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what's up Vanity Fair you got the

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whistle right here from the almighty

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wu-tang clan and today we're gonna be

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talking about kung-fu films that either

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we sample for our production or that

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inspired our look so uh that's no fun yo

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[Applause]

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hey yo this movie the master the flying

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guillotine yo the flying guillotine

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became what I use as my choice of

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lyrical weapon so when you hear the song

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whoo tang clan enough I start off not be

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tossing in force that my style is

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awesome for the Moore family Buddhism

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which is awesome and the survey said

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you're dead the Pharaoh flying

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guillotine chops off your head

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so basically blue tang ox tongue is like

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a sword but the good thing could beat

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this audio and that's why I chose that

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to be my weapon well the cool thing

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about this part here the flying

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guillotine hasn't come in yet

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right and we have a one of the allowed

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brothers here with the three section of

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staff fighting against the pole fighter

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the Lao clan actually becomes the best

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of acting team and lost you are three

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and the funny thing about this movie is

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that the guy who just got killed full of

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cold later goes on to be a big show

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brother movie star playing the lizard

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it's one of the Venom's and we'll get to

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that later

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the executioner is from Shaolin one of

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my favorite films of all time

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and it follows the story of hong xiguan

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who is the hung gar founder fighting the

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priest PHA may also known as the White

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Lotus night tiger kung foo hey better

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than yours if you listen to the wu-tang

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clan song wu-tang clan another way it

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starts off with Bill knio knio knio

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Tiger style

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[Applause]

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well that's from this movie Tigers I

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just film you know really inspired us

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and when you watch movies like Kill Bill

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which I later went on to score you'll

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see this character please primary pops

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up wow this is what this is this scene

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here is one of the pinnacle scenes in

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the film

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please pomade is no joke and he's

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massive the technique of moving his weak

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spot at will

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now Hong Kong is a real form of martial

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arts the animal fist in fact the five

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padam an animal fist is used in so many

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of kung fu movies brothers from Sammo

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hung Jacky Chan and even in Tony Jaa

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films this technique has been

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incorporated there's really a foundation

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of Shaolin style oh oh look at this got

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him in the heart in the Nugget scars one

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for the nuts he's bought with a nuts

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no no nuts kid he moved the nuts I don't

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know how a movement us he moved the nuts

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and you find it the 36 chambers of

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Shaolin this is one of my favourite

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films of all time I've seen it over 200

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times and more to go this film which was

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released in America as master chiller

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not only gives the name of one of our

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whoo tang clan numbers but it also gives

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us the possum title to our first album

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enter the wu-tang 36 chambers which we

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asked Lee took enter from into the

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Dragon which another favorite movie of

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mines Bruce Lee we consider him to be a

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minor prophet this film is directed by

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walking along like I said one of the

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marks were legends but it also stars one

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of the greatest martial art actors since

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Bruce Lee Gordon Liu now Gordon Liu

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plays the hero here the master chiller

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and the scene that inspired me the most

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after watching all the action was the

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scene we says he wants to go to the

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highest level and he walks in and the

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monk is like without wisdom give his no

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gain and that hit me and I heard that

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and it sent me to start researching

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Buddhism and finding kung fu

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books and things but the beautiful thing

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is years later once again the blessing

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of the universe I'm doing a film man

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with the IFS and Gordon Luke plays the

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Abbot and my movie hey hey

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for me there's been various samples for

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this movie only 35 chambers there is no

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36 so this is a scene here where he

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first is is the first chamber which is

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simply called crossing the water well I

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love about the cards was that while the

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other months are sleeping he trains by

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himself

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he does it with a hand of a leg and is

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holding his own leg doing the kid and

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play dance and that movie did trust me

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it became part of breakdancing five

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deadly venoms directed by Chang Cheh

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this film right here is actually the

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film that made me become a kung-fu

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fanatic you could hear the sample when a

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song we got called the mystery of

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chessboxing we saw watching this film

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the told character is the one we all

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vote for he's the one that you wish you

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were the one with the invincible iron

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skin now here's the sneak now number two

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practice the snake style it was known as

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the snake spirit this technique right

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here was crazy because most snake styles

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was used like this with a Jackie Chan

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but here he used the Cobra the mouth and

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the tail and having them both act

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together that really only appeared in

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maybe two movies ever to see the snake

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style done like this I think it was this

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one in another film called the deadly

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Challenger look at that Wow and I seen

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that as a kid you gotta imagine it I'm a

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10 year old kid watching this yeah and

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I've seen the guy just lay on better now

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it was hard laying on my box boom you

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know they show anyway most of the films

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that we really enjoyed with sha brother

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films your brothers had big budgets it

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was like a studio life and all their

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films had a studio quality production

