GZA

Gary Earl Grice better known as GZA, is a founding member of the hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. Formed in 1992, Wu-Tang Clan was a collective of 10 rappers that dominated the hip hop scene in the mid nineties, Their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) was ranked in 27th place in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and is often cited as the greatest hip hop album ever made. The collective’s second album, Wu-Tang Forever, topped the charts and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards. Wu-Tang Clan released seven studio albums between 1993 and 2015 (plus five less official albums under the name Wu-Tang). In 2025 they announced their final tour.

Why GZA is vegan

GZA is vegan for health reasons.

He hasn’t eaten pork since he was 11 years old but became vegetarian around 1996-97. He gradually cut out dairy and other animal products both for health reasons and for his moral conscience. Despite not eating many vegetables as a child, GZA has strived to eat “only vegetables and raw fruit.”¹Amason, J. 2010. GZA: Lyrical Genius and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Raw Food Guru. Eater. Available: https://www.eater.com/2010/7/23/6725469/gza-lyrical-genius-and-the-wu-tang-clans-raw-food-guru [Accessed 17 March 2021].

“Chitterlings. Those are pig intestines. The waste and everything is filtered, it goes through the intestines. You know, people are consuming this. Intestines, pig feet. All this stuff that has so much sodium, salt in it. And we’re known to have high blood pressure because we eat a lot of these foods.”²Smith, K. Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA Says Soul Food Is ‘the Slave Man’s Diet’. LiveKindly. Available: https://www.livekindly.co/wu-tang-clans-gza-soul-food-slave-mans-diet/ [Accessed 17 March 2021].