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Chapter 20 - The City Listens
Author: Prudent
last update2025-08-14 04:27:28

The comeback wasn’t just music — it was a tremor that ran through the city. Dansoman’s streets had been hungry for something loud, something alive, and when the MMs dropped that performance, they didn’t just feed the hunger — they made the city choke on it.

Two days later, the story was everywhere. Street bars had the performance replaying on flat screens, their cracked speakers spitting out Tero’s voice between bursts of static. Radio shows turned into battlegrounds, with callers debating if the MMs were “back for real” or if this was just “one last spark before the candle dies.”

Even in the taxi ranks, drivers argued between fares, hands slicing the air. “You see say the boy change?” one would say. “He no dey rap for streets again, e dey rap for future.” Another would snort and say, “Future? The guy still get shadow for back. You go see.”

Tero’s face was everywhere — on blogs, trending hashtags, grainy screenshots of the comeback stage. The same man who once made headlines for gun c
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