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Now life is imitating art.

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 don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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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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Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.
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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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You can't win for losing.
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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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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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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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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 had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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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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