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Article: Song charts the tragedy of Willie the Wimp
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 3, 1987
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Who ever said you can't dance to a eulogy?
From the South Side of Chicago, Willie "the Wimp" Stokes pushed
drugs and his luck. From the grave, he's pushing a record up the
charts nationwide.
You may not remember Willie, one sleazy dope dealer being pretty
hard to distinguish from another. But you probably haven't forgotten
the flashy funeral that his daddy, "Flukey" Stokes, held after Willie
bit the bullet in 1984.
You know the one. With the $10,000 replica of a Cadillac
Seville for a coffin, complete with flashing turn signals and
whitewall tires. Where thousands of people with invitations and
another thousand without them showed up in their Sunday finest.
Willie was the guy in ...