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Gza
American
Musician
Born:
Aug 22
,
1966
Always
Back
Me
Music
Think
You
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Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.
Gza
Life
Gratitude
Learning
Live
Humility
Never
Never Stop
Intellectual
Intellectual Curiosity
Curiosity
Stop
Full
I'm just really, really laid-back-slash-lazy. Last minute with everything.
Gza
Last-Minute
Everything
Minute
Just
Really
Last
Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.
Gza
Me
You
Writing
Before
Think
Thinking
Carefully
Like
Sort
Chess
Move
Planning
I'm always touching plants and vibing with them.
Gza
Plants
Touching
Always
Them
I remember the first 45 record I bought. It was called 'A Dog a Donut'; it was a breakbeat. Actually, I think I bought two at one time, and the other one was 'Dance to the Drummer's Beat.' Those are breakbeats. I paid a dollar for it, for each one. Your average producer or DJ would know who came out with those.
Gza
Time
Dog
Remember
Dance
First
Think
Other
Those
Out
Would
One Time
Record
Beat
Bought
Know
Drummer
Came
Dollar
Average
Producer
Paid
Your
Who
Each
Each One
Actually
Two
I'm a late-night person who likes to eat a lot of breakfast stuff at night.
Gza
Breakfast
Late-Night
Eat
Stuff
Likes
Lot
Person
Who
Night
Chess is a game of stimulation.
Gza
Game
Stimulation
Chess
Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes.
Gza
Respect
Water
Pour
Out
Hurricanes
Some
Stuff
Disastrous
Involves
Lot
Us
Waste
I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.
Gza
Sports
Extreme
Extreme Sports
Gymnastics
Always
Anything
Skateboarding
Interested
Bike
Turning
Flipping
Riding
Twisting
I like broccoli. I like rice. I like carrots. I like vegetable juices. Y'know? I mean, I'm with all that.
Gza
Broccoli
Carrots
Vegetable
Like
Juices
Mean
Rice
Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown Heights, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick.
Gza
People
Heights
Brooklyn
Born
Crown
Most
Island
Native
Actually
Raised
Associate
If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming on that! And if you take the lyrics out of that song, you get a hip-hop beat. It's a rock song, though. So it's not out of my element for me to get with Black Lips.
Gza
Me
You
Song
Will
Black
Face
Lyrics
Though
Out
Beat
Take
He
Like
Rock
Got
Hip-Hop
Blood
Get
Lips
Rhyming
Your
Element
I like snowboarding, and I like to watch it.
Gza
Like
Snowboarding
Watch
Wu-Tang has only done, like, three rehearsals throughout our whole career.
Gza
Three
Our
Only
Throughout
Like
Done
Rehearsals
Whole
Career
'Liquid Swords' just represents a sharp tongue, sharp words.
Gza
Words
Sharp
Liquid
Just
Represents
Swords
Tongue
A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for 50 percent. All I know is that I have to do my job, and I have to do it well. And he has to do the same.
Gza
Music
Song
Job
Lyrics
Responsible
Composed
Percent
He
Know
Well
Same
Artist
Producer
I would go to an aunt's house, and she would let me play music, and she had 'The Last Poets' album. At that time, albums didn't have explicit stickers on them, so some of the songs had profanity on them, and I was moved by that. I would listen to those songs, to the flow, and I'd balance it back and forth with the nursery stuff I had.
Gza
Music
Time
Me
Balance
Nursery
Back
Those
Would
Some
Poets
Had
Songs
Stuff
House
She
Go
Aunt
Listen
Moved
Them
Explicit
Forth
Profanity
Play
Play Music
Album
Flow
Last
Albums
I love nature, and I love information.
Gza
Love
Nature
Information
I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It's ridiculous. There's no substance. It's a hollow shell.
Gza
Me
Car
Way
Rappers
About
Songs
Knock
Shell
How
Material
Hear
Substance
Different
Hollow
Many
Ridiculous
Different Way
Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it.
Gza
Concept
Normally
Behind
Album
Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.'
Gza
Rapper
Back
Way
Rap
Delight
Had
Always
Goes
We were always scientifical in our raps.
Gza
Our
Always
Were
Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show.
Gza
Education
Think
Tool
Our
Has-Been
See
Directly
Supported
Instructed
Instructor
Coming
Been
Movement
Anyone
Fan
Whether
Show
Who
Even
Buying
Session
When we did 'Back In The Game' on the Wu-Tang 'Iron Flag' album, I did a verse about gambling. I didn't want to be 'back in the game' or 'back on the block' - that's typical. I made it all metaphorical.
Gza
Game
Made
Back
Typical
About
Metaphorical
Block
Verse
Iron
Did
Flag
Want
Gambling
Album
Our love of kung fu goes back to the Bruce Lee days in the 1970s. Outside the action, we loved the interesting, heartfelt stories and the dialogue. It was RZA's idea to draw all that in there as samples.
Gza
Love
Action
Back
Our
Our Love
Draw
Bruce
Bruce Lee
Outside
Idea
Days
Dialogue
Kung
Kung Fu
Lee
Heartfelt
Goes
Samples
Stories
Loved
Interesting
A lot of artists think that to be current, you have to follow what's out there and do something that's so unlike what you normally do. It can work, but it doesn't if you chase it.
Gza
Work
You
Think
Unlike
Out
Follow
Something
Chase
Lot
Normally
Current
Artists
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