John on Wu-Tang Clan’s Beatles cover song

(from Rolling Stone)
During an interview Friday, Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA let us in on a hit tip: Wu-Tang are taking on the Beatles. Due November 13th, the Clan’s upcoming fifth album, 8 Diagrams, has a track RZA is currently calling “Gently Weeps.” It features a sample of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” which is cool enough. But what’s even cooler is the fact that Wu-Tang’s cover of the song features Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante on lead guitar and Dhani Harrison, George Harrison’s twenty-nine-year-old son, on acoustic. “He’s the biggest Wu-Tang fan in the world,” RZA says of Harrison, whom RZA called in for the session. “He knew all the kung fu shit [we reference]! That’s deep! I told him I would be honored if he played his father’s song.” The Wu song, which RZA says is about the destructive power of heroin, features Wu-Tang rapping over the band’s cover of the Beatles track. Method Man plays a smack addict, while Ghostface Killah plays a dope dealer and, in RZA’s words, lays down “one of the best lyrics I’ve ever heard him say.”

(from TeenMusic.com)
Rap supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan are giving the Beatles an urban twist by reworking the Fab Four’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps with George Harrison’s son for a new album. Group member RZA has revealed the eight-piece’s fifth album, 8 Diagrams, will feature the track Gently Weeps, which heavily samples the Beatles’ classic.

And, to give the new version the stamp of approval, the Wu-Tang Clan asked Dhani Harrison to join them in the studio.

Red Hot Chili Peppers star John Frusciante also joins the group on the track.

Rza admits he called Harrison and asked him to play on Gently Weeps after hearing he was a big fan of the rappers.He says, “He’s the biggest Wu-Tang fan in the world… I told him I would be honoured if he played his father’s song.”

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