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My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

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ASAP Rocky
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: October 3
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I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.
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Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
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