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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
Rakim
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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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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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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 always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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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.
Rakim
There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
Rakim
You can't win for losing.
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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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You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
Rakim
You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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