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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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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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What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.
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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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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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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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Everything derives from the mind. From sex to the way you want people to perceive you to anything in life, it all derives from the mind. If people start realizing this and get deeper into themselves they'll realize there's nothing that they can't do.
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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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I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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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 never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
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Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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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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