1 00:00:02,586 --> 00:00:04,796 ‐ Wu‐Tang? BOBBY: Wu‐Tang Clan. 2 00:00:04,796 --> 00:00:08,592 It's myself, my boys Dennis and Shotgun, 3 00:00:08,592 --> 00:00:10,719 and my cousin Ason. 4 00:00:10,719 --> 00:00:12,554 ‐ We both getting our second chance, huh? 5 00:00:12,554 --> 00:00:14,223 I'm gonna see you real soon. 6 00:00:14,223 --> 00:00:16,099 ‐ Don't let me catch your ass back here. 7 00:00:16,099 --> 00:00:17,434 I got a friend who's looking to add 8 00:00:17,434 --> 00:00:19,978 a few more hands to his construction site. 9 00:00:19,978 --> 00:00:22,856 ‐ Son, as long as you keep walking the righteous path, 10 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:24,107 I will be happy. 11 00:00:24,107 --> 00:00:26,526 ‐ I played your music for a cousin of mine too. 12 00:00:26,526 --> 00:00:28,820 PRODUCER: We like your style, want to record with you. 13 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:31,490 [gunshots] ‐ Fuck! Ah. 14 00:00:31,490 --> 00:00:32,532 ‐ You know how it be. 15 00:00:32,532 --> 00:00:33,742 You know I didn't mean that shit. 16 00:00:33,742 --> 00:00:35,327 You know I want no part of it. ‐ [grunts] 17 00:00:35,327 --> 00:00:37,454 ‐ All niggas got an expiration date. 18 00:00:37,454 --> 00:00:38,872 We ain't here to build no business. 19 00:00:38,872 --> 00:00:40,040 We here to beat the clock. 20 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,209 You a fool if you think otherwise. 21 00:00:42,209 --> 00:00:43,544 ‐ What's today's mathematics? 22 00:00:43,544 --> 00:00:46,630 ‐ To build is to elevate the mentalities of self 23 00:00:46,630 --> 00:00:48,173 and those around self. 24 00:00:48,173 --> 00:00:49,466 DENNIS: I got more mouths to feed, 25 00:00:49,466 --> 00:00:51,093 so I'm ready to get busy. 26 00:00:51,093 --> 00:00:53,512 BOBBY: I'm gonna head back to New York. 27 00:00:53,512 --> 00:00:56,807 You could stay here. It's up to you. 28 00:00:56,807 --> 00:00:58,976 ‐ I guess we going our separate ways, then, son. 29 00:01:09,027 --> 00:01:10,862 BOBBY: J is for justice, 30 00:01:10,862 --> 00:01:12,823 the celestial balance of our world 31 00:01:12,823 --> 00:01:15,659 and the rewards and penalties for our actions. 32 00:01:18,245 --> 00:01:20,372 K is for king. 33 00:01:20,372 --> 00:01:24,209 King is one who proves to be a righteous guide to the people. 34 00:01:25,002 --> 00:01:27,921 L is for love. 35 00:01:27,921 --> 00:01:29,673 Understanding. 36 00:01:29,673 --> 00:01:31,133 PERSON: Hey, man. 37 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:33,135 You want to run with me over to this spot I gotta go to? 38 00:01:33,135 --> 00:01:34,845 ‐ Sure. 39 00:01:34,845 --> 00:01:37,931 BOBBY: Love and understanding. 40 00:01:44,396 --> 00:01:47,441 [flourishing music] 41 00:01:47,441 --> 00:01:54,448 ♪ ♪ 42 00:01:54,448 --> 00:01:57,034 I got love for all my people. 43 00:01:57,034 --> 00:01:59,453 I just gotta make 'em understand... 44 00:01:59,453 --> 00:02:00,996 somehow. 45 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:05,917 PERSON: Yo, what's in the bags, son? 46 00:02:05,917 --> 00:02:09,921 [tense music] 47 00:02:09,921 --> 00:02:12,090 Hey, yo, I said what's in the bags, yo? 48 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:16,428 ♪ ♪ 49 00:02:16,428 --> 00:02:18,639 ‐ Records. 50 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,223 ‐ Shit, I could use some records. 51 00:02:20,223 --> 00:02:21,266 FRIEND: Exactly. FRIEND: Right. 52 00:02:21,266 --> 00:02:22,476 ‐ Give 'em to my DJ homey. 53 00:02:22,476 --> 00:02:24,770 Throw a block party in Killa Hill. 54 00:02:24,770 --> 00:02:26,146 Know what I mean? 55 00:02:26,146 --> 00:02:28,857 ♪ ♪ 56 00:02:28,857 --> 00:02:30,901 ‐ That shit would be beautiful. 57 00:02:32,069 --> 00:02:34,529 ‐ Glad you see it that way. 58 00:02:34,529 --> 00:02:37,574 PERSON: Ooh, there go Tasha and her fine‐ass friend. 59 00:02:37,574 --> 00:02:40,661 PERSON: Damn, I haven't seen your fine ass in a hot minute. 60 00:02:40,661 --> 00:02:42,287 Hey, shorty, let me holler at you real quick. 61 00:02:42,287 --> 00:02:43,705 PERSON: Yo, ma, where you going? 62 00:02:43,705 --> 00:02:45,457 PERSON: Damn, honey dip. I mean, you fine. 63 00:02:45,457 --> 00:02:47,376 PERSON: Hey, let me get those digits. 64 00:02:47,376 --> 00:02:50,087 ♪ ♪ 65 00:02:50,087 --> 00:02:52,214 BOBBY: Somehow. 66 00:02:52,214 --> 00:02:55,926 I gotta make 'em understand... somehow. 67 00:02:57,386 --> 00:02:58,387 [hip‐hop music] 68 00:02:58,387 --> 00:03:00,138 [men grunting] 69 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:01,139 [blade resounds] 70 00:03:04,851 --> 00:03:08,897 ♪ ♪ 71 00:03:13,652 --> 00:03:15,654 [gun cocks] 72 00:03:24,287 --> 00:03:27,916 ♪ ♪ 73 00:03:27,916 --> 00:03:30,544 [dice thud] 74 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:42,222 ♪ ♪ 75 00:03:57,070 --> 00:03:58,071 [blade resounds] 76 00:04:02,993 --> 00:04:05,078 [power tools whirring] 77 00:04:05,078 --> 00:04:08,457 DIVINE: "All SSPs must be in compliance with Article 104 78 00:04:08,457 --> 00:04:09,958 "and Article 110 79 00:04:09,958 --> 00:04:12,794 "of Title 28 of New York City Administrative Code, 80 00:04:12,794 --> 00:04:14,713 "in addition to the minimum content 81 00:04:14,713 --> 00:04:18,508 of site safety plans submissions industry notice." 82 00:04:20,927 --> 00:04:23,597 Does anyone actually read this shit? 83 00:04:23,597 --> 00:04:27,267 Does anyone who reads this actually understand it? 84 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:30,562 [hammer pounding rhythmically] 85 00:04:32,314 --> 00:04:34,483 [hammer pounds, drills whir] 86 00:04:34,483 --> 00:04:36,401 Yo, yo. Be careful. 87 00:04:36,401 --> 00:04:37,569 That shit's delicate. 88 00:04:40,071 --> 00:04:43,116 Yo, if you sloppy with that shit, it's gonna break, 89 00:04:43,116 --> 00:04:44,659 and then it's gonna have to be replaced. 90 00:04:44,659 --> 00:04:47,245 ‐ Why the fuck you care, nigga? It ain't your money. 91 00:04:47,245 --> 00:04:48,997 ‐ Yeah, but it's gonna be, you know, your money 92 00:04:48,997 --> 00:04:51,082 that gets docked from your paycheck, you break all that. 93 00:04:51,082 --> 00:04:52,626 Know what I mean? 94 00:04:52,626 --> 00:04:55,587 ‐ Man, we work in construction. Shit's supposed to break. 95 00:05:03,345 --> 00:05:06,014 GURU: ♪ Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is ♪ 96 00:05:06,014 --> 00:05:08,058 ♪ I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis ♪ 97 00:05:08,058 --> 00:05:11,603 ♪ A poet like Langston Hughes and can't lose when I cruise ♪ 98 00:05:11,603 --> 00:05:13,271 ♪ Out on the expressway ♪ 99 00:05:13,271 --> 00:05:15,899 ‐ Yo. What up, Vine? ‐ What up, Math? 100 00:05:15,899 --> 00:05:16,900 GURU: ♪ Premier's got more beats ♪ 101 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:18,276 ♪ Than barns got hay ♪ 102 00:05:18,276 --> 00:05:20,570 ♪ Clips are inserted into my guns ♪ 103 00:05:20,570 --> 00:05:22,572 ♪ So I can take the money, never have to run ♪ 104 00:05:22,572 --> 00:05:24,950 DIVINE: Shit. That's that shit. 105 00:05:24,950 --> 00:05:27,410 Ah, how's the scratch game coming? 106 00:05:27,410 --> 00:05:31,456 ‐ I mean it's not Preem's, but shit, I'm getting nice. 107 00:05:31,456 --> 00:05:34,376 ‐ Well, still not like Preem. 108 00:05:34,376 --> 00:05:36,461 ‐ Yet. GREG: No, no, no, no. 109 00:05:36,461 --> 00:05:39,756 Finish your lunch. We're not fucking animals here. 110 00:05:39,756 --> 00:05:41,800 Damn. I knew you were into DJ'ing. 111 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,802 I didn't know you could draw too. 112 00:05:43,802 --> 00:05:45,887 ‐ Thank you, sir. ‐ Told you to quit that. 113 00:05:45,887 --> 00:05:48,348 I heard enough "sir" in the marines to last me a lifetime. 114 00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:49,474 ‐ You served? GREG: Yeah. 115 00:05:49,474 --> 00:05:51,184 Two tours in Vietnam. 116 00:05:51,184 --> 00:05:52,811 Now I'm just a middle‐aged guy trying to build something 117 00:05:52,811 --> 00:05:54,729 while I still got the energy, you know? 118 00:05:54,729 --> 00:05:56,565 ‐ [laughs] 119 00:05:56,565 --> 00:05:57,732 ‐ I think second acts 120 00:05:57,732 --> 00:05:59,943 are something to be really proud of. 121 00:05:59,943 --> 00:06:02,070 SMOOTH B: ♪ Do me a favor, don't try to catch me ♪ 122 00:06:02,070 --> 00:06:04,239 ♪ Slightly ahead of the game, I'm not a lame ♪ 123 00:06:04,239 --> 00:06:05,740 ‐ That's a good dude. 124 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:08,952 ‐ 97% of the people I worked for, straight assholes. 