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If what you say is true,
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the Shaolin and the Wu Tang
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could be dangerous.
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Yes, my Iord .
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We saw them practicing
with each other.
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Their kung fu
is first-class.
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[Raekwon] So, who came
with the name ?
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Who came up with, "Yo,
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we gonna call it
Wu-Tang Clan"?
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I heard Ghost say
"Wu-Tang" first.
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Yeah , it stemmed
from out there in the town .
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So you didn't come up
with the wor--
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You didn't come up
with the word "Wu-Tang"?
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No, the Wu-Tang comes
from a movie.
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Right, right, understand .
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First of all, we was calling
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the Ballantine ale. . . "the Shaolin"
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and the Olde English
"Wu-Tang",
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Wu-Tang shit.
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Then the flick came.
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But no, the flick--
no, the flick--
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- The flick was first.
- [Ghostface] No.
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[laughter]
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I seen the movie already.
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[Inspectah] He brou0ht
the movie to you .
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He didn't bring the movie to me!
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I saw the movie on the deuce.
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I brought it
to your flick, though.
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[RZA] No, you brought it
to my crib, though .
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You brou0ht the tape,
but l . . . me and Dirty--
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[Ghostface] You seen it.
I ain't know you seen it,
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but I told you to watch
this shit like this, Iike, yo.
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[overlapping chatter]
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I ain't know that, man .
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[overlapping chatter]
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Hold on . Cut, cut!
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No, no, Rae's made--
Listen, Rae's made it--
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Rae's made it into a--
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The rap, the music form .
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As far as who you're gonna say
put the clang on the streets,
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Tony put the slang
on the ctreets.
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Who put the Wu-Tang Clan
into a movement?
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- I started that Wu-Tang .
- [Ghostface] That was you .
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As I said , you put-- yeah .
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He put the movement
in it, definitely.
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Who made it nothin0
to fuck with?
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We made it
nothin9 to fuck with .
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That's right.
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d Jaunty music d
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[RZA] After Ohio,
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I was awakened
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to what my positive energy
could do,
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what my intelligence could do.
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I'm realizing
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that I could bring
that energy
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to the world
through music.
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[I nspectah] RZA 's house
was the spot, man.
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Like, it just became
the thing to do,
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like, "Yo,
when you've done hustling ,
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Iet's go to RZA house."
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RZA got the tracks.
He'd play the tracks.
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We going on for hours,
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spending the night,
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waking up the next day
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you know, sleeping on top
of each other.
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He Iooked very determined .
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He looked like
he was on a mission .
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His aura just stood out
amongst...
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everybody.
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Literally, I was in
the streets a Iot,
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know what l'm saying?
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But Meth was more serious
than me
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when it came to
entertainment
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and making his rhymes.
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Just finding something elce
to do
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instead of just bein9
on the block,
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selling drugs, wasting away,
and worrying about
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if you're 9onna get
Iocked up or not.
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Come do this rap shit.
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RZA was, like, a getaway thing
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when it came to me
escaping our life.
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The condition of the nei0hborhood
and the people--
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That shit started hitting
family and friends.
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You know, my brother is me.
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You know what l'm saying?
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There's no separation
in knowledge and understanding .
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The father and the son
is one and the same.
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I was just going
with the flow,
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but I also felt...
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there was gonna be
a breakthrough .
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It was just a feeling
that I--I had .
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I felt--I just felt that, Iike...
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RZA came to everybody
with the proposal
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and he told us exactly
what he wanted to do.
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[RZA]
We got-- okay, we got--
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We got a Iot of offers
and shit,
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but the best deal is the deal
that we got to do--
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To do everything ourselves.
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[Method Man] The creative control
type of--
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[RZA] Right.
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And it's the kind of deal
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where none of us
ain't tied down .
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You know, we can sign to
another labeI
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and all that shit.
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That's the kind of deal
we want,
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where we gonna be no slaves
and shit,
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'cause most
of these record companies
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treat you like their son .
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We 0onna make it for ourselves
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at the same time,
the singles, and ...
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...nobody gonna steal nothing from us
and shit.
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That'c our entire plan .
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He knew how to speak
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in a way where we all felt
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what he's sayin0 is real .
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He told me,
"Just give me a year of your life
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and after chit don't go right
after a year,
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you can 0o back to doing
what you're fuckin9 doin0 ."
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Mook] Yo, that's one of
the next moves
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we 0otta do, man.
We gotta start
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building something in Shaolin
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of our own shit,
you know what I'm saying?
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Real , man ,
you know what I'm saying?
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[Mook] At first, we was trying
to do everything together.
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Every evening, I met with RZA.
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We'd have dinner, we'd talk
about tomorrow's plan,
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what we gonna do.
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We started taking meetings
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with different labels
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and when we went for this deal ,
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it's one of the thin0s
he told me
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he need to have,
you know,
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regardless of what, when,
and where,
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we need to have
full creative control .
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We gonna slaughter it, y'all .
We gonna take over this rap world .
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[Ghostface]
PIay with the niggas.
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[Mook] You know, remember,
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'cause he had a project before.
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It was a dud .
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"Ooh , We Love You , Rakeem."
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Yo, this is Prince Rakeem,
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the Wu-Tang slang master
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with the Shaolin posse
on Staten Island .
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Check out my video,
"Ohh , We Love You Rakeem,"
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because I love you , too.
[Iaughs]
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- [woman] Yes.
- [woman] Aoow.
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[RZA] Sexy stuff.
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d L've got too many ladies d
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d I've got to learn
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d Ohh, we love you, Rakeem d
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d Ohh, Rakeem d
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[RZA] When l signed
to Tommy Boy,
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I wac 1 8 years old .
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- What Iabel you on?
- I'm on Tommy Boy Records.
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[RZA] My record came out
at 19.
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d Time is moving slow d
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d Life is a drag d
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d There 's money to make d
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d And more girls to bag d
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d Fully aware
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d Looking for what?
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[RZA] Got a few shows at 20,
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the chance to go out,
move that record,
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get some fans
and a few dollars in my pocket,
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and that was it.
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d Love to hear them scream d
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d Ohh, Rakeem d
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d And my ladies
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d Because I'm handsome,
charming and freaky d
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d And when they need me
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d And now l'm stuck,
I should've said no d
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d And I love you too d
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d Oh, oh, we love you Rakeem d
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d Thank you d
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[RZA] lt wasn 't
successful, right?
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The song wasn't the kind of vibe
I really was on , personally.
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I didn't think l was to be sold
as a ladiec' man .
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But l didn't know no better.
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Those are very, very,
smart people
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at the top
of this music business.
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They got their act together
at Tommy Boy.
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I didn't know that
the label could be wrong.
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Yo, it's the Wu-Tan9 CIan, boy.
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It started from my man Genius
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and Rakeem, you know,
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being up in the business
and all of that.
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Thin0s ain't work out.
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[GZA] l had an alhum out
on Cold Chillin '.
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They try to get a fellow
to cross over
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on some old crazy stuff
and put out somethin0
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that wasn't really going
with the flow,
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you know what I'm saying?
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Rakeem was on Tommy Boy, too.
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They tried to front on him,
you know what I'm saying?
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Now they fronting
on two members.
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Two members of the clan , now,
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so what happened now was...
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it's time to--it's time to
do it ourselves, man .
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You know what l'm saying?
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'Cause yo, the-- in the street,
survival and all that.
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You gotta protect your neck, man .
See, we from the streets, man .
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Don't let these people
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change you , baby.
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Do what you gotta do, man .
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If they don't want
to accept your material , man ,
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do it yourcelf, man .
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And I'm cool with a little bit
money save up your joint, man .
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Do it yourself. What?
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We did it ourselves!
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Do it yourself.
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[cheers and applause]
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d Ghostface catch the hlast
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d Glock burst, leave
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d l come rough, tough
like an elephant tusk d
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d Your head rush, fly
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d quiet synth music d
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- [RZA] Tangl
- [crowd] Wu-Tang!
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- [RZA] Ohl
- [crowd] Wu-Tang!
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- [RZA] Come on, louder!
- [crowd] Wu-Tang!
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[RZA] Louderl Yeah!
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[Mook] You know,
l don 't think RZA knew
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that it was gonna be
ac big as it ic.
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I know he always probably
wanted it to be.
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[RZA and crowd] Wu-Tang!
Wu-Tangl
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[Mook] That's all he fucking
dreamed about, you know--
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Was being in this music shit.
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[RZA] Give it up
for the Wu-Tang Clanl
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[cheers and applause]
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ddd
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[U-God] Power is
another brother l knew
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since l was a kid.
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Power's a stone-cold
hustling machine.
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Money-getting little nigga
from the block.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Iaughs]
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There's two things
that make you do good .
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Either you're inspired
or you're desperate.
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Everybody wac hustling .
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Divine Just, Power Cipher.
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[Power] Divine is
my man, right?
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Like, l never really
hung out with RZA, hut
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ohviously, yeah,
this is my man hrother.
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He's like, "Yo!
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You still wanna do
this music shit?
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Yo, we gotta do it now
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if you want to do it."
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That'c when, you know,
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I started
forming my crew,
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started formin0 my company.
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What's up?
This big Power Cipher,
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executive producer
on the Wu-Tang Clan joint,
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you know what I'm saying?
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[Mook] Power came
with a shoebox
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full of cash .
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Shit.
"Here."
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But yo, who cares
about the money, man?
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The shot is what it's worth .
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[RZA] Then I went
to Mike McDonald,
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my man Lask.
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[Lask] I'm originally
from the Bronx.
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I moved to Staten Island in 1 976.
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We moved to Park Hill .
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d Contemplative music d
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l was already established
in the industry
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before Wu-Tang ,
and I ran into RZA,
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and he's like,
"Yo, I was looking for you ."
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RZA introduced MC.
You know,
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"Mike could be a great help
with us."
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[Lask] He 's like, "Yo,
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I ain't 0ot no money
right now,
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but once shit take off,
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l got you ,"
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so I'm Iike, "Yo, let's do it."
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All right, you vice president.
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Mook was president
of management.
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I was vice president
of management.
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[Iaughs]
There was no office, man .
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It's street, man .
[Iaughs]
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We had no office.
The office ic RZA's house.
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The room was no bigger
than this, kid .
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Right here is where
his little bit of equipment
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was set up at.
I don't even think
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he had a bed in there,
'cause I think
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he used to sleep on the floor
in a sleeping bag.
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And I already understood ,
listening to shit,
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"Yo, that shit is bangin0 .
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If people could hear that
on the radio,
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they fucking with that."
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I was the promotion man .
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That was my thing.
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So we 's getting college play,
we's getting chart action,
302
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so then me and RZA,
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we put come money together,
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we hired a publicist.
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At the time, I ain't know
Divine was involved .
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I found out Divine
was involved later.
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[Mook] Divine...
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...was still doing what he do,
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but he was feeding
the program,
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but he wasn't physically there.
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'Cause he was away,
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doin0 what he do
to feed the program .
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[Lask] We didn 't have
no guides,
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so it was a lot of...
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...trial and error.
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It's, like, on-handc Iearnin0
and fronting a Iot,
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because we all came in this
together.
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Didn't know the business.
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Only a couple of us
knew some of the business.
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It didn't matter, right?
321
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I knew whatever
we was gonna try,
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win , lose, or draw,
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would probably be better
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than what we was already doing .
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[man] AII right,
we're rolling .
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My first gig in hip-hop
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was doing AandR
at Jive Records.
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I was a person that, uh,
recognized the talent
329
00:12:01,346 --> 00:12:02,430
and then ...
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cajoled the label .
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00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:07,602
So, we had 0otten the, uh,
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Wu-Tang demo
with "Protect Ya Neck,"
333
00:12:09,979 --> 00:12:12,857
"Method Man," maybe a couple
of other songs,
334
00:12:12,941 --> 00:12:14,359
but nobody could touch it,
335
00:12:14,442 --> 00:12:16,819
because it was
a non-exclusive deal .
336
00:12:16,903 --> 00:12:19,656
There was no label
that was going to give RZA
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a non-exclusive deal ,
meaning that...
338
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when any Iabel
si9ns a 9roup,
339
00:12:25,245 --> 00:12:26,537
they have the exclusive right
340
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to si0n every single one
of them
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if they choose to go do
their own solo deals,
342
00:12:31,417 --> 00:12:33,294
so if I sign Destiny's Child ,
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I get Beyonc�.
344
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We couldn't sign them ,
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hut we met with RZA.
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I really Iiked the music,
347
00:12:40,802 --> 00:12:42,262
but more than the music,
348
00:12:42,345 --> 00:12:45,223
I was just so impressed by him .
349
00:12:46,057 --> 00:12:48,893
He had a really unique way
350
00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:51,980
of lookin0 at everything .
351
00:12:52,814 --> 00:12:54,691
Talking about his music,
352
00:12:55,066 --> 00:12:56,526
talking about his group,
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his whole vision
for everybody.
354
00:12:58,569 --> 00:13:00,154
First it's gonna be Meth,
355
00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:02,156
and then it's gonna be GZA,
356
00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,117
and then it's gonna he Dirty,
357
00:13:04,993 --> 00:13:07,453
and then it'll be Ghost
and Rae.
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We bonded right away,
359
00:13:09,247 --> 00:13:12,166
and we've been friends
ever since.
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[Ralph]
l'm the longest-running
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00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:19,173
music video show
in the world.
362
00:13:19,257 --> 00:13:21,509
Hi , I'm DJ Ralph McDaniels,
and , uh ...
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00:13:22,010 --> 00:13:23,052
welcome to New York's
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00:13:23,136 --> 00:13:25,555
numher one video show,
Video Music Box.
365
00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:28,641
I started in 1983.
We still come on.
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For 35 years,
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00:13:30,393 --> 00:13:31,894
we 've been doing
Video Music Box.
368
00:13:31,978 --> 00:13:33,521
Voice of the street
till I die!
369
00:13:33,604 --> 00:13:35,565
This is the--
the archives.
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[coughs]
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Um ...
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[Ralph] There's tons of tapes
down here.
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This is ctuff
that should be in a museum.
374
00:13:43,948 --> 00:13:45,533
It should be in a better cpace,
375
00:13:45,616 --> 00:13:47,827
'cause there's stuff here
that I don't even remember.
376
00:13:47,910 --> 00:13:49,329
You know, Iike, I used
to come down here
377
00:13:49,412 --> 00:13:50,747
and go, "Oh, yes, right here,"
378
00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:52,540
and I could do that pretty much
with everything right here,
379
00:13:52,623 --> 00:13:54,083
but if it's
back there somewhere,
380
00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:55,835
I forgot what's back there now.
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00:13:55,918 --> 00:13:56,878
Let'c 9o up here.
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[gruntc]
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U m, okay, this is, uh ,
Wu-Tan9 "Protect Ya Neck."
