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• Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang ( memoir) Picador (New York, NY), 2018

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  Born Lamont Jody Hawkins, U-God is an American rapper and hip-hop artist and one of the founding members of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. A native New Yorker, Raw is his first book.

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QUOTED: "The author writes in a casual style that will entertain fans of the group and its era, but the narrative becomes muddled and disingenuous."
"a rambling and heartfelt account, vivid in its recollections."

Hawkins, Lamont "U-God": RAW
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Hawkins, Lamont "U-God" RAW Picador (Adult Nonfiction) $27.00 3, 6 ISBN: 978-1-250-19116-8
Gritty memoir from a meditative drug dealer-turned-rapper, a key member of ferocious Staten Island hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan.
The Wu-Tang Clan made their mark through being unusual in their myth-inflected back story, a posse of distinct street-focused perspectives. Before that, "U-God" Hawkins absorbed the realities of urban poverty firsthand in a Park Hill housing project. "Only the pure of heart make it out of the ghetto," writes the author. As a teenager, he ran a lucrative crack enterprise, learning about violence and survival and eventually serving prison time. "I was content with my small operation," he writes, "making enough to get by and taking care of my peoples." At the same time, he was developing rhymes with what evolved into the Wu-Tang core. Their genesis isn't discussed until halfway through the book, and other members are sketched broadly beyond amusing anecdotes of hardscrabble early years. Hawkins suggests their success was marred by infighting and unequal emphasis on contributions by prominent members RZA, Method Man, and Ol' Dirty Bastard, about whom the author notes, "If Dirty hadn't died, I think the Wu would be in better standing." Regarding his own solo project, he claims, "we couldn't get the same support from the entire Clan the way [other members'] records had been supported." By the end, Hawkins' narrative becomes rancorous; regarding his lawsuit against RZA, he writes, "he got rich, but I still don't know what I'm due." By 2010, "the supergroup was splintering apart." Hawkins notes even the notorious Wu-Tang "one copy" LP purchased by Martin Shkreli wasn't really a legitimate project. The author writes in a casual style that will entertain fans of the group and its era, but the narrative becomes muddled and disingenuous. Hawkins brags about his own redemption and embrace of an underground values system termed "Supreme Mathematics," yet he writes dismissively of barely provoked violent acts by Wu-Tang associates and himself.
A rambling and heartfelt account, vivid in its recollections of 1990s East Coast hip-hop.
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QUOTED: "Hawkins is a wonderful storyteller who spares no detail ... and his willingness to share his wisdom ... yields an inspirational coming-of-age story."

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Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
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* Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang Lamont "U-God" Hawkins. Picador, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-19116-8
"I don't consider myself an ex-drug dealer or an ex-criminal," rapper Hawkins writes in this sage, fast-paced memoir. "I consider myself to be an experienced fucking person who went through a lot of hell to come out right and get where I am today." Hawkins, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, describes New York during the less glamorous (and more dangerous) 1970s through the early 1990s, when lived with his single mother in a crack-ravaged Staten Island neighborhood; he dealt drugs as a teenager, eventually running a mini-empire. During this time, Hawkins and his friend Method Man honed their rap skills. They joined other determined, songwriters to form the Wu-Tang Clan. Along the way, Hawkins spent a year in prison for drug possession and, sometime after, was admitted to a mental institution after he was found wandering around his neighborhood in a bathrobe ("Maybe one of my girlfriends poisoned me"); he became a father and later dated Janet Jackson, on whom he had had a crush as a kid. Hawkins is a wonderful storyteller who spares no detail (he writes of using plastic wrap as a prophylactic), and his willingness to share his wisdom in nonsaccharine terms yields an inspirational coming-of-age story. Agent: Marc Gerald, United Talent Agency. (Mar.)
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• The Guardian
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/12/raw-my-journey-into-the-wu-tang-review-lamont-u-god-hawkins
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  Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang review – poignant, insightful memoir
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  Lamont ‘U-God’ Hawkins is suing his fellow rappers for millions – now he gives his side of a hip-hop saga
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  Lamont ‘U-God’ Hawkins of the Wu-Tang Clan.
  ‘A team player’: Lamont ‘U-God’ Hawkins of the Wu-Tang Clan. Photograph: David Corio/Redferns

  The first memoir out of the ranks of the Wu-Tang Clan – a sprawling hip-hop organisation who lit up the 90s with their martial arts-themed works – is not that of their mastermind, RZA. It is not by Raekwon or Method Man, two of its bigger personalities. It is by U-God – a core, if minor, member of the original nine-strong Staten Island outfit. And there are reasons for that.

  Back in 2015, the latterday Wu recorded an album – Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – and pressed only one single copy. In a flurry of publicity, it was sold for $2m to the disgraced pharmaceutical entrepreneur Martin Shkreli.
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  U-God – AKA Lamont Hawkins – duly sued the rest of the group for $2.5m in unpaid royalties in 2016. Last year, Shkreli stuck his album on eBay where, after the price zigzagged, it was eventually sold for $1,025,100. The lawsuit remains unresolved.

