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The poet, film-maker and academic, who has written a book about the pair's extraordinary friendship, says how a young man from Toxteth in Liverpool came to be taken under the wing of the US musician and poet, who was often called the Godfather of Rap, is a story of chance, generosity and a shared determination to seek social justice.