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That's it, the chef is in the building, ladies and gentlemen. What's up, what's up? Pleasure to meet you, man. You are a part of the most iconic band in all of hip-hop. There is no question. There's one Wu-Tang. There's only one Wu-Tang. Nothing else is even close. You guys are so different than every other band that ever existed. It was a giant group of you. Yeah, man. And everybody was a killer.
Fucking mob, man. It's a crazy band, man. If you think about it, There's been a lot of hip-hop duos. There's been a lot of producers and MCs. There's been a lot of people that get together in small groups. But there's only one Wu-Tang. There's only one group of nine assassins. I tell niggas that all the time. It's kind of crazy. You ain't going to get another one of these.
It's crazy that it worked. Yeah. Because it's so hard to keep all those alphas together. It really is crazy. To make it work... the most illest shit, some shit that I never would have thought would ever exist. It was able to exist because we tried it, but it wasn't... It wasn't normal.
It wasn't normal. It wasn't normal. You tried it, but it almost seems like it was just instinct. Like, it's not like a business strategy that anybody would ever come up with. Right. Nine dudes. Nah. And nine of the realest dudes. Like, the rawest, realest dudes. Yeah. And it worked.
Yeah, and it worked. And it worked? I tell people all the time, it was like when RZA, you know, he came with this whole philosophy of wanting to do it. It was like hitting a lotto for him. Like, he didn't know what to expect. It was more a reputation thing for us. It was like, yo, I want to do this.
And, you know, he came to block and he talked to some real dudes that was really had other shit planned in their life. You know, but hip hop was always like that backpack that we wore every day. But everybody had different plans. So he really literally came in and started to pick motherfuckers that he felt had potential. So it's like the mob. It's like, you know, Lucky Luciano, prime example.
You know, he knew that motherfuckers had potential, right? He knew dudes had potential in any way. He's from a different part. He's from a different part. He's from a different part. But yo, what we could do right here is we could make money. So put your fucking feelings down or whatever the case may be. and let's talk about some money.
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