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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
New York
William Michael Griffin
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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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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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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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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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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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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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I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
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My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
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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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