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Chip also announced his name change: “There has never been any rap artist to get as much paper as me and or sell as many units as me without ever having a company backing. I am King Chip. Actually born in the ghetto slums of east Cleveland, Ohio.”
“Rest in Peace my mentor & former King Hawk,” he continued. “His death made me….King Chip. My birth name is Charles Jawanzaa Worth. Jawanzaa is Swahili and it means ‘great leader and great warrior’. Look it up. I am King Chip,” he added.