1 00:01:15,248 --> 00:01:16,902 Ha ha. That's right. 2 00:02:12,828 --> 00:02:15,569 Yo. What's up, money? 3 00:02:19,704 --> 00:02:22,706 Y'all seen how my last fight ended... 4 00:02:22,837 --> 00:02:24,926 this right here is how my first fight started. 5 00:02:27,669 --> 00:02:30,019 Get offa him! Leave him alone! 6 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:31,430 I told you, stop playin' with us. 7 00:02:33,021 --> 00:02:34,042 He's hurt, let him go. 8 00:02:34,066 --> 00:02:35,284 Leave him alone! 9 00:02:35,415 --> 00:02:36,895 Shut up, Jukebox! 10 00:02:37,026 --> 00:02:38,766 I wouldn't do that, yo. 11 00:02:38,896 --> 00:02:40,576 Why don't you say somethin', bitch? 12 00:02:43,685 --> 00:02:45,121 Y'all better recognize. 13 00:02:45,207 --> 00:02:46,793 You already doin' man. Can't mess with us. 14 00:02:46,817 --> 00:02:48,341 Kanan, you don't have to do this! 15 00:02:48,472 --> 00:02:49,753 That fool didn't know what he was doin'. 16 00:02:49,777 --> 00:02:50,841 Exactly. Let it go. Let it go. 17 00:02:50,865 --> 00:02:51,865 Yo! 18 00:02:58,612 --> 00:03:01,006 - He's cuttin' out. - Next time, you're gonna 19 00:03:01,137 --> 00:03:02,530 give up that money when I tell you. 20 00:03:02,659 --> 00:03:04,270 Stop playin' with us, man. 21 00:03:04,401 --> 00:03:06,707 Man, let's go, let's do it. 22 00:03:06,837 --> 00:03:08,918 - Get off, let me go. - Let her go. 23 00:03:09,145 --> 00:03:10,319 Punk-ass! 24 00:03:11,973 --> 00:03:13,193 Hey, nice job. 25 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:14,497 You okay, Kanan? 26 00:03:17,066 --> 00:03:18,414 Kanan? 27 00:03:18,545 --> 00:03:19,807 - See this? - Kanan? 28 00:03:19,937 --> 00:03:21,264 Now everybody's laughing at you. 29 00:03:21,288 --> 00:03:22,680 Kanan? 30 00:03:22,766 --> 00:03:24,115 The hood got no love 31 00:03:24,247 --> 00:03:25,326 for a motherfucker who run. 32 00:03:25,378 --> 00:03:26,728 Bye, Kanan! 33 00:03:26,858 --> 00:03:29,730 Kanan! Get back here! 34 00:03:33,125 --> 00:03:34,953 There I go. 35 00:03:35,039 --> 00:03:37,608 Damn. That shit's a bad look. 36 00:03:37,739 --> 00:03:39,043 You all right, Kanan? 37 00:03:57,236 --> 00:04:00,195 My mom and her boyfriend, High Post. 38 00:04:02,241 --> 00:04:03,401 Where you goin', Kanan? 39 00:04:06,419 --> 00:04:09,639 Look like little Kanan got in a tussle at the park. 40 00:04:09,771 --> 00:04:10,931 Post is the one 41 00:04:10,989 --> 00:04:12,338 who really got her in the game. 42 00:04:12,468 --> 00:04:13,949 Hey. 43 00:04:14,079 --> 00:04:15,342 You want me to go talk to him? 44 00:04:19,170 --> 00:04:20,730 Not every kid up for the Southside, Raq. 45 00:04:20,781 --> 00:04:22,391 Mine is. 46 00:04:22,523 --> 00:04:24,612 Post'll be dead in a year. 47 00:04:24,742 --> 00:04:27,266 Someone lit his ass on fire for tellin'. 48 00:04:27,396 --> 00:04:29,660 I always liked that brother. 49 00:04:29,790 --> 00:04:31,444 Treated my mom right. 50 00:04:37,494 --> 00:04:38,613 Why you cryin', Kanan? 51 00:04:41,889 --> 00:04:44,066 What happened? 52 00:04:44,196 --> 00:04:46,242 Tyus and Antoine jumped me for my money. 53 00:04:46,372 --> 00:04:48,288 How they know you had it? 54 00:04:48,418 --> 00:04:49,742 I told you not to show nobody your money. 55 00:04:49,766 --> 00:04:51,725 Didn't show nothin'. 56 00:04:51,855 --> 00:04:53,136 You talkin' about it, then. 57 00:04:54,206 --> 00:04:55,338 And you gave it up. 58 00:04:55,468 --> 00:04:56,774 They beat me down. 59 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:01,649 Where was Jukebox? 60 00:05:01,778 --> 00:05:03,651 They were holdin' her back. 61 00:05:08,177 --> 00:05:09,699 Tyus' stronger than me. 62 00:05:16,706 --> 00:05:18,230 We goin' back to that park. 63 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:40,949 Hey. Let's go. 64 00:05:53,221 --> 00:05:55,005 Let's go. 65 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:57,920 That them? 66 00:06:00,315 --> 00:06:01,925 Deal with them or deal with me, 67 00:06:02,057 --> 00:06:04,057 but there ain't nowhere to run when it comes to me. 68 00:06:04,494 --> 00:06:06,495 Get yours, boy. 69 00:06:35,872 --> 00:06:37,329 You know I can get tickets to first base. 70 00:06:37,353 --> 00:06:38,353 He can't get tickets. 71 00:06:38,485 --> 00:06:39,528 - Stop... - Yo. 72 00:06:41,531 --> 00:06:43,228 Yo, so you back for more? 73 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:47,449 My God! 74 00:06:50,887 --> 00:06:53,281 Yo, Kanan, no... 75 00:06:55,893 --> 00:06:58,766 Come on, let's go. 76 00:07:00,855 --> 00:07:03,858 Damn, payback's a mother fucker. 77 00:07:04,988 --> 00:07:09,124 Southside, Jamaica, Queens, 1985. 78 00:07:10,733 --> 00:07:12,387 Kanan messin' these niggas up! 79 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:13,538 That was the first time 80 00:07:13,562 --> 00:07:16,086 my name rang out. 81 00:07:16,218 --> 00:07:18,088 And it ain't stopped ringing since. 82 00:07:37,718 --> 00:07:40,197 That's the bell. Everyone, get to class. 83 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,639 That's the bell. Didn't you hear me? 84 00:07:46,769 --> 00:07:48,423 My office. 85 00:07:56,911 --> 00:07:58,715 This could be a life-changing opportunity 86 00:07:58,738 --> 00:08:00,567 for you, Kanan. 87 00:08:00,697 --> 00:08:03,134 Stuyvesant is one of the best high schools in the country. 88 00:08:03,221 --> 00:08:05,266 Now, that's what I'm talkin' about. 89 00:08:05,396 --> 00:08:06,836 Ma, but I don't wanna change schools. 90 00:08:06,963 --> 00:08:08,764 There isn't enough time to fully prepare Kanan 91 00:08:08,836 --> 00:08:10,925 for the entrance exam, but I am betting 92 00:08:11,055 --> 00:08:13,144 that just based on what he already has stored up 93 00:08:13,274 --> 00:08:16,843 in the that ample brain of his, he'll do quite well. 94 00:08:16,973 --> 00:08:18,254 It's a brand-new school building 95 00:08:18,322 --> 00:08:21,238 with a pool, five gymnasiums, 96 00:08:21,370 --> 00:08:24,459 12 science labs, and escalators. 97 00:08:24,591 --> 00:08:27,680 Word? Escalators? 98 00:08:27,810 --> 00:08:30,552 The building cost $150 million. 99 00:08:30,684 --> 00:08:32,686 That's some real money. 100 00:08:32,816 --> 00:08:33,836 The most expensive high school 101 00:08:33,860 --> 00:08:35,427 ever built in the city 102 00:08:35,557 --> 00:08:38,299 with a top-notch faculty to match. 103 00:08:38,386 --> 00:08:39,909 Stuyvesant ain't playing. 104 00:08:39,996 --> 00:08:41,539 I hope you don't mind that I took the liberty 105 00:08:41,563 --> 00:08:44,436 of signing Kanan up for the entrance exam myself. 106 00:08:45,524 --> 00:08:48,091 But there's still paperwork that requires your signature. 107 00:08:49,572 --> 00:08:51,573 Thank you. 108 00:08:51,705 --> 00:08:53,465 There's no limit to your potential, Kanan, 109 00:08:53,489 --> 00:08:56,317 and there's nothing worse than squandered talent. 110 00:09:01,583 --> 00:09:03,455 What? 111 00:09:03,586 --> 00:09:05,326 Hey... 112 00:09:09,331 --> 00:09:10,811 You're takin' that test, 113 00:09:10,941 --> 00:09:12,246 and you're goin' to that school. 