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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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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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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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