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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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William Michael Griffin
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
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Everything derives from the mind. From sex to the way you want people to perceive you to anything in life, it all derives from the mind. If people start realizing this and get deeper into themselves they'll realize there's nothing that they can't do.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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Now life is imitating art.
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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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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
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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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Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
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Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
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My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.
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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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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
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