Wu Mami's Tuesday #46

Every Tuesdays we will post up pictures of Wu Mami's representing Wu in any shape, form or fashion all over the world. Please feel free to email us your pictures here @ wutangmami@gmail.com, Thanks to the Wu mami's who have sent in pictures so far.

 
 

 

 

Wu-Tang Clan Announce Title Of 20th Anniversary Album "A Better Tomorrow"

Wu Tang Clan are set to release their brand new album, 'A Better Tomorrow', in July.

They will support the release of the record with shows at Manchester O2 Apollo on July 25 and London's O2 Academy Brixton on July 26.

Last month Method Man said that the band were working on a new release to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic debut LP 'Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' - and then, in an interview with Radio.com, Cappadonna confirmed that "recording has begun" on a new LP.

"I already spoke to the RZA," he said. "We've been texting each other. We're definitely concentrating on more positivity and teachings and trying to put that back into the original recipe for this next Wu-Tang album."

He went on to add: "The recording has begun... It's all being done in the secret Wu-Tang Bat chamber. RZA has all the tracks lined up. There are recordings taking place in New York, LA and perhaps at the Wu mansion in New Jersey."

Wu-Tang Clan released 'Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' in 1993. Their last studio album, '8 Diagrams', was released in 2007 following a six-year gap after their 2001 LP 'Iron Flag'.

The hip-hop group are set to play this weekend’s Coachella Festival in California as well as this summer's Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/wu-tang-clan/69693#qLqatxgRcyl1muCO.99

Uncle Ray's Weekly Wuspiration #60

'If you have an impulse from your brain, think again. If you have an impulse from your heart, act upon it. '

- Ray Acosta (President/GM @ Wu Music Group)

Wu-Art Thursday #46 - RZA

Every Thursday we will be posting up pics of Wu-Tang artwork from fans, artists and aliens. If you have artwork you would like to share, please email us at: WuArtTats@gmail.com 

 By Son

 By Nicholas Fong

 By Michael McDonnell -  Perpendicular to the Square Kit (shaolin secrets not included)

 By Kristine Avonavi

  By Kristine Avonavi

 By Keya DeLarge

 By Jessica Aine

 By Erick 'Elite' Wright

Wu-Tat Thursday #51

Every Thursday we will be posting up pics of Wu-Tang tats from fans, artists and aliens. If you have Tattoos that you would like to share, please email us at wutangmami@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

I think when someone gets a Wu tattoo they are showing the greatest respect and homage to the music work and words of Wu-Tang, bong! - The RZA

Wu-Wednesday: First Listen: Ghostface Killah And Adrian Younge, 'Twelve Reasons To Die'

Twelve Reasons to Die is a rap album that begins with an overture and ends with an instrumental coda. The songs were composed by Adrian Younge, a producer and musician who's fairly new to the scene, recorded live and authored by a rapper with 20 years in the business, the Ghostface Killah, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. The result is unusual — a vivid and intricate melodrama both backward-looking and forward-thinking.


"It's the first time in my life I tried something like this," says Ghostface before his second-ever performance of this new material with Younge and his band, Venice Dawn. It's a surprising thing to hear from an artist of his longevity — and he has attempted many of the gambits on Twelve Reasons to Die before. He's done concept albums, made filmic songs, invented characters, performed with a band, played supporting and featured roles. But he's never had this type of working relationship with the tracks he's rhyming over — the music was wholly composed for this project, which was conceived as a story before anything else. It works like Tommy, if Ghostface is Roger Daltrey and Younge is Pete Townshend. "I'm a film composer," says Younge. "But I'm a hip-hop guy."


The Record
The Wu-Tang Clan's 20-Year Plan
As those involved tell it, the story came first, the music second and the lyrics last. Twelve Reasons to Die is the creation myth of a black superhero set in 1960s Italy, which looks a lot like 1990s Scorsese. The curtain opens on a young man born into a life of crime. But anyone familiar with Robert De Niro's characters in Goodfellas and Casino knows what's coming next when Ghostface's character rhymes, "I was a boss among white boys, rocking a 'fro." He hits the ceiling, leaves to start a black syndicate, falls in love with a boss's daughter and makes a ton of money importing cocaine. For these crimes, the criminal organization he came up in murders him and dumps his body in a vat of acetate. His former friends press 12 records from his remains, but when those records play, his vengeful spirit arises. Though he was rebuffed and disrespected in life, in legend the Ghostface Killah becomes immortal.

