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To hear the rapper tell it, Lil Wayne isn’t just good—he’s good for
you. “Listening to Lil Wayne is like picking up a Bible,” he explains.
“Listening to Lil Wayne is like picking up a book. Listening to Lil
Wayne is like reading a newspaper.” And if you don’t? “People who
say, ‘I don’t read the newspaper,’ you look at them a certain way.”

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