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[man] Do you think
your Wu-Tang sword
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can defeat me ?
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[RZA] The hest sword style
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that l've ever witnessed
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in a martial art film
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was the Wu-Tang sword.
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[sword swishing noises]
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[man] If what you say
is true,
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the Shaolin and the Wu Tang
could be dangerous.
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[fighting noises]
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[RZA] Yo, l got this idea
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of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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d Ambient music d
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Some of the best MCs
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that I've heard
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are the homies l hang with,
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my peers.
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They was different, yo.
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d Overachiever d
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d Power-hungry overeater d
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d l-95, whip fly
like an overseer d
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d l'm overconfident but some
might say l'm overeager d
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d Or over-zealous, especially
when it's over cheeha d
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[RZA] lt was something
that only Staten lsland
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had developed.
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I named it the Wu-Tang slang .
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d What's the deal, Conrad d
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[RZA] Wu-tang became
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the style that identified
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the best MCs.
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Method Man ,
I nspectah Deck,
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Raekwon , "The Chef."
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U-God , Ghostface Killah ,
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Cappadonna,
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OI' Dirty Bastard ,
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the GZA, the RZA.
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Masta Killa.
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ddd
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25 years is a long time.
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ddd
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Even through all the troubles
that we may have
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amongst each other,
cause each other,
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at any given time,
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when we come hack together,
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there's a goodness
of ener0y.
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[woman] Drinks?
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Look at these.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Iaughs]
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[laughter]
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It's sick.
Know what I mean?
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[RZA] Wu-Tang--
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We started with camaraderie
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and brotherhood.
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ddd
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That's how I saw it, and that's
nothing to do with business, yo.
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The only way it makes cense
is in brotherhood ,
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and that's what we proclaim .
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d Jaunty music d
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[man] Brothers of the Shaolin.
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Wu-Tang Clan
strikes again.
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The RZA! The GZA!
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[crowd chants]
OI' Dirty Bastard !
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d Inspectah Deck
Raekwon the Chef d
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d U-God, Cappadonna d
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d Masta Killa,
Ghostface Killah d
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[man] Clan means family.
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These are my brothers.
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[ODB] You have to start
from the bottom
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in order to get to the top.
Know what I'm saying?
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And once you get to the top,
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once you get to the top,
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there's only one way to go.
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[man] These young motherfuckers
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from Staten lsland, New York,
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had captured the world.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[man chuckles]
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d Haunting rap
instrumental background d
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[RZA] The thing, l think,
that made us different
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was the experiences
that we'd been through .
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[U-God] We was poor,
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looking for a way.
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[Ghostface Killah]
From where l came from...
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Which--which way
to on stage?
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- This way?
- Sure.
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I'm grateful for everything.
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It was rough .
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[gruntc]
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Hiya!
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[Ghostface Killah]
l'm from the era where
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you're 9onna get robbed .
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[man] Cot era.
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Lawless.
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Motherfuckers will punch you
in your face for your shit.
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[man] lt was a nightmare,
you know,
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but at the same time,
it was home.
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ddd
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d Wu-Tang Clan
ain't nothing to fuck with d
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d Wu-Tang Clan
ain't nothing to fuck with d
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d Wu-Tang Clan
ain't nothing to fuck with d
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d Wu-Tang Clan
ain't nothing to fuck with d
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[RZA] The Bible said
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that when
the son of man returns,
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out of his mouth will come
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a double-edged sword.
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Our tongue is our sword .
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d I be tossing, enforcing,
my style is awesome d
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d Causing more family feuds
than Richard Dawson d
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- d And the survey say d
- d You're dead d
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d The Fatal Flying Guillotine
chops off your fuckin ' head d
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d Mister, who was that? d
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d Hey, yo, the Wu is back d
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d Making niggas go "Bo Bo!"
Like l'm Super Cat d
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d Me fear no one
oh, no, here come d
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d Wu-Tang shogun,
killer to the eardrum d
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d Put the needle
to the groove, l gets rude d
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d Forced to fuck it up d
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d My style carries
like a pickup truck d
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d 'Cross the clear blue yonder,
sea to shining sea d
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d l slam tracks like
quarterback sacks of LT d
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d So why try and test
the Rebel lNS d
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d Blessed since the hirth,
I earth-slam your best d
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d 'Cause l hake the cake,
then take the cake d
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d And eat it too,
with my crew d
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d We head state to state d
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d lfyou want beef d
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d Then bring the ruckus d
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d Wu-Tang Clan
ain't nothing to fuck with d
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I was like, "What?
What is this?
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Who are these people?
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Why are they like superheroes
that can rap?"
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It was just unlike anything
I'd ever seen .
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I was like, "Yo, what--
what is this?"
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d The Meth will come out d
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d Tomorrow d
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d Styles, conditions
bizarre, hizarro d
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d FIow with more afro
than Rollo d
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d Coming to a fork
in the road d
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d Which way to go
just follow d
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d Meth is the legend
niggas is Sleepy Hollow d
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d ln fact, l'm a hard act
to follow d
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d l dealt for dolo d
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d Bogart coming on through d
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d Niggas is like,
"Oh, my God, not you!" d
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[Bobbito]
Like, "Yo, what the hell
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is that shit?"
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I'm like, "I don't know."
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You hear about these dudes
that roll up
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like, 100 deep everywhere.
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[man] The lights went out,
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and all of a sudden you hear,
"Suu!"
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[all hollering]
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You hear a [sibilant cound]
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You're like,
"What was that?"
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[Iaughs]
What's going on ?
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These girls in the front,
they got it.
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Everybody else was like,
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"What just happened?"
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d Calm orchestral music d
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[Raekwon] Wow.
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I think I've seen, prohably,
The Wizard of Oz
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or some shit here.
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It be years, though.
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Look good, though.
Look good.
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- What up, yo?
- It's good , Rae.
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[Method Man] Only time we
basically see each other now
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is at shows
or the studio,
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if the studio.
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This the Batcave.
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[Method Man] But, see,
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when we all
in the same room,
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and you really genuinely miss
this motherfucker
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because of the lack
of communication,
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because, you know,
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dudes don 't hang out
with each other
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and shit like that,
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AII that chit
go right out the window.
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I mean, you don't even think
about it no more.
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Both: Ah!
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Ah , you smell good , Chef.
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You know how it goes.
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Ah!
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[Raekwon] What's going down?
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Love you too, dog .
No doubt.
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d L'm hood, like the C d
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d On my hood,
call me the champion d
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d They say we wildin' out
in these streets d
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d We popping cannons
in that heat, peel 'em d
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d Put 'em to sleep
like popping Ambien d
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d Rappers having
panic attacks d
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d Go pop a Xanny then d
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d We pop up
everywhere that you at d
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d We 'll pop your family then d
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d Wu hlock
real and you're not d
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d Make you a fan again d
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d Turn around like Tupac d
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d Spit it right
at the cameraman d
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d Method Man handle them d
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d No strings, no mandolin d
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d I spit the gutter d
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d No st-st-stuttering,
stammering d
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d Touch of tamarind d
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d With my group
we be samplin ' d
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d A-d-d-d-d undisputed d
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d Call me the champion d
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[man] Method Man.
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Nobody had his cadence,
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his flow.
lt was unique, original.
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Colin Kaep might take a knee.
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I need action figure.
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That where I'm at
we take a knee
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just to cap a nig0a.
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- I hear you rappers--
- "Take a knee
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just to cap a nigga." That's nice.
- [Method Man] Yeah .
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[Method Man]
l still write my rhymes
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to impress these dudes here.
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I know if they like it,
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my shit official.
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d The rhythm of the rhyme
that l throw d
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d Is from the island, wilin ' d
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d Brothers need to stay out
from Shaolin d
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d l feel it's real
for my peeps to he taught d
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d That all my rhymes
originated d
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d From a goddamn thought d
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d Shimmy, shimmy on
shimmy yam, shimmy yay d
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d Gimme the mic
so I can take it away d
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d Adapt to the sound d
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d That rocks
a ghetto blaster d
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d Pop Glocks to set up shop
like newscasters d
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d Radioactive rhyme d
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[Ghostface Killah]
l learned my flows
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from the rest of the clan.
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RZ, Dirt, Rae.
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L'm just a product of them.
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[RZA] Ghost-faced killer
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was the most dangerous villain
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to ever hit the movie screen.
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- Ghost-faced killerl
- [evil lau0h]
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[RZA] And I felt
that Ghostface energy
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was that character.
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[Ghoctface Killah] Just the vibe
alone around that time.
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You know what I mean?
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Just the spirit was good .
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That was the beginning of the--
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The journey.
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Right?
262
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[Cappadonna]
We did everything together.
263
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Like, our mothers
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know each other.
265
00:09:07,797 --> 00:09:09,215
Know what I'm saying?
Some of--
266
00:09:09,424 --> 00:09:11,301
No, I don't know if our pops
know each other.
267
00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:12,761
Shit, where we come from,
268
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most of us come
from broken homes
269
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and shit Iike--
Know what I'm saying?
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[Cappadonna] Like, yo,
271
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that's how far we go back.
272
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[Cappadonna] That's
the real glue behind this shit.
273
00:09:22,312 --> 00:09:23,772
Know what I'm saying?
274
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d Hip-hop music d
275
00:09:27,317 --> 00:09:28,818
[Raekwon] This is
where we live at, man.
276
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You know what l'm saying?
277
00:09:30,653 --> 00:09:32,864
It's the Wu-Tang monument
right here, y'all.
278
00:09:33,490 --> 00:09:35,116
[RZA] Raekwon the Chef.
279
00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,244
You know, Raekwon is, like,
the street's elegance.
280
00:09:39,037 --> 00:09:40,121
This say 2 Cent,
281
00:09:40,205 --> 00:09:42,207
and this say "Case"
right there, right?
282
00:09:42,707 --> 00:09:44,042
[Raekwon]
So you see all them names.
283
00:09:44,167 --> 00:09:45,668
Them my other brothers
who passed away
284
00:09:45,752 --> 00:09:47,712
that we ain't for0et about,
you know?
285
00:09:47,921 --> 00:09:50,048
But they still Iie in our
heart, y'know I'm saying?
286
00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,467
[RZA]
I always felt that Raekwon
287
00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:55,095
had one of the hest voices
in the Wu-Tang Clan,
288
00:09:55,386 --> 00:09:57,097
once he got on the track,
289
00:09:57,180 --> 00:09:59,307
for some reason,
it sounded like a record.
290
00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:02,435
d It started off
on the island, A* Shaolin d
291
00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:05,396
d Niggas wilin ', gunshots
thrown, the phone dialing d
292
00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,273
d Back in the days,
l'm eight now d
293
00:10:07,357 --> 00:10:10,110
d Making a tape now,
Rae gotta get a plate now d
294
00:10:10,193 --> 00:10:13,071
d And ignorant and mad young
wanted to be the one d
295
00:10:13,154 --> 00:10:15,240
d Till I got blaowl Blaow!
Blaowl d
296
00:10:15,323 --> 00:10:17,826
d Yeah, my pops was
a fiend since 1 6 d
297
00:10:17,909 --> 00:10:20,203
d Shootin' that "That's that
shit!" in his bloodstream d
298
00:10:20,995 --> 00:10:22,497
[Raekwon] Well, this is
where it started from.
299
00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:23,623
Thic ic the green right here.
300
00:10:23,706 --> 00:10:25,291
Y'all right on the coil
right now.
301
00:10:25,375 --> 00:10:26,584
Know what I'm saying?
302
00:10:26,668 --> 00:10:28,837
This is--this is--
this is Shaolin right here.
303
00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:30,130
Know what I'm saying?
Look, Iook.
304
00:10:30,213 --> 00:10:31,131
Just look at it.
305
00:10:31,339 --> 00:10:32,799
Flash around .
You know what l'm saying?
306
00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:34,676
See a lot of Ieavec
and shit.
307
00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:41,558
[man] In the back of the project
was undeveloped land,
308
00:10:42,392 --> 00:10:44,310
and it had two ponds.
309
00:10:45,145 --> 00:10:47,355
One pond was the white hoy
side of town,
310
00:10:47,438 --> 00:10:49,691
so we kind of went
to stay on our black side.
311
00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:51,526
It was our side.
312
00:10:52,193 --> 00:10:53,736
Had mad, crazy imagination.
313
00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:56,489
We just take old, dirty rafts
and put tires underneath them
314
00:10:56,573 --> 00:10:58,241
and go out there
with long sticks and poles
315
00:10:58,324 --> 00:11:00,660
andjust be on the rafts
and have raft fights.
316
00:11:00,994 --> 00:11:03,204
Then we find salamanders
and spiders
317
00:11:03,288 --> 00:11:05,456
and--and dig up worms.
318
00:11:06,207 --> 00:11:08,001
You know, just kid shit, man.
319
00:11:08,918 --> 00:11:10,670
[man] We was, like,
the Little Rascals.
320
00:11:11,379 --> 00:11:13,131
We used to build clubhouses,
321
00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:14,799
go-karts,
322
00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:16,718
bows and arrows.
323
00:11:18,428 --> 00:11:20,305
I mean, we did it all
together, man.
324
00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:22,682
[man] Most of the clan memhers
325
00:11:23,766 --> 00:11:25,143
are from Park Hill.
326
00:11:25,643 --> 00:11:27,020
[Cappadonna] There it
go, right there.
327
00:11:27,103 --> 00:11:28,188
There she go.
328
00:11:28,897 --> 00:11:30,148
The verrazzano.
329
00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:32,150
The virgin I know.
330
00:11:33,860 --> 00:11:34,986
[RZA] U-God...
331
00:11:35,737 --> 00:11:36,779
He always had
332
00:11:36,863 --> 00:11:39,657
this aggressive violence
about him, you know?
333
00:11:39,741 --> 00:11:40,992
I mean, he was
a beautiful guy.
334
00:11:41,075 --> 00:11:42,994
You know, when he smiles,
the whole room lights up,
335
00:11:43,077 --> 00:11:45,538
because to make him smile
is a lot.
336
00:11:45,622 --> 00:11:47,165
[Iaughs]
337
00:11:47,999 --> 00:11:49,500
[RZA] Inspectah Deck. . .
338
00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:52,128
He was, like, the guy
who's seeing everything,
339
00:11:52,462 --> 00:11:53,796
maybe 'cause his window
340
00:11:54,214 --> 00:11:55,715
was in the front
of that building.
341
00:11:56,466 --> 00:11:58,301
He could look out that window
and see
342
00:11:58,384 --> 00:11:59,802
everything that's going on.
343
00:12:01,221 --> 00:12:02,472
Cappadonna.
344
00:12:02,889 --> 00:12:05,225
d Place Staten lsland
year '75 d
345
00:12:05,350 --> 00:12:06,559
d Residents Park Hill d
346
00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:08,353
[RZA] He's a slang master.
347
00:12:09,229 --> 00:12:11,481
Probahly
the strongest inspiration
348
00:12:11,856 --> 00:12:14,359
to a lot of the other MCs
from Park Hill,
349
00:12:14,442 --> 00:12:15,777
and me and him used
to make tapes
350
00:12:15,902 --> 00:12:17,237
when we was kids--
you know what I mean ?
351
00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:18,613
14 years old.
352
00:12:18,696 --> 00:12:19,781
d Double-check dialect d
353
00:12:20,114 --> 00:12:21,699
Oh , look at the kids
in the back, playing.
