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TUT / Photos by Harlan Breaux
Driving into Chattanooga from the north along Interstate 24, it looks as though the city tumbled down from the surrounding mountains and settled there. The downtown’s old, brick buildings give way to hot, sleepy roads that wind through the countryside. The architecture is blocky and matter-of-fact, monuments of sedate Southern industry—except for the church spires, which come in all shapes and are everywhere.
On a recent Monday afternoon, I pulled up to a house beside one such church, on one quiet city corner. The front porch was empty, the blinds were down, and the door was dark, covered with a curtain. The streets were empty, baking in the heavy heat. I knocked on the door a couple times and got no response, but then, walking around from the other side of the house came Kevin Adams Jr., the jovial 23-year-old Chattanooga rapper known as TUT, wearing a Diplomats shirt that showed Cam’ron as a religious icon in a stained glass window.
