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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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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.
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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 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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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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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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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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Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
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