[dramatic music]
[upbeat music]
- Yeah, yes this is Mr. Robertson.
I told y'all last week I lost my job,
I don't got the money.
Yes ma'am.
So y'all just gonna call me every week?
I told y'all, look,
I filed for unemployment, I'm looking for a job.
Y'all can't keep calling me everyday.
You stressing me out.
Lord.
Bills piling up.
I don't know what to do.
Please help me.
I'm about to lose everything.
Lights about to get cut off.
About to take my car.
Child support due.
I got no food to eat.
I'm trying.
[sighs]
I need help.
- How you doing rev?
- Feel pretty good young brother how you been?
- All right man, just struggling a little bit.
I lost my job.
And you know that's why I'm coming to see you,
trying to find some work.
- I don't have anything at this time.
- You don't have anything?
But you just gave Chris and Everly baby daddy
a job like last week.
You way more qualified man,
I got college degree, I don't got no record or nothing man.
- I feel you on all of that.
However, at this time I don't have anything.
I'm sorry.
- I pay my tithes, I'm just coming to the church
for some help, I'm trying not
to go back to selling drugs man, that's all I know.
I need some help.
- Man, stay in church.
Church is your foundation, however I meant what I said.
I don't have anything right now.
- Out of here.
[hums]
[phone rings]
- Hello?
I don't know how you sleep this time of morning.
You ain't got no job.
- What?
Angel man you tripping, it's too early in the morning.
- I haven't received my child support this month.
Momma says you ain't gonna see the kid
if you don't get right.
Like, I need to get my money.
- Listen you can't use my kid against me
just because I lost my job.
I'm a be there to pick up my kid
just like I normally do perio-point-blank-period!
Stop playing with me.
- Don't talk about my momma.
And my momma said she need to get the money back
for the diapers she bought last month.
Like you need to get it together.
Period.
- You need to tell your mom to stay out of our business.
You supposed to be grown anyway.
- Don't talk bad about my momma.
She need her money back.
I should've listened to her the first time
when she told me don't even mess with you.
She was right.
- Man, look I ain't got time.
- I know he didn't hang up on me again.
[hip hop beat]
- [Friend] What's up man?
- What's up bro?
They got you out here.
Yeah, they got you out here it's really going down now.
- Right right right.
- What's going on man?
- You know he don't never get out.
- I love when he do come out though.
- Hey fellas, man I got two job interviews today man.
And the point is man look,
anybody who got some clean urine man.
I gotta --
- I got that.
- You got that?
- Oh man, I need that.
What's up?
- Yo papers, you know I'm playing
so I ain't smoking the resin.
- I'm smoking here on seven you know what I'm saying?
I got the two man.
- Hey we need that.
I'm trying to get it for real.
My pockets is light buddy, for real.
All right well I'm a head out now.
But man, I appreciate that though.
For real.
Yo I'm out, go handle that business.
- Be safe.
- Y'all be cool man.
[laughs]
[hip hop beat]
[phone rings]
Hello?
- Hey Keenan, what you doing chocolatte?
- Yeah, I'm just getting ready for this job interview I got.
- Okay, well congratulations,
well hit me up when you done,
I'm trying to come and see you later.
- You know I'm a have the kid.
- I'm trying to spend a night.
[chuckles]
All right baby, all right peace.
- Okay, well I'll see you later.
- Well thank you for the interview.
I really appreciate your time.
And so what are you thinking?
- The field that you are currently in right now,
and you don't have enough experience.
However we will keep your resume on file.
Thank you so much for coming in.
- Thank you.
[low tempo beat]
Dude!
All right, I ain't three, two, one throw it over there.
No!
To me.
Yeah, no.
You don't throw stuff to the trees.
- Get my ball?
- All right good catch there.
Dang, I hurt, I hurt.
- Okay, now here you are.
- I get the big one huh?
Oh!
What color is this right here?
- Green.
Very good okay.
This one is black and white.
- Black and white.
- Yep, black and white.
[knocks]
- Uh, it's open, come on.
What's up baby girl?
It's good to see you.
What's up at home.
Working on this little job application.
- Well, okay I'm a go and see little man.
- Okay.
- Still asleep?
- He's still asleep.
Y'all have a long day?
- Yeah, we did.
- What's wrong with you?
- Just stressed, you know my job hunt
ain't been going that way.
I put in like a thousand applications,
it's just nobody trying to hire me.
- Oh baby it'll get better.
- Thank you.
- I have a cousin that works at a school
I can see if they have any openings at their job.
- For real you'd do that for me?
- I'd do it for you.
- I appreciate that, 'cause I'm struggling.
- It's no problem.
- Shoot, my baby momma getting on my nerves.
She keep on asking me for money,
and know I'm going through this.
You know talking about she ain't gonna let me see my kid.
Man, she's tripping.
- Well, she'll get it together.
- Come on.
[sighs]
Man it's just good to just be close to you.
Man, I'm stressed.
- Well I bet I can make it better.
And I can get me some papa bear time.
[chuckles]
- Absolutely.
Girl.
- Papa bear!
♪ Say a word and I'll be there like always.
♪ Like always.
♪ Doesn't matter how bad it seems.
- Let's go to the back room.
- Sure?
- Yeah, little baby cub coming out.
- [Keenan] All right come on girl.
♪ I just wanna hold you.
- See it's jamming in number three here Marvin.
- All right.
I'll uh,
has it been giving you any other issues?
- It's all I'm having.
Need you to work on it.
- I'll check the service log, I'll get that fixed for you
and I'll let you know how I'm doing.
- Thank you.
[hip hop beat]
- You're a sight for sore eyes
and I love any view.
But I know it's not polite if I keep staring at you.
- Did you write that Marvin?
- Oh, you heard me?
- I did.
It sounds really good.
- Yeah, I was working on the printer.
And I got inspired.
I'm writing for my girl.
We've been together for a few months.
And it was on my mind when I was working
so I just thought I'd write it down.
- Sounds good man, my wife been together for 30 years.
- Woo!
- Yeah, it's hard.
- We come together and groove.
I think she might be the one.
- Sounds good.
What's the printer looking like?
- I got it finished up right before I started this.
And let's go test it out.
- Let's check it out.
- Maybe I can make some copies of this.
[knocks]
- Baby I got it.
- [Keenan] Okay.
- Well, hello.
- Where's my child?
- [Keenan] Who is it?
- Where is my child?
And I could've sword I told you
I don't want just anybody with my child.
- You know what baby?
Don't worry about it, I'm about to leave anyway.
- Just call me.
- [Girl] And bye baby momma.
- She gonna pay.
Oh, she gonna pay.
- I told you to call before you come anyway.
You just popped up.
Look --
- I don't have to call first.
My child is here.
- We not gonna do this here.
- And that?
- In front of my child.
- That in front of my child?
- How about you go outside and I bring my child to you.
Thank you.
Don't be trying to slam my door either.
Crazy baby momma man.
[knocks]
- Who is it?
- We need to talk.
- What do we need to talk about?
- Listen, I don't want to be here, but.
- [Marvin] So what you here for then?
- I'm pregnant.
- Oh hold up, hold up, hold up.
How you know it's mine though?
- Really Marvin?
I was with nobody else but you.
Now you need to step up and be a father to this baby.
Man, wow.
You come over to my house
and fade me with you pregnant
and I'm supposed to just be like oh, okay
now I'm the daddy?
- Man up, I was with nobody else but you.
You know what?
Forget it.
I can take care of this baby by myself.
We don't need you.
[groans]
- Hey!
Hey!
Come on man pick up the phone.
Pick up the phone.
- Hello?
- Hey what's up bro?
- Yeah I'm about to holla at my boy real quick.
- You busy.
Look I'm a need you to hit me back for real.
- When I get through I'll hit you back in a minute.
- Like for real hit me back.
All right man, all right I'll talk to you soon.
- Okay, peace.
Lord please guide me and protect me.
I know what I'm about to do is wrong man.
But my heart is in the right place.
I don't know why this the only way I see to get money.
But lights about to get cut off,
the car about to get repossessed.
And I got a kid now.
