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''Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...'' features dialogue-driven interludes in the beginning of several tracks with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah conversing about money, life, crime, and hip hop, among other thingstopics. The introduction to "[[Glaciers of Ice]]", for instance, involves Ghostface addressing his plans and methods of [[dye]]ing Wallabee-styled [[C&J Clark|Clarks]].<ref name=XXL/> In a 2005 interview, Ghostface Killah explained "We was in the car one day, driving around with the DAT machine with a microphone and we just started talking shit about how we're gonna do it this summer with the Clarks. The dyeing was something I was doing already. I'm an inventor. Niggas can't fuck with me when it comes to style. Only nigga that is right there with me is probably [[Slick Rick]]. Other than that, I'm boss."<ref name=XXL/>

The album ends with the song "North Star", which serves as a "[[closing credits]]" type of song. In regard to this track and [[Popa Wu]]'s inclusion, RZA later remarked "The idea is Rae did everything he had to do. Everything is over now. The job is over. Mission is over, it's a perfect closing to the album. Popa Wu was a very smart mentor in the younger days to me and [[Ol' Dirty Bastard|ODB]]. Everybody had dibs and dabs of knowledge of self, I brought him in to be a mentor to these men like, 'I love them and you the only person I know that have the intelligence to keep them in sync with knowledge.' It's very poisonous unless they got proper guidance. He was the smartest man I'd ever met at a certain time in my life."<ref name=XXL/> Raekwon further commented "'North Star' was a track I really, really wanted on my album. It was a track that I felt a vibe of it was motion picture-like."<ref name=XXL/>