01x06 - Level Up

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[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

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[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

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[GROWN KANAN] Previously
on Raising Kanan...

[RAQ] This is it. This is the spot.

The Van Wyck expressway
is packed with white folks.

Only time you ever see them in
the hood is when they fuelin' up.

Kanan Stark's the m*therf*cking
prince of the South Side.

Sometimes, when you want
to get to the queen...

- You gotta go through the prince.
- [KANAN] I know your secrets, Juke.

I suggest you watch your f*cking mouth.

You think I'm f*cking
scared of you, n*gga?

You a boy playing in a
man's world right now.

I'm excited to see your
moms. We go way back.

Here for Kanan. He
called me to pick him up.

Is there any way you don't
tell my moms about this?

If she asks me, I'm coming clean.

Yo, I'm 'bout to go to
stu, put some flows down.

- Gon' be a producer there.
- f*ck it.

- What's it cost me?
- 'Nique's re-up. Where and when.

Nicole? You're f*cking
repellent. Disgusting!

Worrell saying you think about
flipping over to this team.

f*ck Raq and that bitch-ass Kanan.

Kanan is my son.

Stay the f*ck away from my son.

[RILEYY] ♪ I'm a hustler, baby ♪
♪ I'm a hustler, baby ♪

[ CENT] ♪ Yeah, I know
heartbreaks, setbacks ♪

♪ Bitch, if I crap out ♪
♪ I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through the ups and
downs, you know I get around ♪

♪ So to me it's all a part of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man ♪
♪ Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man ♪
♪ I got to take it ♪

♪ No need to say sh*t ♪
♪ I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turned homicide ♪
♪ It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Make money ♪
♪ Make, make, make money ♪

♪ When sh*t hit the fan ♪
♪ We'll take money, Southside ♪

♪ Beef with the best of 'em ♪

♪ Done sh*t at the rest of 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Checks, I'm collectin' 'em ♪

♪ Check, boy I'm finessin' 'em ♪

♪ Bag Supreme Boy, you f*ck around ♪

♪ Put a big bag on your head ♪

♪ Before the weather break ♪
♪ You're dead ♪

♪ Let's get to it, they
don't do it like we do it ♪

♪ Nah, cop it, whip it ♪
♪ Bag it, flip it ♪

♪ Re-up, we up ♪
♪ G'd up, what up? ♪

♪ Runnin' round this bitch
still not givin' a f*ck, hey ♪

♪ When it come to that paper ♪
♪ There'll be no complications ♪

Ha ha. That's right.

♪ Put a hole in a n*gga
right in front of you ♪

♪ Your heartbeat pacin' ♪

[RILEYY AND CENT]
♪ And it's all right ♪

[ CENT] ♪ That's how
we do it on this side ♪

♪ n*gg*s get to it on this side ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks ♪
♪ Setbacks ♪

♪ Bitch, if I crap out ♪
♪ I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through the ups and
downs, you know I get around ♪

♪ So to me it's all a part of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man ♪
♪ Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man ♪
♪ I got to take it ♪

♪ No need to say sh*t ♪
♪ I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turned homicide ♪
♪ It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Hey, hey ♪

[RILEYY VOCALIZING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE]

Elevator don't work, baby.

I've been telling the
city, but they don't care.

[RAQ SCOFFS] Been here
five times in the last week,

and I still keep forgetting.

Been here years, and I wish I could.

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN] Can't stand
in one place for long.

Gotta keep moving, keep hustling.

You gotta keep climbin', keep goin' up.

The hustle don't stop,
so neither can you.

Always strivin'. Always pushin'.

Remember where you been,

know where you are, and
see where you're going.

'Cause if you ain't going
up, you slidin' down,

and it's a long way
to the bottom, n*gga.

I told you the inspector wasn't
gonna have none of this sh*t.

- I could lose my job behind this.
- You be a'ight.

[BABY CRYING IN DISTANCE]

You the new tenant?

I am.

[INSPECTOR] Clearly, you've never
lived in public housing before.

You don't own this unit, Miss.

The city does. You're just borrowing it.

You can't put a nail in a wall,

a hook in the ceiling, or a
damn magnet on the refrigerator

without prior approval

of the New York City
Housing Authority and myself.

And you are certainly not permitted

to put a hole in the kitchen floor.

What the hell you think
you're doin' in there anyway?

I'm a cook.

Just upgrading the kitchen.

Bringing in a new stove.

Well, this needs to be repaired

and returned to its prior condition,

or you will be facing not
only immediate eviction,

but also a trip to housing court,

where you'll be looking at
hefty fines and penalties.

So how we make this
right for the both of us?

I'm just a single mother

trying to make a home for me and my son.

Well, I got a busy day ahead of me.

But what I can do for you Miss,

I'll meet with you

and you alone,

later this evening to have a more

specific conversation about this, uh,

situation and how best to address it.

Just let me know when.

Eight o'clock this evening.

And when I say alone, I mean just...

you and me.

[DARK MUSIC PLAYS]

Well, what other kind of alone is there?

Huh.

