how can hip hop be dead, when wu tang is forever?

If you were to glance over my notebooks from high school, the first thing to strike you probably wouldn't be neatly written algebra formulas but instead loosely sketched Wu Tang logos and a few ill written verses of me poorly mimicking Rza's rhyme pattern. I was a hardcore fan. So much so that a friend and I even printed our own t-shirts with "Wu Tang Killa Bees On a Storm" written across the back. To this day, a huge Wu Tang Forever poster is still plastered across the wall in my old bedroom back at my mom's house. So when this video of the Clan discussing their comeback album 8 diagrams leaked to the internet a few days ago, my interest was quickly rekindled. There's a point in the clip when U-God, ironically my least favorite Wu member, makes a very keen assessment of the game. "There is still some people that want that hardcore...we some hard rhymers." U-God maybe responsible for some of the most forgettable verses in the Wu catalog, but at least for the sake of this post, we should all actually take note of what he said. U-God is right. Though the genre is dominated by radio-friendly, dance inspired, bullshit for lack a better word, there is still a devout following of fans that yearn to relive the days when rappers challenged the listeners. And if you don't believe so, tell that to the hundreds of white people that stood in the rain watching the Wu and others perform at the Rock the Bells concert. A new Wu album (more Wu Tang Forever, less Iron Flag) is exactly what the game needs. Its gonna take more than a single Ghostface record, we need the Wu collectively to push lyricism back to the forefront. Hip hop needs to return to form and revisit the gritty sound that made listeners into fans and fans into followers. The Wu is capable of bringing back that feeling to hip hop. Just go back and listen to Only Built For Cuban Linx, Ironman, Wu Tang Forever, Liquid Swordz, and Supreme Clientele, you can't deny that feeling. Those records are classics...this is what the game needs.

On a side note, what the fuck is RZA talking about at the end when he is explaining the meaning of 8 diagrams?! We don't need a long winded explanation!! Damn nigga just rap!