The Chef drops a bombshell on VladTV about how he feels the Wu's solo careers hurt the group.
VladTV recently caught up with Raekwon
to talk about the legendary Wu-Tang Clan's career and their legacy as
of late. During the interview, the Chef explained that he personally
feels the Clan hasn't been as active as a team as of late due to
differences that arose out members' solo success.
He explained that when the Wu was first working together, there was a
certain energy and hunger that unified the nine members behind the W.
But as members branched off with their own projects, certain emcees'
solo fame led to divisions within the group that ultimately hurt
almighty Wu's effectiveness as a team.
"What I really miss is that energy from my brothers. We were young,
we were child stars at that time, but I miss being around niggas and
laughing in the studio…just, every line that come out niggas,
everybody's head lift up like, 'Oooh,' and everybody's head go down and
get back in that pen and pad," he said. "To me, it just created a force
and I'ma tell you something - and I ain't told nobody this - but I feel
like in a way, us doing solo things hurt us [as a group]. I never told
nobody that, y'all niggas the first ones to know. When we had something
so pure and so solid together, it could've been structured more
togetherly. It could've been more stronger if we knew it had to stay
like that. But when we allow[ed] each other to do us, some did better
than others and when some did better than others, it caused a certain
kind of reaction in the whole movement."
He added, "It wasn't like nobody was trying to out-do each other,
because we all was nice, it was just that some probably worked a little
harder and some did more things and some was just playing his part. You
can't be mad at it; the nigga is playing his position and when it's time
to go shoot and you say, 'Yo, shoot!' - 'Aight, shoot - bong,' but not
being a slinger. To me, when we did that, it kinda like put us in a more
competitive situation with each other instead of focusing more strongly
on the brand. The brand is so big just as a team, it's like when we did
that, it jumped into some ego shit - which normally happens, but what
I'm just trying to say is if we would've stayed more tighter, we
probably would've had about 30 albums right now."