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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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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 get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
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Things happen for a reason.
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When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.
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