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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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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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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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I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
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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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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.
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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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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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Now life is imitating art.
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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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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 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 an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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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