Rza is doing an AMA on reddit right now

[mortuus est]

Do I still have to protect ma neck? It's been like 20 years now, I'm getting tired of doing it.
Love you man. As a producer, as a rapper, as an actor, as a videogame character, ANY dj

authenticRZA
You have to protect ya neck til the day you drop brother. Because if you lose ya neck, that will be the day you drop! You must always protect ya neck at all times.

 

[mortuus est]

Hey man, HUGE fan! Just have one question, in Vancouver BC I've never had a chance to see you perform live, so my question is. Any chance that you'd be making your way up here to do a show??

authenticRZA
I would love to come to Vancouver. I think I've been to the city once some years ago, and had some fun there. It's like the West Coast of Canada. Have the promoters invite me! And if it fits my schedule, I'll be there to break some bread.

 

[mortuus est]

What's your favourite videogame?

authenticRZA
Nowadays? Well it's hard to say your favorite video game, but one game I've been buying for years and continue to buy every version they make is Tekken. Actually, when Wu-Tang first started making money, me and Method Man came to Manhattan and went to the place where they sell real pinball machines and video games, and we tried to buy a Tekken to bring home to our house. And they wouldn't sell it to us at that time. Method Man would up getting one though. I wound up getting a pinball machine. Anyway, Tekken.

 

[pimpineasy]

authenticRZA
Actually, I'm not trying to hit no pinnacles. The thing is, when an artist makes a painting, or a song, he makes it. The way the world responds to it is secondary. If they respond to it, and say it's great, then he's going to say great. If they don't respond to it, does that take away its greatness? No, because he's already satisfied in his creation. When Wu-Tang first made our first album, I knew it was great. But many people in the industry slept on it. But after it had success, it changed the direction of the industry. So be it. This may be possible now. Or maybe not.
Regardless, we should always be ourselves.
http://i34.tinypic.com/23mllye.jpg

 

[mortuus est]

He hasn't answered any questions in the last 20mins but i'll keep the thread updated

 

[mortuus est]

ahhhh seems like he's finished

@TrifeGod i asked what you wanted but didnt get answer


im glad rza answered my question tho i thought he would of missed it

thanks for the daps and reps guys

the coli out chea putting in that work

i know you complex mag agents will probably make a list out of this so dont be shook to give me some credit yaaa hurrd

 

[theflyest]

good shyt. I can tell when the celeb is actually answering these questions & when you have those that have someone doing it for them.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Yesh usually tam does the online q and a but most times its bobby.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

how the hell did reddit of all places get this AMA thing poppin?

 

[IronFist]

I am the RZA. Artist, musician, producer, author, and actor in Brick Mansions. AMAA. : IAmA

hamb_sammich 250 points 5 hours ago

Have you considered being on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast? I can't remember if it was a tweet or during his own AMA, but Rogan said he would love to have you on as a guest.

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[–]authenticRZA[S] 317 points 4 hours ago

Yes, I would love to be on as a guest someday. I'll wait for the time for him to invite me

 

[IronFist]

IvarSolocean 41 points 5 hours ago

Hey RZA! Tell us some funny stories from u and the guys in Wu Tang: )

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[–]authenticRZA[S] 248 points 3 hours ago

Here's a story, it may not be funny depending on your point of view, but one time the whole Clan was in Atlanta, and I guess we caused some kind of riot in the building, and thus the police was brought in to end the show. I remember everybody getting away from the cops without any violence, but one cop had got a grab of Inspector Deck and he couldn't get free. When we noticed it, me and Method Man rushed back over to help, but actually, what could we do? We can't hit a cop, could we? That would not have been wise. Instead, Method Man grabbed onto Inspector Deck's arm, and combined his strength with Inspector Deck, which allowed them to get away from the cop, they broke his grip and we all ran. I later told Meth "That was some Wu-Tang Kung fu shyt right there."

 

[No_bammer_weed]

Great questions and responses in those examples you posted.

 

[CASHAPP]

First kelis now rza?....what everyone is gonna be biting Nas now with the reddit thing?

 

[IronFist]

piersmw 20 points 5 hours ago
Hi, big fan of all your work and I have a great deal of respect for your outlook on life (I try to live to build up the twelve jewels myself), only question I can think of off the top of my head is, given that you've produced a lot of hip-hop, does the beat need to go with the lyrics? As in one of the two books you wrote you mentioned having hundreds (perhaps thousands, I don't recall) of beats that you've made that are just lying around waiting to possibly get used. I'm making rather a mess of the phrasing of this question, but essentially I'm curious about the production process of whether the lyrics come before the beat, or the beat comes before the lyrics, or the lyrics are written and then you find a beat you've already made but not yet used. Thank you.
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[–]authenticRZA 64 points 5 hours ago
All these processes are used. In a song like Method Man, he came to my house with the lyrics written, at the same time, I had just finished a new beat. We put the 2 together, and made a classic. Yet there's been many cases such as on Cuban Links, when Ghost and Ray took a tape of beats with them to Barbados, and Miami, and wrote the lyrics to the beats. So this process goes back and forth. As far as the thousands of beats that I have that have not been heard by the world, I hope that one day a generation (whether it's my children or somebody else) comes across them, records songs to them, and continues the Wu-Tang expressions.

 

[mortuus est]

lol iron i posted them already bro