125 00:06:08,952 --> 00:06:10,704 Not Greg. 126 00:06:10,704 --> 00:06:11,830 [exhales sharply] 127 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:13,707 [materials clattering] 128 00:06:13,707 --> 00:06:17,377 JT: [shouting] 129 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:20,547 Yo, that shit almost killed me, man! 130 00:06:20,547 --> 00:06:23,466 [shouts] COWORKER: You all right? 131 00:06:23,466 --> 00:06:25,969 ‐ Hey, baby. ‐ Hey. 132 00:06:25,969 --> 00:06:28,305 ‐ Just in time. Dinner's actually ready. 133 00:06:28,305 --> 00:06:30,599 Make you a plate real quick? ‐ Oh, yes, please. 134 00:06:30,599 --> 00:06:31,766 [both smooch] 135 00:06:31,766 --> 00:06:33,143 NIA: [chuckles] 136 00:06:35,729 --> 00:06:37,188 Let's see... 137 00:06:37,188 --> 00:06:39,107 ‐ Oof. 138 00:06:42,861 --> 00:06:45,614 [indistinct conversation] 139 00:06:45,614 --> 00:06:48,617 [tense music] 140 00:06:48,617 --> 00:06:55,624 ♪ ♪ 141 00:07:01,338 --> 00:07:04,090 [light music] 142 00:07:04,090 --> 00:07:10,513 ♪ ♪ 143 00:07:42,504 --> 00:07:45,507 [jaunty beat playing through headphones] 144 00:07:45,507 --> 00:07:47,634 ♪ ♪ 145 00:07:47,634 --> 00:07:49,010 [button clicks, music stops] 146 00:07:49,010 --> 00:07:53,014 [tape whirring, button clicks] 147 00:07:53,014 --> 00:08:00,063 ♪ ♪ 148 00:08:05,443 --> 00:08:06,736 [button clicks, music stops] 149 00:08:10,031 --> 00:08:12,492 ‐ So what do you think? 150 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:15,161 ‐ It's really good, Bobby. ‐ [scoffs] 151 00:08:15,161 --> 00:08:16,913 ‐ No, no. For real, man. It's like‐‐ 152 00:08:16,913 --> 00:08:18,415 you know, I ain't a rapper 153 00:08:18,415 --> 00:08:20,083 or a producer or nothing, but‐‐ 154 00:08:20,083 --> 00:08:22,377 ‐ You don't gotta spit rhymes and make beats 155 00:08:22,377 --> 00:08:23,962 to be a part of this. 156 00:08:23,962 --> 00:08:26,423 ‐ [chuckles] 157 00:08:26,423 --> 00:08:29,467 ‐ Yo, I'm trying to... I'm trying to bring you in. 158 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:34,013 Trying to put this shit together. 159 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:39,269 ‐ Look, you know, this is your journey, Bobby. 160 00:08:39,269 --> 00:08:43,022 You the, um... you the Moses of music. 161 00:08:44,983 --> 00:08:46,943 ‐ The Moses of music. 162 00:08:48,695 --> 00:08:51,031 Yo, well, shit. 163 00:08:51,031 --> 00:08:53,033 Moses couldn't do shit without Aaron. 164 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,456 It's two sides of the same coin. 165 00:09:01,207 --> 00:09:03,334 ‐ You know, I appreciate that, Bobby. 166 00:09:03,334 --> 00:09:05,336 I, um, 167 00:09:05,336 --> 00:09:08,256 I really do, but... 168 00:09:08,256 --> 00:09:11,968 you know, I'm just trying to put food on my table and... 169 00:09:11,968 --> 00:09:14,095 try to get out from under my PO. 170 00:09:16,681 --> 00:09:18,308 You know what I mean? 171 00:09:21,102 --> 00:09:23,396 ‐ Yeah. 172 00:09:23,396 --> 00:09:24,981 Yeah, man. 173 00:09:31,029 --> 00:09:35,033 ‐ Yo, Greg. Hey, what's good? 174 00:09:35,033 --> 00:09:36,785 ‐ JT didn't show up for work today. 175 00:09:36,785 --> 00:09:38,119 He's gonna file a claim. 176 00:09:38,119 --> 00:09:40,163 ‐ That sucks, but at least insurance will cover you. 177 00:09:40,163 --> 00:09:43,333 ‐ Yeah, well, that's the thing. I don't have insurance. 178 00:09:43,333 --> 00:09:44,626 ‐ What? 179 00:09:44,626 --> 00:09:46,711 Yo, I thought all contractors are supposed to‐‐ 180 00:09:46,711 --> 00:09:49,589 ‐ Yeah, we are, but I couldn't afford it. 181 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:52,509 I got two loans: a home loan and a business loan. 182 00:09:52,509 --> 00:09:54,886 I would've had the insurance after this job, 183 00:09:54,886 --> 00:09:56,971 but now I'm gonna lose everything 184 00:09:56,971 --> 00:09:58,598 if I don't resolve this. 185 00:10:01,476 --> 00:10:04,729 DIVINE: Yo, can you believe that shit? 186 00:10:04,729 --> 00:10:07,482 I mean, I ain't trying to deny a nigga his compensation. 187 00:10:07,482 --> 00:10:11,069 If you hurt, you hurt, but, you know, damn. 188 00:10:11,069 --> 00:10:12,987 MATH: Yeah. 189 00:10:12,987 --> 00:10:15,448 I heard them sheets ain't even touch JT. 190 00:10:16,699 --> 00:10:19,077 ‐ For real? ‐ Son faking it. 191 00:10:19,077 --> 00:10:22,288 He's gonna lay back, suck on that workers' comp tit. 192 00:10:22,288 --> 00:10:26,000 His cousin Crib did the same thing last year at Walgreens. 193 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,877 I guess it's the family business. 194 00:10:30,421 --> 00:10:32,215 [whooshing] 195 00:10:32,215 --> 00:10:35,218 [sentimental organ music] 196 00:10:35,218 --> 00:10:38,638 ♪ ♪ 197 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:41,182 DIVINE: This worker comp shit reads like bad Shakespeare. 198 00:10:41,182 --> 00:10:44,686 "Herein." "Hereby." "Indemnification"? 199 00:10:44,686 --> 00:10:47,397 Yo, what the fuck is indemnification? 200 00:10:47,397 --> 00:10:49,274 I didn't realize you have to be bilingual 201 00:10:49,274 --> 00:10:50,984 to understand English. 202 00:10:50,984 --> 00:10:54,028 SINGER: ♪ Nothin' goes right ♪ 203 00:10:54,028 --> 00:10:56,364 ‐ You okay? 204 00:10:56,364 --> 00:10:59,075 ‐ Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm okay, baby. 205 00:10:59,075 --> 00:11:00,827 ‐ Mm‐hmm. 206 00:11:02,412 --> 00:11:04,205 I'ma take a shower. 207 00:11:04,205 --> 00:11:05,874 Wanna join me? 208 00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:09,085 ‐ Nah. I gotta... 209 00:11:09,085 --> 00:11:11,004 I gotta get through this contract bullshit. 210 00:11:11,004 --> 00:11:13,173 ‐ [sighs] Ooh. 211 00:11:14,215 --> 00:11:17,051 ♪ ♪ 212 00:11:17,051 --> 00:11:18,845 SINGER: ♪ And no one's found ♪ 213 00:11:18,845 --> 00:11:22,807 ♪ Anything better yet ♪ 214 00:11:22,807 --> 00:11:27,187 ♪ Than love ♪ 215 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:29,814 DIVINE: All this language feels like a fucking trap. 216 00:11:29,814 --> 00:11:32,150 Like one giant secret handshake 217 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:35,904 made so the average person can't understand it, 218 00:11:35,904 --> 00:11:38,698 so no one can ever climb up out of the fucking streets. 219 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:39,991 Keep us throwing dice. 220 00:11:39,991 --> 00:11:41,868 Keep us killing each other for scraps. 221 00:11:41,868 --> 00:11:44,204 No one starving ever reads the fine print, 222 00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:46,915 and they know that shit. 223 00:11:46,915 --> 00:11:48,833 Take a long shower. 224 00:11:48,833 --> 00:11:50,668 I might catch you towards the end. 225 00:11:50,668 --> 00:11:52,879 SINGER: ♪ Baby ♪ 226 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:54,756 ♪ ♪ 227 00:11:54,756 --> 00:11:57,342 ♪ Grown‐up hearts would cry ♪ 228 00:11:57,342 --> 00:12:00,803 ‐ Now, my daddy never was one for contracts. 229 00:12:00,803 --> 00:12:03,723 See, he always thought... 230 00:12:03,723 --> 00:12:05,850 that if two people 231 00:12:05,850 --> 00:12:09,354 can look each other in the eyes... 232 00:12:09,354 --> 00:12:11,606 they could work things out. 233 00:12:11,606 --> 00:12:14,776 SINGER: ♪ With nothing between ♪ 234 00:12:14,776 --> 00:12:17,153 ♪ Without love ♪ 235 00:12:17,153 --> 00:12:20,573 ♪ ♪ 236 00:12:20,573 --> 00:12:23,243 ♪ No, no, no ♪ 237 00:12:23,243 --> 00:12:27,163 ♪ ♪ 238 00:12:27,163 --> 00:12:30,166 [tense music] 239 00:12:30,166 --> 00:12:37,131 ♪ ♪ 240 00:12:38,466 --> 00:12:40,385 [pounding on door] 241 00:12:41,678 --> 00:12:42,887 [banging on door] 242 00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:47,267 ‐ [laughs] Yo, what up, Vine? ‐ You looking healthy. 243 00:12:47,267 --> 00:12:49,018 ‐ Yo, if you was about to get a check like I'm about to get, 244 00:12:49,018 --> 00:12:50,144 you'd be looking healthy too. 245 00:12:50,144 --> 00:12:53,314 Yo, you want a beer or something? 246 00:12:53,314 --> 00:12:55,400 ‐ You, uh... 247 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,402 you need to drop that claim against Greg. 248 00:12:59,487 --> 00:13:01,864 ‐ What the hell you talking about? 249 00:13:01,864 --> 00:13:03,116 I've been working these shit‐ass jobs. 250 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:04,742 I've been struggling, 251 00:13:04,742 --> 00:13:06,536 and I finally got my winning lottery ticket. 252 00:13:06,536 --> 00:13:07,996 I thought you, of all people, 253 00:13:07,996 --> 00:13:09,789 would appreciate the hustle, man. 254 00:13:09,789 --> 00:13:11,165 ‐ [scoffs] 255 00:13:11,165 --> 00:13:13,793 What I did in the streets, that was hustling. 