88 Quotes by Rakim
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I always say a rapper is like a halfback in the NFL. You got about seven years, then it's a wrap.
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I'm not in that state of mind that I was back in '86 - hip-hop is not in that state of mind that it was back in '86. Times change. I change.
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People think the older you get, the wacker you get. I think the older I get, the better I get.
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Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'
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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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I love what I live, and I live Islam, so I applied it to everything I do. I applied it to my rhymes, and I felt that I wanted the people to know what I knew.
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When I was in high school, the energy in hip-hop at that point was the park energy... I was just trying to develop my style at that point, and I think, when you're trying to find your style, you find yourself.
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I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.
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You come up, you love music, and then business interferes.
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