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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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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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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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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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Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
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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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Things happen for a reason.
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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 can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.
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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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I never really liked the idea of doing mixtapes but at the same time it was a big thing a lot of people were doing it and it almost got to the point where if you didn't touch the mixtape circuit it was like you didn't care.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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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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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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