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00:14:03,134 --> 00:14:04,469
RZA said,
"Look, l got a video
385
00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:05,887
for a song called
'Protect Ya Neck, '
386
00:14:05,970 --> 00:14:07,513
and I'm gonna bring it to you
387
00:14:07,597 --> 00:14:09,265
and , you know,
tell me what you think."
388
00:14:09,349 --> 00:14:10,266
I said , "All right."
389
00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:11,684
So he came
390
00:14:11,768 --> 00:14:13,644
and it was all of these guys.
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00:14:13,728 --> 00:14:14,812
"What's going on here ?
Who are these people ?"
392
00:14:14,896 --> 00:14:15,772
You know.
393
00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:17,523
But that was the rest
of the Wu.
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00:14:18,149 --> 00:14:19,984
I throw in "Protect Ya Neck"
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00:14:20,068 --> 00:14:22,820
in the 3!4-inch deck,
the big cassette decks,
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00:14:22,904 --> 00:14:24,155
and boom .
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00:14:24,238 --> 00:14:27,033
I'm like. . .
"What the hell is this?"
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00:14:27,116 --> 00:14:29,285
d I smoke on the mic
like "Smokin' Joe" Frazier d
399
00:14:29,369 --> 00:14:31,579
d The hell-raiser
raising hell with the flavor d
400
00:14:31,662 --> 00:14:33,373
d Terrorize the jam
like troops in Pakistan d
401
00:14:33,456 --> 00:14:34,832
[Ralph] RZA said,
"Would you play it?"
402
00:14:34,916 --> 00:14:36,626
I say, "Yeah, l'll play it.
ljust, you know--
403
00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:38,419
Just clean it up, you know,
when you finish it."
404
00:14:38,503 --> 00:14:40,296
He said , "You can
play it Iike that,"
405
00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:42,423
so l said,
"lt's got timecode on it."
406
00:14:42,507 --> 00:14:44,133
He's Iike, "That's cool .
That's cool .
407
00:14:44,217 --> 00:14:45,176
You can play it like that."
408
00:14:45,259 --> 00:14:47,220
And l started
playing it for a while.
409
00:14:47,303 --> 00:14:49,305
You know, I didn 't know
what the reaction was,
410
00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:51,015
you know, 'cause there was
nothing like that.
411
00:14:51,099 --> 00:14:53,017
d First things first, man,
you. . . with the worst d
412
00:14:53,101 --> 00:14:54,102
d l'll be sticking pins
in your head d
413
00:14:54,185 --> 00:14:55,186
d Like a. . .nurse d
414
00:14:55,269 --> 00:14:56,646
d l'll attack any. . . d
415
00:14:56,729 --> 00:14:57,939
d Who's slack in his mack d
416
00:14:58,022 --> 00:15:00,358
d Come fully packed
with a fat rugged stack d
417
00:15:00,441 --> 00:15:02,360
d Shame on you
when you step through to d
418
00:15:02,443 --> 00:15:03,778
d The Ol' Dirty Bastard. . . d
419
00:15:03,861 --> 00:15:05,780
[Ralph] Steve Rifkind
called me, and he was like,
420
00:15:05,863 --> 00:15:07,907
"Yo, Ralph, what d'you think of the Wu-Tang,
'Protect Ya Neck'?"
421
00:15:07,990 --> 00:15:09,242
I say, "That was dope.
We 're playing the video."
422
00:15:09,325 --> 00:15:10,660
d Yo, chill
with the feedback d
423
00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:12,078
d Black, we don 't need that d
424
00:15:12,161 --> 00:15:14,372
d lt's 10 o'clock, ho,
where the. ..your seed at? d
425
00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:16,624
d Feelin ' mad hostile
wearing A�ropostale d
426
00:15:16,707 --> 00:15:19,043
d Flowin ' like Christ
when I speaks the gospel d
427
00:15:19,127 --> 00:15:20,670
He says, "Do you think
I should sign them?"
428
00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:21,754
I said , "Absolutely."
429
00:15:21,838 --> 00:15:22,839
d G-Gka-Genius d
430
00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:24,799
d Take us the.. .out of here d
431
00:15:24,882 --> 00:15:26,968
d The Wu is too slammin' for
these Cold Killin' lahels d
432
00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:29,345
d Some ain 't had hits
since l seen Aunt Mahel d
433
00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:31,472
d Be doin ' artists in
like Cain did Abel d
434
00:15:31,556 --> 00:15:32,807
d Now they money's
gettin' stuck d
435
00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:34,308
d To the gum under the table d
436
00:15:35,643 --> 00:15:37,520
[Steve]
lt was early '93.
437
00:15:38,062 --> 00:15:39,605
- "Protect Ya Neck."
- [man] Steve?
438
00:15:39,689 --> 00:15:41,023
- 'N .
- [man] "Steven".
439
00:15:41,107 --> 00:15:42,650
I'm like,
"What the fuck is this?
440
00:15:43,151 --> 00:15:44,610
This is a rock band ."
441
00:15:44,986 --> 00:15:47,155
So I tried reaching out to RZA.
442
00:15:47,238 --> 00:15:48,322
No answer.
443
00:15:48,823 --> 00:15:50,408
Went on for six weeks.
444
00:15:50,491 --> 00:15:52,034
[man] You called him
for six weeks?
445
00:15:52,118 --> 00:15:54,203
Six weeks, no answer,
446
00:15:54,912 --> 00:15:55,955
and he just shows up.
447
00:15:56,038 --> 00:15:57,665
He says, "The guys are here."
448
00:15:57,748 --> 00:15:59,375
You know, "Do you want
to meet everybody?"
449
00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:00,543
I'm like, "Yeah ."
450
00:16:00,626 --> 00:16:02,587
So, I'm in a guest office--
451
00:16:03,129 --> 00:16:04,464
I want to say from here--
452
00:16:04,839 --> 00:16:06,424
The size of this table.
453
00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:09,677
And all nine 0uys come in
454
00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:10,928
and they start performing.
455
00:16:11,012 --> 00:16:13,931
[indistinct rapping]
456
00:16:14,015 --> 00:16:15,766
d They drip right out the faucet d
457
00:16:15,850 --> 00:16:18,019
d l'ma walk these dogs
seven days a week d
458
00:16:18,102 --> 00:16:19,228
d Niggasjust stay weak, yo d
459
00:16:19,312 --> 00:16:20,605
d Bless the Lord, speak d
460
00:16:20,688 --> 00:16:22,106
d We're on a real rap dip d
461
00:16:22,190 --> 00:16:23,316
d Yo, l got fat shit d
462
00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:25,193
d Just like fittin ' in a phat whip d
463
00:16:25,276 --> 00:16:27,945
d Burning MCs
with the bad Gs of war d
464
00:16:28,029 --> 00:16:30,239
d Just like 25 MPV d
465
00:16:30,364 --> 00:16:32,200
d Embalming them like Tutankhamun d
466
00:16:32,283 --> 00:16:34,243
d Lightskin and charmin',
hack-packed and armed d
467
00:16:34,327 --> 00:16:35,912
d And ready for the tons of fun d
468
00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:37,079
d And the ones get done d
469
00:16:37,163 --> 00:16:39,415
d Are the ones that are
mostly headstrong d
470
00:16:39,499 --> 00:16:41,417
d Bite the rhyme,
show 'em who's like that d
471
00:16:41,501 --> 00:16:44,003
d And packing my raps
compared to a MAC-10 d
472
00:16:44,086 --> 00:16:45,087
d Rhymes are wholesome d
473
00:16:45,171 --> 00:16:46,214
d All right, hold some d
474
00:16:46,297 --> 00:16:48,424
d Don't fuck with Golden Arms,
yeah, l told ya d
475
00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,092
d The radio today
is making moves d
476
00:16:50,176 --> 00:16:51,135
d With the airplay d
477
00:16:51,219 --> 00:16:53,179
d So l make my own way
to get a fair say d
478
00:16:53,262 --> 00:16:54,555
d Niggas here to get shot d
479
00:16:54,639 --> 00:16:55,973
d Making watered-down
hip-hop d
480
00:16:56,057 --> 00:16:58,059
d Trying to get played
midday at 12 o'clock d
481
00:16:58,142 --> 00:17:00,436
d Rhymes l design
hit the ground like the hammer d
482
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,688
d Of Thor, rip the floor
like a circular saw d
483
00:17:02,772 --> 00:17:05,149
d You wanna be hard rocks,
grab your fake Glocks d
484
00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:07,360
d Watch, this is where
your madness stops d
485
00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:09,320
Boy, we got this going .
486
00:17:09,403 --> 00:17:11,197
Wu-Tang .
Wu-Tang comin0 at you .
487
00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,115
[Steve] Somebody comes
barging in
488
00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:15,952
and says, "That'c that shit,"
489
00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:19,455
and then storms out.
Never saw him again .
490
00:17:19,830 --> 00:17:21,916
Walked in, said it, left,
491
00:17:21,999 --> 00:17:24,335
so I don't know if I got cet up,
didn't get set up...
492
00:17:24,418 --> 00:17:26,837
l thought that was one of
hic fucking ctaff people.
493
00:17:26,921 --> 00:17:29,173
I never saw the guy
ever a9ain.
494
00:17:29,257 --> 00:17:31,175
So he's saying he ain't know
the motherfucker either?
495
00:17:31,259 --> 00:17:33,553
[man] He said he had no idea who--
he said some random guy
496
00:17:33,636 --> 00:17:35,680
came in the office and said ,
"Yo, that's that shit."
497
00:17:35,763 --> 00:17:38,683
Yeah, no, he wasn't with us,
but yeah, it did-- that did happen .
498
00:17:38,766 --> 00:17:40,560
I'm Iooking at that man
and I was just starting--
499
00:17:40,643 --> 00:17:42,687
I mean, the energy
in the room that day,
500
00:17:42,770 --> 00:17:44,522
just even the energy
of the record--
501
00:17:44,605 --> 00:17:46,941
To me, that wac about survival .
502
00:17:47,024 --> 00:17:49,443
It wasn't Iike, "Oh , I'm--
l'm chan9ing the industry."
503
00:17:49,527 --> 00:17:51,320
This was Iike,
"I gotta jump-start
504
00:17:51,404 --> 00:17:52,446
this fucking company."
505
00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:53,990
[man] What magazine is that?
506
00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:55,324
This is Beat Down , nigga.
507
00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:57,159
[man] Tell us about it, kid .
508
00:17:57,243 --> 00:17:58,411
A'ight, Beat Down.
509
00:17:58,494 --> 00:17:59,870
Get this shit, $2, man .
510
00:18:00,371 --> 00:18:01,289
Hey, y'all .
511
00:18:01,372 --> 00:18:03,332
They still be 9etting
two beans for it, though,
512
00:18:03,416 --> 00:18:05,334
but we got Wu-Tang
on the cover, all right?
513
00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:07,169
[ODB] Nah , they poct--
they get how much
514
00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:09,547
the fuck they want to get,
they got us up on that beat.
515
00:18:09,630 --> 00:18:11,007
[RZA] Wu-Tan0 on the cover
and shit, man .
516
00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:12,883
You'd be like, "This is
fuckin' Staten Island advance."
517
00:18:12,967 --> 00:18:14,760
[ODB] I almost lost it, man .
I don't even wanna be
518
00:18:14,844 --> 00:18:16,637
in the scene and shit.
I ain't even wash up today,
519
00:18:16,721 --> 00:18:18,889
and l hit--
and I had pussy.
520
00:18:18,973 --> 00:18:20,474
[woman] I told you
you done stank.
521
00:18:20,558 --> 00:18:22,435
I still got pussy
on my balls and dick right now.
522
00:18:22,518 --> 00:18:23,978
- [woman] Eww. [Iaughc]
- [Iaughter]
523
00:18:24,061 --> 00:18:24,979
[woman] Eww!
524
00:18:25,062 --> 00:18:26,355
Smell like shit, too.
525
00:18:26,439 --> 00:18:28,566
[indistinct chatter]
526
00:18:30,860 --> 00:18:32,403
[Lask] RZA called me,
527
00:18:32,486 --> 00:18:34,947
says, "Guys, Steve Rifkind's
interested in the group."
528
00:18:35,031 --> 00:18:37,199
I was Iike, "I-I-I don't know."
529
00:18:37,283 --> 00:18:39,118
He's a promoter,
you know what I'm saying?
530
00:18:39,201 --> 00:18:40,494
So he can get your--
531
00:18:40,578 --> 00:18:42,830
Get your shit out there,
you know what I mean,
532
00:18:42,913 --> 00:18:45,124
but as far as a label album--
you know.
533
00:18:45,207 --> 00:18:46,584
He had this Twista,
534
00:18:46,667 --> 00:18:48,628
and that wasn't
really happening .
535
00:18:48,711 --> 00:18:50,546
Then he had another artict, too.
I forget.
536
00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:52,131
RZA said, "There's nine of us.
537
00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:55,051
You know, l need to shop
538
00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:56,093
each guy on my--"
539
00:18:56,177 --> 00:18:58,804
I have no problem with that,
as Iong as I have first ri0ht,
540
00:18:58,888 --> 00:19:01,265
because, to me, the group
is always bigger than the solo.
541
00:19:01,349 --> 00:19:03,809
He signed the Wu-Tang CIan
as a group,
542
00:19:03,893 --> 00:19:05,186
but not the individuals.
543
00:19:05,269 --> 00:19:06,479
If I go and get my guys signed
544
00:19:06,562 --> 00:19:07,563
somewhere else,
they 9ood , right?
545
00:19:07,647 --> 00:19:10,149
We give you opportunity
to bid it, but...
546
00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:11,150
you pass on it,
547
00:19:11,233 --> 00:19:13,069
you know we're goin0
over here with them .
548
00:19:13,486 --> 00:19:15,946
He had first right
to each member.
549
00:19:16,030 --> 00:19:18,574
You know, if somebody
offered them a solo deal,
550
00:19:18,658 --> 00:19:19,992
you run it past him .
551
00:19:20,076 --> 00:19:21,744
If he could match it,
he match it.
552
00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:23,454
If he can't,
you was free to go,
553
00:19:23,537 --> 00:19:25,956
but that was revolutionary,
'cause it wasn't done before.
554
00:19:26,207 --> 00:19:28,250
A month later, the deal
was done.
555
00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:30,628
AII he had
was 60 grand , he said .
556
00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:31,754
What I got out of that?
557
00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:33,631
I probably got about a G
out of that.
558
00:19:33,714 --> 00:19:35,549
You know, he Iucky,
'cause I don't remember
559
00:19:35,633 --> 00:19:36,884
getting nothing,
you know what I'm saying?
560
00:19:37,301 --> 00:19:38,886
"But," he say,
561
00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:42,098
"I'm gonna let you do
anything you want to do.
562
00:19:42,556 --> 00:19:43,766
No restrictions.
563
00:19:43,849 --> 00:19:45,518
I support anything
y'all want to do,"
564
00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:47,103
and that's all
we wanted to hear.
565
00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:49,438
It wasn't about just getting
all the money now.
