Raekwon Shares How ODB Foretold Wu-Tang Clan’s Success
Raekwon mirrored on the Wu-Tang Clan’s enduring legacy and honored Ol’ Soiled Bastard, who foresaw the group’s world rise many years earlier than it got here to cross.
The Hip-Hop veteran helped convey Wu-Tang’s “The Last Chamber” tour to a detailed throughout the U.S. earlier this 12 months, marking the top of a decades-long run that reshaped the rap music panorama.
The tour was greater than a ultimate bow—it was a tribute. The group honored the reminiscence of Ol’ Soiled Bastard, who died in 2004 at age 35 from an unintended drug overdose.
His son, Younger Soiled Bastard, has been performing with the group lately, persevering with his father’s legacy.
Raekwon recalled ODB’s early confidence within the group’s future throughout a current Individuals interview.
“Once I return to the ’90s and keep in mind Ol’ Soiled Bastard being proper right here with us and sort of predicting the way forward for the group, I feel these instances is one thing that’s at all times going to be vital in terms of our nostalgia,” he mentioned.
He additionally mirrored on the uphill battle the group confronted within the early days, a journey that got here with sacrifices.
“Plenty of rhymes is wrote, quite a lot of time away from our households to go do a job. However we have been in a position to additionally assist our buddies and put them in nice positions and simply see that it turned a sequence, the place it helped everyone,” he mentioned. “Again then, it was actually robust to come back into the sport, 9 artists and demand this type of group state of affairs, and turning that right into a million-dollar franchise.”
Regardless of the success, the ache of shedding ODB nonetheless lingers. “We misplaced our brother to one thing that occurs all around the world,” Raekwon mentioned. “Individuals get caught up in these conditions. However I feel he was the one which at all times was like, ‘Yo, we going to rock the world. We going to shock the world.’”
On the time, Raekwon admitted, they didn’t absolutely imagine it. “When he was saying it again then, it was humorous, however we by no means took it without any consideration,” he mentioned. “We was like, ‘Okay, in the event you see it earlier than we see it, then that’s good that you simply see it, as a result of now in the event you see it, then all of us see it. Now we’re going to make the world see it.’”
Three many years after Wu-Tang Clan’s formation in 1992, Raekwon confirmed the group maintains the identical ardour that drove them from the start.
“I feel that’s an attractive factor,” he defined. “It takes somebody mighty to know your full potential and he undoubtedly was telling us this, method earlier than we even thought it might actually occur.”
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