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d Mellow upbeat music d

[Divine] That first album.

From that album to Cuban Linx

to Liquid Swords to Tical

to Ironman to ODB's album.

First five albums, we were inseparable.

The plan is going accordingly to what we want.

Right now, we teaching everybody in the world ,

all the babies in the world .

We in the suburbs now.

This goes to all y'all young people out there, man.

- Yup. - See, we gonna rise up

and be the new government and be the true everything.

[Divine] So the first five albums

gave everybody a chance to reap the rewards

of being famous.

Raekwon became a superstar from Cuban Linx.

[Raekwon] Raekwon album

is Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, 'cause it's only built

for people that stand together.

You know what I'm saying? Those are links.

[Divine] Ghost became a star from Ironman.

This the joint right now in the streets,

what's calling the shots right now.

[Divine] Same thing happened with the GZA.

[GZA] What... [beatboxing]

Why did you name the new album Liquid Swords?

It's called Liquid Swords because the tongue

is symbolic to the sword ,

and words are like water sometimes.

The wisdom is like water

because it can come in many different currents.

[Divine] Method Man became

one of the biggest solo artists in hip-hop.

d Of course it's the Method Man from the Wu-Tang Clan d

[Divine] Think about it, with Def Jam, we sold

over 2 million records.

Shit is platinum this week, right, bro?

Yeah, shit went platinum this week.

Shit went motherfucking platinum !

What a tremendous opening week for Meth.

- Oh, my God . - Good job.

Don't thank me, man! Thank you , man!

That's you .

We got the Ol' Dirty Bastard in the house, from the Wu .

Got the solo joint out,

the Return of the 36 Chambers, which is a hip-hop classic.

[Divine] Dirty was one of the smartest

persons I know.

He just liked to have fucking fun.

- [crowd cheering] - [yelling]

I got my soul from this mo-- he used to beat

in the kitchen, drinking with my mother, singing.

Got my brothers in there with the wheelchair,

dying laughing, you know what I mean?

He in there singing. . . [vocalizes]

[vocalizing]

[Ghostface] Sometimes, he'd walk out there,

won't say nothing.

ddd

[crowd cheering]

You know, people wanted to see this wild motherfucker,

like, what is he gonna do next?

[woman] . . .John Leventhal .

I don't know how y'all see it,

but when it comes to the children,

Wu-Tang is for the children; we teach the children.

They say he stole some sneakers out of a mall ,

but then in-- in the same paragraph,

he lifted a car off a baby girl .

Dirty lifted the car off of her like Superman.

What?

You saved a little girl's life the other day, didn't you?

- Yes. - [Howard] You did .

And he was stronger than a speeding bullet.

[male reporter] ODB was shot in the back

then robbed while visiting a cousin

in this Bed-Stuy apartment house.

Shot him one time,

and he took himself to the hospital .

[inhales] No, I think he went home first.

I think he forgot his good hat.

[Divine] And RZA,

he's producing every album.

He's a fucking iconic figure.

It just felt like we had established ...

a new game.

And the game was...

be as successful as you possibly can,

together.

d El Michels Affair's "Protect Ya Neck" d

ddd

[distant traffic honking]

[distant dogs barking]

[Method Man] Ready to talk right now.

[man] No, no, we're going to...

We in Japan, running shit.

Fujiwara, kamikaze.

Everybody, it's all one love.

Wu-Tang spreading love across the world.

Peace to man, woman, and child.

Peace to the Gods and the Earths.

Five-Percent Nation.

[indistinct chatter]

[Divine] We were happy, man.

And I'm still happy to this day.

d Mellow upbeat music d

When you know everybody's getting money,

then there's no more fear.

[yelps] [imitating Japanese]

- Like he took it. - [camera shutter clicks]

[groans, imitates whooshing]

[laughs]

That's how I moved my table, man.

Yo, yo, it's the scene where people worship, man.

Oh, oh, word?

You're pissing on a shrine.

This shit is definitely right, though.

We just worryin'. N igga, yo. . . [laughs]

We fucking--we do this life right here.

[Divine] I can just see the joy.

There was no more cops chasing us.

There was no more risk of...

being arrested.

[indistinct chatter]

That shit woke me clean out my sleep.

[Divine] It was probably the most... genuine love

I've ever seen with us in Wu-Tang.

[indistinct chatter]

ddd

- Do it again, do it again. - [laughs]

- [chuckles] - [laughs]

[laughs]

ddd

[woman] speaking Japanese

My man, peace.

Money--when the money came?

[Inspectah] Smiles like a motherfucker.

It's like, yo, when the money came, man, it's like yo.

A lot of kids were born.

- Happy days, man. - Yeah, lot of kids was born.

We could do what the fuck we want to do.

We was like, yo.

[indistinct chatter]

[all] Happy New Year!

[Method Man] Felt good not to have to worry

about that monthly bill and shit like that.

Everybody was running around,

doing crazy shit that we never dreamed of.

The first--the first thing that it had brought was--

It brought joy and opportunity.

- You gotta say that. - Right.

Yeah, it felt like reparations for all the bullshit

we had to go through, and now Mama

can reap the benefits of having me, you know what I mean?

It was like, it worked . It worked .

It's like, yo, we really-- we really onto something.

Hey, look right there.

Look at that right there.

Just living right there, kid .

Raekwon the Chef chilling out in Hawaii .

Thought I would never be here

in a position like this right now.

You know what I mean, all the-- all the wrong shit

I done did before and all of that,

and I'm chilling like this now?

On the other side of the world , you know what I mean?

That's love right there.

In Hawaii , the lava alone make my dick hard .

Yeah, I'm all burnt up, Jet-Skiing.

Blue waters.

Staying away from the sharks.

You know what I mean?

All that.

The phattest shit ever, man.

You know what I'm saying? Wu-Tang rules.

d Ghostface Killah's "Daytona 500" playing d

Yeah, wave your hands.

- Wave your hands. - Yeah.

- Wave your hands. - From where we at...

Wave them shits. Wave them shits.

- Yeah! - Where we at...

d Yo, yo, yo... d

d Say peace to cats who rock MAC d

[both] d Knowledge Knowledges d

d Street astrologists light up the mic, God acknowledge this d

d Repel all fakes like reflectors d

d He had sugar in his ear in his last crack career d

d We can can him, manhandle him ifyou wanna d

d Run in his crib-o, get ditto, skate like a limo d

d Jet to the flyest estate, relate, take a break d

d Break down an eighth and then wait d

d Drop it like Drake, thugs, they be d

d Booing and screwing, we canoeing d

d Claim they doing the same shit we doing d

d Fuck the union, it's the same style d

d RZA 's train aboard, jump the turnstile d

d On the island, tried to challenge God d

d For the new bals, especially that d

d Aluminum bat in the Ac, relax d

d Lay back, sell a grenade a day, it pays black d

d Mac-10 flex wipe cats like Windex d

d Index finger be sore busting these fly scripts d

d The Wally kid count crazily grands revive lands d

d Laying with my bitches and my mans in Lex Lands d

d We losing 'em, jet to the stash in Now Jerusalem d

d Abusing 'em, rocking his jewels like we using 'em d

[crowd cheering]

d Mellow upbeat music d

This...

is the dooku .

