RZA Celebrates 30 Years Of 'Enter The Wu-Tang' w/ RARE Stories On ODB, Q-Tip, Method Man & More

[Vintage Wu]

[David Daniel Davis]

Today is the thirty year anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders also..

[Contraband]

30 year salute! 36 Chambers - Monumental

[IrOnMaN]

30 years. Congrats! Classic albums.

[Vintage Wu]

[Jet Set]

Always knew they were going to make an impact.
Shame On A was a 1 take for Dirty
Dirty was not happy with Elektra, want to go to Def Jam. But RZAs call to also take on Elektra. Elektra did not have a big hiphop artist yet. Dante Ross there.
Rifkind wanted Rae & GZA. Geffen outflexed Rifkind with 500k for GZA. GZA got the biggest deal at the time.
Greatest Wu-Tang album? Leave it to the people. Def mos blessed one. Brougth everybody in. Seems rite of passage for people. Personally for him it is Wu-Tang Forever, bonafide statement after that first run.
Goes in to the difference of selling physical media, the price of a double album, and being sold out, and still doing double platinum.
Was it hard to get Dirty back for the radio version of Shame On A? Dirty was pro when it was mandatory.
Talking about how brave Dirty was as an album. For N***a Please he put on the Rick James.
[Personal side note: Mannion told me they had to wait for hours for Dirty to come to the shoot. It was a female that somehow got him to come to the shoot finally. Before that everybody was goofing around with the suite actually.]
Dirt had an ASR. Did the drums on Brooklyn Zoo, True did the chord chops, and RZA added the string. As an executive producer RZA was putting everything together back then. RZA does not know who the lady is at the beginning yelling at ODB.
Dirty has the most top 40 songs out of the crew

Wu-Tang Experience about what they did with Enter movie coming that will premiere on ODB birthday at the lincoln center. Recorded at concert in Denver, Red Rock
RZA was a street messanger. GZA was a bike messenger
Empire State being lit for Wu on 9th

Zoo uses the same chord progression as METHOD Man. 'True Master I taught ya', RZA
Was written when he wa 16/17? (Info about this should be out there.)
Was a street song that was already out there, they wen into the studio to re-record it.
RZA claims the name of Meth came after the song. Before tat Shaquan, the panty raider. (Method Man would be coming from Method Of Love song, if I recall correctly.)

So the story should be that Meth got named after the song, but the public got to know the song when Meth already went by Meth.

Everybody supported the idea of Meth being in the spotlight.

RZA did not know people would remember the names like with the intro.

Ghostface the greatest artist of all time? RZA gotta agree with that. Multiple of the Wu member. Íf you think about inspiration. 'The people who they say are the greatest, are inspired by Wu. They did not inspire Wu.' Says the same for producers, they did not inspire him.

/There is more but im done for now.