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d <i>Upbeat ambient music</i> d

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[RZA] <i>Evolution
is the main goal</i>

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<i>of a man's life.</i>

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H it me with a little.

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- Nah. . .
- H it your brother.

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[laughs]

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That's good .
Thank you .

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[RZA] <i>He has to evolve.</i>

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<i>And his family
or his children</i>

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<i>gotta evolve past him.</i>

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<i>If a man was in a cave,
you know what I mean,</i>

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<i>somebody gotta
walk out that cave.</i>

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<i>If he was crawling,
somebody gotta stand up;</i>

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<i>and once he stands up,
somebody gotta be able to run;</i>

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<i>if he runs,
one should be able to jump;</i>

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<i>after he jumps,
one should be able to fly.</i>

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ddd

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Yo, we--we really came
from some shit, y'all .

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We did so much, man.

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And the time went by
fast, right?

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It don't even feel
like a quarter.

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But it was a quarter
that we took out our lives

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- to be where we at today.
- Right.

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I feel like we brothers,
regardless of what, you know?

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Through good , through bad ,
through ugly, through worse,

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through everything, you know?

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Us sitting here today,
we came together for a meeting

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about our publishing
and our economics,

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something that my company
dominates

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over my peers.

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So I have to evolve
past the company mentality

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to say I'ma sit down
with my peers

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and we're gonna go
through this,

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you know what I mean,
and write this out

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for ourselves,
so we all

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understand the same thing,

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and that's evolution
right there, so.

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I'm grateful that I can live
to see a day like this.

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We gonna get this shit
right, man.

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I'ma keep building regardless.

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It's a lesson that they say
what Krishna taught,

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he said , "Contemplation,"

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meaning
reflecting on your past,

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"is better than praying."

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- Mm-hmm .
- Yeah.

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d <i>El Michels Affair's
"Protect Ya Neck"</i> d

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ddd

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[distant traffic]

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[cheers and applause]

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[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
it's a honor right now

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doing "The Jump Off,"
party people,

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the Wu-Tang Clan!

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d <i>Wu-Tang Clan's "Protect
Ya Neck (The Jump O* '</i>' d

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d <i>Dance with the mantis,
note the slim chances</i> d

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d <i>Chant this anthem,
swing like Pete Sampras</i> d

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d <i>Taking it straight
to big man on campus</i> d

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d <i>Brandish your weapon
or get dropped to the canvas</i> d

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d <i>Scandalous,
made the metro panic</i> d

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d <i>Cause static with
or without the automatic</i> d

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d <i>And while we at it,
yo, you got cash, pass it</i> d

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d <i>It's drastic</i> d

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d <i>Gotta send half
to Dirty Bastard</i> d

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[RZA] <i>By the year 2000,
the company had to be</i>

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<i>worth at--
easy, $50 million.</i>

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And it's because of its assets.

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<i>Method Man,
multi-platinum artist;</i>

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<i>Raekwon, platinum artist;</i>

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<i>Ghostface, platinum artist;</i>

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<i>GZA, platinum artist;</i>

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<i>ODB, world-famous
multiple-gold artist;</i>

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<i>Inspectah Deck,
gold artist;</i>

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<i>Cappadonna, gold artist;</i>

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<i>the Wu-Tang Clan itself,
multi-platinum.</i>

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It had all this
under one umbrella.

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And one by one,
each person came to be removed

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from Wu-Tang Productions,

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decreasing the value
of that company.

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I lost $1 0 million a year.

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I'm from the streets, nigga.

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You gotta crack me
over my fucking head

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to get that money from me.

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Who in their-- I mean, who
in their right mind does that?

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As a businessman,
my brother Divine is right.

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That's the worst
business decision in hip-hop,

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just like the Loud deal

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was the best business decision
in hip-hop.

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You don't sign away
$40 million worth of artists

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<i>at the time
when hip-hop is about to</i>

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<i>become worth
a billion dollars, almost.</i>

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But at the same time,
you do not keep

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that which you consider
your brother

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in any kind of thing

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that feels like a bondage
upon him .

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Know what I'm saying,
even though

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it'd have brought
great economic reward to you .

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I only had one request, though.

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You can have back your--
your contract

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and your career,

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but Wu-Tang Clan
remains with me.

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Let me see if I can...

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d <i>ambient music</i> d

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Oh, shit,
I never finished this.

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This is protect your neck,
take your head moment.

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[laughs]
This is an early sketch.

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He holding a guillotine.

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He's doing the Wu-Tang
with the sword ,

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have "Clan" come down.

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Oh, I got something else
in here.

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ddd

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That was, like,
the first variation,

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probably, of the W .

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Nah, it definitely didn't work.

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Let's just see--
oh, yeah, now,

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this is one of
the early Ws too.

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Sort of taking the head .

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That's the head of anybody
fucking with the Wu .

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<i>The logo was--
like, RZA and GZA would--</i>

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You know, they used to
talk to me all the time

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<i>and be like,
"Yo, we need something</i>

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<i>that really stands out."</i>

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<i>And the crazy thing
about it was that,</i>

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<i>when he actually needed it,
he hit me up like,</i>

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<i>"Yo, I need the logo
by tomorrow."</i>

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So I'm like, "Tomorrow?"

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So I went to the store.

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I went to--
I went to the weed spot.

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I came in, rolled up,

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smoked , was drinking my 40.

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Then I remember,
I sat on the floor.

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Ah.

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ddd

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<i>So I drew it.</i>

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<i>And knowing all the sketches
we done went through</i>

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<i>previously
and all the talking,</i>

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<i>I was like, you know what?</i>

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<i>This gotta be it.</i>

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<i>When I finished,</i>

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"This gotta be it."

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So. . .
[imitates ripping]

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Ripped the page out,

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gave it to him .

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I paid Mathematics $400.

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And at that time,
that was half my rent money.

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And I know
Mathematics, to this day,

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it was the fucking worst $400
he ever got.

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[laughs]

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<i>[Mathematics]</i>
I had no idea

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<i>it was gonna be
what it is today.</i>

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d <i>Wu-Tang Clan's
"Fast and Furious"</i> d

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Wu ...

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This motherfucker's ill !

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[RZA] <i>I felt like
the Wu-Tang W</i>

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<i>actually is a phoenix...</i>

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ddd

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- [tattoo machine buzzing]
- This a great story, though.

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[RZA] <i>I said with these wings,
we can fly above</i>

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<i>all the negative things.</i>

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<i>We can rise above it.</i>

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[camera shutters clicking]

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ddd

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[tattoo machine buzzing]

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You see that shit?

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d <i>How come the streets
don't want me to live?</i> d

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d <i>Plus my niggas
keep telling me fibs</i> d

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d <i>Then the devil
done poisoned my wiz</i> d

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d <i>I'm doing this
for my family and kids</i> d

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d <i>I'm trying to be wealthy</i> d

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d <i>Take my time right,
stay healthy</i> d

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d <i>Said it before but
I don't think nobody felt me</i> d

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d <i>Yo, I'm ready to eat,
I'm ready to grip it</i> d

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d <i>Got enemies everywhere,
I got chicks that's wicked</i> d

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d <i>Sick shit</i> d

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d <i>Niggas doing
wicked-ass witch shit</i> d

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d <i>Bitch shit</i> d

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d <i>Telling Jakes
that I had the biscuit</i> d

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d <i>Niggas be wanting
my leftovers</i> d

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d <i>I'm like a general
that died</i> d

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d <i>And lost
some of his best soldiers</i> d

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d <i>I burn holsters and I kill
that dirt religion</i> d

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d <i>Murk that pigeon</i> d

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H it 'em like uh.

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[Cappadonna chuckles]

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Hold that one, and let me--
let me get it

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from right there,
again off of the quarter.

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ddd

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Let me try something else.

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[Cappadonna] <i>Every
business has conflict.</i>

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ddd

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<i>Some of the conflicts are...</i>

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<i>a little more deeper
than others</i>

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<i>because of
our personal relationships.</i>

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And , you know,
just because of the years.

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d <i>My slang's editorial,
explicit material</i> d

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d <i>Briefcase, yo,
live in stereo flow</i> d

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d <i>Feel me, Donna realty
set the black people free</i> d

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d <i>Work hard WTZ</i> d

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<i>I'm about to come out
with a album soon, you know?</i>

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<i>Coming out
through Razor Sharp.</i>

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I dropped <i>The Pillage</i> album .

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<i>That was my first
solo project.</i>

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Still rocking, G.
[chuckles]

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d <i>I came to the fork in
the road and went straight</i> d

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d <i>Right out the crack vial
to the Golden Gate</i> d

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d <i>See, the silver spoon
in my mouth, it had cake</i> d

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d <i>My rap birth date
debut song was ice bait</i> d

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It went gold in, uh, two weeks.

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<i>I was very happy about that.</i>

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<i>It was something
I didn't expect.</i>

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<i>Itjust blew my mind.</i>

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<i>I-I'd never seen or expected</i>

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a gold plaque of any sort.

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<i>It was like
my high school diploma.</i>

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It was like
my driver's license.

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You know, to me--
it was a victory that...

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became all the other victories
for me.

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d <i>Soft dramatic music</i> d

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[man] So you were supposed
to get a 50 grand advance,

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because your, uh--

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- 50 grand bonus.
- [man] Bonus, yeah.

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Because that--
because <i>The Pillage</i> went gold

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in less than a month.

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But they tried to say,
"No, we gave you that already."

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You know what I'm saying?
Divine, Mitchell Diggs.

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He try to say, yeah,
you gave--

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"I gave you that."

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I was like, "Man,
what you gave me?"

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And shit,
you know what I'm saying?

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Somebody said that Cappadonna
said to Ghostface,

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"Divine's hiding money."

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Now, he got
a publishing check for...

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I think it was 1 50.

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And it stipulated
if he goes gold ,

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he gets an additional $50,000.

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A nigga gotta eat,

236
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got babies to feed , man,
and it's like,

237
00:10:05,355 --> 00:10:08,024
everybody understand
the struggle.

238
00:10:08,108 --> 00:10:10,568
The lawyer called and says
Cappa's doing, um , his--

239
00:10:10,652 --> 00:10:12,487
The back end ,
because he's gold .

240
00:10:12,570 --> 00:10:15,824
I called my lawyer, said ,
well , you shipped gold ,

241
00:10:15,907 --> 00:10:18,827
but it didn't certify
SoundScan gold .

242
00:10:18,910 --> 00:10:20,703
I don't give a fuck
if it SoundScan'd or not.

243
00:10:20,787 --> 00:10:21,955
I shipped it.

244
00:10:22,831 --> 00:10:24,457
Let--pay him his money.

245
00:10:24,541 --> 00:10:26,960
When he called me on it,
I didn't deny it,

246
00:10:27,043 --> 00:10:28,211
and I paid it.

247
00:10:28,294 --> 00:10:30,922
It's all a political game
right now.

248
00:10:31,005 --> 00:10:32,924
But it's like,
it gotta be played

249
00:10:33,007 --> 00:10:37,053
in order to manifest the peace
that's gonna come.

250
00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:39,931
That--that peace
is that prosperity, man.

251
00:10:40,849 --> 00:10:43,893
I knew many men,
only trust a few.

252
00:10:43,977 --> 00:10:45,436
Women, loved a few.

253
00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,522
Represent the worldwide W .

254
00:10:47,605 --> 00:10:50,400
Plus I helped build rap,
helped build you .

255
00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:51,818
Helped build Capp.

256
00:10:51,901 --> 00:10:53,653
How could you say
that I jerked him?

257
00:10:53,736 --> 00:10:56,698
I put money in his pocket
and kept him working.

258
00:10:56,781 --> 00:10:58,408
[RZA] <i>Nothing
was more important to me</i>

259
00:10:58,491 --> 00:10:59,701
<i>than the Wu-Tang.</i>

260
00:10:59,826 --> 00:11:03,288
That's how inspired I was
by what we had created .

261
00:11:04,122 --> 00:11:05,582
But I had a family.

262
00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:08,376
<i>And I took my family
and sent them</i>

263
00:11:08,459 --> 00:11:10,295
<i>to another house in Ohio</i>

264
00:11:10,378 --> 00:11:12,380
so I could stay focused
on my shit, yo.

265
00:11:12,463 --> 00:11:14,883
d Hip-hop beat playing d

266
00:11:14,966 --> 00:11:18,052
<i>You know, the time,
the hours.</i>

267
00:11:19,053 --> 00:11:20,388
[Raekwon] <i>Stayed
in the crib,</i>

268
00:11:20,471 --> 00:11:23,016
<i>looking like a dirtbag
in his basement.</i>

269
00:11:23,558 --> 00:11:25,602
Hair all out, making beats.

270
00:11:26,269 --> 00:11:29,355
[Rifkind] <i>Beat after beat,
he was creating</i>

271
00:11:29,439 --> 00:11:32,192
<i>so much material
in such a short period.</i>

272
00:11:32,275 --> 00:11:33,693
[RZA] <i>My focus work.</i>

273
00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:37,405
<i>I created something that'll
most likely outlive me.</i>

274
00:11:37,488 --> 00:11:40,867
<i>But when I do look back
at how much I put</i>

275
00:11:40,950 --> 00:11:43,119
<i>my brothers in front
of so many things,</i>

276
00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:45,079
<i>even in front
of my own family,</i>

277
00:11:45,747 --> 00:11:48,291
when you go back
and see the dissatisfaction

278
00:11:48,374 --> 00:11:50,543
and the non-gratitude,

279
00:11:50,627 --> 00:11:52,295
it--yeah, it could hurt,
you know what I mean?

280
00:11:52,378 --> 00:11:54,422
It could hurt on the physical ,

281
00:11:54,505 --> 00:11:56,758
normal , mortal level ,
you know what I mean?

282
00:11:56,841 --> 00:11:58,843
[record scratching
on hip-hop beat]

283
00:12:02,222 --> 00:12:04,224
One thing I think
that we forgot about

284
00:12:04,307 --> 00:12:06,809
in the business of Wu-Tang
is that...

285
00:12:06,893 --> 00:12:09,896
Wu-Tang Production
is a company.

286
00:12:09,979 --> 00:12:11,898
[man] So what would you say
the value is now,

287
00:12:11,981 --> 00:12:13,816
as opposed to what it was
in 2000?

288
00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:15,985
Well , the value now,
it's hard to measure.

289
00:12:16,069 --> 00:12:19,197
But I think it's more valuable
now than it was in 2000.

290
00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:20,240
[man]
<i>It's time to enter...</i>

291
00:12:20,323 --> 00:12:22,533
[RZA] <i>It's found its way,
of course, into pop culture</i>

292
00:12:22,617 --> 00:12:24,077
<i>in a new way.</i>

293
00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:25,745
<i>I take a lot of credit</i>

294
00:12:25,828 --> 00:12:28,039
<i>for bringing it
to new mediums.</i>

295
00:12:28,122 --> 00:12:29,415
<i>You see it in Hollywood.</i>

296
00:12:29,499 --> 00:12:31,125
You're GZA, The Genius.

