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I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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