Some MCs don’t take the time to take a beat home, or just vibe with it and just figure out, “How do I attack this track?” We have to come together as a producer and an MC. You have to know what to do with the music. Wu-Tang Forever is like a ten, and that’s more like a two. I just thought that it could have been a whole lot better. Well, some of the group weren’t pleased with the album. That’s why I take the time that I do when I write. When did you start thinking that way - that having a thousand dedicated fans is better than having a million ambivalent ones?
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You talk on Pro Tools about seeing fans with Wu-Tang tattoos, and how much that means to you to have a dedicated fan base. He said, “Once you told me just write sentences, and I just took it from there.” If he’s giving me the credit, I’ll take it. We were talking one day, and he was saying, “I learned from you,” and he pointed to me. And his graphic lyrics - he paints good pictures fast, without using a lot of words. And as far as Inspectah Deck, just based on his sentence structure, he’s one of my favorites out the Clan. Well, I schooled Masta Killa in the early days.
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We’ve heard that you taught Masta Killa and Inspectah Deck how to rhyme in complete sentences - is that true? I’m stronger lyrically now than I’ve ever been. I smoked for so many years, blunts, since ’81, had to give the lungs a break. But I stopped smoking about two years ago. It wasn’t the good stuff that people smoke nowadays, the greenery, scenery stuff. Where were you getting your weed from back then? The beat would run and run and run, and it’d maybe like eight hours before I’d finish a verse. The day would start, I would come over, it might be two in the afternoon, then he would start playing the beat. Sometimes weed just gets you in the creative state of mind. Most of the memories is just being in the RZA’s house in that basement. What are some of your memories from recording Liquid Swords? He talked to Vulture about the album’s blunt-fueled recording sessions, the divisive 8 Diagrams, and why fans should start getting excited for RZA collaborations still to come. GZA, whose latest solo album, Pro Tools, came out last month, is revisiting the album on his current tour, which touches down at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza tonight. It belonged to an unsentimental hip-hop assassin it was never flashy, just airtight, with vibrant complete sentences tumbling one after the other. Everything about the album oozed a steely, deadly professionalism - the cover art the spooky kung fu samples RZA’s hard-nosed production and, of course, that flow. But perhaps no one album was more fundamental in creating the can-do-no-wrong reputation than the GZA’s Liquid Swords. It was the mid-nineties, right after the game-changing Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), and a string of classics - Method Man’s Tical, ODB’s Return to the 36 Chambers, Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - made the Wu seem infallible. The first wave of Wu-Tang solo albums still elicits warm and fuzzy feelings for fans of the Clan.
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