Wu Tang Clan’s A Better Tomorrow was a huge flop. There’s no denying that.
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Raekwon thinks he knows why the collective’s sixth album failed to connect with audiences, despite heavy promotion and the past success Wu Tang has accumulated throughout their legendary career.
“That album felt kinda bored,” Raekwon told NME. “And that’s not just my opinion. The music was just too soft. Too humble. I felt like the album could have been better. I voiced my opinion, like, ‘Yo, let’s give them some real shit.’ The album was driven more to RZA’s expectations. He was coming from one way. We was wanting to try something new.”
He added that he won’t be touring with Wu-Tang this year, but it's not because of any beef.
“I ain’t going on the road with Wu-Tang this year. Fans will think it’s beef in the group, but it’s all management,” The Chef said. “I didn’t know shit about the tour. They just assume I’m good to be there and put it all together, but by then I got obligations, a fucking schedule. It’s frustrating, ‘cos I’d love to be there.”
Instead, Raekwon will be promoting his solo album Fly International Luxurious Art, which is scheduled to drop on April 28th.
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In an interview with GQ, [former] Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz confirmed what many had already suspected: The Beastie Boys are no more.
According to Horovitz (Ad-Rock), the band died with founder Adam Yauch (MCA), who passed in 2012 of thyroid cancer.
Are the Beastie Boys done?
“We’re done. Oh yeah. Adam Yauch started the band. It’s not like a thing where we could continue without him.”
Never contemplated it?
“No.”
"It's probably just taken me time to sit and think and try to figure out what I do next or who I am now or, you know, all of that stuff," he said. "Because since high school, I was in this band. And you know, it's one thing when you're in a band in high school, but then to have it last for so long -- that's who I am and what I did forever. And so now I'm just trying to figure it out."
For Horovitz, it's more than just a band breaking up, it's losing a brother.
"Adam was one of my best friends; I saw him more than I saw my whole family," he said. "You know, me, Adam, and Mike were together every day, recording, touring, as friends. And so: huge hole. The other part of it is the being able to afford to just sit around and think, because I think it's good that I can have time to sort of figure out how to get through it all.
"You can never prepare yourself for this," he added.
Yauch, a.k.a. MCA, was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. He co-founded the Beastie Boys with Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Horovitz in 1979.
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