114 00:09:12,376 --> 00:09:14,292 I like it here. 115 00:09:14,423 --> 00:09:16,009 I'd have to take the bus all the way down 116 00:09:16,033 --> 00:09:17,687 to Sutphin and take the E. 117 00:09:17,817 --> 00:09:19,820 Ain't nobody tryin' to do all that. 118 00:09:19,950 --> 00:09:21,927 Besides, I'm doin' good here. Why we gotta go switchin' up? 119 00:09:21,951 --> 00:09:25,302 Because there is a better plan for you, a bigger world. 120 00:09:30,177 --> 00:09:32,309 That's me right there. 121 00:09:32,441 --> 00:09:35,530 It's the only shit I ever liked in school. 122 00:09:35,662 --> 00:09:37,402 My girl Cassiopeia, 123 00:09:37,533 --> 00:09:39,490 she got put up here as punishment. 124 00:09:39,578 --> 00:09:40,927 Rolled up on Poseidon and said 125 00:09:41,014 --> 00:09:42,294 she was finer than his mermaids, 126 00:09:42,407 --> 00:09:44,975 so he threw her up in the sky, 127 00:09:45,105 --> 00:09:48,630 spins around the North Pole for eternity. 128 00:09:48,717 --> 00:09:51,373 Old girl's just holdin' on, 129 00:09:51,503 --> 00:09:53,418 always about to fall off the throne. 130 00:09:56,290 --> 00:09:57,596 That's real right there. 131 00:10:00,817 --> 00:10:03,037 Look, I got a plan for you, Kanan. 132 00:10:03,124 --> 00:10:05,429 And this new school, it figures in just right. 133 00:10:05,561 --> 00:10:07,432 So you gonna take that test, 134 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:08,932 you're gonna get into that school downtown, 135 00:10:08,956 --> 00:10:10,347 you're gonna go to college, 136 00:10:10,479 --> 00:10:13,524 and you're gonna become a CEO or some shit. 137 00:10:13,655 --> 00:10:15,222 Okay, you about to live a life 138 00:10:15,352 --> 00:10:18,269 that people 'round here only dream about. 139 00:10:18,355 --> 00:10:19,966 But I'd be away from you, Ma. 140 00:10:21,881 --> 00:10:23,623 Your life is my life. 141 00:10:23,753 --> 00:10:25,581 You fly, I fly. 142 00:10:28,278 --> 00:10:29,889 I gotta go. I love you. 143 00:10:51,912 --> 00:10:53,522 You hear that? 144 00:10:53,653 --> 00:10:55,176 You feel that? 145 00:10:55,306 --> 00:10:58,221 My cousin Jukebox can sing. 146 00:10:58,352 --> 00:11:00,615 But that voice gon' fool yo ass 147 00:11:00,702 --> 00:11:03,400 'cause you never knew a nigga harder than Jukebox, 148 00:11:03,532 --> 00:11:06,447 and I ain't never loved nobody harder neither. 149 00:11:06,577 --> 00:11:08,580 Juke, everything. 150 00:11:21,724 --> 00:11:22,724 Thanks. 151 00:11:24,639 --> 00:11:25,640 Kanan. 152 00:11:27,337 --> 00:11:28,337 What's up, Davina? 153 00:11:33,126 --> 00:11:35,042 I saw your mom in the hallway earlier today. 154 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:38,784 She's so pretty. 155 00:11:38,914 --> 00:11:40,307 Davina Harrison. 156 00:11:40,437 --> 00:11:42,527 To me, Davina was the dopest girl 157 00:11:42,614 --> 00:11:45,225 on the Southside, no question. 158 00:11:45,355 --> 00:11:48,837 See, Davina didn't even know she was a dime, 159 00:11:48,969 --> 00:11:51,014 which only made her that much finer. 160 00:11:51,144 --> 00:11:53,408 Any time she looked in my direction, 161 00:11:53,538 --> 00:11:55,715 I damn near forgot my own name. 162 00:11:55,845 --> 00:11:57,238 Look at me. 163 00:11:57,368 --> 00:12:00,197 Nigga can't even speak. 164 00:12:00,283 --> 00:12:01,937 And you got them same genes. 165 00:12:04,461 --> 00:12:07,378 Look, I ain't never really seen a good picture of my pops. 166 00:12:07,465 --> 00:12:08,989 He might be crazy ugly, I don't know. 167 00:12:09,076 --> 00:12:10,443 Look, everybody says he used to, like, 168 00:12:10,467 --> 00:12:11,687 run the hood back in the day, 169 00:12:11,817 --> 00:12:13,732 and they don't let ugly dudes do that. 170 00:12:13,863 --> 00:12:15,298 And you cute already anyway. 171 00:12:17,345 --> 00:12:18,738 Next! 172 00:12:18,868 --> 00:12:20,434 You up. 173 00:12:20,565 --> 00:12:22,306 Y-you... 174 00:12:22,437 --> 00:12:23,960 You... yeah. 175 00:12:30,706 --> 00:12:32,576 Yo, what up, Jukebox? 176 00:12:32,707 --> 00:12:34,754 The crew. My people. 177 00:12:34,884 --> 00:12:36,296 Fuck that food shit. Give me a... give me a beat. 178 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:37,756 Word? 179 00:12:56,993 --> 00:12:58,298 You can't teach that shit, nigga! 180 00:12:58,428 --> 00:12:59,822 Come on. That's God-given. 181 00:12:59,952 --> 00:13:01,345 That's touched by a angel. 182 00:13:01,432 --> 00:13:02,738 That's off the dome, nigga. 183 00:13:02,869 --> 00:13:04,566 I'm not gonna lie, Famous. 184 00:13:04,696 --> 00:13:07,698 That's not the worst rhyme you've ever spit. 185 00:13:07,830 --> 00:13:09,397 Thanks? 186 00:13:09,527 --> 00:13:10,398 Sean "Puerto Rican Famous" 187 00:13:10,528 --> 00:13:12,616 Figueroa. 188 00:13:12,748 --> 00:13:13,988 But we just called him "Famous" 189 00:13:14,096 --> 00:13:16,186 because when he was in the third grade, 190 00:13:16,317 --> 00:13:17,860 he won some contest to read a poem he wrote 191 00:13:17,884 --> 00:13:20,059 on the radio. 192 00:13:20,190 --> 00:13:21,870 That shit was garbage, but that's my nigga. 193 00:13:29,721 --> 00:13:32,681 Every school got a Davina Harrison, 194 00:13:32,768 --> 00:13:34,769 and every Davina Harrison in every school 195 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:36,946 got a boyfriend like Buck Twenty, 196 00:13:37,076 --> 00:13:38,315 the smoothest, best-dressed dude 197 00:13:38,338 --> 00:13:40,036 around the way. 198 00:13:40,167 --> 00:13:41,908 Fuck Buck Twenty. 199 00:13:50,350 --> 00:13:52,614 How long you been tryin' to get with her? 200 00:13:54,485 --> 00:13:56,573 Since second grade? 201 00:13:56,705 --> 00:13:58,750 How long she been playing you to the left? 202 00:14:01,274 --> 00:14:02,274 First grade. 203 00:14:05,669 --> 00:14:07,019 Maybe you should move on. 204 00:14:07,149 --> 00:14:10,761 Juke, I ain't never movin' on. 205 00:14:23,557 --> 00:14:25,472 How the fuck did Born Ready get hit? 206 00:14:25,602 --> 00:14:28,736 They savior he cipher squared wisdom gods. 207 00:14:28,868 --> 00:14:30,565 There go my Uncle Lou-Lou, 208 00:14:30,695 --> 00:14:32,261 my mom's youngest brother and right hand 209 00:14:32,393 --> 00:14:34,524 up in this muhfucker. 210 00:14:34,655 --> 00:14:36,571 If there shit that need doin', 211 00:14:36,701 --> 00:14:39,573 Uncle Lou-Lou'll get it done, and get it done right. 212 00:14:39,703 --> 00:14:41,706 Up on knowledge, culture power. 213 00:14:41,836 --> 00:14:44,230 And they talkin' in code... 214 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,494 or some type of secret shit. 215 00:14:46,581 --> 00:14:48,408 That's why you don't know what they sayin'. 216 00:14:48,538 --> 00:14:50,628 So mind your own damn bidness. 217 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:52,779 No one gone to the essence, but Born Ready, he caught one. 218 00:14:52,803 --> 00:14:54,676 - But where he at? - He in here. 219 00:14:54,806 --> 00:14:56,417 - What's good? - Yo. 220 00:14:56,504 --> 00:14:58,027 They just ran up on us and blazed. 221 00:14:58,158 --> 00:14:59,375 Four dudes. 222 00:14:59,462 --> 00:15:00,743 E-Z, Trace, and L-Mack got away, 223 00:15:00,812 --> 00:15:03,379 but Ready got hit in the leg. 224 00:15:03,510 --> 00:15:05,033 Shit burns. 225 00:15:07,123 --> 00:15:08,562 Marvin, what the fuck happened? 