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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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 came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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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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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
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