"After Don’t Sweat The Technique I [presented him with] a contract, but he didn’t want to sign the contract. So that messed up my situation — it held up my money for like six months. At the end of the day he could’ve avoided all of that by just signing the contract. So that’s why we ain’t together now. We didn’t get to blows or nothing so it ain’t ugly, but it ain’t nothing nice, neither."
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Rakim, on his split with Eric B.