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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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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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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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Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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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I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
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I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
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You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
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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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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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Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.
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I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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