You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me. Raekwon More Quotes by Raekwon More Quotes From Raekwon All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more. Raekwon figures mistake trying In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats. Raekwon study order It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go. Raekwon important spiritual promise Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger Raekwon schwarzenegger rhyme rap I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem. Raekwon cat problem successful As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that's important to me. Raekwon feel-good artist thinking I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes. Raekwon hip-hop people thinking No question I would speed for cracks and weed Raekwon rap weed eye Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop. Raekwon sometimes people thinking I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Raekwon gold-teeth rap hip-hop It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous. Raekwon dangerous It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! Raekwon rap hip-hop real When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better. Raekwon get-better artist trying The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all. Raekwon shining real trying The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin. Raekwon thick-and-thin heart looks You gotta have a schedule, you gotta have a team that's passionate about seeing you do the things you say you wanna do. When it comes to delivering this, it takes a lot of work and I can't do that on my own. Raekwon schedules passionate team I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do. Raekwon the-end-of-the-day feel-good looks Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it. Raekwon albums done looks I think there are a lot of dudes out there that are runnin' out of gas. Some of my favourites, even ones I look up to... I haven't been fully impressed with their dynamics of makin' a body of work that makes sense to me. Raekwon body looks thinking You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams. Raekwon gun land brother
