Wu-tang: An American Saga | Season 3 | Official Thread

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I COMPLETELY understand why Divine was so offended when the members asked to be let out of Wu-Tang Productions. After the work and hell he caught I would’ve told them each to kiss my ass too and get they behinds in the studio and make me some more goddamn MONEY the way these ungrateful suckas was acting.

I believe it 100% too.

Divine has the right attitude for management, where others would have cracked Hunter’s face open and tossed him on the nearest street corner, Divine used him to his advantage, and even had to swallow his pride and pay off the credit card bill.

He knows when to be firm, like with Rae, and he knows when to try a softer approach, like with Ghost.

He only messed up by playing Deck to the left too long. He should’ve done SOMETHING to appease him, of course you can’t force a solo deal but you gotta show him there’s a plan for him. Make him the official face of Wu-Wear. Get him some endorsement deals. Broker deals to get him on some more soundtracks. SOMETHING to show that his hard work is being “seen” and appreciated.

It’s crazy how the most undisciplined ones seem to turn out to be the stars. Ghost, in real life around this time, was a known dust head who was still whopping nikkas asses and in the streets. Rae is a hater supreme whose bad with money management. ODB is a live wire, drug addicted, unreliable fukk up. Only two who really popped and seemed to keep cool heads was GZA and Meth.

RZA was smart enough to be like:hubie: and take Divine’s advice and let Divine handle the “unsavory” parts of the business. Looks like he even moved out of the mansion by this time. RZA learned his lesson after having to chase ODB around town and said “fukk it”.

Cappadonna looking at that contract like:gladbron: was a great moment. Crazy how he ended up with one of the best Wu-tang produced solo joints but ended up driving cabs
They did kinda set Deck up for the push after Forever. That album was basically his showcase. His album was suppose to come out in '97 but between Wu's implosion then and Loud sitting him on the shelf, there was really nothing that could be done. Damn shame that he was a victim like that. I still wish he & RZA link up for that final album though.
 

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And for the record, I hated that Motherless Child & Winter Wars were on Ironman. I wanted the Box in Hand version listed, that I didn't hear until 3yrs after
 

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For the show, they've compressed the timeline, but GZA was one of the first signed w/ Meth & Dirty off the jump and had songs recorded way back, like the cut on the Fresh sdtk or Meth shouting out GZA on "Killah Hills 10304" back on Tical. But I'm sure it's just an exaggeration on the label stressing for a 4th qtr release while the Wu demand was at a fever pitch.


Dirt doesn't do a verse but he's on the Marvel outro on Ironman


Sony/Loud deal happened in 99...again, the show timeline is crunching all these factors in Deck's delay into this one year


Interestingly enough, for Winter Warz on Don't Be A Menace... Ghost (along w/ Rae, MK & Deck) appears courtesy of Loud. Cappa appears courtesy of Razor Sharp and there's another artist courtesy of Razor Sharp Records on that album:



Again with all the timeline stuff, realize you're seeing them condense the signing, conception, recording, marketing & release of all of these projects that dropped in 95 as all happening in the same year to condense the narrative and add to the drama of all this chaos and fast climb of the crew and put it all into the final season. The tour episode was kind of all the Wu tours combined & this was kind of all the label & contract drama combined.

Wasn't Uey initially signed to Loud? I remember one of those Courtesy of...seeing Uey Loud. Can't remember which one.
 

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Great episode. Divine has been my favorite character on the show. I’m glad he got his shine. The Diggs brothers put up and probably continue putting up with a lot from these crazy knucklehead artists.

I’ve been feeling bad for Divine since the Wu Doc when he said the rest of the Clan didn’t want him involved and RZA told him to just go sit on his boat. I thought the nikka was going to cry. :mjcry:

The actor is definitely the most talented out of the cast. Hope to see more from him.
 
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