Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2250 - Raekwon
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2250 - Raekwon' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-01. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2250 - Raekwon

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
We're up.
That's it. The chef is in the building, ladies and gentlemen.
What's up? What's up?
Pleasure to meet you, man.
You are a part of the most iconic band in all of hip-hop.
There is no question.
There's one Wu-Tang.
There's only one Wu-Tang.
Nothing else is even close.
You guys are so different than every other band that ever existed.
It was a giant group of you.
Yeah, man.
And everybody was a killer.
Fucking mob, man.
It's a crazy band, man.
If you think about it, there's been a lot of hip-hop duos.
There's been a lot of producers and MCs.
There's been a lot of people that get together in small groups.
But there's only one Wu-Tang.
There's only one group of nine assassins.
I tell niggas that all the time.
It's kind of crazy.
You ain't going to get another one of these.
It's crazy that it worked.
Yeah.
Because it's so hard to keep all those alphas together.
It really is crazy.
To make it work, the most illest shit, some shit that I never would have
thought would ever exist.
It was able to exist because we tried it, but it wasn't normal.
It wasn't normal.
It wasn't normal.
You tried it, but it almost seems like it was just instinct.
Like, it's not like a business strategy that anybody would ever come up with.
Right.
Nine dudes?
No.
And nine of the realest dudes?
Like, the rawest, realest dudes?
Yeah.
And it worked?
Yeah, and it worked.
And it worked?
I tell people all the time, it was like when RZA, you know, he came with this
whole philosophy
of wanting to do it.
It was like hitting a lotto for him.
Like, he didn't know what to expect.
It was more a reputation thing for us.
It was like, yo, I want to do this.
And, you know, he came to the block and he talked to some real dudes that was
really had
other shit planned in their life, you know.
But hip-hop was always like that backpack that we wore every day.
But everybody had different plans.
So he really literally came in and started to pick motherfuckers that he felt
had potential.
So it's like the mob.
It's like, you know, you know, Lucky Luciano, prime example.
You know, he knew that motherfuckers had potential, right?
He knew dudes had potential in any way.
He's from a different part.
He's from a different part.
He's from a different part.
But, yo, what we could do right here is we could make money.
So put your fucking feelings down or whatever the case may be and let's talk
about some money.
Yeah.
And that right there, kind of like, yo, you start shaking hands across the
table.
Yo, I know you didn't really fuck with me like that, yo.
I never had anything against you like that, though.
But it just, it was just something that he felt like at the end of the day, let
me try this shit.
Well, RZA's a genius.
And it's amazing that he was able to coordinate that.
Because that's often the case, right?
With other killers, like when a dude's a bad motherfucker, they always assume
that everybody else doesn't like them.
They always assume that everybody else is the enemy or competition.
So to have nine of you guys together like that as one group, you know, we
always, I told you when I was, when I sent you a message, I said that we play
Protect Your Neck.
I know.
Whenever we have a police escort, that's what's the most hilarious thing.
So we do arena shows, we hire a police escort.
So it's like fucking sirens and shit, Protect Your Neck and all the time.
It's like the perfect song to play when you're getting a police escort.
Oh, my God.
Nah, I know.
I know.
Trust me.
These young kids that I have at the club, like I was explaining Wu-Tang Clan to
them the other night.
I go, you have to understand how wild this band was.
I go, when Old Dirty Bastard was in Rikers, they went to Rikers and performed
in Rikers.
You remember that?
Yes!
I don't fucking remember that.
I told everybody.
I was like, do you know how crazy that is?
You're talking about like the biggest rap band in the fucking world and they're
performing in a penitentiary to one of the members who's one of the biggest
fucking hip hop stars in the world who's in jail.
And then you guys go into the crowd.
God bless his soul, first and foremost.
Oh, my God.
Old Dirty Bastard was a classic.
Yo, Joe is the funniest shit because when we came in and when we seen him, he
was eating a cheeseburger laughing and shit.
You know, he reminds you, he never was, you know, dirty.
