Earlier this week, a now-deleted blog post over at Wu-Tang Clan’s MySpace led folks of various stripes to believe the troupe’s first single from the forthcoming 8 Diagrams would include the first-ever sanctioned Beatles sample, a snippet from “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Nope. Turns out it was a question of semantics.
Via WuSpace)
The statement that we made yesterday was incorrect and we apologize for any confusion it may have caused. We DID NOT sample the Beatles, i repeat, we DID NOT sample the Beatles, rather we did an INTERPOLATION of the classic George Harrison composition ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps.’ In a historic collaboration, Dhani Harrison, son of George, through his friendship with the RZA, played guitar on the song and he himself helped secure the REUSE LICENSE. Also appearing on the song are John Frusciante, guitar player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Erykah Badu singing the chorus. To satisfy everyone’s curiosity, the song will be streamed exclusively on loud.com tonight. It will be the first single and video from the forthcoming album ’8 Diagrams’ in stores December 4.Thanks again to Dhani Harrison and the Harrison Estate for helping us make history.
So it’s Dhani (and Frusciante). Does that change your enjoyment of the ditty? The track’s streaming at loud.com, but to hear it, you need to register, etc. You can also head over to a supposed loud.com
, but all that’ll get you is “this is a loud.com exclusive” with a few seconds of guitar weeping in the background. So, hey, let’s make it easy for everyone and click on over to ohword.com. Oh, word.
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i weep for this “INTERPOLATION” — sooooo lame and boring.
Ghostface used the same song on a b-side called “my guitar” didn’t he?
ghostface alone used this same ‘interpolation’ on a track that wasn’t released a while back. his was much harder, more gritty. raekwon’s verse on this is too quiet and boring
Yeah, hip-hop is so irrelevant nowadays. Lets all kick back and sip our free trade coffees while we jerk off over Arcade Fire and Beirut’s amazing talent. They play real instruments, and create meaningful music. These thugs are just retards cursing into a microphone.
agreed that hip-hop has fallen off the radar of pretty much everyone including fans but you,sir, are wrong in saying such things about the wu. they are great and i support them in their battle to bring hip-hop back.
Does anyone have the real mp3?
i LOOOOOVe how anyone’s critical intentions, whenever they stray from the fawning praise variety or some “off the cuff” (read: really well thought out and scrutinized for spelling errors) witty/sarcastic remark that says something disparaging gets lambasted with some equally fucking lame and psuedo-ironic shit post.
hey, shit post! i fucking loathe you.
i’ve got so much love for the wu, but guess what? their raw finality and stellar broken discourse has gotten a little blah in later years. so be it. no one can fucking TOUCH cuban linx. so it goes. but let somebody say SOMETHING critical and don’t respond like an asshole, k everybody?
love you!
xoxoxoo
kev
anyone who knows the Beatles could have told you that was neither their recording nor George’s.
i’m just a person and that was just a boring wu song.
This song was really good. The kid who said hip-hop is going downhill is right in a way. The mainstream hip-hop is fucking garbage, but if you search you’ll find something good.
hey so wat if hip hop has declined ova the last few years but atleast wu tang are puttin their original hard shit out ther . they nt sayin i banged this ho or i gt this car they jus rappin wat abwt wat they see . like heart gently weeps is about the body weepin from dope use. mad love 4 wu tang
dont 4 get abwt ghostfaces new album cummin ot same day as 8 diagrams