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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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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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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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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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