The Story of Gangstalicious
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| The Boondocks episode | |||
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| "The Story of Gangstalicious" | |||
 Gangstalicious, voiced by Mos Def |
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| Episode no.: | 6 | ||
| Prod. code: | 107 | ||
| Airdate: | December 11, 2005 | ||
| Writer(s): | Rodney Barnes Aaron McGruder |
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| Director: | Seung Eun Kim | ||
| Guest star(s): | Mos Def Sway |
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"The Story of Gangstalicious" is the sixth episode of the Adult Swim animated television series The Boondocks. It originally aired on December 11, 2005
[edit] Plot
The episode begins with a notice.
| “ | The following is a completely fictional work of satire. Any similarities with actual rappers is totally, completely, coincidental.
Also, I ain't dissin' nobody's city, or region, or... whatever geographic affiliation you got. I love everybody. Seriously. I really don't want any of you niggas running up on me at the club. I don't have no crew, and they don't pay me enough to hire bodyguards. I know how ya'll niggas do. It's just jokes, man. Dictated. Not read. The management. |
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Riley's favorite rapper, Gangstalicious, is shot while performing a concert in Woodcrest. Gangstalicious was singing his new song "I Got Shot", so when three men rush the stage and actually shoot him, it takes 45 minutes before anyone realizes what occurred and calls an ambulance.
A self-proclaimed "street soldier", Riley makes it his mission to get to the hospital to help Gangstalicious by any means necessary. When feigning accident and injury don't work, Riley tries drinking orange juice straight from the carton — an action Granddad Freeman utterly detests. As punishment, Granddad makes Riley ride his bike to the store to buy some orange juice, but specifically threatens him against going to the hospital.
Regardless, Riley heads straight for the hospital and meets Gangstalicious who is hospital-bedridden. Gangstalicious becomes severely anxious when Riley informs him that no officers or security guards are protecting his room. Upon double checking, Riley discovers three men asking about Gangstalicious at the hospital's front desk. The three men see Riley sneaking around and try to talk to him, but Riley is able to flee back to Gangstalicious' room. The two escape and jack a car, but not before a close call with the three armed men whose poor aim allow for a successful getaway.
A chase ensues. Riley and Gangstalicious are caught when they run into a line of cars stopped at a red light on a one-way street. They are taken to a remote location, where Gangstalicious is stripped, bound, and blindfolded. He and the leader of the three men kiss devotedly, apparently as former lovers, before they open fire on him. Each of the men shoots every round in his gun, but all miss every shot. Gangstalicious scurries away. Riley faints and later walks home.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the only episode that Riley narrates instead of Huey.
- The documentary the boys watch at the beginning of the episode, "Gangstalicious: Resurrection", is a parody of "Tupac: Resurrection".
- Gangstalicious, while talking to Riley in his hospital room, quotes Jules Winnfield from the movie Pulp Fiction — a character who was played by Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson voices a recurring character on the show, Gin Rummy.
- In this episode, a large black woman is seen making a statement on the news. Her name is Shaquoya Peters, the same woman who is shown to have died from watching too much "Black television" in the episode "Riley Wuz Here" — an apparent break in continuity, as Huey states in the latter episode that she had died several years before.
- The feud between fictional rappers "Gangstalicious" and "Eat Dirt" could be a parody of a variety of rapper feuds such as those between Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG or 50 Cent and Ja Rule.
- During one of his attempts to injure himself, Riley fall downs the stairs and yells "My shoe!". This is a reference to Eddie Murphy's 1983 stand-up act, Eddie Murphy Delirious.
- When Riley enters Gangstalicious's hospital room he doesn't shut the door behind him, but the door is shown to be closed in the next camera angle.
- This episode features the first appearance of the "Thuggin' Love" music video, which can be seen in numerous other episodes hereafter.
- Crazy Rap by Afroman is played in this episode.
