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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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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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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 you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.
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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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There's things in the Bible when you read the Quran there different wordings. The Quran is dealing with the Most High and the Bible is dealing with God. If they read them both and put it together they'll know what the true culture is.
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Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.
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You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
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I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.
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You have to learn how to take an allowance.
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I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
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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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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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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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Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.
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I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.
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Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.
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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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Not follow me but follow the lyrics.
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I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.
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