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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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Life

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Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.
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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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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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I don't want to put nobody on blast but in the beginning it's like somebody telling you somebody looks like you and you've been looking in the mirror your whole life and nobody looks like you. Same thing with me.
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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You can't win for losing.
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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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I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
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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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Everything derives from the mind. From sex to the way you want people to perceive you to anything in life, it all derives from the mind. If people start realizing this and get deeper into themselves they'll realize there's nothing that they can't do.
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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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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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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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