566
00:19:49,522 --> 00:19:51,440
You know, it wasn't
about the dough , man .
567
00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:53,359
It was about the--
the plug .
568
00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:55,820
You know what I mean?
And the--the doing something
569
00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:58,280
that you could feel good about,
570
00:19:58,364 --> 00:20:01,117
you know, when it's time
to get pulled over or--
571
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,035
You know, like, "What?
572
00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:04,578
You're fucking with me?
573
00:20:04,662 --> 00:20:06,872
You don't want
to fuck with me, Officer.
574
00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:08,874
You don't want
to fuck with me, man .
575
00:20:08,958 --> 00:20:11,502
I 9ot a fucking rap
fucking contract, man ."
576
00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:13,504
[indistinct chatter]
577
00:20:18,926 --> 00:20:21,011
Y'all can't stop with that
camera.
578
00:20:21,095 --> 00:20:22,722
What's up? Yo.
579
00:20:22,972 --> 00:20:24,348
Look at this shit.
Turn around .
580
00:20:24,432 --> 00:20:25,808
See that shit ri0ht there?
581
00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:27,810
They fucking sweating uc.
Listen.
582
00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:29,103
They sweating us
for no apparent reason.
583
00:20:29,186 --> 00:20:30,730
They on our dick
'cause they see us
584
00:20:30,813 --> 00:20:31,939
with a little bit of something ,
585
00:20:32,022 --> 00:20:33,441
you know what I'm saying,
and they want
586
00:20:33,524 --> 00:20:35,901
to come fuck with us.
That's my manager!
587
00:20:35,985 --> 00:20:37,570
Know what I'm saying?
588
00:20:37,653 --> 00:20:40,072
Focus on that chit.
Word up.
589
00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:41,490
Why they fucking with us?
590
00:20:41,574 --> 00:20:44,034
They always bring that shit
to the minority, man .
591
00:20:44,118 --> 00:20:45,411
We can't have shit.
592
00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:47,079
AII ri0ht, no problem .
593
00:20:47,163 --> 00:20:49,623
[Raekwon] They searching
people 's shit like that, man.
594
00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:51,292
That's sad , man.
595
00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:54,336
We political , man .
We rap stars,
596
00:20:54,420 --> 00:20:55,963
and look what we gotta
go through .
597
00:20:56,046 --> 00:20:58,090
I'm letting you know,
this chit is real .
598
00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:00,593
You find your 0un?
599
00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:03,846
[man] AIl right, listen to me.
600
00:21:03,929 --> 00:21:05,181
If you want to discuss this,
601
00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:07,558
we'II 0o back to the station house
and we'II talk about it.
602
00:21:07,641 --> 00:21:09,560
Whatever, you want
to take it to that Ievel?
603
00:21:09,643 --> 00:21:12,313
- We can take it to that Ievel .
- We'll take it to that Ievel !
604
00:21:12,396 --> 00:21:13,481
[indistinct chatter]
605
00:21:13,564 --> 00:21:14,690
d Somber music d
606
00:21:14,774 --> 00:21:16,650
[Raekwon] And you just
see how it's so hard
607
00:21:16,734 --> 00:21:17,693
for people in the ghetto
608
00:21:17,777 --> 00:21:19,695
to fucking be able to make it,
609
00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:21,113
'cause nine times out of ten ,
610
00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:22,823
we all criminals in they eyes,
611
00:21:22,907 --> 00:21:24,158
and that's fucked-up.
612
00:21:24,241 --> 00:21:25,576
You know what that's for?
613
00:21:25,659 --> 00:21:26,869
'Cause they said they heard
614
00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:28,329
somebody had a gun in there.
615
00:21:28,412 --> 00:21:30,623
- They do that shit all the time.
- They heard.
616
00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:33,125
We ' here with babies, man.
617
00:21:33,209 --> 00:21:35,336
AII this shit for nothing .
Look.
618
00:21:35,419 --> 00:21:37,671
They acting Iike--like
they had M 1 6s
619
00:21:37,755 --> 00:21:39,131
or some shit over there.
620
00:21:39,715 --> 00:21:41,258
Look at that shit, man .
621
00:21:41,342 --> 00:21:42,676
[indistinct chatter]
622
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,303
Killer Hill ! Stay out!
623
00:21:44,386 --> 00:21:45,721
- Get out of here!
- Killer Hill ! Stay out!
624
00:21:45,805 --> 00:21:46,931
Ah!
625
00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:48,599
[cheering]
626
00:21:48,682 --> 00:21:50,810
[rap instrumentals
playing in background]
627
00:21:50,893 --> 00:21:53,813
[indistinct rapping]
628
00:21:53,896 --> 00:21:56,482
ddd
629
00:22:07,868 --> 00:22:10,037
I want to give a shout-out
to my girl , Jennifer!
630
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,539
...I love you !
What's up?
631
00:22:11,622 --> 00:22:12,957
Yeah, b-bum-bum-bum .
632
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,792
I wanna say "peace"
to my brother Haas,
633
00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:16,418
the nigga in C94.
Peace, boy.
634
00:22:16,502 --> 00:22:18,045
Oh , what's up?
I'd Iike to give a shout-out
635
00:22:18,128 --> 00:22:19,839
to Marissa and Jennifer
and to all my girls...
636
00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:21,340
I want to give a shout-out
to my nigga
637
00:22:21,423 --> 00:22:23,384
born scientifical
Van Dyke projects.
638
00:22:23,467 --> 00:22:25,970
Shout out to my sicter Peggy.
I love you !
639
00:22:26,053 --> 00:22:27,680
Yo, I wanna give a shout-out
to MGP!
640
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,640
We in here, Carl ,
but bring your full effect.
641
00:22:29,723 --> 00:22:31,267
Zulu king'c in the house.
642
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:32,518
[cheering]
643
00:22:32,601 --> 00:22:34,603
You too, Mom !
Sue 6�--
644
00:22:34,687 --> 00:22:36,605
I wanna make a shout-out
645
00:22:36,689 --> 00:22:39,275
to my motherfucking brother,
Method Man .
646
00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:40,860
Wu-Tang in the house!
647
00:22:40,943 --> 00:22:42,403
I wanna give a shout-out
to the whole GP crew!
648
00:22:42,486 --> 00:22:45,072
Hey, yo, Now Born .
Now Born's in the house, dog !
649
00:22:45,155 --> 00:22:47,783
I'd Iike to give a shout-out
to all my peoples in Shaolin .
650
00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:49,118
[man] Wu-Tan0 !
651
00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:50,619
[man]
Shaolin 's coming through.
652
00:22:50,703 --> 00:22:52,621
Protect your
motherfucking neck, kid .
653
00:22:52,705 --> 00:22:54,164
Protect your necks, niggas.
654
00:22:54,248 --> 00:22:55,332
This world is real .
655
00:22:57,793 --> 00:22:59,003
[Method Man] Now check it.
656
00:22:59,086 --> 00:23:01,297
L'm cool with the peoples
from Park Hill ,
657
00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:03,591
I'm cool with peoples
from Stapleton,
658
00:23:03,674 --> 00:23:05,801
I'm cool with peoples
from the wild, wild west,
659
00:23:05,885 --> 00:23:07,845
the jungle, [inaudible] .
660
00:23:07,928 --> 00:23:09,430
Now what I'm saying is, right,
661
00:23:09,513 --> 00:23:11,181
there's some shit being spread .
662
00:23:11,265 --> 00:23:12,808
Know what I'm saying?
663
00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,184
Nig0as is going and shit--
664
00:23:14,268 --> 00:23:15,728
Whatever, whatever.
Do your shit,
665
00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:17,688
but don't involve
my peoples with that.
666
00:23:17,771 --> 00:23:19,732
We out here trying
to get our shit legal ,
667
00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:21,233
you know what I'm saying?
668
00:23:21,317 --> 00:23:24,028
Don't knock us because we
trying to get our shit legal .
669
00:23:24,111 --> 00:23:26,947
We real , we came from the same
place y'all came from.
670
00:23:27,031 --> 00:23:28,574
You know what l'm saying?
671
00:23:28,657 --> 00:23:30,784
If y'all with me,
where y'all at?
672
00:23:31,577 --> 00:23:33,454
My peoples if you with me,
where y'all at?
673
00:23:33,954 --> 00:23:36,290
[indistinct chatter]
674
00:23:36,373 --> 00:23:39,627
[Method Man] Yo, yo!
Shaolin ! Shaolin! Shaolin!
675
00:23:39,710 --> 00:23:41,337
[they chant]
676
00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:44,256
Yeah , now RZA, bring that back...
677
00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:46,592
[Method Man] l was actually horn
in Long lsland.
678
00:23:46,675 --> 00:23:48,636
'71, March 2nd,
679
00:23:48,719 --> 00:23:51,263
to Genola Williams
680
00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:53,474
and Clifford Smith, Sr.
681
00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:56,352
My old daddy was young ,
my mom was young ,
682
00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:59,146
and I think they had kids
too early.
683
00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:00,814
Either both of them
wasn't ready,
684
00:24:00,898 --> 00:24:02,691
one of them wasn't ready--
I don't know.
685
00:24:02,775 --> 00:24:04,109
I'm not here to judge Dad .
686
00:24:04,193 --> 00:24:06,070
I just know that as a child ,
687
00:24:06,153 --> 00:24:07,780
we would move around a Iot
688
00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:09,406
without him .
689
00:24:09,865 --> 00:24:12,826
Sometimes, he would probably
be sleep in the bed
690
00:24:12,910 --> 00:24:14,995
and we packed up
and we gone,
691
00:24:15,496 --> 00:24:17,873
'cause Genola done packed up
the kids
692
00:24:17,957 --> 00:24:19,917
and went back home
to I ndiana.
693
00:24:20,709 --> 00:24:22,378
He would always find us,
though.
694
00:24:22,461 --> 00:24:24,755
He--he loved his kids,
you know.
695
00:24:25,339 --> 00:24:27,591
I know for a fact
my father Ioved me, man ,
696
00:24:27,675 --> 00:24:29,551
'cause he used to try
and steal me.
697
00:24:30,177 --> 00:24:31,303
You know?
698
00:24:32,012 --> 00:24:33,681
He would try and take me.
699
00:24:33,973 --> 00:24:36,475
"I want my son. "
You know what l mean ?
700
00:24:36,558 --> 00:24:38,519
My mother wasn 't having
any of that.
701
00:24:39,853 --> 00:24:41,480
We wound up going to
702
00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:44,984
a. . .shelter
for battered women
703
00:24:45,859 --> 00:24:47,277
in Brooklyn.
704
00:24:48,278 --> 00:24:50,823
I had to be, Iike,
six, seven years old .
705
00:24:50,906 --> 00:24:53,742
It was an experience that
I--I cherish ,
706
00:24:53,826 --> 00:24:55,869
because it's the reason
why I even ended up
707
00:24:55,953 --> 00:24:57,162
in Staten Island .
708
00:24:57,871 --> 00:24:59,581
See, the thin9
about the shelter was
709
00:24:59,665 --> 00:25:01,000
they would take women in
710
00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:03,252
off the street
Iike, right then and there.
711
00:25:03,335 --> 00:25:04,753
Extreme cases, whatever.
712
00:25:05,087 --> 00:25:07,006
That's a dangerous situation
regardless,
713
00:25:07,089 --> 00:25:08,090
men beating on women.
714
00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:09,675
I've never put my hand
on a woman, no.
715
00:25:11,677 --> 00:25:14,054
The Iady that ran the place
was a Muslim lady
716
00:25:14,138 --> 00:25:15,222
named Ummi.
717
00:25:15,305 --> 00:25:17,224
"Ummi" means "mother", of course.
718
00:25:17,307 --> 00:25:19,351
Juct the people
that Iived there
719
00:25:19,435 --> 00:25:22,146
there was an African family,
Renaldo and his family, and ...
720
00:25:22,229 --> 00:25:23,897
Wayne and Ronnie,
who had been there
721
00:25:23,981 --> 00:25:25,357
before l was there,
722
00:25:25,441 --> 00:25:26,942
and just, you know,
l took to them
723
00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:28,652
off top, 'cause we were,
like, besties.
724
00:25:28,736 --> 00:25:30,654
They gonna bug out
when they see this shit,
725
00:25:30,738 --> 00:25:32,823
because they probably think
I don't remember them
726
00:25:32,906 --> 00:25:34,158
or they don't know it's me.
727
00:25:34,241 --> 00:25:36,285
It's me, Ronnie, Wayne,
and Sean . Yeah .
728
00:25:37,286 --> 00:25:38,787
I used to go
through depressions,
729
00:25:39,496 --> 00:25:41,040
'cause all my friends
were leaving,
730
00:25:41,123 --> 00:25:42,708
'cause you couldn't stay there
that long,
731
00:25:42,791 --> 00:25:45,210
and l rememher Jose
was the first one who left.
732
00:25:45,294 --> 00:25:46,712
Wayne, Ronnie--
733
00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:49,590
It was just sad, 'cause l ain 't have
no friends there anymore.
734
00:25:49,673 --> 00:25:51,091
I used to just sit by myself.
735
00:25:51,175 --> 00:25:52,176
I wouldn't eat.
736
00:25:54,094 --> 00:25:56,096
Just thinking about, like,
737
00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:58,891
you know, "When is it our time
to get the fuck out of here?"
738
00:25:58,974 --> 00:25:59,850
And that time came.
739
00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:02,811
Our first month
in Staten Island ,
740
00:26:02,895 --> 00:26:03,896
we Iived with Ummi ...
741
00:26:05,147 --> 00:26:07,274
and then my mother found
a place.
742
00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:09,735
The apartment we moved in--
I did not like it.
743
00:26:09,818 --> 00:26:11,111
The look--it smelled funny,
744
00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:13,739
it was weird-Iooking and shit,
745
00:26:13,822 --> 00:26:15,824
'cause I'm a Long Island kid .
Green grass...
746
00:26:15,908 --> 00:26:17,618
You know, suburbia.
747
00:26:17,701 --> 00:26:20,120
Black middle class.
Very black middle class.
748
00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:25,793
But I adjusted, made friends,
749
00:26:25,876 --> 00:26:28,295
and this was my first exposure
to hip-hop.
750
00:26:28,378 --> 00:26:32,716
[hip-hop music playing]
751
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,719
ddd
752
00:26:41,725 --> 00:26:42,893
[GZA] lt feels good
753
00:26:42,976 --> 00:26:44,853
to still be out, performing,
754
00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:46,605
25 years later.
755
00:26:47,648 --> 00:26:49,483
I mean, it's always good
to be in a studio
756
00:26:49,566 --> 00:26:51,527
as one, as a single unit,
757
00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,445
sharing thoughts and ideas
758
00:26:53,529 --> 00:26:54,988
and rhymes.
759
00:26:55,072 --> 00:26:57,241
It always feels good
to he together
760
00:26:57,324 --> 00:26:58,867
and get around each other.