297
00:12:31,209 --> 00:12:32,919
- That's right.
- And you're RZA.

298
00:12:33,002 --> 00:12:34,671
And you're Bill Murray.

299
00:12:34,754 --> 00:12:36,297
- Who you gonna call?
- I know that.

300
00:12:36,381 --> 00:12:37,382
Just don't tell anybody.

301
00:12:37,465 --> 00:12:39,676
But one of the big catalysts

302
00:12:39,759 --> 00:12:41,678
is <i>Once Upon a Time
in Shaolin.</i>

303
00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:43,846
[man] <i>Legendary rap
collective Wu-Tang Clan</i>

304
00:12:43,930 --> 00:12:46,057
<i>created only a single copy
of its new album,</i>

305
00:12:46,140 --> 00:12:47,433
Once U pon a Time in Shaolin.

306
00:12:47,517 --> 00:12:49,185
<i>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,</i>

307
00:12:49,269 --> 00:12:50,812
<i>an album</i>

308
00:12:50,895 --> 00:12:53,106
<i>that is being auctioned
in a private auction.</i>

309
00:12:53,189 --> 00:12:54,857
<i>RZA
and the producer Cilvaringz</i>

310
00:12:54,941 --> 00:12:56,317
<i>have come together
to make this.</i>

311
00:12:56,401 --> 00:12:58,736
This could go for 5 million,
6 million, 7 million,

312
00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:00,321
but how do you justify that
to the fans?

313
00:13:00,405 --> 00:13:01,864
This is not for the fans.

314
00:13:01,948 --> 00:13:04,242
I hope it maintains its course
as an art piece

315
00:13:04,325 --> 00:13:06,911
and--and--and literally
disappears into darkness.

316
00:13:06,995 --> 00:13:09,038
[cheers and applause]

317
00:13:09,122 --> 00:13:11,040
<i>Welcome, everyone.
My name is Cilvaringz.</i>

318
00:13:11,124 --> 00:13:13,084
<i>I want to thank everybody
for coming today.</i>

319
00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:16,129
In a few minutes,
we'll be playing you

320
00:13:16,212 --> 00:13:18,840
1 3 minutes of <i>Once Upon
a Time in Shaolin.</i>

321
00:13:18,923 --> 00:13:21,884
<i>It will be the first
and last time</i>

322
00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:23,803
any music from this work

323
00:13:23,886 --> 00:13:25,555
will be heard by anyone else

324
00:13:25,638 --> 00:13:28,599
besides the eventual collector.

325
00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:32,020
I, <i>uh, met RZA in 1997.</i>

326
00:13:32,103 --> 00:13:34,814
<i>Since then, I've had
the privilege to not only</i>

327
00:13:34,897 --> 00:13:36,899
<i>study the way
he produced music,</i>

328
00:13:36,983 --> 00:13:38,985
but to learn
about the character

329
00:13:39,068 --> 00:13:41,112
that drove the music.

330
00:13:41,195 --> 00:13:43,865
It's cloudy today
with a chance of showers.

331
00:13:44,282 --> 00:13:47,660
U h, forecast, we're coming in
at a smooth 50 degrees and ...

332
00:13:47,744 --> 00:13:50,580
You know, '97,
Wu-Tang is major.

333
00:13:50,663 --> 00:13:52,707
<i>The Clan was coming
to Amsterdam.</i>

334
00:13:52,790 --> 00:13:54,751
<i>This is
the</i> Wu-Tang Forever <i>tour.</i>

335
00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:57,253
d <i>Yo, RZA, yo, razor,
hit me with the major</i> d

336
00:13:57,337 --> 00:13:59,339
d <i>The damage, my Clan
understand it be flavor</i> d

337
00:13:59,422 --> 00:14:01,466
d <i>Gunning, humming,
coming at you</i> d

338
00:14:01,549 --> 00:14:04,594
d <i>First I'm gonna get ya,
once I got ya, I gat ya</i> d

339
00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:07,138
[Cilvaringz] <i>I went
to the show super excited.</i>

340
00:14:07,221 --> 00:14:08,723
<i>And at the end of the show,</i>

341
00:14:08,806 --> 00:14:11,976
<i>RZA invited local emcees</i>

342
00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:13,478
<i>to basicallyjump on stage.</i>

343
00:14:13,561 --> 00:14:15,438
I think him and Meth
pulled me up

344
00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:17,482
<i>andjust gave me the mic.</i>

345
00:14:17,565 --> 00:14:20,068
<i>And Ijust started
busting a rhyme.</i>

346
00:14:20,151 --> 00:14:24,197
<i>So when I was done,
I'm talking to RZA.</i>

347
00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:25,865
He said , "We're about to open

348
00:14:25,948 --> 00:14:28,117
this Wu-Tang International
record label ,"

349
00:14:28,201 --> 00:14:30,370
like, they were going to expand
into Europe.

350
00:14:30,453 --> 00:14:33,664
<i>And he said he wanted me
to be a part of that</i>

351
00:14:33,748 --> 00:14:35,917
<i>and signed me on the dot
right there.</i>

352
00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,503
[male announcer] <i>Straight from
the slums of Shaolin, Europe...</i>

353
00:14:39,045 --> 00:14:41,422
Cilvaringz!
[whoops]

354
00:14:41,506 --> 00:14:43,091
d Cilvaringz'
"Brothers Ain't Brothers d

355
00:14:43,174 --> 00:14:44,884
What up!
Yo!

356
00:14:44,967 --> 00:14:47,136
d <i>I love RZA,
he gave me a start</i> d

357
00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:49,722
d <i>He could've given a fuck
but chose to give me a spark</i> d

358
00:14:49,806 --> 00:14:52,392
d <i>Took me to 36 chambers
and let me spit out some darts</i> d

359
00:14:52,475 --> 00:14:53,851
d <i>That's why I'm rapping
his name</i> d

360
00:14:53,935 --> 00:14:55,645
d <i>In every song I take part</i> d

361
00:14:55,728 --> 00:14:57,188
<i>I said to him, like,</i>

362
00:14:57,271 --> 00:14:59,357
<i>how 'bout if I put together
a tour?</i>

363
00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,484
<i>I had never booked
a tour before.</i>

364
00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:03,361
<i>I didn't know the logistics.</i>

365
00:15:03,444 --> 00:15:05,696
<i>The only thing I did
was draw a line on the map,</i>

366
00:15:05,780 --> 00:15:07,323
like, "I would like
to go to Budapest.

367
00:15:07,407 --> 00:15:09,409
<i>I would like to go to Sofia."</i>

368
00:15:09,492 --> 00:15:13,037
- The fuck is going on, Sofia?
- [cheers and applause]

369
00:15:13,121 --> 00:15:14,330
<i>"Istanbul would be nice."</i>

370
00:15:14,414 --> 00:15:15,790
Got my man Cilvaringz on the...

371
00:15:15,873 --> 00:15:18,126
[Cilvaringz] <i>Somehow,
itjust fucking happened, man.</i>

372
00:15:18,209 --> 00:15:21,003
<i>RZA showed up, and we had
a great, great tour.</i>

373
00:15:21,087 --> 00:15:22,964
You see how they welcome me
in Australia?

374
00:15:23,047 --> 00:15:24,006
[chuckles]

375
00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:26,175
[Cilvaringz] <i>Obviously
being on tour with RZA</i>

376
00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:28,678
<i>day in, day out,
got us closer.</i>

377
00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:30,763
"Cilva-ring."

378
00:15:30,847 --> 00:15:32,014
[Cilvaringz] <i>It's very much</i>

379
00:15:32,098 --> 00:15:35,143
<i>a student-mentor relationship.</i>

380
00:15:35,226 --> 00:15:37,311
- [yelps]
- [chuckles]

381
00:15:38,146 --> 00:15:39,397
[laughter]

382
00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,441
[Cilvaringz] Tell me, Mr. Diggs,
why are you doing this?

383
00:15:41,524 --> 00:15:43,943
- Why not?
- [laughter]

384
00:15:45,194 --> 00:15:46,612
[Cilvaringz] <i>We were
doing some countries</i>

385
00:15:46,696 --> 00:15:48,197
<i>no hip-hop act
had ever been in.</i>

386
00:15:48,281 --> 00:15:50,283
- Say hi , Jordan.
- [cheers and applause]

387
00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:52,410
It was the biggest world tour
done in hip-hop

388
00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:53,911
in 67 countries.

389
00:15:53,995 --> 00:15:56,497
H ip-hop
don't belong to America.

390
00:15:56,581 --> 00:15:58,458
H ip-hop belongs to you .

391
00:15:58,541 --> 00:16:00,168
It's yours!

392
00:16:00,251 --> 00:16:02,128
RZA. . . Cilvaringz...

393
00:16:02,211 --> 00:16:04,088
Wu-Tang Clan!

394
00:16:04,172 --> 00:16:06,716
d Rousing upbeat music d

395
00:16:07,175 --> 00:16:08,885
ddd

396
00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,720
[man] <i>What's the kind
of relationship now</i>

397
00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:14,432
<i>between General RZA
and blue coats from Wu-Tang?</i>

398
00:16:14,515 --> 00:16:16,100
- Blue coats?
- [man] Blue coats.

399
00:16:16,184 --> 00:16:17,518
Yeah, they're like soldiers.

400
00:16:17,602 --> 00:16:19,270
At the beginnings,
you were like general

401
00:16:19,353 --> 00:16:21,939
and then those relationship,
like, changed .

402
00:16:22,023 --> 00:16:23,608
So what's the--
what's the situation now?

403
00:16:23,691 --> 00:16:25,776
All the members now

404
00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:27,236
have their own solo careers,

405
00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,571
so they--they're not
soldiers no more.

406
00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:29,780
They all generals.

407
00:16:29,864 --> 00:16:31,574
And they have their own armies.

408
00:16:31,657 --> 00:16:33,117
d <i>Dramatic string music</i> d

409
00:16:33,201 --> 00:16:34,535
I love the battlefield .
We all here.

410
00:16:34,619 --> 00:16:36,245
Shit--and we--
ain't no motherfucking game.

411
00:16:36,329 --> 00:16:37,747
I don't know
what was happening, sir.

412
00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:38,831
They were just coming
from everywhere.

413
00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:40,333
So I just started shooting.

414
00:16:40,416 --> 00:16:42,043
I didn't see the corporal
standing there.

415
00:16:42,919 --> 00:16:45,087
[Mook] <i>Once they get out
of Wu-Tang Productions,</i>

416
00:16:45,171 --> 00:16:47,089
<i>everybody's doing
they own thing.</i>

417
00:16:47,173 --> 00:16:49,050
You know, they--
they had their freedom ,

418
00:16:49,133 --> 00:16:50,218
but they still here.

419
00:16:50,301 --> 00:16:51,802
We under fire, captain.

420
00:16:51,886 --> 00:16:53,387
Get up over that obstacle!

421
00:16:53,471 --> 00:16:54,597
[Mook] <i>With
the management contracts,</i>

422
00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:55,932
<i>I never held nobody.</i>

423
00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:57,892
<i>You know, I don't want
to fuck with nobody</i>

424
00:16:57,975 --> 00:16:59,602
that don't want
to fuck with me.

425
00:17:00,436 --> 00:17:02,813
[Divine chuckles]
You killing it, Capp.

426
00:17:03,689 --> 00:17:05,733
ddd

427
00:17:05,816 --> 00:17:07,568
When I started seeing

428
00:17:08,236 --> 00:17:10,821
everyone's new managers around
at my events--

429
00:17:10,905 --> 00:17:13,991
And if we put
a Wu-Tang project together,

430
00:17:14,951 --> 00:17:18,162
I gotta split my income
with their managers--

431
00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:21,040
It created a little tension
for me.

432
00:17:21,666 --> 00:17:23,584
[GZA] <i>There was not
a collective focus,</i>

433
00:17:23,668 --> 00:17:25,836
<i>more of a individual focus.</i>

434
00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,214
So "our" became "my."

435
00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:30,049
Fucked up
a brand-new pair of Timbs.

436
00:17:30,132 --> 00:17:31,342
Most gotta do it every morning.

437
00:17:31,425 --> 00:17:32,760
N iggas is crazy.

438
00:17:32,843 --> 00:17:34,679
Any given time,
when it's necessary,

439
00:17:34,762 --> 00:17:36,514
I can pick that sign up,

440
00:17:37,181 --> 00:17:39,267
<i>and we should
all be able to gather.</i>

441
00:17:39,350 --> 00:17:40,935
ddd

442
00:17:41,018 --> 00:17:43,062
- [man] Yep.
- [indistinct chatter]

443
00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:46,357
- [camera equipment clicking]
- [man groans]

444
00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,734
[Method Man] <i>Shitjust
wasn't the same and shit.</i>

445
00:17:48,818 --> 00:17:50,945
<i>Everybody was just turned off
for different reasons.</i>

446
00:17:51,028 --> 00:17:53,573
And not exactly with
the whole Wu-Tang movement,

447
00:17:53,656 --> 00:17:56,617
but just with the business.

448
00:17:56,701 --> 00:17:58,202
[camera shutter snaps]

449
00:17:58,286 --> 00:17:59,870
We was our own worst enemies

450
00:17:59,954 --> 00:18:02,290
when it came to
destroying our own self.

451
00:18:02,373 --> 00:18:04,750
Everything that negative
happened to us,

452
00:18:04,834 --> 00:18:06,669
it was because of us.

453
00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:09,714
- [groans]
- [indistinct chatter]

454
00:18:10,131 --> 00:18:12,967
d <i>I'm so spectacular,
a Valentine's massacre</i> d

455
00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:15,052
We get a little--
got water inside, right?

456
00:18:15,136 --> 00:18:16,304
Yeah, we got water here.

457
00:18:16,387 --> 00:18:17,763
You--you done
with your juice for now?

458
00:18:17,847 --> 00:18:19,223
- [U-God] Yeah, for now.
- All right.

459
00:18:19,307 --> 00:18:21,475
[U-God] <i>I'm reading some things
from my book.</i>

460
00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:23,477
<i>And I'm putting it together,
the audiobook.</i>

461
00:18:23,561 --> 00:18:25,771
Yeah, so--
so check this out.

462
00:18:25,855 --> 00:18:28,357
We got a couple of--
a couple of spots

463
00:18:28,441 --> 00:18:31,444
that'll be fun for you to do
for this that I highlighted .

464
00:18:31,527 --> 00:18:33,195
- Take a look at that.
- Yeah.

465
00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:34,780
[U-God] Okay, I'm back.

466
00:18:34,864 --> 00:18:36,699
[man] And then we'll jump in
and we'll do it.

467
00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:37,825
Okay, I'm ready?

468
00:18:37,908 --> 00:18:39,744
[man] Yeah, yeah.
"Time is a motherfucker."

469
00:18:39,827 --> 00:18:40,911
Go ahead .

