Luke Cage's' show runner: I will never get tired of seeing a bulletproof black man
No one has to tell Cheo Hodari Coker about the ties between comic books and hip-hop. He’s seen the connection for years.
Before Coker was producing and writing on Showtime’s “Ray Donovan” or TNT’s “Southland,” and certainly before he became the show runner of Netflix’s new superhero series “Luke Cage,” he was a music journalist exploring the world of hip-hop for Vibe, Rolling Stone and, for three years in the 1990s, the Los Angeles Times.
“When I interviewed the Notorious B.I.G., about a month before he died,” Coker said earlier this year at the Television Critics Assn. press tour, “he told me a story about how his mother didn’t know anything about his life on the street. At home he was Christopher Wallace, his mother’s son. He was ‘Chrissy Pooh.’ On the street he was Big Chris and eventually Biggie. His mother, who was a devout Jehovah's Witness, would leave home while he was wearing one thing, but then he would go to the roof and he would change clothes.
“That’s when he would pull out the gold rope and all the flashy stuff that his mother couldn’t afford that he got from drug dealing. He put that on and would go [to school] as a different person. I likened it to the relationship between Aunt May and Peter Parker. Any time Spider-Man stuff affects Aunt May he’s horrified. Much the same way Christopher Wallace never wanted his Biggie persona to affect his mother. …Even as a rapper it’s about him reconciling the Peter Parker and the Spider-Man parts of his life, much how Christopher Wallace had to still be the Notorious B.I.G. and was eventually able to reconcile Christopher Wallace. Unfortunately, right as he was figuring it out, he was killed.”
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