Wu-Tang Clan's reunion with Loud Records founder Steve Rifkind is official, as the group has announced a new album titled 8 Diagrams, which will hit stores this summer on Rifkind's SRC label, through Universal Records.

8 Diagrams, which is named after a Kung-Fu epic, is the the first new album from Wu-Tang Clan in six years.

The album will feature RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon the Chef, Ghostface Killah, Inspektah Deck, Masta Killa and U-God, all original members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

The new album will also contain an unreleased performance that will show fans why deceased group member Ol' Dirty Bastard "was considered one of the illest MCs ever," before dying of a heart attack in Nov. 2004.

“This is the perfect time for us to come back, the stars are aligned,” RZA said. “It’s like when we first started with Steve. We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B. We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks.”

RZA founded the group with GZA and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard, who is memorialized on the song “Life Changes."

The group has released several groundbreaking albums including Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993), Wu-Tang Forever (1997) and 2001's Iron Flag.

According to the RZA, the new album will be a "conjunction of creative and corporate thinking by the whole group.”

“People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush,” RZA continued. “We’re here to supply that fix. How could hip-hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever? We’re here to revive the spirit and the economics and bring in a wave of energy that has lately dissipated.”

The reunion with Rifkind comes as the seasoned music industry veteran is enjoying a banter year.

Akon's SRC/Universal sophomore release Konvicted was recently certified platinum, after five weeks of being on the shelves.

“The energy is just like it was, and it’s needed in our industry same as back then,” Rifkind said. “Over the last few years, the group has developed a whole new fan base of 20-year-olds and even younger who’ve never even seen them play.”

I know some of you like Wu-Tang.

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you fucking homo

I liked Wu-Tang in middle school.

I hope this doesn't suck like The W.

i thought they were all dead or in jail.

nothing beats Liquid Swords or Bob Digi

I am actually pumped on this. Good news. Anything is better than little john.

the W wasn't bad granted it wasn't as good as the other shit but it was still good...i've loved this group since i was like 12 all the solo shit is nasty. I def agree with W3 on liquid swords and bobby digital. Inspekta deck and ghostfaces shit is nasty to.

how can you have a Wu-Tang CD with no ODB?

DreamingInExile said:

well, all dead rappers end up making more music when they're dead than when they're alive anyway, so they'll find a way, haha

DreamingInExile said:

There already is one, Iron Flag, and the W has him on one verse.

ah, that would explain it, I stopped listening to them after Wu-Tang Forever.

ConquerTheBaphomet said:

I went to church in elementary school.

Wu Tang clan ain't nuthin' to fuck with

I thought this was a metal site?

HailAtWork said:

umm can you recite any line that you didnt see on comedy central

Mercury raps is roughed then God just shown like taps
Red and white Wally's that match, bend my baseball hat
Doin forever shit, like pissin out the window on turnpikes
Robbin niggaz for leathers, high swipin on dirt bikes
Voice be metal like Von Harper radio bubble
Murder sleep away camp, the fly lady champ
The arsonist, who burn with his pen regardless
Slaying all these earthlings and fake foreigners
In the Phillipines, pick herbal beans, bubbling strings
Body chemical CREAM, we burn kerosene
The conviction of my tape is rape, wicked like Nixon
Long-heads inscriptions with three sixes in
Kiss the pyramid experiment with high explosive
I slapbox with Jesus, lick shots at Joseph
Zoomin like binoculars, the rap blacksmith
Money's Rolex, with sparkles, Chef ragtop is spotless
I'm Iron Man no cheap cash metal I'm steel alloy
True identity hidden inside secret tabloids
Breathe oxygen both sides of my jaw carry oxes
The track hit like the bangers, in hundred watt boxes
Yo jostling these cats while Little J be deli-ing
Sip Irish Moss out of Widelians

nucca you cut and paste.

Hell yeah.

Triumph is my official kareoke song, kid. I switch up my voices with each member's verse. If I had the wardrobe budget I would attempt to recreate each members' outfit from the video. But alas, Cappadonna changes clothes at least 10 times during his terrible verse.

jansen you are truely an artist and i take back anything i might have ever said wrongly about you.

BobNOMAAMRooney nli said:

HAAH im the same way i know like every word to each verse. its a definite drunk kareoke song. and if you recreated that you'd have to put it on youtube you would be famous

you bunch of niggers
get off this board

zipperhead said:

yeah im black so what you gonna do something about it.

pussbucketcheapfubuwearinmofoassedhonkeycrackassedbitchcameltoe

that's it! tar and feathers his asssss! yeeeee hawwwwww!

i like jack daniels bbq sauce on my steaktips

the best thing about wu tang is that a nigger swallowed a bunch of crack and died

PBCFWIMAHCBC rules.

that guy knows ha

cappa said:

I'm sorry, am I losing troo points? Am I not allowed to play metal ever again any shape or form? I hope I don't get banned from the board for sharing something I knew other people would like to know...

by the way how do you like all the "[video] hey check out this dude shitting his pants" threads? are they metal enough for you?

fukk yozelf phoooool

haha killerkadoogan is the closest thing to a Jimmy Bower this music scene has, you rule ben....fuck those faggots.