I gotta provide for my family.
Lord please breathe in my direction.
Change my situation's complexion.
Keep me safe.
Amen.
Here we go.
- Hey P.
- I'm chilling with y'all.
So yeah man I need to holla at you real quick though bro.
- What's happening?
- Man, I been at job interview after job interview, man.
I cannot find no job, bro.
I need some, man.
I need some help man what can you do for me?
- Man, you know you just got out of school man,
you shouldn't be out here on the streets like that.
You know I just got out and I'm on paper.
You know.
- I know man but I don't see
no other way to get no bread man.
For real, I been praying, I went to the church.
I done did everything I can do.
And nothing is shaking.
So I'm just asking for a little something
until I can get on my feet.
- I can help you out man.
I might have to holla at TI though.
- Let him know, I got you.
- All right, I'll holla at TI, see if I can do this for you.
[hip hop beat]
- Careful man, you hear?
- Man, for real you know I will.
- I got something for you though,
man don't be out here playing man.
- [Keenan] I ain't trying to do nothing I ain't gotta do.
For sure.
Man, I appreciate that man, just let me know.
- Tommy no, come and get your stuff now.
I'm not gonna keep rapping with you.
Tommy, look, Tommy you.
Tommy you need to get your stuff.
No, I'm not trying to hear all of that.
You been waiting and procrastinating, all that,
I'm not trying to hit.
- Babe, babe.
Why you acting like that?
Quit being like that, I love you know, you know I love you.
- Well, I'm over you right now.
I got a new situation, you had your chance.
- Come on love, stop acting like that.
You know we can work it out.
- No, you had your chance Tommy.
We don't have nothing to talk about.
- [Tommy] Man, look I'm on my way to get my stuff,
I'll be over there in a minute okay?
- No, no, no, you gonna come get your stuff
and then you're gonna leave.
- Baby, baby, listen to me.
You know I love you.
You know I love you, I miss you, I just got out.
I been missing you for a long time.
Look I'm about to come over and get my stuff, all right?
- Come and get your stuff man, I don't care.
- Look, look, love, love listen, stop being that way.
- You don't.
Man, hold on my man is on the other line.
Hello?
Hey babe, yep.
Please come home, I can't wait till you get here.
Like, this dude got my nerves worked.
Tommy.
Tommy, yes.
He's supposed to get his stuff but.
He should be gone by the time you get here.
Yeah.
I see you when you get here babe.
All right bye.
- I'm about to come get my stuff,
I'm on the way over there.
- Man, what is this?
- [Tommy] Man, this whole fake shit, my boy lookin' dude.
- Hey, has he left before I came here?
- Marvin, stop.
- [Tommy] What's up man?
- No, Tommy, no!
Tommy, what?
Leave!
What you gonna do?
Hit me?
You can't control me no more.
- [Tommy] That's all right, hey this ain't over man.
This ain't over.
- Forget him, he's not worth it.
- Hey this ain't over man.
- You told me he was gonna be gone.
- Man, I didn't know that was gonna happen.
I thought he was gonna be gone already.
Let's go on, he's not worth it.
Hey.
Man, you never gonna believe this.
Look I'm a need you to be on the look out.
Yeah, for the white car, got cornrows.
Goatee.
Just pulled a strap on me.
Yeah.
In front of my girl, too!
Yeah.
All right bit.
[sighs]
- Babe, I don't like all this space between us.
Like you acting funny.
- Oh, this space between us?
- Yeah.
What?
- I asked you, was dude gonna be gone
before I came over to the house.
- Babe, really, you act like I planned that.
I thought he was gonna be gone before you got back.
- You might not have planned it
but I could've busted a block,
so you know what I'm saying that ain't even gonna happen.
- Okay, okay, babe look I was just fixing
to get ready to make you dinner.
Listen, okay, and I just wanted him
to get his stuff out the way.
- Oh you gonna make me dinner?
- I just want that to be over.
- For real?
- Well, forget the dinner.
Forget him, babe come and get this dessert?
Come and get this dessert,
is what you can do, and quite trying to be
you acting like a big baby like dang.
I didn't mean it, like I wasn't planning it.
I'm glad he gone, that's all that matters
is he's gone now, don't think about that.
There's nothing to worry about.
Think about me.
Okay, listen.
Do you want this dessert or not?
- Yeah, let me get it.
- I'll be right back.
[gunshots]
- Babe, what's going on?
- Didn't you hear that?
- No what?
- Yo that was a gunshot.
- Oh babe, they shooting all the time over here.
- No, it was in front of the house.
- Babe, it's my neighborhood.
You know it's bad over here.
It's not a big deal, just calm down.
Calm down.
It's all right.
- Where my dessert at for me?
- Okay, I tell you.
Guess you got excited huh?
[hip hop beat]
♪ What can I do, what can I do?
♪ Got me asking God, what can I do?
♪ Lord what can I do?
♪ What can I do, what can I do, what can I do?
♪ Got me asking God, what can I do?
♪ What can I do?
- Lord.
I don't know what else to do.
Can I speak for my crew?
This we're all going through.
Our pain runs deep.
How deep?
So deep I can't even sleep.
So tired of being poor, lord.
I need help, I'm tired of struggling.
Why's this all on earning, I work hard!
I went to school, got my degree.
But I can't even keep the lights on.
How I'm a be a man?
Please.
Don't gotta be rich.
Just want to be able to take care of my family.
Like it's too much.
Satan gonna give us too much that we can't handle.
You must think I'm strong.
But I'm weak.
I'm only strong when I got your help.
And I know you there for me.
I know.
[hip hop beat]
[phone rings]
Oh.
Hello?
- Hello?
Hey what's up bro?
You up?
- Yeah what's up bro?
You off work today?
- Yeah man, I'm not at work.
Are you at the house?
- Yeah, I'm at the crib, I'm just getting up.
- All right bit, look man I need to holla at you.
I need my big brother advice.
So I'm on my way, if it's cool with you.
- Yeah, you can swing through.
- Man, I'm a tell you what happened.
Look, I need to tell you face to face.
Look, the longer we talk on the phone,
the longer this'll take for me to get over there.
- It'll give me time to get up and get my life together,
I need to exercise this morning anyway.
I been slacking.
- All right, all right bit.
I'll be over there in a minute.
- All right, peace.
[knocks]
Sup bro, you good?
- Man, I'm good.
Sweaty?
- Oh yeah man, I was just hitting
a little weights over there man.
- Yeah actually matter of fact,
I need to hit it, especially when you heard man,
you ain't gonna believe this.
I'm a knock 'em out.
Yeah, I'm a have me a little sit in.
- Little weak, dude.
- Weak dude?
Man, what you talking about?
What you talking about homie?
What you got going on though?
- Oh man, let me show this man.
I know you gonna be mad, man.
But, I had to do what I had to do, man.
Hold on.
- Going to be mad.
Oh man, he brought a bag.
- [Keenan] Yeah, man
kind of smell it from the bag man,
just kind of you know, just open up the top.
- Ooh!
This that lab.
- But look, it's just temporary man, because.
- Man, you ain't even supposed
to be doing this no more though.
- Man, the bills keep coming man.
Man, I had to go to the church
so I won't even lose my car, my house,
and they tell me no.
Man, I had to do something man,
I'm about to lose everything.
- Church couldn't even help out?
- Church couldn't even help out.
- Man.
- For real.
- Dang, dawg.
But look you right around the corner from a breakthrough
getting a job and everything.
You can't be keep with this though man.
- I mean, I know it's just a one-time thing.
You know I just got out of school
so I ain't trying,
I'm not trying to do this!
I feel like I got to!
- Yo.
- Man, you asking too many questions.
- Look.
- You trying to smoke or not?
- I got some!
- Might as well since you got it bro.
- All right well go ahead and break it down some.
You know, we all know cigars they bad for your health,
but them papers man, raw papers and combs and stuff.
- Papers.
- Man they be way better for your body man.
You gotta think we getting older now.
- Yeah.
What you wanna do?
- No, you go ahead though.
I mean, I hit it a couple of times.
- All right let me go split this real quick.
- For sure.
