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Told you I had
the deal lined up.

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- [grunts]
- [Keith] That's
my motherfucking watch.

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Strip this nigga.

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Bring me
the motherfucking chain.

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[James] You asked me
to protect Lamar.

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I can't do that
if he doesn't know the truth.

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[Gerty] This conversation
probably should have happened
a long time ago.

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You don't want me to do music
'cause of Mom.

9
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I'm seeing on you right now
the same thing I saw in her
the night we lost her.

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- Maurice, I'm sorry, okay?
Maurice. Stop!
- [horn honks]

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[Wanda] We're about to push
"Back 2 Da Hood."

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Y'all pick your songs?
Who wanna make some extra cash?

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Artillery, that's our song.
That's "Back 2 Da Hood."

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[♪ "Back 2 Da Hood" playing]

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[Wanda] You right, cousin.
"Back 2 Da Hood" is connecting.

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[♪ song fades]

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Smile, cuz. This is huge.

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[♪ jazz music playing]

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[person] Yo, what's good, LA?

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It's your boy, DJ Block,
and I got a special treat
for you today.

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It's been almost a month
since I introduced you

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to the hottest
sound in hip-hop,
and the band behind two hits,

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"Back 2 Da Hood" and "Rydah,"
LA's own, Artillery.

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[Artillery] What up, LA?

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[DJ Block] Now "Back 2 Da Hood"
has been out for a month
and it's everywhere.

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I'm talking about every block,
every car wash,

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every beauty shop,
and every car rolling
down the Shaw.

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[Artillery]
That's the city talking back.

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[DJ Block]
When's the album coming?

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[Artillery] Soon. Just waiting
on new music from
my homey Lamar.

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[♪ music continues]

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[DJ Block] You can work
with anyone you want.
DJ Quik, Battlecat, Pooh.

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But you're staying
loyal to Lamar?

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[Artillery] Hey, I got to give
my little homey the chance.

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[DJ Block chuckles]
I'm just kidding.

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So is the music business
as crazy as they say?

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[Artillery]
It's been a wild ride, homeboy.

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[DJ Block chuckles] All right,
well, tell the producer,
Lamar, the pressure's on.

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The whole city is pumped
for that new album.

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Look at these phone lines, man.
They're going crazy.

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Let's take one.

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[caller]
Hey, yeah, what up, Art?
With your slob ass.

43
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You know me, T-Lane,
One Eight Crip.

44
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All that banging you been doing
on tape? Nigga, we own you
with your mark-ass--

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[DJ Block] Wait, wait.
We can't really talk
like that on the air.

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All right, just...
Next caller, Terry.

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[caller 2] Hi, my name is Gina
from Inglewood.

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And I just wanna say,
Artillery, you fine...

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[♪ music continues]

50
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[♪ music stops]

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[♪ theme music playing]

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[♪ music stops]

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[♪ "Droppin' Rhymes On Drums"
playing]

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♪ Cause a brother like me
Is known to get down ♪

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♪ So get up from the rhyme
And you'll find ♪

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♪ It's designed
To give sight to the blind
And enlighten the mind ♪

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♪ And the lines are arranged
In a strange unorthodox style ♪

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♪ That knocks you out the box
And blocks the competition ♪

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Hey, could you cut that off?

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♪ Comin' up blank ♪

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[♪ song ends]

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Andy, where's the Janet album?

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I don't know, man.

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Andy, I cannot prepare
for tomorrow's meeting
in this chaos.

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There's a million songs
to sample.

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Really? Choose one.

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- [sighs]
- Exactly.

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♪ Ah, yeah ♪

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You get eight seconds of a song
to sample for free.

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Which song?

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Which eight seconds,
or is it four?

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That's a random chunk
of "More Bounce"

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where Roger's just going
cocaine crazy on the keyboards.

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Then they loop the synths
from "Funky Worm."

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So you're just saying,
"Do that"?

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Then do that, Andy. Go ahead.

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Look, don't turn on me.

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Fuck, I'm just trying
to get you fired up.

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We need to
mix live instruments,
live music with these samples.

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We need a signature sound.

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I need something
that feels like it's coming
from inside of me, you know?

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[♪ "Slipping Into Darkness"
playing]

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♪ You've been slipping
Into darkness ♪

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I found your sample, nigga.

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Not funny.

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♪ Pretty soon you gonna pay ♪

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[♪ song ends]

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[door opens]

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Hey, cousin.

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[stammers] Can we move some
of this furniture

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- out of here
so I can get my DX7 in--
- [Wanda] No.

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- Where are my cups, Negro?
- [Lamar] I moved 'em.

93
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By the sink.
It made more sense there.

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Not to stress you out,
but the sit-down at
Black Banner's tomorrow.

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Yeah, I know.

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We got to postpone.

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You gotta chill, Lamar.
"Back 2 Da Hood" is a hit.

98
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That's how Jenny
got her job back.

99
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And nobody's expecting you
to show up tomorrow

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with a whole album ready to go.

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I haven't made a single song
in three fucking weeks, Wanda.

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- [groans]
- [knocks on door]

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[Wanda] Maybe moving
back home would help. [sighs]

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Forgot I was bringing
these, huh?

105
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[♪ gentle music playing]

106
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Got the rest
of your stuff in the car.

107
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You all right?

108
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Yeah.

109
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So I guess
it's real this time, huh?

110
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Yeah, feels weird.

111
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[Wanda sighs]

112
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Well, look at you, Miss A&R.
[chuckling]

113
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That's good, right?

114
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Shit, it'd be better
if you told them people
to pay me.

115
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Shit. Maybe I will.

116
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- People be thinking
I'm a producer.
- [chuckles]

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[chuckles] A walk-in
at the clinic tried to slip me
his demo tape this morning.

118
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No, he didn't.

119
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We trying to help this fool
beat a weed charge

120
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and he's rapping
about getting high. [chuckles]

121
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When you gonna
admit this is more
than just a one-off hustle?

122
00:07:07,626 --> 00:07:10,962
It ain't a one-off,
but it's your hustle, not mine.

123
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You know, it was your play
that moved all them units.

124
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Lee, running a clinic
ain't your future, so just...

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[sighs]

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I just want to say
it feels good to be back.

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Okay, we all know
why we're here.

128
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"Back 2 Da Hood"
has picked up a lot of spins
in the last few weeks,

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- and it turns out
to be a real hit.
- Mm-hmm.

130
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So, we've ordered
250,000 copies
with "Rydah" on the B-side.

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[chuckling]

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[Wanda] 250,000?

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[Jenny] Cali heat means
we'll expand to sister markets.

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That's Houston,
Detroit, Kansas City.
And now the big news...

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They're giving us an album, motherfuckers.

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- Hell yeah!
- [Darryl] Here we go.

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[Jenny] The album comes
with an advance, but Darryl
will decide how much.

