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Rapping and my style, we're brothers. If you go round now and ask rappers about Shabba, they know me as well as I know them. It's similar. The only difference is that they're using a funky beat. I'm on a reggae beat. I don't use the amount of lyrics that they use but it's definitely rapping.
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Toop, David (1991). Rap Attack 2. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1852422432. 

 

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