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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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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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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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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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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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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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