354
00:12:21,783 --> 00:12:22,951
Hear the kids
in the back playing?
355
00:12:23,076 --> 00:12:25,203
d Staten lsland-ry
We hurn calories d
356
00:12:25,912 --> 00:12:26,871
[I nspectah Deck]
Yeah .
357
00:12:26,955 --> 00:12:28,915
[Cappadonna] That's where
we used to play at, right there.
358
00:12:28,998 --> 00:12:30,291
[U-God] Kickball .
AII that shit.
359
00:12:30,375 --> 00:12:31,709
[I nspectah Deck] Yeah , B.
360
00:12:31,793 --> 00:12:33,628
[Cappadonna] We was
real young,
361
00:12:33,711 --> 00:12:37,173
like, uh , Raekwon ,
g--uh , U-God ...
362
00:12:37,257 --> 00:12:39,175
[I nspectah Deck] You come on
the block, you see everybody.
363
00:12:39,259 --> 00:12:41,552
Meth was living in 55.
I lived in 260.
364
00:12:42,011 --> 00:12:44,305
Raekwon lived down the block,
I think it was 225,
365
00:12:44,389 --> 00:12:45,348
and Deck lived in 1 50.
366
00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:46,766
I used to walk home from schooI
367
00:12:46,849 --> 00:12:47,934
with Chef every day.
368
00:12:48,017 --> 00:12:50,186
Me and Deck was in
the same home room .
369
00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:51,938
Shit done changed .
370
00:12:52,981 --> 00:12:55,066
Used to come up here, think
about the rest of the city
371
00:12:55,149 --> 00:12:56,234
and what's going on .
372
00:12:56,442 --> 00:12:58,069
We used to come up here,
me and Cappadonna,
373
00:12:58,152 --> 00:13:00,363
write our rhymes,
freestyle,
374
00:13:00,488 --> 00:13:01,906
whatever you call it,
whatever it was,
375
00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:03,616
but we used to just have
bi9 dreams
376
00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:05,410
of getting away from it all ,
you know what I mean?
377
00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:08,413
d Contemplative music d
378
00:13:08,496 --> 00:13:12,375
ddd
379
00:13:12,458 --> 00:13:14,043
The hood is Iike a prison ,
and you know--
380
00:13:14,127 --> 00:13:15,461
It's Iike a economic prison .
381
00:13:15,545 --> 00:13:17,672
You can't, you know, move out,
can't, you know,
382
00:13:17,922 --> 00:13:19,215
go where you want to go.
383
00:13:19,299 --> 00:13:20,758
You can't go to certain blocks.
You don't know
384
00:13:20,842 --> 00:13:21,884
what's gonna happen over there.
385
00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:23,511
What you want
is a kind of freedom .
386
00:13:23,594 --> 00:13:25,388
I think, um, Wu--
387
00:13:25,471 --> 00:13:28,141
It felt like the streets
388
00:13:28,224 --> 00:13:30,226
that I knew ac a kid .
389
00:13:30,310 --> 00:13:31,769
It felt Iike the '80s
390
00:13:31,853 --> 00:13:33,855
that I had , you know,
just come up out of.
391
00:13:33,938 --> 00:13:35,440
You know, I felt Iike
they were speaking ,
392
00:13:35,523 --> 00:13:37,483
you know, to--to me,
speaking for me.
393
00:13:37,567 --> 00:13:39,485
The violence, you know,
on the streets--
394
00:13:39,569 --> 00:13:40,862
You know what I'm caying--
was just
395
00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:43,906
very, very. . .familiar to me.
396
00:13:44,282 --> 00:13:45,366
When you come up
in the hood ,
397
00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:48,077
you can feel Iike
your life is so small
398
00:13:48,161 --> 00:13:49,537
and Iike nobody sees you
399
00:13:49,620 --> 00:13:51,497
and your story
ic not important.
400
00:13:52,332 --> 00:13:53,875
I didn't feel Iike
if I 0ot on the TV,
401
00:13:53,958 --> 00:13:55,293
I f--I didn't feel
like it represented ,
402
00:13:55,376 --> 00:13:57,003
you know,
where I had come from .
403
00:13:57,086 --> 00:13:59,839
We feel Iike that experience
is completely erased .
404
00:13:59,922 --> 00:14:02,383
I mean , you feel Iike these people
don't even see you,
405
00:14:02,925 --> 00:14:04,802
and that's the importance
of, you know, Wu
406
00:14:04,886 --> 00:14:06,012
and , you know,
all of these cats
407
00:14:06,095 --> 00:14:07,638
for me. I felt like--
408
00:14:07,722 --> 00:14:08,890
I felt seen .
409
00:14:09,432 --> 00:14:11,225
d Percussive music
with vocals d
410
00:14:11,309 --> 00:14:12,560
[RZA] You know, Masta Killa
411
00:14:13,186 --> 00:14:16,439
was one of the last MCs
to join the cypher.
412
00:14:18,066 --> 00:14:20,151
He started letting
his lyrics loose
413
00:14:21,319 --> 00:14:22,820
and through his realness,
414
00:14:22,904 --> 00:14:24,489
he became the Macta Killa.
415
00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:28,910
[Iaughs]
416
00:14:31,621 --> 00:14:34,123
This is the first home
that I came home to
417
00:14:34,624 --> 00:14:36,626
from Brooklyn Jewish Hospital .
418
00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:39,796
On the right side, you know,
that's the window
419
00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:41,756
that I would Iook out of
every day.
420
00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:43,466
My father was a singer,
you know?
421
00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:45,259
He was heavy into RandB,
422
00:14:45,343 --> 00:14:47,095
and he would even
come up the block,
423
00:14:47,178 --> 00:14:49,472
singing sometimes,
you know what I mean ?
424
00:14:49,847 --> 00:14:51,641
And when I would hear
his voice,
425
00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:53,643
l would almost jump out
the window
426
00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:55,395
'cause I was so excited
427
00:14:55,478 --> 00:14:57,855
to know that my father
was coming home,
428
00:14:58,272 --> 00:15:00,650
so through trials
and trihulations,
429
00:15:00,733 --> 00:15:03,403
when he left the home
for good,
430
00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:05,738
that was, like, traumatic
for me, man ,
431
00:15:05,822 --> 00:15:07,782
'cauce, you know,
it was, like, come on .
432
00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:10,201
Popc was everything,
you know what I mean?
433
00:15:10,284 --> 00:15:12,453
That's Iike
your first superhero
434
00:15:12,537 --> 00:15:14,205
is your father,
you know what I mean?
435
00:15:14,997 --> 00:15:16,958
One thing he left
was all his records.
436
00:15:17,375 --> 00:15:18,960
[Iaughs]
437
00:15:19,043 --> 00:15:20,837
He left all his records,
438
00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,588
and l would play them
every day
439
00:15:22,672 --> 00:15:25,425
because that's how
I connected with him.
440
00:15:25,508 --> 00:15:27,135
You know what I mean?
I remember him singin0
441
00:15:27,218 --> 00:15:28,469
this record , and I would get it
442
00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:29,720
and put it on the turntable
443
00:15:29,804 --> 00:15:33,141
and Iisten to it
juct to remember
444
00:15:33,224 --> 00:15:35,101
hearing his voice,
you know what I mean?
445
00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:38,938
Looking out
of that window right there...
446
00:15:39,021 --> 00:15:41,190
- [Robert James Jones] Right.
- [Masta Killa] I was too little
447
00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:42,900
to even come acrocc
the street by myself,
448
00:15:42,984 --> 00:15:44,402
right?
But I would look
449
00:15:44,485 --> 00:15:45,862
across the street
450
00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,905
and l would see Iegendary DJc
451
00:15:47,989 --> 00:15:49,574
like his self, right here,
452
00:15:50,283 --> 00:15:51,951
Divine Sounds,
and other brothers
453
00:15:52,034 --> 00:15:53,453
in the neighhorhood,
454
00:15:53,536 --> 00:15:55,830
and hip-hop
wasjust everywhere.
455
00:15:56,998 --> 00:15:59,584
You know, I grew up on that kind
of music in my house,
456
00:15:59,667 --> 00:16:01,711
but l didn 't grow up
457
00:16:01,794 --> 00:16:04,005
with someone catching
the break
458
00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,215
and spinning it
back and forth,
459
00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:08,259
and--and that's what I heard
coming from the park.
460
00:16:08,342 --> 00:16:10,553
[hip-hop music playing]
461
00:16:10,636 --> 00:16:12,513
[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
tonight, in the place to he,
462
00:16:13,306 --> 00:16:14,724
are you all with us?
463
00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:17,018
All right.
464
00:16:18,352 --> 00:16:23,357
ddd
465
00:16:23,649 --> 00:16:25,526
I 0o down to this block party
and , you know,
466
00:16:25,610 --> 00:16:27,361
the DJ's cutting.
Never seen this before.
467
00:16:27,445 --> 00:16:29,447
I'm just standin0 right there
next to the DJ booth
468
00:16:29,530 --> 00:16:30,948
watching this dude
do this shit,
469
00:16:31,032 --> 00:16:32,825
and one dude comes out there
470
00:16:32,909 --> 00:16:34,994
with a amp
and a bass guitar
471
00:16:35,077 --> 00:16:37,038
and all he played
was the breaks.
472
00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:38,623
B-boom , boom.
473
00:16:38,706 --> 00:16:40,374
B-b-boom.
You know what I mean?
474
00:16:41,083 --> 00:16:43,252
Yo, I used to have skates on
at the jam.
475
00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:46,881
Sometimes one.
One skate and one sneaker.
476
00:16:47,423 --> 00:16:49,926
That's how nice we was.
They used to call us
477
00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:52,011
the roller derby clique.
You know what I mean?
478
00:16:52,094 --> 00:16:56,849
ddd
479
00:16:56,933 --> 00:16:59,060
Ghost used to break dance, man .
We used to try
480
00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:00,436
to battle Ghost
going to school .
481
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,896
Ghost would windmill ,
482
00:17:01,979 --> 00:17:04,065
and he--he was
the floor general , man .
483
00:17:04,190 --> 00:17:05,650
Got your little, uh--
484
00:17:05,733 --> 00:17:06,817
Windbreaker jackets on
485
00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:09,320
on them nice little floorc,
them clippery floors,
486
00:17:09,820 --> 00:17:10,821
just doing it.
Boom .
487
00:17:10,905 --> 00:17:12,031
I was about 1 2
488
00:17:12,114 --> 00:17:14,075
when my feet
started getting wet
489
00:17:14,158 --> 00:17:15,284
and with the streets
490
00:17:15,368 --> 00:17:17,411
and now I'm--I'm magnetized .
491
00:17:17,495 --> 00:17:19,205
d We just do it
You just don 't d
492
00:17:19,288 --> 00:17:20,665
d You don 't, you don 't,
you don't stop d
493
00:17:20,748 --> 00:17:22,667
d Now we're rocking,
now you're rocking d
494
00:17:22,750 --> 00:17:24,168
d Youjust throw,
you throw, you throw d
495
00:17:24,252 --> 00:17:25,711
d You throw your hands
in the air d
496
00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:27,755
My next-door neighbor,
Silky Dan,
497
00:17:27,838 --> 00:17:29,924
took a Fisher-Price turntable
498
00:17:30,466 --> 00:17:34,637
and he turned the volume down
on the spin-back,
499
00:17:35,012 --> 00:17:36,138
and he would cut,
500
00:17:36,222 --> 00:17:37,890
and his man would kick rhymes
501
00:17:37,974 --> 00:17:39,517
to the cuts
that he was doing.
502
00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,185
Watchin0 him and them
do that--
503
00:17:41,269 --> 00:17:43,062
This is something I want
to be a part of.
504
00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:44,605
d Youjust shake, the shake,
the shake d
505
00:17:44,689 --> 00:17:46,065
d The shake-a, shake-a,
shake-a shake d
506
00:17:46,148 --> 00:17:47,441
d The shake, the shake,
the shake d
507
00:17:47,525 --> 00:17:49,235
We used to write
on the walls in the hood
508
00:17:49,318 --> 00:17:51,112
Meth used to write "Rugby."
509
00:17:51,195 --> 00:17:53,447
Raekwon used to write "Reemo."
510
00:17:53,531 --> 00:17:54,824
You know what I mean?
511
00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:56,576
My first time meeting RZA
512
00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:58,494
was at a block party
513
00:17:58,578 --> 00:17:59,704
and RZA 's DJing.
514
00:17:59,787 --> 00:18:01,080
H is name back then was
the pr--
515
00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:03,249
Was Prince Rakeem .
[Iaughs]
516
00:18:03,332 --> 00:18:04,959
Before RZA.
You know what l'm saying?
517
00:18:05,042 --> 00:18:07,128
We got the prince Rakeem ,
from Staten Island ,
518
00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:08,379
you know what I'm saying?
519
00:18:08,462 --> 00:18:09,922
But I remember,
I was checking RZ,
520
00:18:10,006 --> 00:18:12,550
and , yo, this kid
just looked like
521
00:18:13,718 --> 00:18:15,011
he got a 0low about him .
522
00:18:15,303 --> 00:18:17,471
RZA started makin0 beats with
that Iittle four-track he had .
523
00:18:17,888 --> 00:18:19,015
He used to give us
little tapes.
524
00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:20,099
I take 'em home...
525
00:18:20,182 --> 00:18:23,060
ddd
526
00:18:23,144 --> 00:18:24,270
I could just look out
the window
527
00:18:24,353 --> 00:18:26,188
and just see everybody
in the front of the building,
528
00:18:26,272 --> 00:18:27,898
just dancing, DJs cutting.
529
00:18:27,982 --> 00:18:29,150
It was different, yo.
530
00:18:29,233 --> 00:18:30,443
It was different.
531
00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:31,652
It just became you .
532
00:18:31,736 --> 00:18:34,822
ddd
533
00:18:34,905 --> 00:18:39,910
ddd
534
00:18:46,834 --> 00:18:48,419
l was the only one
from Stapleton.
535
00:18:49,295 --> 00:18:51,631
Our project was known
for our knuckle game.
536
00:18:52,298 --> 00:18:54,342
Raekwon and them--
they lived in Park Hill.
537
00:18:54,592 --> 00:18:56,177
We had to meet in this middle
538
00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:57,762
to go to the same
junior high school.
539
00:18:58,179 --> 00:18:59,889
You know, and that's how
we really got to--
540
00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:01,265
To know each other.
541
00:19:01,349 --> 00:19:03,059
Ten-cent chocolate milk shit.
542
00:19:03,392 --> 00:19:05,144
The toasted almond
ice cream chit.
543
00:19:05,227 --> 00:19:07,063
You know what I mean?
Shit was, like,
544
00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:09,315
probably one of the best
ice creams I ever had .
545
00:19:09,398 --> 00:19:10,733
Toasted almond .
546
00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:12,151
Vanilla jointc.
Ha.
547
00:19:12,234 --> 00:19:13,986
d Somber music d
548
00:19:14,070 --> 00:19:16,155
Life, you know, I mean,
is father split
549
00:19:16,238 --> 00:19:17,907
with your mother,
Iike the regular shit.
550
00:19:17,990 --> 00:19:19,825
It's like, okay,
mommy takin9 care of you .
551
00:19:19,909 --> 00:19:21,202
You know what I mean?
After a while,
552
00:19:21,285 --> 00:19:23,037
mommy 0ot--mommy got--
553
00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:25,247
Had two kids
with muscular dystrophy.
