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Rakim The 18Th Letter

[interviewer, possibly Harry Allen] What are you giving them back? [Rakim] Umm, I think what I'm givin them back man is umm... what they been waitin

? [DJ Premier cuts early Eric B. & Rakim records] "It's been a long time.." ".. Rakim, the microphone soloist" "It's been a long time.." "It's been a long time.." ".. Rakim" [Rakim

Kind of glad I ain't come out in this y'know the last few years, y'know But umm right now I think everybody want a change Back to hip-hop and, knowhatI

[from the movie "Wildstyle"] If you was born in New york City let me hear say "You know that"! YOU KNOW THAT [Rakim] Aiyyo, once upon a rhyme where

It feel good, ya knahmean? To uhh, come back and and get embraced That's that's like the best part y'know? Bein bein gone for a while y'know Walk through

's time to go I'm designed to blow, my mind's inclined to flow Yo, my M.O., makin all kind of dough From the info that Rakim show, y'know? [Verse One: Rakim

would want people to remember you by? Or not one but the, those things that are dear to you that you would, want to be remembered as [Rakim] I guess

Remember that? Turn the beat up, I get lost in the mind come across the rhyme kick my feet up, then I find myself in time I was on a train, destination

years from now Somebody might be tellin', tellin' they little son "Oh yo you think shorty bad? Yo I 'member this cat way back In like nineteen-ninety, kid named Rakim