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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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Poet
Rapper
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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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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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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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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Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.
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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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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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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 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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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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I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying 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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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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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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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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Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
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