http://www.kube93.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=SoundSessions.xml
New Rza Interview, promotes album, discusses legacy war in iraq and ****…
Album is in stores now, very good I must say, comes with the Kung Fu samples and all…could be the end of the WU!!!..
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=100
nah notthe end. just a new begining that album was hot eight diagrams
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no doubt:)…thought it was a good headline, hehe
I’m not into this album yet… its decent, got a couple tracks I liked right away, but I need to give the album some time to grow on me before I pass judgement…
Still nothing compares to 36 chambers raw style and all the sweet kung fu clips…
Wu Forever!
Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
RZA is on Rock The Bells this year. I’m hoping to see him next month.
Raekwon the Chef is out promoting Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II, but there are a couple of other LPs he’s looking toward in the future. There’s a Rae, Method Man and Ghostface Killah album being talked about, as well as that full Wu-Tang Clan LP called Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang. If you remember, Rae first spoke of that album to Miss Info a few years ago during the promotion of the ill fated 8 Diagrams LP. Rae hinted that Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang would be some type of payback toward the RZA.
Rae explained that there is currently no unrest within the Wu, so Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang will instead pay homage to the Clan’s beginning.
“Before I was a member of Wu, I was an MC on the street that just loved hip-hop,” the Chef said. "When you think of Shaolin [Staten Island], you think of the home of the brave. Before anything and everything, this is where you was from. You inherited your style as a kid coming up. Shaolin is still considered the streets to us. So it’s like me challenging my old way of life. This album was designed to let the master know your students are now masters too. We wanted to take it back to challenging the master on a couple of techniques we feel we got from the street side of things.
“We always said Wu-Tang members are a group but still able to hold their own,” he added. “When you’re able to hold your own, you’re still considered that dude from Shaolin that’s nice. It’s just an alter-ego thing challenging the sharpest sword we ever had with our old tactics that allowed us to get that far as a Clan. [It’ll] be alter egos challenging each other, really allowing RZA to fall back on the production and allowing us to give him a flashback memory to the things we know we need from the abbot [RZA]. We want him to be involved [with the album as an MC], but the concept was for him not to be involved production-wise.”
Rae compared Wu to a martial-arts film.
“It’s like when you look at your illest karate flick,” he said. “Sometimes the abbot be whooping on you so much, he’s teaching you to get iller. Next thing you know, you whoop on the abbot. Now he already know: ‘I gotta give you the crown now.’ It’s all love, and it’s movies. Our life is a karate flick. If you look at a karate flick, it’s the same kinda format in our life.”
More buzz from Method
There’s a very short clip if you follow the link.
Jul 23 2009 1:21 PM EDT
Method Man Wants To Hook Up With Ghostface, Raekwon For Joint LP
‘I want some feedback from the fans to see how they would take that,’ Meth says of partial Wu-Tang Clan album.
By Jayson Rodriguez
Raekwon is readying his solo album, and Ghostface Killah will be wrapping up his next project soon, so does this mean that Shaolin’s finest will be reuniting in the foreseeable future for an official Wu-Tang Clan LP?
Not exactly.
But if it’s up to Method Man, some of the sharpest dart throwers in the Clan will get together for a group project. Reiterating Raekwon’s remarks to Mixtape Daily on Tuesday, Meth said he, the Chef and Ghostface might join forces for a collaborative effort.
“It’s in discussion right now,” Method Man told MTV News. “I don’t want to say it’s written in stone, but it’s in discussion. I want some feedback from the fans to see how they would take that. RZA produced tracks, some other outside producers, of course, and we gonna have Wu-Tang members on the album, but it’ll be a Rae, Ghost and Meth album.”
Method Man said getting a new deal for the entire collective would take more time compared to locking something down for arguably the three most charismatic members of the crew. At this point in Method Man’s career, he’s focused on making music more in a collective manner than on his own, even if it’s not a full family project.
“This is the most comfortable I’ve been in my whole career,” Meth said. "Because I don’t have all those obligations that I’ve had before. You know, doing the Wu-Tang, then the Wu-Tang solo projects, then my project, then me and Redman. Right now, I can do it at my own leisure. Honestly, I don’t want to make an album by myself, but it’s something that’s required, and the fans want that, so I’m gonna do that.
