Words matter. These are the best Raheem DeVaughn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.
I’m constantly trying to create timeless music that many people can gravitate to.
I want to be that guy who gives you an album every 12 months.
A lot of beautiful women that I have come across are the most insecure.
It’s never my goal to throw any of my peers under the bus.
Being in the public eye, I struggle to create and maintain romantic relationships. I am constantly faced with assumptions about who my significant other is, and it seems that there is always some speculation about my relationship status.
I love women – all types, all colors, petite, plus size. But in particular, I was raised by black women, and I feel like there is just something beautiful about black women.
Love is the highest frequency we can operate on.
I was a pretty sheltered kid, a slow starter. I was pretty secretive with my passion for music and, I guess, my talent and what-not.
If you are going to believe in the fairy tale of ‘Mr. Right,’ then you need to keep everything in perspective. Know the things that make you happy. Know the things that enable and/or hinder your growth.
In every video that I have done, I have tried to have lead actresses of different variations from size and color to nationality.
No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.
It’s a world now where you don’t necessarily have to be on the radio or be on the TV to be a star. Your audience can find you and find the music.
I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don’t know about.
When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we’ve got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.
I enjoy being slept on. It’s like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.
I’ve blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
I believe in highlighting the ‘greatness’ that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.
Once you step foot on the Supreme Court steps, you lose your first-amendment rights. I don’t see how, as an American citizen, you can’t go to the Supreme Court steps and speak your mind or speak your piece peacefully.
Since I am an artist, I know the media can pick you apart.
Racism is very prevalent and alive… in this country and in this world.
There’s a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.
I feel like music can be therapeutic for all of us – not just music lovers but the artists that create it.
Music is a frequency, and my frequency, when I put it out there, is on the love vibes. It’s not always sappy. Like, ‘Bulletproof’ is a love song. It’s a black love song. I made it for my people. I made it for the world, but I made it for my people in particular.
I always been inspired and aspire to inspire through the music. I feel like I’ve always made the soundtrack to a movement.
Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and redefines sonically what music is and the interpretation of it to the masses.
I think I’ve nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.
When you go pick out my album, the money actually comes to me and my company directly.
Being an entertainer, my path to inner peace is engulfed in the music that I create. While it is therapeutic for those who hear it, it is equally therapeutic for me to create.
I am humbled and truly honored to be the recipient of The Key to the City and my own day by the District of Columbia.
My mom and my grandmother are probably two of the strongest women that I know.
I put my own money up when I have a vision and believe in something. If you want a company to put money into something, then most of the time, they want to water your project down. When it’s your money, it’s your vision from the beginning to the end result.
In some cases, if you are not happy with a certain scenario, you have to give it a makeover, you know?
There is no single individual greater than a mother. They are the great keepers of our society and heads of our households.
In the past, being young, I might have been standoffish to working with other songwriters.
At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.
I don’t make records just for the ladies. I make it for the fellas, too.
I have faith in my art.
It’s my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.
I never walk into a room and assume everyone knows who Raheem DeVaughn is.
I’m very big on content. I kind of feel like content is king and will continue to be that, so I’m just going to give the fans what they want.
I broke out of my shell once I graduated from high school and got into college in my first year.
No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.
I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to take people to mine, and my place is called Loveland. In Loveland, there’s no war, and there’s peace.
Relationships are amazing parts of our lives, but they are not always easy. They become even harder when we allow others to interfere in them with their questions and opinions.
Truth be told, in determining what you want and who you want to be with, you will be compromising in certain areas. It can be in the area of appearance or occupation or maybe even certain personality characteristics, but no one person can have everything.
Dr. Dre I’ve always been a huge fan of. The Roots as well. The Roots gave me an appreciation for live music.
Being independent isn’t as flashy as a lot of people may think. It’s a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work – it’s on you to make it work, and no one else.
Whenever I am faced with someone spreading negativity in my relationship, I remember the old saying, ‘Misery loves company.’ I am also reminded to be mindful of the company you keep. Sometimes you cannot see a hater until you are happy. It is then that they demonstrate their negativity.
I walked away from the Jive Records situation, but I still have a great relationship with a lot of the workers and a lot of people who were in that system that have moved on to other places. I felt like being there; it totally wasn’t understood what the Raheem DeVaughn movement was about.
‘Black Ice Cream’ is a salute to the ladies with Black Girl Magic who exude a powerful sexual confidence.
If I’m not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it’s all in vain at the end of the day.
I don’t just make music for one audience.
Social networks didn’t exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn’t exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.
The strength it takes to love, mold, and nurture a child should be honored every single day.