American - Musician | January 28, 1968 -
I was an underground artist, but the underground status was successful. Coming from where I came from to see where rap is now, now artists are selling from a million to eight million copies.
Rakim
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My kids listen to rap, so I try to keep up with as much as I can.
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To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.
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Music, life, a lot of the things that we go through in the world, a lot of questions that we have about the world inspires me.
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As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.
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My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried to implement that in every thing I did, from my style, my cadence, the way I tried to pause and stagnate it; that all came from John Coltrane and listening to jazz albums. Trying to rhyme like a jazz player.
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We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.
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I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.
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I'm more of a wordsmith, so I like taking different words and trying to see what I can do with them - as many things as possible.
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It's hard to have fun and make a fun album when you know that it's something that you need to say.
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New York is responsible for bringing that raw, that real gritty hip-hop, because we... originated it.
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People always tell me that they grew up with me - like I'm their brother or uncle or some other family member. That keeps me going.
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