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00:08:03,682 --> 00:08:06,768
Wanda, I want you to set up
a whole list of producers
for Artillery.

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00:08:06,894 --> 00:08:08,520
- What do you mean?
- Wait, producers?

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- Lamar did the music for this.
- No way. That's me.

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00:08:10,814 --> 00:08:15,927
You are a producer
and a gifted one,
but you're also fucking green.

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Look, trust me, you want this.

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Every artist you love works
with multiple producers, okay?

144
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And we need to work fast.

145
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And these vets
will ease off whatever pressure
you're feeling right now.

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[laughing, chattering]

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♪ You've got me
Like no one has before ♪

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[chuckling]

149
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All right. All right.

150
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[Dara] What you smiling at?

151
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[chuckles]

152
00:08:54,358 --> 00:08:55,650
What the fuck is so funny?

153
00:08:56,277 --> 00:08:58,611
[chuckles]
Man, I was just thinking,
you know, how...

154
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You know how NASA
sent that record into space?

155
00:09:01,282 --> 00:09:03,241
What if aliens find it,
but they can't listen to it

156
00:09:03,367 --> 00:09:05,702
because they ain't got no ears,
you know what I'm saying?

157
00:09:05,828 --> 00:09:07,495
Bro, what? You hear this nigga?

158
00:09:07,621 --> 00:09:10,206
I told Danny
not to roll up like that.

159
00:09:10,833 --> 00:09:12,041
Hey, fuck y'all!

160
00:09:12,167 --> 00:09:14,335
Hey, get down.
Get down. Get down. Get down.

161
00:09:14,712 --> 00:09:16,796
- Get inside.
Get! Go, go, go. Go.
- [people screaming]

162
00:09:16,922 --> 00:09:18,172
- [gunshots]
- [shooter] Hey, roll out!

163
00:09:18,299 --> 00:09:19,924
[person 2 crying]

164
00:09:20,342 --> 00:09:22,051
Let's get these motherfuckers!

165
00:09:23,304 --> 00:09:24,929
[gunshots]

166
00:09:32,980 --> 00:09:34,355
[Keith] Motherfuckers.

167
00:09:36,108 --> 00:09:38,192
Damn, nigga. Fuck!

168
00:09:42,615 --> 00:09:46,367
Darryl, the other option,
if we actually like them both,

169
00:09:46,493 --> 00:09:48,870
then what we do is we have
both of them come in here--

170
00:09:48,996 --> 00:09:50,246
Let me ask you something.

171
00:09:50,664 --> 00:09:52,707
What the fuck we gotta do
to get this fucking advance?

172
00:09:52,833 --> 00:09:54,709
Artillery is out here exposed.

173
00:09:54,835 --> 00:09:57,654
- Bitch, you walking up in here.
- Listen, I wasn't fucking
talking to you.

174
00:09:57,755 --> 00:09:59,172
DG, I'm trying
to do this shit right.

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00:09:59,298 --> 00:10:00,990
- [Deon] Like the car wash?
- [Keith] Hold on, nigga.

176
00:10:01,091 --> 00:10:03,301
- Don't make me smoke you!
- [choking]

177
00:10:03,427 --> 00:10:05,428
[Darryl] Doing it right
as opposed to what?

178
00:10:05,971 --> 00:10:06,971
The Cobra Clutch?

179
00:10:07,097 --> 00:10:10,308
Let her go or kill us both.

180
00:10:10,434 --> 00:10:12,644
[choking, panting]

181
00:10:15,856 --> 00:10:17,148
Mind your manners.

182
00:10:19,610 --> 00:10:20,860
[coughing]

183
00:10:26,367 --> 00:10:28,284
- [Keith] Good?
- [Dara] Yeah, I'm good.

184
00:10:31,997 --> 00:10:33,581
Fuck is your name, gangster?

185
00:10:34,291 --> 00:10:35,792
My name?

186
00:10:36,794 --> 00:10:38,795
My name is her family.

187
00:10:38,921 --> 00:10:41,631
Every day that I wake up,
I kiss my son goodbye
like I'm never coming home.

188
00:10:42,341 --> 00:10:45,968
Y'all might have got
the drop on me,
but I ain't afraid to die.

189
00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:48,930
Respect.

190
00:10:49,056 --> 00:10:50,932
What happened
to strangling that bitch, D?

191
00:10:52,309 --> 00:10:56,437
DG, look, I think that
I can solve this problem.

192
00:10:57,314 --> 00:10:59,549
Let me explain to you guys
how this works.

193
00:10:59,650 --> 00:11:05,071
Now, we can
advance you a stipend until
the record starts to earn.

194
00:11:05,489 --> 00:11:08,533
What do you say
we start you off at...

195
00:11:09,368 --> 00:11:11,577
- $2,000 a month?
- Ten.

196
00:11:12,037 --> 00:11:14,205
- Three.
- Eight.

197
00:11:15,332 --> 00:11:16,582
No.

198
00:11:22,965 --> 00:11:24,298
Come on.

199
00:11:26,135 --> 00:11:27,468
[Leonard clears throat]

200
00:11:31,849 --> 00:11:33,057
[Leonard clears throat]

201
00:11:44,153 --> 00:11:45,236
[door closes]

202
00:11:45,362 --> 00:11:47,530
You paid them $3,000,

203
00:11:48,282 --> 00:11:50,766
and the motherfuckers
didn't even have a gun.

204
00:11:51,368 --> 00:11:53,911
- [Leonard] Paid?
- How was that
a dope move, Vance?

205
00:11:54,037 --> 00:11:57,206
Paid who?
The word was "advance."

206
00:11:57,332 --> 00:12:00,109
Darryl, we just lent them
their own money with interest,

207
00:12:00,210 --> 00:12:01,778
and they think they won.

208
00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:05,281
Now we keep doing this,
and we will train them
to come to us.

209
00:12:05,382 --> 00:12:07,341
So even when their record
is in the black,

210
00:12:07,468 --> 00:12:10,970
between the weed
and the Hennessy
and the strippers, whatever,

211
00:12:11,096 --> 00:12:13,097
they will owe us so much money

212
00:12:13,223 --> 00:12:15,892
that they will have to keep
borrowing money from us

213
00:12:16,018 --> 00:12:19,061
- with interest
on top of interest.
- [chuckles]

214
00:12:20,189 --> 00:12:21,898
God, I love this game.

215
00:12:22,357 --> 00:12:24,233
Now that's pimping 101.

216
00:12:24,777 --> 00:12:25,969
[Leonard] Um,

217
00:12:26,528 --> 00:12:29,989
that, uh, thing that
I saw on his wrist?

218
00:12:30,699 --> 00:12:34,702
You guys may want to have
a private conversation
about that.

219
00:12:35,579 --> 00:12:36,996
- [scoffs]
- [door closes]

220
00:12:37,122 --> 00:12:39,332
The way that motherfucker
got my watch.

