And if you told me it came from a Tom and Jerry cartoon I wouldn’t have believed you. get the money’ is the lyric that’s always stuck in my head. ‘Cash Rules Everything Around Me, C.R.E.A.M. I’m sure that’s exactly how the Wu-Tang Clan envisioned people listening to their music. I was like 12-years-old, shopping in the ‘husky’ section for pre-teens, and going hard to that album even though I knew nothing about what they were talking about. The album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is 100% my personal example of something where I was too young to understand it but my parents had no idea what I was listening to so I got away with it. But it turns out the lyric was inspired by a popular kid’s cartoon and wasn’t something the group workshopped in a recording studio. I’d never really spent much time thinking about where that lyric came from because it just sounded right for the time. In a new memoir, founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan Raekwon divulged the unexpected origins of the group’s lyrics C.R.E.A.M.

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The hook came from Wu-Tang’s ‘Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’ and is one of the group’s moist iconic lyrics, it was also inspired by a popular children’s cartoon.

In his new memoir, Wu-Tang co-founder Raekwon explains the origins of the group’s iconic ‘Cash Rules Everything Around Me, C.R.E.A.M.’ lyric.Getty Image / Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives

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