1 00:01:15,254 --> 00:01:16,907 Ha ha. That's right. 2 00:02:12,833 --> 00:02:15,575 Yo. What's up, money? 3 00:02:19,709 --> 00:02:22,712 Y'all seen how my last fight ended 4 00:02:22,843 --> 00:02:24,932 this right here is how my first fight started. 5 00:02:27,674 --> 00:02:30,024 Get offa him! Leave him alone! 6 00:02:30,155 --> 00:02:31,435 I told you, stop playin' with us. 7 00:02:33,027 --> 00:02:34,047 He's hurt, let him go. 8 00:02:34,071 --> 00:02:35,290 Leave him alone! 9 00:02:35,421 --> 00:02:36,900 Shut up, Jukebox! 10 00:02:37,031 --> 00:02:38,772 I wouldn't do that, yo. 11 00:02:38,902 --> 00:02:40,582 Why don't you say somethin', bitch? 12 00:02:43,690 --> 00:02:45,126 Y'all better recognize. 13 00:02:45,213 --> 00:02:46,799 You already doin' man. Can't mess with us. 14 00:02:46,823 --> 00:02:48,347 Kanan, you don't have to do this! 15 00:02:48,477 --> 00:02:49,759 That fool didn't know what he was doin'. 16 00:02:49,783 --> 00:02:50,847 Exactly. Let it go. Let it go. 17 00:02:50,871 --> 00:02:51,871 Yo! 18 00:02:58,618 --> 00:03:01,011 - He's cuttin' out. - Next time, you're gonna 19 00:03:01,142 --> 00:03:02,535 give up that money when I tell you. 20 00:03:02,665 --> 00:03:04,276 Stop playin' with us, man. 21 00:03:04,406 --> 00:03:06,713 Man, let's go, let's do it. 22 00:03:06,843 --> 00:03:08,923 - Get off, let me go. - Let her go. 23 00:03:09,150 --> 00:03:10,325 Punk-ass! 24 00:03:11,979 --> 00:03:13,198 Hey, nice job. 25 00:03:13,285 --> 00:03:14,503 You okay, Kanan? 26 00:03:17,071 --> 00:03:18,420 Kanan? 27 00:03:18,551 --> 00:03:19,813 - See this? - Kanan? 28 00:03:19,943 --> 00:03:21,269 Now everybody's laughing at you. 29 00:03:21,293 --> 00:03:22,685 Kanan? 30 00:03:22,772 --> 00:03:24,121 The hood got no love 31 00:03:24,252 --> 00:03:25,332 for a motherfucker who run. 32 00:03:25,384 --> 00:03:26,733 Bye, Kanan! 33 00:03:26,863 --> 00:03:29,736 Kanan! Get back here! 34 00:03:33,130 --> 00:03:34,958 There I go. 35 00:03:35,045 --> 00:03:37,613 Damn. That shit's a bad look. 36 00:03:37,744 --> 00:03:39,049 You all right, Kanan? 37 00:03:57,242 --> 00:04:00,201 My mom and her boyfriend, High Post. 38 00:04:02,247 --> 00:04:03,407 Where you goin', Kanan? 39 00:04:06,058 --> 00:04:09,278 Look like little Kanan got in a tussle at the park. 40 00:04:09,776 --> 00:04:10,936 Post is the one 41 00:04:10,994 --> 00:04:12,344 who really got her in the game. 42 00:04:12,474 --> 00:04:13,954 Hey. 43 00:04:14,084 --> 00:04:15,347 You want me to go talk to him? 44 00:04:19,176 --> 00:04:20,736 Not every kid up for the Southside, Raq. 45 00:04:20,787 --> 00:04:22,397 Mine is. 46 00:04:22,528 --> 00:04:24,617 Post'll be dead in a year. 47 00:04:24,747 --> 00:04:27,272 Someone lit his ass on fire for tellin'. 48 00:04:27,402 --> 00:04:29,665 I always liked that brother. 49 00:04:29,796 --> 00:04:31,450 Treated my mom right. 50 00:04:37,499 --> 00:04:38,619 Why you cryin', Kanan? 51 00:04:41,895 --> 00:04:44,071 What happened? 52 00:04:44,201 --> 00:04:46,247 Tyus and Antoine jumped me for my money. 53 00:04:46,378 --> 00:04:48,293 How they know you had it? 54 00:04:48,423 --> 00:04:49,748 I told you not to show nobody your money. 55 00:04:49,772 --> 00:04:51,731 Didn't show nothin'. 56 00:04:51,861 --> 00:04:53,141 You talkin' about it, then. 57 00:04:54,211 --> 00:04:55,343 And you gave it up. 58 00:04:55,474 --> 00:04:56,779 They beat me down. 59 00:05:00,566 --> 00:05:01,654 Where was Jukebox? 60 00:05:01,784 --> 00:05:03,656 They were holdin' her back. 61 00:05:08,182 --> 00:05:09,705 Tyus' stronger than me. 62 00:05:16,712 --> 00:05:18,235 We goin' back to that park. 63 00:05:39,126 --> 00:05:40,954 Hey. Let's go. 64 00:05:53,227 --> 00:05:55,011 Let's go. 65 00:05:56,926 --> 00:05:57,926 That them? 66 00:06:00,321 --> 00:06:01,931 Deal with them or deal with me, 67 00:06:02,062 --> 00:06:04,062 but there ain't nowhere to run when it comes to me. 68 00:06:04,499 --> 00:06:06,501 Get yours, boy. 69 00:06:12,159 --> 00:06:16,685 Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! 70 00:06:35,878 --> 00:06:37,334 You know I can get tickets to first base. 71 00:06:37,358 --> 00:06:38,359 He can't get tickets. 72 00:06:38,490 --> 00:06:39,534 - Stop... - Yo. 73 00:06:41,536 --> 00:06:43,233 Yo, so you back for more? 74 00:06:45,845 --> 00:06:47,455 Oh, my God! 75 00:06:50,893 --> 00:06:53,287 - Yo, Kanan, no... 76 00:06:55,898 --> 00:06:58,771 - Come on, let's go. 77 00:07:00,860 --> 00:07:03,863 Damn, payback's a mother fucker. 78 00:07:04,994 --> 00:07:09,129 Southside, Jamaica, Queens, 1985. 79 00:07:10,739 --> 00:07:12,393 Kanan messin' these niggas up! 80 00:07:12,524 --> 00:07:13,544 That was the first time 81 00:07:13,568 --> 00:07:16,092 my name rang out. 82 00:07:16,223 --> 00:07:18,094 And it ain't stopped ringing since. 83 00:07:37,723 --> 00:07:40,203 That's the bell. Everyone, get to class. 84 00:07:44,686 --> 00:07:46,645 That's the bell. Didn't you hear me? 85 00:07:46,775 --> 00:07:48,429 My office. 86 00:07:56,916 --> 00:07:58,720 This could be a life-changing opportunity 87 00:07:58,744 --> 00:08:00,572 for you, Kanan. 88 00:08:00,702 --> 00:08:03,139 Stuyvesant is one of the best high schools in the country. 89 00:08:03,226 --> 00:08:05,272 Now, that's what I'm talkin' about. 90 00:08:05,402 --> 00:08:06,842 Ma, but I don't wanna change schools. 91 00:08:06,969 --> 00:08:08,769 There isn't enough time to fully prepare Kanan 92 00:08:08,841 --> 00:08:10,930 for the entrance exam, but I am betting 93 00:08:11,060 --> 00:08:13,149 that just based on what he already has stored up 94 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,849 in the that ample brain of his, he'll do quite well. 95 00:08:16,979 --> 00:08:18,259 It's a brand-new school building 96 00:08:18,328 --> 00:08:21,244 with a pool, five gymnasiums, 97 00:08:21,375 --> 00:08:24,465 12 science labs, and escalators. 98 00:08:24,596 --> 00:08:27,686 Word? Escalators? 99 00:08:27,816 --> 00:08:30,558 The building cost $150 million. 100 00:08:30,689 --> 00:08:32,691 That's some real money. 101 00:08:32,821 --> 00:08:33,842 The most expensive high school 102 00:08:33,866 --> 00:08:35,432 ever built in the city 103 00:08:35,563 --> 00:08:38,305 with a top-notch faculty to match. 104 00:08:38,392 --> 00:08:39,915 Stuyvesant ain't playing. 105 00:08:40,002 --> 00:08:41,545 I hope you don't mind that I took the liberty 106 00:08:41,569 --> 00:08:44,441 of signing Kanan up for the entrance exam myself. 107 00:08:45,530 --> 00:08:48,097 But there's still paperwork that requires your signature. 108 00:08:49,577 --> 00:08:51,579 Thank you. 109 00:08:51,710 --> 00:08:53,470 There's no limit to your potential, Kanan, 110 00:08:53,494 --> 00:08:56,323 and there's nothing worse than squandered talent. 111 00:09:01,589 --> 00:09:03,460 - What? 112 00:09:03,591 --> 00:09:05,332 - Hey... 113 00:09:09,336 --> 00:09:10,816 You're takin' that test, 114 00:09:10,946 --> 00:09:12,252 and you're goin' to that school. 