761
00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:05,749
[music briefly plays
on computer]
762
00:27:06,542 --> 00:27:09,461
*aunty percussive music
resumes]
763
00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:12,047
ddd
764
00:27:14,216 --> 00:27:15,634
[no audible dialo0ue]
765
00:27:15,717 --> 00:27:17,845
[RZA] One thing
about the Wu-Tang Clan:
766
00:27:17,928 --> 00:27:20,305
most people don't know
that it started
767
00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:23,600
with a man with an idea
and a business,
768
00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:25,227
pursuing a dream.
769
00:27:25,310 --> 00:27:27,020
- [man] And that's you .
- That's me.
770
00:27:27,521 --> 00:27:29,982
It started with me,
Mr. Robert Diggs,
771
00:27:30,065 --> 00:27:32,234
having the experience
in the industry--
772
00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:34,945
A bad experience,
but an experience
773
00:27:35,028 --> 00:27:36,947
that also gained me knowledge.
774
00:27:37,531 --> 00:27:39,992
I went and formed
Wu-Tang Productions.
775
00:27:40,576 --> 00:27:42,286
I have my own record Iabel .
776
00:27:43,162 --> 00:27:45,622
So, Wu-Tang Productions
is a company,
777
00:27:46,123 --> 00:27:47,666
similar to Def Jam,
778
00:27:48,167 --> 00:27:49,835
and l pursued talent
to join me,
779
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:53,422
and the talent didjoin me.
780
00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,090
d We make music,
we make tragic d
781
00:27:55,174 --> 00:27:56,300
d We make music d
782
00:27:56,383 --> 00:27:58,218
d The words came up
without the music d
783
00:27:59,970 --> 00:28:02,264
I then went and got contracts
drafted up,
784
00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:05,726
and I signed
a 50I50 production deal
785
00:28:05,809 --> 00:28:07,519
with each individual .
786
00:28:07,603 --> 00:28:09,521
But the Holy Our'an cays
787
00:28:09,605 --> 00:28:11,231
make it work with your brother,
788
00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:12,733
but put it in a contract
789
00:28:12,816 --> 00:28:14,568
to secure it on paper.
790
00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:17,571
I was never signed to Loud .
791
00:28:17,654 --> 00:28:19,615
I was signed
to Wu-Tang Productions.
792
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,158
We was all signed , yeah ,
793
00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:22,409
except for Genius.
794
00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:23,744
I wac never si0ned
795
00:28:23,827 --> 00:28:25,078
to Wu-Tang Productions.
796
00:28:25,162 --> 00:28:28,081
I told RZA, "Man , we family.
I mean , we don't--
797
00:28:28,165 --> 00:28:29,499
I don't need to sign anything .
798
00:28:29,917 --> 00:28:31,084
Ac Iong as I keep my word
799
00:28:31,168 --> 00:28:32,544
and you keep yours,
800
00:28:32,628 --> 00:28:33,587
we're good ."
801
00:28:36,798 --> 00:28:39,009
- [man] And rolling .
- Okay.
802
00:28:39,343 --> 00:28:41,887
Back in those days,
you had , you know,
803
00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:43,722
signin0 directly
to the record Iabel ,
804
00:28:43,805 --> 00:28:45,724
or, in some casec,
you had the option
805
00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:47,434
of signing a production deal ,
806
00:28:47,517 --> 00:28:50,270
and a production deal
was basically,
807
00:28:50,354 --> 00:28:53,482
you have a--a company
808
00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:54,900
that signs to the Iabel
809
00:28:54,983 --> 00:28:56,944
and you sign artists
underneath your company.
810
00:28:57,402 --> 00:28:58,654
It--it's easier, in a sense,
811
00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,822
to tell these Iabels, "Hey,
812
00:29:00,906 --> 00:29:02,783
I am Whatever Productions.
813
00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:05,827
These 0uys are under me.
You deal with me directly."
814
00:29:05,911 --> 00:29:07,871
But in the Iong run,
815
00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:09,581
you know, when people realize
816
00:29:09,665 --> 00:29:11,875
that the label went
through you ,
817
00:29:11,959 --> 00:29:13,794
you know, they paid you
and you paid them,
818
00:29:13,877 --> 00:29:15,587
then they wonder why
how come they don't get
819
00:29:15,671 --> 00:29:17,047
all the money from the Iabel .
820
00:29:17,130 --> 00:29:18,590
You know?
It becomes a problem .
821
00:29:18,674 --> 00:29:20,217
"Like, yo, how come I'm ain't
get paid as much as you ,
822
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,135
and blah , blah , blah , and
you didn't do much
823
00:29:22,219 --> 00:29:23,095
for this record ,"
824
00:29:23,178 --> 00:29:25,389
and it--you know,
it gets touchy,
825
00:29:25,472 --> 00:29:26,974
and , you know,
826
00:29:27,057 --> 00:29:29,017
it's a form of control , too,
you know,
827
00:29:29,101 --> 00:29:30,686
so I could see that
being a problem ,
828
00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:32,646
'cause people don't want
to be controlled .
829
00:29:32,729 --> 00:29:33,814
d Dramatic music d
830
00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:35,023
Yeah, yeah, yo,
what's up?
831
00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:36,900
This is Lefty Left
on the Ieft-hand side
832
00:29:36,984 --> 00:29:38,527
and I'm ri9ht here now
833
00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:40,028
at Firehouse Studios.
834
00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:41,655
We gonna go check out
the Wu-Tang Clan.
835
00:29:42,698 --> 00:29:43,865
Follow me.
836
00:29:44,157 --> 00:29:46,201
[GZA] "Protect Ya Neck"
was already out there.
837
00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:47,869
Ralph McDaniels
was playing a video...
838
00:29:47,953 --> 00:29:50,122
[Method Man] When you think
about "Protect Ya Neck, "
839
00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:52,666
we just displayed
all the swordsmans we got
840
00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:55,627
so now it was time to record.
841
00:29:55,711 --> 00:29:58,463
Yeah , Firehouse.
Yeah, we in here now, y'all .
842
00:29:58,547 --> 00:30:00,340
[RZA] "Enter the Wu-Tang
(35 Chambers)."
843
00:30:00,424 --> 00:30:02,134
You know, Prince Rakeem's...
844
00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:03,343
Here we are.
This is it.
845
00:30:03,427 --> 00:30:04,761
[man] 'Sup, baby?
Look into the camera.
846
00:30:04,845 --> 00:30:06,722
- What's goin0 on , baby?
- The fuck you wanna know, man?
847
00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,932
[indistinct chatter]
848
00:30:09,016 --> 00:30:11,518
I'm gonna get rich this shit.
You know what l'm saying?
849
00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:14,021
Old GZ back in this piece,
what you eating, fish , do?
850
00:30:14,104 --> 00:30:15,355
[man] Word up.
What's going on?
851
00:30:15,439 --> 00:30:17,524
Do you wanna give me
some freectyle off the dome
852
00:30:17,607 --> 00:30:18,608
a Iittle Iater on?
853
00:30:18,692 --> 00:30:20,277
It's the manager ri0ht here,
Mike.
854
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,237
What's going on , baby?
How you doing?
855
00:30:22,321 --> 00:30:23,530
What's going on?
Peace.
856
00:30:23,613 --> 00:30:25,073
My man , l nspectah Deck.
857
00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:26,616
What's up, baby?
What's up?
858
00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,452
[I nspectah]
Firehouse Studios.
859
00:30:28,535 --> 00:30:30,662
It was like a Iittle
hole-in-the-wall spot.
860
00:30:30,746 --> 00:30:32,039
It had some decent equipment
in there.
861
00:30:32,122 --> 00:30:33,665
I remember the pipes
and everything
862
00:30:33,749 --> 00:30:34,916
coming through there.
863
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,418
You know, it used to get hot
864
00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:37,794
and we uced to just have
865
00:30:37,878 --> 00:30:39,796
mad people coming in and out.
866
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,381
It was a party
every night.
867
00:30:41,465 --> 00:30:43,383
Method Man ,
what's up, baby?
868
00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:45,719
Love, Iove.
What's up, yo?
869
00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:47,637
My man, Raekwon the Chef.
What's up?
870
00:30:47,721 --> 00:30:49,264
What's going down
up in this piece, son?
871
00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:51,183
It's on , baby, I'm telling you .
872
00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:53,477
This year is our year, man .
873
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,604
[Raekwon] l was excited,
you know, from looking
874
00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:56,813
at something on TV
875
00:30:56,897 --> 00:30:58,523
to saying,
"Damn, l could do that, "
876
00:30:58,607 --> 00:30:59,608
to now,
877
00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:01,276
I'm getting that shot!
878
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:04,071
It's like, "Holy shit.
Niggas giving me the floor?
879
00:31:04,154 --> 00:31:05,405
Oh , I'm gonna. . ."
880
00:31:06,656 --> 00:31:08,742
Shh , shh.
If it make it, it make it.
881
00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:11,036
If it don 't, shh.
lt was just ahout heing there.
882
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:12,662
You know, we making come noise
883
00:31:12,746 --> 00:31:14,164
and we about to blow
the fuck up.
884
00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:15,665
Genius is just
the beginning
885
00:31:15,749 --> 00:31:18,126
of what's about to take place.
Know what I'm saying?
886
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,545
We gonna rock
the fucking rap industry.
887
00:31:20,629 --> 00:31:22,798
We gonna fuck everybody up.
888
00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:24,841
I don't give a fuck.
We fucking running
889
00:31:24,925 --> 00:31:26,510
all this shit.
Know what I'm saying?
890
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:28,845
Well , 'cause shit
definitely ain't gonna be
891
00:31:28,929 --> 00:31:30,514
the same no more.
Trust me.
892
00:31:32,349 --> 00:31:34,059
d Somber orchestral music d
893
00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:35,811
ddd
894
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:37,854
[ODB] l got three babies out here.
895
00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:40,982
I like to see my children
and they wake me up.
896
00:31:42,192 --> 00:31:43,860
ddd
897
00:31:43,944 --> 00:31:45,112
Where I grew up,
898
00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:46,780
it was always a struggle.
899
00:31:46,863 --> 00:31:49,032
Being with the Wu-Tang Clan--
900
00:31:49,116 --> 00:31:51,410
I could change
a lot of things in my life.
901
00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:53,412
ddd
902
00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:55,872
l got my earth,
my wife right here.
903
00:31:55,956 --> 00:31:57,207
Know what I'm saying?
Shaquita be earth
904
00:31:57,290 --> 00:31:58,250
in the name ofAllah.
905
00:31:58,333 --> 00:31:59,793
I Iove my wife,
906
00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:00,919
dearly.
907
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:02,796
[Icelene]
We had our first two children
908
00:32:02,879 --> 00:32:04,256
while we lived here.
909
00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:06,591
Yeah, 11 2 Putnam Avenue.
910
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:08,677
We used to put our milk out
on the, um--
911
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,011
On the Iedge.
912
00:32:10,095 --> 00:32:11,638
We ain't have no refrigerator.
913
00:32:12,264 --> 00:32:13,515
We went through a lot.
914
00:32:13,849 --> 00:32:15,350
ddd
915
00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:19,396
We were righteous people
916
00:32:19,479 --> 00:32:21,314
in the nation of gods
and earths.
917
00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:23,191
They're not like
other kids
918
00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:24,901
because they have knowledge.
919
00:32:24,985 --> 00:32:26,695
Knowledge, wisdom ,
and understanding.
920
00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,905
They know the real
true meaning of it.
921
00:32:28,989 --> 00:32:30,949
He was god, and l
was considered as the earth,
922
00:32:31,074 --> 00:32:32,117
and earth
has to he watered.
923
00:32:32,242 --> 00:32:34,077
[Iaughs]
So being watered means
924
00:32:34,161 --> 00:32:36,121
that just nourished me,
and take care of me,
925
00:32:36,204 --> 00:32:37,747
and teach me
how to take care of mycelf.
926
00:32:38,498 --> 00:32:41,042
By this time, he done gave me
my name and everything.
927
00:32:41,126 --> 00:32:42,919
"Shaquita be earth
in the name of Allah ,
928
00:32:43,003 --> 00:32:44,379
for I be the one who reflects
929
00:32:44,463 --> 00:32:46,173
the li0ht of Allah
into the seats of Allah ,
930
00:32:46,256 --> 00:32:48,258
thus bringin9 forth
thece positive reactions
931
00:32:48,341 --> 00:32:49,551
of the one and only.
932
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:51,511
I be the reproducer
for what Allah borns.
933
00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:53,013
Being black is being beautiful,
934
00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:54,890
for all things come
from originaI
935
00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:56,933
Peace, I sincerely Iove
AIIah's mathematics
936
00:32:57,017 --> 00:32:59,019
is good for the mind
and good for the body."
937
00:32:59,394 --> 00:33:01,813
Uh, sorry.
938
00:33:01,897 --> 00:33:02,898
[cries]
939
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:04,274
He, um...
940
00:33:06,151 --> 00:33:07,777
He made me, um...
941
00:33:07,861 --> 00:33:10,030
...remember that,
'cause when we were in a--
942
00:33:10,113 --> 00:33:12,866
In a bathroom
in his apartment,
943
00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:14,743
I wacn't allowed
to Ieave the bathroom
944
00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:15,952
until I knew it,
945
00:33:16,036 --> 00:33:17,913
and he wouldn't let me
out of the bathroom .
946
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:19,498
He said , "No,
when you learn that,
947
00:33:19,581 --> 00:33:20,790
and what your name means,
948
00:33:20,874 --> 00:33:22,584
then you can come out
of the bathroom ,"
949
00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:24,753
and I stayed in there
for hours. . . [laughs]
950
00:33:24,836 --> 00:33:26,338
...'Cause I didn't Iike
to study,
951
00:33:26,421 --> 00:33:29,549
and I didn't want to, um--
I didn't want to learn it,
952
00:33:29,633 --> 00:33:32,385
but, um , I see that he wasn't
Ietting me out of the bathroom,
953
00:33:32,469 --> 00:33:34,554
and he's seeing I have problems
with ctudying,
954
00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,349
so he was on the other side
of the bathroom,
955
00:33:37,432 --> 00:33:39,100
and we would go over,
word for word,
956
00:33:39,184 --> 00:33:41,061
centence for sentence,
957
00:33:41,144 --> 00:33:43,188
and I would learn how to--
what it meant,
958
00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:45,774
and it just took me a Iong time
to get it, but I 0ot it,
959
00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:47,442
and then , by me goin0
through that,
960
00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:48,860
it meant a lot to me,
961
00:33:48,944 --> 00:33:50,153
'cause he made me learn it,
962
00:33:50,237 --> 00:33:51,321
and once I learned it,
963
00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:53,281
I kept it with me all my life.
964
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:56,868
Yeah , yeah , it did .
965
00:33:56,952 --> 00:33:59,454
It sort of--at that point,
it just changed my whole life,
966
00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:01,498
'cause I had a meanin9
to my name.
