The Queens, N.Y. MC wrote to Chicago youth in the wake of the brutal beating death of honors student Derrion Albert.

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“We chose the dumbest things to go the hardest for. I remember seeing deaths over 8 ball jackets, Fila sneakers and name plate chains. Deaths over “he say, she say”!!!!! “I’m from this block or I’m from that block…. “

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