02x01 - The More Things Change

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[SMOOTH HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN]
Previously on Raising Kanan...

[RAQ] I never wanted to bring
you into this Kanan.

You was in this sh*t
before you was even in it.

I need two units,
one on top of the other.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[JUKEBOX] So Famous gets
free studio time,

and your niece gets nothing.

You think I wouldn't get you
studio time if I could?

- Yo, do y'all hear this?
- [HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

Yo, they playing my sh*t, yo!

[BURKE] What is with you and that kid?

[HOWARD] The children
are our future, Burke.

[MARVIN] That's who you got?
Toni your big CI?

[TONI] You're a f*cking pig, Marvin!

f*cking pig!

[RAQ] Our sh*t was never real, Symphony.

This thing between you and me...

We were on some make-believe sh*t.

[MARVIN] White girl got
what she deserves.

World better for her
not being in it no more.

♪ ♪

[SCREAMS]

[GASPING]

All this money and work
I got on these streets,

and n*gg*s think I'm gonna sh**t a cop?

f*cking Raq.

[JESSICA] She's gonna die
or go to prison,

and you're gonna be
right there with her.

You got the label,
so just bounce on this drug sh*t.

Shut the f*ck up and drive, Jess.

[HOWARD] I'm done waiting, Raquel.

So I'm getting a warrant for Kanan.

I need to talk to my son,

and you gonna make that happen.

[RAQ] I need you to squeeze

that f*cking trigger tonight
and save me, baby.

[EMT] He's coding!

[RAQ] I know you don't want
to hear from me,

but I wouldn't reach out if
I had anywhere else to turn.

[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 ♪

[GROWN KANAN] Nobody from the
hood never took no vacation.

No n*gga I ever knew
had a damn summer home...

... 'cause there ain't
no time off from this sh*t.

Ain't no breaks, ain't no sick days.

Not for me or nobody who come
from where I come from.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Don't matter whether you on a corner

or on a f*cking beach.

No matter where the f*ck you go...

there the f*ck you are.

♪ ♪

[RAQ] Deborah told me you were out here.

♪ ♪

I'm just taking a last look is all.

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

I remember spending the summer
on this same beach

with your grandmother
and uncles back in the day.

Even had my own little
summertime boyfriend...

Rodney Dunn.

Ooh, that boy was fine. [CHUCKLES]

Turned out Rodney had, like,
seven other girls

he was talking to.

Of course, all of us thought
we was the only one.

Can't trust none of you boys.

[SEAGULLS CRYING]

It's time to go, baby.

♪ ♪

I'm so damn happy to see you.

♪ ♪

[NURSE] Detective Howard.

Please, Detective Howard,
I really need you to sit here

so I can prepare you to be discharged.

I came to this hospital three months ago

with a ring on my finger,
and I ain't leaving without it.

I'm sure someone from your family

collected it for you.

I ain't got no family.

[BAG RUSTLING]

I ain't leaving until I find my ring.

[DR. NICOLAS] All I can tell you

is that Detective Howard's
memory loss is surprising

but not altogether unexpected.

The human brain is a fascinating,
mysterious machine.

It will repress trauma,

bury unpleasant memories
to protect itself.

So you believe him when he says

he doesn't remember anything
from the night he was sh*t?

[DR. NICOLAS] Why wouldn't I?

Look, I-I think you're missing
the real story here.

The memory loss is a triviality.

Your partner is a medical marvel.

Yeah, I know. I know.

If he hadn't been sh*t,
we wouldn't have found that cop

from the Four-Four
who donated that bone marrow.

[DR. NICOLAS]
Detective Howard came in here

with a hole in his chest
and cancer in his blood.

He leaves here in remission
with both of his lungs intact.

That's about as close to a miracle

as we touch in this building.

♪ ♪

[PERSON] All right.

[APPLAUSE, INDISTINCT CHATTER]

♪ ♪

[VIDEO GAME BEEPING]

[VIDEO GAME ANNOUNCER] Player one wins.

[ERIC] Oh, yeah, check that.

Let's go. Come on, you see that.

[CHILDREN CHUCKLE]

You think you'll come back
next summer, Kanan?

[ERIC] Now, why would he want
to come back here?

This slow-ass town...
He live in New York City.

Actually, it's not that bad here.

New York ain't all that.

Man, f*ck that.

As soon as I raise up
out of here, I'm gone.

- Where you gonna go, Eric?
- Wherever I want.

[PAT] Mama ain't gonna
just let you do that.

[ERIC] Ain't gonna be Mama decision

[PAT] Everything her decision.

[KANAN] Exactly.

If it was my decision...

I'd probably stay here with y'all

and win at that sh*t.

[PAT CHUCKLES] See? Kanan
has said it's better here,

and he live in New York.

[RAQ] When I was out
on the beach with Kanan,

I was reminiscing on Rodney Dunn.

Remember him?

Ain't a girl our age
from here to North Carolina

- don't remember Rodney.
- Mm.

Last I heard, he was a manager
at some health club in Missouri

or Mississippi or something.

Yeah, well, he always did love
lifting them weights.

Mm, boy's six-pack had a six-pack.

Look, like I said on the phone,

I could enroll Kanan
in high school here, Raquel.

He could live with us.

You know, the boys love
having him around.

And like I told you before,
Kanan stays with me, okay?

He go where I go.

