U-God is suing the Wu Music Group for $170,000, claiming that he hasn’t yet seen his cut of the money that 8 Diagrams, the Rock the Bells tour, and Wu-Tang’s publishing brought in. More »
U-God is suing the Wu Music Group for $170,000, claiming that he hasn’t yet seen his cut of the money that 8 Diagrams, the Rock the Bells tour, and Wu-Tang’s publishing brought in. More »
ARTIST: Wu-Tang Clan
TITLE: 8 Diagrams
WEB DEBUT: Nov. 26, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Dec. 4, 2007
The Wu-Tang Clan’s 8 Diagrams comes out in three weeks, but radio rips of three tracks are already starting to make their way around the Internet. More »
So a few weeks ago we entered this cover in our “Worst Album Cover Of The Year” contest for its painful Photoshop filter abuse and general air of last-minute laziness. But then the Clan goes and unveils a whole new sleeve, one they feel is more Wu worthy, especially for a release as anticipated as 8 Diagrams. So how does the “official” cover compare?
The Wu-Tang Clan have pushed the release of 8 Diagrams back from Dec. 4 to Dec. 11 so as to avoid conflict with the release date of Ghostface’s The Big Dough Rehab. RZA on the latest delay: “We didn’t have him move, we moved … I think that shows the kind of bigger men we could be. More »
The Wu-Tang Clan have pushed the release of 8 Diagrams back from Dec. 4 to Dec. 11 so as to avoid conflict with the release date of Ghostface’s The Big Dough Rehab. RZA on the latest delay: “We didn’t have him move, we moved … I think that shows the kind of bigger men we could be. More »
So there’s a new Ghostface album dropping concurrently with 8 Diagrams! Just in time for Hanukkah! Hopefully better than More Fish! Even if it isn’t, Ghost would still like to ask you to please not steal it. More »
The Wu-Tang Clan song “The Heart Gently Weeps”–which you can listen to at Oh Word–was, according to a post on the hip-hop group’s blog earlier this week, the first-ever song to use a cleared Beatles sample, a fact of such epic import that the release date of the Clan’s forthcoming 8 Diagrams had to be pushed back from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4. The only snag? If you look at the details of the “first-ever sample” claim, it kind of falls apart:
