Three Decades On From Cuban Linx, Raekwon Is Still Cooking Up Gourmet Mafioso Rap

Raekwon has a very specific recurring memory of riding his bike up Staten Island’s Todt Hill as a child. After 20 minutes or so, he’d end up at the illustrious Benedict Road neighbourhood, a place where many high-ranking members of the Mafia were based. Parked on the curb, he and his friends looked up in awe at the swanky four-story home of Paul Castellano, the former boss of the Gambino crime family.