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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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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
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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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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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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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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 get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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 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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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 had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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