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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first five years of our career - we're putting the energy together. Now we see each other at least three times a week. Everybody's there. For instance, Power will come into a meeting and say "Oh, you guys are dropping an album, let's make sure we get the proper advertisement in it this time to cross-promote Wu Wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Robert Diggs, a.k.a. the RZA | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...that many of us and you feel all this pressure not to mess up. A lot of people have resigned and have left also over the course of the years, because they think "Yo, I can't take it, I don't know if I'm gonna get punched in my face if I fuck up." Not that we gonna punch someone in the face, but there's just a feeling of intimidation. The way my niggas talk is just different from them, you know what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Robert Diggs, a.k.a. the RZA | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...money," and maybe I'll snap into it. But in five years? We're gonna be grown men that succeeded in the American dream. We came from sleeping on pissy mattresses to Trump Plaza suites. I used to be a messenger. Back then I couldn't even get into a lot of these buildings and now I'm invited to the penthouses. I wish America would take a look and realize the prodigal children that was produced from the hells of America. We weren't produced in heaven, man. I go to all different countries, and the first thing they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Robert Diggs, a.k.a. the RZA | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...Still, Divine and RZA are cracking the whip like senior execs, with Divine trying to get the group to begin acting as a formal board of directors. The plan is to hire managers to run the business and keep the chubby W on only the handful of products that the entire band endorses. RZA says the non-at-large members now "see each other at least three times a week, with everybody aware of everything we're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Wu | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...This type of transformation isn't easy for hip-hop performers, RZA admits, noting, "We've had accountants quit on us saying, 'I can't take it. I don't know if I'm gonna get punched in my face if I f___ up.' It's not that we're gonna punch someone in the face; it's just that we talk different from them and they take it the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Wu | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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