I don't even think, I've never seen him eat meat like that or whatever the case
may be, but we came in, he was eating a cheeseburger and shit laughing.
So we was dying laughing.
And they kept, you know, the people up in there, they kept telling us like, yo,
y'all can't, y'all can't go into the, to the, to the, to the crowd with
everybody.
You know, we not going to hold no responsibility if something happened.
So, you know, be like, all right, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,
nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,
nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,
nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Once we got on that stage, it was like, fuck the stage.
We got out there touching everybody and it was love, man, it was a lot of love.
What year was that?
Man, it had to be what, I say what, 90, what, 90, 98, 97?
Wow!
98?
No internet.
Probably like, yeah, none of that shit.
None of that.
Why, is there even a recording of that anywhere?
Nah.
God.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
That would've been.
You know how wild that video would be?
Yeah, I never knew that people seen that.
I don't know how the fuck you knew that shit, like.
Oh, I heard about it.
Yeah, I heard about it.
But they loved that stuff.
I mean, it was in the news back then.
Yeah, it was crazy.
That you guys performed in Rikers.
Yeah, yeah.
Man, that was a while ago.
The 90s for hip hop.
It was like, people need, you have to understand.
For young people, you grew up with hip hop.
You're only 20 years old.
I get it.
But you have to understand from my perspective.
In 1980, there was no hip hop.
In 1992, that was all anybody gave a fuck about.
That is crazy.
Yeah.
For a new art form.
To emerge, right?
Right.
I mean, there was like, Sugar Hill Gang.
There was some hip hop, but it wasn't the thing until the 90s.
And 90s hip hop was big.
It got big.
It got big.
Yeah.
It got so big.
I remember, it's so crazy you said that because I tell people all the time,
like, disco,
to me, was hip hop before hip hop was.
You know, disco, R&B, everything was a mixture.
It was a mixture.
So, really, when hip hop came, like you said, it came, like, maybe, I'm going
to say '80s, '85.
It had to be '84 because I was in junior high school.
Yeah, yeah.
We was young boys, right?
So, I would definitely say, you heard something and it was like, oh, shit.
Motherfuckers, it's rhyming.
I ain't, you know, this shit sound cool, though.
You know what I mean?
It sound cool.
But, really, it was a way to bring people together, you know, that was going
through different shit in their life.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, and you know what it was earlier than that because in '84 I was in high
school.
So, it had to be '80.
'82.
Because I was in high school, I was a freshman in high school in '81.
So, I heard 'Sugar Hill Gang' when I lived in Jamaica Plain, which was in 1980.
So, that was the first time I'd ever heard any kind of hip hop.
Yeah, yeah.
So, like, yeah, like we said, yeah, '80?
Yeah, I was 10 years old.
So, me probably really, really gravitating to it.
I probably was like 12, like you said.
12.
What was the first hip hop that really grabbed you?
Do you remember?
Do you remember, like, what was the shit that you were first into when you were
a kid?
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The first shit that grabbed me was, like how you said, Sugar Hill Gang, you
know?
Rap is the light.
Yeah.
Rap is the light.
Hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, hip hop.
That was the shit.
Oh my God.
Now look, I had cousins.
It was everywhere.
I had wild cousins and shit.
They was, you know, they was wild.
They was selling drugs.
They was, you know, smoking weed and sniffing coke and, you know what I mean?
Doing whatever they was doing.
And they used to live two, they used to live two floors above me.
And I used to sneak up there and shit and, you know, just be in their business.
Be in their world.
And they would be playing music.
They had the record playing.
You know, you see coke on the table and weed and everything.
And my cousins, they was cool.
They was like, "Yo, come in, man.
We don't give a fuck.
Like, just don't tell your mother that you was around and shit."
You know what I mean?
"Nah, nah, I ain't gonna say nothing.
I ain't gonna say nothing."
And I would just be watching and, you know, I would see weed on the album
covers and, you
know what I mean, just motherfuckers running back and forth in the room.
And, you know, they in the shit, but they alwa