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    What We Saw When We First Saw the Wu-Tang

    by Will Ashon Mar 04, 2019 5 minutes

    The cover of the Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).

    It starts with the picture, back in the time when the picture comes first. Before we’ve slipped out the white paper inner, before we’ve pulled out the black disc inside—three fingers on the label, the meat of the thumb resting along its edge. Before we’ve lifted the lid of the turntable, placed the record over the spindle, before we’ve set the whole thing running. Before the needle comes down, before that bump and crackle as it rides the run-in grooves. Before the music. A creation myth. The very first time.

    A big room, hard to make out, curtains and a gilt mirror at the back, half of a reflective, misshapen globe, a sun sinking

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