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

[Crayola Coyote]

they kinda make it seem like Paper Boi is actually putting in some work as far as recording goes...every time he runs into a random fan they are always saying how they love the new joint and have been fans since the beginning....i always took it as he made all his music moves outside of the show...he's making moves but we dont see them...we are just seeing how he reacts to everything else surrounding it....

i def wonder about him tho...he always seem like he never wants to rap and is never doing anything music related...even funnier since he aint the one actually rapping the track..

Or maybe paperboi isn't really rapping at all.

 

[FLORIDA BOI]

With that you can argue PB aint let earn do his job. He said no to T, and pb overruled him. Earn is the manger and technically should be charge security, the venue and etc. Aint no other manager gone put up w/ pb shyt. Earn lost just as much as he did.

exactly that's all I'm say in they both had faults but I fill earn tried in the Traci situation to get it right.where things go from here is gonna be good.

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Was just glad to have the band back together

But that break up between Earn and Al

 

[AquaCityBoy]

This is gonna sound fukked up but im just gonna say it and then explain why.

It ain’t on Alfred to be on point. All fault lies directly on Earn.

The reason i say this is for a couple reasons

1). Alfred told Earn at the VERY BEGINNING of episode 1 during the FIRST scene they were together in what time it was. Al didn’t give two fukks about rap. One of Darius’s first lines of spoken dialogue is “Rap is D-E-A-D DEAD!” Al threw out that mixtape to get paid right quick. It was EARN who came into the picture with this great and brilliant plan to manage him. To take him further than a street level one hit wonder. Remember, Alfred REJECTED Earn at first. Earn had to PROVE his worth by paying $500 to get Paperboi on the radio. Thats when things started to take off.

And even THEN Al was a hothead who was ready to throw it all away and shoot a nikka over a car mirror...


This should’ve told Earn all he needed to know about who he was dealing with. A talented, albeit lazy, drug dealing, hot head who has no true ambition beyond local steet fame.

You wanna deal with a nikka like that? Then you have to DEAL with a nikka like that. You have to constantly be proving to this nikka that your vision has merit. That there is a true future for him beyond drug dealing. Earn has FAILED to do this beyond episode one.

2). Earn’s leadership qualities are lacking. Every “adventure” that Earn leads them into is marked by failure. How many times is Al, a nikka who told you ge didn’t really want to be a rapper in the first place, supposed to watch this nikka fail? Hell his own chick Van had to call Al for assistance when she was taking the piss test. She couldn’t rely on Earn, she had to rely on Alfred. Every situation that leads to problems (outside of Woods) is directly linked to Earn’s incompetence. Earn KNEW that Traci was an ex con who, even though he was a fukk up, desperately wanted to legitimize himself (as evidenced in Sportin Waves). A REAL manager would’ve sat Traci’s ass down and told him “look. You wanna tag along? You want this $200? Cool, your security. But don’t get all crazy and start fukking with the wrong people. This is about Paperboi’s image and career. He eats, then WE eat. This is your test. Don’t fukk up”

But Naw, he wanna get mad and lose his cool and fight a nikka he KNOWS he can’t beat. Making him look EVEN MORE like dead weight.

3). Alfred’s job as the rapper is to RAP. He’s dropped the mixtape, he’s dropped several songs. People fukk with him. Earn has completely FAILED to put Al in a position where he feels valued for his music. If he KNOWS that Al wouldn’t go for shyt like “rap snacks” he should have only presented it to him as a stepping stone. “The company is a huge fan Al. I didn’t go to them they came to US. You promote with them now and later on your looking at your OWN line of snacks, not just chips.” Make this nikka feel good. Make him feel empowered. Make him feel VALUED.

4). Earn is pathetic at even the basic shyt. You know Al is a weedhead? A REAL manager would’ve made sure there was weed on HAND at all times. Made sure that, if Al wasn’t getting paid he was at least put in the nicest hotel available. The crazy chick would’ve gladly come to HIM. Told her little horrifying dream, topped him off. And then Al could’ve told her to kick rocks. The fantasy would’ve been fulfilled for both. And Al would’ve been safe and sound.

