dude struggling to make it in life manages his rapper cousin's blossoming career
if it's not an episode focused on him and his child's mother Van, (aside from the talk show episode and Van trying to get clean urine) every episode has been some variation of that dynamic (even the barbershop episode was about Paperboi having to get to a photoshoot, Earn is the unspoken middle man)

last night was just a weird thing Donald Glover wanted to force onto the world