Not that anyone really cares that he's been promoted to official member of the group, other than maybe Cappadonna himself and his nonexistent supporters. But anyone who keeps up with the hip hop news of nowadays knows RZA's been trying to generate as much publicity as possible for this new Wu-Tang album that's apparently coming out this Black Friday - which I don't think people really are all that excited about. I mean, perhaps some people are, but I'm not. If you've listened to the last couple albums Wu-Tang put out as a group (officially, not some Legendary Weapons or Chamber Music type thing), you know that Wu-Tang simply isn't what it used to be. Not as a group anyway. Take in consideration that with each subsequent Wu-Tang group album after Enter the 36 Chambers, every one has been a little worse than the last. Now I don't think they'll do any worse than what they did on 8 Diagrams based on the recent singles they put out, but those are still nothing to go ranting and raving about either. Our best bets with putting money into Wu-Tang Clan's pockets (Warner Bros.'s pockets) are by purchasing their solo albums, of which only three members are actually worth checking out at this point: Ghostface, Raekwon, and Method Man. Plus if those three guys released their arguably more anticipated solo albums - Supreme Clientele 2, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. 3, and Crystal Meth - number one, we'd be getting more music, and number two, they'd probably be better than whatever album Wu is trying to drop now. And everyone would be happy.
See, the ship already sailed for Wu-Tang to release a group album a year ago when there was talk they might release it on the 20 year anniversary of their debut. So they can't really pull that whole promotion shenanigan anymore. Thus RZA has had to resort to different promotional tactics to get word going about the new Wu-Tang group album that's about come out. The first was the whole thing where they were going to only make one copy of their next album and then sell it to the highest bidder, which according to RZA apparently is going pretty well, getting offers for it for up to $5 million I think (suckers). Actually it appears that there are two separate albums in question. The one that's gonna be sold for evidently millions of dollars is called Once Upon a Time Shaolin and the one that's gonna be mass produced and available for download legally on Black Friday is called A Better Tomorrow. Talk about making moves. A Better Tomorrow, which is the title of an older song of theirs, has this other unorthodox promotional thing where part of the album will be put out on some sort of portable boombox a few weeks ahead of the scheduled mass release. It's on a portable boombox because there's really no way to go transferring the tracks ingrained in it to the internet so everyone else can hear them. (Well, I suppose there is a way to transfer them, but there'd obviously be some audio quality lost as a result.) So if you really wanna hear some of these new Wu-Tang tracks early, you're gonna have to buy some speaker that you don't actually want. I say good for Wu-Tang. If they can get some naive white kids to buy their album ahead of time at an extremely inflated price, then cool, but you'll never see me doing any shit of that sort. I mean, I'd say I'm a fairly big fan of Wu-Tang, but even I don't care that much.
Meanwhile, as RZA is still waiting to see if these promotional ventures are indeed successful, he's dispelling what everyone's been pondering for years: Is Cappadonna a member of the Wu-Tang or not? I would've personally said no, especially considering what they did to him on the Iron Flag album cover. Plus he's been kind of hit or miss in relatively more recent years when he's on a track. Still, he's not as bad as U-God, but there's more deserving Wu-Tang affiliates that are worthy of membership in my opinion. How about some Killah Priest, Hell Razah, or Killa Sin? Perhaps the real reason why those guys - better rappers than Cappa by all accounts - haven't been asked to join the Clan is that they don't appreciate being regarded as weed carriers. Something to think about.
See, the ship already sailed for Wu-Tang to release a group album a year ago when there was talk they might release it on the 20 year anniversary of their debut. So they can't really pull that whole promotion shenanigan anymore. Thus RZA has had to resort to different promotional tactics to get word going about the new Wu-Tang group album that's about come out. The first was the whole thing where they were going to only make one copy of their next album and then sell it to the highest bidder, which according to RZA apparently is going pretty well, getting offers for it for up to $5 million I think (suckers). Actually it appears that there are two separate albums in question. The one that's gonna be sold for evidently millions of dollars is called Once Upon a Time Shaolin and the one that's gonna be mass produced and available for download legally on Black Friday is called A Better Tomorrow. Talk about making moves. A Better Tomorrow, which is the title of an older song of theirs, has this other unorthodox promotional thing where part of the album will be put out on some sort of portable boombox a few weeks ahead of the scheduled mass release. It's on a portable boombox because there's really no way to go transferring the tracks ingrained in it to the internet so everyone else can hear them. (Well, I suppose there is a way to transfer them, but there'd obviously be some audio quality lost as a result.) So if you really wanna hear some of these new Wu-Tang tracks early, you're gonna have to buy some speaker that you don't actually want. I say good for Wu-Tang. If they can get some naive white kids to buy their album ahead of time at an extremely inflated price, then cool, but you'll never see me doing any shit of that sort. I mean, I'd say I'm a fairly big fan of Wu-Tang, but even I don't care that much.
Meanwhile, as RZA is still waiting to see if these promotional ventures are indeed successful, he's dispelling what everyone's been pondering for years: Is Cappadonna a member of the Wu-Tang or not? I would've personally said no, especially considering what they did to him on the Iron Flag album cover. Plus he's been kind of hit or miss in relatively more recent years when he's on a track. Still, he's not as bad as U-God, but there's more deserving Wu-Tang affiliates that are worthy of membership in my opinion. How about some Killah Priest, Hell Razah, or Killa Sin? Perhaps the real reason why those guys - better rappers than Cappa by all accounts - haven't been asked to join the Clan is that they don't appreciate being regarded as weed carriers. Something to think about.