Originally Posted by
soob
Relevant? Find a random hip-hop head now and ask him about the last GZA's verse and you'll be lucky even he will know who GZA is. Wu as a collective is still quite relevant but individual members are not. Even Meth doesn't make people go wild anymore when he announces a new album.
Their last compilation album was considered to be quite successful and they sold 20,000 copies of it (25,000 if you include streaming). USA alone has 330 million of people and only 20,000 gave a fuck to buy new Wu-Tang album. That's 0.006R% of the population. They would probably sell more in Europe but the number is still low. To show you how small numbers we're talking about, the most famous rapper in Poland sold over 100,000 copies of his new album in 2019. That's 5 times more than the legendary Wu-Tang Clan
btw. you think they're not old? They're in their 50s. All of 'em and most of 'em don't give a fuck about rapping (and I'm not surprised) and I'm telling you if Deck or Masta Killa could make money off something besides rapping they wouldn't rap anymore. RZA has come to that conclusion many years ago and he started that whole Hollywood/vegetarian leather shit. GZA practically stopped rapping and started touring schools giving lectures about universe.
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