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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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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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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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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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Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.
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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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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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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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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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Rappers are separated.
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I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
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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 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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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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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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