1 00:00:36,208 --> 00:00:39,709 [swishing sword noises] 2 00:00:45,250 --> 00:00:48,125 [birds singing] 3 00:00:50,083 --> 00:00:53,959 [swishing sword noises] 4 00:00:54,041 --> 00:00:55,667 [man chuckles] 5 00:00:55,750 --> 00:00:57,208 [man] Do you think your Wu-Tang sword 6 00:00:57,291 --> 00:00:58,500 can defeat me? 7 00:00:58,583 --> 00:01:00,417 [RZA] The best sword style 8 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:01,834 that I've ever witnessed 9 00:01:01,917 --> 00:01:03,333 in a martial art film 10 00:01:03,417 --> 00:01:04,834 was the Wu-Tang sword. 11 00:01:04,917 --> 00:01:06,500 [sword swishing noises] 12 00:01:06,583 --> 00:01:08,417 [man] If what you say is true, 13 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:11,542 the Shaolin and the Wu Tang could be dangerous. 14 00:01:11,625 --> 00:01:13,083 [fighting noises] 15 00:01:13,166 --> 00:01:16,458 [RZA] Yo, I got this idea 16 00:01:16,542 --> 00:01:19,333 of the Wu-Tang Clan. 17 00:01:19,417 --> 00:01:21,959 ♪ ambient music ♪ 18 00:01:22,041 --> 00:01:24,375 Some of the best MCs 19 00:01:24,458 --> 00:01:26,166 that I've heard 20 00:01:26,250 --> 00:01:27,709 are the homies I hang with, 21 00:01:27,792 --> 00:01:29,417 my peers. 22 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:30,709 They was different, yo. 23 00:01:30,792 --> 00:01:32,583 ♪ Overachiever ♪ 24 00:01:32,667 --> 00:01:34,542 ♪ Power-hungry overeater ♪ 25 00:01:34,625 --> 00:01:37,291 ♪ I-95, whip fly like an overseer ♪ 26 00:01:37,375 --> 00:01:39,667 ♪ I'm overconfident but some might say I'm overeager ♪ 27 00:01:39,750 --> 00:01:42,500 ♪ Or over-zealous, especially when it's over cheeba ♪ 28 00:01:42,583 --> 00:01:43,875 [RZA] It was something that only Staten Island 29 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,250 had developed. 30 00:01:46,333 --> 00:01:49,125 I named it the Wu-Tang slang. 31 00:01:49,208 --> 00:01:50,458 ♪♪♪ 32 00:01:50,542 --> 00:01:52,208 ♪ What's the deal, Conrad ♪ 33 00:01:52,291 --> 00:01:56,542 [RZA] Wu-tang became the style 34 00:01:56,625 --> 00:01:57,583 that identified 35 00:01:57,667 --> 00:02:01,375 the best MCs. 36 00:02:01,458 --> 00:02:02,834 Method Man, Inspectah Deck, 37 00:02:02,917 --> 00:02:04,667 Raekwon, "The Chef." 38 00:02:04,750 --> 00:02:05,709 U-God, Ghostface Killah, 39 00:02:05,792 --> 00:02:07,000 Cappadonna, 40 00:02:07,083 --> 00:02:08,250 Ol' Dirty Bastard, 41 00:02:08,333 --> 00:02:09,667 the GZA, the RZA. 42 00:02:09,750 --> 00:02:11,083 Masta Killa. 43 00:02:11,166 --> 00:02:14,458 ♪♪♪ 44 00:02:14,542 --> 00:02:16,667 25 years is a long time. 45 00:02:16,750 --> 00:02:18,625 ♪♪♪ 46 00:02:18,709 --> 00:02:21,083 Even through all the troubles that we may have 47 00:02:21,166 --> 00:02:22,041 amongst each other, 48 00:02:22,125 --> 00:02:24,417 cause each other, 49 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:26,208 at any given time, 50 00:02:26,291 --> 00:02:27,917 when we come back together, 51 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 there's a goodness of energy. 52 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:30,917 [woman] Drinks? 53 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,500 Look at these. 54 00:02:33,583 --> 00:02:35,208 [indistinct chatter] 55 00:02:35,291 --> 00:02:36,458 [laughs] 56 00:02:36,542 --> 00:02:38,166 [laughter] 57 00:02:38,250 --> 00:02:39,792 It's sick. Know what I mean? 58 00:02:39,875 --> 00:02:40,917 [RZA] Wu-Tang-- 59 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,500 We started with camaraderie 60 00:02:42,583 --> 00:02:44,208 and brotherhood. 61 00:02:44,291 --> 00:02:46,083 ♪♪♪ 62 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:47,041 That's how I saw it, and that's nothing 63 00:02:47,125 --> 00:02:49,500 to do with business, yo. 64 00:02:49,583 --> 00:02:51,959 The only way it makes sense is in brotherhood, 65 00:02:52,041 --> 00:02:54,875 and that's what we proclaim. 66 00:02:54,959 --> 00:02:57,625 ♪ jaunty music ♪ 67 00:02:57,709 --> 00:02:59,125 ♪♪♪ 68 00:02:59,208 --> 00:03:00,875 [man] Brothers of the Shaolin. 69 00:03:00,959 --> 00:03:03,208 Wu-Tang Clan strikes again. 70 00:03:03,291 --> 00:03:04,625 The RZA! The GZA! 71 00:03:04,709 --> 00:03:06,500 [crowd chants] Ol' Dirty Bastard! 72 00:03:06,583 --> 00:03:08,000 ♪ Inspectah Deck Raekwon the Chef ♪ 73 00:03:08,083 --> 00:03:10,458 ♪ U-God, Cappadonna ♪ 74 00:03:10,542 --> 00:03:12,542 ♪ Masta Killa, Ghostface Killah ♪ 75 00:03:12,625 --> 00:03:17,458 ♪♪♪ 76 00:03:21,041 --> 00:03:21,959 [man] Clan means family. 77 00:03:22,041 --> 00:03:23,083 These are my brothers. 78 00:03:23,166 --> 00:03:28,250 ♪♪♪ 79 00:03:29,458 --> 00:03:31,208 [ODB] You have to start from the bottom 80 00:03:31,291 --> 00:03:33,166 in order to get to the top. Know what I'm saying? 81 00:03:33,250 --> 00:03:34,709 And once you get to the top, 82 00:03:34,792 --> 00:03:37,166 once you get to the top, 83 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:39,208 there's only one way to go. 84 00:03:39,291 --> 00:03:40,250 [man] These young motherfuckers 85 00:03:40,333 --> 00:03:42,166 from Staten Island, New York, 86 00:03:42,250 --> 00:03:45,000 had captured the world. 87 00:03:45,083 --> 00:03:47,750 ♪♪♪ 88 00:03:49,041 --> 00:03:51,417 [indistinct chatter] 89 00:03:54,875 --> 00:03:56,625 [man chuckles] 90 00:03:58,083 --> 00:04:00,750 ♪ haunting rap instrumental background ♪ 91 00:04:00,834 --> 00:04:05,959 ♪♪♪ 92 00:04:06,750 --> 00:04:09,083 [RZA] The thing, I think, that made us different 93 00:04:09,166 --> 00:04:11,208 was the experiences that we'd been through. 94 00:04:11,291 --> 00:04:12,333 ♪♪♪ 95 00:04:12,417 --> 00:04:13,792 [U-God] We was poor, 96 00:04:13,875 --> 00:04:14,959 looking for a way. 97 00:04:15,041 --> 00:04:18,417 ♪♪♪ 98 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:20,291 [Ghostface Killah] From where I came from... 99 00:04:20,375 --> 00:04:21,542 Which--which way to on stage? 100 00:04:21,625 --> 00:04:23,041 - This way? - Sure. 101 00:04:23,125 --> 00:04:25,750 I'm grateful for everything. 102 00:04:25,834 --> 00:04:26,542 It was rough. 103 00:04:26,625 --> 00:04:27,875 [grunts] 104 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:29,667 Hiya! 105 00:04:29,750 --> 00:04:30,750 [Ghostface Killah] I'm from the era where 106 00:04:30,834 --> 00:04:32,792 you're gonna get robbed. 107 00:04:32,875 --> 00:04:35,041 [man] Cot era. 108 00:04:35,125 --> 00:04:37,625 Lawless. 109 00:04:37,709 --> 00:04:39,750 Motherfuckers will punch you in your face for your shit. 110 00:04:40,542 --> 00:04:41,792 [man] It was a nightmare, you know, 111 00:04:41,875 --> 00:04:42,625 but at the same time, 112 00:04:42,709 --> 00:04:43,709 it was home. 113 00:04:43,792 --> 00:04:45,834 ♪♪♪ 114 00:04:45,917 --> 00:04:48,166 ♪ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with ♪ 115 00:04:48,250 --> 00:04:50,709 ♪ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with ♪ 116 00:04:50,792 --> 00:04:53,250 ♪ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with ♪ 117 00:04:53,333 --> 00:04:54,917 ♪ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with ♪ 118 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,166 [RZA] The Bible said 119 00:04:57,250 --> 00:04:59,208 that when the son of man returns, 120 00:04:59,291 --> 00:05:01,500 out of his mouth will come 121 00:05:01,583 --> 00:05:03,041 a double-edged sword. 122 00:05:03,125 --> 00:05:05,291 Our tongue is our sword. 123 00:05:05,375 --> 00:05:07,291 ♪ I be tossing, enforcing, my style is awesome ♪ 124 00:05:07,375 --> 00:05:09,834 ♪ Causing more family feuds than Richard Dawson ♪ 125 00:05:09,917 --> 00:05:12,583 - ♪ And the survey say ♪ - ♪ You're dead ♪ 126 00:05:12,667 --> 00:05:15,208 ♪ The Fatal Flying Guillotine chops off your fucking head ♪ 127 00:05:15,291 --> 00:05:16,250 ♪ Mister, who was that? ♪ 128 00:05:16,333 --> 00:05:18,458 ♪ Hey, yo, the Wu is back ♪ 129 00:05:18,542 --> 00:05:20,083 ♪ Making niggas go "Bo Bo!" Like I'm Super Cat ♪ 130 00:05:20,166 --> 00:05:22,125 ♪ Me fear no one oh, no, here come ♪ 131 00:05:22,208 --> 00:05:24,750 ♪ Wu-Tang shogun, killer to the eardrum ♪ 132 00:05:24,834 --> 00:05:26,041 ♪ Put the needle to the groove, I gets rude ♪ 133 00:05:26,125 --> 00:05:28,041 ♪ Forced to fuck it up ♪ 134 00:05:28,125 --> 00:05:30,083 ♪ My style carries like a pickup truck ♪ 135 00:05:30,166 --> 00:05:32,000 ♪ 'Cross the clear blue yonder, sea to shining sea ♪ 136 00:05:32,083 --> 00:05:34,333 ♪ I slam tracks like quarterback sacks of LT ♪ 137 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:36,667 ♪ So why try and test the Rebel INS ♪ 138 00:05:36,750 --> 00:05:39,125 ♪ Blessed since the birth, I earth-slam your best ♪ 139 00:05:39,208 --> 00:05:41,417 ♪ 'Cause I bake the cake, then take the cake ♪ 140 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:42,500 ♪ And eat it too, with my crew ♪ 141 00:05:42,583 --> 00:05:43,709 ♪ We head state to state ♪ 142 00:05:43,792 --> 00:05:45,083 ♪ If you want beef ♪ 143 00:05:45,166 --> 00:05:46,917 ♪ Then bring the ruckus ♪ 144 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,375 ♪ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with ♪ 145 00:05:49,458 --> 00:05:50,458 I was like, "What? What is this? 146 00:05:50,542 --> 00:05:51,625 Who are these people? 147 00:05:51,709 --> 00:05:52,667 Why are they like superheroes 148 00:05:52,750 --> 00:05:53,875 that can rap?" 149 00:05:53,959 --> 00:05:54,750 It was just unlike anything 150 00:05:54,834 --> 00:05:55,709 I'd ever seen. 151 00:05:55,792 --> 00:05:56,917 I was like, "Yo, what-- 152 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,250 what is this?" 153 00:05:58,333 --> 00:06:00,041 ♪ The Meth will come out ♪ 154 00:06:00,125 --> 00:06:02,041 ♪ Tomorrow ♪ 155 00:06:02,125 --> 00:06:03,875 ♪ Styles, conditions bizarre, bizarro ♪ 156 00:06:03,959 --> 00:06:05,834 ♪ Flow with more afro than Rollo ♪ 157 00:06:05,917 --> 00:06:07,250 ♪ Coming to a fork in the road ♪ 158 00:06:07,333 --> 00:06:09,375 ♪ Which way to go just follow ♪ 159 00:06:09,458 --> 00:06:11,375 ♪ Meth is the legend niggas is Sleepy Hollow ♪ 160 00:06:11,458 --> 00:06:13,125 ♪ In fact, I'm a hard act to follow ♪ 161 00:06:13,208 --> 00:06:14,208 ♪ I dealt for dolo ♪ 162 00:06:14,291 --> 00:06:16,083 ♪ Bogart coming on through ♪ 163 00:06:16,166 --> 00:06:17,834 ♪ Niggas is like, "Oh, my God, not you!" ♪ 164 00:06:17,917 --> 00:06:18,875 [Bobbito] Like, "Yo, what the hell 165 00:06:18,959 --> 00:06:20,083 is that shit?" 166 00:06:20,166 --> 00:06:21,417 I'm like, "I don't know." 167 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:22,917 You hear about these dudes that roll up 168 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,083 like, 100 deep everywhere. 169 00:06:25,166 --> 00:06:26,667 [man] The lights went out, 170 00:06:26,750 --> 00:06:28,041 and all of a sudden you hear, "Suu!" 171 00:06:28,125 --> 00:06:30,917 [all hollering] 172 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,333 You hear a [sibilant sound] 173 00:06:32,417 --> 00:06:33,458 You're like, "What was that?" 174 00:06:33,542 --> 00:06:35,542 [laughs] What's going on? 175 00:06:35,625 --> 00:06:37,166 These girls in the front, they got it. 176 00:06:37,250 --> 00:06:38,834 Everybody else was like, 177 00:06:38,917 --> 00:06:40,667 "What just happened?" 178 00:06:40,750 --> 00:06:43,667 ♪ calm orchestral music ♪ 179 00:06:43,750 --> 00:06:48,542 ♪♪♪ 180 00:06:48,625 --> 00:06:50,709 [Raekwon] Wow. 181 00:06:50,792 --> 00:06:52,583 I think I've seen, probably, The Wizard of Oz 182 00:06:52,667 --> 00:06:54,125 or some shit here. 183 00:06:54,208 --> 00:06:55,750 It be years, though. 184 00:06:55,834 --> 00:06:56,834 Look good, though. 185 00:06:56,917 --> 00:06:57,750 Look good. 186 00:06:57,834 --> 00:06:59,041 ♪♪♪ 187 00:06:59,125 --> 00:07:01,417 - What up, yo? - It's good, Rae. 188 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:03,166 [Method Man] Only time we basically see each other now 189 00:07:03,250 --> 00:07:05,208 is at shows or the studio, 190 00:07:05,291 --> 00:07:06,709 if the studio. 191 00:07:06,792 --> 00:07:09,041 ♪♪♪ 192 00:07:09,125 --> 00:07:11,125 This the Batcave. 193 00:07:11,208 --> 00:07:13,083 [Method Man] But, see, 194 00:07:13,166 --> 00:07:16,709 when we all in the same room, 195 00:07:16,792 --> 00:07:18,542 and you really genuinely miss this motherfucker 196 00:07:18,625 --> 00:07:20,208 because of the lack of communication, 197 00:07:20,291 --> 00:07:21,959 because, you know, 198 00:07:22,041 --> 00:07:23,166 dudes don't hang out with each other 199 00:07:23,250 --> 00:07:25,417 and shit like that, 200 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:27,333 all that shit go right out the window. 201 00:07:27,417 --> 00:07:29,625 I mean, you don't even think about it no more. 202 00:07:30,625 --> 00:07:32,792 both: Ah! 203 00:07:32,875 --> 00:07:34,208 [indistinct chatter] 204 00:07:34,291 --> 00:07:35,333 Ah, you smell good, Chef. 205 00:07:35,417 --> 00:07:37,333 You know how it goes. 206 00:07:37,417 --> 00:07:38,834 Ah! 207 00:07:38,917 --> 00:07:41,041 [Raekwon] What's going down? 208 00:07:41,125 --> 00:07:44,000 ♪♪♪ 209 00:07:44,083 --> 00:07:46,750 Love you too, dog. No doubt. 210 00:07:47,458 --> 00:07:49,041 ♪ I'm hood, like the C ♪ 211 00:07:49,125 --> 00:07:51,125 ♪ On my hood, call me the champion ♪ 212 00:07:51,208 --> 00:07:53,166 ♪ They say we wildin' out in these streets ♪ 213 00:07:53,250 --> 00:07:55,667 ♪ We popping cannons in that heat, peel 'em ♪ 214 00:07:55,750 --> 00:07:57,583 ♪ Put 'em to sleep like popping Ambien ♪ 215 00:07:57,667 --> 00:07:59,291 ♪ Rappers having panic attacks ♪ 216 00:07:59,375 --> 00:08:00,959 ♪ Go pop a Xanny then ♪ 217 00:08:01,041 --> 00:08:02,375 ♪ We pop up everywhere that you at ♪ 218 00:08:02,458 --> 00:08:04,375 ♪ We'll pop your family then ♪ 219 00:08:04,458 --> 00:08:06,208 ♪ Wu block real and you're not ♪ 220 00:08:06,291 --> 00:08:07,250 ♪ Make you a fan again ♪ 221 00:08:07,333 --> 00:08:09,083 ♪ Turn around like Tupac ♪ 222 00:08:09,166 --> 00:08:10,417 ♪ Spit it right at the cameraman ♪ 223 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:11,583 ♪ Method Man handle them ♪ 224 00:08:11,667 --> 00:08:12,792 ♪ No strings, no mandolin ♪ 225 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:14,709 ♪ I spit the gutter ♪ 226 00:08:14,792 --> 00:08:15,792 ♪ No st-st-stuttering, stammering ♪ 227 00:08:15,875 --> 00:08:17,458 ♪ Touch of tamarind ♪ 228 00:08:17,542 --> 00:08:18,375 ♪ With my group we be samplin' ♪ 229 00:08:18,458 --> 00:08:19,542 ♪ A-d-d-d-d undisputed ♪ 230 00:08:19,625 --> 00:08:21,041 ♪ Call me the champion ♪ 231 00:08:21,125 --> 00:08:22,542 [man] Method Man. 232 00:08:22,625 --> 00:08:24,583 Nobody had his cadence, 233 00:08:24,667 --> 00:08:26,417 his flow. It was unique, original. 234 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:28,542 Colin Kaep might take a knee. 235 00:08:28,625 --> 00:08:29,959 I need action figure. 236 00:08:30,041 --> 00:08:31,208 That where I'm at 237 00:08:31,291 --> 00:08:33,250 we take a knee just to cap a nigga. 