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Florida Man
Mar 01st 2018
1
That was amazing. He goes "no. no. no."
Mar 02nd 2018
28
Shit was epic...
Mar 01st 2018
2
That cold open was fucking insane.
Mar 01st 2018
3
      when the fast food guy pulled out the chopper.....
Mar 02nd 2018
9
      I yelled “Holy shit!”
Mar 02nd 2018
10
      The Cold Opening Felt like the opening to a totally different movie
Mar 02nd 2018
30
      my favorite detail is that they were playing FIFA before they rolled out
Mar 02nd 2018
31
           And he was horrible at it lol
Mar 03rd 2018
74
           naw...niggas in the hood still on that 2K
Mar 03rd 2018
75
           Yeah he went all the way out the window with that one.
Mar 04th 2018
82
                i must be imagining things then
Mar 04th 2018
94
                     you and Childish got something in common
Mar 05th 2018
99
                          facts
Mar 05th 2018
102
           WTF, it is? I haven't played since 98 but I don't play anything nowadays
Mar 05th 2018
104
“It looks like an Azalea Banks Snapchat in there.”
Mar 01st 2018
4
I fell out laughing at that line
Mar 02nd 2018
42
      They are doing a movie on the guy who created hot cheetos
Mar 07th 2018
143
just as dope as s1
Mar 01st 2018
5
https://media.giphy.com/media/zeBFsk3zkMra8/giphy.gif
Mar 01st 2018
6
Is there an aligator in there?
Mar 01st 2018
7
Shouts to Death Grips
Mar 01st 2018
8
Legit lost it when I heard it in the episode
Mar 02nd 2018
12
THAT'S THE ALLIGATOR MAN!
Mar 02nd 2018
11
Them kids aint lying to you!
Mar 19th 2018
293
Premiere was awesome.
Mar 02nd 2018
13
Few thoughts
Mar 02nd 2018
14
a few responses...
Mar 02nd 2018
57
      Ha I’ll take that comparison. I’ve actually walked around like in th...
Mar 05th 2018
103
      nah, I think Ern is OKP
Mar 05th 2018
113
           if that's the case, the entire show...
Mar 06th 2018
134
we dont deserve this show.
Mar 02nd 2018
15
Yes we do. After all these years...
Mar 02nd 2018
16
      that wasnt literal babybro.
Mar 02nd 2018
18
           Haha
Mar 02nd 2018
19
White folks coming for Glover's use of Katt Williams...don't let them.
Mar 02nd 2018
17
Lmao at calling him almost unrecognizable
Mar 02nd 2018
20
they so intellectually dishonest. they can't act like it wasnt poignant ...
Mar 02nd 2018
21
The intellectually dishonest part is acting like they give a shit about
Mar 02nd 2018
32
      ^^^^
Mar 03rd 2018
70
      100%
Mar 03rd 2018
77
      RE: The intellectually dishonest part is acting like they give a shit ab...
Mar 04th 2018
81
      OOOO Ooooooh
Mar 09th 2018
162
      ^^^^
Mar 16th 2018
257
smh everything aint gotta be thinkpieced.
Mar 02nd 2018
25
THANK YOU
Mar 03rd 2018
65
I'm so sick of these type of articles and opinions. Enough already damn
Mar 03rd 2018
66
But did you click on it though?
Mar 03rd 2018
68
You should have swiped it so we don't have to give them clicks.
Mar 05th 2018
101
this show needs to be an hour
Mar 02nd 2018
22
premiere and finale at least.
Mar 02nd 2018
26
Yeah, I was mad it was over so soon
Mar 02nd 2018
27
Haha we got an extra 10 minutes I'll take what I can get lol
Mar 02nd 2018
51
Impeccable writing...and incredible performance by Katt
Mar 02nd 2018
23
i am certain of it. i am also ok with it
Mar 04th 2018
84
      i'm ok with it...but DEFINITELY noticed it..
Mar 05th 2018
98
           RE: i'm ok with it...but DEFINITELY noticed it..
Mar 09th 2018
153
"Nigga, who is you, the landlord?"
Mar 02nd 2018
24
The robbery shootout is confusing to me...
Mar 02nd 2018
29
I think this season is going to have a bunch of random shit
Mar 02nd 2018
33
How they reveal info to me is a great part of the story telling.
Mar 02nd 2018
34
I thought they were going to cop some trees
Mar 02nd 2018
36
      bc they aint about to let her bleed all over the ride
Mar 06th 2018
127
           You so smart
Mar 06th 2018
128
im just gonna assume she was laying down
Mar 02nd 2018
35
I don't think it was those dudes that robbed the drive-thru
Mar 02nd 2018
37
hmm... I didn't catch that. I thought it was the same car
Mar 02nd 2018
38
I just watched it again. I'm wrong, it was the same dudes
Mar 02nd 2018
40
      I think the girl was just to show how random shit can be
Mar 02nd 2018
41
           Yeah I'm thinking it's not supposed to make sense
Mar 02nd 2018
43
Oh shit. Gotta watch again you might be right.
Mar 02nd 2018
39
dude was a terrible shot
Mar 02nd 2018
56
i was watching like, "THIS storm trooper shootin ass mfer..."
Mar 03rd 2018
67
      huh? they talked about the drive thru order 17 for weed at the house?
Mar 05th 2018
112
watching it a second time it makes no sense and
Mar 03rd 2018
71
Pretty sure that scene at the gas station was another crime scene
Mar 05th 2018
121
      who's trying to get deep legs
Mar 07th 2018
138
They was playing that TayK which is a robbin song..I knew what
Mar 03rd 2018
76
can you post a youtube of it or something? Iono what song it is
Mar 04th 2018
83
      https://youtu.be/a3PpYLI4c2o
Mar 04th 2018
91
it's a black twin peaks....did the invisible car in the club parking lot...
Mar 05th 2018
110
Someone needs to cast Katt in a more dramatic role
Mar 02nd 2018
44
yeah, I could see Katt getting award noms in the right role.
Mar 02nd 2018
45
He put that real-life crazy to use.
Mar 02nd 2018
46
Reminded me of Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls
Mar 02nd 2018
48
love seeing him channel that energy
Mar 02nd 2018
50
A cool, subtle detail. When Earn is talking to Katt's girlfriend in
Mar 02nd 2018
47
Y'all catch a different girl than Tara in the background when Al and
Mar 02nd 2018
49
Nah.. but I love how Al had the “Really my nigga” when Earn fucked u...
Mar 02nd 2018
52
Haha yup the one hand up then two cracks me up.
Mar 02nd 2018
55
      First hand was niiiigga, second hand was reeeally my nigga?
Mar 02nd 2018
58
           Hahahaha yup
Mar 02nd 2018
59
when she clowns Earn for saying he loves them both
Mar 03rd 2018
72
I caught it on the 2nd viewing nm
Mar 03rd 2018
78
so good
Mar 02nd 2018
53
that shit gold
Mar 02nd 2018
54
A friend on FB said the second season was bad...
Mar 03rd 2018
60
Yup
Mar 03rd 2018
61
      Each episode can be a jarring transition from the next.
Mar 03rd 2018
62
      or dancing in the living room with your friends.
Mar 03rd 2018
64
      THIS
Mar 03rd 2018
73
      Back in Richmond we were smoking a blunt in the living room
Mar 03rd 2018
63
      Richmond is by far the weirdest and most surrealist city I've been too
Mar 03rd 2018
69
           I miss it
Mar 05th 2018
100
                Please do a Richmond appreciation post
Mar 07th 2018
142
                     word up, Richmond is slept on when it comes to food
Mar 09th 2018
176
      Y'all know I'm the usual, corporate, but live in South Central, right.
Mar 05th 2018
109
      LOL. What's nuts is how routine for everyone involved
Mar 05th 2018
124
      Highschool dude I used to kick it with tells me to ride w/him to some gi...
Mar 09th 2018
199
           reminds me of living at the beach when we were 21
Mar 12th 2018
217
youre homeless..you dont even have a mirror to look at yourself
Mar 03rd 2018
79
that line was so cold it made ME feel homeless
Mar 04th 2018
96
      ya that was a cold line and said coldly lol
Mar 05th 2018
106
Still stuff...
Mar 04th 2018
80
Katt Williams stole the episode for me
Mar 04th 2018
85
Ha! Yeah that 'that bitch ain't be a kid since 1975' sounds very Katt.
Mar 04th 2018
86
'no she dont live here, im just fuckin the bitch'
Mar 04th 2018
87
We ain't domestic we ain't even married
Mar 05th 2018
97
all i know is i aint done shit so i aint gotta do shit
Mar 04th 2018
88
lol. i paused after he said that
Mar 04th 2018
95
that gotta at LEAST be a t-shirt. but i can see somebody saying that
Mar 06th 2018
136
      RE: that gotta at LEAST be a t-shirt. but i can see somebody saying that
Mar 09th 2018
187
Same ! That was fucking hilarious.
Mar 04th 2018
89
do they give Emmy's for guest performances?
Mar 04th 2018
90
he should but THEY will thinkpiece him out of it.
Mar 04th 2018
93
he was movin fast as hell... but drifting right.
Mar 06th 2018
137
The Meta commentary of Donald GLover telling Katt WIlliams
Mar 04th 2018
92
Get rid of that chip on your shoulder
Mar 05th 2018
105
So Powerful. It also drives the point home that
Mar 05th 2018
107
      RE: So Powerful. It also drives the point home that
Mar 06th 2018
135
LaKeith Stanfield is a freakin' national treasure
Mar 05th 2018
108
think of him as an alt-right Johnny Appleseed
Mar 05th 2018
111
Wow. My uncle just called me because he got a warrant out for him
Mar 05th 2018
114
LMAO yo.
Mar 05th 2018
116
So Ern is so bitchmade he just watched dude take his shit?
Mar 05th 2018
115
Life has him giving Zero F's
Mar 05th 2018
117
Yeah I watch Storage Wars too....this ain't that
Mar 05th 2018
118
I laughed
Mar 05th 2018
122
Seem like he ain't have shit worth fighting for.
Mar 05th 2018
119
Realisticly, where would he even keep his shit
Mar 05th 2018
120
the nigga already on papers...so yea...no
Mar 06th 2018
129
That shit getting auctioned off eventually anyways
Mar 06th 2018
131
      fighting for his pride?
Mar 06th 2018
132
           Pride? That stuff isn't his anymore...
Mar 07th 2018
140
Thank God Craig Robinson didn't get the part of Paper Boi.
Mar 05th 2018
123
That either would have been Terrible or
Mar 05th 2018
125
Would have been a completely different show.
Mar 05th 2018
126
damn near 130 replies...
Mar 06th 2018
130
we had a year off
Mar 06th 2018
133
I heard this season was going to be darker.
Mar 07th 2018
139
I hope they don't over play it
Mar 07th 2018
141
well they need to ease up on that
Mar 07th 2018
144
      it isnt despair, dark or deep. it's just life
Mar 07th 2018
145
           Yeah, if that is what they mean by dark than that's welcomed but
Mar 07th 2018
146
           White dude got shot by the cops
Mar 07th 2018
147
                Oh yeah, I forgot that...That was actually funny.
Mar 08th 2018
149
                The woods scene was dark because it was night
Mar 08th 2018
150
                Gotdamn they answered my question
Mar 09th 2018
155
           yeah. that type of stuff i don't mind
Mar 08th 2018
148
Episode 2: Sportin Waves
Mar 08th 2018
151
Bad Idea Jeans, basically.
Mar 09th 2018
154
Ok, I'm officially on the "Earn is a fuck up" train
Mar 09th 2018
156
      (But them Waves tho...)
Mar 09th 2018
157
      That's exactly what I said! Why you gonna go
Mar 09th 2018
159
      i thought that was lowkey a commentary on black money mgmt
Mar 09th 2018
160
      Right. The first thing I thought was at least a third of that was
Mar 09th 2018
163
      it really was. i was mad at dude, adn then it was like reading the OT
Mar 11th 2018
201
      now we know why he didn't last at Princeton
Mar 09th 2018
168
           we do?
Mar 09th 2018
194
                I'm willing to bet his character reacted to college like I did
Mar 19th 2018
284
      Yeah, I felt bad at first when Al introduced Earn as his cousin
Mar 09th 2018
164
      I said to myself, give him a stack and see how it goes
Mar 09th 2018
167
      Yup
Mar 09th 2018
193
The Yahoo commercial....
Mar 09th 2018
173
Yoohoo...sorry
Mar 09th 2018
185
That Dirty Sprite line had me dead, and it made me wish for another
Mar 12th 2018
229
You think that was a Childish Gambino production?
Mar 23rd 2018
403
Also Earn isn't a great manager.
Mar 09th 2018
197
Maan, PaperBoi's Facial Expressions are PRICELESS
Mar 09th 2018
152
Could teach a master class on exasperated facial expressions
Mar 09th 2018
165
yeah that's a major strength in his acting...gets me every time
Mar 09th 2018
166
In Praise of Paperboi's Scowl (SWIPE)
Mar 11th 2018
203
Where they hiding Zazie tho?
Mar 09th 2018
158
Next episode
Mar 09th 2018
161
Weedman and Dem Waves
Mar 09th 2018
169
man, that shit in the beginning reminded me of Philly
Mar 09th 2018
170
lmao
Mar 09th 2018
171
so then we go to the landlord
Mar 09th 2018
172
I really wanted him to keep the $20 at the end
Mar 09th 2018
174
RE: man, that shit in the beginning reminded me of Philly
Mar 09th 2018
179
LMFAO
Mar 09th 2018
188
      Man... we fell the fuck out
Mar 09th 2018
190
Gotta let 'em BAKE!!!
Mar 12th 2018
224
Sorry I just don't buy Earn giving him all $4k.
Mar 09th 2018
175
pretty sure he said he had 4K worth of shit
Mar 09th 2018
177
Eh he said "he owes me $4k" and plus he took the bus home.
Mar 09th 2018
178
      he said "I didn't even get to spend all of the $4k"
Mar 09th 2018
184
           lets hope so. i took that as the card shut off before he spent it all
Mar 09th 2018
186
           ^^^ This is what I was thinking. I mean that's still a high amount
Mar 10th 2018
200
           nah he gave him all of it
Mar 12th 2018
212
yeah, that seemed to dumb for earn to do.
Mar 09th 2018
180
agreed
Mar 09th 2018
195
agreed
Mar 12th 2018
213
I was cracking up at Tracy being a conflicted Bojack Horseman fan
Mar 09th 2018
181
i was wondering wtf he was talking about
Mar 09th 2018
182
I was wondering what show until he mentioned the horse
Mar 09th 2018
183
My favorite thing about the show is how it's surreal but still grounded ...
Mar 09th 2018
189
It’s still a steaming company in ATL tho right?
Mar 09th 2018
191
i imagine it's supposed to be like if Spotify had an ATL satellite offic...
Mar 09th 2018
192
that wasn't NPR tiny desk level
Mar 09th 2018
198
end of last season he got a tour offer, and has a new single this year
Mar 19th 2018
286
episode was low key sad AF
Mar 09th 2018
196
Ep 2 breakdown:
Mar 11th 2018
202
The ATL Spotify scene basically spelled itself out.....
Mar 11th 2018
204
      Is Tiny Desk minstrelsy?
Mar 11th 2018
205
      I don't think it's (just) tiny desk being mocked
Mar 11th 2018
206
      yeah. there was a vibe.
Mar 11th 2018
211
      I think any performance of your song
Mar 12th 2018
214
           ...what?
Mar 12th 2018
230
      I wouldn't call Tiny Desk minstrelsy for one reason.....
Mar 11th 2018
207
      I just think rappers and singers
Mar 12th 2018
215
      Hell nah! Tiny Desk is a concert series. A national treasure
Mar 11th 2018
210
           National Treasure?
Mar 12th 2018
216
                Nah, its different. And I do think its desparation
Mar 12th 2018
218
                everyone is trying to impress someone when they perform
Mar 12th 2018
219
                     Nah man, there's levels (c)
Mar 12th 2018
228
                How is that not most concerts.
Mar 12th 2018
222
                Tiny Desk is all kinds of bands...performing for white folk. LOL.
Mar 12th 2018
231
                     white people perform at these streaming companies too
Mar 13th 2018
233
                     Do you really think only rappers I’m skinny jeans perform at FB
Mar 13th 2018
234
      oh shit. i ain't realize that was the n-word droppin white bol from S1.
Mar 11th 2018
208
      damn that is the same dude
Mar 11th 2018
209
      not the same guy
Mar 24th 2018
430
      remember Kanye did that with MBTDF?
Mar 12th 2018
220
           Ye was the first
Mar 12th 2018
221
                Black Artist have been going into small rooms to perform for
Mar 12th 2018
223
                Vibes... (c) Darius
Mar 12th 2018
225
                ye got the resume for us to take him seriously on it.
Mar 12th 2018
226
                Who jumped on a table to rap before Ye
Mar 12th 2018
227
                     I know an artist that did it in the late 90s
Mar 13th 2018
235
                     LL crashed a board room. I forget the names of dudes doing for Suge
Mar 18th 2018
280
                I read Kanye did that when he shopped his demo too...
Mar 13th 2018
232
                They should have called Ye out
Mar 13th 2018
236
Episode 3: Money Bag Shawty
Mar 15th 2018
237
The ending...so ridiculous lol
Mar 15th 2018
239
lol this show is so brilliantly random.
Mar 16th 2018
240
Vick would really do that tho
Mar 16th 2018
241
that part had me howling with laughter.
Mar 22nd 2018
341
"I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose?"
Mar 16th 2018
243
Earn better find his swag quick or Paperboi bouncing to Clark County's m...
Mar 16th 2018
245
Fam...
Mar 17th 2018
264
RE: "I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose?"
Mar 19th 2018
309
even when Earn is winning he stay losing
Mar 20th 2018
330
Loved Clarke County turning down weed and liquor
Mar 16th 2018
246
Earn did finesse his way into gettin Paperboi's song into
Mar 18th 2018
278
this show is so brilliant it amazes me...the whole strip club
Mar 16th 2018
247
The open had me dying...So paperboi goes gold off of "crying mom"
Mar 16th 2018
248
paperboi toasting to "White tears" too lol
Mar 16th 2018
249
That cracked me up. Was so subtly perfect.
Mar 17th 2018
272
And "shout out to Colin Kaepernick" was when she couldn't
Mar 16th 2018
250
      lol...exactly
Mar 16th 2018
251
      here's where it gets crazy, y'all
Mar 16th 2018
259
      lofl. that actress did a good ass job with that.
Mar 18th 2018
283
      RIGHT. So perfect.
Mar 17th 2018
273
      Yup, Brilliance
Mar 18th 2018
281
wasn't really feeling this episode that much
Mar 16th 2018
252
Tracy popping up 2/3 of the way thru was funny
Mar 17th 2018
270
Haha I've never done it personally but I know several dudes ...
Mar 17th 2018
274
i've been to the strip club more times w/ women than men
Mar 19th 2018
287
some straight girls love strip clubs, find it liberating
Mar 19th 2018
289
straight girls have bachelorette parties there, man
Mar 19th 2018
290
Earn was mad the movie theater questioned his debit card
Mar 18th 2018
279
Upon rewatch: "I didn't even get to spend the whole $4k" =
Mar 15th 2018
238
why have i not heard about azealia banks sacrificing chickens
Mar 16th 2018
242
"You made that yourself!"
Mar 16th 2018
244
first Katt, now white folx mad about the Michael Vick cameo (swipe)
Mar 16th 2018
253
*shrug*black folks are irredeemable in white american eyes
Mar 16th 2018
254
yep...spot on...i been peeping that too
Mar 16th 2018
255
Everybody has an opinion. No need to discuss every tweet/thinkpiece
Mar 16th 2018
256
They trying to ride the wave
Mar 16th 2018
261
Holy fuck I'm so beyond tired of think pieces and fake-offended ppl
Mar 17th 2018
262
Right. Plus Vick did MORE than his time.
Mar 17th 2018
276
Precisely. Either you believe in justice or you don't. He paid his debt....
Mar 19th 2018
288
Good god.
Mar 17th 2018
275
I'm white, love the hell out of some dogs, and I just don't get this
Mar 19th 2018
291
All Louie's shit is still up, actually
Mar 19th 2018
319
      Ah, I misremembered how that went down, thanks
Mar 19th 2018
323
What's crazy to me is that I would figure a white person still mad about...
Mar 19th 2018
294
post #32 pretty much sums it up.
Mar 20th 2018
332
The episode opened with white tears and ended with vick
Mar 19th 2018
320
*Wee-bey gif*
Mar 19th 2018
324
holy shit. good catch
Mar 23rd 2018
401
Because it's a show about Black people in Atlanta.
Mar 20th 2018
331
"You want to wear an all white suit to a strip club?"
Mar 16th 2018
258
^ right
Mar 17th 2018
277
The Sand Pebbles 2
Mar 16th 2018
260
When Micheal Vick showed up I damn near lost my mind.
Mar 17th 2018
263
Vick blazed him and it wasn’t even worth showing.
Mar 17th 2018
265
Earn hates having money.
Mar 17th 2018
267
      The fact that Earn said that with full confidence....
Mar 19th 2018
326
Nah.. I think this is just Atlanta.
Mar 17th 2018
266
and i'm so glad they didn't show it :(
Mar 19th 2018
292
RE: When Micheal Vick showed up I damn near lost my mind.
Mar 17th 2018
269
      When that shit crashed again, he didn't even want to say anything.
Mar 18th 2018
282
it's Michael Vick!! I laughed for like 4 minutes after she said that
Mar 17th 2018
268
same! that shit was incredible.
Mar 17th 2018
271
White Tears though. Ever seen that joke in a comedy though?
Mar 19th 2018
285
My wife isn't not convinced not being about to spend 100s is a real
Mar 19th 2018
295
I've had places turn bills away 'cause they didn't keep the change
Mar 19th 2018
296
they usually hold it up to the light or use the marker, or maybe they...
Mar 19th 2018
297
Plenty of places don’t accept $100 Bills
Mar 19th 2018
298
yeah if you're at a small corner store or cafe or something but most...
Mar 19th 2018
306
      Nah.. most places aren’t trying to break hunnids
Mar 19th 2018
310
           I've broken a $100 bill in Wal-mart, they marked it and kept it moving.....
Mar 19th 2018
314
                wal-mart dgaf, tho. they get theirs off volume. for smaller joints: risk...
Mar 19th 2018
325
i thought the gag was that it was specific to Earn
Mar 19th 2018
299
That was the joke
Mar 19th 2018
300
Earn doesn't really LOOK like a broke dude to me
Mar 19th 2018
305
      In this show, Earn looks broke
Mar 19th 2018
311
      earn look bummy as shit lol.
Mar 19th 2018
312
      It's funny because that's from hanging with them white boys.
Mar 19th 2018
317
      Bill Burr had a bit about that
Mar 19th 2018
318
      "you know a black man is crazy if his shoes are fucked up"
Mar 23rd 2018
385
      yeah that's exactly what Al told him
Mar 20th 2018
329
      He got that Cali fashion
Mar 19th 2018
321
      there is a fine line.
Mar 23rd 2018
384
that's why they did it in multiple ways
Mar 19th 2018
301
been to many places where they dont accept over 50
Mar 19th 2018
302
I get the racial aspect of it
Mar 19th 2018
303
really?
Mar 19th 2018
304
IT'S LEGAL U.S. TENDER!!
Mar 19th 2018
315
Using a $100 to buy a $1 candy bar is a dickhead move....
Mar 19th 2018
316
      Depends on what that register change is looking like
Mar 19th 2018
322
Yes it's definitely real...especially in the hood...and it's $50's and u...
Mar 19th 2018
307
he wasn't in the hood though, that fancy theater where tickets are...
Mar 19th 2018
308
      Never said they were...i was just answering dude ?
Mar 19th 2018
313
      Basically...White Dude With the Gun Had a $100
Mar 20th 2018
327
           Cause he was white and old
Mar 20th 2018
333
           real talk, the sight of that dude pissed me off beyond belief
Mar 22nd 2018
342
nm
Mar 23rd 2018
383
What's the odds that Tracy ends up back in jail by end of the Season?
Mar 20th 2018
328
For some reason I feel like Tracy is either gonna end up dead or in jail
Mar 20th 2018
334
      Got a real, "Grand Opening, Grand Closing" feeling to him.
Mar 20th 2018
335
           The “no-chase policy” scene cracked my up lol
Mar 22nd 2018
338
                If anything, he'll get locked back up for something minor like that
Mar 22nd 2018
340
First episode was BRILLIANT, but 2 and 3 were boring as hell.
Mar 22nd 2018
336
I wasn’t bored but I expected more
Mar 22nd 2018
337
The first season was unpredictable.
Mar 22nd 2018
339
"Nobody got murked! zzz"-Sopranos era
Mar 22nd 2018
343
I think tonight's ep is the one mentioned in the New Yorker article...
Mar 22nd 2018
344
damn this weeks episode was sad
Mar 22nd 2018
345
Brutal. I love how they set you up with germantown
Mar 22nd 2018
346
      i;ll have to look that show up
Mar 22nd 2018
347
      RE: Brutal. I love how they set you up with germantown
Mar 25th 2018
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I keep wanting to feel bad for Earn for taking all these Ls...
Mar 23rd 2018
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Van sucks and so did that episode
Mar 23rd 2018
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Really?
Mar 23rd 2018
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Really?
Mar 23rd 2018
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Great Episode. I bet that shit will hit close to home for a lot of coupl...
Mar 23rd 2018
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      Yeah it hit close to home
Mar 23rd 2018
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She’s fine but fine ain’t enough
Mar 23rd 2018
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she doesnt regret choosing black or Earn
Mar 23rd 2018
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RE: she doesnt regret choosing black or Earn
Mar 23rd 2018
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      nah she just wants him to do all of her little corny dumb shit
Mar 23rd 2018
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           yup
Mar 23rd 2018
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                I took it the exact opposite way
Mar 23rd 2018
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                     YES @ all of your response
Mar 23rd 2018
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                     Hmmm.. it feels like her events scream “change who you are Earn”
Mar 23rd 2018
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                     Relationships are all about compromising who you are, lol
Mar 23rd 2018
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                     but some things you can’t compromise
Mar 23rd 2018
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                          after he didnt even want to dance w/ her i was off his team.
Mar 23rd 2018
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                               Man, he was supposed to smoke some weed, get drunk and chill
Mar 23rd 2018
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                     That's the Thing Though
Mar 24th 2018
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                          They aren’t together tho
Mar 25th 2018
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                               that's a cop out
Mar 26th 2018
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                               sounds like you're projecting here
Mar 27th 2018
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                     man....
Mar 24th 2018
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                     exactly....Earn wouldn't even make the effort
Mar 24th 2018
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RE: She’s fine but fine ain’t enough
Mar 23rd 2018
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somehow i bet darius would've been the king of that party.
Mar 23rd 2018
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Darius would've walked up to the staring dude in the mask
Mar 23rd 2018
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Just my opinion but that’s how it felt to me
Mar 23rd 2018
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      When does Earn EVER look comfortable?
Mar 25th 2018
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She literally said the opposite
Mar 25th 2018
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You're not correct
Mar 23rd 2018
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Is it about dark skinned women tho...
Mar 23rd 2018
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Wait, what? That was the crummiest we've seen Earn act so far.
Mar 23rd 2018
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He was..
Mar 23rd 2018
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Team Van
Mar 23rd 2018
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We’ve a been Ern. Some of us been Van too
Mar 23rd 2018
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nah fuck van too. flirting w/ a white dude in another language
Mar 23rd 2018
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      You see it
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           see i just cant jump to that off the rip
Mar 23rd 2018
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                I’m in my feelings cause I tried to date that type before.
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                     Interesting
Mar 24th 2018
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Although I wasn't heavily 'entertained' that was a powerful ep
Mar 23rd 2018
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      Do they though?
Mar 25th 2018
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           LOL....I'll admit that it is skewed heavily one way over the other
Mar 26th 2018
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Helen, Ga - spot we did those river tubing trips
Mar 23rd 2018
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Van should know better than to take Earn to unfamiliar places
Mar 23rd 2018
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man that "chose black chose white" shit had me O_O
Mar 23rd 2018
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It's the Rashida vs. Kidada Jones thing. They went into it at length in ...
Mar 23rd 2018
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Bruh, that convo pretty much screamed
Mar 23rd 2018
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But Earn is always taking Van to "unfamiliar places"
Mar 23rd 2018
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How successful *IS* Paper Boi?
Mar 23rd 2018
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It sounds like he had two hit songs. He's Bankroll Fresh right now
Mar 23rd 2018
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yeah that sounds about right.
Mar 23rd 2018
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Pre Kanye Chief Keef?
Mar 23rd 2018
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Man, folks telling on themselves on what its like to date them.
Mar 23rd 2018
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Some folks aren’t meant to be together.
Mar 23rd 2018
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RE: Some folks aren’t meant to be together.
Mar 23rd 2018
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Damn... that’s cold
Mar 23rd 2018
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Any "decent" chick Earn gets with, that's going to develop eventually,
Mar 23rd 2018
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Yeah. Earn isn’t happy but I wonder if these checks
Mar 23rd 2018
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There issues are so situational though.
Mar 23rd 2018
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      Funny thing is Earn isn’t broke right now
Mar 23rd 2018
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           Good point. They haven't given her a friend worth a damn.
Mar 23rd 2018
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                Makes me wonder if she really has fun at her events
Mar 23rd 2018
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                     her events?
Mar 23rd 2018
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                          Yes, her events
Mar 23rd 2018
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                               so the week before
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                               I don’t think he feels the same way as after the strip club
Mar 24th 2018
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                               You Right About That
Mar 24th 2018
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yup
Mar 23rd 2018
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said the same in 365...agreed
Mar 23rd 2018
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Is Zazie/Van attractive or "weird" looking?
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I felt ashamed of myself for finding her so attractive last night.
Mar 23rd 2018
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see im the opposite.
Mar 23rd 2018
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      same
Mar 23rd 2018
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      Yup
Mar 23rd 2018
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I just see fine. Nothing weird about her
Mar 23rd 2018
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I kinda do the same thing with Susan Kelechi Watson/Beth
Mar 23rd 2018
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      She’s fine too
Mar 23rd 2018
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don't find her weird looking in the least
Mar 23rd 2018
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RE: Is Zazie/Van attractive or "weird" looking?
Mar 25th 2018
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Both
Mar 25th 2018
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      thank you. you get it.
Mar 26th 2018
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"Sometimes ya gotta play the tambourine...& when you play the tambourine...
Mar 23rd 2018
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^^^ Underrated Reply
Mar 24th 2018
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bloop
Mar 26th 2018
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and sometimes... you just quit the band
Mar 26th 2018
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The Chi wins
Mar 23rd 2018
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Fun fact re: The Chi
Mar 23rd 2018
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      Thanks I didn't know that. Here is a fun fact about Atlanta
Mar 25th 2018
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           I think I remember him from boardwalk
Mar 26th 2018
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           Yep that was it
Mar 27th 2018
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           he plays on Vice Principals too...he's the one who shot Gamby
Mar 26th 2018
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                Interesting
Mar 27th 2018
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I like Van but this ep was meh
Mar 23rd 2018
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the use of my angel was perfect (malaika)
Mar 23rd 2018
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how Van go from Value girl to this germantown ish?
Mar 23rd 2018
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I'm guessing this might have been Zazie's idea since she's
Mar 23rd 2018
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Van did NOTHING wrong
Mar 25th 2018
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^^^
Mar 25th 2018
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I agree except for the flirting in german w/the bartender
Mar 25th 2018
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hahah yet he took her to a strip club
Mar 25th 2018
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      What’s wrong with the strip club?
Mar 25th 2018
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           "You think I want titties in my face?" (c) Van
Mar 25th 2018
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                we sure about that? She seemed to be in a good mood when
Mar 26th 2018
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Agree entirely.
Mar 25th 2018
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Flirting with that bartender is a foreign language was worse than anyth...
Mar 25th 2018
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If Earn had been playing along Haas the bartender wouldn't have
Mar 25th 2018
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      shiieeeet, that white dude was stepping in regardless
Mar 26th 2018
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           facts.
Mar 26th 2018
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                bruh, anytime a Black girl shows up to a white ass event
Mar 26th 2018
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Van did a few things wrong though
Mar 26th 2018
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      ^ keen peepologist
Mar 26th 2018
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      THANK YOUUUUU!!! lol
Mar 26th 2018
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      On point 1 though....
Mar 26th 2018
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      I don't think there is any amount of prepping you can do for that
Mar 26th 2018
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      This is an assumption which we both don't know
Mar 26th 2018
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      RE: Van did a few things wrong though
Mar 26th 2018
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      RE:
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      this
Mar 26th 2018
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      RE: Van did a few things wrong though
Mar 26th 2018
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      fam, are you in love with Van?
Mar 29th 2018
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      I got a problem with "she doesn't deserve"
Mar 26th 2018
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      semantics.. I think the proper word is "attract"
Mar 26th 2018
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           Thanks for translating. Wonder why Hitokiri didn't take issue
Mar 26th 2018
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      Nope. It's all Earn.
Mar 27th 2018
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           RE: Nope. It's all Earn.
Mar 27th 2018
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                Just rewatched the episode. Van was on that bullshit
Mar 29th 2018
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i hate that raunchy sex scenes are the norm for regular tv now
Mar 26th 2018
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You hate seeing T&A? What's wrong with you, bruh?
Mar 26th 2018
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and cursing.
Mar 26th 2018
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This Van episode and this post is also telling about an Introvert
Mar 27th 2018
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holy shit, i forgot
Mar 27th 2018
484
Barbershop, doe.
Mar 29th 2018
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I am DYING watching this episode
Mar 29th 2018
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Prolly the funniest episode yet.
Mar 29th 2018
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"We had a good day today... Found a girl, hit it from the back."
Mar 30th 2018
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      You got to mentor some kids... you’re welcome.
Mar 30th 2018
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I've never had a barber like that, but I know barbers like that
Mar 30th 2018
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Paperboy is lowkey the most interesting character
Mar 30th 2018
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just a regular dude
Mar 30th 2018
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28. "That was amazing. He goes "no. no. no.""
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2. "Shit was epic..."
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Damn this show is dope

