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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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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 try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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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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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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