Ghostface Killah Says Diddy Is the Reason Wu-Tang Clan Wasn’t on Radio in 1997

Ghostface Killah Says Diddy Is the Reason Wu-Tang Clan Wasn’t on Radio in 1997

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  3. If this was a title on paper, I don’t think Amish people would understand this headline.

  4. Shout-out to 92.1 The Beat for playing nothing but rap for a few magical years in the early 00’s.

  5. I feel like keeping Wu off the airwaves actually helped them maintain long term credibility as artists. No one took the shiny suit types seriously. They were just club music. Uh huh, uh huh.

  6. I can’t believe that fuck deprived me of the GOAT ODB 😡

  8. I mean, “Triumph” is a great song, but it’s a 5-minute barfest with no hook. Be realistic.

  9. I can’t believe that they weren’t bumping Triumph on the radio. That was an insane track, did Diddy have a video of the head of Hot97 at one of his parties?

  10. *”I wanna hear that Wu-Tang joint again!”
    “Again?”
    “Awwyeeeah again and again!”*

  11. I’m sure Diddy and his friends hate anything that espouses unity of the people.

  14. Im beginning to think this Diddy guy is a a real piece of shit

  16. This makes sense. First of all, fuck P. Diddy. Second, that makes perfect sense because of how much influence Puff Daddy had at that point, and how jealous he must have been once Biggie was gone and he knew how shitty he was with Mace.

  17. To be fair, Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothin to fuck with

  21. I guess Diddy took “Wu Tang Clan aint nothing to fuck with” as a challenge.

  22. You mean the 5+ minute lyrical hip hop track without a hook didn’t get airplay?

  25. Ima sew your asshole shut and just keep feeding you and feeding you and feeding you

  27. As long as they weren’t kept out of the film industry. Don’t know where we’d be culturally as a society without Iron Fist Pillage.

  28. Diddy had everybody off the Air in 97. He made ‘street rappers’ less interesting to commercial outlets & record labels that wanted to profit from the music.

    WuTang is worth a lot

    But they are not worth close to what Bad Boy Records was

    They didn’t have ‘energy’ to compete.

    It wasn’t until DMX came out in 1998 that all that changed and he even said it
    “Let my man and them stay pretty, but i’mma stay sh**ty
    Cruddy it′s all for the money, is you wit’ me?

    Get the bitches, and I′ll commit the crime

    And when it’s on we transform like Optimus Prime

    ^ this was directed at people like Jay-Z and Bad Boy who were ‘shiny suit’ era

  29. The cussing probably didn’t help either, but definitely Diddy did it

  31. The only single I really heard of theirs that seemed to breakthrough was Gravel Pit, that was everywhere for a while. Long live the Wu.

  33. I mean, I’d agree that more Wu-Tang is always a good thing.

    But I discovered Wu-Tang because “Triumph” was on both radio where I lived and MTV.

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