The Wu-Tang Clan is one of the most important hip-hop groups of all time, and its impact has transcended the purely musical realm, as the band has become a cultural, and even political, reference, representing an attitude of racial challenge against the order established by a society still structured to favor the white population. Since its founding in 1991, the Wu-Tang Clan has released seven albums and sold more than forty million copies worldwide.

However, no member of the group had told his story until the appearance of In The Living Flesh. My journey with the Wu-Tang Clan, written by Lamont "U-God" Hawkins, who in the 1970s and 1980s learned to survive on the streets of New York City's most helpless districts, where violence was ubiquitous and the future for a black boy like him was almost hopelessly numbered in the code of crack, weapons and tragedy. A founding member of Wu-Tang – although he was only briefly able to participate in the group's first album for being serving time for drug possession – he has composed several of the band's most iconic songs.

In the words of U-God himself: "The time has come for me to put in writing not only my legacy, but the story of nine filthy boys who took our daily lives – handing out madrassas and bisning and trying to survive in the urban jungle of New York City – and turned it into something much bigger than we could have imagined , something that allowed us to escape forever from the buildings of social housing, which was all we wanted from the beginning."