After all the hard work,

this is where it supposedly pays off at,

you know what I'm saying?

It's a beautiful view. It's a canyon.

You out here in the hills.

Just gliding like condors, you know?

We stare sometime and we just look

into the green.

- Brings a lot of thoughts. - [indistinct talking]

It's like from Park H ill to Beverly H ills.

And this is where we standing, you know what I mean?

ddd

[indistinct talking]

[Raekwon] We didn't realize how big we were.

We just knew that we was free of,

you know, being in certain situations

that's gonna push us back.

We was moving forward now.

d Wu-Tang Clan's "Cash Still Rules!Scary Hours" d

d Scary hours, no money out, smash the Guinness Stout d

d Play the outfield, Lucille switched cracks on shields d

d She's a rich fiend, sacrifice her fam d

d Shift them niggas to Oueens d

d Guess jeans, she charged 35 beans d

d Hit the cell phone d

d Regulate with well-known tone d

[Raekwon] We was trying to help our friends,

the ones that we cared about, you know what I mean?

You try to throw a-- throw a anchor out to them

and kind of help some and...

My man Cappadonna getting blazed out.

- Word up. - You hear me?

Shout out to anybody that goes sideways.

[Cappadonna] I never in my wildest imagination thought

that I would be able to reach any of these heights,

because I was locked up.

This is what we call our cells right here.

This my cell right here.

Keep a little fresh flowers around and all that.

[Cappadonna] After I did that nine months,

like, at my mom's, was totally

just on getting my life together, personally.

Capp was, like, my favorite emcee.

So when Capp came home,

I-I-I had a personal desire to sign him .

We felt that Cappa was just one of those dudes

that belonged with us. And when he got out of jail ,

you know, I sent the invitation out for him .

The dude come home from jail .

I give him a check for a quarter million dollars.

My pens, that's the most important thing to me right now.

This is my new pen that I bought.

If you can see it-- it's got $1 00 all over it.

I'm putting in work, man, you know what I mean?

My pen burns with desire.

I love my room ,

'cause food , shelter, and clothing

is the basic necessities in life.

And I got money too, yo.

Y'all wanna see some money?

- H uh? - [woman] Yeah.

All right, check it out.

Got big dough, big dough, big dough,

big dough, big dough.

It's just twenties.

But I got a lot of them , know what I mean?

Then I'll show you a picture of my daughter right there.

That's my greatest gift I gave to the world .

I made another life.

I knew I was gonna make a girl too.

Know what I mean?

'Cause I'm a-- I'm a thinker,

and women is great thinkers.

d Wu-Tang Clan's "Reunited" d

ddd

d It's Wu, motherfuckers d

d Wu-Tang, motherfuckers d

d It's Wu, motherfuckers d

d Wu-Tang, motherfuckers d

- d It's Wu, motherfuckers d - [laughs]

We always in motion.

Time is a calculation of motion, so we--

By staying in constant motion,

that cause time to pass.

H ip-hop is on its way out the door.

It's about to die.

See, our music is-- it's like a healing power.

Know I'm saying, we put out many different albums.

This is the second Wu-Tang Clan album ,

but it ain't the second chamber for Wu-Tang, know I'm saying?

d It's Wu, motherfuckers, it's Wu... [vocalizes] d

[GZA] d Reunited, double LP, world excited d

d Struck a match to the underground d

d Industry ignited d

d From metaphorical parables d

d To fertilize the earth d

d Wicked niggas come d

d Trying to burglarize the turf d

[Method Man] d As a rock when I strike target d

d Verbal be screaming on you like a drill sergeant d

d Herbals got me where I wanna be right now d

d On behalf of my crew, suuuuuuu! d

d Enter the Wu, 36 more deadly chambers d

d To take you through d

We ain't coming with the radio-friendly shit.

You know, if radio gonna play it, they gonna play it.

If not, so be it.

We could use the radio play, for real ,

'cause we got a message to spread .

ddd

[RZA] You know, we know this is entertainment,

but at the same time, this is our life, like,

this is our livelihood also, and we live this shit.

And we just want to let y'all know the truth of it.

[Ms. Roxy] d Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang d

[Ol' Dirty Bastard vocalizing]

d And RZA d

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Sound good .

[indistinct chatter]

N igga felt that one.

d Wu-Tang Clan's "Triumph '' d

[man] All right, here we go.

Come on, cameras, are we set?

- [man] We're set. - And slate in!

[Steve] Wu-Tang Forever.

Rae wants a million-dollar video.

I said no problem .

We did "Triumph, " which was,

I think, the first hip-hop million-dollar video.

And . . . roll camera! Roll sound !

- [man] Rolling! - [man] Speeding.

- [beep] - [man] Out, out, out, out!

[Meth] d As the world turns, I spread like germs d

d Bless the globe with the pestilence d

d The hard-headed never learn d

d This my testament to those burned d

d Play my position in the game of life d

d Standing firm d

d On foreign land, jump the gun d

d Out the frying pan, into the fire d

d Transform into the Ghost Rider d

[Steve] I remember Rae and Ghost were sitting

in my office the night before the album came out.

I said , "Tomorrow, all our lives are gonna change."

Virgin Records had a store on 45th and Broadway

underneath the BMG building.

I said , "Let's go see what the line is like at the entrance."

[man] Wu-Tang Forever!

[Steve] It went from 45th Street

all the way across 43th Street to 6th Avenue,

up 6th Avenue, back to 49th Street.

I mean, it was crazy, and then, you know,

a week later, the album debuted

number one in every country around the world .

- U ncle J-Dog! - [crowd chanting] Wu-Tang!

[ODB vocalizing]

[Inspectah] d I bomb atomically d

d Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses d

d Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries d

d Lyrically perform armed robbery d

d Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me d

d Big Bub's "Zoom" playing d

d Oh, zoom d

d I'd like d

d To fly far away from here d

d What they wanna be d

d Yeah d

Back for more!

We out here in...

- Chinatown. - J-Japan, in Chinatown.

Now, this is Chinatown.

Yeah. Now you can get the ginseng tea.

Yeah.

Ooh, creepy?

This is alcohol . You can drink it.

The fuck is this?

[together] Wu-Tang number one!

[RZA] Wu-Tang is gonna take over,

you know what I'm saying?

