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Masters of Our Fate

by Black Isco

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Say Less 02:51
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When you're this good, my brother you can't hide it I was made in the image of God and I act like it The real is back, the fans have been gaslighted So many claim king, if only the rapped like it Yeah you boys are good, but really who compares? I'm slick with it, dawg, I could braid Medusa's hair They all freeze but not I when I look into her pair 'Cause when you live at the top, you get used to stares Homies say 'you're golden they'll notice you in a moment' I told 'em we'd reach the top of the totem before we know it Tempers flared when we were younger, now we're growing more stoic 'Cause emotion takes its toll on you if you do not control it And that's facts right? What you think? The true measure of your power is exercising restraint Respected as a boss but it's rare that I'm pulling rank Can't say that I'm perfect but trust me, there's no complaints Now who you know this fresh? Run the whole set, and I never break a sweat Ay We got these suckers upset Ay Man they swear they got next I tell em "alright, bet" But if you're looking for the best, baby girl, say less Ay Baby girl say less Ay, ay, ay, ay I spit the gospel, these speakers are my cathedral The belief in my creed has me leaping off of the steeples Freedom is never free, you have a duty to be you Whatever I achieve, my allegiance is with the people Peep it, when you're silenced your purpose has been denied When you see injustice I urge you to speak your mind First class flows book my permanence in the sky Suckers hate, but expect that turbulence when you're fly Apply a little pressure and now they're acting disorderly While I'm in my element, settled whether it's war or peace I've got to flaunt with what my talents afforded me I'm a high performer, of course I need high performance fees The freshest ever, who'd have thought it be Black? Got the world more shocked than if the dollar collapsed Everybody's got theories but let's start with the facts The game is in safe hands, man you ought to relax 'Cause who you know this fresh? Run the whole set and I never break a sweat Ay We got these suckers upset Ay Man they swear they've got next I tell them "alright, bet" But if you're looking for the best, baby girl say less Ay, baby girl say less Ay ay ay ay Who you know this fresh? Run the whole set and I never break a sweat We got these suckers so vexed They really think they've got next I tell them "alright, bet" But if you're looking for the best, baby girl say less Baby girl say less
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All Good 02:54
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We found our pot of gold living in rotten conditions We went from picking cotton to rocking the finest linen The flyest philosopher, I speak and they've got to listen I'm slicker than a pimp, a pastor or politician The difference is that I deliver on my promises And I don't advertise it like alcoholics anonymous It's in my blood to go from problems to prominence Liable to level up, this isn't luck this is Providence Still becoming a man, I see the shift in dynamics I once was a spoiled kid now I'm taking care of my parents Being a good uncle and showing these children balance Desire my own kids, now I'm thinking of marriage Being on the grind will put your life in perspective I put it in my mind to put my wife in a Lexus Reaching into my prime, they don't like to respect us All in due time, we'll have fate obliging our efforts You've got to keep the faith when you stay in the wrong hood We've got to make a way to a place where it's all good Hoping that your peeps understand but they all shook Not everyone believes in the plan but it's all good Get it understood, we're getting out the hood We'll make our own way, and maybe one day y'all could Where everything's all good I've been thinking of doing a second masters To study how incentives affect our productive factors So we can shift resources to things that actually matter To make this a better place, it's not just cash that we're after The government? Well that's the biggest cartel They centralize supply of fuel and so the market's compelled To only play by their rules, with checks and balances shelved They leave the loopholes into pocket chips for themselves Eating off donor aid, that's by maintaining a crisis They syphon from the budget and yet they claim to be righteous No medicine procured so you're left in pain or you're lifeless What was meant for food for patients, bought champagne for the side chicks Don't get it twisted, it's not some African curse Our elders aren't encouraged to do what actually works One way or another the old masters are purged You'll see our faction emerge when that power vacuum occurs You've got to keep the faith when you stay in the wrong hood We've got to make a way to a place where it's all good Hoping that your peeps understand but they all shook Not everyone believes in the plan but it's all good Get it understood, we're getting out the hood We'll make our own way, and maybe one day y'all could Where everything's all good
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Sugar is a Drug 03:16
