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.

Remedy

Both the first white and the first Jewish Wu-Tang affiliate, MC/producer Remedy is a Staten Island native. After emerging with the "Seen It All"/"Everything Is Real" 12" single, Remedy appeared on the 1997 Wu-Tang Killa Bees: The Swarm compilation with his track Never Again, a song about the Holocaust. This track remains his best-known work as well as his most highly regarded, though his 2001 debut album The Genuine Article was also moderately successful. Code Red from 2003 was a second album of sorts (it also included older tracks, such as "Never Again"), and included a track about the 9/11 attacks as well as "A Muslim & A Jew" which featured Remedy and fellow Wu-Tang affiliate Cilvaringz (a Muslim) rapping as representatives of their respective sides in the Palestine/Israel conflict (with Wu-Tang leader RZA acting as mediator). He runs Code Red Entertainment, which also housed Cappadonna. Birth name Ross Filler, born 1972 in Staten Island.

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