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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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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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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 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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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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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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I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
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Things happen for a reason.
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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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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.
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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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Now life is imitating art.
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I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
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