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Friday, August 31, 2007 12:00 AM

Some advice for the newly academic, from the Notorious B.I.G.

Crack Commandment No. 1: Keep that Harvard monograph to your self, homeboy.

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  • Sunday, September 2, 2007 02:16 PM

    Keeping It Real Clueless

    Crack dealers are the absolute scum of the earth and have contributed far more to the destruction of the Black community than any KKK member could have ever hoped. I speak from experience as a recovering addict. Dealers kill with their product, with guns, with recruitment of pre-teen black boys. To glamorize and give legitimacy to such people to dangerously clueless.

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