Quote

The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.

Rakim

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
Manufacturer
Poet
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
Skillful
Wiser
Older

More quotes by Rakim

Image
When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
Rakim
Image
Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
Rakim
Image
Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
Rakim
Image
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
Rakim
Image
Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.
Rakim
Image
Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.
Rakim
Image
Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
Rakim
Image
Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
Rakim
Image
Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
Rakim
Image
When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
Rakim
Image
Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
Rakim
Image
Everything becomes too normal after a while.
Rakim
Image
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
Rakim
Image
I never really liked the idea of doing mixtapes but at the same time it was a big thing a lot of people were doing it and it almost got to the point where if you didn't touch the mixtape circuit it was like you didn't care.
Rakim
Image
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
Image
You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
Rakim
Image
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
Rakim
Image
Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
Rakim
Image
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
Rakim
Image
I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.
Rakim