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3. "That cold open was fucking insane. "
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9. "when the fast food guy pulled out the chopper....."
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my jaw dropped.

That scene was legit suspenseful.
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10. "I yelled “Holy shit!”"
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Kept yelling it too as the scene further unfolded.

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30. "The Cold Opening Felt like the opening to a totally different movie"
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that I totally want to see.


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31. "my favorite detail is that they were playing FIFA before they rolled out"
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small touch but it's the mark of a show that is with the times. madden is washed and 2k is getting there. fifa def the most played sports game these days even in the hood.

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74. "And he was horrible at it lol"
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75. "naw...niggas in the hood still on that 2K"
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82. "Yeah he went all the way out the window with that one."
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94. "i must be imagining things then"
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2k been dethroned around my way.

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99. "you and Childish got something in common"
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just sayin'

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102. "facts"
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42. "I fell out laughing at that line"
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The introspective on Hot Cheetoes was great too...

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143. "They are doing a movie on the guy who created hot cheetos"
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/23/the-flamin-hot-cheetos-movie-how-a-frito-lay-janitor-created-one-of-americas-most-popular-snacks/?utm_term=.f4854b4fff04

The Flamin' Hot Cheetos movie: How a Frito-Lay janitor created one of America's most popular snacks

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos — the spicy red version of the classic cheese-flavored snack — are something of a cultural phenomenon. A group of children rapping about them racked up more than 16 million views on YouTube. Pop star Katy Perry even dressed as a Flamin’ Hot for Halloween.

Although several schools banned them, saying they were unhealthy, the snacks enjoy the kind of high profile that research chefs and food scientists employed by big companies like Frito-Lay spend their careers chasing. But Flamin’ Hot Cheetos weren’t made by any experts.

They were invented by a janitor, the son of a Mexican immigrant who dropped out of school because he struggled with English.

His name is Richard Montañez, and Fox Searchlight Pictures is making a movie about his life.

Lewis Colick, who wrote “Charlie St. Cloud” and “October Sky,” will pen the first draft of the screenplay, based on the initial pitch from Montañez and producer DeVon Franklin, Variety reported.

The biopic, titled “Flamin’ Hot,” will follow Montañez’s real-life rags-to-riches tale.

He grew up on a farm migrant labor camp in Guasti, Calif., a tiny town centered on winemaking. As a child, Montañez — one of 11 siblings — picked grapes at the vineyards and ate a communal table with several other families.

But he had an entrepreneurial streak even then.

In his memoir, “A Boy, a Burrito, and a Cookie,” he described arriving at his white elementary school during segregation. His bus was green, while the white children rode a yellow bus. Speaking only Spanish, he couldn’t understand anyone.

He felt like an outsider, especially at lunchtime when he pulled out a burrito. In the 1960s, Mexican food wasn’t the popular staple in white communities it is now. The other kids, with their bologna sandwiches and cupcakes, stared on in confusion until he grew embarrassed and put it back in his bag.

He begged his mom to make him the same food as everyone else, but she refused. Instead, the next day, she made him two burritos for lunch and told him to make a friend.

By the end of the week, he was selling burritos to his white classmates for 25 cents each.


“I learned at that moment that there was something special about being different, that there was a reason that we all just couldn’t fit into the same box,” he wrote.

His background would prove useful again later in life, but first it presented an obstacle. Montañez’s struggle to learn English was so severe that he dropped out of school at a young age. He worked various low-paying jobs, from slaughtering chickens to gardening around town, picking up English along the way.

When he was about 12 years old in 1976, Montañez landed a job working as a janitor at a California Frito-Lay plant.

One day, as he told Lowrider magazine, he saw a company-wide video of then-CEO Roger Enrico saying, “We want every worker in this company to act like an owner. Make a difference. You belong to this company, so make it better.”

Montañez took these words to heart.

“Here’s my invitation. Here’s the CEO telling me, the janitor, that I can act like an owner,” Montañez later recalled at the 2014 League of United Latin American Citizens’ National Convention. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. Didn’t need to. But I knew I was going to act like an owner.”


As he tells it, one day an assembly line at the plant where he worked broke down. A batch of Cheetos didn’t receive the orange, cheesy dust that make them so popular. So he took a few home to experiment.

He had formed an idea while watching a street vendor in his neighborhood make elote, or grilled Mexican street corn — corn on the cob covered in cheese, butter, lime and chili.

“What if I took the same concept and applied it to a Cheeto?” he thought, according to his memoir.


A bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. (Frito-Lay)
So he did. His friends and family loved the result. Thinking back to the video and figuring he had nothing to lose, he decided to call Enrico to pitch the idea.

Enrico took his call and told Montañez to present his product in two weeks. So the janitor went out and bought his first-ever tie for $3, then stopped by a library to get a book on marketing and copied a strategy out of it to recite during the presentation.

“I’m a little bit of an artist so I even designed the bags and put the Cheetos in it,” he told Fox News Latino.

Against all odds, it worked. Enrico loved the idea, and a new line of spicy snack food was born — with Flamin’ Hot Cheetos as its flagship. Montañez has since served in various positions throughout the company, including as an executive vice president.

“Many times, greatness will come in ridiculous forms, a ridiculous idea might be a billion dollar idea,” he told Fox News Latino.

He now travels around the country, giving speeches on the importance of diversity in business. His message is always simple, as he told the audience at the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Power of Diversity event, according to the Kansas City Star.

“If you have confidence, you can walk into any room,” he said. “Your job is to prepare yourself to walk through the doors.”

It certainly worked for him. And while his wardrobe has grown considerably since he walked into that room with Enrico, he still holds onto that $3 tie.

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5. "just as dope as s1"
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6. "https://media.giphy.com/media/zeBFsk3zkMra8/giphy.gif"
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7. "Is there an aligator in there?"
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8. "Shouts to Death Grips"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnnniIsw3b0

It was fantastic; looks like this season gonna be dark as shit

  

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12. "Legit lost it when I heard it in the episode "
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Dope episode

  

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11. "THAT'S THE ALLIGATOR MAN!"
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293. "Them kids aint lying to you!"
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Man, so many great lines. Katt's delivery was superb.

