02x01 - Yield

[bunniefuu]

("TONGUE" BY REINA REIGN PLAYING)

Okay, he right back in it

♪ like it's cr*ck ♪

'Cause once you f*ck

♪ with Reign ♪

♪ You ain't never going back ♪

I tell that sucka

♪ put his tongue in it ♪

And be done with it,

♪ put his tongue in it ♪

Shawna, uh, uh,

put the flour in the pot.

Like a, like a bad bitch.

♪ You just mad 'cause ya man ♪

CHASTITY: It's supposed to

be baking soda, not flour.

Grab the spoon and stir the pot.

CHASTITY: Mm, mm-mm.

That is not how you cook cr*ck.

Have any of y'all been to a cr*ck house?

Look, the focus is ass cr*ck,

not cr*ck-cr*ck.

If people are looking at the

stove, then we got bigger problems.

We good? Any notes?

- No notes.

- DIRECTOR: Cool.

Uh, Shawna and Mia,

can you get closer to Reina

and stand on both sides of her?

Come on, y'all, let's make a Oreo.

Bitch, you stupid.

- (BOTH LAUGH)

- Real stupid.

DIRECTOR: Love that tongue, Reina.

I need more bad bitch, Shawna.

Can you get down low with Reina?

Yeah, drop it low.

Yeah, yeah, you're doing great.

Just a little bit more into it.

Yeah, that's good.

Alright, alright, alright.

Got it. Take five, everyone.

(BELL RINGING)

REINA: That was amazing.

- CHASTITY: Here.

- Oh, thank you.

MIA: See, that's why I f*ck with you,

because you always thinkin' of me.

Of course. Oreo?

(CELL PHONE BUZZING)

Yo, Shawna, what's up?

So a white woman in a trap house?

- That's like super groundbreaking.

- Thank you.

Take that sh*t to a

festival or some sh*t.

- Stop, stop.

- Okay.

We're not doing this sh*t again.

- Okay.

- Alright.

I'm just saying, maybe

what we're doing is offensive

to the people who cook cr*ck

to support their families.

Right? And it's also kind of stupid.

Offensive to the

cr*ck-cooking community?

The cr*ck-cooking

Like, Jeezy and them.

You know what outrage marketing is?

That's this. We're doing

outrage marketing.

Okay? By any means necessary.

Do not quote Malcolm X right now.

This is the wrong time to bring him up.

What about Martin? "I have a scheme."

♪ I'ma spend his cream ♪

Put his face in that cr*ck

♪ like fiends ♪

Put a arch in your back

♪ then leave ♪

I'ma show you

♪ how to run these schemes ♪

Say my name in it,

♪ go insane in it ♪

Say this p*ssy too wild

♪ no tamin' it ♪

Like ha-ha-ha-ha

♪ if he ain't got change ♪

If he do, then I'm straight

♪ to the bank wit' it ♪

♪ I'ma spend his cream ♪

♪ Secure and scheme ♪

ADAM: Think this gonna be

ready before the sun goes down?

RUBI: If you let me cook.

ADAM: I'm gonna go outside. I'm hungry,

and I wanna go outside

for a little while.

- RUBI: (SCOFFS) Adam!

- Come on then, feed me then.

- (ADAM CHUCKLES)

- I think it needs more salt.

ADAM: Yeah.

(SHAWNA SNIFFS)

Mm. Smells really good in here.

ADAM: Hey, look who it is.

We don't have any money, Shawna.

- SADE: Hey, Sha'Carri!

- That's why she's here.

That's not why I came.

Shh, stop, stop. Shut the f*ck up.

Hi. Hi.

Why are you wearing

my OutKast sweatshirt?

- I look better in it. Ow.

- Get out of my face.

- ADAM: What's going on, Shawna?

- Not much.

Um, I just came to tell you guys

that they're doing

an investigation at the Plymouth,

and they're questioning everybody.

