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M Welcome

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to Induction Vault, a production of I

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Heart Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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m The

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message was clear. In V

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eight, a sound in South Bronx was heard around

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the world, shaking the very foundations

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of music and culture. That sound

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was none other than hip hop. Inducted

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by future Hall of Famer Jay Z in the year two

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thousand, Grandmaster Flashes innovations

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and pioneering techniques on the turntable rivals

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what Les Pauled and Chuck Barry did

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for the electric guitar. Along

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with his MCS the Furious Vibe,

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Grandmaster Flash edged in the basics

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for a style of music that has become a cultural

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revolution. Blending

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new techniques of mixing and scratching with

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the sense of style and flare, Grandmaster

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Flash showed the world that a DJ could not only

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be a performer, but a

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leader and a musical creator, on the same

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level of any artist with an instrument. As

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trailblazers that brought the music from

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the streets into the clubs, their lyrics

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were a force for social change, exposing

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the underbelly of life growing up in the ghetto.

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As Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, except

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the honor. The audience celebrates the

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first hip hop inductee into the Rock

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and Roll Holliday, let

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me just see if you already don't

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push me because close

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to okay,

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I wrote a speech too. I

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was just gonna do that and leave. But yes,

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sir, thirty

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years ago, shot her

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around the world, was fired out of the South Bronx.

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It would change our musical and

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coach you landscape forever. Sting

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was called hip hop. That

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was a pause for applause. We

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credit three bowl pioneers for his creation.

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Bambata and the man we celebrate

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Okay and the man we celebrate

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here tonight. It's hip hop's first inductee

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to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Grand

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Master Flash

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than you with less Paul and Chuck

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Berry did for the electric guitar Flash

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did for the turntable. He

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was not you

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can collash it. He was

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not only created the technique

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seamlessly looping the brakes on the record.

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For those of you don't know, that's

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called cutting. He

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did so with Stalin fled no one has

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ever seen before or since. From

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rocking parties at the South Bronx, legendary

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Black door to the release of

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hip hop classes like the Message.

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Grandmaster Flash and his crew of trailblazing

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mcs, the Furious Five, Childboy,

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Mellie mel Chick, Creole, Raheem,

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and Scorpio became hip hop's

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first supergroup, pioneers and

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the legends for musical genre that

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would become a coach room revolution.

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Okay, thirty

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years later, rabbits have become rock

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stars, movie stars, leaders,

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educators, philanthropists,

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even CEOs. But

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none of this would be possible without

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the work of the men. I have the on of induct

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into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tonight, ladies

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and gen man, you're witnessing history Grandmaster

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Flash in the Furious Five. After

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the break, we'll hear from members of Grandmaster

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Flash and the Furious Five on the Rock and Roll Hall

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of Fame induction. Bolt first

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and foremost, when I thank Mr urly Kin for making this

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possible, Thank you so so so so much.

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I got some real big people in the building, Jay Z, Clive

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Davis, Leo Cohen, Kevin Lyles,

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David Salo Nis. I

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got my big sis over there that helped me do it this threty

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years ago. Penny, she's in the building. What's up?

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Sis? I

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want to say to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, thank you so much

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for doing this for us. There

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was a moment in time when I thought, perhaps maybe

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because we weren't yeah like

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titles rock and roll, we're hip hop. But

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rock and roll plays a huge, huge part.

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Please don't be mistaken by that. It plays a huge

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part in what we do. I

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also want to say that it's been

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an incredible, incredible trip

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to do what I do in the turntables with

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five of the most incredible, incredible,

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incredible vocalists. Furious

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five right here. Y'all, you

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guys got something you want to say? Man, I

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definitely want to thank you all, you know, just for

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having I said first of all, and and

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I think it's really important for this opportunity.

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You know, uh in hip hop

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and in the hip hop world, it's like just

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two different schools, you know, they have like you

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know, the new school here in the old school here. And

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uh by being be getting

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inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, were

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just hearping that hoping that this whole hip hop

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community commerge, you know all I mean, because

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I believe it or not, you know, the Furious five

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and cats like Flash. We still love

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what we do and we would still love you

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know, the opportunity is to do it on a on

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a grand scale, you know what I mean, because

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you know, it's a blessing to stand right in front

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and right behind this man jay Z and not seeing

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Kevin Lives and all of them and just like the first

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time, we really got to kick it. So yeah,

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we could bring this whole thing together and

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piece to all of y'all and hip hop, Furious

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five, We're gonna do our think And

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I love all the rest of my family in Atlanta.

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Everything wife, the everything piece

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y'all making

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short and sweet. I wish my mom was here.

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She passed away in She was my

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greatest inspiration. I love you. Mom

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made the top of the world. Baby. I'd

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like to say all the industry people out

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there that uh has control of what we

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call hip hop, like to for people to put

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more of an effort to make hip hop the culture

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of music that it was instead of the

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culture of violence that it is. Right now.

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You know, there's a lot of things going on, you know

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what I mean, There's a lot there's a lot of people

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that that put in a lot of time, you know, to

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break dancewers, the graffiti artists, people wrapping

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all over the world, and I think that it

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means a lot, and it means a lot to you know, people

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like me that that for all my life I've been in the

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hip hop and and it should mean more than

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just somebody you know, standing on the corner selling. So I

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mean that that may or may not have its place too, because

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it's there. But I'm just saying, I ain't never shot

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nobody, i ain't never stand nobody. I'm forty five

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years on. I ain't got no criminal record, you know what I mean.

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The only thing I ever did would be about my music. So

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I mean, so so, why so? Why

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so while we're teaching people what it is

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what it is about life in the ghetto, that we

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should be teaching people about what it is about

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life in the ghetto. Me trying to grow up and to come

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up out of the ghetto, and we need everybody's help

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out there to make that happen. Hip Hop need to grow up.

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I'm a grown man. I'm gonna be doing hip hop all my life.

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I need somebody's help to help me do it. And let's

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get this thing done. I like to thank my mother. She's

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not she's not doing well right now. And I like to thank Silver

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Robinson because you made it up very possible for us

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to do this here, you know, putting down the message,

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putting down hip hop as it is, Silver

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and Big Joel and my mom's and God bless everybody

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out there. Thank you, and good night. Now

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that was that was good. Now that was really good. Now we're

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gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna keep this short because I know that you'll

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want to get the show on the road, and that's what we want to do too.

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So I just want to thank all the dignitaries, industry

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people, movie stars, recording

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artists, and just some average

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ordinary fans for helping us be

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who we are in the Rock

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and Roll Hall of Fame. Tonight, I

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like to thank the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and

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all the people that are connected with it. And

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I also like to say, let

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the show begin. Thank you everybody, because

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even ladies and gentlemen. I'm not a part of this group here.

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My brother was a part of this group, Keith Cowboy.

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I want to give us special shout

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out to his kids, Quincy of

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d D Little Kief

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Kwan Gerald, They

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made it. We hear Baby, every

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Breakdance, every repute artist, every

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MC, every DJ. We here.

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