115 00:09:12,382 --> 00:09:14,297 I like it here. 116 00:09:14,428 --> 00:09:16,014 I'd have to take the bus all the way down 117 00:09:16,038 --> 00:09:17,692 to Sutphin and take the E. 118 00:09:17,823 --> 00:09:19,825 Ain't nobody tryin' to do all that. 119 00:09:19,955 --> 00:09:21,933 Besides, I'm doin' good here. Why we gotta go switchin' up? 120 00:09:21,957 --> 00:09:25,308 Because there is a better plan for you, a bigger world. 121 00:09:28,268 --> 00:09:30,096 Ah. 122 00:09:30,183 --> 00:09:32,315 That's me right there. 123 00:09:32,446 --> 00:09:35,536 It's the only shit I ever liked in school. 124 00:09:35,667 --> 00:09:37,407 My girl Cassiopeia, 125 00:09:37,538 --> 00:09:39,496 she got put up here as punishment. 126 00:09:39,584 --> 00:09:40,933 Rolled up on Poseidon and said 127 00:09:41,020 --> 00:09:42,300 she was finer than his mermaids, 128 00:09:42,412 --> 00:09:44,980 so he threw her up in the sky, 129 00:09:45,111 --> 00:09:48,636 spins around the North Pole for eternity. 130 00:09:48,723 --> 00:09:51,378 Old girl's just holdin' on, 131 00:09:51,508 --> 00:09:53,423 always about to fall off the throne. 132 00:09:56,296 --> 00:09:57,602 That's real right there. 133 00:10:00,822 --> 00:10:03,042 Look, I got a plan for you, Kanan. 134 00:10:03,129 --> 00:10:05,435 And this new school, it figures in just right. 135 00:10:05,566 --> 00:10:07,437 So you gonna take that test, 136 00:10:07,524 --> 00:10:08,937 you're gonna get into that school downtown, 137 00:10:08,961 --> 00:10:10,353 you're gonna go to college, 138 00:10:10,484 --> 00:10:13,530 and you're gonna become a CEO or some shit. 139 00:10:13,661 --> 00:10:15,228 Okay, you about to live a life 140 00:10:15,358 --> 00:10:18,274 that people 'round here only dream about. 141 00:10:18,361 --> 00:10:19,972 But I'd be away from you, Ma. 142 00:10:21,887 --> 00:10:23,628 Your life is my life. 143 00:10:23,758 --> 00:10:25,586 You fly, I fly. 144 00:10:28,284 --> 00:10:29,895 I gotta go. I love you. 145 00:10:51,917 --> 00:10:53,527 You hear that? 146 00:10:53,658 --> 00:10:55,181 You feel that? 147 00:10:55,311 --> 00:10:58,227 My cousin Jukebox can sing. 148 00:10:58,358 --> 00:11:00,621 But that voice gon' fool yo ass 149 00:11:00,708 --> 00:11:03,406 'cause you never knew a nigga harder than Jukebox, 150 00:11:03,537 --> 00:11:06,453 and I ain't never loved nobody harder neither. 151 00:11:06,583 --> 00:11:08,585 Juke, everything. 152 00:11:21,729 --> 00:11:22,729 Thanks. 153 00:11:24,645 --> 00:11:25,646 Kanan. 154 00:11:27,343 --> 00:11:28,343 What's up, Davina? 155 00:11:33,132 --> 00:11:35,047 I saw your mom in the hallway earlier today. 156 00:11:36,701 --> 00:11:38,790 She's so pretty. 157 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,313 Davina Harrison. 158 00:11:40,443 --> 00:11:42,532 To me, Davina was the dopest girl 159 00:11:42,619 --> 00:11:45,231 on the Southside, no question. 160 00:11:45,361 --> 00:11:48,843 See, Davina didn't even know she was a dime, 161 00:11:48,974 --> 00:11:51,019 which only made her that much finer. 162 00:11:51,150 --> 00:11:53,413 Any time she looked in my direction, 163 00:11:53,543 --> 00:11:55,720 I damn near forgot my own name. 164 00:11:55,850 --> 00:11:57,243 Look at me. 165 00:11:57,373 --> 00:12:00,202 Nigga can't even speak. 166 00:12:00,289 --> 00:12:01,943 And you got them same genes. 167 00:12:04,467 --> 00:12:07,383 Look, I ain't never really seen a good picture of my pops. 168 00:12:07,470 --> 00:12:08,994 He might be crazy ugly, I don't know. 169 00:12:09,081 --> 00:12:10,449 Look, everybody says he used to, like, 170 00:12:10,473 --> 00:12:11,692 run the hood back in the day, 171 00:12:11,823 --> 00:12:13,738 and they don't let ugly dudes do that. 172 00:12:13,868 --> 00:12:15,304 And you cute already anyway. 173 00:12:17,350 --> 00:12:18,743 Next! 174 00:12:18,873 --> 00:12:20,440 You up. 175 00:12:20,570 --> 00:12:22,311 - Huh? - Y-you, uh... 176 00:12:22,442 --> 00:12:23,965 You... yeah. 177 00:12:30,711 --> 00:12:32,582 Yo, what up, Jukebox? 178 00:12:32,713 --> 00:12:34,759 The crew. My people. 179 00:12:34,889 --> 00:12:36,301 Fuck that food shit. Give me a... give me a beat. 180 00:12:36,325 --> 00:12:37,762 Oh, word? 181 00:12:56,998 --> 00:12:58,304 You can't teach that shit, nigga! 182 00:12:58,434 --> 00:12:59,827 Come on. That's God-given. 183 00:12:59,958 --> 00:13:01,350 That's touched by a angel. 184 00:13:01,437 --> 00:13:02,743 That's off the dome, nigga. 185 00:13:02,874 --> 00:13:04,571 I'm not gonna lie, Famous. 186 00:13:04,701 --> 00:13:07,704 That's not the worst rhyme you've ever spit. 187 00:13:07,835 --> 00:13:09,402 Thanks? 188 00:13:09,532 --> 00:13:10,403 Sean "Puerto Rican Famous". 189 00:13:10,533 --> 00:13:12,622 Figueroa. 190 00:13:12,753 --> 00:13:13,993 But we just called him "Famous" 191 00:13:14,102 --> 00:13:16,191 because when he was in the third grade, 192 00:13:16,322 --> 00:13:17,865 he won some contest to read a poem he wrote 193 00:13:17,889 --> 00:13:20,065 on the radio. 194 00:13:20,195 --> 00:13:21,875 That shit was garbage, but that's my nigga. 195 00:13:29,726 --> 00:13:32,686 Every school got a Davina Harrison, 196 00:13:32,773 --> 00:13:34,775 and every Davina Harrison in every school 197 00:13:34,906 --> 00:13:36,951 got a boyfriend like Buck Twenty, 198 00:13:37,082 --> 00:13:38,320 the smoothest, best-dressed dude 199 00:13:38,344 --> 00:13:40,041 around the way. 200 00:13:40,172 --> 00:13:41,913 Fuck Buck Twenty. 201 00:13:50,356 --> 00:13:52,619 How long you been tryin' to get with her? 202 00:13:54,490 --> 00:13:56,579 Since second grade? 203 00:13:56,710 --> 00:13:58,755 How long she been playing you to the left? 204 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,280 First grade. 205 00:14:05,675 --> 00:14:07,025 Maybe you should move on. 206 00:14:07,155 --> 00:14:10,767 Juke, I ain't never movin' on. 207 00:14:23,563 --> 00:14:25,478 How the fuck did Born Ready get hit? 208 00:14:25,608 --> 00:14:28,742 They savior he cipher squared wisdom gods. 209 00:14:28,873 --> 00:14:30,570 There go my Uncle Lou-Lou, 210 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:32,267 my mom's youngest brother and right hand 211 00:14:32,398 --> 00:14:34,530 up in this muhfucker. 212 00:14:34,661 --> 00:14:36,576 If there shit that need doin', 213 00:14:36,706 --> 00:14:39,579 Uncle Lou-Lou'll get it done, and get it done right. 214 00:14:39,709 --> 00:14:41,711 Up on knowledge, culture power. 215 00:14:41,842 --> 00:14:44,236 Oh, and they talkin' in code, 216 00:14:44,366 --> 00:14:46,499 or some type of secret shit. 217 00:14:46,586 --> 00:14:48,414 That's why you don't know what they sayin'. 218 00:14:48,544 --> 00:14:50,633 So mind your own damn bidness. 219 00:14:50,764 --> 00:14:52,785 No one gone to the essence, but Born Ready, he caught one. 220 00:14:52,809 --> 00:14:54,681 - But where he at? - He in here. 221 00:14:54,811 --> 00:14:56,422 - What's good? - Yo. 222 00:14:56,509 --> 00:14:58,032 They just ran up on us and blazed. 223 00:14:58,163 --> 00:14:59,381 Four dudes. 224 00:14:59,468 --> 00:15:00,748 E-Z, Trace, and L-Mack got away, 225 00:15:00,817 --> 00:15:03,385 but Ready got hit in the leg. 226 00:15:03,516 --> 00:15:05,039 Shit burns. 227 00:15:07,128 --> 00:15:08,568 Marvin, what the fuck happened? 