Raekwon And Ghostface Quotes

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?' ~ Raekwon

I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.' ~ Raekwon

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that? ~ Donald Glover

Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. ~ Ghostface Killah

No question I would speed for cracks and weed
The combination made my eyes bleed. ~ Raekwon

It was magic, I felt the bond between us.
She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus,
The Earth to my sun, moon and stars,
We added up mathematically ...
It's like I had a bad habit, B! ~ Ghostface Killah

It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous ... ~ Raekwon

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 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

Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop. ~ Raekwon

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

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

I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.' ~ Raekwon

Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky,
And ask myself: was I meant to be here ... why? ~ Ghostface Killah

I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer. ~ Raekwon

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes. ~ Ghostface Killah

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better. ~ Raekwon

I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to. ~ Raekwon

I could never really tell you what direction. It's just however God just makes it; that's how all of my albums are. I don't really aim for a direction, but I just pick the best beats I can pick and that's it. ~ Ghostface Killah

As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me. ~ Raekwon

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger ~ Raekwon

And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in. ~ Raekwon

Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room;
You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones. ~ Ghostface Killah

Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer
Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa
It's a killer bee color scheme ~ Ghostface Killah

In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions. ~ Raekwon

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. ~ Raekwon

You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams. ~ Raekwon

I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect. ~ Raekwon

It's been a long time of walking around here dumb, deaf, and blind. ~ Raekwon

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group. ~ Raekwon

Now, yo, yo, what up, yo? Time is runnin' out
It's for real though, let's connect politic, ditto ~ Raekwon

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