92: So Rza....how was it doing the Music score for Unleashed.....
Rza: actually...Unleashed been out for a while over in Europe, but the feedback in the US was minimal, they bought me in, and had me watch the entire movie, give my take, and then do the score.
92Q: did u like the movie?
Rza: yes...a lot, but a few changes were needed
92Q: so do you ever get corrected when doing a score...or do they trust your judgement?
Rza, yea, all the time...like when i did Kill Bill.....Quentin was like "I want Rza...not Bobby Digital" (Laughs)
92: whats up with the Clan right now...any Clan albums in the works?
Rza: yes.....we going to do it big time this go round...we very serious...Pretty Tony is in the studio laying tracks for his next solo joint....for Raes Cuban Linx pt2, and for the next Wu Joint......Meth been in the studio for 2 months, and all he has is 3 songs.....just 3 songs...thats how serious and particular we are about our present music.....I told Meth...imma take you back to the top...i promise....Meth was like the first "Street" rapper to win a grammy.
92: So is all the fam going to be on this one?
Rza: yes.....like Wu Forever......like when i did triumph....Radio and Video stations was telling me it was to long...i had to edit it....i told them...take it as is...or they wont get nothing, feel me?....next thing you know...we did the impossible....we got a 6 minute song on the radio...6 minutes man...thats serious..its unheard of..a 6 minute video, we taking it back to that.
92: So, do you think Wu Tang reinvented hipop?
Rza We reinvented the way hip hop was structured, and what i mean is....you have a group signed to a lable (Loud), yet the infrastructure of our deal was like anyone elses...we still could negotiate with any lable we wanted, like Meth went with Def Jam, Rae stayed with Loud....Ghost went with Sony...Gza went with Geffen...feel me?....and all these lables still put "Razor Sharp Records" on the credits....Wu Tang was a financial Movement
92: Wu Tang Financial, huh? (Laughs)
Rza: so what do u wanna diversify?..your assets? (Laughs)
92: so what else Rza been doing?
Rza: well, im now listed as the first producer/Composer in the game....so now you can put Composer on my resume'...I remember droping 20/30/40/50k to go to Cali to just hang out with people like Stanley Clark, Quincey JOnes....to attend there functions....now im apart of those functions....people was telling me i was stupid for spending money to be around megastars...but what i was doing was investing money into myself...and thats what we as blacks need to start doing...invest in yourself. They always tell us to invest in black, invest into your community, but first we have to invest in self....believe and then "Unleash" yourself (Laughs)
92: Who do u respect in the game right now producer wise?
Rza: Well, i rap to a lot of them, like Quik, Dre, Premo, Kanye & Just Blaze of course, Alchemist, my lil man Havok doing his thing. its so many, but I use my own style which i think is the best.
92: so you think you are the best?
Rza: of course, and thats not putting anyone else down, but if you dont belive in yourself, you are already defeated, again, not to put anyother Producer down, but im the only one who is also a "Composer"...cant none of them say that.....They doing a show on BET on Black composers, they will list all the names....Quincy Jones...who showed me a lot, Stanley Clark whos the most underated musician in the world...my name.....no other producer, but i encourage all producers to spread your wings and dabble into other things besides Tracks.
92: I feel that...so what about Rappers...Lyrically?
Rza My man Nas of course, Jay Z be putting it down...um...um....Mos Def, Common, Talib, aof course the Gza...who i think is the best of them all lyrically, not cause he's my cousin, not cause he taught me how to breath over beats, not cause he's Wu Tang.....but if you were to never heard Liquid Swords ten years ago...and drop it right now, with not one word changed...you'd be amazed right now, and thats 10 years old what he was saying. And im not taking anything away from Illmatic or Reasonable Doubt or Ready to Die....but i guess you would say im biased
92: so what should we look for outta the Clan in the up and coming months?
Rza...I have a Book....very powerful....solos by Meth, Rae, Ghost and Master Killer and
a Wu Album, we about to change the face of hip hop again