470
00:18:40,995 --> 00:18:43,080
Time is a motherfucker.

471
00:18:43,164 --> 00:18:44,081
N ice.

472
00:18:44,165 --> 00:18:46,125
Time reveals shit.

473
00:18:46,208 --> 00:18:48,336
It wears things down.

474
00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:52,256
Breaks things.
Crushes things. Kills things.

475
00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:54,050
<i>Reveals truth.</i>

476
00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:55,760
d <i>Soft dramatic music</i> d

477
00:18:55,843 --> 00:18:57,470
[Method Man] <i>Everything
goes around in a cipher,</i>

478
00:18:57,553 --> 00:18:59,388
<i>a complete 360-degree circle.</i>

479
00:18:59,472 --> 00:19:01,307
[RZA] <i>We know everything
but for knowledge--</i>

480
00:19:01,390 --> 00:19:03,225
<i>Going back to knowledge,
there is a cipher.</i>

481
00:19:03,309 --> 00:19:05,102
Yo, this is Prince Rakeem ,
the Wu-Tang slang master

482
00:19:05,186 --> 00:19:06,687
<i>with the Shaolin posse
off Staten Island.</i>

483
00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:07,980
[man] <i>When you're living it,</i>

484
00:19:08,064 --> 00:19:10,858
<i>the beginning that you might--
might be the end.</i>

485
00:19:10,941 --> 00:19:13,152
<i>Now the end
is the opening line.</i>

486
00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:16,405
I'd like to congratulate
my physical cousin Ason

487
00:19:16,489 --> 00:19:18,199
for his newborn
baby daughter today.

488
00:19:18,282 --> 00:19:20,576
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [cheering]

489
00:19:20,826 --> 00:19:23,037
- I'm in there, I'm in there.
- [both] Boom , boom , boom !

490
00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:24,705
[ODB]
<i>What things that exist</i>

491
00:19:24,789 --> 00:19:27,208
<i>within the father
exist within the babies,</i>

492
00:19:27,291 --> 00:19:28,542
<i>you know what I'm saying?</i>

493
00:19:28,834 --> 00:19:30,586
d <i>Resurrect the god
through birth</i> d

494
00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:31,921
d <i>Best believe</i> d

495
00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:34,674
[ODB] <i>People always
trying to change people.</i>

496
00:19:34,757 --> 00:19:37,051
<i>You can't change nobody.</i>

497
00:19:37,551 --> 00:19:39,804
[Cherry] <i>I don't cry
when anybody pass.</i>

498
00:19:39,887 --> 00:19:41,931
<i>Because I know
I'm gonna see 'em again.</i>

499
00:19:43,391 --> 00:19:44,892
[Icelene] Our son.

500
00:19:45,643 --> 00:19:47,436
[Raekwon]
<i>Life is too short, man.</i>

501
00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,398
<i>You know, by the time,
I don't care ifyou reach 35,</i>

502
00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:51,899
<i>it's gonna look like
a short 35 to you.</i>

503
00:19:51,982 --> 00:19:53,609
[Method Man chuckles] <i>Yeah.</i>

504
00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:55,361
[Raekwon] <i>You know what
I mean, like, yo, where</i>--

505
00:19:55,444 --> 00:19:56,487
<i>Where it all go?</i>

506
00:19:56,570 --> 00:19:58,489
- [U-God] <i>Where the time go?</i>
- [Ghostface] <i>That's right.</i>

507
00:19:58,614 --> 00:20:00,116
We here, Wu-Tang forever, man.

508
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:01,617
I'ma keep representing that W .

509
00:20:02,284 --> 00:20:04,495
<i>But we gonna be here
forever, man.</i>

510
00:20:04,578 --> 00:20:06,163
[U-God] <i>Time breaks things,</i>

511
00:20:06,247 --> 00:20:07,957
<i>crushes things,
kills things.</i>

512
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,250
See that right there?

513
00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:11,335
That's the big boy
right there, see?

514
00:20:11,419 --> 00:20:13,587
d <i>Soft dramatic music</i> d

515
00:20:14,004 --> 00:20:16,507
ddd

516
00:20:19,427 --> 00:20:21,512
[U-God] <i>Ifyou have patience,</i>

517
00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:23,639
<i>time will be on your side.</i>

518
00:20:23,723 --> 00:20:26,058
[Rae] <i>Y'all know how long
we been doing this shit.</i>

519
00:20:26,142 --> 00:20:27,226
Two years in this shit.

520
00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:28,769
My man Chef Corleone
in the cut.

521
00:20:28,853 --> 00:20:30,271
[Raekwon] <i>We plan
on being around</i>

522
00:20:30,354 --> 00:20:32,440
<i>for the next three or four years,
till the wars start.</i>

523
00:20:32,523 --> 00:20:33,733
[Method Man] <i>Even after that.</i>

524
00:20:33,816 --> 00:20:35,484
If you in the right place
at the right time,

525
00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:37,361
you be a'ight, though;
you in the wrong place

526
00:20:37,445 --> 00:20:39,572
at the wrong time,
you know what time it is.

527
00:20:39,655 --> 00:20:42,408
It's real out here.
Word to God .

528
00:20:42,491 --> 00:20:43,784
[U-God] <i>And if
you recognize</i>

529
00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:46,662
<i>how valuable time is,</i>

530
00:20:47,455 --> 00:20:50,207
<i>and ifyou know the right
time to make your move,</i>

531
00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:53,169
<i>you'll be a bad motherfucker.</i>

532
00:20:53,252 --> 00:20:54,920
ddd

533
00:20:57,548 --> 00:21:00,134
There's nothing greater
than Father Time.

534
00:21:00,217 --> 00:21:03,137
[chuckles]
That was great.

535
00:21:03,471 --> 00:21:05,556
- Just do it one more time.
- Do it one more time?

536
00:21:05,639 --> 00:21:07,057
[man] Slow and powerful .

537
00:21:07,141 --> 00:21:09,143
All right, let me get at it
one more time then.

538
00:21:09,477 --> 00:21:11,979
[Divine] <i>Nobody wants
to be reminded of their mistakes,</i>

539
00:21:12,396 --> 00:21:13,939
especially if you got away
with it.

540
00:21:15,399 --> 00:21:17,693
I haven't wrote a book
because...

541
00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:21,363
I never wanted to remind
any of us of our mistakes.

542
00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:25,743
We made it through the storm .
Why relive it?

543
00:21:26,577 --> 00:21:28,746
d <i>Gentle jazzy music</i> d

544
00:21:28,913 --> 00:21:30,998
ddd

545
00:21:33,334 --> 00:21:34,877
[Master Killa]
<i>When you hustle,</i>

546
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,129
<i>it's a big adjustment to...</i>

547
00:21:37,713 --> 00:21:40,007
leaving that life alone.

548
00:21:40,090 --> 00:21:42,635
And I was in that
transition state.

549
00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:45,095
It was just time
to do something different.

550
00:21:45,179 --> 00:21:46,931
This is where it all started .

551
00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:48,724
- Yeah.
- This is my father.

552
00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:53,562
The man who gave me life,
you know?

553
00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,231
The rest is history.

554
00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,857
[man] <i>Like, yo,
he was a good kid.</i>

555
00:21:56,941 --> 00:21:58,275
<i>Family structure, a pops.</i>

556
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,028
- Mm-hmm .
- [man] He had advantages.

557
00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:03,197
- Yes.
- [man] But simultaneously,

558
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,574
he also got caught up
in the street.

559
00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:06,659
Hey, that's life.

560
00:22:06,742 --> 00:22:08,744
Life is about change, you know?

561
00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:12,414
And it's just about
not allowing whatever it is

562
00:22:12,706 --> 00:22:14,291
not to be bigger than you .

563
00:22:14,375 --> 00:22:19,088
People will give you
different hands in life

564
00:22:19,463 --> 00:22:21,006
that aren't fair.

565
00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:22,883
They're not right.

566
00:22:22,967 --> 00:22:25,719
But you have to play the hand
that's been dealt to you .

567
00:22:26,804 --> 00:22:29,682
As long as you're in the game
and you're in that game,

568
00:22:29,765 --> 00:22:31,225
you have a chance to win.

569
00:22:31,934 --> 00:22:35,437
When you throw your hands up
and say, "Oh, well ,"

570
00:22:35,521 --> 00:22:38,399
then you've taken on
a defeatist attitude.

571
00:22:38,482 --> 00:22:40,776
That's not who people are.

572
00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:42,945
That's not who we are.

573
00:22:43,696 --> 00:22:45,489
<i>When he was a baby,</i>

574
00:22:45,573 --> 00:22:48,325
<i>I used to sing The Stylistics
to put him to sleep.</i>

575
00:22:48,409 --> 00:22:50,160
<i>[chuckles]</i>

576
00:22:50,244 --> 00:22:52,913
He was always calm .
That's his nature.

577
00:22:52,997 --> 00:22:55,624
But he needed that music
to just put him to sleep.

578
00:22:55,708 --> 00:22:57,626
<i>[chuckles]
He'djust go right out.</i>

579
00:22:57,710 --> 00:23:01,505
<i>Music has always been
our foundation in my family.</i>

580
00:23:01,589 --> 00:23:05,175
With my mother,
her cousin was Marvin Gaye.

581
00:23:05,509 --> 00:23:09,221
And we had that--that music
in the family, the arts.

582
00:23:09,305 --> 00:23:12,099
[man] So wait, Masta Killa
is related to Marvin Gaye?

583
00:23:12,182 --> 00:23:14,977
- Shh.
- [both chuckle]

584
00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:17,521
[man] So you've known this?

585
00:23:17,605 --> 00:23:18,606
Yeah, I-I've known that.

586
00:23:18,689 --> 00:23:20,024
- He knew that.
- I've known that.

587
00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:21,609
But, you know,
if I'm just saying it,

588
00:23:21,692 --> 00:23:23,819
maybe somebody might think,
oh, yeah right,

589
00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:25,321
you know, you just talking.

590
00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:28,490
Well , my mother,
her maiden name was Gaye.

591
00:23:28,574 --> 00:23:30,451
My mother's
from North Carolina,

592
00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:32,995
and my father's from Virginia.

593
00:23:33,078 --> 00:23:37,374
Which--we are direct
descendants of Nat Turner.

594
00:23:37,625 --> 00:23:38,792
[man] So wait.

595
00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:40,836
- Masta Killa. . .
- [chuckles]

596
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,422
[man] . . . is related
to Marvin Gaye...

597
00:23:43,505 --> 00:23:45,257
- and Nat Turner?
- And Nat Turner.

598
00:23:45,341 --> 00:23:47,801
[chuckles]
That's his family.

599
00:23:47,885 --> 00:23:50,346
d <i>Tender music</i> d

600
00:23:51,805 --> 00:23:54,016
[Divine] <i>My mother didn't
raise no damn fools.</i>

601
00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:57,603
<i>Her goal was to raise
intelligent men.</i>

602
00:23:58,062 --> 00:23:59,480
<i>And women, of course.</i>

603
00:24:00,147 --> 00:24:02,274
<i>I remember she said, "Boy,</i>

604
00:24:02,733 --> 00:24:04,693
<i>you can take life two ways.</i>

605
00:24:05,903 --> 00:24:08,238
You could take it
the wise way

606
00:24:08,322 --> 00:24:09,657
or the smart way."

607
00:24:09,740 --> 00:24:11,367
Now, we grew up hearing

608
00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:13,744
that a wise man learns
from what?

609
00:24:13,827 --> 00:24:15,621
Other people's mistakes.

610
00:24:15,704 --> 00:24:18,582
And a smart motherfucker
learns from his own.

611
00:24:18,874 --> 00:24:20,876
She said , "Be wise."

612
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,545
Me and my brother, it's almost
like we could've been twins,

613
00:24:23,629 --> 00:24:26,048
<i>even though
we're, uh, a year apart.</i>

614
00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:27,925
[Divine] <i>First of all,
he was my best friend.</i>

615
00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:29,927
<i>We did everything together,
you know?</i>

616
00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:33,097
<i>And as we got older,
we shared our clothes.</i>

617
00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:36,308
<i>We worked the same
little summerjobs together.</i>

618
00:24:36,392 --> 00:24:38,018
You know,
we read the same books.

619
00:24:38,102 --> 00:24:41,939
<i>And whenever I wasn't sure,
I wasn't intimidated</i>

620
00:24:42,022 --> 00:24:44,191
about asking my little brother
what he thought.

621
00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:46,026
RZA was always smart.

622
00:24:47,569 --> 00:24:49,488
Too damn smart sometimes.

623
00:24:49,613 --> 00:24:50,948
Yeah--yeah, I mean,
he was just a smart--

624
00:24:51,031 --> 00:24:52,241
He was a smart kid .

625
00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:54,743
Little big head .
[laughs]

626
00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:56,120
<i>Physically, a big head.</i>

627
00:24:56,203 --> 00:24:57,496
<i>I guess it was
his big-ass brain</i>

628
00:24:57,579 --> 00:24:59,289
<i>or something, you know,
but yeah.</i>

629
00:25:00,290 --> 00:25:02,751
<i>He played by hisself a lot,</i>

630
00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,294
when he was really small .

631
00:25:04,378 --> 00:25:05,713
As he got older,

632
00:25:05,796 --> 00:25:07,881
individuals gravitated
towards him .

633
00:25:07,965 --> 00:25:10,467
Well , RZA is
the common denominator

634
00:25:10,551 --> 00:25:11,969
between all of us.

635
00:25:12,052 --> 00:25:13,887
You know, RZA came up
with the thought,

636
00:25:13,971 --> 00:25:16,932
and then everybody
agreed with that right there.

637
00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:19,184
RZA was the savior to our--
to our universe

638
00:25:19,268 --> 00:25:20,394
or whatever
we was dealing with.

639
00:25:20,477 --> 00:25:21,812
He gave me mathematics.

640
00:25:21,895 --> 00:25:23,480
He gave this brother
mathematics.

641
00:25:23,564 --> 00:25:25,941
So it's like mathematics
is something dealing with

642
00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:27,735
knowledge, wisdom ,
and understanding.

643
00:25:27,818 --> 00:25:28,736
It's a way of life.

644
00:25:28,819 --> 00:25:30,654
Future for the Clan,
it's like you saying it.

645
00:25:30,738 --> 00:25:32,740
- Wu-Tang forever, man.
- [woman laughs]

646
00:25:32,823 --> 00:25:34,033
Word up, the future is now.

647
00:25:34,116 --> 00:25:35,951
It's like--
united we stand

648
00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:38,287
and divided
we still stick together.

649
00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:40,748
You know, that--
that's our triumph right there.

650
00:25:40,831 --> 00:25:42,583
- [Cilvaringz] On?
- [man] Yeah, we on.

651
00:25:42,833 --> 00:25:45,002
Yo, what's up?
Cilvaringz right here.

652
00:25:45,085 --> 00:25:46,879
We in the Wu Wear
storage room

653
00:25:46,962 --> 00:25:48,047
right here in Hamburg.

