Wu-Tang: An American Saga Raekwon and Ghostface Meet with Nas, Big L and Fat Joe

Rae and Ghost meet with Nas, Big L and Fat Joe. Wu-Tang: An American Saga

[@JustDraysonTV]

The fact that we got Big L in this episode made it my favorite.

[@tomascuello8310]

me too

[@JustDraysonTV]

@@tomascuello8310 we need a biopic for Big L now.

[@BBPalmer420]

No doubt. Big L often forgot about but definitely in my top 5.

[@JustDraysonTV]

@@BBPalmer420 mine as well.

[@babybreezo2473]

@@JustDraysonTVhe in my top 8

[@MarcusGreen-bc1ef]

Nas queens, big L Harlem, fat joe the Bronx and Frank white a.k.a biggie smalls Brooklyn this is like a mafia movie. I love it

[@arnoldgarzajr1164]

And Wu Tang Staten Island

[@spiritualNaz]

This why NY rap will always be the best word is bond.

[@vicvega24]

​@@arnoldgarzajr1164Staten island has got to have 1 person. I give Raekwon the Staten island.

[@noobnotpro6221]

@@vicvega24na Staten Island is meth

[@kbtitan2464]

Nas looking like Bernie Mac

[@MistaMane79]

Lol and meek mill

[@the18thletter78]

😂😂😂😂

[@AF-Twice]

I didn't even know that was supposed to be Nas until I read the comments. I thought it was just some old dude.

[@LorFire]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@igweofart]

That’s definitely Big L and Fat Joe but that ain’t Nas 😂😂

[@reelsenjoyer]

Actually, Raekwon looked like Nas

[@knowwhattimeitis]

If any rapper deserves a movie or series, it’s Big L. Put some respect on his name!!!

[@jd82478]

He's getting one sometime in the next couple years

[@ccaptainjack5347]

Facts !!

[@arseeoliveira6934]

Don Corleone

[@Nuggetsin4]

@@jd82478 yeah we’ve heard this for years lmao

[@aevans2173]

The whole children of the corn is a movie....one of the craziest hip-hop stories

[@vektheartist]

When I heard that “ENEMY” beat and saw my man sitting on the steps talkin bout 1-3-9 I was like “YOOOO!” 🤣🤣

[@ur2ndcousin]

Let's be real. Dude looked more like Cleveland from Family Guy than he did Nas. But Big L and Joe were spot on castings.

[@tobe1207]

That's Nas? That's why he was talking like that?

[@KrayzieMofoGuy]

I was about to say the same. Most of their castings gave been on point, but that Nas casting was atrocious

[@HooodClassicsTV]

Thought that was Bernie Mac lol

[@AaronT129]

For real! 💯

[@aaronflowers8881]

100

[@alfred76445]

Big L need his own biopic and this actor is the one too do it

[@alexinsinger2196]

So glad to see Big L referenced Legends never die.

[@blackie6050]

Big L was an absolute menace, he was demolishing everyone that stepped to him in any rap battle. He definitely would have been top 10 all time if he didn't die early on.

[@anonymouslakernerd7214]

This was the best episode yet. The casting was hit or miss. Big L was on point.

[@jayhorton2135]

Yup. I met L for interview drop for a mix tape. Mad laid back vibe.

[@jaychulo223]

Nas is the only one I’m just catching everyone else was a dead give away they had Big L and Biggie instrumentals playing in the background 😂

[@airpegasus5167]

They had the women singing the original sample of the song they did together .. Verbal Intercourse

[@thegamingchef3304]

Big L made this country brotha living on a farm wanna rap 😂. "On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark.” - Big L

[@tomascuello8310]

L Corleone will live forever in my heart.

[@svenvdv2880]

Cuz at night time (…) try to tax!

[@ayylmao27]

@@svenvdv2880 sneakier than alley cats that’s why I carry gats

[@svenvdv2880]

@@ayylmao27 yo im a motherfucking fugitive, buck wild and foul is the lifestyle that I choose to live

[@Xannyphantom905]

Man hell no you know y'all was listening to Scarface and 2pac and shit.

