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Halftime: Where are you right now in terms of spirituality? Were you ever a five-per center? GZA: Yea, you could say I’m apart of The Five Percent Nation. I was introduced to that at a young age and that’s when I changed my name to Justice from my birth given name. Getting knowledge at a young age and being introduced to this from a cousin named Life Allah and a brother named Infinite who I grew up with. Without having that type of knowledge we wouldn’t be who we are today. That’s why I’m Justice, #RZA is Prince Rakeem and #OldDirty was Unique Ason. It was great coming into that. We stopped eating pork. We don’t eat meat period. RZA and I don’t eat meat, fish, or chicken. I haven’t eaten pork since the 70s. I stopped eating beef in the 80s and I stopped eating chicken and turkey and all that around ’95-’96. So that was a spark just from being introduced to the Gods at a young age. That enlightened us to many different things and caused us to be in tune with many different things. Even #Rakim being God body opened up a whole new thing in emceeing as far as cleverness and wittiness. That opened us up to reading a lot of books and going to the Ansar Ru community. #TheMuslims used to sell a lot of books and we got a lot of #Knowledge and information from them. They had books on all types of things that we had no knowledge of and it was interesting to read and gain knowledge from that. We were just opened and enlightened to a certain type of Knowledge about ourselves and we grew with that. Now the nation has been made into a many different things. You got a lot of people who are god body and part of the five percent nation running around not living right and doing foul stuff. Sometimes it’s been made into a cult. I’m not apart of all that negative sh_t but that’s where I got my spark of knowledge from. I must say that. ~ #GZA of the #WuTangClan Interview with Half Time Magazine titled GZA (Wu-Tang) Hip Hop Icon Series (Photo courtesy of +Wakeel Allah)

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