Inspectah Deck Quotes

‘I’m a street journalist, man.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘We live in a world where everything is lies.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘Don’t get me wrong; Ghost used to have an afro, like the Jackson 5.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘When I first signed, I signed in 1995 for my ‘Uncontrolled Substance’ album. And what happened with that album was that Loud Records had went defunct. After I put out ‘Uncontrolled Substance’… There was nobody left to run that situation.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I was always one that wanted to expand my mind and learn, ’cause I looked up to a lot of dudes who were like that. Those were the cats around me, I guess.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I was in elementary school, going to school knowing Rick James, Aretha Franklin, way before my time.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I was never dumb, son.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘My mom used to wake us up with music and keep the music on high so we wouldn’t go back to sleep.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘RZA had a flood in his apartment. Lost my whole first album.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘My first album wasn’t even the album that y’all hear as ‘Uncontrolled Substance.’ It was a totally different album… I had a whole different album.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I used to pop and lock. Electric Boogie.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘We used to battle every day like it was ‘Beat Street’ the movie.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘When we first came out, we had the masks on. Stocking caps and everything on the album cover, so people didn’t really know who we were, what we looked like.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I like Kendrick because Kendrick is keeping that spirit alive of trying to educate and teach people, man.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I don’t make solo albums for the masses and the millions of radio fans out there, I make music for people that see things the way I see it.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘When you question who’s one of the greatest of all time lyrically… I don’t sell a lot of records, but it’s all good, man. My first solo album sold over 500,000 copies. And my second album – which I put out independently – sold over six figures as well.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘We learned how to hustle and get money. You stack and plan the future ahead – get your house, your car, your wife and start your family. Pass the jewel on. We grew up under those rules like the mob… the mafia.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘When I say, ‘Life as a shorty shouldn’t be so rough,’ I’m talking about me, myself – I grew up poor, but we grew up happy as a family.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I like Curren$y.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘When I came up, we had to fight and scrap.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I just like to be great at what I do, and it’s just a simple mentality. The hardest part for me is just making it rhyme.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘A lot of times when I see people on the street and they ask me, ‘How do you think of that? I bomb atomically, Socrates, like oh my God!’ I’m like, ‘You know what, man? I watch CNN, play PS3, and I do everything that everybody else does. I just stay in tune with it, and I like to reflect that in my rhymes.” – Inspectah Deck

‘You know what I do? I study ’70s music.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘Hip-hop got so ravaged, it’s snobby now.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘For me, Wu-Tang is like the Justice League, the X-Men. And I can play any character I want. It’s like I’m more of the Martian Manhunter, I’m like the Vision. I’m on a team with Superman and Iron Man and Batman.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘We’re always testing our weaponry on each other. It’s more of a friendly competition when it’s Wu-Tang and you’re basically slinging your blade. It’s more of a combat, Game of Thrones type thing over there. When it’s me and Esoteric, it’s more a verbal thing.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘We live in a world in which you’ll be attentive for like thirty seconds and your attention span moves onto the next. So anything is really not much of long-term significance.’ – Inspectah Deck