Cher brought in to lend some cred to new Wu-Tang Clan album
For those who thought that producing a single copy housed within an ornamented silver-and-nickel box that would then be paraded through the world’s finest art galleries and museums was the most gangsta thing about Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, now comes confirmation that two songs feature vocals from Cher, star of the classic hip-hop film Moonstruck. Cher’s involvement was first hinted at on the album’s website, which promised “special guest appearances by Bonnie Jo Mason.” This was not, as it turns out, yet another name for the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, but rather a reference to Cher’s own musical pseudonym, used on the 1964 novelty single “Ringo, I Love You.”