“He talked about his production company and all the directors he thought might do a great job - and these were big names and people he’d worked with,” he wrote. Method Man would go on to interpolate the “dolla dolla bill y’all” part from Jimmy Spicer’s “Money,” a 1983 hip-hop song that the group had been listening to “since the rec room parties in the projects.” A classic was born.Įarlier this week, Rolling Stone published an excerpt from the book detailing a meeting between Raekwon, Q-Tip and Leonardo Dicaprio in which the actor and Wu-Tang fan expressed interest in producing a Wu-Tang biopic along the lines of Straight Outta Compton.

When Meth heard the song, he realized it was the perfect opportunity to use the term because that’s what the song is about: trying to get some cream.” So my cousin brought that to our neighborhood and it stuck.

“In the ’hood everyone is big on slang because it’s a code that isn’t meant for outsiders to understand. “‘Cream’ was his way of saying he was trying to get his spread on and do well,” Raekwon wrote. I gotta get that cream.” When they asked what he meant, he told them about a Tom and Jerry cartoon in which the mortal enemies are “making sandwiches and spreading so much mayonnaise on them that when they take a bite, it looks like cream flies out all sides of the sandwich.” The rapper goes on to discuss his cousin who “used to come to sell crack in the ’hood” and told the group, “I’m trying to make some cream. “‘Cream’ was a word a lot of us were saying in Park Hill, and now to this day, people say it all over the world.” He came up with that iconic chorus when he was hanging with a mutual friend who sold weed,” Raekwon wrote. Meth most of all - I called him Captain Hook. “RZA, Meth, and Dirty were what I called our hook boys.

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