I'm just saying that
when you sent him down here,

you said there was some wildness

you wanted to get him away from.

- Is it safe for him back there?
- Look, things quiet now.

Just some summertime bullshit...

Too many knuckleheads out in the street.

You know how it is.

You know, your mom talked

about moving you all down here

before Marvin went to high school.

But then that thing happened

with your mom and dad and...

There he is.

I want you to know that
you can come back down here

anytime you want, okay, baby?

Same goes for Jukebox.

And tell her I said so.

- And tell her we miss her.
- I will.

We loved having you here, Kanan.

I loved being here.

♪ ♪

[JESSICA] It's like I keep saying...

Famous needs beats to f*ck with, Lou.

He can't just come up
with rhymes out the air.

Well, Phife does,

same with Q, and Guru do the same sh*t.

Emcees write whether they got
to b*at or not, Jess.

It's called being an artist,
being a creative.

[JESSICA] I'm so tired
of fighting with you

- about this sh*t.
- Then stop fighting.

It's my job to push
for my brother's career.

Then take a day off.

I mean, you're Famous' manager
all the time.

When are you just gonna be my girl?

I can be both.

It's a singles-driven business, right?

You don't get two bites at the apple,

Fame's track was all right.
It didn't move.

No, you didn't market it right.

The market spoke. It said, "f*ck Fame."

Now all the little n*gga do is get high,

when he should be trying
to put in that work.

It's because he thinks
that you don't care

about him or his career anymore.

I don't! I don't give a f*ck.

You don't care?

If you don't care about his
career, why the f*ck should I?

It's what you said, right?

It's your job to give a f*ck
about his career, not mine.

So maybe you should take care
of his ass.

Sure as hell ain't taking care of me.

- [CAR DOOR OPENS]
- Where you going, Lou?

- You know what?
- [ENGINE TURNING OVER]

You wonder why we always fight.

No, I don't.

[TIRES SQUEALING]

m*therf*cker.

[ENGINE REVVING]

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING FROM CAR STEREO]

[SINGER] ♪ I know that
You can't get enough of me ♪

♪ I'm turning heads
Like I'm 'posed to be ♪

♪ Sexy all over my body ♪

♪ Who better than me? Nobody ♪

[SINGING ALONG] ♪ I know that
You can't get enough of me ♪

♪ I'm turning heads
Like I'm 'posed to be ♪

♪ Sexy all over my body ♪

♪ Who better than me? Nobody ♪

Hey, yo!

♪ Let them say what they gonna say ♪

- ♪ Never close enough ♪
- [HORN HONKS]

- ♪ To really know about me ♪
- Yo!

♪ I'm shy 'cause I'm here to stay ♪

♪ I got my... ♪

[ENGINE REVVING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[PERSON] Hey!

Yo, what the f*ck? Stay away from me.

[LOU-LOU] Hey, relax.
Hey, hey, hey, relax.

I got mace.

Look, it ain't even
like that, sweetheart.

Who's on the song?

That's why you almost f*cking k*lled me?

Me. I'm singing

For real?

I mean, that's my sh*t.
You singing on my beats.

So sue me.

I'd rather sign you.

Look, My name is Lou Thomas.

Relax.

You ever heard
of Bulletproof Records before?

[SIGHS]

Don't f*cking do that sh*t!

You got a really dope voice.

Can I go?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Have a good day.

[CAR DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[JUKEBOX SNIFFLES]

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN] You ever sh**t somebody?

You ever sh**t somebody and miss?

'Cause I did.

And I can't lie.

Looking that n*gga in the eye
and squeezing that trigger

had me shook.

And when it comes to that sh*t...

you stay shook
until you do it enough times

that you ain't shook no more.

And once that happens,

you done turned into
something else altogether.

He getting' out the hospital.

The cop.

He don't remember nothing
from that night, Kanan.

Amnesia or some sh*t,
brain all twisted up.

I got people in the hospital

who say he barely remember
his own name, so you good.

I wouldn't be bringing
you home otherwise.

Look, if he did remember anything,

the police would be looking
for you, but they not.

He ain't got to remember.
What if he see me around the way

and it knocks something
loose in his head

and then he remember, Ma?

The ship's already sailed.
It's too late.

Ain't nobody gonna believe

anything that come out his mouth now?

It's been way too long.

♪ ♪

I'll never let anything happen to you.

I got you.

♪ ♪

You know I got you.

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILING, INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[BARNES] Hey, brother.

That, uh, girlfriend of yours
skipped town and...

Yo, Toni wasn't my girlfriend, man.

Call her whatever you want. [CHUCKLES]

Snitch-ass white bitch,
that's what I'll call her.

Point is that without her testimony,

they have no case.

You got no idea where she posted up?

They're offering hours
of community service

or court-mandated class
on substance abuse diversion

or anger management.

You just said they ain't got no case.

How it go from no case

to pick up f*cking trash
in Times Square?

They still have you on
the simple possessions charge.

Reefer, they got me
on m*therf*cking reefer.

Shouldn't even be a f*cking crime.

And yet it is.

Look, if you take one of the classes,

I could probably work it
so that all you have to do

is sign in each session
and then you could leave.

Put me down for the anger
management bullshit, then,

'cause them n*gg*s gonna see
what angry look like.

We'll see if they can manage that sh*t.