654
00:25:48,130 --> 00:25:50,049
Let me take y'all around .

655
00:25:50,132 --> 00:25:52,551
We got sportswear right here.

656
00:25:52,634 --> 00:25:53,802
The Wu Wear jacket.

657
00:25:53,927 --> 00:25:56,221
- [man] Wallets, man.
- Bulletproof wallets.

658
00:25:56,305 --> 00:25:59,099
Now tell me you ain't gonna get
no bitches wearing this shit.

659
00:25:59,183 --> 00:26:01,810
Look at this.
This is some old-school shit.

660
00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,979
This is the Wu Cologne.

661
00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:06,857
Wu Cologne,
I had this back in 1 995,

662
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:08,525
when I bought it--
Staten Island .

663
00:26:08,609 --> 00:26:10,194
Brothers right here.

664
00:26:10,694 --> 00:26:11,945
<i>[rapping]
I never smoke blunts,</i>

665
00:26:12,029 --> 00:26:13,739
<i>tote weight, nor bust shots.</i>

666
00:26:13,822 --> 00:26:15,324
<i>But fuck with me,
I guarantee</i>

667
00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:16,658
you'll get your neck chopped .

668
00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:18,327
Be the haunting, daunting,

669
00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:20,954
brothers won't fuck
with the Wu-Tang swordsman,

670
00:26:21,038 --> 00:26:23,415
slowly get dropped
with my Shaolin sword .

671
00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:25,000
Of hip-hop, yo, my shit drop...

672
00:26:25,084 --> 00:26:29,213
In 2004, RZA and I
both traveled to Egypt

673
00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:31,673
and spent two weeks studying
its remarkable history.

674
00:26:31,757 --> 00:26:34,218
[camera shutter snapping]

675
00:26:36,178 --> 00:26:38,138
[Cilvaringz] <i>We would ride
into the desert</i>

676
00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:39,932
<i>completely alone</i>

677
00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:42,351
<i>and have pyramids
pretty much to ourselves.</i>

678
00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:43,602
[blowing]

679
00:26:43,685 --> 00:26:45,604
[Cilvaringz]
<i>Haltway climbing</i>

680
00:26:45,687 --> 00:26:47,189
<i>the Pyramid of Cheops,</i>

681
00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:49,733
<i>we sat down
to overlook the desert,</i>

682
00:26:49,817 --> 00:26:52,486
and I said to RZA
that one day,

683
00:26:53,070 --> 00:26:54,696
we should do something
special together

684
00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:56,323
<i>that would last
through the ages.</i>

685
00:26:57,574 --> 00:26:59,952
<i>That moment in 2004,
when we sat upon</i>

686
00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:01,870
<i>maybe the greatest
work of art</i>

687
00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:03,288
<i>ever devised by man,</i>

688
00:27:03,372 --> 00:27:05,040
marks the time for me when

689
00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:07,000
this journey started .

690
00:27:07,334 --> 00:27:10,587
<i>We went back to move forward.</i>

691
00:27:10,671 --> 00:27:12,840
d <i>Ambient music</i> d

692
00:27:12,923 --> 00:27:14,925
ddd

693
00:27:15,008 --> 00:27:16,718
We felt that sonically,

694
00:27:16,802 --> 00:27:19,471
we had to travel back
to the <i>36 Chambers.</i>

695
00:27:20,722 --> 00:27:24,017
<i>I was so much into
RZA 's early work.</i>

696
00:27:24,685 --> 00:27:27,855
The gritty beats,
the obscure samples.

697
00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:30,315
<i>My production,
it's a complete mimic.</i>

698
00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:32,860
Once U pon a Time
in Shaolin,

699
00:27:32,943 --> 00:27:34,778
<i>sonically, it's kind of like</i>

700
00:27:34,862 --> 00:27:39,408
<i>a nostalgicjourney
through '93 to '93.</i>

701
00:27:39,491 --> 00:27:41,493
<i>The golden era of the Clan.</i>

702
00:27:41,577 --> 00:27:43,579
RZA told me
that most of the time

703
00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:46,373
it was just, like,
organic recordings.

704
00:27:46,874 --> 00:27:48,208
<i>People would come in</i>

705
00:27:48,292 --> 00:27:50,127
<i>andjump on a beat.</i>

706
00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:53,714
[RZA] <i>Ifyou look
at</i> 36 Chambers,

707
00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:57,009
they did not hear the album
until I completed it.

708
00:27:57,092 --> 00:27:58,927
We didn't hear it
until it was done.

709
00:27:59,011 --> 00:28:00,637
[Method Man] <i>That shit
sounded amazing to us.</i>

710
00:28:00,721 --> 00:28:02,181
It was like,
this nigga made a movie.

711
00:28:02,264 --> 00:28:04,391
That process has happened
multiple times.

712
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:07,686
Because this is
how Wu-Tang music was made,

713
00:28:08,270 --> 00:28:09,646
<i>I was going to
have to implement</i>

714
00:28:09,730 --> 00:28:12,357
<i>that same method of working.</i>

715
00:28:12,441 --> 00:28:15,277
<i>RZA just kept encouraging me,
"Just--just record.</i>

716
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,030
<i>Don't think about it too much.
Just record."</i>

717
00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:21,366
<i>It wasn't until I kind of
put it all together</i>

718
00:28:21,450 --> 00:28:23,535
<i>that we was like, "Yo.</i>

719
00:28:23,994 --> 00:28:25,787
This is--
sounds like a Clan album ."

720
00:28:27,414 --> 00:28:30,209
<i>I then personally called</i>

721
00:28:30,292 --> 00:28:32,211
<i>each Clan member.</i>

722
00:28:32,294 --> 00:28:35,088
<i>I had at least an hour phone
call with each one of them,</i>

723
00:28:35,172 --> 00:28:37,799
because it's a complex concept.

724
00:28:37,883 --> 00:28:40,594
<i>When I looked
at the art world,</i>

725
00:28:40,677 --> 00:28:42,971
<i>where Damien Hirst pieces
or Andy Warhol pieces</i>

726
00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:45,265
<i>are going
for stupendous money...</i>

727
00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:46,516
Why is music,

728
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,393
<i>that's also a work of art,</i>

729
00:28:48,477 --> 00:28:50,354
<i>not being priced as such?</i>

730
00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:51,563
Well , it's very simple.

731
00:28:51,647 --> 00:28:53,357
It's because music,

732
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,359
you can multiply it
a gazillion times.

733
00:28:56,109 --> 00:28:57,236
<i>So I'm gonna take this record</i>

734
00:28:57,319 --> 00:28:59,196
<i>and only sell one copy of it.</i>

735
00:28:59,446 --> 00:29:01,365
And we came up
with the auction idea.

736
00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:04,117
Things have value
when they are rare.

737
00:29:05,035 --> 00:29:07,788
A diamond
will always be a diamond .

738
00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:12,584
I spoke to seven
out of nine directly:

739
00:29:12,668 --> 00:29:13,543
<i>Rae;</i>

740
00:29:13,627 --> 00:29:14,670
<i>Ghost;</i>

741
00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,463
<i>Killa; Deck;</i>

742
00:29:16,546 --> 00:29:19,132
<i>spoke to James Ellis
for Meth;</i>

743
00:29:19,216 --> 00:29:20,384
<i>Domingo Neris for U-ey.</i>

744
00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:22,678
[chuckling]

745
00:29:22,761 --> 00:29:24,179
I got a call
from this kid Cilvaringz,

746
00:29:24,263 --> 00:29:25,264
and he said , "Yo,

747
00:29:25,347 --> 00:29:27,140
I'll throw you a couple Gs,

748
00:29:27,224 --> 00:29:29,643
rhyme on this beat,"
whatever, whatever, whatever.

749
00:29:29,726 --> 00:29:32,312
The album was recorded
in secret

750
00:29:32,396 --> 00:29:35,857
with the members not knowing...

751
00:29:35,941 --> 00:29:37,401
- Yeah.
- . . .the exact outcome.

752
00:29:37,484 --> 00:29:39,611
This project
was for Cilvaringz,

753
00:29:39,695 --> 00:29:43,115
for some shit he's doing
to be released in Europe.

754
00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:45,117
We would just--
just--just record , man.

755
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,494
I heard it one time.
Trash.

756
00:29:47,577 --> 00:29:48,620
'Cause it was bullshit.

757
00:29:48,704 --> 00:29:50,247
'Cause it's not a real
Wu-Tang album .

758
00:29:50,330 --> 00:29:52,708
It's like you coming to me
to get a verse from me,

759
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,126
okay, 'cause I'm giving it
to you

760
00:29:54,209 --> 00:29:56,128
at a fucking--
a bullshit rate

761
00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:57,587
<i>because you my man.</i>

762
00:29:57,671 --> 00:29:59,631
"Yeah, I'm trying to put together
this compilation, Ghost.

763
00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:01,008
A'ight, yo, Rae, we. . ."

764
00:30:01,091 --> 00:30:02,509
You know, go to Rae,
go to Method Man.

765
00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,011
So he did that shit

766
00:30:04,094 --> 00:30:06,013
over the course
of, like, five years,

767
00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:08,682
<i>and he started collecting
little crumbs and pieces</i>

768
00:30:08,765 --> 00:30:10,100
<i>from everybody.</i>

769
00:30:10,309 --> 00:30:12,811
And to everybody's dismay,

770
00:30:13,228 --> 00:30:15,439
this motherfucker
was being a scientist

771
00:30:15,522 --> 00:30:18,442
in the lab somewhere,
piecing all this shit together.

772
00:30:18,525 --> 00:30:20,610
Now you got the whole Clan
on his shit like that.

773
00:30:20,694 --> 00:30:22,070
'Cause we looking out for you ,

774
00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:24,031
<i>because you RZA 's peoples.</i>

775
00:30:24,114 --> 00:30:25,449
Yeah, I'm talking
about Cilvaringz.

776
00:30:25,532 --> 00:30:27,617
To think
that I tricked everybody

777
00:30:27,701 --> 00:30:29,244
into recording
a Wu-Tang Clan album ,

778
00:30:29,328 --> 00:30:30,662
that's just simply not true.

779
00:30:30,746 --> 00:30:33,373
They were not aware
that this record

780
00:30:33,457 --> 00:30:35,459
was gonna be this entity.

781
00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:39,004
But they was hired
to put verses

782
00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:40,714
over a track.

783
00:30:40,797 --> 00:30:41,715
Bullshit.

784
00:30:41,798 --> 00:30:44,301
If we knew
that was gonna be a Wu album ,

785
00:30:44,384 --> 00:30:45,927
some brothers would've been--
probably been like,

786
00:30:46,011 --> 00:30:48,055
"Yo, okay,
you gotta pay me this."

787
00:30:48,138 --> 00:30:49,348
Somewhere down the line,

788
00:30:49,431 --> 00:30:51,433
he came up with
this fucking idea

789
00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:53,393
to make this shit
a Wu-Tang record

790
00:30:53,477 --> 00:30:55,604
and sell it as an art piece.

791
00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:58,523
When we announced it to them
that this was the plan,

792
00:30:58,607 --> 00:31:01,234
uh, you know, everybody,
of course, agreed

793
00:31:01,318 --> 00:31:05,113
that it was, um ,
a very unique idea.

794
00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:08,950
[man] Who--who actually
got paid for the record?

795
00:31:09,242 --> 00:31:10,577
Exactly.

796
00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:12,454
[chuckles]

797
00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:14,623
d <i>Soft dramatic music</i> d

798
00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:17,834
ddd

799
00:31:17,918 --> 00:31:19,711
- [indistinct chatter]
- [spray can hisses]

800
00:31:19,795 --> 00:31:21,963
ddd

801
00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:28,845
[Raekwon] We all 'bout landed
yes--I mean, the other day.

802
00:31:35,018 --> 00:31:36,353
[Raekwon]
<i>I would say it's both.</i>

803
00:31:36,436 --> 00:31:39,731
I say art reflects culture
and vice-versa.

804
00:31:39,815 --> 00:31:41,274
<i>You gotta remember,
everything started</i>

805
00:31:41,358 --> 00:31:42,692
<i>in these areas</i>

806
00:31:42,776 --> 00:31:45,070
where a lot of things
wasn't being done at.

807
00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:48,031
<i>So we had to create
something positive</i>

808
00:31:48,115 --> 00:31:51,159
in our culture at that time
to make it big.

809
00:31:51,243 --> 00:31:52,911
Let me see the ball , kid .

810
00:31:52,994 --> 00:31:55,455
[indistinct chatter]

811
00:31:57,165 --> 00:31:58,208
[Divine] <i>You got kids out here</i>

812
00:31:58,291 --> 00:32:00,502
<i>trying to make it in sports,
but you got also</i>

813
00:32:00,585 --> 00:32:02,462
a variety of kids
that's going to school ,

814
00:32:02,546 --> 00:32:04,589
that's doing what they gotta do
and is taking--

815
00:32:04,673 --> 00:32:06,591
Taking their time out
to learn mathematics,

816
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:08,009
trying to get a education.

817
00:32:08,093 --> 00:32:09,886
That's what we trying to
bring back in the community.

818
00:32:09,970 --> 00:32:11,513
Some type of community,
that's what Wu-Tang do.

819
00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:12,514
[yelps]

820
00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:13,890
[laughs]

821
00:32:14,099 --> 00:32:15,934
[Divine] <i>Me and Raekwon
was best friends.</i>

822
00:32:16,017 --> 00:32:18,728
<i>We'd been friends
before Wu-Tang.</i>

823
00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:22,315
<i>So that's why it's so hard
for me to accept</i>

824
00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:24,568
the--the distance
between me and Rae.

825
00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:27,320
<i>Since he dropped his album,
Rae changed on me.</i>

826
00:32:27,404 --> 00:32:29,948
He's been. . . bitter.

827
00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:31,366
He's been mean.

828
00:32:31,450 --> 00:32:32,909
- My guy.
- [man] That's what's up.

829
00:32:32,993 --> 00:32:34,786
That's what's up.
Have a good night, man.

830
00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:37,080
[Raekwon] <i>I told RZA
a long time ago.</i>

831
00:32:37,164 --> 00:32:38,915
<i>I said, yo, bro.</i>

832
00:32:38,999 --> 00:32:41,168
<i>I said, "Yo,
you a good leader, man."</i>

833
00:32:41,251 --> 00:32:43,503
<i>I said, "But you ain't
a great leader."</i>

834
00:32:43,587 --> 00:32:46,715
<i>It's like, yo, man,
we a billion-dollar franchise.</i>

835
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,967
<i>And you mean to tell me
we gotta wait to hear from you</i>

836
00:32:49,050 --> 00:32:50,510
<i>to get answers?</i>

837
00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:52,220
<i>That's leadership?</i>

838
00:32:52,846 --> 00:32:55,640
<i>Leadership is when
you have everybody speaking up</i>

839
00:32:55,724 --> 00:32:58,477
<i>to endorse
what we all feel is right.</i>

840
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,020
<i>And it comes
and hits your desk,</i>

841
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:01,897
<i>and then you make a decision.</i>

842
00:33:02,856 --> 00:33:04,566
'Cause in that,
you going with the people

843
00:33:04,649 --> 00:33:07,736
on what they feel
and what they're saying.