226 00:15:11,171 --> 00:15:12,912 Got him in the meat. 227 00:15:12,999 --> 00:15:14,739 Ready'll be a'ight. 228 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:15,870 Where you been? 229 00:15:17,264 --> 00:15:18,787 Nigga hungry. 230 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:19,998 Uncle Marvin. 231 00:15:20,048 --> 00:15:21,921 My mom's older brother. 232 00:15:22,051 --> 00:15:23,618 That nigga never miss a opportunity 233 00:15:23,748 --> 00:15:25,489 to miss a opportunity. 234 00:15:25,620 --> 00:15:27,100 But he loyal. 235 00:15:27,187 --> 00:15:28,971 And tough. 236 00:15:29,057 --> 00:15:30,494 And he always eatin'. 237 00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:34,498 'Nique tryin' to muscle his way 238 00:15:34,629 --> 00:15:36,065 onto our corners again. 239 00:15:36,196 --> 00:15:37,980 We need to push back. He need to feel us. 240 00:15:38,067 --> 00:15:40,200 You want us take it to the street, it'll be taken. 241 00:15:40,330 --> 00:15:41,567 Nah, we barely comin' out this drought. 242 00:15:41,591 --> 00:15:42,792 We don't need a war right now. 243 00:15:42,898 --> 00:15:44,290 It ain't about what we need, sis. 244 00:15:44,421 --> 00:15:45,900 It's about what we got. 245 00:15:46,032 --> 00:15:47,206 We can't let 'em body us, 246 00:15:47,336 --> 00:15:49,338 especially when business so tight. 247 00:15:50,253 --> 00:15:52,734 And we gettin' elbowed down at Lanes. 248 00:15:52,864 --> 00:15:54,475 - Since when? - Couple weeks. 249 00:15:54,605 --> 00:15:56,519 Harlem niggas is movin' in. 250 00:15:56,606 --> 00:15:58,783 And I'm just hearin' about it now? 251 00:15:58,913 --> 00:16:00,001 I just heard about it. 252 00:16:01,568 --> 00:16:04,005 It's accurate. 253 00:16:04,136 --> 00:16:05,789 You runnin' distro downtown, right? 254 00:16:07,836 --> 00:16:09,793 Then run it. 255 00:16:09,924 --> 00:16:11,445 Now I gotta go deal with this bullshit. 256 00:16:12,971 --> 00:16:14,147 We got your hospital bill. 257 00:16:15,669 --> 00:16:16,888 Thanks. 258 00:16:22,850 --> 00:16:24,765 Can't sleep on this hospital apple sauce, yo. 259 00:16:33,121 --> 00:16:35,645 Come on. 260 00:16:35,777 --> 00:16:37,537 - Shoot, shoot, shoot. - Yes! 261 00:16:37,561 --> 00:16:38,755 Come on, come on, come on... 262 00:16:38,779 --> 00:16:40,389 Ryu 'bout to fuck you up! 263 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,350 Chun-Li's making you her bitch. 264 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,481 Blocks and weaves, blocks and weaves... 265 00:16:45,613 --> 00:16:47,397 Ooh... 266 00:16:47,528 --> 00:16:50,573 Ooh! 267 00:16:50,705 --> 00:16:52,923 Boy. 268 00:16:53,054 --> 00:16:54,534 My bitch. 269 00:16:54,664 --> 00:16:56,381 That's some bullshit. You know this shit fake. 270 00:16:56,405 --> 00:16:59,105 Let's do it again. 271 00:16:59,235 --> 00:17:00,715 Wanna go for round two? 272 00:17:00,845 --> 00:17:02,629 Yeah. 273 00:17:14,903 --> 00:17:16,599 That's Unique. 274 00:17:16,686 --> 00:17:19,125 Biggest drug dealer on the Southside. 275 00:17:19,211 --> 00:17:21,997 Niggas wanna be him or be down with him. 276 00:17:26,393 --> 00:17:29,134 That shit's bulletproof. 277 00:17:29,265 --> 00:17:30,547 Unique's got a dude in Utah who armors up 278 00:17:30,570 --> 00:17:32,224 all his rides for him. 279 00:17:36,184 --> 00:17:38,186 I didn't know Unique put Buck on. 280 00:18:24,145 --> 00:18:26,060 Yo, we lookin' for Hugo. 281 00:18:26,192 --> 00:18:27,932 Not here. 282 00:18:28,019 --> 00:18:29,151 Any idea when he'll be back? 283 00:18:29,281 --> 00:18:31,240 Hugo's taking a mental health day. 284 00:18:31,371 --> 00:18:32,891 I told you, I'm done with green apples. 285 00:18:32,980 --> 00:18:34,416 My nutritionist says only citrus 286 00:18:34,548 --> 00:18:37,246 for the rest of the year. Where are my tangerines? 287 00:18:38,682 --> 00:18:40,989 And who are you? 288 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,251 My sister and I, we got bidness with, Hugo. 289 00:18:43,383 --> 00:18:44,742 Hugo's business is my business. 290 00:18:44,775 --> 00:18:46,255 I'm the club's new publicist. 291 00:18:46,385 --> 00:18:47,579 Well, this ain't about publicity. 292 00:18:47,604 --> 00:18:49,084 Everything's about publicity. 293 00:18:50,259 --> 00:18:51,868 Wait, I know who you are. 294 00:18:51,955 --> 00:18:53,609 You're the drug dealer. 295 00:18:53,697 --> 00:18:54,805 You're the one who made a deal with Hugo 296 00:18:54,828 --> 00:18:56,395 to sell your blow here. 297 00:18:56,526 --> 00:18:59,398 Your coke's all stepped on and dirty... ghetto shit. 298 00:18:59,528 --> 00:19:01,227 It's a bad look for the club. 299 00:19:01,356 --> 00:19:02,942 Going forward, we're gonna be using my source. 300 00:19:02,967 --> 00:19:04,534 I bet you won't. 301 00:19:04,664 --> 00:19:06,318 Let me get at her for a sec, Raq. 302 00:19:06,449 --> 00:19:07,817 Yeah, this bitch doesn't know who she's fuckin' with. 303 00:19:07,842 --> 00:19:09,234 Who you calling a bitch? 304 00:19:09,321 --> 00:19:11,366 - You, bitch. - Raq. 305 00:19:11,498 --> 00:19:12,977 Let me handle it. 306 00:19:14,674 --> 00:19:16,154 I'm not the one. 307 00:19:16,285 --> 00:19:18,156 Know this. 308 00:19:18,287 --> 00:19:20,326 Your sister needs to chill the fuck out. 309 00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:21,682 She needs to know I'm not 310 00:19:21,811 --> 00:19:23,509 some scared-ass white girl, honey. 311 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,240 Let me holler at you for a sec. 312 00:19:31,038 --> 00:19:32,605 She's the worst. 313 00:19:32,736 --> 00:19:35,173 Well, she 'bout to get her ass beat. 314 00:19:35,304 --> 00:19:36,740 Tears will not be shed. 315 00:19:38,741 --> 00:19:40,134 Symphony Bosket. 316 00:19:40,266 --> 00:19:41,919 That's a hell of a name. 317 00:19:42,049 --> 00:19:43,616 Well, I'm a hell of a guy. 318 00:19:43,703 --> 00:19:46,358 Raquel Thomas. People call me Raq. 319 00:19:48,403 --> 00:19:50,231 You new? 320 00:19:50,363 --> 00:19:51,775 I'm just working here Tuesdays and Thursday nights. 321 00:19:51,798 --> 00:19:53,104 Got class all the others. 322 00:19:53,234 --> 00:19:54,515 What you learnin', Symphony? 323 00:19:54,584 --> 00:19:56,586 I'm getting my masters up at City College. 324 00:19:56,717 --> 00:19:58,674 - Urban planning. - Well, I'm urban. 325 00:19:58,806 --> 00:20:01,329 I like plans. 326 00:20:01,461 --> 00:20:03,047 Might just have some shit to talk about, then. 327 00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:05,377 Yo, Raq. 328 00:20:05,508 --> 00:20:07,596 We're gonna get at Hugo later. 329 00:20:07,728 --> 00:20:09,469 I'll see you 'round, Symphony. 330 00:20:09,556 --> 00:20:10,796 I'm gonna look forward to that. 331 00:20:19,130 --> 00:20:20,784 Lamont's Diner. 332 00:20:20,914 --> 00:20:23,395 That's our spot. 333 00:20:23,526 --> 00:20:27,226 Dinner every Wednesday night for as long as I can remember. 334 00:20:27,355 --> 00:20:29,705 Best memories I got. 335 00:20:29,836 --> 00:20:31,292 - Okay, Lou-Lou. - He's not? 336 00:20:31,317 --> 00:20:32,468 - No. - Who funnier? 337 00:20:32,491 --> 00:20:33,753 I mean, the bald one. 338 00:20:38,498 --> 00:20:39,857 We not even talkin' about that. 339 00:20:39,977 --> 00:20:41,738 - Like I said... - Just saying... 