Power Book III: Raising Kanan - Season 4 Episode 1 -
CAN'T STOP ME
CAN'T STOP ME
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00:30Previously on Raising Canaan.
00:35I can't have no wildness around me and my son.
00:37You know, you and me, we in different places right now.
00:40I think we gotta pump the brakes.
00:42I mean, we're just kicking it anyway, right?
00:44It's a café boo.
00:45I need you to put that on the airwaves.
00:47Get it bubbling in these streets.
00:49I'm here to move weight.
00:50So what I do is who I am.
00:52So what the fuck am I doing here?
00:53You're throwing them back fast.
00:54It's a ball, right?
00:55Throwing them back is what you do in a ball.
00:57Think of the good times, too.
00:59Please.
01:00Kel Thomas, Special Agent Preston Tanner.
01:03I'd like you to come in for a conversation.
01:05I'm gonna have to call my lawyer.
01:06I'm the big dog, nigga.
01:08Running your fucking mouth to Pines ain't no big dog shit.
01:11That's bitch shit!
01:19I heard about our friend, Yonique.
01:21I'm sorry.
01:22I'm gonna step into what he started with you.
01:23Take it over.
01:24Let's give it the old college try.
01:26Yonique's gone, and he ain't coming back.
01:28This is how we do business.
01:29If we do this, it's you and me.
01:30My cousin isn't involved, and no one else can know.
01:33Time to go to work.
01:34This right here is about knowing that I win every fucking day.
01:38Your mom's is fucking with our investment.
01:40She need to be handled.
01:46I told you not to ever fuck with my family.
01:48You don't tell me shit, little boy.
01:51I know Ronnie had a...
01:54The math is real easy on this.
01:56It's either Marvin, or it's you, me, and Kanan.
01:58You adding shit up all wrong.
01:59The feds on you, not me.
02:00Ronnie.
02:01It's Kanan.
02:02I want my son back safe.
02:03What does Ronnie want for the boy?
02:05Five.
02:06That cruddy-ass nigga want $500,000?
02:09I got your money.
02:10Now give me my son.
02:11Ain't nobody kidnap me, Ma.
02:13Y'all been saved.
02:14You and Ronnie in on this together?
02:16Throw that over you.
02:20Shit's all you, Ma.
02:26Yeah.
02:57Yeah.
02:59Ha-ha.
03:19Ha-ha, that's right.
03:26That's how we do it on this side.
03:27Niggas get to it on this side.
03:29I know heartbreaks, setbacks.
03:32Bitch, if I crap out, I'm sure I'ma get back.
03:34I've been through the ups and downs.
03:36You know I get around.
03:37So to me, it's all a part of the game.
03:39If I ain't the gold mine, or the dope mine,
03:42I'm almost a shell mine.
03:43I gotta take it.
03:44No need to say shit.
03:46I'm gonna take it.
03:47I'm abused, I'm homicided.
03:48There's nothing to play with.
03:57Before you can figure out where you're going,
03:59you gotta look back at where you've been.
04:03And you gotta look real close.
04:06Because you missed shit.
04:08Forget details.
04:10There's things that happen that seem like they didn't mean nothing at the time.
04:15But then you realize they mean everything.
04:17That's why you gotta look back.
04:21Because now that you see where you're at,
04:23you gotta understand how the fuck you got there.
04:53Fuck.
05:24I need to fucking talk to you, man.
05:29I'm all fucked up.
05:32You're early.
05:34I need you to come get me.
05:54Fuck.
06:04Shit.
06:06Goddamn, boy.
06:08I...
06:10Uh, slow.
06:12Try again.
06:13Careful.
06:24Fuck.
06:30Don't even know how you still alive, boy.
06:33You've been worked the fuck over.
06:35Been worked over three more fucking times.
06:39Damn.
06:54Come on.
06:57All right, come on, fam.
06:58Easy.
07:02Stay.
07:03Stay.
07:07Careful.
07:15In here.
07:16Woo!
07:22Everything you've seen here happened already.
07:26But we didn't peep it the way we needed to.
07:28Because we wasn't looking.
07:42Let me get a water bottle.
07:43I got it.
07:45Yo, Ju.
07:47Didn't mean to get at you.
07:51I'm sorry that I missed your audition.
07:55Been dealing with some shit.
07:57And it got the best of me.
07:59It's all good, Uncle Lou.
08:01It's not, though. I'm fucked up.
08:03I know I've been saying that a lot lately.
08:06Trying to figure my shit out.
08:14I like this spot.
08:17It's good, right?
08:20That's my uncle.
08:23That's Uncle Lou?
08:24Yeah.
08:26He and Ju tight?
