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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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Now life is imitating art.
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I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.
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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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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 always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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