[@aharris82]

Ghostface and Big L on a track would have been a monster

[@ivanmontenegro157]

True

[@jdrobinson3468]

That would have been fire

[@kagemaru2503]

Fr

[@thatbronzeboij]

💯

[@user-wd6cu9yb8l]

Factz

[@brianharris9949]

I had fun explaining this episode to the wife. She was confused AF until I broke it down for her. Great episode paying homage to these MC's.

[@dezgroovoo7000]

Yooo can u break it down to me I was confused 2 on wats dis have 2 do wit only built for Cuban linxs

[@brianharris9949]

@@dezgroovoo7000 It was about the beef between Wu, and Biggie. There were characters reppin Big L and Fat Joe also. BIG was poppin at the time and on Cuban Links there's even a skit where Rae and Ghost talk about dudes stealing album covers. It was a reference to Ready to Die's album cover. Illmattic had a picture of Nas as a kid and they said Biggie copied it.

[@Kadafitheprince2379]

Same…my wife and daughter were lost lol

[@brianharris9949]

@@Kadafitheprince2379 Man I had to dig the Liquid Swords CD out of a box for GZA's episode.

[@Kadafitheprince2379]

@@brianharris9949 Yes indeed, I forgot all the bangers on that album

[@dacariice19]

Big L!! He was the best one out the rapper featured had the look and almost the sound.

[@hendrix-giovannijohnson9701]

Negro please

[@100milesnrunnin]

Definitely one of the most underrated MC's lifestylez of the poor and dangerous album

[@HooodClassicsTV]

@@100milesnrunnin Nas and Biggie > Big L on everything you mentioned

[@bombay3201]

​@@100milesnrunnin omg do you utubers shit the word underated out y'all ass

[@coreywho2972]

​@@HooodClassicsTV Big L > Literally every part of Biggie and his music. And only Illmatic is better than Big L's stuff. Apart from that, you're smoking too much crystal.

[@brothadude]

The fit on Ghost straight fire

[@rustonh316]

Aside from Nas, the casting was freakin on point!!

[@prevailwithme]

who the fuck was nas 🤣

[@rustonh316]

@@prevailwithme Esco, the first dude they talk to. I don't know who the guy who plays him was.

[@KuraiCelestial]

Idk why people hate him, its really not that bad of a casting

[@vicvega24]

​@@KuraiCelestialthey should've got someone else who look more like Nas

[@preacherpreacher6761]

This is poetry in motion. How this episode was put together with nas, big l, fat Joe and Biggie. DIZZAM!!!

[@MrKwillis87]

My favorite episode

[@ehunt]

Nas appearance made me smile joe was a dead giveaway I couldn't figure l until I came here

[@eightoheight]

I love how when they showed Nas they were playing the song that was sampled in Verbal Intercourse

[@Ah-ed6ie]

The imagery for biggie and ghost and rae was spot on. The competition with the sales and biggie days dressed like a mob boss with Jr maff coincides with the starks and diamonds persona. I get it and nas, big l, and joe just neutral, doing their own thing.

[@Raufi1917]

That’s mafia rap where nas and biggie hopped on after the purple tape

[@kevin_mccree]

I am disappointed that they didn't get anyone close to looking like Nas. But, I am happy to see someone playing Big L in there.

[@jimmyshaker8297]

Hell yea make a big L biopic and get that dude to play him

[@E-ROSE_CGLL]

Facts💯

[@victorvargas1911]

you cant tell that this person sounding like mase is suppose to be nas lmfao he looks more like a super younger version of bernie mac nothing at all look like nas lol.

[@_diver_567]

Was kind of expecting to see Mobb Deep in that episode but whatever. At least we still got Nas, Big L, B.I.G, Fat Joe. They could’ve just showed Mobb in Nas’s scene or could’ve showed Pun sat next to Joe

[@tredaman4382]

yea man i wish

[@soramirez5473]

Mobb Deep looked up to rae and ghost. there is a prodigy interview on it, so i guess Nas was the more established rapper from the borough of queens.