08:28We family.
08:29We all tight.
08:32I saw them.
08:35You ever met Ju's friend, Nicole?
08:39I did.
08:40She cool?
08:43No doubt.
08:45Is she pretty?
08:47Nicole, I...
08:52Ju's so dope.
08:54Nicole was lucky.
08:58I'm happy to be here with you, Kanan.
09:02Pretty good, right?
09:04And he's cute, so it never hurts.
09:07Don't tell me you're into all that March, November shit show.
09:10I think it's May, December, but...
09:13I like my men like your whiskey.
09:15Aged.
09:16I heard that.
09:19He's talented, though.
09:21And he's got stage presence.
09:27Excuse me for a minute.
09:31Okay.
09:37Excuse me.
09:39You good?
09:40For sure.
09:42You still coming over for dinner with my parents later this week, right?
09:46No doubt.
09:48Good.
09:53Yo, I thought Roc was coming through the spot.
09:55I don't know what the fuck she doing.
09:57She got her own life and I got mine.
10:20I think they smell something.
10:22They're realizing it's just their own stench.
10:25There's no bear there and they know it.
10:28I feel very confident that you won't have to worry about the FBI or the so-called task force anymore.
10:33These dogs simply don't hunt.
10:39Everything okay?
10:41I just got crazy hungry.
10:43Guess I ain't eating in a minute.
10:45Tell me what you want, I'll go back and get it.
10:47I appreciate that, but I gotta see what they got.
10:50Can't have you bringing me back no nasty-ass Mounds bar or some shit.
10:54I'll wait for you outside.
11:01Who's this?
11:05You sure he wanna talk to me?
11:06You sure he wanna talk to me and not my sister instead?
11:13Alright.
11:17I'll come through then.
11:36What the fuck?
12:06He's seriously injured. I can't x-ray him here, but I'm betting he has multiple skull fractures.
12:11I ain't his daddy, I don't fucking care about all that.
12:14All I need to know is whether he gonna live long enough to pay for services.
12:17He'll survive, but recovery from head trauma like this is long and difficult.
12:21He's gonna need constant care and monitoring.
12:24Someone in his condition should be in a rehabilitation facility where he can recover while under the care of a full medical staff.
12:32Dashing ain't gonna happen.
12:33We often see significant personality changes in people with these kinds of brain injuries.
12:39Can you speak normal, nigga? Because I don't get all that Dr. Needs you speaking.
12:42When he wakes up, he could be different than who he was before.
12:46It's not unusual for people with this kind of injury to experience significant bouts of anxiety, even rage.
12:53Like I said, Doc, I need to know the fool gonna give me my money.
12:57Because I came straight out of pocket for your fucking time of night, and it sounds like my work ain't even done.
13:01Getting you your money is gonna be the least of your friend's problems.
13:16Look, while you seem to be out of their crosshairs, I can't say the same for everybody else in your circle.
13:22The FBI doesn't like to leave a party empty-handed.
13:25And frankly, there's no depths to which they won't stoop to get an indictment.
13:28You and your family need to keep your side of the street squeaky clean for the foreseeable future.
13:33Let's also acknowledge tonight for the win that it is.
13:36Right now, at this moment, they have nothing at all on you or anyone else in your circle.
13:41Which is inarguably and undeniably good news.
13:45I'll be in touch.
13:47Have a good night.
13:48You too.
13:59Fuck.
14:10My blouse.
14:13Off.
14:18I didn't step the fuck off.
14:20Fuck.
14:26Tell her I'm a murderer.
14:31Tell her that.
14:50Fuck.
15:21Hey, uh, you're wondering why I reached out to you.
15:25And the answer is twofold, my friend.
15:29First off, as discussed, you are a true professional.
15:35I mean, in a business that is sorely lacking in that particular area.
15:40And secondly, as was the case with our late comrade in Newark,
15:45I have a job that, uh, demands a little bit of distance and some cover for me.
15:53You need me to do more work for you?
15:55My daughter Paulette. Her new husband, Tommaso.
15:59He's embarrassing her. And me. And that's unacceptable.
16:03Problem is, is Tommaso's a made guy, so I can't have one of my own guys go over there and knock some much-needed sense into him.
16:10That's against the rules.
16:11You mafia guys seem to find a whole lot of ways around the rules, though.
16:15Well, it's not so much the letter of the law as it is the spirit, if you know what I'm saying.
16:22Anyway, this piece of shit Tommaso, you know, he's running around with my daughter.
16:29Which, in and of itself, it's nothing into the world that happens to the best of us.
16:34But the issue is, Tommaso's doing it in such a public way that it's insulting to my family.
