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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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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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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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There is still consciousness in hip hop.
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I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
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You can't win for losing.
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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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When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
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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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When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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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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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 had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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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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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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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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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.
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