221
00:12:40,584 --> 00:12:43,795
Keith is wearing it so much
he forgot it ain't his.

222
00:12:45,672 --> 00:12:47,089
Get it back, D.

223
00:12:48,008 --> 00:12:49,884
[♪ dramatic music playing]

224
00:12:58,435 --> 00:12:59,936
Now, step out on this side.

225
00:13:00,062 --> 00:13:01,846
Jenny, the album
is already in motion.

226
00:13:01,980 --> 00:13:04,716
- We need to be
on the same page.
- [Jenny panting] Yeah, I agree.

227
00:13:04,817 --> 00:13:07,360
You know, yesterday,
when your cousin spoke up,

228
00:13:07,486 --> 00:13:09,070
I had, like, acid flashbacks

229
00:13:09,196 --> 00:13:11,113
of him furiously
trying to rat-fuck us
on the masters.

230
00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,241
That's why you need
to prop me up
in those meetings.

231
00:13:13,367 --> 00:13:15,243
I'd have more juice
to help manage all this.

232
00:13:15,369 --> 00:13:17,695
Okay. Easy, killer. [panting]

233
00:13:18,163 --> 00:13:20,706
Let's unpack
before we climb
the ladder, huh?

234
00:13:23,669 --> 00:13:25,169
I can see two things.

235
00:13:25,504 --> 00:13:28,907
One, we are going to make
some real money
with this rap shit.

236
00:13:29,007 --> 00:13:32,260
And two, my experience
with bat-eating rock stars

237
00:13:32,386 --> 00:13:36,264
isn't going to translate with,
like, you guys.

238
00:13:36,390 --> 00:13:37,682
You can say "Black."

239
00:13:37,808 --> 00:13:40,752
Okay, but it's a specific kind
of Blacks, okay?

240
00:13:40,853 --> 00:13:42,812
Because Disco Blacks,
that's easy.

241
00:13:42,938 --> 00:13:45,222
You give them a bump of cocaine
and they'll happily sell
a million records.

242
00:13:45,357 --> 00:13:48,025
But apparently
Street Blacks like Darryl
are so fucking macho,

243
00:13:48,151 --> 00:13:50,111
he's furious I overtalked him
at the meeting.

244
00:13:50,237 --> 00:13:51,529
He's a star where we're from.

245
00:13:51,655 --> 00:13:54,574
Having a hit bought us
half a hot minute.

246
00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:55,992
That doesn't make any sense.

247
00:13:56,118 --> 00:13:59,069
Look, just because of you,
I kept my job,

248
00:13:59,204 --> 00:14:01,330
and I think
that deserves a reward.

249
00:14:01,456 --> 00:14:02,540
Like what?

250
00:14:03,834 --> 00:14:06,919
We are the only two women
in this whole boat, okay?

251
00:14:07,045 --> 00:14:09,881
Aside from the mean girl
with the sexy eyes.

252
00:14:10,299 --> 00:14:13,426
I don't trust Darryl any more
than I trust my own dad.

253
00:14:13,552 --> 00:14:16,120
But you...
I know you're essential.

254
00:14:16,221 --> 00:14:17,346
I would tend to agree.

255
00:14:17,472 --> 00:14:20,349
I need you, Wanda.
Eyes and ears.

256
00:14:20,893 --> 00:14:24,395
Look, we could figure out
a compensation package
on the side,

257
00:14:24,521 --> 00:14:25,730
as long as you back me.

258
00:14:25,856 --> 00:14:27,465
Lamar comes first.

259
00:14:27,566 --> 00:14:29,108
You come first to him?

260
00:14:29,735 --> 00:14:31,193
Yep.

261
00:14:32,613 --> 00:14:34,939
- Whose album
do you think this is?
- Both of them.

262
00:14:35,073 --> 00:14:40,077
This is Artillery's album,
which means I need a list
of experienced producers.

263
00:14:40,203 --> 00:14:43,456
You want me to give you
control over the album
even over DG, right?

264
00:14:43,582 --> 00:14:46,116
- Not like you're saying.
- It's exactly like I'm saying.

265
00:14:46,251 --> 00:14:49,211
Listen, you serve the label,
the label serves Lamar.

266
00:14:49,338 --> 00:14:52,256
You serve the artist,
who the fuck's he gonna serve?

267
00:14:54,092 --> 00:14:59,555
Look, I want you to think
about you, okay? Think about
your road to this moment.

268
00:14:59,681 --> 00:15:03,809
Lamar might not be up for this,
but you don't have to go
down with him.

269
00:15:05,479 --> 00:15:07,063
I don't know about you,

270
00:15:07,189 --> 00:15:09,482
but I'm not banking
my entire career
on your baby cousin.

271
00:15:11,151 --> 00:15:12,777
[Darryl]
I'm trying to tell you, Lee.

272
00:15:12,903 --> 00:15:15,571
You ain't in LA
unless you courtside
at the Lakers.

273
00:15:15,697 --> 00:15:18,574
So what's up, man?
What did you want
to talk about?

274
00:15:24,957 --> 00:15:26,165
[James] Goddamn.

275
00:15:26,291 --> 00:15:28,000
[Darryl] It's the money
from the swap meet.

276
00:15:28,418 --> 00:15:29,627
You giving it back?

277
00:15:30,295 --> 00:15:31,253
You earned it.

278
00:15:31,380 --> 00:15:33,923
You took it. It's yours.

279
00:15:34,758 --> 00:15:36,842
Just looking
for the strings, Lee.

280
00:15:37,719 --> 00:15:39,303
[Darryl laughing]

281
00:15:39,429 --> 00:15:42,515
Hey, shit, I like bags.
Let me hold that motherfucker.

282
00:15:43,392 --> 00:15:44,684
So you got to tell me, man.

283
00:15:45,185 --> 00:15:47,478
How do you help Wanda
move so much product so fast?

284
00:15:47,604 --> 00:15:51,983
I mean, if you put this
into a plan and repeated it
nationwide, nigga...

285
00:15:52,109 --> 00:15:53,609
I got all kinds of secrets.

286
00:15:53,735 --> 00:15:56,696
Come on, man.
No marketing, no label.

287
00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:58,531
Lace me, man.

288
00:15:59,449 --> 00:16:02,493
Look, I tell you what,
I'll look at your books,

289
00:16:02,619 --> 00:16:05,955
check out a few contracts,
get a sense of how
you run your business.

290
00:16:06,081 --> 00:16:07,289
Right.

291
00:16:07,666 --> 00:16:09,375
My new girls will fax you.

292
00:16:10,085 --> 00:16:11,836
You got a knack
for this shit, Lee.

293
00:16:12,295 --> 00:16:14,739
What, you over there
making a play? [laughing]

294
00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,874
[scoffs] Clinic
is keeping me plenty busy.

295
00:16:17,009 --> 00:16:19,635
Yeah, nah, it's probably smart
you stay out.

