Rakim Quotes - Page 6

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• I'm not a flamboyant artist.

  Rakim

  Artist, Flamboyant

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• 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

  Years, Causes, Know How

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• Sometimes I look at new artists trying to come out or trying to make their name and it's like they're coming into the game blind. They don't really know what the world is going to expect from them and they really trying to get in where they fit in but me I almost got the red carpet.

  Rakim

  Artist, Games, Names

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• 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

  Party, Drinking, Rap

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

  Rakim

  Song, Writing, Whole

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.

  Rakim

  Work Out, Too Much, Bugs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.

  Rakim

  Girl, Growing Up, Home

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.

  Rakim

  Football, Couple, Team

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

  Rakim

  Albums, Begin Again, Knows

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy.

  Rakim

  Jobs, Shining, Boss

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Mixtapes

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I get the Martian look all the time even in the hood. I walk down to the shopping block and people just look at me with their mouth open man like what are you doing out here and I'm like I'm trying to get a pair of sneakers duke what's good? What are you doing [and I'm like] I'm hungry I wanted some juice and I needed some bread.

  Rakim

  Block, Men, Sneakers

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.

  Rakim

  Rapper, World, Sometimes

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

  Rakim

  Reading, Albums, Today

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.

  Rakim

  Trying, Feels, Studios

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.

  Rakim

  Writing, Down And, World

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.

  Rakim

  Writing, Ciphers, Lasts

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.

  Rakim

  Rap, Night, Thinking

  Source: hubpages.com

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• I kinda write in sequences that I live through.

  Rakim

  Writing, Sequence

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• 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

  Talking, Kind, Rhyme

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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