It's not a big deal, though,

but they did question me,

and I wanted you guys to know

before you found out about it

in the "Miami New Times."

Find out what?

I don't know. I think fraud.

- Who questioned you?

- (SINGING) Seduce and scheme ♪

(CONTINUES SINGING INDISTINCTLY)

The police questioned me.

- Are you involved somehow?

- SADE: Damn.

I'm a person of interest.

Shawna, what did you do?

I haven't been charged with anything.

Oh, great. You hear that?

She hasn't been charged.

A college dropout.

A rapping motel clerk. A derelict.

Every decision you have made is stupid.

Things are actually going really well.

I'm gonna go on tour with Lord AK.

(SADE SQUEALS)

- Like the r*fle?

- Shut up, Sade!

I won't continue to watch you

make the wrong decisions.

If you go on that tour,

then don't bother coming here again.

- Ruby, listen

- I mean it, Adam!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(LAUGHING)

MIA: What y'all think about this?

(GIRLS OOHING)

It's giving.

Period, poo!

I ain't mad at it.

That is cute.

(MIA GIGGLES)

- What's the budget again?

- MIA: Budget?

- Oh, we don't speak those.

- (NELLY LAUGHS)

Uh, you spoke it just fine a week ago

when you were shopping at Forever 21.

Now you think 30 racks

is a lot of money.

I'm telling you, that sh*t can go fast.

I'm just sayin'.

Well, Miss Know-It-All,

I already paid my rent up

for six months.

I paid for my baby tuition.

And guess what, bitch? I

got all the streaming services.

Well, hell, what's your log in?

Because I don't even

remember whose I'm using.

Mine, bitch.

NELLY: Well, bitch, why you keep

changing the password?

And in the next few days,

we finna open up for Lord AK.

And once he cosign us,

it's gon' open so many doors.

- I heard that.

- Mm.

Girl, I can't wait to go

to the Breakfast Club

so I can replace Angela Yee.

Now, how is this gonna work

if Lauryn Steal go to prison?

- MIA: f*ck her.

- ALEESIA: Oh.

She said she weren't going to jail.

Either way, I'ma get this money.

That's all it need to be.

Girl, she going to jail.

NELLY: You think?

- Ooh.

- ALEESIA: That's the one.

- That's it.

- ALEESIA: Mm-hmm.

That's giving "rich bitch."

- NELLY: Milky.

- ALEESIA: Yeah.

Mom, can I have this?

Let me see.

Girl, who you think you is, Blue Ivy?

Friend, put that back.

Don't even touch it.

D-don't touch it too hard.

- Don't do her like that.

- Thank you.

Oh, by the way,

they changed my work schedule,

so I can only take Melissa

the second week now.

- What you mean?

- NELLY: I know. I'm sorry.

Can't your mama just take her

for the other two weeks

and then I just go get her when I can?

MIA: No, I don't want

her over there that long.

She be drinking and yelling,

and I don't want Melissa

to be around that

all the time like that.

I mean, I know he not f*cking

with you right now,

but she does have a daddy

that's not touring

nowhere but his grandma's kitchen.

So, call that n*gga and make friends.

'Cause I'm not keeping nobody's kids.

(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING)

She don't stop at red lights ♪

Freak bitch,

then she give me brandy ♪

Get my hair right ♪

Country n*gga,

I eat fish and grits ♪

You should tread light ♪

(SONG FADES)

That sh*t better than a bitch.

Alright now, thanks for being patient.

My man Freddie.

Got somethin' for me?

(CHUCKLES) My girl.

You all set for tonight?

Yeah. I'ma get ready

at the hotel, though.

So, um, who gon' keep the dust

off these hoes while you gone?

I give Jazmin two days

before she outside ashy.

I'm working on it with Calvin. Why?

'Cause you know Bugs been around.

- Around who?

- He stepped to me.

So he probably been sniffing

around these musty hoes, too.

(SUCKS TEETH) Snake-ass n*gga.

