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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.

Rakim

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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Poet
Rapper
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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Wild
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Much

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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
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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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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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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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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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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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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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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I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.
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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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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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