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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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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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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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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 always tried to manage my money smart.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
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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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