Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No more Prince Rakeem, he was the king, and he had a plan for world domination.
They would make a deal for Wu-Tang as a group, but he would do something totally unprecedented in the industry.
In the contract, there would be a clause.
Though all the MCs in Wu-Tang might be consolidated under the name Wu-Tang Clan, and Wu-Tang might sign a record deal, each MC was going to retain local control of their own career.
Each one could make any deal he wanted with any other record label.
Loud Records agreed to RZA's terms.
Skizz Fernando again.
On November 9th, Wu-Tang Clan played their album release show for Enter the Wu-Tang, 36 Chambers, at Webster Hall in the heart of Manhattan.
Skizz was there.
Like no one saw it coming.
RZA executed his plan flawlessly.
Wu-Tang released their debut album, an absolutely bizarre hour-long hip-hop record, full of kung fu samples and weird jazz and nine unheard of MCs, most of whom hailed from a forgotten island, an island they'd renamed after a Chinese martial arts school.
And it went quadruple platinum.
here's method man on tv and we tried to lock down the industry which you cannot do because they already set in their ways like i said before so what we have to do is build our own industry to make it right wu-tang is still playing together so for me in this series on secession it's a lesson in how to keep a group of people together
Not that the Klan's without its problems, but the genius of the whole thing is that RZA figured out how to showcase each rapper's own personality and give them their own career.
He went on to produce a round of solo albums for each of the MCs in the group, hit after hit after hit, each one on different record labels who were feverishly trying to ride the Wu-Tang wave.
Method Man on Def Jam, platinum.
Old Dirty Bastard on WMG, platinum.
Raekwon on RCA, platinum.
Ghostface Killa on Epic, platinum.
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