#2250 - Raekwon

Raekwon (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

That's it, the chef is in the building, ladies and gentlemen.

Raekwon (0:16)

What's up, what's up?

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Pleasure to meet you, man. You are a part of the most iconic band in all of hip hop. There is no question, there's one Wu-Tang, there's only one Wu-Tang, nothing else is even close. You guys are so different than every other band that ever existed. It was a giant group of you.

Raekwon (0:33)

Yeah, man.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

And everybody was a killer.

Raekwon (0:36)

Fucking mob, man.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

It's a crazy band, man. No one is, if you think about it, there's been a lot of hip hop duos, there's been a lot of producers and emcees, there's been a lot of people that get together in like small groups, but there's only one Wu-Tang, there's only one group of nine assassins.

Raekwon (0:55)

I tell niggas that all the time, like...

Joe Rogan (0:57)

It's kind of crazy.

Raekwon (0:58)

You ain't gonna get another one of these.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

It's crazy that it worked.

Raekwon (1:02)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

Because it's so hard to keep all those alphas together.

Raekwon (1:05)

It really is crazy. To make it work, the most illest shit, some shit that I never would have thought would ever exist, it was able to exist because we tried it, but it wasn't normal.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

It wasn't normal. Well, you tried it, but it almost seems like it was just instinct.

It's not like a business strategy that anybody would ever come up with. Nine dudes and nine of the realest dudes, the rawest realest dudes, and it worked?

Raekwon (1:38)

Yeah, and it worked.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

It worked?

Raekwon (1:39)

I tell people all the time, it was like when RZA, he came with this whole philosophy of wanting to do it, it was like hitting a lotto for him. He didn't know what to expect. It was more of a reputation thing for us. It was like, yo, I want to do this, and he came to the block and he talked to some real dudes that really had other shit planned in their life. But hip hop was always like that backpack that we wore every day. But everybody had different plans, so he really literally came in and started to pick motherfuckers that he felt had potential. So it's like the mob, it's like Lucky Luciano, prime example, he knew that motherfuckers had potential, right? He knew dudes had potential in any way. He's from a different party, he's from a different party, he's from a different part. But yo, what we could do right here is we could make money. So put your fucking feelings down or whatever the case may be, and let's talk about some money.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Yeah.

Raekwon (2:39)

And that right there, kind of like, yo, you start shaking hands across the table. Yo, I know you didn't really fuck with me like that, yo. I never had anything against you like that, though. But it just, it was just something that he felt like at the end of the day. Let me try this shit.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Well, Rizzo is a genius. And it's amazing that he was able to coordinate that, because that's often the case, right, with other killers?

Joe Rogan (3:04)

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Joe Rogan (4:03)

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