Method Man Describes Rare Wu-Tang Clan Album as a ‘Circus Spectacle,’ Says It’s an ‘Uncomfortable Subject’ for Group to Discuss
variety.comSteven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Wu-Tang Clan’s much-storied album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” has been in the news cycle for years after changing ownership and spurring lawsuits, and the melee surrounding the one-of-a-kind project has left group member Method Man with a skewed opinion.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Meth refers to the album as a “circus spectacle” and that it’s an “uncomfortable subject” for the group to discuss.
He also claims that “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” was never meant to be a Wu-Tang Clan album, and that an unnamed financier cobbled together old and new verses into the resulting project. “I thought it was some circus spectacle,” he said. “I never really spoke to RZA about it; it’s an uncomfortable subject to most of the guys, so we don’t really discuss it too much.
The process of the thing being made was never told to us. We were never told what it was. It was never supposed to be a Wu-Tang album.
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