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If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighborhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
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