228 00:15:11,176 --> 00:15:12,917 Got him in the meat. 229 00:15:13,004 --> 00:15:14,744 Ready'll be a'ight. 230 00:15:14,875 --> 00:15:15,875 Where you been? 231 00:15:17,269 --> 00:15:18,792 Nigga hungry. 232 00:15:18,923 --> 00:15:20,003 Uncle Marvin. 233 00:15:20,054 --> 00:15:21,926 My mom's older brother. 234 00:15:22,056 --> 00:15:23,623 That nigga never miss a opportunity 235 00:15:23,753 --> 00:15:25,494 to miss a opportunity. 236 00:15:25,625 --> 00:15:27,105 But he loyal. 237 00:15:27,192 --> 00:15:28,976 And tough. 238 00:15:29,063 --> 00:15:30,499 And he always eatin'. 239 00:15:32,937 --> 00:15:34,503 'Nique tryin' to muscle his way 240 00:15:34,634 --> 00:15:36,070 onto our corners again. 241 00:15:36,201 --> 00:15:37,985 We need to push back. He need to feel us. 242 00:15:38,072 --> 00:15:40,205 You want us take it to the street, it'll be taken. 243 00:15:40,335 --> 00:15:41,573 Nah, we barely comin' out this drought. 244 00:15:41,597 --> 00:15:42,797 We don't need a war right now. 245 00:15:42,903 --> 00:15:44,296 It ain't about what we need, sis. 246 00:15:44,426 --> 00:15:45,906 It's about what we got. 247 00:15:46,037 --> 00:15:47,212 We can't let 'em body us, 248 00:15:47,342 --> 00:15:49,344 especially when business so tight. 249 00:15:50,258 --> 00:15:52,739 And we gettin' elbowed down at Lanes. 250 00:15:52,869 --> 00:15:54,480 - Since when? - Couple weeks. 251 00:15:54,610 --> 00:15:56,525 Harlem niggas is movin' in. 252 00:15:56,612 --> 00:15:58,788 And I'm just hearin' about it now? 253 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:00,007 I just heard about it. 254 00:16:01,574 --> 00:16:04,011 It's accurate. 255 00:16:04,142 --> 00:16:05,795 You runnin' distro downtown, right? 256 00:16:07,841 --> 00:16:09,799 Then run it. 257 00:16:09,930 --> 00:16:11,450 Now I gotta go deal with this bullshit. 258 00:16:12,977 --> 00:16:14,152 We got your hospital bill. 259 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:16,893 Thanks. 260 00:16:22,856 --> 00:16:24,771 Can't sleep on this hospital apple sauce, yo. 261 00:16:33,127 --> 00:16:35,651 Oh... come on. 262 00:16:35,782 --> 00:16:37,542 - Shoot, shoot, shoot. - Yes! 263 00:16:37,566 --> 00:16:38,761 Come on, come on, come on... 264 00:16:38,785 --> 00:16:40,395 Ryu 'bout to fuck you up! 265 00:16:40,526 --> 00:16:43,355 Chun-Li's making you her bitch. 266 00:16:43,485 --> 00:16:45,487 Blocks and weaves, blocks and weaves... 267 00:16:45,618 --> 00:16:47,402 Ooh... oh! 268 00:16:47,533 --> 00:16:50,579 Ah! Ooh! 269 00:16:50,710 --> 00:16:52,929 Oh! Boy. 270 00:16:53,060 --> 00:16:54,540 My bitch. 271 00:16:54,670 --> 00:16:56,387 That's some bullshit. You know this shit fake. 272 00:16:56,411 --> 00:16:59,110 Let's do it again. 273 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,720 Wanna go for round two? 274 00:17:00,850 --> 00:17:02,635 Yeah. 275 00:17:14,908 --> 00:17:16,605 That's Unique. 276 00:17:16,692 --> 00:17:19,130 Biggest drug dealer on the Southside. 277 00:17:19,217 --> 00:17:22,002 Niggas wanna be him or be down with him. 278 00:17:26,398 --> 00:17:29,140 That shit's bulletproof. 279 00:17:29,270 --> 00:17:30,552 Unique's got a dude in Utah who armors up 280 00:17:30,576 --> 00:17:32,230 all his rides for him. 281 00:17:36,190 --> 00:17:38,192 I didn't know Unique put Buck on. 282 00:18:24,151 --> 00:18:26,066 Yo, we lookin' for Hugo. 283 00:18:26,197 --> 00:18:27,937 Uh, not here. 284 00:18:28,024 --> 00:18:29,156 Any idea when he'll be back? 285 00:18:29,287 --> 00:18:31,245 Hugo's taking a mental health day. 286 00:18:31,376 --> 00:18:32,896 I told you, I'm done with green apples. 287 00:18:32,986 --> 00:18:34,422 My nutritionist says only citrus 288 00:18:34,553 --> 00:18:37,251 for the rest of the year. Where are my tangerines? 289 00:18:38,687 --> 00:18:40,994 And who are you? 290 00:18:41,125 --> 00:18:43,257 My sister and I, we got bidness with, uh, Hugo. 291 00:18:43,388 --> 00:18:44,748 Oh, Hugo's business is my business. 292 00:18:44,780 --> 00:18:46,260 I'm the club's new publicist. 293 00:18:46,391 --> 00:18:47,585 Well, this ain't about publicity. 294 00:18:47,609 --> 00:18:49,089 Everything's about publicity. 295 00:18:50,264 --> 00:18:51,874 Wait, I know who you are. 296 00:18:51,961 --> 00:18:53,615 You're the drug dealer. 297 00:18:53,702 --> 00:18:54,810 You're the one who made a deal with Hugo 298 00:18:54,834 --> 00:18:56,401 to sell your blow here. 299 00:18:56,531 --> 00:18:59,404 Your coke's all stepped on and dirty... ghetto shit. 300 00:18:59,534 --> 00:19:01,232 It's a bad look for the club. 301 00:19:01,362 --> 00:19:02,948 Going forward, we're gonna be using my source. 302 00:19:02,972 --> 00:19:04,539 I bet you won't. 303 00:19:04,670 --> 00:19:06,324 Let me get at her for a sec, Raq. 304 00:19:06,454 --> 00:19:07,823 Yeah, this bitch doesn't know who she's fuckin' with. 305 00:19:07,847 --> 00:19:09,240 Who you calling a bitch? 306 00:19:09,327 --> 00:19:11,372 - You, bitch. - Raq. 307 00:19:11,503 --> 00:19:12,982 - Let me handle it. 308 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,160 I'm not the one. 309 00:19:16,290 --> 00:19:18,162 Know this. 310 00:19:18,292 --> 00:19:20,332 Your sister needs to chill the fuck out. 311 00:19:20,425 --> 00:19:21,687 She needs to know I'm not 312 00:19:21,817 --> 00:19:23,515 some scared-ass white girl, honey. 313 00:19:23,645 --> 00:19:25,245 Let me holler at you for a sec. 314 00:19:31,044 --> 00:19:32,611 She's the worst. 315 00:19:32,741 --> 00:19:35,179 Well, she 'bout to get her ass beat. 316 00:19:35,309 --> 00:19:36,745 Tears will not be shed. 317 00:19:38,747 --> 00:19:40,140 Symphony Bosket. 318 00:19:40,271 --> 00:19:41,924 That's a hell of a name. 319 00:19:42,055 --> 00:19:43,622 Well, I'm a hell of a guy. 320 00:19:43,709 --> 00:19:46,364 Raquel Thomas. People call me Raq. 321 00:19:48,409 --> 00:19:50,237 You new? 322 00:19:50,368 --> 00:19:51,780 I'm just working here Tuesdays and Thursday nights. 323 00:19:51,804 --> 00:19:53,109 Got class all the others. 324 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,520 Oh, what you learnin', Symphony? 325 00:19:54,589 --> 00:19:56,591 I'm getting my masters up at City College. 326 00:19:56,722 --> 00:19:58,680 - Urban planning. - Well, I'm urban. 327 00:19:58,811 --> 00:20:01,335 I like plans. 328 00:20:01,466 --> 00:20:03,052 Might just have some shit to talk about, then. 329 00:20:03,076 --> 00:20:05,383 Yo, Raq. 330 00:20:05,513 --> 00:20:07,602 We're gonna get at Hugo later. 331 00:20:07,733 --> 00:20:09,474 I'll see you 'round, Symphony. 332 00:20:09,561 --> 00:20:10,801 I'm gonna look forward to that. 333 00:20:19,135 --> 00:20:20,789 Lamont's Diner. 334 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,401 That's our spot. 335 00:20:23,531 --> 00:20:27,231 Dinner every Wednesday night for as long as I can remember. 336 00:20:27,361 --> 00:20:29,711 Best memories I got. 337 00:20:29,842 --> 00:20:31,298 - Okay, Lou-Lou. - He's not? 338 00:20:31,322 --> 00:20:32,473 - No. - Who funnier? 339 00:20:32,497 --> 00:20:33,759 I mean, the bald one. 340 00:20:38,503 --> 00:20:39,863 Oh, we not even talkin' about that. 341 00:20:39,982 --> 00:20:41,743 - Like I said... - Just saying... 