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Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.
Raekwon
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Raekwon
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 12
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Corey Woods
Corey Todd Woods
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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 never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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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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It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.
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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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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.
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I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
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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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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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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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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.
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You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.
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