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"But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary."
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"Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public."
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