In less than a month, RZA will finally unleash his directorial debut The Man with the Iron Fists on the world. Now, in a recent interview with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club via HipHopWired, the Abbot speaks on the relationship between music and movies.
RZA said that he’s always seen cinema and music as having the similar driving forces behind them. He explained that even in the early days of the Wu, he was approaching every album as a kind of short film, a la Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Link….
“To me, music and film have the same wavelength,” he said. “A lot of people may have not comprehended that, but I’m one of the kids that did comprehend it. It all activates in the same model. When I was making Wu-Tang albums, I was actually trying to make a movie. So when you listen to it, you was like Cuban Linx…, it felt like you was getting a movie in your head. Now that I kind of rose above that I’m making physical movies with Hip Hop music sounds as a backdrop to it…that was my philosophy back then: trying to make something, you put the CD or the tape in you car, you feel like you got a littel hour movie.”
RZA also addressed the status of the Wu-Tang Clan and the possibility of some form of a reunion. While a new album from the Almighty Clan may not be in order, RZA said that the members have been talking about returning for a final world tour.
“I don’t know [if there will be another Wu album],” he said. “I know that the 20th year anniversary is coming up, and some of the brothers have been talking about potentially going back in, maybe do a world tour. I see like one last hurrah to close the book. 20 years is a long time for a Hip Hop artists to definitely be in the business…usually three to five years is the run and you’re gone, but we’ve been doing what we’ve been doing, being successful with it, feeding our families for 20 years with it…right now, I think all the brothers are aboard. I talked to everybody, they’re like, ‘Yo, get it cracking, get the cash-rule correct, and bong bong.'”
Check out the full interview below.
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overratted rap group they are dope but really overratted
how is anyone overated, music is art…in my opinion wu-tang cud be the illest of all time, nothing you say can change that
Listen to their classics again and tell me they aren’t some of the best to do it
one of the best rap group They combine their lyrical skills together and there are not many groups that can do it.
think about it.
i thought wu-tang was forever smh come on RZA, hip-hop needs to stop bein this young man bullshit, Bob Dylan released an album the other day, the nigga been around since the 60s or somethin….kool g rap released an album last year, stop wit that age shit, i want method man an the wu to release an album every year an tour forever
anonymous = doesn’t know anything about hip-hop
World means USA and Europe.
Of course, no one listens to rap in South America or Africa.
^^^ he meant that their ‘World’ Tour will likely cover just the United States and Europe, not actually the whole world
They came to Australia last year, minus Raekwon. So I think you’re wrong about that world thing..
^^^ Japan got mad love for hip-hop dudes too.
Fuck these niggas, just say they’re gonna tour in just the US and Europe already. We know damn right y’all ain’t coming around here.
@Doubl Negative
But no one got love for y’all. So give it up already.
Real stuff. To be honest, never been a huge Wu-tang fan. You can tell this guy’s genuine though. He’s done a lot in the game and definitely deserves respect. radio sucks.. (I’ll have to get more into Wu-tang)
they have one of the best albums in the game check it out peace
good, make it quick so there’s nine less old ass niggas in the game. make room for more younger niggas. fuck those who hate!
this is hip-hop fans are the biggest faggots.. don’t respect the elders
Fuck those who hate??? So what you are saying is fuck yourself cause you are one of the biggest bitchmade haters who posts on this site. damn you are stupid. WU-TANG FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dont even be upset at this young dumb ignorant bastard hell get it when he gets older cause one day youre gonna be older too
plus its the older cats that carried the hiphop generation into the new millenium punk if it wasnt for them hiphop would be dead in the 90s
WU TANG FATHERED 88% OF TODAYS HIP HOP ACTS..IF U DONT BELIVE ME DO UR RESEARCH WUTANG 4EVA..R.I.P. O.D.B.
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Damn, I hate to hear that phrase “close the book.” Wu-Tang doesn’t do it like they used to but I think they could still make something serious if they got all their minds together. Seen them twice live and it was amazing both times.
Shut up. They’re OVER. Been wack since 1997.
Yeah okay Goya boy
you stuck back in 97 or what. but theyre not over. you think wu tang forever was the last album that was dope….
yeah wu tang world tour would be dope come to fucking Ireland we never get shit no wonder everyone just drinks like fuck and shoots each other over here