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Rakim

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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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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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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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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Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
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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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There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.
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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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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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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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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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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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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've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.
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