256 00:13:13,793 --> 00:13:16,212 What you're doing is called bullshit. 257 00:13:17,964 --> 00:13:19,799 ‐ You lying to me, or you lying to yourself? 258 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,050 It's all a hustle. 259 00:13:23,011 --> 00:13:25,388 ‐ You're gonna fuck Greg over, okay? 260 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:29,017 ‐ How many people you fucked over selling them rocks? 261 00:13:30,018 --> 00:13:31,728 Look, I ain't judging you, man. 262 00:13:31,728 --> 00:13:33,396 So don't judge me for trying to get mine. 263 00:13:33,396 --> 00:13:34,939 It's America, nigga. 264 00:13:34,939 --> 00:13:36,232 ‐ You gonna fuck it up for all of us 265 00:13:36,232 --> 00:13:37,692 who need a second chance. 266 00:13:37,692 --> 00:13:40,153 See, Greg‐‐Greg is the only one who hires ex‐felons 267 00:13:40,153 --> 00:13:41,571 and pays us a decent salary, and so‐‐ 268 00:13:41,571 --> 00:13:44,073 ‐ That's not my problem, B! 269 00:13:44,866 --> 00:13:47,326 [choking] 270 00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:48,661 All right. 271 00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:50,329 ‐ You gonna drop that claim, huh? 272 00:13:50,329 --> 00:13:51,456 ‐ Yeah. ‐ Hmm? 273 00:13:51,456 --> 00:13:52,540 ‐ Mm‐hmm. 274 00:14:19,067 --> 00:14:22,320 ‐ Greg, what the hell's going on? 275 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,239 ‐ It's over. JT filed that lawsuit. 276 00:14:25,239 --> 00:14:27,116 And I had to admit I was uninsured, 277 00:14:27,116 --> 00:14:28,576 and the city shut me down. 278 00:14:28,576 --> 00:14:30,536 I heard you paid JT a visit. 279 00:14:30,536 --> 00:14:32,789 ‐ Yeah, he told me he was gonna drop that claim, yo. 280 00:14:32,789 --> 00:14:34,957 ‐ Yeah, well, unfortunately, that street shit 281 00:14:34,957 --> 00:14:37,418 only goes so far in the real world. 282 00:14:37,418 --> 00:14:39,545 You're a good kid, Divine. 283 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:42,256 Good luck with your second act. I'm rooting for you. 284 00:14:42,256 --> 00:14:45,259 [somber music] 285 00:14:45,259 --> 00:14:52,266 ♪ ♪ 286 00:14:53,059 --> 00:14:56,687 [moody string music playing] 287 00:14:56,687 --> 00:15:03,736 ♪ ♪ 288 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:05,530 ‐ Yo. 289 00:15:05,530 --> 00:15:07,573 [button clicks, music stops] 290 00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:09,826 I found myself a place, 291 00:15:09,826 --> 00:15:12,036 so I ain't gotta be all up in you and Nia's shit anymore. 292 00:15:12,036 --> 00:15:13,788 ‐ Oh. [chuckles] 293 00:15:13,788 --> 00:15:15,289 Congrats on finding yourself a place. 294 00:15:15,289 --> 00:15:17,667 ‐ Yeah, man. 295 00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:20,962 ‐ Hey, you know Nia's gonna miss you. 296 00:15:20,962 --> 00:15:21,963 ‐ Yeah. 297 00:15:25,967 --> 00:15:28,636 Yo, are you good, man? 298 00:15:28,636 --> 00:15:29,887 ‐ Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 299 00:15:29,887 --> 00:15:32,390 You know, it's, uh‐‐ it's, like, work shit. 300 00:15:32,390 --> 00:15:34,559 Know what I mean? 301 00:15:35,143 --> 00:15:36,269 ‐ All right. 302 00:15:40,231 --> 00:15:41,983 Hey, yo. 303 00:15:41,983 --> 00:15:46,821 I wanted to say thank you for letting me stay here, 304 00:15:46,821 --> 00:15:50,074 feeding me, taking care of me. 305 00:15:50,074 --> 00:15:51,659 I appreciate it. 306 00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:53,452 ‐ Yeah, of course. 307 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:55,955 ‐ I'll be back for all my shit... 308 00:15:55,955 --> 00:15:56,956 eventually. 309 00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:59,542 ‐ [chuckles] 310 00:16:00,626 --> 00:16:02,587 BOBBY: Yo, think about what I said, all right? 311 00:16:04,422 --> 00:16:07,258 I wanna cut people's heads off. 312 00:16:09,677 --> 00:16:11,262 ‐ All right. 313 00:16:11,262 --> 00:16:12,847 ‐ All right, man. 314 00:16:16,267 --> 00:16:18,811 [door clicks open] 315 00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:20,104 [door clicks shut] 316 00:16:20,104 --> 00:16:22,773 [hammer pounding rhythmically] 317 00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:32,033 DIVINE: They say America is a nation of laws, 318 00:16:32,033 --> 00:16:35,620 but the law is a language so few of us speak. 319 00:16:36,454 --> 00:16:39,457 [hammer pounding rhythmically] 320 00:16:46,130 --> 00:16:48,799 "Artists are solely responsible for any costs 321 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:51,052 "and fees related to recording, producing, 322 00:16:51,052 --> 00:16:55,056 "and marketing of any releases under said agreement. 323 00:16:55,056 --> 00:16:57,725 "And all payments made by the label 324 00:16:57,725 --> 00:16:59,518 "are fully recuperable by the label 325 00:16:59,518 --> 00:17:01,145 before any royalties are paid." 326 00:17:09,487 --> 00:17:11,364 SHA: [rapping a cappella] ♪ Started off on the island ♪ 327 00:17:11,364 --> 00:17:13,699 ♪ AK Shaolin, niggas wilin' ♪ 328 00:17:13,699 --> 00:17:16,786 ♪ Gunshots thrown, the phone dialin' ♪ 329 00:17:16,786 --> 00:17:18,496 ♪ Back in the days of eight now ♪ 330 00:17:18,496 --> 00:17:20,122 ♪ Making a tape now ♪ 331 00:17:20,122 --> 00:17:22,083 ♪ Rae gotta get a plate now ♪ 332 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:34,428 MS. WARD: You shouldn't be walking around. 333 00:17:34,428 --> 00:17:36,931 It's only been a few days. You haven't healed yet. 334 00:17:36,931 --> 00:17:38,975 ‐ Ah... 335 00:17:38,975 --> 00:17:41,143 MS. WARD: Ah. 336 00:17:41,143 --> 00:17:43,312 ‐ [groans and winces] 337 00:17:45,439 --> 00:17:47,066 ♪ Ignorant and mad young ♪ 338 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:48,818 ♪ Wanted to be the one ♪ 339 00:17:48,818 --> 00:17:52,238 ♪ Till I got pow and caught one ♪ 340 00:17:52,238 --> 00:17:54,824 Ma, I have to go. 341 00:17:54,824 --> 00:17:58,077 ‐ Please don't. Just stay. 342 00:17:58,828 --> 00:18:01,122 Your daddy always had one leg out the door, 343 00:18:01,122 --> 00:18:02,290 and he didn't find nothing on those streets 344 00:18:02,290 --> 00:18:04,166 but sin and degradation. 345 00:18:04,166 --> 00:18:06,836 SHA: ♪ Yeah, my pops was a fiend since 16 ♪ 346 00:18:06,836 --> 00:18:08,629 ♪ Shooting that "that's that shit!" ♪ 347 00:18:08,629 --> 00:18:10,298 ♪ In his bloodstreams ♪ 348 00:18:10,298 --> 00:18:14,051 Ma, I'm just going to the studio. 349 00:18:24,061 --> 00:18:26,897 Ma, I'm good. 350 00:18:28,024 --> 00:18:30,985 Dude want me to rhyme on one of his beats. 351 00:18:30,985 --> 00:18:32,862 Studio time free. 352 00:18:32,862 --> 00:18:35,489 ‐ Even as a kid in Sunday school, 353 00:18:35,489 --> 00:18:39,785 you were supposed to memorize Moses' ten deadly plagues. 354 00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:41,787 You turned that into a rap. 355 00:18:41,787 --> 00:18:43,873 ‐ ♪ River of blood and ♪ 356 00:18:43,873 --> 00:18:46,042 ♪ Frogs and lice ♪ 357 00:18:46,042 --> 00:18:49,128 ♪ Pestilence and boils and hails and flies ♪ 358 00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:53,007 ♪ Locusts and darkness and one more to come ♪ 359 00:18:53,007 --> 00:18:56,093 ♪ God finished by slaying the firstborn son ♪ 360 00:18:58,304 --> 00:19:00,306 I've gotten a lot better since then. 361 00:19:00,306 --> 00:19:01,766 I'm just saying. 362 00:19:01,766 --> 00:19:03,976 ‐ I know you have. 363 00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:04,977 Take it. 364 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:06,854 ‐ Ma. ‐ Please. 365 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:18,658 [siren blips] 366 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:22,578 SHA: ♪ That's the life of a crimey ♪ 367 00:19:22,578 --> 00:19:23,871 ♪ Real‐life crimey ♪ 368 00:19:23,871 --> 00:19:25,956 ♪ If niggas know the half is behind me ♪ 369 00:19:25,956 --> 00:19:28,459 ♪ Day one, yo, growing all up in the ghetto ♪ 370 00:19:28,459 --> 00:19:30,086 ♪ Now I'm a weed‐‐ ♪ 371 00:19:30,086 --> 00:19:31,420 This motherfucker. 372 00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:36,217 [tense music] 373 00:19:36,217 --> 00:19:37,510 [music fades] 374 00:19:41,555 --> 00:19:43,224 ♪ In Medina, yo, no doubt ♪ 375 00:19:43,224 --> 00:19:44,850 ♪ The God got crazy clout ♪ 376 00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:47,186 ♪ Pushing the big joint from down South ♪ 377 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:49,021 ♪ So if you're filthy stacked up ♪ 378 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:50,564 ♪ Better watch your back and duck ♪ 379 00:19:50,564 --> 00:19:53,025 ♪ 'Cause these fiends, they got it cracked up ♪ 380 00:19:55,569 --> 00:19:57,113 GARY: The father, 381 00:19:57,113 --> 00:19:59,949 the creator, and God of all things. 