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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
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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 always tried to manage my money smart.
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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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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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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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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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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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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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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
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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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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I don't want to put nobody on blast but in the beginning it's like somebody telling you somebody looks like you and you've been looking in the mirror your whole life and nobody looks like you. Same thing with me.
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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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