![]() ![]() Here is the (official) story: Recorded in secret by the Wu-Tang Clan over the last few years, only one copy of their final album, called Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, will ever be produced. And the recent announcement of a final album all but seals it. Wu-Tang will always be forever but effectively the saga is coming to an end. But, via the ongoing power struggles between RZA and fellow Clan member Raekwon, those fears have come true. The sample (from Godfrey Ho’s 1982 kung-fu flick Dragon on Fire) that Wu-Tang leader RZA chose to close out Duel of the Iron Mic, the second track on cousin GZA’s already chilly second album, was too deliberate not to be a warning to those around him to stick together. Plenty of Wu-Tang Clan fans will have nodded along to those words when Liquid Swords dropped in 1995 and felt a cold wind approaching. “At the height of their fame and glory, they turned on one another, each struggling in vain for ultimate supremacy…”
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