Rakim Quotes

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my hobbies.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

I made my first mixtape when I was 11.

One of the things I love about music and making beats is making something and watching someone's reaction, knowing you can do something to manipulate the way people move or act.

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

I love making music. I never stop. I want to keep it moving forward. I like to go into the studio and make hits. It makes me feel good.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

I'm just happy that I'm able to take care of what I need to take care of, live, and do the thing that I love the most and that is to sing. People want to hear it, buy it, see it, hold it, record it, bootleg it. It's fine with me as long as it's good but when it's bad I'm in trouble!

I'm more into beats than rhymes.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.