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What gave Rakim confidence and inspired him to make more music was his fan base because it was growing really fast after he and Eric B released Paid In Full, the album that brought a new category into music, the album that was given 5 stars from all magazines.

At the beginning of his career he’d perform for close friends and local fans but now he has to perform in sports arenas because the people attending his concerts reach hundred thousands and maybe even more.

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An autobiographical song spoken in third person about the life of L-Pro after he is gone. “I imagined these are the things that people would say about me as a person while I was alive, after I had died.”

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Brother Ali made it clear in an interview with Sherron Shabaz, an interviewer for Examiner, that his mom was addicted to drugs and it caused her to catch cancer and die from it. Drugs was everywhere in the neighborhood back in his days and it wasn’t hard for her to get it whenever she needed it.

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The Blue Lantern Corps Oath was created to bring hope to the future in the light of so much destruction, when good faces overwhelming odds. Ganthet and Sayd (Guardians Of The Universe) started the Blue Lantern Corps by creating a Blue Power Ring out of their hope for the future. The corps are led by Saint Walker.

The Blue Lantern Corps have a very unique recruitment process. Each Blue Lantern is chosen by the Blue Lantern of the preceding sector and brought before Ganthet and Sayd, to be evaluated. The evaluation consists passing on the teachings of the Corps, judging the initiate’s character, and training the new recruit in all that they need know to spread the Blue Light of Hope. If, after three days they are deemed worthy the candidate is then inducted into the Blue Lantern Corps and begins the search anew for the next Blue Lantern. Many members of the Blue Lantern Corps are tend to recite the saying, “All will be well.”

At the end of Green Lantern #20 possible futures were shown of various Green Lantern characters. These futures showed that the Blue Lantern Corps will one day rival numbers of the Green Lantern Corps.

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The Red Lantern Corps was formed by Atrocitus because of the rage he felt over being imprisoned and because due justice was not brought to the Guardians of the Universe.

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Ali is making it clear that it’s not fair to be compared to rappers that aren’t even on his level. He believes his records shouldn’t even be the same shelf with these bad rappers. He doesn’t care if they’re signed to big record labels.

Though they still haven’t reached his level, they’re are still invited to rap at festivals such as Rock the Bells with him, which makes him really confused and mad.

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An autobiographical song spoken in third person about the life of L-Pro after he is gone.

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The political “road map” issued after Morsi’s ouster called for the legislative ballot to come first. But officials have said in recent weeks that the order could be reversed, with a presidential ballot as early as next month.

If so, all eyes will be on General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the popular defence minister, who led the coup against Morsi. He is considered a likely presidential candidate, and a shoo-in to win if he runs.

Earlier this month, he said he would consider a run “at request of the people and with a mandate from my army.”

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The final constitution proposal forbid party formation based on “religion, race, gender or geography”. Islam is to be the state religion of Egypt and a basis for country’s law system; at the same time freedom of religion is guaranteed. The president will be elected for a four-year term according to the draft, and may serve two terms. The Minister of Defence is to be chosen by the military for the first eight years.

The 2013 constitution creates a new Supreme Police Council which must be “consulted in any laws pertaining to it,” effectively giving the interior ministry a veto over any laws reforming the police.

The 2012 constitution allowed civilians to face military courts for crimes that “harm the armed forces.” The 2013 charter outlines a more specific set of offences, but legal experts say the more detailed wording will have little practical impact. In a televised interview last month, General Medhat Radwan Ghazi, the head of military justice, said that civilians could face military courts for arguing with the employees of army-owned gas stations.

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  • Total registered voters: 53,423,485

  • Turnout: 20,613,677 (38.6 percent)

  • Invalid votes: 246,947

  • Yes: 19,985,389 (98.1 percent)

  • No: 381,341 (1.9 percent)

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