01x04 - Don't Sleep

[bunniefuu]

[MELLOW JAZZ]

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN] Previously on
Raising Kanan...

[RAQ] Still a lot of chatter

about who put down this kid Buck Twenty.

Buck's folks is angry.
Streets need a body.

They're saying D-Wiz got hit
'cause he k*lled Buck Twenty.

The target's off of your back now.

Don't do nothing to put it back on.

Kanan stays on the stash
until further notice.

I don't want him anywhere
near the street.

That's your new office, n*gga.

Whose house is this?

It's just a spot we kick
it from time to time.

Look like a damn cr*ck house.

I gotta deal with these guys.

The guys you steal stuff with?

When one of us makes the call,

we all gotta answer.

- Hey, hey, hey.
- [BOTH GRUNT]

He's had enough.

You wanna be a singer?
You're gonna sing.

Has Lou told you

that my little brother
Famous is a rapper?

It ain't come up.

Hey, yo. Who are you?
What are you doing?

Damn. Uh, my bad.
It's, uh, Kanan, right?

Reinforced door, security cameras.

- Take it or leave it.
- I'll take it.

[RAQ] I got something for you.

'Nique's re-up.

Quarter million, uncut.

Do your f*cking job, Detective.

Deen's people always
circle the block four times

before they get here.

Five-O!

[SIREN WAILING]

Only one king can rule
the kingdom, 'Nique.

One king, one code, one crew.

[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]

[DOOR SLAMS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN] You see that
bitch-ass n*gga running?

That's Trez-G.

He and 'Nique grew up on the same floor.

Played Little League together.

[BOTH GRUNT]

[GROWN KANAN] Pop Warner too.

Got their dicks sucked
for the first time

on the same night, at the same party.

Day one n*gg*s.

To the grave n*gg*s.

But none of that adds
up to sh*t in the game.

We was set up!

[GRUNTS]

How do you do?

Please f*cking remind me, man.

Open this n*gga ear so he
can hear what I'm saying.

- [FLESH SQUELCHES]
- [SCREAMS]

[TREZ-G GROANING]

[SNIFFLES, CRIES]

You was getting high on my time, T,

while you was watching my sh*t!

That ain't me.

You know that ain't me.

[TREZ-G CRYING]

You right.

- That ain't you, B.
- [TREZ-G WHIMPERING] Mm-mm.

Just some f*cking crackhead
that you turned into, man.

Look at you, man.

Don't even f*cking recognize you, man.

One more time.

I don't think this n*gga get it.

What? [SCREAMING]

[UNIQUE] You know...

I kind of blame myself

'cause I brought you into this sh*t.

And I saw this coming,

but I closed my eyes to it.

You know why?

'Cause you my f*cking heart, man.

My f*cking heart.

[SIGHS]

[TREZ-G] I didn't say nothing to nobody.

I love you, 'Nique!

[DARK MUSIC PLAYS]

[UNIQUE BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪ ♪

Love you too, my n*gga.

Love you too.

[GROWN KANAN] All that
history between them,

Trez never thought
'Nique would turn on him.

- P-We.
- [GROWN KANAN] Counted on that.

Bet on that.

Slept on that.

And you know what they say.

Sleep is the cousin of death.

♪ ♪

[DOOR SQUEAKS]

You always talking about some cold food

when I'm late.

Oh, but you do it, and then...

You already ate.

No, we-we're ready for dinner.

In fact, I was just telling
your mom, I'm starving.

- [RAQ] Mm-hmm.
- Let's do this.

For real. I'm hungry as hell, baby.

[SYMPHONY] Uh, spaghetti and meatballs.

Classic. You can't go wrong with that.

Well, let me set the table,
and, uh, let's get to eating.

[RAQ CLEARS THROAT]

I like you keep it simple.

Thank you, baby.

Presentation is dope.

Kanan.

I appreciate you making room
at the table for me, Kanan.