  The final chapters of Hawkins’s eye-popping memoir attempt to explain why he broke fealty and sued his colleagues. At their height in the 90s, the Wu-Tang bristled with threat and exotic philosophy. Hip-hop’s love affair with martial arts movies reached an exquisite peak with the Wu, who took their name, and more than a few samples, from the 1983 film Shaolin and Wu Tang. Hawkins didn’t figure much on the Wu’s debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), because he was in jail – although his place in the lyrical hierarchy was later confirmed by his solo track, Black Shampoo, on the group’s second album, Wu-Tang Forever.

  On one level, the issues are grindingly familiar from every other band lawsuit and memoir: wrong-headed business decisions. U-God is particularly aggrieved that the Wu’s booking agent was no pro, but worked out of her house. While acknowledging the RZA as the prime motor of the Wu, Hawkins cites his control freakery as the root cause behind the group’s poor management and lack of transparency.

  Hawkins – it transpires in the preceding chapters – is especially fed up because he was once rather good at running things, having operated a large business organisation that happened to sell illegal drugs. In his teens, he was turning over hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of product and employing handfuls of people while keeping a low profile in high-school classrooms and, later, at college, studying mortuary science. (Sadly, he was never in Gravediggaz, a particularly excellent Wu offshoot.)

  Those hungry for an insight into the Wu’s lifestyles or their inner creative processes will get a few peeks into the mansions and the recording booths here. Hawkins’s fight to get his bars up to scratch after coming out of prison is strangely poignant, even in this context.
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  The bigger story, though, is his life. He writes with a mixture of braggadocio, insight, pride and weariness about the years leading up to the Wu-Tang, with the occasional laugh (“I’m the ninja squirrel”) to break up the litany of horror. The product of rape, he grows up in a series of unforgiving projects where physical violence is omnipresent, and a future studded with crack, guns and tragedy pretty much inevitable. He and the rest of the Wu were absolutely desperate to leave the charnel pit that was Park Hill behind, and most of Raw is a catalogue of how, why and where Hawkins dealt drugs and survived.

  Reading between the lines, Hawkins’s biggest contributions to the Wu were not, perhaps, his own rhymes, but forcing Method Man to give up dealing and concentrate on his verses, supporting him financially. A “team player”, he is – categorically – no angel, but the hells that befall him are appalling. His two-year-old son is used as a human shield by another drug dealer and is shot in the kidney. No one from the Wu betrays much sympathy as Hawkins abandons his duties to rush to his hospital bedside. A breakdown, sobriety and therapy have had a role in the making of this memoir, which should have an audience in hip-hop fans and policymakers alike.

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• The New Yorker
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  Word count: 1550

  QUOTED: "Raw feels cathartic, as Hawkins finds the language and perspective to reckon with his past. His moment in the spotlight may be over, but he now has something that few of his Wu-Tang brothers, still so admired by a younger generation, have: the distance to tell his own story. He has often been forgotten, and has sometimes been ridiculed, but he was part of one of the great hip-hop groups of all-time—perhaps the only member who is more man than myth."

  The Unexpectedly Moving Story of
  U-God, the Least-Loved Member of the Wu-Tang Clan

  By Hua Hsu

  March 28, 2018

  In “Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang,” U-God, born Lamont Hawkins, has found the right language and perspective with which to come to terms with his past.
  David Corio

  Most fans of the Wu-Tang Clan have a favorite member. You can make a strong case for at least two-thirds of the nonet: GZA has the old-fashioned flow and the foreboding intellect; Method Man oozes cunning and charisma; the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard was pure funk, like the human embodiment of a James Brown grunt; RZA conceptualized the group’s entire sound and ethos; and Ghostface Killah and Raekwon crafted their own, colorfully absurdist, tag-team spin on traditional crime-talk; a credible argument could even be made for the spry and menacing Inspectah Deck.

  The rapper U-God, though, who was born Lamont Hawkins, is an acquired taste: gruff, workmanlike, more of a bully than a poet. He’s not the overlooked member of the group—that would be the inscrutable and underrated Masta Killa. Rather, he is actively dismissed. Even his nickname, “the four-bar killer,” speaks to his scant role in one of hip-hop’s most acclaimed ensembles. (In 2016, Hawkins launched a lawsuit against the group for unpaid royalties.) But it’s precisely the strangeness, and even fragility, of Hawkins’s proximity to the group that makes his memoir, “Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang,” unexpectedly moving.

