Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.
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To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really...
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
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You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
