Wutang is due to put out a new album on 12/11 entitled 8 Diagrams. Man I can’t wait for that. Oh wait, I don’t have to? It leaked? Since when do hip hop albums leak? Ha, well the new Wu album is offically available to download through your everyday illegal filesharing program. I don’t know who f’d up at the Wu camp, but it made us bloggers’ day.
There was a lot of controversy within the Wu itself over the creation of this album. Both Ghostface and Raekwon were very vocal about their disapproval of the direction Rza has taken the sound of groups new material. Raekwon went so far as to call Rza a “hip hop hippie” referring to the beatles sample, along with several acoustic guitar and piano riffs used, which puts the Wu in a completely different place then they have found themselves in in the past.
All beef aside, I’d say the final product is a major success for the Wu. There are tracks reminiscent of their early 36 chambers releases, such as “Watch Your Mouth”
along with fresh new sounds one wouldn’t expect to hear from the Wu like the Beatles sampled “The Heart Gently Weeps”
If I find myself enjoying this one maybe I’ll do the right thing and buy a copy just for the album art. On the other hand, maybe I’ll just download that too.
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