Raekwon quotes

Raekwon is an American rapper and a founding member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. His solo work, particularly the album "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...", has greatly impacted the genre of rap. He continues to be recognized for his lyrical storytelling and contributions to hip hop culture. Here are 18 of his quotes:

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

Raekwon

I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.

Raekwon

Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

Raekwon

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

Raekwon

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

Raekwon

When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

Raekwon

You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

Raekwon

To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.

Raekwon

I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.

Raekwon

When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

Raekwon

I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

Raekwon

But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

Raekwon

L.A.'s always been good to me.

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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

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