Dang man, what's taking you so long to roll up man?
- [Marvin] Man, let me get that green real quick.
- Man, you, man I thought you had that.
You want me to smoke it for you too bro?
- Man, what you playing about bro?
Gritty.
Got a lighter?
Man, got that fatty wow.
So we need to be about for real though dude.
- [Keenan] What happened?
- Man, I'm at the house chilling.
- [Keenan] Right, right.
- She didn't come over there talking about some,
no, my fault.
I'm sitting in the house chilling, I hear.
[knocks]
Real loud on the door.
Man, I get up man, answer the door.
Mandy done threw a pregnancy test at me,
soon as I open the door.
- [Keenan] A pregnancy test?
- Bam, you know.
[laughs]
Hit me there in the chest.
Man what is this?
Man, she don't peed on everything, nasty.
Man, I don't want.
Look, and then so you know,
my next reaction is I don't even know it's mine.
Look man, I ain't talk to that gal in about two months
and then she show up at my door
throwing a pregnancy test at me?
[laughs]
What you mean is, it ain't mine.
- For sure.
Man, my baby momma just was here hitting me up
for my child support a few minutes ago!
Like she was talking like,
hey you need to come up with some bread.
Like man, I lost my job.
What you want me to do?
I'm still seeing my kid,
I'm still doing everything I need to do.
- Man, child support man,
don't tell me about no child support man.
What child support be looking like?
- Man, it's serious bro.
If you don't pay, they gonna take your license,
they gonna come arrest you, put you in jail.
Man they is not playing with no body for real.
- [Marvin] Man I don't even know what to do.
- If somebody who we at.
- [Marvin] Some of that gas.
- Right, I'm a tell you what though man.
All you gotta really do is just,
you gonna have to man up man.
You gonna, have you talked to, you know what I'm saying?
The new whoop-de-whoop?
- I'm tripping on it.
Like me and Karen like we doing super good right now.
- [Keenan] Mm hm.
- And now.
Now I get faded with, I got a possible baby momma?
- Man, I can't believe she said she pregnant bro!
[laughs]
- You can't tell me that
when your period was missing a month ago?
Like man, do I even tell my gal though man?
Or do I just, let it ride maybe get a DNA test
see if it's mine but like,
I got a gal out here on the streets
talking about how she pregnant with my kid.
So I feel like I gotta tell her.
- You gotta tell her though because,
well you gotta tell her if you find out 100%
that it's yours, but right now you don't know,
so it's kinda like a balancing act,
because if you tell her and it ain't yours,
it's gonna ruin your relationship.
But if you tell her and it is yours,
you know at least you heading it off early
and letting her know what's up,
because she deserve that.
- [Marvin] I'm stressing bro,
I so appreciate this right here.
- Hey, but look man, let me let you
hear this new song I've been working on bro,
let me go get this beat, man.
It's dope, like for real.
- [Marvin] Yeah okay.
- It's dope.
Maybe we can jump into yours or something,
you know I'm saying a little bit later on but yeah.
Okay hold on.
- Let me see what you got.
So you saying I should tell old girl?
- So here you go bro.
Pen for you.
I already got mine memorized a little bit, but.
You know what I'm saying.
- All right let me go with that beat then.
- Hold on man, I got you.
Ready?
All right.
Look.
♪ Oppression, depression.
♪ Stop those who progressing,
♪ Kids getting smoked, can't sit and learn a lesson.
♪ Take notice, this another rap-rock sequel,
♪ I wrote this rhyme to awaken my people.
♪ Me and my people.
♪ We hear my beat, bro.
♪ Jump on that beat bro.
♪ I flow what I see in front me.
♪ Can't appease a G, like starving Marvinly.
♪ 30 South, Cashville Tennessee, best believe.
♪ It's hard for me to concede, I'm about to have a baby.
♪ What does that mean for me?
♪ It means look,
♪ Welcome to the team of Papa Bear,
♪ Dirty diapers and underwear.
♪ Terrible tunes, I'm telling you what you can do,
♪ I don't know what to do, me and my crew.
♪ We got babies too.
- You got jokes man, you got jokes.
- Hey, I'm telling it.
I'm trying to tell you man.
That's how serious it be man.
- Man he said man, the team of papa bears and --
- Dirty diapers and underwear!
That's what it's gonna be,
gonna be changing some diapers man.
- Man, look man, let me go get something to eat man.
I got the munchies.
- Okay, okay.
- You got something to eat in here?
- Man you know I ain't got nothing to eat in there man.
I ain't got no job, you supposed to bring some food bro.
- Man he said papa bear man,
God I'm still stressed out about telling my gal man.
- Oh you ain't, oh that's right you ain't told her yet.
- Man I still gotta tell my gal bro.
- Stop beating on the table man,
the table ain't did nothing to you.
What you say?
- I still gotta tell my gal man.
Oh I didn't even tell you bit this part,
like I tried to tell her.
Man, hit that one time before we go.
- All right, no problem.
What you saying?
- Look, I went over to my gal's house to tell her.
And then her ex was getting the rest of his stuff
out of the house or something like that.
And then so she said it was cool for me to come over,
so I'm walking in the house.
I ain't even know whose car it was.
And we went and bumped shoulders
as we walking on the sidewalk.
So man, I looked at little dude,
he ain't paying no attention cause my gal done grab me,
man don't worry about him.
- Right?
- So dude goes and drives off.
- Right.
- It ain't no thing about that.
But it hand me the strength so I couldn't even tell my girl.
- Right.
- About the situation cause I was just in a situation
that was drama around my new gal.
- Right, so I mean y'all bumped into him?
What he trying to body check you or something like?
- We bumped shoulders homie.
Like stay on the weights.
Cause I don't know what it's gonna be
but I hope it's over with.
- Yeah, I'm hungry too though man.
But look if y'all wanna do something
you already know it ain't nothing.
- How we do on the man side.
- For sure man, well let me grab me
a shirt or something real quick man.
- [Marvin] Please.
[laughs]
- Where you trying to go for something to eat at bro?
- I don't care.
I don't even care bro.
- [Marvin] Yeah man, I'm about to eat.
- Hey man what happened to the back of your car bro?
- What you mean what happened to the back of my car?
- Man, it look like somebody shot your car.
- Man, don't be playing with me man, get up in the car man.
- No, like for real.
You need to come take a look at that right there.
- Man, don't play with me.
Man, don't play with me what you talking about?
- There.
- [Marvin] Oh!
Yo!
- What happened?
- Man I told you right after that dude last night,
I ain't tell you but I heard two gunshots,
when we was sitting off in the house.
- He shot your car up?
- He bumped into me, later on about two hours,
I heard two gun shots.
I looked out the window, I ain't seen nothing though.
I ain't see nobody pulling off, driving off, nothing.
I heard two gunshots last night.
And this dude done shot my car!
- Man, you got the strap?
- No, I ain't got the strap!
Hey man.
- I know where we can go and get one,
we go holla at my boy little man real quick.
We cool.
Then let's get.
That don't make no sense.
- Man, I can't believe this dude just shot my car!
- I know bro.
- Naw, I'm a get him.
- What's up bro?
- What's going on?
- Someone shot my buddy's car man.
- I think I know a dude.
Used to hang with my cousin.
- Light skinned dude.
- Right, right.
- Yeah, be careful man.
Y'all need anything.
- What's up?
You ready?
Let's go.
- Love y'all man be careful.
- Man it's messed up bro.
- Man I'm about to call my unc.
- Man you sure that's what you wanna do?
You know he man, he did not play.
He might kill this dude.
- I do not care.
- Man, there's consequences.
I care man.
You supposed to be a Godly man.
You sure you wanna go through all the way with this?
He shot your car, not you bro.
For real.
You sure this what you wanna do?
Cause you call him you already know it's gonna pop off man.
- Yeah, it's on.
It's on.
- Bro, this has got lifelong type of consequences though.
You know what I'm saying?
Because look, if he pop him.
Man.
People don't get away with murder.
- These are my options.
This dude's already shooting at my stuff.
I'm in the car, he shooting at me?
So it's either be protected, or be taken out.