340 00:20:41,761 --> 00:20:43,086 Look, look, I'm-I'm just telling you all, 341 00:20:43,111 --> 00:20:44,894 though, for real, Juke, 342 00:20:45,026 --> 00:20:46,916 you was killin' at choir practice today, for real. 343 00:20:46,941 --> 00:20:48,508 - For real. - My girl's a star. 344 00:20:48,637 --> 00:20:51,380 Yo, Juke ain't no joke, baby. That's right, B. 345 00:20:51,510 --> 00:20:54,513 That was a good one. 346 00:20:54,644 --> 00:20:57,691 Well, your ma's been tellin' me about this Stuyvesant test. 347 00:20:57,820 --> 00:20:59,953 That's dope. It's good. New building, what? 348 00:21:00,084 --> 00:21:03,131 It's a new building where... Got a bunch of labs, 349 00:21:03,261 --> 00:21:04,567 pools, escalators. 350 00:21:04,698 --> 00:21:06,176 Who got labs? 351 00:21:06,307 --> 00:21:07,134 Look, the principal over at the high school 352 00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:08,346 wants him to take that test 353 00:21:08,441 --> 00:21:09,634 to get into the school downtown. 354 00:21:09,659 --> 00:21:11,288 Now, it's supposed to be the best high school 355 00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,141 - in the city. - What city? 356 00:21:13,271 --> 00:21:14,640 How come, the principal never stepped to you 357 00:21:14,663 --> 00:21:15,989 - about this, Juke? - She did. 358 00:21:16,012 --> 00:21:18,015 But you said it was gonna be a waste of time, 359 00:21:18,145 --> 00:21:19,886 that all them white folks down there 360 00:21:20,017 --> 00:21:22,541 was never gon' give me a real chance. 361 00:21:22,672 --> 00:21:24,413 I mean, that sounds some shit I'd say. 362 00:21:24,544 --> 00:21:25,781 Yeah, exactly. 363 00:21:25,806 --> 00:21:27,721 Look, okay, well, take the test now, then. 364 00:21:27,851 --> 00:21:30,419 I'm too old. 365 00:21:30,506 --> 00:21:32,377 Fuck it, then. I mean, arts and science 366 00:21:32,508 --> 00:21:34,442 is good enough for us, good enough for my daughter. 367 00:21:34,467 --> 00:21:35,878 That shit wasn't good enough for us, Marvin. 368 00:21:35,903 --> 00:21:37,402 - That's the point. - Whatever. 369 00:21:37,425 --> 00:21:38,775 That's us. 370 00:21:38,905 --> 00:21:40,907 Whole fam. 371 00:21:41,038 --> 00:21:42,518 - Hey, yo! - Doin' our thing. 372 00:21:42,648 --> 00:21:44,564 - Yo, Fame! - Thomases. 373 00:21:44,693 --> 00:21:46,237 - What up? - What's goin' on, man? 374 00:21:46,260 --> 00:21:48,152 Hey, hey, what's the word, Thomas family? 375 00:21:48,175 --> 00:21:50,022 Yo, so how much you payin' this fine-lookin' woman 376 00:21:50,047 --> 00:21:51,657 to walk around with you, Famous? 377 00:21:51,788 --> 00:21:53,200 'Cause I know she ain't kickin' it with you for free. 378 00:21:53,223 --> 00:21:55,965 That's my sister, Jessica. 379 00:21:56,096 --> 00:21:57,596 Didn't even know you had a sister. 380 00:21:57,619 --> 00:21:59,380 I've been livin' with my father in Baltimore. 381 00:21:59,491 --> 00:22:01,711 Up here now to work and go to school. 382 00:22:01,842 --> 00:22:04,887 Nothing I love more than a working girl. 383 00:22:05,019 --> 00:22:06,910 Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that you love working girls. 384 00:22:06,933 --> 00:22:08,674 Sh... 385 00:22:08,805 --> 00:22:10,938 Thirty seconds in, and she already out your league. 386 00:22:11,067 --> 00:22:12,679 Pull up a couple seats. I got dinner. 387 00:22:12,808 --> 00:22:14,808 No, we cool, we was just passing through, Mrs. Raq. 388 00:22:14,855 --> 00:22:16,354 - I just wanted to say "hi." - Famous. 389 00:22:16,377 --> 00:22:18,182 You really gonna sit here and act like it's a coincidence 390 00:22:18,205 --> 00:22:19,903 - that you showed up? - For real. 391 00:22:20,034 --> 00:22:21,949 You know this our spot and time. 392 00:22:22,078 --> 00:22:23,298 - Sit down. - Right. 393 00:22:23,384 --> 00:22:25,169 I mean, if y'all insisting. 394 00:22:25,299 --> 00:22:26,798 Hey, no one insisting on shit, nigga. 395 00:22:26,823 --> 00:22:28,128 Are you eatin' or not? 396 00:22:28,215 --> 00:22:29,478 I'm eatin'. 397 00:22:29,608 --> 00:22:30,696 Whoa, whoa. 398 00:22:30,826 --> 00:22:31,826 Ha. 399 00:22:34,656 --> 00:22:36,113 - Dude, we know you. - Ain't no time 400 00:22:36,136 --> 00:22:37,243 to be poor, right? It's cool to be poor. 401 00:22:37,268 --> 00:22:38,356 Cool? 402 00:22:38,443 --> 00:22:40,183 - Hey. - Hey. 403 00:22:40,315 --> 00:22:41,914 - I'm Lou. - Jessica. 404 00:22:47,104 --> 00:22:48,263 What's the day's mathematics? 405 00:22:49,759 --> 00:22:51,388 Power understanding off the corners. 406 00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:52,781 Wisdom and knowledge from the other spots. 407 00:22:52,806 --> 00:22:54,763 We down. 408 00:22:54,894 --> 00:22:56,635 The price of jumbos dropped. 409 00:22:56,766 --> 00:22:58,376 Had to keep up with the Joneses. 410 00:23:04,817 --> 00:23:05,817 You not cold? 411 00:23:05,905 --> 00:23:07,037 Yo. 412 00:23:10,476 --> 00:23:12,955 Yo. What up? 413 00:23:13,086 --> 00:23:15,654 Yo, I don't want your uncle messin' with my sister, man. 414 00:23:15,785 --> 00:23:17,874 - Fame. - She not built for this shit. 415 00:23:18,005 --> 00:23:19,416 Yo, you been wantin' to be a part of our family 416 00:23:19,441 --> 00:23:21,964 since you was, like, four years old, Famous. 417 00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:24,228 Hey, maybe this is finally your way in. 418 00:23:24,358 --> 00:23:25,969 - You know what I mean? - Word. 419 00:23:26,099 --> 00:23:28,015 - Love, marriage. - Yeah, maybe. 420 00:23:28,102 --> 00:23:29,644 - In-laws. - Exactly, Juke. 421 00:23:32,888 --> 00:23:34,368 Down! 422 00:23:50,732 --> 00:23:51,865 You okay? 423 00:23:53,387 --> 00:23:54,693 - Yeah. - You okay? 424 00:23:54,824 --> 00:23:55,932 - I'm good. - You two? 425 00:23:55,955 --> 00:23:56,695 - Yeah. - Lou-Lou, good? 426 00:23:56,826 --> 00:23:58,219 We good. I'm good. 427 00:23:58,348 --> 00:24:00,002 Yo, you all right? 428 00:24:00,134 --> 00:24:01,327 That's probably the bravest thing 429 00:24:01,352 --> 00:24:02,570 any dude's ever done for me. 430 00:24:02,701 --> 00:24:04,094 You hangin' with the wrong dudes. 431 00:24:04,181 --> 00:24:05,226 Clearly. 432 00:24:05,355 --> 00:24:08,271 Yo. That's Five-O. Let's be out. 433 00:24:08,358 --> 00:24:09,925 Yo, Famous, get in the car. 434 00:24:25,246 --> 00:24:26,376 You okay? 435 00:24:28,378 --> 00:24:29,468 Yeah. 436 00:24:33,602 --> 00:24:35,996 I know who shot at us tonight. 437 00:24:36,125 --> 00:24:37,756 You don't know what you know, Kanan. 438 00:24:37,779 --> 00:24:40,130 Hmph. Yeah, I know more than you think I do. 439 00:24:40,260 --> 00:24:41,740 I'm handling it. 440 00:24:41,871 --> 00:24:42,872 We good. 441 00:24:45,308 --> 00:24:48,050 That secret language you talk with Uncle Marv and Lou-Lou, 442 00:24:48,137 --> 00:24:51,445 all that wisdom, cipher, understanding stuff, 443 00:24:51,532 --> 00:24:53,273 it's Supreme mathematics and alphabet. 444 00:24:53,403 --> 00:24:55,884 I heard some Five Percenters using it. 445 00:24:55,971 --> 00:24:58,497 You always talkin' numbers outside of Lamont's. 446 00:24:58,626 --> 00:25:00,673 "Power understanding" is 53. 