16:39And that's why I come in.
16:41Now look, this is gonna have to be between the two of us.
16:44That's why I didn't contact your sister. I don't like mixing my businesses. It confuses the conversations.
16:52Rock ain't the king of me.
16:55I got my own life and my own interests. I do what I do.
17:01Yeah, a man after my own heart, huh?
17:03Alright, so we're agreed. You'll set my son-in-law straight for me, and we'll keep this to ourselves.
17:12You give me that information. I'm gonna roll up on that sucker and see what he's talking about.
17:17Marvin, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
17:27I know I say this to you every day.
17:30I know I say this to you every time that we meet, but I just cannot help but remember when you were in the 10th grade,
17:37and I encouraged you to take the test to go to Stuyvesant.
17:41That seems like another lifetime ago.
17:44Things turn out how they're supposed to, Dr. West.
17:48Our lives are what we make of them, Kanan.
17:52And your grades are what you make of them.
17:55Which is why you're here.
17:57Ms. Terrell tells me that if you don't turn in your research paper on one of your grandparents before the end of this semester,
18:03you'll fail her class, which will put you in violation of the terms set forth by the social worker who's managing your court case.
18:10I told Ms. Terrell I'd do a paper. I just wanted to do it on something else.
18:15I ain't really got no grandparents to write about.
18:18I spoke to your mother, who says that both your grandmother and your late grandfather have wonderful histories.
18:25You don't get to decide what work you're assigned, Kanan.
18:29This paper has to get done. Immediately.
18:33Understood?
18:36Understood.
18:56This is for the pain. But he really should be in a hospital early.
19:01He ain't going nowhere. Don't know who did this to him.
19:05And I don't know if they're still out there waiting to finish the damn job.
19:08Just last week we had a German Shepherd who got hit by a car and had similar head trauma.
19:14When the dog finally regained consciousness, he turned vicious.
19:17Gave one of my nurses stitches. We had to put him down.
19:20Last time I checked, this fucked up nigga ain't a German Shepherd.
19:24He paying me for safety and security and that's what he getting.
19:27You may be keeping him secure.
19:31But I can't say that this is safe.
19:33Hell no. Can't write about my family. Don't even know them.
19:37That's why I'm trying to learn. I mean, they my grandparents too, right?
19:42Could be good for me to know who they are.
19:44Why don't you just write about your mother's parents, bud?
19:47Nah, then I gotta talk to her.
19:49I'm not gonna let her know I'm here.
19:51I'm not gonna let her know I'm here.
19:53I'm not gonna let her know I'm here.
19:55I'm not gonna let her know I'm here.
19:57I'm not gonna let her know I'm here.
19:59I'm not gonna let her know I'm here.
20:00Just write about your mother's parents, bud.
20:02Nah, then I gotta talk to her.
20:04And I'm really not about that right now.
20:08You can't write about my peoples.
20:13What if somebody put two and two together?
20:15Start asking questions.
20:17Realize you ain't Def Con's son.
20:20You want people to know you a cop's kid?
20:25Look, I haven't given up on you and me.
20:27I'm still thinking maybe we could connect.
20:31Be something to each other.
20:33I mean, we ain't there yet.
20:36Maybe we can get there.
20:38I'm hoping we can get there.
20:40But you writing some history paper about my family?
20:45That just ain't smart, yo.
20:51I gotta get back to work.
20:53Hey, yo, for future reference,
20:54showing up to my place of business
20:56is probably not the brightest idea you ever had.
21:08Ayesha never stops raving about you, Jukebox.
21:13Which is a nickname I absolutely love.
21:16And I need to know the origin of it.
21:18Thank you for having me.
21:20And Jukebox is for you.
21:21Thank you for having me.
21:23And Jukebox is what my family called me
21:25because I was always singing when I was young.
21:28What do your parents do, Jukebox?
21:32Actually, my mom's passed kind of recently.
21:37Ayesha told us.
21:39And we're sorry about that.
21:43And my dad, he does a whole lot of different things.
21:46Juke's dad is so cool.
21:48He's been to a few of our rehearsals
21:50and says the funniest stuff.
21:52My dad always talking.
21:54So what are your plans for next year, Jukebox?
21:58Where are you thinking about going to college?
22:01Can Juke just enjoy her dinner
22:04without being interrogated by you guys?
22:08Right now I'm kind of just focused on better, I guess.
22:12Seeing where that goes.
22:13Well, this singing group is a wonderful,
22:16extracurricular activity for you girls.
22:18But it's a diversion.
22:20It's a lark.
22:22Wow.
22:24Thanks for stomping on our hopes and dreams,
22:26mom and dad.