296
00:16:20,053 --> 00:16:21,721
You know, plus your ex.

297
00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:24,473
Nigga, as for me, man,

298
00:16:24,599 --> 00:16:27,476
I'm breaking artists
about to be bigger than N.W.A.

299
00:16:27,853 --> 00:16:32,189
[scoffs] Who? Lamar and that
hobo ass Blood? [chuckles]

300
00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:33,816
They too much alike.

301
00:16:33,942 --> 00:16:35,943
They on
their higher calling bullshit.

302
00:16:36,069 --> 00:16:39,263
Nigga. What you know
about my artists?

303
00:16:39,364 --> 00:16:40,740
He work for you?

304
00:16:41,658 --> 00:16:44,902
Hey, sure you
don't wanna let me
hold this bag right here?

305
00:16:45,037 --> 00:16:46,037
No.

306
00:16:47,205 --> 00:16:52,209
I guess Leon'll let me know
when he can pulls
those strings, huh?

307
00:16:52,878 --> 00:16:54,962
- Man, roll the dice. [chuckles]
- [Darryl laughing]

308
00:16:55,088 --> 00:16:58,049
All right.
All right. All right.
All right. I got it. I got it.

309
00:16:58,425 --> 00:17:00,051
Oh!

310
00:17:01,219 --> 00:17:03,387
Come on,
you got Art waiting, man.

311
00:17:05,265 --> 00:17:06,932
Let's just get
in there and riff.

312
00:17:07,350 --> 00:17:08,960
I don't work like that.

313
00:17:10,228 --> 00:17:13,397
If I don't figure something out
by this Friday with
this album, dude...

314
00:17:13,899 --> 00:17:15,816
[Andy] So what?
You're panicking?

315
00:17:17,444 --> 00:17:20,138
Art. Art. Artillery.

316
00:17:20,822 --> 00:17:24,158
- Artillery. What's up, man?
- I'm looking for you.

317
00:17:24,534 --> 00:17:25,993
[chuckles] Uh...

318
00:17:26,536 --> 00:17:29,955
- So, what-what
Jenny said, right--
- Fuck Jenny, she's white.

319
00:17:30,665 --> 00:17:35,795
Right, um, but-but
you wouldn't do the album
without me, though, right?

320
00:17:35,921 --> 00:17:39,548
Like-Like, you would say that
if they tried to add
more people?

321
00:17:39,674 --> 00:17:43,469
I don't understand you.
Last month we split the atom.

322
00:17:44,096 --> 00:17:47,723
This nigga over here
stressing about
some bullshit. Let's go.

323
00:17:50,602 --> 00:17:52,103
Relax, Mar.

324
00:17:53,188 --> 00:17:55,940
Yeah. Let's go. I'm ready.

325
00:17:57,776 --> 00:18:01,487
All right, y'all, my producer's
fixing to breathe
some fire in this bitch.

326
00:18:01,613 --> 00:18:03,030
Come on, hit it. Let's go.

327
00:18:04,616 --> 00:18:08,452
Uh, yo, Art,
you think you could just
ask them to leave

328
00:18:08,578 --> 00:18:10,496
so we can work
on this in private?

329
00:18:11,790 --> 00:18:13,124
This is how you work.

330
00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:15,459
If the hood don't feel it,
it ain't felt.

331
00:18:15,877 --> 00:18:17,086
Can you play a beat?

332
00:18:17,838 --> 00:18:19,964
All right. Yeah, right.

333
00:18:24,803 --> 00:18:27,471
[♪ lowkey beat playing]

334
00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,977
[Artillery] No, yeah,
play another one.
That shit whack.

335
00:18:35,689 --> 00:18:38,107
[♪ upbeat music playing]

336
00:18:38,233 --> 00:18:40,192
[Artillery]
Well, that ain't it.

337
00:18:41,528 --> 00:18:43,112
[♪ synth music playing]

338
00:18:43,238 --> 00:18:45,114
[Artillery] Hey, ladies, what
y'all think about the beat?

339
00:18:45,657 --> 00:18:47,892
- No.
- Hell no.

340
00:18:49,286 --> 00:18:51,996
[Artillery] No, that's trash.
I don't like that either.
Try again.

341
00:18:52,122 --> 00:18:53,622
That's whack, too. Hell no.

342
00:18:53,748 --> 00:18:55,416
Play some hard shit.
Where the Blood shit at?

343
00:18:55,542 --> 00:18:57,568
That beat sound
too light-skinned.

344
00:18:57,669 --> 00:19:00,254
Play some gangster shit, nigga.
You been kicking with
them Crips too long.

345
00:19:00,380 --> 00:19:02,131
[♪ tense music playing]

346
00:19:09,681 --> 00:19:13,309
♪ You feel too good
To be true ♪

347
00:19:13,435 --> 00:19:16,353
- [Jenny] Who the fuck are you?
- [Lamar] The producer
for "Rydah."

348
00:19:19,608 --> 00:19:22,484
[James echoing]
You ain't got no goddamn
business in the rap game.

349
00:19:33,038 --> 00:19:36,498
Hey, you know
you're gonna have to start
from scratch, right?

350
00:19:38,585 --> 00:19:41,587
Here, see what this do
for you. Look.

351
00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:48,802
[chuckles] "Exit Wounds."
Shit sounds kind of dope,
huh? [chuckles]

352
00:19:51,139 --> 00:19:53,757
I feel like that shit represent
all the gangbangers

353
00:19:53,892 --> 00:19:55,309
that got out the hood,
you know?

354
00:19:55,810 --> 00:19:58,145
I didn't know that that's what
you wanted to do.

355
00:19:58,271 --> 00:20:00,689
Okay. Now you do.

356
00:20:01,483 --> 00:20:02,608
Right.

357
00:20:03,235 --> 00:20:04,777
Oh, yeah, right. I-I feel that.

358
00:20:05,403 --> 00:20:07,363
And... [stutters]
...I'm in this place too.

359
00:20:07,489 --> 00:20:11,242
It's powerful.
It's fucking me up,
if I'm being honest.

360
00:20:13,912 --> 00:20:16,330
I feel like it has to be
about my mom.

361
00:20:16,957 --> 00:20:18,791
The fuck your mama
got to do with this?

362
00:20:18,917 --> 00:20:22,628
No, she was, um, a singer,
but she was...
she was always...

363
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,381
controlled.

364
00:20:27,008 --> 00:20:30,511
It's gotta... It's gotta have
her spirit. You know?

365
00:20:31,221 --> 00:20:33,514
I'm doing a really bad job
at explaining this right now.

366
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,808
Look, man,
the-the label loves you.

367
00:20:36,434 --> 00:20:38,336
Just buy me some time.

368
00:20:38,436 --> 00:20:41,021
Buy me a little bit of time
to figure out the music side...
[stutters]

369
00:20:41,815 --> 00:20:43,607
...and I can tell you
what we need to do.

