<a href="/profile/therza" class="text-word" target="_blank" >RZA</a> just dropped a new song, &#8220;Be Like Water,&#8221; inspired by ESPN&#8217;s upcoming 30 for 30 documentary, Be Water, about the late martial arts icon, Bruce Lee. It&#8217;s no secret that Lee and his films were instrumental to the creation of the Wu Tang Clan, so it&#8217;s only right that the hip hop group&#8217;s de facto leader would pay tribute to the fighting legend through music.
“Bruce Lee’s teachings extended beyond physical martial arts,” RZA said in a <a href="https://floodmagazine.com/78455/watch-wu-tang-clan-rza-bruce-lee-tribute-be-like-water/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">press release</a> for the song. “He was full of philosophy and mindfulness. His quote ‘Be Water my friend’ 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.”
The title of the song and the documentary comes from one of Lee&#8217;s most famous quotes: “Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
RZA also released some accompanying visuals to &#8220;Be Like Water&#8221; as a tribute to Lee.
Be Water premieres on ESPN on Sunday, June 7th at 9:00pm EST.
Quotable Lyrics
Synthesize all days into one We all one under the same sun So why you gotta fight against him, And he gotta fight against Dun?