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That’s right, its that time again. Shit, five months into the year already. Anyway, I went through five different versions for this volume. In all actuality, phatsoul and I are working on something (more him than me, we are just using my brillant mind..haha) for the upcoming volumes and the orginal Vol. 5 will be Vol. 6. But for now I offer you the latest in our WYDU classics, so let’s jump right into it.

1. Kool G Rap- 4,56
2. DJ Honda feat Al’Tariq, The Beatnuts, Fat Joe, Problemz- Out For The Cash
3. The Dwellas- Leakage
4. The Artifacts- C’mon Wit Da Git Down
5. Tragedy feat Extra P & Havoc- Funk Mode (Extra P Remix)
6. Yaggfu Front Feat Diamond D- Slappin Suckas Silly (Diamond D Remix)
7. The Alkaholiks feat Likwit Crew (Phil Da Agony, Xzibit, Snagglepuss- No Handouts
8. Schoolly D – Livin In The Jungle
9. Live Squad- Heartless
10. Kid Sensation- I S.P.I.T (remix)
11. MC A.D.E- Sex, Crime, Drugs
12. MC Ren feat Kam- Shock Of The Hour
13. Celly Cel – Heat 4 Yo Azz
14. Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E- Pysko Funk
15. Low Profile- Funky Song
16. Donald D- F.B.I.
17. Dance Floor- Raheem
18. Without Warning- PHD
19. Rhythm Is The Master- DJ Chuck Chillout and Kool Chip

http://www.sendspace.com/file/k53vhi

1. Kool G Rap- 4,5,6 (appeared on his 1995 album by the same name)

This has always been one of my favorite G.Rap joints. It was never released as a single or anything, but it should have. I have fond memories of sitting in my Jimmy blasting this album during breaks at work. Nice production by Doc The Butcher, someone who doesn’t get nearly enough credit for his production work.

2. DJ Honda Feat Al’ Tariq, The Beatnuts, Fat Joe, Problemz- Out For The Cash (appeared on DJ Honda’s first Self Titled album in 96′).

I could have sworn this came out as a single as well, but couldn’t find any info on it. The beat is tight and I’ve always been a sucka for anything to do with The Beatnuts and Al’ Tariq. Just a classic NY banger

3. The Dwellas- Leakage (on their 2000 release “The Last Shall Be First”)

This is a little newer track. Honestly, I was a never big Cella Dwella fan. They appeared on Masta Ace’s “Sittin On Chrome” LP back in the day and it was my least favorite track on the album, so I kind of avoided them. It wasn’t until last year someone sent me their two albums that I realized that they weren’t that bad. This track is some more classic NY boom-bap shit. Not sure what they are doing these days, but both their albums are pretty good.

4. The Artifacts- C’mon Wit Da Git Down (released as a single in 94, and also dropped on the LP “Between A Rock and A Hard Place the same year)

Another group I slept on for some fucking reason. Consisting of Tame One and El Da Sensei, they are just another example of artists performing better as a group than as solo artists. This track is a classic Buckwild beat, one of my favorite producers from that era. I liked the track back then, but for some reason I never bought any of their albums until last year.

5. Tragedy feat Extra P & Havoc – Funk Mode (Extra P Remix) (Dropped in 94′ as a b-side to “Pass The Tec” promo only single)

Hip Hop Discogs said this dropped in 94′ although I’m thinking it was made sooner than that, Havoc still has a high pitch in his verse. The orginal version of this track was my favorite from his “Saga Of A Hoodlum” LP, but this is soooo much better than the orginal. A classic Large Proffesor track, if all the QB stuff sounded like this, I’d be a lot happier person.

6. Yaggfu Front feat Diamond (Diamond D remix) (dropped in 92′)

Yet another group I didn’t peep when they came out. Straight out of North Carolina before the current explosion of music. Classic Diamond D beat and a classic DITC flavor to it. The shout-a-long chorus that was so previlant during the day is also found on this track, but it’s pretty fun. Reminds you of Pharcyde of sorts.

