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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
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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