370
00:20:44,109 --> 00:20:45,109
Hold on.

371
00:20:45,777 --> 00:20:48,445
You can tell me?
Like it's your album?

372
00:20:48,863 --> 00:20:50,681
[stammers]
I didn't mean it like that.

373
00:20:50,782 --> 00:20:52,408
What you mean then, nigga?

374
00:20:53,159 --> 00:20:54,852
[stammers] It's my sound.

375
00:20:55,495 --> 00:20:58,622
You-You didn't even
wanna listen to... [chuckles]
..."Back 2 Da Hood"

376
00:20:58,748 --> 00:21:00,708
when I tried
to play it for you.

377
00:21:01,126 --> 00:21:03,627
I was in them apartments
running from CRASH.

378
00:21:03,753 --> 00:21:05,713
Cops trying to kill me,
whole hood, nigga--

379
00:21:05,839 --> 00:21:07,423
No, I'm sick and tired
of people always acting

380
00:21:07,549 --> 00:21:09,550
like cops and murder
is the only stress there is.

381
00:21:10,218 --> 00:21:13,554
Oh, I don't live up
to some insane level
of Blackness

382
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,723
because I've never survived
a gun battle?

383
00:21:15,849 --> 00:21:17,766
Nigga, my mom is a photograph.

384
00:21:20,270 --> 00:21:24,606
How many gunshot wounds add up
to your missing mommy, Lamar?

385
00:21:25,233 --> 00:21:26,859
'Cause I got more.

386
00:21:27,694 --> 00:21:29,445
You know what I don't got, homeboy?

387
00:21:29,863 --> 00:21:31,238
A picture of my mom.

388
00:21:33,158 --> 00:21:34,366
Nigga, move.

389
00:21:35,702 --> 00:21:38,037
You see your name anywhere
on here, nigga?

390
00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,706
Where your name at?
I don't see that shit, nigga.

391
00:21:40,832 --> 00:21:41,874
You can't rap.

392
00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:44,668
And as of right now, nigga,
you can't produce either.

393
00:21:44,794 --> 00:21:46,211
All that shit is wack!

394
00:21:49,591 --> 00:21:51,008
Fuck you.

395
00:21:53,845 --> 00:21:55,387
[door closes]

396
00:21:58,767 --> 00:22:00,726
- [James]n.
- [receptionist] Go ahead.

397
00:22:00,852 --> 00:22:02,436
[Leon] Hey, hold on.
So you're telling me

398
00:22:02,562 --> 00:22:05,147
DG's got all his artists
tied up in these contracts?

399
00:22:05,273 --> 00:22:07,066
[lawyer] That's right.
It's all here.

400
00:22:07,192 --> 00:22:09,234
I'll walk you
through the rest later.

401
00:22:12,030 --> 00:22:14,014
[Leon] I asked about you
when you was in the streets.

402
00:22:14,115 --> 00:22:16,158
Your file A-1.

403
00:22:17,494 --> 00:22:18,744
For better or for worse.

404
00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:19,953
That's real.

405
00:22:20,872 --> 00:22:23,540
But you got down
'cause they took out
your homeboy.

406
00:22:23,666 --> 00:22:24,792
That's family.

407
00:22:25,877 --> 00:22:29,254
And your real family over here
with DG and a bunch of Bloods.

408
00:22:29,381 --> 00:22:31,590
My crazy-ass ex ain't enough.

409
00:22:32,092 --> 00:22:34,000
I was hoping
him getting socked in the face

410
00:22:34,135 --> 00:22:36,169
would help him
grow up a little bit.

411
00:22:36,304 --> 00:22:39,014
Ain't your whole deal with
Mr. Kinsey is that he wants
you to step up for him?

412
00:22:41,059 --> 00:22:43,544
What you think
I beat Trig's punk ass up for?

413
00:22:43,645 --> 00:22:46,146
[both chuckling]

414
00:22:46,815 --> 00:22:48,065
Fucked him up. [chuckling]

415
00:22:48,191 --> 00:22:50,692
[chuckling] True. That's true.

416
00:22:51,403 --> 00:22:54,488
What's up, Lee?
What's this all about?

417
00:22:55,657 --> 00:22:56,698
Hey, check this out.

418
00:22:57,492 --> 00:23:00,160
People have been asking me
to jump in the music game,

419
00:23:00,787 --> 00:23:03,622
but I hate looking
at the same old faces
from the streets.

420
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,417
It make legit money feel dirty
even when it ain't.

421
00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:10,129
And unfortunately,
your family in the same room
with these dirty faces.

422
00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:11,964
I got ahold of DG's contracts.

423
00:23:12,090 --> 00:23:15,008
They're harder to read
than Chinese arithmetic.

424
00:23:17,262 --> 00:23:19,346
When they was out there
slanging them tapes,

425
00:23:19,889 --> 00:23:23,142
I gave DG that money
'cause I wanted
to see his reaction.

426
00:23:23,268 --> 00:23:25,394
Money's like crack
to motherfuckers like him.

427
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,146
Exactly.

428
00:23:27,272 --> 00:23:29,723
When he saw that bag,
he was just trying
to play it cool,

429
00:23:29,858 --> 00:23:32,276
but for him to straight up
ask me how we did it,

430
00:23:32,402 --> 00:23:34,695
that lets me know
what we did is valuable.

431
00:23:35,196 --> 00:23:36,196
Yeah.

432
00:23:36,865 --> 00:23:39,658
We can't let Lamar
and Wanda be in there solo.

433
00:23:44,873 --> 00:23:46,039
All right.

434
00:23:47,125 --> 00:23:48,459
I think I get you.

435
00:23:49,210 --> 00:23:50,502
Like I said,

436
00:23:51,379 --> 00:23:53,797
I need to keep up
on that little nigga anyways.

437
00:23:54,674 --> 00:23:56,758
Might as well keep up
on everything else too.

438
00:23:57,218 --> 00:23:59,720
[♪ "Touch Me I'm Sick" playing]

439
00:24:09,147 --> 00:24:11,482
♪ I've been bad ♪

440
00:24:13,026 --> 00:24:14,943
♪ I've been worse ♪

441
00:24:16,654 --> 00:24:18,363
♪ I'm a creep ♪

442
00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:22,201
♪ Yeah, I'm a jerk ♪

443
00:24:22,744 --> 00:24:24,620
♪ C'mon ♪

444
00:24:25,663 --> 00:24:27,331
- What the fuck?
- [Lamar] Wanda, Wanda,

445
00:24:27,457 --> 00:24:29,316
- Wanda, Wanda, we gotta talk.
- I see that.

446
00:24:29,417 --> 00:24:31,585
I completely figured out
exactly what the album
is gonna be.

447
00:24:31,711 --> 00:24:34,004
- Lamar, I'm not fucking...
- It's gonna do fucking amazing.