♪ ♪

[CAR ENGINE IDLING, STOPS, DOORS OPEN]

[DOGS BARKING]

♪ ♪

[KEYS JINGLING]

♪ ♪

[HOWARD SIGHS] Can't wait to go
through three months of bills

and bullshit.

You got to get some light in here.

♪ ♪

I was gonna go get something to eat.

You want to join me?

Uh, I appreciate the offer.

I got to clean up all this sh*t...

start trying to figure out my new life.

"New life"? That sounds ambitious.

I thought I was dead, Burke.

No joke.

♪ ♪

For a minute there in that hospital,

I-I felt myself leave my body.

Turns out I wasn't dead at all, though.

I was being reborn,

given a second sh*t at all this sh*t.

And I'ma do it right this time.

I'ma be the best version
of me that I can be.

♪ ♪

Unique's whereabouts are accounted for

the night of the sh**ting.

He wasn't there in the park with you.

I never said he was.

All the evidence pointed at him.

I don't even remember
what happened that night,

so you're talking to the wrong guy.

Howard, whoever sh*t you
is still out there,

and Homicide doesn't have
any suspects at all right now.

I'm concerned about that.
You should be, too.

I'm only concerned
with the sh*t I can control.

Look, when you stare death
in the face like I did,

you start getting
real philosophical about sh*t.

Like the song says,
"I think very deeply."

I'm gonna go.

Hey...

I appreciate you picking me up.

[BURKE] I'll call you later,
see how you're doing.

All right, I'll be here.

♪ ♪

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

♪ ♪

[PERSON] Yo, kick the b*at.

[SIRENS WAILING]

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

[OFFICER] Turn around.

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[PERSON] What the f*ck?

Worrell still don't get it.

Them corners is dead.

♪ ♪

We the only game in town now, Kanan.

It's just us, and we got sh*t on lock.

The beautiful thing is,
five-O can't see us

when we up in the buildings like this,

but we can see them from miles away.

♪ ♪

When we going home?

Your uncle's gonna be
crazy happy to see you, baby.

♪ ♪

[SINGER] ♪ I can't wait to see... ♪

I'm hungry.

I'ma get you something right after this.

- [KANAN SIGHS]
- [CHATTER STOPS]

- [PERSON] Hey.
- [PERSON ] What's up?

[RAQ SIGHS CONTENTEDLY]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[BUZZER SOUNDS]

♪ ♪

Why did nobody else get on?

Got to ask them.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN] You know,
my moms had the spot humming

like a m*therf*cker.

She'd taken over the whole damn floor,

took care of the n*gg*s
who lived in the building

to keep they mouth shut...

paid off the housing cops and the supers

to stay out our way,

and was connecting
the whole building with drops

that went all the way down
to the basement.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

♪ ♪

And the whole thing was off
the street and out of sight.

So, as far as five-O was concerned,

this sh*t didn't even exist.

Moms done changed the f*cking game.

♪ ♪

[RAQ] Kanan.

[MARVIN] Something I use.

Yo, look who back from the beach.

[CHUCKLES]

What, you a-a surfing-ass n*gga
now or what?

[KANAN] What?

Ain't no Black folk
surfing on the beach.

[MARVIN] Well, let me be the
first n*gga to ride them waves, then.

You know what I mean?

Damn Jackie Robinson of the Pacific

catching all 'em hos in bikinis.

It's the Atlantic, Uncle Marvin.

[MARVIN] Yo, can you picture me
out there, sis?

Out there on... on my surfboard

showing 'em how us Queens n*gg*s do.

You don't even know how to swim.

Yo, why I got to learn how
to swim when I got a surfboard?

[RAQ] Shut up, Marvin.

[LIGHT LAUGHTER]

[GATE BUZZING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[DOOR BUZZES]

♪ ♪

Open up five.

♪ ♪

Couldn't believe my f*cking ears

when I heard you might
be getting released soon.

'Cause I ain't done nothing, man.

Maybe you didn't sh**t that cop,

but you and I both know you
guilty of all sorts of sh*t.

I mean, everybody guilty
of something, C.O.

♪ ♪

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

[RAPPER] ♪ We got to wake up ♪

♪ ♪

♪ It's time to wake up ♪

♪ Back in the day,
I would stay up all night ♪

♪ Praying my life Would turn out right ♪

♪ Seeing my brothers
And sisters struggling ♪

♪ I knew I had to join The fight ♪

♪ So I laced up my kicks
And hit the block ♪

♪ 'Cause I got a plan
To change the locks ♪

♪ Locks on the brains
Breaking these chains ♪

♪ Societal gains Know what I'm saying? ♪

♪ It's time to wake up ♪

♪ ♪

♪ It's time to wake up ♪

♪ Know what I'm saying?
It's time to wake up ♪

♪ ♪

♪ It's time to wake up ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I want to buy a house
For my mom and my pops ♪

♪ Make a lot of money
By investing in stocks ♪

♪ Live like kings and queens
Like we supposed to ♪

♪ You're royalty, don't forget
That he chose you ♪

♪ So I laced up my kicks
And hit the block ♪

♪ 'Cause I got a plan
To change the locks ♪

♪ Locks on the brains
Breaking these chains ♪

♪ Societal gains Know what I'm saying? ♪

♪ It's time to wake up ♪

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[MARVIN] Yo, things are going smoothly.

On track today to do that god power.

Business is up,
barely keeping up with demand.

