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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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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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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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What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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I always tried to manage my money smart.
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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word
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You can't win for losing.
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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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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.
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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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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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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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