[@kagemaru2503]

And also they were both on the same label it would’ve been dope for a cameo at least I would’ve loved to see them make Right Back At You or Eye For An Eye

[@TheYungPrince]

Pun was a little later tho like after Forever

[@MartyMar908]

still hoping to see that Mobb Deep cameo 🙏🏾 they deserve their own series or film too, Prodigy’s book is a dope read and insight to their careers and 90s hip hop in general

[@jay07261986]

Some of these episodes has me wondering how much dirt they had to hide to make this show...lol

[@tw8661]

100%. That's why they have to do these "fantasy" episodes, because they can't tell real stories about crack sales and murders when the real artists are still around today. They also can't get too obvious about the beefs and rivalries because that'll become a whole thing

[@jay07261986]

@@tw8661 they also brushed off how much coke n dust they was doing around that 1st wave of wu albums....them dudes was still in the streets...it just seem like they ain't telling us much this season about what was going on...

[@svenvdv2880]

@@jay07261986 They did show that the members were still selling crack even after they released songs because they didnt have a label yet. So thats pretty accurate

[@jking3684]

This whole clip caught me off guard and was my favourite. I just wish they had included mobb deep but then prodigy is mentioned on the second last episode so 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@JD-ny3vz]

Damn they did horrible casting Nas lmao

[@jessewise9004]

Facts

[@terrelljackson1995]

They coulda got the dude who play him in the Roxanne shante movie

[@Saveyourbs]

@@terrelljackson1995 they should have gotten Michael B Jordan to play him!

[@terrelljackson1995]

@@Saveyourbs I love Michael b Jordan but naw naw not playing nas it was only one person that can play him

[@Saveyourbs]

@@terrelljackson1995 😂😂😂 I feel that bro

[@Artimao]

Amazing episode and allegory for people who know the 90s rap scenario

[@tokothegummy864]

Got mad hyped when Big L shower up

[@AmbitousStylez]

whoah this was the one episode i slept on and it has my favorite rapper big l i wouldnt of even known this if i didnt look up some scenes because i loved this show so much good work to everyone who worked on it

[@algeronbradley4936]

It take me right back tha that time

[@trayweathersby7490]

Everytime I see the actor for Biggie I get mad cus he should've been the one cast to play him in "Notorious". Jus go watch "Unsolved", he killed it as Biggie in that too.

[@cambreezythecolorman0716]

That was so live right there

[@tomascuello8310]

what a good scene shit, BIG L! he deserves a fuckin movie

[@eastwood1026]

I knew this was gonna be my fave ep lol dude who played big L was on point too. Nigga who played biggie in the unsolved series reprised his role which I kinda knew would happen. And nas was a coo cameo. They def gotta have Tupac and Suge in this cus rza and another member got beat down in club 662 and got they chains snatched by death row mob piru’s

[@TheYungPrince]

They are most likely not going in to that situation with RZA getting his chain snatched.

[@tyliekinc.]

I didn’t know RZA had a run in with Suge & the bloods

[@eastwood1026]

@@TheYungPrince it would add more depth if they did. A lot of high octane wu tang fans don’t even know that happened and be coming at my neck cus they refuse to believe it lol

[@eastwood1026]

@@tyliekinc. real shit no offense to you but I find it funny a lot of die hard wu tang fans never heard of that story. I’m from L.A. and nwa and death row was my shit so I heard the majority of stories and conflict with other rappers. Rza and another wu affiliate did when they was in suges club in Vegas when it happened and rza got his chain snatched and his ass beat by suges blood niggas. Tupac then got it back for him. Look it up. Even meth and ugod said this happened in interviews

[@svenvdv2880]

@@eastwood1026 2pac is a real one for getting it back for rza. Rza was obviously the least hard of the group tho. I dont think it wouldve happened if the whole clan was there. Rza was just an easy target

[@majorpaiyne2124]

The embellishment was crazy on this one. lol

[@blakswizzy]

