People We Meet: Desmond Cannady, the Tenderloin’s street barber

Fred, 48 is in his favorite barber’s chair, getting a fresh fade and puffing a cigarette.

“You mess up people’s hair, you get your ass whipped!” he chuckles, sitting under a knockoff Louis Vuitton hair cutting cape.

Desmond Cannady, standing behind him holding a trimmer in one hand and a brush in the other, agrees. For a long time, he only cut his own hair — the idea of touching anybody else’s was daunting. “I was nervous to fuck somebody up. It took me a minute.”…

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