I agree that all of this is Earn's fault, but my point is the grass isn't gonna be greener when Al goes over to Clark County's manager, for the very reasons in the bolded. Earn would put up with Al's laziness because he had no other options. Clark County's manager could drop him easily.

 

[ML29]

Joining Clark County camp isn’t gonna be as sweet as Alfred thinks. Lucas looked at him like when he asked him for weed. This is gonna be great.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Joining Clark County camp isn’t gonna be as sweet as Alfred thinks. Lucas looked at him like when he asked him for weed. This is gonna be great.

I bet Al is going to feel like he's being micromanaged when he jumps ship. Hopefully we see a glimpse of it this season if it happens.

 

[FreedMind]

man this show is well done. Everyone is flawed, making each one of their relationships and interactions so interesting, and especially relatable.

Earn fukkd up by taking them to the crazy girl's house, but he thought he could save money and even finesse paperboi into playing a bigger gig at the school if everything went to plan. Al and Earn are both new to the music industry, both are expected to have hiccups, and yet y'all turning solely on Earn.

 

[trick]

I bet Al is going to feel like he's being micromanaged when he jumps ship. Hopefully we see a glimpse of it this season if it happens.

I think something is gonna happen at the end of the season, and Earn and Al will be forced to work together, even though Al doesn't want to and Earn probably doesn't want to deal with Al after what happened to him with Tracy

 

[sinistersouth]

Darius: ...i was thinkin' bout joining the NRA
cracker: y'all crazy

 

[Lefty Gunz]

He strikes again

 

[SouthSac916]

exactly that's all I'm say in they both had faults but I fill earn tried in the Traci situation to get it right.where things go from here is gonna be good.

The treatment of a nikka that his friend over his cousin bothers me too. Earn better off hustlin by himself than beggin to be PB manager and having to lose his dignity like that. Got to learn that all relatives ain't family.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Fam told me I remind them of Earn with some of my decisions/letting stuff happen

 

[Silkk]

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GOAT

Yoo-hoo need to buy the rights to this shyt

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Or maybe paperboi isn't really rapping at all.

 

[Krazy K]

As someone else stated, this all entirely lay on Earn. The seeds shown in season one, even in the very first episode exposed that Earn is a leech, a parasite. He doesn't care about nobody but himself, yet isn't willing to do things to make himself better and also plays the victim card. To put it bluntly, Earn is the ghetto version of Walter White, in which someone who appears to be a good guy, is really the true villain who causes other peoples lives to be spun around in circles. Hell, you can even say the premise of Atlanta is similar to Breaking Bad where instead of coming up in the drug game, it's coming up in the rap game and it still poisoning people's lives in the process.

The parallels are almost uncanny. You have Earn and Walter White in so-called desperation of needing money, because of a situation where with Walt it is medical bills and with Earn it is rent/child support. You have Alfred who dabbles in doing rap as a hobby and Jesse Pinkman who dabbled in selling meth both without any kind of goals at all until they linked up with Earn/Walter White. And of course you have the Van/Skyler comparison. Darius/Saul Goodman and how their seasons go from being light into dark. People forget that season one of Breaking Bad was mostly a lot of comical mishap adventures then it led into a darker tone from season 2 on forward. The trajectory of Atlanta feels similar to that as Earn becomes more darker within himself and it affects everybody around him. Now Alfred is fully transform into Paperboi almost similar to Walter White to Heinsenberg. Hell, you can even say that County Clark is Gus Fring in which Paperboi wants to reach the level of Clark and eventually (my prediction) turn into adversaries like Hank and Gus were partners turn adversaries. The tumultuous relationship of Earn and Paperboi is already established now similar to Hank and Jesse. I guarantee that like Hank wants to keep Jesse around and willing to manipulate the situation in his favor, Earn is going to find a way to manipulate or sabotage Paperboi's success so Paperboi would reluctantly return back to Earn.

none of this shyt made any sense