Everybody Hates Chris is a dramatic comedy American television series inspired by the personal experiences of actor and comedian Chris Rock in New York's Bed-Stuy neighborhood during the 1980s. The story begins in Brooklyn County in New York in the years 1982 and 1983. The Rock family moves into a house in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood (where only crazy goes), coming from a housing estate.
Chris is 13 years old and is the firstborn of the couple, Julius and Rochelle, he is the older brother of Drew, an athletic and handsome boy who is always flirted with girls, very different from Chris, and the youngest Tonya, who is a fan of singer Billy Ocean and loves to make the lives of the brothers hell.