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[quote_simple] “The Pale-Faced media tells us that we’re all going to hell. Maybe we’re just the first ones to light the fire.”[/quote_simple] Gotdamm, I say GOTDAMN. It’s 2016 and the atmosphere be so BLACK. Apparently Netflix be following Blacknerdproblems.com or my tumblr rants or just stumbled into the light, but are we finally, fuckin’ finally getting a Black Period-Television show? I mean, somebody tell me shit ain’t a drill and is actually happening? Chronicling the Bronx, NY in the 70’s aka the birthing of Hip Hop, the show will follow a group of Black teenagers living through the localized depression that was the Boogie Down during that time, the city development that literally tried to split Black neighborhoods in half and rise of the prominently identified and later most blatantly stolen folks of American Black Folk.
On the surface, this shit look Black as fuck. I mean, out on the stoop with your homie simultaneously rockin’ the same microphone, Black. I mean, dancing in your underwear because the beat too gotdamn dope to put on clothes first, Black. Grand Master Flash doing DJ bootcamp training? GET ALL THE WAY THE FUCK UP OUTTA HERE MY BODY IS NOT READY FOR ALL THIS BLACKNESS, Black. With performers like newcomers Shameik Moore (Dope) and Herizen Guardiola with veteran heavyweights Giancarlo Esposito (who played the best TV Villain in the last 20 years, lest you forget) and Jimmy Smits, this shit lookin’ like forces that just can’t be contained. This shit look l…
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