Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA, System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian, Kinetic 9 (aka Beretta 9 from Killarmy) and up-and-coming Chicago rapper Reverend William Burke have formed the new group Achozen.

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Review of Wu-Tang's 8 Diagrams

Wu-Tang has not released an album since 2001's Iron Flag, but getting them together has proven the right move, as 8 Diagrams is a new classic album in an age where hip-hop is supposedly dead.

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Jay-Z, the rap superstar and president of Def Jam Records, has quietly returned to the studio to record an album of new songs inspired by the forthcoming movie "American Gangster," his first "concept" album and second CD in less than a year.

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