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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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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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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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So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.
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I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.
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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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 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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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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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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Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.
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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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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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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 started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
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