♪ ♪

My crew's comin' through
later to finish this work.

- Stay out their way.
- But the inspector just said...

f*ck him. We workin'.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Yo. You said you was gonna help me

hang some of these joints up, man.

n*gga, I'm here supporting
you and your rap dreams.

If you wanna support,

- take some flyers, n*gga.
- Sh...

Yo, you hear my sh*t?

Even you gonna wanna be on this d*ck.

n*gga, what?

♪ My rhymes so hot ♪
♪ My sh*t's flambéed ♪

♪ Money so long I'm goin' all day ♪

- [KANAN LAUGHS]
- ♪ Sound so fresh ♪

- ♪ Turnin' straight boys gay ♪
- [LAUGHS]

You's a clown-ass muhfucka, man.

Uh-huh.

Matter of fact, you
supposed to be helpin'.

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- [HOWARD] Question for you, Doc.
- Oh, jeez.

Startled me, Detective Howard.

My bad; didn't mean to
creep up on you like that.

Well, I'm available by phone,

or you can schedule an office visit.

I have an appointment
with a patient right now,

- so this is not a good time.
- What if I had a kid, Doc?

What if I had a son?

You said you have no immediate family.

But what if I did?

Would my son be able to give me

that bone marrow you say I need?

[DR. NICHOLS] Well,
this hypothetical son

would be a half match for you,

and we would do what's called
a haploidentical transplant.

It's not optimal, but
it certainly gives you

a much better prognosis
than no transplant at all,

which is what you're facing right now.

Uh, how old is this hypothetical child?

Fifteen.

In general, bone marrow
donors should be over ,

but in certain situations,
exceptions can be made.

Provided the child's legal guardian

consents, of course.

[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]

You don't look well, Detective Howard.

That's 'cause I'm f*ckin' dyin', Doc.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SINGER] ♪ As somebody that's
jokin', yes, I'm spunky ♪

♪ I'm cracking every lyrical skills ♪

♪ Just like a cr*ck junkie ♪

♪ Taking over your
block and we don't care ♪

♪ He's in the house you best be aware ♪

♪ Coming from a land of degrees... ♪

This wouldn't be
poppin' off without you.

[RAP MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]

Hey, you need to remember that.

- [VENDOR SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- You made this happen. You.

Just the money man
right now. That's all.

Ain't no such thing
as just the money man.

The guy with the loot calls the sh*ts.

- And that's you.
- Hmm.

You 'bout to run this sh*t, baby.

- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.

[VENDOR] Say, uh, you Lou?

Crown said to talk to
you about the money.

Hey, look, man, nothin's
comin' off that truck

until this is taken care of in advance.

Discount if I pay in cash?

Yeah, yeah, %.

That works.

[LOU-LOU] Give me a
minute with my sister.

I'll come find you after.

[JESSICA] Okay.

Looks like you found an even
faster way to spend our money.

- It's my money, Raq.
- [CHUCKLES]

Well, your money is
my money, baby brother.

So you got a crew together yet

to move product during the show?

It ain't that kind of party.

Every party is that kind of party.

[VENDOR] Excuse me? Lou?

Dale Cook, Premier Lighting.

Crown told me to talk to
you about gettin' paid.

Hey, I'm talking to my sister, man.

- Give me a minute.
- Oh. Yeah.

sh*t needs to be clean
tonight. No hustlin', no drama.

Tyin' this to our other business

just opens us up to the
same problems we already got.

Yeah, well, those problems,
they're payin' for these problems.

If we get this right,
keep sh*t separate,

we start makin' different
type of money at the same time.

No, we need all the customers
that we can get right now.

Not here.

Well, what about Unique?

'Cause you can be damn
sure some of his peoples

- gon' be coming through.
- 'Nique not dealin' here either.

[CROWN] Yo.

Got some past-due sh*t
with the lighting guy

- that need to be dealt with.
- [SCOFFS, CHUCKLES]

You just payin' all the bills, huh?

We done?

Go on, Lou.

Go spend our money.

I'll just go make more of it

for the next lighting guy
that needs to get paid.

♪ ♪

I ain't seen Raq in a minute.

She all shapely and sh*t.

♪ ♪

[PHONE RINGING]

Hey, Burke.

So what'd you do to Howard?

Guy's been on the job for years,

never called in sick, until today.

Steady diet of menthols
and General Tso's chicken

- will do that to you.
- [CHUCKLES]

Well, we're short right now,

so you're either on a desk for the day,

or you can go out alone,
which feels ambitious to me.

Look, I'm just doing a follow-up out
there on the street; I'll be fine.

I promised your father
that I'd look out for you

- for the first couple of months.
- I can look out for myself.

[PERALTA] Don't f*ck it up out there.

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

I'll try not to.

♪ ♪

Silk two-piece through the door!

You either lost, crazy, or both.

- I need to talk to 'Nique.
- [MAN] About what?

I don't talk to the door n*gga.

Wait here.

[SINGER] ♪ My deejay is dope,
def, real death-defyin' ♪

- ♪ Competitors, get with... ♪
- Her baby brother here.

