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I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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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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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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Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
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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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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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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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It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.
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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
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There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.
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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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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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