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13. "Premiere was awesome. "
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The writers are borderline genius.

  

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14. "Few thoughts"
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How the hell dude miss with the chopper?

Atillah is Darius.

Kart Williams was hilarious. I just knew he was coming out in some fly pimp shit with some gator boots.

the reaction to the gold gun.. lol

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57. "a few responses..."
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>How the hell dude miss with the chopper?

much different situation when your target is moving AND returning fire. er'ybody ain't 'bout that life.

>Atillah is Darius.

with all due respect, its bigger than atillah. darius is OKP.

>Kart Williams was hilarious. I just knew he was coming out in
>some fly pimp shit with some gator boots.

casting kat in that role was simple genius. he nailed it. and that closing scene???

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!

which leads me to...

>the reaction to the gold gun.. lol

hilarious.


*skatin' the rings of saturn*


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103. "Ha I’ll take that comparison. I’ve actually walked around like in th..."
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https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/files/2018/02/ATL_104_0535d.jpg&w=1484

It was a wooden Japanese sword but yeah lol uncanny parallel

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113. "nah, I think Ern is OKP"
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cynical, smart as shit, still fucking up but pretty spot on when it comes to most things that don't involve women or throwing hands.

Darius tho.. that nigga is Atillah. Darius be knowing random ancient facts that no one gives a shit about and everything is a conspiracy.

trust me on this one.

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134. "if that's the case, the entire show..."
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..reads like it was a collaborative effort written on the boards of okp.



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15. "we dont deserve this show."
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16. "Yes we do. After all these years... "
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Yes, we deserve this and much more.

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18. "that wasnt literal babybro."
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i aint smacking away tv shows while niggas raise their outstretched hands like oliver twist.

  

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19. "Haha"
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17. "White folks coming for Glover's use of Katt Williams...don't let them. "
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/atlanta-season-2-tries-to-redeem-serial-abuser-katt-williams



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20. "Lmao at calling him almost unrecognizable "
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White people are funny

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21. "they so intellectually dishonest. they can't act like it wasnt poignant ..."
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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32. "The intellectually dishonest part is acting like they give a shit about "
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Katt Williams or his victims.

They Like Glover. And it's causing them cognitive dissonance that Glover would be cool with Katt Williams. They just want the part they like.




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70. "^^^^"
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77. "100%"
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One Hundred.

  

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81. "RE: The intellectually dishonest part is acting like they give a shit ab..."
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>Katt Williams or his victims.
>
>They Like Glover. And it's causing them cognitive dissonance
>that Glover would be cool with Katt Williams. They just want
>the part they like.



^^^^^^^^^^^^

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162. "OOOO Ooooooh"
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You got it.

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257. "^^^^"
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- - - Begin Sig. - - -

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'" ~ ~ Anne Radmacher

  

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25. "smh everything aint gotta be thinkpieced."
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65. "THANK YOU"
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66. "I'm so sick of these type of articles and opinions. Enough already damn"
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68. "But did you click on it though?"
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Because its like our hatred only makes them grow stronger

  

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101. "You should have swiped it so we don't have to give them clicks."
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________________________________
There are dozens of us! Dozens!

  

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22. "this show needs to be an hour"
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or at least have 1 or 2 eps a season that are.

<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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26. "premiere and finale at least."
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27. "Yeah, I was mad it was over so soon"
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51. "Haha we got an extra 10 minutes I'll take what I can get lol"
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23. "Impeccable writing...and incredible performance by Katt"
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who was just playin Katt


I swear the writers have perused these boards too...

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Coolin...

  

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84. "i am certain of it. i am also ok with it"
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>I swear the writers have perused these boards too...
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98. "i'm ok with it...but DEFINITELY noticed it.."
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153. "RE: i'm ok with it...but DEFINITELY noticed it.."
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just wondering, cuz i hear this all the time on here, which bits stuck out to you specifically? or is it more of a general vibe/aesthetic?

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24. ""Nigga, who is you, the landlord?""
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29. "The robbery shootout is confusing to me..."
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I swear there is no woman in the back seat while they are ordering. She suddenly appeared while they are driving off? What up with that?
Where did she come from?

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33. "I think this season is going to have a bunch of random shit"
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or so I heard...

prolly just to show all the wild shit that happens in the A.

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34. "How they reveal info to me is a great part of the story telling. "
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Like while watching that opening sequence you are in a constant state of "what the heck is going on"

I was wondering what these dudes relation to Donald Glover and his ppl were.

I was wondering what they were talking about when they were talking about (what's the name of the drive through?)

When I finally thought I got my barrings (sp), and realized they were talking about a drive through you could order weed, they flipped it and it turned into a robbery story.

It took a second for me to realize those guys were the robbers.

Then when I thought I had the story again, they reveal there was a woman in the backseat.

The could have had a scene in which you see the decision to rob the place and the woman in the backseat, but way more interesting to tell the story the way they did.

It reminded me a lot of the Wire when I was constantly wondering what the fuck was going on, and was rewarded hugely when I figured out what was going on.


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36. "I thought they were going to cop some trees"
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but everything else seemed obvious...

until the woman popped out the car.

Why the fuck you stop and let her out right there?

it was dramatic but it wasn't believable at all to me.

I could see stopping around the corner but not right there after getting lit up by the chopper.

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127. "bc they aint about to let her bleed all over the ride"
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evidence nigga

Let me sport my Air Hyperbole 2010s in peace. (c) ansomble

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128. "You so smart "
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35. "im just gonna assume she was laying down"
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like they told her they were gonna get some chicken and to roll w/ em even though they were gonna rob the joint.

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37. "I don't think it was those dudes that robbed the drive-thru"
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I think they were next in line.
The woman was withe the robbers, who didn't expect to wind up in a gun fight. They left her there so an ambo could pick her up without them having to bring her to the hospital

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38. "hmm... I didn't catch that. I thought it was the same car"
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but you could be right

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40. "I just watched it again. I'm wrong, it was the same dudes"
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So, no explanation of the girl.

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41. "I think the girl was just to show how random shit can be"
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and how innocent bystanders are usually the victims in a lot of these crimes.

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43. "Yeah I'm thinking it's not supposed to make sense"
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Like the nutella sandwich man in season 1

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39. "Oh shit. Gotta watch again you might be right."
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56. "dude was a terrible shot"
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67. "i was watching like, "THIS storm trooper shootin ass mfer..." "
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and then ol girl get shot up. i'm like, damn.

whole thing was wild and, as was mentioned above, how they told it.

i'm mentally patting myself on the back for recognizing that they went through the drive through to get some smoke (the order came to $51??? they had a lotta food too before ordering that #17).

and then, dude jumps through the window.

and then i'm thinking (remember in Santa Claus Is Coming to Town cartoons where the kids / audience be like, 'so THAT's why he wear a red suit' ? ) , THAT's why drive throughs be having them little ass windows.

and dude was a lazy ass robber. looking for the weed and he puts his gun up on the top shelf for a minute. lol.



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112. "huh? they talked about the drive thru order 17 for weed at the house?"
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maybe I'm missing something but I thought that was obvious.

and when they ordered the 17 the total came to $61 dollars which was why dude said

"I told you!"



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71. "watching it a second time it makes no sense and"
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i'm not even sure that's the crime scene Earn and Darius are looking at at the gas station....

still, it's such an excellent opening: unique and captivating, not only in what happens but how it was shot.

Hiro Murai is the muthafucn man

  

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121. "Pretty sure that scene at the gas station was another crime scene"
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It was just an opening to show it’s robbing season. It ain’t that deep.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they circle back or update that crime later in the season. Prolly the last episode.

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138. "who's trying to get deep legs"
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i'm saying even with it making little sense as a cold open, it still works, and like you said to frame the "robbin season"

  

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76. "They was playing that TayK which is a robbin song..I knew what"
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was bout to happen

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83. "can you post a youtube of it or something? Iono what song it is"
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Never heard of it

  

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91. "https://youtu.be/a3PpYLI4c2o"
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https://youtu.be/a3PpYLI4c2o



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one half of the most dynamic tag team on the net...nappyafro's FROCAST!

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110. "it's a black twin peaks....did the invisible car in the club parking lot..."
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in season 1 also confuse you?

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44. "Someone needs to cast Katt in a more dramatic role "
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Dude was incredible .

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45. "yeah, I could see Katt getting award noms in the right role."
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46. "He put that real-life crazy to use."
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48. "Reminded me of Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls"
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Where you finally got to see Eddie’s range as a legit actor

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50. "love seeing him channel that energy"
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Hope he gets a chance in other dramatic roles

  

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47. "A cool, subtle detail. When Earn is talking to Katt's girlfriend in "
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the bedroom, you see the mini-library, including what's either a French textbook or dictionary. Then Earn reveals that Katt has always been a smart dude. I was slightly suspecting that about his character, and then it was confirmed.

  

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49. "Y'all catch a different girl than Tara in the background when Al and "
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Earn are talking?

Thought that was a cute Easter egg

I feel like most sitcoms would end it with Al sayin "Hey Regina pass me that" so you KNOW it wasn't her but they just let it be for those that notice.

  

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52. "Nah.. but I love how Al had the “Really my nigga” when Earn fucked u..."
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55. "Haha yup the one hand up then two cracks me up."
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It totally said "Niggaaaaaaaaa" without saying a single word lmao.

  

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58. "First hand was niiiigga, second hand was reeeally my nigga? "
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59. "Hahahaha yup"
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72. "when she clowns Earn for saying he loves them both"
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i cackled

  

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78. "I caught it on the 2nd viewing nm"
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53. "so good"
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fairweather

  

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54. "that shit gold"
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60. "A friend on FB said the second season was bad... "
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He gets advanced copies for his job.

After everyone on FB praised the 1st episode he was like “let me go back and watch it again, I didn’t get it and thought it made no sense”

I think the problem is he wants Atlanta to be something it isn’t. It’s not a traditional show with that old ass formula.

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61. "Yup"
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>I think the problem is he wants Atlanta to be something it
>isn’t. It’s not a traditional show with that old ass
>formula.

Which is why it's great and kinda oddly aligns more with the black experience than what we usually get if you think about it. The A to B to C tv sitcom/drama may lend some Shakespearian gravitas to the black experience in the hood , but it doesn't capture the essense of just how strange the shit is.

How many times you think back to some random shit that happened when you were young and shrugged it off at the time but now are like 'WTF, that shit was crazy'.

And its small random shit too; like it popped in my head recently where I was walking to work one day from my old apt and NYPD was outside this house wearing bulletproof vests, AR-15's, and a battering ram pulling off a raid on a random ass weekday morning at 7am. I didn't even lower the sound on my headphones when i walked by, LOL.

That randomness doesn't happen when resources to ensure that things go smoothly a la suburbs/well to do areas.

  

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62. "Each episode can be a jarring transition from the next."
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Which is a pretty black experience.

Like being black in america can mean moving from discussing avocado toast and favorite type of Kimchi with your white co-workers and then getting a collect call from prison from your cousin.

Black movies and tv up until this point weren't great at capturing that duality. Either it's hood shit or boogie shit.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

  

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64. "or dancing in the living room with your friends. "
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73. "THIS"
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63. "Back in Richmond we were smoking a blunt in the living room"
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Someone opened our front door and said hello a few times and then closed the front door. I went out to see who it was and when I opened the door there was an ATF officer standing there and 4 more ATF officers and 2 cop cars. I sobered up completely and he said someone told him the van in the middle of the street with all the doors open belonged to us. I said NOPE and closed the door.

Told to put the blunt out and go upstairs to the back of the house... so we could finish the blunt cause you know, it’s college.

So we are smoking in my roommates room and see a homeless dude crouches down to take a shit. We screamed for him to stop but he ignored us. My boy was eating an apple at the time and threw it at high in the air and and hit him on the head. We died laughing. Dude looked up, apologized and KIM.

We looked at each other and said “man, it’s been a crazy day and it’s only 2PM.

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69. "Richmond is by far the weirdest and most surrealist city I've been too"
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half those art school kids are tripping on something at any given time

  

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100. "I miss it"
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and yeah, I worked at a homeless shelter AND I was an art student so I seen and heard some really wild shit.

a dude I knew put us on Ecstasy when it first made its way to VA. He ended up getting kicked out of college. Dude was up in a tree with no shirt on and a fur scarf.

They ended up taking him to an institution and his dad had to come pick him up. His dad was an Ambassador to Columbia or Panama too.

kids jumping out windows, our friend ended up kiling his friend and we still don't know why..

a homeless white dude who used to say racist shit when he was drunk didn't return to the shelter. They found his head sliced clean off on the pedestrian bridge at Belle Island.

homeless dudes would creep out the alley at 4AM and my date would scream and they would be like "yo.. what up man, sorry I ain't been in the shelter but this weather been nice.. and sorry for scaring your lady, peace man"




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142. "Please do a Richmond appreciation post"
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cus that just took me back lol

  

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176. "word up, Richmond is slept on when it comes to food"
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one of the best cities I ever been to for food

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109. "Y'all know I'm the usual, corporate, but live in South Central, right."
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I get home from work on Thursday of All Star Weekend, and get home to change real fast and go DJ an all Trap concert (which ended up being SUPER random). And while I'm changing, I hear noise outside. I look outside, and................

https://twitter.com/dj_RTistic/status/964333241028128768

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50+ FREE Mixes on www.DJR-Tistic.com!

Twitter and Instagram - @DJ_RTistic

  

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124. "LOL. What's nuts is how routine for everyone involved"
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Them niggas were spread and frisk ready, all professional trap dudes and shit.

  

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199. "Highschool dude I used to kick it with tells me to ride w/him to some gi..."
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Bet, his mother was disabled so he had a hardship license when we were 15.
We pull up to the spot, I unbuckle my seatbelt and dude is like nah you staying in the car. He reaches in the center console, pulls out a brick, dips in the house and out
I knew he smoked, didn't know he sold up until that moment, and for damn sure didn't know that I was going along with it.

We didn't kick it much after that

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217. "reminds me of living at the beach when we were 21"
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our best friend from college was from the beach we had our summer house at so we'd hang out w/ him like everyday when we weren't at work.

since we moved down there mid-month and didnt lock our jobs in until almost the end of the month we were gonna be short on that first month's rent. me and him went up to the gas station one day and he hits me like "i know yall are good to pay me back once yall get a few checks saved up, how much do yall need for right now?"
"none man, we'll figure it out."
*reaches in the center console and pulls out a roll of $100s. had to be at least $5000 on it. "here's 2k man that should cover it"

my face
https://media.giphy.com/media/xyPmHxOoIc9Hi/giphy.gif

anywhere we went with that dude we were golden. got mad free shit. didnt have to pay for drinks/covers. folks would let us into exclusive resorts and shit out there. it was wild hanging out with that dude. and if we werent w/ him all we ever had to do was just drop his name and it was like the floodgates would open up.

<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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79. "youre homeless..you dont even have a mirror to look at yourself"
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96. "that line was so cold it made ME feel homeless"
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sitting up in my own crib that i pay a mortgage on.

too many quotables in that one scene.

  

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106. "ya that was a cold line and said coldly lol"
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>sitting up in my own crib that i pay a mortgage on.
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>too many quotables in that one scene.
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80. "Still stuff..."
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On Katt's performance....He needs to do more drama/comedy.....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

  

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85. "Katt Williams stole the episode for me"
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He was perfect.
He had to have improvised or written some of his own lines.

I never knew I wanted to see Katt Williams in film
And now I do,

ps when his little ass frame was running as fast as it could, i damn near died.

  

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86. "Ha! Yeah that 'that bitch ain't be a kid since 1975' sounds very Katt."
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87. "'no she dont live here, im just fuckin the bitch'"
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that got katts fingerprints all over it.

  

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97. "We ain't domestic we ain't even married "
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88. "all i know is i aint done shit so i aint gotta do shit"
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dude

  

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95. "lol. i paused after he said that "
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and looked around the room like "where's the lie?"

  

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136. "that gotta at LEAST be a t-shirt. but i can see somebody saying that"
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shit to po-po like its they amanda rights:

"I ain't DONE shit so i ain't gotta DO shit!"

you know somebody gonna try it.















**miranda








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187. "RE: that gotta at LEAST be a t-shirt. but i can see somebody saying that"
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I died at amanda...thought it was on purpose

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89. "Same ! That was fucking hilarious."
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>ps when his little ass frame was running as fast as it could,
>i damn near died.

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90. "do they give Emmy's for guest performances?"
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because if they do, he should get one

  

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93. "he should but THEY will thinkpiece him out of it."
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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137. "he was movin fast as hell... but drifting right. "
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>ps when his little ass frame was running as fast as it could,
>i damn near died.

great form. down the middle of the street so he ain't trip on no roots breaking up the sidewalk.

that was a great scene. needs to be a meme / gif.


peace & blessings,

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92. "The Meta commentary of Donald GLover telling Katt WIlliams"
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he's afraid of fucking up his shot in life like he did was POWERFUL

Also WTF at fast food dude apparently hitting NOBODY in that opening sequence

R.I.P. Loud But Wrong Guy
Dec 29th 2009 - Dec 17th 2017

  

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105. "Get rid of that chip on your shoulder"
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goddamn that line hit me like a ton of bricks


I can feel damn near every emotion watching the right episode of this

  

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107. "So Powerful. It also drives the point home that "
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Earn IS a fuck-up, or at least failing at adulthood.

When we first met him, he was staying at his baby mother's, not paying pay rent, turned away by his parents and even Alfred wasn't trying to mess with him at first. Also, jail.

Flash forward to now- STILL homeless, with a charge that has nothing to do with the shooting from the first episode?

Because of the kind of black dude Earn is, and because he's the protagonist, it's easy to gloss over, but he is a fuck-up, and his fears about ending up like his uncle are founded.

  

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135. "RE: So Powerful. It also drives the point home that "
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>
>Flash forward to now- STILL homeless, with a charge that has
>nothing to do with the shooting from the first episode?

neither him or albert caught any charge "connected" with a shooting. ern was arrested for the 1/2 spliff ...al for disorderly conduct

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108. "LaKeith Stanfield is a freakin' national treasure"
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Between "Florida Man", the cold-ass sliders and "The vibe in here is starting to feel more and more like jail," I was in stitches.

  

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111. "think of him as an alt-right Johnny Appleseed"
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LMAO

  

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114. "Wow. My uncle just called me because he got a warrant out for him"
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Because he was arguing with my aunt and neighbor called the police.

My small framed uncle who walks around with a chip on his shoulder (almost got into a fight and threatened to pop the trunk at my babyshower).

Had to walk out an office meeting to take the call.

Atlanta is real.


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116. "LMAO yo."
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115. "So Ern is so bitchmade he just watched dude take his shit? "
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no fight?

No nothing?

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117. "Life has him giving Zero F's"
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.
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118. "Yeah I watch Storage Wars too....this ain't that"
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lol

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122. "I laughed"
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119. "Seem like he ain't have shit worth fighting for. "
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120. "Realisticly, where would he even keep his shit"
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if he had to vacate quickly

At that point it's more effort than it's worth

Unless you just want to get out some aggression

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129. "the nigga already on papers...so yea...no"
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most of that shit probably aint worth keeping and he aint got nowhere to take it lol

plus, why would we expect that out of Earn?

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131. "That shit getting auctioned off eventually anyways"
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What's he fighting for?

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132. "fighting for his pride? "
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140. "Pride? That stuff isn't his anymore..."
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What I look like fighting a nigga over a lamp that used to be mine.

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123. "Thank God Craig Robinson didn't get the part of Paper Boi. "
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125. "That either would have been Terrible or"
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he would have had to COMPLETELY made himself look unrecognizeable.

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126. "Would have been a completely different show. "
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130. "damn near 130 replies..."
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each ep is gonna have to have it's own post, lol.

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133. "we had a year off"
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139. "I heard this season was going to be darker. "
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They didn't go as far as have someone killed (that we saw alive at some point) in the first episode but I can see how they setting the stage for a darker season.


