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RZA Too Much Of A Businessman To Consider Another Wu-Tang Album

Even though I know that he's giving an honest and realistic response following the clumsy release of 8 Diagrams, it's vaguely depressing to hear RZA say that attempting another Wu-Tang Clan album would be "bad business." Its members' varying degrees of solo success (and RZA's own control-freak tendencies) have made it extremely hard for the group to come together, and it's no surprise that collective enthusiasm is at a new low. But to hear it from the RZA himself guarantees the group is basically done for: "I don't know, really, to tell you the truth. Wu-Tang is forever, I think, and we'll be making the same sounds, whether we make it together or separately. But as far as making an album together, I don't know." More »

1:20 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Anthony Miccio
265 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: 8 Diagrams was pretty great, no matter how much the non-RZA members bitched about it. Too bad the slipshod release meant that few people even knew it existed.[blog.newsok.com] more »

the game of chess is like a swordfight

Time For You To Uncover The Mystery Of Chessboxin'

WuChess opened today, and in addition to a (welcome, to me) return to Wu-branded merchandise it offers a new business model from the RZA, who's charging $48 a year for chess instruction, online play, tournaments, and social networking. The site's launch even gave the Web 2.0 chattering classes an opportunity to squabble with each other about the site's viability! Personally, I'll stick to online Dr. Mario for my game-related social-networking needs, even if the music isn't quite as good. [WuChess blog]

5:00 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Dan Gibson
140 views, 5 comments

Latest by westartedthis: will Wu-Tang financial become a reality, as well?+ Watch video you know, after the airplane sketch. the tag and title of this post alone had me laughing. a bunch. more »

videodrone

You Can't Stop The RZA From Recalling Past Glories Now

"You Can't Stop Me Now," from the RZA's upcoming Bobby Digital release, Digi Snax, describes how the beat mastermind moved from street crime to sampling, finally becoming famous alongside the Wu-Tang Clan in 1993. What fifteen year old accomplishments have to do with our ability to stop him today is left unclear. More »

11:30 AM on Wed May 28 2008
By Anthony Miccio
246 views, 3 comments

videodrone

The Wu-Tang Clan Needs To Take It Back ("It" Being Their Shared Copy Of After Effects)

If music videos really do only make up 4 percent of MTV's programming, the quick and dirty new Wu-Tang clip probably won't convince the network to bump that number any time soon; the average episode of Parental Control is blessed with a larger budget than the video for "Take It Back," the product of a director trying to work some slide show magic with a feuding Clan, some onstage stock footage, and a little Crazy Taxi-grade CGI. It'll probably look terrible in HD, but hey, it's all but made for the streaming confines of the little YouTube box. [YouTube via Nah Right]

5:15 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Jess Harvell
146 views, 3 comments

Latest by 30f: I heard that this was directed by Idris "Stringer Bell" Elba. Not sure how/if that explains the buildings from Duke Nukem playing such a prominent role. more »

How might Raekwon be spending this Valentine's Day? Glad you asked! "It's a special day. It's a day to understand the person who means the most to you. ... I'm the type of dude who may be in a helicopter over the city having sex." [Rush & Molloy]

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U-God is suing the Wu Music Group for $170,000, claiming that he hasn't yet seen his cut of the money that 8 Diagrams, the Rock the Bells tour, and Wu-Tang's publishing brought in. [AllHipHop]

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The Wu-Tang Clan Confound Us With Their Diagrams

ARTIST: Wu-Tang Clan
TITLE: 8 Diagrams
WEB DEBUT: Nov. 26, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Dec. 4, 2007

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The Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams comes out in three weeks, but radio rips of three tracks are already starting to make their way around the Internet. [Hip-Hop Is Read via Nah Right]

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The Wu-Tang Clan Would Like To Retract Its Entry In The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Race

So a few weeks ago we entered this cover in our "Worst Album Cover Of The Year" contest for its painful Photoshop filter abuse and general air of last-minute laziness. But then the Clan goes and unveils a whole new sleeve, one they feel is more Wu worthy, especially for a release as anticipated as 8 Diagrams. So how does the "official" cover compare? More »

11:00 AM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By jharv
1,202 views, 11 comments

The Wu-Tang Clan Hides In The Shadows Of The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Race

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The Wu-Tang Clan have pushed the release of 8 Diagrams back from Dec. 4 to Dec. 11 so as to avoid conflict with the release date of Ghostface's The Big Dough Rehab. RZA on the latest delay: "We didn't have him move, we moved ... I think that shows the kind of bigger men we could be. Ghost is my brother, [I] love him to death. But we're in this business, and it's hard to kind of discern what's right and what's wrong. ... BBut I will say that, when it comes to a Wu-Tang Clan album, I plan on making it a 60-, 90-day type of schedule. ... It turned out to be a 200-day schedule ... and I didn't want to wait until next year [to put out 8 Diagrams]." [MTV]

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tony starks, social networker

December 4: More Wu-Tang Than You Can Handle

So there's a new Ghostface album dropping concurrently with 8 Diagrams! Just in time for Hanukkah! Hopefully better than More Fish! Even if it isn't, Ghost would still like to ask you to please not steal it. Also he wants you to add him as a Facebook friend, because he'll totally write nice things on your wall.

