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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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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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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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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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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.
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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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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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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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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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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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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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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 never really liked the idea of doing mixtapes but at the same time it was a big thing a lot of people were doing it and it almost got to the point where if you didn't touch the mixtape circuit it was like you didn't care.
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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'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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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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Now life is imitating art.
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Things happen for a reason.
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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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