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Rakim
Rakim
American Musician
Born: Jan 28, 1968
Love Me Music People Try You
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You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things. Rakim
You Better Live Ways Better Ways Wiser Learn Mature Handle Get Little Grow Things
You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world. Rakim
Music You Change World Change The World Outspoken Feels Like Got His Artist Really Appreciate
I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back. Rakim
Work You Believe Back Way Stuck Write Writer Know Always Still Block Verse Get Going Being Where Your Start
People think the older you get, the wacker you get. I think the older I get, the better I get. Rakim
You People Better Older Think Get
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times. Rakim
Life Spirituality Tried Religions Insert Records Writings Always How Cultures Times Modern Modern Times Consciousness Interpreting Apply
My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried to implement that in every thing I did, from my style, my cadence, the way I tried to pause and stagnate it; that all came from John Coltrane and listening to jazz albums. Trying to rhyme like a jazz player. Rakim
Music Listening Style Jazz Every Way Saxophone Bit Tried John John Coltrane Had Coltrane Implement Like Came Trying Did Loved Rhyme Little Little Bit Pause Thing Played Player Albums
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes. Rakim
Life Knowledge My Life Reading Understanding Spitting Self Taking Studying Got Going Rhymes Started Applying
My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument. Rakim
Music Writing Words Try Approach Like Instrument Make Track Hand Hand-In-Hand Up Different Rhymes Patterns Rhythms Using
Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was. Rakim
Me Islam Took Ninety Ninety Percent Fabric Percent Over Like Subconsciously Person Eighty
Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986. Rakim
Man Throughout Taken Since Around Hip-Hop Been Years Lot Different Routes
My thing is, you have to let young artists be young artists. Rakim
You Young Artists Thing
I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping! Rakim
Rap Characters TV Rapping Cartoon Cartoon Characters Seeing Something Small Look Without Been Commercials Influenced Fan Cereal Even Now
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. Rakim
Mother Jazz Performed Opera She Amateur Apollo Sang Even Night
Eminem is a master. Rakim
Master Eminem
I always say a rapper is like a halfback in the NFL. You got about seven years, then it's a wrap. Rakim
You Rapper Seven Say Wrap About Like Always Got Years Then
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. Rakim
Music Man Words Jazz Sax Find Inside Beat Like Learned How Then Jazz Music Enjoying Playing
I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane. Rakim
Love You Jazz John John Coltrane Coltrane Know Lot Love You
You come up, you love music, and then business interferes. Rakim
Love Music You Business Come Up Then Interferes
I'm a fan of Jay-Z, from the negotiating table to the booth. Rakim
Negotiating Booth Table Fan Jay-Z
I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop. Rakim
Love Support Hip-Hop Get Just Appreciate
I love what I do. I'm still humble. Rakim
Love Humble Still
Being a new artist, I was trying to make a good album and hope that people like Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel and some of the firstborns appreciated it. I was being influenced by them brothers there. That's where I got my start and my first listen. Rakim
Hope Good People First Some Brothers New Like New Artist Make Kool Got Trying Artist Listen Being Where Influenced Them Start Album Appreciated
As I grew up, a lot of the music was made to uplift the spirit. Rakim
Music Made Spirit Lot Up Uplift Grew
You know, I got kids. I got sons, and I try to tell them, 'Look, man, when you in the car and you get pulled over, hands on the steering wheel. 'Yes, sir. No sir.' Your job is to either wind up in jail, so I can come get you, or be able to pull off. That's your job.' Rakim
You Man Try Car Job Wind Kids Tell Able Steering Sons Over Come Know Look Got Off Up Yes Sir Get Hands Hands-On Wheel Jail Either Them Your Pull Pulled
The laws are gonna have to change. And it's 2016. We can't keep using all the laws that was made back in the 1700s. We're gonna have to understand that times have changed. Rakim
Change Made Changed Back Laws Understand Times Gonna Using Keep
When you're dealing with a bunch of different producers, you gotta make sure the chemistry fits. Rakim
You Chemistry Make Sure Dealing Gotta Fits Bunch Different Producers
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