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 Read Quote
We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that’s accepting it. Rakim Read Quote
I’m definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way. Rakim Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Everything I did on the ‘Paid in Full’ album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio. Rakim Read Quote
Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down. Rakim Read Quote
I love Jay-Z, I love Kanye, and I praise the way he’s been able to bring more business out of the jungle. Rakim Read Quote
To know that I was being heard on the radio, it made me feel as if I was, I guess, spread across New York. It was incredible. Rakim Read Quote
