Atlanta Season 4 EP 3 | DASANI, D'ANGELO? And The YWA

[@vanatiwoods]

My big brother plays D’Angelo in this episode and I’m so proud of him! ❤

[@NineNerdYards]

That’s awesome! Loves his scene so much.

[@rahtatpierre7611]

Your brothers vocals are amazing. He got any music I could check out?

[@rahtatpierre7611]

@Eight E. Nine I know d' I was just talking about her brother specifically

[@babyjosenomexicano1237]

Stop the cap I went to school with him I know his family I never seen you 😂💯‼️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@vanatiwoods]

@@babyjosenomexicano1237 ​​⁠​​⁠​⁠​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠Then all you have to do is ask him if he knows me. No reason to “cap”. We’re not blood related but he will still tell you I’m his little sis, as would the other og YEA members

[@lowtech42]

"You're the dude my dad bought!" AYOOO??? With no irony???

[@nerdlarge4691]

Not just Usher with Justin Bieber but Dr. Dre(Eminem), Akon(Lady Gaga), T.I.(Iggy Azalea), and Diddy(Machine Gun Kelly) made a big bag from a Y.W.A. If you know you know...

[@RL_Williams]

WOWWW. Never put this together!

[@fuegodjofficial]

Don’t forget lil biby (kid laroi, juice wrld), dre London (post Malone)

[@Demsky83]

Pardison Fontaine (Cardi B)

[@nerdlarge4691]

@@fuegodjofficial Juice WRLD was Black tho…

[@fuegodjofficial]

@@nerdlarge4691 who was his targeted demographic tho?

[@hhhsp951]

"What's Y.W.A. You ask? " Yodelers With Attitude

[@RL_Williams]

🤣🤣🤣

[@obreboyz]

perfect. this should be in the episode instead lol

[@josephnowland2031]

Went right over my head that the people announcing the award were the two being discussed in the meeting at the beginning. Love these breakdowns cuz they always catch these subtleties that get past me. Guess I should lay off the Nepalese space cake for a while.

[@badbadgoodcd]

it's like every time i watch this show i feel like something obvious is flying over my head 😭😭😭

[@fleewayricky]

Man fr 😂

[@theorderofthebees7308]

The way he reacted to the Dasani water - is spot on the worst water ever

[@alazkaalazka6087]

Rip Yodel kid. He was supposed to be the next PAC 😩

[@isiahspencer8724]

Hell no they will never be another Tupac 😂😂😂😂😂

[@EJD339]

The actors they cast playing the one time role are incredible. It also helps the Atlanta cast is always killing it.

[@bmothegr8834]

When he walked into Rally’s and saw the guy sitting in the chair it reminded me of Men in Black. Will walk into the building and it was a man sitting in a chair reading a newspaper

[@alindsey4]

No matter how many times I could watch this, I never would've caught that the Grammy presenters were the same woman and kid from the video earlier in the episode. That's hilarious! Thanks for posting these.

[@jimmieberguin4062]

My girlfriend got me the “God Saved Me From The Trap” shirt for Christmas last year. It’s one of my all time favorite tee shirts. The reactions are so funny when I wear it out in public 😂

[@alazkaalazka6087]

Mr. babysitter starting Chief Keef would make a billion dollars box office

[@whodatboi2567]

I do think this episode highlighted how the theory of the Tendency of The Rate of Profit to Fall could be applied to musicians. Essentially at a certain point an artists/entertainer/influencer will realise the full money potential of their clout and run out of ways to make more money, hence why some tend to resort to exploiting others. One part of the seminar that I did find telling is that the host pointed out that Al could simply choose to retire comfortably so long as he lived a modest life yet he still wants more.

[@ThugDrina]

That greed is what drives everything in the music industry. Made me wonder if any of these managers ever feel like Al, sick, or nonchalant like Ern.

[@willybanks228tkt]

And that's the pyramid scheme right there

[@jasonchavarro1234]

@ninenerdyards i believe the climbing into the crevices is an homage to the John Malkovich movie where everytime they climb into their crevices they are entering a sort of surreal subconscious.

[@theleelife313]

Yep! I really thought something like that was about to happen in that scene. Being John Malkovich is a fun movie.

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

That's what I figured too

[@egypt1279]

Yup yup!

[@northstarbrooks]

I came to say the same thing!

[@djayclay]

the Outkast theme is continued, the lyrics in "Elevators" - Big Boi says "Back in the day, when I was younger, hunger Looking to fill me belly with that Rallys, bullshit"!

[@othelliusmaximus]

Lil Bibby took the YWA advice to heart with Kid Laroi and Juice. RIP Juice.

