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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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My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.
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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 don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying 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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Rappers are separated.
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Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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I never really liked the idea of doing mixtapes but at the same time it was a big thing a lot of people were doing it and it almost got to the point where if you didn't touch the mixtape circuit it was like you didn't care.
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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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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.
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I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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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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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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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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