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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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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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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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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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It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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There is still consciousness in 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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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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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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 get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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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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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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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've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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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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