I know you weren't expecting me.

You hear what Symphony said to you?

Yeah, he right.

I wasn't expecting him.

[SYMPHONY LAUGHS]

The sauce is bananas.

Even got a little kick to it.

I mean, I'd pay for this.

Where'd you learn to cook, Kanan?

Moms.

Mm.

Well, he needs to know
how to fend for himself.

Make some meals, do the dishes.

Still working on getting him
to do his own laundry, though.

Well, Kanan got this pasta on lock.

Tonight's usually when
Kanan makes dinner for me.

I forgot.

Well, it's my fault.

I didn't know when I took her out.

My bad.

Now that I know, it won't happen again.

She knew.

[UNEASY MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Man, I'm never gonna get
tired of watching this.

You're gonna be, like...
like, a big singer,

you know, like, f*cking world-famous.

Stop.

I'm serious.

You know, I think I
need to kick your ass,

knock some sense into you.

Okay.

Now you just talking crazy.
You think you stronger than me?

You underestimate this white girl

- from the Upper East Side.
- Uh, I let you win.

Now, why would you do that?

[WOMAN] What is going on up here?

It sounds like the ceiling's
about to cave in.

Dancing. We're dancing.

[WOMAN] Okay, well, you
might want to tone it down

for the neighbors, Martha Graham.

♪ Wherever you are ♪

Oh, my God.

You two are on television.

Yeah, it's a tape. We
made it at the mall.

Well, this is fantastic.

Laverne, you are fantastic.

What a voice.

That's what I keep telling her.

[MAN] Wow, look at you two. All right.

This is better than any of the sh*t

they play on the radio.

Hey, how about you watch your mouth

around our guest?

Well, I'm sure she's heard worse.

Am I right, Laverne?

No doubt.

- "No doubt".
- Well, that doesn't mean

she needs to hear it in this home.

Come on, let's just go
set the table for dinner.

Very fly.

[CHUCKLES]

Your daddy says I'm fly.

Super fly, apparently.

So weird.

[SIGHS]

Your parents are cool.

Yeah, about some things.

Not everything.

[SMOOTH MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[TONI MOANING]

[MARVIN] sh*t.

- [GASPING]
- Uh?

- Yes. Yeah.
- Uh-huh? Yeah.

- Yeah.
- [GASPING]

Uh-huh, yeah.

[LAUGHS]

- [TONI MOANS]
- [MARVIN] Oh-ho!

♪ ♪

[BOTH MOAN]

[MARVIN] Oh, sh*t.

[TONI] Oh, f*ck. [GROANS]

[MARVIN CHUCKLES]

[TONI] Oh, my God.

- [LAUGHS]
- [MARVIN] Oh, sh*t, yo.

Hmm.

[TONI] Oh, my God.

Yeah, I know. I'm the sh*t.

[LAUGHS] You want some?

No, I don't do that sh*t.

What, you just sell it?

Oh. Oh.

Whew! My God.

Come here.

Yo, f*ck are you doing?

Mm, cuddling.

I thought you said you dated brothers.

Ain't no brothers I know cuddle.

[SCOFFS] I've dated plenty of Black guys

who like to cuddle, Marvin.

Well, what happened to all
these cuddling-ass n*gg*s?

'Cause you here with me.

sh*t.

Are-are you for real?

You're-you're seriously gonna leave

because I wanted to get close to you?

[MARVIN] Yo, we different, Toni, okay?

Black, white,

bitch, n*gga.

I'm from the hood, you from...

wherever the f*ck you
from that ain't the hood.

So by your logic, you'd
be willing to cuddle

a Black guy from South Jamaica?

Yo, I know you didn't
just call me a f*gg*t.

[DOG BARKS]

Yo, LT ain't got no food.

[TONI] I ran out yesterday.

Dog hasn't eaten since yesterday?

But I bet you ate, right?

Look, Marvin, I like you, okay?