[SINGER] ♪ The number one candidate ♪

♪ His hands'll make dancers dance ♪

♪ He possess the hands of fate ♪

♪ He'll scratch a
record that will stand ♪

♪ Out from the rest... ♪

Lou Thomas, behind enemy
lines like a muhfucka.

It's kinda crazy how this
sh*t work, right? I mean,

our crews beefin', yet here you are.

Here I am.

And nobody's sh**t'.

Nobody's dyin'.

You know, it makes one
to start to wonder, right?

I mean, is this sh*t
in here right now real,

you and me 'bout to speak
like regular ol' citizens,

or is the wild sh*t out there real?

Or...

is nothing real at all?

I need this show to be clean, 'Nique.

No slingin', no trouble.

Raq send you here?

I'm here on my own.

What's in it for me?

You may need a favor someday.

I like when n*gg*s owe me favors, Lou.

Especially you.

Hmm.

I'll tell you what.

- If Raq's down, I'm down.
- She down.

Heard that, fellas?

Showcase on peace tonight, a'ight?

♪ ♪

You know, Raq's lucky to have a
little brother like you, Lou-Lou.

You a reasonable muhfucka, man.

She needs that reason
in her life right now.

She needs that levelheadedness
that you bring to the table.

Yeah.

'Cause I'll tell you what.

sh*t's gettin' heated
on these streets, man.

Real f*ckin' heated.

Appreciate you hearing me out, 'Nique.

[SINGER] ♪ Straight blade
are my rhyme skills ♪

♪ They att*ck with the
impact of a minefield ♪

♪ And I ain't even
started to get loose yet ♪

♪ Turn up your Alpine EQ ♪
♪ Your gooseneck ♪

♪ Ladies say Aw ♪
♪ Fellas say Ho ♪

♪ Prepare to undergo lyrical surgery ♪

♪ You're gonna get hit ♪
♪ Slayed ♪

♪ Rhymes'll cr*ck your spine ♪

♪ And bust your rib cage... ♪

[UNIQUE] n*gga's just
like his sister, man.

Comin' here after k*lling my people,

now want to ask me for favors and sh*t.

That's called f*cking
audacity, my n*gg*s.

Give it to the n*gga.

Jews call that type of sh*t chutzpah.

That n*gga got some chutzpah.

So how we playin' this showcase then?

[UNIQUE] What you think?

You and the turncoat n*gga here...

♪ ♪

You're gonna light that
muhfucka up tonight.

[DISQUIETING MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

- [MARVIN] Nobody showed?
- Uh-uh.

- [HAIR CLIPPERS BUZZING]
- [PAGER BEEPING]

[RAQ] So how's Symphony's class?

It's good.

Y'know, Symphony keep it real.

He teaching us stuff that matter.

[RAQ] All right. Let me see.

So when was you gon' tell me
that you got scooped up by police?

It's gettin' to a point
where I can't even keep track

of all your secrets and lies.

I didn't lie to you though.

You just didn't tell me.

- How did you even find out?
- Scrap told me.

- Scrappy suspect.
- Nah, you suspect.

[RAQ SCOFFS] Look.

I need to know what
that cop said to you.

He just took down my name and birthday.

Nothin' more?

He said he knew you.

Some wildness about how you
used to love him back in the day.

That's it?

Scrappy said it wasn't
neither your uncles

who picked you up from the precinct.

He said it was somebody else.

I asked him to do it.

I asked him not to say nothin' neither.

- Symphony.
- [KANAN] It's on me, Ma.

I-I called him and
I begged him not to...

Symphony is a grown-ass man.
He make his own decisions.

[KANAN] I just said I
asked him not to tell you.

- He did it for me.
- Stop hidin' sh*t from me, Kanan.

And stop acting like a dumb-ass kid.

You wanna step up, you
gotta show me that you ready,

'cause this sh*t right
here, it's not it.

It ain't it at all.

[SIGHS]

[CLATTERING ON TELEVISION]

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[MCCLANE] Nine million
t*rrorists in the world,

and I gotta k*ll one with
feet smaller than my sister.

Oh, my God.

[TENDER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Told you I wanted to see your house.

♪ ♪

Come here.

♪ ♪

Been f*ckin' with Deen for five years,

and he never missed a re-up.

So he just cut us off
with no word at all?

Some sh*t is goin' down.

And as usual, we the last to know.

We already runnin' on
fumes after the stash house.

We can't stretch our sh*t any
harder than we have already.

We almost out.

Man, that sh*t is the
story of our lives.

We always almost out.

Look, we're gonna
piece together some work

until I can figure
this sh*t out with Deen.

You step to Greezy uptown.

- See what he got.
- I gotta get back to this venue.

[SCOFFS]

But first I'll hit up Greezy.

And you step to Prime. He in the
Boogie down now. Buy his ass out.

Look, we gotta keep up these corners

until we can build out Baisley.

Y'know, it must be nice to have
me puttin' out all these fires

while y'all muhfuckas just keep
your hands warm by the flames.

[MARVIN] Yo, I'm always
down to get involved, Raq.

