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As told to Stevie Chick

Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah: ‘A group is hard to keep together – people get jealous’

Ghostface KIllah
‘I’m a spiritual dude’ … Ghostface Killah. Photograph: Danny Hastings

What do you feel is the most important aspect to a truly great rapper? Is it flow, wordplay or storytelling? Or is it non-technical things like their worldview, their upbringing or the people they surround themselves with? Dylandep
It’s all of the above. You gotta really practise and then you got to understand your flow, understand wordplay, how to use your vocabulary. It do depend on where you’re at in your life and the life that you’re living. But as long as you know what you’re talking about, and you’re talking the truth and you got a nice flow, you could make it.

How did living with disability in your family [his younger brothers had muscular dystrophy and died young] affect your art and aspirations? moniquita
That was a big part of my life. You’re a reflection of how you came up – you can’t ever shake that. Now I’m older, I can really understand the situation. But back then I was like: damn, once a person could walk and do everything like normal and now they can’t walk no more, they can’t function or operate like they used to. That’s a drastic change. It was hard to see – it really affected me.

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