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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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New York City
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William Michael Griffin
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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 can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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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 kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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I never really liked the idea of doing mixtapes but at the same time it was a big thing a lot of people were doing it and it almost got to the point where if you didn't touch the mixtape circuit it was like you didn't care.
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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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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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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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I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.
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And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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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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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
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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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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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