448
00:24:34,130 --> 00:24:35,255
Turn that off!

449
00:24:35,381 --> 00:24:36,924
I need more time.

450
00:24:37,467 --> 00:24:39,218
Slow down and fix this.

451
00:24:39,344 --> 00:24:41,803
I've been here 24-7,
every day, locked in,

452
00:24:41,930 --> 00:24:44,014
trying to
figure out this album,
and everybody hates me.

453
00:24:44,140 --> 00:24:45,974
Goddamn it, Lamar.
I heard what happened.

454
00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:48,977
You need to learn
to trust your people.

455
00:24:50,855 --> 00:24:51,939
You...

456
00:24:53,107 --> 00:24:56,318
You think I could do this?
You think I could
pull this off?

457
00:24:57,445 --> 00:24:59,780
Yes? But not alone.

458
00:24:59,906 --> 00:25:03,909
Having experienced producers
to back you up might not be
a bad idea.

459
00:25:04,035 --> 00:25:10,524
Wanda, you, James, Leon,
you have names in the streets.

460
00:25:10,625 --> 00:25:12,334
Shit, you can have mine.

461
00:25:12,460 --> 00:25:14,194
No, you don't get it, Wanda.

462
00:25:14,295 --> 00:25:18,032
Androids like DG and Jenny,
they don't give a fuck
about art.

463
00:25:18,132 --> 00:25:19,299
All they see is packaging.

464
00:25:19,425 --> 00:25:22,669
I didn't come
to them as-as J Loco

465
00:25:22,804 --> 00:25:26,807
or-or Easy E or Big Deon
or Artillery.

466
00:25:27,392 --> 00:25:28,892
I came as fucking Lamar.

467
00:25:29,018 --> 00:25:30,936
Lamar, this is what the fuck
it feels like making a name,

468
00:25:31,062 --> 00:25:34,106
so step the fuck up
and stop shrinking.

469
00:25:37,318 --> 00:25:39,361
[♪ hip-hop music playing]

470
00:25:48,329 --> 00:25:50,664
You know, I was thinking
about what you said
the other day.

471
00:25:50,790 --> 00:25:54,376
That shit was kinda deep.
About never seeing
your son again.

472
00:25:56,129 --> 00:25:57,462
What was that about?

473
00:25:58,631 --> 00:25:59,965
That's the deal.

474
00:26:01,175 --> 00:26:04,377
But you've been
slowing down for years.
Why not just hang up the rag?

475
00:26:04,512 --> 00:26:05,929
[Keith] No.

476
00:26:06,306 --> 00:26:10,434
It's two dudes
I gotta kill first,
then I'm moving to Oakland.

477
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,645
So, what's that?
The jacker that killed
your brother and...

478
00:26:13,771 --> 00:26:15,355
Who makes number two?

479
00:26:15,481 --> 00:26:17,441
Man, there's
some bitch ass nigga
over in the Gates who...

480
00:26:18,026 --> 00:26:21,695
used to beat the shit out
of his daughter every time
the bus dropped her off.

481
00:26:22,071 --> 00:26:23,655
That motherfucker gotta go.

482
00:26:25,199 --> 00:26:27,784
And, shit, if you want,
we get ole boy who choked you.

483
00:26:27,910 --> 00:26:30,912
But you know
that motherfucker owes us
some money, though.

484
00:26:34,125 --> 00:26:36,918
[Dara] No need.
This rap shit gonna
come together right.

485
00:26:37,045 --> 00:26:38,795
[Keith] True that.

486
00:26:38,921 --> 00:26:41,414
Man, ain't not
one of us is getting out.
What y'all talking about?

487
00:26:41,549 --> 00:26:42,799
Stop.

488
00:26:42,925 --> 00:26:46,136
Dara, you a manager
that babysit gang members.

489
00:26:46,721 --> 00:26:49,097
I'm a Blood,
and I don't even bang.

490
00:26:50,016 --> 00:26:52,559
Lamar a producer,
and that nigga cannot
make music.

491
00:26:52,685 --> 00:26:55,979
This shit going nowhere
at the speed of bullshit.

492
00:27:04,572 --> 00:27:05,781
[James] What up?

493
00:27:08,618 --> 00:27:09,785
What's up?

494
00:27:11,996 --> 00:27:14,039
I brought these back. [sighs]

495
00:27:14,957 --> 00:27:16,041
Thanks.

496
00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:17,709
[James]
You left them at the house.

497
00:27:18,586 --> 00:27:20,545
Wanda tells me
you can't make music.

498
00:27:22,048 --> 00:27:24,341
[sighs]
Unfortunately, not that I like.

499
00:27:24,467 --> 00:27:26,718
It's because
you be trying too hard, cuz.

500
00:27:27,512 --> 00:27:30,430
You gotta, like, just chill.

501
00:27:31,599 --> 00:27:33,834
You know, sometimes music is...

502
00:27:34,686 --> 00:27:38,522
classical,
and sometimes it's jazz,
you know what I mean?

503
00:27:39,774 --> 00:27:42,567
Yeah. I-I write songs.
I don't improvise.

504
00:27:42,985 --> 00:27:44,178
[chuckles]

505
00:27:44,654 --> 00:27:48,407
Nigga, you just be
saying shit sometimes,
cuz. [chuckles]

506
00:27:53,871 --> 00:27:55,664
[sighs] Look...

507
00:27:57,458 --> 00:27:59,584
All great players,
they can, like...

508
00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:02,671
They can get down
in a moment, man.

509
00:28:04,006 --> 00:28:06,174
All right?
That's what Artillery needs.

510
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,761
Like that night
that you was at the house,
and he was, like, all shot up.

511
00:28:09,887 --> 00:28:11,471
You weren't controlling shit
then, was you?

512
00:28:11,597 --> 00:28:13,473
So I gotta create
with a gun to my head?

513
00:28:13,599 --> 00:28:16,601
I'm not doing that. Fuck that.
That's what Mom
was dealing with, right?

514
00:28:16,728 --> 00:28:19,354
Hey, cuz. Don't do that, bro.

515
00:28:23,317 --> 00:28:24,693
[sighs]

516
00:28:29,782 --> 00:28:32,617
How come you hid it from me?

517
00:28:34,996 --> 00:28:37,748
- Seriously.
- [sighs]

518
00:28:40,209 --> 00:28:41,877
'Cause when I found out,

519
00:28:42,628 --> 00:28:44,337
I reacted like you.

520
00:28:46,549 --> 00:28:48,425
Except with pistols involved.

521
00:28:57,518 --> 00:28:59,311
When they told me, man...

522
00:29:00,229 --> 00:29:01,605
[sighs]

523
00:29:03,191 --> 00:29:05,650
I, like, really lost faith
in Big Daddy.

