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Omar Little: Shoot, the way y'all looking at things, ain't no victim to even speak on.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Bullshit, boy. No victim? All this death, you don't think it ripples out? You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. We had some bad boys, for real. Wasn't about guns so much as knowing what to do with your hands. Those boys could really rack. My father had me on the straight, but like any young man I wanted to be hard too, so I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. Shit, they knew I wasn't one of them. Them hard cases would come up to me and say, "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. And now all we got is bodies, and predatory motherfuckers like you. And out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar, calling you by name, glorifying your ass. Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell.
Though there continues to be some debate on the subject, it seems safe to say - some four years removed from the finale of The Wire - that Omar Little is the consensus favorite character of the internet. The most feared homosexual stick up kid in television history, Baltimore's fictional version of the real 50 Cent, Omar's popularity remains so high to this day that even Obama name dropped him recently. I must admit that I, too, was quite a fan of his until watching the above scene in which Bunk strips away the mythology behind Omar and reveals him for what he truly is, just another gangster doing as much harm to his community as any of the drug dealers that he had been hunting. It seemed to be as much of an indictment of the television audience that heaped praise on the character as it was of the character himself. Which is perhaps why I've never been particularly nostalgic about Bunk's character, seeing as how, in one brief scene, he made me truly resent a character that I had spent the past four years rooting for above all others. (But damn, I wish he never went to buy those Newports.)
And yet...that same Bunk was the inspiration behind Curly Castro's recent collaboration with Small Professor (playing the role of Lester Freamon to Castro's Bunk), a song that I happen to really like, so I guess four years later I can finally forgive him. Have a listen:
Curly Castro - Bunk (produced by Small Pro) (right-click to d/l)
Further Listening:
A Conversation with Curly Castro
Small Professor's Gigantic Vol. 0
4/9/2012 6:30:00 AM posted by Fresh