Legendary New York hip-hop syndicate Wu-Tang Clan have announced their first album in six years.
The album will be titled 'The 8 Diagrams'. It's scheduled for release on November 13, three years to the day since their maniacal jester Ol' Dirty Bastard died of heart failure related to a drug overdose. Billboard reports that track 'Life Changes' is a tribute to ODB, with GZA rhyming, "Now I'm in the booth ten feet from where he lay dead / I think about him on this song and what he might have said."Producer and representative RZA said in a statement, "This is the perfect time for us to come back, the stars are aligned." Insinuating that they initially emerged as an antidote to pop and R&B in the early '90s, RZA notes that "We're here to revive the spirit and the economics and bring in a wave of energy that has lately dissipated."
Tracks on 'The 8 Diagrams' will include 'Weak Spot', 'Thug World', 'Watch Your Mouth' and a song titled 'My People Gently Weeps', which interprets George Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' with help from Harrison's son Dhani. Funk pioneer George Clinton will also guest.
