Quote

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

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
Start
Anything
Everything
Derives
Nothing
Perceive
Mind
Deeper
Way
Sex
Life
Realize
People
Realizing

More quotes by Rakim

Image
I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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
It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
Rakim
Image
I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
Rakim
Image
Now life is imitating art.
Rakim
Image
I don't want to put nobody on blast but in the beginning it's like somebody telling you somebody looks like you and you've been looking in the mirror your whole life and nobody looks like you. Same thing with me.
Rakim
Image
I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
Rakim
Image
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
Image
Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
Rakim
Image
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
Image
Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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
And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
Rakim
Image
When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
Rakim
Image
When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
Rakim
Image
Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
Rakim
Image
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
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
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
Image
Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
Rakim