Wu-Tang Clan Interview On The Box
June 7, 2011 @ 11:27 AM EDT
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Imagine paying to watch a music video. Well kids, before YouTube, there was The Box. MTV rarely broadcasted hip-hop and VH1 was stuck on Meatloaf, so The Box charged up to $3.99 per clip. You’d have to order the video via your remote control. Back then, that was some extraordinary shit.
Wu-Tang Clan were staples on the channel and often had their videos played. Here’s an interview they did on the network explaining their origins and Do-It-Yourself motif. Funny how history repeats itself.
they used to play pop that coochie all day long on the box.
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Wu!
I remember I didn’t have cable when I was a kid …but this channel came in a lil fuzy but not bad…thats where i heard Wu tang for the first time actually in 4th grade….and people payed for to pick a video, but u didnt have to pay to watch um…
@B.Dot
Ha! These kids now don’t know nothing about The Box! That was THE place to catch your favorites, besides maybe YO! MTV Raps or Video Music Box w/ Ralph McDaniels. I’d sit there most of the day watching shit others paid for.
Videos by 2 Live Crew, Sir Mix-A-Lot, NWA, Wu, etc. stayed on rotation.
man i remember the box..i had to be like 5 lol so besides Michael Jackson allday, ppl really paid to see “Yo mommas on crack Rock”??
The realness these cats had.
Greatest hip-hop act (this includes groups, solo MC’s, duos etc.) in history.
I grew up in a small town in Ontario, across the lake from Rochester. We didn’t have cable but on nice summer days we’d get the BOX on TV quite clearly. This was where I first heard Wu-Tang and I ordered 36 Chambers from my local record store. Took almost a year to get that CD but was well worth the wait. The Box was invaluable to my introduction to hip-hop. Seeing Sir Mix-a-lot’s Put Em On the Glass 40 times/day didn’t hurt either.
WU-TANG CLAN WAS THE SHIT BACK IN THE 90S! NOW FUCKIN’ YOUNGSTERS LISTEIN’ TO FAGGOT GROUPS LIKE YOUNG MONEY AND MMG! SMFH!
YOU CAN HATE ME NOW!
@peekay: Seeing Sir Mix-a-lot’s Put Em On the Glass 40 times/day didn’t hurt either.
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HA! word up!
Quotes for days…….
“It’s only one master of the drunkin style and thats me, ODB. You know what I’m shayin? ALL YOU OTHER M.C’S I DON’T CARE WHO you be baby; you got some problems whatever, whatever don’t step to the GOD, You know what i’m Shayin? Straight from the ZOO, Word is bond I will wreck YOU AND MAD M.C’S. COME GET IT, RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW!!!” -ODB (RIP)
“You know what Protect your Neck means man? Protect your Neck means Basically PROTECT YOUR NECK, you know what I’m sayin” -CHEF
“Ima give it to you raw, DON’T LET THESE PEOPLE CHANGE YOU; baby”
“DO IT YOURSELF” -ODB
LEGENDS!!!!!!!!!!
legends! dope as hell!
The Box Music Television you control = Greatest Music Video Channel ever.
Only channel that didnt censor guns, blunts, booty, breast, and showed videos you couldn’t see on MTV or BET. I used to run up my grandfathers phone bill requesting videos god rest his soul.
ya know what protect ya neck mean? it basically mean to protect ya neck namsayin?
-Raekwon
But nice post Wu >>>>
Wu interviews are always mad dope
I Miss those Days