Then, I couldn’t get any of them in a room with one another and had to chase down each member individually. The group is a lot more cohesive now than when I had the chaotic pleasure of profiling them back in late 2007 for the release of their 8 Diagrams album.
Wu tang clan cream sample movie#
It’s a four-part Showtime documentary in honor of the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - and director Sacha Jenkins says he gave the movie that title “because they are an American classic.” There were rumors of them playing a house party and fevered Instagram sightings galore, which only served to emphasize just how extraordinary it is for a rap group not only to have endured this long, but to have created a mythology and a signature style indelible enough to create worship among fans who weren’t even alive when 36 Chambers came out. The Staten Island band of brothers had come to this year’s Sundance Film Festival to premiere Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men. He was wearing a bright-yellow puffer jacket with a yellow faux-fur-trimmed hoodie that made him stand out even more than he already stands out, oozing badassery wherever he goes. Whether you’re working, stripping, hustling, or slinging, whether you’re a business owner or homeless, cash rules everything around us.“Yo, can you get some vegetarian tacos for the crib?” Ghostface Killah asked a helper. That’s pretty much the case in every nation around the world, the desperation to put your life and your freedom on the line to make a couple dollars. Cash is king, and we are its lowly subjects. People everywhere know that sentiment of being slaves to the dollar. The realism on “C.R.E.A.M.” is what resonates with so many people all over the world. That raspy shit he was kicking just echoed in everyone’s head long after the song was done playing. Meth knew the hard times, too, being out there smoking woolies and pumping crack, etc. And of “course, Meth on the hook was like butter on the popcorn. Rae was sticking up white boys on ball courts, rocking the same damn ’Lo sweater.
Deck did sell base, and he did go to jail at the age of fifteen. Not one line in that entire song is a lie, or even a slight exaggeration. Everything Inspectah Deck and Raekwon said is 100 percent true. RAW: My Journey Into The Wu Tang - “C.R.E.A.M.” is a true song. Meth came up with the hook but our dude named Raider Ruckus, this was like Meth’s homeboy back then, like they was real close, he came up with the phrase ‘cash rules everything around me.’ So when he showed Meth what it was and was like, ‘Cash rules everything around me,’ Meth was like, ‘Word, you right!’ And turned it into a movie, and I came in later that day and heard it and co-signed it. He had all kind of things and he was making beats back then, but we was just picking and that beat happened to always sit around and I would be like, ‘I want that beat, so don’t give that beat to nobody.’ And he kept his word and let me have it. RZA had it that long because he had a bunch of breaks. This song, I remember writing to the beat a long time ago before we actually came out. Just trying to make some money and trying to eat. We’re out there, all black on trying to make dollars. So, yeah, when I think of this record it just automatically puts me back into ‘87/’88 where we were standing in front of the building. It gave me an opportunity to revisit the times where that cream meant that much to us. Method Man, the master of hooks at the time, came in with this hook right here: ‘cash rules everything around me, cream, get the money.’ Once he added that element, I knew it was going to be a smash."Ĭomplex - ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ did a lot for my career personally. I reminded Rae and Deck of their verses-their verses were long. POWER 106 LA- "Once we got to the studio, I decided that this track had to be on the Wu-Tang album.