And I know Calvin's

your uncle, Chastity,

but all his b*tches is worn out.

And all Bugs needs is

a reason to catch you slipping.

One thing I know is,

if you give a pressed n*gga

an opportunity to f*ck you,

he'll take it.

So what this got to do with you?

Let me handle business while you gone.

What the f*ck you gon' do

if Bugs run up on you?

- CALVIN: Hey! Hey!

- Hell no.

Heel, hoes! What the f*ck

wrong with y'all?

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

I can't stand these broke, dirty hoes.

CALVIN: You messin' up

my money, goddammit!

Drive, please.

("FLOAT" BY FANA HUES PLAYING)

But you left my love

like summer ♪

Bruised me in the worst way ♪

(SIGHS)

You straight?

Mia, what you want?

Damn, it's like that?

(MIA SIGHS)

Okay, So look, (SIGHS)

with this tour,

it's coming together real fast.

It's gon' be a month.

Nelly said she was gon' help me,

but now she's saying she can't watch her

the whole time.

And you know how my mama is,

so that's why I'm here.

So why you ain't think

to come to me first?

Because I thought you was mad.

You ain't never cared about

my feelings before. Why now?

So that's how you wanna be?

We back here now?

This what you wanted.

No, it's not, and you know that.

I ain't want this.

Look, I don't wanna fight

with nobody else.

I got a chance at some sh*t,

and I just need you on my side, Lamont.

Please.

(SIGHS) Look, I'm on

my daughter's side, alright?

If she need me, I'll be there.

Thank you.

("BIKINI BOTTOM" BY ICE SPICE PLAYING)

Stop playing with 'em, Riot ♪

How can I lose

if I'm already chose? ♪

Like, if she feeling hot,

then I make that bitch froze ♪

And I get a bitch tight

every time ♪

FRANCOIS: Have a seat.

Okay, so I got some really good news

about the tour.

As of right now,

we are almost sold out.

- SHAWNA: Mm.

- (MIA GASPS)

We got 20,000 pre-sale tickets already.

- sh*t! sh*t.

- Run it up. Yes!

So right now, what we're gonna do

is finish the "Tongue" remix.

Then we're gonna rehearse with Reina.

After that, we're gonna do some press,

and then we'll do the cover art.

Oh, bet. And y'all

probably should rehearse,

um, "Seduce and Scheme"

and "Nann Badder."

Don't worry about it,

I'ma set that up. We good.

Uh, that is not on the set list.

And we really

only got room for "Tongue."

Why? They can't give us 10

minutes? We have two songs.

(CHUCKLES) It's more

complicated than that.

It's not just about the time.

Man, we doing numbers right now.

They gon' bring the fans out.

They gon' perform they ass off.

We gotta have our own set.

And the first song we drop,

almost got a million streams

right now on Spotify.

It's 700,000.

- I did the numbers.

- I rounded up. I rounded up.

Realistically,

they do not have a history

of ticket sales in these markets.

They got two songs out,

and analytics show

that they really don't have that much

of a fan base outside of Miami.

So all that and you want

me to go and ask for more?

This is already a favor.

Well, every time I get

on my timeline, I see them.

So what that mean?

That means you need

to follow more people.

That's what that means.

Look, we go on the tour,

run up the fans, record an EP,

walk into that label, we will get

a million-dollar deal, easy.

- One million?

- SHAWNA: Are you serious?

(LAUGHING) sh*t.

I mean, it's really up to y'all.

We already wasted a bunch

of time with this legal sh*t

so (SMACKS LIPS, INHALES SHARPLY)

I could be texting

Ice Spice right now

No, do not text Ice Spice.

How much they getting paid?

Right now, it's an investment.

I need a minute with my artists.

Shawna, what are we doing?

♪

Just one minute. Just one minute.

We're gonna figure this out. Come on.

♪

I think that we should take this deal

because they're about to leave

in, like, a few days.

They're gonna go on tour without us.

What are you talkin' about?

You don't take the first offer.

