DeMarcus Lectures Al - Scene | Atlanta | FX 

Hell nawl

For sure

I like popeyes

Nope. I'm not eating anything poisonous.

I prefer subway sushi

I rewatch just for him to say that🤣😂🤣🦜

I can't wait to use that line ☺️

Mad I can’t like this every time I re watch lol

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Theyre bound to hit a lick🤣

Then uses racial slurs like coon chicken and Aunt Jemima 😂

AND calls him brother in return

A++ acting

he meant that 😂

I wish I enjoyed things on your level.

But not the chef that made that fish.

@@deviousj5868 💀

The ending is cheap bait.

​@@youcantbeatk7006 The show was genius

@@christiancharles2866The ending is cheap bait

Low key season 3 was so much better. Every episode in season 3 was super deep and original while episode's in Season 4 seemed like they were written really quickly and by completely different writer's than season 3. Was really disappointed this season

@@secret222 You're very wrong if you think that.

@@secret222 you weren't paying attention to season 4.

@@secret222 very much a wrong take

@@BearagamoWoods @redfordreddington8834 @ambskater97 How tf yall gonna tell him his opinion is wrong and not give any reason? Lol and he's right season 3 was way better, season 4 doesn't really have a direct story that flows from episode to episode. It's like every episode stands alone, which doesn't make it bad but it does show a lack of continuity in the writing.

funniest line in the whole show bro i couldnt BREATHE

@@swisstorianI wouldn’t say the whole show but it was funny af 😂😂😂

@@swisstorianit could be ngl

@@Eli-ss9gj its def the one that stuck w me the most i be saying ts weekly

Lowkey this whole speech should have ended with that lol

I couldn’t tell if he was also talking about the chef 🤷🏿‍♂️

He said Alabama frist then Florida

So many of my friends don’t catch that

​@@nerdyafrican1185 you want some hot sauce with that brother!

I love it. Everywhere there is black folk getting the same service from another blindly while serving never ending skepticism to our own 😢

Amen brother.

Comedic afro surrealism is my favorite genre

Your right, never realized 😂😂😂

can you explain the ny one? as a european i think im missing sumt

@@salvlox_ It's just the kind of slang NYers use, when referring to getting money illegally.

Malcolm Hex.

Nation of Islam vibes

​@@MentalStillnessbruh bahahaha 🤣💀

You missed the point, the blowfish isn't poisoned, the point of the scene is to make you question WHY your first thought is the fish being poison when japanese will serve you the same thing

Hrs giving the Honorable Elija Muhammed vibes

It isn’t dark comedy!!! It is Afro-Surrealism !!!!!!!!!!!

@@MoodyChavierI mean stuff can be multiple things

@@J3llyf12hy perhaps

It's both

i often have a knot in my stomach bc i don’t know where things will go

lol that’s true i didn’t think about that…. it’s always al 😂

It’s got an element from each of their solo adventures I just realized

lol

😂😂😂

Straight bars. Assault & Battery Chicken 🍗

I havent gone in years

Never laughed so hard in my life

The Breaking point lol

I lost it in that moment😭😭😭

Yessss lol 🙌🏾☠️😂🤣

i have a rule where if i spend more than 100 dollars on something i find out who owns it first. this made me start incorporating things i spend more than 100 dollars on consistently (like fast food) into that

When I lived in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn in the mid 2000s, there were two African/Arab owned cafeterias where you fixed your own plate with the fresh hot food they served (pure organic veggies, halal meats, and unique African & Arab dishes. The place was always packed with either Muslims or white Hipsters from places like Iowa and Portland who were just moving in. I got really good at making a nice plate with portions of meats and veggies for under 7 bucks. Meanwhile, across the street, most of the Black & Latino who lived in the area would rather pay double at Popeyes, KFC, Taco Bell or McDonalds. I used to shake my head at how our community is just happily poisoning itself. Now I don't care anymore.

