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Seeking to musically express Raekwon's blend of [[Five Percenter]] creed and inner-city experience, producer RZA worked intensively on a polished sound, slower and more layered than that of Wu-Tang's previous efforts, using strings, piano loops and vocal samples from [[Martial arts film|Kung Fu movies]], and [[Mafia film]]s.<ref name=XXL/> Due to Raekwon's storytelling, mobster-minded approach, the producer set up ''Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...'' to play like scenes in a crime movie.<ref name=XXL/> RZA has cited [[soul music|soul]] musician [[Isaac Hayes]] as an influence on his orchestral approach to several of the album's tracks.<ref name=XXL/> He also later revealed that several of the album's beats, such as "[[Incarcerated Scarfaces]]", were originally intended for Wu-Tang member GZA's ''Liquid Swords'' album, but because of Raekwon's timely writing approach, were used last minute for ''Cuban Linx''.<ref name=XXL/> In regard to this, Raekwon clarified "RZA's house was more or less like a candy store. You come in and have all kinds of shit to choose from. I would take stuff that I felt would suit my album correctly; others would take their own beats too. The beats were like a grab bag. If I came in and heard a beat that someone already claimed, then I just had to fall back. We almost never fought over beats or nothing. I'd tell RZA if I liked a certain beat, and he'd see if it would fit me or not."<ref name=WP1/>
Throughout the album, producer RZA [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] dialogue from various scenes in the [[John Woo]] film ''[[The Killer (1989 film)|The Killer]]''.<ref name=XXL/> RZA later recollected "I met John Woo that same year. He sent me a letter. He was honored that we did it. I felt confident we could settle anything that came up. You can usually settle that shit. It's part of the budget, man. But John Woo didn't want nothing, never no money for that. We actually became friends. He took me and Ghost to lunch and dinner many times. He gave me a lot of mentoring in film."<ref name=XXL/>
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