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...easy to do because the labels are in competition with one another. There was only one year [1995] that they all listened to me, and that turned out to be a great year for everybody. Geffen, Loud, Def Jam and Elektra got together and bought this thing called the Wu Family Tree, which is a bin they put in record stores. It had the GZA record, the Wu-Tang record, the Method Man record and so forth. Everybody in the bin's sales doubled the month it was introduced...
...TIME: How do you see things differently now from three years ago, when the last Wu-Tang album was released...
...outlook ain't really about how much revenue we're making right now. The purity of the W is more where my heart is at. A few years ago I made a comment to my brothers, my business partners, that we gonna take this from digital to Disney. Wu Tang is gonna be like the Mickey Mouse ears. And with that kind of goal we got involved with a lot of different things to make that come to fruition. But some things got outta hand because the partners we wound up joining with didn't have the same agenda...
...TIME: What are some products we can expect Wu-Tang to move into in the coming years...
...First off, Wu Tang Filmz is gettin' ready to explode. But I'm also into electronics right now. I'm currently developing a new sampling machine that's more DJ-friendly than any sampling machine out right now. It will also be more physical than any other sampling machine out right now. Most sampling machines are just a computer interface where you press buttons. This'll have a computer interface but it'll also have a physical element to it that will definitely bring a very special twist to the art of making hip-hop music...