@@juniorjames7076 power of knowledge and discipline

@@juniorjames7076 moved to suburb in VA, this guy told me he'd rather spend more at a fancy chickenspot than Popeyes quality of poultry

It's conditioning- goes back to post-slavery lack of food availability created generational addiction @@rasheedsaibu4147

So basically this dude is Killmonger's uncle on his mother's side.

When I lived in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn in the mid 2000s, next to the local mosque there were two African/Arab owned cafeterias where you fixed your own plate with the fresh hot food they served (pure organic veggies, halal meats (no pork), and unique African & Arab dishes. The place was always packed with either Muslims or white Hipsters from places like Iowa and Portland who were just moving in. I got really good at making a nice plate with portions of meats and veggies for under 7 bucks. Meanwhile, across the street, most of the Black & Latinos who lived in the area would rather pay double at Popeyes, KFC, Taco Bell or McDonalds. I used to shake my head at how our community is just happily poisoning itself. Now I don't care anymore.

@@juniorjames7076 I think this is how hostile white people win. They drug dealers and the drugs they dealing is KFC, Popeyes, McDonald's. Al's and the crew's desire for Popeyes is why the world they live in is so afflicted by whiteness and how that doesn't change because they achieved fame and success. In fact Earn the most stern about not going to Popeye's was still treating DeMarcus a student of a famous sushi chef as a charity case. Which is ironic cause Earn broke down in front of therapist saying he hates when other black people think of him that way. Also in Season 2 Earn was disrespected by Al who wanted a Jewish attorney instead of a black one. Al hinted he might seek out a different manager and it's implied he wants a white manager. Van's friend is an investor for DeMarcus and Van respects her friend's confidence in DeMarcus food. Yet Van doesn't validate that friendship by eating the food. This is in spite of the fact in Season 3 Van's friend was willing to fly Van back to Atlanta instead of just allowing Van to live out a French fantasy. Darius comes in and punches the owner and he saves his friends by riding in a car with Popeyes under the seat. Darius thinks its ok making his friends happy even if it means hurting a black man who wants ✌ cook in a different culture. Darius ironically suffered like DeMarcus, a restaurant in the UK that Darius liked was gentrified by a white lady he met at a party. This was done by taking a traditional recipe and making it corporate. Darius threw the recipe in the garbage yet in this episode he happily bring his friends a corporate product. In the end the friends are together eating their food happy. It's almost as if the show is saying don't isolate when whiteness brings you down. Come together with your black friends and even if you betray that sentiment by falling victim to whiteness desires to seperate black people. Just do the best you can with the people you know before they're gone.

How is he a bad vessel? Is it cuz he's black?

@@juniorjames7076 I remember a discussion about food deserts. Basically, lack of grocery stores, which is why impoverished black people have bad diets. I do agree with that sentiment to a certain extent. However, I also have to call BS. I remember having a similar experience to you, but with groceries: There used to be a restaurant/grocery store in the hood. They had great prices and produce. As a matter of fact, they were known for their greens and sweet potatoes. I knew about that place because my mom would drive a long way just to buy their greens for Thanksgiving and New Years. They also had a restaurant where they'd serve fried chicken, fried pork chops, chips, sodas, etc. Most of the people in the area barely bought the produce (produce was a good deal with cabbage costing about $0.50 a head), they bought the fried pork chops from the restaurant, a bud light, and a bag of hot fries. Even my younger cousins are victim of this. An organization was giving out free apples, to encourage kids to eat healthier snacks. I asked my cousins if they got any, since it was free. They said, "no, I don't want no apple! I just went in the store and got hot fries!" I think we like to lie and blame food deserts, which is valid to a certain extent btw, but we also miss that a lot of us don't want better.

The blowfish is poisonous if prepared wrong, he did it to show trust behind what he made. If Paperboi had a problem, he should've asked but he chose to stay ignorant.

@@sws212 He's not ignorant, as the chefs in Japan are certified under an extremely rigorous process, and customers still get sick or die from eating the fish. If being ignorant means not gambling with my life to appease someone's ego, so be it.