844
00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:09,613
- [Raekwon] Oh, shit!
- [record scratching]

845
00:33:09,696 --> 00:33:10,947
What's going on?

846
00:33:11,156 --> 00:33:12,824
That means, yo, real hard ,

847
00:33:12,908 --> 00:33:14,743
make some
motherfucking noise, man.

848
00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:16,703
[RZA] <i>That's to say,
before Raekwon</i>

849
00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:18,413
<i>joined Wu-Tang,</i>

850
00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:22,042
he was down with DMD:
Dick 'Em Down Crew.

851
00:33:22,125 --> 00:33:23,293
[chuckles]

852
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,295
<i>To be identified as Wu-Tang,</i>

853
00:33:25,378 --> 00:33:27,547
<i>to be identified as it
and to accept it,</i>

854
00:33:27,631 --> 00:33:29,341
<i>was a whole process, though.</i>

855
00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:31,551
I identified it,

856
00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:35,430
and then I accepted
the individual to be that.

857
00:33:36,389 --> 00:33:37,807
[RZA] <i>The Raekwon album
is gonna be</i>

858
00:33:37,891 --> 00:33:39,226
<i>dropping July 13th.</i>

859
00:33:39,309 --> 00:33:41,061
<i>It's</i> Only Built
4 Cuban Linx.

860
00:33:41,144 --> 00:33:43,522
And the Cuban Linx
is gold , shining links.

861
00:33:43,605 --> 00:33:45,482
That's what Wu-Tang is,
you know what I'm saying?

862
00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:47,484
- Oh! Good one.
- [indistinct talking]

863
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:49,653
And my little street prophets
gonna be coming up soon.

864
00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:50,779
Word up.

865
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:53,365
- [gunshots]
- Hear the--hear the gunshots.

866
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:55,200
- Everything is real .
- [man] That's real .

867
00:33:55,283 --> 00:33:57,035
Know what I'm saying,
hear the gunshots in the back,

868
00:33:57,118 --> 00:33:59,246
so y'all see what's really going on.
Know what I'm saying?

869
00:33:59,329 --> 00:34:01,039
<i>That's where we at,
it's the jungle right here.</i>

870
00:34:01,122 --> 00:34:02,707
[rapping] I collaborate
the real and never steal

871
00:34:02,791 --> 00:34:04,084
on a professional rapper.

872
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:06,086
Even if he says that
he was dapper than Cappa,

873
00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:07,462
<i>I wouldn't stoop down.</i>

874
00:34:07,546 --> 00:34:08,672
d Hip-hop beat playing d

875
00:34:08,755 --> 00:34:10,340
d Hey, yo, I just came back
from up north d

876
00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:12,092
d Trying to see
if shit is going on d

877
00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:14,094
d And I can get my dots off d

878
00:34:14,177 --> 00:34:15,971
d A lot of emcees come
and emcees go d

879
00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:17,305
d But when me
and Masta Killa come d

880
00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:18,765
d You can't stop the flow d

881
00:34:18,848 --> 00:34:21,643
d So set those table up,
bring all of the chairs d

882
00:34:21,726 --> 00:34:24,145
d Bring us more drinks,
bring us more beers d

883
00:34:24,229 --> 00:34:26,815
d All we want to do
is just entertain the peers d

884
00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:29,859
d We been doing this shit
for 25 years! d

885
00:34:30,443 --> 00:34:32,279
d <i>Pensive music</i> d

886
00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:36,533
Me doing what I love is
what got me where I am today.

887
00:34:36,616 --> 00:34:39,619
I'm especially grateful
for the art

888
00:34:39,703 --> 00:34:41,288
and the music that I love

889
00:34:41,371 --> 00:34:44,624
that it would create a way
for me to provide for my family,

890
00:34:44,708 --> 00:34:45,667
you know what I'm saying,

891
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,711
<i>and make something
out of myself.</i>

892
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,089
ddd

893
00:34:52,299 --> 00:34:55,343
<i>Hip-hop gave us
a way to be free</i>

894
00:34:55,427 --> 00:34:56,928
<i>from the daily pressures</i>

895
00:34:57,012 --> 00:34:59,180
<i>and the social
and economic pressures</i>

896
00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:00,515
of regular life.

897
00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:02,017
This was our escape.

898
00:35:06,187 --> 00:35:07,480
<i>You know what I noticed?</i>

899
00:35:07,564 --> 00:35:10,025
<i>Like, a lot of cooks
from, like, overseas,</i>

900
00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:11,359
way better than in the States.

901
00:35:11,443 --> 00:35:12,902
It seem like
them motherfuckers just know

902
00:35:12,986 --> 00:35:14,863
how to just, like--
like--like, cook shit, like...

903
00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:16,072
[RZA] <i>Have you</i>--
<i>have you been</i>

904
00:35:16,156 --> 00:35:17,407
<i>to fucking, uh, Rousseau?</i>

905
00:35:17,490 --> 00:35:19,951
- [Cappadonna] <i>What's it called?</i>
- [RZA] U h, Rousseau .

906
00:35:20,035 --> 00:35:22,537
H is food is so good ,
even for a vegetarian,

907
00:35:22,621 --> 00:35:24,414
that after I ate, I was horny.

908
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:26,708
[U-God] <i>It's like,
traveling the world,</i>

909
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:28,084
<i>you learn a lot of shit,</i>

910
00:35:28,168 --> 00:35:29,419
<i>learn about currency.</i>

911
00:35:29,502 --> 00:35:31,171
You gotta walk around
with this type of shit

912
00:35:31,254 --> 00:35:32,464
on you ,
you know what I'm saying?

913
00:35:32,547 --> 00:35:33,923
[U-God] Like, American money
ain't shiz-nit.

914
00:35:34,007 --> 00:35:35,383
Looking like food stamps.

915
00:35:35,467 --> 00:35:38,178
It's crazy. It's crazy.
It's crazy...

916
00:35:38,511 --> 00:35:40,889
ddd

917
00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:45,226
[Cappadonna]
<i>Being able to find</i>

918
00:35:45,310 --> 00:35:48,438
<i>that hidden talent
in yourself</i>

919
00:35:48,521 --> 00:35:50,857
<i>and to be able
to create something</i>

920
00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:52,400
<i>out of nothing</i>

921
00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:55,278
<i>when all the odds
are against you.</i>

922
00:35:56,363 --> 00:35:58,365
ddd

923
00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,118
- [U-God beatboxing]
- [Inspectah] <i>That's my guy.</i>

924
00:36:02,202 --> 00:36:05,455
He used to do this shit
back in the day!

925
00:36:05,538 --> 00:36:08,875
[Cappadonna] <i>It's a culture,
you know what I mean?</i>

926
00:36:10,126 --> 00:36:11,211
It's a culture

927
00:36:11,294 --> 00:36:13,338
that was created
from oppression.

928
00:36:13,463 --> 00:36:14,547
[Inspectah Deck]
d So how you feel d

929
00:36:14,631 --> 00:36:15,757
d You know the shit is real d

930
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,426
d You throw a shout out
to Mass Appeal d

931
00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:21,221
d You know the deal ,
we in that Park H ill d

932
00:36:21,304 --> 00:36:24,516
d The hill that's Park,
it ain't safe after dark d

933
00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:27,811
d Some niggas talk shit,
they get slapped up d

934
00:36:27,894 --> 00:36:31,022
d Some niggas is slapped up
and capped up d

935
00:36:31,106 --> 00:36:33,358
d It don't matter,
we make niggas scatter d

936
00:36:33,441 --> 00:36:35,026
d When that shit air d

937
00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:36,611
d Put your hands
in the air, yeah d

938
00:36:36,695 --> 00:36:38,113
- Whoo!
- Holy shit.

939
00:36:38,196 --> 00:36:39,739
Reminisce some shit like that.

940
00:36:39,823 --> 00:36:42,742
[laughter
and indistinct talking]

941
00:36:42,826 --> 00:36:45,370
[U-God] Hold on, remember,
remember Larry?

942
00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:46,538
[rapid beatboxing]

943
00:36:46,621 --> 00:36:48,039
[laughter]

944
00:36:48,456 --> 00:36:51,209
d <i>Soft ambient music</i> d

945
00:36:51,292 --> 00:36:53,211
[Cappadonna]
<i>It was a way of life.</i>

946
00:36:54,504 --> 00:36:55,505
H ip-hop.

947
00:36:55,588 --> 00:36:57,882
ddd

948
00:37:01,803 --> 00:37:03,555
[Inspectah] <i>I'm older now,
you know what I'm saying,</i>

949
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:05,598
<i>so my whole view of everything
is a lot different</i>

950
00:37:05,682 --> 00:37:07,392
<i>from what it was
when I was young.</i>

951
00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:09,394
'Cause it's, like,
20, 25 years later,

952
00:37:09,477 --> 00:37:10,562
you know what I'm saying?

953
00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:12,564
Like, I done traveled
and seen the world .

954
00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:14,357
I just came back from--

955
00:37:14,441 --> 00:37:16,693
I was in Sofia, Bulgaria,
and shit like that.

956
00:37:16,776 --> 00:37:18,278
- So, you know. . .
- Love Bulgaria.

957
00:37:18,361 --> 00:37:20,029
- Yeah, Bulgaria's beautiful .
- Oh, my God .

958
00:37:20,113 --> 00:37:22,323
So, yeah, they treated me
like a king out there.

959
00:37:22,407 --> 00:37:24,367
But coming back here, bro,
you , like--

960
00:37:24,451 --> 00:37:26,661
What it really do, man,
it make me feel for my--

961
00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:28,663
For anybody
that's really in the struggle.

962
00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:30,248
Not like I'm out the struggle,

963
00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:33,084
but, like, for my niggas
who ain't really--

964
00:37:33,168 --> 00:37:35,044
They may not have
the talent to rap

965
00:37:35,128 --> 00:37:36,796
or--or make beats
or none of that shit.

966
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,257
Like, a lot of niggas out here
is gonna murder a lot of cats,

967
00:37:39,340 --> 00:37:40,717
so they gonna get murdered .

968
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,469
And that's just the tale
of the cycle,

969
00:37:42,552 --> 00:37:44,220
you know what I'm saying,
until something come along

970
00:37:44,304 --> 00:37:45,680
that can break that.

971
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:47,766
ddd

972
00:37:47,849 --> 00:37:49,726
Blow right on there, ah!

973
00:37:49,809 --> 00:37:51,186
[man] You don't even need
no coin tonight.

974
00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:52,771
We good , we good , boss.
We good .

975
00:37:52,854 --> 00:37:54,147
Good .
Good .

976
00:37:55,732 --> 00:37:57,776
- Oh, for real?
- [man] U h-oh. U h-oh.

977
00:37:57,859 --> 00:37:59,027
- U h-oh.
- [U-God] Are you serious?

978
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:00,403
I didn't want to mess
with nobody.

979
00:38:00,487 --> 00:38:02,363
- No.
- U-God .

980
00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:04,824
You being regular.

981
00:38:04,908 --> 00:38:06,367
Wow.

982
00:38:07,535 --> 00:38:08,578
Damn.

983
00:38:08,661 --> 00:38:10,789
- Yes.
- Don't make me cry.

984
00:38:10,872 --> 00:38:13,792
We still here, though.
We still here, though, mama.

985
00:38:13,875 --> 00:38:15,502
You know all that shit
we been through.

986
00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:18,004
All right. And you smell good
like a motherfucker.

987
00:38:18,087 --> 00:38:19,297
Damn!

988
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:22,133
She smell like--she smell like
almondy goodness.

989
00:38:22,217 --> 00:38:23,802
Mwah! Whoo!

990
00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:25,595
- Blessings.
- [laughs]

991
00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:27,472
Whoo!

992
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:29,140
[kisses]
Good to see you , though, mama.

993
00:38:29,224 --> 00:38:30,600
- Bless the Lord .
- We still here.

994
00:38:30,683 --> 00:38:31,976
- We still here.
- [man] That's right.

995
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:33,937
We still here,
that's all that matters, right?

996
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:36,439
- We still here. Yeah.
- Yes.

997
00:38:36,523 --> 00:38:38,650
d <i>Ambient music</i> d

998
00:38:38,775 --> 00:38:40,985
ddd

999
00:38:41,986 --> 00:38:44,531
[crowd chanting]
<i>No justice, no peace!</i>

1000
00:38:44,614 --> 00:38:47,784
No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!

1001
00:38:47,867 --> 00:38:50,537
- [indistinct shouting]
- No justice, no peace!

1002
00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:54,165
[chanting]
No justice, no peace!

1003
00:39:08,972 --> 00:39:11,641
- That's what--
- [indistinct shouting]

1004
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:14,853
They trying to tell me
homicide is not a murder.

1005
00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:17,480
[indistinct shouting]

1006
00:39:19,607 --> 00:39:21,234
That could have been
any--any one of us

1007
00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:23,653
at any given time, you know
what I mean, it's like...

1008
00:39:23,736 --> 00:39:26,865
Before I even started hustling,
I'm on my way to work,

1009
00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:29,409
<i>early in the morning,
I'm 1 6 years old.</i>

1010
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:31,953
I'm leaving my building.
Something must've happened .

1011
00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:35,331
I get out the elevator,
police got guns in my face,

1012
00:39:35,415 --> 00:39:37,083
and going in my pockets.

1013
00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:39,294
And then somebody coming in,
saying, "It wasn't him ,"

1014
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:41,629
and then them letting me
go about my business.

1015
00:39:41,713 --> 00:39:43,339
You don't think my rights
were violated ,

1016
00:39:43,423 --> 00:39:45,133
at least five,
six different ways?

1017
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,219
1 6-year-old .
And it felt normal .

1018
00:39:48,303 --> 00:39:50,430
And that's the fucked up
part about it.

1019
00:39:50,763 --> 00:39:52,807
[RZA] <i>When you 1 6, right,</i>

1020
00:39:52,891 --> 00:39:55,643
<i>you don't even realize
how much of a kid you are.</i>

1021
00:39:55,727 --> 00:39:58,271
<i>But when you have
a 1 6-year-old son or daughter,</i>

1022
00:39:58,354 --> 00:40:00,023
and you look at them ,
you realize

1023
00:40:00,106 --> 00:40:01,733
how much of a child
you really are.

1024
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:04,319
These policemen,
they wouldn't want to see

1025
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:06,654
one of their 1 6-year-old kids

1026
00:40:06,738 --> 00:40:10,617
be put in any situation
that our kids face every day.

1027
00:40:10,992 --> 00:40:12,285
They our kids,

1028
00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:14,662
<i>whether you want to talk
about Trayvon Martin,</i>

1029
00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:16,456
<i>a 1 7-year-old kid.</i>

1030
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,751
You know what I mean,
a grown man is up on him

1031
00:40:19,834 --> 00:40:20,919
and kills him .

