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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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Poet
Rapper
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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