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In 1993, hip hop culture was living its golden years in the United States. It had taken rap two decades to establish itself as the undisputed catalyst of the political, social, economic and artistic reality of the marginalized neighborhoods of the world power. With beat, sample and rhyme, protest music was moving away from guitars. In this context, the album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the debut of the New York clan that would lead the resurgence of the East Coast as a banner of hardcore rap -Straight Outta Compton had turned its attention to California five years earlier- and that would serve as a reference for future generations of producers and MCs around the world. A complex, comic and explicit work that the renowned British writer, journalist and record producer Will Ashon dissects in the compendium of texts braided on these pages. Thirty-six essays that start from the canonical work of the clan to then open in infinite directions and thus contextualize its gestation and repercussion.