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	• The Tao of Wu The RZA Riverhead Hardcover, 2009 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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ev's review of RZA's book

The Tao of the WU by the RZA is a good read for those pondering the deeper questions of life and survival. Growing up listening to the Wu-Tang and having seen "Ghost Dog" several times (feat. RZA's music and a cameo appearance) I couldn't resist checking out this book, especially after seeing RZA interviewed on The Colbert Report. RZA has a very humble, matter of fact way of describing life challenges that most could only imagine. It's dope to read about the Wu's experiences in China and Africa as well; Hip-Hop is truly universal. I would recommend this book to anybody looking for a good read, inspiration and some crazy Wu-style story telling. peace, ev

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5 stars

This book is just as insane as you might expect from the RZA, and always entertaining. I highly recommend The Tao of Wu to Wu-Tang fans and the uninitiated alike. Bong, bong!

Awesome

Great, great book - the level of research RZA has put into this book is fantastic and it also really makes you appreciate the Wu's lyrics more having read the background and philosophies behind their work.
I'd recommend it highly to Wu Tang fans (of course), but also to people who are interested in an eclectic mix of Eastern philosophy and other schools of thought, which RZA covers in a way which only RZA can express.

One of my favorite new hip-hop books, along with How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC and Nas' Illmatic (33 1/3 series).

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Great fast read!

I think it was a great read. RZA balances life lessons, a little hip hop history, pop culture (comics, kung fu movies and superheros) and Eastern philosphy. I could have done without the "Obama is great" chapter, but even that was tied in okay. I have greater appreciation for the Wu Tang Clan and RZA. I was pleasantly surprised by this book.

most honest n insightful piece of writing in yrs

the rza does it again except this time its on paper. I can't believe how in tuned to self and true to the nature of the universe this man is.

A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, hip-hop's most exalted wise man.

The RZA, the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop culture's most dynamic genius, imparts the lessons he's learned on the journey that's taken him from the Staten Island projects to international superstar, all along the way a devout student of knowledge in every form he's found it-on the streets, in religion, in martial arts, in chess, in popular culture. Part chronicle of an extraordinary life and part spiritual and philosophical discourse, The Tao of Wu is a nonfiction Siddhartha for the hip-hop generation -an engaging, seeking book that will enlighten, entertain, and inspire.

The legions of Wu-Tang fans are accustomed to this heady mix-their obsession with the band's puzzlelike lyrics and elaborate mythology has propelled the group through fifteen years of dazzling, multiplatform success. In his 2005 bestseller The Wu-Tang Manual, the RZA provided the barest glimpse of how that mythology worked. In The Tao of Wu, he takes us deep inside the complex sense of wisdom and spirituality that has been at the core of his commercial and creative success.

The book is built around major moments in the RZA's life when he was faced with a dramatic turning point, either bad (a potential prison sentence) or good (a record deal that could pull his family out of poverty), and the lessons he took from each experience. His points of view are always surprising and provocative, and reveal a profound, genuine, and abiding wisdom-consistently tempered with humor and peppered with unique, colloquial phraseology. It is a spiritual memoir as the world has never seen before, and will never see again.

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