“But the same way with my shows, I like doing shows with brothers instead of just doing them by myself,” Method Man continued. “I like to have a crowd around. And have that input to make the project better.”
And more from Rock the Bells:
Jul 20 2009 10:52 AM EDT
Wu-Tang Clan/ Slaughterhouse Beef Quashed At Rock The Bells
Nas, Damian Marley headline a peaceful day at Jones Beach.
By Shaheem Reid
WANTAGH, New York — It was musical, it was nostalgic, but most important, it was not violent. Guerilla Union held their annual Rock the Bells show Sunday at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater as part of the yearly tour. Going into the show, there had been heavy tension involving two of the acts, the Wu-Tang Clan and Slaughterhouse.
Slaughterhouse’s Joe Budden had been involved in a back-and-forth with Method Man and Inspectah Deck for weeks. Although Deck and Meth were not officially on the Rock the Bells bill, it was no surprise when both appeared at Jones Beach to support RZA and Raekwon, who were slated to perform.
The Clan brought the ruckus, not the ignorance. They rocked the theater with a catalog of hits and didn’t waste time dissing Slaughterhouse. At the end of the performance, Meth told the crowd no one in the rap game could touch him or his brothers.
“Can’t nobody touch the legacy,” Meth boasted. “Our track record speaks louder than any of them mutha----as.”
Between the end of Wu’s set and the beginning of Slaughterhouse’s, Method Man and Joe Budden were seen walking together in the parking lot. The two took their time quashing the beef.
When Slaughterhouse, which also includes Royce da 5’9", Joell Ortiz and Crooked I, took the stage, they publicly announced the end of the short-term feud.
“It will never be a beef with Wu-Tang clan,” Royce said. He then revealed the convo between Meth and Budden, saying the situation was “squashed.”
But Rock the Bells wasn’t just about them. Other performers included Big Boi, Common, Black Star, the Roots, Buckshot and headliners Nas and Damien “Jr. Gong” Marley.
Nas started his set with classics like “N.Y. State of Mind,” then shared the stage with Jr. Gong. Nas kicked familiar verses (his rhymes off “The Message” and reggae-inspired hip-hop tracks like Shyne’s “Bad Boyz”), and Jr. Gong came back doing his reggae chats over some of Nas’ beats, including “Represent.”
The rapper also brought out AZ for “Phone Tap” and “Life’s a *****.” Then he let D-Block have their own mini-set, highlighted by “Good Times,” “Wild Out,” “Who’s Real” and Jadakiss’ duet with Nas, “What If.”
Is the Wu coming back together like Voltron? Hell, I’m changing the title of this thread from “The end of The Wu Tang Clan!!!” to “Wu Forever!”
good title change…i really dont think wu tang will ever fully die… these nine guys were so instrumental in pushing hip hop music into the center stage of american music… Rap music is one of the very few art forms that is strictly american, we own it, and nobody can do it better, ive heard rap from all over, and none have compaed with the way americans do it(with the notable exception of slick rick the ruler, who hales from merry ol’ england and is still the best **** story teller breathing). but back to the WU, people have been wanting raekwon and ghost face to do an album for years…every interview you read of those two the interviewer asked the same question, when are you and ghost doing and album or when are you and rae doing an album, i have yet to read or hear an interview where that topic wasnt brought up. but the whole problem was record labels, and all that political jargon…sp adding meth to the mix putting rza on the tracks makes it a semi wu tang album…and your talking about the three best from wu tang hands down. cant wait to hear this one.
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen
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I am so glad I did not catch a seizure from that.
The flow reminded me of Diggable Planets. Still, I likededed it.
mm m mickey
mussee doktor
The Wu-Tang Baoger
The Lord Gladstone are dishing up Wu-Tang Baogers and Shaolin fries this weekend (Sydney)
JULY 22, 2016 / CHRIS SINGH
For their monthly Burger Lords series, controversial Chippendale pub The Lord Gladstone have put together a fresh new creation they are triumphantly calling The Wu-Tang Baoger.
Seemingly, the pub crew have reached found this recipe in the slums of Shaolin, crafting something not even Raekwon the Chef has cooked up before, mashing up a bao and a burger for an East meets West burg that will make you want the kitchen team to keep feedin’ you, and feedin’ you, and feedin’ you, and feedin’ you.
