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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

Rakim

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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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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.
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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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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 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.
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I always tried to manage my money smart.
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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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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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 start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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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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I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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