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Do it for the buzz Such a rush you can feel it in your blood Addiction is a feature, not a bug Sugar is a drug Do it for the buzz Such a rush you can feel it in your blood Addiction is a feature, not a bug Sugar is a drug September third, the day the heavens converged And blessed my mother's womb, an immaculate king emerged It's a royal declaration each time that I pen a verse I'm down to break new ground like the signs say Men At Work From blue collar to red carpet I bring them facts to acknowledge Way I'm stacking these dollars they think I traffic narcotics They want me bashful and modest like I'm not bagging a goddess But I have to be honest, that's just my path as an artist Seeing currency off this passion I'm peddling That's word to the Jet Life on the back of my letterman I believe in my dreams, in my actions it's evident Earning my purple heart coz I rap like a veteran I'm an African elephant, stomping over these beats And I was focused on dreams that no one believed Right on the coldest of streets, still chose to compete When I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet And saw the modern day slaves inside the metropolis So blinded by CNN they don't see where the bondage is You'd think the coke cartels are where all the profit is But the real trappers work for Pfizer and Mondalez If you overdose on glucose you'll go in a gruesome way But you might recuperate if I told you the truth today If I told you the food you ate is giving you tooth decay And is why you're not losing weight then would you just chew away? Or would you change your habits before you can feel mileage? When it comes to real issues these rappers are real silent The slave masters declare no positive male guidance Let the women sell sex, let the men sell violence And keep it explicit, leave nought to imagination Let young women confuse thirst for adoration The likes on Instagram give them instant gratification Competing with their friends for the sweetness of validation Hard to keep up with the economy's messed up Now she's with a different crowd in search of a blesser Trying to get in a game that she hasn't been Prepped for And let the wrong one hit it raw she's in need of a PEP talk Too much sugar in your life, your body is soon to fail They served you these sweet lies because they want you on pills They'll be asking who hurt you once you see through the veil But I guess I'd rather be called bitter than unaware For real Do it for the buzz Such a rush you can feel it in your blood Addiction is a feature, not a bug Sugar is a drug Do it for the buzz Such a rush you can feel it in your blood Addiction is a feature, not a bug Sugar is a drug Sugar is a drug Sugar is a drug Sugar is a drug Sugar is a...
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Done A Mistake 02:40
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Got the haters like Got the opps like Got the heifers like They're in the spot like Some folks are miserable because they're not richer You barely put in work, why you acting all bitter? We're working through the night so we build a lot quicker Progressions got you jealous of this red-hot spitter I'm the GOAT when it comes to flows, what you didn't know? It won't get you any dough hating on the low You pose like you're getting chose but you really don't Seen you toast but you're sipping slow cause you're really broke I'm a man on a mission you just mad cause I'm winning If you had some conviction then your path would be different Instead of getting heated why not act on your vision? It's facts that I'm spitting and the math has the haters like Got the opps like Got the heifers like They're in the spot like Man these scammers try approach me on a fake tip You don't know me, you just know what my name is They'll be thinking that your soft cause you're famous Then you try to play me, as if I'm not dangerous I'm a gentleman, I'm about the peace But if you play around you're getting weaved Swing my arm like a cradle and I'm rocking you to sleep Please! Don't make me have to show you I'm a G Capiche? Peace. cause I'm off that I'd rather build with you, turn you to a comrade But if your attitude's petty as a swamp rat Here's what I make them say when they want combat Got the opps like Got the heifers like They're in the spot like When I was a college kid she said I was lame Now I've made a name and the sentiment has changed But she dribbled through the town we don't look at her the same She's only trying to settle down cause she's seen a flame She claimed to change her ways because she sees you as a visa And she's in the church so you scheme you've got a keeper She got the best attendance cause she's creeping with the preacher What you think she means when she tell him "Go deeper"? But your blinded cause you're getting bomb sex That she withdraws till you marry her now that's a bomb threat Old habits die hard she'll be out here getting wrecked If you don't die from disease, you might die from distress like Got the opps like Got the heifers like They in the spot like
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My People 02:37
