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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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Money
Long
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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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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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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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My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.
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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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I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
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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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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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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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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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Now life is imitating art.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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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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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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