When Raekwon was publicly sniping with the RZA over the direction of the Wu-Tang Clan, he was never quite specific about what his problem with RZA’s musical decisions was. Now, based on Rae’s new single “Call Of Duty,” we can now guess what his issue was: Not enough Akon choruses. Maybe Raekwon still hasn&...

The internal dymanics of the Wu-Tang Clan have always been a fascinating thing, but lately, they’ve been fascinating in the bad way, with Raekwon publicly bickering with crew leader RZA over the direction of the group and their in-progress album A Better Tomorrow. Last month, Rae announced that he was “on strike” fr...

In recent months we’ve been witness to an escalating feud between Wu-Tang Clan members RZA (who’s desperately trying to assemble one last group LP called A Better Tomorrow) and Raekwon (who declared himself on strike from the Wu because he thinks RZA is an out-of-touch control freak). RZA tried to win Rae over with kindness [...

As a rap crew, the Wu-Tang Clan has always been a notoriously chaotic and fractured entity, and no Wu-Tang member has been quicker to criticize crew mastermind RZA than Raekwon. When Wu-Tang released their last studio effort, 2007′s deeply underrated and commercially disappointing 8 Diagrams, Rae was the first person in the group to ca...

It’s hard to say what’s going on with Raekwon right now. He doesn’t seem all that excited about either of the Wu-Tang Clan albums that are supposedly on the way. And while he’s got verses on two of this year’s best rap albums — Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron and Freddie Gibbs and Madl...