Grantland has written a definitive piece tackling the question weighing on the minds of Wu-Tang Clan fans for 6 years and counting: Will there ever be another Wu album? In order to answer the question, they conducted extensive interviews with each and every member of the Clan (as well as ODB’s widow). What emerges is a complex and candid account of the past and present state of the Wu from multiple perspectives. This is an artful piece that justly presents the nuances of one of music’s most complicated groups. Check out an excerpt below as well as a link to the full article.

Here’s an excerpt from Grantland:

“Wu-Tang has promised one more, possibly one last album. New music has appeared in dribs and drabs: Last summer, a purported lead single, “Family Reunion,”1 arrived to little fanfare; just this week a follow-up, “Keep Watch,” showed up without warning. But the group has failed to deliver on anything close to a proper full-length album. And in the process, they’ve made one thing clear: This thing is broken. For as much as the group members talk about unity and foreverness, they can’t get in a room and agree. They can’t get their shit together.

Still, they try. And so we hold out hope. This is about pining for, yes, the glorious old days. But it’s also about a fractious group of individuals who might still very well have something remarkable in them. Call it irrational, dumb, a dangerous side effect of unbridled nostalgia. Then listen to Raekwon’s first boast on their last album, 8 Diagrams, his fleet tongue in sync with RZA’s woozy bass: “Welcome to the fish fry where n—-s get burned to a crisp / Jump out the pot, yeah, yo, I got this.” Broken, yes. Dead, no.

For several months, I chased down and spent time with all 10 members of the Wu-Tang Clan,2 winding my way from Brooklyn to New Jersey to Tennessee to Arizona to — of course — Shaolin in the process. It was, for the most part, maddening. As a fan, I was happy to find that a certain anarchic spirit is still rooted deep within the Wu. As a reporter, I wondered how many more unanswered calls would bring me within the legal definition of stalking. It was surreal, in the best way possible.

The ensuing profiles are not meant to form a definitive history. And maybe — for a group that’s always existed at a hazy interval between fact and myth — that’s quite all right.”

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