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" Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit. "
Gza
Science
Enlightenment
Music
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" Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords. "
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" I don't think people have ever really been in touch with science. They're drawn to it, but they don't know why they're drawn to it. For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes. "
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" People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking? "
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" Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes. "
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" I wasn't raised a vegetarian. I wish I was, though. I mean, that's really the best way to go. I just learned at a young age and stopped eating some things. "
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" 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. "
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" 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?' "
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" I'm just really, really laid-back-slash-lazy. Last minute with everything. "
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Last
Just
Everything
" Hip-hop became the voice of rebellion and the youth, as rock music did in the '60s. "
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Youth
Did
Hip-Hop
" Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore. "
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Passion
Will
Writing
" Wu-Tang has only done, like, three rehearsals throughout our whole career. "
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Career
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Our
" When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did. "
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Growing
Intellectual
Growing Up
" I think, for myself, as an artist, the progression is a lyrical progression and what I choose to target my lyrics at and how I construct the rhymes. "
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Artist
Choose
Target
" I'm a scientist by nature and not by trade. "
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Trade
Nature
Scientist
" Every family argues and goes through things. "
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Every
Family
" We were always scientifical in our raps. "
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Always
Our
Were
" I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes. "
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Cats
People
History
" My favorite subjects was science and math. But as I got older, I was hanging out cutting class, going to hooky parties. "
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Hanging
Older
Science
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" I am honored that 'Liquid Swords,' the song and album, have been so widely embraced for so long. "
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" Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me, that's good music. "
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Listening
Good
Soul
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Breakfast
Person
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" It's gonna sound so boring to most people. There have been times when I've been told, 'Oh, you're doing an album about physics? I hope it's not boring.' They don't get the idea. Because rappers are so one-dimensional, so narrow-minded, it comes off corny. "
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You
Doing
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" I get inspired by many different things. "
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Different
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