SAME OLD BULLSHITRaekwon Keeps Us Waiting For Two Days, Then Talks About Cakes
This magazine used to be well known for interviews with big-name American rappers. Back when Dave 1 from Chromeo was still writing for us every month we had scoops like Eminem’s first ever interview, Ol’ Dirty’s last ever interview, Lil’ Kim shot by Terry Richardson and Fat Joe walking us around the Bronx. 50 Cent talked to us about “How to Rob” three years before most people had heard of him, Benzino threatened to kill us, Young Jeezy made us an exquisite corpse, we reunited the Hot Boys, and we broke the story that Cappadonna was broke and working as a cab driver.
Our most recent rap piece involved Bradford Cox from Deerhunter interviewing Soulja Boy, which was OK, but most new rappers are so conservative and dull that it’s a waste of time talking to them.
This month, though, we were offered an interview with Raekwon and thought, “Well, why not?” It’s the Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue and he certainly fits that description, right? As well as being the hardest member of the Wu next to Masta Killa, he and Ghostface made the finest albums about selling crack ever, in the form of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx and Ironman. Lex Diamonds also made Tommy Hilfiger and Lexus cars fashionable, but we’ll forgive him for that.
But guess what? The whole process of interviewing him turned into a total ball ache and reminded us why we don’t do rap interviews anymore. After keeping our photographer waiting for nearly two days while Raewkon watched WWF and got stoned in his hotel, his management refused to send us even a streamed link of the album so we can’t even tell you how it sounds. On the basis of the couple of tracks we’ve heard leaked, it sounds like, well, pretty good to mildly OK. So what could we talk about? See below. Vice: So, you’re 39 years of age and a family man, many times over. How’s the home life?
Raekwon: I’m still infatuated with this art I do. I make it my business to do my business, you know? But I’m a father, and I make the most of that. I want to be the best family man I can be. What keeps you busiest at home?
I love to cook more and more, every day. That’s part of growing up and becoming a man. I come from a long line of people who know how to cook. So yeah, maybe I was destined to be “The Chef” in multiple ways, you know? What’s your signature dish?
I do a really good baked salmon, and baked chicken with the crispy skin. We all be on that. It’s good to be able to relax with your friends and family and make some good food. Who would win a Wu edition of Come Dine With Me?
I don’t know. There’s some good cooks in Wu. GZA be on some baking shit. He does like a strawberry cake and, like, a lemon one, like that lemon glazed shit. A lemon drizzle?
Yeah, that’s the one.
WORDS BY ANDY CAPPER
INTERVIEW BY JAIMIE HODGSON
PHOTO BY BEN RAYNER (Yeah, it took three people to make this happen).
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 is forthcoming on EMI.
See all articles by this contributor Anonymous, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
this interview was god awful. i’m guessing it’ll be another two years before i ever click on a link to this site again. | | Anonymous, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
I didnt know Vice had such a big rapper history... thats kind of funny if you look at it now. things have definitely changed | | Anonymous, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
maybe he was a dick, but he has a pretty bad ass shirt. so I forgive him | | Anonymous, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
Cooking with the Clipse would be a different thing completely but probably more educational. | |
| electricboogaloo, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
i like his ironic wolf howling in the moon tee | |
| bum tickler, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
this pic reminds me of the shot by kern pic with the girls smoking. smoking is much better for wu tang than teeth brushing. | | Anonymous, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
Best picture of Raekwon I’ve ever seen. | | Anonymous, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
getting high with raekwon and cooking has to be one of the funnest things ever. i bet it takes forever to make something simple from all the smoke breaks.
