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Growing Up Hip Hop Rap

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?

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Dream, Tired, Mean

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I think there are a lot of dudes out there that are runnin' out of gas. Some of my favourites, even ones I look up to... I haven't been fully impressed with their dynamics of makin' a body of work that makes sense to me.

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Thinking, Looks, Body

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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.'

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Song, Kids, Hip Hop

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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.

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Men, Rapper, Years

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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.

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Block, Writing, Men

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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

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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.

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Artist, Track, Trying

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

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Basketball, Player, Balls

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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.

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Genius

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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.

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Brother, Eight, Grew Up

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

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Dope, Want, Remembered

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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.

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Growing Up, Men, Growing

"The Survivors: Raekwon". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon

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Rap, Missing, Assistants

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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

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Fans, Cuban, Projects

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

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Growing Up, Better Person, Motivated

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L.A.'s always been good to me.

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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.

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Book, Artist, Ice

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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.

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People, Work Ethic, Hot

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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'.

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Hurt, Growing Up, Gun

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I love the energy that comes when I get on the mic. It keeps me creative and I love to hear what the fans want, what they love or hate about it.

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Hate, Creative, Energy

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

Raekwon

Artist, Soul, Important

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

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Doubt, Might, Wu Tang Clan

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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.

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Men, Names, People

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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.

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Wall, People, Way

"Raekwon Needed To Tease F.I.L.A. Album With Lost Jewelry" by Maurice Bobb, Sway Calloway, www.mtv.com. February 23, 2013.

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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.

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Albums, Type, Persons

"Question in the Form of an Answer: An Interview with Chef Raekwon". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.laweekly.com. November 21, 2008.

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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?"

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Born: January 12, 1970
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