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I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

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Kevin Gates
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: February 5
Rapper
Singer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Kevin Jerome Gilyard
Able
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Writing
Literacy
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Grandmother
Importance
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