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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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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
Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
Rakim
So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.
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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.
Rakim
My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
Rakim
There is still consciousness in hip hop.
Rakim
Things happen for a reason.
Rakim
Rappers are separated.
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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.
Rakim
I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
Rakim
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
I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
Rakim
Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
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.
Rakim
When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
Rakim
I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
Rakim
I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
Rakim
