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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've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
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Now life is imitating art.
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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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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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I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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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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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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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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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 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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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
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I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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