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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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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.
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Now life is imitating art.
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So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.
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