Studio Album · No. 6
A Better Tomorrow Songwriting Credits by Wu-Tang Clan
Holds writing credit on 15 of 15 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 15 / 15 documented
Scored across the 15 tracks with documented writers, by whether Wu-Tang Clan carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 15 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
A Better Tomorrow marked Wu-Tang Clan's 20th-anniversary reunion, and RZA again produced the bulk of it while each member contributed his own written verses. RZA assembled the album partly from sessions spread across years and aimed for an accessible, message-driven tone on tracks like 'Keep Watch' and 'Ron O'Neal,' a direction that reportedly caused creative tension with members who wanted a grittier record. The result is a polished but lower-selling reunion that debuted at number 29 on the Billboard 200.
The sixth Wu-Tang Clan album, released December 2, 2014 on Wu-Tang Records, Asylum and Warner Bros. to mark twenty years since 36 Chambers, and only after three years of public back-and-forth in which Raekwon, GZA and Ghostface Killah each doubted out loud that it would happen. RZA produced eleven of the fifteen tracks and Mathematics, 4th Disciple, Rick Rubin and Adrian Younge took the rest. Six of the songs are built on other people's records, so the writing credits reach past the Clan to Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, David Porter, and Martin Luther King Jr., whose 'I Have a Dream' speech is excerpted on 'Never Let Go.' It opened at number 29 on the Billboard 200 with 24,386 copies.