Gangstalicious gay

Oh, man.

That's it.
It's gonna be weird.

It's gonna be so weird
from now on.

Poor you. Often, these fictional rappers are terrible collections of dumb stereotypes. His first major hit "Thuggin' Love" catapulted him to his first successful hit.

After ending up in the hospital, he is pursued by an ex-lover and nearly killed.
In season 2, he reappears with the track "Homies over Hoes" with a cross promotion of his own clothing line. You gay.
Y'all niggas are gay.

Nigga, you gay.
That's gay.

Don't find any of this
gay at all?

Okay, so all that
other stuff was gay.

But Gangstalicious
ain't gay.

You can't just go throwing
that gay thing around, Huey.

That's
a serious accusation.

You the one who said
he kissed a man.

What I had said was them dudes
knocked me upside my head,

and I dreamed
he kissed another man.

How often you have dreams
about men kissing?

Shut up.

I never dream about my heroes

kissing other men.

Man, stop!
This whole conversation is

making me uncomfortable.

I dreamt about Muhammad Ali
just last night.

But he was fighting Joe Frazier,
not kissing him.

Ugh!

Mos Def’s vocal performance makes him kind of ridiculous, and he does try to sell the fashion world (and Regis and Kelly) on pink bulletproof vests that aren’t actually bulletproof, but he’s just close enough to the line of actually being out that everyone’s reaction to him says more about them than it does him.

That’s why he actually barely appears in “The Story Of Gangstalicious Part Two,” which focuses primarily on Granddad’s reaction to fearing that Riley is gay.

(Macktastic protests: “It ain’t like we respectin’ them or nothin’ like that.”)

But the most critical character in this story isn’t Gangstalicious, or even Granddad: it’s Riley. Certainly, life would have gotten a lot harder for him, so it’s hard to criticize, especially since he’s a, uh, fictional character.

The thing about the “The Story Of Gangstalicious, Part Two” that makes it one of the best episodes of The Boondocks and one of the saddest is that it probably could have been made a couple of years ago with maybe minimal cosmetic changes.

♪

Ah, man.

You right, Gangstalicious.

Heh. But maybe I'll
think about it.

We're back with our guest
Jessica Ethalberg,

also known as
Wonder Cheeks,

reading excerpts from her
amazing new best-selling book,

The Private Lives
of Superstar Rappers.

"Of all the rappers I met
during those years,

"I loved Gangstalicious
the most.

"I called him Freddy.

"I wanted more than anything
to give my heart to him forever,

but I couldn't because--"

"He was so
unbelievably gay."

"So unbelievably gay"?

ALL:
Gay?

[♪♪♪]

That bitch lying.
See?

Got to.
No other choice.

Probably shouldn't be using
the same bathroom.

Yes. Would Riley be more accepting if Gangstalicious had come out? This is why I don't read.

Riley, he's gay. Shut up.

[BEEPS OFF]

♪ In a glass cage... You cold
as ice, Reezy.

[♪♪♪]

Hey there, boy.

Let's spend
some man time together.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just you and me.

I take you anywhere
you wanna go.

Now, what do you say, huh?

Uh!

At the end of “The Story Of Gangstalicious,” his homosexuality is close to a punchline, a twist that explains both why he’s being hunted and what thuggin’ love is. What the fuck
is you doing in here?

Can't you see
the homeys is talking?

This is homey talk
happening.

How you just gonna walk in
on homey talk, bitch?

Man, y'all ho's is trouble.

Nigga, you've been
begging me

to come over here
for a month.

You know what?

At the end of the first episode, Riley realizes that his hero, the hard Gangstalicious, is a normal, broke, short dude who rents the jets for his videos (a sad realization I think a lot of former eight-year-olds can identify with). What are
we supposed to do now?

This gay-ass nigga
gonna be here in a hour.

Oh, no. That's real thing.

All right now,
we got some models.

Check it.

It’s not a serious rapper beef or problems from when ’licious was (or wasn’t) in the drug game; it’s the plot of an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and that’s the one that doesn’t have Ice-T. That's all.

Yep. Lethal Interjection skips out on their track with him to avoid being called gay (while wearing pearl necklaces).