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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
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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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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.
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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.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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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.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
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I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word
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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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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.
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I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do another album I'm coming off of that chapter but the whole world didn't hear that chapter so it's like I would have to start over.
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You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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