- I understand that man.
I'm just saying make wise decisions,
because this is a life-long --
- Stay low-key.
Don't let nobody know where we staying.
Stay off the horn,
keep it as short as possible.
We eat, don't talk about no discussions.
- I think you need to take a deep breath,
calm down and really think about your next move man.
Because I'm telling you, bro.
- You don't get it.
This dude's a gangster.
He already.
- Man, all right.
I mean, I'm just saying man you need to pray about it
before you make a decision man.
- Man.
Man, I ain't hearing what you saying.
I'm calling my unc.
- Do what you gotta do bro.
Just saying.
- You soft.
- I'm soft?
Man, I'm smart.
That's why I'm out here.
- I'm right here with you.
- Right but you ain't live the life out here.
- Hello?
Unc.
Hey, I got a problem.
Look, my girl ex got mad, shot my car.
Man, this dude's name is Tommy.
I remember him saying his name Tommy.
I think he live off of Hayes manor.
Well, what you want me to do?
All right.
No, no, no man, I didn't get hit.
I'm straight.
But my car.
All right.
Yeah, meet me at the spot.
All right.
- What'd he say?
- Man.
He about to come through.
- That's what I thought.
- He about to come through.
- All right well.
- Hey, since you right here with me,
we talking about you right here with me.
- Man, I'm just saying
we already know right now it's fixing to pop off.
I mean, off the top.
They, a dude murdered.
I'm just saying it's a lot of loose ends to tie up.
That's all I'm saying.
I mean you gotta handle your business,
I understand your car got shot and all that.
I'm just glad you didn't get shot.
But.
Make sure that you give the right response
proper to what happen.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah yeah yeah.
- Is all I'm saying.
- There's a reason to go to little man's house.
Is all I'm a say.
- Right.
That's why we went.
- There's a reason.
- So we could protect ourselves.
- Exactly.
That's what I'm saying, that's the whole point.
- Okay, that's defensive.
E is coming for the offensive.
- Which wins games.
- Defense will win championship.
- But now we on some man stuff now.
- Right, right.
- Now we on the streets.
- All right, let's go on in the house man.
- See no we in the streets.
[hip hop beat]
- What you doing over here Tommy?
- [Tommy] I came over here to talk.
- Hey, what the Hell, stop!
I'm not gonna do it!
[screams]
- [Tommy] I told you quit playing!
I told you quit playing!
[screams]
I ain't going nowhere!
- You know I'm fixing to whoop you right?
- What?
- Man, you better know it!
- Hold up, I'm a get you off the game
just like I did homeboy over there!
Come on with the game!
- Here we go!
Let's get it!
- All right.
This what I do!
- Man, you whooped real quick.
- I ain't nothing like that.
That's your phone call, all right.
- Hello?
Officer?
Hey, you calling me about who shot my car?
Wait, what?
She's on her way to the hospital?
What happened?
What hospital is she at?
All right I'm on my way.
- [Keenan] What happened bro?
- Look man, my gal, she just got beat up.
She over in the hospital.
- We on our way!
[somber music]
- It hurts.
- Let me see it, let me see it, it needs to be changed away.
- No, it's so ugly, babe!
- I need to change the gauze.
You're still beautiful no matter what.
- Babe.
- Look, let me see.
- No.
- [Marvin] Let me take care of you.
- Listen, I need to talk to you.
Babe.
They told me I was ten weeks pregnant.
- [Marvin] Pregnant?
- Yeah.
[sighs]
Yeah.
- I'm a get you some gauze, okay?
- Babe.
Babe.
- There you go girl.
- I appreciate that.
- Appreciate you.
- Yo.
- What up Darrel?
- Yo fam.
- What's wrong with that door man?
- Raggedy.
[laughs]
Old school.
- [Keenan] Right, right.
- You know how it is.
- So what you been up to Couzo?
- Ain't nothing, I'm just chilling man.
Take it one day at a time.
- Yeah?
Yeah.
[sighs]
Yeah, man.
Who is that, is that Van Dam?
- Yeah man --
And John Paul?
Man, where you get this movie from?
- You know the old school kickboxing.
[laughs]
- Damn, man.
So what else you been up to though?
- Ain't nothing much man, just you know.
Like I said, just working, chilling.
I heard you still doing your hustling, huh?
- Little something something for a small amount of time
until I can get my pockets where they need to be.
It ain't what I'm choosing to do though.
You know.
Man, I went up to the church, you know talked to my pastor.
You know I was like,
man you just gave Chris, Everly baby daddy.
Man, I got all these degrees, like it don't mean nothing.
Like I can't find a job, nobody trying to hire me.
I can't get no help from the church.
And I been praying about it.
So maybe you know, I just gotta be more patient.
But, it's been hard cos, for real.
Man, I appreciate you hitting me up for that.
So I'm trying to get rid of them as soon as possible.
What you need anyway?
What you got for me?
- Well, let's see man.
I can pay here for 80.
- Oh, okay okay okay.
Yeah, I got that.
- Oh man, you got it all repacked in.
- Oh yeah, you know that's how we do it now,
you gotta be low-key, bro.
[gentle guitar music]
♪ Oh if I could go back to the start.
♪ With you.
♪ Had soak in all the glances once more,
♪ Colored my life in a red from blue.
♪ And all the words and all the touch
♪ You got me thinking I'll have too much.
♪ And all the time, your heart sublime.
♪ You got me thinking oh baby,
♪ Love is sweet.
♪ You got me shaking, in the knees.
♪ When I don't wake in your arms.
♪ I'm lost.
♪ 'Cause looking into your sleepy eyes,
♪ I don it, the hope that leads me to carry on.
♪ The places we'll go.
♪ The things we'll see.
♪ There's no one else with whom I'd rather be.
♪ This life is ours.
♪ One day we'll catch the stars.
♪ Oh 'cause you know that baby, love is sweet.
♪ And it's everything this little heart could need.
♪ All I know is you healed me.
♪ And I know that there I've been.
[laughs]
♪ Because baby, I adore you.
- Hey, the dude who pulled a strap on you?
Yeah, he's up here at this gas station.
What you want me to do, I got the strap?
All right.
- You saying right now?
Well, what's up then?
Hold on let me get Marvin man, hold up, hold up.
[knocks]
Marvin, let me holla at you real quick, come here hurry up.
Hurry up.
I got some news.
- What's good?
- Man look, they said they do it right now.
They caught him at the gas station slipping man.
They could pop him, they got him
in the crosshairs right now, what you want to do?
Hold on bro.
- [Marvin] Man, I really wanted
to get him myself though really.
Hey, we could ride up.
We could go get him right now!
I got the yuk in the car.
- Marvin no!
You know we got this baby on the way!
You can't do this!
No, what you gonna let your pride get in the way
- [Marvin] Come on man stay in your lane!
- No, how you gonna take care of this baby
if you dead or in jail?
Like no.
- [Marvin] I got this, I got this.
- No, you need to come on.
No, you cannot do this!
- [Keenan] I ain't gonna let him do nothing.
- No, we got a baby on the way!
What you mean?
- [Keenan] I ain't gonna let him do nothing.
- What you mean,
what you mean you ain't gonna let him do nothing?
I can hear, I'm not stupid.
- Baby, don't stress out the baby.
- Don't stress out the baby, don't stress out me!
Don't stress out your family!
Come on, what do you care about more?
What's more important, your pride?
- All right man, look I'm a...
Look we straight bro, we gonna go ahead
and let him ride right now man, we gonna catch him later.
- Okay, all right.
- Okay, I'm out bro, look.
I'm about to dip.
Momma, I'm a go ahead and go.
- [Marvin] Look look look, I'll be in in a minute.
- No, I don't trust it, I don't trust it, no.
Bye!
- Man, look I'll hit you up.
I'll hit you up.
- You sure?
- Man, let me take care of her real quick man.
Appreciate that though.
Keep eyes on him.
- [Keenan] For sure.
All right bro.
[hip hop beat]
- What the?
I know these fools ain't trying to roll up on me man.
All right, all right.
- God?
I'm in a situation.
I need some guidance.
