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Rakim
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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
Rappers are separated.
Rakim
Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.
Rakim
Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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
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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.
Rakim
There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
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
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.
Rakim
I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
Rakim
I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
Rakim
Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
Rakim
You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
Rakim
I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
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.
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