[GROWN KANAN] I told you
about this sh*t before.

They talking in code.

That's supreme mathematics.

God power is - .

My uncle's saying they doing

, in sales for the day up in here.

That's some real sh*t right there.

[SCRAPPY] Some of the neighbors
downstairs is starting to beef,

saying too many people in the halls,

that the stairs stink of piss,
and we too loud up here.

It's the f*cking projects, man.

Stairs been stinking of piss
since they put these shits up.

[RAQ] Right, from here on out,

we gonna mop these stairs twice a day

and get some air freshener up in there

and spread around
some more money to the tenants.

Make sure they got
their groceries taken care of.

If any of these old heads
need their medications

or their prescriptions filled, you know,

get one of our guys to make
that sh*t happen for them.

Marvin gonna be calling
the sh*ts over here.

Since Kanan home, I'm gonna...

Sorry I'm late.

[RAQ] Late once, you're sorry.
Late twice, you're sloppy.

You late all the time like you,
you just don't give a f*ck.

[PERSON CHUCKLES]

[RAQ] What I was saying is that now

that we got this spot
on autopilot a little bit,

I'm looking to build, expand.

And that means that we got to
keep our sh*t clean and quiet.

Got to pay attention to the little sh*t.

Ain't no problem
that's too small not to notice.

Like, on the way over here,

I saw Worrell up the block slinging,

catching that heat I'm talking about.

And that sh*t ain't good for business,

especially when it's
that close to us here.

Look, we need a clean
perimeter around our sh*t.

We can't have five-O
sniffing around the vicinity.

I'll take Worrell out.
I owe that m*therf*cker.

- Easy work.
- The best kind of work.

[RAQ] Mm, dropping bodies

is exactly what I don't want to do.

And I got other thoughts for Worrell.

Bring his ass in for a conversation.

And, Scrap...

I need you to ease up
on throwing them dice.

I don't want you f*cking with
your mom's card game no more.

Leave all that sh*t alone.

Look, we all on the low-profile tip.

[GROWN KANAN] See, Scrap
had that gambling bug.

Got passed down from his parents.

His dad was a bookie,
and his moms had a card game

in her basement every Wednesday night.

Wasn't sh*t Scrap wouldn't bet on.

, , / ...

Come on, ain't no such thing
as half a fry, m*therf*cker.

[GROWN KANAN] One time,
he took $ off Marvin

over how many fries
are in a large order.

.

[GROWN KANAN] The over/under was .

...

.

[GROWN KANAN] Scrap took the over.

Pay up, n*gga.

Oh, he got you there.
He got you. That's...

[LAUGHING]

Look, the most successful m*therf*ckers

are the m*therf*ckers
you ain't even hear about.

That's what we're doing.

Heads down, g*ns on safety.

- Are we good?
- [RAQ] Long as you show up

where and when you supposed to
and handle your business,

yeah, we good.

I'ma go say what's up
to my nephew over there.

Your younger brother's steady slipping.

[JUKEBOX] ♪ Mm, mm ♪

♪ Mm, mm ♪

♪ Mm, mm-mm ♪

♪ Hmm, mm ♪

♪ Mm, mm, mm ♪

♪ Hmm, mm, mm ♪

♪ Mm, mm, mm ♪

I heard you was looking
for a backup singer.

[CHUCKLES] I don't know, man.

I don't think I'd let you
sing me to sleep

with that wack-ass voice of yours.

Wow, I just got back,

and you are already being mean, man.

I should've stayed my ass
in Virginia for this.

- That's really crazy.
- [JUKEBOX] Yo, come here, man.

What's up?

So...

how was it?

It was cool. You know, good to be gone.

Clear my head,
see what else is out there.

Realize sometimes it feel like...

sh*t, that this is all there is.

I'm not sure it's enough.

I don't know. I'm...

I'm not sure
if this sh*t is for me, man.

You know what I mean?

Word.

- Yo, Aunt Deb...
- Oh.

Man, Pat, Eric, everybody,
they all was asking about you,

wondering why you didn't come down.

I told them it's 'cause
you had some sh*t up here

you was trying to figure out,
so you good.

It just didn't feel going down
to the beach after all that.

Truth is...

it's not like staying here
made nothing better neither.

I missed the hell out you, kid.

Of course you did.

You didn't have nobody

to listen to your whiny-ass bullshit.

n*gga, I just got ba...
I don't miss you.

I didn't miss you, then.
Whatever, fine, cool.

- I'm just here. Look.
- No, man...

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[DOOR OPENS]

♪ ♪

[BAG CLATTERS]

♪ ♪

[SWEEPING MUSIC PLAYING,
INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV]

♪ ♪

Yo, these n*gg*s is carrying
buckets of water,

arms all out and sh*t
and not spilling a damn drop.

Yo, that sh*t'll turn you
into a straight warrior.

You could use some time
in that Shaolin Temple, Lou.

Toughen your bitch ass up.

Why I need to do all that
when I already got you

to carry my water for me, Marvin?

[KANAN LAUGHS]

- Yo, f*ck you, Lou.
- [KANAN SCOFFS]

- [LAUGHTER]
- Oh, that sh*t funny, huh?

- [LAUGHS MOCKINGLY]
- He got you there. I was...

[MARVIN] You know what else is funny?

You getting stung by some
jellyfish down in Virginia.

