Rakim Quotes
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old.
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I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.
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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.
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You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy.
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Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.
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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective.
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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.
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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.
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I get the Martian look all the time even in the hood. I walk down to the shopping block and people just look at me with their mouth open man like what are you doing out here and I'm like I'm trying to get a pair of sneakers duke what's good? What are you doing [and I'm like] I'm hungry I wanted some juice and I needed some bread.
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I always tried to manage my money smart.
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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.
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Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.
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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.
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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train, pickin at her brain, I couldn't get her number, I couldn't get her name. I said, "I still like your style and fashion, But I hate your hot sadiddy attitude wit a passion. Is it because brothers like to hawk a lot? Is it because your sign don't talk a lot?" She turned away, no play, I said, "OK, You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day."
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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