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topsiders - when a black gang man climbs up the stairs, sticks his head out the hatch and what does he see? topsiders! I get to thinking and what a mind-blow, all the folks that float this boat. sure, we're all brothers but with different gigs and the engine room was the mission mens'. we took the hitch, the black gang crew deliverin' torque right to the screw. under the deck, we'd hear the topsiders' feet - everyone wailing their own beat. still see them sailors in my brain, fixin' their faces to their names: cadena, mugger, robo, ginn, baiza, brewer, stevenson, holtzman, bostrom, hart, dukowski, rollins, the kirkwoods, spot, carducci, norton, ward, claasen, mould, and the boat's main painter, pettibon.