554
00:19:25,498 --> 00:19:27,249
You know what I mean?
So it'c hard on mommy.
555
00:19:27,333 --> 00:19:28,376
Mommy start drinking .
556
00:19:28,459 --> 00:19:31,295
I'm the oldest, so I gotta take
care of the two brotherc.
557
00:19:31,712 --> 00:19:33,506
You see what l'm saying?
Pick 'em up off the toilet,
558
00:19:33,589 --> 00:19:34,840
put 'em on the toilet,
559
00:19:34,924 --> 00:19:36,050
put 'em in a bed ,
560
00:19:36,884 --> 00:19:38,511
drecc 'em. Me.
561
00:19:40,221 --> 00:19:41,514
I'm a little--
my little body.
562
00:19:42,431 --> 00:19:44,183
You know, maybe I was depressed
and don't even know
563
00:19:44,266 --> 00:19:45,309
that you depressed .
564
00:19:45,393 --> 00:19:46,394
You know what I mean?
565
00:19:46,477 --> 00:19:48,187
My aunt used to be like,
"What's wrong with you?"
566
00:19:48,270 --> 00:19:50,272
I was be like. . .
"You know, it's nothing ."
567
00:19:50,356 --> 00:19:51,607
"Why you Iook sad?"
568
00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:53,192
"I don't know."
You know?
569
00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:54,694
I don't know I Iook sad .
570
00:19:54,777 --> 00:19:55,820
You know what l'm saying?
571
00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:57,738
ddd
572
00:19:57,822 --> 00:19:59,699
And l know what my brothers
is going throu0h,
573
00:19:59,782 --> 00:20:00,825
because I'm young,
574
00:20:00,908 --> 00:20:02,284
because they can't go outside.
575
00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:04,203
They sit there and watch TV
all day,
576
00:20:04,912 --> 00:20:07,206
and I'm not no one Iike,
"Yo, okay, yo,
577
00:20:07,289 --> 00:20:08,791
okay, let'c--
let's go outside
578
00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:10,793
and push them around
and take them outcide,"
579
00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:12,169
'cause now, when I look at it,
580
00:20:12,253 --> 00:20:13,546
shit would bring a tear
to my eye,
581
00:20:13,629 --> 00:20:15,464
because I wich
I would've did that.
582
00:20:15,548 --> 00:20:18,008
What kids...
583
00:20:18,092 --> 00:20:19,719
...would go through--
584
00:20:19,802 --> 00:20:21,679
Wasn't no $3�0 Jordans.
585
00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:23,597
It was thoce kind of times.
586
00:20:24,181 --> 00:20:27,101
ddd
587
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,272
ddd
588
00:20:31,355 --> 00:20:32,815
You see?
Oh, chit, bro.
589
00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:34,525
I mean . . .
Hold on .
590
00:20:34,608 --> 00:20:36,235
I'm coming over there.
591
00:20:36,777 --> 00:20:39,238
d Syl Johnson 's "ls lt
Because l'm Black" playing d
592
00:20:39,321 --> 00:20:40,614
d Oh d
593
00:20:41,198 --> 00:20:43,117
d Something is holding
me hack d
594
00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:44,910
Are we gonna be on TV?
595
00:20:44,994 --> 00:20:47,079
ddd
596
00:20:47,163 --> 00:20:48,247
d l wonder d
597
00:20:49,081 --> 00:20:50,958
d ls it because l'm black d
598
00:20:51,041 --> 00:20:52,835
ddd
599
00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:54,211
You Iive in these environments,
600
00:20:54,295 --> 00:20:55,379
and you know you're broke,
601
00:20:56,005 --> 00:20:57,381
but it don't matter,
602
00:20:57,465 --> 00:20:59,049
because everybody else
around you
603
00:20:59,133 --> 00:21:01,093
in the same fucking situation .
604
00:21:01,177 --> 00:21:02,136
Hey, yo.
605
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,014
This is--this is
my old school right here.
606
00:21:05,097 --> 00:21:06,932
They true--
not even old school .
607
00:21:07,016 --> 00:21:08,601
Just true school ,
'cause these brothers
608
00:21:08,684 --> 00:21:10,311
is the same,
you know what I'm saying?
609
00:21:10,394 --> 00:21:12,104
What's up, baby?
Get up in this...
610
00:21:12,188 --> 00:21:13,272
l actually
didn 't want to go
611
00:21:13,355 --> 00:21:15,024
to the same school
with my hrother.
612
00:21:15,441 --> 00:21:16,692
We used to go
to the same school
613
00:21:16,776 --> 00:21:18,736
and we only had
four pair ofpants
614
00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:20,237
between three hoys,
615
00:21:21,447 --> 00:21:23,324
so. . .
You know what I mean?
616
00:21:23,407 --> 00:21:25,659
If I wore the black ones
Monday,
617
00:21:26,577 --> 00:21:27,953
he wore on Tuesday,
618
00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:30,247
but by the time
I get to Friday...
619
00:21:30,331 --> 00:21:32,917
[laughing] I'm back
with the black onec again,
620
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,543
and my brother
already wore them , so
621
00:21:34,627 --> 00:21:36,462
goin0 to different schools
gave us a better way
622
00:21:36,545 --> 00:21:37,630
to do the swaps.
623
00:21:38,422 --> 00:21:39,924
Do you know Biggie Small?
624
00:21:40,007 --> 00:21:41,091
Yeah, I know Biggie.
625
00:21:41,175 --> 00:21:43,177
Yeah , I know Tupac.
Yo.
626
00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:44,428
[excitedly] Ha!
627
00:21:44,512 --> 00:21:46,847
AII ri0ht, this is Park Hill ,
this is Killer Hill projects, man .
628
00:21:46,931 --> 00:21:48,432
10304.
629
00:21:48,516 --> 00:21:51,227
d I wanna be somehody
so bad d
630
00:21:51,727 --> 00:21:52,895
d You see d
631
00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:55,731
d I want diamond rings
and things d
632
00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:56,982
[woman] That's nice!
633
00:21:57,066 --> 00:21:58,776
d Like you do d
634
00:21:58,859 --> 00:22:00,361
[man] Can never get
away from the--
635
00:22:00,444 --> 00:22:02,404
The reality of it,
you know what I'm saying?
636
00:22:02,488 --> 00:22:04,365
ddd
637
00:22:04,448 --> 00:22:05,699
[RZA] One thing
ahout the projects--
638
00:22:05,783 --> 00:22:07,785
It's almost like a police state,
ifyou think about it,
639
00:22:07,868 --> 00:22:09,787
'cause you have
housing police
640
00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:11,664
located in your projects
641
00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:14,834
and you're surrounded
by a four-block radius.
642
00:22:15,793 --> 00:22:17,753
You got your bodega,
your barbershop,
643
00:22:17,837 --> 00:22:19,171
your pharmacy,
644
00:22:19,421 --> 00:22:21,423
your shop-and-save,
your check cashing place.
645
00:22:22,967 --> 00:22:24,093
You know what I mean?
It's designed
646
00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:25,469
so you don't have to leave,
647
00:22:25,553 --> 00:22:27,346
and a Iot of people
don't Ieave.
648
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,056
[Ghostface Killah]
Looking like a jail,
649
00:22:29,139 --> 00:22:30,224
the way the setup is like that.
650
00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:32,101
Like, yo, the tiers.
651
00:22:32,768 --> 00:22:35,896
d That they hold us,
hold us, hold us hack d
652
00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:37,356
[I nspectah Deck]
We ain 't glorifying it.
653
00:22:37,439 --> 00:22:38,482
We just, yo--
654
00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:39,775
First hand .
Y'all want to know
655
00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:41,610
what we're ceeing in our Iives,
y'all want to know
656
00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:43,445
what we talking about,
we talking about this.
657
00:22:44,530 --> 00:22:46,323
d It ain 't right,
it ain 't right d
658
00:22:46,949 --> 00:22:50,035
d That they hold us,
hold us, hold us hack d
659
00:22:50,244 --> 00:22:51,745
[Method Man]
And somewhere in the middle
660
00:22:51,829 --> 00:22:53,455
of all that shit is that hope
661
00:22:54,498 --> 00:22:56,250
that one of us
or all of us
662
00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:58,127
is gonna make it
at one point in time
663
00:22:58,210 --> 00:22:59,545
in this lifetime and shit.
664
00:22:59,628 --> 00:23:01,505
ddd
665
00:23:01,589 --> 00:23:03,632
I'll say that
about the projects.
666
00:23:07,761 --> 00:23:10,014
This is the hood .
Good old Bed-Stuy.
667
00:23:10,306 --> 00:23:11,640
Do or die.
668
00:23:11,724 --> 00:23:13,100
[RZA]
The GZA--of course,
669
00:23:13,183 --> 00:23:15,436
the Genius.
He is a foundation of it.
670
00:23:16,270 --> 00:23:19,356
Uh, he 's the genius,
like, the way he thinks,
671
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,317
and his Iyrics
has that content.
672
00:23:22,568 --> 00:23:25,779
This is where the
AII In Together Now crew ctarted ,
673
00:23:26,780 --> 00:23:28,115
right here on this block.
674
00:23:28,198 --> 00:23:30,910
71 9, Monroe.
I used to live right here,
675
00:23:30,993 --> 00:23:33,245
in that--that apartment
right there up the stepc.
676
00:23:33,329 --> 00:23:34,830
[Method Man]
The constant was RZA
677
00:23:34,914 --> 00:23:36,957
and GZA always making moves,
and they got a record deal .
678
00:23:37,499 --> 00:23:39,835
One, two, three, hm .
679
00:23:39,919 --> 00:23:41,962
[beatboxing]
680
00:23:42,046 --> 00:23:43,297
Oh , that sound kind of ill .
681
00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:44,632
Yeah .
682
00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:47,259
[Method Man] Like, Dirty, GZA,
and RZA are cousins,
683
00:23:47,343 --> 00:23:49,261
so they had a bunch
of routines.
684
00:23:49,887 --> 00:23:51,931
d Let me tell you
about the Genius, yo d
685
00:23:52,014 --> 00:23:53,557
d l have a style of my own d
686
00:23:53,641 --> 00:23:55,059
d My hands
are like vice grips d
687
00:23:55,142 --> 00:23:56,727
d Holding a microphone d
688
00:23:56,810 --> 00:23:59,063
d l flow smooth
with rhymes that are rough d
689
00:23:59,146 --> 00:24:01,190
d You know why
'Cause l can 't get enough d
690
00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:02,483
d So l want practice d
691
00:24:02,566 --> 00:24:03,692
There's a Iot of battling,
man.
692
00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:04,944
Yeah . Has it--
693
00:24:05,027 --> 00:24:06,487
Walking from borough
to borough,
694
00:24:06,570 --> 00:24:08,113
looking for MCs,
695
00:24:08,614 --> 00:24:10,491
and battling ,
making routines.
696
00:24:10,574 --> 00:24:12,076
And f--and , you know,
we thought we was
697
00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:13,661
the ill-est MCs in New York,
so we was--
698
00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:16,455
It wac a hunger
to be known as an MC.
699
00:24:16,872 --> 00:24:18,540
Once we seen these two
brothers
700
00:24:18,624 --> 00:24:21,710
the GZA and the RZA, come
through and did their thing ,
701
00:24:21,794 --> 00:24:23,671
that's when I knew
cooner or Iater,
702
00:24:23,921 --> 00:24:25,714
it was gonna be
a bigger situation .
703
00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:27,341
You know, 'cause it was--
704
00:24:27,424 --> 00:24:29,176
There always somebody
from Staten Island .
705
00:24:29,259 --> 00:24:31,428
You know, even old Juctice--
Br-Brooklyn
706
00:24:31,512 --> 00:24:32,888
to the f--to the fullest.
707
00:24:32,972 --> 00:24:35,224
- You know, he was still Staten Island
- [U-God] That nigga Park Hill .
708
00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:37,142
That nigga Park Hill
at heart, nigga.
709
00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:39,186
- [Raekwon] He know, Park Hill-
- No, he a hillbilly.
710
00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:40,729
[Raekwon] You know what I mean?
But...
711
00:24:40,813 --> 00:24:42,439
One of our brothers
from our neighborhood .
712
00:24:42,523 --> 00:24:44,900
And just to have some brothers
that we thought made it
713
00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:46,652
and still come around
and to see them
714
00:24:46,735 --> 00:24:48,404
- that we actually knew.
- Exactly.
715
00:24:48,904 --> 00:24:50,322
[Method Man]
He was our first
716
00:24:51,407 --> 00:24:53,826
superstar, local superstar.
717
00:24:54,326 --> 00:24:57,413
d Here l am lounging
at a hype party d
718
00:24:57,496 --> 00:24:59,164
[GZA] That was the first video.
719
00:24:59,790 --> 00:25:01,250
d With a pair of
bedroom eyes d
720
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:02,584
[GZA] Ol' Dirty was in
there also,
721
00:25:02,668 --> 00:25:04,712
doing the funky
Ason slide.
722
00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:06,130
d Now check out the game d
723
00:25:06,213 --> 00:25:07,506
d l said d
724
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:09,425
d Girl come do me d
725
00:25:09,508 --> 00:25:11,802
d Do me, do me, do me d
726
00:25:11,885 --> 00:25:13,095
ddd
727
00:25:13,178 --> 00:25:14,638
Do you?
728
00:25:15,347 --> 00:25:18,726
So, um, tell me, how'd you guys
get into, uh, rapping?
729
00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:20,019
We was, Iike--
730
00:25:20,102 --> 00:25:21,812
You could say
almost born rhyming .
731
00:25:21,895 --> 00:25:23,272
- [woman] Born rhyming?
- You know--yes.
732
00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:25,149
- In our genes, you know?
- That's one way to put it.
733
00:25:25,232 --> 00:25:26,233
And , um ,
734
00:25:26,442 --> 00:25:27,901
been doin9 it
for a lon0 time,
735
00:25:27,985 --> 00:25:30,279
tearing up parties,
waxing MCs.
736
00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:32,740
Okay, where did you get
your, um, style of rapping?
737
00:25:32,823 --> 00:25:34,491
Just, like--
just grew on me.
738
00:25:34,575 --> 00:25:36,869
- [ODB] It's from natural talent, you know?
- [woman] Natural talent?
739
00:25:36,952 --> 00:25:37,953
Raw talent?
- Raw talent.
740
00:25:38,037 --> 00:25:39,246
- Raw talent?
- Definitely.
741
00:25:39,329 --> 00:25:40,497
[ODB] It's a family thing, too.
742
00:25:40,581 --> 00:25:42,291
We was always the hypest
in each town .
743
00:25:42,374 --> 00:25:44,877
Where he Iived at,
he was the hypest MC. I Iived at--
744
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,587
- [woman] Where are you guys
from, when you say--
745
00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:47,713
- Brooklyn .
- [woman] Brooklyn?
746
00:25:47,796 --> 00:25:49,631
- Brooklyn , you know?
I was from the east,
747
00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:50,966
he's from Bed-Stuy.
748
00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:53,093
You know, he's the flyest MC
in this town ,
749
00:25:53,177 --> 00:25:54,428
I am.
You know what l'm saying?
750
00:25:54,511 --> 00:25:56,972
But he out from Staten Island,
flyest MC out there.
751
00:25:57,056 --> 00:25:58,891
[woman] Okay.
How Iong you been there?
752
00:25:59,475 --> 00:26:01,810
I've been dancing, you know,
cince I was a Iittle kid .