22:28We are not stomping on anything.
22:30Last time I checked,
22:32you've been dreaming of going to Spelman
22:34since you were eight years old.
22:36I'm just saying,
22:38not everybody has to have the same dreams.
22:40I'm quite certain Jukebox wants a bride.
22:43She's got a bright future for herself.
22:45Right?
22:47Right.
23:02I want to do it in the car again.
23:06Can't we, like, go a little bit closer?
23:13Yeah.
23:33This nigga don't give a fuck at all.
23:43Does the father know?
23:45No.
23:47Are you planning on telling him?
23:50He's dead.
23:52Sorry.
23:54Is that why you're terminating the pregnancy?
23:56I ain't got no room for another kid in my life right now.
23:58Just so you're aware,
24:00you are going to need to meet with
24:02one of the clinic's social workers
24:04when you return for your follow-up.
24:06We are just as concerned about your
24:08emotional well-being as we are about your physical health.
24:11Let's get this scheduled.
24:13Okay.
24:20Yo, Hurley.
24:22Give me the keys to one of them rides, man.
24:25Just where the fuck you think you're going?
24:29I gotta let Vanessa and Jerome know I'm alive.
24:33Doc says you in a danger zone.
24:35Need to stay your ass in bed.
24:37I'm paying you
24:39to do what the fuck I tell you to do, nigga.
24:41You ain't paying me shit, boy.
24:43I'm paying you for my fucking money.
24:45Give me them keys.
25:00This fool won't get behind the wheel.
25:03Can't even walk across my damn pitch.
25:11Clown-ass motherfucker.
25:13Huh?
25:20Special occasion over here.
25:25Not often my grandson comes calling.
25:31So,
25:33to what do I owe this pleasure?
25:36Because you know I love seeing you
25:38any chance I get.
25:40I'm sorry I haven't come over more often.
25:41It's just, I've been caught up with the school stuff and—
25:44Uh-uh.
25:46You don't ever need to apologize to me, baby.
25:48I'm not your mother.
25:50I don't put expectations and demands on you.
25:56Look, I got this assignment.
25:58Gotta write a research paper on one of my grandparents.
26:02Just thinking I'll write it on Grandpa Elijah.
26:06Like, I done heard so many stories about him, but
26:09I don't know this story.
26:11If you know what I'm saying.
26:13I know exactly what you're saying.
26:16And I think it's a great idea.
26:18You should know more about your grandfather.
26:20Because he would have loved you, Kanan.
26:24You have that same spirit he had.
26:28That same belief in yourself.
26:31Look, your grandfather did what he did
26:34because he didn't like his life
26:36and the world around him.
26:38He didn't like me much, neither.
26:41But for most of his life,
26:43he believed he could do anything
26:45he set his mind to.
26:47That's why he had so many jobs
26:49and interests and passions.
26:51Elijah was capable and skilled
26:54and brilliant.
26:58Just like you.
27:01I appreciate that.
27:03You don't have to thank me, baby.
27:05I'm your grandma.
27:07I'm supposed to pile praise on you.
27:09I'm gonna tell you my point of view
27:11of your grandfather.
27:13And your mother and your uncles,
27:15they're gonna tell you something different.
27:17So I'm not saying I'm right about all this.
27:19I'm just saying,
27:21this is how I remember him.
27:23You got your pencil and paper?
27:25Oh, yeah. I'm done.
27:35Elijah Thomas was born
27:38in 1925
27:40in Clinch County, Georgia.
27:44His daddy, Charles,
27:46worked on the railroads
27:48as Mama Ruth
27:51did laundry for white folks.
28:09Yo, Tommaso.
28:12You lost?
28:14My bad.
28:16This Fall Green?
28:19Not even close.
28:21You got off on the wrong exit, boy.
28:24Maybe so.
28:26I've never been good with directions.
28:28Hmm.
28:30All right, well,
28:32here's something you should follow.
28:34What?
28:35Hmm. All right, well,
28:37here's something you should follow.
28:39Get the fuck back in your car right now,
28:41and we won't make you eat the fucking curb.
28:43Okay?
28:45My bad.
28:47I was expecting you to say
28:49that I should make a left at the light
28:51and then my second right at some shit.
28:53But y'all,
28:55y'all crackers got different maps out here, I see.
28:59Y'all have a good night.
29:06It's fucking cool.
29:08I mean, does this look like Fall Green?
29:10I don't see no monkeys
29:12swinging from the fucking trees, do you?
29:14Come here.
29:16Hey.
29:18You like that?
29:26The doctor will walk you through
29:28the actual step-by-step process, but...
29:30Ain't my first time.
29:32Oh.