1032
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:22,670
He's a kid .

1033
00:40:22,754 --> 00:40:25,757
How do you have Ernest Sayon
get killed the same way

1034
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,634
<i>Eric Garner got killed?</i>

1035
00:40:28,051 --> 00:40:30,136
- But 20 years earlier.
- In the same neighborhood .

1036
00:40:30,219 --> 00:40:32,764
It's one of those moments
where you shake your head

1037
00:40:32,847 --> 00:40:34,557
and be like, not another one.

1038
00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:37,852
- Broken record , man.
- Broken fucking record .

1039
00:40:37,936 --> 00:40:39,896
That's why it bugs me out
to hear people talking about

1040
00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:41,648
this shit so passionately
and shit

1041
00:40:41,731 --> 00:40:43,358
when it's been going on.

1042
00:40:43,441 --> 00:40:45,151
[Al Sharpton] <i>I got a call
from the mother.</i>

1043
00:40:45,234 --> 00:40:47,362
<i>She came from Liberia,</i>

1044
00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:49,948
told that this was
the land of the free.

1045
00:40:50,031 --> 00:40:52,951
- [all] Yes.
- Home of the brave.

1046
00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:56,788
And she sits now
trying to reason

1047
00:40:56,871 --> 00:40:59,540
how her son lost his life,

1048
00:40:59,624 --> 00:41:02,961
not in the hands
of official hoodlums

1049
00:41:03,044 --> 00:41:05,129
but in the hands
of official police.

1050
00:41:05,213 --> 00:41:06,339
[all] Amen.

1051
00:41:06,422 --> 00:41:08,049
[Al] <i>We must pursue justice</i>

1052
00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:10,677
<i>because Ernest could
have been any of us.</i>

1053
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,136
[all] Yes.

1054
00:41:20,603 --> 00:41:22,271
d <i>Soft ambient music</i> d

1055
00:41:22,355 --> 00:41:23,564
[RZA] <i>My brother Divine,</i>

1056
00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:25,608
<i>he could have been
a Fortune 500 guy,</i>

1057
00:41:25,692 --> 00:41:26,776
<i>you know what I mean,</i>

1058
00:41:26,859 --> 00:41:28,444
<i>if he would've just went
to college.</i>

1059
00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:32,657
<i>But he ends up with
this group of individuals,</i>

1060
00:41:33,366 --> 00:41:34,492
<i>you know what I mean?</i>

1061
00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:36,995
And he gets them out the hood .

1062
00:41:37,412 --> 00:41:40,039
<i>He had stocks set up
for brothers.</i>

1063
00:41:40,415 --> 00:41:42,500
<i>Life insurances, trust funds.</i>

1064
00:41:43,543 --> 00:41:47,213
[Divine] <i>Each year,
I'd buy a cheap property.</i>

1065
00:41:47,547 --> 00:41:50,008
<i>Now, you know ifyou bought
a condo for 30 grand</i>

1066
00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:51,718
<i>back in 1995...</i>

1067
00:41:51,801 --> 00:41:53,428
[laughs]
Come on.

1068
00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:55,722
It's worth way more
than 80 grand today, ain't it?

1069
00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:57,682
<i>By the time
you get to house five</i>

1070
00:41:57,765 --> 00:41:59,726
<i>and six and seven
and eight,</i>

1071
00:41:59,809 --> 00:42:03,021
<i>they looking at you wondering,
"Yo, how you got all that?"</i>

1072
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:05,898
I told you , every time
I give you your check,

1073
00:42:06,566 --> 00:42:07,692
I got my check.

1074
00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:10,695
I'm telling you
to come with me.

1075
00:42:10,987 --> 00:42:12,905
[RZA] <i>Wu-Tang would've owned</i>

1076
00:42:12,989 --> 00:42:15,491
<i>at least ten blocks
in Staten Island by now</i>

1077
00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:17,035
<i>with his plan.</i>

1078
00:42:18,745 --> 00:42:22,206
<i>But even ifyou had ten
city blocks in Staten Island,</i>

1079
00:42:22,290 --> 00:42:24,542
and you wasn't at peace
and you wasn't at trust?

1080
00:42:24,709 --> 00:42:26,085
You ain't gonna have shit.

1081
00:42:27,003 --> 00:42:28,421
[U-God] <i>It seems like
we've been having</i>

1082
00:42:28,504 --> 00:42:31,758
<i>the same argument
for maybe 20 years now.</i>

1083
00:42:32,675 --> 00:42:34,218
[Divine] <i>It started in '93.</i>

1084
00:42:34,302 --> 00:42:36,679
Once the <i>Wu-Tang Forever</i>
album and tour collapsed ,

1085
00:42:36,763 --> 00:42:39,015
that was not nothing
about a company's problem !

1086
00:42:39,098 --> 00:42:40,641
That was a group's problem !

1087
00:42:40,725 --> 00:42:42,769
That wasn't supposed to
stop me from working!

1088
00:42:42,852 --> 00:42:44,520
That stopped y'all
from working!

1089
00:42:44,604 --> 00:42:47,356
I-I can't do nothing
if you ain't mobilized first.

1090
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,858
You wasn't focused
on the right things working.

1091
00:42:48,941 --> 00:42:50,318
[Divine] But then
I gave you your deal !

1092
00:42:50,401 --> 00:42:51,903
Where the fuck you think
the money came from?

1093
00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:53,404
- You didn't give me shit.
- [Divine yelling]

1094
00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:54,739
You didn't give me
a damn fucking thing.

1095
00:42:54,822 --> 00:42:56,115
We a team , dawg.

1096
00:42:56,199 --> 00:42:57,533
That's all the fuck
I care about.

1097
00:42:57,742 --> 00:42:59,035
You was paying your bills.

1098
00:42:59,118 --> 00:43:00,536
You was buying
new fucking cars, man!

1099
00:43:00,620 --> 00:43:02,038
Let me ask you a real question.

1100
00:43:02,121 --> 00:43:03,873
And I want you to be
a man about it.

1101
00:43:03,956 --> 00:43:04,957
[Divine] Mm-hmm?

1102
00:43:06,125 --> 00:43:08,002
Any deal
you go sign for niggas,

1103
00:43:08,086 --> 00:43:09,754
you don't get nothing--
you don't get a check

1104
00:43:09,837 --> 00:43:12,173
written for you , personally,
for putting it together?

1105
00:43:12,256 --> 00:43:14,884
If I got a deal for fucking
$800,000--or $1 million,

1106
00:43:14,967 --> 00:43:17,762
and you gotta take fucking
whatever, whatever, that's--

1107
00:43:17,845 --> 00:43:19,055
- You got a million?
- No, no, no, no.

1108
00:43:19,138 --> 00:43:20,890
I get 200, you get 800.

1109
00:43:20,973 --> 00:43:23,184
Nah, I want
my whole fucking million.

1110
00:43:23,267 --> 00:43:26,354
In serving each other,
we became free from poverty.

1111
00:43:26,938 --> 00:43:28,856
Our loyalty to one another

1112
00:43:28,940 --> 00:43:31,484
freed our mothers from welfare,

1113
00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:34,070
and feed our kids
to this day.

1114
00:43:34,153 --> 00:43:36,280
Our children are in college.

1115
00:43:36,364 --> 00:43:38,699
When we ain't have
no fucking money,

1116
00:43:38,783 --> 00:43:40,535
- y'all came and got checks--
- Who made it?

1117
00:43:40,618 --> 00:43:41,994
Hold on, hold on,
hold the fuck on.

1118
00:43:42,078 --> 00:43:44,080
- Let's hold on for one second .
- Who made it? Who made it?

1119
00:43:44,163 --> 00:43:45,581
- That--that's real , Ghost.
- Who made it?

1120
00:43:45,665 --> 00:43:48,334
[Divine] <i>Now, would that have
been able to happen on welfare?</i>

1121
00:43:48,835 --> 00:43:52,547
<i>Could we have made all these
dramatic changes in our lives</i>

1122
00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:54,090
if it wasn't for us
coming together

1123
00:43:54,173 --> 00:43:55,675
for one common cause?

1124
00:43:55,758 --> 00:43:58,636
<i>So how did we achieve
such measures</i>

1125
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,390
<i>and then allow it
to be destroyed... for what?</i>

1126
00:44:03,724 --> 00:44:05,351
A verbal disagreement?

1127
00:44:05,434 --> 00:44:07,645
So we down here
fighting amongst each other

1128
00:44:07,728 --> 00:44:10,273
for the crumbs and shit,
because the shit is real

1129
00:44:10,356 --> 00:44:12,108
around--
around this cycle right now.

1130
00:44:12,191 --> 00:44:13,442
You had to do
whatever you had to do

1131
00:44:13,526 --> 00:44:14,861
to keep the legacy alive.

1132
00:44:14,944 --> 00:44:17,238
I'm trying to keep
a company alive.

1133
00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:18,698
It's the money.

1134
00:44:18,781 --> 00:44:19,782
There wasn't even
thinking like that

1135
00:44:19,866 --> 00:44:21,492
when the money wasn't there.

1136
00:44:21,576 --> 00:44:24,120
The money is the shit
that fucked it up.

1137
00:44:24,203 --> 00:44:25,705
[indistinct yelling]

1138
00:44:25,788 --> 00:44:27,206
[RZA] <i>When you look at families</i>

1139
00:44:27,290 --> 00:44:29,750
<i>no longer communicating
with each other,</i>

1140
00:44:31,127 --> 00:44:33,504
<i>love not seeming
to be present,</i>

1141
00:44:33,588 --> 00:44:36,465
to think
that that common energy

1142
00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:39,385
is gone and replaced by money--

1143
00:44:39,468 --> 00:44:41,262
<i>Or how Divine would say</i>

1144
00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:43,431
<i>everything he gave to Wu,</i>

1145
00:44:44,682 --> 00:44:45,766
they...

1146
00:44:47,185 --> 00:44:49,562
have stripped him of it
and gave it to somebody

1147
00:44:49,645 --> 00:44:51,522
who didn't even build it
with 'em .

1148
00:44:51,939 --> 00:44:54,400
[Divine] <i>I brought in
$4 million one week.</i>

1149
00:44:54,483 --> 00:44:56,694
<i>And I said, I got 3.2 million</i>

1150
00:44:57,236 --> 00:44:59,113
<i>for you guys to do
whatever y'all want.</i>

1151
00:44:59,197 --> 00:45:02,074
I got a phone call
the next day

1152
00:45:02,158 --> 00:45:03,576
saying that the guys said

1153
00:45:03,659 --> 00:45:05,828
I cannot have a commission
on this money.

1154
00:45:05,912 --> 00:45:08,623
I got up and RZA was like--
he walked in the office,

1155
00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:10,333
he said , "Just go, 'Vine.

1156
00:45:12,752 --> 00:45:14,545
<i>Sit on your boat, man."</i>

1157
00:45:14,629 --> 00:45:16,923
d <i>Soft dramatic music</i> d

1158
00:45:17,006 --> 00:45:18,299
"You're done."

1159
00:45:20,259 --> 00:45:21,719
I haven't been back.

1160
00:45:22,511 --> 00:45:25,181
I don't talk to them .
I don't see them .

1161
00:45:26,265 --> 00:45:28,100
And I chill
on my fucking boat.

1162
00:45:29,227 --> 00:45:31,312
ddd

1163
00:45:33,105 --> 00:45:34,273
- Thank you .
- Mm-hmm .

1164
00:45:34,357 --> 00:45:35,608
All right, so let's, uh--

1165
00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:37,902
I probably got less time
with you today,

1166
00:45:37,985 --> 00:45:40,529
so you want to get to some--
get to some meat?

1167
00:45:40,613 --> 00:45:42,240
[man] All right,
we'll jump around .

1168
00:45:42,323 --> 00:45:43,908
Take us through

1169
00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:47,662
this Wu-Tang album ,
Shkreli , all of it.

1170
00:45:48,454 --> 00:45:52,458
I think one of the big. . .
resurgence

1171
00:45:52,917 --> 00:45:56,045
in the weirdest way
of the Wu-Tang brand

1172
00:45:56,128 --> 00:45:57,421
was this single album .

1173
00:45:57,505 --> 00:45:58,714
d <i>Pensive music</i> d

1174
00:45:58,798 --> 00:46:01,801
The owner of the most expensive
album ever

1175
00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:03,219
has finally been revealed .

1176
00:46:03,302 --> 00:46:04,387
Martin Shkreli .

1177
00:46:04,470 --> 00:46:06,472
[woman] <i>Turing CEO
Martin Shkreli purchased</i>

1178
00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:08,474
<i>the sole copy
of Wu-Tang Clan's latest album</i>

1179
00:46:08,557 --> 00:46:10,518
<i>for a mere $2 million.</i>

1180
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:11,727
[camera shutters clicks]

1181
00:46:11,811 --> 00:46:13,187
[Cilvaringz]
<i>It was an open auction.</i>

1182
00:46:13,271 --> 00:46:15,064
<i>We had a variety ofpeople</i>

1183
00:46:15,147 --> 00:46:16,899
<i>that were interested
in the record.</i>

1184
00:46:16,983 --> 00:46:18,859
<i>And Martin was
one of those guys</i>

1185
00:46:18,943 --> 00:46:20,861
<i>that came to the table.</i>

1186
00:46:20,945 --> 00:46:22,613
So he ended up
getting the record .

1187
00:46:22,697 --> 00:46:24,573
- This is the Wu-Tang album .
- ["Entrance (Intro)" plays]

1188
00:46:24,657 --> 00:46:25,783
[Raekwon] <i>Welcome.</i>

1189
00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:28,536
<i>Once upon a time in Shaolin.</i>

1190
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,913
[Cilvaringz]
<i>The deal was closed.</i>

1191
00:46:31,330 --> 00:46:34,375
<i>When Martin's news leaked</i>

1192
00:46:34,458 --> 00:46:37,128
that he had purchased
the rights to Daraprim

1193
00:46:37,211 --> 00:46:41,966
<i>and upped the price
by over 5,</i> 000%...

1194
00:46:42,049 --> 00:46:43,676
This is the same guy
that paid that $2 million

1195
00:46:43,759 --> 00:46:45,803
for the only copy of
the latest Wu-Tang Clan album .

1196
00:46:45,886 --> 00:46:48,472
How you gonna go
from like $1 3 a pill

1197
00:46:48,556 --> 00:46:50,850
to fucking, like, $700?

1198
00:46:51,350 --> 00:46:52,476
Who the fuck does that?

1199
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,062
Doctors and patient groups
saying they can't access this drug.

1200
00:46:55,146 --> 00:46:56,355
Are you gonna change the price?

1201
00:46:56,439 --> 00:46:57,356
No.

