Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
Rakim
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
Manufacturer
Poet
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
Learned
Enjoy
Words
Enjoying
Music
Beat
Find
Beats
Men
Jazz
Like
Inside
Playing
More quotes by Rakim
If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
Rakim
When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
Rakim
I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.
Rakim
Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
Rakim
I always tried to manage my money smart.
Rakim
Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
Rakim
I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
Rakim
What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.
Rakim
I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.
Rakim
I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
Rakim
Things happen for a reason.
Rakim
I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
Rakim
Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
Rakim
It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
Rakim
Everything derives from the mind. From sex to the way you want people to perceive you to anything in life, it all derives from the mind. If people start realizing this and get deeper into themselves they'll realize there's nothing that they can't do.
Rakim
My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.
Rakim
When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
Rakim
I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
Rakim
So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
Rakim
Everything becomes too normal after a while.
Rakim
