EXCLUSIVE WU-TANG CLAN U-GOD SUES RZA AND THE WHOLE CLAN FOR $2.5 MILLION!

[Harry B]

Wild to think they stilll tour and can sit down and be cool with all drama and legal stuff. Not just with U God but other guys

Either they treat it like “it’s your time to buy a round, you didn’t pay last time we were out breh”

or they are eating the cake like c00na Mae

 

[mson]

Funny thing is Meth’s wife is U-God’s sister

I'm pretty sure she isn't U-God's sister. She is U-God's baby mom sister.

 

[keepitrealprk]

I can't elaborate on it, but having done actual work with at least one member of WTC it is not at all surprising they lack business acumen.

 

[Art Barr]

give the man his residuals, if he contractually is owed residuals.
Plus y'all do live off duke street fame, so print a check.
Plus never gave duke a proper solo or marketing and after obfcl and his verse. It should have been.
all the shoulda coulda shyt is dead, pay that man.

Wu should have no issues in pr about payment period.
Now it is at numerous cases and stages.
pay up.
I don't wanna hear it.


art barr

 

[nieman]

give the man his residuals, if he contractually is owed residuals.
Plus y'all do live off duke street fame, so print a check.
Plus never gave duke a proper solo or marketing and after obfcl and his verse. It should have been.
all the shoulda coulda shyt is dead, pay that man.

Wu should have no issues in pr about payment period.
Now it is at numerous cases and stages.
pay up.
I don't wanna hear it.


art barr

I don't think RZA owes U-God anything. He never recouped from Golden Armz Redemption, and I doubt he ever recouped from these last 2. This is like his 3rd suit against RZA...and just as the others, not sure exactly what this one is about.

He definitely didn't owe Ghost anything...I truly believe that one was moreso about Ghost's manager than anything. And Rae said RZA never stole from him.

 

[Alvin]

After the Wu doc and seeing ghost have a meltdown that Divine was getting a cut of a deal as a manager I realized that those dudes had no clue about business or management. Managers don't do shyt for free... Dude was mad because he wanted to get 100% of gains off a deal. If you wanna do that then manage yourself U-God wasn't any better he got a flopped solo and that's it. I'd rather listen to a Cappa solo any day. Hell give me street life

Reality is them dudes didn't have a lot of business knowledge. Ghost prolly my fav member but him getting them banned off radio for damn near a decade hurt them. them bailing on the Rage tour hurt them. It wasn't RZA or Divine.

Divine was out in Staten buying homes for dirt cheap and sitting large today. Power was building a clothing brand etc. These dudes were not enterprising. The story about Meth being forced to record the song with Mary was also

Damn
The gods had a business acumen similar to young thug

 

[Alvin]

I can't elaborate on it, but having done actual work with at least one member of WTC it is not at all surprising they lack business acumen.

Why you say that?

 

[Art Barr]

I don't think RZA owes U-God anything. He never recouped from Golden Armz Redemption, and I doubt he ever recouped from these last 2. This is like his 3rd suit against RZA...and just as the others, not sure exactly what this one is about.

He definitely didn't owe Ghost anything...I truly believe that one was moreso about Ghost's manager than anything. And Rae said RZA never stole from him.

they don't have real business accument and pedigree like that.
we have to see the contracts and what was legally there through discovery first.
right now, trying to act like the wu been the same since their fire or flood....
is just silly to continue after factually a number of legal issues internally have arose.

i am the only real closer with pedigree in hiphop.
i have yet to meet any real pedigree closers frfr in hiphop period.



art barr

 

[Pazzy]

Classic album cover

I remember seeing this at circuit city back in the day didn't he have a fight with one of these guys over money? I heard he whooped dudes ass over that shyt and this was before he mentioned it in his book.

 

[Tom Foolery]

After this interview with vladtv, I can understand his anger. RZA did put all them wack ass side projects out before the main members.

 

[BuddahMAC]

Wildstylemag.com: This situation between you is pretty difficult and seems messed up. You are in a Clan, whose members are actually even your family members, and then you have lawsuits between you and money is involved. How does this affect you emotionally?

RZA: It’s funny though. It affects me mostly badly because I have a family, too. I have got a fiancé, I have got children and they look up to Ghost or Rae as their uncle. You know, Raekwon comes to my house and kisses my babies. Just as U-God who I know since we were kids. So when U-God went for filing the lawsuit for 170.000 dollars against Wu-Tang Productions, I was like “U-God, if I did owe you 170.000 dollars, you wouldn’t sit here after 10 years and say you were missing 170.000 dollars after everything I did for you. I would have swallowed that shyt.

He’s asking me for 300-400 Grand! When I did Wu-Tang Records, nobody signed U-God before. He never had a record deal. He only had a record deal on my company. I put 700.000 dollars in his hands baby, in your fukking hands, nikka. And I did videos, 200 Grand video here, video there, for you out of my company. And you only sold 200.000 records. That means my company lost money of you, Sun. So don’t come to me like I ever owed you something. But I asked him why he thinks I owe him 170.000 dollars. He said he didn’t get his money of the last 8 Diagrams album and of the last tour. So I asked him how much money he didn’t get out of that, he answered 4.000 dollars. “Where do you get 170.000 from 4.000 nikka? Oh, your lawyer got you gassed up?”

And what happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real fast. So as the industry plummets, what happens is that there is no deals being made. If there’s no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They’ve got to close their firms, they can’t make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation! And that’s why you will hear this coming up. Not only Wu-Tang, you’ll here it popping out throughout the industry, you’ll hear somebody suing somebody, because there are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.

 

[nieman]

they don't have real business accument and pedigree like that.
we have to see the contracts and what was legally there through discovery first.
right now, trying to act like the wu been the same since their fire or flood....
is just silly to continue after factually a number of legal issues internally have arose.

i am the only real closer with pedigree in hiphop.
i have yet to meet any real pedigree closers frfr in hiphop period.



art barr

Ghost's lawsuit was about RZA not being paid as a Producer AND an artist, on tracks he produced and a guest. U-God's 1st lawsuit he admitted was a publicity stunt. He wanted more than what he was entitled to, just because.

Honestly, them leaving from under the Wu-umbrella, which they all wanted out - would exclude them from receiving any Wu-payments they aren't directly involved.