This holiest of creations features a 180-gram Wagyu beef patty, layers of nori sheets, a ramen patty, kewpie wasabi mayo, and some fermented black bean aioli, all stacked between a bao bun. They are serving each Wu-Tang Baoger with a side of Shaolin fries, which are fries loaded with ezy cheese, lup choy, and fried shallots. Suuuuu.
The beer garden will be echoing Wu-Tang cuts all day from local DJs and craft beer will be pouring up for $5 each.
Grab more info from the Facebook event page HERE.
The Lord Gladstone’s Burger Lords
When: Sunday 24th July; 12pm-9pm (or sold out)
Where: 115 Regent Street, Chippendale
Image: The Lord Gladstone.
Wonder if they know that RZA is vegetarian. :rolleyes:
Wu-Tang on the boob tube
We need the Wu now more than eva…
The Wu-Tang Clan | Photo Credits: Frazer Harrison
Wednesday
Posted at 10:15 AM
By TV Guide
TV is f—in’ with the Wu-Tang Clan.
The New York City rap collective has been showing up on TV in unexpected places recently. More specifically, the group’s iconic W logo has been a sight gag on two different shows in the past two weeks. First it showed up as a tattoo on Nora Dunn’s (Carrie Coon) arm on an episode of The Leftovers last month, and then it showed up again in Tuesday’s season finale of The Mick on a headband worn by Jimmy (Scott MacArthur).
Wu-Tang was a bigger deal on The Leftovers. In the episode, Nora shows Erika (Regina King) a tattoo she got of the logo for “the Wu-Tang Band,” as she calls it, to cover up a previous tattoo she had gotten of her departed children’s names. She explains that immediately after she got the tattoo of the names, she realized it would be too emotionally painful to have them there, so she had the tattoo artist cover it up with the first thing she saw on the wall of the shop. The design she chose happened to be the Wu-Tang Clan logo (at first she thought it was a phoenix). The out-of-left-field randomness of it makes for a hilarious reveal.
Wu-Tang is a presence throughout the episode. Nora and Erika jump on a trampoline while the Clan’s song “Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)” plays. The writers credited on the episode are Tha Lonely Donkey Kong and Specialist Contagious, who are show creators Tom Perrotta and Damon Lindelof with their names run through a Wu-Tang name generator.
The W shows up again in the season finale of The Mick when Mickey’s (Kaitlin Olson) boyfriend Jimmy is approached to become a police informant. Jimmy makes a lot ridiculous demands before he’ll tell the police what they want to know, and one of his demands is a Wu-Tang headband.
Kaitlin Olson tells TVGuide.com she’s honored to be in the company of The Leftovers in this trend, and she’s “probably going to insist that Jimmy get a Wu-Tang tattoo in Season 2, just because I want to continue this trend.”
These examples come a few months after Wu-Tang member Method Man appeared as himself on Luke Cage. More peripherally, Method Man is a ubiquitous actor, showing up everywhere from Blue Bloods to the upcoming HBO series The Deuce, and Wu-Tang leader RZA directed an episode of Iron Fist.
This Wu-Tang swarm comes at a low ebb for the group musically. They haven’t commercially released an album since 2014, and their conceptual art project Once Upon a Time in Shaolin has been marred by its excessive exclusivity and association with pharma entrepreneur/internet troll Martin Shkreli. Raekwon released a solo album last month, but none of the nine members’ solo work has made a splash of late.
So perhaps this little trend is a sign that they should all focus their efforts on television. The success of projects like Straight Outta Compton and The New Edition Story probably indicates that people would watch a Wu-Tang origin story miniseries. There may not be room for a gritty urban kung-fu series so soon after Luke Cage and Iron Fist, but maybe a stylish one where the members of the Wu-Tang Clan play leaders of warring gangs could be done. Or maybe a fantastical kung-fu series in the vein of RZA’s movie The Man with the Iron Fists.
On the other hand, perhaps it’s a sign that they should reconvene and make a really dope Wu-Tang album.
People Say
Oct. 13 - that’ll be an auspicious day for all sorts of things. 
