Raekwon Speaks on New Wu-Tang Album...A Better Tomorrow

The legendary Hip Hop group, Wu-Tang Clan have been on the scene for more than 21 years now, and are about to drop their sixth studio album- A Better Tomorrow. Ghostface Killa, Raekwon, and Methodman have been the most popular members in the group, having dropped multiple solo albums of their own over the years. The nine-man group have been finding it hard to get in the studio to put together their upcoming album, A Better Tomorrow, which was meant to have dropped last year, in celebration of their twentieth anniversary as a group (their first album, 36 Chambers dropped in 1993). But it seems the group members are finding it hard to come together and agree on stuff. Read what Reakwon had to say about this in his recent interview on Grantland.

“I would be the first one to say that we cannot leave everything in RZA’s hand no more,” Rae says. “He has done his job to the greatest of his ability when we were younger, but now every man plays an imperative role in this situation. His plan was to do a more humble album. We was like, Nah. You can’t do that with the hardest group in the game.” (grantland.com)

Rae also spoke on the group not being able to have a unanimous decision on the album's lead single, and that going with Family Reunion didn't turn out well. 

“We knew that wasn’t no single.” The anniversary album’s tentative title, A Better Tomorrow, wasn’t approved by the group before it was announced, which created dissension early in the process, something the fractious Clan could scarcely afford. “It’s like getting the United Nations to all agree on one fucking thing,” Rae sputters. “Italy ain’t having it. Japan is on some shit. You know what I mean? Now, here it is, the 20-year anniversary that’s so decoratedly respected that we might not even be on time for this shit.” (grantland.com)

Lets see how things turn out. But the fact is that they are not in their twenties no more. All of the members are in their forties, and GZA, the oldest member will be fifty in two years, so it is definitely gonna be hard for all the members to go in the same direction on stuff. Hell, I have friends that I used to kick it with it on a daily in the 90s that are now like strangers to me, so I understand what's going on with the Wu.