#2490 - 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.”

“And most of it happened because of 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. And the way they did it was, like, giving people pain management tools, giving people medication that you could be on forever. They tried to pretend that it wasn't addictive, and they lied about that, and they got who knows how many thousands and thousands and thousands of people ruin their lives because of it.”

“So cobalt is a critical mineral that's used in cell phone batteries and many electronics. He snuck in cameras and got some footage of these people doing what, you know, you think that this stuff is mined in some sort of industrial process. You've got women who are have babies on their backs, and all this cobalt that they're knocking out of the ground is completely toxic. If you follow it all the way down to the very bottom of the food chain, you've got slave labor.”

“He's at a veteran home. He's sitting there, and he's having breakfast, and he has this can. He digs the spoon in there, and it's like, fucking there's nothing in it. Like, it's not even it's like one spoon of chocolate in it. And he gets angry. He bangs it. Boom. Who the fuck left one spoon of chocolate in the can? But then it took an old man that was settled to tell him, one spoon of chocolate change a whole glass of milk.”

“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, Rizza 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. And they put it and they paid us a lot of money. He said, nah, son. That was the one. Oh, no. That was the one.”

“They have a hard time selling real diamonds that are made in a laboratory. Is that a real diamond? It's a real diamond. Molecularly, it's a real diamond. It's just not created by the earth over time. It's not like a fake Ferrari. It's a fucking diamond. Like, they can take that carbon and compress it and make an artificial diamond, and lady is like, no. I don't want it.”

“There's a company in China that makes Rolexes exact to a real Rolex, but it's not a real Rolex. They buy a Rolex and then recreate exactly to the same type of steel that they used. But they take it and they recreate everything with the exact same materials, but it's like $500 as opposed to 11,000. You bring it to a watch person and it'll take them hours to figure out whether or not this is an actual Rolex or not.”