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I’m a high school dropout, man, with a hip-hop education, and these were my teachers.
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The speaker says that although they left high school, they still learned through hip-hop. Calling hip-hop their “teachers” presents it as a source of knowledge and guidance, while “these” points to people or influences already being discussed. The line values that education without claiming it came from a classroom.
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