You just got me on Baisley

kickin' in walls wastin' my talents.

Don't ever forget that
this business right here

is what keeps you fed.

Yo, f*ck you and your
bullshit showcase, Lou.

You know, Jukebox is performing
at my bullshit showcase.

Oh, you didn't know.

Can't see past that nose
on your f*cking face, huh?

Try being a father to your daughter.

Three people asked me if I was
lost walking here from the bus.

That's the difference between your
neighborhood and my neighborhood.

You come here, they ask if you lost.

I go there, they chase
me with baseball bats.

Nobody chased you with a baseball bat.

Your mom would've if she had one.

She would've had the same reaction
to us if you were white, you know.

"You're a guest in my home.

f*cking repellent. Disgusting."

Yeah, she ain't sayin' that
sh*t to a white girl, Nicole.

[NICOLE] f*ck my mom.

f*ck my parents. f*ck everything. I...

I just want to be with you.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

So you coming tonight?

I've been lying about going

to my friend Risa's stupid party

for a week and a half
so I can see you sing.

I'll be there.

Good. That's what I thought.

No, no, no. No tickling. No tickling.

[KANAN] Uncle Marv.

Let me holler at you right quick.

[BINGO CAGES RATTLING]

[ANNOUNCER] First one up is O .

O .

N . N .

G .

is G.

B .

Who's got B ?

I .

I .

Where Smurf at?

Greener pastures.

Often, it's the
longest-serving employees

that get too comfortable,
too complacent.

They take liberties, shortcuts.

They speak out of school.

B .

- B .
- Our business relationship,

as it were, has concluded, Raquel.

Going forward,

- I wish you the best of luck.
- Why?

[DEEN] Two reasons.

First, a competitor of yours

has agreed to pay a % premium

to secure both his and your supply.

Unique is paying you % on top

to buy my sh*t out from under me.

In addition, I need
partners I can trust, Raquel.

I don't trust you.

Nobody trust nobody in all this.

But there are orders of
magnitude of said distrust.

And your deceit is beyond the pale.

Smurf would be the
first to attest to this.

If he could attest to anything, that is.

[ANNOUNCER] B .

- B...
- Bingo!

- Yeah!
- Bingo!

We got a winner. Hey, Grandma won.

[LAUGHTER]

We're done here. [LAUGHS]

Wow. Look, let me see that.

- That's right. Right in a row. You sure did win.
- [DEEN'S GRANDMOTHER] Yes, yes.

[DEEN] Come down here
and pay my grandma.

[DEEN'S GRANDMOTHER] Yeah. [LAUGHING]

[DEEN] That's right. Yeah, you a winner.

Look at it. Give me some sugar.

Mwah. Lucky today.

[MARVIN] Yo, um, f*ck am I lookin' at?

Somethin' better than a corner.

It's a damn drive-thru.

They come off the Van
Wyck to get their gas.

We serve 'em while
they're there, they gone.

And it's far enough away from the block

we not steppin' on nobody territory.

And they gon' pay them
white people prices.

These fools like that blow, though.

That powder.

I mean, and the margin on
that sh*t ain't as good.

Well, see that's why
we gon' educate 'em.

Come on. White people always talkin'

'bout bein' down with the hood.

f*ck is more down than cr*ck?

Mm-mm.

Raq said you kryptonite to me.

Superman s'posed to stay the f*ck away.

I can't fucks with you, Kanan.

I mean, I like the
initiative. I-I really do.

[KANAN] Just think about it, a'ight?

[ENGINE RUMBLES]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

[SINGING IN SPANISH ON RADIO]

♪ ♪

Gabriel no está aquí.

I had a fall.

Yeah, had a fall into
your husband's fist.

I need to talk to your cousin
up in Washington Heights.

I have many cousins.

Well, I know about your
family back in Nariño.

And I know who your cousin is.

And you know I know.

Talk to Gabriel,

but know that my
husband hates my cousin.

f*ck Gabriel. I'm talking to you.

If we only moved our lips
when our men wanted us to,

we'd just have a mouthful
of d*ck and nothin' to say.

I need to talk to your cousin, Julia.

And I need you to make
that happen for me.

♪ ♪

[BELL JINGLES]

[JUKEBOX] You promise you're coming?

[NICOLE] Obviously,
I'm coming. I told you.

- You know girls can be flaky sometimes.
- [NICOLE] Shut the f*ck up.

I'll see you later.

- I'm so f*cking excited.
- Call me when you get home.

- [NICOLE] I will.
- Okay.

[BURKE] Your friend didn't look
like she's from the neighborhood.

Neither do you, Five-O.

She likes you a lot. I could tell.

And she's really pretty, by the way.

I'm investigating your
friend D-Wiz's m*rder.

- If you ever want to talk.
- I don't.

[BURKE] Doesn't even have to be
about D-Wiz. Could be about...

anything.

Y'know I'm a good listener.

And I know about things,

things not everyone knows about.

[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

I'ma meet you there.

Got some'n I need to handle
beforehand right quick.

