The production of the Wu-Tang Clan's latest album A Better Tomorrow was reportedly a long and painful process, and in a new interview with NME, Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA reveals how difficult it was to get the whole Clan to work together.
According to RZA, the chemistry within the group is "not all that good right now," and even suggests that it may have had a negative influence on the quality of A Better Tomorrow.
"There was a lot of opposition within the Wu-Tang circle to doing the album," RZA reveals to NME. "I'll level with you, the chemistry's not all that good right now ... We've all done this long enough to know this process isn't just like, you make an album, then that's that. It's like a presidential campaign. You don't just make the policies then sit back. You create your platform, then you gotta take it out to the people."
When discussing how the group's poor chemistry may have negatively affected A Better Tomorrow, RZA compares the album to a baby that "comes out with one arm. You gonna love that child, make the best out of that situation and help it have the best life it can."
"It's like there's an energy in the group that stops people enjoying their own success," he says. "They gotta sabotage it."
This isn't the first time this year that we've heard about problems within the group. In March, Raekwon admitted in a Rolling Stone interview that he was not "happy with the direction of the music" on A Better Tomorrow. "If it don't feel right, I can't be fake," he said, "and I'm not the only one who feels like that."
If you want to see the Wu-Tang Clan when their chemistry was incredible, you can check out the music video for "Protect Ya Neck" here:
What did you think of the new Wu-Tang Clan album? Could their chemistry have been better? Let us know down in the comments section.
