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After decades of putting on some of the most memorable live performances that hip-hop has to offer, the Wu-Tang Clan has announced that their upcoming road trip would be their last.
The group announced Monday, Feb. 24, that Wu-Tang Clan: The Final Chamber would be their final tour, starting on June 6 in Baltimore and running through 27 dates before ending in Philadelphia on July 18. The New York Times reports that the tour is set to include all of its surviving original members — RZA, GZA, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa — along with longtime affiliate Cappadonna and Young Dirty Bastard, son of the late founding member Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Despite releasing their first album more than 30 years ago, this tour will be the group’s biggest as a united front, with other efforts either being fewer dates or missing members. Run The Jewels – the renowned duo of Killer Mike and El-P — will join the tour as the supporting act.
The tour was the group’s second announcement over the past month, after revealing on Feb. 6 that they’d be reuniting for a new album called Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman: From The Wu-Tang, the Saga Continues Collection, scheduled for an April 6 release.
But as pointed out in his interview with the New York Times, it’s another step in a years-long campaign that group leader RZA has taken to preserve the group’s legacy. He’s produced a dramatized miniseries of the group’s story on Hulu, a four-part docuseries on Showtime, and assembled a Las Vegas residency, among other projects. Previous projects have also received new breaths of life: the new owners of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the ornately-cased singular copy album that the group auctioned off in 2015 for $2 million, played snippets for small crowds in 2024 before releasing a sampler to people who purchased partial ownership of the fabled album as an NFT.
RZA has spoken before about taking on a five-year plan to solidify the Wu-Tang Clan as a powerhouse in hip-hop, and he’s expressed the intent to take a similar approach here.
“Wu-Tang Clan has shown the world many chambers throughout our career; this tour is called ‘The Final Chamber.’ This is a special moment for me and all my Wu brothers to run around the globe together one more time and spread the Wu swag, music, and culture,” RZA said in a released statement. “Most importantly to touch our fans and those who have supported us throughout the years. On this tour we’re playing songs we’ve never played before to our audience and me and our production team have designed a Wu-Tang show unlike anything you’ve ever seen. And to top it off we’ve got the amazing Run the Jewels on our side.”
Tickets and VIP packages will go on sale at 10 a.m. local time on Friday, Feb. 28.
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