342 00:20:41,767 --> 00:20:43,092 Look, look, I'm-I'm just telling you all, 343 00:20:43,116 --> 00:20:44,900 though, for real, Juke, 344 00:20:45,031 --> 00:20:46,922 you was killin' at choir practice today, for real. 345 00:20:46,946 --> 00:20:48,513 - For real. - My girl's a star. 346 00:20:48,643 --> 00:20:51,385 Yo, Juke ain't no joke, baby. That's right, B. 347 00:20:51,516 --> 00:20:54,519 - Oh, that was a good one. 348 00:20:54,649 --> 00:20:57,696 Well, your ma's been tellin' me about this Stuyvesant test. 349 00:20:57,826 --> 00:20:59,959 That's dope. It's good. New building, what? 350 00:21:00,089 --> 00:21:03,136 It's a new building where... Got a bunch of labs, 351 00:21:03,267 --> 00:21:04,572 pools, escalators. 352 00:21:04,703 --> 00:21:06,182 Who got labs? 353 00:21:06,313 --> 00:21:07,140 Look, the principal over at the high school 354 00:21:07,271 --> 00:21:08,351 wants him to take that test 355 00:21:08,446 --> 00:21:09,640 to get into the school downtown. 356 00:21:09,664 --> 00:21:11,294 Now, it's supposed to be the best high school 357 00:21:11,318 --> 00:21:13,146 - in the city. - What city? 358 00:21:13,277 --> 00:21:14,645 How come, uh, the principal never stepped to you 359 00:21:14,669 --> 00:21:15,994 - about this, Juke? - She did. 360 00:21:16,018 --> 00:21:18,020 But you said it was gonna be a waste of time, 361 00:21:18,151 --> 00:21:19,892 that all them white folks down there 362 00:21:20,022 --> 00:21:22,547 was never gon' give me a real chance. 363 00:21:22,677 --> 00:21:24,418 I mean, that sounds some shit I'd say. 364 00:21:24,549 --> 00:21:25,787 - Yeah, exactly. 365 00:21:25,811 --> 00:21:27,726 Look, okay, well, take the test now, then. 366 00:21:27,856 --> 00:21:30,424 I'm too old. 367 00:21:30,511 --> 00:21:32,383 Fuck it, then. I mean, arts and science 368 00:21:32,513 --> 00:21:34,448 is good enough for us, good enough for my daughter. 369 00:21:34,472 --> 00:21:35,884 That shit wasn't good enough for us, Marvin. 370 00:21:35,908 --> 00:21:37,407 - That's the point. - Whatever. 371 00:21:37,431 --> 00:21:38,780 That's us. 372 00:21:38,911 --> 00:21:40,913 Whole fam. 373 00:21:41,043 --> 00:21:42,523 - Hey, yo! - Doin' our thing. 374 00:21:42,654 --> 00:21:44,569 - Yo, Fame! - Thomases. 375 00:21:44,699 --> 00:21:46,242 - What up? - What's goin' on, man? 376 00:21:46,266 --> 00:21:48,157 Hey, hey, what's the word, Thomas family? 377 00:21:48,181 --> 00:21:50,028 Yo, so how much you payin' this fine-lookin' woman 378 00:21:50,052 --> 00:21:51,663 to walk around with you, Famous? 379 00:21:51,793 --> 00:21:53,205 'Cause I know she ain't kickin' it with you for free. 380 00:21:53,229 --> 00:21:55,971 That's my sister, Jessica. 381 00:21:56,102 --> 00:21:57,601 Oh, didn't even know you had a sister. 382 00:21:57,625 --> 00:21:59,385 I've been livin' with my father in Baltimore. 383 00:21:59,497 --> 00:22:01,716 Up here now to work and go to school. 384 00:22:01,847 --> 00:22:04,893 Oh, nothing I love more than a working girl. 385 00:22:05,024 --> 00:22:06,915 Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that you love working girls. 386 00:22:06,939 --> 00:22:08,680 Oh, sh... 387 00:22:08,810 --> 00:22:10,943 Thirty seconds in, and she already out your league. 388 00:22:11,073 --> 00:22:12,684 Pull up a couple seats. I got dinner. 389 00:22:12,814 --> 00:22:14,814 No, we cool, we was just passing through, Mrs. Raq. 390 00:22:14,860 --> 00:22:16,359 - I just wanted to say "hi." - Famous. 391 00:22:16,383 --> 00:22:18,187 You really gonna sit here and act like it's a coincidence 392 00:22:18,211 --> 00:22:19,908 - that you showed up? - For real. 393 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:21,954 You know this our spot and time. 394 00:22:22,084 --> 00:22:23,303 - Sit down. - Right. 395 00:22:23,390 --> 00:22:25,174 I mean, if y'all insisting. 396 00:22:25,305 --> 00:22:26,804 Hey, no one insisting on shit, nigga. 397 00:22:26,828 --> 00:22:28,134 Are you eatin' or not? 398 00:22:28,221 --> 00:22:29,483 I'm eatin'. 399 00:22:29,614 --> 00:22:30,702 Whoa, whoa. 400 00:22:30,832 --> 00:22:31,832 Ha. 401 00:22:34,662 --> 00:22:36,118 - Dude, we know you. - Ain't no time 402 00:22:36,142 --> 00:22:37,249 to be poor, right? It's cool to be poor. 403 00:22:37,273 --> 00:22:38,362 Cool? 404 00:22:38,449 --> 00:22:40,189 - Hey. - Hey. 405 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,920 - I'm Lou. - Jessica. 406 00:22:47,109 --> 00:22:48,260 What's the day's mathematics? 407 00:22:49,764 --> 00:22:51,394 Power understanding off the corners. 408 00:22:51,418 --> 00:22:52,787 Wisdom and knowledge from the other spots. 409 00:22:52,811 --> 00:22:54,769 We down. 410 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:56,641 The price of jumbos dropped. 411 00:22:56,771 --> 00:22:58,382 Had to keep up with the Joneses. 412 00:23:04,823 --> 00:23:05,823 You not cold? 413 00:23:05,911 --> 00:23:07,042 Yo. 414 00:23:10,481 --> 00:23:12,961 Yo. What up? 415 00:23:13,092 --> 00:23:15,660 Yo, I don't want your uncle messin' with my sister, man. 416 00:23:15,790 --> 00:23:17,879 - Fame. - She not built for this shit. 417 00:23:18,010 --> 00:23:19,422 Yo, you been wantin' to be a part of our family 418 00:23:19,446 --> 00:23:21,970 since you was, like, four years old, Famous. 419 00:23:22,101 --> 00:23:24,233 Hey, maybe this is finally your way in. 420 00:23:24,364 --> 00:23:25,974 - You know what I mean? - Word. 421 00:23:26,105 --> 00:23:28,020 - Love, marriage. - Yeah, maybe. 422 00:23:28,107 --> 00:23:29,650 - In-laws. - Exactly, Juke. 423 00:23:32,894 --> 00:23:34,374 - Down! 424 00:23:50,738 --> 00:23:51,870 You okay? 425 00:23:53,393 --> 00:23:54,699 - Yeah. - You okay? 426 00:23:54,829 --> 00:23:55,937 - I'm good. - You two? 427 00:23:55,961 --> 00:23:56,701 - Yeah. - Lou-Lou, good? 428 00:23:56,831 --> 00:23:58,224 We good. I'm good. 429 00:23:58,354 --> 00:24:00,008 Yo, you all right? 430 00:24:00,139 --> 00:24:01,333 That's probably the bravest thing 431 00:24:01,357 --> 00:24:02,576 any dude's ever done for me. 432 00:24:02,707 --> 00:24:04,099 You hangin' with the wrong dudes. 433 00:24:04,186 --> 00:24:05,231 - Clearly. 434 00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:08,277 Yo. That's Five-O. Let's be out. 435 00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:09,931 Yo, Famous, get in the car. 436 00:24:25,251 --> 00:24:26,382 You okay? 437 00:24:28,384 --> 00:24:29,473 Yeah. 438 00:24:33,607 --> 00:24:36,001 I know who shot at us tonight. 439 00:24:36,131 --> 00:24:37,761 You don't know what you know, Kanan. 440 00:24:37,785 --> 00:24:40,135 Hmph. Yeah, I know more than you think I do. 441 00:24:40,266 --> 00:24:41,746 I'm handling it. 442 00:24:41,876 --> 00:24:42,877 We good. 443 00:24:45,314 --> 00:24:48,056 That secret language you talk with Uncle Marv and Lou-Lou, 444 00:24:48,143 --> 00:24:51,451 all that wisdom, cipher, understanding stuff, 445 00:24:51,538 --> 00:24:53,279 it's Supreme mathematics and alphabet. 