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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 start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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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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You can't win for losing.
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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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I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
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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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A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
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I never really liked the idea of doing mixtapes but at the same time it was a big thing a lot of people were doing it and it almost got to the point where if you didn't touch the mixtape circuit it was like you didn't care.
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I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
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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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Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.
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It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
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I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.
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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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