753
00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:02,978
- [woman] A Iittle kid?
- Yeah .
754
00:26:03,062 --> 00:26:05,022
[ODB] You know, you know,
I always had a funky style
755
00:26:05,105 --> 00:26:06,231
when it came to dancing .
756
00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:07,983
I 0ot this dance called the Ason.
757
00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:09,485
- [woman] The Ason?
- You know--yeah .
758
00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:10,819
[ODB] Popular dance, you know.
759
00:26:10,903 --> 00:26:11,945
The funky Ason slide.
760
00:26:12,029 --> 00:26:14,114
- [woman] The funky Ason slide?
- Yeah .
761
00:26:14,198 --> 00:26:16,200
[woman] You're gonna teach me
that before you leave ?
762
00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:17,826
- [GZA] Mayhe so.
- [woman] Maybe so?
763
00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:19,787
- Yeah .
- That's great.
764
00:26:19,870 --> 00:26:21,080
[RZA] Even though
GZA 's the one
765
00:26:21,163 --> 00:26:22,623
that taught me hip-hop,
766
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,333
and exposed me to it,
767
00:26:24,708 --> 00:26:26,418
the person
who I nurtured it with
768
00:26:26,919 --> 00:26:27,878
is ODB.
769
00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:29,254
Howdy!
770
00:26:29,338 --> 00:26:30,839
[RZA]
So Ol' Dirty Bastard.
771
00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:33,050
What's up?
This is OI' Dirty Ba--
772
00:26:33,509 --> 00:26:35,594
He was very different
from the rest of the people
773
00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:37,054
in his household,
so he realized
774
00:26:37,137 --> 00:26:38,764
he was a son
that was unique,
775
00:26:38,847 --> 00:26:39,973
and he eventually went on
776
00:26:40,057 --> 00:26:41,725
to choose the name Ason Unique.
777
00:26:41,809 --> 00:26:43,519
d Yo, I'm the U-N-l d
778
00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:44,728
d The O-U-E d
779
00:26:44,812 --> 00:26:47,106
d The G from the OD d
780
00:26:47,189 --> 00:26:49,650
d l said l go
hy the unforgettable name d
781
00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:52,152
d Of the man called
Unique G well d
782
00:26:52,236 --> 00:26:53,445
As my cousin and knowing him ...
783
00:26:53,862 --> 00:26:55,030
Big Ra.
784
00:26:55,239 --> 00:26:56,824
[RZA] He had a personality. . .
785
00:26:56,907 --> 00:26:58,492
We 0ot the RZA in the house.
786
00:26:59,034 --> 00:27:01,328
...That was just raw
787
00:27:01,787 --> 00:27:03,038
and unapologetic.
788
00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:07,042
Yeah, man .
789
00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:09,753
Y'all--y'all just sit
in the car, right, baby?
790
00:27:11,088 --> 00:27:12,464
Man, good old New York.
791
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:15,676
Make me want to sing a song
or something .
792
00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:22,432
d Ifyou need a strong hand d
793
00:27:22,724 --> 00:27:26,353
d To guide you
through the night d
794
00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:30,941
d If it means anything
to you d
795
00:27:31,275 --> 00:27:33,777
d To know that l care
for you d
796
00:27:33,861 --> 00:27:35,404
[ODB] Let's forget
ahout Ol' Dirty Bastard.
797
00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:36,780
You know what l'm saying?
798
00:27:36,864 --> 00:27:38,699
Let's go back to Rusty.
Rusty.
799
00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:41,368
You know, m-m-my mama,
Cherry Jones
800
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:43,203
she called me Rusty Jones.
801
00:27:43,287 --> 00:27:44,955
That's what my mama called me.
802
00:27:45,038 --> 00:27:46,373
d Somber music d
803
00:27:46,915 --> 00:27:47,958
[Cherry] I had six.
804
00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:49,710
I had them all
before l turned 25.
805
00:27:49,793 --> 00:27:51,962
- [man] Yeah.
- [Cherry] And I started at 19.
806
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:56,008
But Rusty--Rusty was
a mama 's boy.
807
00:27:56,466 --> 00:27:58,844
[ODB] Well, my mom was
the sweetest woman l ever met.
808
00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:01,096
ddd
809
00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:02,806
I love you , mama.
810
00:28:03,182 --> 00:28:05,809
[Iaughs]
811
00:28:05,893 --> 00:28:06,977
I love you dearly.
812
00:28:07,895 --> 00:28:09,271
Thanks for hringing me here.
813
00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:12,524
[Ramsey] Our mucical background
was from our parents, you know?
814
00:28:12,608 --> 00:28:14,818
Matter of fact, Mom ,
you got to mention
815
00:28:15,736 --> 00:28:18,030
that her sister and her...
816
00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:20,157
- Mm-hmm.
- . . .Were in--were a group.
817
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,034
- Tiny and Terry.
- [Ramsey] Tiny and Terry.
818
00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:23,368
It was my Aunt Paulette
and Mom .
819
00:28:23,452 --> 00:28:25,454
Mm-hmm.
My music was my Iife.
820
00:28:25,537 --> 00:28:27,873
[Cherry] I never Iistened
to rap. I hated it.
821
00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:29,249
[Cherry] I just don't like it.
822
00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:31,043
I never did ,
823
00:28:31,418 --> 00:28:33,337
and Rusty never listened to it.
824
00:28:34,171 --> 00:28:37,090
[ODB] l like Marvin Gaye,
you know? Otis Redding.
825
00:28:37,174 --> 00:28:38,884
You know, I grew up
on them type of songs,
826
00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:41,303
and all that sin0er stuff
827
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:43,388
and all that--man,
that's just--that's natural, man .
828
00:28:43,472 --> 00:28:46,058
That's how I feel my mus--
I'm like Patti LaBelle.
829
00:28:46,141 --> 00:28:48,727
I'm Iike--l'm Iike
Millie Jackson , you know?
830
00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:49,895
[Cherry Iaughs]
831
00:28:49,978 --> 00:28:51,813
[ODB] And my hrother--he used
to play heavy metal.
832
00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:53,482
That's all he played,
was rock and roll.
833
00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:56,652
[Ramsey] You know, I-I started
out playing drums.
834
00:28:56,735 --> 00:28:59,488
My cousin RZA and GZA
used to come over to our houce
835
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:00,614
in Linden PIaza.
836
00:29:00,697 --> 00:29:02,115
We would make
our own hip-hop tapes,
837
00:29:02,199 --> 00:29:04,326
so I would take a headphone
838
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,495
and plug it into the, uh,
839
00:29:06,828 --> 00:29:08,121
input of the amplifier,
840
00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:10,082
put it underneath
a shoebox,
841
00:29:10,165 --> 00:29:11,875
and play break beats
on that.
842
00:29:12,125 --> 00:29:13,293
We would turn the volume up
843
00:29:13,377 --> 00:29:14,962
and get this loud sound ,
844
00:29:15,045 --> 00:29:16,046
and it counded killer.
845
00:29:16,129 --> 00:29:17,673
They would just rhyme over--
846
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:18,924
Over the beats I would do,
847
00:29:19,007 --> 00:29:20,509
right in our bedroom .
848
00:29:20,592 --> 00:29:23,178
[Ramsey] They called their crew
the All I n Together Now Crew.
849
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:25,389
RZA had this rhyme
about, like,
850
00:29:25,681 --> 00:29:29,351
sex and--and--and I
won't even say it on camera, but...
851
00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:31,353
[RZA] One, two, one,
two, yo.
852
00:29:31,436 --> 00:29:34,231
d Sitting in my class
at a quarter to ten d
853
00:29:34,314 --> 00:29:37,150
d Waiting patiently
for the class to begin d
854
00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:39,695
d The teacher says "Students
open up your texts d
855
00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:42,864
d And read the first paragraph
on oral sex" d
856
00:29:42,948 --> 00:29:45,784
d Yo, oral sex
what kind of class is this d
857
00:29:45,867 --> 00:29:48,954
d And the gal next to me says
"What's wrong with you miss" d
858
00:29:49,037 --> 00:29:50,205
d Yo, this is the. . . d
859
00:29:50,289 --> 00:29:52,791
[ODB] RZA taught me everything
l knew, by the way, you know?
860
00:29:53,250 --> 00:29:55,043
Man, l rememher,
back in the days, man,
861
00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:56,837
when he used to make me rhyme.
862
00:29:57,170 --> 00:29:58,922
So he used to write lyrics
for me, man,
863
00:29:59,006 --> 00:30:00,507
and if I ain't rhyme,
we used to fight.
864
00:30:00,590 --> 00:30:01,758
d Oh, yes, in pain d
865
00:30:01,842 --> 00:30:03,010
d She yells out my name d
866
00:30:03,093 --> 00:30:04,845
Rakeem !
Rakeem !
867
00:30:04,928 --> 00:30:05,929
d And then I came d
868
00:30:06,013 --> 00:30:07,681
- Peace.
- Oh , peace.
869
00:30:07,764 --> 00:30:09,433
Ason in
the motherfucking house.
870
00:30:09,516 --> 00:30:11,143
Go on , Cipher, Divine.
871
00:30:11,226 --> 00:30:12,269
Peace.
872
00:30:15,856 --> 00:30:18,358
d Smooth jazz music d
873
00:30:18,859 --> 00:30:20,277
ddd
874
00:30:20,610 --> 00:30:22,112
[Method Man]
l went and got a job.
875
00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:23,697
Statue of Liherty was hiring.
876
00:30:24,197 --> 00:30:26,199
A lot of my friends
were already working there.
877
00:30:26,783 --> 00:30:28,410
I started working .
l Ioved the job.
878
00:30:28,493 --> 00:30:30,620
It'c my first real fucking job
and shit.
879
00:30:31,747 --> 00:30:33,206
[U-God] Method used to
work full-time,
880
00:30:33,290 --> 00:30:34,583
but l used to work
on the weekends.
881
00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:37,794
ddd
882
00:30:37,878 --> 00:30:39,921
I was a janitor.
883
00:30:40,005 --> 00:30:41,965
I used to take out
all the garhages,
884
00:30:42,382 --> 00:30:43,925
clean up all the condiments.
885
00:30:44,009 --> 00:30:45,552
AIl the fuckin0 tourists
used to be nasty.
886
00:30:45,969 --> 00:30:48,930
The bathrooms, they used to do
all type of nasty chit in there.
887
00:30:49,139 --> 00:30:50,932
Had to, um, steam the floors
888
00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:52,726
out on the deck,
'cause the seagulls come in there
889
00:30:52,809 --> 00:30:54,269
and shit
all over the goddamn place.
890
00:30:55,562 --> 00:30:56,980
Know the history
of the Statue of Liberty?
891
00:30:57,064 --> 00:30:58,273
It was given to us
by the French
892
00:30:58,732 --> 00:30:59,941
and supposed to be
the black woman?
893
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:01,860
They say it is.
894
00:31:02,402 --> 00:31:03,445
I don't know.
895
00:31:03,945 --> 00:31:05,238
Now, mind you ,
896
00:31:05,322 --> 00:31:07,074
we worked here for yearc
and never went
897
00:31:07,157 --> 00:31:08,158
to go see this woman .
898
00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:09,910
[U-God] Never one time,
we went up in there.
899
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:11,870
[Method Man] Wow.
900
00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:14,873
ddd
901
00:31:15,665 --> 00:31:17,542
[Iaughs]
902
00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:20,128
- [both] How you doin0?
- l'm good .
903
00:31:20,212 --> 00:31:22,339
- How you been?
- Good , thank you .
904
00:31:22,506 --> 00:31:23,590
Still here.
905
00:31:23,673 --> 00:31:25,175
[laughter]
906
00:31:25,425 --> 00:31:26,593
Let me see something.
907
00:31:27,344 --> 00:31:30,180
[U-God] Mr. Hill was
the owner of the restaurant
908
00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:32,641
that's on
the Statue of Liberty.
909
00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:33,975
And he had a son, Brad.
910
00:31:34,935 --> 00:31:36,561
Oh, that is the man
right there.
911
00:31:36,645 --> 00:31:37,687
How are you , sir?
912
00:31:37,771 --> 00:31:39,439
[muffled]
913
00:31:39,523 --> 00:31:40,607
How are you?
How you been?
914
00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:41,650
You look 0reat, Brad .
915
00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:42,984
- You too.
- Wow.
916
00:31:43,068 --> 00:31:45,487
Wow, sir.
How you doin0 , sir?
917
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,406
- It's been a Iong time.
- Yes, yec, sir. Yec, sir.
918
00:31:47,781 --> 00:31:48,949
You doing well?
919
00:31:49,032 --> 00:31:50,784
Uh , l'm doing well .
I'm doing pretty good for myself.
920
00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:52,244
I see you've transitioned
a Iittle bit
921
00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:54,079
to old--old shows.
922
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:55,747
Absolutely, absolutely.
923
00:31:55,831 --> 00:31:57,833
- What are you doin0?
- Wu-Tang, you know?
924
00:31:57,916 --> 00:31:58,959
- Okay.
- Wu-Tan0 group.
925
00:31:59,042 --> 00:32:00,293
Same group.
Same group stuff.
926
00:32:00,377 --> 00:32:01,586
Just, you know, me and him--
927
00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:03,046
You know, we have--
we was best friends,
928
00:32:03,130 --> 00:32:05,257
so, you know, we just
trancitioned to something else.
929
00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:06,258
- [laughs]
- You know.
930
00:32:06,341 --> 00:32:07,968
You know, I have dreams
931
00:32:08,051 --> 00:32:10,595
about--like, I'II be
in the dream
932
00:32:10,679 --> 00:32:11,763
and I'm workin0 here again .
933
00:32:11,847 --> 00:32:13,056
You gotta understand,
for me,
934
00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:14,558
these--these are still moments
935
00:32:14,641 --> 00:32:16,226
that are just etched
in my brain forever,
936
00:32:16,309 --> 00:32:17,811
because it wac a highlight
of my Iife.
937
00:32:17,894 --> 00:32:19,563
Even though with the career
and everything ,
938
00:32:19,646 --> 00:32:21,857
this is still one
of the highlights of our life.
939
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:23,483
Best job I ever freaking had .
940
00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:24,609
Thank you very much .
941
00:32:24,693 --> 00:32:25,777
You still in Staten Island?
942
00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:27,070
Yeah, same place.
943
00:32:27,154 --> 00:32:28,280
- Same place?
- Really?
944
00:32:28,363 --> 00:32:29,698
- Well. . .
- More or less.
945
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,533
- I mean the same borough .
- [laughs]
946
00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:33,368
A little nicer--
a little nicer place.
947
00:32:33,452 --> 00:32:34,744
A little bit--
a little nicer place.
948
00:32:34,828 --> 00:32:35,871
Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
My kids--
949
00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:37,539
They didn't have to grow up
where I 9rew up at.
950
00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:38,707
That's the best part.
951
00:32:38,790 --> 00:32:40,250
- The way it should be, right?
- Yeah .
952
00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:42,085
[Method Man] Let me see
if I still remember this.
953
00:32:42,169 --> 00:32:43,295
AII right, I still got it.
954
00:32:45,714 --> 00:32:48,049
ddd
955
00:32:48,133 --> 00:32:49,634
How you doin0 , sir?
956
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:51,511
Mind if I get this?
Thank you .
957
00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:54,347
[U-God] That's what I was telling him .
Like, it's about getting that money.
