RZA Goes Off

The Corsair just cannot get over how crazy RZA is. He's crazy like Swayze. Ask him anything and it's on like Grey Poupon. Ask him where the nearest gas station is and you get a soliloquy about his favorite natural resource, colloidal silver. Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye.

Whew!

He so crazy ...

Anyhoo: here is a snippet of RZA's recent interview with One World, an interview in which you learn a quite a bit more about his childhood than is necessary:

One World: Listen, I want to ask you another question ... What is the connection between kids living in urban environments and kung fu movies?

RZA: There's a couple of ways to look at it. One, any hero that we see as a kid inspires us to want to be him -- anything that's more powerful than us. Because as a kid, there's many nightmares, its really bad experiences, it's many of those things. For the kung-fu movies, though, it has an extra piece to it. Martial arts, xi-gong and t'ai chi is the natural vibration of the body, it's the natural flow of energy, really. Kung fu is the best energy flowing and energy builder and expeller -- the only thing compared to that is sex, they say. That's the only thing that has the same potential for energy. And sex is really the epitome of creative energy. So when a kid whose young and creative and has all this extra energy and not really having sex, anyway, besides his own masturbation -- he's watching all this action; it inspires his subconscious. For those who are really in tune with nature, they could change their whole life. Somebody like myself -- it started off for me watching these movies and acting like them. The it went to the next level of me watching them with the third eye and listening to the philosophy of the movies, which is also very profound. Bruce Lee was a scientist. He wasn't just a fighter.

"Wu Tang Clan has a lot to do with this whole new influx of Asian things and also the love that blacks automatically have for the Asian culture without even knowing that we're the fathers of it. Like, you don't know that Don Mo who went and taught Xi-gong to the monks was a black man from South India who migrated from Ethiopia with the Dravidian tribe?"

No, I didn't know that, actually.