Watch the hour-long animated
feature "The Wizard of Watts"
ByEvan Minsker
As previously reported, the
season finale of Adult Swim's animated show "Black Dynamite" was an
hour-long musical feature called "The Wizard of Watts". It featured
the voices of Erykah Badu and Tyler, the Creator, and it addressed police
brutality. If you've got a cable/satellite subscription, you can watch it here.
In the episode (some mild
spoilers below), Black Dynamite announces that he's on "staycation,"
which prompts white police officers to wreak havoc on his community. When riots
break out in the streets (spurred by police beating Little Orphan Rodney King),
Black Dynamite is hit in the head with a brick.
He then hallucinates that he's
in Ozwatts, where his black poodle Broto starts talking (Tyler). The Fairy
Godfather (of Soul) James Brown then appears, informing Black Dynamite that
he's in "the black version of The Wiz". If you've seen The Wiz or The
Wizard of Oz, you've got a good idea of the plot here—just replace the Wicked
Witch of the West with "the Wicked Bitch of the West Side" (a
pig-nosed cop accompanied by cronies equipped with SWAT gear).
