![]() ![]() We knew we was legends at that time and I knew that I was destined to make a powerful album and I knew that that’s where my mind was going to go. I wanted an album that was strong and something that represented my life and my pain that I was caught up in and everything and loving the fact that I had a legendary team at a young age. I was living in times where we had to make a living to survive more than anybody else so looking at these movies and being inspired and when it came down to making my album I knew that I didn’t want to have the fancy album. That was my favorite because I was out there. I envisioned myself as the storyteller emcee, the visionary emcee. ![]() ![]() I just felt like that album was needed because I never really considered myself the favorite emcee-type. The movies are just a narration of what was going on in my world as well. These movies are always in the back of my head ’cause they was movies that I felt like, ‘damn, I could relate but I could only relate on my side, which is the street side of things.’ I knew there was more than one guy in front of me that had a family and I have a family. “I was always into those kinds of movies: The Godfather, Once Upon A Time In America, Scarface these are all movies of our people that come from nothing and sharpen they’re livelihoods. The movie inspired RZAs production on multiple Wu-Tang albums including Liquid Sword and Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. On how American gangster films influenced OB4CL: ![]()
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