  Hawkins, who was born in 1970, spent his earliest years in Brooklyn before moving to Staten Island, where he would meet his future Wu-Tang compatriots. He was the only child of a hopeful and hard-working mother, who moved to Staten Island, then in the throes of “urban renewal,” because she was drawn to the idea of raising her son in an aspirational, working-class community. Hawkins never knew his father—eventually, he would learn that his mother had become pregnant with him after she was raped. One of his earliest memories, Hawkins writes, is of hearing Minnie Riperton’s “Loving You” playing on a radio when he was five years old; he followed the music outside, where he saw a woman standing on the roof of a neighboring building, threatening to jump. “I remember staring up at her till my neck was stiff,” he writes. “The sound of her hitting the concrete steps would resonate with me forever.” It was the first of many times that he would see death up close. Nonchalance, even in the face of such horror, would become a hallmark of Hawkins’s style. Elsewhere in the book, he recalls seeing his uncle bashing someone over the head with a brick; another time, a heroin-addicted babysitter nods off in the corner. Later on, in his teens, when he was still contemplating a more traditional career path, he studied to become an embalmer, since “certain things that’ll quease a motherfucker out just don’t bother me.”

  Staten Island was not immune to the drug trade and its attendant turf wars, and, for the young Hawkins, the intimacy of the place made it impossible to run away from his problems. On Staten Island, he explains, you had to stand your ground and “make your claim,” whereas, in the teeming streets of Brooklyn or Manhattan, you “could pop someone and disappear like a fart in the wind.” Hawkins was still young when he met Method Man—who would become his most loyal and compassionate friend in the music business—and other future members of the Wu-Tang Clan; in middle school, he began hanging out with RZA, whom he saw as a bit of a nerd. (“To me nerds are cool,” he writes. “Nerds are non-threatening.”) In Hawkins’s telling, the group emerged slowly and organically, as friends, cousins, and friends-of-friends began rapping and dreaming together. They all became devoted to the Five-Percent Nation, a movement for historical, spiritual, and almost mystical self-determination, which splintered off from the Nation of Islam. The friends were united, too, by their love of martial-arts films—in the mythology they crafted for themselves, Staten Island became “the slums of Shaolin.”

  Hawkins dealt drugs throughout his late teens; his polite and unassuming air served him well with the local cops, he writes. “They knew I was jingling—just not the level I was jingling on.” Then, in 1992, a careless confrontation with a rival dealer landed him in prison, just as the Wu-Tang Clan was working on its début album, “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” which was released the following year. Hawkins got out in time to contribute a few verses, but he lacked sharpness and focus. “The first time I grabbed the mic at a show after coming home, I got booed,” he remembers. “I wasn’t really ready. I had the heart to try, though.” He quickly accepted his role as the versatile, hard-working utility player that every championship team needs. He also repeatedly violated his parole and ended up back behind bars during key moments of the Clan’s initial rise. He kept working on his rhyme skills, appearing on solo albums by other members of the Wu, and waiting for the time it would be his turn. Behind the scenes, he dealt with tantrums and mediated other people’s beefs, and he did all the radio promotions and random magazine interviews that nobody else wanted to do. (One of these interviews was with me, for a skateboarding magazine that no longer exists.)

  When the Wu-Tang Clan was ready to record its sophomore album, 1997’s “Wu-Tang Forever,” the group rented a home in the Hollywood Hills. Fun was had, and events occasionally turned raucous. Hawkins recounts a potential encounter with a teen-age Kim Kardashian that was spoiled by Inspectah Deck (“He had no game”), and the time he almost punched out a smug Leonardo DiCaprio. But he mostly kept things mellow. One of my favorite moments from the bygone TV series “MTV Cribs” (lately revived on Snapchat) was filmed during this period: in a tour of Hawkins’s modest quarters—he got stuck with the smallest room in the Wu-Tang house—he showed off his collection of colorful, oversized “blowy shirts” and autographs, seeming very happy to be there. “Almost every morning on the patio before going into the studio,” he recalls in “Raw,” “I would remind myself to really be present and be in the moment so I can really appreciate everything.”

  Hawkins was still coping, at the time, with a horrific incident that had happened back home. While the Wu-Tang Clan was on tour, someone he knew used his son, who was just two years old, as a human shield during a shoot-out. Miraculously, the child survived, though he suffered permanent damage to his kidneys and hands. Hawkins says that, other than Method Man, the members of the group weren’t particularly supportive. “They rubbed their fame and their wealth in my face even more,” he writes. Years before therapy seemed a viable option, he poured his emotions into one of the best tracks on “Wu-Tang Forever,” “A Better Tomorrow.” “The strong must feed, someone die, someone bleed,” he raps on the track. “One flew astray, and it caught my little seed.”

  Hawkins’s career has never reached the same heights as the rest of the Clan’s—a reflection of his relative level of talent, mostly, but also of circumstances of timing and personality. In “Raw,” he displays an unusual degree of self-awareness about this fact. He describes how difficult it can be to maintain his craft and his confidence, a rare sort of candor in an art form typically premised on effortless cool. But the memoir’s most endearing moments involve the small victories that come with surviving into middle age and the momentary plateaus where Hawkins feels satisfied: the time in 1994, for instance, that he got to experience the novelty, for a black man from Staten Island, of “wearing a silk robe and tasting sake” in Japan.

