Quote

The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

Raekwon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Raekwon
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 12
Musician
Rapper
Singer
Brooklyn
New York
Corey Woods
Corey Todd Woods
Shining
Better
Hard
Real
Trying
Always
Shines
Legacy

More quotes by Raekwon

Image
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.
Raekwon
Image
All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.
Raekwon
Image
A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.
Raekwon
Image
You know the steez you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.
Raekwon
Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.
Raekwon
Image
Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.
Raekwon
Image
I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
Raekwon
Image
L.A.'s always been good to me.
Raekwon
Image
It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go.
Raekwon
Image
I love the energy that comes when I get on the mic. It keeps me creative and I love to hear what the fans want, what they love or hate about it.
Raekwon
Image
I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
Raekwon
Image
I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.
Raekwon
Image
I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.
Raekwon
Image
I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.
Raekwon
Image
It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.
Raekwon
Image
Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
Raekwon
Image
To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.
Raekwon
Image
You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.
Raekwon
Image
When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.
Raekwon
Image
I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.
Raekwon