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Speaker 1: scaley wags, rogues, unfrocked priests and rogue police and sometimes

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Speaker 1: Before Nappy did, and in its place comes from other

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Speaker 1: So who was pell Bidong? Well, he was a twenty

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Speaker 1: The death of Pasi Bidong remains a bit of a mystery.

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Speaker 1: of all that is, the rapper culture is choc, a

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Speaker 1: And we've seen that in our very own North Melbourne

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Speaker 2: And it was George Murogi whose gang has been dubbed.

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Speaker 1: He dubbed it, I think notorious crime family that shares

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Speaker 2: He supplied all these cars to our.

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Speaker 1: Good friend BBG Smoky to do his video and not

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Speaker 1: There is also a PostScript. BG Smoky is still rapping.

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Speaker 1: Where he stands on the death of his fellow artist

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Speaker 1: whose rap classic Gangster's Paradise includes one warning line that

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Speaker 1: lyrics make the Taliban look like methodist feminist missionaries. Here's

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Speaker 1: the line, the warning line from Coolio. You better watch

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Speaker 1: how you're talken and where you're walkin, or you and

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Speaker 2: And that I have to say is a rapper.

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