  “Raw” feels cathartic, as Hawkins finds the language and perspective to reckon with his past. His moment in the spotlight may be over, but he now has something that few of his Wu-Tang brothers, still so admired by a younger generation, have: the distance to tell his own story. He has often been forgotten, and has sometimes been ridiculed, but he was part of one of the great hip-hop groups of all-time—perhaps the only member who is more man than myth.

  Hua Hsu began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014, and became a staff writer in 2017.Read more »

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• Mercury News
  https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/09/book-review-raw-tells-classic-rags-to-riches-tale/
  Word count: 568

  QUOTED: "In a refreshing departure from the typical ghost-written celebrity memoir, it seems much of U-God’s own voice was retained."
  "If you like hip-hop music, memoirs or even modern history, it’s worth giving Raw a read."

  Book review: ‘Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang’ tells classic rags-to-riches tale
  By The Associated Press |
  PUBLISHED: March 9, 2018 at 10:47 am | UPDATED: March 9, 2018 at 11:38 am

  By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH

  “Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang” (Picador), by Lamont U-God Hawkins

  Another celebrity memoir has graced the genre, and this time it’s from a lesser-known member of the multiplatinum rap group Wu-Tang Clan.
  This book cover image released by Picador shows "Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang," by Lamont U-God Hawkins. (Picador via AP)
  This book cover image released by Picador shows “Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang,” by Lamont U-God Hawkins. (Picador via AP)

  “Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang” by Lamont “U-God” Hawkins tells a classic rags-to-riches tale, from drug dealing on the streets of New York City during the crack epidemic in the 1980s to fame and fortune. It’s a nostalgic look back on hip-hop music and the wild times in New York City before it became a playground for the rich.

  Like many rappers, U-God’s rough childhood influenced and shaped him. U-God was born to a single mom, and the pair lived in public housing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the same neighborhood Mike Tyson comes from. During his childhood, U-God moved with his mother to the Park Hill projects on Staten Island. Still, it’s in the projects where he met some of his future Wu-Tang clansmen.

  “Death was always a part of my life,” Hawkins writes. “I remember the first time I saw somebody die. I was only about four or five years old.”

  For children like U-God in the Park Hill projects, opportunities other than selling drugs were scant. He learned to sell crack, manage others underneath him in the chain of command and the beginning of rap.

  In a refreshing departure from the typical ghost-written celebrity memoir, it seems much of U-God’s own voice was retained. There’s ample slang, cursing and sexist language — to the point that some readers might be turned off. But as the title suggests, the book aims to give a raw account of Hawkins’ experience.

  Hip-hop fans will appreciate plenty of behind-the-scenes looks at the lifestyle of a rich and famous rapper. Once Wu-Tang became known worldwide, there was ever-present booze, women and partying with other celebrities.

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  Yet, the book isn’t an entire recount of years spent traveling the globe and partying in mansions. There are rivalries among bandmates over money and recording time. U-God also discusses some personal trials like the shooting of his son and the overdose of clansmen Russell Tyrone Jones, known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard.

  So, if you like hip-hop music, memoirs or even modern history, it’s worth giving “Raw” a read.

• Rolling Stone
  Wu-Tang Clan's U-God Preps New Memoir Rapper to "document legacy" in 2018 book 'RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan' Wu-Tang Clan rapper U-God plans to "document [his] legacy" in upcoming memoir 'RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan.' David Corio/Getty Image By Ryan Reed September 25, 2017 More News Hear Wu-Tang Clan's Relentless New Song 'Don't Stop' Wu Tang Clan's U-God: Kanye Should 'Come Back to Earth' Song Premiere: U-God Recruits Ghostface Killah and Raekwon for 'Golden Arms' All Stories Wu-Tang Clan's Lamont "U-God" Hawkins will tell his story about rising to fame with the acclaimed rap group in his memoir, RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan, out March 2018. The book begins from U-God's childhood through his career with the nine-member New York hip-hop crew, Pitchfork reports. Related Wu-Tang Clan LP Gets 'First, Last, Only' Listening Session One copy of 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' will be sold at auction, with bids allegedly already reaching $5 million "It's time to write down not only my legacy, but the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life – scrappin' and hustlin' and tryin' to survive in the urban jungle of New York City – and turned that into something bigger than what we could possibly imagine," Hawkins said of RAW in a statement. "Something that took us out of the projects for good, which was the only thing we all wanted in the first place." Hawkins sued his Wu-Tang Clan bandmates in 2016 for over two million dollars, alleging he was owed royalties dating back over six years, including for Martin Shkreli's purchase of the group's one-of-a-kind album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. U-God appeared on every official Wu-Tang Clan album including their most recent, 2014's A Better Tomorrow. U-God is not currently listed as a contributor to the forthcoming RZA-produced album, Wu-Tang Clan: The Saga Continues, out October 13th, Hip Hop DX reports.
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  Wu-Tang Clan's U-God Preps New Memoir

