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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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Rapper
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New York City
New York
William Michael Griffin
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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Now life is imitating art.
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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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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.
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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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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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Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.
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I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.
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Things happen for a reason.
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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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