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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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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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You can't win for losing.
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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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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.
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Now life is imitating art.
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
Rakim
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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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.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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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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Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
Rakim
Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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