967
00:34:01,581 --> 00:34:03,458
No one never gave me
a meaning to my name.
968
00:34:03,542 --> 00:34:05,752
My grandma named me Tracy,
'cause I look Iike a Tracy,
969
00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:07,587
but it was just real special .
970
00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:11,174
d Smooth music d
971
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:14,261
I think that
what was different about them
972
00:34:14,344 --> 00:34:17,097
was that you could really hear
973
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:19,766
the truth through their lyrics.
974
00:34:20,684 --> 00:34:22,352
That was definitely
one of the things
975
00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:23,895
that we had in common
976
00:34:23,979 --> 00:34:26,606
because we was coming
from this--
977
00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:28,775
We was cut
from the same kind of cloth .
978
00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:32,821
You know, I was able
to just let my frustration off
979
00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:34,197
on the microphone.
980
00:34:34,281 --> 00:34:36,241
d Sometimes l wonder
do l deserve to live d
981
00:34:36,324 --> 00:34:38,702
d Am l gonna burn in hell
for all the things l did d
982
00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:40,787
It was like, [sighs]
I got that out.
983
00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:41,871
You know.
984
00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:46,084
One of my friends,
Saul Moskovich , had , uh ...
985
00:34:46,167 --> 00:34:48,753
like, uh , "36 Chambers,"
Iike, on tape,
986
00:34:48,837 --> 00:34:51,089
so I was, like, nine or ten,
987
00:34:51,172 --> 00:34:52,340
and we Iictened to it
988
00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:53,967
just, like, over and over
and over
989
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,552
and over and over
and over again .
990
00:34:55,969 --> 00:34:58,013
You know, I remember, like,
we were really into
991
00:34:58,096 --> 00:34:59,639
"Cash Rules Everything
Around Me,"
992
00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,266
and , like, my friends
would listen to it,
993
00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:03,268
and it's a really sad song
in a Iot of ways,
994
00:35:03,351 --> 00:35:05,228
and the beat is kind of sad,
and , Iike,
995
00:35:05,312 --> 00:35:07,439
it just alwayc seemed like
996
00:35:07,522 --> 00:35:10,859
the music I listened to
had a very hard approach
997
00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:13,361
to these
terrible circumstances,
998
00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:15,322
and , I think,
999
00:35:15,405 --> 00:35:16,656
some of the Wu-Tang songs
1000
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:18,241
were the first songs
1001
00:35:18,325 --> 00:35:20,201
that I heard that had , like,
1002
00:35:20,285 --> 00:35:22,037
an approach
that really acknowled0ed, Iike,
1003
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,748
the sadness, um ,
and, Iike, the pain of it.
1004
00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:27,792
And I think even to--
to take it further,
1005
00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:29,711
I think that's why they was
1006
00:35:29,794 --> 00:35:31,212
the moct successful,
1007
00:35:31,296 --> 00:35:33,548
because. . .they
1008
00:35:34,174 --> 00:35:36,676
was masters at expressing
1009
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,803
their pain .
You know?
1010
00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:41,848
Bein0 able to speak it
where you could understand it
1011
00:35:41,931 --> 00:35:44,768
and , you know, it didn't--
it never went over your head ,
1012
00:35:45,185 --> 00:35:46,144
you know?
1013
00:35:47,646 --> 00:35:49,856
[Bobbito] WKCR 89.9 FM .
1014
00:35:49,939 --> 00:35:51,358
My name is Bobbito Garcia.
1015
00:35:51,441 --> 00:35:53,234
[Stretch]
DJ Stretch Armstrong .
1016
00:35:53,318 --> 00:35:55,278
[Dontae] l heard 'em up
on Stretch and Bobhito's show,
1017
00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:56,738
and then l rememher
finding out
1018
00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:58,281
that they weren't all cigned
to Loud ,
1019
00:35:58,365 --> 00:35:59,574
that they all had
individual options.
1020
00:35:59,658 --> 00:36:00,992
Peace to Bobbito!
1021
00:36:01,201 --> 00:36:03,119
Shout out to everybody
in Shaolin!
1022
00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:04,871
d First of all, son,
peep the arson d
1023
00:36:04,954 --> 00:36:06,456
d Many brothers
I be sparkin ' d
1024
00:36:06,539 --> 00:36:08,333
d And hustin' mad light
inside the dark d
1025
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:09,668
d Call me dough snatcher d
1026
00:36:09,751 --> 00:36:11,419
d Just the hrother
for the rapture d
1027
00:36:11,503 --> 00:36:13,046
d l hang glide
holdin ' on strong d
1028
00:36:13,129 --> 00:36:14,089
d Hard to capture d
1029
00:36:14,714 --> 00:36:16,299
[Dontae] And l took
a cab up there
1030
00:36:16,383 --> 00:36:18,551
and l went to meet 'em.
RZA knew who l was,
1031
00:36:18,635 --> 00:36:20,512
and he was like, "Yeah,
you knew me when I was wack,
1032
00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:22,639
when l was fucking
with Tommy Boy Records."
1033
00:36:23,056 --> 00:36:24,349
d Somber music d
1034
00:36:24,432 --> 00:36:26,726
RZA, Masta Killa, and Dirty
1035
00:36:26,810 --> 00:36:28,019
all came to my office.
1036
00:36:28,103 --> 00:36:30,146
I thought that Meth
was a standout star,
1037
00:36:30,230 --> 00:36:31,981
and l was Iike, "Where's Meth?"
and he was Iike,
1038
00:36:32,065 --> 00:36:34,192
"Yeah, I'ma put Meth
over here with Russell now,"
1039
00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:35,485
Iike he's gonna be on Def Jam.
1040
00:36:35,568 --> 00:36:37,612
I'II sign that piece today.
1041
00:36:38,196 --> 00:36:39,239
Def Jam .
1042
00:36:39,698 --> 00:36:40,699
It's goin0 DZA.
1043
00:36:40,782 --> 00:36:42,450
Hell yeah . Ah !
1044
00:36:42,534 --> 00:36:44,369
Ah! Go--Ah , shit, nig0a.
1045
00:36:44,452 --> 00:36:45,954
Yeah .
1046
00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,747
Sitters said they'Il buy it.
1047
00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:50,166
Getting fucked up now
to celebrate.
1048
00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:52,210
[Iaughs]
1049
00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:55,505
"But I-I want to put Dirty here
with the 0ods."
1050
00:36:55,588 --> 00:36:57,215
You know,
he's a very smart guy, RZA.
1051
00:36:57,298 --> 00:36:58,925
He knew what everything wac.
He's playing chess,
1052
00:36:59,008 --> 00:37:00,885
so he had already, I think,
in his mind--
1053
00:37:00,969 --> 00:37:03,179
Even before I met him,
he probably wanted to put
1054
00:37:03,263 --> 00:37:04,597
Dirty on Elektra.
1055
00:37:04,681 --> 00:37:05,890
I think he thought that was
1056
00:37:05,974 --> 00:37:07,350
the place for him to he.
1057
00:37:07,434 --> 00:37:08,977
[Method Man] We had labels that
1058
00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:11,354
would usually be competing
against each other
1059
00:37:11,438 --> 00:37:12,856
actually working
with each other
1060
00:37:12,939 --> 00:37:14,232
for our cause.
1061
00:37:14,691 --> 00:37:15,984
I nsane.
1062
00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:16,985
Unheard of.
1063
00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:18,319
RZA had the plan ,
1064
00:37:18,403 --> 00:37:19,946
but who knew?
1065
00:37:20,029 --> 00:37:21,448
And , uh ...
1066
00:37:21,531 --> 00:37:23,408
I guess I got lucky.
1067
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:24,909
I 9uess we all did .
1068
00:37:24,993 --> 00:37:26,828
That's pretty cool.
Pretty cool.
1069
00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:29,080
ddd
1070
00:37:29,164 --> 00:37:30,498
[ODB] Yo, yo, yeah, yeah.
1071
00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:31,624
Know what I'm saying?
1072
00:37:31,708 --> 00:37:33,251
Getting ready
to do something with Elektra,
1073
00:37:33,334 --> 00:37:34,502
you know what I'm saying?
1074
00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:35,628
Watch out for it.
1075
00:37:35,712 --> 00:37:37,046
It's called "Dirty Kung Fu ."
1076
00:37:37,130 --> 00:37:38,798
You know, it's gonna
come to you loud .
1077
00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:39,966
[laughter]
1078
00:37:40,049 --> 00:37:41,843
Yo, ignore these nig0as, yo.
1079
00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:43,553
AII right,
what's going on , man?
1080
00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:46,890
- Hi .
- [Iaughter]
1081
00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:49,184
This is my Iittle sister
over here.
1082
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:50,602
I'm saying?
Just chilling
1083
00:37:50,685 --> 00:37:52,312
and shit,
you know what I'm saying?
1084
00:37:52,395 --> 00:37:53,813
[Dontae] So when I signed him,
RZA Iiterally brought me
1085
00:37:53,897 --> 00:37:54,773
the two-inch reels,
1086
00:37:54,856 --> 00:37:55,815
and he was Iike, "Yo,
1087
00:37:55,899 --> 00:37:56,900
here's the record ."
1088
00:37:56,983 --> 00:37:58,151
I was like, "What the fuck?"
1089
00:37:58,234 --> 00:37:59,819
[Iaughs]
1090
00:38:00,779 --> 00:38:02,155
- Yo.
- [man] That finish weak.
1091
00:38:02,238 --> 00:38:03,698
Nigga dissing me.
1092
00:38:03,782 --> 00:38:04,783
[Iaughs]
1093
00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:06,034
[man] Go ahead , man .
1094
00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:07,744
Yo, check it out.
Yo, yo--
1095
00:38:07,827 --> 00:38:09,204
[Dontae] Dirty was
a genius. Like, you know,
1096
00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:10,288
he was a hrilliant guy.
1097
00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:12,582
The whole album cover
was his idea.
1098
00:38:12,665 --> 00:38:14,918
"I want to make my album, uh ,
my welfare card ,"
1099
00:38:15,001 --> 00:38:16,586
and he brought his card.
1100
00:38:16,669 --> 00:38:18,588
It's strictly fucking welfare.
You know what l'm saying?
1101
00:38:18,671 --> 00:38:20,048
'Cause I've been living
in a shelter
1102
00:38:20,131 --> 00:38:21,382
all my life and shit.
1103
00:38:21,466 --> 00:38:22,634
[Dontae] You know,
he sold a lot of records.
1104
00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:23,843
He was a star.
1105
00:38:23,927 --> 00:38:24,886
White people love
OI' Dirty Bastard .
1106
00:38:24,969 --> 00:38:27,472
You know, and it's fucked-up,
why they Iove him , right?
1107
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:29,516
They Iove him because
he's like Flavor Flav.
1108
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:30,725
He's a fuckin0 clown.
1109
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:31,976
You know, some liberal
1110
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:33,770
clandestine racism to me.
1111
00:38:34,479 --> 00:38:35,939
Dirty was being Dirty,
1112
00:38:36,564 --> 00:38:38,775
but to me, he was never a clown .
He was brilliant.
1113
00:38:40,151 --> 00:38:42,111
This is how I get my money.
1114
00:38:42,821 --> 00:38:45,198
You know?
I'm not ashamed .
1115
00:38:45,281 --> 00:38:46,866
Don't you be ashamed !
1116
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:48,368
There was a, um ,
food stamp card
1117
00:38:48,451 --> 00:38:50,036
that I had as an I D,
1118
00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:51,871
and he didn't have one,
but l had one,
1119
00:38:51,955 --> 00:38:53,498
and it had my picture on it,
1120
00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:55,917
and he put his face on it
and used the same thing.
1121
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,460
He put "35 Chambers"
1122
00:38:57,544 --> 00:38:59,254
or "ODB. "
He just fixed it up
1123
00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:01,089
and that's what was
hic album cover,
1124
00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:02,799
and he just did that,
and he's like,
1125
00:39:02,882 --> 00:39:04,467
"Oh , l got a 0reat idea,
Shaquita."
1126
00:39:04,551 --> 00:39:06,135
I'm Iike, "Really?"
[Iaughs]
1127
00:39:06,219 --> 00:39:08,221
I say, "You can't do that."
I say, "No, it's embarrassing,"
1128
00:39:08,304 --> 00:39:09,931
'cause I was embarrassed
to be on food stamps.
1129
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:11,516
I never was ashamed of welfare.
1130
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,518
I love being on welfare.
l don't care.
1131
00:39:13,601 --> 00:39:16,688
You owe me 40 acres
and a mule anyway.
1132
00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:18,022
For real .
1133
00:39:18,106 --> 00:39:19,732
I wasn't asked to come here.
1134
00:39:19,816 --> 00:39:20,733
Know sayin'?
1135
00:39:20,817 --> 00:39:22,235
From--from--
from a bad action ,
1136
00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:24,487
you're gonna get
a bad reaction , you know?
1137
00:39:25,446 --> 00:39:27,073
You make a dollar bill
1138
00:39:27,156 --> 00:39:28,408
and it's only paper.
1139
00:39:28,491 --> 00:39:29,868
That's all it is, is paper.
1140
00:39:30,618 --> 00:39:32,662
Know saying?
And then you make us fi0ht
1141
00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:34,163
and kill one another
1142
00:39:34,247 --> 00:39:35,206
over paper.
1143
00:39:35,331 --> 00:39:37,208
That's how I feel about it,
1144
00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:39,294
and that's how I'm always
0onna feel about it, man .
1145
00:39:39,961 --> 00:39:42,130
d The GZA
on the motherfucking set d
1146
00:39:42,213 --> 00:39:44,173
d We got the prince,
the RZA d
1147
00:39:44,257 --> 00:39:45,592
d The Ol' Dirty Bastard d
1148
00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:46,676
d Kicking mad shit d
1149
00:39:46,759 --> 00:39:48,052
[GZA] lt felt good,
1150
00:39:48,136 --> 00:39:49,679
especially after Ieaving
Cold Chillin'.
1151
00:39:49,762 --> 00:39:51,472
ddd
1152
00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:53,474
Boy. Yes, yep.
1153
00:39:54,058 --> 00:39:56,311
[Inspectah] ljust rememherjust
hearing them heats
1154
00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:57,645
for the first time.
1155
00:39:58,354 --> 00:40:00,523
[GZA] Almost like
striking back.
1156
00:40:00,607 --> 00:40:01,941
We'll show them.
1157
00:40:02,901 --> 00:40:05,904
[indistinct chatter]
1158
00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:14,913
[Method Man] l mean,
l sat there watching
1159
00:40:14,996 --> 00:40:16,247
RZA make the beat, you know.
1160
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:18,499
Well, you see him have the record.
lt was--it was
1161
00:40:18,583 --> 00:40:20,793
you know, a lot of
[scatting]
1162
00:40:20,877 --> 00:40:21,836
playing the shit,
looping it.
1163
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,463
[scatting]
1164
00:40:23,546 --> 00:40:24,631
Playing the shit,
looping it.