238 00:08:33,333 --> 00:08:34,834 I hear you rappers-- 239 00:08:34,917 --> 00:08:35,458 "Take a knee just to cap a nigga." That's nice. 240 00:08:35,542 --> 00:08:36,959 Yeah. 241 00:08:37,041 --> 00:08:38,125 [Method Man] I still write my rhymes 242 00:08:38,208 --> 00:08:39,375 to impress these dudes here. 243 00:08:39,458 --> 00:08:40,959 I know if they like it, 244 00:08:41,041 --> 00:08:42,667 my shit official. 245 00:08:42,750 --> 00:08:44,500 ♪ The rhythm of the rhyme that I throw ♪ 246 00:08:44,583 --> 00:08:46,542 ♪ Is from the island, wilin' ♪ 247 00:08:46,625 --> 00:08:48,500 ♪ Brothers need to stay out from Shaolin ♪ 248 00:08:48,583 --> 00:08:50,875 ♪ I feel it's real for my peeps to be taught ♪ 249 00:08:50,959 --> 00:08:52,834 ♪ That all my rhymes originated ♪ 250 00:08:52,917 --> 00:08:54,834 ♪ From a goddamn thought ♪ 251 00:08:54,917 --> 00:08:57,291 ♪ Shimmy, shimmy on shimmy yam, shimmy yay ♪ 252 00:08:57,375 --> 00:08:59,333 ♪ Gimme the mic so I can take it away ♪ 253 00:08:59,417 --> 00:09:00,750 ♪ Adapt to the sound ♪ 254 00:09:00,834 --> 00:09:02,875 ♪ That rocks a ghetto blaster ♪ 255 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,458 ♪ Pop Glocks to set up shop like newscasters ♪ 256 00:09:04,542 --> 00:09:05,917 ♪ Radioactive rhyme ♪ 257 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,125 [Ghostface Killah] I learned my flows 258 00:09:07,208 --> 00:09:08,208 from the rest of the clan. 259 00:09:08,291 --> 00:09:10,166 RZ, Dirt, Rae. 260 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:13,250 I'm just a product of them. 261 00:09:13,333 --> 00:09:14,500 [RZA] Ghost-faced killer 262 00:09:14,583 --> 00:09:17,333 was the most dangerous villain 263 00:09:17,417 --> 00:09:19,375 to ever hit the movie screen. 264 00:09:19,458 --> 00:09:21,125 - Ghost-faced killer! - [evil laugh] 265 00:09:21,208 --> 00:09:23,375 [RZA] And I felt that Ghostface energy 266 00:09:23,458 --> 00:09:25,709 was that character. 267 00:09:25,792 --> 00:09:26,834 Just the vibe alone 268 00:09:26,917 --> 00:09:27,667 around that time. 269 00:09:27,750 --> 00:09:28,667 You know what I mean? 270 00:09:28,750 --> 00:09:30,875 Just the spirit was good. 271 00:09:30,959 --> 00:09:32,750 That was the beginning of the-- 272 00:09:32,834 --> 00:09:34,959 the journey. 273 00:09:35,041 --> 00:09:37,083 Right? 274 00:09:37,166 --> 00:09:39,041 [Cappadonna] We did everything together. 275 00:09:39,125 --> 00:09:40,125 Like, our mothers 276 00:09:40,208 --> 00:09:42,000 know each other. 277 00:09:42,083 --> 00:09:44,083 Know what I'm saying? Some of-- 278 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:45,542 no, I don't know if our pops know each other. 279 00:09:45,625 --> 00:09:47,083 Shit, where we come from, 280 00:09:47,166 --> 00:09:48,250 most of us come 281 00:09:48,333 --> 00:09:49,750 from broken homes 282 00:09:49,834 --> 00:09:51,333 and shit like-- Know what I'm saying? 283 00:09:51,417 --> 00:09:52,959 [Cappadonna] Like, yo, 284 00:09:53,041 --> 00:09:54,792 that's how far we go back. 285 00:09:54,875 --> 00:09:56,375 [Cappadonna] That's the real glue behind this shit. 286 00:09:56,458 --> 00:09:59,000 Know what I'm saying? 287 00:09:59,083 --> 00:10:00,875 ♪ hip-hop music ♪ 288 00:10:00,959 --> 00:10:02,959 [Raekwon] This is where we live at, man. 289 00:10:03,041 --> 00:10:04,125 You know what I'm saying? 290 00:10:04,208 --> 00:10:06,041 It's the Wu-Tang monument 291 00:10:06,125 --> 00:10:07,625 right here, y'all. 292 00:10:07,709 --> 00:10:09,542 [RZA] Raekwon the Chef. 293 00:10:09,625 --> 00:10:11,500 You know, Raekwon is, like, the street's 294 00:10:11,583 --> 00:10:13,041 elegance. 295 00:10:13,125 --> 00:10:14,291 This say 2 Cent, 296 00:10:14,375 --> 00:10:15,291 and this say "Case" 297 00:10:15,375 --> 00:10:16,875 right there, right? 298 00:10:16,959 --> 00:10:18,458 [Raekwon] So you see all the names. 299 00:10:18,542 --> 00:10:19,917 Them my other brothers who passed away 300 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,709 that we ain't forget about, you know? 301 00:10:22,792 --> 00:10:24,667 But they still lie in our heart, y'know I'm saying? 302 00:10:24,750 --> 00:10:26,959 [RZA] I always felt that Raekwon 303 00:10:27,041 --> 00:10:29,500 had one of the best voices in the Wu-Tang Clan, 304 00:10:29,583 --> 00:10:31,458 and once he got on the track, 305 00:10:31,542 --> 00:10:34,000 for some reason, it sounded like a record. 306 00:10:34,083 --> 00:10:36,875 ♪ It started off on the island, AKA Shaolin ♪ 307 00:10:36,959 --> 00:10:39,834 ♪ Niggas wilin', gunshots thrown, the phone dialing ♪ 308 00:10:39,917 --> 00:10:42,041 ♪ Back in the days, I'm eight now ♪ 309 00:10:42,125 --> 00:10:44,208 ♪ Making a tape now, Rae gotta get a plate now ♪ 310 00:10:44,291 --> 00:10:47,417 ♪ And ignorant and mad young wanted to be the one ♪ 311 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:49,625 ♪ Till I got blaow! Blaow! Blaow! ♪ 312 00:10:49,709 --> 00:10:52,375 ♪ Yeah, my pops was a fiend since 16 ♪ 313 00:10:52,458 --> 00:10:54,542 ♪ Shootin' that "That's that shit!" in his bloodstream ♪ 314 00:10:54,625 --> 00:10:56,709 [Raekwon] Well, this is where it started from. 315 00:10:56,792 --> 00:10:57,834 This is the green right here. 316 00:10:57,917 --> 00:10:59,250 Y'all right on the soil 317 00:10:59,333 --> 00:11:01,041 right now. Know what I'm saying? 318 00:11:01,125 --> 00:11:03,375 This is--this is-- this is Shaolin right here. 319 00:11:03,458 --> 00:11:04,250 Know what I'm saying? Look, look. 320 00:11:04,333 --> 00:11:05,750 Just look at it. 321 00:11:05,834 --> 00:11:07,125 Flash around. You know what I'm saying? 322 00:11:07,208 --> 00:11:09,083 See a lot of leaves and shit. 323 00:11:13,125 --> 00:11:16,458 [man] In the back of the project was undeveloped land, 324 00:11:16,542 --> 00:11:19,458 and it had two ponds. 325 00:11:19,542 --> 00:11:21,792 One pond was the white boy side of town, 326 00:11:21,875 --> 00:11:24,333 so we kind of went to stay on our black side. 327 00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:26,458 It was our side. 328 00:11:26,542 --> 00:11:28,583 Had mad, crazy imagination. 329 00:11:28,667 --> 00:11:30,917 We just take old, dirty rafts and put tires underneath them 330 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,667 and go out there with long sticks and poles 331 00:11:32,750 --> 00:11:35,208 and just be on the rafts and have raft fights. 332 00:11:35,291 --> 00:11:37,333 Then we find salamanders and spiders 333 00:11:37,417 --> 00:11:40,208 and--and dig up worms. 334 00:11:40,291 --> 00:11:43,125 You know, just kid shit, man. 335 00:11:43,208 --> 00:11:45,667 [man] We was, like, the Little Rascals. 336 00:11:45,750 --> 00:11:47,417 We used to build clubhouses, 337 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:49,333 go-karts, 338 00:11:49,417 --> 00:11:52,792 bows and arrows. 339 00:11:52,875 --> 00:11:55,250 I mean, we did it all together, man. 340 00:11:55,333 --> 00:11:57,959 [man] Most of the clan members 341 00:11:58,041 --> 00:11:59,792 are from Park Hill. 342 00:11:59,875 --> 00:12:01,333 [Cappadonna] There it go, right there. 343 00:12:01,417 --> 00:12:02,667 There she go. 344 00:12:02,750 --> 00:12:04,875 The Verrazzano. 345 00:12:04,959 --> 00:12:06,834 The virgin I know. 346 00:12:08,125 --> 00:12:10,542 [RZA] U-God... 347 00:12:10,625 --> 00:12:12,500 He always had this aggressive violence 348 00:12:12,583 --> 00:12:13,875 about him, you know? 349 00:12:13,959 --> 00:12:16,083 I mean, he was a beautiful guy. 350 00:12:16,166 --> 00:12:17,917 You know, when he smiles, the whole room lights up, 351 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,792 because to make him smile is a lot. 352 00:12:19,875 --> 00:12:22,208 [laughs] 353 00:12:22,291 --> 00:12:23,917 [RZA] Inspectah Deck... 354 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,667 He was, like, the guy who's seeing everything, 355 00:12:26,750 --> 00:12:28,333 maybe 'cause his window 356 00:12:28,417 --> 00:12:30,792 was in the front of that building. 357 00:12:30,875 --> 00:12:32,917 He could look out that window and see 358 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,250 everything that's going on. 359 00:12:35,333 --> 00:12:37,083 Cappadonna. 360 00:12:37,166 --> 00:12:39,667 ♪ Place Staten Island year '76 ♪ 361 00:12:39,750 --> 00:12:41,166 ♪ Residents Park Hill ♪ 362 00:12:41,250 --> 00:12:43,500 [RZA] He's a slang master. 363 00:12:43,583 --> 00:12:45,917 Probably the strongest inspiration 364 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,750 to a lot of the other MCs from Park Hill, 365 00:12:48,834 --> 00:12:50,375 and me and him used to make tapes 366 00:12:50,458 --> 00:12:51,291 when we was kids-- you know what I mean? 367 00:12:51,375 --> 00:12:52,500 14 years old. 368 00:12:52,583 --> 00:12:54,333 ♪ Double-check dialect ♪ 369 00:12:54,417 --> 00:12:55,917 Oh, look at the kids in the back, playing. 370 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,917 Hear the kids in the back playing? 371 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,208 ♪ Staten Island-ry We burn calories ♪ 372 00:13:00,291 --> 00:13:01,667 - [Inspectah Deck] Yeah. - [Cappadonna] That's where 373 00:13:01,750 --> 00:13:02,875 we used to play at, right there. 374 00:13:02,959 --> 00:13:04,291 [U-God] Kickball. All that shit. 375 00:13:04,375 --> 00:13:05,917 [Inspectah Deck] Yeah, B. 376 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,834 [Cappadonna] We was real young, 377 00:13:07,917 --> 00:13:11,542 like, uh, Raekwon, g--uh, U-God... 378 00:13:11,625 --> 00:13:13,542 [Inspectah Deck] You come on the block, you see everybody. 379 00:13:13,625 --> 00:13:16,166 Meth was living in 55. I lived in 260. 380 00:13:16,250 --> 00:13:18,166 Raekwon lived down the block, I think it was 225, 381 00:13:18,250 --> 00:13:19,750 and Deck lived in 160. 382 00:13:19,834 --> 00:13:21,000 I used to walk home from school 383 00:13:21,083 --> 00:13:22,291 with Chef every day. 384 00:13:22,375 --> 00:13:23,500 Me and Deck was in 385 00:13:23,583 --> 00:13:24,542 the same home room. 386 00:13:24,625 --> 00:13:27,166 Shit done changed. 387 00:13:27,250 --> 00:13:29,375 Used to come up here, think about the rest of the city 388 00:13:29,458 --> 00:13:31,000 and what's going on. 389 00:13:31,083 --> 00:13:32,250 Used to come up here, me and Cappadonna, 390 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:34,834 write our rhymes, freestyle, 391 00:13:34,917 --> 00:13:36,166 whatever you call it, whatever it was, 392 00:13:36,250 --> 00:13:38,083 but we used to just have big dreams 393 00:13:38,166 --> 00:13:39,542 of getting away from it all, you know what I mean? 394 00:13:39,625 --> 00:13:42,542 ♪ contemplative music ♪ 395 00:13:42,625 --> 00:13:46,750 ♪♪♪ 396 00:13:46,834 --> 00:13:48,583 The hood is like a prison, and you know-- 397 00:13:48,667 --> 00:13:50,125 it's like a economic prison. 398 00:13:50,208 --> 00:13:52,500 You can't, you know, move out, can't, you know, 399 00:13:52,583 --> 00:13:54,792 go where you want to go, you can't go to certain blocks. 400 00:13:54,875 --> 00:13:55,625 You don't know what's gonna happen over there. 401 00:13:55,709 --> 00:13:56,583 What you want 402 00:13:56,667 --> 00:13:57,709 is a kind of freedom. 403 00:13:57,792 --> 00:13:59,583 I think, um, Wu-- 404 00:13:59,667 --> 00:14:02,458 it felt like the streets 405 00:14:02,542 --> 00:14:04,583 that I knew as a kid. 406 00:14:04,667 --> 00:14:06,000 It felt like the '80s 407 00:14:06,083 --> 00:14:08,125 that I had, you know, just come up out of. 408 00:14:08,208 --> 00:14:09,834 You know, I felt like they were speaking, 409 00:14:09,917 --> 00:14:11,208 you know, to--to me, speaking for me. 410 00:14:11,291 --> 00:14:13,959 The violence, you know, on the streets-- 411 00:14:14,041 --> 00:14:15,125 you know what I'm saying-- was just 412 00:14:15,208 --> 00:14:18,542 very, very...familiar to me. 413 00:14:18,625 --> 00:14:19,917 When you come up in the hood, 414 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,417 you can feel like your life is so small 415 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:23,709 and like nobody sees you 416 00:14:23,792 --> 00:14:25,875 and your story is not important. 417 00:14:25,959 --> 00:14:28,041 I didn't feel like if I got on the TV, 418 00:14:28,125 --> 00:14:29,583 I f--I didn't feel like it represented, 419 00:14:29,667 --> 00:14:31,291 you know, where I had come from. 420 00:14:31,375 --> 00:14:34,083 We feel like that experience is completely erased. 421 00:14:34,166 --> 00:14:35,417 I mean, you feel like these people 422 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:37,083 don't even see you, 423 00:14:37,166 --> 00:14:39,041 and that's the importance of, you know, Wu 424 00:14:39,125 --> 00:14:40,375 and, you know, all of these cats 425 00:14:40,458 --> 00:14:41,834 for me. I felt like-- 426 00:14:41,917 --> 00:14:43,750 I felt seen. 427 00:14:43,834 --> 00:14:45,625 ♪ percussive music with vocals ♪ 428 00:14:45,709 --> 00:14:47,417 [RZA] You know, Masta Killa 429 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:49,291 was one of the last MCs 430 00:14:49,375 --> 00:14:51,291 to join the cypher. 431 00:14:52,333 --> 00:14:55,583 He started letting his lyrics loose 432 00:14:55,667 --> 00:14:57,041 and through his realness, 433 00:14:57,125 --> 00:14:59,166 he became the Masta Killa. 434 00:14:59,250 --> 00:15:03,000 [laughs] 435 00:15:05,542 --> 00:15:08,792 This is the first home that I came home to 436 00:15:08,875 --> 00:15:11,041 from Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. 437 00:15:11,125 --> 00:15:13,875 On the right side, you know, that's the window 438 00:15:13,959 --> 00:15:15,959 that I would look out of every day. 439 00:15:16,041 --> 00:15:17,583 My father was a singer, you know? 440 00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:19,875 He was heavy into RandB, 441 00:15:19,959 --> 00:15:22,291 and he would even come up the block, 442 00:15:22,375 --> 00:15:24,041 singing sometimes, you know what I mean? 443 00:15:24,125 --> 00:15:25,834 And when I would hear his voice, 444 00:15:25,917 --> 00:15:27,709 I would almost jump out the window 445 00:15:27,792 --> 00:15:29,834 'cause I was so excited 446 00:15:29,917 --> 00:15:32,125 to know that my father was coming home, 447 00:15:32,208 --> 00:15:35,083 so through trials and tribulations, 448 00:15:35,166 --> 00:15:38,083 when he left the home for good, 449 00:15:38,166 --> 00:15:40,250 that was, like, traumatic for me, man, 450 00:15:40,333 --> 00:15:42,583 'cause, you know, it was, like, come on. 451 00:15:42,667 --> 00:15:44,875 Pops was everything, you know what I mean? 452 00:15:44,959 --> 00:15:46,834 That's like your first superhero 453 00:15:46,917 --> 00:15:49,166 is your father, you know what I mean? 454 00:15:49,250 --> 00:15:51,208 One thing he left was all his records. 455 00:15:51,291 --> 00:15:53,208 [laughs] 456 00:15:53,291 --> 00:15:55,291 He left all his records, 457 00:15:55,375 --> 00:15:57,625 and I would play them every day, because 458 00:15:57,709 --> 00:16:00,000 that's how I connected with him. 459 00:16:00,083 --> 00:16:01,667 You know what I mean? I remember him singing 460 00:16:01,750 --> 00:16:02,875 this record, and I would get it 461 00:16:02,959 --> 00:16:04,250 and put it on the turntable 462 00:16:04,333 --> 00:16:07,250 and listen to it just to remember 463 00:16:07,333 --> 00:16:09,333 hearing his voice, you know what I mean? 464 00:16:11,792 --> 00:16:13,959 Looking out of that window right there... 