382 00:19:59,949 --> 00:20:02,034 God only means man. 383 00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:03,786 This is his universe. ‐ Peace. 384 00:20:03,786 --> 00:20:06,330 ‐ He is the sole provider for that universe. 385 00:20:06,330 --> 00:20:07,456 If you have a family, guy, 386 00:20:07,456 --> 00:20:08,874 then you're the God of your universe. 387 00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:10,167 Praise Allah. 388 00:20:10,167 --> 00:20:12,837 ‐ Allah is the first letter of the Supreme Alphabet, 389 00:20:12,837 --> 00:20:15,005 and he speaks to us and through us. 390 00:20:15,005 --> 00:20:16,590 ‐ You don't need that, sister. 391 00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:19,051 Don't let European designs dictate Black beauty. 392 00:20:19,051 --> 00:20:21,137 The Black woman is the most beautiful woman on Earth. 393 00:20:21,137 --> 00:20:22,263 ‐ That's right. 394 00:20:22,263 --> 00:20:24,807 JAMEL: Born is to be born into the world 395 00:20:24,807 --> 00:20:26,267 of the physical and the spiritual. 396 00:20:26,267 --> 00:20:28,352 What up, Sha? ‐ Peace. 397 00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:29,520 GARY: Peace. 398 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,731 SHA: Yo, I've been meaning to tell you, 399 00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:34,900 now that I found knowledge of self, 400 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,235 I've picked a new name. 401 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:37,945 ‐ Oh, word? Hit me with it. 402 00:20:38,571 --> 00:20:40,197 ‐ Shallah Raekwon. 403 00:20:41,198 --> 00:20:43,492 ‐ Raekwon? ‐ Yeah, man. 404 00:20:43,492 --> 00:20:47,163 ‐ Yeah, that shit strong, God. ‐ Praise to God. No doubt. 405 00:20:47,163 --> 00:20:48,831 GARY: You know, if that bullet would have went this way 406 00:20:48,831 --> 00:20:50,958 or that way, shit could have went sideways for you. 407 00:20:50,958 --> 00:20:53,836 Know what I mean? New name give new life, God. 408 00:20:53,836 --> 00:20:55,421 ‐ Word. 409 00:20:55,421 --> 00:20:57,214 ‐ But yo, Bobby back in town. You two link yet? 410 00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:02,428 ‐ I've been in the stu'. Buried. 411 00:21:02,428 --> 00:21:04,472 ‐ That's what's up. 412 00:21:04,472 --> 00:21:06,640 You need to get back in there with Bobby. 413 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,810 ‐ I actually got this session. This big producer. 414 00:21:09,810 --> 00:21:11,896 ‐ Oh, word? ‐ Yeah. Y'all should come by. 415 00:21:11,896 --> 00:21:13,481 ‐ Come join the true revolution. 416 00:21:13,481 --> 00:21:14,690 The Torah Revolution. 417 00:21:14,690 --> 00:21:17,234 I fear God more than I fear any man here. 418 00:21:17,234 --> 00:21:19,487 JAMEL: Only God that matters is the living God, 419 00:21:19,487 --> 00:21:21,739 the son of man. 420 00:21:21,739 --> 00:21:24,742 [steady beat playing] 421 00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:31,665 ♪ ♪ 422 00:21:40,382 --> 00:21:42,802 ‐ Hey, yo, Clifton was telling me you did some work 423 00:21:42,802 --> 00:21:44,720 with Leaders of the New School. 424 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,139 ‐ And I got some shit with G Rap too. 425 00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:52,603 You know, you remind me a little bit of him. 426 00:21:52,603 --> 00:21:54,271 ‐ [laughs] 427 00:21:54,271 --> 00:21:55,981 Word? FITZROY: Yeah. 428 00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:57,900 ‐ Yo, what record you got with him? 429 00:21:57,900 --> 00:21:59,151 FITZROY: I mean, it's new stuff. 430 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:00,402 It ain't out yet, 431 00:22:00,402 --> 00:22:02,863 but when it drop, shit. 432 00:22:02,863 --> 00:22:04,865 You definitely gonna know. 433 00:22:04,865 --> 00:22:06,867 ‐ All right. FITZROY: So yeah. 434 00:22:06,867 --> 00:22:07,993 What's up? 435 00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:09,745 Show me what we working with today. 436 00:22:09,745 --> 00:22:10,746 ‐ [exhales sharply] 437 00:22:14,792 --> 00:22:16,961 ♪ Now, my man from up north ♪ 438 00:22:16,961 --> 00:22:18,504 ♪ Now he got the loft ♪ 439 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:21,590 ♪ Solid as a rock and crazy salt ♪ 440 00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:24,176 ♪ No jokes, I'm not playing, get his folks ♪ 441 00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:26,929 ♪ Desert Eagle his dick, and put 'em in a yoke ♪ 442 00:22:26,929 --> 00:22:30,015 ♪ And to know for sure I got reck and rip shop ♪ 443 00:22:30,015 --> 00:22:32,393 ♪ I pointed a gat at his mother's knot ♪ 444 00:22:33,686 --> 00:22:36,146 ‐ Goddamn! SHA: Word. 445 00:22:36,146 --> 00:22:37,898 ‐ Ooh. ‐ Know what I mean? 446 00:22:37,898 --> 00:22:39,233 ‐ I got something perfect for that. 447 00:22:39,233 --> 00:22:40,276 ‐ All right. ‐ Hold up. 448 00:22:40,276 --> 00:22:41,443 ‐ Yeah. ‐ Wait. 449 00:22:41,443 --> 00:22:43,070 I'ma plug this in right now. 450 00:22:43,070 --> 00:22:46,073 [jazzy hip‐hop beat playing] 451 00:22:46,073 --> 00:22:53,080 ♪ ♪ 452 00:22:56,625 --> 00:22:59,128 [imitates gunfire] 453 00:22:59,128 --> 00:23:02,006 Talk to me. 454 00:23:02,006 --> 00:23:04,675 ‐ Yeah. This is cool. 455 00:23:04,675 --> 00:23:06,135 I mean, I don't feel like it really go 456 00:23:06,135 --> 00:23:08,804 with what I'm spitting. 457 00:23:08,804 --> 00:23:13,100 ‐ My guy, trust me, all right? Trust me. 458 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:14,602 Get in the booth. 459 00:23:14,602 --> 00:23:18,230 This beat? It fits you like a glove. 460 00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:20,566 This is the same thing that happens with me and Busta. 461 00:23:20,566 --> 00:23:25,446 We play him a beat. He's not sure of it, right? 462 00:23:25,446 --> 00:23:29,783 He goes inside, records it, and then what? 463 00:23:29,783 --> 00:23:32,286 He loves it. 464 00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:35,247 It's a process. ‐ All right. 465 00:23:35,247 --> 00:23:37,416 ‐ Get in that booth, bro. 466 00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:44,381 ♪ ♪ 467 00:23:44,381 --> 00:23:46,467 SHA: ♪ Started off on the island ♪ 468 00:23:46,467 --> 00:23:48,385 ♪ AK Shaolin, niggas wilin' ♪ 469 00:23:48,385 --> 00:23:50,554 ♪ Gunshots thrown, the phone dialin' ♪ 470 00:23:50,554 --> 00:23:52,056 ♪ Back in the days of eight now ♪ 471 00:23:52,056 --> 00:23:53,432 ♪ Making the tape now ♪ 472 00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:55,309 ♪ Rae gotta get a plate now ♪ 473 00:23:55,309 --> 00:23:57,019 ♪ Ignorant and mad young ♪ 474 00:23:57,019 --> 00:23:58,437 ♪ Wanted to be the one ♪ 475 00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:00,481 ♪ Till I got "bam" and felt one ♪ 476 00:24:00,481 --> 00:24:02,858 ♪ Yeah, my pops was a fiend since 16 ♪ 477 00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:05,611 ♪ Shooting that "that's that shit!" in his bloodstream ♪ 478 00:24:05,611 --> 00:24:08,989 ♪ Started off on the island, AK Shaolin, niggas wilin' ♪ 479 00:24:08,989 --> 00:24:11,492 ♪ Gunshots thrown, the phone dialin' ♪ 480 00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:13,369 ♪ Back in the days of eight now ♪ 481 00:24:13,369 --> 00:24:16,538 ♪ Making the tape now, Rae gotta get a plate now ♪ 482 00:24:16,538 --> 00:24:19,249 ‐ Yo, Bobby. BOBBY: Sha, Sha. 483 00:24:19,249 --> 00:24:21,085 SHA: What's good? ‐ What's up, man? 484 00:24:21,085 --> 00:24:22,962 ♪ ♪ 485 00:24:22,962 --> 00:24:24,505 I came from Vine's and I stopped by your mom's crib, 486 00:24:24,505 --> 00:24:25,881 and she told me you was here. 487 00:24:25,881 --> 00:24:29,635 ‐ Yo. Boy's back. 488 00:24:29,635 --> 00:24:31,679 ‐ You know. 489 00:24:31,679 --> 00:24:34,765 You just lay this down today? 490 00:24:34,765 --> 00:24:36,016 ‐ Yeah. 491 00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:38,602 You know, trying some new things and all that. 492 00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:40,562 ♪ No doubt, the God got crazy clout ♪ 493 00:24:40,562 --> 00:24:42,690 ♪ Pushing the big joint from down south ♪ 494 00:24:42,690 --> 00:24:44,358 ♪ So if you're filthy stacked up ♪ 495 00:24:44,358 --> 00:24:46,944 What you think? 