If you keep eating McDonald's, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that's what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people.
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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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote compares the prowess of the Wu-Tang Clan's lyrics to the skill of a master swordsman.
Rza likens the lyrical talent of the Wu-Tang Clan to a martial arts sword style, emphasizing the precision and effectiveness of their words. Just as a skilled swordsman wields their weapon with finesse and power, the Wu-Tang Clan delivers their lyrics with unmatched skill, suggesting that their music is both a form of art and a form of combat.
Themes
Wu-TangLyricsSwordArtMartial Arts
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the influence of hip-hop in modern music, one can quote Rza to highlight the artistry in lyrics.
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I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.
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To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure.
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I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination.
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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?
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