For the upcoming Wu-Tang Clan reunion album, Ghostface Killah will be taking over for RZA and leading the group towards new music. The group’s projects have often been marred in the past by disagreements between members, but there will be none of that this time according to the rapper.
“RZA put the ball in my hand. He said ‘Yo, I want you to do it,’ and I been wanting to do it, and that’s a big test for me right there,” he said in an interview with HipHopDX.
He further expressed that he is in no hurry to unleash a follow-up album to A Better Tomorrow, released in 2014. “It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it. But it has to be done right. If it don’t fit then we can’t do it. It’ll just have to be done nice. That’s it. People can’t talk about it unless it’s good.”
A Better Tomorrow was an album muddied by arguments between group members Raekwon and RZA, who eventually reconciled their differences. Ghostface will be handling the unfolding of the album this time, saying, “I’m going to do my part first and let them know what I did, and then have them listen to that and follow my lead. It’s like how they do in sports with athletes. It’s like alright, just follow my lead.”
Ghostface also talked about missing the story telling element of old school rap, noting that everything mainstream is “clubby” nowadays. But he did mention that he is a fan of both Drake and Schoolboy Q.
In other Wu-Tang Clan news, the group was recently in a heated dispute with pharma bro Martin Shkreli, who purchased their Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album in an auction for $2 million. It was originally stipulated by the group that whoever bought the album was not allowed to release it for 88 years, but Shkreli’s unwillingness to let the public hear the album has angered the hip-hop group’s members.
Ghostface Killah has been approached by paparazzi about Shkreli in the past and has referred to the disgraced pharmaceutical executive as a “sh*thead.”