  Rapper to "document legacy" in 2018 book 'RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan'
  Wu-Tang Clan rapper U-God plans to "document [his] legacy" in upcoming memoir 'RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan.' David Corio/Getty Image
  By Ryan Reed
  September 25, 2017

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  Wu-Tang Clan's Lamont "U-God" Hawkins will tell his story about rising to fame with the acclaimed rap group in his memoir, RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan, out March 2018. The book begins from U-God's childhood through his career with the nine-member New York hip-hop crew, Pitchfork reports.
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  Wu-Tang Clan LP Gets 'First, Last, Only' Listening Session

  One copy of 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' will be sold at auction, with bids allegedly already reaching $5 million

  "It's time to write down not only my legacy, but the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life – scrappin' and hustlin' and tryin' to survive in the urban jungle of New York City – and turned that into something bigger than what we could possibly imagine," Hawkins said of RAW in a statement. "Something that took us out of the projects for good, which was the only thing we all wanted in the first place."

  Hawkins sued his Wu-Tang Clan bandmates in 2016 for over two million dollars, alleging he was owed royalties dating back over six years, including for Martin Shkreli's purchase of the group's one-of-a-kind album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.

  U-God appeared on every official Wu-Tang Clan album including their most recent, 2014's A Better Tomorrow. U-God is not currently listed as a contributor to the forthcoming RZA-produced album, Wu-Tang Clan: The Saga Continues, out October 13th, Hip Hop DX reports.

• NPR
  https://www.npr.org/2018/03/02/589928021/u-god-the-wu-tang-clan-story
  Word count: 1871

  QUOTED: "Well, all I can say is, man, we are nine brothers that came from the streets for real. You know what I'm saying? And we witty, man. We unpredictable. We got talent. And we got natural game, man. We know what it—we slick with our stuff, man. You know, different type of group, man."
  "I don't want to glorify violence, bruh (ph). I talk about it because I know that I'm not the only one going through it. We know we ain't the only ones going through it. We're not special. I mean, we're not special in that aspect. Anybody that comes from the bottom that's not coming from a silver or a privileged life can relate to what we talk about."

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  David Greene talks to Lamont Hawkins, aka "U-God" a founding member of the pioneering rap group Wu-Tang Clan. Hawkins' memoir talks about how rap music was a ticket out of a gritty housing project.

  DAVID GREENE, HOST:

  So I was getting ready to interview a member of a legendary rap group. It turns out he had beaten me into the studio.

  LAMONT HAWKINS: How are you doing out there, radio land? It's a nice day in New York City. Sun is out.

  GREENE: Lamont Hawkins, can you hear me?

  HAWKINS: Who said my name out there?

  GREENE: Hey. This is David Greene. I'm in LA. You're - I'm the one you're stuck talking to.

  HAWKINS: I was like, where he came from?

  (LAUGHTER)

  HAWKINS: Hey, Lamont Hawkins. I'm like...

  GREENE: (Laughter) Where's that voice coming from?

  So that's Lamont Hawkins aka U-God. He was in our studio in New York City. U-God was one of nine original members of the Wu-Tang Clan, a hip-hop group who changed the sound of East Coast rap in the early '90s.

  (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BRING DA RUCKUS")

  UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Shaolin shadowboxing and the Wu-Tang sword style.

  GREENE: Their kung fu imagery, their hardcore approach to lyrics were really groundbreaking.

  (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DA MYSTERY OF CHESSBOXIN")

  HAWKINS: (Rapping) Raw I'm going to give it to you with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

  GREENE: That's U-God rhyming there. He and most of the other members of the group were from a part of New York City that's not known for its rap culture - Staten Island. They were from a neighborhood called Park Hill, and their struggles growing up there informed this raw style. U-God writes about this in his new book "Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang." And I asked him to paint a portrait of the housing projects where he spent his childhood.

  HAWKINS: It was a fairly subsidized, you know, complex of about probably like 20 buildings seven stories high, you know, some - a couple of them little more taller. But we all congested in one little area, you know, and...

  GREENE: Yeah. You wrote about you - I mean, it was just - you would be out on the streets and ready to fight. Like, it sounds like you were just constantly being tested.

  HAWKINS: Always, man. After a while, you know, you get tired, man. You know? After a while, you get tired of getting wedgies and getting punched in your chest and getting beat-up and getting slapped. So sooner or later, you fight back.

  GREENE: And fight back he did. U-God also got swept up in the drug scene, which was thriving in the '80s. Park Hill was flush with crack cocaine and also guns. U-God remembers spotting crack for the first time when he was out with a friend.

  HAWKINS: One day, we was walking the streets. It was raining. And I looked down in the gutter. I saw a little package, a little bundle. And my friend was like, yo. I picked it up. I said, what the hell is this? He was like, oh, that's drugs. I said, word? He said, I can get money for that. He said, I can probably get like 300. Three-hundred? I was like, yeah, all right. I'm thinking he's going to come back like a week later or something. He came back in like 20 minutes.

