The inner artwork features a single recognizable photo of the Clan’s members. The group strengthened the effect of all this worldbuilding with the experience they provided fans when it came time to remove the record, tape, or CD from its sleeve or casing.
Their rhymes were intoxicating, but you needed to immerse yourself within them to have all 36 chambers reveal themselves. The Wu were cyphers, unknown forces with a dense vocabulary packed to the gills with their mystic mixture of Eastern philosophy, Five Percent Nation terminology, Shaw Brothers kung fu movie lore, and Shaolin slang. It moves towards us with the same ferocity present in their rhymes. The cover, which keeps their identities hidden, features the crew members-we assume-lunging at the spectator. When Wu-Tang Clan released their debut album on November 9, 1993, nary a soul outside of Staten Island could identify a single member of the 10-man outfit.
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