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C4 CALGARY HERALD Saturday, August 11, 2007 ENTERTAINMENT Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan Country Altkrnativk Curri-nt Hard Rock This Ust This Last i Th'S. I Last i This I asr Thk I week National Artist week week National Artist week Artist week Na(iona Tta Nationa Artjst 1 1 Carrie Underwood 111 1 Matthew Good I 1 1 Matthew Good Some Hearts Hospital Music 1 Hospital Music 1 1 1 2 r. Jn ck 1 lnfired Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2 3 Brad Paisley 2:2 2 Korn 2 7 Timbaland 3 SriGear Untitled Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2 Linkin Park 3,2 3 Common I Minutes To Midnight Finding Forever 3 2 Various Artists 3 3 8 1 3 4 Korn I 3 3 5 i i D.k Country Hits 2007 V.2 The Con Untitled I 3 2 3 1 hna 2 I Daughtry Good Girl Gone Bad 4 4 4 4 3 2 4 10 Finder 4 1 4 4 AaT 5 5 Dixie Chicks 9 5 5 Linkin Park 6 5 2 Rihanna 5 5 Flnaer Eleven 7 7 TaWng The Long Way i Minutes To Midnight Good Girl Gone Bad TlJmVs.Yolv.Me T.IVsTip 6 7 Rascal Flatts 6 6 6 AmyWInehouse 7:6 3 BonJovi 4 6 7 Ozzv Osbourne eJn 'icinnctnn Me 4 My Gang BackToBlack 'SfiST 8 6 5 SeTnKingfZ 7 10 Keith Urban 8 7 7 Daughtry 5 7 21 1 i 7 fi Nirboihk LovePainlTheWholeCratyThing DaughtTy TneCon A ThTXasons 6 6 ftJS, 6 8 6 BDaddy 5 8 10 SmaShSkinS 3 8 8 UndlHero 2 8 8 8 The Ration 9 8 Various Artists 9 9 White Stripes 4(9 5 Soundtrack 7 9 10 Devildriver Best Of Country Hits 2007 IckyThump Hairspray The Motion Picture UstKindWords Plane" Earth 10 11 Big Rich 7 10 4 AvrilLavigne 9 10 12 Linkin Park 10 10 14 Rise Against in ai, 7 Between Raising Hell Amazing BestDamnThing Minutes To Midnight Sufferer The Witness Konrtcred PERFORMANCE Wu-Tang Clan return to reclaim hip-hop Rappers back on stage despite death and chaos rfh sm- ft- JnH, me wrong. Some of us (in Wu-Tang) rhyme about cars and clothes, and that's what the current state of hip-hop is," he explains. "But you can have a radio hit today and it's gone tomorrow and no one remembers it 10 years from now.

But you take a song like (Wu-Tang Clan's 1993 hit about street life) C.R.E.A.M. and it's telling a story, and so many people can relate to it. "Hip-hop is going to be what it is, but, as lyricists, it's time to lay it down. It's not about being preachy or being a professor and saying don't smoke and don't party. "But it's about educating and entertaining I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way.

How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It's ridiculous. There's no substance. It's a hollow shell." GZA says that ODB's death didn't cause any of the remaining members to think of putting the Wu-Tang reunion on hold. "We miss him greatly, and he was a major talent," GZA begins, "but he wasn't even on the last two albums. He was always missing We got used to not having him around.

Now, it's reality." CARY DARLING McClatchy Newspapers There are two maxims that seem to apply to hip-hop and the music business: Rappers have the shelf life of week-old milk, and hip-hop tours are either creative or financial disappointments or both. But the Wu-Tang Clan seems to be bucking the odds. The pioneering nine-piece Staten Island outfit that hit the scene in the early 1990s sporting kung-fu cool, surreal lyricism and a spare, haunting sound that upended hip-hop expectations is back together and generating wide interest despite an often-chaotic history, including the death from a heart attack of Clan madman 01' Dirty Bastard in 2004. The Clan is headlining the Rock the Bells multi-act rap tour, and recently shared the stage with po riMTiii-iit1tWfr- 1 'T'tir-rrlT ---3 Herald Archive, Reuters Wu-Tang Clan, one of the most influential bands of the 1990s, is back on tour. Which brings him to the topic that really turns his blood to battery acid: mainstream hip-hop today.

"Don't get "Some of us went out to L.A. about two years ago to record, but some people didn't show up. We went for it again and then, boom, it happened. I think maybe some of our schedules were more flexible this time. I could always work around (other people).

I'm not filming a movie or on GZA is also not surprised that, in an era when hip-hop acts often have trouble filling venues, Wu-Tang Clan appears to still be a draw. "Wu-Tang is a group that has a cult following," he explains. "Wu-Tang is looked at like the Rolling Stones of hip-hop. Come on, 14 years later, we're on a roll in front of thousands of people. It might not be 60,000 people though if it's a festival, it might but we can put 10,000 people in a place without a problem." Wu-Tang is looked at like the Rolling Stones of hip-hop.

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