7. Tha Alkaholiks feat Phil Da Agony, Xzibit, & Snagglepuss- No Hand Outs (from the LP “One Million Strong” that dropped in 95′)

I was such a HUGE Alkaholiks fan when this dropped that I bought the LP just for this song. The beat is another example of why E-Swift is so damn slept on. It also has the first apperance I know of of Phil Da Agony and an early apperance of Xzibit as well. I want to say there was a video for this, but I’ve learned not to trust my memory any more. I think I had sex with Salma Hayek as well….hahaha. For whatever its worth, the cover on my CD is different than this one, not sure what the hell this is.

8. Schoolly D- Livin’ In The Jungle (Dropped on the “Am I Black Enough” LP in 89′)

Damn straight I’m a Schoolly D fan! Schoolly, to me, has always repersented raw late 80′s hip hop. A drum machine and hard lyrics. And for those who don’t know, I’d consider him the god father of gangster hip hop. Now, I’m SURE this came out as a single, although I couldn’t find any info on a single. It also had a video on “Yo! MTV Raps” back in the day. I also want to sa
y it apperead on a movie soundtrack, but again, it just maybe I killed too many brain cells over the weekend. Sweet and simple, but still damn funky.

9. Live Squad- Heartless (dropped as a single in 92′)

If there are any 2pac fans out there, they SHOULD recoginize this group. Big Stretch, who was an MC in the group, and Pac were boys, but like just about anyone associated with Pac, he ended up dead. I don’t know the whole story, but something went sour between Stretch and Pac. There is actually an album that leaked as well. It’s well worth finding, some raw NY shit, but they were signed to Tommy Boy, so thats all you need to know with that. This track was a mainstay on “Yo!” back in the days.

10. Kid Sensation- I S.P.I.T. (remix) (on the 90′ LP “Rollin’ With Number One”)

Nastymix was a highly underrated label back in the late 80′s. If you liked the Sir Mix-A-Lot stuff from that era, you did/would like this. It has some heavy bass to it, but Kid also came of fairly lyrical, especially for this time era.

11. MC ADE- Sex, Crime, Drugs (on the 89′ LP “How Much Can You Take”)

I had to do it. I had to put some Miami Bass on one of these. I’ve been holding off because I have something special planned for that genre of hip hop. This is probably the best Bass LP ever, but this track is more along of the lines of traditional hip hop, with a wicked bass line.

12. MC Ren feat Kam- Shock Of The Hour (from his LP “Shock Of The Hour” that dropped in 93′)

MC Ren was my favorite NWA member, so I’ve alway followed his solo career fairly close. This was my favorite track from this LP. It has alot of Five percenter messages, which he jumped in to right around this time. Nice scratches from the late DJ Train.

13. Celly Cel – Heat 4 Yo Azz (From the “Heat 4 Yo Azz” LP that dropped in 95′)

Now, I’m definetely out of my area of expertise with this old bay area stuff, so I don’t know much about this shit at all. I just remembered I had a boy back in the day that was down with this album and I loved this track, so here it is again. I found the album again a few months ago and it’s some cool shit.

14. Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E – Pysko Funk ( dropped as a single in 90′ and was on the “New Funky Nation” LP that was also released in 90)

Another “Yo!” banger from back in the day. I loved this track, some funky west-coast shit from the soman crew. These were some scary dudes, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard another one of their albums, but “New Funky Nation” was a very good album. This just happens to be the best song on it.

15. Low Profile- Funky Song (12″ dropped in 90 and was also on the 89′ “We’re In This Together” LP)
Probably one of the most slept on west coast groups ever. WC (yeah, THAT WC) and DJ Alladin dropped a great album in “We’re In This Together”. This joint was one of the better tracks and also had a video back in the day for it as well. WC has always been one of my favorite West “Syde” MC’s, but is highly underrated.

16. Donald D- F.B.I. (was 12″ single in 89′ and was on the 89′ Notorious album)

More slept on west coast shit (although he was from the Bronx). Donald D was part of the infamous Rhyme Syndicate as Ice T’s right hand man. This is great single from a great album. Find it if you can.