I need you to tell me what to do.
My car done been shot, my girl done been beat up.
If he keeps on coming at my family lord,
I gotta protect them.
So if you could promise me that I got peace,
man I let him be.
I let him be.
I'll forgive, I'll show forgiveness.
But God.
If he gonna keep coming at me,
I got to end it.
So please, give me peace of mind.
Protect my family.
[hip hop beat]
♪ In my life, to my love, to my children to my wife.
♪ To my friends.
♪ Who sometimes say I'm less than perfect.
♪ The truth is, you're worth it.
♪ The proof is your interpretation never surfaced.
♪ With the shoes on my feet, am I your humble servant.
♪ Realize, do I take pride in my service.
- Come in.
- [Keenan] Hey.
- [Therapist] Good morning.
- [Keenan] I'm Mr. Robertson.
- Mr. Robertson, have a seat.
It's good to have you.
So what brings you in today?
- Uh, the free session I saw on the advertisement.
Yeah, I lost my job a few months ago.
And I been kind of having a hard time you know.
I'm stressed, been to a thousand interviews.
Can't sleep, because I keep thinking about it.
And you know my baby momma keeps asking me for money.
And it's just hard right now.
You know my girl said she went to some therapy sessions
a while ago and it helped her.
So I'm just here to just.
Try to find some help.
- So sounds like that you have some good influences
on what therapy could be like.
But you don't have any personal experiences yourself.
Okay.
What are you expecting to get out of therapy?
- I don't know.
Just maybe some peace of mind.
To where I can sleep.
Yeah.
- Okay.
So, moving forward,
it would be really important for both of us
but particularly you to understand,
that our job positions and stress
and sometimes even relationships.
Those things can be temporary.
And it's natural to want to keep those things
or even experience loss, stress, not being able to sleep.
When those things are threatened.
Or seem like they're gonna move away.
But our happiness and that peace of mind that
you were talking about,
those things aren't tied to temporary things.
And your worth and your sense of being enough
those things are eternal, as you are.
So if we could keep that orientation in mind
as we move forward, that can be the foundation
for us to do work while we're in therapy.
What do you think about that?
[sighs]
[phone rings]
- Hello?
Yeah, this is Mr. Robertson.
7:45?
Yeah, I can be there by 7:45.
Okay, thank you.
[bell chimes]
- [Secretary] Can I help you?
- Yes, I'm here to substitute for Miss Miller's room?
- Sign in.
Do you know where her class is?
- [Keenan] No ma'am.
[sighs]
- Go out the hall to room 109.
Go downstairs, catch the elevator if you want to.
Have a good day.
- [Keenan] Good morning class.
- [Children] Good morning Mr. Robertson.
- Hello?
Marvin?
- I just got to work.
What do you want?
- I just want you to know
that we're going to have to go to court.
So you can pay child support for your son.
- Look, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
- We need to handle this.
It doesn't have to be like this.
- You made it like this.
Man, don't talk about --
Bye.
- Hello?
Marvin?
[sighs]
- Hello?
- Hey baby.
How you doing?
- Yeah, I'm doing good.
How about you?
I'm a little stressed out, concerned, worried.
- Nah baby, we fine honey.
- Look are you sure you're okay me coming to work?
- Get that corn.
We good.
Do what you gotta do.
- Okay.
Well, listen.
Let me ask you something.
Let me ask you something real quick.
How you feel about you coming
and staying with me for a few days?
- I would love that.
- Okay.
Well look, I'm a call you on
my lunch break or something okay?
- Okay, talk to you later.
All right bye.
- All right, baby, love you.
[sighs]
Sir we got that other machine all cleaned up.
And, anything else we can do for you?
- No, that's all I need today.
By the way.
Do you have any more of that poetry you were working on?
- I have a few pieces that I've been collecting.
Why you ask?
- I was talking to a publishing friend of mine,
and we were thinking about maybe turning it into a book.
- What, really?
- Yeah.
- What do I need to do?
- You need to get it all together.
Put it into a file.
And get to me as quick as possible
so we can read it.
- Absolutely, absolutely, thank you, thank you, thank you.
[hip hop beat]
- My head has been a lot clearer lately.
You know with me going to like therapy man.
It really is something that I think
everybody probably kind of needs to look into.
Just a bit.
Just because it's, man it's helpful
to work through some stuff.
Man, have you ever thought about going
on and seeing a therapist or something like that?
A councilor or something like that?
[knocks]
- Come in.
Mr. Robertson.
- [Keenan] Hey, how are you?
- [Therapist] Hey, sir, good to see you.
Welcome back.
- Good to see you too.
- Absolutely, have a seat.
Whoops, thank you.
Okay, it's good to see you.
- You too, you too.
I thought that the last session went really well,
so I decided to sign up for another one.
- All right.
- Yeah, it helped me a little bit.
And I appreciate that.
- Okay, so before I ask about what's been going on,
what about the last session did you like?
Did you --
- Well, it just allowed me to be able
to just talk my way through some things.
And be more solution-oriented
and not think about stuff so much.
Like, oh I gotta get this done, I gotta get this done.
And living in the moment a little bit.
- Yeah, and I also wanted to tell you
that the pre and post test that we took
to look at your stress levels?
They were really really high when we first started
the session, and your last one after
the session that we did?
It was significantly lower.
- Good.
- So it's good that I'm hearing this data from you.
That you felt like you got something out of it
because your scores showed that you felt less stressed.
- Yeah, they told me that my ACES score was really high?
From childhood trauma or something like that.
But I don't know.
- Yeah, that's the Adversive Childhood Experiences Survey.
They came out of Harvard,
and actually they're trying to put it into school systems
to make sure that we're being able to identify
our kids who need more support.
And as well as with adults, identify and be aware
so we can address it, so yeah.
So tell me, what's been going on?
- Well, you know just kind of.
You know, working through those things.
I got a position where I'm subbing more frequently,
so that's let me not have as much stress
and bringing in some income.
So that's good.
But you know I had a situation
where one of my brother's car got shot up.
And you know I'm just trying to not do something
that's gonna jeopardize my future.
- Mm hm.
- And it's just hard to navigate those situations.
And do the right thing sometimes.
So I'm just trying to think my way through it
instead of just being irrational.
What's up bro?
Man, I see you still rocking them cowboy?
- Yo, baby we gonna always be cowboys man.
Paying child support, I had to give extra
on top of what I giving you already.
- They already asking for extra?
- Man, come on man.
Hey I got bills myself.
I gotta live!
- Right.
- But at the same time man,
I want to be able to any and everything for them
but you know man, I've been going through it bro.
I just need a little prayer man,
because I man trying to survive out here on these streets,
and these streets out here ain't calling me.
I'm trying to go home and be with
the family and take care of mine, but.
- Yeah, you know.
Everybody needs some prayer sometimes man.
You know what, man I'll pray for you right now.
- Man, please bro.
Thank you.
Take my hand and pray with me.
- For sure.
Dear heavenly father,
we pray that you keep your hand on this young man.
- Yes sir.
- And let him be successful in what he's doing.
Help him to build and keep having
to break relationships with his children,
make sure that his finances are where they need to be.
And you keep your hands on him,
all of his stuff like we know that you said that you would.
And let him allow you to lead his life
in the right direction and make good decisions
that are gonna last a lifetime
and have generational value
and break generational curses,
and keep things all together in love and glorify your name
and it'll all be for you.
In the name of Jesus amen.
- Amen, man.
Amen.
- Yeah, that's what it's about right there man.
- Man, I appreciate that man, I felt that man.
- 'Cause look, prayer changes things.
That's the only thing I know that works.
In my whole life, for real.
Prayer.
And talking I really kind of believe in,
that it's bigger than me.
Because man, I done went through so much in my life
now I see because I'm helping other kids.
I wouldn't even know.
I would be like one of these people come
from Montana, or Wyoming, that ain't ever lived in the city.
That don't know about you know helping somebody else.
Because they ain't ever been in it.
- Right.
- And God just put me in that position man,
and that just really made me a better person.
To where it ain't about me no more.
It's about the bigger picture, what I can give back.
