The former manager of the WU-Tang Clan told us about her time with the group, in which no day was like the other
It is actually a normal afternoon in Berlin when I meet Eva Ries. A woman who is focused who immediately brings calm to the room – and at the same time gives the feeling of having everything under control. The interview then runs almost by itself. Hardly any answer without anecdote, hardly a sentence without history. You quickly realize that this woman did not simply manage the Wu-Tang Clan, she lived it.
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Every day a surprise
After Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Guns N ‘Roses, a completely different adventure was waiting for her in the early 1990s: Eva Ries became a marketing and tour manager of the WU-Tang Clan-one of the most influential rap crews of her time. Between the glossy offices of Gefs Records (“They were up there in their ivory tower”) and the projects of Staten Island, she suddenly found herself in a world that was as dangerous as it was fascinating.
“”Cream -Cash Rules Everything Around Me, ”Wu-Tang Clan once raps. For Eva Ries, this became a reality when she stood with ODB in front of the probation judge, with Method Man interviews in Parks or had to flee from a closed emergency outputs of an escalating show.“ We would have been going on in the hall for a second, ”she would be For example, in the big ME video interview.
The “best paid probation worker in New York”
It was actually set for marketing, in fact Eva Ries often played a completely different role: letters to probation courts, plus tens of authorities and lots of crisis management. “At some point the others called me the best paid probation worker in New York,” said Eva Ries.
Despite all the conflicts in the clan – and there were many of them – but she stayed tuned. “I have always told them: think of the big picture. If you want to conquer the world, you shouldn’t lose yourself in single fights.”
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Evil-e in the ARD documentary
On September 16, the documentary started in the ARD media library “Evil-E-Eva Ries and the Wu-Tang Clan“, Who rolls this unusual chapter on cinematically for the first time. Ries was one of the few women who could not only assert themselves in the testosterone-loaded hip-hop business of the 90s-she set up her own rules.
At that time the motto was “World Domination”. 30 years later, Eva Ries tells the stories – focused, lively, full of contradictions. Stories that show how close success and abyss sometimes lie together.