- Ah?
- A tie?

I ain't realize this thing
was all formal like that.

We on our "Boyz II Men" tip tonight.

- [RAQ] Okay.
- Come on. You know we gotta

represent for Juke.

- [RAQ] I like it.
- Ah!

But, um, I don't know how to tie it.

[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS]

This is one of those times I wish I

had a man around to help me with you.

♪ ♪

What were the other times?

Really just once.

When I took you to get your first sh*ts

when you were a newborn.

Man, you was crying so hard,

I just knew you was gonna
blame me for that sh*t forever.

[LAUGHS]

Def Con don't sound
like the type of dude

who would've taken me to get my sh*ts.

♪ ♪

- You ever miss having a father around?
- Nah.

Can't miss what you never had.

Besides, I don't need that.
That's what I got you for.

♪ ♪

Ma, I should... I should have
called you from the precinct.

You should've.

I don't want you to be mad
at Symphony, though, a'ight?

Y'all got a good thing going,

and I actually kinda like this brother.

Mm-hmm. Of course you do.
He covered for your ass.

Ma, I asked him to,
though. That's the...

I'ma see you at the show.

♪ ♪

- [HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
- [BOUNCER] Hands out straight.

♪ ♪

Yo, y'all ready to hear Bulletproof
Records' hottest new artists?

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

[EMCEE] Okay, okay, okay, okay.

I said, y'all ready to hear
the sound of these streets?

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

'Cause we about to raise the
roof off this club tonight, y'all.

Queens is in the house!

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

Southside is in the house!

Bulletproof Records is in the house!

[ALL CHEERING]

DJ, hit 'em with it.

[INDISTINCT RAPPING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[BOUNCER] Get back in line.

Wait your turn.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

It's on and poppin'.

[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE]

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]

♪ ♪

Hey.

This'll make you feel better.

- You okay?
- Yeah.

Yo, we 'bout to turn this
m*therf*cker out, Juke.

[NICOLE] Laverne's nervous.

Laverne. Who's Laverne? You mean Juke?

That's who I mean. I'm Nicole.

Famous. Short for Puerto Rican Famous.

We all got street names out here.

Guess I gotta get one of those.

I got you. From here on
out, you White Girl Nic.

[NICOLE] Love it.

You ever been romantic with
a Spanish n*gga like myself,

- White Girl Nic?
- This dumb-ass boy.

We about to go out there
in front of all those people

without ever even rehearsing this sh*t.

Why are you trippin'? All you
got to do is sing the hook.

The sh*t is easy.

[JUKEBOX RETCHING]

sh*t.

♪ Girl, you know I've
been thinking lately ♪

[R&B MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ ♪

♪ That maybe we should settle down ♪

♪ Oh yeah ♪

♪ Can't tell if you are
feeling the same thing ♪

♪ But I really need you ♪

♪ I really need you around ♪

♪ So girl... ♪

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Mm.

I asked around.

Turns out,

you some kind of drug dealer.

I like that you dressed up for me.

Uh-uh. This is a straight cash deal.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

I tell you what the deal is.

[COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS]

♪ ♪

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]

Just open the door.

♪ ♪

[FAMOUS] Yo! Kanan Stark in the house!

Yo, you 'bout to see the
birth of a legend, kid.

- [KANAN] Yeah, uh-huh!
- You're Kanan?

Nicole.

Yo, Juke is straight buggin', K.

She locked herself in the bathroom.

She said she not goin' on stage.

She's freaking out.
You need to talk to her.

[FAMOUS] I can't have your
cousin f*cking my sh*t up.

It's the most important
night of my damn life.

She not gonna listen to me.

We got in a fight over some dumb sh*t.

She'll listen to you. I know she will.

- We should let them talk alone.
- Oh.

Get Juke head right, K, a'ight?

This is an important
moment for both of us.

- For me, but for both of us.
- [NICOLE] All right.

♪ ♪

[SIGHS]

[INSPECTOR GROANING]

You, uh...

you okay?

Make sure he feel that
sh*t on the way out.

Make a meal out this n*gga.

[UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING DISTANTLY]

♪ ♪

- Juke.
- Leave me alone, Kanan.

[SIGHS] A'ight, look.

I'm sorry for that
sh*t I said, for real.

I hated myself the minute
that b*llet left my mouth.

That's just me being stupid.

Come kinda natural to me sometimes.

You think you only stupid sometime?

All the time then,
a'ight? Damn, I'm sorry.

For real. That won't
ever happen again though.

♪ ♪

I can't go out there, Kanan. I can't.

You know this ain't the only bathroom

I had to talk you out of there
to get you to sing, right?

Coney Island.

I was ten. You was .

My dumb ass lost all our
money playing three-card-monte.

We ain't have enough
for the train ride home.

You always been a mark.

[KANAN] You were so mad at me
when you ran in that bathroom.

When you came out, though,

you hit that boardwalk,
and you just sang

until we had enough money
to get home and get hot dogs.

The only reason I came out

was 'cause you started
cryin' like a little bitch,

and that sh*t was mad embarrassing.

