American - Musician | January 28, 1968 -
You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.
Rakim
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Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.
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Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.
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I got a lot of vinyl, a lot of music in general in the house.
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The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to come up then. Everybody wanted to be original and have substance; it was somewhat conscious... There was an integrity that people respected.
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I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this rap thing into something, he was one of the cats I respected for bringing the hood into the booth.
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When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.
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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.
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My thing is, you have to let young artists be young artists.
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I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.
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You come up, you love music, and then business interferes.
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I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.
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