Idris Elba So Street, Sucker Authors Want to Stop Him

[quote_simple]”You know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here, and maybe — just maybe — not smart enough for them out there.” – Avon Barksdale.[/quote_simple] So when I heard that the new James Bond author Anthony Horowitz said that Idris Elba was “too street” to play James Bond, I was like, naw bruh, don’t you remember what Avon the Street Gawd said? In one of the best scenes of one of the greatest TV shows to ever exist, Avon tells his long-time partner Stringer Bell (played by Idris Elba) that he wasn’t “street enough” for the game. And come on, Avon may have made some bad decisions when he was trying to hold onto his empire, but ain’t nobody in Baltimore rocking “Avon Barksdale was wrong” t-shirts. So, with all due respect Mr. Horowitz, Avon has spoken, and thus I assume you haven’t watched The Wire so you probably don’t know any better. But wait a minute — if one believes Idris is too street, then one HAD to have seen The Wire, right!?!? I mean, if you’re going to make that argument then you had to have seen Idris rockin’ a gruff United States accent, using burner phones, ordering the death of a crew member, and then shacking up with said crew member’s baby moms (we have established that Stringer Bell was a straight up punk, right?). But I understand the disconnect: one man’s “ain’t hard enough for this” can be another man’s “too street.” It’s not like Mr. Horowitz and Avon are attending the same dinner table, just like a Repub…