496 00:24:46,944 --> 00:24:49,154 ‐ [chuckles] 497 00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,532 ‐ I mean, you know, it's still a work in progress... 498 00:24:51,532 --> 00:24:53,492 BOBBY: Yeah. ‐ You know what I mean? 499 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:56,245 ♪ I'm not playing ♪ 500 00:24:56,245 --> 00:24:58,122 ‐ Yeah. 501 00:24:58,122 --> 00:25:00,624 Yo, I think your verse is crazy. 502 00:25:00,624 --> 00:25:03,085 I don't know about this beat. 503 00:25:03,085 --> 00:25:05,379 I don't really think it fits. 504 00:25:05,379 --> 00:25:09,174 ‐ [chuckles] Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 505 00:25:09,174 --> 00:25:11,593 The producer, though. It's... 506 00:25:12,845 --> 00:25:15,472 But you back for good? You home? 507 00:25:15,472 --> 00:25:17,725 You back‐back? 508 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:30,029 ‐ Nah. 509 00:25:30,029 --> 00:25:31,238 We back. 510 00:25:33,907 --> 00:25:35,242 For good. 511 00:25:38,704 --> 00:25:41,331 ‐ I mean, you know I go by Raekwon now. 512 00:25:43,250 --> 00:25:44,668 ‐ Raekwon? 513 00:25:48,714 --> 00:25:49,923 All right. 514 00:25:53,177 --> 00:25:56,180 [sweeping string music] 515 00:25:56,180 --> 00:26:03,187 ♪ ♪ 516 00:26:22,372 --> 00:26:24,458 POWER: Dude's got 15 bags. 517 00:26:24,458 --> 00:26:26,668 Maybe ten more bags stashed. 518 00:26:26,668 --> 00:26:28,170 Maybe he got a runner if shit gets tight, 519 00:26:28,170 --> 00:26:29,880 you know what I mean? 520 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,132 But he ain't got that kind of supply and demand. 521 00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:33,675 Too much competition. 522 00:26:33,675 --> 00:26:35,761 And the people buying know it ain't that real shit. 523 00:26:37,471 --> 00:26:39,473 ‐ My man, you want that bag for your girl? 524 00:26:39,473 --> 00:26:41,683 I got you. $100. 525 00:26:41,683 --> 00:26:43,644 ‐ I'm good. ‐ Okay. 526 00:26:43,644 --> 00:26:46,522 You already got one. I see how you roll, big boy. 527 00:26:46,522 --> 00:26:48,190 How about for your other girl? 528 00:26:48,190 --> 00:26:50,567 70. I'll give it to you for 70. 529 00:26:51,944 --> 00:26:54,696 POWER: This dude already talked himself down $30 530 00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:56,615 and I only said two words. 531 00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:58,283 They supposed to be out here hustling, 532 00:26:58,283 --> 00:27:00,244 but they're hustling themselves. 533 00:27:00,244 --> 00:27:04,123 So let's say I cop this for 55, right. 534 00:27:04,123 --> 00:27:06,625 I mean, I wouldn't, but let's say I did, right? 535 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,586 And this dude gets these bags for ten a pop. 536 00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:12,548 See, now he feeling himself 'cause he just made $45. 537 00:27:12,548 --> 00:27:14,216 That means he gotta sell 20 bags 538 00:27:14,216 --> 00:27:15,634 just to almost make a G. 539 00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:17,427 How long that gonna take? Know what I mean? 540 00:27:17,427 --> 00:27:19,721 How many people really looking for that Gucci? 541 00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:21,140 ‐ Trying to perpetrate the whiteness. 542 00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:22,599 COP: Right there. Right there. Right there. You! 543 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:24,601 PERSON: What's up? What's up? 544 00:27:24,601 --> 00:27:26,562 POWER: Everybody out here selling something, 545 00:27:26,562 --> 00:27:28,355 and at the end of the day, 546 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,065 they the ones getting knocked by the cops, 547 00:27:30,065 --> 00:27:31,275 while I'm free as a bird 548 00:27:31,275 --> 00:27:33,652 walking back to my Land Cruiser. 549 00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:39,533 Yo! Yo! 550 00:27:39,533 --> 00:27:42,452 Hey, yo. That's my shit. 551 00:27:42,452 --> 00:27:44,162 ‐ Car's already on the truck. 552 00:27:44,162 --> 00:27:46,331 ‐ I see that. So take it off the truck. 553 00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:48,041 ‐ The signs are clear, okay? 554 00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:50,085 You want to contact the tow yard, 555 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:51,169 number's on the door. 556 00:27:51,169 --> 00:27:52,462 ‐ All right, look. 557 00:27:52,462 --> 00:27:54,631 How about I give you this number right here? 558 00:27:56,049 --> 00:27:57,926 ‐ Look, man, if you go to the impound 559 00:27:57,926 --> 00:27:59,595 right now, you can get your car out 560 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:01,388 before they charge you an overnight rate. 561 00:28:01,388 --> 00:28:03,807 ‐ Can you take it to an impound in Staten Island, then? 562 00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:09,021 Appreciate that. 563 00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:11,857 Make sure you take care of my shit, a'ight? 564 00:28:14,151 --> 00:28:15,319 Fuck, man. 565 00:28:31,501 --> 00:28:33,128 Mook? 566 00:28:33,128 --> 00:28:35,422 ‐ It's John. 567 00:28:35,422 --> 00:28:37,132 You gonna pay or you gonna stand there? 568 00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:44,139 ♪ ♪ 569 00:28:55,317 --> 00:28:57,152 POWER: See, I don't even know, yo. 570 00:28:57,152 --> 00:29:00,822 Seeing Mook drive a bus? [scoffs] 571 00:29:00,822 --> 00:29:03,951 Yo, that'd be like buying milk at the grocery store 572 00:29:03,951 --> 00:29:05,410 and you look over 573 00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,579 and you see Patrick Ewing is bagging your shit. 574 00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:12,626 ‐ So what'd you hear? 575 00:29:12,626 --> 00:29:14,169 ‐ What you mean? 576 00:29:15,796 --> 00:29:18,674 ‐ Did I end up on an island eating mangos 577 00:29:18,674 --> 00:29:20,425 with my pet tiger? ‐ [laughs] 578 00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:23,887 ‐ Or am I sipping champagne in some chateaux in France? 579 00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:26,390 ‐ Oh, shit. ‐ Yo, my favorite: 580 00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:28,558 bleached my skin like Michael Jackson. 581 00:29:28,558 --> 00:29:31,019 Now I'm living as a white man in the French Alps. 582 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:33,397 You hear that shit? 583 00:29:33,397 --> 00:29:34,982 ‐ No. I ain't hear that. 584 00:29:34,982 --> 00:29:37,109 I heard that shit. 585 00:29:38,986 --> 00:29:40,946 I mean, like, 586 00:29:40,946 --> 00:29:42,489 I ain't hear nothing about no tiger shit, 587 00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:43,657 you know what I'm saying? 588 00:29:43,657 --> 00:29:45,367 ‐ You ain't hear nothing about no tiger, 589 00:29:45,367 --> 00:29:48,495 but you looking at me like I'm in a zoo. 590 00:29:48,495 --> 00:29:51,081 ‐ I'm just saying. ‐ Saying what? 591 00:29:51,081 --> 00:29:53,625 ‐ I mean come on, yo. You driving a fucking bus. 592 00:29:53,625 --> 00:29:55,085 ‐ And? 593 00:29:55,085 --> 00:29:57,295 ‐ I know you gotta be sitting on at least 3 mil right now. 594 00:29:57,295 --> 00:29:58,630 Come on, yo. 595 00:29:58,630 --> 00:30:00,215 ‐ 3 mil? 596 00:30:00,215 --> 00:30:03,301 Let's say you right about that, hmm? 597 00:30:03,301 --> 00:30:05,971 Let's say I live till I'm 80. 598 00:30:05,971 --> 00:30:07,639 That's 45 more years. 599 00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:10,392 Do the math on that. 600 00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:12,394 That's 66K a year. 601 00:30:12,394 --> 00:30:14,021 Got property taxes. 602 00:30:14,021 --> 00:30:15,939 Clothes for my kids. ‐ Right. 603 00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:18,817 ‐ At the end of the day, it's not all that much. 604 00:30:19,609 --> 00:30:21,361 ‐ Yeah, but that's here in NYC. 605 00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:22,988 If you go out of the country, you know what I'm saying, 606 00:30:22,988 --> 00:30:26,116 like, that money can stretch. 607 00:30:26,116 --> 00:30:28,285 You know what I mean? Like Jamaica. 608 00:30:28,285 --> 00:30:30,912 The exchange rate in Jamaica's crazy right now, yo. 609 00:30:33,165 --> 00:30:35,876 ‐ Maybe I did have enough to live on an island. 