We here to show y'all righteousness,

here to show y'all the truth about God

and devil , you know what I'm saying?

And show you the truth about self.

Speaking Japanese

Welcome to Japan, MTV Times.

You guys unite so well .

I mean, you know, you guys got the great leader, RZA.

How you guys maintain that kind of peace

in--in the group?

We might fuss, argue sometimes.

But, at the end of the day,

we know that together we stand , divided we fall .

- Mm . - That's how I see it.

Word , word .

- Word up. - Okay.

[man] They got me on this...

[Divine] Whatever I did

was the foundation to create Wu-Tang.

They came to my house to make the music.

Okay? RZA 's my little brother.

So RZA 's like, "Okay, I'ma make all the music.

You're gonna run the business."

And I go start the company.

I remember I got my first Macintosh.

And I was like, "What the fuck do you do with a computer?"

And within a month or two, I had QuickBooks in there,

Peachtree, which is all basically a bunch of software

for accounting purposes, because I'm managing the group.

And I eventually just got good at it.

That nigga right there, check it out.

He--he Mr. Spock and shit.

If this was Star Trek, he'd be Spock.

"That's highly illogical , Captain."

He be trying to Vulcan mind-meld motherfuckers and shit.

"Vulcan mind-meld ."

[Divine] Before I knew it, I was reading all the contracts.

[Divine] I was negotiating all the deals.

Seven, eight, nine, ten.

[Power] Everybody's lives changed.

Everyone had a place to live.

Everyone had a set of wheels.

Wu-Tang Productions started getting big.

We were just expanding as a company.

We started the first business, Wu-Tang Productions,

Wu-Tang Management, Wu-Tang Publishing,

Wu-Tang Records, Razor Sharp Records.

These are--every two years,

me and RZA starting a new venture.

You know, we cross-pollinated the music

with the fashion.

[Method Man] We used to sell T-shirts at the shows,

and they was going so fast. [snapping fingers]

Just this logo alone sells.

Like, man, you put two and two together,

let's open up a store.

[Cappa] d Now it's my time d

d Asian Wu Wear, Cappa fleece wear d

[man] Wu-Tang Clan is Wu Wear. Wu Wear is Wu-Tang Clan.

Anytime, anywhere, you know what I mean?

d The best of this year, Wu Wear and fleece wear d

We didn't even know if that shit was gonna work.

I started Wu Wear from the mail order

on the back of Raekwon's album .

I want it to be in Macy's.

Music isn't the only industry

the Wu-Tang Clan is making noise in.

It seems everything the group touches turns to gold.

d I got this wine... d

[John] In its first year,

the Victory Boulevard store grossed $5 million.

Now the clothing line is all over the country,

with stores in Virginia, Georgia, and California.

You can even find Wu Wear in Macy's.

Our main moneymaker was the music,

then the touring, then the brand.

Probably one of our biggest years was, like...

25 million, as a whole.

25, 30 million.

[man] So how's it like going on tour

with a rock band , RZA?

- With a rock band? - [man] Mm-hmm .

It's all good , man.

We rocking--we rocking for the white boys

right there, you know what I'm saying?

It's like, white boys can enjoy hip-hop, can't they?

I think so.

[Divine] The Rage Against the Machine is a big tour.

d Energetic rock music d

[John Norris] The one and only Rage Against the Machine.

They're on tour with Wu-Tang Clan

for the next couple of months.

Try and catch them.

I loved that fucking tour.

We were doing hood shows.

But when we started doing them type of shows?

This shit became prestigious. We was out there.

- [indistinct chatter] - You know what I mean?

It's like, they crowd more wild than in ours.

Our people tend to, like...

I disagree, 'cause I seen my peoples that crazy too.

Hey, yo, ain't no color line

when it come to doing this, man.

It's all the same thing

'cause we hitting 'em with sound .

Watch the cultures clash.

This is my brother right here.

I love this nigga right here.

[kisses] This my heart right here.

[laughter]

[RZA] Wu-Tang Forever was the first time

I saw blacks, whites, Native Americans,

Latins, my Asian brothers.

I saw straight, I saw gay brothers.

ddd

And I just had an epiphany.

The five human families,

the black, red , yellow, brown, and white,

were all in one room ,

all rocking with us.

And so I'm like this, I'm like, yo,

it's like in my-- it's--it's in my hand .

You know what I mean? So I'm like this, yo.

These five families come together,

and these become our wings.

All right, y'all ready? Put the Wu signs up.

We'll see if y'all ready. Put the Wu signs up.

d Upbeat ambient music d

And those right there are your wings.

And with these wings, we gonna take flight.

We gonna take flight

past all this fucking color line shit

and we gonna come the fuck together

and take flight to the edge of the night, y'all , a'ight?

'Cause I felt like the Wu-Tang W

actually is a phoenix.

And I said , with these wings, we gon' fly above

all the...

racism , the oppression, the hatred .

We can rise above it.

d "Reunited" playing d

Put the Wu signs back up! Put 'em back up!

d It's Wu, motherfuckers d

[man] Three! Four! Five! Six!

d It's Wu, motherfuckers d

- d Wu-Tang, motherfuckers d - Eight! Seven! Six! Five!

- d It's Wu, motherfuckers d - Four! Three! Two! One!

- d Wu-Tang, motherfuckers d - One! One! One! One!

d It's Wu, Wu d

[Inspectah] We was on that tour with Rage,

tearing shit up.

[Mook] People going crazy for us.

It was beautiful.

But the Clan niggas was feeling that

they should get more money than 45,000 a night.

Rage getting all the money!

[Method Man] I didn't want to go.

Because, for me, the black audience was the core.

And I seen different guys go over to the white audience

and never get to come back and shit,

so I was a little scared .

[Mook] Hey, fans are fans, man.

Don't give a fuck what color they are.

Be happy motherfuckers want to come see us.

That's why you platinum , motherfuckers.

You ain't platinum just for black people.

And we gonna have a special platinum party

at the Atrium , y'all invited to come down.

We on 3 million worldwide.

Double album , let's count it for 6 million.

Thank y'all motherfuckers for supporting.

- Word up! - Word up!

- We love y'all for that, boy! - Word up!

ddd

All my real niggas make some fucking noise

right here, right here!

[crowd cheering]

We on tour with white boys, Rage Against the Machine,

rocking 20,000 crowds and shit.

But we had to come back here

for this motherfucking platinum party.

[vocalizing]

- d Uh-uh-uh d - d I'm so paranoid d

- [ODB vocalizing] - Turn the mic up!

[Inspectah] Hot 97 at that time...

Representing all the flavors of hip-hop!

[Inspectah] ...they want us to do Summer Jam.

d I'm the god who's the head of the lords d

d Dirty Dog, I'm from the Wu-Tang squad d

They never told me that we was doing Summer Jam that year.

