Their talk includes: music production hardware versus software, RZA’s enthusiasm for a recent Donald Trump speech, the President of the Philippines, Banks’ feelings about Suicide Squad, why Bill Clinton was at a Chance the Rapper set, Jessica Alba, confusing Bill Hader and Johnny Depp, and, oh yeah, their collaboration on their debut record, Anything But Words. Check it out and subscribe now on iTunes or Stitcher to stay in the loop on future Talkhouse Podcasts.
You can listen to the full episode HERE.
QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE:
“Trump… did his best speech today… He may have got a few more fans today. Talking about education, talking about every kid getting a chance to go to the school of choice and being funded to go to that school… His delivery, his delivery today — it’s good delivery. I usually kinda laugh at him all the time ’cause you know he just be rambling… Now he’s repeating, but he’s repeating in chunks, so it’s more like he’s repeating the 16 bar phrase rather than just going ‘drink drink drink drink drink drink c’mon drink!’ He ain’t doing that now; now he’s saying the verse, then he’s bringing the hook in, then he’s repeating the verse.” -RZA on his favorite Trump speech
“Mr. Duterte, listen… don’t you ever get the gall in your mouth and heart to call the President of The United States the son of a whore. First of all you, don’t never do that, kid. Come to my neighborhood, come to Staten Island with that.” -RZA’s message for Philippines President Duterte
“I just was uncomfortable about this alligator character in Suicide Squad who I felt was just doing something that we’re not, you know, supposed to be doing anymore in Hollywood films, which is playing a very bad one-dimentional stereotype. ‘Yo man! B.E.T.!’ Have you seen this, Suicide Squad? Dude it goes real, REAL hairy with this one character. Like, I don’t know, maybe I lost my sense of humor, but it felt pretty racist.” -Paul Banks on racist characters in Suicide Squad
“There’s a lot of songs on our record that wouldn’t fit normally, definitely in my Wu Tang catalog. And even though my solo projects — you know when I did Bobby Digital — it’s songs on our record that don’t fit, it only fits in our world, of what our collaboration brings together. And for me, that’s fulfilling and exciting.” -RZA on collaborating with Banks
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