Wu-Tang Clan have carried out the ultimate evening of their almost two-month lengthy Las Vegas residency with a particular shock look the crew’s longtime affiliate Redman.
“Wu-Tang Clan: The Saga Continues … The Las Vegas Residency” closed out at The Theater at Virgin Lodges on Saturday evening (March 24), following a 7-week run which kicked off on February 4.
The present went as deliberate for a lot of the evening, with the crew performing traditional hits together with “Shield Ya Neck” and C.R.E.A.M. in addition to particular person tracks hits and smaller posse cuts like Raekwon‘s “Ice Cream,” Ghostface Killah‘s “Cherchez La Ghost” and a handful of Ol’ Soiled Bastard releases carried out by his son, Younger Soiled Bastard.
The night’s twist occurred when, after delivering the hook on “Ice Cream,” Technique Man began diving into his personal catalogue. Nevertheless, Saturday evening’s present noticed him cease his efficiency of “All I Want” brief earlier than telling the gang that he wished to “get their vitality up.”
He proceeded to launch into his opening verse of “Da Rockwilder” whereas nonetheless standing on stage alone. Nevertheless, simply as his title appeared on the on-stage display, followers shortly started realizing that the Redman ad-libs they had been listening to had been dwell; and the Funk Doc emerged on cue for verse two as the gang misplaced it.
The duo proceeded to carry out “Y.O.U.” earlier than reminding the gang that they had been among the many earliest Hip Hop stars to loudly proclaim their affinity for marijuana as an intro to their iconic 1995 weed anthem “How Excessive.”
Following the shock Crimson & Meth break, the Wu returned to enterprise as typical, with Younger Soiled Bastard leaping on stage with the seven residing members of the crew who had been in attendance (with GZA being the one one lacking) closing out the night with a rendition of “Triumph.”
Try clips from the present under.
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Whereas it has turn out to be essentially the most performed model of their iconic duet, it appears neither Technique Man nor Redman was initially in love with the “How Excessive” remix.
“‘How Excessive,’ Crimson and Meth wasn’t comfortable about,” Erick Sermon of the legendary EPMD revealed in an unique interview with HipHopDX on February 27.
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Sermon specified that he was speaking in regards to the remix, which samples the Silver Conference’s 1975 jam “Fly, Robin, Fly.” That model was used within the tune’s video.
“I made the unique model, which is the onerous model. However then once I made it common with the ‘Fly, Robin, Fly,’ they was pissed. As a result of they arrive to the video shoot, they usually’re anticipating to listen to one thing else, they usually hear this so-called ‘industrial pop file.’”
He continued: “Russell [Simmons] and Lyor [Cohen] was there, they usually made positive that it get executed. […] And it went platinum.”
