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I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

Raekwon

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Raekwon
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 12
Musician
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Brooklyn
New York
Corey Woods
Corey Todd Woods
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It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.
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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.
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Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
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The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.
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You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
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I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.
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I love the energy that comes when I get on the mic. It keeps me creative and I love to hear what the fans want, what they love or hate about it.
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When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.
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The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.
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I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.
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I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.
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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.
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Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.
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When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.
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You know the steez you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.
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Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.
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The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.
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