The Wu Tang Clan announced today that they are putting finishing touches on the new studio album titled The 8 Diagrams in New York's Legacy Recording Studio. The comeback includes collaborations with Q-Tip & Killah Priest among others.


Tentative tracklist for album so far goes as follows:

The Legacy Heroes (prod. Rza)
Ropes and Knives (prod. Rza)
Shaolin Trip (prod. Mathematics)
Kids With Words ft/ Q-Tip (prod. Rza)
Definition of Pain (background vocals by Marley Marl) (prod. Loose Change)
Steel Vision ft/ Killah Priest (prod. Mathematics)
Life Changes (ODB Tribute)
Ancient Crunch (prod. Aqua Kid)
Tenz (prod. Choco)
Of course, this will also be the Wu's first collaboration since the passing of original member Ol' Dirty Bastard, who died in 2004. "We still miss him every day," RZA added. "It's like you lost an arm or a leg, you feel incomplete. He was a very special person, like a very rare diamond. You know, it's like you wake up one day and they're saying: 'There are not diamonds in the world anymore, just cubic zirconia...'"


—The ARTISTdirect Staff
06.18.07