In 2005, DJ Muggs teamed up with Wu-Tang Clan's GZA for the album "Grandmasters", the first project released on his label Angeles Records. Patterned after a chess game, it received positive reviews; Muggs also announced a "Soul Assassins III" album, produced jointly by himself and Alchemist, reportedly to be preceded by a record called "Cloak & Dagger", also featuring Alchemist. Instead, Muggs produced an album for Psycho Realm member Sick Jacken, "Legend of the Mask and the Assassin" two years later, in 2007. In 2008, Muggs announced that his album with California rapper Planet Asia would be the third Soul Assassins album, but the two released "Pain Language" later that year as a simple collaboration.