I don't want us to end like this.

End? Us?

sh*t ain't ending, Toni.

sh*t ain't even start. How
the f*ck it's gonna end?

LT rolling with me.

He don't wanna be hungry no more.

LT was a gift. You gave him to me.

I also gave you this d*ck.

You want me to leave that behind too?

LT!

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]

[TONI] You can't just take him.

[MARVIN] Come on. All right.

[TONI] What the f*ck is wrong with you?

Yeah.

Word.

♪ ♪

Deen nervous.

Say he wanna press pause on any re-up

until the police show they hand.

Said it's too hot right now.

[WORRELL] We dying out here, 'Nique.

Not enough work to get
us through the week.

If the connect deads us, we dead.

That cop played the f*ck
out of us, k*lled us.

Trez sucking on that glass
d*ck is what k*lled us, P-We!

Took his eye off the f*cking ball, man!

This ain't about no Howard.

I ain't never trusted that cop.

I never told that pig sh*t.

'Cause I don't trust nobody.

Let's be m*therf*cking clear, man.

Any one of y'all can end up like Trez.

Everyone here is suspect!

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

Load them corners up.

Step hard on what we got left.

[P-WE] Listen, 'Nique,

ain't no crackhead gonna
f*ck with us later

if we puttin' out wack-ass rock now.

That's why we gonna put
'em out as orange caps, P.

New batch.

And when we all the way up again,

we're gonna roll out
them tornado testers,

pink caps,

put n*gg*s on they
backs and sh*t, a'ight?

But for now, stomp on that sh*t, man.

[WORRELL] It's already stretched.

Stretch it some more, then, n*gga!

Come on!

♪ ♪

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

Raq's stink all over this sh*t.

Smell her ass from here.

We gonna hit back, though.

I just gotta figure out if it's gonna be

to the body...

or to the head.

♪ ♪

Look, I'm sorry about dinner,

but I'm done asking my -year-old son

to forgive me for spending
time with a dude that I like.

I ain't heard you ask for forgiveness.

And you ain't gonna hear it.

That's what I'm telling you.

That's what you need to make peace with.

Dr. West called.

Said your grades still slipping,

that you haven't even turned
in some term paper

that you owe in history.

Yeah, had a lot on my mind, Ma.

Well, then let me clear
your mind for you.

I told you that if you didn't
get your books right,

things were gonna change.

You done with the stash
house. You moving on.

Word.

I'm ready to move up. Thank you.

What, you think you getting
a promotion up in here?

Hell no.

I signed you up for
an after-school class.

I'm doing the paper.
I-I'll have it in this week.

Too little, too late.

I found you a class at City College

that meets two days a week after school

and every other Saturday.

Saturday?

- Ain't no school on Saturday.
- There is for you.

I just said I'll do the paper.

And I just said that
it's too late for that.

You need to worry less

about who I'm kicking it with, Kanan,

and a hell of a lot more
about your schoolwork.

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Energy up. You got it.

♪ You been set up, wet up ♪

♪ Blaze this f*cking fed up ♪

♪ My n*gg*s keep they head up ♪

♪ We all about to get up ♪

♪ Came out the Maserati ♪

♪ Blasting with my shotty ♪

♪ Yeah, my nature like naughty ♪

♪ These streets need a body ♪

[CROWN] Yo.

Okay.

Not bad. Your flow is nice.

I think, lyrically,

you just may need a little help.

Um, that last line worked...

[SCATS NASALLY] "The
streets need a body".

The rest was a little corny to me.

I don't think nobody buying

your high school ass sh**ting a fed.

You know, heads need the truth,

that street sh*t, that
dope boy realness.

Now, your audience is
gonna smell your bullshit

from a mile away.

You got this.

It's right here. Find it.

Find it. Take your time.

Famous can do whatever
you want him to do.

- You think?
- [JESSICA] Yeah.

Did I tell you that he was on the radio?