958
00:32:54,431 --> 00:32:55,682
Only--the only--the only--
only thing--
959
00:32:55,765 --> 00:32:57,350
Only thing
that's gonna get you freedom
960
00:32:57,434 --> 00:32:59,060
is your money, is money,
tell you the truth,
961
00:32:59,227 --> 00:33:00,770
and I know dudes don 't like
to really, like,
962
00:33:00,854 --> 00:33:02,939
to put--emphasize on money
like that,
963
00:33:03,023 --> 00:33:05,066
but that's the only thing
gonna get freedom,
964
00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:06,359
because other than that,
965
00:33:06,443 --> 00:33:07,652
this is gonna be--
966
00:33:08,111 --> 00:33:09,362
I don't know, man .
They just--
967
00:33:09,446 --> 00:33:10,906
Just--it's juct fucked-up.
968
00:33:11,907 --> 00:33:16,578
ddd
969
00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:17,621
Look at it,
Iook at it.
970
00:33:17,704 --> 00:33:21,291
ddd
971
00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:22,918
There is no way
she's black.
972
00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:25,712
ddd
973
00:33:26,046 --> 00:33:27,756
[RZA] You know,
l think New York is like a--
974
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:29,216
A Mecca of entrepreneurs.
975
00:33:29,299 --> 00:33:31,134
Sometime, we'd be
at the highway,
976
00:33:31,218 --> 00:33:32,552
selling the newspapers.
977
00:33:32,636 --> 00:33:35,430
[U-God] We sold newspapers
on the Verrazzano Bridge.
978
00:33:35,514 --> 00:33:37,265
[Raekwon] Yeah, on the Verrazzano,
and l rememher,
979
00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:38,225
RZ and them, they--
980
00:33:38,308 --> 00:33:39,392
They had thoce Ianec.
981
00:33:39,476 --> 00:33:40,769
Like, they was smart enough
to know
982
00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:42,771
what Ianes
was jumping and shit.
983
00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:44,397
The worst that you could get
is the truck lane.
984
00:33:44,481 --> 00:33:46,441
Papers going for 30*,
985
00:33:46,525 --> 00:33:48,485
they give you a dime all
for every paper,
986
00:33:48,568 --> 00:33:51,029
so you get ahout 1 5 bucks
a day doing that.
987
00:33:51,696 --> 00:33:53,782
For a welfare family,
that'c an important income,
988
00:33:53,865 --> 00:33:55,408
$ 1 5 a day.
989
00:33:55,492 --> 00:33:58,245
I was working
in Grand Central Station
990
00:33:58,328 --> 00:33:59,704
as a messenger, bro.
991
00:33:59,996 --> 00:34:01,915
Packing bags
at the supermarket.
992
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:04,960
I used to work
for the, uh, transit authority,
993
00:34:05,043 --> 00:34:06,628
cleaning two cars a day.
994
00:34:06,711 --> 00:34:08,380
My pops died when I was six,
995
00:34:08,463 --> 00:34:09,839
so I'm trying to take
a little--
996
00:34:10,215 --> 00:34:12,509
A little bit of the--
of the pressure
997
00:34:12,592 --> 00:34:14,052
off my mom, to try to raise
998
00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:15,428
three kids,
you know what I'm saying?
999
00:34:15,512 --> 00:34:16,513
Trying to make money,
1000
00:34:16,596 --> 00:34:17,764
juct hustling any way I can,
1001
00:34:17,847 --> 00:34:19,182
so I was working , man .
1002
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:22,519
d Melancholy music d
1003
00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:25,897
[Jim] l grew up in a mostly
all-white community,
1004
00:34:26,273 --> 00:34:28,900
so for me, Iike, hip-hop
1005
00:34:28,984 --> 00:34:31,403
is the love of language,
1006
00:34:31,486 --> 00:34:32,904
and its--its beauty
1007
00:34:32,988 --> 00:34:34,573
and what--and what
you can do with it,
1008
00:34:34,656 --> 00:34:36,533
the amazing things
you can do with it.
1009
00:34:36,616 --> 00:34:40,203
It's in me hecause of
my appreciation for it.
1010
00:34:40,287 --> 00:34:42,539
We live in apartheid
in America.
1011
00:34:42,622 --> 00:34:43,957
I don't care what anyone says.
1012
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,709
This is like apartheid ,
1013
00:34:46,167 --> 00:34:48,670
and , uh , oppressed people
1014
00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:51,131
on any level in the world
1015
00:34:51,214 --> 00:34:52,632
in the history of humanc--
1016
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:56,845
You cannot destroy the strength
of ideas,
1017
00:34:57,262 --> 00:34:59,723
and the Wu-Tang celebrate that.
1018
00:35:00,140 --> 00:35:03,101
They are warriors
of the ima9ination ,
1019
00:35:03,184 --> 00:35:05,145
and the power
of the ima0ination
1020
00:35:05,228 --> 00:35:07,939
ic far stronger
than 0uns or money.
1021
00:35:08,023 --> 00:35:10,609
ddd
1022
00:35:10,692 --> 00:35:15,155
[woman sin0ing]
1023
00:35:15,238 --> 00:35:20,243
ddd
1024
00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:27,500
Staten Island ic the--
the most racist, like,
1025
00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:29,377
to me, I think,
out of all the boroughs.
1026
00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:32,255
[Raekwon] Our district was in
a white neighhorhood,
1027
00:35:32,714 --> 00:35:34,799
so, you know, some of us
didn't Iike
1028
00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:36,301
going to school
because...
1029
00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:38,637
you know, we wanted to have
that mixture.
1030
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:40,472
We wanted to see
more black people too.
1031
00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:41,973
[I nspectah Deck]
Park Hill niggas--
1032
00:35:42,057 --> 00:35:43,224
We went to 1 3.
1033
00:35:43,308 --> 00:35:44,893
Where wac 1 3?
I n Rose Bank.
1034
00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:46,102
Rose Bank...
1035
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:49,189
...mini-Mississippi .
[Iaughs]
1036
00:35:49,272 --> 00:35:50,732
[man] This is
Tompkins Avenue,
1037
00:35:50,815 --> 00:35:52,067
Rose Bank, Staten lsland,
1038
00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,653
[crowd] Rose Bank!
Rose Bank!
1039
00:35:54,736 --> 00:35:56,488
Rose Bank!
Rose Bank!
1040
00:35:56,571 --> 00:36:00,116
Rose Bank! Rose Bank!
Rose Bank! Rose Bank!
1041
00:36:00,784 --> 00:36:02,410
[Ghostface Killah]
Don 't be caught in Rose Bank.
1042
00:36:02,494 --> 00:36:04,079
They--they'II fuck you up
in Rose Bank.
1043
00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:06,665
[shouting, whictlin9]
1044
00:36:08,958 --> 00:36:10,543
d Desolate music d
1045
00:36:10,627 --> 00:36:12,253
[woman] Black leaders
on Staten lsland
1046
00:36:12,337 --> 00:36:14,464
say a black teena0er
who was killed by a car
1047
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:16,883
may have been trying to escape
from a group of whites.
1048
00:36:16,966 --> 00:36:18,885
When I used to go
to PS 1 3,
1049
00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:21,262
you know, I don't know.
I only coulda been , Iike,
1050
00:36:21,346 --> 00:36:23,223
nine, ten years old ,
and I used to remember
1051
00:36:23,306 --> 00:36:24,891
riding under
this bridge trestle.
1052
00:36:24,974 --> 00:36:27,519
It used to say
"Kill all ni0gers," you know,
1053
00:36:27,602 --> 00:36:29,020
"KKK," and I used to be like,
1054
00:36:29,104 --> 00:36:30,480
"Damn, that was
really frightening,"
1055
00:36:30,563 --> 00:36:32,732
and I had to go to school
every day Iike that,
1056
00:36:32,816 --> 00:36:34,442
and we was, like, kids
1057
00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:36,736
on the fuckin0 yellow bus.
Dude, Iike,
1058
00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:38,697
who fucking put
that shit there?
1059
00:36:38,780 --> 00:36:40,198
That shit--
you know what I mean?
1060
00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:42,534
That shit stood with me
for a lon0 time.
1061
00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:44,077
[woman chanting]
d Hey, hey, ho, ho d
1062
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,286
d Racism 's. . . d
1063
00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:50,291
Go home and clean you off--
1064
00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:52,127
Why, you Iook like you white!
1065
00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:54,546
As a nine-, ten-year-old ,
1066
00:36:54,629 --> 00:36:55,922
you getting chased
1067
00:36:56,339 --> 00:36:59,008
home from school
by grown-ass men .
1068
00:36:59,092 --> 00:37:00,885
"Damn , I'm somewhere
I'm not supposed to be!
1069
00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:02,887
No blacks, not in this shit."
1070
00:37:02,971 --> 00:37:04,681
[reporter] Do black kids
come around here?
1071
00:37:05,306 --> 00:37:08,768
Uh, they walk by freely.
1072
00:37:08,935 --> 00:37:10,478
[teenager] So the guy,
he get r--get
1073
00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:11,771
in his car
and he asks--say,
1074
00:37:11,855 --> 00:37:12,981
"What you niggers
doin0 down here?"
1075
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:15,108
Calling you "nigger,"
"Get the fuck out of here."
1076
00:37:15,191 --> 00:37:16,651
"I'ma kill you , ni0ger,"
1077
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:17,819
throwing shit at you ,
1078
00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:19,362
bottles busting in the street.
1079
00:37:19,446 --> 00:37:20,447
You nine.
1080
00:37:20,530 --> 00:37:21,906
They chase me.
1081
00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:24,200
One guy had 9ot in his car
and he started chasing us.
1082
00:37:24,284 --> 00:37:26,453
They Iike, "Oh , we're gonna
have us a whipping right now."
1083
00:37:26,536 --> 00:37:27,704
Bro, you running ,
1084
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:30,665
and the bottle come--kssh!--
next to you--kssh !
1085
00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:32,292
A rock comec skipping
1086
00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:34,210
and some shit actually hits you
in your back.
1087
00:37:34,294 --> 00:37:35,795
They calling for more guys
to come.
1088
00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:37,380
"Hey, Johnny!
[nasal nondescript utterances]
1089
00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:39,132
Come over here! Yo!"
[nasal nondescript utterances]
1090
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:40,842
You thinking they really
gonna kill you , man .
1091
00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:42,761
So I'm like, "Oh, chit."
1092
00:37:43,386 --> 00:37:45,430
Scared to death .
Scared to death .
1093
00:37:45,513 --> 00:37:48,183
d Uneasy music d
1094
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:49,225
Knew it all . Fights.
1095
00:37:49,309 --> 00:37:51,519
I remember sometimes,
a riot would jump off.
1096
00:37:51,603 --> 00:37:52,687
White boyc chasing you .
1097
00:37:53,354 --> 00:37:55,774
You gotta fight a bunch
of these foothall dudes
1098
00:37:55,857 --> 00:37:57,108
hoping to make it
to the bus.
1099
00:37:57,192 --> 00:37:58,568
You know, 'cause back then ,
you know,
1100
00:37:58,651 --> 00:38:00,528
Italian white boys,
they tough.
1101
00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:02,906
They grew up like fucking
1102
00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:04,491
Richie Cunningham
and all them niggas.
1103
00:38:04,574 --> 00:38:05,617
The Fonz.
1104
00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:07,285
Coming to school
with leathers on
1105
00:38:07,368 --> 00:38:08,536
with no shirt under.
1106
00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:11,498
You know, bold motherfuckers
like Grease, like--
1107
00:38:11,748 --> 00:38:13,333
You know,
those type of dudes.
1108
00:38:13,416 --> 00:38:14,375
You know what l mean ?
1109
00:38:14,459 --> 00:38:16,252
That's why Grease is one
of my favorite movies,
1110
00:38:16,336 --> 00:38:18,254
'cause it just remind me
of those kind of dudes
1111
00:38:18,338 --> 00:38:19,506
we went to school with.
1112
00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:21,758
You know, in Park H ill, you--
1113
00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:24,260
You go to 350, 320,
1114
00:38:24,928 --> 00:38:27,639
that's--that's Little Spain .
1115
00:38:27,722 --> 00:38:29,474
Them niggas will whoop
your ass.
1116
00:38:29,557 --> 00:38:30,600
Know what I'm saying?
1117
00:38:30,683 --> 00:38:32,268
We got the Africans over here.
1118
00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:34,646
They'II whoop your ass.
1119
00:38:34,771 --> 00:38:36,648
We 9ot the Jamaicans
over here.
1120
00:38:37,023 --> 00:38:38,316
They'II whoop your ass.
1121
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:41,069
You got us.
We'll whoop your ass.
1122
00:38:41,444 --> 00:38:44,072
The all the different sections
ofpeople that there is
1123
00:38:44,739 --> 00:38:46,449
fighting for everything.
1124
00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:48,451
Fighting for closet space,
1125
00:38:48,535 --> 00:38:49,994
fighting for parking space,
1126
00:38:50,078 --> 00:38:51,412
fighting for the same jacket
1127
00:38:51,496 --> 00:38:52,622
from the same store.
1128
00:38:52,705 --> 00:38:55,500
It was always conflict.
1129
00:38:57,669 --> 00:39:02,340
d Hip-hop music d
1130
00:39:02,423 --> 00:39:05,218
[indistinct chatter]
1131
00:39:07,887 --> 00:39:10,807
[indistinct chatter]
1132
00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:13,268
[man] All right, if I could get
your undivided attention ,
1133
00:39:13,351 --> 00:39:14,602
you'll get a chance to learn
1134
00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:16,479
what the Five Percenters
are all about.
1135
00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:18,565
We're about elevation .
1136
00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:22,235
All y'all and us
are one family,
1137
00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:25,280
so we build to teach
our babies how to live
1138
00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:26,823
right and exact
1139
00:39:26,906 --> 00:39:29,200
by giving them the knowledge
of themselves
1140
00:39:29,284 --> 00:39:30,869
so they can elevate themselvec.
1141
00:39:30,952 --> 00:39:32,787
[cheers]
1142
00:39:32,871 --> 00:39:35,039
[RZA] Being part of the
Five Percent at that time--
1143
00:39:35,248 --> 00:39:36,791
The Mathematics
and the knowledge of self.
1144
00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:39,085
The brothers was very unified.
1145
00:39:39,168 --> 00:39:41,129
We all could say
we was, like,
1146
00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:43,298
totally converted into that,
1147
00:39:43,590 --> 00:39:45,008
totally immersed into it.
1148
00:39:45,091 --> 00:39:47,385
d Pensive music d
1149
00:39:47,468 --> 00:39:50,263
So the Five Percent Nation
has its origin
1150
00:39:50,638 --> 00:39:52,557
with a brother who was called
1151
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,017
the Father, Allah.
1152
00:39:54,726 --> 00:39:57,687
His birth name
was Clarence 13X Smith.
1153
00:39:58,229 --> 00:40:01,316
He was a student
at temple numher seven
1154
00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:02,650
under Malcolm X,
1155
00:40:02,734 --> 00:40:04,027
Malcolm X being the student
1156
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,987
of the honorable
Elijah Muhammad,
1157
00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,907
but the Father said
these lessons helong
1158
00:40:08,990 --> 00:40:10,408
in the hands of the youth,
1159
00:40:11,034 --> 00:40:12,619
so he left the temple,
1160
00:40:13,328 --> 00:40:14,370
took the lessons,
1161
00:40:14,579 --> 00:40:16,581
and hrought them
to the streets of New York.
