RZA is aware of an iconic showdown when he sees one.
Throughout a Thursday, Feb. 27 look on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Wu-Tang Clan member spoke concerning the rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
Colbert, 60, requested if RZA, 55, had been following alongside the “dramatic” feud, which hit a fever pitch with Lamar’s 2025 Tremendous Bowl Halftime present. RZA did, certainly, evaluating it to “Godzilla vs. King Kong.”
The rapper mentioned that Wu-Tang by no means skilled a significant beef and defined why it may be “worthwhile in hip-hop.”
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“Hip-hop is a sport. It is a sport the place we problem emcees, we problem the deejays, we problem the breakdancers, we problem who could make the very best graffiti tag,” mentioned RZA.
He continued, “It is good for the game when there’s confrontation. It is wholesome, so long as it stays on the file and stays within the music, and it would not spill over to the streets the place someone will get damage.”
The rap beef between Drake, 38, and Lamar, 37, dates again to 2023 when J. Cole and Drake described themselves and Lamar because the “massive three” within the tune “First Individual Shooter.” Lamar disagreed and joined Future and Metro Boomin on the observe “Like That” in response.
Diss tracks between Drake and Lamar went forwards and backwards till Lamar dropped “Not Like Us” in 2024, the place Lamar known as the “Hotline Bling” singer a pedophile and a “colonizer.”
Most lately, Lamar gained 5 Grammy Awards on Feb. 2 for his album GNX, which featured the diss observe “Not Like Us.” He then carried out it in the course of the 2025 Tremendous Bowl Halftime present on Feb. 9 in a set full of easter eggs.
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RZA’s look comes days after the Wu-Tang Clan introduced their closing tour happening over the summer season via June and July earlier than wrapping in Philadelphia.
RZA additionally mentioned that the Remaining Chamber Tour is “all of us coming again collectively:” “Each one in every of us exhibiting that even via among the exhausting instances, among the beefs, and gripes that we had, the unity and the neighborhood is what retains us tight and united.”
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On the tour, he added that the group will probably be “sharing our tradition with the followers who saved us.” “With out artwork and tradition, and I am not shy to say this, a few of us had been highschool dropouts, a few of us obtained felonies on our rap sheet.”
“However the music and the humanities and the tradition saved our lives and that is our probability to return out yet one more time collectively collectively and share our power with our followers.”
The Wu-Tang Clan consists of Inspectah Deck, U-God, Ghostface Killah, Technique Man, Raekwon, Masta Killa and Cappadonna. Ol’ Soiled Bastard died in 2004 at 35 years previous.