Because I be thinking, I'm a die all the time,
I'd have been shot at, ganged, all the crazy stuff
that happen and it's like,
am I supposed to be here?
You know?
And then when God give you different opportunities
to let you cash in on why he even got you here.
That right there man.
It really been helpful for me in my life.
Man, I'm a keep praying for you man.
- Man, really man.
- You gotta come over to the house man, for sure.
- Man, I'm a have to come over there.
- I got a small chess board, it ain't super nice.
- We gonna get us a big old chess board.
- I need a minute.
- You don't have to worry about it.
- Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah.
- We put a couple of them in the alley,
you know how it look good all the time.
And say a few more prayers for a man
because I'm about to make it out here.
Ain't gonna let this situation stop me,
because there ain't nothing out here
gonna be able to stop me.
Only person that can stop you is yourself.
I don't believe in that,
yeah because the system trying to,
and they trying to do it in the system and stuff.
You know all it ain't gonna stop me.
Hey what it do Charles,
what's up with you baby?
- How about them Cowboys?
- Oh my god.
[laughs]
- Man, but yeah man.
When it's all over said and done man.
I'm a step foot out here and I'm gonna make it.
- You ain't got no choice but to.
You got people riding on you.
Waiting on you.
Right, you got you just trying to get the food.
- I hate to see the backside of you.
Is walking away from me what you really wanna do?
You're a sight for sore eyes and I love any of you.
But I know it's not polite if I keep staring at you.
So hello lady, hi can I please stand by your side?
And I'm sorry if I disrespected,
my approach can be corrected.
Seeing the back of you had me affected
but don't walk away from, my mind would be hectic.
To know that our heart's time will be neglected.
So I'm daydreaming of us being spiritually connected,
so here pouring out my soul is how I left it.
- Okay.
My goodness.
That's awesome.
[chuckles]
I was not prepared.
I didn't know you had that in you, like what?
What?
You a little poet hon.
- There's a whole lot more I'm trying to show you.
- Little poet, who knew?
- But look.
There's something I need to tell you though.
- Tell me what?
What's up?
- I don't know how to say it.
- Just say what's on your mind babe, what's up?
- I really care about you.
I'm here with you in this relationship.
We about to have a baby.
And I feel like I need to be 100% with you.
- As you should.
What's up?
Just talk.
Can't be that serious, like.
What's up?
- My ex came by my house.
- Mm hm?
- And she told me she was pregnant
- Okay, that has nothing to do with you.
What that gotta do with you?
- She's saying it's mine.
- What?
No, Marvin.
No.
Are you kidding me?
So you been still messing with her?
- No. - Are you serious?
- I ain't even.
- Does she know about me?
Does she know we got a baby?
Does she know you got this to take care of?
Like, how could you do this?
Like are you serious, no!
So you gonna mess with her.
- I wasn't messing with her.
- Really, you gonna get her pregnant?
- It was like seven months ago.
- So you gonna leave me for her.
- No, I'm not leaving you for her.
- Well then why you still messing with her?
- You're not listening to what
I'm saying about how I feel about you?
- Well you ain't said nothing to me.
And it's not about your words, it's about your actions.
- My actions, baby look.
I done got you a ring and everything.
I'm serious about us.
Yo, I want us to be together.
- I don't want it like this.
Not like this.
- We gonna make it work.
We gonna make it work.
- Not like this.
- Yo, I'm gonna be here for you and the baby.
That's why I love you.
I'm sorry.
- You know so I'm learning,
like I look at this theory of the sponge.
To where I take in everything everybody does around me,
all the people I care about.
All the people that influence me.
And things that I can benefit from, I keep in.
But I squeeze out all the things that
I feel like are not beneficial to me, and not gonna help me.
And you know, I cast those away.
That way I can keep the good and expel the bad.
Because it's not necessarily what you put out
but what you got in.
So that's my theory.
- That's amazing.
I'm gonna give you a great quote,
that you know how we got different
people got different quotes.
I'm gonna give you an Uncle D quote.
That I over the years, I use.
I came upon it when I was in college 'cause.
What I did in college, is I was,
a big fish in a little pond I went to a small college.
I was successful, and I went and had a big hit.
Never allow a reaction
to an attraction create a distraction.
Maintain your focus.
- Say that again, say that again.
- You're on point right now,
doing some great things, God is blessing you
and has blessed you.
Never allow a reaction to an attraction
create a distraction.
So in other words, something over here,
for me it was girls.
In college --
- For me it's girls too!
- Reacting to those, seeing an attraction
and reacting to it takes me away from my focus
of what I was doing.
I need to maintain my focus, do my work.
What I'm supposed to do at school.
And study and do all those things.
So that attraction can take you away
from what your commitment to do.
So stay committed to what you do.
Maintain your focus.
And then...
- Man it wasn't over.
- Man, I'm a put on my shades dude.
- Man you don't need to put on them shades.
- Man, see what I just did.
- You gonna need to put on some shades bro, like.
Because you gonna be in the dark after I knock you out.
But let's it though Keenan, what you gonna do?
What you gonna do?
- I'm about to show you what I'm about to do.
Oh, yeah.
Let me tell you this man.
I got a call from Mr. Howe.
You know he does performances and stuff.
And they got this performance coming up.
You know the mayor gonna be there
and some other acts and stuff
and they asked us to perform and I was like yeah!
So you down?
You gonna get up there with me?
We can do like a duality flow thing or something?
It'd be dope.
- Man, we done talked about it before.
- Right.
- But we gonna need to practice.
- Duh!
Because we know you ain't got your word number one.
- All right.
That's real good news.
- Right, I'm trying to tell you.
- Time I get win right there.
- What win?
Win you imagining.
Everybody wanna get Keenan, I'm getting Charlie
every time putting on feed.
Spinning bird kick!
- You got one move.
- Oh you want me use some other move?
Hold on now, hold on now.
There some other moves.
- So what you wanna do after the show?
- This dude is beating me!
Let me take off, it's the shades man.
- Yeah, it is.
- I can't see good.
[hip hop beat]
- Thank you coach Key so much for helping me out.
I appreciate you doing this stuff.
If you could just please put it in the bathroom.
[phone rings]
- Hello?
Hey, is this Mr. Robertson?
- Yes, this is Mr. Robertson.
- Hey, this is Miss Miller from school.
How you doing?
- Oh hey Miss Miller.
- Well, I was just calling you
because I'm getting ready to go on maternity leave
in a couple of weeks and I had spoke to the principle
here at school and I was trying to get you
a permanent substitution position job until the end of
the school year, how do you feel about doing that?
- Really?
Oh wow.
That is awesome.
Thank you so much.
Yes.
Absolutely.
I appreciate you.
- [Teacher] And we're going to switch up,
so that the next group can come paint.
[chuckles]
[phone rings]
- Hello?
Oh hey Miss Miller.
- You know Mr. Robertson, the kids love you.
And you always do a good job.
So what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna leave the lesson plans laid out for
the next five weeks, and I think we're gonna have
a position for you next school year.
I'll talk to the principal.
Several teachers are leaving,
so if you do a good job, the position could be yours.
So just make sure that you're on your P's and Q's.
- Yes, absolutely.
I will be on my P's and Q's everyday.
Yes.
Tell them yes.
Thank you for the opportunity.
- No problem, thank you so much.
And I will see you soon.
[sighs]
- Lord, thank you.
Thank you thank you thank you.
I know two times I tried to lead to my own understanding.
Lord, you're always on time.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate the opportunity.
I won't let you down.
Thank you lord.
Amen.
- Bro, I heard you talking about my momma.
You don't be doing that bro.
- [Kid] What you gonna do about it?
- I'm gonna fight you.
Come on, square up.
- Mr. Robertson?
- This Mr. Robertson.
- There's about to be a fight on the first floor.
- Okay, I'm on my way.
- You don't want none of this small fry.
- Hey hey hey, man what is y'all doing?
Y'all too big for this.
What's going on?
- He was talking about my momma and I don't like it.
It gets me like mad talking about my momma.
- You know his momma?
- Does he know your momma?
- No.