So it wasn't on our program.

We already booked.

d Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang d

ddd

Hold on.

The deal was, as far as I remember...

d intense ambient music d

"You gotta come back and do this Hot 97 Summer Jam

or we're not gonna play any more of your records

on our station."

Hot 97 is the second most popular

radio station in New York.

It's a big business,

and getting airplay is competitive.

And we found that the same artists

are played over and over again.

Hot 97 style bringing it through.

We come out of our pocket,

get our own tickets, fly back.

Summer Jam , it's on.

[indistinct talking]

Tell him we have the God hours.

You ain't serious about this right here,

don't come out there with me.

d Funky upbeat music d

[Mook] We get to the Summer Jam.

Puffy's on stage, him and-- I think it was him and Mase.

I mean, we can see 20, 000 motherfuckers in the stands.

Hot 97, back in the day, they didn't pay the artist.

Ghost is so pissed .

But it was just like, yo, man, what happened?

We ain't never do nothing to y'all.

And I was upset at that.

[indistinct talking]

So we get on stage, unga bunga,

you know, the Clan get on stage.

Ghost sets it off.

And I went up there

and cursed every-fucking-body out.

"I want everybody in this motherfucker to say. . ."

[feedback whines]

"'Fuck Hot 97! "'

ddd

Fuck Hot 97.

Fuck Hot 97-- fuck these motherfuckers.

Ah-da-da-da, ah-da-da-da-da, in front of all these people.

I'm looking at him like,

I know this motherfucker didn't just

say "fuck Hot 97" at they show.

ddd

The crowd said , "Fuck Hot 97!

Fuck Hot 97! Fuck. . ."

"Fuck Hot 97! " [laughs]

Like, that's how we all felt, too, at that time.

I'm trying to tell these niggas to calm down.

And then we got banned from Hot 97.

They didn't play our records for, like, the next 1 0 years.

Us not being involved

while they playing the Biggie shit

and they playing the Nas shit

and everybody that was rocking with us at that time,

that affected our sales.

That affected our-- our touring.

That affected everything. That affected our presence.

You know, New York sets the trend .

What New York does,

all the other major markets play.

Other sister stations followed

because they were a top 40 station.

Well , what do you say

when, you know,

somebody says "fuck Hot 97" in front of 30,000 people?

Oh, and Wu-Tang? For-never.

d Soft dramatic music d

Now everybody wants to go home.

I didn't want to leave that Rage tour.

Bros is like, yo, man, we gonna just do this shit

or we gonna not go

on the Rage Against the Machine shit?

We gonna stop this shit.

"I ain't going back on the tour.

Fuck that. Blah, blah, blah, blah."

Come here and just walk this dog in,

keep it strictly business.

Certain brothers wanted to keep continuing.

I said . . . Let us just complete this shit.

Maybe I should've stayed home for a while.

[U-God] And the next little wave of tours,

it would-- would've upped our price.

That's all we had to do, is finish what we had to do.

So he walked off the fucking tour.

And that caused everything to collapse.

What year was that? Was it '97?

[man] Yeah, something like that.

Yeah, man, I think I might've took a trip to Africa, man.

I left.

Fuck that! I don't wanna rap!

Bitch, I wanna talk!

[cheers and applause]

Word is bond .

Fuck that.

Fuck that! Fuck that!

Fuck! That! Shit!

[voice echoing] Fuck that! What, what, what, what, what?

[RZA] '97 was a real-- I say a difficult year

for Wu-Tang, you know what I mean?

A real painful year.

We had that tour with Rage Against the Machine,

which was a big tour for us and a big experience for us,

you know what I'm saying?

And--and--and some things at home was gnawing at us,

you know, gnawing at your door.

It's like, you out on the road ,

it's like going to the war, I guess, in the army.

And you out there trying to, you know, fight for freedom

and defend your country, but back at home,

you losing--you losing what you fighting for.

Somebody wife could be pregnant.

Somebody baby could be sick.

Somebody-- somebody brother could be in jail.

Somebody cousin could get shot.

The things that's happening in the streets,

between us nine, it's gonna happen to one of us.

Real life is still right there at our door.

You know what I'm saying? We ain't really escape it.

And it brings us right back to--

To, you know, everyday stress.

This is Park H ill Avenue for those that don't know, man.

My man Kase, who was brutally slain

by the po-9, the cops did it, we know what happened .

[RZA] Rest in peace to Kase and 2 Cent.

Yo.

[Gano] Ernest Sayon, also known as "Kase, "

was very close with Method Man.

[Method Man] The police used excessive force

to the point where they murdered my man.

They didn't kill him. They murdered him.

It could've happened to me.

Ernest Sayon, "Kase," he could've been

your mother, he could've been your father,

your little brother, your son,

your daughter, anybody that you cared about.

At that time, it was very volatile in Park H ill .

'Cause you got cops out here killing us,

and it looks like they're gonna get away with it.

Angry residents in the drug-infested neighborhood

where Ernest Sayon died in police custody say

there is a pattern of police brutality in the precinct.

A video shows cops

repeatedly hitting a man in handcuffs.

[Rudy] Last night, several channels played

a tape of an arrest sometime before the Sayon,

uh, incident, the murder-- the, uh, the death.

[girl speaks indistinctly]

To quickly analyze it as a racial thing

I think does a terrible disservice.

[indistinct shouting]

[Gano] When Ernest Sayon died,

there were people that saw what happened .

- They just beat him to death. - [man] You saw this?

Yeah, I seen this with my own two eyes.

It's not like he tried to

refuse arrest or anything like that.

The man didn't even know-- he didn't have a chance

to even know what was going on.

When he tried to gasp for some air,

they kept banging his head .

He took his gun out his holster

and started banging him in the back of his head .

I was standing right there.

[Gano] It was a media circus out there

for two weeks straight.

New revelations on Staten Island tonight...

[man] This was a center of drug activity.

- Is that a reason-- - This is not a nice guy.

What do you mean he's not a nice guy?

- You don't know him . - And did you know that--

[stammers] two of the cops who were involved here were black?

I know that makes no difference to you .

- No-no-no, when--when-- - Makes a difference to me.

[Gano] There was a police officer

named Donald Brown.

Officer Brown was someone

who wasn't particularly liked in the neighborhood .

Nearly everyone we talked to here

knows or has heard of Officer Brown.

They say he was never

liked or respected in this neighborhood .

He would harass little kids,

like this size, little bitty kids

out here playing on their bike, doing nothing.

Then they gonna say, well , it couldn't be racist because

it was a black cop who killed a black man.

Of course it's racist.

A black cop couldn't beat down a white man

with the presence of other white cops helping along, okay?

Only reason Ernest died because he is a black man,

and I'm tired of this going on,

and I'm not gonna stand for it no more.