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141. "I hope they don't over play it"
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I don't want this to turn into Atlanta SVU

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144. "well they need to ease up on that"
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i don't mind seriousness but i can't take any more black despair.
i don't like that thing where the only way to get deep is to get dark.
there has to be another way.

i love this show and i liked the good mix of lightness mixed with heavier themes last season.

  

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145. "it isnt despair, dark or deep. it's just life"
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i mean the uncle willy shit was "dark" but it was funny as hell too. life is like that.

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146. "Yeah, if that is what they mean by dark than that's welcomed but"
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The worst moment of last season is when them migos dude shot that dude in the back. Just didn't fit into anything tone-wise the show was doing.


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147. "White dude got shot by the cops"
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when Earn was going to get his jacket.

I just want to know if Darius and Earn are going to make money off those puppies.

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149. "Oh yeah, I forgot that...That was actually funny. "
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Black dude in the woods wasn't funny though.


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150. "The woods scene was dark because it was night"
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but that scene didn’t move me at all.

It felt hokey IMO. Shooting someone in the dark with shades on? Shit was corny.

White dude getting shot was a mind fuck because we never see that happen.

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155. "Gotdamn they answered my question"
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and Earn still fucked it up.




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148. "yeah. that type of stuff i don't mind"
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>i mean the uncle willy shit was "dark" but it was funny as
>hell too. life is like that.
true

  

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151. "Episode 2: Sportin Waves"
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somebody explain this gift card scam to me.

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154. "Bad Idea Jeans, basically. "
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and we was just talkin about when Earn was gonna get the come up
*SPOILERS*
























off the puppies. darius is that dude. 4k. and then this ni&&a go and put it all on what's behind door #2.

plus, earn on double secret probation. he can't be fuckin w/ no illegal shit. c'mon, son.

and *dead* at 'no chase policy'.

  

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156. "Ok, I'm officially on the "Earn is a fuck up" train"
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He just had to give dude the full 4K

THAT dude?!

Start off with a light 500, see how that goes

Also lol/smh at the trio of failed connects

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157. "(But them Waves tho...)"
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nm

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159. "That's exactly what I said! Why you gonna go "
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and try to flip the entire 4k?!
Nigga!
Start with $500!
WTF!
Dumbass.

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160. "i thought that was lowkey a commentary on black money mgmt"
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always looking for a finesse, a corner to cut. instead of knowing when to fold em.

i dont begrudge him for trying to come up but my nigga you are broke. give like a G of that to your baby mama and then take care of yourself. maybe try to finesse 500 of it.

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163. "Right. The first thing I thought was at least a third of that was "
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supposed to go to Zazie.

I figured Earn to understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Maybe this is insight into why his life is fucked, despite being very intelligent.

  

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201. "it really was. i was mad at dude, adn then it was like reading the OT"
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when the israelites stay doing dumb ish. it's a mirror.

watching from that good outsider perspective, or from hindsight, it's easy to see. but when you in the middle of life making fucked up decision after fucked up decision, it don't seem that way.

but, word. start off light. he gave bruhman the WHOLE 4k.

ni&&a, your drug class is like $350. you could have at least set that shit aside so you can not get a warrant.

damn.


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168. "now we know why he didn't last at Princeton"
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194. "we do?"
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284. "I'm willing to bet his character reacted to college like I did"
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I didn't go to anything prestigious, but I chose the state school because I wanted to go to the football games. I didn't think about my living situation or how I'd react to being away from home or how interested I was in the campus culture or whether I'd want to meet anybody new; I just picked the school because I wanted to get cheap tickets to football.


Unlike Earn I was a slacker ass student but I definitely had potential; I was 1 point away from an ACT score that'd have earned me a full ride so I ran off with a bunch of grants and low-interest loans. But college just wasn't for me, I hated the culture I was surrounded by and the friends I kept mostly stayed making the situation feel weird, like I was missing something or didn't get something fundamental about the experience. Wound up meeting some trapper dude that lived near a fraternity party house and rather than go to class, I just turned that semester into the only period of my life I ever professionally sold drugs then moved back home to city college (and that's a whole other story).


But I'm thinking what probably happened with Earn is something somewhat similar (though obviously more to do with race than the general anxiety I dealt with); he went to Princeton because of one or two Big Ideas he had about what that experience would be like, quickly found that it was something else entirely (you see how quickly he bucks back at white-laced spaces like Craig's house last season or the marketing start-up in episode 2) and decided he'd rather try to cut corners or straight up fuck up than play that game. And it's dogged him ever since to the point he's looking for any shortcut he can find to put him in the position he saw going to Princeton putting him in in the first place.


I'd also read a comment in some season preview article that said one of the more interesting things about Atlanta is how its characters exist in that weird middle ground of high-poverty where you mostly feel comfortable with your station in life whether because it's all you've ever known or you're familiar enough with the idea of happiness that you can manufacture it moment to moment. But these characters let themselves get trapped by those moments of happiness and constantly forget or put off how dire their situation is in the grand scheme of things; Van's episode last season was a perfect example of that mindset I'm all too familiar with, of fucking up right when you're on the cusp of leading a normal adult life because somehow your mind convinces you you might not have been worth that regular life anyway. It's definitely refreshing to see in a non-David Simon, comedic setting, but the laughter doesn't necessarily hide the pain.


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164. "Yeah, I felt bad at first when Al introduced Earn as his cousin"
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and not his manager at the streaming place (I think that's what it was.) Because that's the type of place where you should lead with your professional relationship. But at the same time, it's hard to take him seriously in a "manager" role when he gave that dude $4k and thought he'd get double that back ON A MALL GIFT CARD. I know he only did it in part because Al told him to trust him, but Earn's managerial skills don't seem to go much farther than "can talk to white people that Al's too frustrated to talk to."

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167. "I said to myself, give him a stack and see how it goes"
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this nigga gave 4000 to a nigga fresh out for gift cards?

Like.. you can't buy no weed with gift cards bruh

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193. "Yup"
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173. "The Yahoo commercial...."
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Just Epic. Earn was right too, it actually was dope. LMAO!

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185. "Yoohoo...sorry"
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229. "That Dirty Sprite line had me dead, and it made me wish for another"
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197. "Also Earn isn't a great manager. "
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he should've had al ready for that meeting and in a better mood (idk what he can do with no money and resources, but if he's a manager, he's gotta manage)

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152. "Maan, PaperBoi's Facial Expressions are PRICELESS"
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Dude has the super Ray Liotta/Gillie the Kid face when something pisses him off

  

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165. "Could teach a master class on exasperated facial expressions"
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166. "yeah that's a major strength in his acting...gets me every time"
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203. "In Praise of Paperboi's Scowl (SWIPE)"
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https://uproxx.com/sepinwall/atlanta-review-sportin-waves-recap-spoilers-paper-boi/

One of the great joys of watching Atlanta, ironically, is the look of withering disdain that Brian Tyree Henry can conjure up whenever Alfred’s unhappy with the world around him. It’s a look at once so pronounced and so pure that it wouldn’t be out of place in a sitcom from TV’s first golden age (Henry’s size, plus the sheer exasperation on his face, can feel positively Gleason-esque), even as it also fits perfectly into the half-surreal/half-raw world of this one.

Much of “Sportin’ Waves” is about Al reckoning with the many downsides to Paper Boi’s popularity, which makes it a particularly delightful showcase for that scowl of his.

The episode opens with Al getting ripped off by a longtime drug connect who assumes he’s too rich from the musical career to miss the money. The problem — beyond the guy taking Al’s car keys — is that the music business doesn’t pay the way anybody thinks it does, and weed is still where Al gets most of his income. This leads him looking for a new reup, but his fame keeps getting in the way: One guy sneaks a selfie of him (and posts it to Instagram even as he’s lying about doing it), while another is a big fan with a girlfriend who does a sensitive acoustic cover of Paper Boi’s single, and sends him so many texts in a row that an infuriated Al chucks his phone out the window.

The music biz does offer opportunities this time out, but they come with their own irritations. A good chunk of the episode takes place at the office of a music streaming service, who are offering Al and Earn a big check in exchange for a series of awkward meetings — the moment where no one can figure out how to play the new Paper Boi album was pitch perfect (I’ve experienced plenty of similarly mortifying and interminable technical glitches at technology companies) — and a performance for a group of bored cubicle drones who can barely be bothered to pay attention to this week’s celebrity guest meant to reward them for working too many hours for not enough pay.

At least Al comes out of the event with some money, albeit not as much as another local rap star, Clark, who in addition to getting a more enthusiastic response from the streaming execs lands a lucrative Yoohoo commercial. Earn finally lives up to his name when Darius gives him the belated payment for the dog trade he made back in season one’s “The Streisand Effect” — a nice bit of continuity on a show that can be agnostic about it — but blows it by getting too greedy and going along with Tracy’s(*) promise that he can double the money via a bootleg mall gift card. So instead of having four grand to spend as needed — say, to help make Earn a bit less homeless — the scam gets discovered and Earn has to race to spend whatever he can in about twenty minutes, which proves to be less than the original amount, much of it used to buy stuff he doesn’t even need. And Tracy, meanwhile, manages to walk out with several boxes of stolen sneakers, due to the store’s no-chase policy, though the job interview he’s so confident about doesn’t go quite as well, transforming his assured smile into an angry and profane rant about racist hiring practices.

(*) Game recognize game: Tracy, a character on one of TV’s best and most unusual comedies, offers a brief bit of critical analysis of another when he tells Earn his conflicted feelings about BoJack Horseman, and how he admires the show’s artistry but isn’t sure he can tolerate BoJack himself. A beautiful and unexpected TV nerd joke.

In not much time, Tracy’s proven to be a fine addition to the group, even if he’s cutting into the amount of Darius a bit. “Sportin’ Waves” didn’t have anything quite as surprising as the premiere’s fast food robbery or alligator saunter, but it’s one of the series’ most consistent — and consistently funny — installments yet.

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158. "Where they hiding Zazie tho?"
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161. "Next episode"
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169. "Weedman and Dem Waves"
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We was dying when dude put the pistol
on Al in the beginning talk bout
"Paperboy, my bad bruh. I'll pay you back"


When Homie took off the durag and they did the
slow close up from behind, oh ma god!
Dude had that hard ass line on the forehead too
*dead*

  

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170. "man, that shit in the beginning reminded me of Philly"
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My boy woke up with a pistol in his face. Dude who sold him some weed after a basketball game circled back and got him.

They were sloppy as shit and way too trusting to deal with grimey Philly niggas.

First mistake was letting him know where you live, second was letting him inside to see your goods.

Dude tied up my boy and was like “sorry man, but someone robbed me so I have to rob you”

my boy said.. can you leave me $20. Dude was like “aight... “ and put a 20 in his shirt pocket , then he took a few steps and was like “naaah, sorry man, imma need that 20”


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171. "lmao"
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>my boy said.. can you leave me $20. Dude was like “aight...
>“ and put a 20 in his shirt pocket , then he took a few
>steps and was like “naaah, sorry man, imma need that 20”

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172. "so then we go to the landlord"
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to get them to change the locks

landlord: so they picked the lock, kicked the door in, how did they get in?

Silence... then we look at our friends roommate who never locks the door.

Friend screams: "but we should still change the locks right?"

landlord: yeah. that would help... by the way...I watched Law & Order Special Victims Unit last night

we look at each other, get up and leave

landlord: where you going? ah cmon.. no sense of humor?







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174. "I really wanted him to keep the $20 at the end"
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>My boy woke up with a pistol in his face. Dude who sold him
>some weed after a basketball game circled back and got him.
>
>They were sloppy as shit and way too trusting to deal with
>grimey Philly niggas.
>
>First mistake was letting him know where you live, second was
>letting him inside to see your goods.
>
>Dude tied up my boy and was like “sorry man, but someone
>robbed me so I have to rob you”
>
>my boy said.. can you leave me $20. Dude was like “aight...
>“ and put a 20 in his shirt pocket , then he took a few
>steps and was like “naaah, sorry man, imma need that 20”

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179. "RE: man, that shit in the beginning reminded me of Philly"
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>
>my boy said.. can you leave me $20. Dude was like “aight...
>“ and put a 20 in his shirt pocket , then he took a few
>steps and was like “naaah, sorry man, imma need that 20”

WOW.

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188. "LMFAO"
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sucks for him, but this is a good story

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190. "Man... we fell the fuck out"
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Dude was a good sport when retelling the story tho...

I told the nigga “whatever you do, please don’t gag me”

Bruh, you out here reminding criminals how to do their job?

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224. "Gotta let 'em BAKE!!! "
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>When Homie took off the durag and they did the
>slow close up from behind, oh ma god!
>Dude had that hard ass line on the forehead too
>*dead*

yooooo. that scene kilt me. b/c at first you're transfixed by this ni&&a's waves. the way that they shot it was brilliant. tracy's waves embodied all his hopes and dreams. we watching the interview w/ a picture of the hiring manager framed by these pristine waves (and i was dyin that they had dude wait until he actually crossed the threshold of the damn door before he took the doo rag off. smh)


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175. "Sorry I just don't buy Earn giving him all $4k."
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He strikes me as someone who absolutely would have started out with a lower amount to see if it works.

Other than that cool ep.

  

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177. "pretty sure he said he had 4K worth of shit"
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but that could mean he gave him 2K and dude put 4K on it

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178. "Eh he said "he owes me $4k" and plus he took the bus home."
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Ain't no way if you still got $2k on you you don't just grab an Uber.

  

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184. "he said "I didn't even get to spend all of the $4k""
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He gave him half

  

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186. "lets hope so. i took that as the card shut off before he spent it all"
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200. "^^^ This is what I was thinking. I mean that's still a high amount"
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... when you're homeless, but Earn is his own worst enemy

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212. "nah he gave him all of it"
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he wasn't able to spend the 4K because the scam was found out. he had to get what he could which didn't even come out to the 4K he initially put into it, let alone the 8K he was supposed to have had.

  

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180. "yeah, that seemed to dumb for earn to do. "
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195. "agreed"
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213. "agreed"
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$4K--he can, for example (among everything else $4k brings to a broke person), comfortably get a redo on the embarrassing dinner date from S1..and he just lets it ride on something as flimsy as that? don't see it either

  

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181. "I was cracking up at Tracy being a conflicted Bojack Horseman fan"
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Rewound it a few times to make sure.

Also, was that Biebs from last season standing on the table rapping at the media company?

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182. "i was wondering wtf he was talking about "
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183. "I was wondering what show until he mentioned the horse"
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"Comedy about depressed people in LA" is it's own subgenre at this point.

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189. "My favorite thing about the show is how it's surreal but still grounded ..."
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My question is though, what level is Paperboi at? Cuz from the sound of it, he's a low level mixtape rapper with one semi-popular street song....is he really getting a showcase at NPR/Spotify (looked like some tiny desk concert shit) off of that? I know this is the kind of show that wouldn't just show you everything, but has he done any concerts? worked with anyone? put out anymore music? etc.

I'm just a little taken out of it when he's getting these looks based off of some shit that has a couple thousand youtube views

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191. "It’s still a steaming company in ATL tho right? "
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So it’s not really uncommon for local companies to jump on board...

and these days you don’t even have to do shows. It’s strictly streams, YouTube, IG and buzz.

It’s hilarious watching him not feel like doing to promote his music.

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198. "that wasn't NPR tiny desk level"
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a lot of these tech/media companies have people coming through every other day if their name is trending or they seem vibe-y at all.

It's a bit weird that they've got an ATL office but not really, I can think of offices in detroit that would have a day that looked like that.


www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

  

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286. "end of last season he got a tour offer, and has a new single this year"
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and it seems like "Paperboi" has a lot of legs though I'm also getting the feeling this season is just a couple months after the end of the last one.

If I had to put him at any sort of tier, I'd say he's definitely not Trouble but he's probably somewhere between VL Deck and Bambino Gold? Leaning more toward the former than the latter since we don't really hear about him getting features like that.

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196. "episode was low key sad AF"
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it was a much different in tone from the previous eps, and it worked well

it was a great exploration of the shit Black men have to do to get by in America and how much we fuck up, get fucked, are frustrated, yet still hella smart/talented/resourceful...

the Spotify/NPR office scene(s) was eerie as fuck (Get Out vibes) and so accurate (I worked next to NPR a couple yrs ago) and they repp'd the Black-White office space relationships so fucn well

Darius and Al trying to get a new connect was weed/hood-suburb culture to the nth degree

the opening scene was a bit much for me, it felt forced funny

but yeah, i really love the levels of this show

  

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202. "Ep 2 breakdown: "
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the three weed incidents underscored aspects of coming up.

1 - Al's plug robbed him. he starts off w/ some of what seems like banter, tellin dude how much he like his new shit. Al seemed like he was lightweight annoyed w/ that to me, but he always seems uneasy w/ fame. (side note: showing dude all antsy in the backseat and all the pauses was great for setting the tone that something was about to jump off). ultimately, weedman's praise is indicative. he robbed dude b/c he thought (like so many of us think) that notoriety == bank. Al got mad and was like, "i ain't makin no fuckin money off that shit" but it was too late at that point.

2 - darius' homey putting dude up on social media. so now Al can't buy his weed in peace, b/c dude is putting him on blast on s/m. again, the compliments on his music, etc. again, al is uneasy w/ that. fool takes ANOTHER picture and posts it immediately. so the assumption of paperboi's fame would have been a come up for this weed man, b/c he could stunt on social media and prolly pick up new customers.

3 - white dude w/ the farm connect. seems like he about that business. he not blasting out the info in public, but he line stepping in assuming familiarity and putting dude in a group chat w/ his girl.


so, to sum, if you een LOOK like you making moves,ppl gonna start

- assuming you got $$$ and try to take you for bad
- using your fame to big up themselves
- ingratiate themselves into your life in ways you ain't ask for or need

that's a lot, and especially when the come up is on the up slope, meaning you haven't reaped the benefits but people making assumptions about different shit you can do or be to them.

that has got to be all kinds of frustrating.

any of our okfamous folk wanna add on?


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204. "The ATL Spotify scene basically spelled itself out....."
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You see Al and Earn with all of these white people who can't relate and aren't really interested in trying to connect with them.

Add to that, there's that vibe that Earn calls out where the black people there seem.....iono decorative or something like that. There's a token black employee and there's a kid rapping on a table in the board room similar to those videos of rappers like Bobby Shmurda and Ugly God.....modern-day minstrelsy? As someone else already noted, this felt like the silent auction scene from Get Out.

And the scene's point becomes obvious when that white guy from the radio station in S1 is an employee there.....because of course a white dude who uses the N-Word flippantly would be there somewhere.



SN: Two episodes in, I think I'm starting to grasp why this season is called Robbin' Season. Perhaps the point of this season isn't so much on the narrative but on the feeling of having something taken. So far we have actual robberies and scenes where people think they have something only to be disappointed when they don't.

  

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205. "Is Tiny Desk minstrelsy? "
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206. "I don't think it's (just) tiny desk being mocked"
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I don't know where y'all work, but at a lot of "we're getting money" ass offices, they have artists of various stripes come in and perform. any artist who has come to your town on tour prolly has a few of these lined up that same day.

if it is a media office? allllll the time.

at least tiny desk is going to be seen by somebody. having to do a couple songs at midday for 40 year old white people because the office manager heard your song on spotify and they tossed you a few grand has to be some hellish shit.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

  

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211. "yeah. there was a vibe. "
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>at least tiny desk is going to be seen by somebody. having to
>do a couple songs at midday for 40 year old white people
>because the office manager heard your song on spotify and they
>tossed you a few grand has to be some hellish shit.

they played the backing track and it was all tinny, and paper boi was mailing in his ad libs. and you look into the 'audience' and it's frank, from marketing, eating a banana and staring at you like you an exhibit.

conversely, that other black dude on the table in the office across the building was TURNT. some people got patience for that, i guess?


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214. "I think any performance of your song"
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that can lead to more money, streams, commercials, etc...

can be called minstrelly.

I don’t think it is tho..

Unless you actually work there and they you perform at lunch for the fuck of it.

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230. "...what?"
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207. "I wouldn't call Tiny Desk minstrelsy for one reason....."
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Even though the setup is similar, the point there is that there is an appreciation of the artist present in ways that don't seem as evident is those 'rapper on the table' videos.

