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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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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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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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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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Everything becomes too normal after a while.
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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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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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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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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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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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I always tried to manage my money smart.
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Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
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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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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
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