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

With who and who?

[@othelliusmaximus]

@@HorribleHomeVideo do your Googles man

[@actualnotanewbie]

Dang that's facts tho

[@pwoodempire]

I get Kid Laroi but Juice black though?

[@othelliusmaximus]

@@pwoodempire I admit it's a bit of a reach but it's like this. Juice appealed to a mostly white audience had drug addiction issues that Bibby wasn't sensitive to kinda like Paperboi and now regrets it.

[@Jazalena]

That whole d’Angelo scene reminded me of The Community and the character Troy that Donald Glover played lol especially the Dasani water part it was definitely a node to this character lol 😂

[@alazkaalazka6087]

The Dan Harmon “Now you see me” rant is so iconic. I can tell you’re a true Harmon boy.

[@zamorapakalolo6699]

I've been thinking about it and Earn is looking more buff than usual, I feel like he's going to whoop Tracey's behind when the time comes.

[@NineNerdYards]

😭🦹🏿‍♂️

[@ChusmaChusme]

0:18 When I saw Rallies. I was like, Oh this is just Checkers from season 2 with some slight tweaks done to it.

[@itsalejandroe]

I took Earn's line at the end of the episode to be something like "You gotta do what you gotta do to earn a living, you like doing it or not" meaning he doesn't really like being a manager but it's what life got him to and were he's comfortable enough to earn a living even though it's not his preferred choice EDIT: A different meaning (and most likely the right one) can be the same message the episode was telling with AL's story with those white rappers of keeping your legacy, above everything else

[@SulaHopey]

Wait why did your comment finally make me catch the obvi, that dude's name is EARN. 🤑

[@MissEquinox321]

In reference to the Rally’s in Atlanta…earlier this year a White Castle was spotted in downtown ATL and everyone was going crazy about the franchise finally coming to GA. Just to find out that it was a prop…for a movie? It was never confirmed.

[@sol1angel]

I literally screamed at that D’Angelo reveal. It was one of the most authentic stomach crunching laughs I had that year.

[@mbrunobre]

The brainstorming scene with the editor reminded me so much of the meme in which the boss is asking for ideas and the guy with the more obvious idea gets thrown out of the window! Even the boss looks the same as the cartoon’s! Keep up the good work, greetings from Brazil!

[@mixit313]

Just watched episode 4…anyone notice the increased use of portals this season?

[@orionh5535]

It seems to be a theme. Maybe transformation?

[@CourtTV.]

watch Community

[@mixit313]

@@CourtTV. i watched the whole series of community. What am I looking for?

[@KCoyoteXD]

​@@mixit313 they might be talking about the "roll the dice" portals

[@amaru889]

Donald having a full fridge of San Pellegrino in the fridge in his short film "Clapping For The Wrong Reasons" , makes the Dasani bit that much more hilarious

[@karlhungus1431]

All the waiting room scene reminds me of "Before the Law" in Franz Kafka's "The Trial". A novel so similar to Atlanta that hurts.

[@Goldminebeats]

This is a reach but when you said earn dropped a gem at the end of the episode, I think he was talking about the hands in his dreams and how D’Angelo said the hands didn’t necessarily want to do bad things to him. How if he stayed up and fought the hands, there would be a worse outcome. Also, I think it is referencing (although earn doesn’t know it) yodel kids death by oding and how you shouldn’t do that. Another thing I thought of just now is Paperboy not doing what feels good (sticking to his roots and not taking up a YWA) but instead doing things that lets him survive (getting a YWA). This is definitely too far of a reach but maybe when the leader of the YWA meeting was talking about how the YWA will “put food on the table” (otherwise you will starve) he was kinda talking about this

[@YouCallThataKnife253]

I thought Earn going through the hole in a wall in order to "experience D'Angelo" was a reference to the Spike Jonze film _Being John Malkovich_

[@Q5TV]

Was looking for this comment .

[@NineNerdYards]

Kicking myself for not seeing it earlier.

[@NineNerdYards]

But also fuck off Q5TV.

[@braidedgirl757]

I thought the same

[@zendariun101]

Dude i love your channel for explaining this stuff, when i watch i don't actually think anything, i just laugh at some funny stuff in the episodes and see it but i don't try to understand or predict anything because that will take my attention off, so i like to watch this after i finish to catch up, great job 😲👽😳🤯😬🤓😎🤠🤙

[@matthewlong3710]

Before Shawshank, that moment reminded me of the office door/portal in Being John Malkovich. I luv'd this episode.

[@ray_maestro_]

I'm Ricky, I'm Rockin, I'm Tikin, I'm Tokin!

