Quotes from Rakim

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

You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.

Sometimes I write from the end of the verse to the beginning of the verse.

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back.

I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.

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.

I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.

The mind is one of Allah's best designs.

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

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

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.