The intensity of Drake’s super fandom, even in his absence, makes him out to be godlike (or 6 God-like).
Sadly, Champagne Papi himself does not make an appearance, but he doesn’t need to. He sounds shockingly like a young Michael Jackson, singing “Oh, you can’t run from me/ You can’t hide from me.” The track’s haunting lyrics - “Do you misbehave?/ Haunt you to your grave/ I’m going to eat you alive” - could serve as a ghost of Joe Jackson everywhere, preying on their young, impressionable sons, or they could be the product of such abuse conversing with a star’s current self, threatening to consume him or her with insecurities such as anti-blackness and overall internalized turmoil.Įpisode: “Champagne Papi” | Song: “Zombies” “Terrified” ends with vocals from JD McCrary, who was 9 years old at the time. He speaks of his father - who regularly abused him for the sake of extracting talent and hard work - with admiration. Regardless, the man appears to be white, when he is really black. In this episode, Darius goes to buy an old piano from Teddy Perkins, who’s either the brother of a musical prodigy he speaks of, or the musical prodigy himself (I’m still trying to figure it out).
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“Redbone” (a slang term for a light-skinned woman like Van) is full of recurring paranoia that his girl will find someone better: “Stay woke/ N****s creeping.” Van isn’t seeing anyone else by the end of the episode, but she has detached from Earn and decides that they should only co-parent.Įpisode: “Teddy Perkins” | Song: “Terrified” She points out that she’s goes to all his Paper Boi-related gigs, but he never involves himself in her interests. It might not be until this episode that we realize how unexplored Van is outside of her proximity to Earn. Van gives the Oktoberfest-goers the benefit of the doubt, as some of them are her longtime friends, but Earn’s discomfort is evident. The episode explores this through microaggressions and macroaggressions (cue the blackface) toward the two of them. As someone who was born and raised in Atlanta, I can tell you any time you venture this far, you encounter the racism and stark Republicanism of the state. She carts Earn off to an annual German Oktoberfest celebration in Helen, Georgia, about an hour and a half from Atlanta. The center of this episode is Van, the mother of Earn’s daughter. Later, Katt Williams appears as Earn’s somewhat deranged uncle, a smart but misguided man who cautions Earn against becoming a version of himself.Īll of these dynamics seem to echo the sentiment to “have some love,” the second track off Awaken, My Love! The song’s affirming chorus - “Have a word for your brother/ Have some time for one another/ Really love one another/ It’s so hard to find” - is what’s missing from the portrayed communities and relationships. The episode opens with two black teenagers robbing a chicken spot, where a young, black woman is murdered in the crossfire of retaliation. Darius and Alfred aren’t speaking, and Earn is becoming increasingly fearful that Paper Boi’s also-increasing fame will outgrow him and his normalcy. Paper Boi) and wonderfully weird comrade Darius - distanced from each other. The season premiere finds the show’s protagonists - cousins Earn and Alfred (a.k.a. Episode: “Alligator Man” | Song: “Have Some Love”
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