Raekwon mirrored on the Wu-Tang Clan’s enduring legacy and honored Ol’ Soiled Bastard, who foresaw the group’s world rise a long time earlier than it got here to go.
The Hip-Hop veteran helped deliver Wu-Tang’s “The Closing Chamber” tour to a detailed throughout the U.S. earlier this 12 months, marking the tip of a decades-long run that reshaped the rap music panorama.
The tour was greater than a last 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 in recent times, persevering with his father’s legacy.
Raekwon recalled ODB’s early confidence within the group’s future throughout a latest Individuals interview.
“After I return to the ’90s and bear in mind Ol’ Soiled Bastard being proper right here with us and sort of predicting the way forward for the group, I believe these instances is one thing that’s all the time going to be vital in the case 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.
“A number of rhymes is wrote, loads of time away from our households to go do a job. However we have been in a position to additionally assist our mates and put them in nice positions and simply see that it grew to become a sequence, the place it helped all people,” he mentioned. “Again then, it was actually powerful to return into the sport, 9 artists and demand this type of group scenario, 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 everywhere in the world,” Raekwon mentioned. “Individuals get caught up in these conditions. However I believe he was the one which all the time was like, ‘Yo, we going to rock the world. We going to shock the world.’”
On the time, Raekwon admitted, they didn’t totally consider it. “When he was saying it again then, it was humorous, however we by no means took it as a right,” he mentioned. “We was like, ‘Okay, if you happen to see it earlier than we see it, then that’s good that you simply see it, as a result of now if you happen to see it, then all of us see it. Now we’re going to make the world see it.’”
Three a long time after Wu-Tang Clan’s formation in 1992, Raekwon confirmed the group maintains the identical ardour that drove them from the start.
“I believe that’s a wonderful factor,” he defined. “It takes somebody mighty to know your full potential and he positively was telling us this, method earlier than we even thought it may actually occur.”
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