Like many New Yorkers at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was struggling to figure out where to direct his energy after being laid off from work. All the time.Īs the story goes, the man under the suit was facing uncertainty before becoming Spider Cuz. Half a dozen times, to no one in particular, he shouts, “Are you shittin’ me?!” That’s when I realize the wild persona we see online is barely a shtick. As he speaks, he gets excited, throwing his hands in the air and yelling.
We sit down at a table and he enthusiastically jumps into a saga about how he transformed from a gang-affiliated man who was “running around reckless” into a neighborhood hero with a six-figure social media following.
#SIDETALK NEW YORK FULL#
Standing behind him is the man I came to meet, suited up in the full costume with a bottle of Henny near his feet. At the door, I’m greeted by a large bulldog wearing a Spider-Man shirt. On a cold afternoon in late January, I find Spider Cuz in Bed-Stuy with the hopes of learning more about his origin story. Carrying himself like a Brooklyn drill rapper, he punctuates sentences by yelling things like “viral” and “movie!” And if you watch enough local rap videos, you’ll see him dancing in the background of at least a few of them. He looks and sounds like what would happen if Peter Parker spent years hanging out in Brooklyn, listening to Pop Smoke and studying ASAP Yams tweets. Wearing a blue bandana and a Yankees fitted cap over his Spider-Man suit, Spider Cuz is never caught without a bottle of Henny in his hand and a pair of Timbs on his feet. In January, he took the beef to a new level when he dropped a diss song, rapping about “smokin’ on that Martha Wayne pack” over a drill beat. For months, he’s been running through the streets of New York in a full Spider-Man costume, taunting Batman and telling him to suck his dick. He just hates anything that has to do with his nemesis: Batman. Spider Cuz doesn’t have a problem with Travis Scott. “He looks like a doo-doo brown cockroach in this photo,” he yells. On the screen is a photo of Travis Scott dressed in a brown Batman suit. Spider Cuz is sitting in a Bed-Stuy office building, pointing at my phone and laughing hysterically.
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