RZA has told Power 106 Los Angeles that a Wu-Tang Clan remix of Drake’s “Wu-Tang Forever” is probably never going to happen. Admitting that Drake pretty much threw them an “alley-oop” by writing the song, he now feels like the opportunity has been “missed.”
Asked whether a Wu-Tang remix of the track, which featured on Drake’s 2013 album Nothing Was The Same, was in the pipeline, RZA said, “That should have happened. First of all I just want to shout Drake out, I think he threw an alley-oop to us right there.”
“I think we missed it,” he continued. When one of the show’s hosts told him she thought it was “never too late,” RZA remained unconvinced. “I gotta say we missed it. I don’t regret it for no popularity or nothing, I just regret it for the fact that, yo, as you become an elder, it’s your duty to go back and work with youth and rekindle that fire.”
RZA shared stories of artists like Isaac Hayes and Quincy Jones reaching out to help him, and said, “When somebody like Drake reaches out to Wu-Tang and says ‘Yo, let’s collaborate,’ it’s more of our duty, forget the business. We gon’ make money regardless.”
The rapper/producer/actor revealed that he employed this policy with Joey Bada$$, recording songs with the 22-year-old and his crew, saying, “I recorded four songs with them … let ’em drop their acids on my studio floor. Let ’em smoke their blunts and drop their acids. My maid had to come and take care of that.”
Watch the full interview below:
RZA has spoken about Drake’s “Wu-Tang Forever” previously. The track samples “It’s Yourz” from the group’s Wu-Tang Forever album, and RZA personally allowed Drizzy to use the sample free of charge.
“I appreciate it,” RZA said. “He sent me the 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,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. “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.”
Yup. Big mistake. Rae and the rest of them grouchy ass cats fucked up the bag. too late now cuz Drake music is trash but coulda had a hell of a promo for any projects
Wu-Tang doesn’t do simp anthems like Drake does.
Why would RZA even think about remixing that song with Drake? There is no overlap between Wu-Tang and Drake’s fanbases. Plus, that remix would not benefit Wu-Tang at all. Drake would benefit the most out of it whenever his “legacy” comes under fire. A Drake fan would come back with “but he was doing songs with legends like the Wu-Tang Clan.” Drake stans pulled this same shit with Premo, never mentioned him nor Gangstarr, unless it was disrespectfully; but when Premo said he was a fan of Drake, those same fans were all on his nuts talking about “Premo’s a legend, he co-signs Drake.”
Meh. Grew up on Wu-Tang and love Drake’s shit. Anyone who digs hiphop for real and not some suburban pretending to understand hiphop knows Drake got great bars. This is the difference: black kids dig Drake. White kids from the suburbs who dig Wu-Tang hate Drake. Just being real
your joking right! I grew up on wu-tang, I love hip hop and I HATE FAKE DRAKE! he represents everything that hip-hop is not! 1. he jacks lyrics, beats and flows from artists with real talent who create their own material and not continuously steal from others ie:[watch youtube videos 10 times and 10 more times drake copied another artist]-[drake steals] 2. it’s a proven fact he doesn’t write his own songs& lyrics[numerous youtube videos, funk flex-Quentin miller leaks tracks proving drake uses ghostwriter] 3. calls himself one of the greatest but he is scared to respond to lyrical MC’s who challenge him directly [scared to call out rappers by name] [Joe Budden slaughtered him with 4 diss tracks calling him out by name]
@ WACK TO WACK… this reality is gonna hurt so you better go grab a seat..but here it is: RZA and GZA wrote ODB verses…Method Man wrote at least 2 bars for Ghostface’s Cherchez La Ghost..yes. That is dictionary definition of ghostwriting …are you gonna say the Wu-Tang ain’t hiphop now? Plus NaS (ala Dead Prez), Chuck D (ala Paris), Ice Cube (ala Del) and Phife Dawg (ala Q-Tip) have all had bars written by others on occassion without giving full credit- are you gonna say this ain’t hiphop? It’s takes nothing away from these artists except in the minds of naive folks who think they know how hiphop music is made. (But of course, many of the idiots think Ice Cube and Dr Dre were actually gangbangers) Even if you listen to the so-called Drake reference tracks..half the bars ain’t the same…taking a few bars and mostly hooks doesn’t disqualify a guy with a catalogue of 100+ bangers..show me the “Motto” reference, show me “0 to 100” show me “Tuscan Leather”……no one cares about a couple borrowed bars in this industry becuase it’s standard, he was helping QM- that’s it….as far as responding to beefs with notable (ahem…hating) MCs, Meek mill and Common both got completely scorched by Drake. It’s not even a debate. Everyone else including Kendrick has been subliminal on both sides even if a beef exists . As far Joe Budden goes, Drake would have been an idiot to respond to that has-been rapper known for one single that was sort of popping 15 years ago. That’s like Michael Jordan deciding to take time out of his day to play Damon Stadomire. Damon who? Yeah that’s my point. There is levels to this art. If Drake mentioned Budden, it would only help Budden’s career and not Drake’s and BTW, he did respond subliminally on 4pm in Calabases and No Shopping anyways ….and lest we not forget, Joe Budden is on record as a huge Drake fan so it’s quite a mouthful to say big-up Joe Budden and say Drake isn’t credible when your Budden man himself is a Stan-type fan of Drake. you say Drake jacks other artists? Maybe I missed the last 7 years but I remember Drake being one of maybe 3 artists sing-rapping (Cudi, Kanye and maybe a couple others) but none having technical lyrical skills and now everyone is sing-rapping in Drake’s particular style, trying to sound melodic. I turn on the radio and everything sounds like Drake 3-4 years ago. Who exactly is he jacking? Drake is being cloned everywhere dude. get real.
Black kids don’t “dig” Drake. Drake is catering to exaclty who the industry wants him to: gays, women an wiggas. He’s hip hop lite
What most of you fail to understand is that Kendrick respects Drake’s talent to such an extent that he plays every song for Drake before deciding which to include on the album. Drake practically ghost executive produces for Kendrick.
WHAT THE FXXK ARE U SAYIN’ WHITE BOI?
The difference is that Bulgarian Feta simply does not exist. There is Bulgarian cheese similar to Feta and it’s called Sirene, which has several different variations, depending on the milk used : originally it was made with sheep’s milk, but nowadays it’s mostly made of cow’s milk, with the sheep’s milk and buffalo’s milk versions being considered delicacy.
(Real) Bulgarian Sirene is usually greasier, less crumbly and with more full-bodied taste than Feta, especially the Feta that isn’t actually Greek. Sirene is known under the name Bulghari in Lebanon and Bulgarit in Israel, where they easily make difference between Sirene and Feta.
To sum it up, the difference between Sirene and Feta is just as the difference between Brie and Camembert – they are different kinds of cheese made in different geographic areas.
Drake’s song barely had anything to do with Wu-Tang anyway.
it was a hook you dumb fuck….
For free. Says the guy in charge of selling an album for 2 million. FTG
Drake could’ve made them relevant again.
WU-TANG had only one great album: 36 Chambers…and some great solos too. But every album after 36 Chambers was wack.