[Gano] Let me tell you something.

If Officer Brown gets away with this,

which he's not-- I don't think he's--

It's gonna be some shit breaking out,

you know what I'm saying?

It's gonna start from right here,

from where the brother lost his life at.

You know what I'm saying? That's it.

[echoing] That's it...

[U-God] I was in California,

you know what I'm saying, when the situation happened.

Back there, building 21 8, my son right there, he was hit

in the hand and in the kidney, you know what I'm saying,

with, um , I think it was a 9-millimeter caliber.

[sighs] He had staples and all type of things.

Man, it was just,

know what I'm saying, it was horrible, man.

I still got stress, man, know what I'm saying?

Motherfucking Dante...

Why you say a bad word , Daddy?

[laughs]

'Cause that's how I feel , man.

I feel . . . [stammers] saying bad words, man.

Why? Why, why, why?

'Cause I'm aggravated . I'm stressed .

- I'm stressing. - You not--

You not stressed .

I mean, I'm stressed .

[laughs] A'ight.

You know, we are God's people,

'cause we are gods.

You know, I look at it like this, man,

we gods...

and if you see yourself as being God ,

you see yourself as being the most high.

That means you treat yourself and you treat others

at the most high.

You honor your brother, you honor your family,

you're always at the most high.

So I look at everybody as being God

or devil .

See how that goes?

You can be black and you can be devil too.

[Divine] U nderstand , and build or destroy.

That's right. Tell 'em how you understood ...

[chuckles]

How I built it and how it was destroyed .

So now that I know, I can build it again.

- That's right. - You see,

every kingdom will rise and fall ,

but God kingdom is forever.

[indistinct chatter] - [Divine] Forever.

I didn't realize

how much success I have achieved

until 1 997, '98,

and I looked back, and it was like, "Damn...

I've sold over 30 million records."

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The Wu-Tang Forever project was a success

like a motherfucker.

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I don't know what happened .

[man] You gotta have an idea of what happened .

Oh, okay, I can tell you what happened .

Egos.

Brothers started getting egos, and--me too.

It was like, "Yo, I'm doing these fucking deals.

I don't want to hear that shit you talking about."

[Method Man] It wasn't the same.

It was a bunch of solo artists trying to be a group again,

and the hunger wasn't there anymore.

It was just a job.

[Divine] "I want to do my album now!"

No, you gotta help your brother finish his album

because all of us helped you do yours,

now you have to follow the protocol

and help us do his.

[U-God] I couldn't get nothing done.

My dudes is out there eating, doing their thing.

We couldn't get shit done for me.

So, yeah, right, I had fucking goddamn

problems with that shit.

Fuck that. Yeah.

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[female reporter] Rap star Russell Jones,

otherwise known as "Ol' Dirty Bastard, "

and his cousin were pulled over

in Brownsville, Brooklyn,

by plainclothes anti-crime cops.

Police say after a chase,

Jones rolled down his tinted window

and opened fire on them.

I gave him a cell phone for Christmas.

And they thought it was a gun.

Come on.

And the cop just shot at him .

But they didn't know I was on the phone

with him the whole time.

[man] So you're on the phone with him while he's driving?

- Yes, the whole time. - The whole time.

He said , "Mommy. They're shooting at me."

I said , "Don't you stop."

I said , "Go back straight to the precinct.

And go in."

Mm .

The cops said you had a gun. Did you have a gun?

No, I didn't have no gun. I don't use guns.

[female reporter] Jones was charged

with attempted murder ofpolice officers.

The alleged gun was never recovered.

During his arraignment last week,

it was implied the only thing in Jones' hand

was a cell phone.

[indistinct chatter]

[man speaks indistinctly] All right.

[camera shutters clicking]

As you're all aware, a Kings County grand jury

voted yesterday to exonerate Russell Jones

of all wrongdoing in relation to an incident

alleged to have taken place on January 1 5th, 1 999.

Clearly, the incident did not take place as reported

by members of the New York City Police Department.

Of course I'm gonna file a lawsuit.

As much money as I can get, I'm gonna get it.

Hell , yeah. Yeah, of course.

Scared like a motherfucker.

I'm sorry, Ma. I'm sorry.

I'm just upset, man. You get--you know...

This is my beautiful mama right here.

You know, that's why I was saying pardon,

because Ma don't like me cursing.

She gonna get me when I get home.

- [woman] What's your name? - Cherry, Cherry Jones.

[man] What's it like as a mother

to see all this going on?

Well , I'm used to it. [chuckles]

I'm used to it by now.

You know, all I do--I pray. I pray a lot.

ddd

[Icelene] He'djust come back in town.

And usually when he come back in town from performing,

he would have a lot of money.

He went to sleep--well , he was

laying in the bed , taking a rest.

And some guys came up in there and robbed him

and shot him , right in the bed .

Everything sort of changed .

It slowed him down a little bit,

'cause he was shot and then he was real paranoid .

[male reporter] Jones was charged with

breaking a new state law which makes it illegal

for convicted felons like him to wear body armor.

Jones was arrested last month wearing a bulletproof vest

and could land rapping in prison

for the next three years.

He is-- as many famous people are--

He is at risk for his life.

[seagulls calling]

- [loud boom] - [T. rex roars]

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[GZA] Dirty, he was locked up at times.

He missed a few albums.

He missed a lot of shows.

[ODB] Felt like it was me against the world in prison.

I don't think nobody would've got through

what I got through, man.

- [man] Guys, guys. - [woman] Let's go, let's go.

We got our brother, ODB,

he still on vacation.

What he bring to the table,

nobody else can never bring to the table.

And you know we gonna always be there for him ,

regardless of what.

[woman] What's your name?

Barsun Jones.

[ODB] I love my kids.

Love my kids.

Ijust want to be a good ol' regular dad.

Ijust want to take care of them, man.

You know, stack this money

so I can have something for them,

you know, in the future.

At one point, he wanted me

to break him out of jail , bro.

And I legitimately considered it.

[chuckles] You know what I mean?

That's how much I loved him .

- [indistinct talking] - [crowd chanting]

So I remember Thanksgiving, we were all

at his sister house in Brooklyn.

And he came then, everybody was like,

"How did you get here?"

Let me hear you say Wu-Tang!

[crowd chanting] Wu-Tang! Wu-Tang! Wu-Tang!

[Icelene] He escaped the rehab in California.

And he even performed with the Wu-Tang Clan.

What up, New York?

How y'all feeling out there?

Whoo, whoo!

It's been a long time.

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You know they had Ol' Dirty Bastard locked down.

Y'all know that the whole fucking world is after me.

I ain't got too much to say.

[RZA] Y'all niggas understand what's going on

in New York City tonight.

- RZA, hold on. - Yo, three years, nigga.