That's the first rule in business.

First offer? This is our only offer.

Guys, this is how it goes.

Like, you don't just make money

from the beginning.

That's why it's called

being a starving artist.

I ain't finna starve.

Look, at the minimum, y'all should

be able to perform your own songs.

We're gonna get there, but for now,

Francois is giving us

a huge opportunity.

So you trust him now?

I Yeah, I d I do.

Let me manage this, my n*gga.

- We can haggle.

- SHAWNA: Haggle?

We're not buying

nameplate earrings, Chastity.

We're trying to go on tour with Lord AK.

Why do you want to blow that? For what?

Mia, what do you think?

I mean,

he did say it could turn

into a million-dollar deal.

And I mean, I'm, I'm down

to play the game for a check, so

Now is the time to make demands.

I want y'all to get

something out of this!

He didn't promise us a set,

just like he not promising us

a million dollars.

SHAWNA: Okay, you

watch too much "Empire,"

and I think we should go.

(CHASTITY SCOFFS)

- A'ight.

- SHAWNA: Okay.

It's settled then. Cool.

- We're in.

- FRANCOIS: Alright.

Let's get to work. We

leave in three days. Let's go.

("ISSA PHOTOSHOOT" BY

ENCHANTING AND GUCCI MANE PLAYING)

Ayy, Big Chant got

so much stamina ♪

I love f*ckin' on camera ♪

(PEOPLE CHATTERING, LAUGHING)

I'm smokin' on some

sh*t called Pastry ♪

My bitch look like Angela ♪

Any n*gga play with me ♪

I promise I'ma handle him ♪

I ain't ready yet,

I'm slippin' on ♪

Shenellica, baby, let me get

another one of them Pink Panties.

Oh, I got you. We about

to make a toast anyway.

NELLY: Everybody got a glass?

So you just not gon' speak to Gerard?

For what? That's your man.

Everybody make sure you thank Gerard.

He was the one who provided

all of the rib tips.

I got my whole rib right here.

- He a man of God, y'all.

- GERARD: Yeah, you bet.

Dink-dink-dink! (LAUGHS)

Okay. The alcohol (SIGHS)

- Oh, don't do this.

- Bitch, I love you.

Oh, my God, don't do this.

(SIGHS) You gon' make

me mess up my makeup.

We've been ridin' forever.

Like, I don't know, last year,

you were just on the pole,

and then now you're on the bus

going state to state!

(MIA LAUGHS)

- Now you look like money.

- Well.

NELLY: You smell like money,

- and these b*tches could never.

- Never.

You was born to do this.

(SIGHS)

Let everybody else

say something different.

I'll b*at they ass.

What you gonna do, friend?

I'd I'd tap it right there

like beep, beep

- Beep, beep, beep.

- Ooh. You remember that one bitch?

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

Alright. Come on.

Let a bitch run up if she want to,

'cause I don't play 'bout you.

And that's forever.

- Ever-ever?

- Yes.

I love you, friend!

I love you too!

- Pretty girls only.

- Only!

- Ugly b*tches? Never!

- Never. Ever.

- Never-ever. Ever-ever.

- MIA: Ever-ever.

- Okay. (CLEARS THROAT)

- (NELLY CLEARS THROAT)

Well, bestie, you know

we been manifesting this

- since we was kids and

- Oh, my God.

Alright, I want to say something.

Hoo. Okay. (CHUCKLES)

Look, Mia, I had to raise you by myself.

And you might think otherwise,

but I did the best I could.

GERARD: You did that, baby.

I busted my ass

to give you what you had.

And now, I might not have been perfect,

but I'm proud of everything

that you turned out to be, you know?

Getting to do all the things,

and go all the places

that I never even thought I could go.

So, you judge me all you want to,

but clearly I didn't do too bad.

GERARD: You didn't be at that, baby.

- That's a good woman.

- ROBYN: Thank you.

How the hell he know?

What is wrong with her?