[@Discoball_Glitter]

Congrats on 10k and growing! Look, I have a thick skin so I don’t even like to say that things trigger me or are cringe because shows like Atlanta are for entertainment, escaping, and examining for deeper meaning like you do in these videos, but that “you’re the dude my dad Bought “ line was something painful re being someone ‘s slave

[@Outliers4Life]

I love how this episode showed how theres this whole group of artists who are only artists because their parents are rich enough to fund a career for them. Billie Eilish *cough* *cough*

[@bougiebohemian5393]

This is the comment right here

[@Jefflon_Zuckergates]

That’s one angle, another angle is that many more people could have been incredible artists if they had someone to fund them too

[@samanthab1923]

Her parents are poor. She lives in a two bedroom apt in San Fran. Parents sleep on a couch in the living room

[@gazer99]

@@samanthab1923 Billie Ellis’s let her parents live in poverty while she fucks bitches

[@sleepybandit23]

Except she’s actually good

[@cucaferreti]

Great video dude, theres not mutch people talking about this materpiece of series.

[@paisan8766]

I was in tears for the second half of this episode 😂

[@lewlootpack4459]

Your editing just gets better & better. Thanks for the work you put in to point out the stuff we might've missed and the connections.

[@ursulanzimande9515]

that yodelling track is lowkey fire😂😂

[@artboy_shelly]

AINT NO BODY COMING TO SEE YOU OTIS! 😂😂😂

[@GabrielDread]

Shout out to you from Bahia, Brazil! I love tour channel, the best companion to Atlanta!

[@zod4365]

Definitely going through portals of rebirth

[@scottboyd3838]

Reminded me of Being John Malkovich when they all crawled through a hole in the wall, almost exactly like Earn here, anyone else on that? And then became John Malkovich for like 15 minutes, or well, became part of Malkovich, maybe this is how Earn "becomes" DeAngelo???

[@NineNerdYards]

That a great Ref! I like this one!

[@JohnStewart223]

This whole season made me seek therapy and it's good

[@fokazib9842]

Rikn & rokin, Tiking & toking had me rolling 😂

[@BkNy02]

I will not suffer any D'Angelo slander. That man is extremely musically talented. There is no music that I can relax to but D'Angelo's.

[@NineNerdYards]

You asked to experience D’ANGELO.

[@raycito777]

no water should hiss like some sprite after ya open it

[@businessincorpoated]

the holding cell scene is a homage to Men In Black

[@TMassChronicles]

I immediately thought of Being John Malkovich when Earn went through that hatch.

[@GVonzo]

And the last episode of this season is titled “It Was All A Dream” I know something wild about to happen

[@kevincarter2020]

Yodel kid, Yodel kid. I'm about to yodel kid

[@derichawkins4201]

Thank you. You deserve the subs

[@Grayson-Rosen]

I love the Dan Harmon “Now You See Me” rant

[@RexMckinnis]

Yung Rick Moranis is legit the next best thing. People SLEEP!

[@actualnotanewbie]

IDK if you caught it but the video in the TV during that company meeting is a pretty clear reference to Now This and the type of videos that they make

[@spliffsoldier]

We're ALL D'Angelo

[@8comentarios8]

Greetings from Brazil, love your content!

[@NineNerdYards]

Catch me in Brazil

[@ponchocrz]

Bruv i love thiss content, its really a great analysis of this show, love this, u got a new fan from mexico, i also loved this show, sad its over, but anything u upload on this channel ill watch it, fr

[@mahesthemighty3329]

Could the hands pulling him down in the water be the same hands from season 3 episode 1??

[@NineNerdYards]

That’s how I always saw it.

[@MONET8iAM]

Ready to Die aside, so many rappers had these eerie lyrics, and even tweets, about dying or people being after them that ends up foreshadowing their deaths. Sadly, so me if them had been posted weeks or days before their demise.

[@soysos.tuffsound]

Love Atlanta as one of my favs of all time. I'm so happy for the creative team to feel free to be experimental and weird. Thanks for doing this series, your insights are interesting and on point. You're the smart and funny friend who comes up with hot takes after watching the show.

[@saginevital-herne3750]

The only thing that confused me was “D’Angelo”

[@Jonas-km4qx]

Great review!