446 00:24:53,409 --> 00:24:55,890 I heard some Five Percenters using it. 447 00:24:55,977 --> 00:24:58,502 You always talkin' numbers outside of Lamont's. 448 00:24:58,632 --> 00:25:00,678 "Power understanding" is 53. 449 00:25:00,808 --> 00:25:03,289 "Wisdom knowledge," 21. 450 00:25:03,419 --> 00:25:05,552 Ma, I'm telling you, I know stuff. 451 00:25:05,683 --> 00:25:08,163 Look, you need to stay out grown folks' business. 452 00:25:08,250 --> 00:25:10,228 Okay, I told you, I'ma deal with what happened tonight. 453 00:25:10,252 --> 00:25:12,733 Okay, you just focus on this test and school. 454 00:25:12,864 --> 00:25:16,128 You handle your job, I'll handle mine. 455 00:25:16,258 --> 00:25:17,999 No, but what if something happens to you? 456 00:25:18,130 --> 00:25:20,282 That was just a message. They weren't tryin' to hit me. 457 00:25:20,306 --> 00:25:22,700 But what if they did and you were gone? 458 00:25:22,830 --> 00:25:24,919 - What happens to me? 459 00:25:38,933 --> 00:25:40,761 You'd go live with your grandmother. 460 00:25:40,892 --> 00:25:42,415 - That's one of the reasons 461 00:25:42,546 --> 00:25:44,112 I rented her that house. 462 00:25:44,243 --> 00:25:45,723 So you always have a place to go. 463 00:25:49,161 --> 00:25:52,338 I don't want you to die. 464 00:25:58,344 --> 00:25:59,519 Go to bed. 465 00:26:16,318 --> 00:26:19,104 I seen my life flash in front of my eyes last night. 466 00:26:19,234 --> 00:26:20,714 Well, that's not much to see. 467 00:26:20,845 --> 00:26:21,846 Fuck you, Juke. 468 00:26:25,110 --> 00:26:27,460 Hey, what was Raq talkin' about last night 469 00:26:27,591 --> 00:26:29,549 when you got home? 470 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,725 She say she wanna fix it. 471 00:26:31,856 --> 00:26:33,379 Then she gonna fix it. 472 00:26:40,734 --> 00:26:42,451 Guess you won't have to worry about this shit no more. 473 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:43,345 You gonna be at your fancy school 474 00:26:43,476 --> 00:26:45,043 next year downtown. 475 00:26:45,130 --> 00:26:46,479 Test tomorrow. 476 00:26:46,610 --> 00:26:48,046 Yo, if it was me, 477 00:26:48,176 --> 00:26:49,719 I'd fuck up that special test shit on purpose. 478 00:26:49,743 --> 00:26:50,981 I ain't goin' to school with them fuckin' crackers. 479 00:26:51,005 --> 00:26:52,287 Nigga, the only special test 480 00:26:52,311 --> 00:26:53,680 you ever gonna take is the one to make sure 481 00:26:53,704 --> 00:26:55,880 you ain't got that HIV from Toya Hutchinson. 482 00:26:56,010 --> 00:26:57,379 I used a jimmy hat, a'ight? 483 00:26:57,403 --> 00:26:59,710 Word? 484 00:26:59,797 --> 00:27:01,842 I pulled out early, nigga! Damn! 485 00:27:01,973 --> 00:27:03,813 You just stupid, Famous. That's all. 486 00:27:03,931 --> 00:27:04,976 I guess. 487 00:27:20,774 --> 00:27:24,082 You came at me and my family last night, 'Nique. 488 00:27:24,212 --> 00:27:26,432 Wasn't tryin' to hurt nobody, Raq. 489 00:27:26,562 --> 00:27:28,216 Niggas are just buckin' off in the air, 490 00:27:28,347 --> 00:27:30,088 tryin' to get your attention 491 00:27:30,218 --> 00:27:32,830 to motivate this parley right here. 492 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,590 Your brother would've never done shit like that. 493 00:27:34,614 --> 00:27:36,268 Yeah, maybe not. 494 00:27:36,398 --> 00:27:38,313 You see, Ronnie's upstate for the rest 495 00:27:38,444 --> 00:27:40,054 of his natural life, 496 00:27:40,185 --> 00:27:41,423 and I'm runnin' the show right now, 497 00:27:41,447 --> 00:27:43,579 so I do what I wanna do. 498 00:27:43,710 --> 00:27:46,234 You also bum rushed my dudes on 145th. 499 00:27:46,365 --> 00:27:48,454 Listen, my niggas got a little wild, 500 00:27:48,584 --> 00:27:49,977 but they've been checked. 501 00:27:50,108 --> 00:27:52,197 But look, Raq, 502 00:27:52,327 --> 00:27:55,243 High Post and my brother had an agreement 503 00:27:55,374 --> 00:27:58,986 that those blocks above 139th is a demilitarized zone. 504 00:27:59,117 --> 00:28:00,814 No man's land. 505 00:28:00,901 --> 00:28:03,077 Then when your little peoples ran in there, 506 00:28:03,164 --> 00:28:04,862 snatched that up without checkin' in. 507 00:28:04,992 --> 00:28:06,515 'Sup with that? 508 00:28:06,646 --> 00:28:08,169 Post's deals ain't my deals. 509 00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:14,480 You know, you must really miss Post. 510 00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:18,049 Bein' that you two were just so madly in love and shit. 511 00:28:19,615 --> 00:28:21,661 Post used to say, 512 00:28:21,748 --> 00:28:23,683 "Once you're on your knees, it's damn near impossible 513 00:28:23,707 --> 00:28:26,318 to get back on your feet." 514 00:28:26,448 --> 00:28:27,928 I ain't gettin' on my knees, 'Nique. 515 00:28:28,059 --> 00:28:31,018 Not for you or no man. 516 00:28:31,149 --> 00:28:32,890 You take 140 to 143, 517 00:28:32,977 --> 00:28:34,674 I get 144 to Sutphin. 518 00:28:36,632 --> 00:28:38,547 - Why you get the extra block? - Look. 519 00:28:38,634 --> 00:28:40,047 We can go head up in this motherfucker, 'Nique. 520 00:28:40,071 --> 00:28:41,376 No matter where you were aimin', 521 00:28:41,507 --> 00:28:43,180 you took a shot at me and mines last night. 522 00:28:43,204 --> 00:28:45,685 My peoples are ready to throw the fuck down. 523 00:28:45,816 --> 00:28:47,861 You can't afford the war right now, Raq. 524 00:28:47,948 --> 00:28:49,602 You hurtin' just like me. 525 00:28:49,733 --> 00:28:52,083 Well, outta my pain comes strength, nigga. 526 00:28:52,170 --> 00:28:55,521 140 to 143. 527 00:29:01,657 --> 00:29:03,311 Word is bond. 528 00:29:07,881 --> 00:29:10,841 You know, that's a fly-ass jacket right there, B. 529 00:29:10,928 --> 00:29:13,191 You bring that to shop, and we can 530 00:29:13,321 --> 00:29:14,690 - tighten that up for you. - Mm-hmm. 531 00:29:35,691 --> 00:29:38,433 - What the fuck is that? - Come here, baby. 532 00:29:40,914 --> 00:29:44,091 Ah... 533 00:29:46,746 --> 00:29:50,358 What the fuck is that smell? 534 00:29:54,188 --> 00:29:56,974 How you just gonna stop? 535 00:29:57,104 --> 00:29:59,150 Bella? 536 00:30:00,629 --> 00:30:02,066 Did you go poopy? 537 00:30:04,285 --> 00:30:06,331 Hey, get me some water, yo. 538 00:30:06,461 --> 00:30:08,681 Where are you, Bella, baby? 539 00:30:42,106 --> 00:30:43,986 They said you got a break halfway through. 540 00:30:46,153 --> 00:30:48,068 Thanks. 541 00:30:48,199 --> 00:30:49,399 You're gonna crush this, baby. 542 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,531 You have three hours to complete the exam. 543 00:31:16,662 --> 00:31:19,795 You may open your test booklets and begin the exam... 544 00:31:21,101 --> 00:31:22,494 Now. 545 00:31:22,624 --> 00:31:24,322 Good luck. 546 00:31:57,921 --> 00:32:00,924 Niggas defined by the choices they make. 547 00:32:01,054 --> 00:32:03,535 And my choice has always been clear as hell. 548 00:32:05,885 --> 00:32:08,540 My moms over everything. 549 00:32:08,670 --> 00:32:11,021 Especially some downtown school 550 00:32:11,151 --> 00:32:12,674 with a bunch of white niggas. 551 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,101 Medium well. 552 00:32:51,278 --> 00:32:52,584 No doubt. 