Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles
Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles
Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles is a fictional character in the show, Atlanta, portrayed by the actor Brian Tyree Henry. The character is inspired and modeled after Trap artists like Gucci Mane, Rick Ross, and Future.
The character he plays is iconic to the culture and genre of music that personifies the style of rappers who represent Atlanta like Gucci Mane. Alfred, the drug dealer uses the alter-ego of Paper Boi to lyrically paint the Message of the attitude his conveying about his experiences in life. Through the cultural value of southern rap as exemplified in the Trap music sub-genre, topics of Racism, Gang violence, Gun violence in the United States, Pop culture, the Internet, the use of the N-word, and Socio-economic challenges at the margins in which African Americans are portrayed in the Mass media. Henry plays a character the resembles that unapologetic attitude of the Atlanta vibe.
Henry says the following about his character:
“Hip-hop is not about pretense...
You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything.
It's not about how you look — it’s about what you say.
It's about what message you're getting across...
Rapping is just conveying the attitude you have about the situation.
Brian did an amazing job of that.”