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The familiar world of the sleazy motel,' the trap house,' the church,' the beauty parlor,' the barber shop' and the food mart,' all exist in a vast food and resource desert called the inner city, a place forsaken, neglected and abused. They Cloned Tyrone boils down to its essence, every clich about the hood and its denizens into a blur of time, iconography and, pastiche. ere, 's laxploitation meets hiphop and where the whereandwhen' is less important than the enduring mythos that has emerged in our culture of stereotypes, okes and lies. The characters, places and timeframe here are mere cultural symbols that create an amalgam of the "lack experience" in merica. n experience that, needless to say, has precious little to do with the cloned stereotypes of lack people that continue to persist, restrict and divide our society. The luff is a neighborhood in tlanta that became the backdrop for the hood.' It is a quickly gentrifying pocket of poor lack tlanta that still has the grit and texture of what the production was looking for. pon first scouting this neighborhood, we felt as we had somewhat stepped into our movie. ut dig a little deeper, beyond the tattered facades, and you discover that poverty gives way to a community, and what is lacking in terms of resources is abundant in the sense of belonging and spirit. People sit on door stoops braiding hair and gossiping, grandpas lounge on lawn chairs fanning themselves with the morning paper while muscular youths guard their territory or do bench presses in a makeshift outdoor gym. pon first glance, this seemed a bullseye! E. FONTAINE'S TRAP HOUSE. ILLUSTRATION BY RAJ RIHAL. F. GOT DAMN! FRIED CHICKEN INTERIOR. SET PHOTO. G. GOT DAMN! FRIED CHICKEN. MANAGER'S OFFICE. ILLUSTRATION BY JUSTIN JORDAN AND FRANCO CARBONE. H. GOT DAMN! FRIED CHICKEN EXTERIOR. SET PHOTO. E F G H