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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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What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.
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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 never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.
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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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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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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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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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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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
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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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