Video of GHOSTFACE 10/07 [Photobucket]

1:35 PM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By jharv
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corrections dept.

Wu-Tang Clan's Beatles Sample Claim A Bit More Complicated Than Previously Thought

The Wu-Tang Clan song "The Heart Gently Weeps"—which you can listen to at Oh Word—was, according to a post on the hip-hop group's blog earlier this week, the first-ever song to use a cleared Beatles sample, a fact of such epic import that the release date of the Clan's forthcoming 8 Diagrams had to be pushed back from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4. The only snag? If you look at the details of the "first-ever sample" claim, it kind of falls apart: More »

6:13 PM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By mjohnston
1,047 views, 10 comments

Latest by drjayphd: @mike a: If the original artists of any of the samples on Paul's Boutique took any action, Capitol Records would probably be a smoldering crater in LA. Thanks, Biz? more »

You may have heard from one of the thousands of blogs breathing heavy over the forthcoming Wu-Tang album that it features a much-wrangled-over Beatles sample, and now apparently "due to the magnitude of the sample and the History being made," the record's been pushed back almost a month to Dec. 4, just in time for my mom's birthday/the holiday rush. [Wu-Tang Clan MySpace via Nah Right]

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forever

"8 Diagrams" Is About to Become Reality

OnSmash has a 20-minute preview of the Wu-Tang Clan's new album, 8 Diagrams, consisting almost entirely of interviews with group members. You hear a little bit of music, but mainly it's Method Man giggling about nudity on European TV, Raekwon side-stepping issues of depression, RZA talking about collaborating with other producers, and most everyone dealing (or not dealing) awkwardly with the absence of Ol' Dirty Bastard. (Ghostface is conspicuously absent, although later in the video they explain that he does appear on three tracks; Masta Killa also seems to have skipped out.) It's fairly interesting, but just the fact that they're making another album is notable: While the touring market for old rap acts is extremely lucrative, no more so than for the Wu, in terms of records, no rap act has made a successful comeback. More »

4:08 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Dick Malone
751 views, 2 comments

Latest by Bob Loblaw: And just because LL didn't call it a comeback doesn't mean we shouldn't. more »

wu-tang clan

Wu-Tang Web Site Gives Users Yet Another Reason To Switch To Firefox

A few months ago, we tipped our readers to a Firefox extension called Downthemall. While its name sounds like one for an organization devoted to fighting suburban sprawl, it's actually a neat little download accelerator that allows users to snag all the MP3s on a Web page with just one click, and it's become somewhat crucial to our blog-appreciation efforts. We were reminded of its utility today, when Spine Magazine linked to the Wu-Tang Clan's recently updated downloads page; someone within the Wu-Tang camp has put up a whopping 215 MP3s of unreleased, rare, and demo tracks from the group. Seriously, this is the sort of thing Downthemall was made for, so get clicking before the bandwidth police rush the party. More »

4:25 PM on Mon Apr 23 2007
By mjohnston
899 views, 8 comments

wu-tang clan

Blogsmacked: Last-Minute Holiday Gift Guide Edition

- The Wu-Peanuts diorama kit: If you've got a printer and a pal who voted for Fishscale in her year-end music poll, Oh Word has a holiday craft project for you. [Oh Word]
- The new Moogs are adorable, but what on earth are their ads trying to sell, exactly? [Create Digital Music]
- For anyone who frequently describes their favorite records as "pummeling": "a musical weapon that shoots powerful 'hardcore' sounds based on your target's distance from the instrument." [We Make Money Not Art, via Digital Music Weblog]

3:04 PM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By mjohnston
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Enter The 36 Chambers Of Love: Wu Member Dispenses Romantic Advice

U-God, of the Wu-Tang Clan, gave his MySpace friends a gift today: A list of 14 things anyone in a relationship needs to know in order to keep their lover happy, from not ruining the laundry to avoiding psychobabble during relationship chats. And he must be doing something right: just look at all of the exhibitionistic ladies sprinkled among his top friends. More »

4:46 PM on Mon Oct 30 2006
By mjohnston
227 views, 3 comments

A Long Listmaking Exercise For A Long Weekend

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