article_snippet: RZA - pronounced 'rizza' - drew together nine MCs, including his own cousins who adopted the pseudonyms Ol' Dirty Bastard and GZA.
article_snippet: RZA, né Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, wants the long-awaited album to be treated like a work of art .
article_snippet: Unlike RZA, né Robert Fitzgerald Diggs other albums, it has not been produced by the group's de facto leader RZA (pictured) but by his apprentice, Moroccan rapper and producer Tarik 'Cilvaringz' Azzougar .
article_snippet: With industry domination in their sights, RZA saw that each member of the Clan was signed with different production companies, while maintaining their loyalty as a group.
article_snippet: Unlike their other albums, it has not been produced by the group's de facto leader RZA but by the group's de facto leader RZA apprentice, Moroccan rapper and producer Tarik 'Cilvaringz' Azzougarh - a Wu-Tang fan who visited the group's New York office five times until they took the group's de facto leader RZA on.
article_snippet: Cilvaringz explains the group's de facto leader RZA and RZA were already developing the concept of a record charting the Wu's history when the music industry changed completely.
article_snippet: And despite years of disputes erupting between the clan's members, RZA insists that there was 'no tension' when RZA informed RZA brethren RZA had been working on a secret album, adding 'the eight members, excluding RZA, are the most talented MCs I have ever encountered.