Juke, I will do it again, a'ight?

[VOICE BREAKING] Don't
make me start crying, man.

[LAUGHS]

Now, come out here
and turn this sh*t out,

'cause for real, I
don't think I could deal

with Famous ass cryin'
for the next years

that you the reason he ain't blow up.

♪ ♪

He's not that bad.

Actually, he kinda dope.

You better not ever let
that n*gga hear you say that.

- [LAUGHS]
- 'Cause we both know if he do,

he never gon' shut the f*ck up again.

♪ ♪

Nicole seem kinda cool, by the way.

Yeah.

I got you, Juke.

I always do.

Now come out here.

Show them what you about.

Show them who you are.

Show them where the f*ck we from, girl.

All right.

[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYS]

[DRILL WHIRRING]

[MARVIN] Ain't like I'm
saying a n*gga perfect.

sh*t.

I make mistakes.

- I'm human.
- [INSPECTOR GROANS]

But everybody f*ck up. Even Raq f*ck up.

But it's always some sh*t when I do it.

My ass is straight undervalued in
this m*therf*cking organization.

But I'm about to show and prove.

You'll see.

Well, actually, you won't see.

But, you, you know what I'm sayin'.

[INSPECTOR GROANING]

I appreciate you hearin' a n*gga out.

[NAIL g*n FIRES TWICE]

- [PATRON] Good?
- [BARTENDER] Yeah.

[BOTH] All right.

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS INDISTINCTLY]

♪ ♪

Vodka soda. Double it up.

That one's on me.

[SYMPHONY] What?

Hey, Raq.

Raq.

Raq, hold up.

Raq.

Let me explain.

I told you that there was nothing
more important to me than my son.

That nobody was ever
gon' get between us.

- I made that sh*t clear as day.
- He called me.

He asked for my help. He trusted me.

- I didn't know what to do.
- Just 'cause you f*cking me don't mean

that all of a sudden,
my son is your son.

You don't make decisions
for my child, Symphony.

Do you know who I am? Huh?

You know what I do to
m*therf*ckers who betray me?

Betray you?

Your son asked me to
keep a secret, and I did.

He's a part of you, Raquel.

- Okay, I shouldn't have, but...
- No, no, no,

you went behind my back.

I can't accept that from
nobody, but especially you.

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

So that's it.

That's it.

♪ ♪

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

[PATRON] Yo, what the f*ck, man?
We're just trying to go inside.

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

[LOU-LOU] No one gets in strapped.

I don't care if your
name is Michael, Jermaine,

Tito, Jackie, or Marlon.

No weapons.

I told Crown you wasn't about sh*t.

Just another Queens n*gga

trying to make a name
off Brooklyn's back.

You know you on the Southside, right?

It's a long way from Brooklyn.

Not everybody makes it home.

It's all good, brother. We
just here for some music.

It's all love.

No doubt.

Let them in, but check them still.

You doing your thing,
Lou. I'm proud of you.

For real.

So go on, have your night.

But when the sun comes
up tomorrow morning,

we back at it harder than ever.

Where your partner at?

Took a day for himself.

You tell Howard the most
dangerous place to be

is between a mother and her child.

I don't even know what that means.

He does.

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

Man, Queens ain't sh*t!

Brooklyn!

♪ ♪

I know you Boricuas

f*ck with Brooklyn n*gg*s.

Gots to.

- I'm Lou's girl.
- So?

Step the f*ck off.

Oh sh*t! [LAUGHS]

Hey, you and me,

we gon' make us a beautiful
Lisa-Bonet-looking baby, white girl.

Hey, go f*ck with them hood
rats and leave her alone.

- You Jukebox's home girl, right?
- Yeah.

[JESSICA] Well, then we family.

Ah, f*ck that n*gga. He's just loud.

- 'Sup?
- 'Sup?

- You want a drink?
- No, I'm good. Thank you.

Hey, Crown,

can you tell your peoples
to chill the f*ck out?

'Cause they making the
guests uncomfortable.

[CROWN] They just talkin'.

But we about to feel
real unnecessary up here.

No.

Hit this, Madonna.

Do what you want, baby.

- f*ck it.
- Yeah.

♪ ♪

[UNEASY MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

We ain't gettin' in
through the front door.

Come on.

♪ ♪

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ ♪

You gon' tell me who we hittin'?

♪ ♪

Queens, New York! Are we
having a good time tonight?

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

[EMCEE] Check, check.

Southside's produced some
of the hottest lyricists

the streets have ever seen.

And this next act is gonna continue

in that proud tradition.

- Show some love...
- f*ck!

[EMCEE] ... and give it
up for Puerto Rican Famous!

Come on, let's go. Let's go.

[CROWD CHEERING]

[HIP-HOP b*at PLAYING ON SPEAKERS]

♪ ♪

Yo, DJ, k*ll the b*at. k*ll the b*at.

Look, I know we got people
in here from all over,

but let's make one thing clear:

Southside run this mothafucka!

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

'Cause this ain't sh*t
you can teach or learn.

You born into it.

