Popa Wu Says Rae & Ghost Used To Shoot At Each Other Until RZA Brought Them Together Musically

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Tell me a little bit about your relationship with the gentleman in the next room.
Raekwon: Who, Tony Starks?
Yeah.
Raekwon: Ghostface Killah?
Yeah.
Raekwon: That’s my heart right there, knowumsayin’? He’s from a project that’s like ten minutes away from my project, knowumsayin’? And you know how that be from every angle, but you know, our peoples was always going at it back in the days as far as the older crews. Older crews always goin’ to war with each other and we was the ones watching. So we knew of each other, but we really started getting busy on some mic-fight shyt, when this man set it. When Razor set it. When he set it, he brung the whole shyt together. And like I said I always have respect for him because he knew my style, I knew his style. But we both was idolizing the man that made everything happen. We learned to be around each other, and we think so much alike. Like I’ll say something and he’ll be like, “Yo, I was just gettin’ ready to say that, son.” So, I know, yo, there’s more to it than just the rhymin’ thing. It’s blood, man, physically and mentally.
How many years you go back?
Raekwon: Kid, man… I’m talking about ’85, ’86 man when we was runnin’ around smokin’ crack and weed and all that shyt, we goin’ back that far. To where I know he can say, “Yo, I know you lived yours.” And he know I know he lived his. So it’s like when he and together, man, I’d rather be around someone I knew all my life, than be around someone I just met a year ago on some rap shyt. ’Cause now that’s the politics comin’ in there. I’m tryin’ to be around somebody I know from the heart. Who I can trust, knowumsayin? You can’t [trust] anybody, man. And like I said, we all grew up from little kids into grown men.
Right now, I feel like I’m grown, G. Whatever I’m doing now is based on the dollar and based on the eat, man. ’Cause I know it feels not to have shyt. I been through that, man knowumsayin’? Where I gotta go out there and hit somebody up on the head for some little bit of something, that ain’t even gonna last for the next few days. So I learned and my peoples around me lived the same life and they learned. So now we here for a cause – that’s to keep teaching the truth, knowumsayin’? And just to eat. I ain’t tryin’ to be the richest executive nikka, man. Them is the ones that get hit faster. I wanna be the one in the cut. But I’m happy, though, man. I got a team, and the team is generating enough loot where we all can eat for the rest of our lives, man. And our babies is aight, man.

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