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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.

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
Rap

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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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Now life is imitating art.
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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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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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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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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 just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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 always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.
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Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.
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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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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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I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.
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You can't win for losing.
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