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Southside Jamaica, Queens is hot, y’all. Raquel JUST told everybody who would listen that she’s out of the game and done with the street, but wouldn’t you know it? The streets won’t let Raquel chill. While she is trying to get her cozy and comfy on with Unique (an odd pairing if ever there was one), Stefano’s homies bumrush the show — there will be lots of ’90s slang and references up in here, up in here — and kidnap them. As it turns out, Stefano wants Raq to take out Sal from Newark (last season’s shenanigans) OR he will help Sal take out Raq and all of her family.
I must say, the social commentary about Black people getting all of the cool nicknames was quite entertaining and apropos. Stefano was clowning Unique’s name (obviously a Five-Percent Nation of Islam rebrand) but I really think Stefano, whose nickname is The Big Fish, was just jealous — both for himself and all of his other Italian associates whose nicknames are quite functional, if not literal. Either way, Stefano might have a career in stand-up comedy if this mob-affiliated drug dealer thing doesn’t work out.
Speaking of drugs not working out, Lou-Lou is kind of spinning out. While Hi-Five’s “I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)” plays in the background of the club he and Marvin are in, Lou looks like he’s ready to take off on a dude who simply brushed into him while delivering drinks. Lou needs a hobby, and it looks like Jukebox might get him back to his old self after she decides to seek help from him in preparation for an audition to be part of a girl’s singing group — while she’s also trying to join the military to get out of Queens. It’s kind of crazy to think of Jukebox as a kid with so much promise, heart and even some semblance of sense in “Raising Kanan” versus the murderous, vindictive, sadistic cop…
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