The Twelve Days of Wu-Mas 2022 - Day #7

In the realm of Wu-Tang-related projects that probably shouldn't exist, The Hell EP, a joint effort between trip-hop god Tricky and hip hop quartet Gravediggaz (I realize I made the argument very early in the blog's lifespan that the Gravediggaz were originally more of a Prince Paul project than a Wu spinoff, and I stand behind that statement, but The RZA had something to do with this so just let it happen, people) that likely only happened in the first place because both musical acts shared a parent label in Island Records at the time. 

1995 was a wild time in our chosen genre, folks: it was around this time that label executives finally started to realize that this here rap shit wasn't going to fade away anytime soon, which then turned into trying to find any and every way to capitalize on the genre in whatever form they could, including mashing musical styles together. It's how Method Man remixed one of his songs with the Chemical Brothers, it's how Kool Keith guested on The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land, and it's how we got The Hell EP, a four-song project where approximately half of the tracks are legitimate collaborations between Tricky and three-quarters of the Diggaz (because Prince Paul, perhaps wisely, chose to sit this one out, which could be seen as foreshadowing for his eventual departure in 1997, but maybe we shouldn't read into stuff like that, that's how rumors start).

Click here to read my thoughts on The Hell EP, a former Patreon exclusive that is now available for everyone to enjoy!

-Max