When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that. Rakim More Quotes by Rakim More Quotes From Rakim 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 girl two kids 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-hop games people 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 care crazy next-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 wise fun mean I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word Rakim flip phrases heard 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 stereotype bed sides 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-esteem fire men 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-over mixtapes people Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme Rakim superb supreme self-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 records writing culture 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 rapper artist games Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities. Rakim rapper community eye 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 rap stupid writing You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind. Rakim ghetto rap wind So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Rakim hip-hop drama son 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 rapper play people Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, Rakim rap names games And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, Rakim broke hip-hop watches 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 mom reading christian Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, Rakim rap writing years
