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Rakim
Profession : Musician
Birth : January 28, 1968
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The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to come up then. Everybody wanted to be original and have substance; it was somewhat conscious... There was an integrity that people respected.
Rakim
You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.
Rakim
As I grew up, a lot of the music was made to uplift the spirit.
Rakim
Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
Rakim
Lil Wayne is doing his thing, and so is Drake.
Rakim
I love what I do. I'm still humble.
Rakim
My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.
Rakim
I love what I live, and I live Islam, so I applied it to everything I do. I applied it to my rhymes, and I felt that I wanted the people to know what I knew.
Rakim
Eminem is a master.
Rakim
I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.
Rakim
I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back.
Rakim
The truth never wears out.
Rakim
My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.
Rakim
When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.
Rakim
I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this rap thing into something, he was one of the cats I respected for bringing the hood into the booth.
Rakim
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
Rakim
Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.
Rakim
My thing is, you have to let young artists be young artists.
Rakim
The young kids out there doing their thing, I can't knock them.
Rakim
Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.
Rakim
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