465 00:16:14,041 --> 00:16:15,542 - [Robert James Jones] Right. - [Masta Killa] I was too 466 00:16:15,625 --> 00:16:17,125 little to even come across the street by myself, 467 00:16:17,208 --> 00:16:18,750 right? But I would look 468 00:16:18,834 --> 00:16:20,083 across the street 469 00:16:20,166 --> 00:16:21,917 and I would see legendary DJs 470 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,500 like his self right here, 471 00:16:24,583 --> 00:16:26,208 Divine Sounds, and other brothers 472 00:16:26,291 --> 00:16:27,834 in the neighborhood, 473 00:16:27,917 --> 00:16:30,041 and hip-hop was just everywhere. 474 00:16:30,125 --> 00:16:31,500 You know, I grew up 475 00:16:31,583 --> 00:16:32,709 on that kind of music 476 00:16:32,792 --> 00:16:33,709 in my house, 477 00:16:33,792 --> 00:16:36,125 but I didn't grow up 478 00:16:36,208 --> 00:16:38,709 with someone catching the break 479 00:16:38,792 --> 00:16:40,500 and spinning it back and forth, 480 00:16:40,583 --> 00:16:42,625 and--and that's what I heard coming from the park. 481 00:16:42,709 --> 00:16:44,959 [hip-hop music playing] 482 00:16:45,041 --> 00:16:47,583 [man] Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, in the place to be, 483 00:16:47,667 --> 00:16:49,458 are you all with us? 484 00:16:49,542 --> 00:16:51,208 All right. 485 00:16:52,667 --> 00:16:57,834 ♪♪♪ 486 00:16:58,083 --> 00:16:59,625 I go down to this block party and, you know, 487 00:16:59,709 --> 00:17:01,750 the DJ's cutting. Never seen this before. 488 00:17:01,834 --> 00:17:03,709 I'm just standing right there next to the DJ booth 489 00:17:03,792 --> 00:17:05,208 watching this dude do this shit, 490 00:17:05,291 --> 00:17:07,041 and one dude comes out there 491 00:17:07,125 --> 00:17:09,208 with a amp and a bass guitar 492 00:17:09,291 --> 00:17:11,291 and all he played was the breaks. 493 00:17:11,375 --> 00:17:13,041 B-boom, boom. 494 00:17:13,125 --> 00:17:15,208 B-b-boom. You know what I mean? 495 00:17:15,291 --> 00:17:17,959 Yo, I used to have skates on at the jam. 496 00:17:18,041 --> 00:17:21,625 Sometimes one. One skate and one sneaker. 497 00:17:21,709 --> 00:17:24,166 That's how nice we was. They used to call us 498 00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:26,250 the roller derby clique. You know what I mean? 499 00:17:26,333 --> 00:17:31,500 ♪♪♪ 500 00:17:31,750 --> 00:17:33,083 Ghost used to break dance, man. We used to try 501 00:17:33,166 --> 00:17:34,792 to battle Ghost going to school. 502 00:17:34,875 --> 00:17:36,125 Ghost would windmill, 503 00:17:36,208 --> 00:17:38,333 and he--he was the floor general, man. 504 00:17:38,417 --> 00:17:39,792 Got your little, uh-- 505 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:41,417 windbreaker jackets on 506 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:42,625 on them nice little floors, 507 00:17:42,709 --> 00:17:44,000 slippery floors, 508 00:17:44,083 --> 00:17:45,000 just doing it. Boom. 509 00:17:45,083 --> 00:17:46,208 I was about 12 510 00:17:46,291 --> 00:17:47,333 when my feet 511 00:17:47,417 --> 00:17:48,333 started getting wet 512 00:17:48,417 --> 00:17:50,166 and with the streets 513 00:17:50,250 --> 00:17:51,792 and now I'm--I'm magnetized. 514 00:17:51,875 --> 00:17:53,250 ♪ We just do it You just don't ♪ 515 00:17:53,333 --> 00:17:55,333 ♪ You don't, you don't, you don't stop ♪ 516 00:17:55,417 --> 00:17:57,041 ♪ Now we're rocking, now you're rocking ♪ 517 00:17:57,125 --> 00:17:58,667 ♪ You just throw, you throw, you throw ♪ 518 00:17:58,750 --> 00:18:00,083 ♪ You throw your hands in the air ♪ 519 00:18:00,166 --> 00:18:01,959 My next-door neighbor, Silky Dan, 520 00:18:02,041 --> 00:18:04,667 took a Fisher-Price turntable 521 00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:09,208 and he turned the volume down on the spin-back, 522 00:18:09,291 --> 00:18:10,667 and he would cut, 523 00:18:10,750 --> 00:18:12,125 and his man would kick rhymes 524 00:18:12,208 --> 00:18:13,875 to the cuts that he was doing. 525 00:18:13,959 --> 00:18:15,458 Watching him and them do that-- 526 00:18:15,542 --> 00:18:17,291 this is something I want to be a part of. 527 00:18:17,375 --> 00:18:19,083 ♪ You just shake, the shake, the shake ♪ 528 00:18:19,166 --> 00:18:20,458 ♪ The shake-a, shake-a, shake-a shake ♪ 529 00:18:20,542 --> 00:18:22,125 ♪ The shake, the shake, the shake ♪ 530 00:18:22,208 --> 00:18:23,542 We used to write on the walls in the hood 531 00:18:23,625 --> 00:18:25,375 Meth used to write "Rugby." 532 00:18:25,458 --> 00:18:27,834 Raekwon used to write "Reemo." 533 00:18:27,917 --> 00:18:29,041 You know what I mean? 534 00:18:29,125 --> 00:18:30,709 My first time meeting RZA 535 00:18:30,792 --> 00:18:32,583 was at a block party 536 00:18:32,667 --> 00:18:33,959 and RZA's DJing. 537 00:18:34,041 --> 00:18:35,291 His name back then was the pr-- 538 00:18:35,375 --> 00:18:36,875 was Prince Rakeem. 539 00:18:36,959 --> 00:18:38,458 [laughs] Before RZA. 540 00:18:38,542 --> 00:18:40,250 You know what I'm saying? 541 00:18:40,333 --> 00:18:41,625 We got the prince Rakeem, from Staten Island, 542 00:18:41,709 --> 00:18:42,917 you know what I'm saying? 543 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,125 But I remember, I was checking RZ, 544 00:18:44,208 --> 00:18:46,000 and, yo, this kid 545 00:18:46,083 --> 00:18:47,417 just looked like 546 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:49,750 he got a glow about him. 547 00:18:49,834 --> 00:18:52,250 RZA started making beats with that little four-track he had. 548 00:18:52,333 --> 00:18:53,291 He used to give us little tapes. 549 00:18:53,375 --> 00:18:54,333 I take 'em home... 550 00:18:54,417 --> 00:18:57,542 ♪♪♪ 551 00:18:57,625 --> 00:18:59,166 I could just look out the window and just see 552 00:18:59,250 --> 00:19:00,500 everybody in the front of the building, 553 00:19:00,583 --> 00:19:02,083 just dancing, DJs cutting. 554 00:19:02,166 --> 00:19:03,417 It was different, yo. 555 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:04,750 It was different. 556 00:19:04,834 --> 00:19:05,834 It just became you. 557 00:19:05,917 --> 00:19:09,000 ♪♪♪ 558 00:19:09,083 --> 00:19:14,208 ♪♪♪ 559 00:19:21,208 --> 00:19:23,333 I was the only one from Stapleton. 560 00:19:23,417 --> 00:19:26,583 Our project was known for our knuckle game. 561 00:19:26,667 --> 00:19:28,500 Raekwon and them-- they lived in Park Hill. 562 00:19:28,583 --> 00:19:30,458 We had to meet in this middle 563 00:19:30,542 --> 00:19:32,333 to go to the same junior high school. 564 00:19:32,417 --> 00:19:34,250 You know, and that's how we really got to-- 565 00:19:34,333 --> 00:19:35,542 to know each other. 566 00:19:35,625 --> 00:19:37,291 Ten-cent chocolate milk shit. 567 00:19:37,375 --> 00:19:39,208 The toasted almond ice cream shit. 568 00:19:39,291 --> 00:19:41,291 You know what I mean? Shit was, like, 569 00:19:41,375 --> 00:19:43,625 probably one of the best ice creams I ever had. 570 00:19:43,709 --> 00:19:44,875 Toasted almond. 571 00:19:44,959 --> 00:19:46,375 Vanilla joints. Ha. 572 00:19:46,458 --> 00:19:48,458 ♪ somber music ♪ 573 00:19:48,542 --> 00:19:50,375 Life, you know, I mean, is father split 574 00:19:50,458 --> 00:19:52,333 with your mother, like the regular shit. 575 00:19:52,417 --> 00:19:54,208 It's like, okay, mommy taking care of you. 576 00:19:54,291 --> 00:19:55,458 You know what I mean? After a while, 577 00:19:55,542 --> 00:19:57,250 mommy got--mommy got-- 578 00:19:57,333 --> 00:19:59,709 had two kids with muscular dystrophy. 579 00:19:59,792 --> 00:20:01,500 You know what I mean? So it's hard on mommy. 580 00:20:01,583 --> 00:20:02,667 Mommy start drinking. 581 00:20:02,750 --> 00:20:04,291 I'm the oldest, 582 00:20:04,375 --> 00:20:05,959 so I gotta take care of the two brothers. 583 00:20:06,041 --> 00:20:07,458 You see what I'm saying? Pick 'em up off the toilet, 584 00:20:07,542 --> 00:20:08,959 put 'em on the toilet, 585 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:10,959 put 'em in a bed, 586 00:20:11,041 --> 00:20:14,375 dress 'em. Me. 587 00:20:14,458 --> 00:20:16,667 I'm a little-- my little body. 588 00:20:16,750 --> 00:20:17,750 You know, maybe I was depressed 589 00:20:17,834 --> 00:20:18,583 and don't even know 590 00:20:18,667 --> 00:20:19,625 that you depressed. 591 00:20:19,709 --> 00:20:21,208 You know what I mean? 592 00:20:21,291 --> 00:20:22,333 My aunt used to be like, "What's wrong with you?" 593 00:20:22,417 --> 00:20:23,500 I was be like, [soft utterance] 594 00:20:23,583 --> 00:20:24,750 "You know, it's nothing." 595 00:20:24,834 --> 00:20:25,959 "Why you look sad?" 596 00:20:26,041 --> 00:20:27,458 "I don't know." You know? 597 00:20:27,542 --> 00:20:29,083 I don't know I look sad. 598 00:20:29,166 --> 00:20:29,959 You know what I'm saying? 599 00:20:30,041 --> 00:20:32,125 ♪♪♪ 600 00:20:32,208 --> 00:20:33,709 And I know what my brothers is going through, 601 00:20:33,792 --> 00:20:35,208 because I'm young, 602 00:20:35,291 --> 00:20:36,917 because they can't go outside. 603 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,208 They sit there and watch TV all day, 604 00:20:39,291 --> 00:20:41,458 and I'm not no one like, "Yo, okay, yo, 605 00:20:41,542 --> 00:20:43,166 okay, let's-- let's go outside 606 00:20:43,250 --> 00:20:45,166 and push them around and take them outside," 607 00:20:45,250 --> 00:20:46,375 'cause now, when I look at it, 608 00:20:46,458 --> 00:20:47,834 shit would bring a tear to my eye, 609 00:20:47,917 --> 00:20:49,750 because I wish I would've did that. 610 00:20:49,834 --> 00:20:52,208 What kids... 611 00:20:52,291 --> 00:20:54,125 ...would go through-- 612 00:20:54,208 --> 00:20:56,166 wasn't no $300 Jordans. 613 00:20:56,250 --> 00:20:58,333 It was those kind of times. 614 00:20:58,417 --> 00:21:01,458 ♪♪♪ 615 00:21:01,875 --> 00:21:05,583 ♪♪♪ 616 00:21:05,667 --> 00:21:06,959 You see? Oh, shit, bro. 617 00:21:07,041 --> 00:21:08,834 I mean... Hold on. 618 00:21:08,917 --> 00:21:11,041 I'm coming over there. 619 00:21:11,125 --> 00:21:13,458 ♪ Syl Johnson's "Is It Because I'm Black" playing ♪ 620 00:21:13,542 --> 00:21:15,333 ♪ Oh ♪ 621 00:21:15,417 --> 00:21:17,542 ♪ Something is holding me back ♪ 622 00:21:17,625 --> 00:21:19,041 Are we gonna be on TV? 623 00:21:19,125 --> 00:21:21,291 ♪♪♪ 624 00:21:21,375 --> 00:21:22,875 ♪ I wonder ♪ 625 00:21:22,959 --> 00:21:25,125 ♪ Is it because I'm black ♪ 626 00:21:25,208 --> 00:21:27,208 ♪♪♪ 627 00:21:27,291 --> 00:21:28,417 You live in these environments, 628 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:30,041 and you know you're broke, 629 00:21:30,125 --> 00:21:31,625 but it don't matter, 630 00:21:31,709 --> 00:21:33,250 because everybody else around you 631 00:21:33,333 --> 00:21:35,375 in the same fucking situation. 632 00:21:35,458 --> 00:21:37,041 Hey, yo. 633 00:21:37,125 --> 00:21:39,250 This is--this is my old school right here. 634 00:21:39,333 --> 00:21:41,333 They true-- not even old school. 635 00:21:41,417 --> 00:21:42,792 Just true school, 'cause these brothers 636 00:21:42,875 --> 00:21:44,291 is the same, you know what I'm saying? 637 00:21:44,375 --> 00:21:46,333 What's up, baby? Get up in this... 638 00:21:46,417 --> 00:21:48,000 [RZA] I actually didn't want to go 639 00:21:48,083 --> 00:21:49,417 to the same school with my brother. 640 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:51,041 We used to go to the same school 641 00:21:51,125 --> 00:21:53,083 and we only had four pair of pants 642 00:21:53,166 --> 00:21:55,333 between three boys, 643 00:21:55,417 --> 00:21:57,250 so... You know what I mean? 644 00:21:57,333 --> 00:22:00,834 If I wore the black ones Monday, 645 00:22:00,917 --> 00:22:02,875 he wore on Tuesday, 646 00:22:02,959 --> 00:22:04,709 but by the time I get to Friday... 647 00:22:04,792 --> 00:22:07,291 [laughing] I'm back with the black ones again, 648 00:22:07,375 --> 00:22:08,834 and my brother already wore them, so 649 00:22:08,917 --> 00:22:10,750 going to different schools gave us a better way 650 00:22:10,834 --> 00:22:12,583 to do the swaps. 651 00:22:12,667 --> 00:22:14,041 Do you know Biggie Small? 652 00:22:14,125 --> 00:22:15,291 Yeah, I know Biggie. 653 00:22:15,375 --> 00:22:16,959 Yeah, I know Tupac. Yo. 654 00:22:17,041 --> 00:22:18,750 [excitedly] Ha! 655 00:22:18,834 --> 00:22:19,959 All right, this is Park Hill, this is Killer Hill 656 00:22:20,041 --> 00:22:21,000 projects, man. 657 00:22:21,083 --> 00:22:22,709 10304. 658 00:22:22,792 --> 00:22:25,959 ♪ I wanna be somebody so bad ♪ 659 00:22:26,041 --> 00:22:27,625 ♪ You see ♪ 660 00:22:27,709 --> 00:22:30,083 ♪ I want diamond rings and things ♪ 661 00:22:30,166 --> 00:22:31,166 [woman] That's nice! 662 00:22:31,250 --> 00:22:33,125 ♪ Like you do ♪ 663 00:22:33,208 --> 00:22:34,625 [man] Can never get away from the-- 664 00:22:34,709 --> 00:22:36,709 the reality of it, you know what I'm saying? 665 00:22:36,792 --> 00:22:38,625 ♪♪♪ 666 00:22:38,709 --> 00:22:40,041 [RZA] One thing about the projects-- 667 00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:41,125 it's almost like a police state, 668 00:22:41,208 --> 00:22:41,875 if you think about it, 669 00:22:41,959 --> 00:22:43,041 'cause you have 670 00:22:43,125 --> 00:22:44,125 housing police 671 00:22:44,208 --> 00:22:46,750 located in your projects 672 00:22:46,834 --> 00:22:50,041 and you're surrounded by a four-block radius. 673 00:22:50,125 --> 00:22:51,834 You got your bodega, your barbershop, 674 00:22:51,917 --> 00:22:53,583 your pharmacy, 675 00:22:53,667 --> 00:22:54,917 your shop-and-save, 676 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,709 your check cashing place. 677 00:22:56,792 --> 00:22:58,291 You know what I mean? It's designed 678 00:22:58,375 --> 00:22:59,750 so you don't have to leave, 679 00:22:59,834 --> 00:23:02,125 and a lot of people don't leave. 680 00:23:02,208 --> 00:23:03,250 [Ghostface Killah] Looking like a jail, 681 00:23:03,333 --> 00:23:04,458 the way the setup is like that. 682 00:23:04,542 --> 00:23:06,542 Like, yo, the tiers. 683 00:23:06,625 --> 00:23:10,291 ♪ That they hold us, hold us, hold us back ♪ 684 00:23:10,375 --> 00:23:11,500 [Inspectah Deck] We ain't glorifying it. 685 00:23:11,583 --> 00:23:12,750 We just, yo-- 686 00:23:12,834 --> 00:23:14,709 firsthand. Y'all want to know 687 00:23:14,792 --> 00:23:16,166 what we're seeing in our lives, y'all want to know 688 00:23:16,250 --> 00:23:18,709 what we talking about, we talking about this. 689 00:23:18,792 --> 00:23:21,291 ♪ It ain't right, it ain't right ♪ 690 00:23:21,375 --> 00:23:24,500 ♪ That they hold us, hold us, hold us back ♪ 691 00:23:24,583 --> 00:23:25,875 [Method Man] And somewhere in the middle 692 00:23:25,959 --> 00:23:27,709 of all that shit is that hope 693 00:23:27,792 --> 00:23:30,500 that one of us or all of us 694 00:23:30,583 --> 00:23:32,291 is gonna make it at one point in time 695 00:23:32,375 --> 00:23:33,834 in this lifetime and shit. 696 00:23:33,917 --> 00:23:35,792 ♪♪♪ 697 00:23:35,875 --> 00:23:38,458 I'll say that about the projects. 