Wu-Tang Clan Returns With New Song ‘People Say,’ Announces ‘The Saga Continues’ Album
8/25/2017 by Nerisha Penrose
Jonathan Weiner
Wu-Tang Clan
The clan is back. After recently resurrecting their Wu Wear clothing line, Wu-Tang Clan dropped off a surprise track titled “People Say” featuring a guest verse from their longtime affiliate Redman. To sweeten the pot, they also officially announced the release date of their seventh studio album Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues, due Oct. 13 via RZA and Entertainment One’s lifestyle company 36 Chambers Alc.
Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues is the group’s first album since 2014’s A Better Tomorrow. The upcoming album will be produced by Mathematics and executive produced by RZA. The collective’s double album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was set to be released back in 2015, but was sold to Martin Shrekli, who continued to taunt the group after purchasing it for $2 million by previewing multiple tracks off the unreleased album.
Wu-Tang gave fans the first taste of their new album with “People Say,” which opens with a kung-fu movie sample before Method Man’s gravelly voice rides the piano-laden melody. “Ain’t no vacay, the props become a problem when it’s hot, mayday mayday/ But no charge, I’m nutty with the bars that’s a payday,” he raps. “So bruh, this ain’t even a bar, this is AA/Back up in the trunk with the AK.” Redman later appears and lends his energetic flow to the smooth track with lines like, “I show you the ropes, I’m narrating Al Haymon/I told Lighty, if I hate him, I’ma violate him.”
Lesson Learn’d
Wu-Tang Clan Mention Martin Shkreli on New Song ‘Lesson Learn’d’
September 22, 2017 1:19 PM
Photo: Courtesy Wu-Tang Clan
By Scott T. Sterling
Wu-Tang Clan have released a new new song, “Lesson Learn’d,” from the group’s upcoming album, Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues.
Related: Martin Shkreli Puts Rare Wu-Tang Clan CD on eBay
On the new track, which features Redman, Inspectah Deck mentions “pharma-bro” Martin Shkreli, who famously purchased the only copy of Wu-Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for $2 million: “My price hikin’ like the pills Martin Shkreli sell.”
Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues is now available for pre-order, which provides buyers with an instant download of “Lesson Learn’d.”
Check out new track, which contains explicit language, below.
Wu-Tang - Lesson Learn’d” featuring Inspectah Deck and Redman
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I’m only copying one pic of each Wu member. There are more in the original article. It’s #5 that interested me most. 
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Jian Hong Shi
When Your Mom Is the Longtime Manager of Wu-Tang Members and Your Dad Is a Shaolin Monk
Featuring Jian Hong Shi, age 15, grade 10.
By LAURA BENNETT
FEB 08, 20189:04 AM
Jian Hong Shi and her mom, Sophia.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy of Sophia Chang.
In this series, kids (and not-exactly-kids-anymore) review how well their parents balance life and work. To nominate a potential subject ideally between the ages of 5 and 17, email humaninterest@slate.com.
Laura Bennett: Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with your parents?
Jian Hong Shi: Well, my mom and I are very close. I feel super comfortable telling her if anything happens with my friends. She gives me very good advice.
What kind of advice?
She always gives me the grown-up answer, like, when I am having a problem at school: You should pull them aside and talk to them. I tell her, Mom, we’re not as mature as you think we are. They are gonna think that is weird.
My parents haven’t been together since I was around 5 or something like that, so they don’t live in the same house. My dad and I are not as close because he’s not at home as much as my mom is. But when I do see him, he is super goofy and silly. So I’m always laughing when I’m around him.
What does your mom do for work?
Well right now, she’s writing a book and doing public speaking. She also briefly worked at a cannabis company. That was kind of a wild thing because she’s never smoked a day in her life. But while I was growing up, she managed hip-hop artists.
Do you remember how she became a manager of hip-hop artists?
She had been close with the Wu-Tang Clan for a long time. So I think it happened organically. She worked with a lot of different artists in Wu-Tang, like RZA, GZA, ODB while he was alive, but that was before I was alive. [She also managed D’Angelo and A Tribe Called Quest.]
Does she manage anyone now?
Nope, she’s completely out of that now. She says that she doesn’t want to manage other people now. She wants to focus on herself. I think she’s come to a place in her life where—she told me, for example, that her friend said, “Sophia, I want to stop seeing you work with egotistical men.”
Your mom mentioned to me that she was very aware of raising a daughter who was a hip-hop fan, because hip-hop is not always kind to women. Was that something she talked about with you?
