The music world is already squirming with anticipation over Wu-Tang Clan's upcoming LP, A Better Tomorrow, but it turns out the New York hip-hop legends have another – let's say, more relic-like – album in the works. In a new interview with Forbes, RZA says the group plans to sell one copy of a previously unannounced, 31-track double LP The Wu – Once Upon a Time in Shoalin.
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"We're about to sell an album like nobody else sold it before," the rapper says. "We're about to put out a piece of art like nobody else has done in the history of [modern] music. We're making a single-sale collector's item. This is like somebody having the scepter of an Egyptian king."
But when one creates a piece of art comparable to an Egyptian king's scepter, it's only natural to show it off. Before the Holy Grail LP is sold to one especially loaded rap fan, the album will be toured across the world's museums, galleries and festivals, using headphones to protect the songs from piracy.
Well Pitchfork's and other music blogs' praise of them has got to their heads. I am sorry but people who visit museums and art galleries do not want to hear Wu Tang playing when they are viewing a Rembrandt.
Well Pitchfork's and other music blogs' praise of them has got to their heads. I am sorry but people who visit museums and art galleries do not want to hear Wu Tang playing when they are viewing a Rembrandt.
Exactly but let them live in their own delusion. I love this group but this is not cool at all.
