Raekwon has answered whether Wu-Tang Clan fans will be treated to another album anytime soon, while also teasing a new solo project of his own.
The Chef took to Instagram Live on Monday (July 29) to respond to speculation surrounding the Wu potentially reuniting for their eighth LP.
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“Good question. I mean, we tryna get it together, you know?” he said. “Everybody’s spread out. Everybody’s doing something great in their life, so when it’s time for everybody to get in the room, it just seems like it’s the hardest shit in the world. But it ain’t like we don’t want to.”
He added: “And then you got so many minds. You throw a beat out and a n-gga be like, ‘I like that, I don’t like that.’ It’s hard. It’s real hard, but don’t count us out. Don’t never count us out.”
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Raekwon then turned his attention to his own music, saying: “This next record I’ma do? I’m telling y’all, this next record. I’m gonna announce my next record on Cuban Linx day. August 1, 29-year anniversary. I’m gonna hit y’all the title of the next album.
“This one’s gonna fuck y’all n-ggas up. Trust.”
Wu-Tang Clan’s last album arrived in 2015 in the form of the much-publicized Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, although only one physical copy was released.
Intended to emphasize the value of music in age of rampant piracy and low streaming payouts, the album was purchased for $2 million by notorious “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli, who was later ordered to hand over the record by a federal court after being convicted of securities fraud.
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was then bought by the NFT collective PleasrDAO in a $4 million deal with the U.S. Department of Justice.
After being shrouded in mystery for almost a decade, the album was finally made more widely accessible last month as part of a 10-day museum exhibition in Tasmania, Australia, where fans could hear a 30-minute excerpt created by its producer Cilvaringz.
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As for Raekwon’s solo catalog, the veteran MC released his most recent album The Wild in 2017, complete with appearances from Lil Wayne, CeeLo Green and G-Eazy.
The project earned a 4.3 out of 5 score from HipHopDX, with writer William Ketchum III praising its small but solid supporting cast, as well as Rae’s “novelist-like attention to detail and linguistic mastery.”
