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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.
Rakim
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Rakim
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 28
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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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If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
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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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Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
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I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.
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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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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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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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