447 00:25:00,803 --> 00:25:03,284 "Wisdom knowledge," 21. 448 00:25:03,413 --> 00:25:05,547 Ma, I'm telling you, I know stuff. 449 00:25:05,678 --> 00:25:08,157 Look, you need to stay out grown folks' business. 450 00:25:08,244 --> 00:25:10,222 Okay, I told you, I'ma deal with what happened tonight. 451 00:25:10,247 --> 00:25:12,728 Okay, you just focus on this test and school. 452 00:25:12,858 --> 00:25:16,123 You handle your job, I'll handle mine. 453 00:25:16,252 --> 00:25:17,993 No, but what if something happens to you? 454 00:25:18,125 --> 00:25:20,277 That was just a message. They weren't tryin' to hit me. 455 00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:22,694 But what if they did and you were gone? 456 00:25:22,825 --> 00:25:24,913 What happens to me? 457 00:25:38,927 --> 00:25:40,756 You'd go live with your grandmother. 458 00:25:40,886 --> 00:25:42,410 That's one of the reasons 459 00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:44,106 I rented her that house. 460 00:25:44,238 --> 00:25:45,718 So you always have a place to go. 461 00:25:49,155 --> 00:25:52,333 I don't want you to die. 462 00:25:58,338 --> 00:25:59,513 Go to bed. 463 00:26:16,313 --> 00:26:19,098 I seen my life flash in front of my eyes last night. 464 00:26:19,229 --> 00:26:20,709 Well, that's not much to see. 465 00:26:20,839 --> 00:26:21,840 Fuck you, Juke. 466 00:26:25,105 --> 00:26:27,454 Hey, what was Raq talkin' about last night 467 00:26:27,586 --> 00:26:29,544 when you got home? 468 00:26:29,674 --> 00:26:31,720 She say she wanna fix it. 469 00:26:31,851 --> 00:26:33,374 Then she gonna fix it. 470 00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:42,445 Guess you won't have to worry about this shit no more. 471 00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:43,339 You gonna be at your fancy school 472 00:26:43,471 --> 00:26:45,038 next year downtown. 473 00:26:45,125 --> 00:26:46,473 Test tomorrow. 474 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,040 Yo, if it was me, 475 00:26:48,171 --> 00:26:49,713 I'd fuck up that special test shit on purpose. 476 00:26:49,738 --> 00:26:50,976 I ain't goin' to school with them fuckin' crackers. 477 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,281 Nigga, the only special test 478 00:26:52,306 --> 00:26:53,674 you ever gonna take is the one to make sure 479 00:26:53,699 --> 00:26:55,875 you ain't got that HIV from Toya Hutchinson. 480 00:26:56,005 --> 00:26:57,374 I used a jimmy hat, a'ight? 481 00:26:57,397 --> 00:26:59,704 Word? 482 00:26:59,791 --> 00:27:01,836 I pulled out early, nigga! Damn! 483 00:27:01,968 --> 00:27:03,807 You just stupid, Famous. That's all. 484 00:27:03,925 --> 00:27:04,971 I guess. 485 00:27:20,769 --> 00:27:24,076 You came at me and my family last night, 'Nique. 486 00:27:24,207 --> 00:27:26,426 Wasn't tryin' to hurt nobody, Raq. 487 00:27:26,557 --> 00:27:28,211 Niggas are just buckin' off in the air, 488 00:27:28,342 --> 00:27:30,083 tryin' to get your attention 489 00:27:30,212 --> 00:27:32,825 to motivate this parley right here. 490 00:27:32,954 --> 00:27:34,585 Your brother would've never done shit like that. 491 00:27:34,608 --> 00:27:36,262 Yeah, maybe not. 492 00:27:36,393 --> 00:27:38,307 You see, Ronnie's upstate for the rest 493 00:27:38,439 --> 00:27:40,048 of his natural life, 494 00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:41,417 and I'm runnin' the show right now, 495 00:27:41,442 --> 00:27:43,574 so I do what I wanna do. 496 00:27:43,704 --> 00:27:46,229 You also bum rushed my dudes on 145th. 497 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,449 Listen, my niggas got a little wild, 498 00:27:48,578 --> 00:27:49,971 but they've been checked. 499 00:27:50,103 --> 00:27:52,192 But look, Raq, 500 00:27:52,322 --> 00:27:55,238 High Post and my brother had an agreement 501 00:27:55,368 --> 00:27:58,980 that those blocks above 139th is a demilitarized zone. 502 00:27:59,112 --> 00:28:00,808 No man's land. 503 00:28:00,895 --> 00:28:03,071 Then when your little peoples ran in there, 504 00:28:03,159 --> 00:28:04,856 snatched that up without checkin' in. 505 00:28:04,987 --> 00:28:06,509 'Sup with that? 506 00:28:06,641 --> 00:28:08,163 Post's deals ain't my deals. 507 00:28:10,513 --> 00:28:14,474 You know, you must really miss Post. 508 00:28:14,605 --> 00:28:18,044 Bein' that you two were just so madly in love and shit. 509 00:28:19,609 --> 00:28:21,655 Post used to say, 510 00:28:21,742 --> 00:28:23,678 "Once you're on your knees, it's damn near impossible 511 00:28:23,701 --> 00:28:26,313 to get back on your feet." 512 00:28:26,442 --> 00:28:27,923 I ain't gettin' on my knees, 'Nique. 513 00:28:28,054 --> 00:28:31,012 Not for you or no man. 514 00:28:31,144 --> 00:28:32,884 You take 140 to 143, 515 00:28:32,971 --> 00:28:34,669 I get 144 to Sutphin. 516 00:28:36,626 --> 00:28:38,541 - Why you get the extra block? - Look. 517 00:28:38,628 --> 00:28:40,041 We can go head up in this motherfucker, 'Nique. 518 00:28:40,066 --> 00:28:41,371 No matter where you were aimin', 519 00:28:41,501 --> 00:28:43,174 you took a shot at me and mines last night. 520 00:28:43,199 --> 00:28:45,680 My peoples are ready to throw the fuck down. 521 00:28:45,810 --> 00:28:47,855 You can't afford the war right now, Raq. 522 00:28:47,942 --> 00:28:49,596 You hurtin' just like me. 523 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,077 Well, outta my pain comes strength, nigga. 524 00:28:52,164 --> 00:28:55,516 140 to 143. 525 00:29:01,652 --> 00:29:03,306 Word is bond. 526 00:29:07,875 --> 00:29:10,836 You know, that's a fly-ass jacket right there, B. 527 00:29:10,923 --> 00:29:13,185 You bring that to shop, and we can 528 00:29:13,316 --> 00:29:14,684 tighten that up for you. 529 00:29:35,685 --> 00:29:38,427 - What the fuck is that? - Come here, baby. 530 00:29:46,740 --> 00:29:50,353 What the fuck is that smell? 531 00:29:54,182 --> 00:29:56,969 How you just gonna stop? 532 00:29:57,098 --> 00:29:59,144 Bella? 533 00:30:00,624 --> 00:30:02,060 Did you go poopy? 534 00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:06,326 Hey, get me some water, yo. 535 00:30:06,455 --> 00:30:08,675 Where are you, Bella, baby? 536 00:30:42,101 --> 00:30:43,980 They said you got a break halfway through. 537 00:30:46,147 --> 00:30:48,063 Thanks. 538 00:30:48,193 --> 00:30:49,394 You're gonna crush this, baby. 539 00:31:13,914 --> 00:31:16,526 You have three hours to complete the exam. 540 00:31:16,656 --> 00:31:19,789 You may open your test booklets and begin the exam... 541 00:31:21,096 --> 00:31:22,489 Now. 542 00:31:22,618 --> 00:31:24,317 Good luck. 543 00:31:57,915 --> 00:32:00,919 Niggas defined by the choices they make. 544 00:32:01,048 --> 00:32:03,529 And my choice has always been clear as hell. 545 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,535 My moms over everything. 546 00:32:08,664 --> 00:32:11,016 Especially some downtown school 547 00:32:11,145 --> 00:32:12,669 with a bunch of white niggas. 548 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:48,096 Medium well. 549 00:32:51,272 --> 00:32:52,578 No doubt. 550 00:33:07,723 --> 00:33:10,117 Test went quick. 