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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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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.
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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 get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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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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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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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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I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
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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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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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