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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.
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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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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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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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Rappers are separated.
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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
Rakim
Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
Rakim
Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.
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My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.
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Everything derives from the mind. From sex to the way you want people to perceive you to anything in life, it all derives from the mind. If people start realizing this and get deeper into themselves they'll realize there's nothing that they can't do.
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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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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
Rakim
A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
Rakim
I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.
Rakim
It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
Rakim
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
Rakim
You have to learn how to take an allowance.
Rakim
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.
Rakim
