Wu-Tang Clan ringleader RZA has pushed back the release date of the group's new album in response to Clan-renegade Ghostface Killah's complaint that his own album was being released on the same day.
And now the infighting has forced Wu-Tang Clan to cancel their upcoming tour dates until Spring 2008.'8 Diagrams', Wu-Tang Clan's album, will be now be released December 11 so as not to clash with Ghostface's 'Big Dough Rehab', still slated for a December 4 release date.
Explaining the decision, RZA told MTV, "The blame can't fall on me like that. Wu-Tang Clan is a bunch of brothers working on one common cause. We planned to put that record out in September, then October, and it kept getting pushed because it's just a lot of work. I wasn't really conscious [Ghostface] was dropping an album on December 4, but yesterday we moved our [group] record from the 4th to the 11th. We gave that spot to Ghostface because of how he felt. I had to make that call. [SRC label head] Steve Rifkind also; he was getting bashed up by Ghost. So...we moved.
"I think that shows the kind of bigger men we could be. Ghost is my brother, [I] love him to death. But we're in this business, and it's hard to kind of discern what's right and what's wrong. But I will say that, when it comes to a Wu-Tang Clan album, I plan on making it a 60/90 day type of schedule. It turned out to be a 200 day schedule, and I didn't want to wait until next year [to put out 8 Diagrams]. But Ghostface, we moved it to the 11th. You got that 4th. Do your thing right then, double up [the] next week, make mad cream this year, family."
