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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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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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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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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
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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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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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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't 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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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 get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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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.
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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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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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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Rappers are separated.
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Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.
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