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Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
Rakim
Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
Rakim
Now life is imitating art.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
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You can't win for losing.
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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.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.
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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.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.
Rakim
I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
Rakim
I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
Rakim