She mad 'cause I asked Lamont

to keep Melissa instead of her.

ROBYN: Gerard, let me get another drink.

Thank y'all so much.

(LAUGHS) I love y'all.

SHAWNA: Never have I ever

gotten head from a n*gga

- on a moving vehicle.

- (BOTH LAUGHING)

Yep. Put it down. Take a drink.

Go ahead. Go ahead. (LAUGHS)

FRANCOIS: Never have I ever

had sex with my boyfriend in the library

when my best friend was standing outside

- and really had to pee

- Oh, sh*t.

and had been keeping watch.

You have resentment,

and you need to get over that.

- (FRANCOIS LAUGHS)

- You need to get over that.

- FRANCOIS: I'm just

- Okay.

I'm just trying to get you

to play the game.

You ain't got no f*ckin' fingers down.

- (SHAWNA COUGHS)

- (LAUGHS)

Damn, you got your d*ck sucked

in public transit.

- (BOTH LAUGHING)

- SHAWNA: Yo.

See, this is the Shawna that I miss.

This is the Shawna that I miss.

Mm. Cliff's ass ruined everything.

- What are you talking about?

- Yeah.

I never liked that n*gga, so

Why you ain't tell me that

till right now?

I was You were in love!

What was I supposed to say?

It just sucked because before that,

we were so we were so tight.

Like, I used to call you

when something good happens,

I'll call you

when something bad happens.

Like, there were days where I would be

so f*cking depressed and

you would be the thing that

got me out of bed in the morning.

I got it in my head that

Cliff would make me better.

Like, he would make me a better

woman or something. Like, just better.

- What?

- Yeah.

What are you f*cking talking about?

You are the prize, Shawna.

I'm so serious. You are.

Mm-mm-mm.

It's funny because you don't even know

how big you're about to be.

Like, by the end of this tour,

there won't be anything

you haven't done.

What you really need is to start doing

what you want to do.

Mmm, never have I ever

jumped in a mansion pool.

Let's go.

Woo!

Alright. Alright. Lay it on me.

Catwalk, catwalk, catwalk.

And, ooh. Ow!

Body.

(CHUCKLES) Alright.

Okay! Oh!

Alright, hold up. I'm coming.

I'm coming. I'm coming.

Come on, n*gga! Woo!

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING)

Hey, Lamont.

- This for you.

- (PAPER RUSTLING)

For me?

Throat Coat?

You coming here being nasty?

No. It's for the vocal cords, man.

Yeah, I bet.

LAMONT: I don't want

your voice to be cracking

when you're on stage.

- Where Lissy at?

- (MIA SIGHS)

- What's wrong with her?

- She ain't want me to leave.

She been acting like this all day.

Lissy, get out from under that table.

- (MELISSA GRUNTING)

- Girl!

One, two

Look, I'ma only be gone

for a little while.

Okay? We can get a calendar.

Mark it off every day until I come back.

And we can FaceTime every day.

I don't want to go to Grandma's house.

It smells bad.

She don't have no channels.

Well, that's what you got a iPad for.

It doesn't work over there.

But, baby, you can use my hotspot.

It's slow, Daddy!

Who you yelling at?

Why do you have to leave?

Look, I got some

exciting stuff going on.

Okay? Can you just be

happy for me tonight, please?

- I'll get her.

- ROBYN: Mm-hmm.

Now you see how she acting, right?

She don't act like that with me.

- Melissa.

- Robyn, why are you even down here?

You gon' get up from under there

and stop showing out,

or do you want me to get you

- (MELISSA SCREAMS)

- (ALL SHOUTING)

- Come on now! Look what you did!

- Mom!

What? No, look what you did.

- Give me my damn drink back.

- She done.

No more pink thongs.

She needs some water.

I don't need no damn water.

- Yes, you do.

- Uh, you don't run me.

GERARD: I was running you last night.

- LAMONT: Oh.

- Keep that to yourself.

That ain't for everybody to hear.