  GREENE: With 300 bucks?

  HAWKINS: With 300 bucks.

  GREENE: And that kind of quick money was hard to resist. U-God started dealing - a lot. He built up a mini drug empire which landed him in prison. After getting out, he decided to leave the dealing behind and commit to making music. He and his neighborhood crew, who were already popular rapping at house parties and on the streets, became Wu-Tang Clan - nine distinct voices feeding off each other.

  (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PROTECT YA NECK")

  RZA: Wu-Tang Clan coming at you.

  METHOD MAN: Watch your step, kid. Watch your step, kid. Watch your step, kid.

  GREENE: There's nothing really like you guys in rap or in music or maybe anywhere.

  HAWKINS: Well, all I can say is, man, we are nine brothers that came from the streets for real. You know what I'm saying? And we witty, man. We unpredictable. We got talent. And we got natural game, man. We know what it - we slick with our stuff, man. You know, different type of group, man.

  GREENE: But you competed against each other. That was part of what - I mean, which sounded crazy. You'd be up there like competing for the best verse.

  HAWKINS: I'm not competing. I'm not - see, you're talking to the wrong person. I'm not - I'm a Scorpio. I don't compete.

  GREENE: OK.

  HAWKINS: I'm more or less of a person - if I hear say something nice on a beat and it's like dum-dum-dum (ph), he's saying some flyness (ph), I'm like, oh, man. I got to get me some of that.

  (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "A BETTER TOMORROW")

  HAWKINS: (Rapping) Yo. Curses from war, innocent blood spills for days. Soothe in godly ways, hands - solemn in praise.

  Curses of war, innocent blood spills for days. Soothe in godly ways, hands - solemn in praise.

  GREENE: This song - "A Better Tomorrow" - is deeply personal. U-God says he was expressing the pain of living in a place where violence is routine. The innocent blood he's rapping about belong to his 2-year-old son. Someone in Park Hill held the child up to shield himself from gunfire, and the baby was hit.

  HAWKINS: When my son got shot, I didn't have no therapy at the time. I was just trying to relieve certain things in my mind and just know - when I talk about somebody getting shot, where I come from, it's like nothing, you know. People get shot where I'm from every day, you know. No disrespect what's going on in Florida. But, you know, that's what happens every day where I'm from.

  You know, I feel the pain, but I don't have no therapy for that, you know. When my son got shot at 2 years old, he got shot by stray shots - stray bullets, bullets that wasn't meant for him, you know. And he, you know, lost a kidney, dislocated two of his fingers. And he died twice and came back, you know. And, you know...

  GREENE: He's in his 20s now, right?

  HAWKINS: Yeah.

  GREENE: And you write about so wanting to be a good parent.

  HAWKINS: Yes.

  GREENE: Are you a role model for him?

  HAWKINS: I would hope to say, you know, a little bit. I try. You know, my whole situation is, man, you know, I didn't have a father growing up. I had to wing it. I just tell him don't be afraid to call your pops, man, because that's what I'm here for, you know.

  GREENE: Because your success, I mean, that's the paradox. And I think you actually put it best when you were talking about the Wu-Tang song "C.R.E.A.M." You said that song depicts the harsh life in Park Hill, and that's what ended up taking you out of that, as you call it, ghetto environment.

  HAWKINS: Yes. The very environment that was painted the picture of was wound up being the song that took us up out of there. You know, certain things are just super mystical that you just cannot explain.

  GREENE: Like, what do you tell people who say that music shouldn't celebrate drugs and shouldn't celebrate violence?

  HAWKINS: Well, we don't celebrate drugs on that song. We talk about the struggles. I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side. Staying alive was no jive. That's basically what he said was just we grew up rough. Mom's - it was a single-parent household, grew up in a crime-infested neighborhood, you know what I'm saying? And we just talked about making our way up out of that.

  I don't want to glorify violence, bruh (ph). I talk about it because I know that I'm not the only one going through it. We know we ain't the only ones going through it. We're not special. I mean, we're not special in that aspect. Anybody that comes from the bottom that's not coming from a silver or a privileged life can relate to what we talk about.

  GREENE: So did music save your life?

  HAWKINS: Oh, yes, it has. All praises. And thank you for even interviewing me. Yes, it has (laughter). Yes, it has, my man. Yes.

  (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BELLS OF WAR")

  HAWKINS: (Rapping) Skip the introduction, proceed the lip function. The junction get rushed by some grimy people busting weed.

  GREENE: That was the rapper U-God from the Wu-Tang Clan. His new book is called "Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang."

  (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BELLS OF WAR")

  HAWKINS: (Rapping) Thoroughbred thugs insert the phantasm. Verbal smarts spark the word. Visit my scripture.

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  QUOTED: "Raw contains one of the most heartfelt depictions of hip-hop performance anxiety in the rap memoir canon."