610 00:30:35,876 --> 00:30:37,461 Maybe I could have gone off on my own, 611 00:30:37,461 --> 00:30:41,131 but I have people depending on me. 612 00:30:41,131 --> 00:30:43,842 My mom's relying on me. My pops was sick. 613 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:45,260 ‐ Right, right, right. 614 00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:48,263 ‐ You know, I got obligations I can't escape. 615 00:30:48,263 --> 00:30:50,140 ‐ I mean, yeah, you right, you know what I'm saying? 616 00:30:50,140 --> 00:30:51,892 But that's why you gotta go for the dolo, 617 00:30:51,892 --> 00:30:53,435 you know what I'm saying? 618 00:30:53,435 --> 00:30:55,353 'Cause the world don't give a fuck about you. 619 00:30:58,356 --> 00:31:00,942 ‐ You two tagging my seat? KID: Oh, shit. 620 00:31:00,942 --> 00:31:02,736 ‐ What? MOOK: Off my bus! 621 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,240 ‐ Hey, fuck you, old man. ‐ [laughs] 622 00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:11,161 ‐ Yeah. 623 00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:15,791 [bass notes] 624 00:31:17,167 --> 00:31:19,127 ‐ So what's your plan? 625 00:31:19,127 --> 00:31:20,337 You gonna go hard 626 00:31:20,337 --> 00:31:22,172 till the game tells you when it's over? 627 00:31:22,172 --> 00:31:24,716 ‐ Coming from where we did, you know what I'm saying, 628 00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:30,472 the average Black man is either dead or in prison by 30, right? 629 00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:33,350 ‐ That's cool if you wanna play to the average. 630 00:31:33,350 --> 00:31:36,394 But you know what's not average? 631 00:31:36,394 --> 00:31:38,772 Having a pension plan. 632 00:31:38,772 --> 00:31:41,733 Health insurance. Dental. 633 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:44,569 I'm not gonna tell you I want to sit in traffic all day. 634 00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:47,781 I had my run. Never did a bid. 635 00:31:47,781 --> 00:31:50,659 The fact that I'm sitting behind the wheel of this bus 636 00:31:50,659 --> 00:31:54,663 and not dead or in jail... 637 00:31:54,663 --> 00:31:56,039 I already beat the odds. 638 00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:00,335 Not that I wouldn't want to know what it's like to live 639 00:32:00,335 --> 00:32:02,546 as a white man in Switzerland; that shit sounds nice. 640 00:32:02,546 --> 00:32:04,881 [laughter] 641 00:32:07,259 --> 00:32:09,052 ‐ Yeah, it do. 642 00:32:12,973 --> 00:32:14,599 [stop request indicator dings] 643 00:32:35,078 --> 00:32:36,788 That's a nice bag, ma'am. 644 00:32:41,835 --> 00:32:44,588 ‐ Just 'cause the world look at you one way... 645 00:32:44,588 --> 00:32:46,256 doesn't mean you gotta go along with it. 646 00:32:46,256 --> 00:32:49,050 Advice from your local bus driver. 647 00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:56,808 [dark string music] 648 00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:59,978 ♪ ♪ 649 00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:02,355 ‐ I heard you dodged a bid. PERSON: Hey, yo. 650 00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:04,774 Hey, open the fucking back door, man. 651 00:33:04,774 --> 00:33:06,401 [door hisses] 652 00:33:06,401 --> 00:33:08,695 ‐ Yeah. POWER: Word. 653 00:33:08,695 --> 00:33:11,823 Yeah, man. Stick to the music. 654 00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:13,992 It's better odds. 655 00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,387 ‐ Yo, you looking for something for your girl? 656 00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:37,307 [smooth beat] 657 00:33:37,307 --> 00:33:44,356 ♪ ♪ 658 00:33:57,702 --> 00:33:59,454 DENNIS: [rapping a cappella] ♪ Spades tried to bag me ♪ 659 00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:01,498 ♪ Like Cagney and Lacey ♪ 660 00:34:01,498 --> 00:34:04,542 ♪ Nigga had that bitch Stacey slipping in Macy's ♪ 661 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,670 ♪ I doze off, catch a flashback ♪ 662 00:34:06,670 --> 00:34:08,672 ♪ On how I got trapped and got licked ♪ 663 00:34:08,672 --> 00:34:11,174 ♪ Like Papsy in a mob flick, I got hit ♪ 664 00:34:11,174 --> 00:34:14,177 [lullaby playing from mobile] 665 00:34:14,177 --> 00:34:15,845 ♪ ♪ 666 00:34:15,845 --> 00:34:19,307 ♪ Stumbling, holding my neck to the God's rest ♪ 667 00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:22,185 ♪ Open flesh, burgundy blood coloring my Guess ♪ 668 00:34:22,185 --> 00:34:25,355 ♪ Emergency trauma, Black teen headed for surgery ♪ 669 00:34:25,355 --> 00:34:29,067 ♪ Can it be an out‐of‐state nigga tried to murder me? ♪ 670 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:30,819 ♪ I should just stayed in Job Corps ♪ 671 00:34:30,819 --> 00:34:33,321 ♪ And now I'm an outlaw ♪ 672 00:34:33,321 --> 00:34:36,658 ♪ Ray Catena, carry a .44 ♪ 673 00:34:41,371 --> 00:34:42,747 ‐ I miss Sheeba. 674 00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:45,333 ‐ What you miss about Sheeba? Picking up her poop? 675 00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:47,711 You don't do that enough for little man over here? 676 00:34:49,337 --> 00:34:52,966 ‐ Having a dog was good preparation for having a baby. 677 00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:57,220 Seriously. 678 00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:59,723 ‐ So, what, you gonna put a leash on him 679 00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,349 when he get older like them white people do 680 00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:03,518 they little‐ass kids? 681 00:35:03,518 --> 00:35:06,938 ‐ No. Shut up. [both chuckle] 682 00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:08,815 MOM: Randy, dinner's ready! 683 00:35:08,815 --> 00:35:12,110 ‐ It's getting a little tight in here, even with Bobby gone. 684 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:15,113 We need to find our own kingdom. 685 00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:17,449 ‐ Yeah. 686 00:35:17,449 --> 00:35:19,909 You do need to go. 687 00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:21,578 ‐ What you mean I gotta go? 688 00:35:21,578 --> 00:35:23,913 ‐ You gotta get out of Ohio. 689 00:35:26,249 --> 00:35:28,710 My brother wanted you to go to New York with him. 690 00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:31,296 ‐ Yeah, well, your brother want a lot of things. 691 00:35:31,296 --> 00:35:33,757 ‐ And don't you want the same thing? 692 00:35:33,757 --> 00:35:35,133 To make it in music? 693 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,595 ‐ I want to be with y'all. SHURRIE: So do I. 694 00:35:38,595 --> 00:35:40,555 But it's too dangerous here. 695 00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:43,975 I mean, you already got shot. 696 00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:45,310 And now that Bobby got off, 697 00:35:45,310 --> 00:35:46,895 those thugs might be coming after you again. 698 00:35:46,895 --> 00:35:50,231 ‐ Please. I ain't worried about all that, Rie. 699 00:35:50,231 --> 00:35:51,566 ‐ But I am. 700 00:35:53,401 --> 00:35:55,028 Please? 701 00:35:55,028 --> 00:35:57,280 Go to New York and get with Bobby. 702 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:58,782 Now is the time for you to see 703 00:35:58,782 --> 00:36:01,868 if you can really make this music thing work. 704 00:36:01,868 --> 00:36:04,454 ‐ You know how many rappers is out there? 705 00:36:04,454 --> 00:36:06,456 ‐ Better than you? 706 00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:09,668 ‐ Nah, but being dope... 707 00:36:09,668 --> 00:36:12,671 it ain't got nothing to do with making it, you know? 708 00:36:12,671 --> 00:36:15,548 The politics and all that shit. 709 00:36:15,548 --> 00:36:18,510 I mean, look at Bobby. Remember Prince Rakeem? 710 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:20,720 ‐ Exactly. 711 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:22,555 Just because he didn't make it the first time 712 00:36:22,555 --> 00:36:25,266 isn't stopping him from trying again. 713 00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:27,727 You gotta try this for real this time, 714 00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:30,021 for yourself and for us. 715 00:36:30,021 --> 00:36:32,732 ‐ All right, well, y'all coming with me, then. 716 00:36:32,732 --> 00:36:34,567 ‐ Mm‐mm. 717 00:36:34,567 --> 00:36:37,862 The baby's too young to travel right now. 718 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:40,198 And I'm still figuring this all out. 719 00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:43,493 Like, I need my mom's help. 720 00:36:43,493 --> 00:36:45,745 Look, this will give you time to figure out 721 00:36:45,745 --> 00:36:48,957 where we're gonna live out there. 