That ain't everybody business.

Okay, cover your ears. Come on.

MIA: Um, Lamont, take, take Melissa.

- Nelly, give me the water.

- Okay.

Nelly, don't you bring

that water over here.

- Nelly, the water.

- Don't bring that water over here

- or it's gon' be something.

- Nelly, let me get the water.

Bring the water over here. Watch.

- You gon' be wet.

- Give me the water!

Nelly, give me the water.

That's what I thought. Look, y'all

ain't finna be treating me like this.

- I could be home.

- Okay, so go home.

So that's how you talk to me?

You got a bad attitude, little girl.

Okay, look at you.

You ain't no better example.

- Look at me!

- Yeah, I'm looking.

- You drunk as f*ck!

- Look at me. Look at me.

Look at me. The f*ck?

Look, I don't know what your problem is.

I don't know what your problem is,

(CHUCKLING) but you not finna

keep blaming me for it.

Give me the damn keys. I'm gone.

- sh*t.

- MIA: Mom.

ROBYN: Come on. G

- MIA: Mom.

- Give me the keys.

Call you a Uber with your drunk ass.

♪

MAURICE: (CHUCKLES) Okay, so,

you ghost me till you hungry?

(SHAWNA CHUCKLES)

Whose leftovers am I eating?

I cooked this earlier.

I was gonna have this

for dinner tomorrow.

You didn't cook this sh*t.

You ordered it from somewhere.

- Ah, sh*t, here we go.

- But I feel bad.

I'ma still eat it, but I feel bad.

So, um

how come I ain't hear from you?

I thought you was gonna hit me.

Oh, yeah, I I just slipped up.

I went to my parents' crib,

and then it was a whole thing.

- You told them what happened?

- No.

I'm not about

to tell anybody what happened.

sh*t, then we gon' be okay.

'Cause, look, as long

as we on the same page,

then we gon' be alright.

You can trust me.

(MICROWAVE BEEPING)

(MAURICE CHUCKLES)

I got you.

Your plants are dry as sh*t.

Just telling you. Just letting you know.

MAURICE: Wow.

Oh, my God.

This isn't you. This is you?

Why didn't you tell me

you was this cute?

Yo, you seen my cute ass every weekday.

What's the difference?

I feel like you still fit this jersey.

You wanna see?

I got 'em in a closet right now.

- I'm just saying.

- f*ck all that. Listen.

This is to you.

You going on your first

f*ckin' world tour.

No, Maurice, it's domestic.

No, no, no, no, no. f*ck all that.

You going on your first world tour.

You ain't never f*ckin' gave up.

You out here still living your dream.

You fine as f*ck.

(MAURICE CHUCKLES)

Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- (GLASSES CLINK)

(MAURICE MOANS)

("SKIN TIGHT" BY RAVYN LENAE PLAYING)

Hope you understand ♪

We won't go as fast ♪

Hold me while you can ♪

I'll still be your friend ♪

(SHAWNA GASPS)

You'll come back again ♪

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

It's gonna be alright.

MIA: Maybe I shouldn't go.

LAMONT: Nah, you got to.

I ain't doing this with you.

But I'm here for you, though.

(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)

(CELL PHONE BUZZES)

- Excuse me.

- SHAWNA: Mm.

I'll be right back.

(MAURICE SIGHS)

(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)

(SIGHS)

- (DOGS BARKING)

- (AMBIENT STREET NOISE)

- What's up?

- MAURICE: Yo.

- So what happened?

- She's solid, bro.

- How you know that?

- She ain't said sh*t.

So we just supposed

to take her word for it?

Yo, I told you not to trust this bitch.

You know, none of this sh*t

started happening

until you started f*ckin' with her.

Now they want to question me.

- (MAURICE SPEAKS HAITIAN CREOLE)

STANLEY: I'm going in tomorrow morning.

If it comes down to me or her,

you know what it is.

("JD'S REVENGE" BY JEAN DEAUX PLAYING)