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“I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan.”

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I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me.

I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books.

It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial and economical freedom that I didn't have.

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage

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I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they've done with me?

I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.

'Grease?' I watch that film over and over.

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