The Tiny Desk performance are basically a companion to whatever piece NPR is doing on the artist.

When I see the rappers on the table, there's more of a desperation in their performance.....as if those rappers have to nail it in order to come up so they overcompensate by jumping on the table.

Also, the vibe in those videos just feels off. There are clearly people there in those videos that couldn't care less about the artist outside of trying to figure how they can capitalize. I'm not saying that doesn't happen at NPR as well but it's not as evident in those Tiny Desk videos to me.

Bottom line: The more I type, the more I realize my gripe is probably more with how white people choose to engage black culture in spaces they control. There's a detachment that many of them have that feels off to me.

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215. "I just think rappers and singers "
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have to rap and sing for obvious reasons.

I don’t think it’s desperation tho

Just performing for people who may help you make money... so you can help them make money

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210. "Hell nah! Tiny Desk is a concert series. A national treasure"
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I was about to say relatively few black folks get on any ways. But I just checked their most recent uploads and it's looking real colorful lol.

But no. Nothing problematic with Tiny Desk. It's just normal performances in an unorthodox setting

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216. "National Treasure? "
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It’s Black folk... prolly performing for mostly white folk.

and that’s what this is really about.

Performing for white people.

I guess Tiny Desk is okay because we get to watch it too.



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218. "Nah, its different. And I do think its desparation"
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they literally dancing for label deals; Shmurda def. had the bodies he on him in the back of his mind when he hopped on the table.

NPR Tiny Desk came out of a bunch of indie rock videos that would have bands play in different places (like la blogotheque). While we can make the argument is still performing for white people (which, lol, is hard not to do in 2018) , a least in the later its a live document linked to a news story along with presumably interested folks in the crowd. There ain't no real difference between Tiny Desk and MTV Unplugged outside of the venue.

With that table dancing shit its literally for the entertainment for the 12 people in the crowd with the insinuation that you gotta 'impress them, or else'

  

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219. "everyone is trying to impress someone when they perform"
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I think y'all reaching with this shit.

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228. "Nah man, there's levels (c)"
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>I think y'all reaching with this shit.

In that case everyone who performs live is shucking and jiving.

My thing is there's a big difference between someone shooting a live video performance to be showcased on their website...

...and a nigga dancing in hopes that the white people in front of him MIGHT cut him a check/put him on a splash page for more streams.

You show up at NPR, they shoot the video, you get a nice writeup on their site, they get content you get free advertisement. You scratch my back, ill scratch yours. No diff. then a network tv appearance except for the millennial generation since they don't actually watch tv

You show up dancing at Atlantic records; ain't no professional video footage going up on youtube, ain't no link to their website, ain't nothing. You gotta HOPE you totally win over Chad and them to give you that deal and still even if you get that deal you may get no further than dancing on that table, lol

  

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222. "How is that not most concerts. "
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>It’s Black folk... prolly performing for mostly white folk.
>
>
>and that’s what this is really about.
>
>Performing for white people.


Most big concerts in the Country for big artist are for white audiences.




>
>I guess Tiny Desk is okay because we get to watch it too.
>
>
>
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231. "Tiny Desk is all kinds of bands...performing for white folk. LOL."
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Lithuainian Alt Rock

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233. "white people perform at these streaming companies too"
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234. "Do you really think only rappers I’m skinny jeans perform at FB"
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and google?

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208. "oh shit. i ain't realize that was the n-word droppin white bol from S1. "
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i assumed it was somebody Earn new from college.

that makes it even more foul that dude was like, 'if he ain't getting it done, get at me'.

earn got dissed pretty much by his cuz and by this asswipe in the same scene.

only one who's self esteem still intact is darius.



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209. "damn that is the same dude"
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i thought it wasnt at first because they introduced him to paperboy and he already met him in S1.

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at all

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220. "remember Kanye did that with MBTDF?"
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>You see Al and Earn with all of these white people who can't
>relate and aren't really interested in trying to connect with
>them.
>
>Add to that, there's that vibe that Earn calls out where the
>black people there seem.....iono decorative or something like
>that. There's a token black employee and there's a kid
>rapping on a table in the board room similar to those videos
>of rappers like Bobby Shmurda and Ugly God.....modern-day
>minstrelsy? As someone else already noted, this felt like the
>silent auction scene from Get Out.
>
>And the scene's point becomes obvious when that white guy from
>the radio station in S1 is an employee there.....because of
>course a white dude who uses the N-Word flippantly would be
>there somewhere.
>
>
>
>SN: Two episodes in, I think I'm starting to grasp why this
>season is called Robbin' Season. Perhaps the point of this
>season isn't so much on the narrative but on the feeling of
>having something taken. So far we have actual robberies and
>scenes where people think they have something only to be
>disappointed when they don't.
>
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221. "Ye was the first"
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I don't remember anyone calling him a coon at the time tho

and I'm sure every rapper since then is trying to be the next Ye

folks had no issue with it but when Schmurda did it this place called him all types of coons

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223. "Black Artist have been going into small rooms to perform for"
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a few white business people for business, forever.

This is not something new.



>I don't remember anyone calling him a coon at the time tho
>
>and I'm sure every rapper since then is trying to be the next
>Ye
>
>folks had no issue with it but when Schmurda did it this place
>called him all types of coons
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>


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225. "Vibes... (c) Darius"
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It's hard to explain why different situations are different. They just feel "off".

When you watch the vid of Designer dancing on a boardroom table, you get a negative vibe (at least I do). Like an "entertain me clown" vibe.
Kanye was up on a table at Facebook HQ, but it wasn't the same vibe. Hard to explain why. It just feels different



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226. "ye got the resume for us to take him seriously on it."
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designer and shmurda up there jumping around like crackheads

even blac youngsta didnt look as odd as they did.

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227. "Who jumped on a table to rap before Ye"
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that we know about?

Damn bruh, Ye got you triggered like shit

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235. "I know an artist that did it in the late 90s"
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He got his deal with Epic records after that meeting. God dropped before the album came out though. I get that people need to feel the energy of the artist before signing them so it's not so cut and dry. That said, what they showed on Atlanta had that "vibe" to it where I was thinking there's gotta be another way.

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280. "LL crashed a board room. I forget the names of dudes doing for Suge"
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Knight and then getting their ass whipped.

Artist performing on the spot for music executives isn't something new is my only point.


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232. "I read Kanye did that when he shopped his demo too..."
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He was going to different A&R meetings jumping on people's desks when he performed/presented his work at the time (College Dropout).


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236. "They should have called Ye out"
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It was a red flag for meeting with Trump and everything else like that he would do years later.

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237. "Episode 3: Money Bag Shawty"
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earn getting robbed and played in various ways.

donald firing wiiiiild shots at the rap game too

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239. "The ending...so ridiculous lol"
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Michael Vick running races outside Onyx haha

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240. "lol this show is so brilliantly random."
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241. "Vick would really do that tho"
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https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/974474946419265541/

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341. "that part had me howling with laughter."
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Michael Fucking Vick. LMAO

  

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243. ""I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose?""
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That line from the series premiere pretty much summed up Earn the entire episode. Dude couldn't stop getting stunted on. Even the strip club DJ kept calling him out.

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also Clark County got me weeeeeeeeeeak
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I haven't laughed that hard since, "I threw that shit before I came in the room."

  

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309. "RE: "I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose?""
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>Even the strip club DJ kept calling him out.

im still laughing at that. "yeah you..with that wackass coca-cola tshirt.."

  

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330. "even when Earn is winning he stay losing"
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Only to immediately freestyle about weed and liquor. Hmmmmmm


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278. "Earn did finesse his way into gettin Paperboi's song into"
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>Al's going to fire Earn by the end of this season (or at least
>try to.) If Al was his own manager, how would his career even
>be different right now?


the hands of that DJ.

Also it seems like Earn is the one who got Al hooked up with that streaming company.

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247. "this show is so brilliant it amazes me...the whole strip club"
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game breakdown was a Black sociological masterpiece

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248. "The open had me dying...So paperboi goes gold off of "crying mom""
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I LOVE that they had a remake of the lady crying about Norf Norf's lyrics.

And the fact that it pushed a single to 500K copies sold was the perfect catapult of his career for this show.

hahahaha

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249. "paperboi toasting to "White tears" too lol"
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272. "That cracked me up. Was so subtly perfect."
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250. "And "shout out to Colin Kaepernick" was when she couldn't"
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hold it together anymore.

Not the stuff about suckin my tree sap or whatever.

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251. "lol...exactly"
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259. "here's where it gets crazy, y'all"
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283. "lofl. that actress did a good ass job with that."
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273. "RIGHT. So perfect."
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281. "Yup, Brilliance"
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I was like wow...so that's the line that pushes everything over the top?!

Dope how that was portrayed

  

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252. "wasn't really feeling this episode that much"
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but the strip club DJ had me rolling!!

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270. "Tracy popping up 2/3 of the way thru was funny"
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Van and Earn seem to be on better terms

Who takes their straight (?) girlfriend to a strip club?

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274. "Haha I've never done it personally but I know several dudes ..."
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>Who takes their straight (?) girlfriend to a strip club?

.. who have taken their girls to strip joints, and a few whose sig others actually love them like men do. So that wasn't all that alien to me.

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287. "i've been to the strip club more times w/ women than men"
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289. "some straight girls love strip clubs, find it liberating"
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some girls don't look at strip clubs as exploitation at all and see it more as like, "I just could never put myself out there like that"


I'm really not about strip clubs at all, it's not the vibe for me. a girl I used to date took ME to the club lol.


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290. "straight girls have bachelorette parties there, man"
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on some feminist supporting women and being cheerleaders for them...i love that shit.

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279. "Earn was mad the movie theater questioned his debit card"
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but last episode he DID actually try to pull a Gift card scam.

So he isn't exactly above suspicion (not that THEY knew that)

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238. "Upon rewatch: "I didn't even get to spend the whole $4k" = "
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yeah guess it was only $2k

  

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242. "why have i not heard about azealia banks sacrificing chickens"
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http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/atlanta-robbin-season-every-pop-culture-reference.html

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244. ""You made that yourself!""
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Dude got played by a hookah-bar owner. That was just awful.

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253. "first Katt, now white folx mad about the Michael Vick cameo (swipe)"
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i aint even gonna link it so yall dont give them the clicks. they'll never understand we still love Mike Vick.

In 2001, Michael Vick was selected as the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons. Not only that, but he was the first African-American quarterback to be taken with the top pick, after registering the fastest 40-yard-dash speed of any QB in the history of the NFL combine.

In other words, he’s a hugely popular figure in Atlanta who’s well-known nationwide for his quick feet. And if that’s all there was to the retired athlete’s story, the third episode of “Atlanta: Robbin’ Season” would’ve gone off without a hitch. Up until Vick’s cameo in the final minute, Episode 3, “Money Bag Shawty,” is an exemplary illustration of institutionalized racism — with Donald Glover’s Earn spending an entire night trying to stunt on people, only to end up getting shut down time and time again.

But once Vick shows up, the conversation shifts. Why is Michael Vick in this episode? Why is he on this show? More specifically, why are the producers of “Atlanta” paying and, arguably, celebrating a man who spent 21 months in federal prison for running a dogfighting ring?

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To set the scene (for those who haven’t watched), Earn emerges from a strip club to discover Michael Vick outside racing people for money. “Is he doing OK?” Earn asks, concerned about an athlete who signed a $62 million contract as a rookie and earned $5 million for one season as recently as 2014 (years after he filed for bankruptcy). “Oh, he’s fine,” an onlooker says. “It’s just a good hustle. Drunk people just want to race him. It’s his sixth race in the 10 minutes I’ve been standing here.”

At this point, a winded runner vouches for the game, saying competitors get three-to-one odds. So Earn says he’ll do it, much to the surprise of Van (Zazie Beetz). “Sometimes you’ve just got to stunt on people,” Earn says, summing up his main goal for the night. “And also I haven’t run six races in 10 minutes.”

Earn steps to the line, gets a knowing glance from Vick, and takes off. The music swells and he even beats Vick off the jump… but he loses. Van sums it up plainly in the dejected limo ride home: “It’s Michael Vick!”

As a joke, it’s executed flawlessly. Earn tries everything he can think of to show off and make himself feel like a big shot — not in a bad, egotistical way, but as a means to lift his morale and boost a depleted ego. After all, Earn’s the guy who buys a homeless man McDonald’s, and the homeless guy throws the food away. (And Earn, himself, was homeless just a few episodes back. He might still be homeless.) Earn deserves to feel proud of his accomplishments by spending his hard-earned money, but be it a racist cashier (or theater policy), a racist lounge owner, or a hustle that’s too big for Earn to topple (“You don’t save money at a strip club,” Alfred says), he can’t find a way to stunt on anyone in his hometown.

ATLANTA Robbin' Season -- "Sportin’ Waves" -- Season Two, Episode 2 (Airs Thursday, March 8, 10:00 p.m. e/p) Pictured: Donald Glover as Earnest Marks, Brian Tyree Henry as Alfred Miles. CR: Guy D'Alema/FX

Not even Michael Vick. But why did it have to be Michael Vick? Why did this joke need Vick to be the punctuation mark? There doesn’t seem to be a good answer for that. Though the former quarterback holds a special place in Atlanta sports culture (especially for black fans — his groundbreaking position in the draft and unprecedented speed gave him game-changing potential, making him an instant icon in the community), the fact remains he comes with baggage outside of football and so many other Atlantan athletes do not.

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Current stars like Julio Jones and Devonta Freeman might have balked at playing themselves while racing for money outside a strip club, but retired athletes like Josh Smith (nine seasons with the Atlanta Hawks), Roddy White (10 years with the Falcons), and Herschel Walker (born in Georgia and won the Heisman Trophy while playing at Georgia University) could’ve subbed in without the troubling background. It didn’t really have to be an athlete: Throw in a line of dialogue about how there’s a track star racing people out back or a former Olympic athlete or anyone who’s known for running (but an amateur might think they can beat), and the scene would’ve played out similarly — minus Van’s kicker, “It’s Michael Vick.”

So why employ someone who, mildly put, is a controversial figure? (Less mildly put, he’s a man who drowned and/or hanged multiple dogs and tortured countless others.) Some believe Vick is a rehabilitated man; a criminal who served his time and worked hard to repair the damage he caused. He’s become somewhat of an activist for animal rights after his prison stint, advocating that spectators at dog fights, let alone the organizers, face harsher penalties. But no matter what you believe about his current state (since he has financially benefitted from fixing his image), his presence is still a confounding distraction.

Is the fact that he’s gambling on himself instead of gambling on dogs supposed to be part of the joke? Is there a purpose to making that association? Should we be focusing on the fact that this is Michael Vick at all? Such questions don’t lend themselves to the main theme of the episode (Earn looking to become the stunter instead of the stuntee), nor is it a meta “stunt” to see Earn get beat by someone the audience would’ve loved to see humiliated. Vick isn’t humiliated in the show or by it; if anything, he’s celebrated.

Writing this as a white person invites comparisons to the episode’s opening, where an offended suburban mom complains about Paper Boi’s lyrics being played on the radio. And while there might be a communication breakdown because this author (and other white viewers, presumably) aren’t in tune with Earn’s world, typically “Atlanta’s” writers (Stephen Glover, in this case) do a thorough job of making sure everyone understands their perspective. Often the clarity invoked through situational comedy and drama is the entire point of the episode, and the rest of “Money Bag Shawty” illustrates as much.

The final scene feels different. In general, it doesn’t seem pertinent to be discussing Michael Vick again in 2018. It feels like an uncommon and unwanted hindrance for a show that’s typically streamlined in its messaging, and it puts a blemish on an otherwise exquisite episode (and season so far). Will Vick play a bigger role in future episodes? Will his purpose become clearer as we learn more about “Robbin’ Season” and Earn’s new journey? For now, Michael Vick didn’t just earn money from “Atlanta”; he’s validated by being part of its cast. And that doesn’t feel like what the episode wants us to focus on.

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254. "*shrug*black folks are irredeemable in white american eyes"
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Katt sucked for his domestic issues but lets not forget it was tied directly to his drug addictions/mental health and everyone got it, man, woman and more often than not Katt himself.

Vick we’ve discussed ad nauseum on the boards.

I see the hustle tho; these white writers need to fill their article quota and its hard to stand out in the crowd where all the reviews of that show is, “Another classic episode”. Glover and co are squeaky clean so might as well nitpick on what will get news, and the lowest lying fruit with least resistence are black boogymen. Thing is these are the same liberal white writers who believe they have no racist bones in their body.

  

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255. "yep...spot on...i been peeping that too"
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>>I see the hustle tho; these white writers need to fill their article quota and its hard to stand out in the crowd where all the reviews of that show is, “Another classic episode”. Glover and co are squeaky clean so might as well nitpick on what will get news, and the lowest lying fruit with least resistence are black boogymen. Thing is these are the same liberal white writers who believe they have no racist bones in their body.


Same wit BP

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256. "Everybody has an opinion. No need to discuss every tweet/thinkpiece"
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Just let it slide

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261. "They trying to ride the wave"
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262. "Holy fuck I'm so beyond tired of think pieces and fake-offended ppl"
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It was fucking funny, Vick did his time, let him live, every little pang of discomfort you feel isnt worth 100 paragraphs of fake deep thought

  

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276. "Right. Plus Vick did MORE than his time."
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>Vick did his time,

Dude went out of his way forever to make amends. Above and beyond what was necessary. He more than paid his dues.

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288. "Precisely. Either you believe in justice or you don't. He paid his debt...."
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He did wrong. Got arrested, did his time, made amends. At some point, you either believe in the justice system or you don't. If you wanted him punished for life, he should've gotten a life sentence.

He didn't. He's done. That shit was the biggest laugh of the episode and I loved it. No, it wouldn't have worked with another athlete and fuck aliens.
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275. "Good god."
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291. "I'm white, love the hell out of some dogs, and I just don't get this"
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But I also don't think Louie (our his stand-ups) should've been scrubbed from the world just because Louis CK jerked off in front of some women who didn't ask for it, or that it's hard to watch "The Usual Suspects" now because Kevin Spacey is a freak.


Herschel Walker is in wild shape but he's also 56 damn years old and, like, NEVER gave off a strip club vibe anyway. That's when you know this writer is just looking to be messy for the hell of it.


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319. "All Louie's shit is still up, actually"
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they just killed all his current deals, and productions. But his stand up's are still on Netflix, Louie and Horace and Pete are still on Hulu, etc...

  

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323. "Ah, I misremembered how that went down, thanks"
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294. "What's crazy to me is that I would figure a white person still mad about..."
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Mike Vick fighting dogs wouldn't be into a show like Atlanta in the first place lol

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332. "post #32 pretty much sums it up."
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320. "The episode opened with white tears and ended with vick"
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324. "*Wee-bey gif*"
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331. "Because it's a show about Black people in Atlanta."
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>But once Vick shows up, the conversation shifts. Why is
>Michael Vick in this episode? Why is he on this show? More
>specifically, why are the producers of “Atlanta” paying
>and, arguably, celebrating a man who spent 21 months in
>federal prison for running a dogfighting ring?

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258. ""You want to wear an all white suit to a strip club?""
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277. "^ right"
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260. "The Sand Pebbles 2"
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playing at the theater

  

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263. "When Micheal Vick showed up I damn near lost my mind."
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That made a pretty great episode go to GOAT put that shit in text books and teach it at Harvard episode.

Is Donald Glover trolling White People with Michael VIck...and White People's favorite negroes like Pharrell?!?!?




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265. "Vick blazed him and it wasn’t even worth showing."
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I think the rapper dude is more supposed to represent Donald himself.

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267. "Earn hates having money. "
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Nigga said “he’s already ran 3 races”

Cmon b.

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326. "The fact that Earn said that with full confidence...."
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made me smh.....I knew that money was gone.

He honestly thought he stood a chance in a foot race against a professional football player who made his name on his speed.

How Earn?

Hopefully there's a point with Earn where he stops being a fuckup and actually gets some shit done.
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266. "Nah.. I think this is just Atlanta. "
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and by that I mean Vick is still a God to Black Atlanta and folks like Glover prolly grew up hearing about these type of stories.

