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Gene Gray doesn't rap anymore.

Before she quit, she was something of an underground legend.

She collaborated with the Roots, Master Ace, her former husband, Quelle Chris, and many,

many more. But during her time as an MC, she says she never really felt like she fit in. She loved

what she did most of the time. But why did it have to just be rap? Or more specifically, why is rap the only medium for a rapper?

Like, take her stage shows, along with them seeing she's created characters,

had conversations with the audience, left live voicemails for exes.

She is also a puppeteer.

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