Official Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 1 Thread

Rollie Forbes

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What I meant was, this show is in 1991/1992, so lyrics in NY wouldn't sound like that until a few years later.
Wrong. I was alive and outside in '91/'92.
Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo were out.
Apache was out.
Live Squad was out.
Onyx was out.
Schooly D was back on the King of NY soundtrack.
Deep Cover was blowing up everywhere!

De La Soul and Fu-Schnickes weren't the only sounds coming through people's speakers.
 

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Wrong. I was alive and outside in '91/'92.
Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo were out.
Apache was out.
Live Squad was out.
Onyx was out.
Schooly D was back on the King of NY soundtrack.
Deep Cover was blowing up everywhere!

De La Soul and Fu-Schnickes weren't the only sounds coming through people's speakers.

I just really meant the specifics of someone hinting that they committed a specific real killing at a specific real place (e.g naming "4 quarters and 2 dimes). I think that came a little later than where we are right now on the show.

(Yes, I would agree that is a MINOR nitpick, I'm just commenting on it)
 

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I'm not a music historian, but I don't think that hyper REAL "gangster" lyrics would have been as common in NY until after the influence of the movie "Deep Cover". I remember feeling that that movie changed something in music around the country.

Before then, I think most NY songs about crime were stories that had kind of a "moral".
E.g. this episode played music from the movie "Juice". If you listen to the theme from Juice, you notice that the "character" that the song is about DIES at the end. You're not supposed to believe that Rakim was being autobiograpical.
G Rap may have been the first nyc gangsta artist
 

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That body inside the wall shyt is some of the dumbest shyt I’ve seen on TV .


Why Juke stealing shyt like her dad don’t have the bread to cop it for her ? That storyline odd as hell


This nikka rapping streets need a body and fukk buck 20 wayy too specifically
Lo life’s were a real crew, those are her friends so she wants to fit in. Also in one of the episodes she was selling some of the pieces for extra money. I don’t think she wants to sell drugs
 

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Y'all know that rotting body in the wall gonna come back to haunt them as soon as that spot starts popping

When white girl said she wouldn't miss the showcase for the world, I just knew she was gonna get clapped. Characters don't usually live long after uttering those lines. She's hooked on woo's now most likely.

Why didn't Joey Badazz tell the production team his flunky wouldn't wear his got dam chain outside his hoodie like that?? I know Fif can't be on set 24/7 and the actor playing the flunky is probably from Britain. So I'm putting this purely on Joey shoulders! And who signed off on wanna be gangsta Kanan, who is dying to get in the drug game and be respected in the streets.....going to a club in Southside Queens dressed like Boyz II Men??? Where? When?? I swear I thought Raq was about to make him take that goofy shyt off. Props to Raq for knocking out a perfect knot on her 1st try ever!

They kinda over doing it with Gumby's and foot tall flat tops. That shyt was starting to die down in 91. It was 91 when I 1st went back to dark caesars and low fades.

Perhaps it's time for Raq and K to move? :ld:
Do they know where Unique stays? Maybe they should go by his house for a driveby or 2? Maybe dump a body or sumn I dunno. Doesn't seem fair.

why wouldn't he?

 

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- Jukebox's girl going the way of Melody from Snowfall. Her parents are gonna get even more :mjpls: and blame the "nikka influence" when she becomes a fiend and/or dies and that will set Juke off.

- The cop chick is a lesbian too and plays a role in Jukebox eventually becoming a police officer when the singing stuff doesn't work out

- Goofy ass Famous is a liability and gonna get himself murked for talking too much because it's obvious he wouldn't even kill time, but gets way too specific about murder shyt that could get Kanan caught up. At best their friendship is done. Dude should have been a De La Soul type rapper instead.

- D'Angelo Barksdale turning off his grandma's hearing aid and sonning Raquel :mjlol:

- Lou Lou showing signs of being an early Ghost type of dude. Wants to get out the game but the forces around him won't let it happen.

- Marvin being a genius as usual with that dead body in the walls :snoop:

- Those cartoonish fake flat top hair pieces :mjlol:

- I knew Scrappy wasn't gonna last. The minute Unique called him a turncoat it was obvious his days were numbered.
Yup
 

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The blunt Nicole smoked was laced with crack icymi.

With all the crackheads out and about in 1991, was it realistic for a rich white girl to experiment with crack in 1991? It would be more believable when the crack epidemic started, like 1984.
 
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