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One time for my brothers on the grind With love on the mind, put it all on the line One time for my brothers on the grind One time for my people, one time One time for my sisters on the grind With love on the mind, put it all on the line One time for my sisters on the grind One time for my people, one time Do or die, my crew arrives and the truths revived Give me the loot and I execute like the noose is tied Real Gs are endangered, only a few alive Overly scrutinized coz our love is supersized Eric B predigree, steadily check my melody It's incredibly heavenly, to the haters, well c'est la vie Killing it verily, verify my telemetry You'll see my ambition's the only thing that's ahead of me Working overtime to relax with the fam While trying to survive getting taxed by the man You're trying to hold water but there's cracks in the dam The world could be your oyster but you're trapped in a clam But wait, that's not the fate of people who stay true To who they really are, they're destined to break through Integrity and excellence is honouring God And inspiration to man to get us out of the fog One time for my brothers on the grind With love on the mind, put it all on the line One time for my brothers on the grind One time for my people, one time Yeah, for my sisters on the grind With love on the mind, put it all on the line One time for my sisters on the grind One time for my people, one time It's the information age, and it's a knowledge economy Those with a monopoly try to lock us in poverty To witness the hypocrisy of the gods on my odyssey It's not a shock to me that my honesty's an anomaly This is the picture I'm afforded by the screens We're interdependent like a florist with the bees You let your son flower and you forrage for the seeds Sometimes they just can't see the forest for the trees It's complicated like conversations when condom breakage leads to concentration on Auntie Flow coming kind of late and You contemplate and debate on finding a common place And it culminates in contempt for the way you connotate it Searching for peace now with each endeavor Wealth is a long puzzle we can piece together Til we're flying first class just to beat the weather Cause yeah, the city's cool but the beach is better For my brothers on the grind With love on the mind, put it all on the line One time for my brothers on the grind One time for my people, one time For my sisters on the grind With love on the mind, put it all on the line One time for my sisters on the grind One time for my people, one time
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AMG Ambitions 2 02:58
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Don't trip over things that you can't fix Charge it to the game, that's a lesson as plans shift There's a strength in wisdom, no weight that you can't lift A truth so legit it was written in sanskrit Jealous promoters attempt to hand me some raw dealings Try box me in, I bet my vision ignores ceilings On each project I caught bodies, you caught feelings And Lord willing I'm four wheeling to more winnings See evil's root has you fiening to get more You'll have the means to live, and no meaning to live for I'm serving a higher purpose, you're dream is to live soft But it's blood, sweat and tears that's seeing us lift off You can't be the best when surrounded by yes men Encouraging less than the standards you set when You stepped into the game with an aim to be great I hope you have the spirit that it takes to relate Money machine missions, money machine missions Turbocharged vision, my AMG Ambitions V8 rhythm I'm driven to keep living And it don't stop 'til all of my Gs winning Money machine missions, money machine missions Turbocharged vision, my AMG Ambitions V8 rhythm I'm driven to keep living And it don't stop 'til all of my Gs winning My methods unexpected like a devil in the heavens My effervescent presence dispenses the freshest essence Now whosoever is allegedly a legend We see the charade fade when the real Gs step in My rhyme schemes are crimes scenes, it's manslaughter While your flows are outdated as camcorders I'm doing well, I'll tell you just what I can order The flyest whips and kicks, call me the Transporter From troubled times my girl has been there with me I give her the naked truth and ask her to bear with me She has zero tolerance for wasteman tendencies They're the type of thing to turn a man into a memory As I aim to reach for the sunk leather seats And a bonnet with a hand-built engine underneath More than 500 horses for my foot to unleash Steady speeding round a circuit, creeping slow down the street Money machine missions, money machine missions Turbocharged vision, my AMG Ambitions V8 rhythm I'm driven to keep living And it don't stop 'til all of my Gs winning Money machine missions, money machine missions Turbocharged vision, my AMG Ambitions V8 rhythm I'm driven to keep living And it don't stop 'til all of my Gs winning
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Wallpaper 02:38
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I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm trying to come up on y'all haters I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm in the field like a ball player I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm trying to come up on y'all haters I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm in the field like a ball player The paper cuts on our thumbs got us infatuated The fast money and faster cars got us fascinated Some brothers need that alcohol to be activated Don't get supercharged, man I am naturally aspirated As a kid I had Porsches on my pyjamas And a toy 928, I thought I'm Tony Montana The world is yours, may your character be less callous Still I dream of Carreras, Caymans and Panameras I been real from boom boxes to Beat pills In the jungle you can't afford to keep still Where precious lives get thrown away for a cheap thrill We're in a pickle