One Rhyme [Skit] - Wu-Tang Clan, GZA, Masta Killa

The remedy for stress is a day and a rest

A bag of sess, playing chess, yes

My thoughts be sneaky like a crook from Brooklyn

When you ain’t looking, I take the queen with the rook then

I get vexed, laying phat tracks on Ampex

I was basically leaving the hustle life.

You know, going to night school

striving to get a diploma and transitioning to a legitimate lifestyle.

That’s what my life was like at that point when I met GZA.

He mentioned he had

family and brothers in Staten Island that were putting this movement together,

this Wu-Tang thing.

So one day he invites me to go to the studio with him.

I didn’t go because I had to go to night school that evening.

So the next day

he had a tape of what they did the night before.

And that tape was an

unfinished version of «Protect Yo Neck.»

When I heard that, everything just

became crystal clear now.

I never missed another studio session after that.

Whenever he told me he was going somewhere I was there.

It inspired me to sit

down.

Let me just see if I can write something.

I’ve never written a rhyme

before this.

So that’s what I did.

I basically rehearsed that one rhyme,

that one rhyme until I mastered it.

«You remember the rhyme?»

It was the «Mystery of Chessboxin'» one.