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I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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 I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.
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My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.
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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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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.
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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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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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Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.
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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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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.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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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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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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