Lastly, the members were paid for these verses a long time ago as this record has been finished for years. So as far as any clan member is concerned, "oh cool, that shit i did 8 years ago is finally coming out? And its going to be a part of some album that gets previewed in museums??? And you are going to cut me a check from the auction? Sure this shit is a blessing lets do this sounds fun!" The problem is, that original plan has been changed because RZA and Cilvaringz didnt want a Samsung(or whoever) to come in, outbid everyone, and release the album their own creative way and whore it out and make more than what RZA and Cilvaringz paid for. It is "art" at the end of the day... Laughable.
The problem is, by removing the museum and commercialization of the album, you are adding barriers to letting fans enjoy the music. Again, rza and cilvaringz arent motivated by that. Cilvaringz deleting evidence that this is his record, and RZA lieing more and more about his involvement points to 2 people trying to unload this album for millions and move on. The more of a RZA album this is, the faster it sells, the copywrite clause protects them from looking stupid if it outsold what they sell it for, removing the museum requirement speeds up the sale.
What bothers me is the rest of the members are going to suffer the consequences of RZA and Cilvarings shady business, because they agreed to a deal that boosted their legacy and gave a special experience for their fans. What is now already happening with the recent developments is people are pissed at the entire clan, not just RZA and Cilvaringz. Who the fuck is Cilvaringz? His reputation wont hurt him financially. Rza only sticks his head in the hiphop realm once every 6 years to feel like he still has it (he doesnt), so to him "A better tomorrow" was the last record and then he will flee back to hollywood for Mai Tai's and juice cleanses with Tarentino. The rest of the clan that still needs to rap and make money from doing shows for a living suffer because the fans want to hear some album and its being sold to 1 person who can decide to only play it at Mai Tai and Juice Cleanse parties.
If you want to roll your eyes, read the stuff rza was saying when he was bitching about Ghost and Rae's involvement with "A better tomorrow".
"And at the same time, I’m not so egotistically conceited whereas I’m not gonna fall in line if someone else came with a great plan. And that’s where I feel a little remorse as this day is approaching. It’s like, wow, I kept trying to pull people together. I spent a lot of money and a lot of time this year. I put my movie career on hold for the first half of the year because I was focusing on making this. I went down to Memphis, I went down to Philadelphia, I came back to the East Coast to reopen the Wu Mansion [RZA’s old house in New Jersey, where a bulk of post–36 Chambers material was recorded]. I invested thousands of dollars to rebuild it so that we can have a place to record a new album. And when I scheduled that to happen, only a few good brothers showed up."
Lets ignore the fact that hes saying all this shit when apparently he was "collaborating" with Cilvaringz on a double wutang album that has 12 Raekwon verses. Ive talked about that enough. Look at the first line, he could have absolutely put his ego aside and co-signed the Cilvaringz album and found a way to make that album work, instead he ignored Cilvaringz and chugged along creating the worst Wutang album of all time. Seriously, it is fucking hard to make the clan sound boring and shitty, and Rza knocked it out of the park. Bravo. So while RZA is ruining the wutang name brand with a mediocre album, Cilvaringz is trying to shop the album fans have been asking for for years to various labels, and he cant because Cilvaringz is a morroccan super fan webmaster whos claim to fame is an Okay solo album from 2007 featuring the classic records we all remember: "Death to America" and "Forever Michael (wacko tablo)"
Does anyone here know a multi millionare hip hop fan that is going to buy this album and leak it out of the goodness of their heart? No? You sure? Because unless that happens we wont hear his record.