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Rza Debuts Exclusive New Wu-Tang Clan Track “Claudine” & Big Announcement | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jun 28, 2023
Rza debuted an exclusive new Wu-Tang Clan track entitled “Claudine” on Sway In The Morning before the finale to The Saga Continues Contest!
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we've got one of the most iconic
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legendary celebrated people to ever come
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from our culture not just because of
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what he did in hip-hop is what he does
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in life as in general I I this is one
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person I consider a brother a friend and
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a colleague
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um in that order you know we've been uh
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spiritually connected for years I see
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him and I smile I feel good when this
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presence is in the room and I feel like
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I'm doing the right things when I'm
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along his path welcome him back to the
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show we're celebrating today we put it
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out there we got nearly 10 000 entries
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people who wanted to be featured on the
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track with real inspector deck and
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master killer and this was all to
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celebrate the Wu-Tang Clan series on
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Hulu and we invited 12 finalists here
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today and it's not that somebody is
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going to win they all win right they all
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win so here
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to be do the honors please give it up
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for the one and only reason
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[Applause]
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we are here man
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yo you came back well you've been so
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busy Bro you've been on the tour right
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yeah New York State of Mind tour we took
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it to Europe you know I mean Wu-Tang Nas
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uh the O2
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um arena in London sold out packed Man
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full of uh our London celebrities you
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know we got a lot of our actors from
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America they from London uh hey yeah so
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they be over there but it was just a
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great party my uh respect my man Tom
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Hardy was in the building that party
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Daniel was in the building
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you have Daniel um burner boy was
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partying Colonel boy was in the building
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boy was going crazy but uh yeah it was
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it was the tour uh it's going well we're
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going to bring it to USA of course okay
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hang it back um but yeah it's good to
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see uh me the Wu Brothers uh Nas Escobar
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out there sharing the culture
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um sharing it in a way that hasn't been
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seen in the sense of as me and Nas said
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this wouldn't have worked in the 90s
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yeah because we always too energetic too
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much aggression too much too much
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luggage with us 50 homies here 50 homies
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there and and all that but but in our
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maturity uh as artists in the culture
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um and as entertainers of what we do man
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this is a great show and it's it's not
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the normal hip-hop show where everybody
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is just trying to get on to compete and
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have the crowd cheer for you and
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disrespect the band in front of you not
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yeah we found the way to synergize this
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energy it's called the New York State of
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Mind
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um you know hip-hop is definitely World
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culture you know I mean east west south
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north but it has its foundation and its
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foundation is right here in the city of
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New York and we wanted to celebrate that
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state of mind and that's what we're
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doing with that tour man Russell's here
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man come on did y'all did y'all make any
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stops in Montana because those ladies
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over there from Montana I don't know
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we're gonna ride on down here soon
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[Laughter]
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all right um man we got MCS that are
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just like pacing back and forth
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downstairs ready to come in his room and
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just really display their skills for you
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and it just remind me of a time when the
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first album came out for you all and how
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you guys were in that same predicament
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right sitting sitting in some radio
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Booth hoping that the the the the DJ or
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the host will open up that microphone
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and let us get our freestyles off and
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when they did you know what I mean we
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Let it Loose it's something beautiful
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about the culture of hip-hop and and I
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want to thank you sway Heather and all
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you up here for for when we you know
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decided to put this contest out and
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Shout Out King Tech who yes who who
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championed this to say yo let's do
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something and give back right since
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Wu-Tang has started as MC's uh no hooks
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in our songs in the beginning you know
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what I mean and trying to find our
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voices let's give give back and find
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other emcees out there and and you you
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put out there and like you said ten
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thousand yeah
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probably more but definitely 10 000
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entries of which had to be
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liquidated down yeah
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to 12. yeah and uh and this is not a
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contest or anything but we have 12 MCS
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uh who who have to make it here on their
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own accord to come spit their 16 live on
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Sway in the Morning come on with the
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Abbott right there looking at you come
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on
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telling Bridget what you said Heather
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about what's called about the people
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when they come in the room what's gonna
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happen a lot of choking a lot of
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freezing because it's different when
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someone is in person I was sharing like
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my first time to rap how I got my record
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deal I auditioned in front of KRS one it
