The Big Doe Rehab

So Ghostface kicked it with Amy Winehouse, and now he's speaking on rehab. This album, The Big Doe Rehab, which pushed back the release of the Wu-tangs album 8 Diagrams, looks pretty tough from album art alone, but we all know the old adage about judging an album by the amount of franklins on the cover...or something like that. Stacks aside- I hope its worth pushing back the Wu-album, and dare i say better than Fishscale & Mo' Fish, which may be asking a lot.

In other Wu related news- Raekwon is cookin up some beef with Rza, Sohh.com reports. Apparently, a little disgruntled over the structures of 8 Diagram's beats, and how they are too guitar based, which isn't what the Wu is about. "So much so that they will come out with a follow-up album if changes aren't made to this one, or of it's not permanently shelved" (SOHH).

I just need this album to drop. Wu needs to handle the whatever in house, because after all this press, if the album doen't make every laptop and cd player explode simultaneously, someone is going to "put a hanger on a fuckin stove and let that shit sit there for like a half hour and take it off and stick it in their collective careers slow like -Tssssssss"

Can It Be All So Simple

Protect your neck. Word is, from a reliable source, that the Wu-Tang Clans newest album, 8 Diagram, shall be released on November 9th, 2007. There's a lot of sentimental value tied up in that date. For those of you kids not up on your wu-history, the very first Clan album dropped 14 years ago on that very day. Ah, sentimentality at its best. Those from the slums of Shaolin are doing a good job on keeping the album from leaking by only releasing demo cuts to promoters and the like. If you check out spins article in its August 2007 issue, you shall be able to calculate which period we are in, in relation to when the album should be leaked. November is only a few months away, how patient do they expect us to be?



Just as a little added info, the album takes its name from a movie titled 8 Diagram Pole Fighter.

Wu-Tang Strikes Again

Last day of Job hunting, for now at least. While talking to Deep Focus, which seems to be one of the coolest marketing firms ever, the media planner told me that Wu has confirmed their album release! Spin has an online article spiting the facts, and is subtitled with the most awesome RZA quote ever:

"How can hip-hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?"

Smarten up, Nas. The album is called 8 Diagram, and should be automatic hood. Riots in the streets if we're lucky. I didn't see a release date, but I'll play optimistic and say before Thanksgiving.

The Wu will also be playing at the Rock the Bells show, which is three dates, one on June 28th, the others August 11 and 18. These shows will be played with Rage Against the Machine. Screw bonnaroo, this is the place to spend all your summer job money.