524
00:29:08,112 --> 00:29:10,614
You know, as, like, a kid,
that was... [chuckles]

525
00:29:12,784 --> 00:29:14,910
Shit was like
losing faith in God.

526
00:29:16,662 --> 00:29:18,205
Don't be like me, Mar.

527
00:29:21,292 --> 00:29:23,126
Don't stay gone too long, man.

528
00:29:27,006 --> 00:29:28,282
[sighs]

529
00:29:28,382 --> 00:29:30,050
[♪ gentle music playing]

530
00:29:46,818 --> 00:29:48,026
What?

531
00:29:49,695 --> 00:29:50,946
Stop playing.

532
00:29:51,531 --> 00:29:53,615
You should've been up
in this rap game.

533
00:29:53,741 --> 00:29:55,575
This album is causing tension.

534
00:29:56,828 --> 00:29:57,911
So?

535
00:29:58,329 --> 00:29:59,412
So,

536
00:30:00,498 --> 00:30:03,166
what we got going
don't mean I inherit your beef.

537
00:30:03,292 --> 00:30:04,584
DG?

538
00:30:05,336 --> 00:30:06,628
[scoffs]

539
00:30:07,004 --> 00:30:08,255
Please.

540
00:30:09,674 --> 00:30:13,093
Look, I'm not like
little Ms. Wanda.

541
00:30:16,722 --> 00:30:20,058
I wanna learn, build...

542
00:30:21,811 --> 00:30:23,103
and fuck.

543
00:30:26,774 --> 00:30:28,316
Oh, yeah?

544
00:30:28,734 --> 00:30:29,901
Yeah.

545
00:30:34,657 --> 00:30:35,907
[kisses]

546
00:30:42,915 --> 00:30:44,875
- [door opens]
- Sorry, we're closed.

547
00:30:45,001 --> 00:30:47,210
- [Andy] Church
ain't never closed for us.
- Aye.

548
00:30:47,336 --> 00:30:48,920
Been looking for you, brother.

549
00:30:50,506 --> 00:30:51,548
Me too.

550
00:30:52,633 --> 00:30:56,928
I'm sorry I've been, uh,
so out of pocket. Um...

551
00:30:57,597 --> 00:30:59,973
You think you'd be down
to go to the studio with me?

552
00:31:00,766 --> 00:31:02,767
You talked
to Wanda or Artillery?

553
00:31:03,561 --> 00:31:04,936
[sighs]

554
00:31:05,062 --> 00:31:07,397
Try to grasp
the amount of pressure
I'm under, okay?

555
00:31:07,523 --> 00:31:10,859
If I don't figure
this album out before
they take it from me,

556
00:31:10,985 --> 00:31:13,570
my entire career is stamped.

557
00:31:14,530 --> 00:31:16,990
That sounds terrible, Lamar.

558
00:31:18,326 --> 00:31:21,453
And I'm talking about
being with you in that state
of mind in the studio.

559
00:31:22,580 --> 00:31:23,830
[sighs]

560
00:31:25,166 --> 00:31:26,958
You know, it's time
to lose your virginity.

561
00:31:27,752 --> 00:31:30,503
It's time you witness
Blur in action.

562
00:31:30,630 --> 00:31:32,005
[♪ jazz music playing]

563
00:31:37,053 --> 00:31:38,461
Lookout's job is simple.

564
00:31:38,596 --> 00:31:40,630
You see blue or hear whoop,
just whistle quick.

565
00:31:40,765 --> 00:31:42,057
[helicopter whirring]

566
00:31:50,232 --> 00:31:52,025
It starts with a name.

567
00:31:54,111 --> 00:31:55,612
[Lamar] I already have a name.

568
00:31:56,906 --> 00:31:58,281
DJ Lamar.

569
00:31:59,283 --> 00:32:02,285
Man, you think
Artillery is a star
if he's "Emcee Arthur"?

570
00:32:02,828 --> 00:32:04,120
[whispers] Lamar.

571
00:32:10,670 --> 00:32:13,129
Oven cleaner?
The fuck are we doing?

572
00:32:13,255 --> 00:32:15,032
Stock nozzles flare like crazy.

573
00:32:15,716 --> 00:32:18,869
[Andy] Graffiti is sacred shit.
Four pillars of hip-hop.

574
00:32:18,970 --> 00:32:21,012
Respect my shit
and make a name tonight.

575
00:32:21,138 --> 00:32:22,973
[♪ "Running" playing]

576
00:32:23,099 --> 00:32:25,141
♪ Check this out
Check this out
Check this out, yeah ♪

577
00:32:25,309 --> 00:32:27,477
♪ One-two, one-two, one-two
One-two, one-two ♪

578
00:32:27,645 --> 00:32:29,813
♪ Check this out
Check this out
Check this out, yeah ♪

579
00:32:29,981 --> 00:32:32,607
♪ One-two, one-two, one-two
One-two, one-two ♪

580
00:32:32,733 --> 00:32:35,318
♪ Check this out
Check this out
Check this out, yeah ♪

581
00:32:35,444 --> 00:32:38,196
♪ One-two, one-two, one-two
One-two, one-two ♪

582
00:32:38,698 --> 00:32:41,783
♪ Can't keep running away ♪

583
00:32:42,827 --> 00:32:45,245
- Hurry up!
- ♪ Can't keep running away ♪

584
00:32:45,371 --> 00:32:48,415
[Andy] This crew right here
made their name in the streets.

585
00:32:49,083 --> 00:32:52,252
And those names can be seen
all over the city.

586
00:32:55,589 --> 00:32:57,507
♪ There comes a time
In every man's life ♪

587
00:32:57,675 --> 00:33:00,260
♪ When he's gotta
Handle shit up
On his own ♪

588
00:33:00,386 --> 00:33:03,013
♪ Can't depend on friends
To help you in a squeeze ♪

589
00:33:03,139 --> 00:33:05,432
♪ Please, they got problems
Of they own ♪

590
00:33:05,558 --> 00:33:07,517
♪ Down for the count
On seven chickenshits
Don't get to heaven ♪

591
00:33:07,685 --> 00:33:11,229
♪ Till they faced these fears
In these fear zones ♪

592
00:33:14,358 --> 00:33:21,031
♪ Can't keep running away
Can't keep running away ♪

593
00:33:21,532 --> 00:33:22,699
[Lamar] "Artis."

594
00:33:22,825 --> 00:33:24,451
One of your crew, huh?

595
00:33:25,286 --> 00:33:26,770
Dude could really burn.

596
00:33:27,329 --> 00:33:29,289
First of us to go all-city too.

597
00:33:32,710 --> 00:33:34,252
Gone way too soon.

598
00:33:44,221 --> 00:33:47,432
- I think I smell
an "Andy-ism" coming.
- [chuckles]

599
00:33:47,558 --> 00:33:49,434
- You smelling immortality,
my nigga.
- [chuckles]

600
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,061
I've been waiting
for this moment.

