"I hope people use it to score their own lives, to transform a drive to the grocery store or sharing a meal with loved ones into something magical”: Wu Tang’s RZA has high hopes for his hip-hop ballet

RZA playing the piano.

Post-Hamilton, we’re all used to the idea of a hip-hop musical. So why not a hip-hop ballet?

Well, that’s exactly what Wu-Tang Clan man RZA has written. He’s teamed up with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra to record a ‘classical ballet album’ called A Ballet Through Mud, which is set to land in late August.