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On why he became a vegetarian:

We were selling books, and right next to us was an old man. [...] he was a holistic nutritionist, and he was talking to us about how you shouldn't really eat animals and things of that nature … and he pulled up his shirt and the man had the abs of a 15-year-old. He says to us [...] How old do you think I am? And we thought he was about 50 years old, and he's like, I'm 86 years old. … We looked at each other, me and my friends, and we were, like, when we're 86, we want to be like that …. So that's what started it.

Jeru the Damaja

Jeru the Damaja

Jeru the Damaja

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Born: February 14, 1972 (age 53)

Bio: Kendrick Jeru Davis, known as Jeru the Damaja, is an American rapper best known for his 1994 debut album, The Sun Rises in the East, ranked as one of the 100 greatest hip-hop albums of all time by the editors of About.com.

Known for:

The Sun Rises in the East (1994)
Wrath of the Math (1996)
Heroz4Hire (1999)
Still Rising (2007)
Divine Design (2003)

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