Raekwon on How He Started Selling and Trying Crack by 13 (Part 2)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
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In the latest clip, Raekwon described the impact crack had on his community. He claimed crack dealers didn't enter the drug trade as a career goal but as a "phase" in order to make a few extra dollars. Raekwon recalled crack not being considered a damaging drug at first and experimenting with it as a 13-year-old. The Wu-Tang member also talked about being locked out of his house and having to stay with a crack fiend. Check out the above clip to hear more.
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Raekwon is a great storyteller whether he’s rapping or just speaking.
Slang is crazy
True
Knowledge God
no doubt
He invented his own slang 🔥🔥
Rae is perhaps the most technical writer all time. His bars are infinitely complex, palindrome schemes, heavy slang, fresh images. To me, Rae is one of the illest to ever do it.
+1
Big Rae fan but not going to go that far
Nahh... Top 10 definitely
@@jeffspiccoli2681 you sleep
@@jeffspiccoli2681 Your an Eminem Fan.
This is one of those Vlad interviews that I'll be watching every part. Then watching the whole thing in its entirety again
“I was a fien for cracks and weed, the combination made my eyes bleed” Wu was one of the only ones to keep it real about trying it when it first came out. In ‘85 a lot of young people was smoking woolies when it first came out because it wasn’t a lot of crack heads yet to let you know how bad it could get. They thought it was just another form of coke
Yea like molly n perks n everything we take now
True, Sadat X from Brand Nubian said the same thing. He said many people were using crack because the high was insane. He went on to say once people were becoming smoked out fiends like Pookie from New Jack City that people starting backing off of it.
"No question I would speed for cracks & weed. The combination made my eyes bleed" lol
Most of the rappers back then rapped about smoking dust and putting coke in their weed. And pretty much all of them tell stories of how they smoked "base" as teenagers. Like Chef said, crack didnt have the stigma on it that it has today. Rae and them are in their early and mid 50s. Crack was cool just like these kids today pop pills and drink lean.
C.R.E.A.M.
I met Rae a couple of times back in the 90's he was in the mall no security by himself. Real dude I remember we was kicking it about Gortex boots polo pull overs and the purple tape. Glad he around in good health 🙏🏽 🙌🏾
yeah, super down to earth
I ran up on Rae in Harlem early 90'z he was like I i'am real in the streets knuckles up Tim's n acg'z 10toes down n ready for wat ever n we still here belove'it💪💪
🧢🧢🧢
Ahh, Gortex 🥾 are still fly, I had the trezetas
I ran into Rae twice shopping in Manhattan around Broadway and 4th and 8th street. Both times he was by himself chilling and buying leathers and sneakers. Didn't want to bother him but I did speak both times and he was gracious. Give you a pound and let you know he appreciates the support of him and the Clan. Humble brother.
"it's almost like the news was promoting it"
The news was promoting it until it hit the suburbs
Raekowon one of the greatest of all time this guy a legend for real
G O A T
"No question, I would speed for cracks and weed. The combination made my eyes bleed."
Knowledge being born
its crazy hearing him in this interview when you would hear certain sentences and the other side of my brain hears him rapping
First thing that came to my mind hearing him say that
@@reginaldseawright220 1 being 9
word
Raekwon in my top 10 of all time. I just got his autobiography too. He’s one of the realest ever and so is Wu-Tang as a whole group. 💯♥️
Where did u get it?
We need to give Raekwon his flowers while hes still here 💯💯❤
I wish Outkast and Raekwon did a collab album....there styles went great together
Well they do have a song together🤷🏾♂️💯
Have you not heard skew it on the bar-b
Really?
@@oxymaiz5662 do you not read....I said there styles " went" great together meaning I know they had a track but a collab album would of been dope....you cats don't read
@@averydarkguy5296 reading comprehension be fucking these people up.
