RZA Shares His Love For U-God Despite Bitter 3-Year Lawsuit

    RZA joined Rick Rubin for another episode of the Def Jam Recordings co-founder’s Broken Record podcast where he opened up about his relationship with the rest of Wu-Tang Clan. Despite a sometimes contentious three-year legal battle with U-God, the love they have for each other transcends any business squabble.

    When Rubin asked about RZA’s standing with the group, he responded with an anecdote.

    “Always at peace, always at peace,” he said when he was asked about his relationship with the rest of the group. “We are a brotherhood. Look, my best example Rick is that I got a lawsuit, U-God is suing me, right? And this lawsuit has been going on for three years. And we were in Australia, last year. They did a Wu-Tang tour in Australia [at] the Syndey Opera House, and he gets there and his credit card isn’t working.

    “So I took my credit card, put him in a suite, and took care of everything for him. And then GZA’s like ‘Only Wu could do that. This nigga’s suing you, and you’re feeding him and lending him money.’ I said [that’s] business, I love this man.’ I love my brothers, man.”

    RZA’s response is a far cry from what the picture U-God painted during a May 2019 interview with VladTV. Throughout the conversation, he criticized The Abbot’s production work while hurling a few other insults in his direction.

    “After Forever, we was always complaining about the music internally,” he explained. “It just wasn’t strong enough. It wasn’t powerful enough. It wasn’t big enough. And RZA still wanted to put out records under that wack production.

    “Get that fucking dude RZA in here and ask him all that sucker shit, please! Ask his monkey ass the shit!”

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    But even after U-God’s sentiments, RZA is confident they’ll always stick together.

    “We have that love for each other,” he added. “And I think our parents would be proud that this was a community. Wu-Tang wasn’t just a bunch of guys … a lot of these bands, maybe two guys know each other. This is a group of men who, at minimum, [have] 25-30 year relationships. Me and Raekwon go back to the third grade (…) and that part of it permeates and seems to trump anything else.”

    In 2016, U-God sued the group for $2.5 million, insisting he hadn’t seen royalties from the group for over five years. He also alleged he hadn’t seen a cent from the sale of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which was sold to the infamous Martin Shkreli for $2 million in 2015.

    9 thoughts on “RZA Shares His Love For U-God Despite Bitter 3-Year Lawsuit

      1. Rza don’t owe him a penny. UGod thinks he should be rich because Rza is rich. Rza got rich off hustle and ambition. Baby U been under the Rza wing for almost 30yrs. When is he gonna break out and do his own thing? Everyone else has! Deck, Rae, Ghost, Meth, Gza…., Masta Killa even handling his own. Cappa and UGod think Rza owe them something and they both prolly benefit THE MOST from having the sanctuary of that W! Have a seat fellas.

    1. Rza is a snake but ugod has to have some accountability he should’ve never put himself in that situation financially. Dude still whining about 97 and the fact his album didn’t come out.

    2. I cringe so hard when rappers who have no idea how a beat machine works complain about the music their producer is making. Raekwon did the same thing. Like I know we’re all rap fans here but rapping is the easiest part of making a hip-hop record. Like that WestsideGunn interview where he was like “No one picks beats like I pick them!” Who brags about that?

      1. I gotta disagree on that one. There’s way more dope producers than dope MCs. There’s no state of the art equipment that can write lyrics for you…yet. But U-God is the last guy in the crew to be complaining about anything. Rza gave him some good beats on his first solo album “Golden Arms Redemption and he did nothing with them. He was off beat half the time.

    3. U-God has always been the weakest link. They should’ve put Shyheim in the group to replace him.

      1. You clearly never heard that fuckrn verse on Deadly Melody then my man. Thats one of my fav verses in the history of hiphop.

    4. Family Fights it Happens… No matter what y’all doing Y’all Brothers Forever.
      Sometimes things Happens for a Reason.. Hope ya put ya Differences aside and make Good Music.. I LOVE The Wu.. Glad I seen Y’all at Radio City Last yr and the Loud Records Concert in Beacon Back in Jan.. Note to U-GOD AND THE ABBOTT Ya Grown Men It Happens Ya Music speaks.. Business is Business Music is ForEver. Clan In The Front.

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