ''Only Built For Cuban Linx Pt. 2'' named North Star and The Return of the North Star respectively.
*** Raekwon the Chef: "So, when you see me on the real, [[CombiningMecha formin' like]] Anime/{{Voltron}} Remember I got deep like a Navy Seal!"
** Ghostface Killah refers to himself as Iron Man or Tony Starks, and so naturally he lobbied hard for a cameo in TheMovie. He got it, but it was cut from the release.
** Method Man had a cameo in ''Series/LukeCage'' where he and Luke completely fanboy over each other, followed by performing a rap about how great it is to have a black superhero. RZA then did him one better by directing an episode of ''Series/IronFist''.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', given only ''one'' copy was made: The sole copy came with a ''huge'' black box that held a medium sized nickle box that ''also'' housed a casing which ''within that'' held a CD-like case that held the two CDs of the album. The sole copy also came with a 180 page book that contained the liner notes of the album, the lyrics, and even the album track list (which the only known ones by fans are "Intro", "The Magnificent Butchers", "Stone Him", a title track, and "Dirty Bomb"). Other known factors that were sold were '''speakers''' that bared the Wu-Tang logo and the words "ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHAOLIN..." on the bottom. The album was originally owned by controversial business man Martin Shkreli before it was seized by the government due to frauds.

* CreatorBacklash: Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Raekwon are ''not'' keen with ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', Method Man finding the infamous "88 year ban" enforcement a bit too much (even more so when the media changed his words around), Killah saying it's "Not a Wu-Tang Clan album", and Raekwon finding the "88 year ban" bullshit.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Somewhat in a more darker kind. It seemed ''none'' of the members were told about RZA's idea of enforcing the "88 year rule" for ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', Method Man confirming in an interview that he wasn't even told about him, Killah and Raekwon finding the whole treatment of the album very degrading.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', given only ''one'' copy was made: The only copy came in two cases, the second one being a metal designed box, and within it is ''more cases'' containing the two discs. And that's not ''even getting'' to the 100-page book that came with it, detailing what is implied to be the concept of the album, as well as the actual tracklisting which only the buyer must know. As of this, fans ''are not'' happy with this outcome.

** Ghostface Killah refers to himself as Iron Man or Tony Stark, and so naturally he lobbied hard for a cameo in TheMovie. He got it, but it was cut from the release.
** Method Man had a cameo in ''Series/LukeCage'' where he and Luke completely fanboy over each other, followed by performing a rap about how great it is to have a black superhero. RZA then did him one better by directing an episode of ''Series/IronFist''.

** Ghostface Killah refers to himself as Iron Man or Tony Stark, and so naturally he lobbied hard for a cameo in TheMovie. He got it, but it was cut from the release.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Method Man gets a lot of this due to his acting career. His resume spans shows from ''Series/TheWire'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. He, along, with Ghostface Killiah and associate Redman, also appeared in the ''VideoGame/DefJamSeries'' fighting games as themselves.

** ExecutiveMeddling: Somewhat in a more darker kind. It seemed ''none'' of the members were told about RZA's idea of enforcing the "88 year rule" for ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', Method Man confirming in an interview that he wasn't even told about him, Killah and Raekwon finding the whole treatment of the album very degrading.

* CreatorBacklash: Ghostface Killah and Method Man are ''not'' keen with ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'', Method Man finding the infamous "88 year ban" enforcement "bullshit" and Killah saying it's "Not a Wu-Tang Clan album".

** Ghostface Killah refers to himself as Iron Man or Tony Stark, and so naturally he lobbied hard for a cameo in TheMovie. He got it, but it was cut from the release.

* NamesTheSame: Ghostface Killah made a song called "Baby" and it is has nothing to do with the other [[Music/LLCoolJ "Baby"]] or the ''other'' other [[Music/JustinBieber "Baby"]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: Method Man gets a lot of this due to his acting career. His resume spans shows from ''Series/TheWire'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. He, along, with Ghostface Killiah and associate Redman, also appeared in the ''DefJam'' fighting games as themselves.