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Whether it’s velvety riffs oozing from a packed-in Mississippi hill country blues joint or Scandinavian death metal percussion crawling forth from a dank basement, good music somehow finds a way to be heard. Staten Island in the ’90s and Liverpool in the ’60s are two different worlds, but both locales birthed world-famous artists in the form of Wu-Tang Clan and The Beatles, respectively. If you think that two don’t have anything in common, you’re mostly right. Still, Wu-Tang’s RZA did manage to acquire the rights to sample George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on 2007’s 8 Diagrams track “The Heart Gently Weeps.” The results were surprisingly impressive. Running with that idea, UK’s Tom Caruana compiled an entire mixtape of Wu-Tang and Beatles mashups that retain Shaolin hustle and well-crafted instrumentation. Check it out:

Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles: Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers

Wu-Tang Clan -”The Heart Gently Weeps” video

A hardcore mythology-fueled hip-hop debut featuring a soccer team of rappers rhyming about kung fu, chess, Nation of Islam ideology, comic books, and a myriad of other topics isn’t supposed to make it big. Somehow it did, spawning a number of satellite groups, a commercial empire and a loyal international following in the process. Sixteen years after the release of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the group is still going strong. In fact, an entire dubstep album was just released in tribute to the Staten Island crew titled Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture Vol. 2: Enter The Dubstep. How many other rappers do you know of have sixteen-year careers and tribute albums? Not too many. So, in honor of the Killa Bees, make sure to bump this jam when you’re out partying this weekend. It’s a shockingly catchy mashup of Warren Zevon’s “Werevolves of London” and Wu-Tang’s “Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’”.

Warren Zevon vs. Wu-Tang Clan - “Werewolves Of Chessboxin’ (ELLIOT Scratch mix)