Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA says he is happy to hear Drake’s “Wu-Tang Forever,” according to the producer-rapper’s recent interview with Rolling Stone.
“I appreciate it,” RZA said. “He sent me song because they couldn’t clear the sample. So I did it myself, personally, for free. Free of charge. Because to me, that’s what we meant when we said, ‘Wu-Tang is forever.’ We didn’t think we were going to live forever. We meant that the energy of what we do would spread on in culture, generation by generation. And by Drake absorbing it and having that influence in his life and having it be a part of him, it proves what I’m saying. And I’m really proud that he chose that rap.”
Other members of Wu-Tang Clan have also endorsed Drake’s “Wu-Tang Forever,” which takes its title from Wu-Tang Clan’s 1997 double-album, Wu-Tang Forever.
“At the end of the day, regardless of what, we were mentioned in a great way,” Raekwon said in a recent interview with MTV. “He named the title of his song after brothers, so however you did it, at the end of the day, it’s still love. It’s still respect there. I still thought the record was a great record, regardless of what. It ain’t nothin’ rude about the record, nothin’ disrespectful. It’s all love. Hey, I’m for it.”
U-God also endorsed the track, saying he is a part of the selection’s remix.
“I put my verse in it,” U-God said during a recent interview with MTV. “I’m too rough. I’m too raw…I had to write my dart fast. Being down with the Clan, it gave me the skill to write fast and precise with the dart. At one time, I had to be like that in order to get a slot on the mic. You had to be swift, hard and to the point…So, I had to do the same thing. We only had two hours in the studio to write this joint ’cause we was on tour when we got the record. I didn’t hear the beat ’til I got there, so I didn’t get a chance to marinate with it. So I just threw my dart how I felt. I was saying some murderous ish. I was saying some rawness. And now that I listen to the joint now, I’m like, ‘Damn, he was talking ’bout a broad.’ I might’ve been too rough for y’all, man.”
Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck, however, has been critical of Drake’s song title.
“I don’t even know how to take it, my brother,” Deck said in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “I just felt it don’t need to be ‘Wu-Tang Forever.’ It should be called ‘It’s Yourz,’ if that’s the case. That’s what the hook seems to be. That’s what the main basis of the rhyme seems to be. So you can call it ‘It’s Yourz’ and it would have the same impact. But to call it Wu Tang Forever’…unless the song is about the Clan like that, then it’s cool. I’m like, ‘Yo, if there’s a remix coming out, it got brothers on it and you just wanted to leak this one first and then come back with the Clan in that strategy, that’s not the understanding that brothers had in the beginning.”
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Wheres my records RZA? I’ve been waiting since April!!!!!
Been 4 weeks since you and you’re assistant said you were gonna take care of this shit but we still got nothing but empty promises!!!
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Fuck Soul Temple. Been waiting for my copy of 12rtd for 6 months now…
SAME HERE BRUH
RZA ACKNOWLEDGE THE EPIC FUCK UP AND SAID THEY GONNA MAKE IT BETTER BUTS ITS BEEN A MONTH!!
Know that bruh. I sent a mail to this RZA affiliate Tam and I told i wanted my money back since Bob Perry is still on this joke of a label and she told me that they couldn’t give me my money back cuz Bob Perry closed their Paypal….
I got my copy the day of release. Sorry bro
Lucky you. I wish I would have ordered from GetOnDown instead of Soul Temple.
You would think by pre-ordering something you would at least get it a week or two after it was in retail stores, not still waiting after 6 months!
Bob Perry is probably driving around in a new Benz he bought with all the loyal Wu customers money!
What exactly did Rza say he was going to do to rectify the situation. He has a great reputation before this, I doubt he would sully it for a few hundred CD’s.
“Although business is personal, when it comes to fans and consumers respect should be shown. So I’m publicly making these statements to fans…
There have been some bad staffing positions at the label which lead to some bad business. You fans have voiced your discontent so I will act.
We are removing Bob Perry from controlling the mail order dept and demoting him from president to Vp of A&R. He will retain his equity.
For those who made orders that wasn’t fulfilled our new staff will fill the orders or refund your money. Please send your names to our site
I will have a new email account for you fans who have not received your orders within 48hrs and have my l a office handle the matter.
These missed orders were not taken by me nor were they my responsibility but I hear your voices and I’m striving to remedy the matter….Soul Temple was an idea that’s been with me for years. It was inspired by relationship with the great late Issac Hayes. We launched in 2012.
Peace”
– RZA
People still waiting for their Man With the Iron Fists Soundtrack box set from last fall!!!!!
Dam that seems odd. And I assume you sent them your correct info, so not sure why the delay. That sux but I’m sure it’ll be taken care of in due time.
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Good so now the abbot has laid all the whining to rest. He worded it perfectly so cats can stop thinking the Wu are like they were in their 20’s and wanting to smack people up for showing them love smh. Some of you fans live in a fantasy world that really doesn’t exist.
Wrong.
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nobody wants to hear u god and rza’s bum ass verse on the remix. infact fuck the remix.
Rza as an MC is a GOAT..FOH
seriously. good lyrics but he cant flow on a track. FACT!
He changed up and started doing that creative flow. Thats just growth but check his catalog of solo albums and verses with Wu-Tang and GraveDiggas and tell me he can’t spit and spit deeper material then most conscious rappers. Ever hear “12 Jewels”?
He can’t flow on a track.? What the hell does that mean? Inform me. If your saying that because he has a off beat flow? That’s on purpose. Like cormega, mic Geronimo etc that’s there style. Sometimes rhyming off beat. Similar to how joey badass raps today. It’s a New York thing. Some can do it some can’t.
Rza why u eating customer’s money without mailing them their orders.
he needed that cash cause he been making samples for drake for free!!
The song is basically about nostalgia, he’s talking about old relationships & friends in the song & how Wutang(forever) was basically a soundtrack for him at that time, i really don’t see why people are so pissed, when i hear changes of one more chance i immediately think about my life back then, most are just too stupid to realise this but RZA gets it as usual
You’re wrong. The song’s about a girl, that’s it. It has nothing to do with Wu Tang at all.
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If I made that much I wouldnt even care that Rza’s label Soul Temple Music ripped me off $100!!!
RZA provided a perfect explanation for Drake naming the song as such. Now it’s official. The only Wu-Tang idiots hating on the Drake track are Wu-Tang’s surburban fanbase.
Wrong, bitch.
And one member of Wu-Tang, Deck