29:33I didn't see that in your chart.
29:35It was an off-the-books type thing
29:37when I was a lot younger.
29:39I'll let the doctor know,
29:41and I'll see you in the recovery room.
29:43Does it hurt?
29:45No.
29:47It's just uncomfortable, is all.
29:54I'm sorry.
29:56I'm sorry.
29:58I'm sorry.
30:00I'm sorry.
30:02I'm sorry.
30:04I'm sorry.
30:06I'm sorry.
30:08I'm sorry.
30:10I'm sorry.
30:12I'm sorry.
30:14Those knees.
30:21If you want to drop your jaw or yell or some shit,
30:23do what you got to do.
30:25Because I know shit's got to be a shock.
30:27I mean, it's...
30:29It's a surprise.
30:31It's a surprise that I was carrying
30:33the baby of the nigga I was trying to kill for years.
30:35Come on, Juke.
30:37You got to give me something better than that.
30:39Okay.
30:41Like...
30:44I can't even believe it.
30:46Like, I don't even know what to say.
30:50That's more like it.
30:53Of course, you got to keep this shit to yourself.
30:58To the grave, Juke.
31:00No, no.
31:05Truth is, I can't even believe this shit myself.
31:10I can't believe none of it.
31:17Did you love him?
31:20I think I could've.
31:40This elephant man looking motherfucker eating solid food.
31:58Just give me a couple more days,
32:00and I'mma be ready to circle back on my brother
32:04and settle this fucking score.
32:07We don't want to do all that right now.
32:11Like I keep saying,
32:13I don't give a fuck
32:15about what you think I should or shouldn't do, really.
32:20Just hear me out, nigga.
32:22You got a damn superpower at the moment, man.
32:25You invisible.
32:27Everybody think you dead and gone.
32:29Why you want to go and fuck all that up?
32:31Let the dust settle.
32:33Lay back in the cut
32:35and see who comes to fill that hole you left behind.
32:37Because whoever step in behind
32:38had a hand in taking you out in the first place.
32:42I don't need to let nothing settle.
32:44Because I already know who did it.
32:47It was my own fucking brother, man.
32:51But maybe he had somebody behind him.
32:54It's a big move for a nigga to make dolo.
32:57Look, horniness,
32:59element of surprise,
33:01is the biggest advantage there is.
33:03And you got that shit in spades right now.
33:05All I'm saying,
33:07you ain't pay me shit,
33:09so I got to protect my investment.
33:11My investment is you, nigga.
33:13You get took out,
33:15all my money dealing with you.
33:18Well, I'm going to need you to do some recon for me, then.
33:22See what niggas is talking about out there.
33:26I need to understand the lay of the fucking land.
33:30I need to understand
33:31the lay of the fucking land.
33:35Trust me when I say this.
33:38Just because I'm invisible right now,
33:41don't mean you ain't going to see your fucking money early.
33:50Every debt I owe is going to get paid.
33:54Every fucking one.
34:02We just gave up, man.
34:04Your grandfather threw up his damn hands.
34:07Check the fuck out.
34:09Didn't think about nobody else when he did it, neither.
34:12Because him being gone, meant me
34:14having to step up and be daddy to your moms and uncles.
34:18Couldn't be no kid no more.
34:20Because I had to raise Rock and Lou.
34:22Had to help out any way I could.
34:24What your grandfather did,
34:27was selfish, man.
34:29And weak.
34:31To him, it felt like it answered all his problems.
34:34But all he did, was leave them problems behind.
34:38And some new ones, too, for the rest of us to figure out.
34:42So you don't have no good memories of him, then?
34:45No.
34:47I don't.
34:49I don't.
34:51So you don't have no good memories of him, then?
34:57Of course I do.
34:59I love that nigga, man.
35:02He was my father.
35:05That's why it hurt so bad.
35:08That's why I stay hurting.
35:16Man,
35:18I remember when he was prize fighting.
35:21That's when your mom was still young and Lou was a baby.
35:24He'd take me to his fights and
35:27I'd see him put fools on they backs.
35:31You know what that's like for a little nigga?
35:33Seeing his pops do that to another man?
35:38I remember it felt like
35:40his muscles was my muscles.
35:43Like nobody could fuck with me.
35:48See,
35:51I loved him most.
35:53Out of everybody.
35:59Which is why
36:02I can't never forgive him.
36:03Never forgive him.
36:25It's Paul Rock out there.
36:29She picked up all the work, man.
36:30And she moving out of that old Chinese spot
36:33that you was fucking with, too.
36:35Yeah, I can't say for sure,
36:38but it's also sounding like
36:40she getting her supply from your old connect.
