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New York Governor Pardons hip-hop pioneer
Published 5/29/2008 by news@nme.com at NME News
Hip-hop pioneer Slick Rick has received a full pardon from New York Governor David A. Paterson for attempted murder and weapon charges in the 1990s.
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