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was the most frightening feeling in the
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world back in 1990 when KRS it was KRS
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one one even now it's hard
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that's not easy that's not it yeah not
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an easy task thank you Rizza and I'm
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also having a full circle moment here
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because that's the way mentioned my
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friend to hear from Montana years ago I
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was in LA I was in a car with Brooke and
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another friend of ours Georges and I was
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trying to trying to explain to George
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and Brooke at the time about Wu-Tang and
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I was talking about one and just saying
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how impactful they are and my friend
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George was like well what do you mean
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impactful what do you mean and I was
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breaking it down to them it might have
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been more than 20 years ago now that I
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think about it and I played uh Wu-Tang
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Clan Ain't Nothing to [ __ ] with in the
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car do you remember this Brook and shame
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on a [ __ ]
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[Laughter]
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sing the song
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and it for me it's amazing like to think
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about that moment in the back of the car
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you know them listening to Wu-Tang and
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you sitting here today and everything
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that has happened for hip-hop as we
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celebrate 50 years yeah as we celebrate
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Theresa pointing out that there's a tour
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going on now New York State of Mind that
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wouldn't have happened that couldn't
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have happened back at that time and
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everything that you've been able to
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accomplish and now you guys at a point
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where you're giving back to MC's and
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artists it's just beautiful for me all
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around so this is a full circle moment
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for me too
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um just at that moment with my friend in
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the car when y'all first album came out
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crazy Brooke
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so so speaking of that first album yeah
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that was in 1993. yeah 93. this is 20
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23. so this was 94 then when this
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happened for for me this was 94. uh-huh
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that's a 30 years that's incredible yo
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in fact we actually
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um will celebrate the 30th anniversary
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of um 36 Chambers this November come on
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man 30th anniversary of the first album
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that's crazy what are you gonna do you
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want to do something I'm gonna do
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something special in New York City I'm
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gonna um I'm gonna take over the uh The
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Gramercy theater okay oh wow dope and
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I'm gonna resident myself there for a
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while and
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we're gonna display and express 36
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Chambers interpreted in a way that's
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never been done before crazy so um you
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know alarm Nation we'll we'll we this
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this is me talking about it early we
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can't even put our ad mat together but
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the ad mat will go out
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um November celebrating 36 Chambers 30th
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Anniversary the Versa will do something
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very unique wow and very forward move in
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and take and continue to push the
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culture forward yo man you got it here
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first man I love it rizza's here man we
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got MCS just pacing around like
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considering you do not get to this
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legendary status by staying in your
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comfort zone you've had to stretch
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yourself in a numerable amount of times
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if you had to write up like a
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prescription that you could give some of
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the emcees who are nervous you know
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maybe some things that they should drink
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to change their physiology maybe some
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internal
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change like what would you say I don't
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know but I saw the Anton brother he had
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a box full of cups I don't know what he
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had in those cups
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yeah the brother took it the brother
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took him down there it when he was when
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he was walking with that box I was like
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it reminds me I hate to say this out
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loud though you know when you get locked
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up and you be in the bullpen
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and they just bring the coffee and the
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cheese sandwiches
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that moment I was like he's taking this
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down to them so I know it was in that
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cup but I would just say
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um that at the end of the day yo never
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be shy to be yourself because you are
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the only you you know I mean let that be
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there you go
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[Applause]
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hey man you bring us any treats before
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we get into this oh you know what I got
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for you sway what's that brother so so I
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got a new woo joint right a new Wu-Tang
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Clan record yes when you say new
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nobody's ever heard this right
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everybody's never heard it okay
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um it's it's it's it's something special
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because it's it's not it's it's not
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normal okay and I won't say it's not
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normal it's more of the Soulful version
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of wool okay all right so I'm not gonna
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tell you who's on it
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um uh this is this is rocket this is a
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world premiere brand new Wu-Tang Clan
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first time you ever heard it around the
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world Richard just handed it to us
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directly if you think you heard
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something like it it wasn't this all
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right first time ever what is it called
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it's called Claudine a lot of
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mathematics let's go
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foreign
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foreign
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