{"id":2300193,"date":"2026-02-25T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2300193"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:00:16","slug":"oliver-power-grant-dies-wu-tang-clan-co-founder-fashion-entrepreneur-actor-was-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oliver-power-grant-dies-wu-tang-clan-co-founder-fashion-entrepreneur-actor-was-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver \u201cPower\u201d Grant Dies: Wu-Tang Clan Co-Founder, Fashion Entrepreneur &#038; Actor Was 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Oliver \u201cPower\u201d Grant, an early and close associate of the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan who executive produced the group\u2019s early recordings and headed the successful Wu Wear fashion line, died Monday, February 23. He was 52.<\/p>\n<p>His death was announced on social media by Wu-Tang Clan. A cause and place of death were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes just as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced today that Wu-Tang Clan is a 2026 nominee for induction, though Grant, who was not a performing member of the group, was not listed on the Hall\u2019s nomination roster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParadise my Brother safe travels!!,\u201d wrote Wu-Tang\u2019s Method Man on Instagram, adding, \u201cBruh, I am not ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wu-Tang members <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0706095\/\">Raekwon<\/a> and Gza also posted, with the former writing, \u201cThe most high is merciful. I love you,\u201d and the latter noting, \u201cWu wouldn\u2019t have come to fruition without <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm15942174\/\">Power<\/a>. His passing is a profound loss to us all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver \u201cPower\u201d Grant, an early and close associate of the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan who executive produced the group\u2019s early recordings and headed the successful Wu Wear fashion line, died Monday, February 23. He was 52. His death was announced on social media by Wu-Tang Clan. A cause and place of death were not disclosed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2300194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2300193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Oliver-Power-Grant-Dies-Wu-Tang-Clan-Co-Founder-Fashion-Entrepreneur.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300195,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300193\/revisions\/2300195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}