• RZA says Ol' Dirty Bastard Biopic Movie Could Happen Thanks to 'Straight Outta Compton'

    According to a new interview with Wu Tang Clan leader RZA, we can thank the success of 2015's Straight Outta Compton for possibly moving the long gestating Ol' Dirty Bastard biopic movie into pre-production. Yes, we've been hearing about this film project for quite some time, but with the NWA biopic and also All Eyez on Me, the Tupac Shakur movie, in the works, it sounds like RZA and company are ready to move forward with it finally.

  • Wu-Tang Clan, 50 Cent Notorious B.I.G. & More Get Marvel Comic Treatment

    Marvel Comics has been playing up its relationship with hip-hop for some time now. There have been a number of comic books starring rappers, and the label released a pair releases featuring Run The Jewels-tributes on their respective covers. Now the publisher has announced a series of 50 comic book covers featuring tributes to classic hip-hop album covers. The first ten were released online this week.

  • Stream Wu-Tang Clan's New Album 'A Better Tomorrow,' '8 Diagrams' Follow-up is Out December 2 [LISTEN]

    Wu-Tang Clan will drop its sixth studio album, A Better Tomorrow, on Dec. 2, but anxious fans can stream the record now on YouTube. It's been seven years since RZA, Ghostface Killah and Method Man all collaborated on an album (2007's 8 Diagrams). Despite feuding between leaders Raekwon and RZA, the group managed to work out its problems and finish the album, releasing the singles "Ruckus in B Minor," "Ron O'Neal," "Keep Watch" and "Necklace" previously.

  • Sasha Grey, Goshfather & Jinco Remix Pras Feat. Mýa, Ol' Dirty Bastard 'Ghetto Superstar' [LISTEN]

    If you did a quick Google search for "Sasha Grey" — NSFW! — your suspicions would be confirmed that this is indeed the award-winning porn star, actor and musician Sasha Grey. She has now focused more on the family-friendly variety of entertainment, shifting her talents to more traditional acting and music. Playing regular DJ gigs, she is now heading into the production world, teaming up with Bay Area production duo Goshfather & Jinco for a remix of Pras's "Ghetto Superstar" featuring Mýa and Ol' Dirty Bastard. Grey and Goshfather & Jinco keep the iconic vocals from the original track, but adds a shuffling bass line and distorted synth stabs for a modern and trendy house remix:

  • Joni Mitchell Halts Biopic Starring Taylor Swift

    If you were looking forward to that Joni Mitchell/Carole King/Carly Simon biopic "Girls Like Us," then today, Nov. 25, you are out of luck. In an interview with "The Sunday Times," via "NME," Joni Mitchell revealed that she has pulled the plug on the project, citing the casting of Taylor Swift as one of the primary reasons. "I squelched that!" Mitchell admitted. "I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones.' It's just a lot of gossip, you don't have the great scenes." "There's a lot of nonsense about me in books," Mitchell went on to say, "assumptions, assumptions, assumptions." The now-halted film was based on the book "Girls Like Us" by Sheila Weller, which followed the rise of Mitchell and her singer-songwriter contemporaries Carly Simon and Carole King during the 1970s. Swift was cast as Mitchell back in 2012, with "Mad Men's" Jessica Pare cast as Simon and "The Newsroom's" Alison Pill cast as King.

  • Wu-Tang Clan Share 'Ruckus in B Minor,' Reveal 'A Better Tomorrow' Tracklist [LISTEN]

    The Wu-Tang Clan's upcoming studio album "A Better Tomorrow" will not be out for another month, but the legendary hip-hop crew has shared another one of the album's singles, which you can check out below. Titled "Ruckus in B Minor," the new single is the opening track to A Better Tomorrow and is likely a reference to their classic "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" opener "Bring Da Ruckus." They have also revealed the album's tracklist. The late Ol' Dirty Bastard makes a posthumous appearance in the song's introduction, which is followed by verses from Inspectah Deck, U-God, Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah and GZA, as well as bridges from Method Man and RZA.

  • 8 Pairs Of Musicians You May Not Know Are Related

    There are plenty of well-known families throughout music history: Tim Buckley and his son Jeff Buckley, the Beach Boy's Wilson brothers, but some musicians are related in ways that are more unexpected or even obscured. Here are eight pairs of musicians that you may not know are related.

  • Eazy-E of N.W.A. and Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan to Appear at Rock The Bells Thanks to Hologram Technology

    One of the highlights of this year's Rock The Bells Festival will undoubtedly be the hologram appearances of deceased hip-hop legends Ol' Dirty Bastard with the Wu-Tang Clan, and Eazy-E with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. After the appearance of Tupac Shakur with Dr. Dre at Coachella in 2012, holograms have been all the rage in hip-hop, but few realize how much work goes into recreating a deceased star. For Eazy-E and ODB, it was a family affair.
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