- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rakim Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cartoon Characters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping!
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
- Master
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eminem is a master.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say a rapper is like a halfback in the NFL. You got about seven years, then it's a wrap.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think the older you get, the wacker you get. I think the older I get, the better I get.
- Booth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age don't count in the booth.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020