Yeah, when he was nine
because he wrote a poem

about litter and it was
the best in the whole city.

Yeah, you told me.

And they started calling
him Famous right then

because they knew that
he was gonna be somebody.

Well, he's a nobody right now,

and I don't think n*gg*s is bumping

poems about litter out they Alpine.

Look, I got a showcase coming up.

It's a opportunity for
a select few artists

just to get in the room and perform

- for some industry heads.
- Mm-hmm.

Famous sign with me,

and let's just assume that we can get

the track in the right place...

[DOOR BUZZES]

[MAN] It's the door on your left.

[CROWN] ... I feel like
putting him in that room

full of trendsetters and tastemakers,

you know, see what they think.

But you know that's gonna mean

we have to work together real close.

Whatever it takes.

Hey. [LAUGHS]

Let's do it! Well, sh*t, if you excited,

- I'm excited.
- [JESSICA] Let's do this.

Let's go!

Hey, baby.

What's good?

What's good?

Let me holler at you outside.

Yeah.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILING]

What are you doing here?

Business, Lou. I'm doing business.

That's what you call business now?

Okay, you know how your
big sister put you on?

Well, I'm doing the same for Famous.

What happened to all that
sh*t you was feeding me

about me doing this music thing,

having my own sh*t?

Yeah, I said you should do it.

I didn't say that I'd
wait for you to do it.

I'm on a different clock than you, Lou.

So is my little brother.

What are you on, Crown time?

[SCOFFS] I'm on my time.

I meant what I said, okay?

Lou, you...

you could do whatever you want.

But I can't do it for you.
You need to do it for yourself.

I gotta get back in there.

Go ahead.

[FUNKY MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[RAQ] Fourteen-gauge
double-reinforced steel.

Got locks and dead bolts
up and down this sh*t.

♪ ♪

Nobody gets in here unless I say so.

- Got me?
- Mm-hmm.

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

It's my guys.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

♪ ♪

All right, calm down. Calm down, yo.

[MARVIN] Yo, he good. He don't bite.

Just got a shitty attitude, that's all.

n*gga needs training,
just like his owner.

Yo, man, kiss my ass, Lou.

Marvin's gonna oversee
the movement and storage

of our product and cash.

This gonna be the new stash.

More secure, more secret, more private.

I want you to move everything today.

Well, how much more dr*gs and money?

Don't worry about it.

Don't worry about it? I-I have to know.

We tell you what you need to know, Gabe.

I demand to know how much you bring.

This is my place of business.

This is my place of business now, papi,

and don't ever tell me
what the f*ck to do again.

I don't answer to you.

Marvin'll see you tonight.

Stay out his f*cking way.

♪ ♪

[DAVINA] Look, I'd rather
go to some after-school sh*t

than have to come home
and babysit every day.

So who watches her while you at school?

Been paying a neighbor,

but it's starting to cost a grip.

Yo, is your mom still
talking to that same guy?

- Davina...
- [DAVINA LAUGHS]

... how about this fool
bum-rushed my dinner

the other night?

I cook for me and my mom every Tuesday,

and this m*therf*cker
just pulls up a chair?

It's nice that you all eat together.

Your moms likes him, Kanan.

Don't you want your mom to be happy?

Look, on the real,

I wish my mom gave
enough of a f*ck about me

to send me to some after-school class.

sh*t, I don't even know where the f*ck

my mom is right now.

Want me to come babysit with you?

Kanan, you don't wanna change diapers.

sh*t, I don't wanna change diapers.

Go kick it with your cousin and Famous.

A'ight.

- I'll get at you later.
- You better.

[UNIQUE] sh*t, n*gga kissed her.

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]

♪ ♪

All right, slow down, slow
down, slow, slow, slow.

♪ ♪

What's up, baby girl?

Hey, 'Nique.

I ain't seen you since Buck went down.

May the brother rest in peace.

Just been watching my sister.