I remember the first time I went to Atlanta was for Freaknik. Shit was WILD because you have 2 parent households with educated Black kids, Spelman, Clark, Morehouse, transplants from the northeast living the good life in these big houses, southern hip hop just taking off AND you have local ATL kids who are hood as fuck robbing all these cats during Freaknik.

Add in the strip clubs and ball players and it’s a melting pot of WTF did I just see on any given weekend.

and I think Glover was trolling himself and hip hop in 2018. Niggas can say and do anything in the studio and the nicest cats still have grimey dudes on their team to handle shit.

That ending in the studio was foul.

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292. "and i'm so glad they didn't show it :("
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>That ending in the studio was foul.

and i'm actually disappointed that we saw that coming..they set it up and we knew the guy would fail again and he did

but just knowing what happened off screen was hella disturbing to me

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269. "RE: When Micheal Vick showed up I damn near lost my mind."
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e.
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>Is Donald Glover trolling White People with Michael VIck...and
>White People's favorite negroes like Pharrell?!?!?
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Yeah, I was thinking Clark County was Pharrell too because he always talks about having goons or someone on payroll to take you out; but I can also see how it could be Donald himself. Shit was still funny as hell. Poor soundboard guy though.

  

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282. "When that shit crashed again, he didn't even want to say anything."
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His face said "Gaaaaahdamn".

I had a horrible engineering night like that once, but they didn't beat me up, lol. Shit be choosing the worst fuckin times to not work.

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268. "it's Michael Vick!! I laughed for like 4 minutes after she said that"
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271. "same! that shit was incredible. "
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i thought they were just referencing him, but then they actually showed him and i was like, oh, damn.

"he just like racing people".

when he walked out the club and ppl was buzzing i legit thought it was another invisible car sighting.

  

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285. "White Tears though. Ever seen that joke in a comedy though?"
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295. "My wife isn't not convinced not being about to spend 100s is a real"
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thing. I've had them check my big bills many times. Never flat out refuse though.

Is this a common experience for folk?




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296. "I've had places turn bills away 'cause they didn't keep the change"
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But I don't go to clubs and what not so I've never had it refused 'cause the promotion wanted to flex on me or was paranoid about not squeezing every dime out of their clientele.


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297. "they usually hold it up to the light or use the marker, or maybe they..."
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just didn't have enough change to break it, but that's about it.

I know a lot of people are in "I don't carry case" mode but there are still a lot of people that do carry cash and I've never seen somebody have a particular hard time breaking a $100.

The whole scene with the club owner getting to cops to throw him out for what was actually a real 100 was particularly bizarre but I guess that's kind of the theme for the show.

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298. "Plenty of places don’t accept $100 Bills"
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and usually they use the “we don’t have change” as an excuse

I remember there was an OKP who kept getting upset the place he went for lunch wouldn’t break a hundred or gave him a hard time.

At the time I shrugged but now it sounds hilarious.

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306. "yeah if you're at a small corner store or cafe or something but most..."
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places where people are spending large amounts of money whether its a club, restaurant, grocery store, department store, etc. its usually not that big of an issue lol

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310. "Nah.. most places aren’t trying to break hunnids"
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Clubs and strip clubs, sure..

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314. "I've broken a $100 bill in Wal-mart, they marked it and kept it moving....."
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>Clubs and strip clubs, sure..
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325. "wal-mart dgaf, tho. they get theirs off volume. for smaller joints: risk..."
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i get got off a bad 20, fool me once...


i get got off a bad 100, won't fool me a second time (c) dubya.

i kinda read into it as earn never be having no money so he's out there doing shit he thinks ppl w/ money do. flashing 100s is almost a different era of stunting? i don't be in the skreets like that no more so i can't call it on how real that is.

that's how i took it, tho.


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299. "i thought the gag was that it was specific to Earn"
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or a guy like Earn.

Part of it was racial, and part of it is Earn just doesn't look like a guy who would have 100s

  

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300. "That was the joke"
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My wife doesn’t follow the show so she was chiming in heated as shit

I wanted to put her up on the joke but I thought it was hilarious watching it go down in real time.

Paperboy even said it.. “you don’t look like a guy who spends hunnids”

and real talk, besides the strip club I think damn near every time someone pulls one out it seems to cause more trouble than it’s worth.

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305. "Earn doesn't really LOOK like a broke dude to me"
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I guess it helps that he looks like Donald Glover who is super successful in the real world, but to me he looks and dresses like a nerdy Black dude with an office job on his day off

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311. "In this show, Earn looks broke"
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312. "earn look bummy as shit lol."
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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317. "It's funny because that's from hanging with them white boys. "
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White boys can look bummy as shit and no one assumes they broke. Black dude does it and it don't work that way.


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318. "Bill Burr had a bit about that "
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how black friends were clowning him for wearing the same shirt he wore 2 weeks ago

  

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385. ""you know a black man is crazy if his shoes are fucked up""
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early early bill burr

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329. "yeah that's exactly what Al told him"
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there's a reason that a white dude dressed just like you can walk into a bank and get a loan, and you can't even spend a $100 bill.

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321. "He got that Cali fashion "
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but yeah, dude looks mad bummy on this show for obvious reasons

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384. "there is a fine line."
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for the look you're describing the detailing would have to be on point

like, you can have a nappy beard, natural hair and a vintage shirt
BUTYATOTALLYGOTTA
add in some fresh nikes, vans, a herschel bag, nice watch....just a few small things to signify money

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301. "that's why they did it in multiple ways"
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everybody was playing Earn.


www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

  

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302. "been to many places where they dont accept over 50"
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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303. "I get the racial aspect of it"
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But a bigger takeaway for me was how douche it is to even have a $100 bill lol


  

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304. "really?"
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>But a bigger takeaway for me was how douche it is to even
>have a $100 bill lol

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315. "IT'S LEGAL U.S. TENDER!!"
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316. "Using a $100 to buy a $1 candy bar is a dickhead move...."
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outside of that context I can't see getting such a hard time dropping a hundo.


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322. "Depends on what that register change is looking like"
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and most times they are annoyed because even if they have it..

Surely there will be more people buying stuff.

That was definitely some bull. Dude showing the gun was random and unnecessary but everyone gets to stunt on Earn

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307. "Yes it's definitely real...especially in the hood...and it's $50's and u..."
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308. "he wasn't in the hood though, that fancy theater where tickets are..."
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probably $20 a pop shouldn't have been a big deal.

And most clubs welcome people that are carrying $100 bills lol

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313. "Never said they were...i was just answering dude ?"
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327. "Basically...White Dude With the Gun Had a $100"
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And they took him with no problems

  

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333. "Cause he was white and old"
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but I thought it was obvious what this ep was trying to show

It ain’t just about money. Folks think once they get money they can stunt but honestly, stuntin’ is dumb as fuck. Get all that money so you can give it right back and you cant even get respect/appreciation while doing it?

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342. "real talk, the sight of that dude pissed me off beyond belief"
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when he flashed the gun?

I audibly reacted with a "bitch-ass..."

  

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328. "What's the odds that Tracy ends up back in jail by end of the Season?"
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334. "For some reason I feel like Tracy is either gonna end up dead or in jail"
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He just seems like one of those characters added to a show so one of the "main" characters can die without really effecting anything.

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335. "Got a real, "Grand Opening, Grand Closing" feeling to him. "
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Like them characters from the Sopranos that gets out of jail and you knew they wouldn't make it to end of the season.

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338. "The “no-chase policy” scene cracked my up lol"
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340. "If anything, he'll get locked back up for something minor like that"
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Like stealing gum at the gas station

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336. "First episode was BRILLIANT, but 2 and 3 were boring as hell. "
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337. "I wasn’t bored but I expected more"
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First we was really good. Now I kind of see why my friend wasn’t feeling the first 3 episodes when he was sent a teaser. But after the first episode and fan reaction he cjanged his tine because he didn’t want to be THAT guy.

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339. "The first season was unpredictable. "
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Just didn't know what you were going to get each weak. The first episode was like that too with the robbery opening.

The last couple of episodes have been more of a traditional 30 minute series about young people dealing with coming up in the music industry.

Now it has more of a familar structure like Insecure or something. Last season there was barely a continuous storyline (what happened to the dude that got shot?!?)

It will still be a good show if it stays like the last two episodes. But it won't be as special as last season.


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343. ""Nobody got murked! zzz"-Sopranos era"
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344. "I think tonight's ep is the one mentioned in the New Yorker article..."
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Where they go to the German fest....

Thankfully hopefully that means after this ep all the spoilers in that article will be accounted for.

  

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345. "damn this weeks episode was sad"
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346. "Brutal. I love how they set you up with germantown"
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First half was a quirky make fun of european festival shit so ya think it's gonna be a lighthearted episode

Then they hit you with the tyson blows:

Van's absolutely dope; pretty, smart, engaging, yada yada yada...but that motherfucker hast taken more L's than anyone on the show by miles. She can't buy a win.

Ern was a fantastic overview on how shellshocked men are concerning their feelings; it was a car wreck the whole episode. Even white boy put him onto game early and still he found a way to be a continuous dick. Even in the end he couldda saved the day but he was too out of touch of his own feelings to commit either way. We all know this road: I can even tell ya whats gonna happen off screen. He's gonna get into some weird fight with Paperboi or some random dude, might find himself in some easy pussy..basically for days he's gonna wonder why he's in a pissy and weird mood pushing thoughts of Van to the side cause conciously he thinks he's just giving her space to 'get over it' when subconsciously he knows he fucked up major and his brain ain't catch up with reality yet


Also notice that flex on marijuana use to avoid dealing with feelings. It was less about a critique on drug (cause Darius) but their use of it to avoid confrontaton

The episode reminded me of 'Tell Me You Love Me', an old HBO show that buzz for 'realistic' sex had a plot following three different couples where you think its gonna be fucking and fun; instead it was the most horrifying thing on TV. Just merciless closeup ring side seats to relationships tearing apart in slow motion...like Game of Thrones but meaner, lol.

  

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347. "i;ll have to look that show up"
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444. "RE: Brutal. I love how they set you up with germantown"
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Was a fan of Tell Me You Love Me.
I was invested and wanted the couples to win in the end.
Good and sad show.

  

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348. "I keep wanting to feel bad for Earn for taking all these Ls..."
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...bu really keeps shooting himself in the foot with a fucking bazooka.

Like Reg said above, the white dude put him up on the game early on, but he still chose to be a dick.

And clearly he didn't listen at all to his uncle.

But yeah, that Germantown shit was so strange. I felt like I was stoned for the first half of the show, and then the emotional gut punches.

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349. "Van sucks and so did that episode"
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It's worth it if we don't gotta really deal with her again. Paperboi and Darius are the real entertainment, so without them at all, the show lacked.

How come all of Van's friends are all so awful? I'd like if the show had a woman that's actually likeable, and dark skin...

  

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350. "Really?"
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351. "Really?"
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352. "Great Episode. I bet that shit will hit close to home for a lot of coupl..."
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I was pleasantly surprised to see that my homey from school wrote the episode.
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423. "Yeah it hit close to home"
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for a second i felt like a saw a few exes in Van

and i saw myself in Earn, not realizing when a woman is fed up and you are losing her

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353. "She’s fine but fine ain’t enough"
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This was the type of date a woman takes you in when she wants you to break up with her.

That shit was brutal.

she regrets choosing Black, definitely regrets choosing Earn

Earn didn’t help himself but damn, that was some wack white white white shit and all the rules/games/costumes screamed GET OUT

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355. "she doesnt regret choosing black or Earn"
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she just wants Earn to be something he's not and will never be.

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356. "RE: she doesnt regret choosing black or Earn"
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>she just wants Earn to be something he's not and will never
>be.

White.. and German.

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357. "nah she just wants him to do all of her little corny dumb shit"
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she was tight at that hilarious dinner party last season because Earn pretended to be the husband/dad of her dreams and showed how easy he could do it if he wanted to.

edit: for the record that german fest was wack as shit. i dont blame him for being annoyed.

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359. "yup"
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but it sure seems like all the stuff she wants Earn to do compromise his Blackness. Juneteenth at white dudes house with slave drinks and shit. Germantown weirdo shit where he is the only Black man for miles.

it really looks like she wants Earn to be a white dude.

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368. "I took it the exact opposite way"
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Yeah, you had the subtext of white vs black but that was with the homegirl.

Ern wouldda been salty if it was some boho holistic festival where it’s a bunch of black women getting into their chakras listening to Badu, he wouldda been salty if it was her homegirls ‘Living Single’ themed party. Ern wasn’t into anything that wasn’t on HIS time and things outside of that were seen as an annoyance (him being her date at the bougie party last year). That’s the line that delineates a true relationship: when you’re obliged to do stuff you don’t want to do, LOL.

There was a meme on twitter I came across that was like, ‘Dating men is pretending you like watching someone else play videogames’. Ern was a dick; he flexed on her when he was like ‘who’s paying for all of this’ when he just recently got a little cash in his pocket in the middle lf the party, etc. He did what a lot of us do in relationships; thinking that just ‘showing up’ is enough.

White dude* put him onto relationship game in the middle of the episode and he still dropped the ball.

*on the low the fact they use the same white dude anytime they need to have a generic white character is pretty hilarious. Homie is a radio DJ, a manager for an up and coming rapper, and still finds time to be Van’s homegirls boo hundreds of miles away, lol.

  

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374. "YES @ all of your response"
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>*on the low the fact they use the same white dude anytime they
>need to have a generic white character is pretty hilarious.
>Homie is a radio DJ, a manager for an up and coming rapper,
>and still finds time to be Van’s homegirls boo hundreds of
>miles away, lol.

And I thought that was him but couldn't be sure, lol.

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375. "Hmmm.. it feels like her events scream “change who you are Earn”"
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and maybe that’s exactly how SHE feels when she goes to rap concerts or strip clubs.

Also the DJ calling her a white girl. I thought it was odd because she ain’t that lite but this episode kinda proved their point.

and ionno, white dude speaking germs and putting him up on game just felt like another blow to Earns ego.

As dudes, we know what we have to do in relationships but when it pretty much means compromising who you are it’s a problem.

That Juneteenth shit, he was supposed to lie about who he was in order to exist in that space and that’s wack as hell.

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378. "Relationships are all about compromising who you are, lol"
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The Juneteeth episode I can see your point; imho it was a mix of him trying to fit in the space to make her happy vs him compromising himself (dealing with the white dude who knew black people). But remember that was about Van getting a job after getting fired and for their daughter (‘Why else do you think im here?” – Ern) and even then he wasn’t 100% with it (remember in the beginning of the episode she had to pick him up at a jumpoff’s house). I rewatched the episodes before the new season started so everything is fresh in my mind, lol.

  

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382. "but some things you can’t compromise "
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I just wrote below that this is the second event Van has taken Earn to where Vans female friend has told her she is doing it wrong by being with a Black dude.

and as a Black man who has tried to date mixed girls who only dated white, trust me, that shit is THE worst feeling when you keep getting dragged to spaces where your SO’s people are looking down on you.

This ep was great and terrible.

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386. "after he didnt even want to dance w/ her i was off his team."
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like damn you cant even block everything out and focus on just you and your BM. you really dont want to be w/ her like that then.

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389. "Man, he was supposed to smoke some weed, get drunk and chill"
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but at the same time...


That shit was soooooo wack. Lmao. Van iOS hot as shit but seeing her in that outfit, speaking German and being comfortable in that space had Earn like “nahhhhh, this ain’t gonna work”

I hate when folks go into a situation with no plans to enjoy themselves. Why invite Earn to that shit and ruin a good time.

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427. "That's the Thing Though"
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>As dudes, we know what we have to do in relationships but when
>it pretty much means compromising who you are it’s a
>problem.
>
>That Juneteenth shit, he was supposed to lie about who he was
>in order to exist in that space and that’s wack as hell.
I hear you on that, but she DOES shit she DOESN'T want to do for HIM. The fact that he can't do the same is selfish as hell.

Don't want to be compromised, but if she's willing to do the shit for you, you gotta take the L on occasion and suck it up for her...especially considering she was willing to put up with atomic levels of bullshit before you got the Paperboi checks

  

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445. "They aren’t together tho"
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She has/had a limit

if they were married I would agree.

I just don’t think 2 people who have a kid at a youngish age have to put up with these things when it feels like the only reason they are still trying is because they had a kid together.

I know what I’m willing to sacrifice as a married man, I know what I was willing to put up with before I was married... but everyone has a breaking point.

She has hers and he has his. Now, she could pull the same thing at a Paperboy concert and be totally in the right. However, when I saw Earn looking around that Germantown celebration I felt him because as a Black man who had a thing for mixed girls who were different... there were certain points when I w like “I can do a lot but I can’t do THIS”

When Earn said “this isn’t me” and they showed Van I said “this isn’t her either”



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459. "that's a cop out"
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a relationship is a relationship

their relationship is weird but he was being a bitch

i'd have hated that shit too

but u suck that shit up when they do the shit for you or else you're a self-centered selfish bitch lol

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485. "sounds like you're projecting here"
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>She has hers and he has his. Now, she could pull the same
>thing at a Paperboy concert and be totally in the right.
>However, when I saw Earn looking around that Germantown
>celebration I felt him because as a Black man who had a thing
>for mixed girls who were different... there were certain
>points when I w like “I can do a lot but I can’t do
>THIS”
>
>When Earn said “this isn’t me” and they showed Van I
>said “this isn’t her either”

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folks thought he was in black face and came up pinching his skin

i woulda left immediately

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433. "exactly....Earn wouldn't even make the effort"
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to enjoy the event. He was just using his initial aversion to it as an excuse to be a dick about it. As Van said in the episode, she was willing to go places with him but he's not willing to do the same.

The fact of the matter is that Earn isn't willing to make moves to be in a relationship with Van. He is treating her like an accessory. Van was completely right.
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363. "RE: She’s fine but fine ain’t enough"
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>she regrets choosing Black,

Don't see that at all, but ok.

>Earn didn’t help himself but damn, that was some wack white
>white white shit and all the rules/games/costumes screamed GET
>OUT

Much as I like the character, I'm glad Darius wasn't in the episode for that reason. Would've felt too on the nose or like they were specifically referencing the movie.

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366. "somehow i bet darius would've been the king of that party."
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he would've been the tiger woods of that hoosegoose ball game shit.

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371. "Darius would've walked up to the staring dude in the mask"
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and struck up an earnest conversation about how fun it would be to live life as a frog or something.

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372. "Just my opinion but that’s how it felt to me"
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Earn doesn’t know shit about these games or this type of outting. Any other Black dudes at this event? Nope.

Only other Black person there chose white and while Van pushed back, why the fuck you out there in the first place if you don’t fuck with ole girl? Maybe she really likes that event but it felt like a set up.

It’s like asking Van to go to a house party in the hood and letting her wear rival gang colors.

Nothing wrong with going to white spaces if you are on the same team but it always feels like Vans events pretty much show Earn ain’t what she wants.



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437. "When does Earn EVER look comfortable?"
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440. "She literally said the opposite"
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>
>she regrets choosing Black, definitely regrets choosing Earn
>

and then got critical of her friend for suggesting it by calling her out on her bullshit.

Van gave no indication she wanted a man that was more in tune with white culture and made comparisons between her and her friend's past as examples.

She has German ancestry and it was part of her upbringing which is why she felt comfortable.

Like that white dude said, she just wants Earn to be a bigger part of her life and share experiences together.

She ain't stupid, she was aware it wasn't Earn's type of shit. But Van had reasonable expectations of him to roll with it because she had done the same (now to be fair, if she was aware of that blackface incident that would be grounds for bouncing out of there and if their relationship was stronger he might have been comfortable telling her about it).

That said, I never got the impression she had regrets about Earn, given she specifically said she didn't and even tried a love and basketball move with the ping pong game. She was fighting for them to be together.

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358. "You're not correct"
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361. "Is it about dark skinned women tho..."
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In that one article in the New Yorker they mentioned the casting of the germantown woman and how Glover felt she was too dark but they felt the scene worked anyway. IMHO it worked better than if she was like, Zendaya, where her looking multiracial would make her choices ‘easier’.

