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No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here
Jay-Z
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Jay-Z
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 4
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No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
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