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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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Now life is imitating art.
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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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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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Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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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 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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.
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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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