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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.
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 used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.
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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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Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
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I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.
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Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.
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Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.
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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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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 love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.
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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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