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And as it turns out, performing ease is rarely easy.
Even the original cakewalk was no cakewalk.
The episode begins in earnest.
Before they leave the cafe, the matter of splitting the bill is raised.
Darius waits until Al has paid the bill in full before offering to split it.
Dont be like him, Darius remarks, clocking the man as a tourist.
Lets do this, Al says.
Darius has brought two iPod Nanos fit with playlists to help guide the honey through us.
They literally take a baby out of its stroller and toss the child around as the mother screams.)
Damn, your hat looks dumb, Lorraine tells Al.
So who owns your masters?
Its potentially the most lucrative part of making music, babe.
Youre not her first rapper, just so you know.
They all come out here.
Al brushes off Neesons admission of anti-Blackness, assuming that he doesnt hate Black people now.
(Im sorry, why are we doing this?)
Al is confused by his lack of remorse.
Didnt you learn that you shouldnt say shit like that?
As they flee into the morning air, Al remains cagey toward Lorraine and her brutal honesty.
Suddenly, Al begins to lose all sensation and motor control.
Your legs dont work.
They dont work, Lorraine says coldly as Al slides to the ground in a nook on the street.
She puts a blanket on him and dips.
Before Al passes out, he sees himself and Darius walking down the same street.
Dont be like him, he hears Darius say just like before.
But this time, the tourist tweaking in the street is no mystery man: Its Al himself.
At the episodes close, Al wakes up in a hotel with Earn.
Earn, who owns my masters?
Al asks, still groggy from his space-cake coma.
You do, Earn explains, unknowingly silencing Als fears that he was being taken advantage of.
Earn asks, referring to his deceased matriarch.
This is not the first time Als mother has appeared in a hallucination.
Lorraine 2.0 is no mother, but she is certainly a nag.
You dont feel shit, she tells him.
After all, as her friends put it, Lorraine looks like the future.
My eyes rolled so hard!
Are we gonna do this every timeBlack artists make pop music?
Levitating Key-Lime Pie:One of Lorraines friends asks Al if he knows Dua Lipa.
I just know my Albanian queen would not want this evil done in her name!
Now I could be off, but Captain America gives me more beer than brandy vibes!
