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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.

Rakim

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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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New York City
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William Michael Griffin
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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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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 used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.
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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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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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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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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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Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
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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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And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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