Yo, that's-that's-that's my
kid. Yo, that's-that's my kid.

It's who you are.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

These streets made us.

These street paid us.

And we all about this
street life! Let's go!

♪ Say your good-bye ♪

♪ You on the wrong side ♪

♪ One day when we make the rules ♪

♪ So don't play us for no fool ♪

♪ Oh, street life ♪

- ♪ Streets need a body ♪
- ♪ Nobody warned ya ♪

- ♪ Streets need a body ♪
- ♪ They can talk like they want it ♪

♪ But they don't really want ♪

- ♪ The street life ♪
- ♪ Sutphin bully double shotty ♪

♪ sh**t' up your lobby ♪

♪ These streets need a body ♪
♪ I'm too famous ♪

♪ Me and my n*gg*s 'bout them triggas ♪

♪ Puttin' bodies in rivers ♪

♪ Robbin for major figures ♪

- ♪ Street life ♪
- ♪ I was born in the gutters of Southside ♪

♪ And outside is where
I earned my stripes ♪

♪ I'm bout mine ♪

♪ Corner bodega ♪

♪ Played a n*gga like Sega ♪

♪ Applied the pressure like mega ♪

- ♪ That's how we do Pretenders ♪
- [JUKEBOX] ♪ Oh, street life ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ So f*ck four
quarters and two dimes ♪

♪ A shotty and a vest with two nines ♪

- ♪ Is how I dispute mines... ♪
- [GROWN KANAN] And that's how these rappers do.

Talking about sh*t
they ain't never done.

sh*t they don't know.

Writing rhymes ain't
the same as doing crimes.

♪ ♪

See what the f*ck I did there?

[JUKEBOX] ♪ Say your good-bye ♪

♪ You on the wrong side ♪

- [FAMOUS] ♪ Streets need a body ♪
- ♪ One day when we make the rules ♪

♪ So don't play us for no fool ♪

♪ Oh, street life ♪

- [FAMOUS] ♪ The streets need a body ♪
- [JUKEBOX] ♪ Nobody warned ya ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ The streets need a body ♪

[JUKEBOX] ♪ They can
talk like they want it ♪

♪ But they don't really want ♪

- ♪ The street life ♪
- ♪ Every f*ckin' morning ♪

♪ I'm lookin' to get the payout ♪

♪ Before you rob the stash house ♪

♪ Better know the layout ♪
♪ b*ll*ts spray out ♪

♪ n*gg*s live or n*gg*s die ♪

♪ Should've been a double homi ♪

♪ Two n*gg*s survived ♪
♪ That's Queens for ya ♪

♪ Fiends on every corner ♪

♪ Need a team of lawyers ♪

♪ Dreams turn into schemes ♪

♪ Triple beams and porterhouse steaks ♪

♪ Baggin' the product ♪

♪ The streets need a body ♪

♪ I knew it before I got up ♪

♪ Your block sh*t up ♪

♪ and reasons why
you no longer breathin' ♪

♪ Bitch-ass, we even ♪
♪ It's Famous ♪

♪ Put n*gg*s on the
news with my stainless ♪

♪ Owe me, I'm comin for them payments ♪

♪ In funeral arrangements ♪

♪ I'm kissin yo' mama at the wake ♪

- ♪ With a bouquet of flowers... ♪
- Lou-Lou last night breathing.

- We hittin' Lou?
- [FAMOUS] ♪ Southside Jamaica, Queens ♪

♪ It's always a m*rder scene ♪

♪ See what I mean? ♪

♪ Rest in peace, D-Wiz ♪

♪ Streets need a body ♪

- ♪ Streets need a body ♪
- [ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ When I pull up
on your block ♪

[ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

♪ When I slide up in your spot ♪

[ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

♪ Anybody want beef ♪

[ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ When I pull up
on your block ♪

[ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ When I
slide up in your spot ♪

[ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ Anybody want beef ♪

[ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

[ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

- [ALL] ♪ Streets need a body ♪
- f*ck Brooklyn! Southside!

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

BK represent!

♪ ♪

[CROWD SHOUTING]

♪ ♪

Turn the f*ck around.

I was born at night,

but it wasn't last night, n*gga.

'Nique knew you was just Raq's snitch,

that you was playin' us.

We know you would never hit Lou-Lou,

you bitch-ass muhfucka.

♪ ♪

I'm telling you, she picked me up.

Telling you, we kissed.

Over there. That's Marvin.

Yo, what up, man?

Yo, you n*gg*s ready
to put in this work?

Been ready, my n*gga.
What we on, corners?

- Highway, n*gga.
- Highway?

[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SINGERS] ♪ Set adrift
on memory bliss of you ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪
♪ Down, down ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪
♪ Down, down ♪

♪ Set adrift on memory bliss of you ♪

♪ Baby you send me... ♪

I was at this thing.

The whole time, all I was
thinking about was you.