She always made it very clear to me when certain lyrics were misogynistic. She would ask me if that was how I thought I should be treated. And I was like, “No mom. I just enjoy the music.” If we are in the car and the radio is on, and we hear some really misogynistic lyrics, she always goes: “Oh that’s nice.” “Oh, haven’t heard that one before.”
She always wanted me to know my worth. Through her job, I always saw her as a powerful female figure, not someone who was easily swayed by male opinion. Also, the artists she worked with, she knew them on a deep personal level—she knew their heart and their intent.
Do you like Wu-Tang’s music?
I do. I went through a phase when I listened to just Wu-Tang, when I was like 12. It was super eye-opening for me. I loved how all the different Clan members had their different flows and styles and voices, even though they were one Clan.
[QUOTE]“I had this moment last year where I was super tired and I started thinking about a bunch of stuff and I sat back and realized what my parents did and got super happy.”
— Jian Hong Shi
What do you think your mom loves about Wu-Tang’s music?
I think the production and sampling as well. But also the wordplay and the metaphors and how they all blended together as one but people who were fans really felt like they knew each of them, their strengths and their weaknesses. I think she really respected that whatever deal they had, the RZA made sure it was inclusive. No one was ever left behind.
What was it like to know these guys personally and also be such a big fan?
I felt super grateful. The RZA is actually my godfather. I’ve known him and his kids since I was really young. So when I listened to his music, it was learning about the RZA instead of him as a father and a friend. So that was really cool.
It is pretty wild to have a mom whose job means you get to have the RZA as your godfather.
Yeah. It’s crazy. I don’t think I realized how influential and huge these artists were until later. At the time I just thought, this is just mom doing her job.
What does your dad do?
He’s a 34th-generation Shaolin monk from the original Shaolin temple in China.
Whoa.
Yeah. I used to be kind of embarrassed about telling my friends because they’d be like, “Oh yeah, my dad is an accountant or something.” But now I’m super proud of it. Anyway, he’s a monk. And he created his own temple, the USA Shaolin Temple. His English wasn’t that great and he didn’t really know about America, so my mom really helped him with the business side. Now it has branches in Austria and South Africa and Mexico. It makes me really proud of him. He helps a lot of people both physically and mentally.
Here’s a ridiculous question: Do you think your parents have interesting jobs?
Yes. Over time I became kinda used to it. But I had this moment last year where I was super tired and I started thinking about a bunch of stuff and I sat back and realized what my parents did and got super happy. Then I fell asleep.
But it was a fascinating moment where I was like, “Wow, I should really talk to my dad more about his experience coming from China to here and creating his own business. I should talk to my mom more about how she built herself and became successful on her own.”
Who generally works crazier hours, your mom or your dad?
My mom would get calls during dinner and would never pick up. She would call them back afterwards and that could go pretty late. Or she’d only pick up calls that came directly from the artist or from her mentor, Michael Ostin. With my dad, once he was home, he was home.
What stresses your parents out the most about their jobs?
For my mom, it’s working with people who aren’t as dedicated to their job as she is. People who aren’t passionate and are just doing it for the money. For my dad, I don’t really see him stressed.
Well, he is a monk.
Yeah, you’re right, he’s very calm. He never really loses his temper. He’s super in touch with the monk he was in China, when he was under all of those rules. He didn’t have enough food to eat. He had no heat. Having that all inside him helps keep him grounded.
When you were growing up, did your parents have rules for you around screen time?
My dad really hates it when my brother and I are on our phone. Because he’s like, “It will ruin your eyes.” Not because he is worried about what we’ll see. I don’t think he’s too aware of exactly how much is out there on the internet. With my mom, it’s more that she doesn’t like the idea that strangers can talk to me.
How did your mom inform your music taste when you were growing up?
She was obviously very deeply involved in hip-hop. But also on Sundays, when we would clean the house, she would always have old-school R&B on. Like Maxwell, Tony! Toni! Toné! Uh, I guess Robin Thicke doesn’t count as old-school R&B.
Do you have a sense of what you want to do for work one day?
I’m super interested in architecture. My school offers classes on it. I’m going to take them and if I do end up enjoying them, great.
Would you ever want to manage hip-hop artists?
