[interviewer, possibly Harry Allen]
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What is, the one, main thing that you have
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that you would want people to remember you by?
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Or not one but the, those things that are dear to you
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that you would, want to be remembered as
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[Rakim]
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I guess I guess it's my words man, yaknahmean?
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Just my words, and, if people remember my words they'll remember me forever
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Y'know? God by nature mind raised in Asia, y'know?
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But umm... it's like y'know to live forever you you you gotta
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set y'know, not not set trends but you gotta
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apply yourself a certain way and you gotta do certain things y'know?
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Maybe, maybe when I'm gone twenty years from now
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Somebody might be tellin, tellin they little son
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"Oh yo you think Shorty bad? Yo I 'member this cat way back
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in like nineteen-ninety. Kid named Rakim, bananas."
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YouknowhatI'msayin? If that can happen man, I'm aight man, y'know?
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I got I got I got kids y'know? They gonna umm, finish this for
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me anyway yknahmsayin so regardless, y'know the legacy lives
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But umm as far as the masses just remember my words
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Outro (The 18th Letter)
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| Rakim |
