Latest Raekwon Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that, right now, I am travelling in many different directions in my mind, on where I wanted to be. So much is wantin' to go back, but I still gotta move forward. But I think it's just that I'm my worst critic at all times, you know? And when I make somethin', it may be five or ten cuts later before I actually call it what it is. I've always been that kind of artist. I'm gonna put myself through the sweat for it, because I think, as an artist, that's what made me iller, is the fact that I didn't wanna just put out anything and everything. It's just a process, you know what I mean?

  Raekwon

  Moving, Mean, Cutting

  Source: thequietus.com

• I always write to the moment. I've always been that kind of emcee. I don't wanna come in with all the paperwork and all o' that or whatever. That's good when you just an emcee from off the block that really don't have to work as hard as the next man. But when, you know... Y'all make me write like this, from, I guess, me makin' a classic and everybody callin' my stuff classic material - that makes me have to work ten times harder. But a lot o' times things just happen at the moment for me: spur o' the moment. That's just how it goes sometimes.

  Raekwon

  Block, Writing, Men

  Source: thequietus.com

• When you grow up in that environment of drugs and guns and people gettin' hurt, it start to reflect your background. And I think, at that time when I was doin' it, that's all I knew. But as I got older in the business, I stopped bein' involved with that, and I started to look at the world. And I said, 'Yo, I wanna start talkin' about everything that goes on in the world. I don't wanna just limit myself to one style'.

  Raekwon

  Hurt, Growing Up, Gun

  Source: thequietus.com

• When you think of a chef you think of somebody that could cook - you don't think of chef that says, 'Yo, I make only steaks'. No. A chef knows how to bake, he knows how to fry, he knows how to sautee, he knows how to do everything that's pertaining to food, and that's how I felt about my lyrical position. It's like I would say, 'Today I'm gonna make a hot salmon. Tomorrow I make you spaghetti. The next day I make you baked fish'. This is how my lyrical content in my head was already bein' reciprocated to the world, bein' given to y'all like that.

  Raekwon

  Thinking, Hot, World

  Source: thequietus.com

• I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.

  Raekwon

  Genius

  Source: thequietus.com

• Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip hop, it was so much creativity goin' on with artists like then, like Slick Rick, then you had Rakim, and you had these different kind of artists back then. And we was a marble cake of all these artists. So I didn't have a problem with writin' stories because I felt like that was somethin' I loved to do. Even to this day, I really consider myself an entertainer-slash-narrator. I like to talk about stuff that goes on.

  Raekwon

  Creativity, Thinking, Artist

  Source: thequietus.com

• We was just young guys who wanted to change. We got tired of doin' this same everyday bullshit that we was doin', and we all felt like we had dreams o' bein' a big star. You know, as far as with myself, I never really took it that serious as bein' a star. I only took it that serious as bein' a emcee, which is two different things. You know what I mean?

  Raekwon

  Dream, Tired, Mean

  Source: thequietus.com

• A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

  Raekwon

  People, Work Ethic, Hot

  Source: thequietus.com

• You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.

  Raekwon

  Kids, Thinking, Negativity

  Source: thequietus.com

• When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing. So we was more or less infatuated with just havin' a song on the radio, you know? Before our careers even launched it was more or less about lettin' everybody know, 'Staten Island? You got good emcees there.'

  Raekwon

  Song, Kids, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

• Rza just used the whole synopsis of the karate flick and capitalised offa that around this music. Some things you find out and you compare to yourself, and you're like, 'Wow, it has so much comparison to it', you start to live like that. And that's what happened - we started callin' ourselves Wu-Tang.

  Raekwon

  Karate, Compare, Comparison

  Source: thequietus.com

• 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

  Heart, Looks, Thick And Thin

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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

  Artist, Track, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

• As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

  Raekwon

  Basketball, Player, Balls

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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

  Mistake, Trying, Figures

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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

  Men, Rapper, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

• I doubt if you get another Wu-Tang Clan. That might be harder than getting the new Jackson Five

  Raekwon

  Doubt, Might, Wu Tang Clan

  Source: www.gq.com

• When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

  Raekwon

  Brother, Eight, Grew Up

  Source: www.gq.com

• I just want to be remembered as a dope MC. As somebody who really covered a lot of ground and became internationally known.

  Raekwon

  Dope, Want, Remembered

  Source: thequietus.com

• 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

  Men, Names, People

  Source: thequietus.com

• It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go.

  Raekwon

  Spiritual, Promise, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

• Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

  Raekwon

  Growing Up, Better Person, Motivated

  Source: thequietus.com

• I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

  Raekwon

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

• Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

  Raekwon

  Artist, Soul, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

• In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.

  Raekwon

  Order, Study

  Source: thequietus.com