551 00:33:10,249 --> 00:33:11,808 Knew the answers before I even sat down. 552 00:33:13,338 --> 00:33:15,471 Hey... 553 00:33:15,557 --> 00:33:17,385 saw Buck on your mom's corner on the way over. 554 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:21,086 140th. 555 00:33:21,215 --> 00:33:22,324 Damn, this nigga takin' shots at us at the diner, 556 00:33:22,347 --> 00:33:23,958 now he takin' corners too? 557 00:33:24,088 --> 00:33:26,128 I thought you told Juke your mom was gonna fix that. 558 00:33:27,527 --> 00:33:28,744 We gonna handle it. 559 00:33:31,748 --> 00:33:34,055 My brother got some gats hidden around the crib. 560 00:33:34,185 --> 00:33:36,101 D-Wiz. 561 00:33:36,230 --> 00:33:38,058 D the one givin' Famous the beat on the table 562 00:33:38,190 --> 00:33:40,322 back in my old school. 563 00:33:40,409 --> 00:33:42,454 Lot of fake tough guys around the way. 564 00:33:42,585 --> 00:33:44,718 Niggas who act like they got heart, 565 00:33:44,847 --> 00:33:46,807 but bitch up when shit get hot. 566 00:33:46,936 --> 00:33:49,288 That wasn't D-Wiz. 567 00:33:49,417 --> 00:33:52,551 D always with whatever, whenever. 568 00:33:52,682 --> 00:33:54,031 That's my man. 569 00:33:57,773 --> 00:33:59,819 Let's do this. 570 00:34:39,338 --> 00:34:40,773 He got caught by his parents. 571 00:34:40,860 --> 00:34:43,255 - With a girl in his room. - No way. Are you kidding? 572 00:34:45,648 --> 00:34:47,085 What's up? 573 00:34:48,260 --> 00:34:49,521 Can we help you? 574 00:34:49,652 --> 00:34:51,784 Shit, this is Laverne. 575 00:34:51,914 --> 00:34:55,353 We met at the choir competition at City Center last week. 576 00:34:55,483 --> 00:34:56,833 You go to Spence, right? 577 00:34:56,963 --> 00:34:58,681 You're, you're in my friend Alex's class. 578 00:34:58,704 --> 00:35:00,663 Nah. 579 00:35:00,793 --> 00:35:02,186 Where do you go to school? 580 00:35:02,317 --> 00:35:03,579 Jamaica. 581 00:35:03,710 --> 00:35:04,972 The island, Jamaica? 582 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:07,713 My God. Um, Queens. 583 00:35:08,844 --> 00:35:12,152 Jamaica, Queens. 584 00:35:12,284 --> 00:35:13,739 Laverne and I are working on a duet together 585 00:35:13,762 --> 00:35:14,938 for the Deb Ball. 586 00:35:15,068 --> 00:35:16,635 It's like a... 587 00:35:16,722 --> 00:35:18,550 exchange program thingy. 588 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:21,641 I'll call you guys later. 589 00:35:24,686 --> 00:35:27,472 - What the heck was that? - I don't know. 590 00:35:27,864 --> 00:35:29,952 God, the Deb Ball's this thing 591 00:35:30,083 --> 00:35:31,476 that happens every year 592 00:35:31,606 --> 00:35:33,695 for rich white girls to be, like, 593 00:35:33,827 --> 00:35:37,090 presented to rich white guys. 594 00:35:37,177 --> 00:35:39,311 Rich Black people have that too. 595 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,052 Jack and Jill or some shit. 596 00:35:42,182 --> 00:35:43,463 Not that I've ever been invited. 597 00:35:46,099 --> 00:35:47,710 Come with me to mine, then. 598 00:35:47,797 --> 00:35:49,103 Nobody want me there. 599 00:35:50,757 --> 00:35:52,280 I want you there. 600 00:36:09,210 --> 00:36:10,472 Come on, come on, come on. 601 00:36:12,518 --> 00:36:14,824 Yo, um, what's up with the mutt? 602 00:36:14,954 --> 00:36:16,391 Tumor in his spine. 603 00:36:16,521 --> 00:36:19,219 Can't use his rear legs no more. 604 00:36:19,306 --> 00:36:21,090 Yo, well, never give up on family. 605 00:36:21,222 --> 00:36:22,570 No doubt. 606 00:36:32,798 --> 00:36:35,976 Yo, Hugo say we good. 607 00:36:36,106 --> 00:36:38,239 Back up at Lanes again. Own a spot. 608 00:36:40,110 --> 00:36:41,469 He also was talkin' some crazy shit 609 00:36:41,590 --> 00:36:43,505 about the new white girl up in there. 610 00:36:43,635 --> 00:36:45,724 And, and a dog in a fuckin' microwave. 611 00:36:47,509 --> 00:36:48,641 What white girl? 612 00:37:09,704 --> 00:37:12,230 You're so pretty. 613 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:13,405 Yeah. 614 00:37:28,420 --> 00:37:30,378 You're shaking. 615 00:37:33,773 --> 00:37:36,471 I get it. I get it. 616 00:38:15,248 --> 00:38:18,382 Let me get five red caps, yo. 617 00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:25,128 Let me see cash. 618 00:38:40,230 --> 00:38:42,057 Look at this. 619 00:38:42,144 --> 00:38:44,545 Postin' up on my mom's corner? That's straight-up disrespect. 620 00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:47,672 Let me get the strap. 621 00:38:47,802 --> 00:38:49,083 I'm using the other one. 622 00:38:55,855 --> 00:38:57,775 I don't know what the fuck you niggas is holdin'. 623 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:00,260 I ain't goin' out there naked, man. 624 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:01,599 Fuck that... what am I gonna do 625 00:39:01,730 --> 00:39:02,340 when they start shootin' back at us? 626 00:39:02,469 --> 00:39:03,688 Yell at them? 627 00:39:03,818 --> 00:39:05,820 Man, look, y'all lay back. 628 00:39:05,952 --> 00:39:07,257 Me and D'll do this. 629 00:39:26,625 --> 00:39:28,016 Wait here. 630 00:39:44,077 --> 00:39:45,077 Hmph. 631 00:39:45,208 --> 00:39:46,514 The fuck you want, Kanan? 632 00:39:52,128 --> 00:39:53,652 Shit! 633 00:40:01,485 --> 00:40:03,400 Who shot him? 634 00:40:03,530 --> 00:40:05,141 Me or you? 635 00:40:11,016 --> 00:40:12,539 Nigga tryin' to speak. 636 00:40:34,126 --> 00:40:34,954 Buck Twenty the first nigga 637 00:40:35,083 --> 00:40:36,521 I ever pointed a gun at. 638 00:40:37,956 --> 00:40:41,568 You never forget that shit. 639 00:40:41,699 --> 00:40:43,702 It stay with you. 640 00:40:46,052 --> 00:40:47,880 It live with you. 641 00:40:48,010 --> 00:40:50,273 Yo! Five-O! 642 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,231 Kanan, let's go, man! 643 00:41:13,166 --> 00:41:13,992 It's been a minute since anybody 644 00:41:14,123 --> 00:41:15,342 asked me out on a date. 645 00:41:17,431 --> 00:41:18,581 I know I'm not the kind of brother 646 00:41:18,606 --> 00:41:19,606 you probably mess with. 647 00:41:22,262 --> 00:41:24,219 I'm in a... 648 00:41:24,351 --> 00:41:27,266 specific line of work, Symphony. 649 00:41:27,396 --> 00:41:29,137 Not everybody can get down. 650 00:41:31,489 --> 00:41:33,728 If it's not a problem for you, it's not a problem for me. 651 00:41:41,324 --> 00:41:42,586 So urban planning? 652 00:41:44,327 --> 00:41:46,112 What do I need to know? 653 00:41:46,242 --> 00:41:48,375 Man. How much time you got? 654 00:41:51,552 --> 00:41:53,074 How 'bout when Robert Moses 655 00:41:53,206 --> 00:41:55,208 built the Cross Bronx in the '40s, 656 00:41:55,295 --> 00:41:57,253 he moved out 5,000 low-income families? 657 00:41:57,340 --> 00:41:59,907 Just threw them in the street. 658 00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:02,041 But if he'd run the expressway along Crotona Park 659 00:42:02,170 --> 00:42:03,869 like a lot of people told him to, 660 00:42:03,998 --> 00:42:06,045 only, like, 50 families would have had to go. 661 00:42:08,699 --> 00:42:11,005 I've never even heard of Robert Moses. 662 00:42:11,092 --> 00:42:13,400 Pretty much the architect of the whole damn city 663 00:42:13,530 --> 00:42:17,230 and Westchester and Long Island and Rockland County. 