Halftime (Jbutters): Which members of the clan did you meet up with first and what was everyone doing at the time to maintain?

Deck: We was all doing what we had to do. Some cats were hustling and some had jobs. I was doing both. I was always the type to have a job. Before I started hustling I was working. I had to get a check because my moms couldn’t do it for everybody. My sister get it today, my brother get it Wednesday so it was like you gotta wait. When everybody was trying to do the same thing we were the ones that wanted to be different. Cats don’t want to be different nowadays. Everybody wants to dick ride whatever is rocking right now.

Halftime (Marcus): In Baltimore nobody had ever heard of Shaolin…

Deck: Word, Baltimore is like my third home.

Halftime (Marcus): Yea my cousin told me you came down here and the bouncers started attacking some of ya’ll.

Deck: Yea I got into some shit with the bouncers in Baltimore. I gotta talk about that. I was chillin downstairs from the stage and Meth, Red and Streetlife were performing still. I jumped off in front of the stage cuz it was getting crowded with a lot of cats who wanted to be on stage for nothing. The bouncers saw me and thought I was just a cat from the crowd posting up. He was like yo you gotta move and I was like yo I just got off the stage with Meth I’m part of the group. He was like I don’t want to hear that shit and he walked off and came back with two or three more dudes. I was arguing for a minute and then one of them put they hand on me. They tried to actually physically throw me out the club so I just grabbed the silver gate that separate the crowd from the stage and didn’t let it go. That shit was swinging loosely in the air almost took a few cats out. It turned into a real live wrestling match and they had to stop the show. I almost got locked up for that. Baltimore, I always get into shit down there.

Halftime (Marcus): We be hearing the stories how niggas be acting up but it be the bouncers too.

Deck: That’s a lot of the shit plus like you’re saying we created such a mystique for ourselves that they were saying Wu Tang was a gang. They don’t know. They were told Wu Tang is some dusthead niggas, them niggas are crazy, and da da da. And when you finally see, I ain’t smiling, I ain’t really in a rush to meet you either so you don’t know what I’m thinking. If you thinking the shit that you heard and read is all true, nah you gotta really build with a cat before you cast a judgment on them. I know that’s with me. Everybody tell me you need to smile more and show them more of your personality and I’m like that’s me man. I try to take constructive criticism and shit though.

Halftime (Marcus): My question I always wanted to ask who in the Wu Tang is related because I got a funny story from high school?

Deck: The RZA, The Gza, and Ol’ Dirty are cousins.

Halftime (Marcus): Like I said nobody in Baltimore heard of Shaolin when ya’ll came out so this nigga holla yo Wu Tang is my cousins. We was like are there’s like fifty of them niggas how are they all your cousins. He was like yea out there in Shaolin and we was like what’s the real name and he was like ahh you know where that is man. I’m sure you got mad niggas that be lying about that.

Deck: It’s a lot of that. Cats be running up on me like yo I was locked up with your cousin Frank. I’m like yo I don’t got no cousin Frank man.

Halftime: Haha

Deck: It’s like that shit on the Chronic album where he was like I know Dr. Dre, I’m Snoop Dogg’s cousin and he was like niggas say anything to get the pussy. Niggas will say anything. I remember coming to a club telling them I’m Inspectah Deck and that I’m invited and niggas telling me I’m lying cuz Inspectah Deck is already inside. I’m writing a book ya’ll gonna bug out on my book. I got mad shit I can discuss with niggas.

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Posted by Halftime on Monday, November 22nd, 2004 and is filed under HIP HOP ICON SERIES.