1162
00:40:17,957 --> 00:40:20,293
See, we are Five Percent,
the poor righteous teachers.
1163
00:40:20,376 --> 00:40:21,836
Five Percent is going to do
their job
1164
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,046
in the poor part
of Planet Earth .
1165
00:40:23,129 --> 00:40:25,423
That's why we're the high , intelligent
people of this planet Earth .
1166
00:40:25,965 --> 00:40:27,133
See, we 0onna be building .
1167
00:40:27,216 --> 00:40:28,343
We gonna build a black nation
1168
00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:30,553
that's gonna be all wise
and righteous.
1169
00:40:30,637 --> 00:40:32,013
You hear me speak--
ain't no difference.
1170
00:40:32,096 --> 00:40:33,056
We all as one.
1171
00:40:33,306 --> 00:40:34,766
[RZA] I was given
knowledge of myself
1172
00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:36,851
from my cousin,
the GZA.
1173
00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:39,145
The GZA was the one
who enlightened me.
1174
00:40:39,228 --> 00:40:40,355
At the time,
1175
00:40:40,730 --> 00:40:42,732
his name was Allah Justice,
1176
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,817
and he explains
the Mathematics.
1177
00:40:44,901 --> 00:40:46,235
The Supreme Mathematics--
1178
00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:47,862
Knowledge, wisdom ,
1179
00:40:47,946 --> 00:40:48,905
understanding ,
1180
00:40:49,489 --> 00:40:50,615
culture or freedom,
1181
00:40:50,698 --> 00:40:51,866
power or refinement,
1182
00:40:51,950 --> 00:40:53,034
equality, god ,
1183
00:40:53,910 --> 00:40:55,036
build or destroy,
1184
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:57,705
born , knowledge,
cipher,
1185
00:40:57,789 --> 00:41:00,124
is the essence
of the Iessons we study.
1186
00:41:00,416 --> 00:41:03,211
Knowledge is to Iook, listen ,
whole soul respect.
1187
00:41:03,503 --> 00:41:05,922
Wisdom is the way we keep
the snakes in check.
1188
00:41:06,005 --> 00:41:08,716
Understanding is to what?
See things clear.
1189
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,885
The culture frees the dumb
so the deaf will hear.
1190
00:41:10,969 --> 00:41:13,012
The first Iesson
of the Five Percent teaching--
1191
00:41:13,096 --> 00:41:17,141
It says, "Who is...
1192
00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:19,268
the original man?"
1193
00:41:19,352 --> 00:41:21,604
The answer is
the original man
1194
00:41:21,938 --> 00:41:24,232
is the Aciatic BIackman .
1195
00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:26,985
It's a powerful thin0
at a young age,
1196
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,487
Iearning about yourself.
1197
00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:33,074
[RZA] We are notjust
the children of slaves.
1198
00:41:33,157 --> 00:41:34,283
You know what l mean ?
1199
00:41:34,367 --> 00:41:35,410
The original man is the--
1200
00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:37,370
Is the father of civilization.
1201
00:41:37,537 --> 00:41:40,748
d Say who
is the original man d
1202
00:41:40,832 --> 00:41:43,209
d Who is the original man d
1203
00:41:43,292 --> 00:41:45,712
d Say who is
the original man d
1204
00:41:45,795 --> 00:41:47,964
d Who is the original man d
1205
00:41:48,047 --> 00:41:50,800
d The Asiatic Blackman d
1206
00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:53,177
d Asiatic Blackman d
1207
00:41:53,261 --> 00:41:55,805
d The maker, the owner d
1208
00:41:55,888 --> 00:41:58,057
d The cream
of the planet Earth d
1209
00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:01,227
d The father
of civilization d
1210
00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:03,229
d Father
of civilization d
1211
00:42:03,312 --> 00:42:04,397
Pop it!
1212
00:42:05,106 --> 00:42:06,482
I felt Iike the Mathematics
1213
00:42:06,566 --> 00:42:08,317
gave brothers, Iike,
high self-esteem .
1214
00:42:08,401 --> 00:42:09,777
[U-God] You know what l mean?
It just
1215
00:42:09,861 --> 00:42:11,529
gave you a different outlook
on, um--
1216
00:42:11,612 --> 00:42:12,613
- On life.
- [U-God] On Iife.
1217
00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:14,449
[U-God] You know, when you
heard the Blackman was God ,
1218
00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:15,992
it was like, "What?
Blackman is god?"
1219
00:42:16,075 --> 00:42:16,993
It was like, "Unh!"
1220
00:42:17,076 --> 00:42:18,995
Your chest got poked out.
You're Iike, "Yeah , it's real ."
1221
00:42:19,078 --> 00:42:20,163
- Made you responsible.
- Yeah .
1222
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:21,456
And that wisdom and knowled9e--
1223
00:42:21,539 --> 00:42:22,457
That'c why we ended up,
1224
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:23,458
you know, who we are.
1225
00:42:23,541 --> 00:42:24,917
A whole new outlook.
1226
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,879
[RZA] People would say,
"Why do you go off-track, RZA ?
1227
00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:29,213
You got knowledge of self."
1228
00:42:29,297 --> 00:42:30,715
I had mental freedom ,
1229
00:42:30,798 --> 00:42:32,592
but I didn't have
economic freedom .
1230
00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:36,095
Yeah .
1231
00:42:36,345 --> 00:42:38,890
d How many MCs
must take a chill d
1232
00:42:38,973 --> 00:42:41,809
d Before somehody says
don 't fuck with Park Hill d
1233
00:42:41,893 --> 00:42:44,604
d Well, this one here
is called haunt you with the tec d
1234
00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:47,482
d Straight from the island
of Shaolin is direct d
1235
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:50,359
d The rumble, got a killa hee
out to hust you d
1236
00:42:50,443 --> 00:42:52,153
d Pockets stay fat
like a muscle d
1237
00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:53,988
d Sharpen the mental d
1238
00:42:54,072 --> 00:42:56,032
d Hard to tell
what a nigga been through d
1239
00:42:56,157 --> 00:42:57,450
[Cappadonna]
Storm of Jamaicans
1240
00:42:57,533 --> 00:42:58,451
come through our hood,
1241
00:42:58,534 --> 00:43:00,745
Iike, '85, '86,
1242
00:43:00,828 --> 00:43:03,873
with big chunks of gold on ,
1243
00:43:04,290 --> 00:43:06,459
gold in the mouth,
know what l'm saying?
1244
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:08,419
That's when I first seen
that shit.
1245
00:43:08,503 --> 00:43:10,004
I was like,
"Yo, how are you getting that?"
1246
00:43:10,088 --> 00:43:14,967
ddd
1247
00:43:15,051 --> 00:43:16,969
[Method Man] The majority of
people l grew up with
1248
00:43:17,053 --> 00:43:18,721
wac drug dealers now.
1249
00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:21,349
Everybody was selling crack.
1250
00:43:21,724 --> 00:43:23,267
Typical work day, I 0et up
1251
00:43:23,351 --> 00:43:24,519
5:00 in the morning,
1252
00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:26,145
we get our little sandwich,
1253
00:43:26,229 --> 00:43:27,814
which was a little pastrami
and Swiss,
1254
00:43:27,897 --> 00:43:29,107
they go around the corner,
1255
00:43:29,190 --> 00:43:30,358
find your stash...
1256
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:32,360
Mm-hmm.
[muffled]
1257
00:43:33,069 --> 00:43:35,238
d A hand in your pocket
and one by your side d
1258
00:43:35,321 --> 00:43:36,739
[U-God]
And then you rockin '.
1259
00:43:36,823 --> 00:43:38,533
I was movin9 , probably,
like, a brick a week, man .
1260
00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,368
You know, you've always
just tried to live
1261
00:43:40,451 --> 00:43:41,911
this American dream,
paying for itself
1262
00:43:41,994 --> 00:43:43,704
to get through college,
all that shit.
1263
00:43:44,163 --> 00:43:45,414
I ain't gonna say
we was partners.
1264
00:43:45,498 --> 00:43:46,582
We definitely wasn't partners.
1265
00:43:46,666 --> 00:43:47,792
I was out there,
selling his shit.
1266
00:43:48,251 --> 00:43:50,586
Boom . Next thing you know,
l'm out there with the pack.
1267
00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:52,755
I'm scramblin9 ,
I'm scramblin9 .
1268
00:43:53,005 --> 00:43:55,424
AII of a sudden ,
this epidemic hit, you know,
1269
00:43:55,508 --> 00:43:56,926
and now,
your neighborhood is worth
1270
00:43:57,009 --> 00:43:58,302
$ 1 I4 million a day.
1271
00:43:58,386 --> 00:44:00,346
That'c interesting to me.
You know what I mean?
1272
00:44:00,429 --> 00:44:01,472
My older brother
1273
00:44:01,556 --> 00:44:03,432
Divine was the hustler.
1274
00:44:03,516 --> 00:44:06,310
He was the source
of the family, in a way.
1275
00:44:06,394 --> 00:44:07,854
Come to my house,
you see a pair
1276
00:44:07,937 --> 00:44:09,897
Technic 1 200 turntables.
1277
00:44:09,981 --> 00:44:11,732
My brother got that
from huctlin9 .
1278
00:44:12,441 --> 00:44:14,777
[Method Man] And in the midst
of all this, we had been making,
1279
00:44:14,861 --> 00:44:17,572
you know, Iittle tapes and shit
at RZA's house for years.
1280
00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:19,323
Gotta go to Rakeem's house,
1281
00:44:19,407 --> 00:44:21,242
work on this mucic.
1282
00:44:21,701 --> 00:44:23,744
After we doing our Iittle huctlin0
on the front of the building,
1283
00:44:23,828 --> 00:44:25,413
we should juct say,
"The hell with it, man ."
1284
00:44:25,496 --> 00:44:26,789
We go see Ra
down in Stapleton,
1285
00:44:26,873 --> 00:44:27,874
go hit them beats up, okay?
1286
00:44:27,957 --> 00:44:30,668
d Ooh, what, grab my nuts,
get screwed d
1287
00:44:30,751 --> 00:44:33,504
d Ah, here comes
my Shaolin style d
1288
00:44:33,588 --> 00:44:36,382
d True B-A-ba-B-Y-U d
1289
00:44:36,465 --> 00:44:38,176
d To my crew with a d
1290
00:44:38,509 --> 00:44:40,094
d Suu d
1291
00:44:40,178 --> 00:44:41,262
It's gonna blow, boys.
1292
00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:42,680
[RZA] lt was my dream,
1293
00:44:42,972 --> 00:44:44,849
hut Divine contrihuted
to that dream,
1294
00:44:44,932 --> 00:44:46,267
but he got Iocked up.
1295
00:44:46,934 --> 00:44:49,228
You know a child can be 9uided
on the right path
1296
00:44:49,687 --> 00:44:51,022
if you put
that proper knowledge,
1297
00:44:51,105 --> 00:44:52,857
wisdom, understanding
inside of his head .
1298
00:44:52,940 --> 00:44:53,816
You know what I mean?
1299
00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:55,484
And the proper opportunities.
1300
00:44:55,568 --> 00:44:56,861
When I got knowledge of self,
1301
00:44:56,944 --> 00:44:58,738
I had to choose a name
for myself.
1302
00:44:59,197 --> 00:45:01,032
I came with the name Rakeem .
1303
00:45:01,115 --> 00:45:03,409
Uh , there'c not really
a Arabic word for it, either,
1304
00:45:03,492 --> 00:45:04,785
so I had to find the word
1305
00:45:04,869 --> 00:45:06,329
that's--it means
to be original .
1306
00:45:06,996 --> 00:45:08,289
Zig-za9-zig
1307
00:45:08,372 --> 00:45:10,625
actually means "knowledge,
wisdom , underctanding ."
1308
00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:12,543
I was goin0 on the right path,
1309
00:45:13,252 --> 00:45:15,963
and then l got caught
into a world
1310
00:45:16,255 --> 00:45:17,673
of trouble, turmoil ,
1311
00:45:18,132 --> 00:45:20,426
doin0 the wrong things,
1312
00:45:20,509 --> 00:45:22,303
and I zagged away,
1313
00:45:22,386 --> 00:45:24,347
which led to nothing
but more trouble for me.
1314
00:45:25,890 --> 00:45:27,558
Once Divine got locked up,
1315
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:30,853
my mother had left
New York City.
1316
00:45:31,312 --> 00:45:32,355
She went to Ohio:
1317
00:45:33,439 --> 00:45:34,857
Steubenville, Ohio,
1318
00:45:35,107 --> 00:45:36,901
the hirthplace of Dean Martin.
1319
00:45:36,984 --> 00:45:39,320
d Somber synth music d
1320
00:45:39,403 --> 00:45:41,322
I was, you know, 13 years old.
1321
00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:43,824
That's when me and Ghostface
became roommates,
1322
00:45:43,908 --> 00:45:46,577
and next thing you know,
we got months behind the rent,
1323
00:45:46,702 --> 00:45:48,621
and the only way
to put bread on the table
1324
00:45:48,704 --> 00:45:50,248
was to get back
to street hustling .
1325
00:45:50,957 --> 00:45:54,961
ddd
1326
00:45:55,044 --> 00:45:57,088
[Method Man] Crack damaged
the fucking hood
1327
00:45:57,171 --> 00:45:59,257
in an explosive way,
like, overnight.
1328
00:46:00,216 --> 00:46:01,926
[Cappadonna] lt was
a lot of cash flow involved,
1329
00:46:02,009 --> 00:46:04,595
but the consequences
w-was big .
1330
00:46:04,971 --> 00:46:06,389
I hated that shit.
1331
00:46:06,472 --> 00:46:07,932
I hated selling on the block.
1332
00:46:08,724 --> 00:46:10,268
Dudes was getting murdered.
1333
00:46:10,351 --> 00:46:12,770
My brother got shot
in the stomach couple of times.
1334
00:46:12,853 --> 00:46:14,188
- You know what l'm saying?
- [gunshots]
1335
00:46:14,272 --> 00:46:16,691
I got the phone call
that Ghost got shot.
1336
00:46:16,899 --> 00:46:18,359
- My stomach dropped .
- [gunshots]
1337
00:46:18,901 --> 00:46:21,529
"Yeah , a bitch nigga
shot me, in my neck."
1338
00:46:21,612 --> 00:46:23,572
No.
I got shot out there,
1339
00:46:23,656 --> 00:46:25,908
but that's not the reason
why we wrote "Protect Ya Neck."
1340
00:46:25,992 --> 00:46:28,244
That was a very scary time
right there.
1341
00:46:28,327 --> 00:46:31,539
A Iot of niggas gone, in jail .
1342
00:46:31,622 --> 00:46:32,957
I got locked up
1343
00:46:33,207 --> 00:46:35,167
for 31 I2 ounces of coke
and a gun .
1344
00:46:35,543 --> 00:46:37,712
Cappa was gone, in jail .
1345
00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:40,631
Yeah , I got smack
around '8I,
1346
00:46:40,965 --> 00:46:42,466
and they sent me
to Rikers Island .
1347
00:46:42,550 --> 00:46:44,218
Deck was gone, in jail.
1348
00:46:44,302 --> 00:46:45,594
I cold crack
1349
00:46:45,678 --> 00:46:47,388
to an undercover officer.
1350
00:46:47,722 --> 00:46:49,140
I nstead of stoppin0 ,
1351
00:46:49,473 --> 00:46:50,683
we went harder.
