Wu-Tang Clan's "Wu-Tang Forever": Creative Freedom Through Success

Wu-Tang Clan's first album (Enter the Wu-Tang) was so successful—and so successful on the group's own terms—that by the time they made their second they could've done pretty much whatever they wanted.

It wasn't just the scale of Wu-Tang Forever that felt decadent, it was the sense of 10 talented and very different artists letting themselves burrow further into their own styles and idiosyncrasies

Ghostface's wordplay could make a conventional street narrative shimmer to the point of feeling almost supernatural