Quotes by Raekwon

Raekwon

A star’s the work – the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o’ the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

Hot

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Work Ethic

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

Figures

Mistake

Trying

Analyzin’ miss clairol, fendi’d down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon

Assistants

Missing

Rap

As an artist, it’s so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that’s important to me.

Artist

Feel Good

Thinking

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Balls

Basketball

Player

Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early ’80s hip hop, it was so much creativity goin’ on with artists like then, like Slick Rick, then you had Rakim, and you had these different kind of artists back then. And we was a marble cake of all these artists. So I didn’t have a problem with writin’ stories because I felt like that was somethin’ I loved to do. Even to this day, I really consider myself an entertainer-slash-narrator. I like to talk about stuff that goes on.

Artist

Creativity

Thinking

But ‘Cuban Linx’ was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like ‘is this really gonna be what it’s supposed to be?’ So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that’s mission accomplished for me.

Cuban

Fans

Projects

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

Rap

Rhyme

Schwarzenegger

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style … I’m like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he’s one of my favorite rappers, I’m one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.

Men

Rapper

Years

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

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Growing Up

Motivated

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Cuban

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Dope

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Dream

Eight

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Eye

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Feel Good

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Genius

Get Better

Gold Teeth

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Quotes by Raekwon

Raekwon

A star’s the work – the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o’ the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

Analyzin’ miss clairol, fendi’d down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon

As an artist, it’s so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that’s important to me.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style … I’m like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he’s one of my favorite rappers, I’m one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

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