Same thing! Donald shouted him out in a interview and they did BET Cypher freestyle the same year. Plus he had ASAP do a cameo in a SNL skit. They seem to be actual friends.
As a Dutch person, this episode was both hilarious and embarrassing. The black face tradition is real, sadly. A couple of the dutch actors, like the cab driver, are famous dutch comedians/actors.
Yeah right! Funny too see him as a cab driver. In general just funny to see the Netherlands in Atlanta haha. The tradition is surreal to see if you haven't seen it b4 yeah! Altho mostly now i think almost all big celebrations are toned down alot. Just smudges or even different colors right?
I don't think we can assume Ern is still on bad financial terms. A) Some time has gone by & clearly Al has leveled up. As manager Ern would have as well. B) Ern mentions they pulled a show there before at a smaller venue (probably during the Clark County Tour) and now they're headlining the larger venue.
Also I think the season takes place a year after the Clark County tour and they became a big hit, have money, and this is Paper Boi’s tour now that we are watching. If you pay attention he says we were here last year on tour and Clark county is nowhere to be seen this season.
I noticed that there was an emphasis on Al and Darius wearing Gucci. I think it wasn’t a coincidence that this episode also has the use of an absurd amount of black due to the fact that it was Gucci made that infamous sweater (black turtle neck with the big red lips).
It doesn't make the conversation less weird or anything but Darius did mention before that his balls were smashed in the first episode of the show when Earn tried to convince Al to be his manager.
Been a while since I heard about Foodfight until I saw this episode. I think in development it got messed up due to improper management of character models and then they scrapped together the messy animation on it now and it looks hilarious. Definitely something Darius would watch.
When Darius is talking to the body and says “big fan of your music” I’ll just thought oh that’s not Tupac that’s just Darius being Darius🙄 after they dropped the device my jaw dropped specifically the thought of the audacity they had to kill Tupac on this show 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think Van was getting her back beat out by Darious! Lol only reason to be getting ice at 4am plus everybody was accounted for in the end but Darious! 🧐
@@noahsmith1344 he said the couldn’t procreate but I’m willing to think it still works lol. Plus it’s the way the lady at the ceremony thought that Van and Darious was together because of the vibe they share, I’m assuming?
I’ve watched all that I can watch so far in regards to your vids on ATLANTA and immediately subscribed thereafter. I gotta catch up on the rest of the season before I finish your vids but I’m liking what I’m seeing so far
I am having so much fun rewatching ATLANTA and following up with your videos. It has been an amazing experience. Any chance you'll finish seasons 1 & 2?
I think that this episode was a really important episode for a FEW reasons. But this comment I want to speak solely on a theory that Van and Darius now have a thing going on. Here begins the transformation of Van, and her new found but unspoken closeness with Darius. Atlanta is REALLY good at misdirection so I didn't think about important moments, but when I watch the subtle body cues things start making sense. So heres my theory: 1. Van and Darius didn't really know each other until this ep. Because of Earn's constant disregard for Van, Darius and Van end up spending quality time. Darius asks her about her daughter, which it seems like No one (Earn) ever asks about Lottie. And also the 'real questions' while thrifting. It seems as if no one regards her existence enough to ask her real questions lately. 2. Darius' adventure keeps escalating. When the lady from the group asks Van to confirm their identity, he first notices Van's ability to play along and his eyes light up. 3. At the death ceremony (which I'll allude to it actually being Tupac due to the small details), Van has a big yet subtle therapy moment, and gets to speak to a point where she starts making sense of her own situation. She then gets validation that she is 'exactly where she needs to be' (with Darius?). 4. She sees and is instrumental in a man dying. (Now I say the man is actually the Tupac who faked his own death in 96 and spent the remainder of his life in a Dutch colony- look at the character getting choked out. Notice the facial hair, and because its Darius who remains unbothered and Van who never makes a big deal of anything, and a bunch of other random people who know whats happening, its played down.) She is now no longer the same tense anxious Van afterwards 5. So imagine this- Van and Darius are the only people who witnessed Tupac die a wild death. They shared a moment that no one else was there for based on their adventures. The next time we see Van, she is SUPER unbothered and moving very sultry in a towel walking to the hotel room with a bucket of ice at 4am. Could her and Darius be in this room? How did she get a room on the floor right by Earn? 6. After this episode, even Darius seems to be inclined to go-with-the-flow off the path adventures which he wants to involve everyone. 7. The beginning of the next episode (old man and the tree), I noticed Earn's lack of regard for Darius when Earn arrogantly steamrolls Darius's train of thought (D answers the question about Al's business idea) Darius fidgets a bit and shortly after Van slowly comes into the frame. Al mocks Earn, then Darius (now slighted) joins a roast session with Al and Van laughs and defends Earn out of pity. Sidebar: If Darius and Van have or had a thing going on, it would make sense that Van stays away from the group and super distant from Earn, as a fling with the friend of her child's father's husband would make things very messy. But who knows!
