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Rakim

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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Rapper
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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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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I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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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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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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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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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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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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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So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.
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I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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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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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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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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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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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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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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