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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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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've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.
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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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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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