The Wu-Tang trademark has become synonymous with gritty, street corner hip-hop. With album sales totaling more than six million, the Staten Island, New York collective has made quite a name for itself in the last decade and shows no sign of slowing down. Wu-Tang mastermind RZA says, "The Killa Beez is everybody in the Wu-Tang family."

The Sting, the Killa Beez sophomore effort is due out March 12, 2002 on KOCH/In The Paint and Wu Tang Records.

The Sting is the follow-up to the Killa Beez's 1998 debut record entitled The Swarm, a certified Gold release. It reunites the many branches of the Wu-Tang family tree. RZA continues, "the record features ODB, U-God, Inspectah Deck, Sunz of Man, Royal Fam, Black Knights, North Star, American Cream Team as well as solo artists like Solomon Childs, Lord Superb, and War Cloud. Basically, everyone in our family is considered a Killa Bee." RZA adds, "A Killa Beez album is the type of album where you can gather flavors from everybody. On this album, I tried to reach out to all the Killa Beez to come out and bless this project."