Oliver “Power” Grant’s cause of death has been confirmed as pancreatic cancer, according to a joint statement from Wu‑Tang Clan and his family shared with Rolling Stone over the weekend.
The group said Grant, the Wu-Tang Clan co-founder who died last week at 52, fought a “courageous battle” and remained “a true fighter until the end.”
Though he wasn’t a performing member of Wu‑Tang, Grant was instrumental in building the empire that reshaped hip‑hop. He helped finance the crew’s debut single “Protect Ya Neck” and served as an executive producer on their landmark 1993 album Enter the Wu‑Tang (36 Chambers) — a project Rolling Stone later ranked among the 30 greatest albums of all time.