Last week Wu-Tang member U-God told MTV.com that RZA is to blame for the group’s decline in status and that he used divide and conquer tactics to keep the group in line. But RZA recently responded to those accusations and his story is entirely different.

The RZA responded late last week via the Wu-Tang Web site www.wutangcorp.com: “U-Godzilla has a distorted memory of the Wu and his involvement. And for him to state that I dealt with separation is blasphemous, for it was my focus on unity that made us strong and successful. I don’t deal with separation nor unrighteousness amongst my peers or my enemies.”

RZA said that many people felt U-God was the weak link of the group and that he insisted the rapper remain.

“I recall his skill level being far behind the other members because jail makes you stiff and less fluent, just as it was when ODB first came home,” RZA explained. “Still I kept him in the rankings and made sure he ate a equal amount that the rest enjoyed even though he was barely present on the early product. So when he claims that he was pushed to the side or made a slave he is only fabricating lies and using a bias distorted form of our history.”

Last Thursday, the two MCs were featured guests on Sway’s Renegade Radio morning show on New York’s Hot 97. U-God was in-studio while RZA participated via phone. The Clansmen aired out their differences and at the end of the program agreed to meet up and talk.