Rakim Quotes

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Mostly, though, it's Beyonce and show tunes.

I am a good boy. Sweet. I love to chill. I have a select set of friends, am big on house music, love Goa. I don't read much. Though that is one habit I am trying to inculcate.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

I'm not a big Beyonce girl, but I love Rihanna.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home.

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio.

Outside of Bounce, I listen to Beyonce, Sia, Rihanna.

There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.

I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.

I didn't think nobody knew I listened to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.