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2. The Soundtrack One thing RZA has proven he does know is music. Founding member and producer of The Wu-Tang Clan, whose name was inspired by another martial arts film Shaolin and Wu Tang, it almost feels justified to expect the soundtrack to be good. The trailer advertises new music from The Black Keys, Kanye West, RZA, Wiz Khalifa and The Wu-Tang Clan and features the Travis Barker, RZA, Raekwon and Tom Morello track Carry It. Not content with acting, writing and directing, RZA is also composing the soundtrack. Hes had experience in this area too, having composed the scores to, amongst others, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, Kill Bill and Blade: Trinity. RZAs intention was to create a score using contemporary artists, speaking to Variety; RZA said, For every one minute of music, it sometimes took two days. So it wasnt easy to do it like that, and there were a lot of crashes on the computers because there are so many different waves and layers on top of things to make it sound real and to give a real string articulation. There's a sense that a real effort is being made on all fronts by RZA. Even the most auteur-like directors don't compose the score themselves. It seems the score will be an integral part of the film, prominent as well as being advertised in the trailer, so important to the martial arts genre and produced by the producer of one of the biggest hip hop groups of all time, who just happens to know a thing or two about martial arts films, surely The RZA would have been hired as composer even if he wasnt already involved.