553 00:33:07,729 --> 00:33:10,123 Test went quick. 554 00:33:10,254 --> 00:33:11,814 Knew the answers before I even sat down. 555 00:33:13,344 --> 00:33:15,476 Hey, uh 556 00:33:15,563 --> 00:33:17,391 saw Buck on your mom's corner on the way over. 557 00:33:19,306 --> 00:33:21,091 140th. 558 00:33:21,221 --> 00:33:22,329 Damn, this nigga takin' shots at us at the diner, 559 00:33:22,353 --> 00:33:23,963 now he takin' corners too? 560 00:33:24,094 --> 00:33:26,134 I thought you told Juke your mom was gonna fix that. 561 00:33:27,532 --> 00:33:28,750 We gonna handle it. 562 00:33:31,753 --> 00:33:34,060 My brother got some gats hidden around the crib. 563 00:33:34,191 --> 00:33:36,106 D-Wiz. 564 00:33:36,236 --> 00:33:38,064 D the one givin' Famous the beat on the table 565 00:33:38,195 --> 00:33:40,327 back in my old school. 566 00:33:40,414 --> 00:33:42,460 Lot of fake tough guys around the way. 567 00:33:42,590 --> 00:33:44,723 Niggas who act like they got heart, 568 00:33:44,853 --> 00:33:46,812 but bitch up when shit get hot. 569 00:33:46,942 --> 00:33:49,293 That wasn't D-Wiz. 570 00:33:49,423 --> 00:33:52,557 D always with whatever, whenever. 571 00:33:52,687 --> 00:33:54,037 That's my man. 572 00:33:57,779 --> 00:33:59,825 Let's do this. 573 00:34:39,343 --> 00:34:40,779 He got caught by his parents. 574 00:34:40,866 --> 00:34:43,260 - With a girl in his room. - No way. Are you kidding? 575 00:34:45,653 --> 00:34:47,090 What's up? 576 00:34:48,265 --> 00:34:49,527 Can we help you? 577 00:34:49,657 --> 00:34:51,790 Oh, shit, uh, this is Laverne. 578 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,359 We met at the choir competition at City Center last week. 579 00:34:55,489 --> 00:34:56,838 You go to Spence, right? 580 00:34:56,969 --> 00:34:58,686 You're, uh, you're in my friend Alex's class. 581 00:34:58,710 --> 00:35:00,668 Nah. 582 00:35:00,799 --> 00:35:02,192 Where do you go to school? 583 00:35:02,322 --> 00:35:03,584 Jamaica. 584 00:35:03,715 --> 00:35:04,977 The island, Jamaica? 585 00:35:05,108 --> 00:35:07,719 Oh, my God. Um, Queens. 586 00:35:08,850 --> 00:35:12,158 Jamaica, Queens. 587 00:35:12,289 --> 00:35:13,744 Laverne and I are working on a duet together 588 00:35:13,768 --> 00:35:14,943 for the Deb Ball. 589 00:35:15,074 --> 00:35:16,641 It's like a 590 00:35:16,728 --> 00:35:18,556 exchange program thingy. 591 00:35:19,905 --> 00:35:21,646 I'll call you guys later. 592 00:35:24,692 --> 00:35:27,478 - What the heck was that? - I don't know. 593 00:35:27,869 --> 00:35:29,958 God, the Deb Ball's this thing 594 00:35:30,089 --> 00:35:31,482 that happens every year 595 00:35:31,612 --> 00:35:33,701 for rich white girls to be, like, 596 00:35:33,832 --> 00:35:37,096 presented to rich white guys. 597 00:35:37,183 --> 00:35:39,316 Rich Black people have that too. 598 00:35:39,446 --> 00:35:42,057 Jack and Jill or some shit. 599 00:35:42,188 --> 00:35:43,468 Not that I've ever been invited. 600 00:35:46,105 --> 00:35:47,715 Come with me to mine, then. 601 00:35:47,802 --> 00:35:49,108 Nobody want me there. 602 00:35:50,762 --> 00:35:52,285 I want you there. 603 00:36:09,215 --> 00:36:10,495 Come on, come on, come on. 604 00:36:12,523 --> 00:36:14,829 Yo, um, what's up with the mutt? 605 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,396 Tumor in his spine. 606 00:36:16,527 --> 00:36:19,225 Can't use his rear legs no more. 607 00:36:19,312 --> 00:36:21,096 Yo, well, never give up on family. 608 00:36:21,227 --> 00:36:22,576 No doubt. 609 00:36:32,804 --> 00:36:35,981 Yo, uh, Hugo say we good. 610 00:36:36,111 --> 00:36:38,244 Back up at Lanes again. Own a spot. 611 00:36:40,115 --> 00:36:41,475 He also was talkin' some crazy shit 612 00:36:41,595 --> 00:36:43,510 about the new white girl up in there. 613 00:36:43,641 --> 00:36:45,730 And, uh, and a dog in a fuckin' microwave. 614 00:36:47,514 --> 00:36:48,646 What white girl? 615 00:37:09,710 --> 00:37:12,235 You're so pretty. 616 00:37:12,365 --> 00:37:13,410 - Yeah. 617 00:37:28,425 --> 00:37:30,383 You're shaking. 618 00:37:33,778 --> 00:37:36,476 I get it. I get it. 619 00:38:15,254 --> 00:38:18,388 Let me get five red caps, yo. 620 00:38:23,306 --> 00:38:25,133 Let me see cash. 621 00:38:40,235 --> 00:38:42,063 Look at this. 622 00:38:42,150 --> 00:38:44,550 Postin' up on my mom's corner? That's straight-up disrespect. 623 00:38:46,329 --> 00:38:47,678 Let me get the strap. 624 00:38:47,808 --> 00:38:49,088 I'm using the other one. 625 00:38:55,860 --> 00:38:57,272 I don't know what the fuck you niggas is holdin'. 626 00:38:57,296 --> 00:38:58,776 Mm-mm. 627 00:38:58,906 --> 00:39:00,266 I ain't goin' out there naked, man. 628 00:39:00,343 --> 00:39:01,605 Fuck that... what am I gonna do 629 00:39:01,735 --> 00:39:02,345 when they start shootin' back at us, huh? 630 00:39:02,475 --> 00:39:03,694 Yell at them? 631 00:39:03,824 --> 00:39:05,826 Man, look, y'all lay back. 632 00:39:05,957 --> 00:39:07,262 Me and D'll do this. 633 00:39:26,630 --> 00:39:28,022 Wait here. 634 00:39:44,082 --> 00:39:45,083 Hmph. 635 00:39:45,213 --> 00:39:46,519 The fuck you want, Kanan? 636 00:39:52,133 --> 00:39:53,657 Oh, shit! 637 00:39:56,094 --> 00:39:57,094 Oh 638 00:40:01,491 --> 00:40:03,406 - Who shot him? 639 00:40:03,536 --> 00:40:05,146 Me or you? 640 00:40:11,022 --> 00:40:12,545 Nigga tryin' to speak. 641 00:40:34,132 --> 00:40:34,959 Buck Twenty the first nigga 642 00:40:35,089 --> 00:40:36,526 I ever pointed a gun at. 643 00:40:37,962 --> 00:40:41,574 You never forget that shit. 644 00:40:41,705 --> 00:40:43,707 - It stay with you. 645 00:40:46,057 --> 00:40:47,885 It live with you. 646 00:40:48,015 --> 00:40:50,278 Yo! Five-O! 647 00:40:50,365 --> 00:40:52,237 Kanan, let's go, man! 648 00:41:13,171 --> 00:41:13,998 It's been a minute since anybody 649 00:41:14,128 --> 00:41:15,347 asked me out on a date. 650 00:41:17,436 --> 00:41:18,587 I know I'm not the kind of brother 651 00:41:18,611 --> 00:41:19,612 you probably mess with. 652 00:41:22,267 --> 00:41:24,225 I'm in a 653 00:41:24,356 --> 00:41:27,272 specific line of work, Symphony. 654 00:41:27,402 --> 00:41:29,143 Not everybody can get down. 655 00:41:31,494 --> 00:41:33,734 If it's not a problem for you, it's not a problem for me. 656 00:41:41,329 --> 00:41:42,592 So urban planning? 657 00:41:44,332 --> 00:41:46,117 What do I need to know? 658 00:41:46,247 --> 00:41:48,380 Oh, man. How much time you got? 659 00:41:51,557 --> 00:41:53,080 How 'bout when Robert Moses 660 00:41:53,211 --> 00:41:55,213 built the Cross Bronx in the '40s, 661 00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:57,258 he moved out 5,000 low-income families? 662 00:41:57,345 --> 00:41:59,913 Just threw them in the street. 663 00:42:00,044 --> 00:42:02,046 But if he'd run the expressway along Crotona Park 664 00:42:02,176 --> 00:42:03,874 like a lot of people told him to, 665 00:42:04,004 --> 00:42:06,050 only, like, 50 families would have had to go. 666 00:42:08,705 --> 00:42:11,011 I've never even heard of Robert Moses. 