RZA

“I try to stay as close as possible to, like, centering my body. Like, if I don't work out, like, just a couple days in a row, I start feeling weird. Two days, I just start feeling like crack crack crack crack crack. I feel antsy. I feel irritated. I don't think I'm thinking clear. I don't feel relaxed.”

“How could you say you told the bed Fuck you. Yeah. That's what you have to say. You have to get up almost angry. Fuck you. No. You're not gonna call me in there with your octopus tentacles and suck me to your depths.”

“He says, in Shaolin, when you get up in the morning, you have to exercise, run up a mountain, run back down a mountain, do chores, and all that before you eat. And he said, if you don't do that, you don't eat. And so I was like, well, that sounds like something from the Bible, where it says that, man should work to the sweat of his brow.”

“I was, maybe 11, and it was a, like, a dope fiend that was dating my aunt, and he was at the table and shit. And he was, like, nodding, but he was just he was kinda in his in a chamber, bro. And he says, says something about, like, you know, I don't care, man. You gotta get knowledge, man. I started reading it since that day, bro.”

“The Sackler family. This one family that convinced people that taking these incredibly potent opioids... they wanted to figure out a way where they could sell opioids to everyone. They got who knows how many thousands and thousands and thousands of people ruined their lives because of it. And like I said, seventy thousand die every year just in America just from opioids.”

“All this cobalt that they're knocking out of the ground is completely toxic. Some of them just have like a bandana over their mouth that they're using to protect themselves from but look how deep that is with human beings that are just pulling cobalt. They live on dirt floors, they live at the lowest level of poverty imaginable. And this is what we need to power our phones, which is so crazy. If you think about all these people that are virtue signaling about how wonderful and ethical and moral they are, they're doing it on a phone that is literally powered by slave labor.”

“The people gotta realize that they are not poor. Because if that is valuable and you're standing on it, then you're standing on value. And that's why they keep them poor because they can't organize them. The people gotta realize sometime where you stand where you stand on your land.”

“I was in China. We was doing the film there, and every morning that I would go to work, almost every day, it almost happened. Like, that almost car accident. Every day, bro. And even when my brother Russell Crowe, we'll get to set in the morning, he'll say, yo, Bobby, like, Javier, bro, we made it. So when I came home, I just stopped driving, bro. I haven't drove since then.”

“He comes up in the middle of my q and a with Dave about my film, and he starts talking about the beat. And he says, RZA is a Indian giver. He said I had it on my podcast for almost two years. And then one day, it said flag, license, whatever they do. The people from the Minions, they had got those five tracks as well, and they chose it. I said, oh, that shoe was another beat. He said, nah, son. That was the one.”

“You never seen a chicken eat a mouse? Chickens are straight up dinosaurs. There's some great videos of chickens around a cat and a cat's playing with a mouse and the chicken just runs up on the cat and steals the mouse from them and tears it apart. They were all chasing each other around the chicken coop where this one chicken had the mouse in its mouth, and they were all trying to steal it from her mouth.”

“April 22, that was the day that I was acquitted from a crime and started my life over. I was facing eight years. April 22, that's back in 1992. A year later, I'm a platinum producer. April 22, serendipitously, is the day that my film premieres on 35 millimeter at the Vista Theater in Hollywood. When my character gets out of jail, he marks on the calendar the day he gets out, April 22. Before that, I was known as Prince Rakeem. After that, acquitting and my mother telling me, you got a second chance, I was like, exit Prince Rakeem, enter the RZA.”

“Two days, I just start feeling like crack crack crack crack crack. I feel antsy. I feel irritated. Just I don't think think I'm thinking clear. I don't feel relaxed. What drives me nuts is, like, how many people out there, that's their whole life. There's no exercise in their life like my God, you're doing yourself such a disservice.”

“He says, if you don't do that, you don't eat. And so I was like, well, that sounds like something from the Bible, where it says that, man should work to the sweat of his brow. You know what I mean? And I took that philosophy. So I know I don't normally eat in the morning.”

“Every time I do it, I almost don't do it. Every time I do it, I'm almost like, don't do this. I don't wanna do this. Fuck this. And then I get in, like, oh, we're doing it. We're doing it. The minute mark is the tough part. Once you pass the minute, it's pretty easy to get to three minutes. You just relax.”

“I was, maybe 11, and there was a, like, a dope fiend that was dating my aunt. And he was at the table and shit, and he was, like, nodding, but he was just he was kinda in his in a chamber, bro. And he says, says something about, like, you know, I don't care, man. You gotta get knowledge, man. You gotta get knowledge, man. I started reading it since that day, bro.”