RZA Tells All in New Memoir

Wu-Tang Clan member RZA reveals several interesting aspects of the pre-Wu days in an upcoming memoir. He also sat down with cnn.com for an interview where he goes into depth about two events. The first being the almost murder of Method Man and his own possible imprisonment for attempted murder charges.

He told cnn.com that,

“Either one of those incidents could definitely have derailed it. Of course, myself being the abbot, the one who came with the idea, if I wouldn’t have made it out of that tumultuous time — it seemed like I wasn’t going to make it out of it; there was a lot of odds against me — but we stood strong, and self-defense made sense to the jury. We beat that …

It was the victory over that incident that made me change my whole direction. In a way, it’s double-edged in that incident. One, if I would’ve lost that, yeah, Wu-Tang wouldn’t have happened, but also it’s the victory of it that inspired me and gave me the drive also to go and really get serious about Wu-Tang and the things I was dealing with. Same thing with Meth, he always brings it up … that that day saved his life. He actually said, if it was anybody else calling him, he wouldn’t have came.”

“The guys would say it’s more me than them because they say that’s my cousin and I was right there. If you let a man that you love or anybody — man, woman or child that you love — sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you’re neglecting them …Everybody let him do what he wanted to do. … There were times when I took his drugs and threw them down the toilet. When I do that, he would get so pissed off I don’t see him for weeks after that.  So it got to a point, I was like, “[expletive] it, let him do his drugs” just to have him around me, just to keep him there. … But it’s still neglect, yo.”