Background and Recording
After the release of Wu-Tang Clan's sophomore album Wu-Tang Forever, group leader RZA assigned the members to work primarily with affiliates on their up-coming solo projects, while he "called dibbs" on Ghostface Killah. RZA also instructed the members to keep Wu-Tang guest appearances to a minimum, as he saw their earlier solo albums as "giving away Wu-Tang to labels who had only signed one member". Although RZA would work occasionally with other group members and affiliates during this time, Supreme Clientele would be the Wu-Tang related project he was most involved in since Wu-Tang Forever.
Recording for Supreme Clientele began in 1998, and took place at several studios in New York, and Florida. This, however, would be interrupted due to Ghostface Killah serving a prison sentence at Riker's Island for a 1995 charge he caught at the Palladium nightclub in New York. Although Ghostface was in prison for six months, he still had a weapons charge that was pending when he and RZA got back to finishing the remainder of the album.
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