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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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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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Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.
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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'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.
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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.
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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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Rappers are separated.
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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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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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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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