667 00:42:11,098 --> 00:42:13,405 Pretty much the architect of the whole damn city 668 00:42:13,536 --> 00:42:17,235 and Westchester and Long Island and Rockland County. 669 00:42:17,365 --> 00:42:19,542 Lotta people, including me, 670 00:42:19,672 --> 00:42:21,631 think he destroyed those spots. 671 00:42:23,502 --> 00:42:24,808 But I tell you all that 672 00:42:24,938 --> 00:42:27,550 because that right there is urban planning. 673 00:42:27,637 --> 00:42:29,682 It's where policy and design intersect. 674 00:42:31,945 --> 00:42:34,165 - Look what you done started. 675 00:42:36,776 --> 00:42:39,344 I like brothers with bigger ideas than me. 676 00:42:46,525 --> 00:42:47,526 Kanan. 677 00:42:51,182 --> 00:42:53,880 I'm sorry. I gotta go. 678 00:42:57,884 --> 00:43:00,147 - For dinner. - No, but I asked you out. 679 00:43:04,499 --> 00:43:05,892 I had squashed it, Kanan. 680 00:43:05,979 --> 00:43:08,460 It was done. Over. We made that peace. 681 00:43:08,591 --> 00:43:10,244 Ma, he tried to kill you! 682 00:43:10,375 --> 00:43:11,613 Then they was just on your corner, 683 00:43:11,637 --> 00:43:12,899 disrespectin' you? Hell no! 684 00:43:12,986 --> 00:43:14,422 I gave him those corners. 685 00:43:16,642 --> 00:43:17,774 Why-why would you do that? 686 00:43:17,904 --> 00:43:19,863 - Great question. - Here we go. 687 00:43:19,993 --> 00:43:21,188 You wanna start your own shit? 688 00:43:21,212 --> 00:43:23,214 Make your own calls? Have at it, nigga. 689 00:43:23,344 --> 00:43:24,737 But if the past taught us anything, 690 00:43:24,868 --> 00:43:26,410 it's that you not made to sit in this seat, 691 00:43:26,434 --> 00:43:28,393 to walk in these fuckin' shoes. 692 00:43:28,523 --> 00:43:29,803 So how 'bout you shut the fuck up 693 00:43:29,829 --> 00:43:31,048 and let me speak to my son? 694 00:43:34,442 --> 00:43:35,835 That your blood? 695 00:43:39,273 --> 00:43:40,448 No, it's the other kid. 696 00:43:40,535 --> 00:43:43,147 Yeah. The dead kid. 697 00:43:43,277 --> 00:43:45,410 So just so we clear, 698 00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:46,977 you and your friends killed that boy 699 00:43:47,107 --> 00:43:48,979 for a corner I already gave up. 700 00:43:49,109 --> 00:43:50,739 - I Didn't know you gave it up. - Exactly. 701 00:43:50,763 --> 00:43:52,203 You don't know, but you think you do. 702 00:43:52,330 --> 00:43:53,636 You all do. 703 00:43:55,550 --> 00:43:56,900 And where the fuck was you at 704 00:43:57,030 --> 00:43:58,902 when all this stupidness was goin' down? 705 00:44:02,775 --> 00:44:04,211 Choir practice. 706 00:44:04,298 --> 00:44:07,432 Singing. 707 00:44:07,562 --> 00:44:08,607 She was singin'. 708 00:44:08,738 --> 00:44:10,565 Ma, I wanna help you. 709 00:44:10,696 --> 00:44:12,176 - You wanna help me? - Yes! 710 00:44:12,263 --> 00:44:14,482 Go to that school and get the fuck up outta here! 711 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:15,851 You coulda sent me to live with grandmoms 712 00:44:15,875 --> 00:44:17,747 a long time ago! 713 00:44:17,877 --> 00:44:20,227 Schools out there is safe, is good, but you ain't do that. 714 00:44:20,358 --> 00:44:22,403 You kept me right here next to you 715 00:44:22,490 --> 00:44:25,102 'cause this is all we got. 716 00:44:25,189 --> 00:44:27,626 I'm here because you wanted me here! 717 00:44:27,713 --> 00:44:30,368 And now you tryin' to send me to some spot downtown, right? 718 00:44:30,498 --> 00:44:32,302 So I can go to college, get some corny-ass job, 719 00:44:32,326 --> 00:44:33,686 and raise up off the block forever? 720 00:44:33,763 --> 00:44:35,373 Leave you here alone? 721 00:44:35,503 --> 00:44:37,201 Which one is it, Ma? 722 00:44:37,288 --> 00:44:39,072 Am I stayin' here, or am I goin'? 723 00:44:42,423 --> 00:44:45,035 For real, you need to make up your mind. 724 00:44:45,165 --> 00:44:46,689 Go to your room. 725 00:44:50,257 --> 00:44:52,129 I'm grown. 726 00:44:52,259 --> 00:44:54,348 I don't think you can tell me to do that no more. 727 00:44:54,435 --> 00:44:56,350 You must be out your damn mind. 728 00:44:56,481 --> 00:44:59,005 Somebody gotta fly that flag and have your back. 729 00:44:59,136 --> 00:45:00,964 That's what I did. 730 00:45:01,051 --> 00:45:02,443 Ma, that's who I am! 731 00:45:02,574 --> 00:45:03,856 No, no, no, I tell you who you are, Kanan, 732 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:04,663 not the other way around! 733 00:45:04,794 --> 00:45:06,273 I am your mother! 734 00:45:12,105 --> 00:45:14,238 That sweatshirt gotta go, Raq. 735 00:45:14,368 --> 00:45:15,935 Go take it off. 736 00:45:16,066 --> 00:45:17,415 Yo, you gotta burn that shit. 737 00:45:22,420 --> 00:45:24,030 Come on. 738 00:45:32,691 --> 00:45:34,345 'Nique gonna hit us back. 739 00:45:40,786 --> 00:45:42,919 Sh... 740 00:46:37,364 --> 00:46:38,626 Look, Ma... 741 00:46:38,757 --> 00:46:40,454 Not nearly that time yet, Kanan. 742 00:46:41,934 --> 00:46:43,414 Not even close. 743 00:46:51,683 --> 00:46:53,763 Go take out the garbage and get back up to your room. 744 00:47:05,653 --> 00:47:07,093 Gonna take you to your grandmother's. 745 00:47:16,926 --> 00:47:18,536 Maybe you were right. 746 00:47:25,543 --> 00:47:28,328 Maybe I should've sent you out there from the rip. 747 00:47:58,184 --> 00:47:59,272 Yo, Kanan! 748 00:48:12,590 --> 00:48:13,678 Kanan! 749 00:48:17,682 --> 00:48:19,162 I'm good, I'm good. 750 00:48:19,292 --> 00:48:20,424 I'm not hit. 751 00:48:43,708 --> 00:48:45,642 Every hood got a cop like Malcolm Howard. 752 00:48:45,666 --> 00:48:47,712 Act like he own the streets. 753 00:48:47,799 --> 00:48:50,106 Like we all answer to his ass. 754 00:48:50,236 --> 00:48:52,804 Like he the biggest gangster around the way. 755 00:48:52,935 --> 00:48:55,372 But it ain't that simple. 756 00:48:55,502 --> 00:48:57,026 It ain't never that simple. 757 00:48:58,679 --> 00:49:00,203 Looks like baby boy's balls dropped. 758 00:49:04,685 --> 00:49:06,205 The block's the same, him and his boys, 759 00:49:06,252 --> 00:49:07,558 they got prices on their heads. 760 00:49:07,688 --> 00:49:09,342 Yeah, well 761 00:49:09,429 --> 00:49:11,692 block's got it wrong. 762 00:49:11,823 --> 00:49:15,087 Maybe you should, uh, get out while you still can. 763 00:49:23,922 --> 00:49:25,663 They hit the wrong house. 764 00:49:25,793 --> 00:49:27,621 Just a fucked up mistake. 765 00:49:27,752 --> 00:49:30,102 Hmm. That's your story. You're stickin' to it? 766 00:49:30,233 --> 00:49:31,233 That's the one. 767 00:49:33,366 --> 00:49:34,628 You spinnin' that same shit? 768 00:49:34,759 --> 00:49:36,717 My son don't got nothing to say to you. 769 00:49:40,765 --> 00:49:42,419 Watch your back, Raquel. 770 00:49:44,725 --> 00:49:46,553 And keep them eyes open, B. 771 00:49:54,605 --> 00:49:55,843 Yo, let us through, man, we family. 772 00:49:55,867 --> 00:49:57,782 Yo, Raq. 773 00:49:57,912 --> 00:49:59,784 You a'ight? 774 00:49:59,914 --> 00:50:01,612 Guns wasn't pointed in the air this time. 775 00:50:04,180 --> 00:50:05,746 It's your first crime scene, Burke. 776 00:50:05,877 --> 00:50:08,010 What do you got? 777 00:50:08,097 --> 00:50:09,881 Nine-millimeter shell casings. 