Album vs single track
When he said "age 14" i was ready to hear him rap the classic "can it all be so simple"
C.R.E.A.M will forever be one of the best & pure hip hop songs. Undeniable classic.
Sneakers came to mind while watching the video. Raekwon music is a soundtrac to his life, dope catalog.
“Ima addict for sneakers…” great song off Immobilarity
Keeping it really real, Rae!
I AM so glad I had several times to hang with and party with Raekwon. He showed love every time..
Vlad don't dare interrupt Raekwon when he's speaking lol
7⁷⁷⁷
Rae...one of my favorite storytelling MC's.
It's almost like the news promoted it! Profound Raekwon chef. I been there living wit fiends pumpin I can say I never indulged
Vlad is on a role with these interviews. Im waiting on like 4 full interviews to drop
HBCU Love! Respect goes out to Chef! Thank you Chef! Thank you Wu! Your music made my teenage years that much better!
Raekwon looks 10 years younger n healthy as ever w that weight loss 🦾🦾
Love how he low-key saying verses from his songs🔥🔥🔥
This going to be a 2-hour interview. Rae loves to talk. It took him 15 minutes to answer my question.
Rae had to Break it down for the Knuckle Heads who think as a Impoverished Child you make the Choice of "Jumping" into the Crack Game and Not Because you were a Product of your Environment Where The Government flooded Black Communities with Crack
@@horatioh2020 no I mean in general. He loves to talk. I ask him what he likes to grill. He went back all the way to his childhood. Then he saw I was from Miami he talked about he loves Miami. He recorded Cuban links in Miami.
NYC shit. Lol
Lol all earth signs like to talk when they get comfortable with u and trust u
He described his style as "Ferocious". I couldn't of said it better.
Really interesting to hear him say it was almost like the news was promoting it.
Wu-Tang are legends, bless them all
Was Raekwon one of the Wu-Tang Clan members?
@@d-staxworldwidestax7112 lmmfao
Poor baby at least he was honest 😌💔
Raekwon makes everything sound cool even crack
lmao
😂
Right 😀😂🤣
Fasho!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😆😂🤣💯
😭😭
Raekwon looking like Offset in 20 years😅
🤣
😂
Fatboy sse
no resemblance @ all...🙄
This may go unnoticed but I’m a up and coming 17 Y/O rapper out of Cleveland Ohio tryna make a name for my self to put my family on im not the best right now but best believe I’m working 📈📈
If you want more detail, the Purple Tape is the full narrative of the time which Rae is talking about!
Where would hiphop be without crack
Vladimir gotta interview ghost now!!
Lot of people dont speak on this but I remember, smoking (we call it premo's) people would smoke weed mix with crack/cocaine at the park like it wasn't nothing.
Man I can relate to rae alot I had similar situation with my dad growing up him being a functional user always had cars and look fresh but was slaming and getting high he got deported when I was 7 then my mom started using kicked me out at 16 and chose her boyfriend over me so I was staying at my grandmas at she had a curfew of 9 but I choose to sleep at the park to slang all night to the tweakers...
Glad you got through all that bro
@@johndavis9321 thanks man life is good now nothing to be mad at anymore
@@gabrielpinheiro3703 💯 that’s what’s up fam
God bless you man
Rae lost so much weight, he actually looks younger than 20 years ago.
Good for him
Lex diamonds is the most underrated artist ever. His solo albums are way better than any of other Wu members, besides Ghostface’s Supreme Clientele. He gotta be in the top 10. So many artists have adopted his rhyme style and subject matter. He is one best street/ conscience story tellers in the game. He kills ppl on the features and is original with the content and delivery. God MC
Don't sleep on ol dirty 1st solo!!!
IRON MAN IS CUBAN 2
Morgan Freeman saved his life..he confronted him about it I saw it.
LMFAO chill
He told Raekwon Crack kills his brain cells.
LMAOOOOO…Sing !!!!