722 00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:51,084 We can't live with your mom and your brothers 723 00:36:51,084 --> 00:36:52,877 in that little apartment, 724 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:54,212 and I don't want to add a baby 725 00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:55,463 to what she's already dealing with. 726 00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:04,848 [emotional music] 727 00:37:04,848 --> 00:37:11,855 ♪ ♪ 728 00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:18,111 ‐ How long have you been back there? 729 00:37:18,111 --> 00:37:20,280 CHARACTER ON TV: Long enough to hear you get dissed... 730 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,031 ‐ Oh, shit. 731 00:37:22,031 --> 00:37:24,367 ‐ Hey, yo, I heard you trying to be the man of the house now. 732 00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:26,453 Had to come check you real quick. 733 00:37:27,996 --> 00:37:31,207 Yo, what up? What up? What up? 734 00:37:31,207 --> 00:37:33,626 Yo, what's up? What's up? All right? 735 00:37:33,626 --> 00:37:36,045 ‐ Heard you got shot. 736 00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:42,135 ‐ How you hear about that? 737 00:37:42,135 --> 00:37:45,180 ‐ Got my ears to the streets, nigga. 738 00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:47,515 ‐ Oh, yeah? 739 00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:50,935 Well, you just have heard that it was just a scratch, then. 740 00:37:50,935 --> 00:37:52,729 DARIUS: What I don't understand 741 00:37:52,729 --> 00:37:55,607 is how they missed that big‐ass head. 742 00:37:55,607 --> 00:37:59,652 [all chuckling] 743 00:38:02,906 --> 00:38:05,867 So we're uncles now? 744 00:38:05,867 --> 00:38:07,827 ‐ Yeah, that's right. 745 00:38:07,827 --> 00:38:10,830 ‐ Let's hope he looks like Shurrie. 746 00:38:10,830 --> 00:38:12,123 DENNIS: Hey, yo, I know you ain't talking 747 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:14,292 with them big‐ass Dumbo ears, huh? 748 00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:18,254 ‐ Let us hear your new rhymes. 749 00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:21,090 ‐ Mm. Later. 750 00:38:21,090 --> 00:38:24,469 DARIUS: Come on. You came back to become an MC. 751 00:38:24,469 --> 00:38:27,972 You gotta be ready to spit at any second. 752 00:38:32,101 --> 00:38:33,102 ‐ ♪ Yo ♪ 753 00:38:33,102 --> 00:38:34,896 ♪ Kicking the fly clichés ♪ 754 00:38:34,896 --> 00:38:36,606 ♪ Doing duets with B and A ♪ 755 00:38:36,606 --> 00:38:38,316 ♪ Happens to make my day ♪ 756 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,276 ♪ Though I'm tired of busting off shots ♪ 757 00:38:40,276 --> 00:38:41,778 ♪ Having to rock knots ♪ 758 00:38:41,778 --> 00:38:43,988 ♪ Running up in spots and making shit hot ♪ 759 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:46,199 ♪ I'd rather flip shows instead of those ♪ 760 00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:48,034 ♪ Hanging on my living room wall ♪ 761 00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:50,578 ♪ My first joint, and it went gold ♪ 762 00:38:51,871 --> 00:38:53,706 ‐ Dope. 763 00:38:53,706 --> 00:38:55,291 What else you got? 764 00:38:55,291 --> 00:38:57,669 ‐ Hey, you know I'm working on some other stuff right now, 765 00:38:57,669 --> 00:39:00,672 but yo, it's gonna take mad fire to make it, in this shit, 766 00:39:00,672 --> 00:39:01,923 you know what I mean? 767 00:39:01,923 --> 00:39:04,092 Every nigga want this. 768 00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:10,765 ‐ We kept your rhyme book safe for you. 769 00:39:10,765 --> 00:39:13,226 You gonna need this shit. 770 00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:26,322 ‐ Hey, yo. The place is looking nice. 771 00:39:26,322 --> 00:39:28,366 ‐ Mom's doing real good now. 772 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:30,076 [door clicks open] 773 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,168 ‐ There's my boy. DENNIS: What up, Ma? 774 00:39:42,839 --> 00:39:45,091 ‐ How's my grandson? ‐ Oh, he good. 775 00:39:45,091 --> 00:39:47,385 He getting bigger every day. It's crazy. 776 00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:49,512 I only been here for about a couple hours, 777 00:39:49,512 --> 00:39:51,681 but I already miss him. 778 00:39:51,681 --> 00:39:54,893 ‐ You grew like a string bean when you were that age. 779 00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:58,855 I used to think, if I just focused hard enough, 780 00:39:58,855 --> 00:40:01,149 I could see you grow right before my eyes. 781 00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,776 [tender music] 782 00:40:03,776 --> 00:40:07,363 ♪ ♪ 783 00:40:07,363 --> 00:40:08,781 You staying here? 784 00:40:11,159 --> 00:40:13,244 ‐ Uh... 785 00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:17,332 ‐ No, no, I just was asking because... 786 00:40:17,332 --> 00:40:19,083 the welfare caseworkers are coming next week 787 00:40:19,083 --> 00:40:20,627 for a face‐to‐face. 788 00:40:20,627 --> 00:40:23,838 And now that you grown, 789 00:40:23,838 --> 00:40:26,424 you ain't supposed to be living here. 790 00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:28,968 Otherwise we won't get our check. 791 00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:35,600 Just make sure you‐‐ you just put your stuff away 792 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,352 and stay out when they come. 793 00:40:37,352 --> 00:40:39,687 ‐ It's all right, Ma. 794 00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,147 Don't worry about me. 795 00:40:41,147 --> 00:40:42,815 I'ma kick it here for a couple days, 796 00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,692 but I'll be out before the face‐to‐face, all right? 797 00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:49,030 Good to see you, Ma. 798 00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:53,117 KID HOOD: ♪ Lay down your wages ♪ 799 00:40:53,117 --> 00:40:55,161 ♪ I'm wild like Larry Davis, extra, extra ♪ 800 00:40:55,161 --> 00:40:56,704 ♪ Pick up a clip ♪ 801 00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:58,414 ♪ I tear ass out the frame and grab my dick ♪ 802 00:40:58,414 --> 00:41:00,041 ♪ I'm a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot kid ♪ 803 00:41:00,041 --> 00:41:03,795 ‐ This my shit. ‐ Hey, yo. Who this? 804 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:06,005 ‐ Tribe, motherfucker. "Scenario." 805 00:41:06,005 --> 00:41:09,550 ‐ This ain't "Scenario," fool. ‐ It's a remix, fool. 806 00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:12,345 What the hell they playing out there in Ohio? 807 00:41:12,345 --> 00:41:14,764 ‐ Whole lot of Cube. MC Breed. 808 00:41:14,764 --> 00:41:17,433 ‐ Shut up, yo. This is my part right here. 809 00:41:17,433 --> 00:41:19,769 ‐ A'ight. 810 00:41:19,769 --> 00:41:20,979 ‐ ♪ Pump slugs in your face ♪ 811 00:41:20,979 --> 00:41:22,689 ♪ And dump yo' ass into the river ♪ 812 00:41:22,689 --> 00:41:24,440 ♪ Two tears in the bucket, fuck it ♪ 813 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:28,236 ♪ Say what? Say what? I'm a bad, bad man ♪ 814 00:41:28,236 --> 00:41:30,363 ‐ [chuckles] 815 00:41:30,363 --> 00:41:33,574 ‐ This is how hard you gotta come. 816 00:41:33,574 --> 00:41:36,244 Also, me and Darren talked, 817 00:41:36,244 --> 00:41:38,413 and we don't know about no D‐Lover. 818 00:41:38,413 --> 00:41:41,165 ‐ Hey, yo, what? Hey, what you mean? 819 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:43,084 You hating on D‐Lover too? 820 00:41:43,084 --> 00:41:45,044 Yo, that's some cold shit, son. 821 00:41:45,044 --> 00:41:47,088 I just bought y'all asses some ice cream. 822 00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:54,762 ‐ Oh, shit. That's Power's whip. 823 00:41:54,762 --> 00:41:57,765 ‐ How you know that? ‐ I told you. 824 00:41:57,765 --> 00:41:59,809 Got my ears to the streets. 825 00:42:02,478 --> 00:42:04,188 Fuck that nigga. 