And this fact has caused ructions among the Clan, and its fanbase, that have seen Wu-Tang hit new lows of disharmony.Īs well as the deal with Loud, the nine MCs in the Clan each inked a deal with separate labels. Not in the same way the Clan’s previous six group efforts were, at any rate. If recording an album they will never hear sounds like a curious way to bow out in front of their fans, here is the twist – it’s not a real Wu-Tang Clan album, despite being offered up for auction as though it were. Housed in a luxurious hand carved silver and nickel box, complete with a hand bound book of liner notes, the one off CD will be sold to the highest bidder, who will be legally bound to prevent it being heard by anyone else on a commercial basis for 88 years. Here is the (official) story: Recorded in secret by the Wu-Tang Clan over the last few years, only one copy of their final album, called Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, will ever be produced. And the recent announcement of a final album all but seals it. Wu-Tang will always be forever but effectively the saga is coming to an end. But, via the ongoing power struggles between RZA and fellow Clan member Raekwon, those fears have come true. The sample (from Godfrey Ho’s 1982 kung-fu flick Dragon on Fire) that Wu-Tang leader RZA chose to close out Duel of the Iron Mic, the second track on cousin GZA’s already chilly second album, was too deliberate not to be a warning to those around him to stick together.

Plenty of Wu-Tang Clan fans will have nodded along to those words when Liquid Swords dropped in 1995 and felt a cold wind approaching. “At the height of their fame and glory, they turned on one another, each struggling in vain for ultimate supremacy…”

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