698 00:23:42,250 --> 00:23:44,458 This is the hood. Good old Bed-Stuy. 699 00:23:44,542 --> 00:23:45,959 Do or die. 700 00:23:46,041 --> 00:23:47,542 [RZA] The GZA--of course, 701 00:23:47,625 --> 00:23:48,792 the Genius. He is a foundation 702 00:23:48,875 --> 00:23:50,625 of it. 703 00:23:50,709 --> 00:23:53,583 Uh, he's the genius, like, the way he thinks, 704 00:23:53,667 --> 00:23:55,500 and his lyrics has that content. 705 00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:58,917 This is where the All In Together Now 706 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,041 crew started, 707 00:24:01,125 --> 00:24:02,542 right here on this block. 708 00:24:02,625 --> 00:24:05,291 719, Monroe. I used to live right here, 709 00:24:05,375 --> 00:24:07,458 in that--that apartment right there up the steps. 710 00:24:07,542 --> 00:24:09,166 [Method Man] The constant was RZA 711 00:24:09,250 --> 00:24:10,291 and GZA always making moves, 712 00:24:10,375 --> 00:24:11,125 and they got a record deal. 713 00:24:11,208 --> 00:24:13,959 One, two, three, hm. 714 00:24:14,041 --> 00:24:16,333 [beatboxing] 715 00:24:16,417 --> 00:24:17,542 Oh, that sound kind of ill. 716 00:24:17,625 --> 00:24:19,750 Yeah. 717 00:24:19,834 --> 00:24:21,500 [Method Man] Like, Dirty, GZA, and RZA are cousins, 718 00:24:21,583 --> 00:24:23,792 so they had a bunch of routines. 719 00:24:23,875 --> 00:24:26,250 ♪ Let me tell you about the Genius, yo ♪ 720 00:24:26,333 --> 00:24:27,834 ♪ I have a style of my own ♪ 721 00:24:27,917 --> 00:24:29,208 ♪ My hands are like vice grips ♪ 722 00:24:29,291 --> 00:24:31,375 ♪ Holding a microphone ♪ 723 00:24:31,458 --> 00:24:33,500 ♪ I flow smooth with rhymes that are rough ♪ 724 00:24:33,583 --> 00:24:35,375 ♪ You know why 'Cause I can't get enough ♪ 725 00:24:35,458 --> 00:24:36,792 ♪ So I want practice ♪ 726 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:38,041 There's a lot of battling, man. 727 00:24:38,125 --> 00:24:39,333 Yeah. Has it-- 728 00:24:39,417 --> 00:24:40,750 Walking from borough to borough, 729 00:24:40,834 --> 00:24:42,792 looking for MCs, 730 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:44,750 and battling, making routines. 731 00:24:44,834 --> 00:24:46,583 And f--and, you know, we thought we was 732 00:24:46,667 --> 00:24:48,208 the ill-est MCs in New York, so we was-- 733 00:24:48,291 --> 00:24:50,917 it was a hunger to be known as an MC. 734 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,834 Once we seen these two brothers, the GZA and the RZA, 735 00:24:53,917 --> 00:24:56,041 come through and did their thing, 736 00:24:56,125 --> 00:24:58,166 that's when I knew sooner or later, 737 00:24:58,250 --> 00:25:00,000 it was gonna be a bigger situation. 738 00:25:00,083 --> 00:25:01,542 You know, 'cause it was-- 739 00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:03,625 there always somebody from Staten Island. 740 00:25:03,709 --> 00:25:05,667 You know, even old Justice-- Br-Brooklyn 741 00:25:05,750 --> 00:25:07,667 to the f--to the fullest. 742 00:25:07,750 --> 00:25:09,583 You know, it was still-- he was still-- 743 00:25:09,667 --> 00:25:10,250 [U-God] That nigga Park Hill. That nigga Park Hill 744 00:25:10,333 --> 00:25:12,250 at heart, nigga. 745 00:25:12,333 --> 00:25:13,625 - [Raekwon] He know, Park Hill- - No, he a hillbilly. 746 00:25:13,709 --> 00:25:15,083 [Raekwon] You know what I mean? But... 747 00:25:15,166 --> 00:25:16,667 One of our brothers from our neighborhood. 748 00:25:16,750 --> 00:25:17,875 And just to have some brothers 749 00:25:17,959 --> 00:25:19,250 that we thought made it 750 00:25:19,333 --> 00:25:21,000 and still come around and to see them 751 00:25:21,083 --> 00:25:23,125 - that we actually knew. - Exactly. 752 00:25:23,208 --> 00:25:25,750 [Method Man] He was our first 753 00:25:25,834 --> 00:25:28,667 superstar, local superstar. 754 00:25:28,750 --> 00:25:31,542 ♪ Here I am lounging at a hype party ♪ 755 00:25:31,625 --> 00:25:34,000 [GZA] That was the first video. 756 00:25:34,083 --> 00:25:35,667 ♪ With a pair of bedroom eyes ♪ 757 00:25:35,750 --> 00:25:36,875 [GZA] Ol' Dirty was in there also, 758 00:25:36,959 --> 00:25:39,000 doing the funky Ason slide. 759 00:25:39,083 --> 00:25:40,250 ♪ Now check out the game ♪ 760 00:25:40,333 --> 00:25:41,709 ♪ I said ♪ 761 00:25:41,792 --> 00:25:43,667 ♪ Girl come do me ♪ 762 00:25:43,750 --> 00:25:46,125 ♪ Do me, do me, do me ♪ 763 00:25:46,208 --> 00:25:47,250 ♪♪♪ 764 00:25:47,333 --> 00:25:48,959 Do you? 765 00:25:49,041 --> 00:25:50,250 So, um, tell me, 766 00:25:50,333 --> 00:25:52,041 how'd you guys get into, uh, 767 00:25:52,125 --> 00:25:53,083 rapping? 768 00:25:53,166 --> 00:25:54,417 We was, like-- 769 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:56,500 you could say almost born rhyming. 770 00:25:56,583 --> 00:25:57,709 - [woman] Born rhyming? - You know--yes. 771 00:25:57,792 --> 00:25:58,875 In our genes, you know? 772 00:25:58,959 --> 00:25:59,709 That's one way to put it. 773 00:25:59,792 --> 00:26:00,875 And, um, 774 00:26:00,959 --> 00:26:02,250 been doing it for a long time, 775 00:26:02,333 --> 00:26:04,750 tearing up parties, waxing MCs. 776 00:26:04,834 --> 00:26:06,333 Okay, where did you get your, um, style of rapping? 777 00:26:06,417 --> 00:26:08,417 Just, like-- just grew on me. 778 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:09,917 [ODB] It's from natural talent, you know? 779 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:10,834 [woman] Natural talent? Raw talent? 780 00:26:10,917 --> 00:26:12,166 Raw talent. 781 00:26:12,250 --> 00:26:13,333 - Raw talent? - Definitely. 782 00:26:13,417 --> 00:26:14,709 [ODB] It's a family thing, too. 783 00:26:14,792 --> 00:26:16,500 We was always the hypest in each town. 784 00:26:16,583 --> 00:26:18,458 Where he lived at, he was the hypest MC. 785 00:26:18,542 --> 00:26:19,834 - I lived at-- - [woman] Where are you guys 786 00:26:19,917 --> 00:26:21,500 - from, when you say-- - Brooklyn. 787 00:26:21,583 --> 00:26:22,583 - [woman] Brooklyn? - Brooklyn, you know? 788 00:26:22,667 --> 00:26:23,917 I was from the east, 789 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,625 he's from Bed-Stuy. 790 00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:27,500 You know, he's the flyest MC in this town, 791 00:26:27,583 --> 00:26:28,667 I am. You know what I'm saying? 792 00:26:28,750 --> 00:26:30,125 But he out from Staten Island, 793 00:26:30,208 --> 00:26:31,500 flyest MC out there. 794 00:26:31,583 --> 00:26:33,917 [woman] Okay. How long you been there? 795 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,875 I've been dancing, you know, since I was a little kid. 796 00:26:35,959 --> 00:26:37,458 - [woman] A little kid? - Yeah. 797 00:26:37,542 --> 00:26:38,250 [ODB] You know, you know, I always had 798 00:26:38,333 --> 00:26:39,375 a funky style 799 00:26:39,458 --> 00:26:40,625 when it came to dancing. 800 00:26:40,709 --> 00:26:42,333 I got this dance called the Ason. 801 00:26:42,417 --> 00:26:43,709 - [woman] The Ason? - You know--yeah. 802 00:26:43,792 --> 00:26:44,667 [ODB] Popular dance, you know. 803 00:26:44,750 --> 00:26:46,291 The funky Ason slide. 804 00:26:46,375 --> 00:26:48,542 - [woman] The funky Ason slide? - Yeah. 805 00:26:48,625 --> 00:26:50,583 [woman] You're gonna teach me that before you leave? 806 00:26:50,667 --> 00:26:52,125 - [GZA] Maybe so. - [woman] Maybe so? 807 00:26:52,208 --> 00:26:54,083 - Yeah. - That's the... 808 00:26:54,166 --> 00:26:55,250 [RZA] Even though GZA's the one that 809 00:26:55,333 --> 00:26:57,333 taught me hip-hop, 810 00:26:57,417 --> 00:26:58,875 and exposed me to it, 811 00:26:58,959 --> 00:27:01,125 the person who I nurtured it with 812 00:27:01,208 --> 00:27:01,917 is ODB. 813 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,625 Howdy! 814 00:27:03,709 --> 00:27:05,125 [RZA] So Ol' Dirty Bastard. 815 00:27:05,208 --> 00:27:07,917 What's up? This is Ol' Dirty Ba-- 816 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,834 He was very different from the rest of the people 817 00:27:09,917 --> 00:27:11,417 in his household, so he realized 818 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,083 he was a son that was unique, 819 00:27:13,166 --> 00:27:14,333 and he eventually went on 820 00:27:14,417 --> 00:27:16,000 to choose the name Ason Unique. 821 00:27:16,083 --> 00:27:17,792 ♪ Yo, I'm the U-N-I ♪ 822 00:27:17,875 --> 00:27:19,000 ♪ The Q-U-E ♪ 823 00:27:19,083 --> 00:27:21,500 ♪ The G from the OD ♪ 824 00:27:21,583 --> 00:27:23,917 ♪ I said I go by the unforgettable name ♪ 825 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,583 ♪ Of the man called Unique G well ♪ 826 00:27:26,667 --> 00:27:27,667 As my cousin and knowing him... 827 00:27:27,750 --> 00:27:29,583 Big Ra. 828 00:27:29,667 --> 00:27:31,125 [RZA] He had a personality... 829 00:27:31,208 --> 00:27:33,250 We got the RZA in the house. 830 00:27:33,333 --> 00:27:35,959 ...That was just raw 831 00:27:36,041 --> 00:27:37,333 and unapologetic. 832 00:27:39,875 --> 00:27:42,208 Yeah, man. 833 00:27:42,291 --> 00:27:45,333 Y'all--y'all just sit in the car, right, baby? 834 00:27:45,417 --> 00:27:47,417 Man, good old New York. 835 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:51,250 Make me want to sing a song or something. 836 00:27:51,333 --> 00:27:56,250 ♪ If you need a strong hand ♪ 837 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,834 ♪ To guide you through the night ♪ 838 00:28:00,917 --> 00:28:05,291 ♪ If it means anything to you ♪ 839 00:28:05,375 --> 00:28:07,959 ♪ To know that I care for you ♪ 840 00:28:08,041 --> 00:28:09,583 [ODB] Let's forget about Ol' Dirty Bastard. 841 00:28:09,667 --> 00:28:11,083 You know what I'm saying? 842 00:28:11,166 --> 00:28:12,959 Let's go back to Rusty. Rusty. 843 00:28:13,041 --> 00:28:14,166 You know, m-m-my mama, 844 00:28:14,250 --> 00:28:15,542 Cherry Jones-- 845 00:28:15,625 --> 00:28:17,625 she called me Rusty Jones. 846 00:28:17,709 --> 00:28:19,250 That's what my mama called me. 847 00:28:19,333 --> 00:28:20,542 ♪ somber music ♪ 848 00:28:20,625 --> 00:28:22,250 [Cherry] I had six. 849 00:28:22,333 --> 00:28:23,959 I had them all before I turned 25. 850 00:28:24,041 --> 00:28:25,166 - [man] Yeah. - [Cherry] And I start 851 00:28:25,250 --> 00:28:27,667 at 19. 852 00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:30,792 But Rusty--Rusty was a mama's boy. 853 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:33,417 [ODB] Well, my mom was the sweetest woman I ever met. 854 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:35,208 ♪♪♪ 855 00:28:35,291 --> 00:28:37,208 I love you, mama. 856 00:28:37,291 --> 00:28:40,083 [laughs] 857 00:28:40,166 --> 00:28:41,291 I love you dearly. 858 00:28:41,375 --> 00:28:43,667 Thanks for bringing me here. 859 00:28:43,750 --> 00:28:45,166 [Ramsey] Our musical background 860 00:28:45,250 --> 00:28:46,792 was from our parents, you know? 861 00:28:46,875 --> 00:28:49,083 Matter of fact, Mom, you got to mention 862 00:28:49,166 --> 00:28:51,875 that her sister and her... 863 00:28:51,959 --> 00:28:54,500 - Mm-hmm. - ...Were in--were a group. 864 00:28:54,583 --> 00:28:55,792 - Tiny and Terry. - [Ramsey] Tiny and Terry. 865 00:28:55,875 --> 00:28:57,917 It was my Aunt Paulette and Mom. 866 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,875 Mm-hmm. My music was my life. 867 00:28:59,959 --> 00:29:01,083 [Cherry] I never listened to rap. 868 00:29:01,166 --> 00:29:02,166 [Cherry] I hated it. 869 00:29:02,250 --> 00:29:03,417 [Cherry] I just don't like it. 870 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:05,333 I never did, 871 00:29:05,417 --> 00:29:08,417 and Rusty never listened to it. 872 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:09,750 [ODB] I like Marvin Gaye, 873 00:29:09,834 --> 00:29:11,625 you know? Otis Redding. 874 00:29:11,709 --> 00:29:13,875 You know, I grew up on them type of songs, 875 00:29:13,959 --> 00:29:15,750 and all that singer stuff 876 00:29:15,834 --> 00:29:17,333 and all that--man, that's just--that's natural, 877 00:29:17,417 --> 00:29:18,792 man. That's how I feel my mus-- 878 00:29:18,875 --> 00:29:20,375 I'm like Patti LaBelle. 879 00:29:20,458 --> 00:29:22,959 I'm like--I'm like Millie Jackson, you know? 880 00:29:23,041 --> 00:29:25,083 [Cherry laughs] 881 00:29:25,166 --> 00:29:26,709 [ODB] And my brother--he used to play heavy metal. 882 00:29:26,792 --> 00:29:28,333 That's all he played, was rock and roll. 883 00:29:28,417 --> 00:29:31,125 [Ramsey] You know, I-I started out playing drums. 884 00:29:31,208 --> 00:29:33,333 My cousin RZA and GZA used to come over to our house 885 00:29:33,417 --> 00:29:34,875 in Linden Plaza. 886 00:29:34,959 --> 00:29:36,458 We would make our own hip-hop tapes, 887 00:29:36,542 --> 00:29:38,458 so I would take a headphone 888 00:29:38,542 --> 00:29:40,959 and plug it into the, uh, 889 00:29:41,041 --> 00:29:42,458 input of the amplifier, 890 00:29:42,542 --> 00:29:44,375 put it underneath a shoebox, 891 00:29:44,458 --> 00:29:46,333 and play break beats on that. 892 00:29:46,417 --> 00:29:47,417 We would turn the volume up 893 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:49,250 and get this loud sound, 894 00:29:49,333 --> 00:29:50,333 and it sounded killer. 895 00:29:50,417 --> 00:29:51,917 They would just rhyme over-- 896 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,208 over the beats I would do, 897 00:29:53,291 --> 00:29:54,750 right in our bedroom. 898 00:29:54,834 --> 00:29:56,250 [Ramsey] They called their crew 899 00:29:56,333 --> 00:29:57,709 the All In Together Now Crew. 900 00:29:57,792 --> 00:29:59,583 RZA had this rhyme about, like, 901 00:29:59,667 --> 00:30:01,834 sex and--and--and I 902 00:30:01,917 --> 00:30:03,750 won't even say it on camera, but... 903 00:30:03,834 --> 00:30:05,750 [RZA] One, two, one, two, yo. 904 00:30:05,834 --> 00:30:08,625 ♪ Sitting in my class at a quarter to ten ♪ 905 00:30:08,709 --> 00:30:11,375 ♪ Waiting patiently for the class to begin ♪ 906 00:30:11,458 --> 00:30:14,166 ♪ The teacher says "Students open up your texts ♪ 907 00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:17,208 ♪ And read the first paragraph on oral sex" ♪ 908 00:30:17,291 --> 00:30:20,250 ♪ Yo, oral sex what kind of class is this ♪ 909 00:30:20,333 --> 00:30:23,291 ♪ And the gal next to me says "What's wrong with you miss" ♪ 910 00:30:23,375 --> 00:30:25,041 ♪ Yo, this is the... ♪ 911 00:30:25,125 --> 00:30:26,417 [ODB] RZA taught me everything I knew, 912 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:27,917 by the way, you know? 913 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,166 Man, I remember, back in the days, man, 914 00:30:29,250 --> 00:30:31,375 when he used to make me rhyme. 915 00:30:31,458 --> 00:30:33,166 So he used to write lyrics for me, man, 916 00:30:33,250 --> 00:30:34,667 and if I ain't rhyme, we used to fight. 