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You can't win for losing.

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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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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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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So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.
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I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
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I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.
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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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I don't want to put nobody on blast but in the beginning it's like somebody telling you somebody looks like you and you've been looking in the mirror your whole life and nobody looks like you. Same thing with me.
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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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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 kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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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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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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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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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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