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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 just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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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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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.
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