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

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tru_m.a.c said:
Nah b...I had the orange and black 05 fubu shirt. This episode hit home for me. One of my best friends and I were talking about this because the first class we ever had together was when I bought this shirt.

He bought the Fubu 92 jersey and got pressed by some 10th graders cause they thought it was fake. nikkas always trying to ref ya clothes.

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Yeah I don't know why cats are fumbling with the years so badly. The episode focuses on fubu. Fubu was hot when "Fatty Girl" dropped. DBZ was playing on toonami from 98-03.

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I the realest shyt in the episode was seeing cats actually checking the tags on the shirt. I remember seeing that happen to cats regularly.
 
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tru_m.a.c said:
So if you rewatch the episode a couple of things about Devin stand out. Every time we see Devin on camera he's alone. Earn is mad that he's not popular, but he actually has friends and girls actually like him.
  • When Earn gets on the bus he has someone to sit next to when other kids don't.
  • In science class Earn has a lab partner. When Devin does the smirk he's sitting by himself with his head down on the desk.
  • When Earn needs help he reaches out to Al who is the coolest kid in the grade. Devin has nobody to stick up for him.
  • When Earn is in the cafeteria he sits with 2 friends. One white and one black. Showing that not only does he have friends, but he's already able to navigate racial barriers. Where's Devin? Devin is eating lunch at the tail end of the table alone.
  • When Earn is running to his bus, the girl gives him a number AND his friend comes to check on him before he gets on the bus. Devin is chased to the bus alone.
This was done purposely and I believe Devin alludes to it in the cafeteria. When he's being bullied in the cafeteria his response is he's always wearing fly shyt. When Earn describes Devin to Al Earn makes a point of stating that Devin's dad is 30 so you know he always has the cool stuff.

Earn, like Devin, falls for the trap of materialism. Cool things don't bring you happiness. Just having a core group of friends in high school (IN LIFE!) that you can talk to, laugh with, run to makes you a millionaire. Earn bought the FUBU to impress his classmates, but they ALREADY liked him. They were already cool with smart Earn. They were already cool with DBZ Earn. But Earn wasn't cool with himself.

Kids don't realize or appreciate the beauty of having friends that don't care about being impressed and like the same "corny" "weird" shyt that you do.

Those kids then turn into 20yr olds posting "new year new me" twitter/instagram/fb posts.
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And with Devin, we don't know how much his parent's divorcing was fukking him up.

It's possible he was never "cool", just some random kid that always dressed nice or he might've been social and the divorce made him withdraw.

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I haven't gone through the thread but I loved the part with the white kid saying he wore the same shirt twice. Juxtapose that with "clothes are important" line. Brief but significant:wow:
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Goes back to the strip club conversation with Al.

Al said something to the effect of why you think a white boy can be dressed like you and go to a bank and get a loan for a million dollars but you can't even get anyone to take your $100 bill
 
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DaylitoJames said:
My older cousin back in the 90s was able to get one of those black boxes to get free cable and ppvs so he was able to always tape all of WWF and WCW ppvs as well as some boxing ppvs and all of the episodes of Real Sex and G-String Divas on HBO and would always drop off the vhs tapes to me every week :wow:
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WCW the youngins have no idea what really inspired the Migos
 
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tru_m.a.c said:
So if you rewatch the episode a couple of things about Devin stand out. Every time we see Devin on camera he's alone. Earn is mad that he's not popular, but he actually has friends and girls actually like him.
  • When Earn gets on the bus he has someone to sit next to when other kids don't.
  • In science class Earn has a lab partner. When Devin does the smirk he's sitting by himself with his head down on the desk.
  • When Earn needs help he reaches out to Al who is the coolest kid in the grade. Devin has nobody to stick up for him.
  • When Earn is in the cafeteria he sits with 2 friends. One white and one black. Showing that not only does he have friends, but he's already able to navigate racial barriers. Where's Devin? Devin is eating lunch at the tail end of the table alone.
  • When Earn is running to his bus, the girl gives him a number AND his friend comes to check on him before he gets on the bus. Devin is chased to the bus alone.
This was done purposely and I believe Devin alludes to it in the cafeteria. When he's being bullied in the cafeteria his response is he's always wearing fly shyt. When Earn describes Devin to Al Earn makes a point of stating that Devin's dad is 30 so you know he always has the cool stuff.

Earn, like Devin, falls for the trap of materialism. Cool things don't bring you happiness. Just having a core group of friends in high school (IN LIFE!) that you can talk to, laugh with, run to makes you a millionaire. Earn bought the FUBU to impress his classmates, but they ALREADY liked him. They were already cool with smart Earn. They were already cool with DBZ Earn. But Earn wasn't cool with himself.

Kids don't realize or appreciate the beauty of having friends that don't care about being impressed and like the same "corny" "weird" shyt that you do.

Those kids then turn into 20yr olds posting "new year new me" twitter/instagram/fb posts.
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it isnt that simple man

as far as we could tell Devin looked like a pretty normal, even cool kid. So I cant see a reason why he didnt have any friends.
Kids can definitely be relentless. Devin probably only had all the fly shyt because when parents are getting divorced they often try harder to overcompensate for the turmoil they're putting their kid through.
 
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Supa said:
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I haven't gone through the thread but I loved the part with the white kid saying he wore the same shirt twice. Juxtapose that with "clothes are important" line. Brief but significant:wow:

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it was incredible because it showed just how different life is for black and white people. But whose fault is it? We impose the high, materialistic standards on ourselves to be honest. On some real shyt, there were times i'd go out with my white roommates in college and never did they comment or put down shyt i wear. If anything theyd think i was overdressed for certain occasions. These same white dudes would pull some bad bytches too. White privilege

My nikkas? There were times where if we went out they wouldnt even let me leave the house without changing the fit. :laugh: To have those grown adults saying how "important" clothes were without knowing what caused the kid's suicide. Very profound...and real. My parents were the same way making us dress up in certain ways for occasions against our will.
 
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