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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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Rapper
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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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Things happen for a reason.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.
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I always tried to manage my money smart.
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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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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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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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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
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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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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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Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.
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I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
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Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.
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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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