I was a chess champion growing up in Canada and GZA raps about chess ... A lot of my music is about animals -- I did my first tour around the zoos of Europe, playing matinee concerts near the monkey cages. GZA also is very inspired by the natural world. I come from a much less legendary crew, but a crew nonetheless, who left Canada and came to Europe around 2000 -- Peaches, Gonzales, myself, Feist.