917 00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:36,000 ♪ Oh, yes, in pain ♪ 918 00:30:36,083 --> 00:30:37,333 ♪ She yells out my name ♪ 919 00:30:37,417 --> 00:30:39,125 Rakeem! Rakeem! 920 00:30:39,208 --> 00:30:40,208 ♪ And then I came ♪ 921 00:30:40,291 --> 00:30:41,959 - Peace. - Oh, peace. 922 00:30:42,041 --> 00:30:43,583 Ason in the motherfucking house. 923 00:30:43,667 --> 00:30:45,250 Go on, Cipher, Divine. 924 00:30:45,333 --> 00:30:47,083 Peace. 925 00:30:50,083 --> 00:30:53,041 ♪ smooth jazz music ♪ 926 00:30:53,125 --> 00:30:54,625 ♪♪♪ 927 00:30:54,709 --> 00:30:56,458 [Method Man] I went and got a job. 928 00:30:56,542 --> 00:30:58,458 Statue of Liberty was hiring. 929 00:30:58,542 --> 00:31:00,917 A lot of my friends were already working there. 930 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,792 I started working. I loved the job. 931 00:31:02,875 --> 00:31:06,125 It's my first real fucking job and shit. 932 00:31:06,208 --> 00:31:07,542 [U-God] Method used to work full-time, 933 00:31:07,625 --> 00:31:08,750 but I used to work on the weekends. 934 00:31:08,834 --> 00:31:12,000 ♪♪♪ 935 00:31:12,083 --> 00:31:14,208 I was a janitor. 936 00:31:14,291 --> 00:31:15,417 I used to take out 937 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:16,625 all the garbages, 938 00:31:16,709 --> 00:31:18,208 clean up all the condiments. 939 00:31:18,291 --> 00:31:20,166 All the fucking tourists used to be nasty. 940 00:31:20,250 --> 00:31:21,875 The bathrooms-- 941 00:31:21,959 --> 00:31:23,166 they used to do all type of nasty shit in there. 942 00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:25,250 Had to, um, steam the floors 943 00:31:25,333 --> 00:31:27,291 out on the deck, 'cause the seagulls 944 00:31:27,375 --> 00:31:29,875 come in there and shit all over the goddamn place. 945 00:31:29,959 --> 00:31:31,250 Know the history of the Statue of Liberty? 946 00:31:31,333 --> 00:31:32,834 It was given to us by the French 947 00:31:32,917 --> 00:31:35,000 and supposed to be the black woman? 948 00:31:35,083 --> 00:31:36,417 They say it is. 949 00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:37,625 I don't know. 950 00:31:37,709 --> 00:31:39,625 Now, mind you, 951 00:31:39,709 --> 00:31:41,375 we worked here for years and never went 952 00:31:41,458 --> 00:31:42,917 to go see this woman. 953 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,667 [U-God] Never one time, we went up in there. 954 00:31:44,750 --> 00:31:46,083 [Method Man] Wow. 955 00:31:46,166 --> 00:31:49,792 ♪♪♪ 956 00:31:49,875 --> 00:31:52,667 [laughs] 957 00:31:52,750 --> 00:31:54,417 - [both] How you doing? - I'm good. 958 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:55,333 How you been? 959 00:31:55,417 --> 00:31:56,583 Good, thank you. 960 00:31:56,667 --> 00:31:58,208 Still here. 961 00:31:58,291 --> 00:31:59,709 [laughter] 962 00:31:59,792 --> 00:32:01,625 Let me see something. 963 00:32:01,709 --> 00:32:04,792 [U-God] Mr. Hill was the owner of the restaurant 964 00:32:04,875 --> 00:32:06,875 that's on the Statue of Liberty. 965 00:32:06,959 --> 00:32:08,291 And he had a son, Brad. 966 00:32:08,375 --> 00:32:10,709 Oh, that is the man right there. 967 00:32:10,792 --> 00:32:11,917 How are you, sir? 968 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,709 [muffled] 969 00:32:13,792 --> 00:32:14,834 How are you? How you been? 970 00:32:14,917 --> 00:32:16,125 You look great, Brad. 971 00:32:16,208 --> 00:32:17,250 - You too. - Wow. 972 00:32:17,333 --> 00:32:19,375 Wow, sir. How you doing, sir? 973 00:32:19,458 --> 00:32:21,542 - It's been a long time. - Yes, yes, sir. Yes, sir. 974 00:32:21,625 --> 00:32:23,208 You doing well? 975 00:32:23,291 --> 00:32:24,000 Uh, I'm doing well. I'm doing pretty good 976 00:32:24,083 --> 00:32:25,583 for myself. 977 00:32:25,667 --> 00:32:26,583 I see you've transitioned a little bit 978 00:32:26,667 --> 00:32:28,375 to old--old shows. 979 00:32:28,458 --> 00:32:29,959 Absolutely, absolutely. 980 00:32:30,041 --> 00:32:30,875 What are you doing? 981 00:32:30,959 --> 00:32:32,041 Wu-Tang, you know? 982 00:32:32,125 --> 00:32:33,208 - Okay. - Wu-Tang group. 983 00:32:33,291 --> 00:32:34,792 Same group. Same group stuff. 984 00:32:34,875 --> 00:32:35,959 Just, you know, me and him-- 985 00:32:36,041 --> 00:32:37,250 you know, we have-- we was best friends, 986 00:32:37,333 --> 00:32:38,417 so, you know, we just transitioned 987 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:39,583 to something else. 988 00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:40,542 - [laughs] - You know. 989 00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:42,417 You know, I have dreams 990 00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:44,583 about--like, I'll be in the dream 991 00:32:44,667 --> 00:32:46,000 and I'm working here again. 992 00:32:46,083 --> 00:32:47,375 You gotta understand, for me, 993 00:32:47,458 --> 00:32:49,000 these--these are still moments 994 00:32:49,083 --> 00:32:50,542 that are just etched in my brain forever, 995 00:32:50,625 --> 00:32:52,291 because it was a highlight of my life. 996 00:32:52,375 --> 00:32:54,000 Even though with the career and everything, 997 00:32:54,083 --> 00:32:56,083 this is still one of the highlights of our life. 998 00:32:56,166 --> 00:32:57,458 Best job I ever freaking had. 999 00:32:57,542 --> 00:32:58,792 Thank you very much. 1000 00:32:58,875 --> 00:33:00,000 You still in Staten Island? 1001 00:33:00,083 --> 00:33:01,333 Yeah, same place. 1002 00:33:01,417 --> 00:33:02,583 - Same place? - Really? 1003 00:33:02,667 --> 00:33:04,125 - Well... - More or less. 1004 00:33:04,208 --> 00:33:05,917 - I mean the same borough. - [laughs] 1005 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,750 A little nicer-- a little nicer place. 1006 00:33:07,834 --> 00:33:08,917 A little bit-- a little nicer place. 1007 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,083 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My kids-- 1008 00:33:10,166 --> 00:33:11,750 they didn't have to grow up 1009 00:33:11,834 --> 00:33:13,125 where I grew up at. That's the best part. 1010 00:33:13,208 --> 00:33:14,083 - The way it should be, right? - Yeah. 1011 00:33:14,166 --> 00:33:15,083 [Method Man] Let me see 1012 00:33:15,166 --> 00:33:16,333 if I still remember this. 1013 00:33:16,417 --> 00:33:17,500 All right, I still got it. 1014 00:33:19,834 --> 00:33:22,333 ♪♪♪ 1015 00:33:22,417 --> 00:33:24,041 How you doing, sir? 1016 00:33:24,125 --> 00:33:25,625 Mind if I get this? Thank you. 1017 00:33:25,709 --> 00:33:26,959 [U-God] That's what I was telling him. 1018 00:33:27,041 --> 00:33:28,750 Like, it's about getting that money. 1019 00:33:28,834 --> 00:33:30,125 Only--the only--the only-- only thing-- 1020 00:33:30,208 --> 00:33:31,709 only thing that's gonna get you freedom 1021 00:33:31,792 --> 00:33:33,458 is your money, is money, tell you the truth, 1022 00:33:33,542 --> 00:33:35,208 and I know dudes don't like to really, like, 1023 00:33:35,291 --> 00:33:37,208 to put--emphasize on money like that, 1024 00:33:37,291 --> 00:33:39,333 but that's the only thing gonna get freedom, 1025 00:33:39,417 --> 00:33:40,709 because other than that, 1026 00:33:40,792 --> 00:33:42,291 this is gonna be-- 1027 00:33:42,375 --> 00:33:43,709 I don't know, man. They just-- 1028 00:33:43,792 --> 00:33:46,041 just--it's just fucked-up. 1029 00:33:46,125 --> 00:33:50,959 ♪♪♪ 1030 00:33:51,041 --> 00:33:51,750 Look at it, look at it. 1031 00:33:51,834 --> 00:33:55,625 ♪♪♪ 1032 00:33:55,709 --> 00:33:57,542 There is no way she's black. 1033 00:33:57,625 --> 00:34:00,125 ♪♪♪ 1034 00:34:00,208 --> 00:34:01,959 [RZA] You know, I think New York is like a-- 1035 00:34:02,041 --> 00:34:03,500 a Mecca of entrepreneurs. 1036 00:34:03,583 --> 00:34:05,417 Sometime, we'd be at the highway, 1037 00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:06,959 selling the newspapers. 1038 00:34:07,041 --> 00:34:07,917 [U-God] We sold newspapers 1039 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,583 on the Verrazzano Bridge. 1040 00:34:09,667 --> 00:34:10,667 [Raekwon] Yeah, on the Verrazzano, 1041 00:34:10,750 --> 00:34:11,583 and I remember, 1042 00:34:11,667 --> 00:34:12,542 RZ and them, they-- 1043 00:34:12,625 --> 00:34:14,041 they had those lanes. 1044 00:34:14,125 --> 00:34:15,417 Like, they was smart enough to know 1045 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:17,208 what lanes was jumping and shit. 1046 00:34:17,291 --> 00:34:18,750 The worst that you could get is the truck lane. 1047 00:34:18,834 --> 00:34:20,792 Papers going for 30¢, 1048 00:34:20,875 --> 00:34:22,834 they give you a dime all for every paper, 1049 00:34:22,917 --> 00:34:25,500 so you get about 15 bucks a day doing that. 1050 00:34:25,583 --> 00:34:27,959 For a welfare family, that's an important income, 1051 00:34:28,041 --> 00:34:29,792 $15 a day. 1052 00:34:29,875 --> 00:34:32,583 I was working in Grand Central Station 1053 00:34:32,667 --> 00:34:34,125 as a messenger, bro. 1054 00:34:34,208 --> 00:34:36,375 Packing bags at the supermarket. 1055 00:34:36,458 --> 00:34:39,166 I used to work for the, uh, transit authority, 1056 00:34:39,250 --> 00:34:41,250 cleaning two cars a day. 1057 00:34:41,333 --> 00:34:42,667 My pops died when I was six, 1058 00:34:42,750 --> 00:34:44,583 so I'm trying to take a little-- 1059 00:34:44,667 --> 00:34:46,875 a little bit of the-- of the pressure 1060 00:34:46,959 --> 00:34:48,333 off my mom, to try to raise 1061 00:34:48,417 --> 00:34:49,834 three kids, you know what I'm saying? 1062 00:34:49,917 --> 00:34:50,875 Trying to make money, 1063 00:34:50,959 --> 00:34:52,000 just hustling any way I can, 1064 00:34:52,083 --> 00:34:53,875 so I was working, man. 1065 00:34:53,959 --> 00:34:56,875 ♪ melancholy music ♪ 1066 00:34:56,959 --> 00:35:00,500 [Jim] I grew up in a mostly all-white community, 1067 00:35:00,583 --> 00:35:03,166 so for me, like, hip-hop 1068 00:35:03,250 --> 00:35:05,709 is the love of language, 1069 00:35:05,792 --> 00:35:07,125 and its--its beauty 1070 00:35:07,208 --> 00:35:08,959 and what--and what you can do with it, 1071 00:35:09,041 --> 00:35:10,875 the amazing things you can do with it. 1072 00:35:10,959 --> 00:35:14,458 It's in me because of my appreciation for it. 1073 00:35:14,542 --> 00:35:16,875 We live in apartheid in America. 1074 00:35:16,959 --> 00:35:18,208 I don't care what anyone says. 1075 00:35:18,291 --> 00:35:19,875 This is like apartheid, 1076 00:35:19,959 --> 00:35:22,792 and, uh, oppressed people 1077 00:35:22,875 --> 00:35:25,417 on any level in the world 1078 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:27,041 in the history of humans-- 1079 00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:29,792 you cannot destroy the strength 1080 00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:31,458 of ideas, 1081 00:35:31,542 --> 00:35:34,125 and the Wu-Tang celebrate that. 1082 00:35:34,208 --> 00:35:37,333 They are warriors of the imagination, 1083 00:35:37,417 --> 00:35:39,417 and the power of the imagination 1084 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:42,166 is far stronger than guns or money. 1085 00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:44,750 ♪♪♪ 1086 00:35:44,834 --> 00:35:49,417 [woman singing] 1087 00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:54,375 ♪♪♪ 1088 00:35:59,208 --> 00:36:01,834 Staten Island is the-- the most racist, like, 1089 00:36:01,917 --> 00:36:04,500 to me, I think, out of all the boroughs. 1090 00:36:04,583 --> 00:36:06,750 [Raekwon] Our district was in a white neighborhood, 1091 00:36:06,834 --> 00:36:08,417 so, you know, some of us 1092 00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:09,542 didn't like going to school 1093 00:36:09,625 --> 00:36:11,208 because, you know, 1094 00:36:11,291 --> 00:36:12,792 we wanted to have that mixture. 1095 00:36:12,875 --> 00:36:14,792 We wanted to see more black people too. 1096 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:16,250 [Inspectah Deck] Park Hill niggas-- 1097 00:36:16,333 --> 00:36:17,500 we went to 13. 1098 00:36:17,583 --> 00:36:19,083 Where was 13? In Rose Bank. 1099 00:36:19,166 --> 00:36:20,792 Rose Bank... 1100 00:36:20,875 --> 00:36:23,500 ...mini-Mississippi. [laughs] 1101 00:36:23,583 --> 00:36:25,125 [man] This is Tompkins Avenue, 1102 00:36:25,208 --> 00:36:26,291 Rose Bank, Staten Island, 1103 00:36:26,375 --> 00:36:29,041 [crowd] Rose Bank! Rose Bank! 1104 00:36:29,125 --> 00:36:30,792 Rose Bank! Rose Bank! 1105 00:36:30,875 --> 00:36:35,250 Rose Bank! Rose Bank! Rose Bank! Rose Bank! 1106 00:36:35,333 --> 00:36:36,709 [Ghostface Killah] Don't be caught in Rose Bank. 1107 00:36:36,792 --> 00:36:37,959 They--they'll fuck you up in Rose Bank. 1108 00:36:38,041 --> 00:36:40,875 [shouting, whistling] 1109 00:36:42,875 --> 00:36:44,917 ♪ desolate music ♪ 1110 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,500 [woman] Black leaders on Staten Island 1111 00:36:46,583 --> 00:36:48,750 say a black teenager who was killed by a car 1112 00:36:48,834 --> 00:36:51,083 may have been trying to escape from a group of whites. 1113 00:36:51,166 --> 00:36:53,417 When I used to go to PS 13, 1114 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:55,542 you know, I don't know. I only coulda been, like, 1115 00:36:55,625 --> 00:36:57,500 nine, ten years old, and I used to remember 1116 00:36:57,583 --> 00:36:59,333 riding under this bridge trestle. 1117 00:36:59,417 --> 00:37:01,834 It used to say "Kill all niggers," you know, 1118 00:37:01,917 --> 00:37:03,250 "KKK," and I used to be like, 1119 00:37:03,333 --> 00:37:04,834 "Damn, that was really frightening," 1120 00:37:04,917 --> 00:37:06,000 and I had to go to school 1121 00:37:06,083 --> 00:37:06,875 every day like that, 1122 00:37:06,959 --> 00:37:08,750 and we was, like, kids 1123 00:37:08,834 --> 00:37:11,417 on the fucking yellow bus. Dude, like, 1124 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:13,125 who fucking put that shit there? 1125 00:37:13,208 --> 00:37:14,417 That shit-- you know what I mean? 1126 00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:16,834 That shit stood with me for a long time. 1127 00:37:16,917 --> 00:37:18,291 [woman chanting] ♪ Hey, hey, ho, ho ♪ 1128 00:37:18,375 --> 00:37:19,500 ♪ Racism's... ♪ 1129 00:37:23,125 --> 00:37:24,583 Go home and clean you off-- 1130 00:37:24,667 --> 00:37:26,333 why, you look like you white! 1131 00:37:26,417 --> 00:37:28,875 As a nine-, ten-year-old, 1132 00:37:28,959 --> 00:37:30,500 you getting chased 1133 00:37:30,583 --> 00:37:31,542 home from school 1134 00:37:31,625 --> 00:37:33,458 by grown-ass men. 1135 00:37:33,542 --> 00:37:35,375 "Damn, I'm somewhere I'm not supposed to be! 1136 00:37:35,458 --> 00:37:37,750 No blacks, not in this shit." 1137 00:37:37,834 --> 00:37:39,500 [reporter] Do black kids come around here? 1138 00:37:39,583 --> 00:37:42,375 Uh, they walk by freely. 