1165
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:27,133
d Smooth music d
1166
00:40:28,092 --> 00:40:30,178
But the thing that
I paid attention most to
1167
00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:31,638
was when he caught the melody.
1168
00:40:31,721 --> 00:40:33,681
ddd
1169
00:40:33,765 --> 00:40:35,934
lt was like, "Ooh,
that right there sounds dope.
1170
00:40:36,017 --> 00:40:37,644
ddd
1171
00:40:38,478 --> 00:40:41,105
Raekwon and Power,
Deck, and Meth
1172
00:40:41,189 --> 00:40:42,690
would come over often.
1173
00:40:43,942 --> 00:40:46,235
[Inspectah] God bless,
you know, RZA 's mom.
1174
00:40:46,986 --> 00:40:48,655
She used to welcome us in
1175
00:40:48,738 --> 00:40:50,031
and then kick us out.
1176
00:40:50,156 --> 00:40:52,450
She used to make us
0o out on the balcony,
1177
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:55,286
so RZA had to get
the Iong mic cord ,
1178
00:40:55,370 --> 00:40:57,205
and while he's inside the house
1179
00:40:57,288 --> 00:41:00,291
we on the balcony, on the mic,
and he's working the beats
1180
00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:02,418
and we just passing the mic
back and forth ,
1181
00:41:02,502 --> 00:41:04,295
and he'c just
recordin0 everything .
1182
00:41:04,671 --> 00:41:07,256
RZA wanted that dusty,
1183
00:41:07,340 --> 00:41:09,258
45 record ,
1184
00:41:10,051 --> 00:41:12,553
"shit popping off the needle"
1185
00:41:12,637 --> 00:41:14,764
style of music,
you know what I mean?
1186
00:41:14,847 --> 00:41:18,935
He felt that the more clocer
we are to the streets,
1187
00:41:19,018 --> 00:41:21,104
the more respect
it's gonna get.
1188
00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:22,814
I pick the beat up,
1189
00:41:22,897 --> 00:41:24,899
and Iet Deck and Raekwon go,
1190
00:41:25,858 --> 00:41:27,610
and they 0ot on this track, yo,
1191
00:41:27,694 --> 00:41:29,278
and they both did
1192
00:41:29,362 --> 00:41:32,657
about 64 bars apiece.
[Iaughs]
1193
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:35,076
Me and Rae did , like,
three verses apiece on that.
1194
00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:36,869
Anyway, that cong was called
1195
00:41:36,953 --> 00:41:38,830
"The Lifestyle
of the Mega-Rich ."
1196
00:41:40,248 --> 00:41:42,083
That's "Lifestyles
of the Mega-Rich,"
1197
00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:45,086
It's simply
that freestyle shit, G .
1198
00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:47,255
But it had no hook.
1199
00:41:47,338 --> 00:41:48,923
Method Man had the best hooks,
1200
00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:50,883
hands-down .
You know what I mean?
1201
00:41:50,967 --> 00:41:52,635
And if l wanted a hook,
1202
00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:55,096
"Yo, Meth , I need a hook
for this chit."
1203
00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:56,973
[Method Man] My hoy
Raider Ruckus got locked up.
1204
00:41:57,056 --> 00:41:58,850
He used to write me
these letters
1205
00:41:58,933 --> 00:42:00,518
and l remember him
1206
00:42:00,601 --> 00:42:02,228
putting "C. R. E.A. M ."
in one of them .
1207
00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:04,188
Gotta get this C. R. E.A. M .
1208
00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:05,898
Cash Rules
Everything Around Me.
1209
00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:08,609
[both] C. R. E.A. M .--Cash Rules
Everything Around Me.
1210
00:42:08,693 --> 00:42:10,611
Because cream rises, you know?
1211
00:42:10,695 --> 00:42:13,990
So money make you rise,
so "cream" was money.
1212
00:42:14,073 --> 00:42:16,284
d Cash rules
everything around me d
1213
00:42:16,367 --> 00:42:18,786
d C.R.E.A.M. get the money
Dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1214
00:42:18,870 --> 00:42:20,455
d Cash rules
everything around me d
1215
00:42:20,538 --> 00:42:21,789
d C.R.E.A.M. get the money d
1216
00:42:21,873 --> 00:42:23,583
d Dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1217
00:42:23,666 --> 00:42:25,793
d Cash rules
everything around me d
1218
00:42:25,877 --> 00:42:27,170
d C.R.E.A. M.,
get the money d
1219
00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:28,629
d Dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1220
00:42:28,713 --> 00:42:30,673
and I was Iike,
"S--that's it right there."
1221
00:42:30,757 --> 00:42:31,924
Deck and Rae, man .
1222
00:42:32,008 --> 00:42:33,551
Like, that is Wu-Tang
right there
1223
00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:35,094
when I think of Wu-Tang
and shit
1224
00:42:35,178 --> 00:42:36,846
in my--in--in my head .
1225
00:42:38,139 --> 00:42:39,807
[RZA]
Yo, Rae, come here, man .
1226
00:42:39,891 --> 00:42:41,267
[falcetto] What up?
1227
00:42:41,350 --> 00:42:42,560
Hey, Rae, you ready?
1228
00:42:42,935 --> 00:42:44,228
I can't even fucking hear it!
1229
00:42:44,312 --> 00:42:45,813
I got the shit jacked , G .
1230
00:42:45,897 --> 00:42:47,857
I can hear it, but turn it up.
1231
00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:49,817
d Take you
on a naturaljourney d
1232
00:42:50,526 --> 00:42:52,361
- You all set, Rae?
- [man] Here we go.
1233
00:42:52,445 --> 00:42:54,822
d Yo, l grew up
on the crime side d
1234
00:42:54,906 --> 00:42:56,199
d The New York Times side d
1235
00:42:56,282 --> 00:42:57,658
d Staying alive was no jive d
1236
00:42:57,742 --> 00:42:59,160
d Had secondhands d
1237
00:42:59,243 --> 00:43:00,870
d Mom's bounced on old man d
1238
00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:02,789
d So then we moved
to Shaolin land d
1239
00:43:02,872 --> 00:43:05,416
d A young youth, yo,
rocking the gold tooth d
1240
00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:07,293
d 'Lo goose
only way l be getting d
1241
00:43:07,376 --> 00:43:09,337
d The G off was drug loot d
1242
00:43:09,420 --> 00:43:11,172
Raekwon's first verse
1243
00:43:11,255 --> 00:43:12,465
just was a--
1244
00:43:12,548 --> 00:43:13,841
I think a great way
1245
00:43:13,925 --> 00:43:15,718
to describe growing up
in New York.
1246
00:43:15,802 --> 00:43:19,055
His voice and his--his cadence
followed by I ncpectah Deck.
1247
00:43:19,138 --> 00:43:21,516
d Mothertucking lifestyles
and shit d
1248
00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:24,519
[RZA] "22 long hard years
and l'm still struggling".
1249
00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:26,062
d It's been 22
long hard years d
1250
00:43:26,145 --> 00:43:27,355
d l'm still struggling d
1251
00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:28,856
d Survival got me bugging d
1252
00:43:28,940 --> 00:43:30,608
d But l'm alive on arrival d
1253
00:43:30,691 --> 00:43:32,318
d l peep at the shape
of the streets d
1254
00:43:32,401 --> 00:43:33,986
d And stay awake
to the ways of the world d
1255
00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:35,071
d 'Cause shit is deep d
1256
00:43:35,154 --> 00:43:36,697
"And I'm alive on arrival".
1257
00:43:36,781 --> 00:43:38,449
[Iaughs]
Instead of dead on arrival ,
1258
00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:39,992
I'm alive on arrival .
1259
00:43:40,076 --> 00:43:41,744
You know what I mean?
They describe his life.
1260
00:43:41,828 --> 00:43:43,579
d A man with a plan, a dream d
1261
00:43:43,663 --> 00:43:45,331
d To make cream, which fail d
1262
00:43:45,414 --> 00:43:47,333
d l went to jail
at the age of 1 5 d
1263
00:43:47,416 --> 00:43:49,252
Each one of them describing
their Iives, I think,
1264
00:43:49,335 --> 00:43:51,087
was--was powerful.
1265
00:43:51,796 --> 00:43:53,673
[Method Man] When this
nigga came home from camp,
1266
00:43:53,756 --> 00:43:55,758
l Iook up,
I remember looking for Deck
1267
00:43:55,842 --> 00:43:57,635
for three days,
'cause everybody was buzzing,
1268
00:43:57,718 --> 00:43:59,846
talking about, "Yo, Deck is--
Deck--Deck--Deck--
1269
00:43:59,929 --> 00:44:01,264
This nigga--this nigga nasty."
1270
00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:02,598
Never even heard
the nigga rhyme.
1271
00:44:02,682 --> 00:44:04,642
Used to be in his house
all the fucking time.
1272
00:44:04,725 --> 00:44:06,227
And , do you remember
when he spit?
1273
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:07,395
I think it was the one--
1274
00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:09,147
"The rhyme
where I shine Iike gold ."
1275
00:44:09,230 --> 00:44:10,648
[Method Man] That rhyme.
That was the first verse.
1276
00:44:10,731 --> 00:44:12,233
I told him that the other day.
"Average Flow" shit.
1277
00:44:12,316 --> 00:44:14,902
When he came over and dropped
"Average Flow Niggas"--
1278
00:44:14,986 --> 00:44:16,904
Yeah, he blew niggas
out of the water with that one.
1279
00:44:16,988 --> 00:44:18,030
That's when we was
all at Stapleton .
1280
00:44:18,114 --> 00:44:19,407
You remember,
you used to come
1281
00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:21,617
from Park Hill , and then
we'd go to Stapleton?
1282
00:44:21,701 --> 00:44:24,120
You know, we knew
we wac 9onna see Ghost, RZA,
1283
00:44:24,203 --> 00:44:25,746
GZA might be there,
1284
00:44:25,830 --> 00:44:27,832
Dirty might be on his way
on the ferry.
1285
00:44:27,915 --> 00:44:30,084
Yo, let me tell you something .
This is Iike a test, man .
1286
00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:33,045
Everybody keep their Iittle doss
to themselves,
1287
00:44:33,129 --> 00:44:36,007
- but it's Iike, "Yo, it's hard ."
- No, nig9as are still sharing.
1288
00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:37,800
No, niggas are still
sharing bars, do0 .
1289
00:44:37,884 --> 00:44:39,802
- A few lines.
- I crumpled up mad paperc,
1290
00:44:39,886 --> 00:44:41,512
writing rhymes
with these nig0as, yo.
1291
00:44:41,596 --> 00:44:43,264
We wrote rhymes
to0ether, though .
1292
00:44:43,347 --> 00:44:45,725
We write rhymes together,
but--but not everybody.
1293
00:44:45,808 --> 00:44:47,518
[Raekwon] When lnspectah Deck came out
1294
00:44:47,602 --> 00:44:48,936
with "l smoke on the mic, "
1295
00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:51,230
that's when I knew that
"Yo, you know what?
1296
00:44:51,314 --> 00:44:53,107
I ain't waiting
for nobody else.
1297
00:44:53,191 --> 00:44:54,692
I'm getting up next."
1298
00:44:55,234 --> 00:44:57,195
We knew how to feed
off each other,
1299
00:44:57,278 --> 00:44:59,322
you know what I mean ?
'Cause RZA started to learn
1300
00:44:59,405 --> 00:45:00,656
who sound good with who.
1301
00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:02,200
That's the worst shit
you can do
1302
00:45:02,283 --> 00:45:03,451
to an MC in the studio
1303
00:45:03,534 --> 00:45:05,536
- while he writing .
- [Inspectah] Bug anybody?
1304
00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:07,288
"Yo, check thic shit out
I just wrote."
1305
00:45:07,371 --> 00:45:09,540
"Nah , nigga, I'm writing
ri0ht now."
1306
00:45:09,624 --> 00:45:11,209
[laughter]
1307
00:45:11,292 --> 00:45:13,586
It's like he might come through
with the crazy shit
1308
00:45:13,669 --> 00:45:16,088
and then just kill your shit.
Like, damn ...
1309
00:45:16,172 --> 00:45:18,633
- Deck was definitely known for that, too.
- Yeah , yeah .
1310
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:20,092
He--he the first.
He go first.
1311
00:45:20,176 --> 00:45:21,552
He humble as fuck.
1312
00:45:21,636 --> 00:45:23,846
He had us
in that studio for hours,
1313
00:45:23,930 --> 00:45:25,348
trying to follow
one of his verses.
1314
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:26,807
It's a challenge, B.
1315
00:45:26,891 --> 00:45:28,434
[U-God] Deck was a Iittle
fucking moncter.
1316
00:45:28,517 --> 00:45:30,311
d . . .And l ask: what's it worth d
1317
00:45:30,394 --> 00:45:32,647
d Ready to give up
so l seek the old Earth d
1318
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:35,274
d Who explained workin ' hard
and now you maintain d
1319
00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:37,777
d To learn to overcome
the heartaches and pain d
1320
00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:40,696
d We got stick-up kids,
corrupt cops, and crack rocks d
1321
00:45:40,780 --> 00:45:43,491
d And stray shots
all on the block that stays hot d
1322
00:45:43,574 --> 00:45:44,825
d Leave it up to me. . . d
1323
00:45:44,909 --> 00:45:46,953
[Ghostface] All of us
was around each other
1324
00:45:47,036 --> 00:45:48,663
for that first album.
1325
00:45:49,830 --> 00:45:51,916
Everyhody was there
all the time.
1326
00:45:51,999 --> 00:45:54,502
d Ain't tryna hear
what I'm kickin ' in his ear d
1327
00:45:54,585 --> 00:45:55,544
There was a Iotta input.
1328
00:45:55,628 --> 00:45:56,629
Everything was
1329
00:45:56,712 --> 00:45:59,840
critiqued, tight,
and was no feelings involved.
1330
00:45:59,924 --> 00:46:01,717
ddd
1331
00:46:01,801 --> 00:46:03,511
Yo, shit is getting 'tiqued
out here.
1332
00:46:03,594 --> 00:46:04,887
ddd
1333
00:46:04,971 --> 00:46:06,138
d Yo d
1334
00:46:06,222 --> 00:46:07,765
[Raekwon]
Hey, you , it's nighttime.
1335
00:46:07,848 --> 00:46:09,225
[Cappadonna]
And it was just fun.
1336
00:46:09,308 --> 00:46:11,143
We was just there.
1337
00:46:11,227 --> 00:46:12,770
The spirit was in the air.
1338
00:46:12,853 --> 00:46:14,313
[l nspectah] And it's like,
"Yo, what's happening?"
1339
00:46:14,397 --> 00:46:16,565
Like, yeah , we just Iooking
at each other, like
1340
00:46:17,066 --> 00:46:18,442
"You ready? You ready?"
1341
00:46:19,026 --> 00:46:20,569
But that's Mister Smith, right?
