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I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
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I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.
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I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.
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My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
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Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.
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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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You can't win for losing.
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I don't want to put nobody on blast but in the beginning it's like somebody telling you somebody looks like you and you've been looking in the mirror your whole life and nobody looks like you. Same thing with me.
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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