Oh, man.

Yeah, crying like a little
bitch for a day and a half.

Your aunt Deborah called up here,

told your moms all about it.

f*ckin' fish had your eyes leaking.

That's a bad look for the family.

When you out there, you reppin'
all of us. You remember that.

Wasn't nobody crying, man.

It hurt, all right?

It did, but the doctor said
getting stung by a jellyfish

is like getting stung
by, like, hornets.

hornets ain't sh*t, n*gga.
Toughen the f*ck up.

[KANAN] You been stung by a hornet?

All right, then.

How you doin' Juke?

I'm all right.

Smells good.

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

Haven't seen you
in damn near three months.

Mm, saw you at Grandma's for
that cookout three weeks back.

[MARVIN] Right.

Oh, you... you sure right about that.

I was thinking maybe, um,
we could talk sometime.

You know, just sit down
and catch up and sh*t.

I ain't got nothing to say to you.

♪ ♪

- [MARVIN] But I feel like...
- Dinner's ready, y'all.

[SIGHS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

My baby's home where he belong,
with his mama.

♪ ♪

I need you to know

that we wasn't having none
of these dinners

while you was gone, Kanan,

because if your seat's empty,

we not sittin' around
the table like this,

'cause this right here
is what it's all about...

♪ ♪

...family...

...us.

I know we got our differences.

♪ ♪

And we disagree sometimes.

But at the end of the day, we blood.

And that's way more important
than any static

that's between us.

♪ ♪

Family... that's all that matters.

Word.

Family.

♪ ♪

[FAMOUS] I don't get it.

I mean, you supposed
to be my manager, right?

Supposed to be makin' moves
for me, makin' my sh*t blow up.

[JESSICA] I'm doing all I can, Fame.

I got your mixtape out.

I got you played on Stretch and Bobbito.

I can't make people buy your sh*t.

What about gettin' me
back in the studio?

What about you laying off the weed

and writing something?

Ever since you started
smoking that sh*t,

you've been sitting on your ass
instead of writing rhymes.

You told me that
you were gonna talk to Lou

about getting me beats to write to.

He says he wants you to write first,

and then he'll get you the beats, okay?

He says he wants you to be an artist,

a creator, like Phife.

Yo, f*ck this.

I already knew I should've got
a real manager.

I just figured I'd go with you

'cause, you know, Lou
was giving you that d*ck, so...

How the f*ck you gonna talk
to your sister that way?

Figured if Lou was hittin' it,

it might help my career
in a way, but, you know,

I guess what you givin' up
ain't gettin' it done.

- f*ck you, Famous.
- f*ck you, too.

You ain't gonna get
a real manager anyway.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV]

So, um, what classes

you taking in school this year, Juke?

School hasn't started yet.

[CHUCKLES] I mean when it does start.

[CHATTER CONTINUES ON TV]

Thanks for dinner, Aunt Raq.
It was great.

Of course, baby. I'm glad you liked it.

[BOTH SNAP FINGERS]

Seem like you and Juke
really connecting.

Kiss my ass, Kanan.

Look, uh...

I know I been f*cking up, all right?

I'ma do better.

Heard that sh*t before.

This label is more work than I thought.

I mean, anybody can do it,
but to do that sh*t right

is some other sh*t.

You know what I'm sayin', right?

How much you made so far
on that label, Lou?

It's a new business.

Well, if it ain't making money,
it ain't a business.

It's a hobby, n*gga.

You sleepin' on our business
for your hobby.

Recognize.

What the f*ck are you
doing smoking cigarettes, Juke?

The world didn't stop spinning
when you left, kid.

[KANAN SCOFFS]

You ever gonna forgive Marvin?

[JUKEBOX] Wasn't planning on it.

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[KANAN] Nobody at dinner said nothin'

about what went down before I left.

What is there to say?

It is what it is, n*gga.

[SCOFFS] Man, I don't know.

♪ ♪

[DISTANT SIRENS WAILING]

I was down there with Aunt Deb,
and I started thinking.

[JUKEBOX] Oh. Uh-oh.

Kanan thinkin' ain't never a good idea.

Maybe I ain't cut out for this
family-business sh*t, Juke.

I mean, I only wanted to do it
to protect her,

make sure she a'ight.

♪ ♪

Doing what I did that night...

- ...and f*cking it up.
- [JUKEBOX] Mm-mm.

They should've never asked you
to do that sh*t, Kanan.

That sh*t was wrong.

[KANAN SCOFFS]

♪ ♪

You talked to your moms about it?

Feel like I'ma let her down
if I brought that to her,

especially after talking all that sh*t

about how ready I was.

You need to tell her

Look at this country-ass m*therf*cker.

Yo.

♪ ♪

[KANAN] Oh, sh*t.

♪ ♪

[JUKEBOX] He went to
Virginia Beach, Famous... beach.

What the f*ck part of "beach"

sound like cowboy boots to you?

Virginia sound country as hell to me.

- [ENGINE TURNING OVER]
- Yo, I missed you kid.

It ain't been the same
without you around.

This n*gga didn't have nobody
to borrow money from.

Yo, I been taking money

from my mom, like, every...

[KANAN] Yeah, that sound
like a real solid plan.

[FAMOUS] Wasn't no plan, really.

I was just doin' the sh*t,
few times here and there.

Like, every day on this...

[MARVIN] Baisley killin' it.