The "unheard of" competitors that Big was talking about coming up was none other than.....Jayz. he dropped in 96 also and was on that same mafiaso wave

[@CreativeLaelAsif]

All of them were

[@AkemiNinjitsu]

Seeing Big L was the *True Ju Welled Up*

[@jamesfulton564]

Since it's Lex Diamonds & Tony Starks, what we have here is Esco, Corleone, Crack (or Don Cartagena) & Frank White

[@Diggy22]

Wu always rocked with Nas, but showing love to D.I.T.C. (Big L & Fat Joe)? Now THAT'S showing love. BX & Harlem up in it 🙏🏽

[@mauriceking3368]

That dude looks nothing like Nas, come on RZA you could’ve did better than that

[@terrelljackson1995]

He was had the dude who play nas who was in the Roxanne shante movie

[@Rellbronjames9]

I love this show this shit hawd

[@albumreviewsandsuch9994]

Whooooo even the actor for big l got me watching my steps

[@chrismunguia6098]

They gotta make a queensbridge biopic or tv show shit would be crazy with how much talent came out of there

[@lorenzbeaumacc1175]

Yeah but it's not only about talent it's also about real and fake ones and nobody wants their true full to be put out there on display for fear of having their rep or image tarnished. Some of these "talents" have been exposed as snitches, others have had their a@# beat up in front of their mentees. Others got extorted.

[@lorenzbeaumacc1175]

Yeah but it's not only about talent it's also about real and fake ones and nobody wants their true full to be put out there on display for fear of having their rep or image tarnished. Some of these "talents" have been exposed as snitches, others have had their a@# beat up in front of their mentees. Others got extorted.

[@user-cy3bq9yl9k]

For those who don't know. Frank is Biggie

[@ChrisJProductionz]

The dude who played Joe is wild….dude looks exactly like Crack but a little smaller

[@liamkisbee8117]

Ghost dressed like he's fresh out the matrix

[@robertvaughan8055]

I watched this episode the other day and I had no idea it was nas until this came up on my KZbin😂😂you could easily mistake the dude playing fat joe for a young vinnie paz😂i still loved the episode though and just the overall structure of the show because I never expected it to be as creative as it is,with the odb and rae episodes they could of easily went the lazy route of just showing the making of the albums and the usual stuff that biopics do but wu tang aint nuthin to fuck with! And yeah big I was spot on👌

[@andrewfry6727]

They got all three of them to a tea

[@MF_YOUTUBE]

Dude sound just like L. RIP

[@09gayles]

Glaring omission - show definitely dropped the ball not having them visit the Bridge and parlaying with Havoc and P

[@Gggg-cq1ih]

This is mad cartoonish!! might as well have wolverine sat there next to them 😂

[@JM-nw7jj]

Queens real classy 💨💨

[@3fromjaylen]

Someone Should Post That Argument With Ghost And His Girl, That Heaven & Hell OST Was Amazing

[@bruccebannah4862]

Jealous ones envy was joes best album

[@adrianpate4694]

Love big L

[@Youtubingking]

Dude could play Keneth supreme

[@mannyderosa8512]

Probably the best episode. Their character resemblance. The only one that I didn't catch was Esco aka Nas. And that's because they said his name. When Frank said it's always an up-and-coming person waiting to take the spot, I thought it was Jay-Z lol He was the only one that was close. But I was happy af that they acknowledged Big L because even though he wasn't commercially successful he his name was buzzing in New York during this period.

[@mr.j410]

Lol jay wasn't close, cut it out.

[@051lando]

@@mr.j410 yeah he really was at time

[@PERKIODURKIO]

Rip big l

[@alphonsefabien2026]

It's crazy. This is 1995 but Fat Joe is wearing the same outfit from the what's luv with Ashanti which came out in 2001.

[@gordonchen9510]

139 the danger zone we quick to put in a strangers dome

[@hassauncollins8688]

Aaa Mini Fat Joe Lol 😂😂😂

[@kote2022]

It's definitely time for this shit to go off the air

[@Jrlegit608]

Does anybody know the song the ladies were singing at Nas club??? I know Rza sampled it for the Razor Sharp version of “All I Need”.🔥

[@KDShaolinMenace]

Aye Big L was dope in that scene

[@randalllakeworth3134]

139 n lennox!