Yea. The chef could've led with something less esoteric. For his ATL audience.

Nah they jus wanted some mf Popeyes

@@Schwartzbruder1 I love your sarcasm lmao

What if I don't like sushi?

Bruh. I worked at Popeyes as teenager white people love and eat Popeyes too if not more. They used to fck that chicken up. That's a stereotype.

@@brianthomason5022 not the jew-card.. 🙄

@@brianthomason5022 Stop trying to tell us what's for us and what isn't. No one asked you! Get out.

@@plutotech my man picked up his Kanye que cards and left lmao

Hollering 🤣

​@@shannonbeckett3258 they'll rob you no matter how long they've known you, or how well they've known you.

​@@shannonbeckett3258 to come up on money, property, good fortune

The look on van and earn face is priceless 😂

Stephen Glover said that characters in the show can be both right and wrong. What he said was right.

@@ambskater97 I mean, what is basically doing is just guilt tripping them to eat his horrible food

Nahhhh, but you're basically projecting your basic mentality splashing around in puddles @@justadude8845

@@justadude8845you didn’t get it.

It's neither, it's a message.

Fr. He's not Christopher Nolan, and this show didn't do huge numbers, but you can tell they let him do whatever he wanted. The show's just so avant-garde and left of field but he still had the keys all the way

@@prenuptials5925it’s so good I’m sad it’s gone but happy it was ever a thing.

I been in tears all NIGHT off this one scene 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He was bout to power up 😂😂

absolutely.

It's also important to note that plenty of niggas just wouldn't eat a poisonous fish to begin with, no matter who made it

I've been saying this is the real-life Boondocks

don’t think we’ll be getting more boondocks. not with John Witherspoon dead and most of the VAs approaching their 60s

It was HBO decides to not pick it up

@@fredleeland2464 If that merger never happened I'd bet it would be on air.

guy who voiced grandad is dead, so, yeah, never coming back. ever.

😂

Yeah. Like a new James Bond villain. "The Origin of Dr. Blowfish." 😂

Yes people would be. They wouldn't call it ghetto or out of place. It'd be seen as a thoughtful convenience of that culture. Little items that you might have forgot you needed or a snack to grab extra.

To be fair I've been to many "Japanese" resturants that where the person never said itadakimasu. I don't think I've been to one that has.

I wouldnt be eating in a sushi place with make up on the counter and deep African vibes with the owner looking like he’s about to sell me a bean pie.

@@socalrefrigeration548 why?

@@angellover02171 Lol you'll never get an answer.

Yea. We really dont have the tongue for "real sushi"...most of us anyway

Sushi was originally Japanese

In universe the restaurant they are eating at is a black-japanese fusion restaurant, so not completely traditional

When I lived in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn in the mid 2000s, next to the local mosque there were two African/Arab owned cafeterias where you fixed your own plate with the fresh hot food they served (pure organic veggies, halal meats (no pork), and unique African & Arab dishes. The place was always packed with either Muslims or white Hipsters from places like Iowa and Portland who were just moving in, gentrifying the area. I got really good at making a nice plate with portions of meats and veggies for under 7 bucks. Meanwhile, across the street, most of the Black & Latinos who lived in the area would rather pay double at Popeyes, KFC, Taco Bell or McDonalds. I used to shake my head at how our community is just happily poisoning itself. Now I don't care anymore.

@@juniorjames7076 😂 that’s how it be and we wonder why other countries be looking healthier. It’s like that in Pittsburgh too….line for Popeyes be wrapped around the block for that sandwich

Cmon bruh it’s good😂 it’s a little too good.

@@juniorjames7076 Sounds like every dead inside minority who claims to care about their community but has given up any attempt to help it. You quit, don't even try to hype it.

It's not at all.

Chris you just did .and I love it that's all that matters the people it was pose to touch it did

Free Chicken Sandwich day N!gga !!!

Food is one of the biggest markers of culture. How's its cooked, dined, served, and cooked by.

Also the D'Angelo sandwiches.