“Heavy problems genocide desensitized environments
Sometimes make it hard to sympathize, pardon”

—  Lupe Fiasco

"Steady Mobbin' "
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds (2006)

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