1139 00:37:42,458 --> 00:37:43,834 [teenager] So the guy, 1140 00:37:43,917 --> 00:37:46,166 he get r--get in his car and he asks--say, 1141 00:37:46,250 --> 00:37:47,166 "What you niggers doing down here?" 1142 00:37:47,250 --> 00:37:48,291 Calling you "nigger," 1143 00:37:48,375 --> 00:37:49,333 "Get the fuck out of here." 1144 00:37:49,417 --> 00:37:51,000 "I'ma kill you, nigger," 1145 00:37:51,083 --> 00:37:52,208 throwing shit at you, 1146 00:37:52,291 --> 00:37:53,625 bottles busting in the street. 1147 00:37:53,709 --> 00:37:54,750 You nine. 1148 00:37:54,834 --> 00:37:56,083 They chase me. 1149 00:37:56,166 --> 00:37:57,125 One guy had got in his car 1150 00:37:57,208 --> 00:37:58,417 and he started chasing us. 1151 00:37:58,500 --> 00:37:59,583 They like, "Oh, we're gonna 1152 00:37:59,667 --> 00:38:00,750 have us a whipping right now." 1153 00:38:00,834 --> 00:38:02,583 Bro, you running, 1154 00:38:02,667 --> 00:38:05,000 and the bottle come--kssh!-- next to you--kssh! 1155 00:38:05,083 --> 00:38:06,542 A rock comes skipping 1156 00:38:06,625 --> 00:38:08,417 and some shit actually hits you in your back. 1157 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:10,208 They calling for more guys to come. 1158 00:38:10,291 --> 00:38:11,834 "Hey, Johnny! [nasal nondescript utterances] 1159 00:38:11,917 --> 00:38:13,333 Come over here! Yo!" [nasal nondescript utterances] 1160 00:38:13,417 --> 00:38:15,041 You thinking they really gonna kill you, man. 1161 00:38:15,125 --> 00:38:17,583 So I'm like, "Oh, shit." 1162 00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:19,792 Scared to death. Scared to death. 1163 00:38:19,875 --> 00:38:22,417 ♪ uneasy music ♪ 1164 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:23,458 Knew it all. Fights. 1165 00:38:23,542 --> 00:38:24,625 I remember sometimes, 1166 00:38:24,709 --> 00:38:25,834 a riot would jump off. 1167 00:38:25,917 --> 00:38:27,750 White boys chasing you. 1168 00:38:27,834 --> 00:38:30,000 You gotta fight a bunch of these football dudes 1169 00:38:30,083 --> 00:38:31,333 hoping to make it to the bus. 1170 00:38:31,417 --> 00:38:32,875 You know, 'cause back then, you know, 1171 00:38:32,959 --> 00:38:33,709 Italian white boys-- 1172 00:38:33,792 --> 00:38:34,834 they tough. 1173 00:38:34,917 --> 00:38:37,500 They grew up like fucking 1174 00:38:37,583 --> 00:38:38,792 Richie Cunningham and all them niggas. 1175 00:38:38,875 --> 00:38:40,208 The Fonz. 1176 00:38:40,291 --> 00:38:41,500 Coming to school with leathers on 1177 00:38:41,583 --> 00:38:42,834 with no shirt under. 1178 00:38:42,917 --> 00:38:44,250 You know, bold motherfuckers 1179 00:38:44,333 --> 00:38:46,041 like Grease, like-- 1180 00:38:46,125 --> 00:38:47,500 you know, those type of dudes. 1181 00:38:47,583 --> 00:38:48,625 You know what I mean? 1182 00:38:48,709 --> 00:38:49,583 That's why Grease is one 1183 00:38:49,667 --> 00:38:50,458 of my favorite movies, 1184 00:38:50,542 --> 00:38:51,542 'cause it just remind me 1185 00:38:51,625 --> 00:38:52,917 of those kind of dudes 1186 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,625 we went to school with. 1187 00:38:55,709 --> 00:38:59,250 You know, in Park Hill, you--you go to 350, 320, 1188 00:38:59,333 --> 00:39:01,959 that's--that's Little Spain. 1189 00:39:02,041 --> 00:39:03,792 Them niggas will whoop your ass. 1190 00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:04,917 Know what I'm saying? 1191 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,500 We got the Africans over here. 1192 00:39:07,583 --> 00:39:09,208 They'll whoop your ass. 1193 00:39:09,291 --> 00:39:11,125 We got the Jamaicans over here. 1194 00:39:11,208 --> 00:39:12,917 They'll whoop your ass. 1195 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,500 You got us. We'll whoop your ass. 1196 00:39:15,583 --> 00:39:17,458 The all the different sections of people 1197 00:39:17,542 --> 00:39:19,041 that there is 1198 00:39:19,125 --> 00:39:20,709 fighting for everything. 1199 00:39:20,792 --> 00:39:22,750 Fighting for closet space, 1200 00:39:22,834 --> 00:39:24,125 fighting for parking space, 1201 00:39:24,208 --> 00:39:25,667 fighting for the same jacket 1202 00:39:25,750 --> 00:39:26,959 from the same store. 1203 00:39:27,041 --> 00:39:29,750 It was always conflict. 1204 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:36,542 ♪ hip-hop music ♪ 1205 00:39:36,625 --> 00:39:39,625 [indistinct chatter] 1206 00:39:45,291 --> 00:39:47,542 [man] All right, if I could get your undivided attention, 1207 00:39:47,625 --> 00:39:48,959 you'll get a chance to learn 1208 00:39:49,041 --> 00:39:51,291 what the Five Percenters are all about. 1209 00:39:51,375 --> 00:39:53,125 We're about elevation. 1210 00:39:53,208 --> 00:39:56,709 All y'all and us are one family, 1211 00:39:56,792 --> 00:39:59,500 so we build to teach our babies how to live 1212 00:39:59,583 --> 00:40:01,166 right and exact 1213 00:40:01,250 --> 00:40:03,417 by giving them the knowledge of themselves 1214 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:05,000 so they can elevate themselves. 1215 00:40:05,083 --> 00:40:07,125 [cheers] 1216 00:40:07,208 --> 00:40:08,959 [RZA] Being part of the Five Percent at that time-- 1217 00:40:09,041 --> 00:40:11,166 the Mathematics and the knowledge of self. 1218 00:40:11,250 --> 00:40:13,250 The brothers was very unified. 1219 00:40:13,333 --> 00:40:15,291 We all could say we was, like, 1220 00:40:15,375 --> 00:40:17,750 totally converted into that, 1221 00:40:17,834 --> 00:40:19,125 totally immersed into it. 1222 00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:21,625 ♪ pensive music ♪ 1223 00:40:21,709 --> 00:40:22,959 So the Five Percent Nation 1224 00:40:23,041 --> 00:40:24,875 has its origin 1225 00:40:24,959 --> 00:40:26,875 with a brother who was called 1226 00:40:26,959 --> 00:40:29,000 the Father, Allah. 1227 00:40:29,083 --> 00:40:32,583 His birth name was Clarence 13X Smith. 1228 00:40:32,667 --> 00:40:35,208 He was a student at temple number seven 1229 00:40:35,291 --> 00:40:37,000 under Malcolm X, 1230 00:40:37,083 --> 00:40:38,458 Malcolm X being the student 1231 00:40:38,542 --> 00:40:40,375 of the honorable Elijah Muhammad, 1232 00:40:40,458 --> 00:40:42,083 but the Father said 1233 00:40:42,166 --> 00:40:43,208 these lessons belong 1234 00:40:43,291 --> 00:40:45,083 in the hands of the youth, 1235 00:40:45,166 --> 00:40:47,458 so he left the temple, 1236 00:40:47,542 --> 00:40:49,709 took the lessons, 1237 00:40:49,792 --> 00:40:52,208 and brought them to the streets of New York. 1238 00:40:52,291 --> 00:40:54,417 See, we are Five Percent, the poor righteous teachers. 1239 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:55,583 Five Percent is going to do their job 1240 00:40:55,667 --> 00:40:57,125 in the poor part of Planet Earth. 1241 00:40:57,208 --> 00:40:58,542 That's why we're the high, intelligent people 1242 00:40:58,625 --> 00:41:00,250 of this planet Earth. 1243 00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:01,375 See, we gonna be building. 1244 00:41:01,458 --> 00:41:02,875 We gonna build a black nation 1245 00:41:02,959 --> 00:41:05,083 that's gonna be all wise and righteous. 1246 00:41:05,166 --> 00:41:05,959 You hear me speak-- ain't no difference. 1247 00:41:06,041 --> 00:41:07,750 We all as one. 1248 00:41:07,834 --> 00:41:09,083 [RZA] I was given knowledge of myself 1249 00:41:09,166 --> 00:41:09,959 from my cousin, 1250 00:41:10,041 --> 00:41:11,208 the GZA. 1251 00:41:11,291 --> 00:41:12,208 The GZA was the one 1252 00:41:12,291 --> 00:41:13,375 who enlightened me. 1253 00:41:13,458 --> 00:41:14,959 At the time, 1254 00:41:15,041 --> 00:41:17,041 his name was Allah Justice, 1255 00:41:17,125 --> 00:41:19,166 and he explains the Mathematics. 1256 00:41:19,250 --> 00:41:20,458 The Supreme Mathematics-- 1257 00:41:20,542 --> 00:41:21,959 knowledge, wisdom, 1258 00:41:22,041 --> 00:41:23,667 understanding, 1259 00:41:23,750 --> 00:41:25,041 culture or freedom, 1260 00:41:25,125 --> 00:41:25,959 power or refinement, 1261 00:41:26,041 --> 00:41:28,166 equality, god, 1262 00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:29,166 build or destroy, 1263 00:41:29,250 --> 00:41:32,041 born, knowledge, cipher, 1264 00:41:32,125 --> 00:41:34,542 is the essence of the lessons we study. 1265 00:41:34,625 --> 00:41:37,208 Knowledge is to look, listen, whole soul respect. 1266 00:41:37,291 --> 00:41:40,250 Wisdom is the way we keep the snakes in check. 1267 00:41:40,333 --> 00:41:43,041 Understanding is to what? See things clear. 1268 00:41:43,125 --> 00:41:45,250 The culture frees the dumb so the deaf will hear. 1269 00:41:45,333 --> 00:41:47,166 The first lesson of the Five Percent teaching-- 1270 00:41:47,250 --> 00:41:48,291 it says, 1271 00:41:48,375 --> 00:41:51,333 "Who is 1272 00:41:51,417 --> 00:41:53,458 the original man?" 1273 00:41:53,542 --> 00:41:56,250 The answer is the original man 1274 00:41:56,333 --> 00:41:59,166 is the Asiatic Blackman. 1275 00:41:59,250 --> 00:42:01,125 It's a powerful thing at a young age, 1276 00:42:01,208 --> 00:42:04,500 learning about yourself. 1277 00:42:04,583 --> 00:42:06,792 [RZA] We are not just the children of slaves. 1278 00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:08,375 You know what I mean? 1279 00:42:08,458 --> 00:42:09,834 The original man is the-- 1280 00:42:09,917 --> 00:42:11,667 is the father of civilization. 1281 00:42:11,750 --> 00:42:15,041 ♪ Say who is the original man ♪ 1282 00:42:15,125 --> 00:42:17,667 ♪ Who is the original man ♪ 1283 00:42:17,750 --> 00:42:20,000 ♪ Say who is the original man ♪ 1284 00:42:20,083 --> 00:42:22,333 ♪ Who is the original man ♪ 1285 00:42:22,417 --> 00:42:25,166 ♪ The Asiatic Blackman ♪ 1286 00:42:25,250 --> 00:42:27,375 ♪ Asiatic Blackman ♪ 1287 00:42:27,458 --> 00:42:30,125 ♪ The maker, the owner ♪ 1288 00:42:30,208 --> 00:42:32,458 ♪ The cream of the planet Earth ♪ 1289 00:42:32,542 --> 00:42:35,417 ♪ The father of civilization ♪ 1290 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:37,417 ♪ Father of civilization ♪ 1291 00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:39,417 Pop it! 1292 00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,125 I felt like the Mathematics 1293 00:42:41,208 --> 00:42:42,750 gave brothers, like, high self-esteem. 1294 00:42:42,834 --> 00:42:44,083 [U-God] You know what I mean? It just 1295 00:42:44,166 --> 00:42:45,500 gave you a different outlook on, um-- 1296 00:42:45,583 --> 00:42:47,375 - On life. - [U-God] On life. 1297 00:42:47,458 --> 00:42:48,709 [U-God] You know, when you heard the Blackman was God, 1298 00:42:48,792 --> 00:42:50,333 it was like, "What? Blackman is god?" 1299 00:42:50,417 --> 00:42:51,625 It was like, "Unh!" Your chest got poked out. 1300 00:42:51,709 --> 00:42:53,333 [U-God] You're like, "Yeah, it's real." 1301 00:42:53,417 --> 00:42:54,542 - Made you responsible. - Yeah. 1302 00:42:54,625 --> 00:42:55,667 And that wisdom and knowledge-- 1303 00:42:55,750 --> 00:42:56,667 that's why we ended up, 1304 00:42:56,750 --> 00:42:57,709 you know, who we are. 1305 00:42:57,792 --> 00:43:00,291 A whole new outlook. 1306 00:43:00,375 --> 00:43:01,625 [RZA] People would say, "Why do you go off-track, RZA? 1307 00:43:01,709 --> 00:43:03,333 You got knowledge of self." 1308 00:43:03,417 --> 00:43:05,000 I had mental freedom, 1309 00:43:05,083 --> 00:43:07,625 but I didn't have economic freedom. 1310 00:43:09,458 --> 00:43:11,208 Yeah. 1311 00:43:11,291 --> 00:43:13,208 ♪ How many MCs must take a chill ♪ 1312 00:43:13,291 --> 00:43:16,166 ♪ Before somebody says don't fuck with Park Hill ♪ 1313 00:43:16,250 --> 00:43:19,125 ♪ Well, this one here is called [indistinct] ♪ 1314 00:43:19,208 --> 00:43:21,792 ♪ Straight from the island of Shaolin is direct ♪ 1315 00:43:21,875 --> 00:43:24,792 ♪ [indistinct] killer bee out to bust you ♪ 1316 00:43:24,875 --> 00:43:26,291 ♪ Pockets stay fat like a muscle ♪ 1317 00:43:26,375 --> 00:43:28,333 ♪ Sharpen the mental ♪ 1318 00:43:28,417 --> 00:43:30,625 ♪ Hard to tell what a nigga been through ♪ 1319 00:43:30,709 --> 00:43:31,750 [Cappadonna] Storm of Jamaicans 1320 00:43:31,834 --> 00:43:32,709 come through our hood, 1321 00:43:32,792 --> 00:43:35,041 like, '85, '86, 1322 00:43:35,125 --> 00:43:38,625 with big chunks of gold on, 1323 00:43:38,709 --> 00:43:41,083 gold in the mouth, know what I'm saying? 1324 00:43:41,166 --> 00:43:43,166 That's when I first seen that shit. 1325 00:43:43,250 --> 00:43:44,125 I was like, "Yo, how are you getting that?" 1326 00:43:44,208 --> 00:43:49,375 ♪♪♪ 1327 00:43:49,458 --> 00:43:51,375 [Method Man] The majority of people I grew up with 1328 00:43:51,458 --> 00:43:53,417 was drug dealers now. 1329 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:55,959 Everybody was selling crack. 1330 00:43:56,041 --> 00:43:57,417 Typical work day, I get up 1331 00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:58,750 5:00 in the morning, 1332 00:43:58,834 --> 00:44:00,542 we get our little sandwich, 1333 00:44:00,625 --> 00:44:02,166 which was a little pastrami and Swiss, 1334 00:44:02,250 --> 00:44:03,583 they go around the corner, 1335 00:44:03,667 --> 00:44:04,542 find your stash... 1336 00:44:04,625 --> 00:44:07,375 Mm-hmm. [muffled] 1337 00:44:07,458 --> 00:44:09,166 ♪ A hand in your pocket and one by your side ♪ 1338 00:44:09,250 --> 00:44:11,250 [U-God] And then you rockin'. 1339 00:44:11,333 --> 00:44:12,750 I was moving, like, probably, like, a brick a week, man. 1340 00:44:12,834 --> 00:44:14,792 You know, you've always just tried to live 1341 00:44:14,875 --> 00:44:16,208 this American dream, paying for itself 1342 00:44:16,291 --> 00:44:18,834 to get through college, all that shit. 1343 00:44:18,917 --> 00:44:20,041 I ain't gonna say we was partners. 1344 00:44:20,125 --> 00:44:21,291 We definitely wasn't partners. 1345 00:44:21,375 --> 00:44:22,542 I was out there, selling his shit. 1346 00:44:22,625 --> 00:44:23,375 Boom. Next thing you know, 1347 00:44:23,458 --> 00:44:24,834 I'm out there with the pack. 1348 00:44:24,917 --> 00:44:27,000 I'm scrambling, I'm scrambling. 1349 00:44:27,083 --> 00:44:30,125 All of a sudden, this epidemic hit, you know, 1350 00:44:30,208 --> 00:44:31,250 and now, your neighborhood is worth 1351 00:44:31,333 --> 00:44:33,000 $1/4 million a day. 1352 00:44:33,083 --> 00:44:34,583 That's interesting to me. You know what I mean? 1353 00:44:34,667 --> 00:44:35,709 My older brother 1354 00:44:35,792 --> 00:44:37,917 Divine was the hustler. 1355 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,709 He was the source of the family, in a way. 1356 00:44:40,792 --> 00:44:42,166 Come to my house, you see a pair 1357 00:44:42,250 --> 00:44:44,250 Technic 1200 turntables. 1358 00:44:44,333 --> 00:44:46,792 My brother got that from hustling. 1359 00:44:46,875 --> 00:44:47,834 [Method Man] And in the midst of all this, 1360 00:44:47,917 --> 00:44:49,041 we had been making, 1361 00:44:49,125 --> 00:44:50,458 you know, little tapes and shit 1362 00:44:50,542 --> 00:44:51,792 at RZA's house for years. 1363 00:44:51,875 --> 00:44:53,458 Gotta go to Rakeem's house, 1364 00:44:53,542 --> 00:44:55,750 work on this music. 