826 00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:07,400 Stapleton all day. 827 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,570 DENNIS: ♪ Causing terror, quick damage your whole era ♪ 828 00:42:10,570 --> 00:42:13,698 ♪ Hard rocks is locked the fuck up or found shot ♪ 829 00:42:13,698 --> 00:42:15,742 ♪ PLO style, hazardous ♪ 830 00:42:15,742 --> 00:42:18,453 ♪ 'Cause I wreck this dangerous ♪ 831 00:42:18,453 --> 00:42:20,413 ♪ I blow sparks like Waco, Texas ♪ 832 00:42:29,464 --> 00:42:32,091 BOBBY: R is for rule or ruler. 833 00:42:35,011 --> 00:42:37,513 Ruling is in the nature of the Black man‐‐ 834 00:42:37,513 --> 00:42:40,975 to rule something wisely, as a king does. 835 00:42:43,478 --> 00:42:47,190 S is for self or savior. 836 00:42:47,190 --> 00:42:50,485 Self is one's own being and knowledge of being. 837 00:42:50,485 --> 00:42:53,988 Savior is one who saves others mentally and physically. 838 00:42:58,451 --> 00:43:00,912 ASON: What up, coz? 839 00:43:00,912 --> 00:43:03,081 BOBBY: Yo. 840 00:43:03,081 --> 00:43:04,791 Hey, what's all that shit doing here? 841 00:43:04,791 --> 00:43:08,002 ‐ This right here, good sir, is the Diggs family heirlooms. 842 00:43:08,002 --> 00:43:09,962 You back now. Moms want it out. 843 00:43:09,962 --> 00:43:11,464 Tricked again. 844 00:43:11,464 --> 00:43:14,675 ‐ Hey, yo. Hey, hold this bag. 845 00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:17,178 ‐ Oh, man. It's a body in here or something? 846 00:43:17,178 --> 00:43:19,097 ‐ No, it's just heavy, nigga. 847 00:43:19,097 --> 00:43:20,765 ‐ Goddamn. 848 00:43:22,558 --> 00:43:24,018 BOBBY: T is for truth. 849 00:43:24,018 --> 00:43:25,686 Truth means without any lies. 850 00:43:29,982 --> 00:43:31,442 U is for you. 851 00:43:31,442 --> 00:43:35,154 The constructor and the creator of the universe. 852 00:43:35,154 --> 00:43:39,867 Creator of the sun, moon, and stars. 853 00:43:44,455 --> 00:43:46,165 V is for victory. 854 00:43:46,165 --> 00:43:47,917 Victory will come only after the war 855 00:43:47,917 --> 00:43:49,794 which will give man his freedom, 856 00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:52,338 justice, and equality. 857 00:43:52,338 --> 00:43:54,549 ‐ Nice, son. 858 00:43:54,549 --> 00:43:57,677 Definitely loving the natural light in the solarium here. 859 00:44:00,972 --> 00:44:02,765 BOBBY: The end is Z. 860 00:44:02,765 --> 00:44:05,184 Z is for zig‐zag‐zig. 861 00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:10,231 The path from knowledge to wisdom to understanding. 862 00:44:10,231 --> 00:44:12,817 It's a reminder that the path is not straightforward, 863 00:44:12,817 --> 00:44:15,069 but cuts back and forth 864 00:44:15,069 --> 00:44:17,321 and can pull the seeker's life with it. 865 00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:26,164 ‐ Place need a blessing. Know what I'm saying? 866 00:44:26,164 --> 00:44:29,167 BOBBY: I've been through enough zigging and zagging. 867 00:44:29,167 --> 00:44:30,543 We all have. 868 00:44:30,543 --> 00:44:32,378 ‐ Yo. ‐ Yo. 869 00:44:32,378 --> 00:44:33,880 ‐ What's up? We gonna do this or what? 870 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,466 ‐ Yeah. Peace, bro. 871 00:44:37,466 --> 00:44:39,719 ‐ Praise Allah. 872 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,722 [plunking piano beat] 873 00:44:42,722 --> 00:44:49,729 ♪ ♪ 874 00:44:53,441 --> 00:44:56,444 [tempo increases, drumbeat begins] 875 00:44:56,444 --> 00:45:03,409 ♪ ♪ 876 00:45:09,290 --> 00:45:10,708 GARY: Israelite niggas. 877 00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:13,085 Yo, those Israelites was talking mad shit. 878 00:45:13,085 --> 00:45:14,545 And you know Jamel‐‐ 879 00:45:14,545 --> 00:45:15,796 ‐ Stepped up like, 880 00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:17,423 "Yo, I'ma beat your motherfucking ass, son." 881 00:45:17,423 --> 00:45:19,926 ‐ Before shit could really pop off, that's when‐‐ 882 00:45:19,926 --> 00:45:23,095 ‐ Five‐oh swarming that motherfucker like piranhas... 883 00:45:23,095 --> 00:45:24,597 ‐ Son, you weren't even there. ‐ In that movie "Piranha"! 884 00:45:24,597 --> 00:45:26,224 ‐ You weren't even there, son. 885 00:45:26,224 --> 00:45:27,850 ‐ Yo, I wasn't at the Lincoln assassination either, 886 00:45:27,850 --> 00:45:29,268 but I know that nigga got got. 887 00:45:29,268 --> 00:45:31,812 You know what I'm saying? Pow! Pow! 888 00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:36,359 ‐ Anyways, shit went sideways quick. 889 00:45:36,359 --> 00:45:38,110 Ain't no beef never stop no cooking, though. 890 00:45:38,110 --> 00:45:40,279 What we doing? 891 00:45:40,279 --> 00:45:43,574 ‐ Hey, yo. I saw Power today. 892 00:45:43,574 --> 00:45:48,371 ‐ Anything go down? ‐ No. Shit was just different. 893 00:45:48,371 --> 00:45:50,289 ‐ What you mean? 894 00:45:50,289 --> 00:45:53,167 ‐ Yeah, yo. He was different. 895 00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:55,169 ASON: Word, son. 896 00:45:55,169 --> 00:45:56,796 ‐ Yup. 897 00:45:56,796 --> 00:45:58,673 SINGER: ♪ Well, let's talk about the good old days ♪ 898 00:45:58,673 --> 00:46:00,174 [sweeping hip‐hop beat playing] 899 00:46:00,174 --> 00:46:03,928 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 900 00:46:03,928 --> 00:46:05,429 ♪ Ah ♪ 901 00:46:05,429 --> 00:46:08,766 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 902 00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,810 ♪ Ah ♪ 903 00:46:10,810 --> 00:46:14,438 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 904 00:46:14,438 --> 00:46:21,445 ♪ ♪ 905 00:46:27,410 --> 00:46:28,494 All right. 906 00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:31,914 What y'all think? 907 00:46:31,914 --> 00:46:33,916 ‐ Damn. That beat gutter. 908 00:46:33,916 --> 00:46:36,377 ‐ Prince Rakeem strikes again. 909 00:46:36,377 --> 00:46:39,797 ‐ Hey, I left Prince Rakeem in that cell in Ohio. 910 00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:43,259 ‐ So who made this beat, then? 911 00:46:43,259 --> 00:46:44,802 ‐ Well, I may not be a prince no more, 912 00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:48,431 but I'm still a ruler, right? 913 00:46:50,975 --> 00:46:53,227 R is for Ruler. 914 00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:57,273 Z is for Zig‐Zag‐Zig. 915 00:46:57,273 --> 00:47:01,277 And A is for Allah. 916 00:47:01,277 --> 00:47:06,073 R...Z...A. 917 00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:11,287 The RZA. The RZA made this beat. 918 00:47:11,287 --> 00:47:14,373 ‐ That shit razor sharp. 919 00:47:14,373 --> 00:47:15,958 I might have to switch my shit up. Shit. 920 00:47:15,958 --> 00:47:18,127 ‐ Yo, RZA. Yo, let me hop on this beat. 921 00:47:18,127 --> 00:47:19,587 Yo, son. That's the mic right here, son? 922 00:47:19,587 --> 00:47:21,922 ‐ Now, this, this ain't for you, all right? 923 00:47:21,922 --> 00:47:23,215 ‐ Come on, son. 924 00:47:23,215 --> 00:47:24,425 BOBBY: I got a different plan for it. 925 00:47:24,425 --> 00:47:26,385 A different plan for us. 926 00:47:26,385 --> 00:47:28,304 I've been thinking on it for days. 927 00:47:28,304 --> 00:47:30,973 Trust me. ‐ What? 928 00:47:30,973 --> 00:47:33,976 [burgeoning orchestral music] 929 00:47:33,976 --> 00:47:41,025 ♪ ♪ 930 00:47:52,495 --> 00:47:55,498 [music brightens] 931 00:47:55,498 --> 00:48:02,463 ♪ ♪ 932 00:48:08,928 --> 00:48:12,848 SINGER: ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 933 00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:14,433 ♪ Ah ♪ 934 00:48:14,433 --> 00:48:18,062 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 935 00:48:18,062 --> 00:48:19,814 ♪ Ah ♪ 936 00:48:19,814 --> 00:48:23,359 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 937 00:48:23,359 --> 00:48:24,693 ♪ Ah ♪ 938 00:48:24,693 --> 00:48:28,531 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 939 00:48:28,531 --> 00:48:30,116 ♪ Ah ♪ 940 00:48:30,116 --> 00:48:33,119 [flowing string music plays over hip‐hop beat] 941 00:48:33,119 --> 00:48:40,084 ♪ ♪ 942 00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:53,097 [string music ends, beat continues] 943 00:48:53,097 --> 00:49:00,104 ♪ ♪ 944 00:49:12,158 --> 00:49:15,161 [heightened string music plays over beat] 945 00:49:15,161 --> 00:49:22,126 ♪ ♪ 946 00:49:32,052 --> 00:49:33,387 [string music ends] 947 00:49:33,387 --> 00:49:37,016 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 948 00:49:37,016 --> 00:49:38,517 ♪ Ah ♪ 949 00:49:38,517 --> 00:49:42,021 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simple then? ♪ 950 00:49:42,021 --> 00:49:43,481 ♪ Ah ♪ 951 00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:46,609 ♪ Can it be that it was all so simp‐‐ ♪ 952 00:49:46,609 --> 00:49:47,610 [gunshot] 953 00:49:49,111 --> 00:49:50,613 ‐ Get on the line.