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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
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I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
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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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I always tried to manage my money smart.
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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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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
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Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
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I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word
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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 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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Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.
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Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
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I never really liked the idea of doing mixtapes but at the same time it was a big thing a lot of people were doing it and it almost got to the point where if you didn't touch the mixtape circuit it was like you didn't care.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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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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