1342
00:46:20,653 --> 00:46:22,571
That's all l nspectah Deck
killing that shit.
1343
00:46:22,655 --> 00:46:23,572
I nspectah Deck?
1344
00:46:23,656 --> 00:46:24,949
What's the name of this joint
right here?
1345
00:46:25,032 --> 00:46:26,158
Enou9h about here.
1346
00:46:26,242 --> 00:46:27,618
It's called "C. R. E.A. M ."
1347
00:46:27,702 --> 00:46:29,578
Mm, yeah.
1348
00:46:29,662 --> 00:46:31,414
d Dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1349
00:46:31,497 --> 00:46:33,666
I'm here, bro.
Steve from Loud Records.
1350
00:46:33,749 --> 00:46:35,543
Kick a Iittle song
for me, Steve. What's up?
1351
00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:37,503
Waiting to have Wu-Tang
finish their album
1352
00:46:37,586 --> 00:46:39,672
so we can 0et this out
and go platinum with it.
1353
00:46:39,755 --> 00:46:41,340
- [man] That's about it?
- That's about it.
1354
00:46:41,424 --> 00:46:43,175
I have nothing to say.
I don't like to talk.
1355
00:46:43,259 --> 00:46:45,303
[man] All right, I hear that.
Oh, Steve, yo.
1356
00:46:45,636 --> 00:46:46,721
Everybody was young .
1357
00:46:46,804 --> 00:46:48,014
Pan that shit the fuck up.
1358
00:46:48,097 --> 00:46:49,473
[Mook] The only way
you sell a product:
1359
00:46:49,557 --> 00:46:50,850
motherfuckers gotta know
you got a product,
1360
00:46:50,933 --> 00:46:53,311
and then they gotta know
that that shit is good .
1361
00:46:53,936 --> 00:46:56,314
I had to market that album,
mold it,
1362
00:46:56,397 --> 00:46:58,024
hit the streets
with the dudes.
1363
00:46:58,983 --> 00:46:59,942
Interviews...
1364
00:47:00,026 --> 00:47:01,110
'Cause you dealing
with a group
1365
00:47:01,193 --> 00:47:02,320
of righteous men ri9ht here.
1366
00:47:02,403 --> 00:47:04,405
We the gods, man ,
and our job is to teach.
1367
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:05,531
[Mook] Shows...
1368
00:47:05,614 --> 00:47:07,533
Wu-Tan9 is comin0
to your neighborhood pretty soon .
1369
00:47:07,616 --> 00:47:09,744
Power Cipher, Divine!
Power Cipher, Divine!
1370
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:11,078
Power Cipher, Divine!
1371
00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:13,622
[Mook] Guest appearances,
walkthroughs...
1372
00:47:13,706 --> 00:47:14,999
[woman laughs]
1373
00:47:15,082 --> 00:47:16,250
Hey, thank you .
1374
00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:17,501
[woman] Everybody else
was full .
1375
00:47:18,419 --> 00:47:20,838
[Mook] Anything l could find
to get them noticed,
1376
00:47:20,921 --> 00:47:22,131
get them out there
in the street,
1377
00:47:22,214 --> 00:47:24,091
to make motherfuckers
listen to 'em .
1378
00:47:24,175 --> 00:47:25,843
ddd
1379
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:27,345
[Lask] You know,
it was all new.
1380
00:47:27,428 --> 00:47:29,972
I mean, you put a single out
and it took off.
1381
00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:33,059
Next thing you know,
you're doing shows, you're in demand ,
1382
00:47:33,893 --> 00:47:35,811
and when we're out there,
we all learning.
1383
00:47:35,895 --> 00:47:37,355
We 're all making mistakes.
1384
00:47:37,438 --> 00:47:39,357
We only here to show
and prove the realism .
1385
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,400
We ain 't here just to be
rhyming, man.
1386
00:47:41,484 --> 00:47:43,110
[Lask] They was hungry.
1387
00:47:43,194 --> 00:47:44,612
We was going for Boston ,
1388
00:47:45,571 --> 00:47:48,741
to Florida, hack up,
Virginia, Philly...
1389
00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:51,035
Sometimes we 'd do two, three shows
in one night.
1390
00:47:51,118 --> 00:47:54,372
You know, I remember
going to Philly and do a show
1391
00:47:54,455 --> 00:47:56,082
and then we had
to be at the Fever
1392
00:47:56,165 --> 00:47:57,666
in the Bronx
the same night,
1393
00:47:57,750 --> 00:47:59,293
and we just on the highways,
1394
00:47:59,377 --> 00:48:01,003
speeding, 1 0� miles an hour,
1395
00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:02,922
zipping back to the Bronx.
1396
00:48:03,005 --> 00:48:05,174
d Cash rules
everything around me d
1397
00:48:05,257 --> 00:48:08,511
d C.R.E.A.M., get the money
dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1398
00:48:08,594 --> 00:48:11,305
d A young youth, yo, rockin '
the gold tooth, 'Lo goose d
1399
00:48:11,389 --> 00:48:13,974
d Only way l begin
the G off was drug loot d
1400
00:48:14,058 --> 00:48:15,684
d And let's start it
like this, son d
1401
00:48:15,768 --> 00:48:17,686
d Rollin ' with this one
and that one d
1402
00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:19,271
d Pullin ' out gats for fun d
1403
00:48:19,355 --> 00:48:21,065
d But it was just a dream d
1404
00:48:21,148 --> 00:48:22,525
d For the teen
who was a fiend d
1405
00:48:22,608 --> 00:48:24,151
d Started smokin ' woolies
at 1 5 d
1406
00:48:24,235 --> 00:48:25,611
Hi , my name is Tonya.
I want to give
1407
00:48:25,694 --> 00:48:27,321
a shout-out
to my son , Dontae,
1408
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:29,615
and a shout-out
to my man, U-God.
1409
00:48:29,698 --> 00:48:30,783
[Method Man] Peace, bahy, you.
1410
00:48:30,866 --> 00:48:32,326
You'II be home in a minute.
1411
00:48:32,410 --> 00:48:33,661
I love you , my nigga.
1412
00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:35,204
U-God was in jail
at the beginning.
1413
00:48:35,287 --> 00:48:36,831
[U-God] l came in
1414
00:48:36,914 --> 00:48:38,040
out of the fuckin0 can ,
1415
00:48:38,624 --> 00:48:40,501
so l'm trying to adjust
to all this shit
1416
00:48:40,584 --> 00:48:41,585
that was going on.
1417
00:48:42,002 --> 00:48:43,838
I got two feloniec,
so I gotta report
1418
00:48:43,921 --> 00:48:45,423
to the parole officer.
1419
00:48:45,506 --> 00:48:46,799
You know, is it cool
1420
00:48:46,882 --> 00:48:49,135
to go to Baltimore
to do the show?
1421
00:48:49,218 --> 00:48:51,595
For the most part,
he was working with me.
1422
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:53,222
You know, as long as they see
that you're making moves...
1423
00:48:53,305 --> 00:48:54,807
That's just the beginning,
all ri0ht?
1424
00:48:54,890 --> 00:48:56,142
It's just the beginning!
1425
00:48:56,225 --> 00:48:57,643
We did it...
1426
00:48:57,726 --> 00:48:59,437
...the only way
we knew how to do it.
1427
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:00,646
We just did it.
1428
00:49:00,729 --> 00:49:02,022
[man] If you came out here
1429
00:49:02,106 --> 00:49:03,023
to see Wu-Tang,
1430
00:49:03,107 --> 00:49:04,066
Iet me hear you say
1431
00:49:04,150 --> 00:49:05,484
"Wu-Tang!"
1432
00:49:05,568 --> 00:49:06,694
Wu-Tang!
1433
00:49:06,777 --> 00:49:08,320
- [man] Wu-Tang !
- Wu-Tang !
1434
00:49:08,404 --> 00:49:10,656
- Wu-Tang !
- Wu-Tang !
1435
00:49:10,739 --> 00:49:13,242
[man] We up in this Wu-Tang Clan
record release party,
1436
00:49:13,325 --> 00:49:14,326
you know what I'm saying?
1437
00:49:14,410 --> 00:49:15,619
I got the clan ri0ht here.
1438
00:49:15,703 --> 00:49:17,872
I 0ot Inspectah Deck,
I got U-God .
1439
00:49:18,539 --> 00:49:20,499
Shaolin is in the house, man .
36 Chambers.
1440
00:49:20,583 --> 00:49:22,751
This the RZA's cister.
Sharif. What's up, baby?
1441
00:49:22,835 --> 00:49:25,212
Yo, this party is mad phat.
1442
00:49:25,296 --> 00:49:26,922
Mad industry people,
1443
00:49:27,006 --> 00:49:28,299
mad girls.
1444
00:49:28,382 --> 00:49:29,925
We got mad celebrities
up in here.
1445
00:49:30,009 --> 00:49:32,636
Loud Records up in this piece,
you know what I'm saying?
1446
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:34,013
My man Dres
from BIack Sheep.
1447
00:49:34,096 --> 00:49:35,389
What's up, baby?
How you doing?
1448
00:49:35,473 --> 00:49:36,640
Just taking it eacy, bro.
1449
00:49:36,724 --> 00:49:38,392
Oh , we got West Coact flavor
here.
1450
00:49:38,476 --> 00:49:39,518
We got MCA
up in this piece.
1451
00:49:39,602 --> 00:49:40,519
What's up, baby?
1452
00:49:40,603 --> 00:49:41,979
Yeah , I'm just chilling ,
know what l'm saying ,
1453
00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:43,105
over here on the East Coast
1454
00:49:43,189 --> 00:49:44,607
at the Wu-Tan0 Clan party.
1455
00:49:44,690 --> 00:49:47,026
Oh , shit, we got Sadat
up in this piece.
1456
00:49:47,109 --> 00:49:47,985
What's up, bro?
1457
00:49:48,068 --> 00:49:49,987
Lounging , man .
You 0ot some hot-ass Iights.
1458
00:49:50,070 --> 00:49:52,490
I got my man Evil Dee from
BIack Moon up in this piece.
1459
00:49:52,573 --> 00:49:55,326
[man] Fucking Buckshot Shorty
and Dru-Ha and shit.
1460
00:49:55,409 --> 00:49:57,161
d Rolling with the kids
is not your kind d
1461
00:49:57,244 --> 00:49:58,913
d Whether you're deaf, dumb,
and blind d
1462
00:49:58,996 --> 00:49:59,872
d Nah d
1463
00:49:59,955 --> 00:50:01,540
Yo, get a look at this crowd !
1464
00:50:01,624 --> 00:50:04,084
[man] Say it now,
motherfuckin0 house!
1465
00:50:04,168 --> 00:50:05,336
[all] Wu !
1466
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:06,462
[man] Wu-Tan0 !
1467
00:50:06,545 --> 00:50:08,214
- [all] Wu-Tang!
- [man] Wu-Tang !
1468
00:50:08,297 --> 00:50:09,173
[all] Wu-Tang!
1469
00:50:09,256 --> 00:50:10,174
[man] Wu-Tan0 !
1470
00:50:10,257 --> 00:50:11,300
[crowd] Wu-Tan0 !
1471
00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:12,343
[man] Wu-Tan0 !
1472
00:50:12,426 --> 00:50:14,762
[cheering, chantin0]
1473
00:50:15,221 --> 00:50:16,388
[U-God] It wasjust new.
1474
00:50:16,472 --> 00:50:17,890
It was different,
it was grimy,
1475
00:50:17,973 --> 00:50:19,308
it was hard.
1476
00:50:19,391 --> 00:50:21,560
It was the essence of us
from the streets,
1477
00:50:21,644 --> 00:50:23,145
and we was really living
that shit.
1478
00:50:23,229 --> 00:50:24,813
Shaolin representin0
this joint.
1479
00:50:24,897 --> 00:50:25,940
[U-God] Just, like,
1480
00:50:26,023 --> 00:50:28,150
you can absorb ener0y
1481
00:50:28,234 --> 00:50:30,027
and that shit just stick
to you .
1482
00:50:31,445 --> 00:50:33,030
Itjust spilled out
in the music.
1483
00:50:33,113 --> 00:50:35,157
But yo, Cream,
that stand for money, man .
1484
00:50:35,241 --> 00:50:37,243
Cash rules everything
around me, man .
1485
00:50:37,326 --> 00:50:38,911
d Cash rules everything
around me d
1486
00:50:38,994 --> 00:50:40,246
d C. R. E.A.M., get the money d
1487
00:50:40,329 --> 00:50:41,956
d Dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1488
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,208
d lt's been 22
long, hard years d
1489
00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:45,376
d I'm still strugglin ' d
1490
00:50:45,459 --> 00:50:46,794
d Survival's got me huggin ' d
1491
00:50:46,877 --> 00:50:48,420
d But l'm alive on arrival d
1492
00:50:48,504 --> 00:50:50,297
d l peep at the shape
of the streets d
1493
00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:52,258
d And stay awake to the ways
of the world d
1494
00:50:52,341 --> 00:50:53,384
d 'Cause shit is deep d
1495
00:50:53,467 --> 00:50:55,636
d A man with a dream
with plans to make cream d
1496
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,222
d Which failed, l went to jail
at the age of 1 5 d
1497
00:50:58,305 --> 00:50:59,890
d A young buck
sellin ' drugs and such d
1498
00:50:59,974 --> 00:51:01,141
d Who never had much d
1499
00:51:01,225 --> 00:51:03,310
d Tryin ' to get a clutch
at what I could not d
1500
00:51:03,394 --> 00:51:05,688
When "C. R. E.A. M ." dropped ,
1501
00:51:05,771 --> 00:51:08,607
that's when shit got funky.
1502
00:51:09,108 --> 00:51:11,902
d The court played me short,
now l face incarceration d
1503
00:51:11,986 --> 00:51:14,363
d Pacin ', goin ' upstate 's
my destination d
1504
00:51:14,446 --> 00:51:17,116
d Handcuffed in the back
of a bus, 40 of us d
1505
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:19,451
d Life as a shorty
shouldn't he so rough d
1506
00:51:19,535 --> 00:51:21,579
They dropped
the fucking music video
1507
00:51:21,662 --> 00:51:23,706
and the record
the next day after.
1508
00:51:23,789 --> 00:51:25,833
More things just started
popping off, then.
1509
00:51:25,916 --> 00:51:27,209
We did Arsenio Hall .
1510
00:51:27,293 --> 00:51:28,961
PIease give it up
for Wu-Tang CIan .
1511
00:51:29,044 --> 00:51:30,170
Go, yo.
Go, go, go.
1512
00:51:30,254 --> 00:51:32,881
ddd
1513
00:51:32,965 --> 00:51:34,675
[indistinct shouting]
1514
00:51:34,758 --> 00:51:37,261
Since toni0ht is the night
1515
00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:39,263
of all nights!