Go ahead jump!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣u smoke crack don’t ya
Dam rae at 14? I thought i had a ruff upbringing watching that shit tear my mother and father down but never did i use it myself at that age it literally never crossed my mind
I feel you my dad was a Vietnam Vet he messed with opium over there weed in the states cocaine and crack
well he said it was before everyone new the effects of it long term
@@ForEducationalPurposesOnly yea i heard that and i feel em but i to grew up in the same era im not knocking him im just saying its wild to be thinking to try that at that age, don't get me wrong i wasn't a saint as a teenager i definitely had my share of wild shit but crack/dope/hard has always been what it is i don't remember it ever being seen as anything other then destructible or the poor mans drug powdered cocaine was the rich man high
Man it's crazy how any us that grew up in that era can relate to these stories. I guess every hood really is the same.
Facts im from Philadelphia, i was 6 in 1988 89 living in the projects the crack epidemic was crazy
I grew up in the Tidewater VA area and Raekwon is telling the 100% truth after 1985/86 SHIT went down hill quick and to this day that area has never recovered NEVER!!
yep, i'm from 757. My father used to tell me how most of the projects that people were scared to go when I was growing up were actually good neighborhoods before crack
Yeah we know
1/2 of my favorite hip hop duo!!!
Vlad you the 🐐 for this one. That bag must have been heavy to get Rae. Good shit regardless
" Danm sun ... You bleeding sun bad sun .."
Haha
All
So simple
I can't help but hear The Purple Tape as he speaks; his voice is distinctive like that.
Can't wait for the 3rd season of wu
Fire 🔥 interview and it's just get started.smh Thanks Vlad
“Started smokin woolies at 16” CREAM song.
I used to be a Fien for cracks and weeds the combination made my eyes bleed 🩸 Raekwon The CHEF-
Raekwon should be on everyone's Top 20 rappers of all-time list. One of the best to touch the mic from one of the best groups ever if not the best group in Hip Hop history. Much respect to this man!
Raekwon looking like Beans 😂😂😂
@VVS facts
They made a song together too lol!!
@@chrisdacrisis4670 his face looks slim...but it could be from doze smoothie juice and eating right
Yall slept on that only built 4 Cuban links part 2 ....that joint had hits on it
I didn't. It was a banger. I listen to 10 Bricks at least once a week
@@t.thompson8985 Rae is a beast on that album
Classic
Catalina is one of Rae's best songs
It was aite, this comin from a day one Wu fan.
Raekwon is definitely my favorite in the group
Ol Dirty. But it's hard not to like any of the Wu
@@lilguyy72 rip but he was mad annoying
@@kiho847 he didn't live long enough to be annoying 🤪
Possibly the greatest poet I’ve ever heard💯
almost finished with the book, its really good
“Its this new epidemic… It’s almost like the news is promoting this shit” mmm sounds real familiar
Hell yeah. We need more muhfuckaz coming around and pushing that to the mainstream 💪
Raekwon got that voice
Rae and ghostface vs kiss and sp
That's the one
@always theone go listen to wu-block
@@ratedrva757 Wu Block Was Trash 🗑️
“Sorta like the news was promoting it” message!!!!
I still smoke my crack but just on Weekends and Days off.
Lol
It don’t work like that 😂
Right! 😂😂
Naaa it works like that fir some mfrs... don't ask me how but I believe anything I see with my eyes and I seen it LOL
@@PraiseGod111 Yes It does Crack Is GREAT
Vlad wanted Rae to cry about getting kicked out of his Aunts house over being a crackhead, because it's more sensational. He had the interview all mapped out. lol
But it was just a dream for the teen Who was a fiend, started smokin' woolies at 16., I would speed for cracks and weed,The combination made my eyes bleed. - Cream
Rae looks like he's about to go set his tree stand lol Wu's been putting out music for 30 yrs. Good job Vlad!