17. Raheem- Dance Floor (12″ single dropped in 88′ and was on the “Viglante” LP from 88′)

Straight from Houston, Texas, Raheem was an orginal “Ghetto Boy” member (and yes it was spelt that way orginally). This track though, has a NY flavor to it, but he lets loose on everyone from LL to Eazy E. I hated this dude back then, because I was a big LL fan, but I still liked this song.

18. PHD- Without Warning ( from the Without Warning LP from 88 ?)

This cat was in more beef back in the day than 50 is now. For those of you who don’t know who PHD was, it was Blaq Poet’s orginal crew, before the Screwball days. This was some hard street Queens shit back in the day. You don’t hear much about Poet’s roll back in the day, but there is alot surrounding this cat, inculding a nice little interview with Just Ice that he tells about going to Queens with a shotgun looking for Poet.

19. DJ Chuck Chillout and Kool Chip- Rhythm Is The Master (from the “Masters Of The Rhythm” LP that dropped in 89′

Some one really needs to drop some knowledge on Chuck

Chillout one of these days. He was a prominent NY DJ back in the late 80′s, but doesn’t get nearly as much press as some of the others like Mister Magic or Red Alert. Anyway, this was a “Yo!” favorite back in the day that used a catchy “Talking Heads”80′s music sample, something Puffy would become famous and rich doing some ten years later.

By Travis

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What’s up guys?
This is the first Mixtape that I put up for download. I always madesome mixtapes for my friends (on tape) and now I tried something else. I just make tapes with special themes, I’m not a big fan of justmixing some new tracks together, or putting some exclusives togetherwith some bomb sounds between them or things like that. I didn’t do many scratches on this one, this time it’s all about the goodmusic. The artists on this tape are some of the best out there, in my opinion. All the tracks have something to do with memories, memoriesabout how Hip Hop used to be, memories about the childhood or some-thing else. You can listen to it on your mp3 player, discman, in the caror at home and reminisce of how it used to be. It’s all about the lyricson this one. I won’t put certain artists on the tape that I don’t like, justcause the people like it. Also I don’t pitch tracks more than +-3%, causeit sounds really bad IMO. So I divided the Tape in 5 Parts and connected them with shouts or exclusives. I’m sure every true Hip Hop head will enjoy this mix. Thanks to CC for doing this incredibly dope artwork. Thanks to Polarityfor reminding me of “Whayback” by the Artifacts. Thanks to Precise and BLOfor doing the dope exclusives, thanks to Tony Tigerstyle (my Partner) for linking up with me. Be on the lookout for The Soul Occupants! Thanks to everyone who supports me and tell me that they like my beats. Peace

Here is the download link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/19086936/Memories.rar.html

Other links:

http://www.myspace.com/djsoulclap

http://www.myspace.com/thesouloccupants Exclusive

http://www.myspace.com/c2the2nd She did the artwork!

http://www.myspace.com/iicoldblo Exclusive

http://www.myspace.com/preciseoftwise Exclusive

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My name is Phatsoul, coming outta Zagreb, Croatia. I’ll write something, whatever interesting comes on my mind, but don’t be afraid it’s not gonna be to often… I’ll be doing some other stuff but you’ll see it when the time comes. That’s it for now, my posts will be short and sweet like this one.
And yeah I almost forgot:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TQ1XSIZK

03:20 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Main Mix)
03:20 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Clean)
03:19 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Instr.)
02:38 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Acapella)

It’s that Pete Rock single that Travis promised called Revenge. It’s cutted now so enjoy!

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Someone alerted me that the link for the WYDU classics Vol 3 was done, so once again, here is another link for that….

If one of the links goes down, I’ll be more than happy to re-up it for someone.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nndatk

1. Three Times Dope- The Greatest Man Alive
2. Stezo – It’s My Turn
3. Milk- Get Off My Log Feat Big V
4. Black Sheep- Without A Doubt
5. A.D.O.R – Let It All Hang Out (Pete Rock Remix
6. E-Rule- Listen Up
7. The Nonce- Mixtapes
8. Souls Of Mischief- Cabfare
9. Cru- Blunts and Bakakeemis feat Antoinette, Tracey Lee, and Jim Hydro
10. Das EFX- Real Hip-Hop (Pete Rock Remix)
11. Poor Righteous Teachers- Rock Dis Funky Joint
12. Intelligent Hoodlum (Tragedy Khadafi) – Arrest The President
13. Just-Ice- Going Way Back
14. Akinyele & R.A. The Rugged Man- What The Fuck
15. Smoothe Da Hustler feat Trigga Tha Gambler- Broken Language
16. Money Boss Players- What U Sayin
17. Mobstyle- Mobstyle
18. The Flavor Unit MC’s (Extended Version)- Roll Wit Da Flava
19. King Tee feat Ice Cube & M.C. Breeze- Played Like A Piano