601
00:33:51,687 --> 00:33:54,097
Know when
we were slinging tapes
and you said that you were

602
00:33:54,231 --> 00:33:55,982
"strangers asking
for autographs" famous?

603
00:33:56,484 --> 00:33:57,968
Fame is when your name...

604
00:33:58,486 --> 00:34:02,906
your name lets people
know who you are
before they ever even meet you,

605
00:34:03,532 --> 00:34:05,658
including them record execs.

606
00:34:07,661 --> 00:34:12,582
This right here,
12 ounces of pure soul
that can make you live forever.

607
00:34:14,335 --> 00:34:16,169
Lamar is you now.

608
00:34:17,505 --> 00:34:19,156
But the question is,

609
00:34:19,924 --> 00:34:21,966
do you know
who the fuck you wanna be?

610
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,934
I got it.

611
00:34:32,394 --> 00:34:34,187
Well, let 'em know then, playboy.

612
00:34:40,111 --> 00:34:45,782
[Lamar] The album is
all about rebirth and return,
like the prodigal son.

613
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,369
It's me and Artillery's journey
through LA leading up to now.

614
00:34:49,495 --> 00:34:52,789
The songs will capture
the-the voice of LA.

615
00:34:53,374 --> 00:34:58,028
That, we think,
is a city of lost people

616
00:34:58,379 --> 00:35:00,547
searching through danger,

617
00:35:01,132 --> 00:35:04,367
drugs, parties, broken homes.

618
00:35:04,802 --> 00:35:09,389
These are songs
that have stories you tell,
to quote a great woman,

619
00:35:09,849 --> 00:35:12,851
"Over Hennessy
and a card game." [chuckles]

620
00:35:13,310 --> 00:35:16,396
After the journey comes
the awakening.

621
00:35:17,314 --> 00:35:18,648
What happens...

622
00:35:20,067 --> 00:35:21,517
when everything is destroyed?

623
00:35:21,652 --> 00:35:23,361
[♪ uplifting music playing]

624
00:35:23,988 --> 00:35:25,488
You are reborn.

625
00:35:27,324 --> 00:35:28,491
[♪ music stops]

626
00:35:30,786 --> 00:35:31,953
Sorry, are you done?

627
00:35:32,621 --> 00:35:37,083
It just... it sounded
like a whole lot
of unspecific ideas.

628
00:35:41,505 --> 00:35:43,464
What about the list
of producers?

629
00:35:43,591 --> 00:35:45,341
That would be me.

630
00:35:45,843 --> 00:35:47,594
But me now.

631
00:35:48,262 --> 00:35:52,182
As Nex, aka, DJ Nex.

632
00:35:57,396 --> 00:36:01,316
Right. So I don't really want
to be the only bad cop
in the room,

633
00:36:01,442 --> 00:36:04,194
so the floor is open.

634
00:36:05,237 --> 00:36:07,238
But... no.

635
00:36:07,364 --> 00:36:10,617
I already got a whole list
of producers who can put
the whole thing together.

636
00:36:10,743 --> 00:36:11,993
Wanda.

637
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,630
He's been right since
the beginning, every call.

638
00:36:23,756 --> 00:36:28,176
Unless you wanna share
your vision for the album.

639
00:36:40,564 --> 00:36:43,066
This conversation is not over.

640
00:36:47,071 --> 00:36:51,574
Hell of a play, cousin.
You didn't even stutter.
[chuckles]

641
00:36:55,746 --> 00:36:57,497
I'ma let y'all keep going.

642
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,499
But keep me up to speed.

643
00:36:59,625 --> 00:37:01,484
- I need to know
what's going on.
- Will do. Will do, yeah.

644
00:37:01,585 --> 00:37:03,586
[Darryl] 'Cause if you
can't finish this joint,

645
00:37:04,255 --> 00:37:06,673
I need to keep this train
moving without you.

646
00:37:09,343 --> 00:37:10,510
Let's go.

647
00:37:17,059 --> 00:37:20,687
You seem like
you're finally learning
how good money feels.

648
00:37:21,522 --> 00:37:24,565
You keep it that way,
we're cool, all right?

649
00:37:27,152 --> 00:37:28,778
[♪ upbeat music playing]

650
00:37:32,032 --> 00:37:33,533
[kids chuckling]

651
00:38:04,481 --> 00:38:06,049
He was making fun
of me earlier.

652
00:38:06,150 --> 00:38:08,443
- Hey, come here, come here.
- Gotta get out the road.

653
00:38:19,204 --> 00:38:21,497
[man] Quit playing, bro.
You almost got that.

654
00:38:24,335 --> 00:38:27,170
- Slow ass car. [chuckling]
- [chuckling]

655
00:38:32,176 --> 00:38:34,927
Nigga, what the fuck
is you doing pissing
around these kids?

656
00:38:35,429 --> 00:38:37,347
The fuck is you cussing
around 'em?

657
00:38:37,848 --> 00:38:40,600
Hey, come on, y'all,
I gotta use the bathroom.

658
00:38:44,438 --> 00:38:45,730
[lighter clicks]

659
00:38:48,025 --> 00:38:50,693
[Big Kev] You know Deon
don't like you working high.

660
00:38:51,362 --> 00:38:52,737
[Lil Smoke] I ain't high yet.

661
00:38:54,365 --> 00:38:55,865
[Big Kev] Looks like
the kids are leaving.

662
00:38:56,700 --> 00:38:59,160
Hey, bro, I'm posted
or you coming in?

663
00:38:59,286 --> 00:39:00,578
I'ma be right there with you.

664
00:39:01,455 --> 00:39:04,248
- Need some of that cake
before it melts.
- [Shawn] All right then.

665
00:39:06,877 --> 00:39:08,461
I'll be over there.

666
00:39:15,469 --> 00:39:17,178
[♪ dramatic music playing]

667
00:39:27,898 --> 00:39:31,192
- [gunshots]
- [grunting]

668
00:39:36,532 --> 00:39:39,325
- [Big Kev] Hey, let's go.
- Hey, hold on.

669
00:39:39,743 --> 00:39:42,120
[Big Kev] What the fuck?
Are you crazy, man?

670
00:39:47,084 --> 00:39:48,418
Deon, let's go.

671
00:39:48,544 --> 00:39:50,253
This a real nigga right here.

672
00:39:53,549 --> 00:39:56,050
[Keith groaning]

673
00:40:06,019 --> 00:40:07,437
[Big Kev] Hey, hurry up.

674
00:40:07,563 --> 00:40:09,439
[Deon] You should die
with your gun in your hand.

675
00:40:09,565 --> 00:40:12,108
- [Lil Smoke] Come on, man.
We outta here.
- [Keith groaning]

676
00:40:20,325 --> 00:40:21,617
You show off, nigga.

677
00:40:28,250 --> 00:40:30,501
[♪ hip-hop music playing]