- So every time somebody say something about you
you don't like, y'all gonna fight?
- No.
- See 'cause when I was y'all age,
man, I ended up having to go to juvenile.
Get put in handcuffs.
Went to alternative school for a year.
That's not what I want for y'all.
Y'all know what's happening to kids like
y'all in the streets right now?
- They're dying?
- What's happening?
- They're dying like he said.
They keep getting shot at 'cause
they wanna start stuff like this.
- And that's what you wanna do?
- No.
- That's what you wanna do?
So look, I see your grades and your test scores.
I see your grades and your test scores.
Y'all are too smart for this mess.
Too smart.
You gonna learn, you gonna have to learn
how to control your emotions,
you have to learn how to control your anger.
Because if you don't, you're gonna be a statistic.
And that's not what I want for you.
Y'all are both black men.
Y'all gonna grow up and be black men anyway.
Right now y'all acting like little boys.
Y'all gotta do better than this.
- Yes sir.
- Do you understand me?
- Yes sir.
- Do you understand me?
- Yes sir.
- Now this can't happen no more.
Do I need to go ahead and just suspend y'all?
Put y'all out of school so you can learn a lesson?
- No. - No sir.
- Do we need to call your momma?
- No sir.
- Do we need to call your momma?
Are you sure?
- Yes.
- Because this mess need to be over with.
Is it over with?
Shake hands.
Now I don't want to see this mess no more.
Go your separate ways.
Acting crazy.
- Man what's up my people.
- [Keenan] What's up with you?
- Oh man, long time no see man!
What's up cos?
What's up bro?
You know I love you man.
- [Marvin] Come on get your hug.
Yeah!
Who you got here?
- Yeah?
- Dayton and Dulsa?
- [Marvin] Dayton, Dulsa y'all look like some twins.
- Like some twins!
- They are!
- They are twins!
Those my twins!
Brother got twins!
Twins, twins twins!
- Lord, this is a message to you.
I don't know what else to do.
And I speak for my crew,
'cause this is what we all going through.
Our pain runs deep.
- How deep?
- So deep I can't even sleep.
Tossing and turning, chest burning.
Why's this all we're earning.
Nine to five, minimum wage,
man is this why I'm working?
I'm living check by check, stressed,
but blessed to be living.
I'm still willing to strive,
prospect these means to beings.
But that lifestyle involves some dirty dealing
that's not appealing.
A storm cloud's covering my mental vision.
It still burns.
The world still turns.
As we get closer to the end of our worldly life terms.
And these are the days of our lives.
As the world turns.
- These are the days of our lives as the world turns.
I sit still and my mind travels a million miles a minute.
I'm thinking about the world and how we fit in it.
We're just really mere molecules
and we need earthly things to survive.
- To survive.
- And I strive to appreciate all life
which helps me stay alive.
If there was no food chain, you couldn't eat.
So you can't say that you stand on your own feet.
If there was no gravity we'd all be floating and go away.
So let's make this world better
and not just try to maintain.
And these things could drive a thoughtful person to pain.
And doctors could give you drugs
and diagnose of this loose in your brain.
When you hunger for good I bet you find pain.
And then you find others who like you feel the same.
And these are just the small pieces of emotions
that run through my brain.
[low tempo music]
- To give us a space to try things
and do things and discover who is
that they need to be, and who needs to be out.
They give us a machine that can fail in those spaces
but the family gives us that space.
And they fail to describe a fraction of the hope
sometimes it's what's necessary.
Sometimes we it's odd, but we feel we need to do.
- Hey Miss Corlowe, tell Mr. Robertson
that I'm ready for him.
- [Keenan] How you doing doc?
- Nice to see you.
- [Keenan] Absolutely.
- Have a seat for me, have a seat.
- Yes sir.
- So, I've been watching you work
obviously over the last couple of months.
Our boys and girls love you.
Every time I sit down and have a conversation with a parent
they consistently tell me that you're making connections
with the boys and girls.
And you're pushing them to new heights.
As you know we have a teacher that's retiring
at the end of the school year.
And I would like to just formally offer you
a position to join our team.
- Wow.
Thank you.
Absolutely, yes sir.
I'm, yes.
What do I need to do?
- So there's a couple of steps I can take.
Obviously we gonna make the offer at the school level.
Our HR department will reach out to you.
They'll make the official offer
and talk salary, compensation.
And then you'll accept the job with them.
But I'm excited to have you as part of the team.
I know you gonna change lives here.
- Thank you, look thank you.
Man I appreciate y'all getting me.
I've been praying for a job.
This is a blessing, I really appreciate you.
- Well, my pleasure.
We're looking forward to seeing how you change lives here.
- Yes sir, thank you.
- All right.
- [Keenan] Oh man, what's up with you bro?
- What's going on?
- I'm chilling man, I'm chilling you know.
Woo.
So what's been up with you?
What you got going on?
What you reading over there, the Bible?
- Yeah, reading the Bible.
Trying to find some inspiration for my poetry book.
- Okay, okay.
Where you at in there?
- Genesis 22.
- Oh okay, oh you already got this one marked off on me
you must knew.
[laughs]
All right.
- Yeah.
- Oh man guess what, I got some good news though bro.
- What happened, what's going on with you?
- Man, today you know I been subbing at my job and stuff.
- Yeah, I see you looking all clean.
- Right, right, right right right.
Principal called me into the office,
I'm thinking like man I'm probably in trouble or something
man because you know I'm in there going hamburgers,
you know telling kids to stop, get your life together.
- But you off in the projects though.
- Right, deep off in the hood.
But you know I can relate to those kind of kids.
And that's what he said.
He was like look, Mr. Robertson
you been doing a good job
and parents giving me good compliments about you.
We got a teacher retiring,
we want you to come work full time for us.
Yeah, he offered me the job today man!
I was like, woo!
Hallelujah!
God bless you, be like yes sir, yes sir!
- Right right man.
Man, God bless you.
What you gonna do with all that product you got?
- Oh, you talking about that?
- I mean.
- Okay, so this is what I'm thinking.
I talked to little man TI.
And they told me just give him the bread
for what I got rid of,
but for the rest of the stuff you know, I can take back.
And they said they'd take it back.
You know, they don't normally do that.
There ain't no refunds in the hood.
- Hey, but he didn't really want you to take it no ways.
- Right right.
- That's real love right there.
- Right, I didn't really wanna go that way anyway.
Kind of like, kind of like every hymn in this psalm.
Like the ram and the bush.
You know God gave me an outlet
to where I didn't have to do,
you know, 'cause I didn't really want to do that.
- Right.
- That's a lot of risk.
- You was gonna sacrifice your freedom.
- Freedom.
Right.
In my life and everything else.
- Right.
- To get money.
- Right, trying to survive.
- Right.
But you know Bob Marley said,
Bob Marley said numbers are endless.
So if you're searching for numbers for your happiness,
you ain't never gonna be happy.
So you know it just kind of made me think about that.
- Well let me think about that for a second.
- Yeah man.
- Man, wow.
- Yeah man.
- Right.
Because you can always just add some zeros infinitely.
- Right.
Infinitely.
Right so I'm just glad God did what he did for me.
- Like divinity.
- That was a super big blessing man, for real.
- Man, everything seems to be turning around man.
- Right.
- You put God first, and put trust up in him,
it seems like no, I know for a fact.
I can testify.
You have blessings in your life.
- Absolutely.
- You have trials and tribulations, yes,
but you have blessings in your life.
- Right.
- You know my book's about to get published.
You just got promoted.
- Oh yeah, they did that?
That dude at your work?
- Man!
- Congratulations man!
- You know what's what I'm saying, get the inspiration
go ahead and finish that that project!
The concert we're practicing for.
- Right, right, right.
- And then, I think we need to go celebrate.
Hey, matter of fact.
My boss said he was gonna take us four-wheeling man,
he said hey we gonna take a four-wheeling trip,
do you wanna go?
- Are you asking me to go?
- Yeah, I'm asking you to go.
- Yeah, I'll go!
- Yeah!
There's nothing wrong for that mountain!
- For sure, yeah absolutely.
