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Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who's surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure.
Malcolm: We were dancing, man. Dom: If I let this slide, we got what you call a slippery slope. Do you know what a slippery slope is? Crip 1: Do it got anything to do with skiing? Dom: Sit your ass down!
Dom: He's probably got one of those photogenic brains. Malcolm: You mean photographic memory? Dom: What I just say? Malcolm: I mean, yeah, you just said it, reiterating.
Narrator: Malcolm lives in Inglewood, California, in the Darby-Dixon neighborhood referred to as the Bottoms. Jib: Give me your bike! Narrator: Malcolm's friends Jib and Diggy are also geeks. Jib: All I wanna do is a zoom, zoom, zoom and a boom boom. Malcolm: Word.
Malcolm: If Neil deGrasse Tyson were writing about Ice Cube, this is what it would look like. Mr. Bailey: You go to high school in Inglewood. You think you're going to get into Harvard? Malcolm: I'm from a poor, crime-filled neighborhood, raised by a single mother, don't know my dad, blah, blah. It's cliche.
Malcolm: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Malcolm Adekanbi. I'm a straight-A student with nearly perfect SAT scores. I play in a punk band with my friends and I'm a 90s hip hop geek. A bad day for most geeks would be being the butt of jokes but when you live in the Bottoms, a bad day could look like this.
Malcolm: I have my Harvard interview tomorrow. We're not going to a drug dealer's birthday party... Nakia: Well, I'll go if you go. Malcolm: Um Nakia: So are you going to ask me to dance or what?
Malcolm: We don't know nothing about drugs. You do. We need to know if you're going to help us. Will Sherwood: Okay... Malcolm: Nobody's going to suspect a thing. We're just doing what geeks do. Jib: I don't want to go to jail. I want to go to college!
Jaleel: Yo, Lilu, what are you doing opening the door butt ass naked for? Excuse my dumbass sister, man. What up? Malcolm: Are you AJ? Jaleel: No, that's my dad. Malcolm: I need to speak to him. It's about boys' club. Jaleel: Right, right, well, my dad's at his office for like a couple hours but y'all could hang out here until he gets back if you want. Malcolm: We, um, you know... Jaleel: Hey, you want to come in? Malcolm: Yeah, yeah Jaleel: Come in
Dom: Yo, McFly, do you have what I left in the backpack? Jib: Did he actually say, I'll kill you and your friends if you don't get rid of these drugs' or just you? Don't act like you weren't curious too. Diggy: All we gotta do is find the white people, go to Coachella, Lollapalooza.
Narrator: William Ian Sherwood the third, musician, scholar, rake, entrepreneur, conspiracy theorist. Malcolm, Jib and Diggy met William at band camp three years ago... Will Sherwood: Yo, you n****s need some weed? I got you. Good s***, fair prices... Narrator: William assured them that he used the word n**** only as a term of endearment as explained by Q-Tip in the classic song "Sucka Nigga." After that, they all hit it off, though, he never used that word again.