Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.
RakimWhen I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.
Rakim