When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off. Rakim More Quotes by Rakim More Quotes From Rakim I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old. Rakim twelvesawsyears I got one of the illest crews in NY but when I travel it's mostly me and my girl, me and my kids or me and one or two of my dudes but the majority of the time its just me. Rakim girltwokids Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now. Rakim hip-hopgamespeople It might sound crazy but you put your money up and take out a little every week. You put yourself on a salary instead of getting $7,000 this week, $20,000 next week and $5,000 the week after that. Take a $1,000. You got your toys, you got everything and your money under your mattress. Break it down and have a salary to take care of you and your family and stretch that money. Rakim carecrazynext-week Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious. Rakim wisefunmean I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word Rakim flipphrasesheard I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side. Rakim stereotypebedsides Man is symbolic to the sun. The sun is dealing with a ball of fire and didn't go out yet. Me being symbolic to the sun, that's what keeps me going, that's like my hunger. That's like my fury, my self esteem. That's the elements within me that keep my body motionable. The fire is self esteem. Inner strength. Rakim self-esteemfiremen I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over. Rakim starting-overmixtapespeople Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme Rakim superbsupremeself-esteem 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 recordswritingculture What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game. Rakim rapperartistgames Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities. Rakim rappercommunityeye There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same. Rakim rapstupidwriting You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind. Rakim ghettorapwind So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Rakim hip-hopdramason A lot of times when people listen to music it's because they feel down, and that's when serious hip-hop comes into play. When times is hard, people can hear a rapper that inspires them to do what they [are] supposed to do. Rakim rapperplaypeople Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, Rakim rapnamesgames And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, Rakim brokehip-hopwatches My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high. Rakim momreadingchristian