Yeah, you know, I heard
your moms was on one

out in some spot in BK,

out in East New York,

belly of the m*therf*cking beast.

You know, I'm sorry
to tell you like that.

I know that sh*t sting.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

Look, your moms ain't
all the way gone yet,

though, Davina. She
still in there somewhere.

In fact, I heard her bragging
on you the other day,

talking about how you
put some shorty down

for disrespecting Buck.

Said she loved you for
that. I'ma walk with you.

♪ ♪

You know Rudy from round the way, right?

Well, Rudy's married to my cousin.

Fool smoked cr*ck for a year straight,

taxed everything in the
crib but the copper pipes.

So I sent him away on my dime.

Fool got clean,

got a job or whatever.

Coaches his kids' hoops team now.

sh*t, he done turned

into m*therf*cking Heathcliff Huxtable.

Look, I'm just saying,

your moms can get clean like that too,

and I can pay for it.

You see, you Buck's girl.

I know he'd want me to look out for you

same way I know he'd want
you to look out for me too.

Token of appreciation type sh*t.

And I ain't asking for much.

What's Raq's baby boy talking about?

I see y'all, you know, getting
all close and all that now.

Nothing, Kanan's not even in on the mix

with his mom's sh*t.

[UNIQUE] Yeah?

'Cause I know you heard
the same noise I did.

Now, look, I ain't saying
Kanan put Buck down,

but the kid who did,

G-Wiz or whatever his name is,

you know, that's Kanan's boy,

so that stand to reason

that Kanan might know a little bit more

than he telling you, mami.

Look, Kanan... we talked about that.

Kanan doesn't know anything.

Oh, all right.

[BABY FUSSES]

Man, she getting big.

Where did Rudy go to get clean?

Spot outside Utica, Davina.

You should see the sh*t.

Out in the woods, nature and sh*t.

sh*t make me wanna become a basehead

just so I could get away and relax.

Listen, I wanna help you
and your moms, a'ight?

I really do. All I'm asking for

is a little love in return.

That's it.

You do me that, and I got you.

♪ ♪

Nothing happens to Kanan.

On my own kid. Come on.

♪ ♪

I saw Kanan outside this house one time.

[DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Yeah, where?

[UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

♪ ♪

Yo! Hurry up, man!

Fame, ease up, man.

About to take the top spot in this sh*t.

High score up in here. Ooh!

Swear to God, I been blessed

with some sort of Street
Fighter greatness,

'cause I am just a straight k*ller

on this machine!

Whatever. Yo.

We about to hear my rhymes on
Stretch and Bobbito, son.

Ah, you putting a b*at to
"Litter Makes Me Bitter"?

[LAUGHS]

What, the poem that made Famous famous?

[LAUGHS] f*ck both of y'all, a'ight?

This dude named Crown gonna put me on.

He got a record label and sh*t.

I'm even recording a song
that I'm gonna perform

in front of all these
music industry people

at a show.

Crown Camacho.

Bulletproof Records.
Your Uncle Lou know him.

Introduced him to my sister.

How you paying for studio time?

Like I said, Crown looking out for me.

Get your sh*t on wax, Juke,

and maybe I can put
you in front of Crown,

and maybe you can get on this
mic, too, at the showcase.

But you gotta move with the quickness.

- Show's coming up fast.
- f*ck!

What?

And what the f*ck was that about?

She been boosting for months

trying to get loot for a demo.

Then your dumb ass just stumbles on it.

Ain't nobody stumbling, n*gga.

Y'all got skills on these
f*cking machines.

I got skills on the M-I-C.

Yo, Scrap.

Yo, n*gga, I know you home, man.

I saw your Cherokee parked out front.

Scrap!

[TOILET FLUSHES]

[LAUGHS] Yo, f*ck happened to you?

Bad kung pao chicken.

It's k*lling me.

[MARVIN] Yo, we gotta move everything

from the stash house to the new spot.

