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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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New York City
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William Michael Griffin
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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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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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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
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