RAEKWON

Wu-Tang rapper Raekwon has one thing on his mind these days: Growth. If he said it once, he said it a hundred times (know what I’m sayin’?) during his recent conversation with LAUNCH rap/R&B editor Billy Johnson Jr. “I don’t like to keep implanting a negative vibe in someone’s head, because then you think that’s how I be living and I only lived that way for a while in my life,” says Rae, who describes himself as a former “stick-up man and pharmacist.” But times have changed and that change is reflected on Immobilarity, the artist’s second breakout disc from the Clan. “I got my sh-t together and matured. And that’s all I’m doing is showing brothers that I changed -- for the better, not for the worse.” With a role in the forthcoming film Black & White (starring Brooke Shields), a character in the video game Wu-Tang Shaolin Style, and an autobiography in the works, this one-time street thug is determined to prove that he has goals and horizons that reach far beyond the ghetto. This live track was performed here in the LAUNCH studios.
“Yae Yo” written by C. Woods and C. Broady, courtesy of Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc./Wu-Tang Publishing/Six July Publishing/Ensign Music (BMI).