Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the core ideology for RZA, I think, had a whole lot in common with the secession movement.
It's the exact same fantasy.
If some central authority is dominating you and you don't like it, what do you do?
Go away to Shaolin, learn the truth, build a movement, and go to war with the oppressor.
Till you remake it in your own image.
Let me put my Casablanca robe back on and bring you back into my library.
Please, sit at the table.
Have a mug of tepid tea.
I believe that the fantasy Wu-Tang Clan had was that there's a way to strike out on your own independently and take over the forces that oppressed you.
And that's the exact fantasy of the secessionists emanating from the exact remote island at the exact moment so many people on the island experienced it.
And it was the spirit of what Skiz, that Wu-Tang biographer, told me that RZA did next.
Walking the island, RZA had come up with a five-year plan.
He'd go to the greatest underrated MCs he knew on the island and band them together into the Wu-Tang Clan.
He'd been burned by the labels before with that Prince Rakeem album, so now he wanted to go it alone.
He'd take the $10,000 he'd saved and use it to start a production company.
They didn't want to be doing that.
The guys all went out to a diner on Staten Island.
They toasted Wu-Tang with a bottle of champagne.
Each member put up $100 for studio time.
The next day, they started recording what became their first single, Protect Your Neck.
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