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After many years of placing on among the most memorable stay performances that hip-hop has to supply, the Wu-Tang Clan has introduced that their upcoming highway journey could be their final.
The group introduced Monday, Feb. 24, that Wu-Tang Clan: The Ultimate Chamber could be their last tour, beginning on June 6 in Baltimore and operating via 27 dates earlier than ending in Philadelphia on July 18. The New York Instances stories that the tour is ready to incorporate all of its surviving unique members — RZA, GZA, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Technique Man, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa — together with longtime affiliate Cappadonna and Younger Soiled Bastard, son of the late founding member Ol’ Soiled Bastard. Regardless of releasing their first album greater than 30 years in the past, this tour would be the group’s greatest as a united entrance, with different efforts both being fewer dates or lacking members. Run The Jewels – the famend duo of Killer Mike and El-P — will be part of the tour because the supporting act.
The tour was the group’s second announcement over the previous month, after revealing on Feb. 6 that they’d be reuniting for a brand new album referred to as Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman: From The Wu-Tang, the Saga Continues Assortment, scheduled for an April 6 launch.
However as identified in his interview with the New York Instances, it’s one other step in a years-long marketing campaign that group chief RZA has taken to protect the group’s legacy. He’s produced a dramatized miniseries of the group’s story on Hulu, a four-part docuseries on Showtime, and assembled a Las Vegas residency, amongst different initiatives. Earlier initiatives have additionally acquired new breaths of life: the brand new homeowners of As soon as Upon A Time In Shaolin, the ornately-cased singular copy album that the group auctioned off in 2015 for $2 million, performed snippets for small crowds in 2024 earlier than releasing a sampler to individuals who bought partial possession of the fabled album as an NFT.
RZA has spoken earlier than about taking over a five-year plan to solidify the Wu-Tang Clan as a powerhouse in hip-hop, and he’s expressed the intent to take the same method right here.
“Wu-Tang Clan has proven the world many chambers all through our profession; this tour known as ‘The Ultimate Chamber.’ It is a particular second for me and all my Wu brothers to run across the globe collectively yet another time and unfold the Wu swag, music, and tradition,” RZA mentioned in a launched assertion. “Most significantly to the touch our followers and people who have supported us all through the years. On this tour we’re enjoying songs we’ve by no means performed earlier than to our viewers and me and our manufacturing crew have designed a Wu-Tang present not like something you’ve ever seen. And to prime it off we’ve acquired the wonderful Run the Jewels on our facet.”
Tickets and VIP packages will go on sale at 10 a.m. native time on Friday, Feb. 28.
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