Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby. Rakim More Quotes by Rakim More Quotes From Rakim You can't win for losing. Rakim cant-winlosingwinning So I start my mission- leave my residence Rakim missionship-hoppresident I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Rakim raphip-hopmoving I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days Rakim raysrapphrases I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop. Rakim hip-hoplisteningfeelings What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God? Rakim confusedreligiousreligion The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get. Rakim skillfulwiser Allah's blessings is like everyday. I can't do nothing without mentioning ALLAH or one of his words. I can't do nothing without coming across one of his blessings or doing something and be like that's Allah talking to me or something happen to me and I say Allah gave me that. Rakim everydayblessingtalking I just try to do me and stay out of harms way. Rakim harmtryingway I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Rakim raphip-hopideas Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective. Rakim making-moneyperspective 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 always-tryingguideschurch When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that. Rakim fencesidestrying We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods. Rakim connectionsentertainmentworld The man is the captain, the women is the lieutenant and the kids are the soldiers. Like right now I'm not home with my kids. I teach my Wisdom so when I'm not there she takes care of the shorties. Just like the sun shines on the moon, and when the earth rotates and the moon is over here, and the sun is over here, and the sun and its shaded on the side we get light from the moon, showing and proving how we're symbolic to the stars and things of that nature. Rakim starshomekids I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke, Rakim raphip-hopdone It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the same. But we got different aspects of things. Certain things are what they call common sense. Allah made it like that meaning there's only one mind, be we all occupy it. Some of us dig into it a little deeper. Some of us are lazy on it. There's only one right and one wrong. Rakim common-senselazymind There is still consciousness in hip hop. Rakim hipship-hopconsciousness It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Rakim rapstronglong I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Rakim rapqueensstrong