Also, I’m not a big fan of it, but if anyone has a myspace and wants to be my “friend” (just the whole “friend” thing bugs the shit out of me) hit me up….

http://www.myspace.com/glavet

I’m hoping to have the Pete Rock MP3 cut up by tomorrow. Props to our new memeber “Phatsoul” from Crotia for doing that for me. He will be dropping some knowledge in the near future. WYDU is worldwide!!! (the U.S., Germany, Australia, Luxembourg, and now Crotia)

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It’s not often I have time to spare to write up something, but I do today. The only bad thing, is I forgot my collection of my older hip hop at home so it’s kind of a scrap things together and see what I can present kind of day. I don’t want to blow an opprutunity to post something up when I have the chance. So today you get a smorgosboard of hip hop flavors. First up, some Chocolate Boy Wonder

Fresh for 2006, a Japanese only 12 inch promo of Pete Rock and Grap Luva entitled “Revenge”. If you are a Pete Rock/I.N.I fan, then this tasty little treat shall tickle your taste buds. It’s one of the better tracks I’ve heard this year, kind of along the lines of 04′s (?) “Record Collector”, which I throughly enjoyed and also featured Grap Luva. Good luck tracking it down, because rumor has it, only 200 were pressed up. Those damn Japanese get all the good stuff…..Word is it might pop up on the label, Handcuffs, compilation due out sometime this year. Not sure if that is in Japan, or the rest of us will be blessed with this.

I’m not going to act all high and mighty and pretend like I personally have this track myself, cause I don’t. I found it on the Justus League’s forums (The Lawn), so props for the person who orginally posted this track. It is my own orginal link though. It’s all one MP3, sorry, thats the only way I could get it, although I might have it broken up tomorrow….MAYBE…..

01 03:20 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Main Mix)
¦¦02 03:20 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Clean)
¦¦03 03:20 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Instr.)
¦¦04 02:38 Revenge Ft. Grap Luva (Acapella)
¦¦Totals ¦¦04 12:38 min ¦¦

Pete Rock Feat Grap Luva- Revenge
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fip95p

Next up, working with what I have with me, is some Ghostface Killah. As everyone that has any remote interest in Hip-Hop knows, Ghost just dropped “Fish Scale”, which is one of the better albums of the year. So in celebration of that, I’m going to drop a few of the unreleased joints that Ghost has dropped over the years.

I’ve seen these tracks floating around the blog circuit for some time, so it’s not like I’m dropping anything mind blowingly rare here. For those of you looking for the late pass, this is your chance.

Ghostface isn’t my favorite artist by anymeans. I do think he drops some of the more consistant material out there, but like a lot of artists such as Nas, Eminem, & Jay-Z, some of his best efforts are tracks that didn’t or couldn’t make the albums for one reason or another. In Ghost’s case, it was usually sample clearance reasons that got the tracks dropped. Which is a shame, because some of the dropped stuff is his best stuff.

For what it’s worth, “The Sun” is my all-time favorite Ghostface song. Then again, I’m a sucker for anything Slick Rick touches, so that helps, but it’s a great song, probably in my top 100 of all-times (list coming in the future). I wish I could drop some more knowledge on the individual tracks, but as I mentioned, I’m not one of those Ghost/Wu diehard fans, so I don’t know the story behind every track they’ve done.