Lmao
Gd job Vlad..letting the guests talk, this interview was more interesting cus u can see how he thinks just by allowing him to talk and not influencing anything by saying what u think they wanna hear
*grunt*
I remember going to see wu tang in San Bernardino right before the W album. That was like a rock show, 40k people in the crowd. Best show I been to except seeing them at the Flimore
Only built for Cuban Linx still goes hard today 💪🏾💎
Facts 💯💯
One of the best hip hop albums of all time
i was in a wu music video..the video called shadowboxin..I have also met dmx at a liquor store in harlem when his 2nd album came out..dmx was extremely cool..he was in the liquor store buying liquor with no security..he was with 1 guy..I have also seen big pun, fat joe & terror squad at the puerto rican day parade..they was in one of the floaters..I also seen aventura the spanish singers at the dominican day parade..I also met snoop the female from the show the wire..she was buying food at a popeyes restaurant with a female.
I also met the roots.
i also met channel live which was a rap group that was down with krs one.
I also met spliff start (he is busta rhymes hype man).
Anyway being in the wu video was so dope..I got to stand next to rza and method man and they gave use green rain coats and they put on us green wu tang bandanas for the video..they had females tie the bandanas on our heads..it was 100s of people in that video and we were all dressed the same with the green rain coats and the green bandanas.
1 more thing, a female that lived in my building, she was in the wu video ice cream.
Rae look like a southern hunter 😆
Every time Vlad says something that happens in the book, Raekwon counters and says that’s not really what happened. Well, was it in the book or not??
Big up to the God. Ive seen him and GFK rocckk the stage a few times. Legendary stage presence.
Finally Raekwon interview
Respectful at a young age 🐝
Barz on top of Barz! Legendary
So you got wit a sick tight click and went all out!
Vlad really do a great job with his research
Don't it twisted... Crack is still going strong after all these years..it's just not sold on every corner in the hood anymore...
Rae look like a 👶🏾 LeBron James in this interview 🤣😹🎃💯🙏🏾
Beanie Sigel.
thanks for the part 2 Glad, even YOU KNEW you was dtm wit that 2:00 joint🤣🤣
He not lying when crack first hit before people knew how bad it would get all the cool kids were doing it..my uncle prom and old school pics he was the flyest smoothest cat with all the girls..then my mom said yea everyone in that picture either strung out or dead
Love that flow Rae
Raekwon the chef !!!!🤟🤘bless the mic with the gods
The WU was like crack when they hit our neighborhood. I woke up and dudes nicknames had changed to Wu members. In addition to the crack epidemic.
Tha Chef.... A living legend
Mi Guy)))
I don't know if you remey me rae but, I remember you 160 Park Hill. It's me Farin Mind. Still alive. I remember you as Choice. I respect you alot bruh.
Dude he speaks lyrically wow he has a flow to just his regular speak
Raekwon the chef young nigas do yo hw real killaz rite here
S/o to raekwon ct love always 💯💯💯💯
LMFAOO he said "beaming" 😅😅old school NYC slang
Raekwon said "Ah-dee-dahs"! A real NY 💪🏾🗽
Adidas for those that don't know🤔
Rae solid
Keep this going
MUCH RESPECT LORD CHEF!!!
We even wanna try it out oooowweeee! Crack!!! We hear its the shit!!😂😂
C’mon Vlad! You heard the Purple tape. I felt like I just heard it in short story format. Lol
Cracks & weed,
The combination made my eyes bleed
Chef look like he’s losing weight, salute to the god👍🏽💪🏽👊🏽.
I feel that bro I got kicked out as a teenager and my aunt took me in the same way wit the same stipulations but I didn’t want to be at 9pm🤦🏾♂️ Shit was just starting to pop off at 10pm lol
THE LEGENDARY CHEF RAEKWON!!!!!!! SU!!!!!!!
Rae looks great. I love Rae
Combination made my eye's bleed crazy I can relate to chef's situation as a kid crazy