All we got to do... Drop off the dope,

pick up the money.

So now what we gonna do
is we got to take

what we doin' over at Baisley,

and do that sh*t somewhere else.

- We about to franchise.
- Like McDonald's.

Always comes back to food
with this n*gga.

[RAQ] Marvin right.

We need to be inside and up high.

Buildings, high-rises.

I'm thinkin' the s.

Yeah, that sh*t might fit
the bill just right.

We can get lookouts

on one of those tall buildings
over by ,

and from there, we can see
the whole projects.

- [LOU-LOU] Mm.
- And even if they did find out

we was posted up in there,
I mean, there's only a few ways

for five-O to come in and bum-rush us.

Now, we get the right units
and the right building,

we're protected,
even better than Baisley.

[TEAKETTLE WHISTLING]

♪ ♪

And I didn't want to say
nothing around Scrap,

'cause I didn't want him to feel like,

you know, he's getting
passed over or anything,

but thinkin' about puttin' on Worrell

and the rest of Unique's crew.

Yo, you really thinkin'

of puttin' 'Nique's people on right now?

I thought the whole point
was to run them n*gg*s off.

Yeah, well, I'm thinkin'

we might need to do that
keep-your-enemies-close thing.

And, also, it's gonna keep 'em,
you know,

from bringing the cops
to the corners around Baisley.

Look, we gonna let Worrell
get down with the spot

we about to open over at the s.

Yo, we tried to k*ll that n*gga.

He tried to k*ll me.

w*r is hell, n*gg*s,
but we ain't at w*r no more.

I know who Worrell is.
I know what he did.

And I know what we did.

And I know Unique, too.

And I'm trying to make sure
that when 'Nique come home,

and I hear it's gonna be soon,

he ain't got sh*t to come home to...

No people, no product, no possibilities.

And having 'Nique's
right hand down with us,

I mean, that sh*t could be useful.

Marvin got Baisley. You got the s.

And assuming Worrell gets down,

he gonna have to answer
to you over there.

Marvin's doin' good work at Baisley.

Give him the s, too.

♪ ♪

- So you turnin' down work now?
- [SCOFFS]

Why everything with you
got to be a struggle, Lou?

Why do I always have to be angry?

I'm giving you a spot to f*ck with,

real money in your pocket,
and you still complainin'.

I ain't complainin'.

Is he complainin', Marvin?

Bitchin' more like it.

[RAQ] You're runnin' the s, Lou,

and that's how it's gonna go.

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]

[R&B MUSIC PLAYING]

[SHANTEL] Hey, hey, hey. [LAUGHS]

Y'all better not be taking
Scrappy's money,

'cause my boy promised me a Fendi bag

for my birthday next week.

[LAUGHS]

[SCRAPPY] Ma, way these cards
are playing...

[SHANTEL] Uh?

[SCRAPPY] ...I'll be getting
you the whole luggage set.

[PERSON] Come on, man.

[PERSON ] You kidding me, man?

- [SHANTEL] Mm.
- [PERSON ] Come on.

[SCRAPPY] Give me my money.

Police! Let me see your hands!
Get them up!

[OFFICER] Hands up!

[OFFICER ] Everyone put their
hands where we can see them.

[GROWN KANAN] As much as Scrap
was about his business,

he just couldn't stay away
from them cards.

And that's weakness.

When something got a hold
on you like that,

don't matter what it is...
Cards or b*tches or dope...

You gonna slip.

[SHANTEL] Detective Peng know you here?

Where the f*ck Peng at?

[OFFICER] You know the drill.

[SHANTEL]

Get your hands off my boy.

Get them f*cking hands off of me!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[TELEPHONES RINGING, INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[OFFICER] Look who's back from the dead.

The prodigal son returns.

[DETECTIVE] Please tell me
you got better sh*t to do

than visit us in the middle
of the f*cking night.

[HOWARD] Hey, I was just
sittin' home, not doing sh*t,

thinkin', "Where can I find
some like-minded, useless,

godless m*therf*ckers?"

- Look no further than the NYPD.
- [LAUGHTER]

[DETECTIVE] Crime's down
since you been out, Howard.

I-in fact, we're starting to wonder

if you were the problem all along.

- [LAUGHTER]
- [PENG] Uh...

I got a C.I. bellyachin'
in Interrogation Two

that I got to go deal with. [SCOFFS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

It's good to see you
back up on your feet, Howard.

It's good to be back on my feet, Peng.

Let me go, uh, holler
at Burke right quick.

[PENG] All right.

[OFFICER] Good, great to see you.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

What? You're not happy
to see me or somethin'?

Oh, I was gonna say hi
after you and the boys finished

measuring each other's dicks.

sh*t, I know what I got.
No need to measure my sh*t.

Yeah, you'd need one of those
centimeter rulers, anyway.

[CHUCKLES]

I see somebody's been workin'
on their material.

What you got going?

That my sh**ting?

Homicide's overloaded.

I'm just pitching in a little bit.

Do they know that?

Not yet, but they will.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Look, I'm your partner.

If I'm not looking out for you, who is?

♪ ♪

I appreciate that.

I really do.

Look, Burke, I can't have you
f*cking up anything.

All due respect, sh*t like this
has to be done methodically,

damn near scientifically.

So far, all that methodical
and scientific sh*t

has gotten Homicide nowhere.

