Top 30 Rakim Quotes

#1. So I start my mission- leave my residence
Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents

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#2. 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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#3. I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape when I finish the rhyme.

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#4. Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme

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#5. Timeless, so age don't count in the booth
When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

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#6. I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

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#7. You can hear the seven sins
Blowin' through the ghetto wind ...

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#8. A lot of times when people listen to music it's because they feel down, and that's when serious hip-hop comes into play. When times is hard, people can hear a rapper that inspires them to do what they [are] supposed to do.

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#9. I don't accept that the new generation is looking for anything different than what we've always been looking for. Depending on the moment, they want bangers that make them crack their neck, they want tracks that put them in a zone where they can sit back and chill.

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#10. I came in the door, I said it before
I never let the mic magnetize me no more.
But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme,
I can't hold it back ... I'm looking for the line.
Taking off my coat, clearing my throat,
My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.

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#11. I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny.
Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.

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#12. Tried to put shame in my game to make a name,
I'mma put it on a bullet ... put it in your brain.

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#13. I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

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#14. Thinkin' of a master plan
Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.

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#15. I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned.
Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

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#16. I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke,
Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.

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#17. And I'll break, when I'm through breakin,
I'll leave you broke,
Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke

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#18. Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

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#19. I'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit ... I gotta use it.

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#20. It's been a long time ... I shouldn't have left you
Without a strong rhyme to step to.

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#21. What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

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#22. Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.

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#23. Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years,
But weak ideas irritate my ears.
Is this the best that you can make?
Cause if not, and you got more ... I'll wait.

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#24. Take 7 emcees put em in a line
And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme
It'll take 7 more before I go for mine
And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

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#25. I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine.
But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

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#26. I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

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#27. So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal
Persona is unbombable? Trust me son,
I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to
allow you that the chronicle has just begun.

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#28. I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
Now it's a daily word

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#29. Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

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#30. Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.

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