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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
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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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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 started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
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