The Watch (Orginal Mix) http://www.sendspace.com/file/i4jiy0

Flowers (Orginal Mix) http://www.sendspace.com/file/2v4gra

My Guitar http://www.sendspace.com/file/vuv8jt

The Sun Feat Raekwon, Slick Rick & RZA http://www.sendspace.com/file/m4roic

Good Times http://www.sendspace.com/file/bi2ivf

Every month I make a CD of tracks I’m feeling, so you get a few tracks from Jan/Feb (don’t have March/April) that I liked. Just smattering of stuff……like I said, a buffett of hip hop music (damn I’m hungry)

Kice feat Mental Case- Ain’t Ready (from Kice’s “New Experiance” LP) http://www.sendspace.com/file/myojrn

Special Teamz (Edo G, Jaysaun, Slaine) – Let The Music Play (From “The Mixtape”) http://www.sendspace.com/file/d0a2dr

Senim Silla- Unknown Tracks (This cat used to be down with One Be Lo aka One Man Army, in Binary Star, I don’t know what the title of it is, I just found it on Soulseek when I typed his name in. I need to do some research, but if anyone has any info, feel free to share) http://www.sendspace.com/file/6fvzpk

Junk Science- House Wigger ( from the LP “Feeding Einstien”) http://www.sendspace.com/file/jch575

Ras Kass- Last Laugh (From his “Revenge Of The Spit” mixtape, Jake One has some sick beats)http://www.sendspace.com/file/e4zarc

Lone Catalyst- En La Ciudad (From “Good Music” LP, top 5 album so far this year)http://www.sendspace.com/file/d88yps

Blaq Poet- Bang Dis (De Ja Screw Mixtape) http://www.sendspace.com/file/ecvw8c

Freddie Foxxx- The Life (From Primo’s “Check Ya Mail” mixtape) http://www.sendspace.com/file/p39fdc

That’s it for now…..

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(*** the mp3′s appear as the highlited tracks in the track listing***)

Have you ever heard a song that when you first hear it, it sounds corny as shit, but there is just something about it……..something that makes you want to sing along with it. You know you shouldn’t like it, you shouln’t play it, but sooner or later you find yourself sneaking around your boys, playing a certain song, or a CD that you know you would get clowned on if anyone ever found out. Hip hop is very into peer pressure. In a sense, there are too many sheep and not enough wolves. If something is corny, at least in the “old days”, it usually was talking about things not typically found in hip hop. Stuff like Kid N Play, or DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. The subject matter wasn’t about how “hard on the boulevard” you are, or bustin’ yo gat. It was about other things that fell into the realm of “corniness”. If just given a chance, it wasn’t all that bad. Some of the music was actually pretty good. Now I’m not saying all corny music can be good. There is alot of corny music out there that is horrible no matter how you look at it. But there is some that people look down on for one reason or another. It’s this music that I’m going to kind of spotlight from time to time. There were alot of artists from the late 80′s to the mid 90′s that fell into that “corny” category. You have been “trained” that you probably shouldn’t like it, but dammit, some of it isn’t all that bad. True, some people will see some of the music I’m going to highlite and laugh their asses off. I don’t care, I’m comfortable enough to say “hey, I like this!” Some of it, yes, I did hide from my friends back in the day. Some of it has been forgotten, some of it still wears the “corny badge” to this day. Well, I’m bringing the fiber with some healthy corny choices.

“Breeze through in the q-45 by my side, lyrical high/And those that rushes my clutches get put on crutches/Get smoked like dutches from the master/Hate to blast ya, but I have ta, you see I smoke a lot/

Your life is played out like kwame, and them fuckin polka dots……..”

It’s funny how one line can single handly ruin a persons career. Biggie dropped that line on “Unbelivable” back in 94′, and yes, Kwame had already slipped a little by that time, but that was the knock out punch for his MC’ing career. But the man deserves to be remembered for more than just that. Since being memoralized on that classic song, Kwame has been trying to get back in the game as a producer. He has recently produced for Lloyd Banks (“Fire”), Cam’ron, Mary J. Blige, LL Cool J, Jin, Joe Budden and is reportedly working on the upcoming Black Sheep album, hopefully dropping sometime this year.