1352
00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:52,643
[two gunshots]
1353
00:46:53,102 --> 00:46:54,979
It was just a bad night,
you know what I mean ?
1354
00:46:56,522 --> 00:46:59,608
[sirens wailin0]
1355
00:46:59,692 --> 00:47:02,570
I got into some trouhle
to--as, uh, violence ensued.
1356
00:47:02,737 --> 00:47:04,113
[0unchot]
1357
00:47:04,697 --> 00:47:06,657
- Kid got shot.
- [gunshot]
1358
00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:09,827
Led to me facing
eight years in jail .
1359
00:47:10,494 --> 00:47:12,038
ddd
1360
00:47:12,121 --> 00:47:13,331
l went to trial.
1361
00:47:13,706 --> 00:47:15,291
You know, black dudes
don't really go to triaI
1362
00:47:15,374 --> 00:47:16,459
to win , you know what I mean?
1363
00:47:17,752 --> 00:47:19,545
The prosecutor wasn 't making
no deals with me.
1364
00:47:19,628 --> 00:47:21,047
He was taking me all the way.
1365
00:47:21,964 --> 00:47:24,592
ddd
1366
00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:26,260
l'm in prison, y'all.
1367
00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:27,803
I felt totally alone.
1368
00:47:28,137 --> 00:47:30,514
[cell doors slamming]
1369
00:47:30,765 --> 00:47:32,600
And, you know,
1370
00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:35,019
l was blessed to--
to beat that one.
1371
00:47:35,728 --> 00:47:37,396
My mother came out
and she saw me.
1372
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,316
She looked me in my eyes and said
thic was my second chance.
1373
00:47:40,775 --> 00:47:42,818
Don't look back.
Walk straight.
1374
00:47:42,943 --> 00:47:44,653
Walk that straight
and narrow path .
1375
00:47:46,197 --> 00:47:47,114
I did that.
1376
00:47:47,198 --> 00:47:48,532
I zigged back.
1377
00:47:48,908 --> 00:47:51,369
You know, it was Iike,
"Nah, I'm not Prince Rakeem ."
1378
00:47:51,869 --> 00:47:53,329
I'm the RZA.
1379
00:47:53,412 --> 00:47:55,247
L'm Rakeem Zig-Zag-Zig Allah .
1380
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,500
d Yo, Iife is a struggle d
1381
00:47:57,583 --> 00:47:58,918
After l got out ofjail,
1382
00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:00,544
I drove back to New York
1383
00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:02,088
and started making music.
1384
00:48:02,171 --> 00:48:05,049
[indistinct rapping]
1385
00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:06,384
d I be the hest by far d
1386
00:48:06,467 --> 00:48:07,468
d Bust it up d
1387
00:48:07,718 --> 00:48:10,096
[indistinct shouting]
1388
00:48:10,221 --> 00:48:12,681
I was ready to 0et serious
again , you know what I mean?
1389
00:48:12,765 --> 00:48:15,684
[indistinct chatter]
1390
00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:21,023
Hey, they don't know
where you coming from.
1391
00:48:21,107 --> 00:48:23,442
[I nspectah Deck] When RZA
moved to Morningstar,
1392
00:48:23,526 --> 00:48:24,985
that's around the time
1393
00:48:25,069 --> 00:48:26,695
where he got the idea
1394
00:48:26,779 --> 00:48:28,239
of putting the clan together.
1395
00:48:28,322 --> 00:48:29,240
Kick that shit, Deck.
1396
00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:31,784
d I smoke on the mic
like Smokin' Joe Frazier d
1397
00:48:32,118 --> 00:48:34,620
d The hell-raiser,
raising hell with the flavor d
1398
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:37,373
d Terrorize the jam
like troops in Pakistan d
1399
00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:39,417
d Swinging through your town
like your neighborhood-- d
1400
00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:41,377
Check him out, man .
Yo, what he just caid---
1401
00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:43,295
it sounded crazy,
crazy threatening,
1402
00:48:43,379 --> 00:48:45,714
but it wasn't really no
actual violence being spoken.
1403
00:48:46,382 --> 00:48:48,092
[RZA] Terrorize the jams.
1404
00:48:48,175 --> 00:48:50,636
He terrorizing jams--
not--not--not old Iadies,
1405
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,221
not little kids,
not--not spu--
1406
00:48:52,430 --> 00:48:54,974
He terrorizing the jams
Iike troops in Pakistan .
1407
00:48:55,808 --> 00:48:57,226
Troops in Pakistan .
1408
00:48:57,309 --> 00:48:58,978
You know, they was
terrorizing Pakistan .
1409
00:48:59,353 --> 00:49:01,730
[RZA]
l identified Staten lsland
1410
00:49:02,106 --> 00:49:04,400
and these crew of dudes
that l go have cyphers with,
1411
00:49:04,483 --> 00:49:07,069
and these dudes is coming
to my house, making demos
1412
00:49:07,361 --> 00:49:08,821
all the illest.
1413
00:49:08,904 --> 00:49:10,573
d I'm blow up your projects d
1414
00:49:10,656 --> 00:49:12,450
d Then take all your assets d
1415
00:49:12,533 --> 00:49:15,286
d 'Cause l came to shake
the frame in half d
1416
00:49:15,369 --> 00:49:18,372
d With the thoughts
that bomb shit like math d
1417
00:49:18,622 --> 00:49:20,958
Like mathematicc.
You know what l'm saying?
1418
00:49:21,041 --> 00:49:22,501
[I nspectah Deck] Being
around with my hrothers
1419
00:49:22,585 --> 00:49:24,503
and we rhyming
and we getting down,
1420
00:49:24,587 --> 00:49:26,046
it's like, "Damn,
1421
00:49:26,130 --> 00:49:27,631
have we heard that shit?"
Like,
1422
00:49:27,715 --> 00:49:29,884
"Say that part again .
Like w-what was that?"
1423
00:49:29,967 --> 00:49:31,385
d So ifyou want
to try to flip d
1424
00:49:31,469 --> 00:49:33,137
d Go flip on the next man d
1425
00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:34,305
[GZA] Oh , don't flip on us.
1426
00:49:34,388 --> 00:49:36,390
d 'Cause l'll grah
the clip and d
1427
00:49:36,474 --> 00:49:38,017
d Hit you
with 1 5 shots. . . d
1428
00:49:38,100 --> 00:49:40,436
And that's when
the vision hit me.
1429
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:42,688
Everything--the righteousness--
everything came to me.
1430
00:49:43,522 --> 00:49:45,649
A'i0ht, this is-- this the road
manager here of Wu-Tang.
1431
00:49:45,733 --> 00:49:47,568
- Yeah, what's up?
- I don't know how in the world
1432
00:49:47,651 --> 00:49:49,278
you keep
all these brothers together.
1433
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:51,030
I must chake your hand
on that,
1434
00:49:51,113 --> 00:49:52,490
'cause l know it's a hardjob.
1435
00:49:54,283 --> 00:49:55,868
[U-God]
Mook was our manager,
1436
00:49:55,951 --> 00:49:58,287
our first manager
hack in the days.
1437
00:49:58,829 --> 00:50:00,414
d Somber music d
1438
00:50:00,498 --> 00:50:01,874
[Mook] Well, my cousins.
You know,
1439
00:50:02,208 --> 00:50:03,292
RZA.
1440
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:05,878
Not only my cousin .
He's also my 0od-brother.
1441
00:50:06,253 --> 00:50:07,546
Yeah, I was a entrepreneur,
1442
00:50:07,630 --> 00:50:09,089
just like everybody else,
you know.
1443
00:50:09,423 --> 00:50:10,925
Had my first child
1444
00:50:11,342 --> 00:50:12,968
and I knew my Iife
had to change.
1445
00:50:14,094 --> 00:50:16,055
Then I became
a New York City bus driver.
1446
00:50:17,181 --> 00:50:18,516
RZA came to me and said,
"Look,
1447
00:50:18,599 --> 00:50:19,892
I really want you to help me,
1448
00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:21,685
help me, you know,
with my music," and ,
1449
00:50:22,269 --> 00:50:24,355
"Uh , man , l ain't got time
for that bullshit."
1450
00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:27,525
I was driving the bus.
1451
00:50:28,359 --> 00:50:29,527
And when I was talking
to him ,
1452
00:50:29,610 --> 00:50:30,986
l'm just looking at his eyes.
1453
00:50:31,070 --> 00:50:33,113
I-I see something in his eyes
1454
00:50:33,197 --> 00:50:34,782
that was, Iike,
he ain't bullshitting .
1455
00:50:34,865 --> 00:50:35,908
He's for real .
1456
00:50:36,367 --> 00:50:37,910
So I told him, "A'ight,
1457
00:50:38,661 --> 00:50:40,955
I'II work with you ,
but don't fuck with me, man .
1458
00:50:41,288 --> 00:50:42,540
If we're gonna do this shit,
1459
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,000
you gotta give me all you got,
1460
00:50:45,084 --> 00:50:46,418
'cause I'm gonna give you
all I 0ot.
1461
00:50:46,502 --> 00:50:48,087
That's the only way
I know how to do something ."
1462
00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:50,214
I knew nothin0
about the music business.
1463
00:50:51,006 --> 00:50:53,008
I was brand-spanking-new.
1464
00:50:53,384 --> 00:50:55,386
I just knew how
to move a product.
1465
00:50:55,844 --> 00:50:57,888
To me, records wac product.
1466
00:50:58,347 --> 00:50:59,723
First thing to come in ,
"Protect Ya Neck."
1467
00:50:59,807 --> 00:51:02,101
We gotta make people
listen to it.
1468
00:51:02,184 --> 00:51:04,228
d Wu-Tang Clan coming at ya d
1469
00:51:04,311 --> 00:51:06,605
d What, what,
Protect Ya Neck, yo d
1470
00:51:06,689 --> 00:51:08,440
d Russell, set it off d
1471
00:51:08,524 --> 00:51:10,943
d What, what
the lnspectah Deck d
1472
00:51:11,026 --> 00:51:13,362
d I smoke on the mic
like Smokin' Joe Frazier d
1473
00:51:13,445 --> 00:51:15,614
d A hell-raiser
raising hell with the flavor d
1474
00:51:15,698 --> 00:51:17,950
d Terrorize the jam
like troops in Pakistan d
1475
00:51:18,033 --> 00:51:19,201
d Swinging through your town d
1476
00:51:19,285 --> 00:51:20,828
d Like your neighborhood
Spider-Man d
1477
00:51:20,911 --> 00:51:22,746
d So, uh, tick-tock,
keep ticking d
1478
00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:24,915
d While l get ya flipping off
the fresh that l'm kicking d
1479
00:51:25,249 --> 00:51:27,459
d The Lone Ranger,
code red, danger d
1480
00:51:27,543 --> 00:51:28,961
d Deep in the dark
with the art d
1481
00:51:29,044 --> 00:51:30,462
d To rip the charts apart d
1482
00:51:30,546 --> 00:51:32,172
d The vandal
too hot to handle d
1483
00:51:32,256 --> 00:51:34,633
d You battle, you're saying
goodbye like Tevin Campbell d
1484
00:51:34,717 --> 00:51:36,719
d Roughneck, lnspectah Deck's
on the set d
1485
00:51:36,802 --> 00:51:38,762
d The Rehel, l make more noise
than heavy metal d
1486
00:51:38,846 --> 00:51:40,931
d Yo, the way I make
the crowd go wild d
1487
00:51:41,015 --> 00:51:42,725
d Sit back, relax,
won 't smile d
1488
00:51:42,808 --> 00:51:44,518
d Rae got it going on, pal d
1489
00:51:44,602 --> 00:51:46,604
d Call me
the rap assassinator d
1490
00:51:46,687 --> 00:51:48,606
d Rhymes rugged and huilt
like Schwarzenegger d
1491
00:51:49,023 --> 00:51:50,274
[Bobbito] December of '92--
1492
00:51:50,357 --> 00:51:51,900
l don 't rememher
the exact date--
1493
00:51:51,984 --> 00:51:53,277
We were on Thursday nights.
1494
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:55,446
Stretch happened to be
out of town.
1495
00:51:55,529 --> 00:51:57,615
I was not FCC-Iicensed .
1496
00:51:57,698 --> 00:52:01,327
I was not technically allowed
to do a show on my own .
1497
00:52:01,410 --> 00:52:02,953
I don't even know
how to DJ .
1498
00:52:03,370 --> 00:52:05,956
Now, the door rings,
so I open up the door
1499
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,166
and there's five cats.
1500
00:52:07,666 --> 00:52:08,959
"Yo, B, we got
this new record, yo.
1501
00:52:09,043 --> 00:52:10,002
Yo, play that song .
1502
00:52:10,085 --> 00:52:11,045
Yo, play that.
1503
00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:12,212
You know, yo,
1504
00:52:12,296 --> 00:52:13,631
Yo, yo, play that.
Play that ri9ht now."
1505
00:52:13,714 --> 00:52:15,007
I'm Iike, "Yo, chill , chill ."
1506
00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:16,675
I go into the studio.
1507
00:52:17,259 --> 00:52:18,844
Yo, it's all white Iabeled .
1508
00:52:18,927 --> 00:52:21,847
That shit don't even have
no fucking writing on it.
1509
00:52:22,222 --> 00:52:24,141
I put it on , l'm--
I'm hearing , like,
1510
00:52:24,475 --> 00:52:26,602
martial arts.
Hoo! Ha! Ha!
1511
00:52:26,685 --> 00:52:28,187
Like, what the fuck
is this shit?
1512
00:52:28,562 --> 00:52:30,189
But I'm Iike,
"Oh , this shit is dope,"
1513
00:52:30,272 --> 00:52:31,482
so I played it.
1514
00:52:31,565 --> 00:52:32,900
d For short, Mr. Meth d
1515
00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:35,235
d Moving on your left, uh d
1516
00:52:35,319 --> 00:52:38,030
d And set it off, get it off,
let it off like a gat d
1517
00:52:38,113 --> 00:52:40,032
d l want to break, fool,
cock me back d
1518
00:52:40,115 --> 00:52:42,117
d Small change, they putting
shame in the game d
1519
00:52:42,201 --> 00:52:44,411
d l take aim and blow
the nigga out the frame d
1520
00:52:44,495 --> 00:52:46,914
d And like Fame
my style will live forever d
1521
00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:49,291
d Nig0as crossing over
but they don't know no better d
1522
00:52:49,375 --> 00:52:51,210
d But l do,
true can l get a d
1523
00:52:51,293 --> 00:52:52,503
- d Suu d
- d 'Nuff respect due. . . d
1524
00:52:52,586 --> 00:52:54,171
d To the 1-6-ooh d
1525
00:52:54,254 --> 00:52:56,131
d l mean, oh, yo,
check out the flow d
1526
00:52:56,215 --> 00:52:58,717
d Like the Hudson
or PCP when I'm dusting d
1527
00:52:58,801 --> 00:53:00,886
d Niggas off,
'cause l'm hot like sauce d
1528
00:53:00,969 --> 00:53:03,347
d The smoke from the lyrical
blunt make me, uh d
1529
00:53:03,430 --> 00:53:05,849
d Ooh, what, grab a nut,
get screwed d
1530
00:53:05,933 --> 00:53:08,060
d Oow, here comes
the Shaolin style d
1531
00:53:08,143 --> 00:53:10,312
d True badass
who, baby, you d
1532
00:53:10,396 --> 00:53:11,939
d To my crew with a d
1533
00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:14,858
- d Suu d
- d Yeah-eah, yeah, yeah d
1534
00:53:14,942 --> 00:53:17,945
d Come on haby, baby
come on, baby come on d
1535
00:53:18,028 --> 00:53:19,279
d Baby, bahy, come on d
1536
00:53:19,363 --> 00:53:20,906
d Oh d
1537
00:53:20,989 --> 00:53:22,241
d Yo, you hest protect
ya neck d
1538
00:53:22,324 --> 00:53:23,200
[Bobbito] My man calls up
1539
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:25,119
right affer it's done.
