A gritty, vibrant adult animation set against 1970s Harlem.
Two talented but broke jazz musicians chase a quick payout and get swept into the unforgiving Harlem underworld — a high-stakes web of corrupt cops, ruthless gangsters, and the illegal numbers racket. The tone is darkly comic. The violence is sudden. The music never stops.
"Smoky clubs, dark alleyways, and the brutal winter wind they call The Hawk. Cool on the surface. Coercive underneath."
The Policy.
Everything in this Harlem moves to one rhythm: the illegal numbers lottery known as The Policy. The neighborhood economy revolves around its bets, and a single name controls the slips on these blocks.
The Policy
The illegal numbers lottery — pennies in, fortunes out. The local economy bets on three digits a day. Miss your slip, miss your rent.
The Syndicate
Unseen white Mafia bosses above Quinten. He runs Harlem; they run him. Cuban crews push from the edges, and the pressure runs downhill.
The Hawk
The brutal winter wind that cuts through Harlem and the show. A symbol of the street's indifference — and of the forces no one outruns.
The Tests
Loyalty is everything. Trust is a liability. Shakedowns from cops like Mulligan, ambushes from stick-up kids — there is no neutral ground.
The Blue Note
A smoky jazz club where the duo plays and the deals happen between sets. Brass, vinyl, neon, and someone always watching from a back booth.
The Cadillac
Dark blue paint, white interior, trunk that thumps. King and Soze's office on wheels — and once you climb in the back, you don't choose when you get out.
Stylish. Tense. Streetwise.
Funk and jazz, slang-heavy dialogue, sudden violence, and a duo trying to talk their way out of a song they can't stop playing.