36:42This bitch tell me she done.
36:44Now she got my work.
36:50She let me get shit up and running
36:52just so she could take it from me.
36:56And your brother fucking with Rock's kid, too.
36:57Ronnie and that boy working together.
37:11So you was right then, huh?
37:14Rock had Ronnie's back.
37:16He conspiring against me and shit.
37:23Can't even have Ronnie take me out
37:24for his mom's so she could jack my work.
37:28I mean, you jumping to a lot of conclusions there,
37:31but some of it sound like it could be real.
37:34That's her fucking son, nigga.
37:36That motherfucker don't wipe his nose
37:38without her say so.
37:40They all working together against me, man.
37:43Rock do this with every nigga
37:45she's ever been with.
37:47From DEF CON to Hot Post.
37:50I don't know.
37:52She plays them and she takes what they got.
37:55That's how she do.
37:57You ain't been a man like that.
38:04Yo, you got a gat?
38:07That's what you gonna do with it?
38:09Hold it, nigga.
38:21Hold it, nigga.
38:52This bitch think I'm dead.
38:57I ain't never been motherfucking alive.
39:07What your mom say about your grandpa?
39:10I ain't really talk to her.
39:13Get you back home because of the school shit?
39:16That don't mean me and her talking.
39:17But look, I'm still learning shit
39:19about your grandfather that I didn't know.
39:22But here's something your moms and grandmom
39:24don't understand about your grandpa.
39:26Nigga was a creator.
39:30He'd take nothing, turn it into something.
39:33Was real good with his hands.
39:35Go used to make a lot of the furniture
39:37we had up in the crib.
39:40And I know you know he was a hell of a home player.
39:43Yeah.
39:44Oh.
39:45Make a blow, boy.
39:47I mean, he'd get lost in the shit.
39:51He'd close his eyes.
39:53He'd blow that horn.
39:55He was a million miles away.
39:58Somewhere better than here.
40:00And he'd always work for himself.
40:02He was his own fucking man.
40:04Never licked no nigga boots.
40:06Never took no shit from nobody.
40:08Wish I could say the fucking same about myself.
40:09You know, I used to be real angry at him
40:11for leaving us like he did.
40:14And I'd be in my bed at night
40:16screaming through my pillows
40:18and no one could hear me.
40:20Raging at that motherfucker.
40:23Now that I'm older, though,
40:28I understand him better.
40:32I understand why he did what he did better, too.
40:35I understand why he did what he did better.
40:36I understand why he did what he did better, too.
40:40Death gotta be easy, kid.
40:43Because life is fucking hard.
40:57Yo, Mikey.
40:59Sorry about that check.
41:00I thought you saw me coming.
41:01No, you didn't.
41:03You're right, I didn't.
41:04Fuck you, Tommaso.
41:05Oh, don't get your panties in a bunch.
41:07You're fine.
41:17Who the dumb Ofe, motherfucker?
41:19Standing out in some brick-ass cold,
41:21peep the fucking sheet of ice and thought,
41:23yo, let's slide around on that shit.
41:26Fucking sticks in our hands.
41:29I got off on the right exit this time, my boy.
41:32Who the fuck are you?
41:36You've been disrespecting your wife with that other bitch.
41:39I'm here to tell you to knock that shit off.
41:41You following my directions, nigga?
41:44Say it out loud, motherfucker!
41:46All right, I hear you.
41:51Yeah, you're dead.
42:06What are you doing?
42:09Working on this paper on Grandpa Elijah.
42:12Yeah, yeah, school called me on that.
42:14I meant to talk to you about it,
42:16but I got caught up in other things.
42:20So you ain't got no questions for me about your grandpa?
42:24I mean, you know I was his favorite kid.
42:26You know I was his favorite kid.
42:28You know I was his favorite kid.
42:30You know I was his favorite kid.
42:32You know I was his favorite kid.
42:34I mean, you know I was his favorite.
42:36I talked to Grandma, Uncle Marvin, and Uncle Lou.
42:39They gave me what I needed.
42:48You know it don't matter to me what you think of me, Keenan.
42:51It don't matter to me at all.
42:54I don't need you to love me for me to love you back.
42:57You understand what I'm saying?
43:01I love you.
43:03So much.
43:07Don't matter if you hate me.
43:26Fuck.
43:56I'm so happy to hear from you, Laverne.
44:07I just wanted to say thank you for telling me about that audition.
44:10I decided to try out after all, and I got picked for the group.
44:15Oh my gosh!
44:19That is such wonderful news.
44:23Oh, I am so happy.
44:26You, you, Nicole would be so happy for you.
