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Things happen for a reason.

Rakim

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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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New York City
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William Michael Griffin
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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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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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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 get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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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've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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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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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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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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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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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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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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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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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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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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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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