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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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William Michael Griffin
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When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.
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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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I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.
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The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.
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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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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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My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
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So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
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I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.
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Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.
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I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word
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It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.
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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.
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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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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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It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.
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Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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