I haven't seen anyone else point out that in the wide shot of the man in bed you can actually see Tupac's "OUTLAW" tattoo replicated on his left forearm. The showrunners certainly made it realistically look like Pac.
I think the details on the phone was supposed to be a message that Earn (or maybe all the characters) were in heaven and hell at the same time.. And just as Earn was about to get some rest, he was “summoned” for another task… still he rises, like Tupac. Which is also part of the Tupac theme for the show. Living the life, being worshipped and yet still having to work somehow and feeling oddly out of place at the same time.
I heard a story that Tupac died and came back a few times when he was in hospital after getting shot. His mother then decided to switch off the machines to help him "leave" because she believed that if he wanted to stay he would not be trying to "leave" that many times. Maybe somehow this episode/scene was talking about that
Did anyone else notice that when Darius is with Van he has a Van Gogh scarf on the first shots and then later with her again he’s got the Van Gogh sunflower 🌻 t shirt on? ❤
The pic of Earn and Val's daughter shows a time jump, she was in diapers season 2, she looks about 4-6 now. I think it would be black comedy if it was Dec 2019, carrying sickness all through Europe .
I felt so bad for Earn the whole time he was way too nice to say anything which isn’t a good quality all the time because he had a daughter to take care of and he let paper boi just walk all over him. And it’s just flat out painful to see money being thrown out like that.
The Tupac scene really flew over everyone's head and this recap just made me 10x's more angry this show does not get the intellectual feedback it deserves.
I really wish you would have given some depth on some of the situations in the episode, like what the girls fighting were talking about. This seems like just a recap. All the information restated in this video is not helpful for understanding certain nuances in the episode. I don’t need a recap that Van “apparently likes deviled eggs”
But she told Darius she has a boyfriend tho!!!! And don’t Van is type to cheat or hook up with one of Earns friends and I think whoever was in the same hotel room with is someone they all know I think it is Clark County!!!!
Yes they where speaking Dutch but it didnt have any real things to say the white girl called him zwarte piet wich pissed of the collered girl , and to be totally honest the girls where speaking Vlaams they where from the northern part of Belgium
Foodfight is a lost media animated movie with a star studded cast that was found recently and released and was so utterly bad that it was probably better left lost
Food Fight, I believe is the terribly animated film with Charlie Sheen, that acts like a cheap sausage party rated for G for kids. Terrible film though.
Food fight is a fever dream that someone actually put money into making. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen animated or otherwise. But it's so bad that its hilarious, you can watch the movie on YT. And you should not be sober while watching
yes it does he is a character in this episode and maybe an important piece of this story its a direct reference to the show, why would there be a random video about tupac questioning if some alternate reality santa killed him it's not clickbait if ur too dumb to read the rest of the title saying what the videos about
I dislike this episode, because i feel like this episode exaggerated the amount of black face during the tradition. Public view on zwartepiet changed really quickly in the last 5 or 10 years. I get that Atlanta is all about the surreal and a room full of people in blackface surtainly is that, but it hurts to see the cultural progress we made in the netherlands to be ignored and to see that this episode is just another rant about blackface being bad, i feel like everyone knows that a this point. The show isn't saying anything new or interesting. However the episode still works. I saw a video essay about atlanta and afro-surrealism, and it said something like: afro-surrealism shows the surreality of the every day life of afro-americans and other minorities. This episode may have been the first we're it showed something i could relate to from my everyday life as someone from the netherlands. That might be why i dislike this episode, because it shows how surreal something is that i've seen irl, even though it has gotten less it's still surreal to see a kid in blackface and the episode forces me to see that this is part of my country. That's why i dislike this episode, because i can't accept that this still happens here and the episode shoves it in my face in an over the top way(not accurate to the real situation). In the end it's more of a personal thing than objective criticism, Atlanta still is a great show.
How do you eliminate the black culture and background? You move the series named ATLANTA out of ATLANTA to a Euro city so you can justify whitewashing everything except the four main characters. The assault never stops.
That's not at all the intention. It's showing that what they experience at home isn't far off from what they experience elsewhere. Artists tour. That's how they make their money these days thanks to streaming. They'd have to leave at some point. Al has always wanted big success. An international tour is the big time. It's a "the grass isn't always greener" story. Al straight up says it when they walk into his hotel room.
