Halftime (Jbutters): I was watching Kill Bill 2 and they had the Shogun’s Assassin playing and that just took me back yo. It made me want to just go grab that Genius album cuz I was waiting for the beat to drop but they was really watching the movie.

Deck: All that shit was ahead of its time. We opened so many doors just like the doors were opened for us by N.W.A and all the other groups that came through like the Hit Squad. Before Wu Tang came in the door the Hit Squad was together with Erick Sermon and Das Efx and them. They play a part in opening the way for us. That’s what we tried to do and now you got Roc-A-Fellas, Cash Money, Bad Boys, and there are so many more to come. I don’t want no pat on the back just recognize even if you mumble it under your breath. Niggas fucking around saying ‘Wu ain’t made a hit in twelve years’ but they still got the motherfucking poster hanging on the wall.

Halftime (Jbutters): You can argue that you guys had five to seven classic albums. When I hear people say that I’m like what more do you want?

Deck: We got older while the generation got younger and the music changed. We were coming with the samples when sampling was ok and then they came with the new Triton and all types of other keyboards and the sound changed. Then you had Ruff Ryders and Timberland with that style. The sound definitely stepped up a notch and now you have Lil Jon and all these cats in the south reinventing the sound. I’m trying to be ahead like how do we reinvent New York’s sound with all the fly samples. Kanye beat us to it. Now New York has to come a step above all of that. The whole east coast can’t try to be that. We have to reinvent what made us live. Like when you heard Mobb Deep “Shook Ones” for the first time, when you heard Smif-N-Wessun “Dah Shinin” and Black Moon, that’s the era I want to bring back.

Halftime (Marcus): What I don’t like is how all my favorite artists, especially New York artists, will have that one song on their record where they try out that new flow. Right now it’s a southern type of thing. Biggie sounded cool when he did it with Bone Thugs but that’s not Nas and Az’s type of thing. I don’t want to hear that from them and I hope the Wu don’t come out with that type of song.

Deck: I’ll give you a perfect song we shouldn’t have made but people love it anyway and I see the purpose of why people do it. “The Gravel Pit” topped the charts for a while and was still rocking overseas. To me personally that shit killed niggas street cred.

Halftime (Marcus): Hahaha, I think the song was alright but it’s the video. That Flintstones shit. It was different though.

Deck: I don’t even know what to say about that shit. If ya’ll want you can sit here and torment me. Wu Tang gotta suck that one up. I knew that one from the jump but I participated so I have to eat that one. It would have been nice if we would have made that shit for the Flintstones movie that came out with Rosie O’donnell but to come out not putting a album out in years and one that is highly anticipated and to come with the “Gravel Pit” and you’re in bear skins in the desert with a karate scene and a fucking dinosaur! I ain’t ashamed man I gotta swallow that one you can print that. Just as I know we gave ya’ll “C.R.E.A.M” and all of that fly shit that was one of them shits where it was like that wasn’t necessary. Everybody do that shit. Biggie did that ‘I’m going going Back back to Cali’.

Halftime (Jbutters): Yea I didn’t like that one

Deck: And we all love Biggie but that’s one where its like yo everybody lay an egg every now and then. We are going about this one with a different approach though. Everybody is more grown, more civilized and coming to the realization that we know Wu Tang as a force is unstoppable. All the solo projects we do we are getting shine and we are eating but Wu Tang is a force that can lift a mountain up. This album is gonna be under a microscope and it’s either do or die. We gotta hit niggas like Roy got hit.

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