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All kinds of shit happens in our lives every year, every week, every day and sometimes we don't have the time to reflect on the people that have shaped us as individuals and placed us in a position to be successful, or simply just be survivors.

Shout out to Mrs. Cumberbatch. My first grade teacher.

Shout out to the Old Jew. My rebbe, my teacher, my sponsor, my friend.

Shout out to Kenneth James Washington. Hardbody supreme emcee.

Shout out to my father. Not so much to my dad, but definitely to my father. For teaching me right from wrong and paying the bills all the while.

Shout to Russell 'O.D.B.' Jones. For teaching me to fly, but for the grace of GOD there go I.

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