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53 • CurTiS brEAKS iT DOWN Doo Wop schooled us on a South Side corner, pitching wolf howls at the moon. Me and my other-mother-brothers, all we had was a dream. not gonna say your spoon was silver, but your life is charmed: my singing never got me a scholarship or shipped off to a fancy school just for us. But my music has taken me places, can’t deny that, & we both felt the spirit move us from the pew to the truth. Look brother, it’s all Chicago. I see it in you. We want, we hustle. ...

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