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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
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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You can't win for losing.
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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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 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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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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Things happen for a reason.
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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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Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
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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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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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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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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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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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I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.
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Rappers are separated.
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