BTW, i wonder about Van and her homegirls vs skin color. Seems the women in the show tend to hover around barely passing/barely failing the paper bag test, even Van aint that light bright if ya think about it. They do focus on the negatives of female on female relationships

  

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362. "Wait, what? That was the crummiest we've seen Earn act so far."
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He was an asshole the whole episode.

And this episode was great.

  

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377. "He was.."
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but I think this is what happens when you realize your hot sometimes SO ain’t the one because you don’t have anything in common besides sex, weed and a kid.

Earn is over here


Van is over there


and I can’t get over the fact that the stuff Van wants to do pretty much screams that Earn ain’t white or right for Van.

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364. "Team Van"
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I spent the whole episode hating Earn. I never really liked him to begin with, but now this episode cemented it.

Maybe because I've been Earn before......*cries*

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373. "We’ve a been Ern. Some of us been Van too"
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Hopefully that shit was in high school or early college. Ern’s the least self actualized and comfortable in his own skin person on that show: his issues is deep. My man was emotionally frozen when she asked him a simple ‘wassup with us’ question, couldnt even muster up a lie

  

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388. "nah fuck van too. flirting w/ a white dude in another language"
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in front of this dude you act like you want to be your man? she gets the strooooooongest of FOHs for that shit. that was a bird move.

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390. "You see it"
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That’s what set him off

and why I think she regrets not choosing white.

Even if you don’t know the language of know when shit don’t sound right. Then he gives Earn those words of wisdom right after she walks away.

Nope. Flag on the play.

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391. "see i just cant jump to that off the rip"
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>
>and why I think she regrets not choosing white.
>

i think she just wants a different type of black dude. more of a smiley, people pleaser social climber dude.

altho IRL she is (was?) dating a white dude. and my white friends that watch Atlanta LOVE her (I just think she cute) so she does have that appeal.

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398. "I’m in my feelings cause I tried to date that type before. "
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and they always went back to their roots.. lol.

Childish dates white too IRL too so I can’t hold that against her when watching the show.

Kinda wonder if Van is Earn in real life. Someone who tried to date Black in ATL but always found himself in white spaces with Black girls looking at him like “cmon dawg”

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432. "Interesting"
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>
>Kinda wonder if Van is Earn in real life. Someone who tried to
>date Black in ATL but always found himself in white spaces
>with Black girls looking at him like “cmon dawg”

  

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365. "Although I wasn't heavily 'entertained' that was a powerful ep"
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and displays the dichotomy and complexity of relationships

she's not trash... at all...
he's not trash... at all

they both had legit gripes that many relationships go thru

that shit me DIRECTLY cause of shit I been thru

her looks/complexion didn't have much to do with anything other than I guess to symbolize the new age corny Black chic type

it wasn't a light episode but I can't think of a man alive who's never had to be somewhere/do something with or for their lady that they absolutely didn't want to do and women who have done the same w/o complaint due to 'love'
if you haven't....wellll................lucky you

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439. "Do they though?"
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it wasn't a light episode but I can't think of a man alive
>who's never had to be somewhere/do something with or for their
>lady that they absolutely didn't want to do and women who have
>done the same w/o complaint due to 'love'
>if you haven't....wellll................lucky you

From my (limited) experience the difference between men and women in relationships:

Woman: I like "X", so we should do "X" together

Men: I know she doesn't like "Y", so I'll wait till she's not around to do "Y"

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453. "LOL....I'll admit that it is skewed heavily one way over the other"
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but I'm sure there are women who
-have watched a dude play a video game
-attended/watched a sports/music function they had 0 interest in
-been around his friends/fam when she prolly didn't want to

I've noticed that sometimes women who have no interest in those things in particular, but will go along/invite themselves with the guy 'just because'....

and that 'because' can be a plethora of things but more often than not...they just be bored or nosey...i think they also call that love too...idk

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354. "Helen, Ga - spot we did those river tubing trips"
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Whole town is that German Village stuff

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360. "Van should know better than to take Earn to unfamiliar places"
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and should've at least explained the rules of whatever game they were playing before they started.

Earn still needs to at least try. If not for Van, than at least for himself and his own career.

Van's friend or whatever has a LOT to unpack. I used to work with a biracial woman who would complain about her siblings in kind of the same way (never said anything like the phrase "choosing black") and I couldn't put my finger on why it was so weird at the time. I could've watched more of those two, that was a terrific scene.

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367. "man that "chose black chose white" shit had me O_O"
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370. "It's the Rashida vs. Kidada Jones thing. They went into it at length in ..."
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379. "Bruh, that convo pretty much screamed "
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Ole girl basically said “If you just dated a white dude you would be having so much fun right now”

Basically said Van is miserable because she got a negra on her arm. Also
Makes me wonder how many convos they’ve had over the years about choosing white.

This is the second “friend” of Vans who basically told her to get a white dude if she wants happiness.

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411. "But Earn is always taking Van to "unfamiliar places""
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Or certainly places waaay outside of her comfort zone: the strip club, Paperboi concerts, etc.

It cuts both ways. Earn takes her places that he's comfortable going because that's the kind of life he's interested in, and he's happy with the status quo with her because it works for him. He's just kind of happy to coast. And she felt like she's playing the good soldier by dutifully supporting him, and expect some support from him in return. But then he sulks through an event that's obviously important to her because "it's corny."

They obviously weren't communicating and were taking each other for granted. And shit just bubbled over.

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369. "How successful *IS* Paper Boi?"
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-He gets invited to play in celebrity basketball games and go on talk shows
-He's making money to the point that Earn can support him AND Van (and their kid) on just Paper Boi money
-He bought his uncle's house
-He still has to sell weed to make ends meet

I would say this sounds like a case of a star musician who must be getting 80's New Edition/NWA-type screwed by his management, except his manager is a fucking idiot with seemingly zero actual managerial skills. Is this a case of "big locally/still unknown nationally" or is he just as successful as the episode requires him to be for that moment?

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376. "It sounds like he had two hit songs. He's Bankroll Fresh right now"
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380. "yeah that sounds about right."
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381. "Man, folks telling on themselves on what its like to date them. "
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Sometimes your lady wants to do some shit you find corny and hang out with her friends you find wack, but you do it because you love her and want to see her happy. And you do it because you know she does it for you all the time.

And when you do it, don't half-ass it and complain the whole time.

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387. "Some folks aren’t meant to be together. "
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and real talk. They are “together” because they had a kid.

If you going out and doing stuff with your SO involved her being lobbied to date white by her friends every time you guys went out, it might change how you feel about the relationship.

While Earn doesn’t know these convos are going on I’m sure he can FEEL that vibe.

Ionno, I couldn’t hang out with my SO if her friends looked at me like I was a mistake every time we did something that was considered fun.

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393. "RE: Some folks aren’t meant to be together. "
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that's earn's character. even his parents treat him like that


>Ionno, I couldn’t hang out with my SO if her friends looked
>at me like I was a mistake every time we did something that
>was considered fun.

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395. "Damn... that’s cold"
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but true.

Hopefully Katy comes back they and schools Earn at the end of this season.

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394. "Any "decent" chick Earn gets with, that's going to develop eventually,"
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because of where his life is (vs. where his life "should" be). This isn't Van's fault or her girlfriends' fault. If Earn had ended up like his most of his classmates from Princeton, the homegirl wouldn't be talking that kind of shit, and Earn probably would have been having more fun because he'd be in a better place in his life. Everything is more fun when you're generally happy. Earn isn't happy.

  

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396. "Yeah. Earn isn’t happy but I wonder if these checks"
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have changed him.

It’s still early but now that he see’s where this managing Paperboy could take him I wonder if he is over these type of events that Van considers fun.

He kept saying “this isn’t me”

and the conversations Van is having with her friends pretty much solidifies it.

He’s not a Germantown dancing type of dude. There was a shot where she was sooo happy at that event and Earn is looking at her like “damn she white”

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399. "There issues are so situational though. "
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Clearly they show evidence they get along great when it's just the two of them.

The issues they face is when they go out and everyone sees this great woman and homeboy basically being a bum dude. Being broke is hard on any relationship, no matter how perfect they are for each other.


I think the reason the other people are side-eyeing Earn is because dude is broke and treating old girl like a dick and they all think that she can do better ( and I think so too at this point. they fucked up because they think doing better is doing white).



>and real talk. They are “together” because they had a
>kid.
>
>If you going out and doing stuff with your SO involved her
>being lobbied to date white by her friends every time you guys
>went out, it might change how you feel about the relationship.
>
>
>While Earn doesn’t know these convos are going on I’m sure
>he can FEEL that vibe.
>
>Ionno, I couldn’t hang out with my SO if her friends looked
>at me like I was a mistake every time we did something that
>was considered fun.


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404. "Funny thing is Earn isn’t broke right now"
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and he made sure to remind Van

there is a reason why they keep showing Van having these convos about dating white.

and more than likely it has to do with DG in real life.

One other thing I noticed. All of Vans friends are shallow as fuck. Like, theee worst type of people.



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412. "Good point. They haven't given her a friend worth a damn. "
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414. "Makes me wonder if she really has fun at her events"
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cause it seems like anytime she steps back she realizes her friends ain’t shit

Earn may not be shit but when IMJ is world she is appreciated. At least it appears that way, like Paperboy and Darius prolly joke her but got mad genuine love for her.

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416. "her events?"
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from what I remember, the first event (the slave themed house party) was suppose to be some some sort of networking event for a job or business connect... not really for fun..

this germantown event seems more about celebrating her German culture and nostalgia. isn't it implied that she is part german? also this event seems to be a made up celebration that combines oktoberfest and carnival which don't even happen during the same time of year and in different regions of Germany. so this is not even a real event but written to be weird. carnival is celebrated all over the world so it's not really a "white" event, but more of a religious/cultural event.

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and nah, this has nothing to do with carnivals celebrated all over the world. This was HER event, her fun thing and it was presented as some weird white shit on purpose.

It shows that Earn and her idea of fun are different.

and that networking event was another sampler of how different she wants/needs him to be when she is around her people

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419. "so the week before"
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when earn was trying to stunt and it didn't go well and he ended the day feeling the same it was okay because she didn't make him go, it was his initiative and they weren't white events?

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434. "I don’t think he feels the same way as after the strip club"
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This is worse.

I’m not saying Earns outings are all positive and fun. Just seems like Vans outings with her “friends” are terrible.

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428. "You Right About That"
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This is HER shit...she made sure she told Ern she was the Serena Williams of this shit, and just dominated

And she got MAD AS FUCK when Ern put the balls in the jug and everyone was stunned (shit was funny to me)

Part of this episode was her trying to "stunt" and the day going way left

  

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392. "yup"
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397. "said the same in 365...agreed"
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400. "Is Zazie/Van attractive or "weird" looking?"
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I can't figure it out. Shes dope as fuck, but, I go back and forth between thinking "Shes fly as hell" and "What an interesting looking person"

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405. "I felt ashamed of myself for finding her so attractive last night."
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And I know it was purely because her hair was pulled back with the German braid. For some reason the boho/'Playery look she usually rocks doesn't work for me.

  

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410. "see im the opposite. "
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i like her w/ the big blowout look

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413. "same"
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415. "Yup"
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She fine either way to me.

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406. "I just see fine. Nothing weird about her"
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407. "I kinda do the same thing with Susan Kelechi Watson/Beth"
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by weird I don't mean unattractive, I just mean...they don't look like anyone else you would see randomly and if you did you would definitely have to keep yourself from staring

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408. "She’s fine too"
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422. "don't find her weird looking in the least"
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she looks naturally attractive as hell

  

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436. "RE: Is Zazie/Van attractive or "weird" looking?"
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>I can't figure it out. Shes dope as fuck, but, I go back and
>forth between thinking "Shes fly as hell" and "What an
>interesting looking person"

Cut that out!

She's fly as hell. She's pretty in a way that may not ever go away. She can do whatever with her hair and it is gonna work for the most part. And yeah...she's holding assets too. I'm a big fan of Van.

  

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438. "Both"
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Most models are kind of odd looking/have SOMETHING about their face/body that stands out

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465. "thank you. you get it. "
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like, in episode 4 when she was with her sister, her sister was very traditionally pretty but Van has a different kind-of exotic look

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409. ""Sometimes ya gotta play the tambourine...& when you play the tambourine..."
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play that MFer RIGHT!" - © Chris Rock

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458. "bloop"
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463. "and sometimes... you just quit the band"
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ain't feeling it so you bounce

I think thats what we just witnessed

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417. "The Chi wins"
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This was "Insecure" in Atlanta.

Pass on this episode.

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421. "Fun fact re: The Chi "
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So my wife took me to Hamilton in Chicago for my bday in January...

I had missed about 3-4 eps of the Chi after watching the series premier...

I catch up and I'm on the episode with Easy-E's cousin hooking him up with the food truck and she's like...

"That's dude from Hamilton!"

o_O

Yup:

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435. "Thanks I didn't know that. Here is a fun fact about Atlanta"
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The actor(Brian Tyree Henry) who plays paperboy was in the play "The Book of Mormons" and he was on Boardwalk Empire. He's been in a lot and he has more stuff coming out.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3109964/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

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455. "I think I remember him from boardwalk"
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I think he was in the crib when Chalky was on the run. Was one of the sons of the blind dude I believe.

I think I peeped that season 1.

Did NOT know he was in book of Mormons...WTH?!!?! Nice.

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480. "Yep that was it"
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>I think he was in the crib when Chalky was on the run. Was
>one of the sons of the blind dude I believe.
>

I had to look it up, couldn't remember his character when I first read it.

>I think I peeped that season 1.
>
>Did NOT know he was in book of Mormons...WTH?!!?! Nice.

He played the general. I have never seen the play.

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456. "he plays on Vice Principals too...he's the one who shot Gamby"
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the ex hubby of the former principal

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481. "Interesting"
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I've never seen that I might check it out.

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420. "I like Van but this ep was meh"
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Sucks because i think the last pure Earn/Van ep was Juneteenth which was pretty damn great

  

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424. "the use of my angel was perfect (malaika)"
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dude

  

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425. "how Van go from Value girl to this germantown ish?"
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and yes I know folks have a myriad of friends/experiences but I wouldnt have took her for getting down with that Oommpa ish

  

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426. "I'm guessing this might have been Zazie's idea since she's "
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actually (half) German herself.

  

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441. "Van did NOTHING wrong"
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at very least she could have put him on to what was going on a bit more so he wouldn't be so lost, but in reality he was never going to "get" it. all he had to do was go along with it. it's clearly her heritage and something she's in to. she just wanted to share something of herself with him. she was fully aware of how cringe worthy it was. this seems to be the first time she's ever asked him to do this. there's no evidence that she wanted him to do this all the time or "become German" or anything like that. there was also no reason to believe that she wanted a white dude. she easily could have done that if she wanted to. she's trying to make things work with Earn and he don't know how to just go with the program. being married myself for 10+ years, this was so low on the scale of things your woman could ask from you. Earn a clown for this big time.

  

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442. "^^^"
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443. "I agree except for the flirting in german w/the bartender"
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that was a violation

  

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446. "hahah yet he took her to a strip club"
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>that was a violation

  

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448. "What’s wrong with the strip club? "
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Plenty of women don’t mind the strip club.

Especially in ATL.

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450. ""You think I want titties in my face?" (c) Van"
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And while she was there, she was only interested in helping the "hard luck" stripper, who Paperboi knew was running game anyway.

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462. "we sure about that? She seemed to be in a good mood when "
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the picked up Darius and Paperboy in the limo.

She wasn't pouting.

I could def see her getting there and being like "boo, this is wack"

Earn at least tried to have fun the week before with her and his shit kept falling apart but even she was like "was that racist?" when it was white folk but "THATS DEF RACIST" when it's Black folk.

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447. "Agree entirely."
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449. "Flirting with that bartender is a foreign language was worse than anyth..."
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Earn did.

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451. "If Earn had been playing along Haas the bartender wouldn't have"
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had an in.

Earn was in the wrong, and he doesn't deserve Van. Luckily, she's starting to realize that.

  

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452. "shiieeeet, that white dude was stepping in regardless"
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it's what they do

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454. "facts."
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464. "bruh, anytime a Black girl shows up to a white ass event"
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they stepping to her... and if drinks are involved it usually going to be disrespectful.

my boy had a mixed chick and the shit I watched her put him thru was ridiculous. He said it was the worst relationship he ever had. I heard her tell him to STOP trying to protect her from her drunk white bro friends at bars that she went to school with because she can handle it herself.

THAT SAME NIGHT

She comes over and asked him why he didn't step in and gets mad and leaves the bar.

You can't win at those places when folks want you to lose.

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457. "Van did a few things wrong though"
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1) Not prepping Earn for what was to come. There's NO WAY my wife is gonna take me to something that far off of my radar and not coach me on it so I go in semi-prepared. There would have been:

-Some history of the event, it's purpose, etc.
-Insight on how to play the games
-What the festivals events were and how to respond to certain things
-A few German phrases/greetings
-Rules on what and what not to do (like, no random conversations in German with dudes and DEFINITELY none without a proper translation...sh*t's just rude)

2) She got aggy that he actually did something 'good' during a game and won (how you gonna get mad your man shining?)

3) The event was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more about her than it was about them. She disappeared a few times, went off and had random convos with people without him. She seemed to want him to enjoy what she wanted to do rather than them enjoy the event together on comfortable terms (there's a key difference in them I'll point out later).

4) Allowing German dude to sneak a shot in (twice) that came off like 'friend' advice when dude don't care about their relationship or he'd be respectful enough to discuss it in English. But he knows it's a violation and didn't want to cross lines 'that way'. It left him plausible deniability but the fact that she played into it only confirmed that he had an opening. How you gonna let dude go in when y'all supposed to be ordering drinks? And who the hell is dude anyway to be just randomly discussing the inner workings of your relationship with? O_o

5) All of Van's friends look down on her and Earn, yet these are the people she seeks approval from. She keeps dragging him around them and it always goes sideways on HER end. Slave reenactments and 'you chose black'. These are not the type of people you should clamor for your relationship to evolve around. It's like she wants a trophy to 'prove them wrong'. Everyone around her has been foul and instead of it cementing her bond with Earn, she then internalizes her insecurities and starts to look at him like he's not enough. Which is fair on it's own merit, but THOSE situations shouldn't provoke it. And all of Earn's friends treat her like crew/family.

6) Lastly, when Earn wanted to do things with her the week prior, yes...he wanted to stunt but he wanted to do nice things with/for her as well. It wasn't just "let's go to the strip club". He was trying to take her to a nice restaurant/movies. Even the $100 bill thing which was hella racist, she didn't even take as much of a slight. Ole boy flashed his side arm on Earn and she was like 'oh well'. O_o Also, if Van said once, 'this isn't my thing, I'm not enjoying it, can we bounce' Earn wouldn't have hesitated (especially at the strip club...they didn't even stay that long and HE wasn't really enjoying it). But if Earn voices that, he's a jerk.

Man, the optics on relationships these days are so off-base and fickle. Nobody understands it's supposed to be a partnership.

And trust, I'm not absolving Earn of his part in this. He was extremely extra and probably feeling himself a little as he's supporting Van who's unemployed (which she was just as extra with him when he was unemployed and she was the captain of the ship...and let's not forget, she got fired for smoking weed of all things). Difference is, Earn pandered as he knew he needed to and Van isn't willing to.

She's just as much of a loser as Earn if you look at their lives. The biggest difference, he has a legit shot at some real money via Paperboi's career. Van wants "Princeton Earn" yet she ain't done nothing herself to even deserve that type of dude.

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460. "^ keen peepologist"
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461. "THANK YOUUUUU!!! lol"
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I definitely thinkg Van and Earn are EXACTLY alike.. both aren't where they want to be in life.

But like you said. When Van is around Earn and his people she is shown mad love (maybe joked a bit but it's all in fun)

When Van has Earn around her people? It's all judgement and be fake Earn so I can feel better about where I am in life.




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466. "On point 1 though...."
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I dont think Earn would have been game or listening if she tried to prep him about what to expect. He probably waved all that shit off like "nah, why even give a shit, this is corny"

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467. "I don't think there is any amount of prepping you can do for that"
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she prepped him for the networking Juneteenth and both of them were still caught off guard with that shit

seeing her get up and how excited she was, I'm sure he got a little prep but that was some weirdo shit that you only get if you've already been to one.