44:32Wow, but I thought you said you were tired of singing,
44:34that you didn't, you didn't want to do it anymore.
44:36Eh, I thought I'd give it a shot.
44:40Owe it to myself, I guess.
44:41Well, you did, and you do.
44:46I'm so proud for you.
44:48Thanks.
44:49Here you go, honey.
44:51There was something I wanted to ask you.
44:53Please.
44:55I remember Nicole saying to me one time
44:56that you were in the Army back in the day.
44:59I was just wondering what that was like
45:01and how you felt about it, all that.
45:04Are you thinking about enlisting in the military?
45:07It's something I'm considering.
45:10Well, I was on an ROTC scholarship
45:13in college, which requires four years of service
45:16after graduation.
45:17I served in the intelligence branch.
45:19And, you know, for me, the service
45:22helped, it taught me discipline, commitment,
45:25give me some direction that I lack.
45:27But, you know, the Army is not for everyone.
45:30Our army's a very conservative institution,
45:33especially when it comes to certain societal issues.
45:42But look, you're going to be a huge pop star,
45:45so you're not going to have time for anything else.
45:48Tell me, tell me about the group.
45:50It's called Butter with an A.
45:53Ooh, Butter with an A. I love it.
45:57I'm going to buy 20 copies of the record just
46:00because of the name alone.
46:02Butter.
46:04Wow, wow, I'm so proud of you.
46:16We ain't open yet.
46:18Not here for a drink, Lou.
46:21Oh, shit.
46:23It's Jess.
46:25It's me.
46:29Fame told me you was working here a while ago.
46:33I like it.
46:34No, you don't.
46:35It ain't high post enough for you.
46:37I'm still a South Side Jamaica girl, Lou.
46:39I won't ever change.
46:41That Cali life look good on you, though.
46:43It never rains over there.
46:45It feels like you're always on vacation.
46:47Shit, I could use a vacation.
46:49You could do big things in LA.
46:51And what?
46:53Leave all this behind.
47:00I heard about Crown.
47:02Crown, yeah.
47:03That nigga's dirt finally caught up to him.
47:05I still don't know who did it.
47:07Crown was owing crazy Lou to a lot of people.
47:13Anyway, I'm in town for a minute just doing
47:16some label meetings.
47:17Family doesn't even know I'm here,
47:18but I wanted to stop by and see you.
47:21Now you see me.
47:30You know, I tell the people I work
47:31with about you all the time.
47:33I'm always talking about how talented and smart you are.
47:38How one day we all going to be working for Lou Thomas.
47:46Anyway, I got to get going.
47:50But I'll be back in New York soon,
47:52so maybe I'll come through and see you.
47:55Good, though.
47:57That'd be OK, too.
48:00You know, one day you're going to have
48:01to forgive yourself for all this shit that wasn't even
48:03your fault in the first place.
48:17I miss you.
48:28Man, you got us out here all day and night delivering shit.
48:32You got to make it worth our while.
48:34We need more money.
48:35So the other niggas sent you in here
48:38to negotiate with me for they fucking races.
48:41They know I'm about business.
48:43They know I'm about business.
48:45We paying y'all way more than Paul was hitting
48:47you all for his courier shit.
48:49But Paul was only working us nine to five Monday to Friday.
48:52You got us out here 24-7.
48:54You making 24-7 money?
48:57Ain't enough.
49:00All right, I'll run some numbers.
49:02I'll get back to y'all, and I'll see what's good.
49:05Word.
49:06I'll let the crew know.
49:07All right.
49:12Everybody always wants home.
49:14Shit never ends.
49:15You can't ever control the money coming in.
49:18You can only control what's going out.
49:22What the fuck you know about it, Crystal?
49:24My father owned a health food store.
49:27And before he bounced on us, he was
49:30always telling me this stuff.
49:31What else your father have to say?
49:33If everyone else go in one way, you go the other.
49:37Because that's where the opportunity is.
49:39Where you get that shit?
49:42A cereal box or something?
49:48Hello?
49:49Grandma, where are you?
49:55I'm on the way.
49:58It's from Grandma.
50:00She at the hospital.
50:01I got to go. I'll get at you later.
50:02Well, you want me to come with you?
50:08Come on, Mama.
50:09Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit.
50:10Here, try this on for size, huh?
50:13Here, let me light it for you.
50:17Yeah, there you go.
50:18There you go.
50:20Hey, so Tommaso, he just booked a cruise to the Bahamas
50:26for him and Paulette.
50:27So whatever you said did the trick.
50:31I just told him a good woman's hard to find.
50:35Hey, so's the dismembered body.
50:39Hey, Marvin, I owe you one.
50:41And believe me, that's great news for you.