1365 00:44:55,834 --> 00:44:56,875 After we doing our little hustling 1366 00:44:56,959 --> 00:44:58,500 on the front of the building, 1367 00:44:58,583 --> 00:44:59,834 and we should just say, "The hell with it, man." 1368 00:44:59,917 --> 00:45:01,083 We go see Ra down in Stapleton, 1369 00:45:01,166 --> 00:45:03,041 go hit them beats up, okay? 1370 00:45:03,125 --> 00:45:04,917 ♪ Ooh, what, grab my nuts, get screwed ♪ 1371 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,709 ♪ Ah, here comes my Shaolin style ♪ 1372 00:45:07,792 --> 00:45:10,542 ♪ True B-A-ba-B-Y-U ♪ 1373 00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:12,375 ♪ To my crew with a ♪ 1374 00:45:12,458 --> 00:45:14,458 ♪ Suu ♪ 1375 00:45:14,542 --> 00:45:15,417 It's gonna blow, boys. 1376 00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:17,250 [RZA] It was my dream, 1377 00:45:17,333 --> 00:45:19,166 but Divine contributed to that dream, 1378 00:45:19,250 --> 00:45:21,166 but he got locked up. 1379 00:45:21,250 --> 00:45:23,625 You know a child can be guided on the right path 1380 00:45:23,709 --> 00:45:25,333 if you put that proper knowledge, 1381 00:45:25,417 --> 00:45:26,667 wisdom, understanding inside of his head. 1382 00:45:26,750 --> 00:45:27,959 You know what I mean? 1383 00:45:28,041 --> 00:45:29,667 And the proper opportunities. 1384 00:45:29,750 --> 00:45:31,166 When I got knowledge of self, 1385 00:45:31,250 --> 00:45:33,000 I had to choose a name for myself. 1386 00:45:33,083 --> 00:45:35,333 I came with the name Rakeem. 1387 00:45:35,417 --> 00:45:37,583 Uh, there's not really a Arabic word for it, either, 1388 00:45:37,667 --> 00:45:39,041 so I had to find the word 1389 00:45:39,125 --> 00:45:40,792 that's--it means to be original. 1390 00:45:40,875 --> 00:45:42,667 Zig-zag-zig 1391 00:45:42,750 --> 00:45:44,834 actually means "knowledge, wisdom, understanding." 1392 00:45:44,917 --> 00:45:47,500 I was going on the right path, 1393 00:45:47,583 --> 00:45:49,083 and then I got caught 1394 00:45:49,166 --> 00:45:50,500 into a world 1395 00:45:50,583 --> 00:45:52,333 of trouble, turmoil, 1396 00:45:52,417 --> 00:45:54,625 doing the wrong things, 1397 00:45:54,709 --> 00:45:56,709 and I zagged away, 1398 00:45:56,792 --> 00:45:58,625 which led to nothing but more trouble for me. 1399 00:46:00,208 --> 00:46:02,709 Once Divine got locked up, 1400 00:46:02,792 --> 00:46:05,375 my mother had left New York City. 1401 00:46:05,458 --> 00:46:07,500 She went to Ohio: 1402 00:46:07,583 --> 00:46:09,709 Steubenville, Ohio, 1403 00:46:09,792 --> 00:46:11,250 the birthplace of Dean Martin. 1404 00:46:11,333 --> 00:46:13,709 ♪ somber synth music ♪ 1405 00:46:13,792 --> 00:46:16,166 I was, you know, 18 years old. 1406 00:46:16,250 --> 00:46:17,792 That's when me and Ghostface became roommates, 1407 00:46:17,875 --> 00:46:18,917 and next thing you know, 1408 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,333 we got months behind the rent, 1409 00:46:21,417 --> 00:46:22,875 and the only way to put bread on the table 1410 00:46:22,959 --> 00:46:25,125 was to get back to street hustling. 1411 00:46:25,208 --> 00:46:29,250 ♪♪♪ 1412 00:46:29,333 --> 00:46:31,375 [Method Man] Crack damaged the fucking hood 1413 00:46:31,458 --> 00:46:33,625 in an explosive way, like, overnight. 1414 00:46:33,709 --> 00:46:35,583 [Cappadonna] It was a lot of cash flow 1415 00:46:35,667 --> 00:46:37,625 involved, but the consequences 1416 00:46:37,709 --> 00:46:39,166 w-was big. 1417 00:46:39,250 --> 00:46:40,792 I hated that shit. 1418 00:46:40,875 --> 00:46:42,875 I hated selling on the block. 1419 00:46:42,959 --> 00:46:45,166 Dudes was getting murdered. 1420 00:46:45,250 --> 00:46:47,041 My brother got shot in the stomach couple of times. 1421 00:46:47,125 --> 00:46:48,834 - You know what I'm saying? - [gunshots] 1422 00:46:48,917 --> 00:46:51,083 I got the phone call that Ghost got shot. 1423 00:46:51,166 --> 00:46:52,750 - My stomach dropped. - [gunshots] 1424 00:46:52,834 --> 00:46:55,709 "Yeah, a bitch nigga shot me, my neck up." 1425 00:46:55,792 --> 00:46:58,000 No. I got shot out there, 1426 00:46:58,083 --> 00:47:00,166 but that's not the reason why we wrote "Protect Ya Neck." 1427 00:47:00,250 --> 00:47:02,583 That was a very scary time right there. 1428 00:47:02,667 --> 00:47:05,750 A lot of niggas gone, in jail. 1429 00:47:05,834 --> 00:47:07,458 I got locked up 1430 00:47:07,542 --> 00:47:09,583 for 3 1/2 ounces of coke and a gun. 1431 00:47:09,667 --> 00:47:11,291 Cappa was gone, in jail. 1432 00:47:11,375 --> 00:47:13,166 Yeah, I got smack 1433 00:47:13,250 --> 00:47:15,125 around '87, 1434 00:47:15,208 --> 00:47:16,250 and they sent me to Rikers Island. 1435 00:47:16,333 --> 00:47:18,375 Deck was gone, in jail. 1436 00:47:18,458 --> 00:47:19,792 I sold crack 1437 00:47:19,875 --> 00:47:21,875 to an undercover officer. 1438 00:47:21,959 --> 00:47:23,542 Instead of stopping, 1439 00:47:23,625 --> 00:47:24,917 we went harder. 1440 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,166 [two gunshots] 1441 00:47:27,250 --> 00:47:30,583 It was just a bad night, you know what I mean? 1442 00:47:30,667 --> 00:47:34,208 [sirens wailing] 1443 00:47:34,291 --> 00:47:36,875 I got into some trouble to--as, uh, violence ensued. 1444 00:47:36,959 --> 00:47:38,417 [gunshot] 1445 00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:41,625 - Kid got shot. - [gunshot] 1446 00:47:41,709 --> 00:47:44,542 Led to me facing eight years in jail. 1447 00:47:44,625 --> 00:47:46,333 ♪♪♪ 1448 00:47:46,417 --> 00:47:48,166 I went to trial. 1449 00:47:48,250 --> 00:47:49,583 You know, black dudes don't really go to trial 1450 00:47:49,667 --> 00:47:52,125 to win, you know what I mean? 1451 00:47:52,208 --> 00:47:54,166 The prosecutor wasn't making no deals with me. 1452 00:47:54,250 --> 00:47:56,125 He was taking me all the way. 1453 00:47:56,208 --> 00:47:58,834 ♪♪♪ 1454 00:47:58,917 --> 00:48:00,500 I'm in prison, y'all. 1455 00:48:00,583 --> 00:48:02,375 I felt totally alone. 1456 00:48:02,458 --> 00:48:05,041 [cell doors slamming] 1457 00:48:05,125 --> 00:48:07,083 And, you know, 1458 00:48:07,166 --> 00:48:09,959 I was blessed to-- to beat that one. 1459 00:48:10,041 --> 00:48:11,458 My mother came out and she saw me. 1460 00:48:11,542 --> 00:48:12,750 She looked me in my eyes 1461 00:48:12,834 --> 00:48:14,959 and said this was my second chance. 1462 00:48:15,041 --> 00:48:17,291 Don't look back. Walk straight. 1463 00:48:17,375 --> 00:48:19,583 Walk that straight and narrow path. 1464 00:48:19,667 --> 00:48:21,458 I did that. 1465 00:48:21,542 --> 00:48:23,083 I zigged back. 1466 00:48:23,166 --> 00:48:24,333 You know, it was like, "Nah, 1467 00:48:24,417 --> 00:48:26,000 I'm not Prince Rakeem." 1468 00:48:26,083 --> 00:48:27,667 I'm the RZA. 1469 00:48:27,750 --> 00:48:30,208 I'm Rakeem Zig-Zag-Zig Allah. 1470 00:48:30,291 --> 00:48:31,667 ♪ Yo, life is a struggle ♪ 1471 00:48:31,750 --> 00:48:33,166 After I got out of jail, 1472 00:48:33,250 --> 00:48:34,667 I drove back to New York 1473 00:48:34,750 --> 00:48:36,583 and started making music. 1474 00:48:36,667 --> 00:48:39,375 [indistinct rapping] 1475 00:48:39,458 --> 00:48:40,583 ♪ I be the best by far ♪ 1476 00:48:40,667 --> 00:48:41,792 ♪ Bust it up ♪ 1477 00:48:44,542 --> 00:48:46,875 I was ready to get serious again, you know what I mean? 1478 00:48:46,959 --> 00:48:50,000 [indistinct chatter] 1479 00:48:53,333 --> 00:48:55,291 Hey, they don't know where you coming from. 1480 00:48:55,375 --> 00:48:57,583 [Inspectah Deck] When RZA moved to Morningstar, 1481 00:48:57,667 --> 00:48:59,250 that's around the time 1482 00:48:59,333 --> 00:49:00,875 where he got the idea 1483 00:49:00,959 --> 00:49:02,542 of putting the clan together. 1484 00:49:02,625 --> 00:49:04,500 Kick that shit, Deck. 1485 00:49:04,583 --> 00:49:06,500 ♪ I smoke on the mic like Smokin' Joe Frazier ♪ 1486 00:49:06,583 --> 00:49:09,250 ♪ The hell-raiser, raising hell with the flavor ♪ 1487 00:49:09,333 --> 00:49:11,709 ♪ Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan ♪ 1488 00:49:11,792 --> 00:49:14,125 ♪ Swinging through your town like your neighborhood 1489 00:49:14,208 --> 00:49:15,709 Check him out, man. Yo, what he just said--- 1490 00:49:15,792 --> 00:49:17,667 it sounded crazy, crazy threatening, 1491 00:49:17,750 --> 00:49:20,625 but it wasn't really no actual violence being spoken. 1492 00:49:20,709 --> 00:49:22,417 [RZA] Terrorize the jams. 1493 00:49:22,500 --> 00:49:24,875 He terrorizing jams-- not--not--not old ladies, 1494 00:49:24,959 --> 00:49:26,542 not little kids, not--not spu-- 1495 00:49:26,625 --> 00:49:29,917 He terrorizing the jams like troops in Pakistan. 1496 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,542 Troops in Pakistan. 1497 00:49:31,625 --> 00:49:33,583 You know, they was terrorizing Pakistan. 1498 00:49:33,667 --> 00:49:36,291 [RZA] I identified Staten Island 1499 00:49:36,375 --> 00:49:37,542 and these crew of dudes 1500 00:49:37,625 --> 00:49:39,041 that I go have cyphers with, 1501 00:49:39,125 --> 00:49:40,250 and these dudes is coming 1502 00:49:40,333 --> 00:49:41,583 to my house, making demos 1503 00:49:41,667 --> 00:49:43,041 all the illest. 1504 00:49:43,125 --> 00:49:44,959 ♪ I'm blow up your projects ♪ 1505 00:49:45,041 --> 00:49:46,834 ♪ Then take all your assets ♪ 1506 00:49:46,917 --> 00:49:49,583 ♪ 'Cause I came to shake the frame in half ♪ 1507 00:49:49,667 --> 00:49:52,709 ♪ With the thoughts that bomb shit like math ♪ 1508 00:49:52,792 --> 00:49:55,417 Like mathematics. You understand? 1509 00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:56,875 [Inspectah Deck] Being around with my brothers 1510 00:49:56,959 --> 00:49:58,667 and we rhyming and we getting down, 1511 00:49:58,750 --> 00:50:00,291 it's like, "Damn, 1512 00:50:00,375 --> 00:50:02,000 have we heard that shit?" Like, 1513 00:50:02,083 --> 00:50:04,125 "Say that part again. Like w-what was that?" 1514 00:50:04,208 --> 00:50:05,792 ♪ So if you want to try to flip ♪ 1515 00:50:05,875 --> 00:50:07,542 ♪ Go flip on the next man ♪ 1516 00:50:07,625 --> 00:50:09,083 [GZA] Oh, don't flip on us. 1517 00:50:09,166 --> 00:50:10,750 ♪ 'Cause I'll grab the clip and ♪ 1518 00:50:10,834 --> 00:50:12,291 ♪ Hit you with 16 shots... ♪ 1519 00:50:12,375 --> 00:50:14,792 And that's when the vision hit me. 1520 00:50:14,875 --> 00:50:17,125 Everything--the righteousness-- everything came to me. 1521 00:50:17,208 --> 00:50:20,291 A'ight, this is-- this the road manager here of Wu-Tang. 1522 00:50:20,375 --> 00:50:21,959 I don't know how in the world 1523 00:50:22,041 --> 00:50:24,000 you keep all these brothers together. 1524 00:50:24,083 --> 00:50:25,291 I must shake your hand on that, 1525 00:50:25,375 --> 00:50:28,500 'cause I know it's a hard job. 1526 00:50:28,583 --> 00:50:30,083 Mook was our manager, 1527 00:50:30,166 --> 00:50:32,917 our first manager back in the days. 1528 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,750 ♪ somber music ♪ 1529 00:50:34,834 --> 00:50:36,125 [Mook] Well, my cousins. You know, 1530 00:50:36,208 --> 00:50:37,709 RZA. 1531 00:50:37,792 --> 00:50:38,792 Not only my cousin. 1532 00:50:38,875 --> 00:50:40,875 He's also my god-brother. 1533 00:50:40,959 --> 00:50:41,959 Yeah, I was a entrepreneur, 1534 00:50:42,041 --> 00:50:43,667 just like everybody else, you know. 1535 00:50:43,750 --> 00:50:45,583 Had my first child 1536 00:50:45,667 --> 00:50:48,291 and I knew my life had to change. 1537 00:50:48,375 --> 00:50:51,375 Then I became a New York City bus driver. 1538 00:50:51,458 --> 00:50:52,959 RZA came to me and said, "Look, 1539 00:50:53,041 --> 00:50:54,417 I really want you to help me, 1540 00:50:54,500 --> 00:50:55,875 help me, you know, with my music," and, 1541 00:50:55,959 --> 00:50:57,417 "Uh, man, I ain't got time 1542 00:50:57,500 --> 00:50:58,667 for that bullshit." 1543 00:50:58,750 --> 00:51:02,583 I was driving the bus. 1544 00:51:02,667 --> 00:51:03,959 And when I was talking to him, 1545 00:51:04,041 --> 00:51:06,041 I'm just looking at his eyes. 1546 00:51:06,125 --> 00:51:07,375 I-I see something in his eyes 1547 00:51:07,458 --> 00:51:08,959 that was, like, he ain't bullshitting. 1548 00:51:09,041 --> 00:51:10,166 He's for real. 1549 00:51:10,250 --> 00:51:12,625 So I told him, "A'ight, 1550 00:51:12,709 --> 00:51:13,917 I'll work with you, 1551 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,166 but don't fuck with me, man. 1552 00:51:15,250 --> 00:51:17,166 If we're gonna do this shit, 1553 00:51:17,250 --> 00:51:19,166 you gotta give me all you got, 1554 00:51:19,250 --> 00:51:20,750 'cause I'm gonna give you all I got. 1555 00:51:20,834 --> 00:51:22,333 That's the only way I know how to do something." 1556 00:51:22,417 --> 00:51:25,166 I knew nothing about the music business. 1557 00:51:25,250 --> 00:51:27,667 I was brand-spanking-new. 1558 00:51:27,750 --> 00:51:29,959 I just knew how to move a product. 1559 00:51:30,041 --> 00:51:32,583 To me, records was product. 1560 00:51:32,667 --> 00:51:34,166 First thing to come in, "Protect Ya Neck." 1561 00:51:34,250 --> 00:51:36,417 We gotta make people listen to it. 1562 00:51:36,500 --> 00:51:38,542 ♪ Wu-Tang Clan coming at ya ♪ 1563 00:51:38,625 --> 00:51:41,000 ♪ What, what, Protect Ya Neck, yo ♪ 1564 00:51:41,083 --> 00:51:42,792 ♪ Russell, set it off ♪ 1565 00:51:42,875 --> 00:51:45,417 ♪ What, what the Inspectah Deck ♪ 1566 00:51:45,500 --> 00:51:47,709 ♪ I smoke on the mic like Smokin' Joe Frazier ♪ 1567 00:51:47,792 --> 00:51:50,000 ♪ A hell-raiser raising hell with the flavor ♪ 1568 00:51:50,083 --> 00:51:52,166 ♪ Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan ♪ 1569 00:51:52,250 --> 00:51:54,000 ♪ Swinging through your town ♪ 1570 00:51:54,083 --> 00:51:55,667 ♪ Like your neighborhood Spider-Man ♪ 1571 00:51:55,750 --> 00:51:57,875 ♪ So, uh, tick-tock, keep ticking ♪ 1572 00:51:57,959 --> 00:51:59,583 ♪ While I get ya flipping off the fresh that I'm kicking ♪ 1573 00:51:59,667 --> 00:52:01,792 ♪ The Lone Ranger, code red, danger ♪ 1574 00:52:01,875 --> 00:52:03,208 ♪ Deep in the dark with the art ♪ 1575 00:52:03,291 --> 00:52:04,959 ♪ To rip the charts apart ♪ 1576 00:52:05,041 --> 00:52:07,083 ♪ The vandal too hot to handle ♪ 1577 00:52:07,166 --> 00:52:09,041 ♪ You battle, you're saying goodbye like Tevin Campbell ♪ 1578 00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:11,166 ♪ Roughneck, Inspectah Deck's on the set ♪ 1579 00:52:11,250 --> 00:52:13,166 ♪ The Rebel, I make more noise than heavy metal ♪ 1580 00:52:13,250 --> 00:52:15,166 ♪ Yo, the way I make the crowd go wild ♪ 1581 00:52:15,250 --> 00:52:17,125 ♪ Sit back, relax, won't smile ♪ 1582 00:52:17,208 --> 00:52:18,667 ♪ Rae got it going on, pal ♪ 1583 00:52:18,750 --> 00:52:20,667 ♪ Call me the rap assassinator ♪ 1584 00:52:20,750 --> 00:52:23,208 ♪ Rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger ♪ 1585 00:52:23,291 --> 00:52:24,583 [Bobbito] December of '92-- 1586 00:52:24,667 --> 00:52:26,125 I don't remember the exact date-- 1587 00:52:26,208 --> 00:52:27,583 we were on Thursday nights. 1588 00:52:27,667 --> 00:52:28,750 Stretch happened to be 1589 00:52:28,834 --> 00:52:29,750 out of town. 1590 00:52:29,834 --> 00:52:32,041 I was not FCC-licensed. 