{"id":977263,"date":"2020-06-06T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1011116"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:59:18","slug":"hear-rza-pay-tribute-to-bruce-lee-on-new-song-be-like-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-rza-pay-tribute-to-bruce-lee-on-new-song-be-like-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear RZA Pay Tribute to Bruce Lee on New Song \u2018Be Like Water\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RZA<\/a> pays tribute to Bruce Lee<\/a> on the rapper\u2019s new song \u201cBe Like Water,\u201d which features in ESPN\u2019s upcoming \u201c30 for 30\u201d special<\/a> about the iconic martial artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBruce Lee\u2019s teachings extended beyond physical martial arts. He was full of philosophy and mindfulness,\u201d RZA said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHis quote \u2018Be Water my friend\u2019 is profound and multi-tiered in definition. It inspires the idea that in adapting to life situations, sometimes we have to flow smoothly as a stream, while other times we have to crash like a Tsunami.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

RZA has long been influenced by Lee and the kung fu films of that era, often sampling the movies as well as repurposing their titles: The Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)<\/em> was a nod to Lee\u2019s final film before his death, 1973\u2019s Enter the Dragon<\/em>, as well as the Shaw Brothers\u2019 The 36th Chamber of Shaolin<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose films together were pivotal sources of inspirations for me,\u201d RZA told the Undefeated<\/a> in an interview revolving around Be Water<\/em><\/a>, ESPN\u2019s special about Lee that airs June 7th.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThink about it. [In Enter the Dragon<\/em>], there\u2019s an incorporation of the white karate guy with John Saxon, the black martial arts brother with Jim Kelly and Asian with Bruce Lee. They were all working together against the oppressor who was poisoning the people. If you add in a few other elements, that\u2019s our country, bro!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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RZA pays tribute to Bruce Lee on the rapper\u2019s new song \u201cBe Like Water,\u201d which features in ESPN\u2019s upcoming \u201c30 for 30\u201d special about the iconic martial artist. \u201cBruce Lee\u2019s teachings extended beyond physical martial arts. He was full of philosophy and mindfulness,\u201d RZA said in a statement. \u201cHis quote \u2018Be Water my friend\u2019 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-977263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 21:03:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}