Rakim Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

  Song: I Know You Got Soul

• 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.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Years

  Song: Move the Crowd

• I kinda write in sequences that I live through.

  Rakim

  Writing, Sequence

  Source: halftimeonline.net

• 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.

  Rakim

  Writing, Culture, Records

  Source: www.billboard.com

• 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 real Inner Self of themselves it's the same physical structure you've got. The same things you deal with I deal with. Everything derives from the mind. What's funny is the mind is the hardest question and I guess that's why I'm always writing about it.

  Rakim

  Real, Writing, Men

  Source: hubpages.com

• I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.

  Rakim

  Writing, Long, Different

  Source: halftimeonline.net

• Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.

  Rakim

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

• Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

  Rakim

  Song, Writing, Whole

  Source: halftimeonline.net

• Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.

  Rakim

  Writing, Ciphers, Lasts

  Source: halftimeonline.net

• When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.

  Rakim

  Writing, Down And, World

  Source: halftimeonline.net

• There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.

  Rakim

  Stupid, Rap, Writing

  Source: halftimeonline.net

• Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].

  Rakim

  Writing, Japan, Want

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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