- I know, but I-- - Three years, nigga.

I can't stay on the stage tonight.

The cops is after me.

Yo, for the first time in three years,

you see the whole Wu-Tang Clan

on stage tonight!

Tonight-night-night-night, motherfuckers!

[cheers and applause]

One time! Put that finger up, bitch!

[ODB] When I ran from that program,

I enjoyed my life for a few moments,

and, you know, I got locked up again, man.

[gavel pounding]

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[Icelene] The judge put him in jail

for a good while after that.

Like, you throw the book at him.

I didn't understand why he was in jail for it.

He was paranoid and scared.

He didn't trust anything or anybody.

[indistinct talking]

Did we lose two upstairs?

Yeah, ready? You ready?

[woman] Guys, let's go.

ddd

[RZA] I always tried to explain this

to anybody, whether it's Divine or Steve Rifkind

or Power,

anybody that took the executive seat.

One thing they will never understand

is what it is to be an artist.

But since I am a artist, I know the feeling.

And so when a man come to me and he's like,

"Yo, I want to do this, " and I'm stopping you?

I'm stopping you from your dreams?

Shit, that's--that's the last thing I could do.

And I think that when people start wondering

what happened to Wu-Tang and this, that,

we kept going, of course,

kept recording new albums,

but yet kept growing apart.

ddd

[Mook] Lot of artists, when they start

learning more and more, they want all their shit

to go through their own company now.

You know, "I don't want to deal with Wu-Tang Productions

no more, I want to deal directly with the label."

[RZA] These brothers come to me saying,

"Yo, I want out of the contract.

I want to do my own thing. " Of course.

Yo, this ain't no slavery here.

You know what I mean, you my brother, yo.

Divine?

Fuck that, he didn't want to let nobody out

because it was too much money.

I said , "I ain't giving shit back."

And RZA was like, "Give all their rights back.

Let them all go out of their contracts."

[Mook] RZA, like, it's too much fucking headaches.

[RZA] Even ifyou don't let 'em out,

you'll never have 'em.

I know that.

[Divine] My brother is wiser than me

in that sense.

[cheers and applause]

All right, Rae, here.

Okay, Meth.

Okay, Ghost, here-- oh, no.

Go, y'all go ahead .

[man] I interviewed Divine and RZA

and they talked about, at a certain point,

they said , "Okay, you guys are free to go."

No.

- [man] Okay. - No.

We had to--you know, you had to fight for that.

It wasn't like yo, you can-- you can leave.

No, you had to fight for that.

[Inspectah] And that shit in itself was a nightmare,

trying to get out of the Wu-Tang contract.

I had to go to court with my brother.

[laughs] You know, and sit across the table

with these lawyers and all types of dumb shit.

But, you know, eventually, I got out that situation.

Everybody signed away, then, right?

So Method Man is free.

Ghostface is free.

Cappadonna, U-God, Inspectah Deck,

Raekwon the Chef, Masta Killa,

GZA.

All free agents away to do what they want

and don't have to put Wu-Tang Production on it no more.

But the last person

who was still signed , 'cause he was in jail ,

at the time, was ODB.

You know what I mean?

And he asked for a release.

And that was the only time I didn't want to do it.

The 29th went by. The 30th.

- Today is Thursday the first! - [laughter]

- Happy birthday! - [laughter]

I would've ripped this calendar in half.

- [laughter] - This is what I want to do.

I wanted to snatch it down, but this is it.

- [woman] Mom . - No more.

No more. No more.

Go ahead , that's it. It's gone.

[laughter]

[Cherry] Hello?

- H i , Miss Hagler? - [woman] Yeah?

- I'm Russell Jones' mother. - [woman] Yes?

Okay, today is the day, isn't it?

[woman] Yeah. Who's going to take him home?

[Cherry] Um, his family's gonna take him home.

I mean, he's been away what, 41!2 years?

Now this is the day. He's finally coming home.

He's ready to go to work.

[chuckles] You know? Right away.

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[RZA] I did not want to sign Dirty

off of Wu-Tang Production.

I had a lot ofplans for him.

[chuckles]

[RZA] Yo, you gonna come home,

I got a home for you.

I got a studio for you.

What's up, Cherry berry?

- Hello, hello! - [laughter]

What's up, sugar?

You gonna have at least a half million dollars

to fucking sit and play with.

And you gonna make the best fucking album .

What's up, Mommy?

And that's what I had planned for him .

[cheers and applause]

[man] Damon Dash.

Hey, Damon. What's up, my man?

- All right. - What's going on?

[indistinct talking]

- [all] Welcome home! - Hey!

[cheers and applause]

[laughs]

Yeah, man, it's good to see y'all .

[camera shutters clicking]

My name is Damon Dash, the CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records.

I'm proud to present the newest member of the Roc.

[cheers and applause]

Dirt for Dirt. Oh!

[camera shutters clicking]

[RZA] I had a plan.

And for him to think

that anybody's gonna care about him

or his music or his career

or his life or his baby's life

more than me

is trick knowledge to me.

ddd

- You know, it's Kenny. - All right, boy.

- I got something for you . - Oh, yeah?

- We got it done last night. - Oh, yeah?

It's called "Welcome Home."

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But I was thinking you came on it like...

- [rhythmic muttering] - Yeah.

- [rhythmic muttering] - All right, yeah.

ddd

Word up, come on, now--

All right, look. My man--oh, actually...

[RZA] For a minute, I guess,

I thought it was gonna be well for him .

You know, Roc-A-Fella was the big company.

They promised a million-dollar deal for him.

And , um , he had his mother.

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[laughter and indistinct talking]

[woman] Robot! Robot!

[cheers and laughter]

ddd

I'm just happy to be home, man.

- All right. - [woman] Oh, okay.

Yeah, man, yo, man, so I--

You definitely got four songs already written for me, right?

Thanks, GZA.

All right, man. Yo, have a good time, man.

- [Cherry] Yeah. - All right, peace.

- [chuckles] The GZA. - [Cherry] No, nothing.

He talking about, he was, like, upset

saying, why you did-- do Roc-A-Fella?

And why you--you know, saying--saying Wu-Tang.

And , you know, things like that.

Somebody--he in Europe.

- Somebody calling him . - Mm-hmm , yeah.

Telling him these things. So I guess RZA called him

or somebody called him from the crew

and telling him these things.

- Mm-hmm . - [sighs]

I don't understand that.

'Cause ain't--ain't none of them with Wu-Tang.

[laughs] That's what bugs me.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

They all did the same exact shit.

All of them is gone. And everybody still asks us--

Trying to figure out why he's doing what he's doing.

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[RZA] And his mother spoke to me as well.

She also wanted me to let him go.

That's my aunt.

[Cherry] He--he was penniless.

He had no money when he came out.