1516
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,890
Moct people
gather around
1517
00:51:42,558 --> 00:51:43,934
to see the show
1518
00:51:44,018 --> 00:51:46,645
that is coming
through your town .
1519
00:51:46,729 --> 00:51:49,315
My name,
besides you don't know,
1520
00:51:49,398 --> 00:51:51,942
is Wu-Tang!
1521
00:51:52,443 --> 00:51:53,777
[U-God] That shit
went from
1522
00:51:53,861 --> 00:51:55,154
200, 000 sales.
1523
00:51:55,237 --> 00:51:56,697
That shit went to 500, 000,
1524
00:51:56,780 --> 00:51:58,949
then 500, 000 to 700, 000,
1525
00:51:59,033 --> 00:52:01,910
then I0�,000 to 1 .2 million
to 1 .5 million .
1526
00:52:02,745 --> 00:52:05,039
Then shit just went nuts
after that.
1527
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:06,874
d Cash rules
everything around me d
1528
00:52:06,957 --> 00:52:09,627
d C.R.E.A.M., get the money,
dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1529
00:52:10,252 --> 00:52:11,545
d Wu-Tang d
1530
00:52:11,629 --> 00:52:14,048
d Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang d
1531
00:52:14,340 --> 00:52:16,634
d Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang d
1532
00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:18,510
d Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang d
1533
00:52:18,594 --> 00:52:20,929
After that, I knew Iife
wac never gonna be the same.
1534
00:52:21,013 --> 00:52:22,806
d Cash rules
everything around me d
1535
00:52:22,890 --> 00:52:24,141
d C. R. E.A.M., get the money d
1536
00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:26,018
d Dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1537
00:52:26,101 --> 00:52:28,103
d Cash rules
everything around me d
1538
00:52:28,187 --> 00:52:30,773
d C.R.E.A.M., get the money,
dollar, dollar bill, y'all d
1539
00:52:30,856 --> 00:52:32,941
ddd
1540
00:52:33,025 --> 00:52:34,610
Music, to me,
1541
00:52:34,693 --> 00:52:37,529
is a reflection
of what you go through .
1542
00:52:37,613 --> 00:52:39,323
We in the hood.
We don 't go to therapy.
1543
00:52:39,406 --> 00:52:41,283
We just take it
for what it was.
1544
00:52:41,367 --> 00:52:43,577
If somebody get their head
blown off in front of us,
1545
00:52:43,661 --> 00:52:45,371
or we duck shotc
and we fuck around
1546
00:52:45,454 --> 00:52:47,289
and get into scuffs
and fight and 9et cut
1547
00:52:47,373 --> 00:52:48,624
or 0et chot, or grazed , or--
1548
00:52:48,707 --> 00:52:51,043
We just wipe it off
and keep it going .
1549
00:52:51,126 --> 00:52:52,586
Then my son got shot.
1550
00:52:52,670 --> 00:52:54,254
d Uneasy music d
1551
00:52:56,256 --> 00:52:58,425
[RZA] U-God, one of our
members--his son Dontae--
1552
00:52:58,509 --> 00:52:59,551
He got blasted,
1553
00:52:59,635 --> 00:53:01,345
understand, around the way--
1554
00:53:01,804 --> 00:53:04,306
Force-fire shootout, man,
you know what I'm saying?
1555
00:53:04,390 --> 00:53:06,225
- [Dontae] Mommy!
- [Tonya] What?
1556
00:53:06,308 --> 00:53:09,561
[Dontae] My boy, Method Man . Woo!
1557
00:53:10,646 --> 00:53:12,147
[Tonya] That's nice.
1558
00:53:12,231 --> 00:53:13,816
Dontae, you know
he lost his spleen.
1559
00:53:13,899 --> 00:53:15,442
- [man] How old is he ?
- He's two years old.
1560
00:53:15,526 --> 00:53:17,820
Lost his spleen [inaudible).
1561
00:53:17,903 --> 00:53:19,613
Yeah, he 's paralyzed
in one leg.
1562
00:53:19,697 --> 00:53:21,573
He's going through therapy
right now.
1563
00:53:21,657 --> 00:53:22,700
We gonna push it.
1564
00:53:22,783 --> 00:53:24,785
Up a Iittle bit more.
Hi0h up. H igh up.
1565
00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:26,370
High up, high up.
There.
1566
00:53:26,453 --> 00:53:29,123
And so Iet's see
if you can do thic.
1567
00:53:29,206 --> 00:53:31,125
One, two.
1568
00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:33,961
Oh, you're doing
such a good job.
1569
00:53:34,044 --> 00:53:35,671
We just realized that
1570
00:53:35,754 --> 00:53:37,214
all that gold record
and all that
1571
00:53:37,297 --> 00:53:38,757
will not really save you
1572
00:53:38,841 --> 00:53:39,967
from the brutality
1573
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:41,635
or from the subtext you gotta
go through
1574
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,637
[inaudible].
1575
00:53:43,721 --> 00:53:47,141
- Wu-Tang.
- Wu-Tangl
1576
00:53:47,224 --> 00:53:48,267
[applause]
1577
00:53:48,350 --> 00:53:49,893
Welcome home, Dontae Hawkins,
1578
00:53:49,977 --> 00:53:51,353
Staten Island's littlest hero.
1579
00:53:51,437 --> 00:53:52,855
Aww.
1580
00:53:53,564 --> 00:53:55,607
[man] There's a lot of Dontaes
out there.
1581
00:53:55,691 --> 00:53:57,151
[woman] Look at Dontae!
1582
00:53:57,818 --> 00:53:59,027
[man] And we, as a society,
1583
00:53:59,111 --> 00:54:00,654
owe it to these young people
1584
00:54:00,738 --> 00:54:02,322
to make life safer for them,
1585
00:54:02,406 --> 00:54:03,741
so that's our mission.
1586
00:54:04,491 --> 00:54:06,910
This is a Staten Island story,
ladies and 0entlemen .
1587
00:54:06,994 --> 00:54:07,911
This is our story.
1588
00:54:07,995 --> 00:54:09,246
We 're not gonna let them
1589
00:54:09,329 --> 00:54:10,372
forget Dontae.
We can't.
1590
00:54:10,456 --> 00:54:12,458
d The Charmels' ''As Long
As l've Got You" playing d
1591
00:54:12,541 --> 00:54:14,835
d No fire is too hot d
1592
00:54:15,335 --> 00:54:18,255
d No snow is too cold d
1593
00:54:19,131 --> 00:54:20,799
ddd
1594
00:54:24,219 --> 00:54:27,181
d Youth will never Ieave me d
1595
00:54:27,264 --> 00:54:29,600
d l'll never grow old d
1596
00:54:29,683 --> 00:54:32,060
d Never, never d
1597
00:54:32,144 --> 00:54:34,980
d Never, never d
1598
00:54:35,063 --> 00:54:39,777
d l feel free as a hird d
1599
00:54:40,944 --> 00:54:44,239
d Flyin ' around in the hlue d
1600
00:54:45,324 --> 00:54:49,077
d As long as, haby d
1601
00:54:49,161 --> 00:54:50,913
d As long as I've got you d
1602
00:54:50,996 --> 00:54:53,248
ddd
1603
00:54:53,332 --> 00:54:55,918
d As long as I've got you d
1604
00:54:56,835 --> 00:54:58,253
d You d
1605
00:54:58,378 --> 00:55:01,048
d As long as I've got you d
1606
00:55:02,174 --> 00:55:04,176
ddd
1607
00:55:06,178 --> 00:55:07,888
[ship horn honks]
1608
00:55:11,558 --> 00:55:14,478
d Contemplative synth music d
1609
00:55:14,561 --> 00:55:16,021
[Power] Arsenio Hall?
1610
00:55:16,104 --> 00:55:17,105
Forget about it.
1611
00:55:17,189 --> 00:55:18,482
Shit was perfect.
1612
00:55:18,565 --> 00:55:19,650
It was beautiful.
1613
00:55:19,733 --> 00:55:21,193
ddd
1614
00:55:21,276 --> 00:55:22,903
We came out
and we made our mark,
1615
00:55:22,986 --> 00:55:24,112
and I think
1616
00:55:24,238 --> 00:55:26,114
dudes lost sight of
1617
00:55:26,198 --> 00:55:28,617
how that actually
really happened.
1618
00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:30,953
ddd
1619
00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:33,080
Man , we done came
a Iong way.
1620
00:55:33,163 --> 00:55:35,207
Yo, this is Rakeem's brother...
1621
00:55:35,290 --> 00:55:37,251
Divine was always
my man, right?
1622
00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:38,669
Wu-Tang, baby.
Watch out!
1623
00:55:38,752 --> 00:55:40,754
Watch out!
It's coming down , baby!
1624
00:55:40,838 --> 00:55:43,590
[indistinct chatter]
1625
00:55:43,674 --> 00:55:45,092
[Lask] Well, Divine, l mean,
1626
00:55:45,175 --> 00:55:46,927
early, early on,
l didn 't really see him
1627
00:55:47,010 --> 00:55:48,470
that often.
You know what l mean ?
1628
00:55:48,554 --> 00:55:50,097
I started seeing him
a little later.
1629
00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:51,348
Like, l rememher one time,
1630
00:55:51,431 --> 00:55:52,558
RZA came and he say, "Yo,
1631
00:55:52,641 --> 00:55:54,893
Power and 'Vine 's
gonna he part of management."
1632
00:55:55,102 --> 00:55:56,270
You know what I mean?
1633
00:55:56,353 --> 00:55:57,646
More or less.
So I wac Iike,
1634
00:55:57,729 --> 00:55:59,481
"Okay, you know, whatever."
1635
00:55:59,565 --> 00:56:00,941
[Power] l mean, Mook and Lask--
1636
00:56:01,024 --> 00:56:02,442
A lot ofpeople
don 't know our husiness
1637
00:56:02,526 --> 00:56:04,027
and didn't know our business.
1638
00:56:04,111 --> 00:56:06,321
They just seeing everythin0
comin0 together
1639
00:56:06,405 --> 00:56:08,448
and yeah , those guys
worked for us.
1640
00:56:08,532 --> 00:56:11,159
When they came, they was
work for hire,
1641
00:56:11,243 --> 00:56:12,870
and we was growing ,
1642
00:56:12,953 --> 00:56:14,496
co we needed somebody
1643
00:56:14,580 --> 00:56:16,790
to be a mana9er every day.
1644
00:56:16,874 --> 00:56:18,417
I ain't know
they were investors.
1645
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:20,878
I was Iike, "Yo, like, okay,"
but Iike,
1646
00:56:20,961 --> 00:56:22,254
l didn't understand.
1647
00:56:22,337 --> 00:56:23,255
L'm thinking
1648
00:56:23,338 --> 00:56:25,465
"Okay, now we got
to split this four ways."
1649
00:56:25,549 --> 00:56:27,342
Like, "Oh, man ."
You know?
1650
00:56:27,426 --> 00:56:29,011
Just when we starting
to make money,
1651
00:56:29,094 --> 00:56:31,513
now my--my cut's gettin0 lower.
[Iaughs]
1652
00:56:31,889 --> 00:56:32,764
[electronic beep]
1653
00:56:32,848 --> 00:56:34,516
ddd
1654
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,810
[man] This is, uh ,
Divine interview, take one.
1655
00:56:36,894 --> 00:56:39,187
- [clapboard claps]
- [electronic beep]
1656
00:56:42,566 --> 00:56:43,442
No.
1657
00:56:43,734 --> 00:56:45,235
RZA's kept a--a ban
1658
00:56:45,319 --> 00:56:48,196
on my--my ability
to speak publicly.
1659
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,824
He's just been Iike, "No,
they're not ready for you ."
1660
00:56:50,908 --> 00:56:53,827
RZA's Iike, "Vine, you are
a fucking tyrant."
1661
00:56:53,911 --> 00:56:55,120
[Iaughs]
1662
00:56:55,203 --> 00:56:56,705
I am a tyrant,
1663
00:56:56,788 --> 00:56:58,749
and not in the negative sense
of the word .
1664
00:56:59,499 --> 00:57:00,751
I'm a bucinessman .
1665
00:57:01,543 --> 00:57:04,129
I think about business
1666
00:57:04,212 --> 00:57:05,631
when I'm asleep,
1667
00:57:05,714 --> 00:57:07,299
but I can honestly tell you
1668
00:57:07,382 --> 00:57:08,842
that them motherfuckers
drove me
1669
00:57:08,926 --> 00:57:10,886
to the point whereas l Iost it,
1670
00:57:10,969 --> 00:57:13,764
and l Iost myself
1671
00:57:13,847 --> 00:57:16,099
because I stopped believing
in who I was.
1672
00:57:16,183 --> 00:57:17,768
I basically wasn't allowed
to speak,
1673
00:57:17,851 --> 00:57:20,145
but now he's like,
"Eh, your 25 years is up.
1674
00:57:20,228 --> 00:57:21,730
You're free to go do
whatever you want."
1675
00:57:21,813 --> 00:57:24,024
[Iaughs]
1676
00:57:24,107 --> 00:57:27,027
d Mellow hip-hop music d
1677
00:57:27,110 --> 00:57:29,404
ddd
1678
00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,202
d Yo, yo d
1679
00:57:36,036 --> 00:57:39,081
d Champagne nights
on the corner mad heavy d
1680
00:57:39,164 --> 00:57:41,917
d Around the time when I was
beefin' with Wizzy d
1681
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,086
d Starks, State,
and Clayhourne drawers d
1682
00:57:44,169 --> 00:57:46,338
d Dickin ' bitches down,
they man come through d
1683
00:57:46,713 --> 00:57:49,466
d Damn near kissed the ground
jumpin ' out of big shit d
1684
00:57:49,549 --> 00:57:51,093
d With Benetton pajamas on d
1685
00:57:51,176 --> 00:57:53,053
d Line my soldiers up, strategize d
1686
00:57:53,136 --> 00:57:54,262
d Then l move my pawns d
1687
00:57:54,346 --> 00:57:55,555
d Should've heen ltalian d
1688
00:57:55,639 --> 00:57:57,099
d How l'm getting that Parmesan d
1689
00:57:57,182 --> 00:57:58,392
d Talkin ' 'bout the ones d
1690
00:57:58,475 --> 00:58:00,602
d You keep puttin '
those commas on d
1691
00:58:01,186 --> 00:58:03,021
d And l'ma keep hope alive d
1692
00:58:03,105 --> 00:58:05,899
d 'Cause mad lil' niggas
look up to me outside d
1693
00:58:05,983 --> 00:58:07,484
d Breaking dawn blunted d
1694
00:58:07,567 --> 00:58:08,568
d Yums in they mouth d
1695
00:58:08,944 --> 00:58:11,113
d I drop a jewel,
they see the C-ciphers d
1696
00:58:11,196 --> 00:58:12,322
d Then bounce d
1697
00:58:12,406 --> 00:58:13,740
d Peace, God, you see Rae. .. d
1698
00:58:16,740 --> 00:58:20,740
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