@hustlersnthehood: Kirk Franklin's mother left him when he was a baby. The woman who took him in was Gertrude Franklin, his aunt. She legally adopted him and gave him her last name. She collected aluminum cans and recycled them to pay for his piano lessons, starting when he was 4. By 11 he was the music director of the adult choir at his church. She passed before he ever recorded a song. On his tour, he puts her picture up on the big screen behind him while he plays. "Since she never lived to hear any of my music, this is the closest idea I have of her watching the boy she gave her name to," he wrote. @kirkfranklin #HustlersNTheHood

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