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I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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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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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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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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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 came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
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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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What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.
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I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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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 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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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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Rappers are separated.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
Rakim
Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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