Kwame first hit the scence in 1989, dropping his debut album “The Boy Genius” on Atlantic at age 16. It got a lot of play on “Yo! MTV Raps” back in the day and even made Ego Trip’s Book of Rap Lists for 1989′s top 25 album list. During those days, gimmicks ran rampid through out the genre to try to get an edge up. Whether it be named “Young Black Teenagers” (a potential canidate for this column in the future) when all the group members were white or hispanic, or the weed smoking of a Cypress Hill, or just being white like say a 3rd Bass, you needed something to get you noticed in the increasingly flooded market (at least it was at that time). Kwame’s fame was the “Polka Dots”. The man was always draped in polka dotted gear. And he did cause a little “polka dot” craze for the time. The album itself was a fun, happy-go-lucky, collection of songs that were neither threatening or violent in anyway, sort of in the same vein of some of the other less threatening artists that were previlant during this time. The album featured production by Hurby Luv Bug of Salt N Pepa fame, that classic late 80′s sound similar to Special Ed and the such.

The Boy Genius:

1. Boy Genius

2. U Gotz 2 Get Down!

3. The Rhythm

4. The Man We All Know and Love

5. The Mic Is Mine

6. Keep on Doin’ (What You’re Doin’ Baby)

7.Pushthepanicbutton!!!

8. Sweet Thing

(Atlantic Records – 1989)

Just a year later he dropped his best piece of work, “A Day In The Life: A Polkadotic Adventure“. This album was produced by Kwame himself and his Brothers Grimm production team. The actual sound of the album was a lot different than a lot of things coming out at that time, it almost “Slaughtahouse-ish” (refering to Masta Ace’s LP of that name) sounding in the term of beats. It was a little grittier, but still dealt with the suburban way of life. It’s been hailed as classic in some circles.

I myself liked it a whole lot and never really hid that fact. I a junior in high school and bumed it quite a bit in my little Jetta. It has some sound to make the trunk rattle, but it was also very easy to sing-a-long to as well. He brought in the “New Beginning” for this album, which as far as I can tell was DJ Tat Money, who was also famous for being down with the Hilltop Hustlers in the mid to late 80′s as Steady B’s DJ, A-Sharp, B-Flat, Peek-a-boo, Nina, and the beautiful singing of Tasha Lambert. They can be found sprinkled through out the album on certain tracks.

A Day in the Life – A Pokadelick Adventure:

1. Da’ Man

2. Skinee Muva

3. Yes Yes Yall

4. A Day In The Life

5. Itz Oh Kay

6. Therez A Partee Goinz On

7. Oneovdabigboiz

8. Hai Love

9. Whoz Dat Guy

10. Doin’ Ma Thang

11. Ownlee Eue

12. Ownlee Eue (Reprise)

(Atlantic Records – 1990)

Kwame didn’t pop again until 92′, with his “Nastee”. The album was orginally recorded in 90′ & 91′ but was held up by Atlantic due to some creative control issues. You can kind of tell which tracks were label forced on the album, due to some “gangsta” topics that do pop up on the album, which sound really forced coming from the “brother with the sleepy eyes”. Gangsta hip hop was starting to become the rage around this time and tracks such as “Shaboom” were an attempt to capture up on the rage. It didn’t work to well, but the rest of the album is along the same vein as “A Day In The Life”, although the production isn’t as stellar as the previous effort. The thing about Kwame, is during this time, I was dead set against any kind of hip hop that dealt with love or had any kind of singing, but Kwame always made these kind of tracks sound good. On “A Day In The Life”, it was “Ownlee Eue”, and on “Nastee”

Nastee:

1. Wakeupscratchyobutt!!!

2. Dontmatta

3. Nastee

4. Ding Dong

5. In F/X Minor

6. Shaboom!

7. Can U Feel It!? 8. Cantwinfaloozin 9. Thatthewaydatitgoez 10. Don’t Wanna B Your Love Thang 11. These Wordz 12. Without U 13. U Got It (Atlantic Records – 1992)

He did pop one more album out in 94′ which flew completely under the radar, that I just heard for the first time a couple months ago. It was titled “Incognito”. Nothing special and it’s still stuck on my computer, so you get none of that.

So there is the low down on Kwame. The man released some decent music, don’t let Biggie or anyone else tell you any different. You just have to be comfortable with yourself to enjoy it.

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