GZA Interview Says "fu-k Wutang-Corp"

[IronFist]

The Genius, GZA, spoke at the ReThink Music conference hosted by Berklee College on the topic of adaptation--how he has managed to stay relevant in hip hop for a full two decades of Wu Tang and solo efforts, even as internet marketing has replaced “1000 miles per week on a street team van.” We sat down with GZA after his speech, and wanted to know a little more about his recent speaking engagements.

Ian Doreian for melophobe:
Impressive touring schedule in Boston: Harvard, MIT, and now with Berklee. What kind of shift is there in preparing for an academic, rather than a music audience?

GZA:
It’s quite different, a whole different arena. It’s quiet; you can hear a pin drop, no music playing. No alcohol; no smoke. No kids surfing the crowd.

melophobe:
It must be tough to pick up on the energy of the crowd; do you know how to shift what you’re going to say?

GZA:
Sometimes it is, but you just have to go for it. You got to look at it like this: with shows, there can be a person who’s looking at me like they don’t like me. They might be my biggest fan, but the way they are staring doesn’t fit. That also happens with the academic crowd. You just have to be in your own element, and do you.

melophobe:
In your speech earlier, you mentioned a strong showing at SXSW with Grupo Fantasma, and I wanted to know if you felt the need to bounce back after the disappointment of 2011?

GZA:
You remember that? It was horrible. I don’t mind speaking about it; it was horrible. Actually, I had a show earlier in the day and I forgot about the second show. And I was drinking shots with Bill Murray.

melophobe:
That’s true? I thought it was some “Coffee and Cigarettes” rumor.

GZA:
That was so true; I was drinking shots with Bill Murray. He was on the side of the stage, and we went to have shots of tequila or whatever. He was actually getting behind the bar and serving them. All of a sudden I felt so messed up. Killah Priest had a van outside, so I went to the van and laid down. Someone started to shake me, talking about another show. Are you kidding? It was a mess; I let down the fans, and lots of people tweeted about it. But, I can accept all of that. I have to take responsibility for my own actions. This year, I owed SXSW a good show.

melophobe:
The theme of your speech was remaining relevant, and you have a revamped website soon to be released, but I wonder the web relevance of Wu Tang when their “official” page hasn’t seen an update in over four months.

GZA:
Wu Tang Corp? I don’t respect that; the website isn’t even in the hands of Wu Tang.

melophobe:
Who’s running it?

GZA:
People in Europe, people loosely connected, people saying all kinds of stupid sh-t even about us, about the Clan. On our “own” site? fu-k Wu Tang Corp; I’m just going to say that.

melophobe:
Is your site an invitation to the rest of the Clan to join up with what you are doing online?

GZA:
There’s always an invitation, but it’s also a way of leading by example.

melophobe:
Last thing. Anything good you’ve been reading?

GZA:
Well, I’m a lazy reader. Back in the hotel I have this book Programing the Universe; a professor at MIT sent it to me. I’ve only gotten through the first few pages, though.

site has fallen off

 

[SoulController]

lol needless to say the nerds freaked out over it, the regular posters thought it was hilarious

Cilvaringz owns the site, but he said he called him about this and they ironed it out. i dont think GZA knows about trolls, and they trolled his manager one day and it got back to him lol

 

[IronFist]

bruh that site is ass. PERIOD cats on that site make more efforts to talk and diss somebody than actually trying to dialogue constructively. i heard deck has stated the same thing cats is fake on that site

 

[SoulController]

oh, the site fell off theres no question about it. i cant even talk music there anymore, i just check for news and interviews

 

[the cac mamba]

shyt was talkin about "look out for 8 diagrams" in 2011

 

[IronFist]

thats the thing i use to post on there and it got to the point i had to ask myself "what the f*ck am i doing" because cats werent even focus on topics thats benefit them you got b*tchmade posters like that alphatek guy trolling threads, cats see this and dont even correct him or delete his thread

some dudes even took the notion of registering twice (i did) just to give the site the extra jump in threads but still to no avail

dudes on that site were professing to being all type of sh*t one cat name "foodforthought" claim he was a 5 percenter yet whenever cats up a thread pertaining to that topic dude is ghost


pathethic

 

[IronFist]

some of the decent posters dont even post on that site anymore. sh*t threads dont even move off the first page

 

[IronFist]

 

[88m3]

I stumbled through there off and on over the years everyone seemed really angry

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

lol im sure rings patched it up by now..

poor kid, lol.

 

[IronFist]

its the same there on a dude now because they claim he has two accounts who the fukk cares

 

[Red]

The Cilvaringz curse strikes again.

 

[SAJ!!]

That reminds me of the same thing that I went through when I posted on Public Enemy's site some time back. Especially when you have dudes like Hypestyle and Old School 76 trolling threads.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

iamnas forum and old sohh was the best.

 

[DoomzdayzV]

WuTang-World.com was the last good Wu Site after the official one went down.