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Los Angeles Times
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Wu-Tang Clan announces final North American tour
Wu-Tang is for the children, but as a touring act, it's soon to be for the history books. The era-defining New York rap group announced its final North American tour on Monday. The tour will kick off June 6 in Baltimore and wrap up July 18 in Philadelphia. 'Wu-Tang Clan has shown the world many chambers throughout our career; this tour is called The Final Chamber. This is a special moment for me and all my Wu brothers to run around the globe together one more time and spread the Wu swag, music, and culture,' founder RZA said in a statement. 'Most importantly to touch our fans and those who have supported us throughout the years. On this tour we're playing songs we've never played before to our audience and me and our production team have designed a Wu-Tang show unlike anything you've ever seen.' Wu-Tang Clan — the collective of artists that includes RZA, Ghostface Killah, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard — have an unmatched lore in hip-hop history, charging their noirish tales of Staten Island with brilliant sampling and imagery drawn from kung fu and samurai movies and comic-book mystique. 1993's sprawling 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' is regularly cited among the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. This tour is reported to include all surviving Wu-Tang Clan members and ODB's son, Young Dirty Bastard, in the lineup — a contrast to past runs that often didn't include the full crew. The group wrapped up a Las Vegas residency last year, a first for a hip-hop act, and RZA spent recent years making documentaries, books and scripted series to secure the group's legacy. It's unclear if the group plans to continue recording music or if this is just the end of regular touring. The tour will hit the Arena on June 22, along with California stops in Ontario, San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento.
CBS News
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Rap group Wu-Tang Clan brings final North American tour to California for 4 dates
Legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan on Monday announced their "Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber" tour that will launch this summer, including four late June dates in California. The sprawling New York City collective -- featuring producer and mastermind RZA along with acclaimed MCs GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard on early recordings -- will kick off the tour on June 6 at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore. Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber with Run The Jewels. The final tour begins. Tickets on sale Friday👐🏾 — Wu Tang Clan (@WuTangClan) February 24, 2025 Melding a distinctively gritty, cinematic sound and complex rhyming style during the early '90s that set the group apart from the era's teaming masses of gangsta rappers, the Wu-Tang Clan rocketed to fame with the release of its landmark debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993. That album and subsequent group and solo releases further established the collective's credentials over more than three decades as one of greatest crews in hip-hop history. Produced by AEG, the tour hits Pechanga Arena in San Diego on June 21, moving to Arena in Los Angeles on June 22 before heading north for concerts at the Chase Center in San Francisco on June 24 and Sacramento's Golden 1 Center on June 26. It comes to a close with a July 18 date at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center. The tour will also feature politically charged duo Run the Jewels (the celebrated partnership of rapper Killer Mike and former Company Flow rapper/producer El-P) as the opening act. "This is a special moment for me and all my Wu brothers to run around the globe together one more time and spread the Wu swag, music, and culture," the RZA said in a statement released with the tour announcement. "On this tour we're playing songs we've never played before to our audience and me and our production team have designed a Wu-Tang show unlike anything you've ever seen." The tour announcement also noted that there would be no pre-sale, with all tickets and VIP packages going on sale at 10 a.m. local time on February 28. Additional information can be found on .
The Guardian
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
No longer ‘forever'? Wu-Tang Clan hint at breakup with final world tour
After more than 30 years of music, during which they created an entire martial mythology as well as some of the greatest hip-hop records of all time, Wu-Tang Clan have signalled a possible end to the group. They have announced 'the start of their final tour', entitled Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber, which will initially visit 27 US cities, beginning 6 June in Baltimore. Bandleader RZA has alluded to later worldwide dates, saying in a statement: This is a special moment for me and all my Wu brothers to run around the globe together one more time and spread the Wu swag, music, and culture. Most importantly to touch our fans and those who have supported us throughout the years. On this tour we're playing songs we've never played before to our audience and me and our production team have designed a Wu-Tang show unlike anything you've ever seen. If these do prove to be the group's final shows, it will bring the curtain down on a wildly creative – and at times fractious – career for the nine-strong group. They formed in Staten Island in 1992, and with production by RZA, the group delivered their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) the following year, telling gritty stories filled with references to martial arts and comic books. Their supersized second album Wu-Tang Forever topped the charts in the US and UK, while third album The W contained some of their biggest hits including Gravel Pit and Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off). Three more studio albums followed, plus a curio release: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, an album released as a single copy, bought for $2m by pharmaceuticals tycoon Martin Shkreli in 2015. Some of the members' solo albums, such as Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele and Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, are also regarded as pinnacles of the hip-hop genre. They lost one of their most distinctive members in 2004, with the death of Ol' Dirty Bastard to an accidental drug overdose, and corralling the MCs together hasn't always been easy – there have been a number of other releases with one or more members missing. This April brings the release of Black Samson, an album with all nine members together again, though it is not an official Wu-Tang Clan album and is instead co-credited to producer Mathematics. The group also put on a united front – for most dates at least – at a Las Vegas concert residency held in 2024. Support on the US tour will come from Run the Jewels, the hip-hop duo of El-P and Killer Mike.