1202
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:58,941
[Cilvaringz] <i>He put
a smirking face</i>

1203
00:46:59,025 --> 00:47:00,234
<i>to a scandal.</i>

1204
00:47:00,568 --> 00:47:01,569
<i>It was everywhere.</i>

1205
00:47:01,652 --> 00:47:04,196
It kind of became--
like a virus

1206
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,408
found this way to penetrate
into different bodies.

1207
00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:09,827
That guy is nothing.
He is zero, he's nothing.

1208
00:47:09,910 --> 00:47:12,455
I mean, it's disgraceful .
Go online, read this article.

1209
00:47:12,538 --> 00:47:14,457
He has no respect for life.

1210
00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:17,043
Because I know people
that passed away from AIDS.

1211
00:47:17,126 --> 00:47:19,628
It's like, you got people
that need this medicine

1212
00:47:19,712 --> 00:47:21,130
every day.

1213
00:47:21,213 --> 00:47:22,798
Then he's coming
with all this shit

1214
00:47:22,882 --> 00:47:25,760
and going on the radio,
"Yeah, I'll smack Ghostface Killah."

1215
00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:28,721
Dennis--I'm gonna call you
by your government name--

1216
00:47:28,971 --> 00:47:31,307
You're not a ghostface killer,
I'm sorry.

1217
00:47:31,474 --> 00:47:33,434
[mocking] This, that,
and the third and this...

1218
00:47:33,517 --> 00:47:35,311
Why are your goons
not as hard as mine?

1219
00:47:35,394 --> 00:47:37,396
Lift up your skirt,
mother[bleep]!

1220
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,899
But you will never see these
motherfuckers in the street.

1221
00:47:39,982 --> 00:47:41,692
You know what,
these is my goons, Martin.

1222
00:47:41,776 --> 00:47:43,611
- [chuckles]
- Where you at, Martin?

1223
00:47:43,694 --> 00:47:45,237
- Where you at, baby?
- Where are you , Martin?

1224
00:47:45,654 --> 00:47:48,366
You bought a $2 million

1225
00:47:48,449 --> 00:47:50,659
Wu-Tang album?

1226
00:47:50,743 --> 00:47:52,411
It's like, yo, man, it wasn't--

1227
00:47:52,495 --> 00:47:53,829
Nobody didn't go in the studio

1228
00:47:53,913 --> 00:47:56,123
and put a album together
for you .

1229
00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:59,001
You were just the sucker
that bought it for $2 million.

1230
00:47:59,085 --> 00:48:01,629
I mean, what do you
want to see happen here?

1231
00:48:01,962 --> 00:48:04,131
I mean, I want to see
justice be served .

1232
00:48:04,215 --> 00:48:06,384
You know what I mean,
I want Congress and them

1233
00:48:06,467 --> 00:48:08,135
to really get him ,
you know what I mean?

1234
00:48:08,219 --> 00:48:10,262
I want the courts to get him ,
because people is dying.

1235
00:48:10,346 --> 00:48:11,847
<i>And he's laughing at it.</i>

1236
00:48:11,931 --> 00:48:13,432
<i>Ijust saw the thing
on the other day</i>

1237
00:48:13,516 --> 00:48:15,601
<i>when he was in court,
he was like, he was smirking,</i>

1238
00:48:15,684 --> 00:48:17,061
<i>he couldn't answer--
he pleading the Fifth</i>

1239
00:48:17,144 --> 00:48:18,270
<i>every--every question.</i>

1240
00:48:18,354 --> 00:48:20,439
On the advice of counsel ,
I invoke my Fifth Amendment.

1241
00:48:20,523 --> 00:48:21,607
I invoke
my Fifth Amendment privilege.

1242
00:48:21,690 --> 00:48:23,025
My Fifth Amendment privilege.

1243
00:48:23,109 --> 00:48:24,568
[Trey Gowdy]
We can even talk about

1244
00:48:24,652 --> 00:48:27,530
the-the purchase of a--
is it "Wu-Tang Clan"?

1245
00:48:27,613 --> 00:48:30,324
Is that the name of the album?
Name of the group?

1246
00:48:31,867 --> 00:48:33,744
On the advice of counsel ,
I invoke my Fifth Amendment

1247
00:48:33,828 --> 00:48:35,121
privilege against
self-incrimination

1248
00:48:35,204 --> 00:48:37,373
and respectfully decline
to answer your question.

1249
00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:40,126
I am stunned
that an album he purchased

1250
00:48:40,209 --> 00:48:43,254
could subject him
to incrimination.

1251
00:48:43,337 --> 00:48:45,089
<i>Once Upon a Time
in Shaolin.</i>

1252
00:48:45,297 --> 00:48:46,924
[Method Man] "Once U pon a Time
on These N uts."

1253
00:48:47,007 --> 00:48:48,384
[Inspectah] You know?

1254
00:48:48,467 --> 00:48:49,427
Speaking for myself,

1255
00:48:49,510 --> 00:48:51,720
I don't give a fuck
about that fucking album .

1256
00:48:51,804 --> 00:48:54,515
That was never even supposed
to be a Wu-Tang album .

1257
00:48:54,598 --> 00:48:56,225
Talk about it.
See, I ain't wanna say nothing.

1258
00:48:56,308 --> 00:48:57,309
That was A1 .

1259
00:48:57,393 --> 00:48:59,103
But, you know,
we gonna leave that alone.

1260
00:48:59,186 --> 00:49:02,523
The issue is, you know,
when you--when you're a group,

1261
00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:06,318
and , um , certain things happen
to individuals in the group

1262
00:49:06,402 --> 00:49:08,362
and it reflects
on the whole group.

1263
00:49:08,446 --> 00:49:11,490
So this album , it--it did make
us look like we a circus act.

1264
00:49:11,574 --> 00:49:13,284
And I don't want
no part to that.

1265
00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:16,704
Ever since that shit
came to the table,

1266
00:49:16,787 --> 00:49:18,914
it's been like
a fucking circus,

1267
00:49:18,998 --> 00:49:20,875
you know what I'm saying,
so I agree with that.

1268
00:49:20,958 --> 00:49:23,377
If anybody can get
one individual in this group

1269
00:49:23,461 --> 00:49:25,212
to do something with them
and shit,

1270
00:49:25,296 --> 00:49:27,298
they feel like
they've accomplished something.

1271
00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:29,008
[Inspectah] That's right.

1272
00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:30,968
It's some corny-ass nigga
trying to capitalize,

1273
00:49:31,051 --> 00:49:32,470
like everybody else do, man.

1274
00:49:32,553 --> 00:49:35,264
Shout-out to Cilvaringz
Tarik Azzougarh.

1275
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:36,932
[laughs]

1276
00:49:38,809 --> 00:49:42,188
[Cilvaringz] <i>What record
goes through life in this way</i>

1277
00:49:42,271 --> 00:49:44,231
where it's a secret record
in a vault;

1278
00:49:45,191 --> 00:49:48,444
<i>it's sold to the most
hated man in America;</i>

1279
00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:52,281
<i>the FBI has to tweet
about the record;</i>

1280
00:49:52,364 --> 00:49:53,532
<i>then it goes to U. S. Congress</i>

1281
00:49:53,616 --> 00:49:55,826
<i>and is discussed in
the House of Representatives?</i>

1282
00:49:56,285 --> 00:49:59,538
It was the equivalency
of $25 million of press.

1283
00:49:59,622 --> 00:50:03,709
And it put the Wu-Tang brand

1284
00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:05,836
in a different location

1285
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,838
that it wouldn't
normally appear in.

1286
00:50:07,922 --> 00:50:09,298
[Cilvaringz] <i>We were in</i>
The New Zealand Herald .

1287
00:50:09,381 --> 00:50:11,217
<i>We were in Chinese newspapers,</i>

1288
00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:14,011
<i>French,</i>
Der Spiegel <i>in Germany.</i>

1289
00:50:14,094 --> 00:50:15,679
It was literally--

1290
00:50:15,763 --> 00:50:18,015
Everybody was talking
about this record .

1291
00:50:18,098 --> 00:50:21,060
[overlapping talking]

1292
00:50:21,727 --> 00:50:24,313
Martin Shkreli gave a very
negative spin to the whole thing.

1293
00:50:24,396 --> 00:50:25,272
You may remember the name

1294
00:50:25,356 --> 00:50:26,774
Martin Shkreli .

1295
00:50:26,857 --> 00:50:28,901
<i>Well, now a federal court
has sentenced him</i>

1296
00:50:28,984 --> 00:50:32,112
<i>to seven years in prison
for defrauding investors</i>

1297
00:50:32,196 --> 00:50:34,156
<i>out of more than $10 million.</i>

1298
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:35,157
[cell door slams]

1299
00:50:35,241 --> 00:50:36,742
[RZA] <i>Martin Shkreli</i>

1300
00:50:36,825 --> 00:50:38,953
<i>is gonna serve
seven years in prison.</i>

1301
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:41,038
<i>So he went through
the due process</i>

1302
00:50:41,121 --> 00:50:42,748
of the justice system ,

1303
00:50:42,831 --> 00:50:44,458
which usually works
for the white man.

1304
00:50:44,542 --> 00:50:45,709
Like. . .
[chuckles]

1305
00:50:45,793 --> 00:50:48,003
But in this particular case,

1306
00:50:48,087 --> 00:50:49,880
it didn't work for that man.

1307
00:50:49,964 --> 00:50:53,592
Jail is--is the farthest thing
he could have probably

1308
00:50:53,676 --> 00:50:55,844
imagined for himself,
you know what I mean?

1309
00:50:55,928 --> 00:50:58,138
And I hope he don't run into...

1310
00:50:59,306 --> 00:51:01,225
none of those Shaolin
motherfuckers up in there,

1311
00:51:01,308 --> 00:51:03,269
'cause Ghost got a lot
of cousins up in there.

1312
00:51:03,352 --> 00:51:06,146
All them might want
to make a sandwich out of him .

1313
00:51:07,856 --> 00:51:10,276
Wu-Tang Clan strikes again.

1314
00:51:11,443 --> 00:51:14,154
- The RZA, the GZA!
- [crowd] Ol' Dirty Bastard !

1315
00:51:14,238 --> 00:51:16,740
- The RZA, the GZA!
- [crowd] Ol' Dirty Bastard !

1316
00:51:16,824 --> 00:51:19,118
- The RZA, the GZA!
- [crowd] Ol' Dirty Bastard !

1317
00:51:19,243 --> 00:51:20,578
d <i>Gentle ambient music</i> d

1318
00:51:20,703 --> 00:51:22,162
[indistinct talking]

1319
00:51:22,246 --> 00:51:24,373
[Cappadonna] <i>You know,
I don't speak about ODB</i>

1320
00:51:24,456 --> 00:51:26,250
<i>as if he gone,
you know what I mean?</i>

1321
00:51:26,333 --> 00:51:28,711
<i>Because he always with us.</i>

1322
00:51:28,794 --> 00:51:29,837
...when I'm on tour
with y'all .

1323
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,297
ddd

1324
00:51:31,672 --> 00:51:33,674
[RZA] <i>Dirty's son is him.</i>

1325
00:51:33,924 --> 00:51:35,759
<i>Talk about
spitting somebody out.</i>

1326
00:51:35,843 --> 00:51:38,095
<i>This dude is his father
for real.</i>

1327
00:51:38,178 --> 00:51:40,097
- Ooh.
- Like that?

1328
00:51:40,180 --> 00:51:41,640
[man] He's a rap star!

1329
00:51:41,724 --> 00:51:43,100
That's you right there.
That's--

1330
00:51:43,183 --> 00:51:44,810
That--you came through
like, yeah, that's you .

1331
00:51:44,893 --> 00:51:47,313
[RZA] <i>You gotta remember,
"Wu-Tang Clan, "</i>

1332
00:51:47,396 --> 00:51:48,731
it's a description.

1333
00:51:48,897 --> 00:51:50,190
It means something.

1334
00:51:50,274 --> 00:51:53,736
And where it is now,
it's at the point of renewal .

1335
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:55,863
[indistinct chatter]

1336
00:51:55,946 --> 00:51:57,948
ddd

1337
00:51:58,032 --> 00:52:00,367
<i>Because our story
is a template</i>

1338
00:52:00,451 --> 00:52:01,910
<i>for a next group of men,</i>

1339
00:52:01,994 --> 00:52:03,829
not just through our music

1340
00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:07,416
but also through
our whole living of life.

1341
00:52:07,499 --> 00:52:09,418
That went hard .
That's a hard jacket right there.

1342
00:52:09,501 --> 00:52:10,502
[crowd cheering]

1343
00:52:10,586 --> 00:52:11,795
[Jimmy Kimmel]
<i>This is their album,</i>

1344
00:52:11,879 --> 00:52:13,839
<i>Enter the Wu-Tang
(36 Chambers).</i>

1345
00:52:13,922 --> 00:52:16,342
Here with the classic
"Protect Ya Neck,"

1346
00:52:16,717 --> 00:52:18,510
<i>Wu-Tang Clan!</i>

1347
00:52:18,636 --> 00:52:21,305
[cheers and applause]

1348
00:52:22,389 --> 00:52:24,141
[mouthing words]

1349
00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:25,267
[indistinct talking]

1350
00:52:25,351 --> 00:52:26,977
[man] Show time, man!

1351
00:52:27,895 --> 00:52:30,481
ddd

1352
00:52:32,816 --> 00:52:34,234
[soft chatter]

1353
00:52:34,318 --> 00:52:35,444
What's your name again?

1354
00:52:35,527 --> 00:52:37,029
Lexi .
L-E-X-I .

1355
00:52:37,112 --> 00:52:39,448
ddd

1356
00:52:39,823 --> 00:52:41,283
[U-God] <i>I cannot front.</i>

1357
00:52:41,992 --> 00:52:44,620
Motherfuckers fucked up
a lot of shit.

1358
00:52:44,703 --> 00:52:46,330
This my family, B.

1359
00:52:47,122 --> 00:52:50,584
I got my blood family,
but then I got this Wu family.

1360
00:52:50,668 --> 00:52:52,127
I got a big fucking family.

1361
00:52:52,211 --> 00:52:53,837
[chuckles]

1362
00:52:54,463 --> 00:52:55,839
<i>How many brothers can say</i>

1363
00:52:55,923 --> 00:52:57,591
<i>they been around
the same dudes</i>

1364
00:52:57,675 --> 00:52:59,635
since they was five years old ,
five, six years old?

1365
00:52:59,718 --> 00:53:02,971
And in that situation,
you gonna go through some shit.

1366
00:53:03,055 --> 00:53:06,100
But at same time, you still--
you're family.

1367
00:53:06,183 --> 00:53:08,769
[hip-hop instrumental music
plays over phone]

1368
00:53:09,103 --> 00:53:11,438
[Cappadonna] <i>We mastered
the art of hatred, so,</i>

1369
00:53:11,522 --> 00:53:13,482
<i>you know, we all
just chalk it up as,</i>

1370
00:53:13,565 --> 00:53:15,609
"Yo, it's not personal .
It just business."

