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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.

Rakim

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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Poet
Rapper
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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Nobody
Money
Long
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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 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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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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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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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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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 kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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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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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 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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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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 just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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 don't want to put nobody on blast but in the beginning it's like somebody telling you somebody looks like you and you've been looking in the mirror your whole life and nobody looks like you. Same thing with me.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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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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