778 00:50:10,012 --> 00:50:11,535 Some sort of SMG. 779 00:50:11,622 --> 00:50:13,667 Gonna run ballistics, see if we can match it. 780 00:50:13,798 --> 00:50:15,800 Ah, you all sleuthing up in this motherfucker, huh? 781 00:50:15,930 --> 00:50:18,107 Just doin' my job. 782 00:50:18,237 --> 00:50:19,780 Yeah, well, I hope you're a good swimmer. 783 00:50:19,804 --> 00:50:21,458 The gat that squeezed that shit out 784 00:50:21,588 --> 00:50:23,268 it's already at the bottom of Baisley Pond. 785 00:50:28,987 --> 00:50:30,945 Shit's scary, right? 786 00:50:31,076 --> 00:50:34,775 Psh. Shit's so scary, I didn't even have time to be scared. 787 00:50:40,651 --> 00:50:41,913 I'm glad they missed. 788 00:50:43,784 --> 00:50:45,003 Yeah, me too. 789 00:50:49,181 --> 00:50:50,181 Yo. 790 00:50:52,793 --> 00:50:53,925 Where was you at earlier? 791 00:50:57,102 --> 00:50:58,408 White girl? 792 00:51:05,893 --> 00:51:08,244 You know I'd never tell you how to raise your son, Raq. 793 00:51:09,984 --> 00:51:12,509 But them fools is comin' for Kanan. 794 00:51:12,639 --> 00:51:15,947 And no escalator in no school is gonna save him from that. 795 00:51:16,078 --> 00:51:17,688 Neither is his mama. 796 00:51:28,394 --> 00:51:29,394 For Buck's family. 797 00:51:33,878 --> 00:51:35,706 Sss. 798 00:51:35,836 --> 00:51:38,361 We had a truce, Raq. 799 00:51:38,491 --> 00:51:40,798 That your boy and his crew violated. 800 00:51:40,928 --> 00:51:43,192 Now, you think a clip of cash for Buck's family 801 00:51:43,322 --> 00:51:45,629 gonna nearly fix that, Raq? 802 00:51:45,759 --> 00:51:47,892 If our word don't count, this whole shit falls apart. 803 00:51:48,022 --> 00:51:49,154 You know that. 804 00:51:49,285 --> 00:51:50,677 Speakin' on violations. 805 00:51:50,808 --> 00:51:52,592 You came after my son last night... 806 00:51:52,723 --> 00:51:53,724 Where we stay at. 807 00:51:53,854 --> 00:51:56,030 And we gonna keep comin', Raq. 808 00:51:56,161 --> 00:51:57,961 You see, I got money on all them niggas' heads 809 00:51:58,076 --> 00:52:00,296 until you and I come to an agreement. 810 00:52:00,383 --> 00:52:02,559 Or until we don't need to no more. 811 00:52:02,689 --> 00:52:03,908 Now, look. 812 00:52:04,038 --> 00:52:06,258 I want all them corners. 813 00:52:06,389 --> 00:52:09,131 No compromise, no split, 814 00:52:09,261 --> 00:52:10,697 no nothing. 815 00:52:10,828 --> 00:52:12,873 They all comin' to me now. 816 00:52:13,004 --> 00:52:15,354 See, look. 817 00:52:15,485 --> 00:52:18,140 My crew's lookin' at me like 818 00:52:18,270 --> 00:52:22,144 if I don't brin' something back real for Buck, 819 00:52:22,274 --> 00:52:24,755 they gonna start wantin' answers to questions 820 00:52:24,885 --> 00:52:27,845 people in our position don't ever wanna be asked, Raq. 821 00:52:27,975 --> 00:52:29,673 Kanan's not to be touched. 822 00:52:29,803 --> 00:52:31,631 I'll dead the bounty. 823 00:52:31,718 --> 00:52:33,285 But you gotta understand this: 824 00:52:33,416 --> 00:52:36,462 I can only control what I can control. 825 00:52:36,593 --> 00:52:38,769 See, Buck's got a lot of people on the Southside, Raq. 826 00:52:40,901 --> 00:52:43,295 And I can't be held responsible 827 00:52:43,426 --> 00:52:45,210 for random niggas wantin' to take matters 828 00:52:45,341 --> 00:52:46,472 into they own hands. 829 00:52:46,603 --> 00:52:48,082 Kanan's not in this. 830 00:52:48,213 --> 00:52:50,737 Kanan's you and Def Con's boy, Raq. 831 00:52:50,868 --> 00:52:52,261 That nigga been in the shit 832 00:52:52,391 --> 00:52:55,438 before he was even in this shit. 833 00:52:55,525 --> 00:52:57,353 That's why I always say this hustle right here 834 00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,572 ain't for the broads, Raq. 835 00:52:59,659 --> 00:53:01,835 'Cause you see, in this shit, 836 00:53:01,966 --> 00:53:04,838 you can't give a fuck about nobody or nothing 837 00:53:04,969 --> 00:53:07,101 more than your business. 838 00:53:07,189 --> 00:53:11,105 Distractions make you weak. Make you blink. 839 00:53:11,236 --> 00:53:12,411 You don't care about your son 840 00:53:12,542 --> 00:53:14,108 any less than I care about Kanan. 841 00:53:15,588 --> 00:53:16,588 Listen. 842 00:53:19,375 --> 00:53:21,246 Jerome's my heart, 843 00:53:21,333 --> 00:53:24,075 but he ain't live inside of me. 844 00:53:24,206 --> 00:53:26,251 He didn't come out of me, Raq. 845 00:53:26,382 --> 00:53:28,601 You see, you and Kanan connected in a way 846 00:53:28,732 --> 00:53:31,909 me and Jerome just never will be, Raq. 847 00:53:32,039 --> 00:53:33,867 You can't fuck with that chemistry. 848 00:53:33,998 --> 00:53:35,391 It's biology. 849 00:53:35,521 --> 00:53:39,395 Even worse, Raq. 850 00:53:39,525 --> 00:53:40,700 Listen. 851 00:53:43,529 --> 00:53:45,270 All them corners is mine now. 852 00:53:55,149 --> 00:53:57,282 I'm not blinkin', 'Nique. 853 00:53:57,413 --> 00:53:58,805 My eyes are wide fuckin' open. 854 00:54:24,353 --> 00:54:25,353 Kanan. 855 00:54:28,574 --> 00:54:29,986 Get dressed. We're goin'. 856 00:54:30,010 --> 00:54:31,403 Goin' where? 857 00:54:31,534 --> 00:54:32,709 Just get dressed. 858 00:55:30,767 --> 00:55:32,334 Thought you were takin' me to Grandma's. 859 00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:37,121 How'd that test go? 860 00:55:38,818 --> 00:55:40,994 For real. 861 00:55:41,125 --> 00:55:42,561 Don't lie to me. 862 00:55:45,782 --> 00:55:48,306 If there was a lot of answers in that B column, 863 00:55:48,437 --> 00:55:49,438 I might be a'ight. 864 00:55:52,092 --> 00:55:53,746 You threw it. 865 00:55:56,575 --> 00:55:58,969 Kanan went hard on them Bs. 866 00:56:11,590 --> 00:56:14,027 You see those four stars? Right there. 867 00:56:14,158 --> 00:56:16,943 That rectangle. 868 00:56:17,074 --> 00:56:19,194 With those diagonal stars right in the middle of them. 869 00:56:21,165 --> 00:56:22,688 That's Orion the Hunter. 870 00:56:25,909 --> 00:56:27,389 That's us, Kanan. 871 00:56:28,694 --> 00:56:30,609 Orion. 872 00:56:30,696 --> 00:56:32,568 Always the hunter, never the hunted. 873 00:56:50,934 --> 00:56:52,326 Go ahead. Take it. 874 00:56:55,329 --> 00:56:56,449 Point it straight out there. 875 00:56:57,593 --> 00:56:59,595 Hold that shit with two hands. 876 00:56:59,682 --> 00:57:01,466 Strong hand on top. 877 00:57:03,947 --> 00:57:05,601 Extend your arms. 878 00:57:05,731 --> 00:57:07,777 Aim straight out there. 879 00:57:08,952 --> 00:57:10,432 Squeeze one off. 880 00:57:18,831 --> 00:57:21,486 That bullet's out there now. 881 00:57:21,617 --> 00:57:25,229 Circlin' the world with your name on it. 882 00:57:25,359 --> 00:57:27,144 Now you gonna be runnin' from it for forever. 883 00:57:29,407 --> 00:57:31,670 You wanted to be in it? 884 00:57:31,801 --> 00:57:33,629 You in it. 885 00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:20,420 You already know how my shit ended. 886 00:58:23,026 --> 00:58:24,090 And now you know how it started. 887 00:58:27,421 --> 00:58:29,511 But the real story is what happened in between. 888 00:58:32,165 --> 00:58:33,297 This is that story. 889 00:58:35,429 --> 00:58:36,518 This is my story. 890 00:58:38,650 --> 00:58:40,696 This is a Southside, Jamaica, Queens story.