Wu-Tang Clan's RZA goes classical with ballet score
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"Every day I would go to school, I would make sure I write a lyric as my way of getting my art out, as well as kind of making a journal," he told NPR's Steve Inskeep.
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"I fought with that for months, but then my wife convinced me I could do without the lyrics, the music itself would tell the story," RZA said.
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RZA finds links between hip-hop and composing for ballet, where dancers 'mime or mimic' ideas in their movements that might otherwise be expressed in lyrics.
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The story in RZA's ballet is about six youths who find themselves and are 'transposed to their higher selves,' named after different diatonic scales.
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