As Wu-Tang Clan prepares for the December 2 release of its forthcoming A Better Tomorrow album, Raekwon said that recording without group member Ol’ Dirty Bastard, who passed away in 2004, has left a void.
“Its real deep bro, because we miss that energy,” Raekwon says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX that premiered in the DX Daily Friday (October 3). “When he come in the room and be like, ‘What is this? What’s going on?’ Or if he didn’t like something, he would let you know he didn’t like it. If he loved it, he came in the room and was overjoyed with love from his side. So I kind of just miss the energy of him being around, him just being there, or just spotting him from across the room like, ‘Look at this dude over there.’ But at the end of the day, once you miss a member out of your family B, it’s never the same. All due praises to Ol’ Dirty, though.”
At a press release at Warner Bros. Records last week, RZA said that the group’s mission is “to inspire a better tomorrow.”
“The album has a small concept in a sense, musically it travels from a guy who is going through difficulties, tries to find himself, gets involved with some violence, some troubles, but then realizes that it’s best sometimes to walk away from the past and all the bad times and maybe work on making his life better, and making a better tomorrow,” RZA said during an interview published in Billboard last week. “The process of making this album was very unique for me. I started first in my home studio in L.A., then I went to my buddy Adrian Younge and I went to his basement in Southern California where he has all this old ’60s equipment that he be using.”
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Get over it, Raeysha. Your friend is gone. yes I can sympathsize with you, but business is business and sometimes money cannot bring the dead back.
SWANDIVE ON A MACHETE HO
Y’all already made a album without dude
Wu-Tang Clan aint never been the same since wu-tang forever just my opinion they made great albums but ODB just brought them the energy they needed after he died they missing that piece that probably wont ever be replaced again period peace to the Wu Tang Clan though hope they have a great album im praying for them they are one of the Greatest Rap Groups Ever Period
no1 cares any more enough is enough
mush mouth fat fuck ICEWATER
just hire any random psuedo philosophical crackhead to imitate ODB no one will even notice. just give him some crack or “dat get high”, stupid assholes
lol missing on how many tracks was ODB on the wu albums 4 or 5 tracks. This junkie was always to bussy drinking and using drugs
enough is enough man. that was like 6 times.
I just can’t believe that out of all the years the ODB had been in the game that there isn’t at least one tight unreleased verse or song that he has in the stash that they can use. I know the energy of him being alive can’t be duplicated but for the fans sake you can’t have a Wu album without a verse from him. At least recycle an old verse that maybe isn’t familiar with most Wu fans like from his Osirus mixtape. I just hope the Rza went back to digging in the crates an fluck all that experimental shit for this album. Give us dusty sample, murk drums, static, organs, strings, abstract noises and high pitched loops.
he never said there isn’t an OBS appearance on it he said he misses the energy of him being there in the flesh
WU-TANG= “man who is deserving of God”. Best Hip hop group ever. I don’t care what you think, Peace to the Gods