Wu-Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow (2014) {Warner}
Hip-Hop / Rap / East Coast Rap
| Released along
with Once Upon a Time in Shaolin -- their locked-down, $5 million
dollar, single-copy album-as-art release -- A Better Tomorrow is further
proof that, in 2014, the Wu-Tang Clan are a concept or collective led
by RZA, and not necessarily a group. Their previous 2007 effort, 8
Diagrams, was the first clue that things would never be the same
post-Ol' Dirty Bastard, but they could be quite good, excellent even, as
long as one doesn't expect the lean, mean Shaolin machine of the past.
Like 8 Diagrams, A Better Tomorrow seemed quite unlikely to see release
with key member Raekwon being a vocal holdout, and here, the festival
circuit, post-ODB Wu-Tang rolls on with little of that holdout's help. |
