No Ghost?
We’ve got the full version of the Wu’s new ‘8 Diagram’ album, and you can check out a track-by-track breakdown below, but just to clarify our comments about ‘Life Changes’, the seven-plus minute long ODB tribute track:
The copy of the album HHC has is the same as the one you’ll be buying in stores throughout Europe (so that’s complete with a bonus track not on the US one), and - sadly - nowhere on ‘Life Changes’ does Ghostface appear.
Whether that’s down to internal politics, artists’ hectic schedules, a formatting oversight, or even just a mess up at the studio, Starks is absent from the track. For the record, the order of emcees paying respects to Dirt Dog is Meth, Rae, GZA, Masta Killa, Deck, U God, and RZA, with the beat filtering out for RZA’s final extended verse, which begins:
“Ah man, how do I say goodbye?/It’s always the good ones that have to die/It’s hard to live without you, god, I shouldn’t have doubted you/When you said that the ‘Passion Of Christ’ was all about you…”