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I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

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Michael Clarke Duncan
Age: 54 †
Born: 1957
Born: December 10
Died: 2012
Died: September 3
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