Wu tang
Through the peak years of hustling and partying and getting fresh , we never lost focus . Most people don't realize that the Wu - Tang Clan was eight years in the making . We were hungry to be creating , focusing on our art , while other Escobar - emulating motherfuckers were running ten keys . My friends all felt the same way I did . RZA , Raekwon , Ghost , Meth , we all had one thing in common : we wanted to be stars . We wanted to be fucking rappers , to get our music out , make money and be rich and famous , and we wanted out of the fucking ghetto immediately . Didn't know how we were gonna do it . Didn't know how it was gonna happen , but for some reason , we just always knew it was gonna happen . I just always knew , and Meth knew , and Rae knew . We were all certain , we just knew . That's why we were able to do what we had to do , ' cause we were all going in the same direction toward the same goal . Besides , by this time I was nineteen and tired of the game . It didn't help that dudes were falling like flies in the drug game , either . I was trying to get off the streets entirely . I was still in school , but looking for something more than even what college had to offer as a way off the block . Music turned out to be the vessel that took me and my cohorts away from the ghetto violence we grew up around .