Wu-Tang Clan affiliates

The pioneering hardcore hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan's plan to conquer the hip hop industry consisted not only of making each member into a solo star in their own right, but also to create and promote numerous affiliate artists.

American Cream Team

This is a group once mentored by Raekwon and believed to consist of Chip Banks (d. 2000), Polite, Kingpin, Baby Thad, Triflyn, Nino, Superb, and Rhyme Recca as well as possibly Raekwon himself (it is unknown whether or not he considered himself a member of the group). Raekwon featured American Cream Team on two songs on his second album Immobilarity and much of that album was produced by the group's inhouse producer Triflyn. The group also made several appearances on mixtapes and compilations, including a track titled "It's Not A Game" on the soundtrack to the film Black & White which was played over the film's credits, and a track on Funkmaster Flex's Sixty Minutes Of Funk Volume III mixtape. Members of the group also made appearances on albums by Rae's fellow Clansmen Ghostface Killah and Method Man. However, after the loss of member Chip Banks in a 2000 shooting, the group split up. On Raekwon's next album Lex Diamonds Story he assembled a new group of young proteges named Ice Water which also included Polite. Like many Wu affiliates, American Cream Team completed an album but it has never been released (the album was even advertised in the liner notes of other Wu-Tang releases).

Related Topics:
Immobilarity - Funkmaster Flex - Lex Diamonds Story - Ice Water

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