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Different directions is putting it mildly. This is an interesting study. Both are talented, yet one is evolving and one isn’t: One, Master P, apologized to women for past songs that demeaned them, while another was defiant. Former gangsta rapper Master P, whose real name is Percy Miller, told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing

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