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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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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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Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.
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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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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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I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
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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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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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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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