Raekwon Quotes

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

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.

If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

I been compared a lot to Brockhampton a lot.

I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes.

I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really hard.

I got invited to work on Dre's 'Compton' project.

In the mid-1970s, I even decided to make my own country album. I put the idea to my record company, thinking we'd just go into the studio in the U.K. and make a novelty album. But instead, they suggested I go to Nashville. I was flabbergasted. I hadn't expected that at all.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

I think the fact that Gang Starr kept getting more and more successful was the reason we never thought about our age.

I'm really excited about 'Love & Hip Hop.'

I've always had a plan for my music career.

I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a hook on one of his songs or he featured on one of my songs. It would be incredible. I've just always admired him since I was young.

I listen to unhealthy amount of Kanye. The Fugees. Also, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.'

I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.

There are guys like Chance the Rapper; I'm a big fan of his.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.