"My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme."
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"I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.“
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"I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life."
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