Their one suspect
had a rock-solid alibi,

and they're not looking at
anybody else at all right now.

[SCOFFS] Hmm.

Well, just make sure you're
on the same page as One PP.

Understood, Detective.

I'm tired. I'm gonna go home.

Yeah, you look like sh*t.
You should get some rest.

You're getting good.

[CHATTER CONTINUES]

♪ ♪

[MARCO] Get your f*cking hands off me!

You know who my father is? Look at me.

You know who I am? Huh?

[PRISONER] You're the pretty-ass bitch

that's gonna suck all our dicks.

Watch where you going, G.

Keep walkin', co*n.

Watch your f*ckin' mouth, man.

What the f*ck are you gonna do
about it, ape?

[PRISONER] Don't let him
get away with that.

- Handle that boy, 'Nique.
- [PRISONER ] Yeah, 'Nique.

- [UNIQUE] What's up?
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[PRISONER] You should mind
your own business.

This ain't business, bitch.
This is pleasure.

[ALARM BLARING]

[GUARD] Break it up, break it up.

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

- Yo, chill.
- They jumped him!

I saw the whole f*ckin' thing.
These cocksuckers jumped him.

Yeah, that's what the f*ck
I'm saying, man.

They started it, C.O.

- I just finished it.
- [ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]

[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[RAQ] Kanan and I just want to
thank you again

for driving him
down to Virginia like that.

Haven't seen you since, and...

we really just wanted to let
you know how grateful we are.

♪ ♪

How grateful I am.

I'd do anything for you and Kanan, Raq.

You know that.

♪ ♪

Somebody gonna have to pay me
back for all the Cheetos

this boy ate
on the way down to Virginia.

You ate way more than I did.

I couldn't even get my hand in the bag

'cause yours was always in there.

Nah nah, nah,
by the time we got down the VA,

your hand was so damn orange
from eating Cheetos

that Aunt Deborah
thought he was in there

with some safety gloves on,

so people outside
could see him at night.

- You ain't right, Kanan.
- [KANAN LAUGHS] Come on.

I'm all the way right, Symph.
We know this.

♪ ♪

[LOU-LOU] All right,
switch to channel six.

Listen, we already had
this conversation, Jess.

Famous needs to write.

Famous been writing, okay?

But he just needs to know
that you're gonna get

behind him and his career.

Get him in the studio,
put some sh*t on wax.

[LOU-LOU] I ain't throwin'
good money behind bad.

We already put loot behind the single.
It didn't move.

Knowing when to cut your losses
is a big part of running a business.

Whoa, whoa, losses? Who's losin'?

It ain't me. It damn sure ain't me.

The mixtape's collecting dust, right?

We gonna have to start all over again.

We need to see that he's doin' the work.

Okay.

Y'all didn't put any real
marketing behind Famous, okay?

No street teams, no push on radio.

I was the one that got him on KCR.

I was on that booked
all those gigs downtown.

Okay, I will say

that more could have been
done marketing-wise.

- [JESSICA] Thank you.
- Yeah.

To Lou's point, we just got
to be smart about our money.

We ain't got a whole lot left.

[LOU-LOU] We got all the money we need.

Just need to make the right bet.

Speaking of the right bet...

this my new girl right here.

I'd like to introduce y'all to Zisa.

Found her at a red light.

Now we about to go on green.

She can sing.

Let's do this.

[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

Who the f*ck is Zisa?

♪ ♪

You don't need to wait.

There's a long line
outside the bathroom.

He gonna be a minute.

Look, I don't know how Kanan
and you were involved

in what happened
that night around your way...

the night I took him down south...

and I don't want to know.

But Kanan is a great kid, Raq,
and he's gonna do great things.

You just got to protect him...

make sure he gets
the opportunities he deserves.

You still think you know my son
better than me, huh, Symphony?

Ah, you never learn.

I know who my son is, and
I know what he's capable of.

I don't need nobody to tell me that.

He's protected.

You can be damn sure of that.

Well, he said some sh*t to me
on the way down to Virginia.

Like I said, he didn't tell me
anything specific,

but he was scared, Raq...

very scared.

He'd hate me for telling you that.

I thought you should know.

I care about him...

about you.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Man, the white dude in front of me

blew that spot up
before I even got in there.

My eyes still stinging, God.

[SCOFFS]

What's up, we movin'?

It was good to see you guys.

I guess I'll see you around, brother.

Maybe so.

Maybe so.

Take care of yourself, Raq.

You too, Symphony.

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

You still owe me
for those Cheetos, Kanan.

And I'm comin' for my money
if I see you around the way.

[KANAN] Yeah, you can see me,

but can you catch me?

[SYMPHONY] Ahh... [CHUCKLES]

[KANAN] Come on, Ma.

♪ ♪

[RENÉE] So, before we begin,

I like to focus on getting present

and focusing on the breath
by breathing in...

[INHALES DEEPLY]
...holding it, and releasing.

[MARVIN] Do I sign in or some sh*t?

[RENÉE] Right there.

Um, excuse me.

- And you are?
- Marvin Thomas.

Oh. Hi, Marvin.

I'm Renée, the therapist
who runs this class.

Oh, well, nice to meet you, Miss Renée.

Where you going, Marvin?

[SCOFFS]

Yo, I signed in. I'm s... I'm straight.

You signed in, and now you go sit

with the rest of the group
for our first class.

