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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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William Michael Griffin
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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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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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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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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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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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.
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My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.
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Now life is imitating art.
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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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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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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