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...Fifteen Minutes (FM): One of your aliases is “The Chef” because you make flavorful lyrics. So we were wondering, what makes certain lyrics more delicious than others? Raekwon (R): It’s just their topics, just, you know, the added preservatives that I feel the track may need at the time. I could get versatile. I could rhyme about street life stuff, and if I wanna get on grown men and say grown men are sexy and rhyme about another topic and then be about a lady’s career, or a person...
...FM: We also read another explanation—that it’s because you can cook cocaine into crack rock. R: (laughs) Cocaine?? No!... We not gon’ put that in there! We not gon’ put I was a chemist in the street, you know what I mean? That’s on another level, baby, that ain’t me right there...
...FM: Well, we did read that you were working on another album called “Weed vs. Cocaine.” Is that not true? R: Nah, not at all. I’m working on another album, called “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx [II],” basically revolving around my first album that I made solo called “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.” This is the second album...part two of the first album I ever made in my career. So it’s more like a struggle...
...FM: Got it. Ok, enough about drugs. Let’s get back to why you’re really here: the Harvard Concert Commission. Just kidding. What’s your favorite part about being in the Wu-Tang Clan? R: I mean it ain’t really a favorite part, it’s just you know I just come out there to play my part and be the best of what I could be, you know? We is like a basketball team, each man play they position for a reason to make the team what...
...FM: Probably. So be honest, who’s your favorite member. I’m sure you have one—everyone’s parents have favorite kids. R: A favorite member of my group?...I would say, um, that’s a hard one, though, because it’s like everybody got different things that I look at that I think makes them special, you know what I mean?...I mean like Deck, because Deck always comes through with a nice verse, you know what I mean. And I might like GZA for his intellectual...