I know Stringer Bell wasn't technically the boss but still wasnt he?

[kareem929]

Stringer was street smart.. you don't build a multimillion dollar drug cartel, owning half an entire city for years... with them never even hearing of the boss, let alone getting a picture of him... with absolutely no street smarts

what he TRIED to do was flip that and think "i'm a smart nikka, let me get that business degree and become a business man"

and that's when the wolves fukked him over. they knew he knew NOTHING about business.. you in there with a STATE SENATOR.. laywers that been doing this for years... developers that been doing this for decades... he never had a shot on THAT level



marlo was just like avon.. all he cared about was the street and his rep. it was never about the money, the girls, or nothing else.. he wanted the POWER

when he got to where stringer was, the lawyer told him "Don't ever talk to these guys without me there" same thing he told stringer AFTER stringer got fukked over "why would you go do these deals without me there"

Marlo hated that.. that he was powerless now.. that he was just the king and now he was a pawn.. he didn't know that game.. but unlike String, he realized he didn't belong there

and then where does he go... ALONE... back to the block.. and shows what he never showed the whole series... that he was a thoro nikka. it wasn't his muscle that got him on.. he was crazy his damn self and willing to go for self.. going against a nikka with a knife and a gun and coming off with both of them.. and then he finally smiles... like "yea! that power makes me happy"

 

[Roid Jones]

Stringer was book smart but not street wise at all and would always do questionable things, highlighted in the story of him stealing a tennis set as a child.

 

[Roid Jones]

Stringer should of left that drug shyt behind when he had the chance.

He never wanted to leave, he wanted to naively change the dynamics in a world where no such thing is possible.

 

[kareem929]

Stringer was book smart but not street wise at all and would always do questionable things, highlighted in the story of him stealing a tennis set as a child.

Stringer only cared about the money once Avon was gone. Thats why he got at dangelo, he let east side hustle in the towers and he set avon up. Once he saw that avon was about to fukk up the money he got at him too. Bodies fukked up the money. The cops wouldn't even know what avon looked like if it wasnt for the bodies.

 

[Jax]

Stringer was too smart for the drug game, but them politcs gamers were making circles around dude. He was just a rumble tumble nikka to them

 

[Jax]

That nikka must have been dozing off during those scenes

Piff on piff on piff

 

[Jax]

 

[Family Man]

Stringer only cared about the money once Avon was gone. Thats why he got at dangelo, he let east side hustle in the towers and he set avon up. Once he saw that avon was about to fukk up the money he got at him too. Bodies fukked up the money. The cops wouldn't even know what avon looked like if it wasnt for the bodies.

This shyt showed just how foolish Stringer was and how he thought he was the smartest guy in the room. Look at the reaction and facial expressions of everyone in the room while he talking. They knew that shyt would not work long term.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

That shyt BURNED.

I always felt bad for stringer, here he was trying to leave the thousand dollar illegal business and get into the million dollar legal business and his partner is like "nah nikka lets stay knee deep in this fukkery that everyone in ends up dead or in jail."

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All Avon had to do was agree to join the Co-op like Brianna and String told him to

The first time I watched the series I was an Avon Stan, then the 2nd go-around I was like , the third time I was full on

Dude was too stubborn and stuck on them raggedy ass towers and play fighting in the streets

 

[GMOGMediaTV]

Love reading these "The Wire" threads although I've never watched an episode

shyt, i'm the opposite. I've seen every wire episode front to back and I love seeing dialog being exchanged about one of the greatest shows to ever hit the small screen.

 

[61 Corpses]

All Avon had to do was agree to join the Co-op like Brianna and String told him to

The first time I watched the series I was an Avon Stan, then the 2nd go-around I was like , the third time I was full on

Dude was too stubborn and stuck on them raggedy ass towers and play fighting in the streets

Umm The Barksdale organization was in the Co-Op

 

[Food Mane]

I've always felt they we're trying to set marlo up the same way they had stringer (except using a different tactic and fake paperwork) and Marlo just based on knowing where he stood in regards to those snakes said "nah, I'm good". Or to put it another way he knew who he was dealing with and didn't trust those lawyers.

That was part of it for sure. Marlo didn't feel the whole situation. Christ, Marlo didn't even really like washing his money. That final scene was his realization that he did the shyt for name and rep, not for money.

 

[smoove157]

Stringer was book smart but not street wise at all and would always do questionable things, highlighted in the story of him stealing a tennis set as a child.

pretty sure it was badminton, not tennis

 

[Family Man]

All Avon had to do was agree to join the Co-op like Brianna and String told him to

The first time I watched the series I was an Avon Stan, then the 2nd go-around I was like , the third time I was full on

Dude was too stubborn and stuck on them raggedy ass towers and play fighting in the streets

He was a part of the coop at Stringer's insistence. The coop was destined to fail anyways.

 

[The_Sheff]

Stringer was about to gentrify Baltimore bruh, they would've been BILLIONAIRES.

There was no reason to be in street battles with Marlo like that. Avon just had low expectations for his life

Stringer wasnt about to do shyt cause his permits were fukked up.