I called RZA, I said , "Come on."

Everybody thought he shouldn't have

- rushed back into work, and . . . - [Ramsey] Yeah.

If he hadn't have rushed back into work,

- he would've been back in jail . - Mm-hmm .

'Cause if that child support wasn't being paid ,

he--he--they would've locked him back up again.

So, he had--

[man] So he had to work?

- He had to work. - [Ramsey] Yeah.

He had to, otherwise they would've locked him up.

ddd

[RZA] Ijust couldn't believe that that would happen.

[man] That he would want to leave?

- Yeah. - [man] So you were hurt?

That's what I said . I was totally hurt.

I was super-duper hurt, yo.

This--his new manager, Jarred, wasn't gonna have me do shit.

I wasn't signing shit for him.

[Jarred] RZA says he won't sign off on it.

It's a problem .

Fuck you mean, you let everybody else go,

you gonna give me a problem?

He dissing me now, know what I'm saying?

[woman on radio speaking indistinctly]

I think he wants to-- to be compensated .

You think it's him or do you think it's Divine?

It's--it's both of them , man, you know what I'm saying?

Acting like motherfucking bowling pins, man.

Fuck you mean, eight, ten, nine niggas left Wu-Tang,

and you gonna still keep me

like I'm some type of fucking pussy?

Fuck is wrong with that motherfucker?

He ain't thinking right or something?

[Cherry] They think-- money--money--

- [man] Is the motivation. - Thank you .

- [Ramsey] Yeah. - Mm-hmm .

The whole Wu-Tang Clan wasn't

getting, you know, what they were supposed to be getting.

All of them went through a thing 'bout--'bout money.

- You know, but, um . . . - Yeah, with cousin RZA.

- Yeah, mm-hmm , yeah, so. - Yeah.

It wasn't against him . It was all--the whole group.

The whole group, yeah.

[cell phone ringing]

[ODB] Yo, Divine?

Yo, what's up with RZA, man?

Something going wrong or something?

[Divine] Me and my brother don't sit around here

and think that, "Oh, we duped him .

We tricked him ."

'Cause I heard something else,

something new, you know what I mean?

Talk to me, man. What's going on?

[Divine] No, there's no foolery here.

Any deal I did-- we came in together.

Just look at it this way.

I have no more knowledge than Ghostface had .

We were doing homeboy business. We was boys.

But you gotta separate the boys from the business.

You do homeboy business, you gonna get stuck with

the homeboy outcome.

I know what you saying, but, Divine, listen.

I'm your cousin, God, I'm your brother, man.

I'm your blood, man. We family, God.

This is me, God . This is me.

This Rusty, God .

This is not the streets.

This is a business.

I had to learn this.

We 'posed to be filthy rich by now, God .

Word is bond, we 'posed to have 100 million by now

after ten years, God.

Don't we, Divine? Yes or no, Divine?

'Cause I ain't got no money, man.

I ain't got a fucking dime in my pocket, man.

Yo, check it out, man. It's been a long time and shit.

And I'd love to let y'all know I love y'all and shit.

You gon' tell me

we sold 3 million fucking albums, God ,

and we still ain't rich?

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I got eight motherfucking kids, God .

[Ghostface] Let me see transparency.

"Well , what you want to see transparency for?"

It's not personal , baby.

This is business.

And you lose trust.

That's why I can't fuck with y'all , God .

'Cause of this same shit, God.

- H i . - H i .

[ODB] Know what I'm saying, why you think everybody

broke the fuck out, God?

'Cause you're always--

Got something-- [stammers]

When I got to that point

where these dudes wanted to sprout off,

I didn't understand why.

That's my brother. I love him .

I'm not kicking no dirt on him or stuff like that, but...

see, people forget that love

is the highest elevation of understanding.

Love is the highest elevation of understanding.

That's what love is.

I remember we ain't had shit, God .

We had a fucking beatbox, God,

and a little echo chamber, God.

And I remember who was there.

It was me and RZA and you.

That's all it was. It was us three, God .

It wasn't no fucking Wu-Tang.

Where is this coming from? Like, we don't--

We're not cheating you . We're not hurting you .

Like, why would you want to get off a fucking beautiful ship?

We grew out of that situation.

We became, you know, more aware.

Why the fuck I'm still signed up

and all these niggas all gone, God?

The fuck, I look like a pussy or something, God?

The stay-over then, God?

And everybody did they thing, God?

That shit don't sound right, God.

It's not you , Divine, it's RZA!

RZA ain't on fucking point, God .

That's all his.

I say, I love you , 'Vine. Come here, nigga, I love you .

No, Ghost, it ain't about the love.

Put your love in your back pocket.

This is business.

You know what, 'Vine? Thank you for that.

That was-- that was a jewel you gave me.

Put your love in your back pocket, man,

and this is business.

Cool . This is business.

Let me see where the paperwork at.

Divine, look, man, all I'm asking you

as my cousin, man, to just

nip it all in the bud and just

take care of it real quick, Divine,

'cause they won't give me no cash or nothing

until this is taken care of.

I didn't get this far. . . to fight.

And I don't love money more than I love my family.

All right, peace.

ddd

[woman] Family's family, you know?

Thank you . Thank you .

- [woman] We your family. - That's right.

Love each other, we was--

Wasn't like we was cousins, we was brothers and sisters.

Right.

So whatever happened , people have problems.

- [Ramsey] Yeah. - You go through things.

- Go through things, yeah. - [Cherry] Mm-hmm .

You go through things, but you still be family.

You know what I'm saying? That's how we grew up.

Family is family, you know?

- [woman] Yes, family's family. - Mm-hmm .

He's my cousin,

close as my brother.

Big Ra!

It's like, come on, Dirty,

it's me and him from the beginning.

Come on, baby, pump it up!

'Cause we got something loud for you now, come on!

- Yo, I got it, I got it. - Give it to me.

Give it to me! [laughs]

To think that that common energy

is gone and replaced by money...

Love makes it hurt.

But love also gives you the chance to

give them the space to make their own mistakes.

And I was like, yeah,

there's nothing I could say about it.

[mutters] I was like, yeah, so...

Yeah, I let him go.

Where's Dirt McGirt? Come here.

U m ...

- What's up, man? - Jarred .

- You Jarred? - Yeah.

- All right. - What's your name?

- You know my name? - Oh, you're RZA?

Oh, damn. Good to finally meet you .

All right.

[indistinct talking]

- You're a lot taller than I . . . - H uh?

You're a lot taller than...

[man] Can't fly to any other country from Europe.

All good .

I don't think it was no real better for him ,

'cause the only thing changes was that they got out their contracts.

RZA 's still doing his beats.

Even though they left, they didn't--

They didn't go nowhere.

[indistinct chatter]

[woman] Little machismo.