664 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,536 Lotta people, including me, 665 00:42:19,666 --> 00:42:21,626 think he destroyed those spots. 666 00:42:23,496 --> 00:42:24,802 But I tell you all that 667 00:42:24,932 --> 00:42:27,545 because that right there is urban planning. 668 00:42:27,632 --> 00:42:29,677 It's where policy and design intersect. 669 00:42:31,940 --> 00:42:34,159 Look what you done started. 670 00:42:36,771 --> 00:42:39,338 I like brothers with bigger ideas than me. 671 00:42:46,519 --> 00:42:47,521 Kanan. 672 00:42:51,177 --> 00:42:53,875 I'm sorry. I gotta go. 673 00:42:57,878 --> 00:43:00,141 - For dinner. - No, but I asked you out. 674 00:43:04,494 --> 00:43:05,887 I had squashed it, Kanan. 675 00:43:05,974 --> 00:43:08,454 It was done. Over. We made that peace. 676 00:43:08,585 --> 00:43:10,239 Ma, he tried to kill you! 677 00:43:10,369 --> 00:43:11,608 Then they was just on your corner, 678 00:43:11,632 --> 00:43:12,893 disrespectin' you? Hell no! 679 00:43:12,981 --> 00:43:14,416 I gave him those corners. 680 00:43:16,637 --> 00:43:17,768 Why-why would you do that? 681 00:43:17,898 --> 00:43:19,858 - Great question. - Here we go. 682 00:43:19,987 --> 00:43:21,182 You wanna start your own shit? 683 00:43:21,206 --> 00:43:23,208 Make your own calls? Have at it, nigga. 684 00:43:23,338 --> 00:43:24,731 But if the past taught us anything, 685 00:43:24,862 --> 00:43:26,405 it's that you not made to sit in this seat, 686 00:43:26,429 --> 00:43:28,387 to walk in these fuckin' shoes. 687 00:43:28,518 --> 00:43:29,797 So how 'bout you shut the fuck up 688 00:43:29,824 --> 00:43:31,043 and let me speak to my son? 689 00:43:34,436 --> 00:43:35,829 That your blood? 690 00:43:39,268 --> 00:43:40,443 No, it's the other kid. 691 00:43:40,530 --> 00:43:43,141 Yeah. The dead kid. 692 00:43:43,271 --> 00:43:45,405 So just so we clear, 693 00:43:45,534 --> 00:43:46,972 you and your friends killed that boy 694 00:43:47,101 --> 00:43:48,974 for a corner I already gave up. 695 00:43:49,103 --> 00:43:50,733 - I Didn't know you gave it up. - Exactly. 696 00:43:50,757 --> 00:43:52,197 You don't know, but you think you do. 697 00:43:52,324 --> 00:43:53,630 You all do. 698 00:43:55,545 --> 00:43:56,894 And where the fuck was you at 699 00:43:57,025 --> 00:43:58,896 when all this stupidness was goin' down? 700 00:44:02,769 --> 00:44:04,206 Choir practice. 701 00:44:04,293 --> 00:44:07,427 Singing. 702 00:44:07,556 --> 00:44:08,601 She was singin'. 703 00:44:08,733 --> 00:44:10,559 Ma, I wanna help you. 704 00:44:10,690 --> 00:44:12,170 - You wanna help me? - Yes! 705 00:44:12,257 --> 00:44:14,476 Go to that school and get the fuck up outta here! 706 00:44:14,563 --> 00:44:15,846 You coulda sent me to live with grandmoms 707 00:44:15,869 --> 00:44:17,742 a long time ago! 708 00:44:17,871 --> 00:44:20,222 Schools out there is safe, is good, but you ain't do that. 709 00:44:20,353 --> 00:44:22,398 You kept me right here next to you 710 00:44:22,485 --> 00:44:25,097 'cause this is all we got. 711 00:44:25,184 --> 00:44:27,621 I'm here because you wanted me here! 712 00:44:27,708 --> 00:44:30,362 And now you tryin' to send me to some spot downtown, right? 713 00:44:30,492 --> 00:44:32,297 So I can go to college, get some corny-ass job, 714 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:33,681 and raise up off the block forever? 715 00:44:33,757 --> 00:44:35,367 Leave you here alone? 716 00:44:35,498 --> 00:44:37,195 Which one is it, Ma? 717 00:44:37,282 --> 00:44:39,067 Am I stayin' here, or am I goin'? 718 00:44:42,418 --> 00:44:45,030 For real, you need to make up your mind. 719 00:44:45,159 --> 00:44:46,684 Go to your room. 720 00:44:50,251 --> 00:44:52,123 I'm grown. 721 00:44:52,253 --> 00:44:54,342 I don't think you can tell me to do that no more. 722 00:44:54,429 --> 00:44:56,344 You must be out your damn mind. 723 00:44:56,476 --> 00:44:59,000 Somebody gotta fly that flag and have your back. 724 00:44:59,130 --> 00:45:00,958 That's what I did. 725 00:45:01,045 --> 00:45:02,438 Ma, that's who I am! 726 00:45:02,568 --> 00:45:03,851 No, no, no, I tell you who you are, Kanan, 727 00:45:03,875 --> 00:45:04,657 not the other way around! 728 00:45:04,789 --> 00:45:06,268 I am your mother! 729 00:45:12,099 --> 00:45:14,233 That sweatshirt gotta go, Raq. 730 00:45:14,362 --> 00:45:15,929 Go take it off. 731 00:45:16,061 --> 00:45:17,409 Yo, you gotta burn that shit. 732 00:45:22,414 --> 00:45:24,025 Come on. 733 00:45:32,686 --> 00:45:34,340 'Nique gonna hit us back. 734 00:45:40,780 --> 00:45:42,914 Sh... 735 00:46:37,358 --> 00:46:38,621 Look, Ma... 736 00:46:38,751 --> 00:46:40,449 Not nearly that time yet, Kanan. 737 00:46:41,929 --> 00:46:43,409 Not even close. 738 00:46:51,677 --> 00:46:53,757 Go take out the garbage and get back up to your room. 739 00:47:05,648 --> 00:47:07,088 Gonna take you to your grandmother's. 740 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,530 Maybe you were right. 741 00:47:25,538 --> 00:47:28,322 Maybe I should've sent you out there from the rip. 742 00:47:58,179 --> 00:47:59,266 Yo, Kanan! 743 00:48:12,585 --> 00:48:13,672 Kanan! 744 00:48:17,677 --> 00:48:19,157 I'm good, I'm good. 745 00:48:19,286 --> 00:48:20,418 I'm not hit. 746 00:48:43,702 --> 00:48:45,637 Every hood got a cop like Malcolm Howard. 747 00:48:45,661 --> 00:48:47,706 Act like he own the streets. 748 00:48:47,793 --> 00:48:50,101 Like we all answer to his ass. 749 00:48:50,231 --> 00:48:52,798 Like he the biggest gangster around the way. 750 00:48:52,929 --> 00:48:55,367 But it ain't that simple. 751 00:48:55,496 --> 00:48:57,021 It ain't never that simple. 752 00:48:58,673 --> 00:49:00,197 Looks like baby boy's balls dropped. 753 00:49:04,679 --> 00:49:06,199 The block's the same, him and his boys, 754 00:49:06,246 --> 00:49:07,552 they got prices on their heads. 755 00:49:07,682 --> 00:49:09,336 Yeah, well... 756 00:49:09,423 --> 00:49:11,686 block's got it wrong. 757 00:49:11,818 --> 00:49:15,081 Maybe you should, get out while you still can. 758 00:49:23,916 --> 00:49:25,657 They hit the wrong house. 759 00:49:25,788 --> 00:49:27,615 Just a fucked up mistake. 760 00:49:27,746 --> 00:49:30,097 That's your story. You're stickin' to it? 761 00:49:30,228 --> 00:49:31,228 That's the one. 762 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:34,623 You spinnin' that same shit? 763 00:49:34,753 --> 00:49:36,711 My son don't got nothing to say to you. 764 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,414 Watch your back, Raquel. 765 00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:46,547 And keep them eyes open, B. 766 00:49:54,599 --> 00:49:55,838 Yo, let us through, man, we family. 767 00:49:55,862 --> 00:49:57,777 Yo, Raq. 768 00:49:57,907 --> 00:49:59,778 You a'ight? 769 00:49:59,909 --> 00:50:01,606 Guns wasn't pointed in the air this time. 770 00:50:04,175 --> 00:50:05,740 It's your first crime scene, Burke. 771 00:50:05,871 --> 00:50:08,005 What do you got? 772 00:50:08,092 --> 00:50:09,876 Nine-millimeter shell casings. 