That sounds fun.
You know I need to celebrate anyway.
God's just been blessing me lately.
And well, he been blessing my whole life,
but really lately he been coming through for me man.
- Yeah, you was in a dark place.
That I ain't know, we both for it man.
You know, just, you come to a crossroads
and if you lean towards God, you gonna make the right path.
- Right.
- And I mean, I'm just glad I got you as a brother man.
Somebody go through that with.
- Absolutely man, me too.
Me too.
Make sure you stay in your place, little brother.
[laughs]
- That's what God got.
- You know we ain't nothing without God man.
That's the realest thing ever man, I love that.
- You gonna accept.
Your inself is your energy.
Like I put on every post about Nispey.
Energy never dies.
Your energy is here.
You know what I'm saying,
and then the thing, Nispey modeled himself after Pot.
He said thug life.
He screamed pot.
All that.
And look what he did.
He's just not common.
[sneezes]
- [Marvin] Bless you.
- Oh!
Get something for everybody, get some chicken man.
- Hey, home boy need that.
- What up with y'all?
- What's up bro?
- Bro.
Man.
Your dope man, it's the rest of what I had,
I already played it with TI man.
I appreciate you, God bless you man.
God came through for me what.
- You know there's no refunds on this type of thing.
- What you say?
- You know there ain't no refunds on this man.
- Man, I do understand.
I talked to TI and we worked it out.
- You know, know I love y'all.
I'm a accept it this time.
- Man I appreciate it man.
I'm trying not to never have to come back to that.
For real.
But if I need you, I'm a call you.
For real.
- That's what's up, that's what's up.
- Y'all handle that?
- Yeah, we did handle that business.
Come through.
- Yeah, much love, much love.
- Well we gonna head out now bro, we gonna shake.
I just wanted to you know, come drop that off.
And get your bread that I made off of it.
Man, I got a job man!
- That's what's up man.
- I got a job, I appreciate that urine sample.
- Yeah, yeah, everything you need, just call me man.
- Okay.
- You know I always got you.
- BT, all right bro.
Hey man, what's this book you reading?
Is this Being on Living?
Oh man, where I get this from.
- You can have it.
- Man, I appreciate that man.
What's up.
For sure.
- Man, I read those.
Man, I appreciate that bro, for real.
- All right, all right y'all.
Y'all be careful.
Let me have ten dollars and get the chicken.
- Woo boy!
- Man, we about to ride buddy.
- Absolutely!
- Which one you think you gonna be on?
- Man, I like that blue thing over there.
- Yeah, you look like a blue thing over there.
- Right, blue what you talking about.
- Man, I think I'm gonna --
- [Boss] Hey guys.
- Hey! - Hey!
- Feeling all right?
Yes sir, yes sir.
- Y'all ready to ride?
- Man, these are some nice machines you got, absolutely.
- [Boss] You gonna ride the black one Marvin?
- That's what I was peeping on anyway.
- You ride the blue one?
I'm a ride that red one,
and my daughter CJ is gonna ride that one.
- Okay.
- [Boss] Got something for you.
- What you got?
- Check it out.
- This is my book?
- [Boss] That's your book!
- Ooh!
Woo!
Wow.
Yo look!
- All right!
- This is amazing!
For real!
- [Keenan] You think you can get me one of them?
- I got you man.
- [Keenan] All I gotta do is jut the same thing he did?
- Same thing, get your stuff together.
- Wow, thank you so much.
This is gonna be a great day.
I'll never forget this day in my life.
- That's dope man.
- Hey, well let's go ride!
Got my book out!
[hip hop beat]
[shrieks]
- [Marvin] Is she okay?
- [Boss] She's out.
- Oh my God, what happened, what happened?
- Don't touch her don't touch her don't touch her man,
don't move her, her neck might be broken.
- Oh my God.
- She's not responsive.
- Is she bleeding?
- No, I don't see any blood.
- Okay, what about 911?
- We can't call 911, I been drinking.
- [Keenan] You been drinking?
- [Marvin] Man.
- [Keenan] I only had one beer!
- I don't want to go back to jail.
- I don't know what to do.
- Oh man, see we going to jail man,
she probably dead man!
- They say, come as you are.
We've been drinking.
We need your healing power.
- Oh my God.
You think she's gonna die?
- Hold on man, let's pray for her.
- You think that's gonna work?
- There's no other option.
I don't know what else to do.
I know God is real.
God I know you're real.
I don't know how your healing power works
we been drinking, can I come as we are?
I don't know what to do.
What is the process?
If I'm supposed to be a holy man?
- We need a miracle.
- We need a miracle, God please just.
God let me just lay hands on her.
God please.
I know you have healing in your power.
I don't know if we're supposed to speak it
into existence or ask you to heal her.
But God let her be healed, in Jesus' name.
- Lord, please bless her.
I know that you can heal all wounds.
I know that you the author and creator of our faith.
And you get to decide who comes and who goes.
But lord don't let it be her time.
Do not let it be her time, lord.
We got too much living to do.
Amen.
- She's starting to move.
She's waking up.
- Are you all right?
- Are you okay?
- [CJ] What's going on?
- Can you feel this?
- Hold on, slow down.
- [Boss] Don't move.
- [Marvin] You sure you're okay?
- You all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
What's going on?
It's fine, everything's cool.
- You sure?
- Yes.
Yeah, I'm good.
- Thank you lord.
You sure you're all right man?
- Man, I'm all right dude.
- Man that was crazy.
- That was crazy.
She's back in the cabin.
- Man, you know those concussions come
a little bit late sometimes, she need to be careful man,
don't let her go to sleep.
- Yeah, we're gonna have to watch her tonight.
Man, I'm a head on back, check on the girls.
Man, I'll meet you at Dead Man's curve man
if y'all wanna ride later.
- Yeah, I think that's where we about
to head right now right?
- All right, I'll meet y'all there.
- See you over there.
Man.
Man, you think she's,
I think she's really okay.
- Man, you know how God work man.
- That is a trip.
- It's crazy though, it's crazy.
- Did you see when she flipped off?
- Right, she flew through the air like Superman.
[laughs]
For real.
- I guess I can laugh about it now,
because she seem like she okay, but golly
she flew off that four-wheeler.
- Right, right.
- Man.
God do answer prayers though man.
- For real, nothing without God man.
- It couldn't have been a coincidence.
- Right.
- Yeah, nothing without God.
Man all right, let's uh.
Man, I'm a go clear my head man.
Be safe man.
- [Keenan] Marvin!
- Yeah, I'm over here!
- [Keenan] Where, I can't see you!
- I'm slipping!
- [Keenan] I'm coming, I'm coming!
I see you, I see you!
Come on!
Come on.
Come on!
Come on bro!
I got you!
- [Boss] Man what happened to y'all?
Hey that's Dead Man's curve.
- Man, nobody ever makes it out of there alive man.
- Man, y'all lucky.
- Man God was with us that wasn't luck.
- You all right?
- You got some water?
- [Boss] Got water.
- Man.
Thought I just died.
- You did.
- You all right man?
It's a long way down Marvin.
- Come on man, let's get up out of here.
I need a tow.
- That's when I stopped and put her.
And you all right?
Four-wheeler, four-wheeler.
Screw the four-wheeler man.
You all right?
I think so.
[laughs]
I think so.
Yeah, you all right.
- Man.
I didn't really realize I wrecked
at Dead Man's curve though,
so all I could think about was the four-wheeler.
I wrecked your stuff.
I knew I was okay, so I was concerned about that.
- You know then I heard him I was like aw man.
I didn't hear it.
I didn't hear the four-wheeler or nothing no more.
So I jumped off and went down this little ravine
where I saw the brush had been broken.
And I saw him hanging down there.
And there wasn't nothing underneath of him.
It was like, just like a drop off the side of a mountain.
And when I walked down there.
I slid, I almost fell in that, just me.
So you know I grabbed him and tried to pull him up.
But you know, he kinda heavy.
So, you know but we got up out of there man.
It was crazy
[hip hop beat]
- You want my cupcake?
[laughs]
There's some food at the house bro.