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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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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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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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Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.
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There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.
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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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Now life is imitating art.
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I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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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Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.
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Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
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I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.
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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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You can't win for losing.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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