Raekwon

Raekwon is one of those artists where a single album is enough to cement a legacy, and Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... is that album — a cold, immersive Mafioso rap masterpiece that still sounds untouchable thirty years on. As a founding member of Wu-Tang Clan, he was already part of one of the most important collectives in hip-hop history, but Cuban Linx proved he could carry a world entirely on his own. The cinematic storytelling, the Rae and Ghost chemistry, the RZA production soaked in kung-fu samples and menace — it all clicks in a way that feels almost accidental and totally deliberate at the same time. His 2009 sequel, Cuban Linx II, was ambitious enough to remind everyone he hadn't lost a step. I find myself going back to his catalog whenever I want rap that feels lived-in and genuinely dangerous rather than just performed.

Name (English)

Raekwon

Name (Japanese)

レイクウォン

Reading

れいくうぉん

Born

January 12, 1970 (age 56)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dog

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Height

173 cm

Occupation

rapper / actor / musician

High school

New Dorp High School

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.officialraekwon.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/raekwon/
• Xhttps://x.com/Raekwon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3

Tags

• New York
• rapper
• actor
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.