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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?' "
Gza
Track
Time
Attack
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" I think, as an artist, the overall goal is to teach and educate no matter what the song is about. Somewhere where a listener can get something out of it, something that can give them help to move forward, help them learn something, analyze something in a different way, or think about something. "
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Forward
Goal
Help
" I love Indian food and Thai food; those are, like, my favorites. I also like Japanese and some Italian. "
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Indian
Thai
Some
" 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. "
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Car
Ridiculous
Way
" Wu-Tang is a group that has a cult following. "
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Group
Cult
Following
" There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music. "
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Sometimes
Go
You
" Since early childhood, I've been trying to learn all I can. Science is everything; it's not just physics. It's the way of understanding your environment, the world around you. "
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World
Science
Understanding
" 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. "
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Science
Enlightenment
Music
" I'm a late-night person who likes to eat a lot of breakfast stuff at night. "
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Breakfast
Person
Likes
" I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think. "
Gza
Think
Listen
New
" I probably take about a month to write a song, depending on how much time I can dedicate to it, and it depends on how many hours a day there are and how many days in a week and weeks in a month. "
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Song
Day
I Can
" I'm a scientist by nature and not by trade. "
Gza
Trade
Nature
Scientist
" Snowboarding is skateboarding without the wheels, just on snow. It's the same thing, just that one is on hard ground with the wheels, the other is on snow. You just have to know how to maneuver your board and do things you want to do. "
Gza
You
Want
Skateboarding
" Every family argues and goes through things. "
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Things
Every
Family
" Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.' "
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Always
Back
Delight
" I think I'm okay; I got a pretty good shot when I concentrate. I like pool. "
Gza
Good
Like
Okay
" I've studied rap in every borough. "
Gza
Rap
Every
Studied
" I like broccoli. I like rice. I like carrots. I like vegetable juices. Y'know? I mean, I'm with all that. "
Gza
Vegetable
Like
Mean
" 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
Heights
Brooklyn
Crown
" Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more. "
Gza
Plan
Stop
Over
" Wu-Tang has only done, like, three rehearsals throughout our whole career. "
Gza
Career
Three
Our
" I'm constantly writing. "
Gza
Writing
Constantly
" Oh, hip hop is always changing. "
Gza
Hop
Always
Changing
" We were always scientifical in our raps. "
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Always
Our
Were
" If you hear people talking about the Golden Era of rap, they're usually talking about the early Wu Tang Clan era and then Nas and Biggie and so on. But for me, it goes back to the '80s - 1986 to 1989. "
Gza
Talking
Back
You
" Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major role in a lot of music we were doing. "
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Play
Doing
Know
" I love nature, and I love information. "
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Nature
Love
I Love
" Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning. "
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Gratitude
Stop
Live
" 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
" We've done a lot of shows and a few albums without Dirty. He was a wild and crazy dude. "
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Dirty
Done
Without
" 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. "
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Back
Want
Iron