The Wu-Tang Clan was assembled in the early 1990s with RZA as the de facto leader and the group’s producer.
RZA and Ol’ Dirty Bastard adopted the name for the group after the film Shaolin and Wu Tang. The group’s debut album loosely adopted a Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang theme, dividing the album into Shaolin and Wu-Tang sections.
The group developed backronyms (combination of backward and acronym, and has been defined as a “reverse acronym”) for the name (as hip hop pioneers such as KRS-One and Big Daddy Kane did with their names), including “We Usually Take All N*ggas’ Garments”, “Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game”, and “Wisdom of the Universe, and the Truth of Allah for the Nation of the Gods“.
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