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471. "This is an assumption which we both don't know"
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>I dont think Earn would have been game or listening if she
>tried to prep him about what to expect. He probably waved all
>that shit off like "nah, why even give a shit, this is corny"

Based on the car ride up there, Earn seemed to be in good spirits and open to going. I sensed no dread and he was even joking that if it was wack, they could stay in and have 'adult' fun.

He looked lost when they played the games, didn't seem to know what the stuffed animal was about and the dancing? C'mon.

I think if she showed him the game at the crib, explained the rules so he felt invested, he might have been more into it. And the stuffed animal was weird. She should also have had the optics to know certain stuff ain't gonna fly with her man same way men know certain stuff won't fly with their women. For example, black men know not to invite most black women to go swimming right after they've gotten their hair done. It'd be like getting mad at her for not wanting to get her new hair-do wet because he wanted to swim.

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468. "RE: Van did a few things wrong though"
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1) this is the only one that's somewhat legit. she could have put him on a little bit more before hand. how do you think he would have received it thought based on the way we saw him act? do you think a quick history lesson would have made him more receptive?


2) this is very minor.

3) what's wrong with this? it's her heritage. how could it not be more about her? everything you do in a relationship isn't going to be something that you both love.

4) now she's supposed to control other people? again, this was after her and Earn weren't having a good time already. what incentive did she have to make sure dude speaks English just for the sake of the dude who's giving her a hard time right now?

5) I love how we've seen her "friends" events all of twice so far and we're acting like "she's always doing this...". for all we know she rarely makes him do stuff like this which doesn't warrant his reaction at all.

6) would it have made you feel better for her to make a scene? what exactly she supposed to do when a gun is pulled? the fact that she didn't make a scene about not wanting to be a the strip club was the whole reason she was upset with Earn at the German thing. if she can bear with it even though she wasn't feeling it, why couldn't he?

  

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469. "RE:"
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4. you cant control other people. the only thing you can do is no engage with them when they are being disrespectful towards your relationship in front of your mate

she was not obligated to flirt back in a different language

  

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473. "this"
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475. "RE: Van did a few things wrong though"
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>1) this is the only one that's somewhat legit. she could
>have put him on a little bit more before hand. how do you
>think he would have received it thought based on the way we
>saw him act? do you think a quick history lesson would have
>made him more receptive?

Possibly...he came to the event, seemed like he/they were in good spirits on the car ride up. Also, if he shows resistance to it at home, she can gauge if she even wants to try it with him or could relay to him that it's something she wants to share with him so he gets to know her better. And you can have that discussion away from judging ears and eyes and without distraction.

>2) this is very minor.

Might be but it didn't help. He's already feeling out of place and instead of encouraging him because he won something, you throw out "you got lucky" to make it worse? WTH?

>3) what's wrong with this? it's her heritage. how could it
>not be more about her? everything you do in a relationship
>isn't going to be something that you both love.

If it was about her, she should have went by herself. If it was about THEM, then she should have made sure he felt comfortable and invested. This is the problem with the narcissistic culture we live in. If I invite someone to a place I KNOW they aren't going to be comfortable in but it's something I want to share with them, I'm going to make every effort to set a good stage so they come in feeling ok about it and I'm going to make sure they are good the entire time they are there.

That whole damn festival was weird as hell. She didn't put in enough work to make sure Earn was good. And if he wasn't, leaving without it being some huge issue shouldn't have been that dramatic.

>4) now she's supposed to control other people? again, this
>was after her and Earn weren't having a good time already.
>what incentive did she have to make sure dude speaks English
>just for the sake of the dude who's giving her a hard time
>right now?

No, she's supposed to respect her relationship. None of that was cool nor appropriate. Order the drinks and move on. Then she leaves and dude is telling you how your woman feels about your relationship? Which means they were discussing you in your face in another language. That's cool though huh? Violation on both their parts. Her incentive was Earn is her man! Just because they having an issue doesn't mean line stepping is appropriate. That's just fickle as sh*t. You want something deeper with Earn but you do THIS as a precursor?

>5) I love how we've seen her "friends" events all of twice so
>far and we're acting like "she's always doing this...". for
>all we know she rarely makes him do stuff like this which
>doesn't warrant his reaction at all.

Well we haven't seen her at a ton of his stuff either but it's definitely a much better vibe from Earn's people toward her than her people toward Earn. And the key point here is, she's always expecting Earn to pretend for her. Like she doesn't like who he is and needs him to be 'Princeton Earn' to elevate her status and make her feel good about choosing him. Earn NEVER puts those qualifiers on her. And being around his friends never makes him question if he should be with her. Though she ain't much of a catch outside of looks given what we know about her station in life.

>6) would it have made you feel better for her to make a scene?
> what exactly she supposed to do when a gun is pulled? the
>fact that she didn't make a scene about not wanting to be a
>the strip club was the whole reason she was upset with Earn at
>the German thing. if she can bear with it even though she
>wasn't feeling it, why couldn't he?

She supposed to react at how bigoted the whole situation was. How extreme it was and she's supposed to have his back and empathize. She just kinda shrugged it off.

As for the strip club...that was the last thing they did that day. He asked what she wanted to do and said they could stunt. That's why they went to the first few places. None of what she wanted Earn to be subjected to was done with him in mind....well outside of, come be there with me (as opposed to come and be in it with me). And Earn wouldn't have made some episode out of her wanting to leave the strip club either. Especially not one that would have made him question their relationship. And let's not act like she turned up at the strip club. She was just 'there' and then threw a few dollars at a stripper she thought was 'sad'. That's about as equivalent as Earn playing the game with them at the Festival.

The difference between the two are facilitation. Earn facilitates for her much better than she does for him. Nevermind he's covering all her expenses while she's down right now (after being fired for smoking weed with her girlfriend). Because he found the German festival corny, that she didn't do a good job at prepping him for, and because her oreo girlfriend ignorantly implied all she'd be is a babies-mama because she chose 'black', now she's questioning this man's commitment to her?

Now? When he's having her back and sharing his success with her?

If you want to have that talk, have it sometime after he shows you the check for Paperboi's royalties. Success is realistic after a gold single and decent money to cover her life right now. Temptation will grow, so finding out where his intentions are before the rocket takes off would be wise. But her motivation for it reeks of how messed up her racial identity is.

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487. "fam, are you in love with Van?"
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you giving her a lot of passes all thru this post that she SURE don't deserve.

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470. "I got a problem with "she doesn't deserve""
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474. "semantics.. I think the proper word is "attract" "
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we all want the best right?

but we don't always put ourselves in a position to get the best.

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476. "Thanks for translating. Wonder why Hitokiri didn't take issue "
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with #451 when it was said about Earn...I'll attribute it to not seeing the post but that's kinda why I used "deserved" in the first place.

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479. "Nope. It's all Earn. "
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>1) Not prepping Earn for what was to come. There's NO WAY my
>wife is gonna take me to something that far off of my radar
>and not coach me on it so I go in semi-prepared. There would
>have been:
>
>-Some history of the event, it's purpose, etc.
>-Insight on how to play the games
>-What the festivals events were and how to respond to certain
>things
>-A few German phrases/greetings
>-Rules on what and what not to do (like, no random
>conversations in German with dudes and DEFINITELY none without
>a proper translation...sh*t's just rude)



We don't have any idea that she didn't do any of these things. It would even seem like he did prep her because he was familar with the place, said he been before, and he wasn't at a total lost as to what was going on.



>2) She got aggy that he actually did something 'good' during a
>game and won (how you gonna get mad your man shining?)

She didn't give him any real shit about it. That wasn't a source of any real beef. Definitely not enough to merit him acting like he did.



>3) The event was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more about her than it was
>about them. She disappeared a few times, went off and had
>random convos with people without him. She seemed to want him
>to enjoy what she wanted to do rather than them enjoy the
>event together on comfortable terms (there's a key difference
>in them I'll point out later).


Man you sound like this girl I use to date who would get soo many whenever I left her side at parties. Was she really expected to stay at his side and not mingle at have fun at the party she wanted to go to? When I am at an event like that with my girl and I have no interest I usually chill at the bar and strike up a convo with the bartender or someone and let her do her thing.




>
>4) Allowing German dude to sneak a shot in (twice) that came
>off like 'friend' advice when dude don't care about their
>relationship or he'd be respectful enough to discuss it in
>English. But he knows it's a violation and didn't want to
>cross lines 'that way'. It left him plausible deniability but
>the fact that she played into it only confirmed that he had an
>opening. How you gonna let dude go in when y'all supposed to
>be ordering drinks? And who the hell is dude anyway to be
>just randomly discussing the inner workings of your
>relationship with? O_o


It's a little rude to speak a foreign language in front of someone else (definitely about someone else) but there really wasn't major line stepping. (But I'll admit, I've never been one to handcuff a woman when we are out socially, or like to be handcuffed)


>
>5) All of Van's friends look down on her and Earn, yet these
>are the people she seeks approval from. She keeps dragging
>him around them and it always goes sideways on HER end. Slave
>reenactments and 'you chose black'. These are not the type of
>people you should clamor for your relationship to evolve
>around. It's like she wants a trophy to 'prove them wrong'.
>Everyone around her has been foul and instead of it cementing
>her bond with Earn, she then internalizes her insecurities and
>starts to look at him like he's not enough. Which is fair on
>it's own merit, but THOSE situations shouldn't provoke it.
>And all of Earn's friends treat her like crew/family.

I admit that Van's "friends" seem terrible but a couple of things. The Juneteenth people weren't here friends. She did that for career and for the good of her daughter.

Secondly, at the second event folks were cool to Earn at frist but he was being a dick.


>
>6) Lastly, when Earn wanted to do things with her the week
>prior, yes...he wanted to stunt but he wanted to do nice
>things with/for her as well. It wasn't just "let's go to the
>strip club". He was trying to take her to a nice
>restaurant/movies. Even the $100 bill thing which was hella
>racist, she didn't even take as much of a slight. Ole boy
>flashed his side arm on Earn and she was like 'oh well'. O_o
>Also, if Van said once, 'this isn't my thing, I'm not enjoying
>it, can we bounce' Earn wouldn't have hesitated (especially at
>the strip club...they didn't even stay that long and HE wasn't
>really enjoying it). But if Earn voices that, he's a jerk.

your argument here is based on speculation of what he would have done in the situation. We don't know what he would have done if she wanted to leave. We know that she was down with whatever he wanted to do.




But at the end of the day, none of this matters. What matters is she wanted a committed relationship with a dude that values her for more than ass and he couldn't say that he was willing to give that to her.

It was over when he said I don't know what I want.

It all reminded me of the Nas lyrics:

Saying "why did Nas trust her?”, but look at yourself, speak louder bro
You live with your baby moms and scared to make an honest woman out of her
And make her your bride, fake pimps you ain’t even alive
At least I can say I tried plus enjoyed the ride
Plus we got our little boy, my little joy and pride
He got my nose, my grill, your color, your eyes
Next go round I hope I pick the truest type and watch me do it all again
It’s a beautiful life, aight
Goodbye



>Man, the optics on relationships these days are so off-base
>and fickle. Nobody understands it's supposed to be a
>partnership.
>
>And trust, I'm not absolving Earn of his part in this. He was
>extremely extra and probably feeling himself a little as he's
>supporting Van who's unemployed (which she was just as extra
>with him when he was unemployed and she was the captain of the
>ship...and let's not forget, she got fired for smoking weed of
>all things). Difference is, Earn pandered as he knew he
>needed to and Van isn't willing to.
>
>She's just as much of a loser as Earn if you look at their
>lives. The biggest difference, he has a legit shot at some
>real money via Paperboi's career. Van wants "Princeton Earn"
>yet she ain't done nothing herself to even deserve that type
>of dude.
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483. "RE: Nope. It's all Earn. "
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>We don't have any idea that she didn't do any of these things.
> It would even seem like he did prep her because he was
>familar with the place, said he been before, and he wasn't at
>a total lost as to what was going on.

True, I just read the cues. He looked like "WTF" the entire time he was there. Like it was all new and weird to him. Someone who had been in that environment before would have been more comfortable and looked less shell-shocked about what was going on. He looked completely lost during that game. If he had been before, it wasn't to that type of festival. And to counter, we don't have any idea she did prep him either but the cues say he had no idea what he was really in for. He even said 'if it's wack, we could go back to the cabin'.

>She didn't give him any real shit about it. That wasn't a
>source of any real beef. Definitely not enough to merit him
>acting like he did.

Nah but it lead to her being ultra competitive about everything (see the ping-pong match after) and he was already showing signs of being visibly uncomfortable. Let's keep it 100, most dudes from the hood are not going to be comfortable in that type of environment. So he tried to isolate them a little bit so he could get some comfort and she was like, "Whatever, game, set, match. Come hit this Schuhplattler with me."

>Man you sound like this girl I use to date who would get soo
>many whenever I left her side at parties. Was she really
>expected to stay at his side and not mingle at have fun at the
>party she wanted to go to? When I am at an event like that
>with my girl and I have no interest I usually chill at the bar
>and strike up a convo with the bartender or someone and let
>her do her thing.

I ain't saying they had to be tied at the hip but soon as they walked in, she got pulled off somewhere. It wasn't clear how well Earn knew any of those people or if he knew them at all. Based on his reactions, I took it as he was very unfamiliar. You don't leave someone you're with like that in a new situation. Survey the room, let dude warm up to a few folx, explain some stuff, grab a drink, THEN do your individual rounds. And to my point, how is it doing something 'with' her and learning more about her if you're posted up at the bar talking to the bartender while she's off doing her thing?

>It's a little rude to speak a foreign language in front of
>someone else (definitely about someone else) but there really
>wasn't major line stepping. (But I'll admit, I've never been
>one to handcuff a woman when we are out socially, or like to
>be handcuffed)

Man, watch the whole scene over again. Look at how the bartender leans in and his looks at both Van and Earn when he talks to them. Dude was shooting a ghost missile. Gauging what their deal was and seeing if he had an in. What Van should have done was explain to the dude that Earn doesn't speak German and instructed him to conduct the order in English. At minimum, she should have curved him once he got personal. Earn didn't know dude from a hole in the wall but 5 secs later he's telling him what his woman wants?

It's one thing to handcuff and it's another to check inappropriate behavior. That whole scene (and the follow up convo) was alllll out of bounds.

>I admit that Van's "friends" seem terrible but a couple of
>things. The Juneteenth people weren't here friends. She did
>that for career and for the good of her daughter.
>
>Secondly, at the second event folks were cool to Earn at frist
>but he was being a dick.

Juneteenth were her people though. She got the invite, she wanted to pretend for the hosts and she got aggy at that party too when things got too real and he started saying what he really felt about her. And that's when he was dead broke and couldn't really help. Now that he's helping she chooses to question his motives. Which, as I stated is fair game but not over your homegirl saying 'you chose black, that's what you get'.

Let's look at the facts:
-He's sharing his success with her (episode before was all about that)
-He's THERE at the festival with her
-The ep opens with him going down on her

Dude is giving to her and showing he wants her there but she aggy cuz what? She doesn't have a ring? What is she expecting? Earn may have been ill equipped to have that conversation with her or could have just been being an a** when he said "I don't know what I want" or could have just been dodging the pressure but she has to tell him what that means. "I want to get married, let's move back in together, etc". I mean, I'm watching their relationship and I'm trying to figure out what her issue is.

And c'mon, the folx at that festival were maaad extra. It was off-putting. Yeah, Earn could have been more friendly but let's not act like it was a 'normal' situation. That was a spectacle to Earn.

>your argument here is based on speculation of what he would
>have done in the situation. We don't know what he would have
>done if she wanted to leave. We know that she was down with
>whatever he wanted to do.

Again, Van was just there. She didn't turn up like she expect Earn to do. And true, this is based on speculation. But he'd agreed to go to a weird a** Fastnacht festival, why wouldn't he leave a strip club early for her? It's not like he was having the best time anyway.

>But at the end of the day, none of this matters. What matters
>is she wanted a committed relationship with a dude that values
>her for more than ass and he couldn't say that he was willing
>to give that to her.
>
>It was over when he said I don't know what I want.
>
>It all reminded me of the Nas lyrics:
>
>Saying "why did Nas trust her?”, but look at yourself, speak
>louder bro
>You live with your baby moms and scared to make an honest
>woman out of her
>And make her your bride, fake pimps you ain’t even alive
>At least I can say I tried plus enjoyed the ride
>Plus we got our little boy, my little joy and pride
>He got my nose, my grill, your color, your eyes
>Next go round I hope I pick the truest type and watch me do it
>all again
>It’s a beautiful life, aight
>Goodbye

Thing is though, that's not the place to have that convo. That's not the motive (her friend calling her a career babies mama) that should provoke it. They both all aggy about the night and you wanna put the relationship on the line?

That's a calm head discussion. I would have told her I dunno too after watching her blatantly facilitate a flirt with the bartender (twice!). It hasn't been shown that Earn is seeing anyone else or sleeping with anyone else. From the last few eps, he's been with and all about Van. Why would she assume he isn't committed to her? Because of ole girl? Where was this convo on the way up to the festival? Where was this convo week prior when he was 'stuntin' with her?

Y'all wanna keep blaming Earn but it's BOTH of them. Van is just as much to blame for where things are as he is.

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489. "Just rewatched the episode. Van was on that bullshit"
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They get there and she says she is the Serena Williams of the party. For the first 10 minutes of the show Van is shooting looks at Earn and rolling her eyes when he doesn’t do exactly as she wants. White dude immediately says “why are you here?” Wtf? Then a white girl thinks he is in Black face? Awkward.. lol.

They play the lil ball game and she gets upset because he got the room in awe. She just wanted him to play the background while she got her shine on. It’s her weekend/festival and she wants to be the center of attention.

The whole German flirting shit was foul as hell. She even asked if he understands what dude just said. When a Earn says no she laughs and keeps the convo going.

To end it, she finally gets to be the center of attention but by that time she doesn’t want it even though that’s what she really wanted the whole time.

My wife watched it for the first time and immediately said “ I get it, she wants to share her heritage with him but why is she acting so mean to him?” She doesn’t follow the show but it was interesting to see her reaction in real time.


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472. "i hate that raunchy sex scenes are the norm for regular tv now"
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477. "You hate seeing T&A? What's wrong with you, bruh?"
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</sarcasm>


I agree. Just feels cheap.

  

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478. "and cursing. "
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I’m hearing all types of curse words on regular tv after 10 pm.

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482. "This Van episode and this post is also telling about an Introvert"
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dating an Extrovert.

I am reading this post and having flashbacks of past arguments I have had.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

  

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484. "holy shit, i forgot"
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i have a cousin, mid 20’s, married to a German girl, that went to one of these

i remember the picture he posted amd he (and the other males) were dressed up just like this

so many questions next time i talk to him

  

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486. "Barbershop, doe. "
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bruh.

this largely why i cut my own hair.


peace & blessings,

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spenzalii
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488. "I am DYING watching this episode"
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So glad I shave bald for the last 2 decades

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
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Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

  

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legsdiamond
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490. "Prolly the funniest episode yet. "
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His barber was a fool.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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mrhood75
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492. ""We had a good day today... Found a girl, hit it from the back.""
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>So glad I shave bald for the last 2 decades

Me too. But I've been known to go to the barber to get my beard trimmed and lined perfectly. Fortunately, both the really good ones I've used haven't been like that.

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legsdiamond
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493. "You got to mentor some kids... you’re welcome. "
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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mrhood75
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491. "I've never had a barber like that, but I know barbers like that"
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And I know that a good barber is fucking hard to find.

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Amritsar
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494. "Paperboy is lowkey the most interesting character "
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Darius has the lines and is rightfully a fan favorite


But I think Paperboy has the potential for the most interesting character arc on the show.



Seems misunderstood at best; depressed at worst. Most of the people around him want to benefit off his success - and it looks like it weighs on him.


That unending pressure of being the golden ticket

  

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legsdiamond
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495. "just a regular dude"
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can't even cop trees without being put on blast

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