773 00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:11,530 Some sort of SMG. 774 00:50:11,617 --> 00:50:13,661 Gonna run ballistics, see if we can match it. 775 00:50:13,793 --> 00:50:15,795 You all sleuthing up in this motherfucker? 776 00:50:15,925 --> 00:50:18,101 Just doin' my job. 777 00:50:18,231 --> 00:50:19,775 Yeah, well, I hope you're a good swimmer. 778 00:50:19,798 --> 00:50:21,452 The gat that squeezed that shit out 779 00:50:21,583 --> 00:50:23,262 it's already at the bottom of Baisley Pond. 780 00:50:28,981 --> 00:50:30,940 Shit's scary, right? 781 00:50:31,070 --> 00:50:34,769 Psh. Shit's so scary, I didn't even have time to be scared. 782 00:50:40,646 --> 00:50:41,907 I'm glad they missed. 783 00:50:43,778 --> 00:50:44,998 Yeah, me too. 784 00:50:49,175 --> 00:50:50,175 Yo. 785 00:50:52,788 --> 00:50:53,920 Where was you at earlier? 786 00:50:57,097 --> 00:50:58,402 White girl? 787 00:51:05,887 --> 00:51:08,239 You know I'd never tell you how to raise your son, Raq. 788 00:51:09,978 --> 00:51:12,503 But them fools is comin' for Kanan. 789 00:51:12,634 --> 00:51:15,942 And no escalator in no school is gonna save him from that. 790 00:51:16,072 --> 00:51:17,682 Neither is his mama. 791 00:51:28,389 --> 00:51:29,389 For Buck's family. 792 00:51:33,873 --> 00:51:35,701 Sss. 793 00:51:35,831 --> 00:51:38,356 We had a truce, Raq. 794 00:51:38,485 --> 00:51:40,793 That your boy and his crew violated. 795 00:51:40,922 --> 00:51:43,186 Now, you think a clip of cash for Buck's family 796 00:51:43,317 --> 00:51:45,623 gonna nearly fix that, Raq? 797 00:51:45,753 --> 00:51:47,887 If our word don't count, this whole shit falls apart. 798 00:51:48,016 --> 00:51:49,148 You know that. 799 00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:50,672 Speakin' on violations. 800 00:51:50,802 --> 00:51:52,586 You came after my son last night... 801 00:51:52,717 --> 00:51:53,719 Where we stay at. 802 00:51:53,849 --> 00:51:56,025 And we gonna keep comin', Raq. 803 00:51:56,155 --> 00:51:57,956 You see, I got money on all them niggas' heads 804 00:51:58,070 --> 00:52:00,291 until you and I come to an agreement. 805 00:52:00,378 --> 00:52:02,554 Or until we don't need to no more. 806 00:52:02,684 --> 00:52:03,902 Now, look. 807 00:52:04,032 --> 00:52:06,253 I want all them corners. 808 00:52:06,384 --> 00:52:09,126 No compromise, no split, 809 00:52:09,255 --> 00:52:10,692 no nothing. 810 00:52:10,822 --> 00:52:12,867 They all comin' to me now. 811 00:52:12,998 --> 00:52:15,349 See, look. 812 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,135 My crew's lookin' at me like... 813 00:52:18,264 --> 00:52:22,139 if I don't brin' something back real for Buck, 814 00:52:22,268 --> 00:52:24,750 they gonna start wantin' answers to questions 815 00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,840 people in our position don't ever wanna be asked, Raq. 816 00:52:27,969 --> 00:52:29,668 Kanan's not to be touched. 817 00:52:29,797 --> 00:52:31,626 I'll dead the bounty. 818 00:52:31,713 --> 00:52:33,280 But you gotta understand this: 819 00:52:33,411 --> 00:52:36,456 I can only control what I can control. 820 00:52:36,588 --> 00:52:38,764 See, Buck's got a lot of people on the Southside, Raq. 821 00:52:40,896 --> 00:52:43,289 And I can't be held responsible 822 00:52:43,420 --> 00:52:45,204 for random niggas wantin' to take matters 823 00:52:45,335 --> 00:52:46,467 into they own hands. 824 00:52:46,597 --> 00:52:48,077 Kanan's not in this. 825 00:52:48,208 --> 00:52:50,731 Kanan's you and Def Con's boy, Raq. 826 00:52:50,862 --> 00:52:52,255 That nigga been in the shit 827 00:52:52,385 --> 00:52:55,432 before he was even in this shit. 828 00:52:55,519 --> 00:52:57,347 That's why I always say this hustle right here 829 00:52:57,434 --> 00:52:59,567 ain't for the broads, Raq. 830 00:52:59,653 --> 00:53:01,829 'Cause you see, in this shit, 831 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,833 you can't give a fuck about nobody or nothing 832 00:53:04,963 --> 00:53:07,096 more than your business. 833 00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:11,099 Distractions make you weak. Make you blink. 834 00:53:11,231 --> 00:53:12,405 You don't care about your son 835 00:53:12,536 --> 00:53:14,103 any less than I care about Kanan. 836 00:53:15,583 --> 00:53:16,583 Listen. 837 00:53:19,369 --> 00:53:21,240 Jerome's my heart, 838 00:53:21,327 --> 00:53:24,070 but he ain't live inside of me. 839 00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:26,246 He didn't come out of me, Raq. 840 00:53:26,376 --> 00:53:28,596 You see, you and Kanan connected in a way 841 00:53:28,726 --> 00:53:31,903 me and Jerome just never will be, Raq. 842 00:53:32,034 --> 00:53:33,862 You can't fuck with that chemistry. 843 00:53:33,992 --> 00:53:35,385 It's biology. 844 00:53:35,516 --> 00:53:39,389 Even worse, Raq. 845 00:53:39,519 --> 00:53:40,695 Listen. 846 00:53:43,523 --> 00:53:45,264 All them corners is mine now. 847 00:53:55,143 --> 00:53:57,277 I'm not blinkin', 'Nique. 848 00:53:57,407 --> 00:53:58,800 My eyes are wide fuckin' open. 849 00:54:24,347 --> 00:54:25,347 Kanan. 850 00:54:28,568 --> 00:54:29,981 Get dressed. We're goin'. 851 00:54:30,005 --> 00:54:31,398 Goin' where? 852 00:54:31,528 --> 00:54:32,704 Just get dressed. 853 00:55:30,762 --> 00:55:32,329 Thought you were takin' me to Grandma's. 854 00:55:36,114 --> 00:55:37,115 How'd that test go? 855 00:55:38,813 --> 00:55:40,989 For real. 856 00:55:41,119 --> 00:55:42,556 Don't lie to me. 857 00:55:45,777 --> 00:55:48,300 If there was a lot of answers in that B column, 858 00:55:48,431 --> 00:55:49,432 I might be a'ight. 859 00:55:52,086 --> 00:55:53,740 You threw it. 860 00:55:56,570 --> 00:55:58,963 Kanan went hard on them Bs. 861 00:56:11,585 --> 00:56:14,021 You see those four stars? Right there. 862 00:56:14,152 --> 00:56:16,938 That rectangle. 863 00:56:17,068 --> 00:56:19,188 With those diagonal stars right in the middle of them. 864 00:56:21,159 --> 00:56:22,682 That's Orion the Hunter. 865 00:56:25,903 --> 00:56:27,384 That's us, Kanan. 866 00:56:28,688 --> 00:56:30,603 Orion. 867 00:56:30,690 --> 00:56:32,563 Always the hunter, never the hunted. 868 00:56:50,929 --> 00:56:52,320 Go ahead. Take it. 869 00:56:55,324 --> 00:56:56,443 Point it straight out there. 870 00:56:57,588 --> 00:56:59,590 Hold that shit with two hands. 871 00:56:59,677 --> 00:57:01,460 Strong hand on top. 872 00:57:03,942 --> 00:57:05,596 Extend your arms. 873 00:57:05,726 --> 00:57:07,771 Aim straight out there. 874 00:57:08,947 --> 00:57:10,427 Squeeze one off. 875 00:57:18,826 --> 00:57:21,481 That bullet's out there now. 876 00:57:21,612 --> 00:57:25,224 Circlin' the world with your name on it. 877 00:57:25,353 --> 00:57:27,139 Now you gonna be runnin' from it for forever. 878 00:57:29,402 --> 00:57:31,664 You wanted to be in it? 879 00:57:31,795 --> 00:57:33,623 You in it. 880 00:58:18,494 --> 00:58:20,414 You already know how my shit ended. 881 00:58:23,021 --> 00:58:24,300 And now you know how it started. 882 00:58:27,416 --> 00:58:29,505 But the real story is what happened in between. 883 00:58:32,159 --> 00:58:33,291 This is that story. 884 00:58:35,423 --> 00:58:36,512 This is my story. 885 00:58:38,644 --> 00:58:40,690 This is a Southside, Jamaica, Queens story.