As the Hip Hop community is well aware, Wu-Tang Clan is forever and members of the celebrated Hip Hop group just keep pumping out music. On Tuesday (October 27), Ghostface Killah essentially confirmed a sequel to his critically acclaimed solo album Supreme Clientele is on the way with an Instagram post.
The photo features Mr. Tony Starks rocking a purple Gucci sweatsuit and the caption, “WU-BLOCK.. SUPREME 2 IN THE MAKING!!!! #wutangforever #ghostfacemusic #supremeclientele #wublock #ghostfacekillah.”
The original Supreme Clientele dropped in 2000 and featured guest spots from his Wu-Tang brethren Cappadonna, GZA, Masta Killa, Method Man, Raekwon, Redman, RZA and U-God, among others. The 21-track project, Ghostface’s second solo album, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling over 134,000 copies in its first week.
JuJu from The Beatnuts, Hassan of the U.M.C.’s, The Hitmen and several Wu-Tang affiliates have production credits, but RZA and Ghostface did the majority of the production and mixing as they were forced to “re-compiled” and “re-worked” the album’s beats following a flood in RZA’s basement.
“The jewel of the whole shit is that I lost mad shit in that flood,” he told The Source in 2000. “I got it again. It took me about two years, but I got now at least 200–300 beats. I studied the music, I studied the books and I said ‘fuck that. Hip-hop is gonna be able to be played in Carnegie Hall. Not with a DAT, but with a 10-piece orchestra, and have a turntable in it, and Bobby Digital right there in the middle.'”
During a March interview with HipHopDX, RZA explained the success of Supreme Clientele was bittersweet due to some personal challenges at the time.
“The only glitch in the matrix for me on that album was that I wasn’t fully clear-headed as I should have been,” RZA said. “Even though we pulled it off, there were also things that happened in my personal life that changed my life. If you remember that picture of Ghostface and I on the cover of The Source for that album, and the question was ‘Will The Wu-Tang Empire [Strike Back]?’ We’re both there and my Blackberry starts goin’ off while we’re taking photos for The Source, and I’m just waiting ’til I finish working.
“When I finally answered it, it was like ‘Mom is in the hospital. With me and Ghost, my mother is like his mother. He got children with my sister, so we both rushed down to the hospital and the whole family’s there. My moms didn’t wake up from that. So for me, it was just that time in life so it’s just a different type of memory, a different type of everything. We still had to finish the record. So for me, it was hard for the Wu-Tang to rise after that in all reality.”
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In the 20 years since its release, Ghostface has released 11 additional solo albums, including 2019’s Ghostface Killahs, in addition to his work on Wu-Tang albums such as 2000’s The W and 2014’s A Better Tomorrow.
Oh yeah, y’all can give it up now, the kang of the North is back!!!
Supreme Clientele 2 & Cuban Linx 3, 2021 is going to be another great year for real Hip-Hop music!
Where does it say he’s droppin 2021
Man, I hope Ghost is on that next dimension shit on this one because on the original, his whole style, lyrics, flow and MCing was just out of this world. That album stands alone. With that said, I’ll be shocked if it’s 70% as good as the first, because Ghosts flow and voice isn’t as fluid anymore
I know what you’re saying, but I disagree with saying his flow ain’t fluid anymore. I’ve heard him
Spit on some guest appearances, and it’s flame. He just dumbs it down for the new audiences…sad, but true.
Top 5 dead or alive!
5. Kenn Starr
4. Talib Kweli
3. Black Thought
2. Ghostface Killah
1. Nas
Huge Kweli fam but his flow at time can be off putting. What’s so funny is I was just listening to the first Blackstar album the other night. Sheesh what a dope album and obviously Reflection Eternal was top notch. My three first ever rap albums that I heard was It was Written, Harlem World and Reflection Eternal.
I wish everybody would start off with them 3…
Finally this dude dropped in 7years! Tical was he’s best album anyway!
You gotta be the dumbest mfer ever
Your joking right ???
Itching
Lolol TICAL was Method Man
Yesss!!!
This guy set so many trends and all I keep hearing is jay this, BIG that…ijs he was the prototype for a long time
Fuck it. I’m dyeing my beard. Ghost looking young as fuck. As long as you dressed fresh and keep up on the lingo,you stay young,feel good n live longer. Yolo. I’m off topic but idgaf
SUPER FACTZ!!!!
i thought SC2 was confirmed over 15 years ago lol…..it just never had a release date….yo anyways, that flood in rza’s apt fucked a whole bunch of shit up including at least parts of deck’s original uncontrolled substance if im not mistaken….and maybe even some of golden arms redemption too (that album mad slept on)….ghost style changed over the years, lyrically n delivery-wise…his voice aged a bit too like deck’s…but im still looking forward to it if it ever comes out just hope it wont get rushed….but in all realness, ghost has been holdin it DOWN for wu for a lonnnnng time now…you know gfk n quality go hand in hand…but, SC is a classic album thats hard to top, especially to older wu fans…
Don’t hype it up ghost!….there’s no way he’s literally holding onto classics from the past 20 years….his recent music has been too varied in quality….I guess we’ll hear how his vocals sound….his voice much rougher
Could it be he’s talking about the Wu tang D-Block album which went by Wu-Block?
If it ain’t close in quality, no need to even call it that fam. Clientele was a classic on the first play…
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STARK! finally, some real hip-hop.