Born with a silver spoon? better yet born with a Wu imprint, INTell aka Dontae Hawkins was Born & Raised in Staten Island, NY. Anyone and everyone deep into Wu-Tang by now would know INtell is the son of U-God, one of the founding members of legendary Wu-Tang Clan. So Dontae has an automatic passage and access to music and the Wu fans one would say, he didn’t get into music right away, infact it may come as a surprise to some but U-God was not initially keen on his son following his footstep in the rap game and did very little to encourage him, but if it is in your DNA what more can you do? First album he actually did listen to Wu-Tang Clan's "Enter the 36 Chambers" and this was not even given to him by his dad but a friend. Around 2005, INTell's best friend and fellow group member DruGunn$ approached him about doing music, leading to numerous random freestyles with friends to late night studio sessions in Brooklyn. Upon practicing and perfecting his craft iNTeLL decided to take the craft seriously and started putting out several mixtapes around 2006.

Around that same time, he was studying and majoring in film production, and he begun to show off his skills as a cinematographer and editor, directing an editing his own music videos as well as a few other artists. While the likes of Young Justice (GZA's son), SunGod (Ghostface Killah's son), Boy Jones (O'l Dirty Bastard's son) and a few more have had the opportunity to shine and be seen via collaboration and features on released Wu-Tang projects, INTell's recognition obviously includes the fact that he is the son of U-God but this mainly comes from his hard work, likeable and unique style and his continued growth lyrically with the projects he has been putting out for free over the years which by now amounts to 6 - 10 releases.  

INTell's reason for doing music is simple, for respect and love for the artform, he would probably accept a record if offered to him but speaking to him it was obvious his primary goal is making it big in the film industry as far as directing, producing and doing it in Hollywood, music is still part of the picture for him as he still plans on doing it regardless of how far Hollywood takes him.

In order to find out more about this intelligent young man, Wu-International got in touch with INTell in this exclusive interview as he tells us of his humble beginnings, Wu-Tang, being the song of U-God, music, life, aspirations and what have you, Enjoy!

Ill Knob has been around longer than most can remember, coming from the group KGB who were once part of Wu-Tang Management and Protect Ya Neck records, Ill Knob, the most known face of the group then, met The RZA at a record store in the 90s, RZA sent him off to Mook and he and his group got working with 4th Disciple, resulting in a couple of released singles. Knob traveled with the Wu-Tang Clan family to California to work on albums from such Wu affiliates as Deadly Venoms, Wu-Syndicate, Shyheim and Sunz Of Man. Coming from Coney Island, Brooklyn, Knob fell in love with California's relaxed atmoshpere and decided to live there.

A bi-coastal heritage and coming up during the golden era of hip-hop, Ill Knob has grown as an artists, been around hip-hop’s elite and studied their successes, he is applying their strategies, reinventing his own and using his own unrelenting drive to succeed with his own musical mission: to be respected as a true artist. Still managed by his producer and manager; Storm, who also managed the likes of Mobb Deep, Deadly Venoms, Sam Scar, Rufus Blaq, and more.

His latest projects have been a group project with new group Killah Shark but he has mainly been focusing lately on his upcoming solo project, which he says will also be his last as he got a number of things on his plate, find out where and what Ill Knob has been up to, a little history to the formation of his group KGB, and Killah Shark and their current status, and his plans for the future. Enjoy

Happy Wu Year! Setting this year off with a bang is the long overdue Popa Wu interview the fans have been requesting. If anyone can say he’s known the Wu Tang Clan from day one, then it’s Popa Wu. If anyone can say he’s part of the Wu fam literally … again it’s Popa Wu, being family to about half of the Generals and a number of  Killa Beez, Popa Wu is considered a father figure by all. Popa Wu was commercially introduced to the world on Raekwon’s "North Star" in ’95 and on Ghostface Killah’s "All That I Got Is You" in ’96. On these contributions we already heard hints of the man’s influence on the Clan members and of his 5% teachings, but it was only on “Wu-Tang Foreverr” we fully got an idea of how much the Generals appreciated the man and esteemed his lessons as they asked him to do the intro on this album: "Wu-Revolution", a 7 minutes long RZA beat solely built for Popa Wu to aim his wisdom to the youth with an ear for all things Wu, filled with 5% teachings and terminology.

Since then he went on numerous tours with the Clan, released a compilation album titled “Visions of the 10th Chamber” in 2000 where he introduced the world to his own chambers within the Wu followed by a second installment later on in 2008. He has been featured on countless albums from Wu-Tang Clan members, affilaites as well as other artists, such as  Masta Killa's second LP “Made In Brooklyn”, Lord Jamar’s (Brand Nubian) “The 5% Album” and laced "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II...” seamlessly with Rae’s classic OBFCL on its intro "Return of the North Star”.

There have been recent talks of a Popa Wu DVD, The 5% Story which is a documentary film that explores the life of a man who has existed behind the shadows, yet has been a pivotal influence to the greatest and most far reaching rap group of all time: The Wu-Tang Clan. There seems to be a lot on the plate for 2012, he mentioned he was planning on publishing a book on the public premiere of “Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang in NYC” some time back, he is also working on a number of projects musically as well as the much talked about Ol' Dirty Bastard movie.

With all this in mind and curious on what is still to come from one of the most influential character in the Wu camp, Wu-International had the honor and privilege to talk to and learn from Freedom Allah aka Popa Wu.. Enjoy!

As our Bronze week is running to its end, we wanted to use this opportunity to thank Bronze Nazareth for cooperating and working with us to bring the fans this exclusive week, we also  felt it was the right time to not only look at his “Blindman” album but to also look back at some of his finest work with other artists in and outside of the Wu camp. As you all realize Bronze’s number of output has been impressive over the last years. So Reccollectah and Dark 7 Invader ran through all of them to handpick some of their favorite Bronze joints of the past years including productions he had done for the likes of The RZA, Raekwon, Cilvaringz, Timbo King, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique and much more. Here’s what Bronze had to say about their selection, Enjoy!!