1371
00:53:16,652 --> 00:53:18,195
<i>Sometime that might cause us</i>

1372
00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:19,822
<i>to go a little separate
for a minute,</i>

1373
00:53:19,905 --> 00:53:21,281
<i>but then
we know and understand</i>

1374
00:53:21,365 --> 00:53:23,033
<i>the value of the conglomerate.</i>

1375
00:53:23,117 --> 00:53:26,120
And we all want to make sure
that our business right

1376
00:53:26,203 --> 00:53:27,538
on all levels.

1377
00:53:27,621 --> 00:53:28,956
[chuckling]

1378
00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:32,334
[RZA] To economic freedom
in America, it's tough.

1379
00:53:32,418 --> 00:53:34,461
You know, we actually
are fathers that

1380
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,296
don't care how many
babies we got,

1381
00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:38,215
our babies know us.

1382
00:53:38,298 --> 00:53:39,883
- [Raekwon] That's important.
- We--yeah.

1383
00:53:39,967 --> 00:53:41,927
We not looking for our pop--
we was looking for our pops.

1384
00:53:42,010 --> 00:53:44,221
You know what I mean, we--
most of us...

1385
00:53:44,304 --> 00:53:45,514
[Raekwon]
Don't even know our pops.

1386
00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:46,974
- Yeah.
- [Raekwon] For real .

1387
00:53:47,057 --> 00:53:48,934
You know what I mean?
So we beat that.

1388
00:53:49,017 --> 00:53:50,352
[Raekwon] This is
what family's about.

1389
00:53:50,436 --> 00:53:52,062
It ain't always
about the business.

1390
00:53:52,146 --> 00:53:54,398
It's about, you know, the time.

1391
00:53:54,481 --> 00:53:56,650
And I know some brothers,
you know,

1392
00:53:56,734 --> 00:53:58,569
had--had some babies, you know.

1393
00:53:58,652 --> 00:54:00,279
- I wanna know them . I wanna--
- [RZA] Right.

1394
00:54:00,362 --> 00:54:02,614
You know, let them know that,
you know, I'm here for them .

1395
00:54:02,698 --> 00:54:05,492
And that's why
it's so important for us to...

1396
00:54:05,576 --> 00:54:07,870
recognize our business

1397
00:54:07,953 --> 00:54:09,747
as well as what we have
with each other.

1398
00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:10,706
Right.

1399
00:54:10,789 --> 00:54:14,001
We was soldiers,
now we all generals today,

1400
00:54:14,084 --> 00:54:16,837
you know, putting in
so much work and so much time.

1401
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,839
But a good general
always remembers

1402
00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:20,799
that he's still always
still a soldier.

1403
00:54:20,883 --> 00:54:22,468
[Raekwon] Still a soldier,
that's right.

1404
00:54:22,551 --> 00:54:25,012
You always a soldier.
You right.

1405
00:54:25,512 --> 00:54:27,306
You right. Yup.

1406
00:54:27,389 --> 00:54:29,558
ddd

1407
00:54:29,641 --> 00:54:32,352
'Cause it's like,
sometime we get too serious,

1408
00:54:32,436 --> 00:54:36,398
it don't be no real
love and--and brotherhood ,

1409
00:54:36,482 --> 00:54:37,858
I feel like,
you know what I'm saying?

1410
00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:40,152
Like, yo, loosen up
a little bit, man,

1411
00:54:40,235 --> 00:54:41,528
you know what I'm saying?

1412
00:54:41,612 --> 00:54:43,614
Like, let's do
some real epic shit

1413
00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:45,657
and stop fucking trying

1414
00:54:45,741 --> 00:54:47,576
to bite each other head off
all the time

1415
00:54:47,659 --> 00:54:49,328
and act like
a nigga can't smile

1416
00:54:49,411 --> 00:54:51,121
and laugh and shit.

1417
00:54:51,205 --> 00:54:54,291
You know, ain't nobody
smarter than nobody, man.

1418
00:54:54,374 --> 00:54:56,084
You know what I'm saying,
if you was smart like that,

1419
00:54:56,168 --> 00:54:57,795
you had all
the intelligence in the world ,

1420
00:54:57,878 --> 00:54:59,463
then you should be helping me
right now,

1421
00:54:59,546 --> 00:55:02,800
'cause I'm fucked up,
know what I'm saying?

1422
00:55:03,884 --> 00:55:05,093
How 'bout that?

1423
00:55:07,137 --> 00:55:08,388
Mm-hmm .

1424
00:55:13,894 --> 00:55:15,395
Who got $5?

1425
00:55:15,479 --> 00:55:17,815
[men chuckling]

1426
00:55:18,524 --> 00:55:20,067
[chuckles]
Know what I'm saying?

1427
00:55:20,150 --> 00:55:22,820
- Place is tough. . .
- [laughs]

1428
00:55:24,863 --> 00:55:25,948
[laughs]

1429
00:55:26,532 --> 00:55:28,826
d <i>Gentle music</i> d

1430
00:55:29,159 --> 00:55:31,537
[RZA] <i>When I came up
with the concept</i>

1431
00:55:32,246 --> 00:55:34,581
<i>to use Wu-Tang as a name,</i>

1432
00:55:34,665 --> 00:55:36,875
<i>I didn't know
what Wu-Tang really meant.</i>

1433
00:55:37,417 --> 00:55:38,836
I know what it meant to me.

1434
00:55:39,253 --> 00:55:41,588
[Rae] You want to know
about Wu-Tang, right?

1435
00:55:41,672 --> 00:55:43,632
All right, I feel--
I know the Clan feel

1436
00:55:43,715 --> 00:55:45,509
like Wu-Tang is something that,

1437
00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:47,636
you know what I'm saying,
that we live out.

1438
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,429
You know what I'm saying?
In our heart.

1439
00:55:50,138 --> 00:55:51,849
We said in the beginning,
the witty

1440
00:55:51,932 --> 00:55:54,643
unpredictable talent and natural game.
<i>- Unpredictable talent and natural game.</i>

1441
00:55:54,726 --> 00:55:57,229
But mathematically, it was
the wisdom of the universe.

1442
00:55:57,312 --> 00:55:58,939
But there's no Chinese word ,
really, "Wu-Tang,"

1443
00:55:59,022 --> 00:56:00,941
really, you know what I'm saying?
It's called "wudang."

1444
00:56:01,024 --> 00:56:02,985
When I finally took
a pilgrimage

1445
00:56:03,068 --> 00:56:04,528
<i>to Wu-Tang Mountain
in China,</i>

1446
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,656
<i>they defined
what the word "wutang" meant</i>

1447
00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:08,866
in Chinese.

1448
00:56:09,283 --> 00:56:11,785
I come to learn
that the word "wu"

1449
00:56:12,578 --> 00:56:16,373
is the foundation
of the universe.

1450
00:56:16,748 --> 00:56:19,084
It's called "wu chi ."

1451
00:56:20,210 --> 00:56:23,380
And "wu chi" means

1452
00:56:24,131 --> 00:56:26,300
total formlessness

1453
00:56:26,383 --> 00:56:28,594
<i>of which everything springs
out of,</i>

1454
00:56:28,677 --> 00:56:31,179
<i>which there is multiple
variations, causes,</i>

1455
00:56:31,263 --> 00:56:32,848
<i>everything we see and hear
around us.</i>

1456
00:56:32,931 --> 00:56:35,475
[Method Man rapping echoes]
<i>Everything around... round...</i>

1457
00:56:35,559 --> 00:56:38,228
ddd

1458
00:56:39,938 --> 00:56:41,690
[RZA] <i>Wu-Tang
ain'tjust a word.</i>

1459
00:56:43,066 --> 00:56:45,444
<i>You know what I mean,
it's notjust a group ofpeople,</i>

1460
00:56:45,527 --> 00:56:46,445
<i>you know what I mean?</i>

1461
00:56:46,528 --> 00:56:48,071
It's a certain energy,
in all reality.

1462
00:56:48,155 --> 00:56:50,073
That's why it was named
what it was named .

1463
00:56:50,157 --> 00:56:52,159
ddd

1464
00:56:52,242 --> 00:56:53,702
We brothers, man.
We came in this shit.

1465
00:56:53,785 --> 00:56:56,496
We started together as a group.

1466
00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:58,123
It just hit me
not too long ago, like...

1467
00:56:58,206 --> 00:57:00,167
- [chuckles]
- We--we in the group.

1468
00:57:00,250 --> 00:57:02,294
Like, if you in that group...

1469
00:57:02,377 --> 00:57:04,922
N igga, I was looking at it,
like, shit, I had a job.

1470
00:57:05,005 --> 00:57:06,506
- [Method Man] Yeah.
- You know what I mean?

1471
00:57:06,590 --> 00:57:09,635
Mm-hmm . 25 years
is a long fucking time, man.

1472
00:57:09,718 --> 00:57:11,720
Life is too short, man.

1473
00:57:11,803 --> 00:57:14,222
You know, by the time,
I don't care if you reach 85,

1474
00:57:14,306 --> 00:57:16,224
it's gonna look like
a short 85 to you .

1475
00:57:16,308 --> 00:57:18,435
- [chuckles] Yeah. Yeah.
- You know what I mean?

1476
00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:20,687
Like, whatever we go through,
we always still manage

1477
00:57:20,771 --> 00:57:24,191
to come back to the table
and still be real with it.

1478
00:57:24,274 --> 00:57:26,318
Yeah, despite all of,
you know, ups and downs,

1479
00:57:26,401 --> 00:57:29,112
it's--it's just
fucking, you know...

1480
00:57:29,196 --> 00:57:30,948
it--it's part of
the struggle, man.

1481
00:57:31,031 --> 00:57:32,407
It's part of the journey.

1482
00:57:32,741 --> 00:57:34,076
Love y'all niggas, man.

1483
00:57:34,159 --> 00:57:36,078
I love you too, man.
Love all y'all , man.

1484
00:57:36,161 --> 00:57:37,746
- I love all y'all brothers.
- [Ghost] Thank you .

1485
00:57:37,829 --> 00:57:39,706
- [Ghost] Yeah, B.
- Peace to my brothers, man.

1486
00:57:39,790 --> 00:57:41,208
Thank every one of
y'all brothers for

1487
00:57:41,291 --> 00:57:43,168
being a part of my life,
you know what I mean?

1488
00:57:43,251 --> 00:57:45,420
I feel gratitude
to y'all brothers,

1489
00:57:45,504 --> 00:57:48,215
for also--for putting
your trust in me

1490
00:57:48,298 --> 00:57:50,092
at times in your life,
you know what I mean,

1491
00:57:50,175 --> 00:57:52,386
where you didn't know
what was ahead

1492
00:57:52,469 --> 00:57:55,055
and you trusted
that I could get you there.

1493
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:56,723
So I thank you for that.

1494
00:57:56,807 --> 00:58:00,435
We walked and we got here,
actually, by coming together,

1495
00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:01,687
you know what I mean?

1496
00:58:01,770 --> 00:58:03,146
It's like you don't have to--
we don't have to--

1497
00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:05,190
None of us
have to walk it alone.

1498
00:58:05,273 --> 00:58:06,984
That's the blessing
Allah gave us.

1499
00:58:07,067 --> 00:58:10,195
I do a lot of things by myself,
as each one of us do,

1500
00:58:10,278 --> 00:58:11,279
you know what I mean?

1501
00:58:11,363 --> 00:58:13,323
And it's definitely
self-rewarding.

1502
00:58:13,407 --> 00:58:15,325
But when we move together...

1503
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,286
the world moves.

1504
00:58:18,620 --> 00:58:19,746
- Inshallah.
- Peace.

1505
00:58:19,830 --> 00:58:21,790
- It's been fun.
- Cha-cha-cha.

1506
00:58:21,873 --> 00:58:23,375
- Church.
- Yeah.

1507
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:25,711
Next Wu album
we gonna auction for 1 0 mil .

1508
00:58:25,794 --> 00:58:27,671
- 1 0 mil .
- Oh, yo, hold on.

1509
00:58:27,754 --> 00:58:29,631
That'll be dope, right?

1510
00:58:29,715 --> 00:58:31,842
- The real one.
- Real one, right?

1511
00:58:31,925 --> 00:58:33,343
d <i>Wu-Tang Clan's
"C.R.E.A.M. '</i>' d

1512
00:58:33,427 --> 00:58:35,303
- Photo time.
- Ah, shit.

1513
00:58:35,429 --> 00:58:36,471
[indistinct chatter]

1514
00:58:36,555 --> 00:58:38,557
[Meth] d <i>Dollar,
dollar bills, y'all</i> d

1515
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:40,308
[Rae] d <i>I grew up
on the crime side</i> d

1516
00:58:40,392 --> 00:58:41,727
d <i>The</i> New York Times <i>side</i> d

1517
00:58:41,810 --> 00:58:43,645
d <i>Staying alive was no jive</i> d

1518
00:58:43,729 --> 00:58:46,606
d <i>Had secondhands,
Mom's bounced on old man</i> d

1519
00:58:46,690 --> 00:58:48,608
d <i>So then we moved
to Shaolin land</i> d

1520
00:58:48,692 --> 00:58:51,069
d <i>A young youth,
yo, rockin' the gold tooth</i> d

1521
00:58:51,153 --> 00:58:53,572
d <i>'Lo goose, only way
I begin the G off</i> d

1522
00:58:53,655 --> 00:58:55,282
d <i>Was drug loot,
and let's start it</i> d

1523
00:58:55,365 --> 00:58:57,659
d <i>Like this, son,
rolling with this one</i> d

1524
00:58:57,743 --> 00:58:59,995
d <i>And that one,
pullin' out gats for fun</i> d

1525
00:59:00,078 --> 00:59:03,623
d <i>But it was just a dream
for the teen who was a fiend</i> d

1526
00:59:03,707 --> 00:59:05,292
d <i>Started smokin' woolas
at 1 6</i> d

1527
00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:06,960
d <i>And runnin' up in gates</i> d

1528
00:59:07,044 --> 00:59:08,545
d <i>And doin' hits
for high stakes</i> d

1529
00:59:08,628 --> 00:59:10,756
d <i>Makin' my way
on fire escapes</i> d

1530
00:59:10,839 --> 00:59:13,633
d <i>No question I would speed
for cracks and weed</i> d

1531
00:59:13,717 --> 00:59:16,053
d <i>The combination
made my eyes bleed</i> d

1532
00:59:16,136 --> 00:59:19,014
d <i>No question I would flow off
and try to get the dough all</i> d

1533
00:59:19,097 --> 00:59:21,349
d <i>Stickin' up white boys
in ball courts</i> d

1534
00:59:21,683 --> 00:59:24,519
d <i>My life got no better,
same damn 'Lo sweater</i> d

1535
00:59:24,603 --> 00:59:26,521
d <i>Times is rough and tough
like leather</i> d

1536
00:59:26,605 --> 00:59:28,565
d <i>Figured out
I went the wrong route</i> d

1537
00:59:31,565 --> 00:59:35,565
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