The Story of Gangstalicious
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"The Story of Gangstalicious" is the sixth episode in the first season of the animated television series The Boondocks.
[edit] Plot
This episode opens with a small disclaimer stating that the events and characters are fictional and that no one should take offense to the story. Great pains were taken to ensure that no one took this episode to be a statement for or against either side in the East Coast / West Coast feuds.
Then we cut to the Freeman household. Huey and Riley are watching an MTV documentary called "Gangstalicious Resurrection". Huey is confused about the title, pointing out that Gangstalicious is still very much alive. The documentary begins talking about Gangstalicious' feud with another rapper named "Eat Dirt", calling the fighting a "civil war". Huey says that the term Civil War is a bit excessive, that it's just two idiots fighting and not "the nigga version of the Cuban Missile Crisis".
Riley tells Huey to shush as the omni-present clip of a chair hitting Eat Dirt at an awards ceremony is shown. News footage of both rappers and their respective crews is shown in which they shout incomprehensible slang and curse words at the camera, but don't actually make any clear point or statement, despite saying "know what i'm sayin'" several times. The program ends with a home video of Eat Dirt and Gangtsalicious getting into a fight in a night club that results in both rappers accidentally shooting themselves.
The program is interrupted by a news flash that announces that Ganstalicious has been shot again. Huey and Riley exclaim "Again?"
Riley, desperate to find out who shot his hero, watches "that thing that [Huey] calls the news". Huey chooses not to watch the reports once "Black eyewitness man" shows up, an energetic fellow who is extremely proud of having seen the event, but does not actually give any information other than that he saw the shooting. His excitement is interrupted as his cell phone rings and he answers it, assuring the person on the other end that yes, that is in fact him on the TV.
Despite the eyewitness' best efforts, it is determined that Gangstalicious was shot while performing his new song, ironically entitled "I got shot". News footage shows Gangstalicious on stage singing the song and the crowd echoing the lyrics back to him.
- Gangstalicious: I got shot!
- Crowd: I got shot!
- (Gunmen run on stage and shoot Gangstalicious in the chest)
- Gangstalicious: I got shot!
- Crowd: I got shot!
- Gangstalicious: No, I got shot for real!
- Crowd: I got shot for real!
- Gangstalicious: NO, goddamnit! I got shot! Nigga shot me! I'm bleedin'! I'm dyin! Somebody help me! Help me! (collapses)
- Crowd: (indecipherable muttering as they try to repeat the words)
It took 45 minutes before someone called an ambulance.
Riley asks Granddad if he can visit Ganagstalicious in the hospital, reasoning that the gunmen are still out there and Gangstalicious needs his "street soldiers" to protect him. Granddad says no. Undeterred, Riley attempts several times to get taken to the hospital (falling down the stairs, pretending to get hit by a car, etc.). He finally attempts the psychological route and drinks all of granddad's orange juice right in front of him. Granddad shoves Riley out the door on his bike and tells him to go to the store to get more juice, expressly forbidding Riley from going anywhere near the hospital. Riley, of course, heads straight to the hospital.
At the desk he tells the secretary that he is one of Gangstalicious's many illegitimate children and is sent right up to the room. Gangstalicious talks to Riley, saying that he was shot by some guys he owed money to back in the days he was in the drug game, but that he isn't afraid of being shot again because he has faith.
- Gangstalicious: I got God on my side. God is gangsta, nigga. I don't fear no man but God. Any man want to get to me, they gotta go through God, knowwhati'msayin? Even if all them cops wasn't out there guarding my room...
- Riley: I didn't see any cops out there.
- Gangstalicious: What?
- Riley I didn't see any cops out there.
- Gangstalicious: Well, they can't get through hospital security.
- Riley I did.
Gangstalicious starts to panic and sends Riley out to look again and feverishly starts calling a friend, demanding to know where his security is. Riley, meanwhile, sees a car pull up with the three gunmen from the show getting out. The lady at the desk tells them exactly where Gangstalicious is when they say that they are wellwishers. Riley flees back to Gangstalicious' room to warn his hero of the danger he is in.
Meanwhile, Huey and Granddad are watching Gangstalicious's video "Thuggin love" which causes Granddad to ask if thuggin love is "when you make love to a woman. And then, just before that special moment, you beat her over the head, snatch her purse, and throw it down the stairs?"
Both Gangstalicious and Riley flee the room, encountering the assassins in the hall. Gangstalicious pulls out his gun and fires, immediately dropping the weapon and cringing from the noise. He and Riley make it outside where they encounter a fan of Gangstalicious who only wants to talk about how "thuggin' love" changed his life. Gangstalicious talks the fan into letting them "borrow" his car and he and Riley escape. The chase ends when both cars stop at a red light. The gansters then try to get ganstalicious out of his car and he rolls up the window, hoping that will save them.
The next scene shows them both bound in the trunk of the gansters car.
As they're driving towards the inevitable, Gangstalicious reveals that he really isn't "gangsta", stating that he doesn't want to be this person any more. The car is stopped and the trunk opened in a forest area. Gangstalicious is stripped naked and tied up and made to stand in the light from the car's headlights. The leader of the gangsters makes a statement.
- Lead Gangster: This is for what you done.
- Riley: Please, whatever he did it ain't worth this!
- Lead Gangster: This is about something you wouldn't understand, little man. This is about... thuggin' love.
- Lead Gangster: I loved you, man. You broke my heart man.
(Lead Gangster pulls Gangstalicious in for a deep, passionate kiss).
- Gangstalicious: You gotta understand! I was on tour! I was lonely!
- Lead Gangster: We could have had a life together!
All three gangsters open fire and unload their guns at Gangstalicious, completely missing him with every shot. Gangstalicious takes advantage of this opportunity and flees into the woods, followed by the gangsters. Riley passes out and eventually comes to, making his way home very late and with no orange juice. He recounts his adventures to Huey with some embellishments that make himself out to be the hero.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the only episode to have Riley narrate instead of Huey.
- The large black women making a statement on the news in this episode (named Shaquoya Peters) is the same woman who dies in the "Riley wuz here" episode from watching too much "Black television". This is a break in continuity, as Huey states she had died several years before.
- Mos Def provides the voice of Gangstalicious.
- The feud between Gangstalicous and Eat Dirt is a parody of rapper feuds such as those between Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG or 50 Cent and Ja Rule.
- The first appearance of the "Thuggin' Love" video.
- Colt 45 by Afroman is played in this episode.
- When Riley fall downs the stairs he yells "My shoe!". This is a reference to Eddie Murphy's 1983 stand-up act Eddie Murphy Delirious.