[CHUCKLES] Probably just
a little misunderstanding.

Uh, my lawyer told me
as long as I sign in,

then I'm... I'm good.

Good, as in you can leave?

- Yes, ma'am.
- [CHUCKLES]

Well, your lawyer
told you wrong, friend.

Either you sit down
in one of these chairs,

or I can let the court know

that you violated
the terms of your probation,

and they'll find another place
for you to sit.

And I can promise you

that the spot the judge
is gonna find for you to sit

won't be as comfortable
as one of these chairs here.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

Yo, you for real?

Realer than real, brother.

I got to call my lawyer, then.

You do that,
but, first, sit your ass down.

So, like I said,

everyone breathing in together
collectively as a group,

holding it,

and exhaling any negativity.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]

Really coming together and
being focused in this moment.

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ ♪

[ZISA] ♪ Ahh, ahh, ahh ♪

♪ Ahh, ahh, ahh ♪

♪ You might never had a love Like this ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Who know
How to put it down like this ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You won't find Another love nowhere ♪

♪ Promise you That can't no one ♪

♪ Compare ♪

♪ You know I'm the only one
You're thinking of ♪

♪ You know I'm the one
That's got that sass ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Anything you ask I'll give you more ♪

♪ I'll give you more, babe ♪

♪ What you waiting for, babe? ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ You and I could be More than friends ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ Together till the very end ♪

♪ 'Cause you know what it is ♪

♪ Boy, I handle my biz ♪

♪ You and I ♪

[JUKEBOX] Yo.

♪ ♪

She ain't no joke, right, Juke?

[ZISA] ♪ You and I ♪

♪ ♪

[PEOPLE MOANING]

[SULTRY R&B MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]

[JESSICA] sh*t.

♪ ♪

What you think Lou would do
if he knew about us?

- k*ll you.
- [COUGHING]

He can't run the studio without me.

He knows it.

He's finding artists,
workin' behind the board.

Lou's a quick learner.

It ain't about what you know, girl.

It's about who you know,
and he ain't got my Rolodex.

What'd your friend from L.A. say?

He got a job for you.

Junior-level manager...

Be managing the younger talent.

- Mm.
- That sh*t's waiting on you,

but not for too much longer.

So, if you want it...

better get your fine ass out to Cali.

I should just do it.

It's not like I got sh*t
keeping me here.

♪ ♪

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

You got this.

[SINGER] ♪ And have a change of mind ♪

♪ Takin' the bumps And the bruises ♪

♪ And all the things
Of a two-time loser ♪

♪ Tryin' to hold on Faith is gone ♪

♪ It's just another sad... ♪

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

[KANAN CHUCKLES]

Oh, it's the bedtime glass of milk.

I've been doing it
since you got out your crib.

[KANAN] Thank you.

[RAQ] How you doin'?

Feel like I lost track of you.

Like, I used to always know
what you was thinking,

but now that you older,
not so much anymore.

Why you got to grow up, hmm?

Why can't you just stay my baby?

You know, sometimes

I don't even know
what I'm thinking myself.

Talk to me, Kanan.

You can say anything to me, always.

I don't want to disappoint you.

Well, I mean, if you honest,
you'll never disappoint me.

Tell me what you thinkin'.

Let me in.

I thought I was cut out for it...

...for what you and
Uncle Marvin and Uncle Lou do.

I mean, I'm your son.

I'm Def Con's son.

Y'all both did it,
so I thought I would, too.

But maybe not.

Maybe I was supposed
to do something else...

...to be someone else.

Doing what I did that night...

...looking that cop in the face...

...messed with my head,

like, nightmares and sh*t.

And, yeah, I know I was all
over you about putting me on

and getting me started
in the business, but...

...sh*t, I'm starting to think
I was wrong.

I don't think I'm up for any of this.

I can't protect you the way
that I thought I could, Ma.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

You're not supposed to protect
your mother, Kanan.

I'm supposed to protect you.

♪ ♪

And I didn't.

♪ ♪

[KANAN SIGHS]

I put you in harm's way.

And that's on me.

♪ ♪

That's always gonna be on me.

♪ ♪

I'm sorry.

♪ ♪

Everything I'm doing...

I mean, I'm doing for you, Kanan...

for us.

And if you're not happy,
if you don't feel safe,

then I'm... I'm doing
all this for nothing.

[DISTANT TELEPHONE RINGING]

♪ ♪

I love you.

[RINGING CONTINUES]

I love you, too.

[RINGING CONTINUES]

Mom, you should probably
go get that phone.

♪ ♪

[RINGING CONTINUES]

♪ ♪

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

♪ ♪

[DOOR BUZZES, OPENS]

[GROWN KANAN] n*gg*s say you
only do two days in the pen...

The day you go in
and the day you come out.

Ask me, that's just some sh*t

somebody who never been
to the joint said.

As far as I'm concerned,

you do every f*cking day in there.

You do the days,

but you can't let the days do you.

When you come out, you got
to be the same n*gga you was

when you went in...

only harder...

♪ ♪

...colder...

♪ ♪

...'cause while your life
got stopped for your bid,

everybody outside kept moving...

and they ain't checking for you.

♪ ♪

They ain't give a f*ck about you.

So you got to show 'em you still here,

you still matter.

You need to remind them.

♪ ♪

Make 'em remember you
so they never forget again.