NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) -- Classic video game brand Atari and hip-hop star RZA are teaming up for a new video game inspired album.
"Atari, one of the world's most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, today announced a co-production agreement with award-winning, hip-hop legend RZA," the company noted in a press release Friday.
"The partnership will serve as a platform to create new music based and inspired by the sounds and music in Atari's vast collection of games."
"I'm so excited to work on these iconic games to deliver what I believe will be one of my best albums," said the Wu-Tang Clan member and noted gamer. "I am going to invite some of my friends to join me and it will be Game On with the first beat!"
"RZA is a multi-talented artist and soundtrack virtuoso and we cannot wait to hear the new tracks he creates based on Atari's iconic video game sounds and music," added Atari chief executive office Fred Chesnais.
Atari, a pioneer in creating arcade games and home consoles, is most known for helping to define the video game industry in the 1970s and 1980s with iconic releases such as Pong, Asteroids, Centipede and many more.
RZA and his legendary hip-hop group the Wu-Tang clan last made headlines in November of 2015 when they auctioned off a one-of-a-kind, secret 31-track album entitled Once Upon A Time In Shaolin for millions.
Fans of the rap collective became enraged after it was discovered that former controversial Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli was revealed as the buyer. Known as one of the most despised men in America for raising the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat AIDS and cancer patients from $13.50 to $750 a pill, Shkreli teased fans about playing songs from the album online but never did.
