The Wu-Tang Clan, hip-hop legends who hustled past the struggle

A quarter-century ago a ragtag group of New York kids that would become the iconic Wu-Tang Clan banded together, betting that mainstream music might just embrace hardcore hip-hop from the streets. Gifted with an ear for raw, menacing lyrics and fueled by a desire to rise above their poverty-mired peers, the nine-member collective ascended from New York's then particularly rough outer boroughs to become one of the most influential rap acts in history. Their hardscrabble journey that paved the way for dozens of successful hip hop artists is the subject of the four-part docu-series "Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men" --- a riff on the American classic "Of Mice and Men," the story of i...

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