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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.
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Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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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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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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You can't win for losing.
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Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
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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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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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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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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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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 just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
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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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