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- ↑ Angela Stephanou (July 22, 2015). "Meek Mill Says Drake Doesn't Write His Own Raps In Twitter Rant" . Retrieved August 24, 2017.
Stop comparing drake to me too.... He don't write his own raps! That's why he ain't tweet my album because we found out!
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