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You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me. -- Raekwon
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot. -- Raekwon
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The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin. -- Raekwon
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Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop. -- Raekwon
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I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.' -- Raekwon
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I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything. -- Raekwon
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it. -- Raekwon
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer. -- Raekwon
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And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in. -- Raekwon
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I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go? -- Raekwon
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.' -- Raekwon
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it. -- Raekwon
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It's for real though, let's connect, politic ... ditto!
We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases,
Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces. -- Raekwon
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Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important. -- Raekwon
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I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go. -- Raekwon
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I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do. -- Raekwon
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When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall. -- Raekwon
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As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me. -- Raekwon
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As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player. -- Raekwon
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When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career. -- Raekwon
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As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that's important to me. -- Raekwon
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To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new. -- Raekwon
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I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect. -- Raekwon
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It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous ... -- Raekwon
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I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes. -- Raekwon
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I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth
Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef. -- Raekwon
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up. -- Raekwon
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do. -- Raekwon
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself. -- Raekwon
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You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams. -- Raekwon
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We strivin' for perfection. -- Raekwon
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All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more. -- Raekwon
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In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats. -- Raekwon
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up. -- Raekwon
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem. -- Raekwon
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The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role. -- Raekwon
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing. -- Raekwon
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions. -- Raekwon
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be. -- Raekwon
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I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do. -- Raekwon
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Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person. -- Raekwon
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So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music. -- Raekwon
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Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger -- Raekwon
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When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better. -- Raekwon
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The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all. -- Raekwon
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Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it. -- Raekwon
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No question I would speed for cracks and weed
The combination made my eyes bleed. -- Raekwon
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I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. -- Raekwon
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Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on. -- Raekwon
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L.A.'s always been good to me. -- Raekwon
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I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within. -- Raekwon