  Raw by Lamont ‘U-God’ Hawkins review – the gritty Wu-Tang Clan backstory

  The Clan member’s hard-hitting hip-hop memoir ranges across martial arts lore, drug dealing and black Muslim self-empowerment

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  Foot- soldier’s perspective … U-God.
  Foot- soldier’s perspective … U-God. Photograph: David Corio/Redferns

  The rule about history being the propaganda of the victors applies just as clearly to Staten Island rap crew Wu-Tang Clan as to any other battle-ready cadre. The group’s now Hollywood-domiciled mastermind Robert Diggs (AKA RZA) has already put a down payment on posterity’s thumbs up with not one but two well written and informative volumes: a nuts-and-bolts guide, The Wu Tang Manual, and the more philosophically minded The Tao of Wu. So an alternative, bottom-up rather than top-down take on the Clan’s roughneck backstory was long overdue.

  No one would call Lamont “U-God” Hawkins a Wu‑Tang also-ran – at least, not to his face – but he certainly isn’t the member of the ensemble the British public would name first in a hip-hop-themed episode of Family Fortunes. (That would be Ghostface Killah or the sadly departed Ol’ Dirty Bastard.) And Hawkins’s memoir, co-written with science fiction author and editor John Helfers, does at times lapse into generic ghosted rap-speak. But it also contains valuable insights into the unique blend of martial arts lore, black Muslim self-empowerment strategies, insider drug-dealing knowledge and musical inspiration that was Wu‑Tang Clan’s early 1990s escape route from the hard-pressed housing projects its members grew up in.

  Raw contains one of the most heartfelt depictions of hip-hop performance anxiety in the rap memoir canon

  As the book’s title suggests, the foot soldier’s perspective brought by U-God brings back into the foreground the grittier aspects of the Wu-Tang story, which the more polished fabulations of his general had glossed over. Such martial figures of speech are not misplaced, as Raw has the highest trauma and casualty rate of any music book I have ever read, from U-God’s apologetic nod to his own conception as a child of rape – “My mother probably wouldn’t want me to bring this up” – through myriad obituaries of neighbourhood characters such as Tameek, whose mastery of the Bruce Lee-inspired fighting technique “the 52 Hand Blocks” could not save him from being shot in the back of the head. He took his self-defence secrets with him to the grave (“That’s lost knowledge. That died with him. That’s a damned shame”).
  Coming of age … Wu-Tang Clan.
  Coming of age … Wu-Tang Clan. Photograph: Jonathan Weiner
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  For a book whose main selling point is a vivid account of its author’s career as a crack dealer, Raw must have had a surprisingly easy ride through the legal phase of the editorial process, for the simple reason that so many of its incidental characters are now dead. These passages make the comparable chapters in 50 Cent’s From Pieces to Weight look like an episode of Heartbeat. And Raw’s stripped-back narrative voice is at its best when detailing the everyday stresses and strains of the street drug-dealer’s existence: “You just had to be on point for whatever the day might bring. Cops might blitz. Stickup kids might try to jack you. A jonesin’ fiend might flip out. You just never knew.”

  The temptation to view Wu-Tang Clan’s dankly exhilarating music as a pure life force – the polar opposite of the homicidal free-for-all it sprang from – is one U-God seems commendably inclined to resist, presenting it more as a creative rechannelling of that same deadly energy. The book inevitably loses a little momentum when it makes the transition from the mechanics of the street drugs trade (“Dip it in ammonia!”) and sage counsel on how best to survive a six-month spell in the notorious Rikers Island prison to the less concrete specificities of music making. Yet even those who found themselves yelling “get on with it” at Eminem’s pre-freestyle dithering in 8 Mile will be moved by one of the most heartfelt depictions of hip-hop performance anxiety in the rap memoir canon.

  U-God was largely absent from Wu-Tang Clan’s breakthrough debut studio album Enter the Wu‑Tang: 36 Chambers on account of repeated returns to jail for parole violation, and he grew to hate his nickname “four-bar killer”: his voice tended to be used for a quick four bars only. The quality of his verses on the second album’s standout track “Triumph” – “Olympic torch flaming, we burn so sweet” – shows the extent to which he ultimately stepped up. And with this grimily percussive memoir whetting the appetite for Chamber Music – Will Ashon’s psychogeographical excavation of that landmark first album, to be published by Granta later this year – Wu‑lit might be said to be coming of age.

  Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang by Lamont “U-God” Hawkins (Faber, £14.99). To order a copy for £12.74, go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min. p&p of £1.99.

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  QUOTED: "I'm a musician writer, you know what I'm saying? But I wanted to move into something different. I needed to learn something new."
  "My whole life was an adventure. Ever since I was a kid, I was always outside dreaming and scheming and doing things. Because my life was an adventure, I was able to see things in an adventurous way. And when you're on an adventure, you always remember the details."