[SINGERS] ♪ Set adrift
on memory bliss of you ♪

♪ The camera pans ♪
♪ The cocktail glass ♪

♪ Behind a blind of plastic plants ♪

♪ I found the lady with
the fat diamond ring ♪

♪ Then you know I can't
remember a damn thing ♪

♪ I think it's one of
those déjà vu things ♪

♪ Or a dream that's tryin'
to tell me somethin' ♪

♪ Or will I ever stop
thinkin' about it ♪

♪ I don't know I doubt it ♪

♪ Subterranean by design ♪

♪ I wonder what I would find ♪

♪ If I met you ♪

♪ Let my eyes caress you ♪

♪ Until I meet the thought
of Mrs. Princess Who? ♪

♪ I often wonder what makes her work ♪

♪ I guess I'll leave that
question to the experts ♪

♪ Assuming that there
are some out there ♪

♪ They're probably alone, Solitaire ♪

♪ I can remember when ♪

♪ I caught up with a past-time ♪

- ♪ Intimate friend... ♪
- Wait.

[SINGERS] ♪ Bet you're probably
gonna say I look lovely ♪

♪ But you probably don't
think nothin' of me ♪

♪ She was right, though, I can't lie ♪

♪ She's just one of
those corners in my mind ♪

♪ And I just put her
right back with the rest ♪

♪ That's the way it goes, I guess ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪
♪ Down, down ♪

- ♪ Baby you send me... ♪
- ♪ Say your good-bye ♪

♪ You on the wrong side ♪

♪ Streets need a body ♪

♪ Pull up to your hood they
be like streets need a body ♪

Laverne, I don't ever want
to be with anybody else.

[SINGER] ♪ A careless whisper
from a careless man ♪

♪ A neutron dance for a neutron fan ♪

♪ Marionette strings
are dangerous things ♪

♪ I thought of all the
trouble they bring ♪

♪ An eye for an eye ♪
♪ A spy for spy ♪

♪ Rubber bands expand
in a frustrating sigh ♪

♪ Tell me that she's not dreaming ♪

♪ She's got an ace in the hole ♪
♪ It doesn't have meaning ♪

♪ Reality used to be a friend of mine ♪

♪ 'Cause complete control,
I don't take too kind ♪

♪ Christina Applegate,
you gotta put me on ♪

♪ And guess whose piece
of the cake is Jack gone ♪

♪ She broke her wishbone
and wished for a sign ♪

♪ I told her whispers ♪

- ♪ In my heart were fine ♪
- I like a brother who knows how to throw a punch.

[SINGER] ♪ I feel for her, I really do ♪

♪ And I stared at the
ring finger on her hand ♪

♪ I wanted her to be
a big PM Dawn fan ♪

♪ But I had to put her
right back with the rest ♪

♪ That's the way it goes I guess ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪
♪ Down, down ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪

♪ Down ♪

♪ Set adrift on memory bliss of you ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪
♪ Down, down ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪

♪ Down ♪

♪ Set adrift on memory bliss of you ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪
♪ Down, down ♪

♪ Baby you send me ♪

♪ Set adrift on memory bliss of you ♪

[GROWN KANAN] There's a ladder
you gotta climb in this sh*t.

And the thing is that
there are n*gg*s below you

and above you on that ladder,

and they're tryin' hard as they
can to pull you off that sh*t.

- [g*nsh*t]
- [WORRELL] There go your boy, bitch!

[TIRES SQUEAL]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

[GROWN KANAN] Because as
long as you on that ladder,

you either a thr*at or a
problem to them other n*gg*s.

Far as they're concerned,
either way, you gots to go.

♪ ♪

But you keep climbing.

'Cause once you on it,

there's no way off.

[JUKEBOX] ♪ Say your good-bye ♪

♪ You on the wrong side ♪

♪ From day one we made the rules ♪

♪ So don't play us like no fool ♪

♪ Oh, street life ♪

♪ Nobody warned ya ♪

♪ They can talk like they want it ♪

♪ But they don't really want ♪

- ♪ The street life ♪
- [FAMOUS] ♪ Sutphin bully Double shotty ♪

♪ sh**t' up your lobby ♪

♪ These streets need a body
♪
♪ I'm too famous ♪

♪ Me and my n*gg*s 'bout them triggas ♪

♪ Puttin' bodies in rivers ♪

♪ Robbin for major figures ♪

[JUKEBOX] ♪ Street life ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

♪ Body, streets, streets ♪
♪ Streets need a body ♪

[JUKEBOX] ♪ Oh, street life ♪

[FAMOUS] ♪ Streets need a body ♪

♪ Body, streets, streets ♪

♪ I'm comin' from the streets ♪

♪ The streets need a body ♪

♪ I wish a n*gga would
say somethin' about me ♪

♪ Bring out the whole hood ♪

♪ Say somethin' about me ♪

♪ The streets need a body ♪

♪ The shotty is on me ♪

♪ I'm comin' from the streets ♪

♪ The streets need a body ♪

♪ I wish a n*gga would
say somethin' about me ♪

♪ Bring out the whole hood ♪

♪ Say somethin' about me ♪

♪ The streets need a body ♪

♪ The shotty is on me ♪
♪ On me, on me ♪

♪ Streets, streets... ♪