but still we can find a sweet deal And even though I've got a thousand dreams I never live outside my means Leave that to the suckers who fake it until they make it So when you see the bracelet, it ain't a dent in my payslip I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm trying to come up on y'all haters I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm in the field like a ball player I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm trying to come up on y'all haters I go to sleep with a picture of a Porsche as my wallpaper I'm in the field like a ball player Haven't shaved my face, haven't taken a break In a thousand days, I'm trying to make my way As I fix these plates, and I lift these weights Getting back in shape, I've got no time for play Can't call myself successful til I can afford a holiday I don't mean a trip, I just mean some time away Hire staff to handle the day to day things As I strategize on the bigger picture and shape things Brothers I run with, their only concern is profit The voting booth has never been in their logic They can only trust the presidents in their pockets Only talk politics when they're making deposits And it's no wonder, the government never loved us We're summoned for our sums and they're taking half of the number Add that to the ones under thumbs of their baby mommas And it's clear as summer we've got to gun for abundance With a picture of a Porsche on my wallpaper
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No More 02:49
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It's 2am, tell me where you've been, and why didn't you pick up my calls? Said you're with your friends, you were seen with a man, stumbling out of a bathroom stall Know you had your phase, but you promised that you changed Guess that's not the case, best we go our separate ways, so Pack up your bags, I'm done with your act You're moving too mad, forget what we had leave it all in the past After all that I taught you, you ran back to the streets you belong to So do what you want to, 'cause I just don't want you No more, no more, no more No more, no more, no more, no no No more, no more, no more No more, no more, no more, no no The love you took for granted's all but up and vanished How you fumbled that no one can understand it, baby Concessions that I made for you, tell me was that all in vain? Knowing how did your last man, it was foolish to think you would change It's proven you're foul, girl you better bounce Refuse to be the fool that you led around I'm that dude with the crown, you'll do better how? A truth you refute cause you're too in denial You let me down, being dishonest You wanted freedom, you got it Cause I don't need you anymore No more, no more, no more No more, no more, no more, no no No more, no more, no more No more, no more, no more, no no
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Breathe 03:03
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Everybody's looking for something to believe Chip on your shoulder, heart on your sleeve Fighting with the world while searching for your peace One, two, three, breathe! Everybody's looking for something to believe Chip on your shoulder, heart on your sleeve Fighting with the world while searching for your peace One, two, three, breathe! Who you know that keeps it realer? Bumped the same from the trap houses to the villas? It's just another arrow in the quiver While my flow's cutting through the country like a river Depositing silt, my knowledge and skill To let the plants grow from a positive ilk, I Followed my will to demolish my ills Cause I've done mad wrongs, I acknowledge the guilt No days off, atoning for for my sin of sloth Every quote is explosive it's like I sent a charge Spit lightning like I'm writing with the pen of God You can find my syntax in the synagogues I do it easily, that's the law of attraction The human mind is limited by attachment I unleash and let the spirit speak to me We're vibrating at a much higher frequency Everybody's looking for something to believe Chip on your shoulder, heart on your sleeve Fighting with the world while searching for your peace One, two, three, breathe! Everybody's looking for something to believe Chip on your shoulder, heart on your sleeve Fighting with the world while searching for your peace One, two, three, breathe! The bag is Pan African, let your camp spread it But these crooked leaders will have that plan deaded Doing dirt with the devil and acting angelic They were mask and glove before the pandemic Two things are certain: death and taxes We get taxed to death, then pay the VAT on caskets You'd think the government would try protect the masses But all they want to do is get their hands on assets And now the citizens are living with the lights off The politicians? They're just illing for that nice sauce The Lord watches and He shows them that they're quite lost So they kill the good brother just to spite God Be the light when you're living in darkness They tried to dim our shine but we're blinging regardless Look at the odds of the things we've accomplished You'd think a brother snapped with the infinity gauntlet Everybody's looking for something to believe Chip on your shoulder, heart on your sleeve Fighting with the world while searching for your peace One, two, three, breathe! Everybody's looking for something to believe Chip on your shoulder, heart on your sleeve Fighting with the world while searching for your peace One, two, three, breathe!