1540
00:53:25,202 --> 00:53:27,246
He's like, "Yo, what the hell
is that shit?"
1541
00:53:27,329 --> 00:53:29,373
I'm like, "I don't know."
There's no video out.
1542
00:53:29,456 --> 00:53:30,833
Steve Rifkind
wasn't in the picture.
1543
00:53:30,916 --> 00:53:33,502
Thic ic just
straight out the trunk
1544
00:53:34,086 --> 00:53:35,421
sellin9 shit.
1545
00:53:35,921 --> 00:53:38,549
d Yeah out loud my style
is wild so book me d
1546
00:53:38,632 --> 00:53:41,051
d Not long is how long
that this rhyme took me d
1547
00:53:41,135 --> 00:53:43,303
d Ejecting styles
from my lethal weapon d
1548
00:53:43,387 --> 00:53:45,556
d My pen that rock
from here to Oregon d
1549
00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:47,850
d There's more again, catch it
like a psycho flashback d
1550
00:53:47,933 --> 00:53:49,476
d l love gats;
if rap was a gun d
1551
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:50,728
d You wouldn 't bust that d
1552
00:53:50,811 --> 00:53:53,272
d l come in in all types
of shapes and sounds d
1553
00:53:53,355 --> 00:53:55,524
d And where I lounge
is my stomping grounds d
1554
00:53:55,607 --> 00:53:57,735
d l give an order to
my peoples across the water d
1555
00:53:57,818 --> 00:54:00,112
d To go and snatch up props
all around the horder d
1556
00:54:00,195 --> 00:54:01,905
d And get far
like a shooting star d
1557
00:54:01,989 --> 00:54:04,658
d 'Cause who I are living
the life of Pahlo Escobar d
1558
00:54:04,742 --> 00:54:06,618
d Point blank as l kick
the square hiz d
1559
00:54:06,702 --> 00:54:09,329
d There it is, yo, with pros
and there it goes d
1560
00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:11,457
[Mook] l'm taking
the record to the DJs,
1561
00:54:11,540 --> 00:54:13,083
l'm taking it to the stores,
1562
00:54:13,167 --> 00:54:14,501
I'm taking the record
to the clubs.
1563
00:54:14,585 --> 00:54:17,045
I mean , anywhere music
is being played ,
1564
00:54:17,129 --> 00:54:18,297
I'm taking the record there.
1565
00:54:18,839 --> 00:54:20,466
Rock and Soul--that was
the numher one
1566
00:54:20,549 --> 00:54:21,967
hip hop store,
back in the day,
1567
00:54:22,342 --> 00:54:23,635
and the young lady there--
you know,
1568
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,471
at first, she didn't want
to take the record ,
1569
00:54:25,554 --> 00:54:26,513
so then I came up
1570
00:54:26,597 --> 00:54:28,932
with a little. . . plan.
1571
00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:30,392
I can stand up?
Want me to sit?
1572
00:54:30,476 --> 00:54:31,477
[man] Yeah , stand up.
1573
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,353
[Mook] l'm gonna send someone
in the store
1574
00:54:33,437 --> 00:54:34,688
and ask for the record .
1575
00:54:34,772 --> 00:54:37,191
"That record.
That record, you know.
1576
00:54:37,274 --> 00:54:38,442
There's a bunch of guys
1577
00:54:38,525 --> 00:54:40,486
and they're MCin9 . . ."
1578
00:54:40,569 --> 00:54:42,279
It was my cousin, Vince.
1579
00:54:42,362 --> 00:54:43,739
I cwear to God,
this is true.
1580
00:54:44,031 --> 00:54:45,949
And so l come hack in
another time.
1581
00:54:46,033 --> 00:54:47,409
My cousin in there,
1582
00:54:47,493 --> 00:54:48,786
and I play the record for him .
1583
00:54:48,869 --> 00:54:50,204
[record ctatic]
1584
00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:51,497
All of a sudden,
1585
00:54:51,580 --> 00:54:52,539
he's Iike, "That's it!
1586
00:54:52,623 --> 00:54:54,291
That's that shit
l was talking about!
1587
00:54:54,458 --> 00:54:55,709
I heard it on Bobbito's show!"
1588
00:54:55,793 --> 00:54:56,877
'Cause Bobbito--
1589
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:58,378
Stretch Armctrong--
their show?
1590
00:54:58,462 --> 00:54:59,880
First motherfuckers
to play the record .
1591
00:55:00,923 --> 00:55:02,633
And I swear to God,
out of nowhere,
1592
00:55:02,716 --> 00:55:04,134
this other motherfucker
just came.
1593
00:55:04,218 --> 00:55:06,011
"Yeah!
I love that song!
1594
00:55:06,094 --> 00:55:08,096
Yeah , l heard that shit
on Bobbito's show, too!
1595
00:55:08,180 --> 00:55:09,389
I've been Iooking
for that shit!"
1596
00:55:09,473 --> 00:55:10,808
And then another motherfucker--
1597
00:55:10,891 --> 00:55:12,893
"Oh , shit! I've been looking
all over for that record !"
1598
00:55:12,976 --> 00:55:14,686
Next thing you know,
everybody in the store,
1599
00:55:14,770 --> 00:55:16,271
so I pulled out the box.
I'm like this:
1600
00:55:16,355 --> 00:55:18,106
"Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I could buy this--
1601
00:55:18,190 --> 00:55:19,775
They said , "No, no, no, no,
not in my store."
1602
00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:22,361
She grabbed the box and said ,
"No, no, no, no, no, no.
1603
00:55:22,444 --> 00:55:24,530
She came over this--
She bought the whole box.
1604
00:55:24,613 --> 00:55:26,907
That was the first fucking box
I sold ,
1605
00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:29,576
so I said , "Damn ,
that chit work Iike that?"
1606
00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:32,079
Mm.
I did that shit in the Bronx,
1607
00:55:32,162 --> 00:55:34,581
I did it in Brooklyn ,
I did it in Virginia,
1608
00:55:34,665 --> 00:55:35,582
I--
1609
00:55:36,208 --> 00:55:38,001
we went from here
to North Carolina.
1610
00:55:38,085 --> 00:55:39,628
I did that shit everywhere.
1611
00:55:40,128 --> 00:55:41,463
Shit was just going crazy.
1612
00:55:41,547 --> 00:55:43,048
- Wu.. .
- [crowd] Tang!
1613
00:55:43,131 --> 00:55:44,466
- Wu.. .
- [crowd] Tang!
1614
00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:45,968
And we out.
1615
00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:48,262
Brothers,
1616
00:55:48,345 --> 00:55:49,972
Wu-Tang Clan, y'alll
1617
00:55:50,055 --> 00:55:52,099
[indistinct chatter]
1618
00:55:52,558 --> 00:55:55,769
[Cappadonna] I remember
we was in the house.
1619
00:55:55,853 --> 00:55:57,312
I was with Rae
1620
00:55:57,396 --> 00:55:58,689
waiting for "Protect Ya Neck"
1621
00:55:58,772 --> 00:55:59,940
that we heard on the radio.
1622
00:56:00,023 --> 00:56:01,817
Just hearing that shit
1623
00:56:01,900 --> 00:56:03,235
on that radio
1624
00:56:04,069 --> 00:56:05,445
all the way through.
1625
00:56:05,529 --> 00:56:08,198
Man, I saw Rae
jump so fucking high, yo.
1626
00:56:08,782 --> 00:56:10,701
Yo, he jumped like, "Yeah !"
1627
00:56:11,785 --> 00:56:13,245
Like, "Oh , shit."
1628
00:56:13,328 --> 00:56:14,788
Once I heard it
on the radio,
1629
00:56:15,205 --> 00:56:16,623
oh, my fuckin0 God .
1630
00:56:16,707 --> 00:56:17,958
I was like, "We going."
1631
00:56:18,041 --> 00:56:19,293
And we was in front of 1 6�,
1632
00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:20,794
and I was still selling drugs.
1633
00:56:21,753 --> 00:56:23,338
Niggas was amped
the fuck up
1634
00:56:23,422 --> 00:56:24,590
and shit,
you know what I'm saying?
1635
00:56:24,673 --> 00:56:25,841
Everybody Iistening
for their part.
1636
00:56:26,758 --> 00:56:29,553
And my boy Shabby
Iet a chot off and shit.
1637
00:56:29,636 --> 00:56:31,179
He has a little--
it looked like a Iittle .22,
1638
00:56:31,263 --> 00:56:33,307
might have been a .38--
who knows--and shit.
1639
00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:34,892
Like, Bao! Bap! Bap!
1640
00:56:34,975 --> 00:56:36,518
ddd
1641
00:56:36,768 --> 00:56:38,437
Eh , it just gave you
your battery.
1642
00:56:38,854 --> 00:56:40,439
Like, "Oh, shit! Yo.
1643
00:56:42,274 --> 00:56:43,567
Yo, we made it!"
1644
00:56:44,067 --> 00:56:45,444
Nobody thou0ht this shit
wac going
1645
00:56:45,527 --> 00:56:46,904
to be anything .
Know what I'm saying?
1646
00:56:46,987 --> 00:56:48,280
Like, l was one of them dudes
1647
00:56:48,363 --> 00:56:49,823
that came with RZA
to every meeting
1648
00:56:49,907 --> 00:56:50,991
in the beginning ,
1649
00:56:51,074 --> 00:56:52,117
when he was shoppin0
everything .
1650
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,327
We met with different Iabels.
1651
00:56:53,410 --> 00:56:56,163
With Russell Simmons
and Def Jam
1652
00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:57,998
and everybody was all--
at first,
1653
00:56:58,081 --> 00:56:59,958
was like,
"Yo, it's just too many, man .
1654
00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:02,252
[Raekwon]
lt's too many ofy'all, man.
1655
00:57:02,336 --> 00:57:04,004
Like, how the fuck?
1656
00:57:04,671 --> 00:57:05,881
No, this ain't 0onna work.
1657
00:57:05,964 --> 00:57:07,382
[I nspectah Deck]
"Ah, nine members.
1658
00:57:07,466 --> 00:57:09,259
How you gonna split the money?
How's this gonna work?"
1659
00:57:09,384 --> 00:57:11,094
And our thing was Iike,
"Why are you worrying
1660
00:57:11,178 --> 00:57:12,679
about how we 0onna split
the money, bro?"
1661
00:57:13,055 --> 00:57:14,806
And we all sat
1662
00:57:15,807 --> 00:57:17,517
with one goal in our minds.
1663
00:57:17,601 --> 00:57:19,186
"Like, yo, if y'all
ain't taking all of us,
1664
00:57:19,269 --> 00:57:20,562
you can't have none of us."
1665
00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:23,690
It's like this.
You know what l'm saying?
1666
00:57:23,774 --> 00:57:24,900
'Cause people,
they looking at us
1667
00:57:24,983 --> 00:57:26,109
as nine individuals,
1668
00:57:26,193 --> 00:57:27,736
then we ain't 0onna make it.
1669
00:57:27,819 --> 00:57:29,446
We ain't gonna let
this money shit
1670
00:57:29,529 --> 00:57:30,989
break us up, and we know
1671
00:57:31,073 --> 00:57:32,866
that money is the root
of all evil ,
1672
00:57:32,950 --> 00:57:34,326
you know what I'm saying?
1673
00:57:34,409 --> 00:57:36,411
We gonna do thic, man .
We ain't gonna--
1674
00:57:36,495 --> 00:57:38,664
Wu is gonna
never break the fuck up, man .
1675
00:57:38,747 --> 00:57:39,706
[Cappadonna] You know?
1676
00:57:39,790 --> 00:57:40,916
[Raekwon] They know.
1677
00:57:41,625 --> 00:57:43,168
[RZA] The word Wu-Tang itself
1678
00:57:43,251 --> 00:57:47,839
means
"he who is deserving of God ."
1679
00:57:48,256 --> 00:57:49,508
The Iegend is
1680
00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:52,302
that General Wu
1681
00:57:52,594 --> 00:57:54,763
goes to the top
of this mountain to meditate,
1682
00:57:56,181 --> 00:57:59,851
and he pondered
all the questions of Iife,
1683
00:58:00,435 --> 00:58:01,812
and the legend sayc
1684
00:58:02,646 --> 00:58:06,483
that he decides
to jump off the mountain,
1685
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,989
and when he jumped off,
he re-emerged , it says,
1686
00:58:13,281 --> 00:58:15,534
as a spirit or a dra9on
1687
00:58:16,410 --> 00:58:17,995
and became immortal ,
1688
00:58:18,829 --> 00:58:20,622
and thuc, they named
the mountain
1689
00:58:21,206 --> 00:58:22,207
Wu Tang.
1690
00:58:23,375 --> 00:58:25,669
d Uh, l hring it back
to that hoom-bap d
1691
00:58:25,752 --> 00:58:28,296
d Original gun claps
and the moon's black d
1692
00:58:28,380 --> 00:58:30,590
d Now tell Stella this is how
she get the groove hack d
1693
00:58:30,674 --> 00:58:31,717
d Way hefore The Source d
1694
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,593
d my main source was the move pass d
1695
00:58:33,719 --> 00:58:35,303
d That extra P in 9- 1 d
1696
00:58:35,387 --> 00:58:36,430
d Used to walk this way d
1697
00:58:36,513 --> 00:58:38,098
d When DMCs might run d
1698
00:58:38,181 --> 00:58:40,350
d Son, my trends are culture
in the slum d
1699
00:58:40,434 --> 00:58:41,601
d l done bleu cheese telling you d
1700
00:58:41,685 --> 00:58:43,020
d l'm Cs where l'm from d
1701
00:58:43,103 --> 00:58:44,146
d Be real, you don't wanna d
1702
00:58:44,229 --> 00:58:45,272
d Get killed in Cypress Hill d
1703
00:58:45,397 --> 00:58:46,648
d Them boys get heastie d
1704
00:58:46,732 --> 00:58:47,983
d And they licensed to ill d
1705
00:58:48,066 --> 00:58:49,526
d And out-scratch what my homies d
1706
00:58:49,609 --> 00:58:50,485
d Have for real d
1707
00:58:50,569 --> 00:58:51,737
d Need a hit squad starring d
1708
00:58:51,820 --> 00:58:52,946
d The gang mass appeal d
1709
00:58:53,030 --> 00:58:55,365
d l got a tribe
and a so-called request d
1710
00:58:55,449 --> 00:58:57,784
d 'Cause I'm nice on the mic
with a little salt and pep d
1711
00:58:57,868 --> 00:58:59,327
d Yep, that's a fact, salute d
1712
00:58:59,411 --> 00:59:00,454
d That's respect d
1713
00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:01,663
d You get beat nuts, you know d
1714
00:59:01,747 --> 00:59:03,081
l go psycho for less d
1715
00:59:06,081 --> 00:59:10,081
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