Beats Quote by Rakim Download Open image “Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.” — Rakim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beats Hobbies Rhyming Trade
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. — John Cena Copy Share Image
My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Well Ive been rhyming since I was 5 years old and I kinda stopped when I was 10. Then this summer I got back… — Diggy Simmons Copy Share Image
Growing up with my brothers, I was like an accompanying mascot to them. The whole heritage and culture of soundsystems is all in my… — Jazzie B Copy Share Image
I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in folk. That's… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain rhythms that… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven. — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Elements burst, gave birth the the verse, get the pen from the nurse, but hook the mic up first. — Rakim Copy Share Image
I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be… — Rakim Copy Share Image
There are certain things that I wish people knew - certain things that I feel I started and certain things that I'm responsible for.… — Rakim Copy Share Image
So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents — Rakim Copy Share Image
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… — Rakim Copy Share Image
My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
