tribute<\/a>, which praised Grant as a \u201cproud product of the Park Hill neighborhood.\u201d Grant was raised in the Park Hill projects of Staten Island, New York, alongside the future members of the Wu-Tang Clan. \u201cFrom those streets, he rose to become a visionary force, a pillar of the Wu-Tang family, and a global architect of culture,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cIt was the honor of his life to pour his love, wisdom, and brilliance into his family and his community. His impact was singular; there will never be another to take his place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cPower will always be loved, and his legacy will forever remain,\u201d his family and the Wu-Tang Clan continued before sharing a quote: \u201cGreatness is not what you have, but what you give.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tAlthough Grant wasn\u2019t a performing member of the group, he played a pivotal role in the collective\u2019s indelible impact in music and popular culture. In 1992, Grant helped garner the necessary financing to deliver their first single, \u201cProtect Ya Neck.\u201d He also served as the executive producer on their seminal debut LP, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), in 1993, and founded their massively successful artist-driven clothing empire, Wu Wear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cTwo things that make you do good. Either you\u2019re inspired, or you\u2019re desperate,\u201d Grant said in the interview clip shared by Wu-Tang on social media. \u201cEverybody was hustling. \u2026 Our main money maker was the music, then the touring, then the brand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power was “a visionary force, a pillar of the Wu-Tang family, and a global architect of culture” the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,45229,119919],"class_list":{"0":"post-362085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-tribute","14":"tag-wu-tang-clan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116152923998144498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}