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all of a sudden here comes this

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independent low-budget film called the

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mystery of chessboxing

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now being the chest Skylander than a

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chest fanatic I was like I got to see

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this movie and it became my favorite

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there's the character in this film whose

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name is Ghostface Killah face color and

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he's one of the most ruthless villains

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to ever touch the screen and so they

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came to wu-tang I was like who is that

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guy everybody's going to be scared of

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based on their Liverpool content and

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that name became Ghost Face killer's

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name and he put on the mask like the

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five deadly venoms and he came in and

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when you watched him in the mystery of

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chessboxing hip hop was never the same

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right but no one killed you in a past

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life you'll find out on Ghost Face album

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you're here

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some of the quotes from this movie the

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10 Tigers of Kwantung here in this film

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there's a conflict between these young

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men they never settled a beef they like

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these young guys can't beat each other

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but then the old G comes in at the end

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and kills the villain in three seconds

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me and Memphis would always say that's

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how our letters got to be as we get

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older we got to be able to get on the

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mic and then four bars rip a

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 ass excuse my language

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wu-tang martial expert there's not many

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we can match up with him now this film

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has a great sample in it on God

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or I can try my wu-tang to die that's

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the sample right there and the wu-tang

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guy pulls out a sword right and he does

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the wu-tang style right with his sword

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but the crazy thing is when he gets

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defeated he then pours out a weapon that

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I already singing in the one hand Z this

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movie and you'll never see it again in

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no other kung fu movie and this is a

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gold statue I don't know where the

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production designer thought it is I know

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this weapon ever exists if somebody can

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make me one I would appreciate it it's

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the coolest thing ten tigers akwonton

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from Shogun assassin which is the intro

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to the Justice album Liquid Swords

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hospital

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my father was famous

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he was the greatest samurai in the

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empire most of our fluids came from kung

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fu movies sometime there's a lot of

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swing and a lot of blocking but in

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Japanese samurai movies it's one stroke

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kills Bing spoke Bing Stroke

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when it came time to incorporate it a

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film into the wu-tang world I chose this

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film to represent the GZA his lyrics are

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straight to the point

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[Music]

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don't be afraid

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bad dreams are only dreams choose the

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sword and you will join me

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choose the ball so Jessamine Newcomb

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Fujiyama was slowing down and a lot of

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films show up others wasn't making as

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many this group from Taiwan came out

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with Shaolin vs. the Lama which is a

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trilogy actually in this film you see a

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display of shadow boxing allowing you

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the skills this message sexual technique

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of shadow boxing allow me to demonstrate

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the skill of Shaolin I'll never forget

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being in the movie theater when the

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shadow boxing technique came out man the

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whole audience just starts screaming Wow

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so after mystery of chess boxing stay

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reigning champion as my favorite movie

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Shaolin vs. wu-tang comes out and this

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changes my whole martial art ideology it

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became my favorite film still holds the

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title tied with a diagram pro fighter

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the way they used their swordless in

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this movie and the way they use the

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Qigong this was really unseen before now

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this film is actually directed by the

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act of Gordon Liu which is crazy I mean

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all the years he played as a actor and

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his brother directed him he decides to

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direct his own film you know it's a lot

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of power was in his film the game of

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chess is like a sword you must think

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first before you that's the truth

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if what you say is true the Shaolin and

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the wu-tang could be dangerous

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wu-tang clan name is Paul from Shaolin

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vs. wu-tang because of the best sword

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technique that they they showed and I I

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reason that our tongue is like a sword

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if you think you're the best letter says

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you must be using the wu-tang sword and

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so we're the wu-tang clan we thought we

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were the best lyricist in hip-hop but

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the film that also helps cement our

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Brotherhood was that a diagram profound

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because here's a movie about brothers

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who sacrificed themselves for their

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country for their family and

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relentlessly against all odds for to

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write the name of their family we will

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cut class and hang out in my house and

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watch this film actually made some of us

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well up you know I made this scene

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here's the final scene where he's

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fighting against the general who

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actually framed this family I'm standing

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a dog on a pole fighter it's the name of

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routines which was supposed to be our

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final album the eight diagrams in old

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days you know sampling any signal to a

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sampler was was a headache the gift from

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a VCR was the worst because you had to

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have three about three plugs because

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samplers only took quarter inch plugs so

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you actually would have to go from your

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VCR and to your mixer then out of your

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mixer headphone jack into your sampler

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and then you'll get a very distorted

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signal and then if you missed it you

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gotta want it try to find it because the

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sampler only sampled X amount of seconds

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so it was a challenging way to produce

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you know I may show y'all it's been the

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RZA vanity fair' want to thank you guys

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for inviting me and uh wu-tang forever