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2 and those are solo projects.Īnd even those-they were dope on their own merits, but they didn’t really measure up to what Rae and Ghost were doing previously. The highlight projects are like Fishscale and Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Let’s see. ODB died in ’ 04, and after that there’s a U-God album, then Fishscale, an Inspectah Deck album, Method Man’s 4:21. When, do you think, was the beginning of the end for these guys? Was it Raekwon’s OB4CL2 in 2009? Was it Fishscale in ’06? All those modest, late-career solo successes? What’s the exact year when the Wu-Tang Clan kinda stops making sense, and jumps the shark?Īnd that was ’07. What’s the point of all this grandiose shit if nobody can even hear it? An album as an art piece is cool, but music is meant to be heard and enjoyed.

You want people to hear an album, you want people to hear why you’re still ill, why you’re still relevant. An album about which Method Man and the Wu-Tang Clan have said, “Fuck that album.” Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the final Wu-Tang album. The following is the transcript of their discussion.Ī conversation between Justin Charity ( and khal ( Alright, so let’s start at the end. As two thoughtful mourners of the Wu's expansive legacy, Complex staffers Justin Charity and khal shut themselves into a room for half an hour to determine when, exactly, the Wu-Tang Clan died, who killed it, and whether the Wu-Tang's influence is, indeed, forever. While the group's nine key members have spent the past year promoting A Better Tomorrow and Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, two last-call reunion albums, Raekwon, Ghostface, and Method Man have all publicly bucked RZA's creative direction and financial control of the Wu, having spent the past decade-and-a-half tending to prolific and profitable solo careers of their own.Īmidst a new wave of public bickering, as RZA prepares to auction the Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind final album, there's a creeping dread among many fans and rap critics who regret that the Wu's best days are now, indisputably, more than a decade behind them. In 2013, Drake also released a song with the same title.Like a fake Rolex or the Soviet Union, the Wu-Tang Clan has fallen irreparably apart.

This track isn’t the first song to bear the title “Wu Tang Forever”.

The last time the group released original material was in 2017.

This track is Wu-Tang Clan’s first song to be released in 2018.

It’s officially therefore something like this: Logic (featuring GZA, Ghostface Killah, U-God, Masta Killa, RZA, Method Man, Cappadonna, Inspectah Deck and Raekwon).

Officially, the song doesn’t feature Wu-Tang Clan it features each member.

It is the sixth track from Logic’s fourth studio album Young Sinatra IV ( YSIV).

The song’s official release date was on 28th September, 2018.

Producer 6ix (who co-wrote the track) handled its production alongside Naz.

13 songwriters are credited as writers on this track, including Logic and all the surviving members of Wu-Tang Clan who appeared on it.

Each member of the group handles a verse and drops lines about how cool they are. Thereafter, the rest of the verses are handled by Logic’s heroes – the Wu-Tang Clan. He ends his verse by calling himself “the God” and “the don”. “F**k a mumble rap, that s**t won’t never be remembered” (Ol’ Dirty Bastard).Īside his praise for the legendary rap group, he also shares his disdain for mumble rap with the memorable line below. He goes on to give a shoutout to the deceased Clan member O.D.B. In the song’s first verse (which is handled by Logic), he starts by saying “Wu-Tang forever”. He therefore uses this track to honor them. It should be mentioned that the group influenced Logic greatly at the start of his career. The song is Logic’s way of paying tribute to one of his favorite rap groups of all time – the Wu-Tang Clan.