you’d set it and really forget it until the kitchen smoke alarm went off. | | Anonymous, on Jul 6, 2009 wrote:
where is the deerhunter & soulja boy thing? i missed that somehow. | | Anonymous, on Jul 5, 2009 wrote:
Raekwon talking about baked chicken is some real ass shit. | |
| Britle, on Jul 5, 2009 wrote:
Mesquite Seared Guinea Hen With Duck Confit, Reduced Raspberry Balsamic Creme-Fraiche Emulsion
Ain’t Nothing To Fuck With | | |
| Britle, on Jul 5, 2009 wrote:
Mesquite Seared Guinea Hen With Duck Confit, Reduced Raspberry Balsamic Creme-Fraiche Reduction
Ain’t Nothing To Fuck With | | Anonymous, on Jul 5, 2009 wrote:
The photo alone makes it worth it. | | Anonymous, on Jul 4, 2009 wrote:
vice is gay!!! | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2009 wrote:
what’s with the beginning of this article just being a list of brags? yuck, vice are name droppers. does anyone else think this site is about as edgy as an ayn rand novel? it’s so conservative that it gives me, for lack of a better term, "douche chills". | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2009 wrote:
this interview coulda been so much better, but whatever. | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2009 wrote:
this is the dumbest fucking waste of space of an article i’ve read in a long time. for shame vice. | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2009 wrote:
If I wanted to hear about cooking, I would go to the fucking Food Network. Slang some rock into that cake, givvit to the kids on the corna WHERE YOU AT ON THA CORNA WHERE YOU AT ON THA CORNA BAKE A CAKE FOR JAKE THE RAKE. Pikklestix and chichin fijjers. RAEKWON NEEDS SOME PUFFY STUFF. What in the FUCK is he smokin, a goddamn IUD implant? | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2009 wrote:
VICE sucks the whole company is built on exploiting non whites and portraying them negatively...and they’re about to be called out this shit. | |
| NicaInCali, on Jul 3, 2009 wrote:
and it took two days to get baking info out of him? lol what a waste of time Raekwon! He always sucked anyways, his lyrics are shit, fuck rhyming huh Raekwon! We don’t listen to rap for rhymes! lol loser | | Anonymous, on Jul 2, 2009 wrote:
A wu-tang cookbook would be fucking SICK!!!
i reckon ghostface would have the best recipes. like dying half a biscuit green and then putting blue and cream icing on one side or something.
he better have some good recipes after he charged $69,000 per ticket at the espy the other day... | | Anonymous, on Jul 2, 2009 wrote:
fuck raekwon. | | Anonymous, on Jul 2, 2009 wrote:
This ish is hilarious. | | Anonymous, on Jul 2, 2009 wrote:
bring back fritz tha cat | | Anonymous, on Jul 1, 2009 wrote:
rae is still one of the best ever | |
| duck duck goose, on Jul 1, 2009 wrote:
how about a wu tang cookbook? enter the 36 recipes? | | Anonymous, on Jun 30, 2009 wrote:
Also does anyone except fat old wigger-men with giant woman arses squeezed into their old oversize jeans still listen to this guy?
after he said that sht about rza to that little bitch he instantly ceased to exist for me.
raps a young mans game.
| | Anonymous, on Jun 30, 2009 wrote:
Could you please be as obsessed with Gucci Mane as anyone with half a brain (in a bad way)is right now please?
I know you already did him way back but he’s about as far from conservative and dull as they get in this day and age..
unless you are conservative and dull yourself, in which case you think southern rap isnt real hip hop and gucci mane is wack in which case you are a LAME in which case you need to catch some cases in which case you could ask yourself "in which case am i appearing in now" because you would have different cases and it would get confusing.
Please do a WHOLE ISSUE on Gucci Mane La Fleur.
And this is a letter to your magazine not a comment even though it looks like one.
ok thats enough | | Anonymous, on Jun 30, 2009 wrote:
Saw Raeknwon @ Rock the Bells & he aint playin. Dude getting BIG, homie can COOK on & off stage though... | | Anonymous, on Jun 30, 2009 wrote:
great portrait of raekwon. | | | < Previous 30 comments | Next 30 comments > |
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