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For fans of nautical literature, the name Aubrey is a most auspicious one. It hearkens to Captain Aubrey of Patrick O’Brian’s celebrated Master and Commander Series based on British naval history. For Aubrey Graham, however, it just didn’t have the edge he was going for as a rising rap star. Maybe it was just too eighteenth century for him. No, he didn’t go back in history to name himself after Sir Francis Drake. It just happened to be his catchy middle name.

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