What’s really going on w/ Drake and Wu-Tang Clan? Some days ago the crooner/ rapper Drake released the track “Wu-Tang Forever.”
Admittedly it’s not the grimy type of track you would expect when Wu’s name is mentioned… BUT, when was the last time they got this much attention? #IJS
So supposedly sometime this summer a couple of Wu folk were tapped by Drake’s steady producer 40 to record a remix in Europe. U-God told reporters, “Meth did his verse—we all did our verses. I wrote my rhyme in probably 15, 20 minutes. We were moving so fast we only had about four hours of studio time,” he said. “If I had some time to really sit down and get juicy with it, I probably could’ve got juicier with it. But I still do a nice one, I still do a real banger.”
“I’ve been bigging up Drake for a while,” added U-God. “Plus he [sampled] the song that me and Rae jumped off so it made me feel real good. I’ve been in the game a long time and I really don’t get that much love. It’s positive.”
Then it goes south.
Inspectah Deck tweeted, “After listening to the @Drake song, I agree with u… It is in no form a tribute to WU and SHOULD NOT wear the title Wutang Forever!”
Though U-God didn’t address Inspectah’s thoughts, he did speak on Wu fans who had negative reactions to it. “Our fans are some of the hardest fucking critics ever,” said U-God, laughing. “You try something new, they get mad at you. I love my fans but we have some real meticulous hard fans… If I do a song with Prince, Wu-Tang fans are going to be mad. They really don’t like us meshing with nobody else.
“I tell my fans, you gotta let it ride,” he continued. “We want to get together with people and have fun, man. I’m tired of us being looked at like we’re unapproachable or antisocial. My Wu-Tang fans need to chill and just let bygones be bygones.”
What’s really going on??
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