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White Wine 02:58
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Forbidden love, youth consumed by their urges And a moment of bliss birthed generational curses Placed the sin of the father on seeds who didn't deserve it While we're on this earth we do what we can to reverse it This is not a mission for you to try to belittle We were born savages, we just try to be civil So please don't test us unless you want to be stretchered No sense in wreckless aggression 'cause that might defer our blessings And I'd be left with regret on how we did our brothers Forgiving self is often harder than forgiving others May God bless us despite the fact that we're wretched We're trying to build our dreams live and in living colour We will get there. All it takes is patience Some proper preparation and then it's off to the races Jotting down my dreams of the top while I'm in the basement As I envision the scene right on the day that we make it and we're White wine sipping, sitting in fine linen Out on beach chairs, we laugh and recline in them And we dine different, we talk with a Don's wisdom Predicted this fly living, we're blessed with divine vision Coz we white wine sipping, sitting in fine linen Out on beach chairs, we laugh and recline in them And we dine different, we talk with a Don's wisdom Predicted this fly living, we're blessed with divine vision While you're running your race it's easy to be distracted By that brother getting love cause he's in a higher bracket See him as competition for all the trinkets he's lit up You don't check the composition 'cause all you see is the glitter Now you're bitter because he's driving a Bentley Not knowing he's divorced and goes back to a home that's empty Last week they pumped his stomach, was full of Xanax and Henny Everybody's load is heavy, careful of what you envy Only compare myself to who I was a day ago In search of the sublime there's still a long way to go It's still progress even if you seem to take it slow Don't forget the humble lessons when you make it though Watching joint ashes fall in my ash tray Up late browsing through housing in Camp's Bay Imagining the mornings we're catching the matinées Merrily applauding the songs that the band plays as we're White wine sipping, sitting in fine linen Out on beach chairs, we laugh and recline in them And we dine different, we talk with a Don's wisdom Predicted this fly living, we're blessed with divine vision Coz we're white wine sipping, sitting in fine linen Out on beach chairs, we laugh and recline in them And we dine different, we talk with a Don's wisdom Predicted this fly living, we're blessed with divine vision
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A Way Out 03:01
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There's nothing you could say now We're in the trenches and we're trying to find a way out All those other moves are played out Now we're on the run for the payout There's nothing you could say now We're in the trenches and we're trying to find a way out All those other moves are played out Now we're on the run for the payout Standing in the shadow of our dreams Ambitions tattered like apparel of the fiends Yet we rally with strength from the Elohim May our legacies rival all the pharaohs and the kings Dismantle the regimes who take the side of shaitan conspire and sympathising with the plight of Sattar They only deceive themselves that they hold our lives in their palms Even corrupted skies can't stop the shine of a star So we choose to be a beacon of light Knowing our time will come just like a thief in the night They're expecting peace when they're stealing our rights All the demons in sight just give us reason to fight For protection of this earth we believe the meek will inherit Keeping our weapons sheathed for the sake of people we cherish Yet we're ready to use them to choose our leaders on merit It's a little esoteric but those who get it will get it There's nothing you could say now We're in the trenches and we're trying to find a way out All those other moves are played out Now we're on the run for the payout There's nothing you could say now We're in the trenches and we're trying to find a way out All those other moves are played out Now we're on the run for the payout Mother Malawi, I'm watching you all dishonour her Needless deaths in the hospitals while you steal from the coffers The biggest disease is greed, that's what's filling the coffins up You're not supplying water, now we're threatened by cholera You're willing to kill in order to cheat the system Gaslight us then send the police to beat on your victims Like it's a crime to speak as soon as we peep your mission But you're not feeding the people you keep in prison If a pastor can't honour his word then who's spiteless? If you could two-time us why should we move righteous? We could improve lives by supplying these new vices And cite what a mule's price is, that's life in a fuel crisis Every promise you made was half-hearted You said you'd pave the roads for the routes that we had charted Instead you stifled growth for the people you tax hardest But the more red tape the bigger the black market Right? There's nothing you could say now We're in the trenches and we're trying to find a way out All those other moves are played out Now we're on the run for the payout There's nothing you could say now We're in the trenches and we're trying to find a way out All those other moves are played out Now we're on the run for the payout
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Live Forever 01:56
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I believe all we're trying to do the right thing You learn to carry umbrellas because it might rain You put the work in and certainly made some lives change Just for yours to be taken, at a dice game Through wins and losses you walked it just like you talked it Against all odds you accomplished being some bosses History was made when you set it off with the Offsets I hope that there's a halo above the crown that you're rocking I think it's time for us to restart the culture And put a stop to all these premature departures It may be worth it for profit margins to falter Cause all these violent lines just line the pockets of vultures I wish that I could see PNB still Rocking Water on water on water, swimming with young Dolphins To all the killers, I'm hoping your hearts will soften I'm tiring of seeing contemporaries in coffins May you live forever I'm hoping that we learn to live together May you live forever I'm hoping that we learn to live together May you live forever I'm hoping that we learn to live together May you live forever I'm hoping that we learn to live together

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The 5th album in Black Isco's discography, Masters of Our Fate is a unique gem in that it is 100% written, produced and performed by Black Isco. Perhaps the most introspective and observational tape in his collection, this one is for the thinkers.

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released November 25, 2022

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Black Isco England, UK

I'm Black Isco—rapper, producer, finance pro, and community leader. Beats are my stories, inspired by K.R.I.T, Mos Def, and Lupe. I'm not just about making you move; I'm here to make you think. Beyond music, I'm into entrepreneurship, aiming for legacies. These songs are a call to action, motivating minds. Community is my heartbeat. Let's make noise, inspire, and strive for greatness together. ... more

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