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- ↑ Thursdays Pick Mob Figaz SF Weekly July 2010 [ dead link ]
- ↑ Billboard.com, Mob Figaz - C-BO, retrieved 9 October 2009
- ↑ "Bay Area Rapper 'The Jacka' Killed In Oakland Shooting". KPIX . February 2, 2015. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
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