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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.
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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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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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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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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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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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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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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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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