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Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.

Rakim

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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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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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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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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 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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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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My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
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And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
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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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