[indistinct chatter]

Where did my name come from?

The RZA.

The RZA saw in me...

how I grew up in life, crazy struggles.

Know what I'm saying, RZA taught me everything

I know, by the way, you know,

and he was one of them brothers

that saw everything in me.

[RZA] As a kid, only one had lyrics was me.

I would write all the lyrics

and have Dirty say 'em and I'll say 'em.

And always some sex shit, you know what I mean?

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Dolce and Gabbana, let me stick this banana

up your fanna, hyper on Hennessy,

makes me call it Bruce Banner, rocking it raw.

I used to snatch this bitch's door knockers.

Now I roll with the Roc-A. My chain is the jaw-dropper.

Tell me what you want me to write.

- See-through like panties. - Mm-hmm .

[mutters indistinctly]

- [hip-hop beat playing] - Multilayered deep dish cake.

- That's your-- - I don't know what that is.

Multilayered , nigga, three layers.

Where the pussy-- layers of the pussy.

Mm-hmm .

ddd

- Believe me. - All right, come on, now.

- Multi . . . - Layered . Layered .

- Deep dish cake. - I don't like that.

Why not? Multilayer deep dish--

Multilayered deep dish cake?

That don't make no sense to me.

It make sense to anybody here?

A multilayered deep dish cake?

[man] Yeah, multilayered deep dish cake.

What is that?

[man] It's a cake with many layers.

And then you gotta put it in a deep pan

to bake it, that's what it is.

[RZA] So that's like a good pussy, right?

A multilayered deep dish cake.

Can't wait for my tongue just to penetrate.

Seize this great

cabernet, chardonnay,

got me intoxicate.

- Surely no doubt. - Baby.

[together] As we lay.

Got me banging like a triple-X matinee.

All right, just-- just help me and shit.

[RZA] It's me and him.

That's the foundation.

We're the first two.

We're the dream itself.

- Let me try it. - [RZA] Okay.

We're the late night, laying in the bed,

looking at the stars.

It's us,

before anybody.

ddd

[speaking indistinctly]

[Ushery] Good evening.

ODB, whose real name is Russell Jones,

was one of hip-hop's most successful

yet troubled rappers.

Tonight, he collapsed and died

at his recording studio in Manhattan

just two days shy of his birthday.

I was home at the house.

And the girl called me screaming, talking about,

"Dirty's on the floor. He's not breathing."

I said--I was screaming back at them ,

"Why don't somebody call an ambulance?"

Nobody called an ambulance.

He was on the floor when I got there.

Yeah, I couldn't-- I didn't go there.

I just picked him up and put him in my arms.

And I apologized to my mother too.

I picked him up.

And , um , but--the--

The--the police said ,

um , "This moment could be for Miss Jones."

That was me.

And I went in there, and they--all of them .

And then they told-- oh, she didn't shed a tear.

So the anger was building up anyway.

Because I-I-- give me a moment

with my child , please, you know.

'Cause I didn't want to see my brother like that.

I couldn't face seeing my brother dead .

- I had to. - I couldn't, like--

- I had to talk to him . - And he wasn't there.

But they showed me where he died .

I talked to him .

I laid on the floor. It was me and , uh...

- [both] Ghost. - Ghost.

And Ghost was, um , just...

- [Cherry] Mm-hmm . - He was just gone.

It's like, yo, that's your brother, man.

It's like, yeah, man.

Ol' Dirty Bastard is a unique person, you know?

So anything that I do, it's gonna be unique.

He was so confident.

He--he brought the confidence to us

in another level , because

he wanted niggas to know that, yo,

this is something special going on right here.

And--and--and when you-- when you--when I think about,

us taking off,

he gave us that hope, he told us.

When we was feeling like, yo, we doubting it,

he'd stand right in front of your face and look at you ,

give you one of the illest looks,

and be like, "Motherfucker.

We the illest shit in the fucking world ."

And--and--and for some reason, I believed him .

You know?

And it--and it's just like, yo, wow, like,

shit, I heard Dirt say some shit like, yo,

"Wu-Tang won't be shit if it wasn't for me."

[laughter]

He right. That's his truth.

Word . That's his truth. He right.

- Know what I mean? - Hold on. Where you get that from?

You got a power cypher. Give me a power cypher.

[ODB] Every time you ask me for some

fucking goddamn money, I give it to your punk ass.

You owe me too.

- [ODB] Oh, shit. - [laughter]

Wild dude.

He was definitely the most fearless rapper

I ever came across.

Especially on that stage, man.

He was gonna make sure everybody in that bitch knew

Wu-Tang was there and we was the best

motherfuckers to ever fucking do it.

He seen it.

It's like, yo, he's important.

It's like we all important and shit.

But just for that energy, just to be gone...

That's why I tell brothers, man, I love you , man.

Know what I mean? Regardless of what.

- That shit hurt me. - [Inspectah] Mm , yeah.

He made it exciting, though, man.

He definitely made it more fun.

I tell y'all one thing, put his album on...

- [U-God] Fun with that nigga. - And blast that shit.

[GZA] Yo, yo, I was listening to it.

That shit--that shit-- yo, G.

- Fire. - What's that? What's that?

Return to the 36 Chambers.

- N igga. You'll be laughing. . . - Hell , yeah.

- That shit is hard . - It got beats.

- It got bangers, yeah. - That shit is hard .

It's a very entertaining album , yo.

Rest in peace to the Dirt Dog.

Yeah, so Dirty Bastard is the baddest emcee in the industry.

And there's nobody badder than me.

Nobody could never touch me with a 10-foot pole.

Ifyou--ifyou can, then you better come, kid.

[man] You said you didn't cry when he passed?

No, I didn't. Mm-mm , no.

U m , because I know I'm gonna see him again.

I cried while Rusty lived ,

because I didn't know where he was,

what he was doing.

I worried .

So I ain't have to worry anymore.

d Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Shimmy Shimmy Ya '' d

"I don't wanna fuck you. You can't even sing."

You had to sing or something to get some pussy.

ddd

d Ooh, baby, I like it raw d

d Yeah, baby, I like it raw d

d Ooh, baby, I like it raw d

d Yeah, baby, I like it raw d

d Shimmy, shimmy, ya, shimmy, yam, shimmy, yay d

d Give me the mic so I can take it away d

d Off on a natural charge, bon voyage d

d Yeah, from the home of the Dodger Brooklyn squad d

d Wu-Tang killer bees on a swarm d

d Rain on your college-ass disco dorm d

d For you to even touch my skill d

d You gotta put the one killer bee d

d And he ain't gonna kill d

d Now, chop that down d

d Pass it all around d

d Lyrics get hard d

d Ouick cement to the ground d

d For any emcee in any 52 states d

d I get psycho killer, Norman Bates d

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