[@murdockparker1274]

How yall do esco like that!

[@jayhorton2135]

At some point and time Big L story wil told in movie or series.

[@cartezparker2730]

So Fank white is Biggie! That's who they go see after pun. Like the way they made connections with everyone who started that whole mafia thang back in the 90s .

[@novanite]

It was fat joe as the don

[@bryos7119]

Yup frank white King of NY aka BIGGIE

[@jaychulo223]

Biggie used to call himself the frank white of New York 💯

[@svenvdv2880]

Thats fat joe

[@seanmatsuda4933]

Nas looks like meek mill

[@Sathiyyah]

That’s not what my block looks like, but good casting lol. #dangerzone

[@DarkshadowXD63]

😂😂 nahhh man me and my dad were dying when we found out this was supposed to be Nas. Fat Joe and Big L were spot in but Nas?? They fumbled the only way we found it was him was because the Verbal Intercourse sample was playing

[@reemobrooklyn3557]

Nas looking like Bernie Mill

[@westiside30]

Is it me or did U god throw the purple tops at Bone Thugz N Harmony

[@ghostofpbnj_]

Rip Big L

[@LSTORMTheMC]

Loving the series but it's like they Skipped over The Gravediggaz, Rugged Child...Like I was hoping to see it allll

[@raphaeljoseph6952]

Yo I get yo point. Shyheim & Gravediggaz are part of the Wu Tang lore. I bought both albums when they were new cuz i craved for some more Wu

[@Its_vezz]

That Nas casting… he look like Bernie Mac

[@tgod908]

What instrumental was that during the Big L & Fat Joe Scene

[@brandyfortson2780]

The enemy Big L ft fat Joe

[@Rellbronjames9]

What is that beat playing in the background on BIG L scene? 0.31?

[@goombalistic2580]

Da enemy-Big L

[@Dreadpoolz3977]

I know y'all not trying to tell me dude in the club was Nas. 😂😂😂

[@vicvega24]

Big Pun should've appeared as a cameo in the series when he was skinny.

[@kidwitdaflow8876]

Frank White 💯

[@walkeen_phoenix139]

fat joe looking like mildy obesse joe 😂😂😂

[@basedonatruestory718]

They hired the first people that auditioned

[@TBearTheDJ]

Just now realizin thats the sample for Verbal Intercourse in the background durin their talk with Esco

[@mitchellsmith5900]

That’s kool g rap

[@tupenny1331]

This shit like a hip hop cinematic universe lol

[@AaronT129]

Once again, they drop the ball! First with Ashton Sanders as RZA, and now whoever that is portraying Nas. [SMH...] 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@MelvinMansoor]

And with Busta don’t forget

[@svenvdv2880]

@@MelvinMansoor busta was in the show?

[@MelvinMansoor]

@@svenvdv2880 yeah I think episode 1 of season 3

[@svenvdv2880]

@@MelvinMansoor damnn wtf

[@l3joint]

ON 139 N LENOX AVE THERES A BIG PARK, AND IF YA SOFT DONT GO THRU IT WEN IT GETS DARK🥶

[@killakam5981]

BIG L!!!!!

[@Jamal-lb6oj]

Y did the nas character look more like omar Epps then nas

[@Bbcbullunit1]

omg BIG L

[@v.m.m.7729]

That “139th & Lenox” looks like New Jersey to me

[@brothadude]

For real 😂😂😂

[@zackjl2777]

Lmao did not know that was nas till now. Knew big joe and big l tho

[@cmoney0Q]

Yea they had the sample of the song nas featured on in the club he was in playing in the background verbal intercourse

[@Mikeso367]

Big L RIP

[@spitfire0781]

Great value naz with a z on purpose like aldis

[@agenttchalla3667]

I don't know can't speca-late.