Crayola Coyote
Superstar
I knew that shyt was gonna happen. Dude should have stomped buddy in the face while he still down.
FX & Donald Glover present Atlanta Season 2: Atlanta Robbin' Season
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Crayola Coyote
Superstar
Crayola Coyote
Superstar
thats how fights are? Wut do u want some choreographed kung fu shyt
Dudes think real fights are like the matrix
When the homeless cat told Paper Boi to run when he counted to 30 and the FX color bars popped up,
it reminded me of the game Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube.
Man, when Paper Boi took the selfie with the fan in the gas station, blood all in his teeth, looking fukked up...
what a tragic scene. That's when Alfred died.
it reminded me of the game Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube.
Man, when Paper Boi took the selfie with the fan in the gas station, blood all in his teeth, looking fukked up...
what a tragic scene. That's when Alfred died.
Marlo Barksdale
Really out chea
I can tell you are not from the hood or live around the hood.
Paperboi is well known in the streets. So when people hear his music they will assume he "made it". Hence, why alot of brehs want to rob him. You don't remember three episodes ago he got robbed by his plug man? Well he's a target in the streets.
Regardless of how Paperboi play it off he will still get robbed.
Paperboi might've gotten by with them kids if he didn't look like an easy lick telling them he was alone and didnt have a car around. You never tell strangers that. If he would've got into rapper mode they might've gave him a pass. But the way he responded is sho nuff gonna make you a target. Gotta act bigger than you are sometimes to not appear weak and vulnerable.
Henry Orbit
Wave Gods
The problem is that Al is a rapper who doesnt really want to BE a rapper. He is the other side of the coin. When you hear that “rap took me out of the hood” story you never hear about how these young black men literally feel like rap is the ONLY alternative they have to selling drugs.
Season 1 Paperboi said it several times. He genuinely feels like he HAS to rap. Its not about the love of the artfrom because if it was he’d be happy simply being an underground rapper. But hes said over and over “i’m just trying to get PAID!”.
So you have a lowkey street dude, who wants to better his life and make a quick buck. He puts out a mixtape, one song blows up. And now his cousin is trying to make him a star. But to be a TRUE star you gotta play the game. The “rap snacks” game. The “performing on tables in front white men like a goddamn circus monkey” game. The “dating an IG thot/upcoming singer” game. The “fire your cousin for a manager with real industry connections” game....
Al wasnt ready to play that game. Because his heart’s desire was never really to rap. Hes a hustler. Not a rapper...
"I'm not a rapper, I'm a hustler" movement was the beginning of the end of Hip Hop
Mortal1
Superstar
Al had to face the crossroads he's been running from it since the first season. Being "real" almost got him killed the last scene was accepting he's got to play the game because that's the only way he can truly get out.
An ashy lil fap hand
Banned
nah, that's security, easily.
Marlo Barksdale
Really out chea
She lowkey trying to put Paperboi on game and he think he Tupac or some shyt
That wakeup call gonna come hard
Sierra was pretty much 100% right and dropping jewels trying to help out Paperboi. He didn't listen and paid for it. She was super cool and sound like my homegals.
Loved the episode, definitely thought a few shots were a nod to The Sopranos, "Pine Barrens", the overhead shot of the suddenly ominous and unsettling woods, and the whole arc of the story. The transition from shopping and pedicure's with a women who quickly went from attractive and sharp to abusive and toxic, to getting beat up by some kids, robbed, almost shot, and running for your life, clutching a stick in the dirt, the voices echoing around the trees. All very well done. The homeless man, who, true to life, can probably go from funny (Deer guts LOL) to sad, to dangerous in a few seconds. When that box cutter came out I tensed up, never let a homeless person get too close to you.
I esp. liked the scene in the gas station, it just reminded me of myself as kid, trapping and living on couches or hotels, cleaning myself up a little in a bathroom somewhere. Or finding those points of oasis, lost somewhere, no phone or some shyt like that.
I remember a deal going bad when I was like 18, this kid just swings on me, and barely misses, and just starts trying to run my pockets, I ducked the punch, and he grabbed my shirt, I ran on some football play type of shyt, crossed them up, and ran for the trolley, which like a movie, came right as I ran up, and I was gone, with my half ounce, and only missing my phone, which fell out in the car. Reminded me exactly of that scene.
I esp. liked the scene in the gas station, it just reminded me of myself as kid, trapping and living on couches or hotels, cleaning myself up a little in a bathroom somewhere. Or finding those points of oasis, lost somewhere, no phone or some shyt like that.
I remember a deal going bad when I was like 18, this kid just swings on me, and barely misses, and just starts trying to run my pockets, I ducked the punch, and he grabbed my shirt, I ran on some football play type of shyt, crossed them up, and ran for the trolley, which like a movie, came right as I ran up, and I was gone, with my half ounce, and only missing my phone, which fell out in the car. Reminded me exactly of that scene.
An ashy lil fap hand
Banned
What was the exact time and date of this incident? And when you say ounce, what do you mean? An ounce of what?
Just finished the episode. Besides the blatant robbery that occurred in the episode, I think that paperboi was robbed of his security and "real-ness".
Paperboi felt secure in his position as the, "real as fukk MC who really be about this thug life" probably because nobody really tested him (besides his own plug if you wanna count that), but I think that PB being stuck up by some bad ass kids, as well as the talk he had with the IG thot, really changed his perspective (hence why he took the pictures with the one fan at the gas station).
PB is not that real nikka from the hood anymore, he's a celebrity, and when you're a celebrity still hanging round the hood dudes/"real nikkas" you'll eventually become a target, and with it being robbin' season, PB is looking like steak to a bunch of hood dudes with nothing to lose.
Also, the ending RIP credits were of Paperboi (Brian Tyree Henry) actual mother, who passed May 12, 2016
Paperboi felt secure in his position as the, "real as fukk MC who really be about this thug life" probably because nobody really tested him (besides his own plug if you wanna count that), but I think that PB being stuck up by some bad ass kids, as well as the talk he had with the IG thot, really changed his perspective (hence why he took the pictures with the one fan at the gas station).
PB is not that real nikka from the hood anymore, he's a celebrity, and when you're a celebrity still hanging round the hood dudes/"real nikkas" you'll eventually become a target, and with it being robbin' season, PB is looking like steak to a bunch of hood dudes with nothing to lose.
With this change, I think that we will ultimately see PB drop Ern as his manager. You can already see the writing on the wall, as other celebrities are starting to get exclusive deals and free shyt, and PB is just like, "How you get that? 
" while the celebrity is like, "Doesn't your manager do the same for you? 
"
The final episode of robbin season is Paperboi robbing Ern of a job brehs
Final episode is titled, "Crabs in a Barrel" maybe PB goes full hollywood on nikkas and drops Ern because he believes that Ern is holding him down as an artist and a brand due to Ern's own personal demons? (Aka that crabs in a bucket/crabs in a barrel mentality)
" while the celebrity is like, "Doesn't your manager do the same for you? "The final episode of robbin season is Paperboi robbing Ern of a job brehs
Final episode is titled, "Crabs in a Barrel" maybe PB goes full hollywood on nikkas and drops Ern because he believes that Ern is holding him down as an artist and a brand due to Ern's own personal demons? (Aka that crabs in a bucket/crabs in a barrel mentality)
Also, the ending RIP credits were of Paperboi (Brian Tyree Henry) actual mother, who passed May 12, 2016
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