"Liquid Swords" is a song by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member GZA.
The song opens with sampled dialogue from the film Shogun Assassin.
[2] In an interview with Wax Poetics, GZA spoke about the song's composition: This track is just braggadocios.
Usually I take a beat home and write to it for a few days, but it wasn't like that with this track.
The hook was actually a routine from around '84 that me RZA and Ol' Dirty would do: "When the emcees came, to live out the name."