Say whatever you want about Raekwon's magical goatee, but there's no denying that he stays on his grind. Even though he just released the ITunes-only Gold Edition of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II and he's getting ready to embark on the Rock The Bells Tour, he still somehow found time to do a collaboration with with permanent Twitter trending topic Justin Bieber. Oh, and did we mention Kanye West made it all happen via Twitter? The uncommon three-way collaboration is getting a lot of attention, so we had to get Rae to break down his song with Justin Bieber, what he thinks of Kanye's album, and how 'Ye needs to produce a track for he and Ghostface to rip.
As Told to Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed
On how his Justin Bieber collaboration came together...
When you think about the whole Twitter situation, it's a thing for making connections. When Kanye came up with the idea of the record that he wanted to make, it was just a random conversation [on Twitter] about respecting everybody's art. [And] Justin followed suit like, "That would be crazy." So I'm really like the third wheel—I got into it later on from some of my fans who was like, "Yo check it out! They spoke on you." And me, automatically, I'm for the movement because I respect their work. Those guys are geniuses right here. And I would love to be a part of the situation. It's weird science, but I think it's brilliance at the same time.
On Kanye's new album...
This guy Kanye is like a brainiac wizard right now on the keyboard and his energy level is just... it's like he got gallons of ginseng in the corner of the studio. He's on the top of his game. And his album, he gave me a piece of it. We wouldn't let him just play one song without playing the next. But he was just giving everybody a taste and he had his eyes closed through the whole scenario of listening to the music. And we was just drawing it in, drinking. You know we had our little Hennessey going on. I didn't even really listen to everything everything. It was more like throw it on and feel it. All I could say is... aww shit! Get ready for another muthafuckin' classic from this kid.
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