[@talethiashareef3690]

Checkerboard patterns, water, meditation, secret rooms with a psychic DeAngelo.... process to get what you want for a lot of famous people 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@billionwilliams8333]

this page fire

[@IanEastonIsJesus]

It’s not Shawshank it’s “being John malcovich”

[@zendariun101]

13:18 💀 you cracked me i never even realised this 🤣

[@TexoorTexcel]

excellent

[@biruhtesfa8448]

Come on men, you gotta give us more than that... I mean what was the meaning of Earl's storyline? So many unanswered questions

[@orionh5535]

So finding d'angelo being so hard is a reference to de angelo spending so long before releasing his album? He spent years locked away in his house, playing xbox and eating junk food becuase he felt he couldnt be himself Another touch on the theme of artistic fullfilllment?

[@Ratryoshka]

I dont get the Dasani bit & whyv it pissed Earn off

[@its_never_sunny_in_seattle]

Your Analysis is pretty spit on yoh gotta new Sub💯❤️🤛🏾

[@CONCISEtheGHOST]

Earn going through the tunnel made me think about “Being John Malkovich”

[@NostalgicNolan]

Love your videos and analysis! can't wait until you have 100k+ followers

[@SaltyChip]

The scene of him climbing in the hole in the wall was much closer to “being John Malkovich”

[@cousinskeeter6724]

The bucket is the “pot to piss in”

[@369Dimension]

03:30👍

[@miss.l.1563]

And under a week later you gained over a thousand more subscribers'. 11.1k ! Well done, you. 😊. I really enjoy your commentary on Atlanta. I haven't seen any of s4 yet, but I'm the type of person who likes to see reviews & comments on something before I've watched it. 👍😁.

[@tiosnorlax2056]

RIP Yodel Kid. But I got a different comparison to Yodel Kid to Juice Wrld. Yodel Kid before getting into Paperboi's car says, "I'm fine, I'm a legend," Juice Wrld's last song before he passed away in the airplane was Legend. The album born to die was indicating that he was eventually going to die while in the lyrics of Juice Wrld's Legend he talks about why we are dying young demon youth. I made a connection of Yodel Kid to Juice Wrld even though it's a connection to the Walmart Yodeling kid Mason Ramsey

[@recapswithmae]

You hit the nail on the head! Awesome 😎

[@s0urce.ow0]

I choose to believe that the born2die thing is both a play on ready2die and the choking victim song born to die. Yodel kid ups the punx.

[@gianalfredo]

The sanitizer in the YodelKid pic

[@chanelmiller4635]

Being John Malkovich!!!

[@shaqd08]

Him going through the tunnels reminds me a lot of “Being John Malkovich”

[@cristoffL]

And the other opening with the guy who got pulled into the water. Just wanted to throw that in.

[@jamesdavis6180]

i think Al will die, the guy in the batman mask in season 1, can be seen still following him in the blue blood episode

[@blndstudiosyt4537]

When do u see the masked man?

[@yohonnwestbrooks9968]

@@blndstudiosyt4537 exactly i want to know that to

[@cal_the_artist8820]

😂amazing episode, where some made the connection with Usher and Bieber… I immediately thought of Drake and Jack, outside of the jokes he leaves so much room for you to stop, and observe the entertainment industry.

[@gitgenKE]

Wow the journey of canibus.

[@ULoveMikeHawk4]

Drop episode 4 already I love your videos💖🥰❤

[@honestcritic543]

7:00 similar to the first episode of season 3 🤔

[@cousinskeeter6724]

I gotta watch this again

[@jimmylemus6468]

Again amazing job with showing your perspective throughout the series. This may seem random but what’s the name of the instrumental at the end of video?

[@NineNerdYards]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6m0amxomc-XhdE

[@colbymathews5173]

Yodelkid is one one best ideas this show ever had.

[@PDelacroix04]

This portal was most reminiscent of Being John Malkovich.

[@mickeyshanell1607]

Yes 😩❤️

[@zod4365]

14:17 am I trippin, or....that baby looks....like Yodel's NOT the father, lol.

[@EarlofSedgewick]

Maybe the album is a reference to a couple things. Kodak Black had an album called "Dying to Live" after all, and living a damned life is a pretty common theme of exploration amongst rappers, and, frankly just most of art. I think yodel kid is kind of a shot at the success of "Old Town Road", but less subtle than the explicit talk about YWA. That country music fuses with hip hop in an episode that contains a storyline of D'Angelo being deeply impactful but economically unrealistic (to say the least) seems noteworthy. As you mention, D'Angelo was deeply impactful in the 90s for reimagining and reinvigorating soul music. Perhaps this new generation will be significant for reimagining hip hop as a more white-friendly sound - as Earn says, it only matters what survives.

[@shawnbrown9419]

You should make a Yellowing boy video I can't find it anywhere

[@KingTay-xg4mi]

I was with Earn,side note Desani is water for people who don't drink water

[@lennyskptc]

Another banger !!!🔥🔥