When RZA heard De La Soul’s “Get Away” single, which was released in April and sampled the Wu-Tang Clan, the rapper-producer was impressed. “I love De La,” RZA says during an interview with XXL. “Listen that goes back to…Prince Paul being one of those guys [who first supported me], and to see De La sampling one of my productions, you know what I mean, that’s cool, yo. It gets no cooler than that, actually.”
Prince Paul, who produced De La Soul’s early material, worked with RZA as part of the rap group Gravediggaz, which debuted in 1994 with its 6 Feet Deep album. De La Soul eventually moved beyond working exclusively with Prince Paul as a producer and De La Soul’s Posdnuos says that he got the idea for using the intro from Wu-Tang Clan’s Forever on “Get Away” after revisiting the group’s 1997 album. It’s also why “The Spirit Of The Wu” is credited as a guest on “Get Away.”
“I stumbled on the original sample while crate digging one day, took it straight to the lab and added drums,” Posdnuos says in an interview with Rolling Stone. “The feel is definitely gritty, hard and sounds like a Wu record, so out of inspirational respect, we included featuring ‘The Spirit of the Wu’ in the song title.”
“Get Away” is slated to appear on De La Soul’s forthcoming You’re Welcome album, which is slated to be released later this year. De La Soul is touring with LL Cool J, Ice Cube and Public Enemy on the Kings of the Mic Tour. The trek runs until July 5, when it concludes at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.
So raw. We need more of this type of hip hop.
This song is classic. Hopefully this is the lead single, or at least included on the album.
gravediggaz dope as fuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NReT4f1bXY0
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it’s been more than 2 months and I still don’t have my 12 reasons to die
well now you got 1 reason to die.
dope track. Real artists who work at their craft.
I always loved the sound and mood of that CD2 intro; never skipped it to the point I can recite RZA and GZA word for word
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Isnt it funny how after all these years of rapping the pu tang clan will never even be as close to the sucess of drake combined and will never be a big name or influence in hiphop like drake is Pu Tang clan is irrelevent.
Ignorance is bliss… get your facts straight homebwoi… when did Drake make a classic album? Don’t worry… I’ll wait…
this comment isn’t anything too get worked up about. obviously, the comment was made for shock value. because no one who has even a slight grasp on hiphop history could say that without intending to be ironic.
haha im hoping that comment was a joke…
trolling all the way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a1dxE1tVoA
yal nigaz act like your beefing then hang out lol trying to trick people thats y nigaz is after you.tell em y u trick people so u can write song movie scrips about people an say racist shit in songs.lets see jay z doesnt like dame dash for signing him to labels lol and 50 cent has beef with ja rule for no rason.