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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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More quotes by Rakim
Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
Rakim
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
Rakim
My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
Rakim
Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
Rakim
So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
Rakim
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
Rakim
Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
Rakim
I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
Rakim
I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
Rakim
When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
Rakim
Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
There is still consciousness in hip hop.
Rakim
I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
Rakim
Now life is imitating art.
Rakim
Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
Rakim
Everything becomes too normal after a while.
Rakim
