Sometimes I look at new artists trying to come out or trying to make their name and it's like they're coming into the game blind. They don't really know what the world is going to expect from them and they really trying to get in where they fit in but me I almost got the red carpet.
RakimWhat's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.
RakimDabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.
RakimIt might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.
Rakim