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I’ma be honest with you right now. I don’t even know how to start this shit off. I am beside myself. Creed II dropped the trailer, and I thought I was prepared. Ryan Coogler isn’t directing, and we heard hints of the premise. I’ll admit it. I was like meh. I was talking that “this might not be the movie we need” shit. I was feeling that.
….I’ma shut the fuck up now, cause I don’t know what to feel. Not like disss Man, we open up with a shot of Adonis taking a hit and folding like an Autobot into car mode. No Geico. No Gecko tellin’ him he’s covered. Progressive agents in the back looking on like “Gah Dayum You got T-Boned from a right hook. We couldn’t cover that if we wanted to.” Soon as I saw Adonis wake up in the hospital bed and look around him trying to figure out how he went from Wakanda’s ancestral plane in Marvel universe to suddenly being back in the Rocky universe, I knew I was invested. Fuck it. I’m here for it. I already know this goin’ be flames cause Rocky is on his reminiscing shit. Anytime you see Rocky by Adrian’s grave, you know bars coming. When Rocky talkin’ that “let the past be in the past” shit. You know bars and pain are on the way. Rocky is telling Adonis, this guy he wants to face is Ken Shamrock dangerous right before the soul of Micky enters his body and says, “He’s a bulldozer with a wrecking ball gentrification attached. He’ll leave a ring around your eye and tread marks on your back. He’s hungry! You ain’t been Hungry since (insert your fave …
YOU’VE REACHED YOUR LIMIT
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Omar Holmon is a content editor that is here to make .gifs, obscure references, and find the correlation between everything Black and Nerdy.
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