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Because Hip-hop Has No Requirements, You Deal With People That Have The Least Intelligence On The Planet. Some Of The People That Compare Themselves To Me, Compare Themselves To Me Because They Rap And I Rap. They Can't Even Read The Contracts That They Sign To Be A Rapper, To Do The Deal.

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Because Hip-hop Has No

Curtis Jackson

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Because Hip-hop Has No Requirements, You Deal With People That Have The Least Intelligence On The Planet. Some Of The People That Compare Themselves To Me, Compare Themselves To Me Because They Rap And I Rap. They Can't Even Read The Contracts That They Sign To Be A Rapper, To Do The Deal.

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