FX & Donald Glover present Atlanta Season 2: Atlanta Robbin' Season

[ML29]

Peep the jacket

Wow god bless Stephen Glover

 

[feelosofer]

This show never fails. The last episode really brought home the white gatekeeper syndrome and Black on Black racism.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Peep the jacket

Breh, that shyt destroyed me

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

OMG I am dying brehs. :laughing:I have never seen this before.

I can't believe this dumb bytch is crying over this shyt.
This is the shyt that fukken bothers them, not like gun violence in school.

Brittle spirit young

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

ehh... I agree they need to let it go but why the fukk people still love Mike vick?
Breh he hung dogs disgusting nikka. fukk mike vic.

It's like when OJ got locked up we were like but he ran over 2k yards!
He fukking gutted his wife like a fish breh he should be in prison forever.

Mike a fukking dikk man no matter how fast he run.

Just because white people bytch about shyt way past its due date dont mean we should be praising devils.

Like it's not theft or some petty shyt. He straight up tortured the fukk outta dogs for years. Thats cold shyt.

Man fukk them dogs

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Peep the jacket

yes I was in love be with Van’s jacket! I love her style and was wanting to find one just like hers!

 

[BillBanneker]

It’s a little deeper than Paper Boi just being a fukkboi and leaving Earn high and dry.

Donald Glover has said on numerous different occasions that a lot of his frustrations in the industry stem from him having to make White Gate Keepers comfortable to allow him to do what he wants. It was an issue with his record label when he was trying to put out his second album. It was an issue with the series when he had to lie to FX and tell them the show was something it wasn’t. It’s been the BANE of his existence as an artist.

The encounters between PaperBoi and Clark County are a VERY subtle nod towards the gross imbalance of power in the entertainment industry. Season 1 touched upon it in the first episode where Earn had to go through back channels and bribery to get Paper Boi on the radio. Season 2 is showing you, that once you get to a certain point. You HAVE to have a white gate keeper in your corner to have access to the type of career you want.

The point isn’t that Paperboi is turning down endorsements, it’s that the endorsements he WANTS are out of his grasp. Clark County straight up said “They aren’t trying to make opportunities for Black People” it’s a one at a time thing. And Clark’s white manager has the connections to make it happen. These are connections that Earn wouldn’t have access to, because the SYSTEM is designed to keep white people in charge.


Look at the EP credits for Atlanta. You have two white people in addition to Donald and his brother Stephen. Paul Simms and Diane Mcgunigle. They are the white gatekeepers that were necessary for Donald to even get in the door to make Atlanta possible.

On Paul Simms involvement


No black people talk to each other like that, or need to. It’s all for white people.” (“Black-ish”’s audience is about one-fifth black; “Atlanta” ’s is half black.) FX told Glover to avoid the N-word in his pilot; the network’s compromise position was that only a white character who says “Really, nikka?” and “You know how nikkas out here are” could use it. Recalling the dispute, Glover exclaimed, “I’m black, making a very black show, and they’re telling me I can’t use the N-word! Only in a world run by white people would that happen.”

On the phone call that finally resolved the matter, it was a white executive producer, Paul Simms, who argued successfully for the authenticity of the show’s use of the word. Glover had brought in Simms, the elder statesman on “Girls” and “Flight of the Conchords,” to serve as what black creators call “the white translator.” “You need the translator for the three-minute call after the meeting,” Barris explained. “It’s for when the execs call the white guy to say, ‘What exactly did Kenya mean there?,’ and to be reassured.” Since then, “Atlanta” has used the N-word unself-consciously, in a profusion of ways.


Diane Mcgunigle is Donald’s long time Manager. Who was his talent agent beforehand. Guess who her husband is? Spider Man: Homecoming Director Jon Watts. You think It was a coincidence that Donald ended up having a role in that movie? Think again

The filmmaker happens to be married to former talent agent Dianne McGunigle, who repped Glover at CAA before becoming the actor, producer and rapper's manager and is currently an executive producer alongside Glover on his award-winning FX series, "Atlanta."

So when Glover's Spider-Man campaign was in full force in the summer of 2010, Watts was well aware. "I've known Donald for a really long time, so when that was all going down I was right in the middle of it," he explained to The Time

"One of the very first things I said to Kevin [Feige] when I got the job was, 'We've got to put Donald Glover in this movie. I don't know who he's going to be, or what he's going to do, but we have to figure out a way,'" said Watts.

The industry is one big Good old (White) Boys Club. What Clarke’s manager represents is that white gatekeeper who is going to REMAIN a Gatekeeper by making it all but an impossibility for someone like Earn to really put Paper Boi “on”.

Damn, had no idea about the jon watts connection. His addition to SH makes sense now.

 

[Huellz Santana]

How is Earn so fukking stupid

And why Van letting him blow all that money when they got a baby girl

she's a pretty girl that got seeded up by a Princeton dropout with no ambition, a nappy fro, and jagged hairline. I'm not sure Van is that much smarter breh.

in real life she would have BEEN left Earn for a nikka with some money at least. ​

 

[young3000]

How accurate is that 20% fee in strip clothes, been awhile since I've been

 

[ML29]

 

[Sin Simma]

she's a pretty girl that got seeded up by a Princeton dropout with no ambition, a nappy fro, and jagged hairline. I'm not sure Van is that much smarter breh.

in real life she would have BEEN left Earn for a nikka with some money at least. ​

Did you see the way Van looks at Earn? She’s completely in love with him and the reason she didn’t warn him about spending his funds? This is a legit date night where both of them could do what they want and not have to worry about shyt. I think people are being too harsh on shorty. Van is bad and could easily move on from her baby father, but she actually loves him. I’m not mad at that. Now in the future episodes, save whatever bread you get for the family. Stunting wasn’t meant for them. This episode proved it.

 

[Ziggiy]

Did you see the way Van looks at Earn? She’s completely in love with him and the reason she didn’t warn him about spending his funds? This is a legit date night where both of them could do what they want and not have to worry about shyt. I think people are being too harsh on shorty. Van is bad and could easily move on from her baby father, but she actually loves him. I’m not mad at that. Now in the future episodes, save whatever bread you get for the family. Stunting wasn’t meant for them. This episode proved it.

Earn ALSO gave Van most of the initial
Money he got from Paper Boi in the season one finale. It wasn’t specified how much but
It was over 2k, and he only kept $200 if it for himself.

We are also operating under the assumption that he spent the ENTIRE check he received on the date night out. Which probably isn’t true. It’s not inconceivable that he gave Van some of that money, especially if he showed her the check and how she was marveling at how much it was

 

[wire28]

paper boi lyrics at the beginning and

nikka dont smoke dont drink

colonizer flashed the heat on him

yall knew the bill was real

booty club announcer

damn hate when your girl force you to give up money for some bullshyt especially when they drunk nikka like me sober up when it come to the money

mike vick racing people to my former eagle gawd :eaglesmyman:

 

[Jax]

This might've been the best episode of them all, so damn good.
Ya'll think that man that said it was Mike's 6th race in 10 minutes was in on it?

 

[BlackMajik]

mike vick racing people to my former FALCON gawd

fixed