Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again. Rakim More Quotes by Rakim More Quotes From Rakim Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, Rakim rapwritingyears Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin' Rakim hipsraphip-hop If anybody can make a change it's the rappers. Rakim making-changesrapperifs Rappers are separated. Rakim rapper Everything becomes too normal after a while. Rakim normal The physical was never the best part of the body. Rakim parts-of-the-bodybody Sometimes I see where I want to take the song and wind up at the end and come back to the beginning. I don't miss nothing and everything is good. Everything I thought of is incorporated in it. Rakim missingsongwind Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it]. Rakim japanwantwriting I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man. Rakim nicesarcasticmen Once I get the track I know what to do with it. Rakim trackknows Not follow me but follow the lyrics. Rakim follow-me I always tried to manage my money smart. Rakim managesmart I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write. Rakim differentwritinglong Go to the club or go to the block or go hang out and things start coming. Rakim hanging-outclubsblock It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them. Rakim rapathletekids 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 hoodpeoplethinking Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word. Rakim writingjobsbelieve I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire. Rakim hipship-hopcat I don't work out too much. I just do some pushups when I feel the right hook is getting a lil weak. Rakim hookwork-outtoo-much That's another thing yo rappers are scared to bring new styles out. There's so many different ways we can be flowing but everybody chooses to flow the generic way. Rakim rapperstyledifferent