Twelve Reasons to Die has all the makings of a cult classic. Jangly, tumbleweed guitar that warms the cold-hearted comic book-style violence. Snyth stabs that evoke Bernard Herrmann's violin screeches in Psycho. William Hart's age-spotted tone reminding us of our own mortality and the planes where soul music and hip-hop meet. The drums are loud and high in the mix, driving when our hero readies for a fight, as on "Blood on the Cobblestones," uncomfortably tight just as he's betrayed during "An Unexpected Call (The Set Up)" and charged like a car chase while he tastes revenge on "Sure Snot (Parts One & Two)," the only song that could be a single.

The atmospherics and plot development fit right in with Wu-Tang albums of the past, most closely another Ghostface collaboration, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. And Wu-Tang associates appear here: the RZA most prominently, Cappadonna most memorably, Inspectah Deck most ably and Killah Priest carrying the most weight. From beyond the grave Ol' Dirty Bastard makes his presence felt — his introduction of Ghostface on 1993's "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" reverberates on "The Rise of the Ghostface Killah." Ghostface says he went back to his Wu brothers because he needed veterans who know how to tell a story.

And Ghostface would know — he is a true writer. He's painterly and agile. His style is emphatic, and he takes every verse seriously. He bobs and weaves with the track, but he maintains a forthright and basically conversational sentence structure, which, when he's describing the ways he might murder your children, really twists the knife.

The mood of the album is fragile, and the whole project is a definite risk. Both Ghostface and Younge are making fictional music here, but the knife's edge they're walking — between theater and theatrics, between noir and B-movie — feels very real. That they make it across without falling is a relief and an eye-opener.

In the grand tradition of the Wu-Tang Clan, Twelve Reasons to Die is brash and Technicolor and heartfelt. It is not what you would expect from a rap album, or a Ghostface album, or a film score. As Ghostface says, on "Rise of the Black Suits," "Rules are for fools."

"I Declare War"

Wu-Tang Clan and The Roots together on the same stage last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa, Adrian Younge and Killah Priest performed "I Declare War" off of Ghostface's upcoming album, Twelve Reasons to Die.

The project will be available on April 16th. You can pre-order your copy now from iTunes.

Wu Mami's Tuesday #45

Every Tuesdays we will post up pictures of Wu Mami's representing Wu in any shape, form or fashion all over the world. Please feel free to email us your pictures here @ wutangmami@gmail.com, Thanks to the Wu mami's who have sent in pictures so far.

  

 

 

 

 

First Listen - 'Twelve Reasons To Die' - Ghostface Killah And Adrian Younge,

Ready to give 'Twelve Reasons To Die' a listen. NPR has the exclusive First Listen to the album before it's available for sale. Click HERE to listen! Suuuu!

Ghostface Killah with Adrian Younge and his band, Venice Dawn, after their first performance together. Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge's new album, Twelve Reasons To Die, comes out April 16.

TOUR DATES

03/28 Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theatre
03/31 San Luis Obispo, CA – SLO Brewery
04/03 Fresno, CA – Fulton 55
04/04 San Francisco, CA – 1015 Folsom
04/05 Orangevale, CA – The Boardwalk
04/06 Redway, CA – Mateel Community Center
04/09 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
04/10 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
04/11 Seattle, WA – Neumos
04/12 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
04/13 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
04/16 Park City, UT – Park City Live
04/19 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
04/20 Aspen, CO – Belly Up
04/25 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
04/26 Chicago, IL – The Abbey Pub
04/27 St. Louis, MO – Cherokee Performing Arts Center
04/28 Cleveland Hts, OH – Grog Shop
04/30 Detroit, MI – St. Andrews
05/01 Grand Rapids, MI – The Pyramid Scheme
05/02 Bloomington, IN – The Bluebird
05/03 Columbus, OH – A&R Room
05/04 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
05/05 Syracuse, NY – The Westcott Theatre
05/07 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Music
05/08 Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
05/09 Boston, MA – The Wilbur
05/10 New Haven, CT – Toads Place
05/11 Providence, RI – The Met
05/12 Philadelphia, PA – The Blockley
05/13 New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
05/14 Baltimore, MD – Soundstage
05/16 Carrboro, NC – Cats Cradle
05/17 Asheville, NC – Asheville Music Hall
05/18 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
05/19 Tampa Bay, FL – The Orpheum
05/20 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
05/22 Austin, TX – Emos

Uncle Ray's Weekly Wuspiration #59

'Love what you do, passion transforms, passion is contagious, passion can conquer the impossible, passion is the fuel of success. '
 - Ray Acosta (President/GM @ Wu Music Group)

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