Ghostface: Canada Customs

Blockbuster Movie Dept: The nine-member rap collective blew a W-shaped hole in popular culture with Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers , released in 1993, and followed it with a barrage of million-selling solo albums, movies and video games. Crews were common in hip-hop, but none had ever branded both their music and their merchandise as though they were a blockbuster movie franchise, according to Globe and Mail. To this day, Ghostface is still killing with microphones, that is. We out there. We got brothers out there in the trenches, still doin it. It s sort of like being an old gunslinger, nahmean? He go pull his gun out, the lesson s about to be on. Twenty years down the line, that same gun still work. Ghostface was blocked from re-entering Canada because of his criminal record including a four-month prison stint in 1999 for attempted robbery he told MTV the jail time made him a better man . Now that he s settled the Canada Customs and Immigration rehabilitation paperwork, Ghostface will finally follow up his last Canadian appearance with a timely tour. Next year is the 20th anniversary of the group s first single, Protect Ya Neck , the beginning of a movement that would change the music business forever. The group s line of Wu-Wear was a particularly innovative strategy, expanding the business of selling a few T-shirts at shows into a clothing empire distributed at major retail outlets like Macy s success that spurred Jay-Z and Diddy to create their own fashion brands. Those rappers also created their own crews and marketed them along similar lines; Diddy s Bad Boy stable, including Notorious B.I.G. and Mase, went on to rule the charts in the late 90s, all while sporting his Sean John apparel in their videos. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.