Rakim

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

— Rakim

I'm not a flamboyant artist.

— Rakim

Not follow me but follow the lyrics.

— Rakim

I had nothing but respect for Pac.

— Rakim

Eminem is a master.

— Rakim

Age don't count in the booth.

— Rakim

You can't win for losing.

— Rakim

The truth never wears out.

— Rakim

I see my pops everyday and that's what I wanted.

— Rakim

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

— Rakim

The young kids out there doing their thing, I can't knock them.

— Rakim

I got a lot of vinyl, a lot of music in general in the house.

— Rakim

When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.

— Rakim

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

— Rakim

We make cash on the street called Straight Path.

— Rakim

Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.

— Rakim

Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

— Rakim

Don't have to blow twenty thou' to get to know honey's style. Show her the town; steal her heart, no money down.

— Rakim

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

— Rakim

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

— Rakim

I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop.

— Rakim

This is the track that made Theodore wanna scratch. The track that caused the first kid to spin on his back.

— Rakim

I'm not in that state of mind that I was back in '86 - hip-hop is not in that state of mind…

— Rakim

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

— Rakim

Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers…

— Rakim

I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when…

— Rakim

Being a new artist, I was trying to make a good album and hope that people like Kool Moe Dee and Melle…

— Rakim

When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain…

— Rakim

To be truthful, being that the game has changed so much, you come hoping for the best and expecting the worst. To…

— Rakim

I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown…

— Rakim

I don't accept that the new generation is looking for anything different than what we've always been looking for. Depending on the…

— Rakim

Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more…

— Rakim

Presentation is a big thing now. They want to see you come out big. They want to see neon lights. That's like…

— Rakim

Man is symbolic to the sun. The sun is dealing with a ball of fire and didn't go out yet. Me being…

— Rakim

I'm you and you are me. I'm a man and you're a man. When people understand the more they know Self, the…

— Rakim

Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now.…

— Rakim

I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered…

— Rakim

When you come out the streets. I ain't braggin'. I never sold drugs but I kept a joint on me. I got…

— Rakim

It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the…

— Rakim

Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are…

— Rakim