1591 00:52:32,125 --> 00:52:35,667 I was not technically allowed to do a show on my own. 1592 00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:37,625 I don't even know how to DJ. 1593 00:52:37,709 --> 00:52:40,166 Now, the door rings, so I open up the door 1594 00:52:40,250 --> 00:52:41,834 and there's five cats. 1595 00:52:41,917 --> 00:52:43,166 "Yo, B, we got this new record, yo. 1596 00:52:43,250 --> 00:52:44,208 Yo, play that song. 1597 00:52:44,291 --> 00:52:45,250 Yo, play that. 1598 00:52:45,333 --> 00:52:46,750 You know, yo, 1599 00:52:46,834 --> 00:52:47,750 Yo, yo, play that. Play that right now." 1600 00:52:47,834 --> 00:52:49,208 I'm like, "Yo, chill, chill." 1601 00:52:49,291 --> 00:52:51,458 I go into the studio. 1602 00:52:51,542 --> 00:52:53,291 Yo, it's all white labeled. 1603 00:52:53,375 --> 00:52:56,375 That shit don't even have no fucking writing on it. 1604 00:52:56,458 --> 00:52:58,750 I put it on, I'm-- I'm hearing, like, 1605 00:52:58,834 --> 00:53:00,959 martial arts. Hoo! Ha! Ha! 1606 00:53:01,041 --> 00:53:02,792 Like, what the fuck is this shit? 1607 00:53:02,875 --> 00:53:04,458 But I'm like, "Oh, this shit is dope," 1608 00:53:04,542 --> 00:53:05,834 so I played it. 1609 00:53:05,917 --> 00:53:07,125 ♪ For short, Mr. Meth ♪ 1610 00:53:07,208 --> 00:53:09,750 ♪ Moving on your left, uh ♪ 1611 00:53:09,834 --> 00:53:12,500 ♪ And set it off, get it off, let it off like a gat ♪ 1612 00:53:12,583 --> 00:53:14,500 ♪ I want to break, fool, cock me that ♪ 1613 00:53:14,583 --> 00:53:16,583 ♪ Small change, they putting shame in the game ♪ 1614 00:53:16,667 --> 00:53:18,625 ♪ I take aim and blow the nigga out the frame ♪ 1615 00:53:18,709 --> 00:53:19,834 ♪ And like Fame my style will live forever ♪ 1616 00:53:19,917 --> 00:53:21,709 ♪ My style will live forever ♪ 1617 00:53:21,792 --> 00:53:23,125 ♪ Niggas crossing over but they don't know no better ♪ 1618 00:53:23,208 --> 00:53:25,083 ♪ But I do, true can I get a ♪ 1619 00:53:25,166 --> 00:53:26,667 ♪ Suu ♪ 1620 00:53:26,750 --> 00:53:28,375 ♪ 'Nuff respect to the 1-6-ooh ♪ 1621 00:53:28,458 --> 00:53:30,333 ♪ I mean, oh, yo, check out the flow ♪ 1622 00:53:30,417 --> 00:53:32,709 ♪ Like the Hudson or PCP when I'm dusting ♪ 1623 00:53:32,792 --> 00:53:35,375 ♪ Niggas off, 'cause I'm hot like sauce ♪ 1624 00:53:35,458 --> 00:53:37,667 ♪ The smoke from the lyrical blunt make me, uh ♪ 1625 00:53:37,750 --> 00:53:40,291 ♪ Ooh, what, grab a nut, get screwed ♪ 1626 00:53:40,375 --> 00:53:42,333 ♪ Oow, here comes the Shaolin style ♪ 1627 00:53:42,417 --> 00:53:44,625 ♪ True badass who, baby, you ♪ 1628 00:53:44,709 --> 00:53:46,250 - ♪ To my crew with a ♪ - ♪ Suu ♪ 1629 00:53:46,333 --> 00:53:49,291 ♪ Yeah-eah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1630 00:53:49,375 --> 00:53:52,291 ♪ Come on baby, baby come on baby come on ♪ 1631 00:53:52,375 --> 00:53:53,542 ♪ Baby, baby, come on ♪ 1632 00:53:53,625 --> 00:53:55,375 ♪ Oh ♪ 1633 00:53:55,458 --> 00:53:56,542 ♪ Yo, you best protect ya neck ♪ 1634 00:53:56,625 --> 00:53:57,458 [Bobbito] My man calls up 1635 00:53:57,542 --> 00:53:59,583 right after it's done. 1636 00:53:59,667 --> 00:54:01,500 He's like, "Yo, what the hell is that shit?" 1637 00:54:01,583 --> 00:54:02,583 I'm like, "I don't know." 1638 00:54:02,667 --> 00:54:04,166 There's no video out. 1639 00:54:04,250 --> 00:54:04,959 Steve Rifkind wasn't in the picture. 1640 00:54:05,041 --> 00:54:06,166 This is just 1641 00:54:06,250 --> 00:54:07,792 straight out the trunk 1642 00:54:07,875 --> 00:54:10,250 selling shit. 1643 00:54:10,333 --> 00:54:13,000 ♪ Yeah out loud my style is wild so book me ♪ 1644 00:54:13,083 --> 00:54:15,583 ♪ Not long is how long that this rhyme took me ♪ 1645 00:54:15,667 --> 00:54:17,583 ♪ Ejecting styles from my lethal weapon ♪ 1646 00:54:17,667 --> 00:54:19,917 ♪ My pen that rock from here to Oregon ♪ 1647 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,291 ♪ There's more again, catch it like a psycho flashback ♪ 1648 00:54:22,375 --> 00:54:23,667 ♪ I love gats; if rap was a gun ♪ 1649 00:54:23,750 --> 00:54:25,709 ♪ You wouldn't bust that ♪ 1650 00:54:25,792 --> 00:54:27,542 ♪ I come in in all types of shapes and sounds ♪ 1651 00:54:27,625 --> 00:54:29,834 ♪ And where I lounge is my stomping grounds ♪ 1652 00:54:29,917 --> 00:54:32,125 ♪ I give an order to my peoples across the water ♪ 1653 00:54:32,208 --> 00:54:34,250 ♪ To go and snatch up props all around the border ♪ 1654 00:54:34,333 --> 00:54:36,333 ♪ And get far like a shooting star ♪ 1655 00:54:36,417 --> 00:54:39,000 ♪ 'Cause who I are living the life of Pablo Escobar ♪ 1656 00:54:39,083 --> 00:54:40,959 ♪ Point blank as I kick the square biz ♪ 1657 00:54:41,041 --> 00:54:43,583 ♪ There it is, yo, with pros and there it goes ♪ 1658 00:54:43,667 --> 00:54:45,750 [Mook] I'm taking the record to the DJs, 1659 00:54:45,834 --> 00:54:47,542 I'm taking it to the stores, 1660 00:54:47,625 --> 00:54:49,333 I'm taking the record to the clubs. 1661 00:54:49,417 --> 00:54:51,375 I mean, anywhere music is being played, 1662 00:54:51,458 --> 00:54:53,166 I'm taking the record there. 1663 00:54:53,250 --> 00:54:54,750 Rock and Soul--that was the number one 1664 00:54:54,834 --> 00:54:56,834 hip hop store, back in the day, 1665 00:54:56,917 --> 00:54:58,542 and the young lady there-- you know, 1666 00:54:58,625 --> 00:54:59,792 at first, she didn't want to take the record, 1667 00:54:59,875 --> 00:55:00,875 so then I came up 1668 00:55:00,959 --> 00:55:03,417 with a little...plan. 1669 00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:04,583 I can stand up? Want me to sit? 1670 00:55:04,667 --> 00:55:05,792 [man] Yeah, stand up. 1671 00:55:05,875 --> 00:55:06,625 [Mook] I'm gonna send someone 1672 00:55:06,709 --> 00:55:07,625 in the store 1673 00:55:07,709 --> 00:55:08,792 and ask for the record. 1674 00:55:08,875 --> 00:55:10,000 "That record. 1675 00:55:10,083 --> 00:55:11,417 That record, you know. 1676 00:55:11,500 --> 00:55:12,750 There's a bunch of guys 1677 00:55:12,834 --> 00:55:14,792 and they're MCing..." 1678 00:55:14,875 --> 00:55:16,500 It was my cousin, Vince. 1679 00:55:16,583 --> 00:55:18,083 I swear to God, this is true. 1680 00:55:18,166 --> 00:55:19,083 And so I come back in 1681 00:55:19,166 --> 00:55:20,083 another time. 1682 00:55:20,166 --> 00:55:21,709 My cousin in there, 1683 00:55:21,792 --> 00:55:22,917 and I play the record for him. 1684 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:24,417 [record static] 1685 00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:25,792 All of a sudden, 1686 00:55:25,875 --> 00:55:26,834 he's like, "That's it! 1687 00:55:26,917 --> 00:55:27,875 That's that shit 1688 00:55:27,959 --> 00:55:29,041 I was talking about! 1689 00:55:29,125 --> 00:55:29,917 I heard it on Bobbito's show!" 1690 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:31,333 'Cause Bobbito-- 1691 00:55:31,417 --> 00:55:32,917 Stretch Armstrong-- their show? 1692 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,208 First motherfuckers to play the record. 1693 00:55:35,291 --> 00:55:36,917 And I swear to God, out of nowhere, 1694 00:55:37,041 --> 00:55:38,375 this other motherfucker just came. 1695 00:55:38,458 --> 00:55:40,458 "Yeah! I love that song! 1696 00:55:40,542 --> 00:55:42,333 Yeah, I heard that shit on Bobbito's show, too! 1697 00:55:42,417 --> 00:55:43,667 I've been looking for that shit!" 1698 00:55:43,750 --> 00:55:45,208 And then another motherfucker-- 1699 00:55:45,291 --> 00:55:46,500 "Oh, shit! I've been looking all over 1700 00:55:46,583 --> 00:55:47,625 for that record!" Next thing you know, 1701 00:55:47,709 --> 00:55:48,792 everybody in the store, 1702 00:55:48,875 --> 00:55:49,583 so I pulled out the box. 1703 00:55:49,667 --> 00:55:51,125 I'm like this: 1704 00:55:51,208 --> 00:55:52,667 "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could buy this-- 1705 00:55:52,750 --> 00:55:53,709 They said, "No, no, no, no, not in my store." 1706 00:55:53,792 --> 00:55:55,000 She grabbed the box 1707 00:55:55,083 --> 00:55:56,041 and said, "No, no, no, no, no, no. 1708 00:55:56,125 --> 00:55:57,208 She came over this-- 1709 00:55:57,291 --> 00:55:58,834 She bought the whole box. 1710 00:55:58,917 --> 00:56:01,291 That was the first fucking box I sold, 1711 00:56:01,375 --> 00:56:03,917 so I said, "Damn, that shit work like that?" 1712 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,500 Mm. I did that shit in the Bronx, 1713 00:56:06,583 --> 00:56:08,625 I did it in Brooklyn, I did it in Virginia, 1714 00:56:08,709 --> 00:56:10,291 I-- 1715 00:56:10,375 --> 00:56:12,125 we went from here to North Carolina. 1716 00:56:12,208 --> 00:56:14,208 I did that shit everywhere. 1717 00:56:14,291 --> 00:56:15,750 Shit was just going crazy. 1718 00:56:15,834 --> 00:56:17,250 - Wu... - [crowd] Tang! 1719 00:56:17,333 --> 00:56:18,709 - Wu... - [crowd] Tang! 1720 00:56:18,792 --> 00:56:20,583 And we out. 1721 00:56:21,333 --> 00:56:22,500 Brothers, 1722 00:56:22,583 --> 00:56:24,125 Wu-Tang Clan, y'all! 1723 00:56:24,208 --> 00:56:26,750 [indistinct] 1724 00:56:26,834 --> 00:56:29,875 [Cappadonna] I remember we was in the house. 1725 00:56:29,959 --> 00:56:31,542 I was with Rae 1726 00:56:31,625 --> 00:56:33,000 waiting for "Protect Ya Neck" 1727 00:56:33,083 --> 00:56:34,125 that we heard on the radio. 1728 00:56:34,208 --> 00:56:35,959 Just hearing that shit 1729 00:56:36,041 --> 00:56:37,959 on that radio 1730 00:56:38,041 --> 00:56:39,709 all the way through. 1731 00:56:39,792 --> 00:56:43,000 Man, I saw Rae jump so fucking high, yo. 1732 00:56:43,083 --> 00:56:45,250 Yo, he jumped like, "Yeah!" 1733 00:56:45,333 --> 00:56:47,458 Like, "Oh, shit." 1734 00:56:47,542 --> 00:56:49,291 Once I heard it on the radio, 1735 00:56:49,375 --> 00:56:50,917 oh, my fucking God. 1736 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:52,333 I was like, "We going." 1737 00:56:52,417 --> 00:56:53,333 And we was in front of 160, 1738 00:56:53,417 --> 00:56:55,667 and I was still selling drugs. 1739 00:56:55,750 --> 00:56:57,375 Niggas was amped 1740 00:56:57,458 --> 00:56:58,750 the fuck up and shit, you know what I'm saying? 1741 00:56:58,834 --> 00:57:01,000 Everybody listening for their part. 1742 00:57:01,083 --> 00:57:03,750 And my boy Shabby let a shot off and shit. 1743 00:57:03,834 --> 00:57:05,625 He has a little-- it looked like a little .22, 1744 00:57:05,709 --> 00:57:07,542 might have been a .38-- who knows--and shit. 1745 00:57:07,625 --> 00:57:09,041 Like, Bao! Bap! Bap! 1746 00:57:09,125 --> 00:57:10,834 ♪♪♪ 1747 00:57:10,917 --> 00:57:13,125 Eh, it just gave you your battery. 1748 00:57:13,208 --> 00:57:15,834 Like, "Oh, shit! Yo. 1749 00:57:15,917 --> 00:57:18,417 Yo, we made it!" 1750 00:57:18,500 --> 00:57:19,750 Nobody thought this shit was going 1751 00:57:19,834 --> 00:57:21,333 to be anything. Know what I'm saying? 1752 00:57:21,417 --> 00:57:22,500 Like, I was one of them dudes 1753 00:57:22,583 --> 00:57:23,959 that came with RZA to every meeting 1754 00:57:24,041 --> 00:57:25,375 in the beginning, 1755 00:57:25,458 --> 00:57:26,333 when he was shopping everything. 1756 00:57:26,417 --> 00:57:27,542 We met with different labels. 1757 00:57:27,625 --> 00:57:29,208 With Russell Simmons 1758 00:57:29,291 --> 00:57:30,750 and Def Jam 1759 00:57:30,834 --> 00:57:32,375 and everybody was all-- at first, 1760 00:57:32,458 --> 00:57:34,333 was like, "Yo, it's just too many, man. 1761 00:57:34,417 --> 00:57:36,500 [Raekwon] It's too many of y'all, man. 1762 00:57:36,583 --> 00:57:38,917 Like, how the fuck? 1763 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,458 No, this ain't gonna work. 1764 00:57:40,542 --> 00:57:42,542 [Inspectah Deck] "Ah, nine members. 1765 00:57:42,625 --> 00:57:44,041 How you gonna split the money? How's this gonna work?" 1766 00:57:44,125 --> 00:57:45,500 And our thing was like, "Why are you worrying 1767 00:57:45,583 --> 00:57:47,041 about how we gonna split the money, bro?" 1768 00:57:47,125 --> 00:57:50,000 And we all sat 1769 00:57:50,083 --> 00:57:51,792 with one goal in our minds. 1770 00:57:51,875 --> 00:57:53,375 "Like, yo, if y'all ain't taking all of us, 1771 00:57:53,458 --> 00:57:54,834 you can't have none of us." 1772 00:57:56,291 --> 00:57:58,000 It's like this. You know what I'm saying? 1773 00:57:58,083 --> 00:57:59,250 'Cause people, they looking at us 1774 00:57:59,333 --> 00:58:00,250 as nine individuals, 1775 00:58:00,333 --> 00:58:02,041 then we ain't gonna make it. 1776 00:58:02,125 --> 00:58:03,709 We ain't gonna let this money shit 1777 00:58:03,792 --> 00:58:05,375 break us up, and we know 1778 00:58:05,458 --> 00:58:07,250 that money is the root of all evil, 1779 00:58:07,333 --> 00:58:08,542 you know what I'm saying? 1780 00:58:08,625 --> 00:58:10,625 We gonna do this, man. We ain't gonna-- 1781 00:58:10,709 --> 00:58:13,000 Wu is gonna never break the fuck up, man. 1782 00:58:13,083 --> 00:58:14,000 [Cappadonna] You know? 1783 00:58:14,083 --> 00:58:15,792 [Raekwon] They know. 1784 00:58:15,875 --> 00:58:17,583 [RZA] The word Wu-Tang itself 1785 00:58:17,667 --> 00:58:22,375 means "he who is deserving of God." 1786 00:58:22,458 --> 00:58:25,125 The legend is 1787 00:58:25,208 --> 00:58:26,834 that General Wu 1788 00:58:26,917 --> 00:58:30,500 goes to the top of this mountain to meditate, 1789 00:58:30,583 --> 00:58:34,291 and he pondered all the questions of life, 1790 00:58:34,375 --> 00:58:36,834 and the legend says 1791 00:58:36,917 --> 00:58:39,041 that he decides 1792 00:58:39,125 --> 00:58:42,709 to jump off the mountain, 1793 00:58:42,792 --> 00:58:47,375 and when he jumped off, he re-emerged, it says, 1794 00:58:47,458 --> 00:58:50,208 as a spirit or a dragon 1795 00:58:50,291 --> 00:58:52,417 and became immortal, 1796 00:58:52,500 --> 00:58:54,834 and thus, they named the mountain 1797 00:58:54,917 --> 00:58:56,208 Wu Tang. 1798 00:58:57,834 --> 00:58:59,959 ♪ Uh, I bring it back to that boom-bap ♪ 1799 00:59:00,041 --> 00:59:02,709 ♪ Original gun claps and the moon's black ♪ 1800 00:59:02,792 --> 00:59:04,959 ♪ Now tell Stella this is how she get the groove back ♪ 1801 00:59:05,041 --> 00:59:07,875 ♪ Way before The Source, my main source was the move pass ♪ 1802 00:59:07,959 --> 00:59:10,458 ♪ That extra P in 9-1 used to walk this way ♪ 1803 00:59:10,542 --> 00:59:12,500 ♪ When DMCs might run ♪ 1804 00:59:12,583 --> 00:59:14,709 ♪ Son, my trends are culture in the slum ♪ 1805 00:59:14,792 --> 00:59:17,291 ♪ I done bleu cheese telling you I'm Cs where I'm from ♪ 1806 00:59:17,375 --> 00:59:19,500 ♪ Be real, you don't wanna get killed in Cypress Hill ♪ 1807 00:59:19,583 --> 00:59:22,709 ♪ Them boys get beastie and they licensed to ill ♪ 1808 00:59:22,792 --> 00:59:24,750 ♪ And out-scratch what my homies have for real ♪ 1809 00:59:24,834 --> 00:59:27,291 ♪ Need a hit squad starring the gang mass appeal ♪ 1810 00:59:27,375 --> 00:59:29,834 ♪ I got a tribe and a so-called request ♪ 1811 00:59:29,917 --> 00:59:32,083 ♪ 'Cause I'm nice on the mic with a little salt and pep ♪ 1812 00:59:32,166 --> 00:59:35,125 ♪ Yep, that's a fact, salute, that's respect ♪ 1813 00:59:35,208 --> 00:59:37,291 ♪ You get beat nuts, you know I go psycho for less ♪