On the final night of the Wu-Tang Clan’s nearly two-month run in Las Vegas, the cast’s longtime collaborator Redman made a special surprise appearance.
Wu-Tang Clan: The Legend Continues…Las Vegas Residency concludes on Saturday night (March 24) at the Virgin Hotels Theater after a seven-week run that began on February 4.
The entire evening’s performance went as planned, with the crew performing classic hits including “Protect Ya Neck” and “CREAM,” as well as solo hits and smaller group cuts like Raekwon’s “Ice Cream,” Ghostface Killah’s “Cherchez La Ghost” and his son Young Dirty Bastard performed some of the “Ol’ Dirty Bastard” compositions.
The night took a turn when, after delivering the title track of “Ice Cream,” Method Man began to delve deeper into his own catalog. However, during Saturday night’s show, he briefly stopped performing “Everything I Need” before telling the audience he wanted to “get their energy back.”
He continued to stand alone on the stage and began singing the opening verse of “Da Rockwilder.” However, when his name appeared on the stage screen, fans quickly realized that the Redman improv they were hearing was live; as the audience lost track of the second verse, Doctor Funk appeared.
The pair went on to perform “YOU” before reminding the crowd that they were one of the first hip-hop stars to loudly proclaim their love for marijuana as a prelude to their iconic 1995 marijuana anthem “How High.”
After a surprising break for Red & Meth, Wu was back to business as usual, and Young Dirty Bastard jumped on stage with the seven living staff in attendance (GZA was the only one missing) for a rendition of “Victory.”
See a clip from the show below.
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Although it has become the most played version of their iconic duet, it seems that neither Method Man nor Redman initially liked the “How High” remix.
“‘How high,’ Red and Meth weren’t happy with it,” legendary EPMD’s Erick Sermon revealed in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX on February 27.
Sermon made it clear that he was talking about the remix, which samples Silver Convention’s 1975 jam “Fly, Robin, Fly.” This version was used in the song’s video.
“I made the original version, the hard version. But when I popularized it with ‘Fly, Robin, Fly,’ they got mad. Because they came to the video shoot expecting to hear something else, they heard this so-called ‘commercial pop record’. “
He continued: “Russell [Simmons] and Lyle [Cohen] They are there and make sure things get done. […] And then it went platinum. “
