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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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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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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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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 think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.
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Now life is imitating art.
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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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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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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'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word
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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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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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Things happen for a reason.
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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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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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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 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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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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