Creed’s 2nd Trailer Just Dropped and I’M NOT CRYING, YOU’RE CRYING

This is not how I intended to begin my day, smearing thug tears on my keyboard and reliving the greatness of the Rocky series in one short trailer. But yo, I have no regrets, because this trailer is flames. If you saw the first Creed trailer you know why people are hype — here comes yet another chapter in the Rocky saga, only this time it’s not Balboa leading the screen, it’s the son of his longtime nemesis-turned-friend-turned-erotic-training-scene-on-the-beach, Apollo Creed. And within this 2-minute trailer, Creed’s second trailer captures everything that makes the Rocky series what it is. And that’s the same as what it’s always been in 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1990, 2006… maaaaaan FUCK Bad Boy entertainment, Sylvester Stallone invented the remix. Aside from the obvious “underdog story” label that Rocky movies are given, several other themes live just below the series’ surface, and Creed hints at them all: mentorship, self-doubt, legacy, family, and of course, above all, perseverance. But the hypest part though? THE HYPEST PART? There’s an homage to nearly every Rocky film in each scene of this trailer! Chasing chickens? Uppercuts under the tightrope? Dog, when Adonis and Rocky are working the speed bag side by side, in perfect symmetry?! Excuse me, I… I promised myself I’d hold it together.

And the speeches! Oh, how can I forget the speeches?! Fam, sit down and heed my words: there will be no fewer than a 100 motivational YouTube videos with Rocky da Gawd and that per…