Posted in: The Crate | No Comments | August 15, 2011
“Me & the RZA connect” TOUGH song from one of hip hops illest lyricists. If you do not know about “The Chef” then you are in the right place.
“What up, peace Connecticut”
“I move rhymes like retail, make sure shit sell
From where we at to my man’s cell
From staircase to stage, minimun wage
But soon to get a article in RapPage
But all I need is my house, my gat, my Ac
Bank account fat – it’s goin’ down like that
And pardon the French but let me speak Italian
Black Stallion, wildlin’ on Shaolin”
Why was the tape purple?
Raekwon: Only because being that we from the block, we was finagling in certain situations where the things that you was dealing with had to be separated from what everybody else was dealing with. I always ran with that as one of my traits in anything I do to separate myself from others. Back when we used to sling and do what we do, we would have certain color caps [to viles]. Certain color caps resembled certain people that were doing s**t different than everybody else. It’s like, “Yo, this is our color. Anybody step on this color, you got an issue at that time.” So I decided with my music, this is my world—this is my thing and I wanna put a color on it just so everybody will know. That’s how the purple tape even came in existence. I think I had wanted a red one at first and then I thought how somebody else had did it already. I made it like that specifically….
