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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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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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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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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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I always tried to manage my money smart.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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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].
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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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I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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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 kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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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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You can't win for losing.
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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 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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I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
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