Episode two has Mylene returning home after being promised by her uncle that he will make her a famous singer. Her father has grounded her for eternity and she is not to leave the house at all, except to work at her mother's restaurant, which is downstairs from the house, and connected, or going to church, that is next door and also connected to the house. Her world is so connected you'd think this was filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Her uncle, Papa Fuerte, comes by and talks to her father. Reminding him that isn't God and that he wouldn't have the church if it wasn't for him. He asks him to calm down and remember that Mylene is a teenager, and teenagers rebel. He's told to leave, but promises he will be back. We next see him meeting with a record executive whom he previously played cards with. Fuerte reminds him that he owes a lot of money and while their group discourages violence it isn't forbidden. He instead asks him to attend church.
Meanwhile, the boys meet Grandmaster Flash. He asks Shaolin if he trusts them and if they will fan his flames and make him grow brighter or snuff him out. He says he trusts them and Grandmaster tells him he will give him the secret to DJing. He gives him a crayon and says solve the puzzle in 24 hours or else. The boys go crazy trying to figure this out.
Meanwhile Mylene asks her mother what she wanted to be, and her mother claims she only wanted to be a good daughter. She gets a call from her friend who says she had a vision of Mylene in a white dress and needs her right now for measurements. Her mother gives her a grocery list that may "take a really long time," and tells her she wanted to be a vet. Mylene heads off to get measured for the dress, see her friends and learns that Fuerte was behind the phone call.
He tells her to sing like her life depended on her at church because there will be a record label executive there. She brainstorms with her friends about ways to spice up the gospel songs. They realize Zeke is the only one who can play the piano well enough for her to do so. She goes to ask Zeke to play after basically telling him he wasn't worth an ounce of shit last week. He rejects her and states she only wants his help now and isn't interested in even being friends. Shaolin starts to applaud him and Zeke gets mad because Shaolin is still calling her a bitch.
Dizee breaks the crayon and Shaolin freaks the fuck out. The Kiplings stick together and all leave. Shaolin shows Zeke his pigeons. He calls Zeke smart and told him he shouldn't wast his time with no good like himself. Zeke watches the birds and comes up with the answer. Shaolin tells him "I LOVE YOU YOU BOOK SMART MOTHERFUCKER." Grandmaster applauds them and tells Shaolin to master one get down he can live with for a long time. He chooses a version of Think About It by Lyn Collins, better known as the sample for It Takes Two by Rob Bass and DJ EZ Rock.
He masters it and they go out to eat with the Kipling boys. They talk about how they're going to go around the world on a big yacht and motorboat all the women. At one point Boo-Boo asks Zeke what Mylene's breast look like and Zeke gets mad before Shaolin, who had been silently fucking up some chicken wings. Seriously, he was looking like they didn't feed him before the scene, watch that, and they keep cutting to him eating. Anyway he finally speaks up with "Y'all know he don't know."
They head back to Shaolin's place which has been set on fire, other buildings had been burned by land lords to collect insurance money. Dizee was in the building practicing art and managed to escape with the turntables but not the record. Shaolin runs in to grab his life's collection of records and arrives in time to watch them melt. He had previously left the employ of drug dealer Fat Annie, who was sweet on him. In fact, when he left, she ripped a hundred dollar bill in half, gave him half and put the other half in her bra. She told him come get it when music didn't work out, but it won't be easy because she put time and money in on him. She hit that Marvin from Player's Club. Go watch that, classic black cinema. He intends to go back to her and get the money to replace the records. Zeke tries to stop him and offers him a real job with his uncle. Shaolin tells Zeke "if you ever see me again motherfukcer cross the street, because I'll fuck you up." But we know he won't.
Cadillac is interrogating some of the Warlords, trying to figure out who paid them to shoot up the club. He's doing cocaine and dancing to scare them. One kid spits on him and he hits the meanest karate kick across his face since Charlie Murphy kicked Rick James. His sidekick tries to take Cadillac's gun and accidentally fires it, killing one of the kids when Cadillac let go. Cadillac did tell him, he was just gonna scare the kids. Cadillac ain't shit, in the funnies way possible, because he really didn't point the gun at the kids, he was just dancing with it. It wasn't his fault, but he felt no emotion at all, instead he was mad there was more blood on his dance floor. Cadillac has to be my 3rd favorite character, yet I hate him at the same time.
Zeke instead goes to church to play the piano. Mylene is informed she will be singing in the back because his father feels she has to much pride. During service people start catching the holy ghost and some start passing out. One lady looks Fuerte in the eyes and says she see's evil in him. Mylene fake like she has the holy ghost and her father feels like he accomplished something. Then she rips off her choir robe revealing the white dress and starts a disco styled version the song they were singing to her father's disgust as the rest of the church erupts into cheers and applause.
This episode was a lot more Mylene heavy and that's okay because her story needed to be told. Zeke and the gang weren't doing shit this episode but looking at crayons, pigeons and wings. Meanwhile, everyone had to be wondering what the deal with Mylene's crooked uncle, crazy daddy and submissive mother who turns out to be really sneaky. It's interesting because Mylene's mother is having her do the exact opposite of what her husband thinks because he feels like he's gone too far. Meanwhile Fuerte is telling him that for a preacher, he's become to prideful and forgotten he's supposed to be saving the people not glorifying himself. Her family dynamic is interesting. I forgot to mention Ms. Green stopped by Zeke's house and tried to get his aunt to enroll him in an internship for the summer. Pretty sure that minute long scene will be important later, because everything always comes back up in this episode.
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He also plays classic arcade games on The Cabinet
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