You have to learn how to take an allowance. Rakim More Quotes by Rakim More Quotes From Rakim The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see. Rakim unitsartistshould Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns. Rakim loadgun I kinda write in sequences that I live through. Rakim sequencewriting Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby. Rakim rhyminghobbiesbeats I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out. Rakim bugswork-outtoo-much Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop. Rakim hipship-hopviews Sometimes I look at new artists trying to come out or trying to make their name and it's like they're coming into the game blind. They don't really know what the world is going to expect from them and they really trying to get in where they fit in but me I almost got the red carpet. Rakim artistnamesgames I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing. Rakim eyeblessingmen Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire. Rakim perspectivefirepeople I'm not a flamboyant artist. Rakim flamboyantartist Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was. Rakim ninetyfabricislam When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean. Rakim down-andwritingworld Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night. Rakim rapnightthinking Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is. Rakim cipherslastswriting Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway. Rakim wholewritingsong As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies. Rakim templesformmind I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing. Rakim raprunningfootball I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen. Rakim halfwaythinking Things happen for a reason. Rakim happens-for-a-reasonreasonhappens When you come out the streets. I ain't braggin'. I never sold drugs but I kept a joint on me. I got arrested plenty of times back when I was a juvenile. Not saying I was a bad ass. I was a juvenile coming' out to the city, to do MC conventions that Mike & Dave was doing. I had to hold myself down. Now I put the gat up. I chill. I pay more attention to life. Rakim bad-assdrugcities
