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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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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 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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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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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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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 don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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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 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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And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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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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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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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.
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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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I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.
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