  Wu-Tang rapper lets 'Raw' memories serve as a lesson

  By Andrew Dansby Updated 9:17 pm, Wednesday, March 7, 2018

  Lamont Hawkins aka U-God of the hip-hop collective the Wu-Tang Clan wrote a memoir titled Raw Photo: Picador

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  Lamont Hawkins aka U-God of the hip-hop collective the Wu-Tang Clan wrote a memoir titled Raw

  Lamont "U-God" Hawkins receives his share of criticism on what he writes.

  Being a member of a nine-man hip-hop crew likethe Wu-Tang Clan means having others comment on your work.

  Still, his memoir "Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang" found Hawkins working in a different format with different feedback. Rather than contributing verses to a three-minute song, he tried to condense his hardscrabble youth in the projects of Staten Island into book form.

  "So I had to chop it down, take out about 150 pages," he says. "But it's good, having other people teach me and learning new things about writing. I'm a musician writer, you know what I'm saying? But I wanted to move into something different. I needed to learn something new."
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  "Raw" certainly does that. Hawkins shows a natural flair for capturing his early life before hip-hop made the Wu international stars. To name just one brief example, Hawkins describes his time as a drug dealer in New York, forced to set things straight with a guy who sold him bad cocaine - more specifically, a guy named Jesus, who sold him bad cocaine.

  Hawkins plays the scene with a matter-of-fact evenness, despite the richness of names and details.

  "Naw, that wasn't any different than the other parts of the book," he says. "My whole life was an adventure. Ever since I was a kid, I was always outside dreaming and scheming and doing things. Because my life was an adventure, I was able to see things in an adventurous way. And when you're on an adventure, you always remember the details."
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  The details find a guy on a highwire between good and bad fortune. One of the most brazen passages finds Hawkins on probation and arrested with crack shoved into the toe of his shoe. While being processed at the precinct, he makes a decision that seems insane at the time, but it might've kept him out of prison for life.

  As U-God, Hawkins has a strange spot in the Wu-Tang sphere. He was incarcerated for much of the recording of the group's 1993 debut album, "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)." But he also was a founding member of the much-loved collective, only to be sprung from jail just as the Wu-Tang Clan was on the rise. Among the most affecting passages in the book is Hawkins' account of the struggle to acclimate to life outside of prison.

  "I hear it's the same way for a soldier who goes to war," he says. "People think they get out and get back to life in the world, get back into a groove. Sometimes you have to catch up. It can be hard to make that happen."

  Hawkins' book is particularly adept at presenting a New York City of long ago, during its Rotten Apple era. His perspective doesn't quite mesh with the typical liberal account of how the city turned around. Hawkins describes a period of respect and admiration for the city's police force, which he says was aware of a burgeoning drug culture but only took interest when it turned violent.

  "Now, the problem is there's not enough crime for the police," he says.

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  Decades removed, he almost sounds nostalgic for the old days. "New York is real soft compared to what it was," he says. "But I tell you something, Mayor Giuliani, he stopped some things that were getting to be annoying in the neighborhoods. That thing where you have to be on point at all times, ready for something to happen. If you're a kid, you want to be a kid - not worrying about going outside and getting hurt. He helped change that."

  At one point, when Hawkins was on tour, his son was caught in a crossfire situation, used as a human shield during a shoot-out. He survived but was wounded badly.

  Those looking for a Wu-Tang biography will be disappointed. Hawkins riffs - not always in flattering ways - about the group's members, with their many dysfunctional relationships, all stuck together with tape and glue by producer Robert "RZA" Diggs. Hawkins admits, "I came down hard on RZA in the book. But everything we did was trial and error. He put himself out there."

  He also says, "Other guys can go write their own (expletive). Write your own story. This is mine."

  "Raw" touches on the group's formation and early years. Hawkins presents a story about how some like-minded oddballs from the projects found each other and hitched their wagon to a music form that by 1993 was old enough to need a new direction but young enough to still be figuring out its path.

  Houston plays a brief part in that development. Hawkins describes a particularly unpleasant early show here, where he says a crowd aggressively expressed its preference for the local act Geto Boys.

  "We tanked big there," he says. "We had to get out of town in a hurry."

  But the book's best moments riff on the daily hopes, anxieties and disappointments that come with living in a community immersed in struggle. The body count is high.

  And more interesting is Hawkins' ability to tell the story while also hinting at how a hunch or a feeling can lead to a decision that results in freedom or jail.

  "You know one choice can (expletive) you up," he says. "And maybe another leads to paradise. That's how crazy it was out there. You wake up with a flat tire and think it's a problem. But maybe the 15 minutes dealing with that saves your life. It sounds crazy, but I tell you, sometimes I'd sit in my house and knew I had to leave. But a voice in my head said, 'Not yet.' When that voice says, 'OK, now,' then I'd go. You learn to trust that little voice.

  "I feel like this is a realistic view of my situation because I was the one living it. I survived it. I'm a survivor of that era. That's why I say I'm the last dinosaur. I did that life, and I'm here. It's not glorifying violence. At the end of the day, I didn't come up in a privileged life. It's rough, man, for everybody. I'm one of the lucky ones."
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