51:01You must be the grandson.
51:02Yeah.
51:03I'll let you two talk.
51:10Grandma, what happened?
51:13I fainted.
51:14It's no big deal.
51:16Happens at my age.
51:18They're going to discharge me in about an hour or so,
51:21which is why I called you.
51:23I could use a little help getting home.
51:26Hey, of course.
51:28Yeah, we'll have to do it right now.
51:31Why did you faint, though?
51:34This boy always asks the right questions.
51:40Your grandmother has kidney cancer.
51:42The treatment makes me weak sometimes,
51:45which is what happened today.
51:47But I'm OK.
51:49Like I said, they're letting me go home.
51:51What?
51:55So Mom and Uncle Marvin and Uncle Lou know?
52:03You're the only one in the family who knows.
52:06And I'd like to keep it that way.
52:11I don't want everyone coming around,
52:14making this about themselves and all
52:16their problems with their mother.
52:22I'm asking you to keep this to yourself.
52:32I got you.
52:38I know.
52:52Louis, you can't drive like this.
53:05I'm all right.
53:06You're not.
53:07You're not.
53:08You're not.
53:09And I'm not going to let you get behind that wheel.
53:10You give me those keys and let me drive
53:12this shit to a fucking tree.
53:13I'm not letting you do that.
53:17Go over here.
53:20All right.
53:21In we go.
53:23All right.
53:24You step.
53:25There we go.
53:28All right.
53:29Now we've got to step here.
53:31That's it.
53:33That's it.
53:35That's it.
53:36So how are you feeling?
53:38Your feelings, that is.
53:40How are your feelings feeling?
53:42They're fine.
53:44I'm fine.
53:51Your chart says that the father is recently deceased.
53:55I'm sure that makes for some complicated emotions.
53:59Well, the only thing that makes it complicated
54:01is conversations like this.
54:03That kind of a loss coupled with a terminated pregnancy
54:06is a lot to grapple with.
54:08Everybody losing something every day.
54:10Time, money, people.
54:12It all comes and goes.
54:13And you can fight that shit all you want.
54:15Cry about how it ain't fair.
54:16But it ain't going to change shit.
54:18You expected me to kick and scream about what I gave up here
54:21and what I lost before.
54:22But I don't do that.
54:24That ain't me.
54:25It ain't never going to be me.
54:27You spend time crying about what you lost,
54:30you never get shit.
54:32And I'm going to get mine.
54:34You can be goddamn sure of that.
54:39My feelings is good.
54:41Nobody need to worry about them.
54:43And nobody need to worry about me.
54:46I appreciate your time.
54:52Gunshots
54:54Footsteps
54:58Gunshots
55:24Footsteps
55:42Now here we are.
55:44Back where the fuck we started.
55:48See, you thought you knew everything.
55:50But turns out you didn't.
55:54Because nobody know everything.
55:56And it's better that way.
55:59Because if you knew everything, you'd know too much.
56:04You'd know how many times you've been lied to.
56:07How many times you done lied to yourself.
56:12You'd know how many times you came close to dying.
56:15And how many times you almost made somebody die.
56:20And knowing about them lies and dying,
56:23that ain't no fucking way to live.
56:29Not at all.
56:54Skylights up like fireworks blind me.
56:56Bullets whistling over my head remind me.
56:58President Bush said attack.
57:00Flashback to now I might not make it back.
57:02Missile hits the area.
57:04Screams waking up from a war of dreams.
57:06Heat up the M-16.
57:07Base of training.
57:08Trained for torture.
57:09Take no prisoners.
57:10And I just caught you addicted to murder.
57:13Send more body bags.
57:14They can't identify them.
57:15Leave the names there.
57:16I get a rush when I see blood dead bodies on the floor.
57:20Casualties of war.
57:22Casualties of war.
57:24Casualties of war.
57:27Casualties of war.
57:30Day divides the night and night divides the day.
57:33It's all hard work and no play.
57:35More to come back.
57:36It's far beyond that.
57:37Guess I gotta kill or be killed.
57:38Kind of a check.
57:39Area's mapped out.
57:40But be no strategic.
57:41Me and my patrol maker.
57:53You know the difference between right and wrong?
57:55You alive because of me.
57:57This is a variable business, Kanan.
57:59We can't predict much except trouble.
58:01It's a constant.
58:03The king is back.
58:04I think it's time I show my face up in this motherfucker.
58:07Here you are.
58:09Behind your mother's back.
58:11I don't feel safe in this apartment, Kanan.
58:13Unique is alive as hell.
58:15He doing anything he can to hurt us.
58:18Soldiers are made.
58:20Killers are born.
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