The Luke Cage “Streets” Trailer Is The Hardest Shit Since MC Ren

aka the Most Blacktacular Small Screen Trailer Known to Man aka the Blackest Thirst Trap This Side of She Hate Me aka Unrated Mo Betta Blues Meets 2016 Harlem Nights

Maaaaaaaaaaaan, listen. This ain’t even a thing we do, fam. We don’t drop two spotlights on trailers for the same gotdamn show. But I couldn’t let this shit drop without a word, a moment of your time. Just a morsel of the space time continuum to pay my tithes to what may be the best trailer I’ve seen in recent memory. You thought the first shit was hot? You think the first one had the hood throwing on hoodies with the holes they cut out on their own, walking slow motion in through their own fuckin’ neighborhood before? Sheeeeeiiiiiit. Five quick reasons this bout to make me call off work, not just Friday, but every day until Friday so I can prepare. Your boy might be on Paid Leave, right the Black now. [title type=”h4″]5. Cornell Stokes is the villain that Harlem needs [/title] Yo, not to typecast my dude, Maheershala Ali (gotdamn that name is fuckin’ fire, though), but most of us Netflix veterans know your boy as Remy, the slick lobbyist, mover slash shaker from House of Cards. Yo, who need influence in the White House when you the king of fuckin’ Harlem, doe?!?! Stokes is just ruthless as hell, doing body work on cats, throwing dudes off buildings, shooting RPGs from the roof…like, you can do some shit like what the fuck, not RPGs from the roof fam! And that pose when he walks in front of the giant Biggie po…

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