Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting on Africa, its diaspora, and hip-hop's class acts today. It has been five years since we've heard a full-length album ...

Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) changed the sound of hip-hop and introduced nine unforgettable MCs to the world when it was released 30 years ago. Over the next few years, ...

We're joined today by Ghostface Killah, a founding member of the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. The group changed what people thought rap music could be in the early '90s. In a group full of hard, ...

As the future DMC in Run-DMC, a 12-year-old Darryl McDaniels got his first education in hip-hop at St. Pascal Baylon Catholic school in Jamaica, Queens. “I was in seventh grade, and Billy Morris — who ...

"Once you think you're happy, there's gonna be some type of tragedy," says Ghostface Killah. (Credit: Danny Hastings) In person, Ghostface Killah isn’t as intimidating as his name suggests. While he’s ...

In the winter of 2000, Ghostface Killah returned from a long period of turmoil to deliver his masterpiece. The years since his solo debut, 1996’s Ironman, had been wrought with trauma for the ...