Probably not. Just because that doesn’t really interest me, not because I’ve seen a negative impact on my mom. She used to always tell me, you’d be so good at this. But it’s not really my interest, so I’d feel like I wasn’t really doing what I wanted to do.
Would you ever want to be a monk?
No. No no no no no. Yeah, no. There are way too many rules.
Laura Bennett
Laura Bennett is Slate’s features director.[/QUOTE]
When I was in Wudangshan with Yanming and Sophia, she was pregnant with his first child. I should’ve realized that because of some of Sophia’s actions, but at the time, I was too swept up with with the trip. I’ve never met either of their children.
Thread: Shi Yan Ming & Shaolin Temple USA
Thread: Wu Forever!
People Say lawsuit
Wu-Tang Clan Slapped With a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Their Song “People Say”
BY JOSHUA ESPINOZA
MAR 16, 2018
Wu-Tang Clan
Image via Getty/Andrew Lipovsky
Wu-Tang Clan has been accused of ripping off a 1960s singing group.
On Friday, members of The Diplomats filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the legendary hip-hop collective over their 2017 track “People Say.” According to legal documents obtained by The Wrap, the soul trio claims Wu-Tang’s producer Mathematics lifted the “People Say” melody from their 1969 record “I’ve Got the Kind of Love.” The plaintiffs also point out that the title of the Wu-Tang cut is taken from lyrics featured in their song.
“Throughout its duration, ‘People Say’ contains and embodies multiple recognizable and protectable elements of Plaintiffs’ ‘I’ve Got the Kind of Love,'” the lawsuit reads. “These original, protectable elements include but are not limited to the melody, chords, lyrics, instrumentation, and rhythmic elements of ‘I’ve Got the Kind of Love.’ (Even the title ‘People Say’ is a lyric from ‘I’ve Got the Kind of Love.’)”
“People Say” is the lead single off Mathematic’s 2017 studio album Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues. According to The Wrap, members of The Diplomats became aware of the similarities in recent months, after fans kept bringing it up online. The trio claims that they did not give Wu-Tang or Mathematics proper authorization to use their material, which is why they’re asking a judge to stop all future performances and sales of “People Say.” The Diplomats are also seeking for unspecified damages.
You can compare both tracks below.
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Wu-Tang: An American Saga
Wuniverse forever
OCTOBER 11, 2018 10:00AM PT
Wu-Tang Clan Scripted Origin Series Ordered at Hulu
By JOE OTTERSON
TV Reporter
@JoeOtterson
Wu Tang Clan Lovebox Festival, Gunnersbury Park, London, UK - 13 Jul 2018
CREDIT: SCOTT GARFITT/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to a scripted drama that will explore the rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, Variety has learned.
“Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” which has received a 10-episode order, is inspired by “The Wu-Tang Manual” and “Tao of Wu”, and based on the true story of the Wu-Tang Clan. Set in early ’90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan’s formation. The group was a vision of Bobby Diggs, aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
The series is created, written, and executive produced by Alex Tse–the writer of the “Superfly” remake–and The RZA. Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo will also executive produce via Imagine Television, with Wu-Tang member Method Man also executive producing. Fellow Wu-Tang members Ghostface Killa, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, GZA, as well as the Estate of Ol’ Dirty *******, will serve as consulting producers on the project. Creative executive James Seidman will oversee the project for Imagine.
“I’m delighted to be partnering with Hulu and Imagine to explore the vast story of the Wuniverse,” said The RZA. “Wu-Tang through our music has always strove to inspire as we entertain. This opportunity to continue the Wu – Saga in a 10-episode series will exponentially increase our inspirational style of entertainment. In the immortal words of ODB ‘Wu-Tang is for the Children.'”
The Wu-Tang Clan has released five gold and platinum albums, selling 40 million albums worldwide. The group is often hailed as one of the most influential groups in the history of hip-hop with a unique sound and distinct image.
“I’ve been a fan of Wu-Tang since the mid-90’s and recognized quickly how significant Wu-Tang and The RZA were to the world of hip-hop music and culture,” Grazer said. “Over the years I’ve gotten to know RZA and it’s clear that he is the soul and storyteller of Wu-Tang. Working with RZA and Alex Tse on this series has been a highlight of my career and Hulu is the perfect partner to bring this story to a global audience.”