Put some clean drawers
on, saddle the f*ck up.

I said I'm sick, man.

There's a bathroom in the stash house.

You good.

My ass is leaking, n*gga.

I ain't going nowhere.

[DOOR SLAMS, LOCK CLICKS]

[SCOFFS]

[TOILET FLUSHES]

[KANAN] Yo, Juke.

Hey, Juke, you good?

Famous' sister getting his
wack ass free studio time

and a sh*t at this
industry people thing.

Meanwhile, my ass is
saving up all my pennies

just to get my g*dd*mn foot in the door.

Man, you gonna kick that door
open, 'cause when that sh*t is,

you ain't never gonna
be closed on again.

I gotta go.

A'ight, I'll catch up with you later.

[SMOOTH MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]

[MARVIN] Yo, Kanan.

Yo.

I been driving all over,
looking for your wayward ass.

Need some help. Get in.

I can't. I got class tonight.

[MARVIN] Class?

What, you got night school, n*gga?

Learning a trade?

Is my nephew about to be a plumber

up in this m*therf*cker?

[LAUGHS]

Mom set it up, a'ight?

Starts in a couple hours.

Yo, this ain't gon' take that long.

Let's ride.

Where?

Gotta move sh*t out the stash.

Mommy told me the stash off-limits.

I ain't supposed to touch it.

Yo, man, we gon' be in and out so fast,

you won't even know we was there.

Neither will she.

I know I ain't working for free.

This ain't work, because
you still in training.

Time to put them reps in.

♪ ♪

[RAQ] I need two units,

one on top of the other.

For real?

Building's full.

I mean, no vacancies.

I'd have to throw people
out on the street.

They'd be a'ight.

I'ma hit them off with
some relocation money.

I don't know, though.

They file a complaint or some sh*t,

then Housing gonna
be up in my ass, so...

[RAQ] Well, maybe I should
go over to the Forties

and see what they got available.

Jamaica Houses?

They ain't got no empty
apartments neither.

[RAQ] I might be able to move
the manager over there

in a way that you ain't willing to move.

I might have some apartments
on the seventh floor.

[RAQ] No, seventh and eighth floor.

Like I said, one on top of the other.

Got you.

So Famous gets free studio time

and your niece gets nothing.

It's good to see you too, Juke.

[JUKEBOX] Come on, Uncle Lou.

How you gonna do me like this?

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

It ain't my thing.

Famous's sister made that
happen for Famous, not me.

But you can make it happen for me.

You know this guy Crown.
Just ask him for a favor.

Come here.

Let me tell you something.

Favors is just another way

of ending up under somebody's thumb,

and I don't know about
you, but I already got

way too much of that
in my life, you heard?

What about this show

for all these music industry people?

Can you help me with that?

I can't.

[SCOFFS] Damn.

You turning into my dad,

good for nothing.

Now, you know I'd give
you the money myself,

but Marvin would lose his damn mind,

talking about, "She's my daughter.

Don't be doing sh*t for her.
We had to do it for ourselves.

She gotta do it for her".

I don't want your money anyway.

If you had the hookup, that's one thing,

but just hitting me off...

See? You same as me.

Don't wanna owe nobody.

That's a good rule to have.

You eat?

I gotta go.

Ju-ju...

... eat.

Thanks.

Love you too.

[JUKEBOX] Later.

Well, what happened to all that,

"When somebody makes a call,

we all gotta answer it", bullshit?

[DARK MUSIC PLAYS]

[SCOFFS]

I need this one, Twin.

Some sh*t's coming up,
and I gotta get this cash

quick-fast, in a hurry.

♪ ♪

Look, I'm going to the same spot.

They the only ones getting
Suicides in the city.

That's why I need someone looking out.

♪ ♪

f*ck you, then.

f*ck all y'all.

♪ ♪

Yo, bitch didn't lie.

[UNIQUE] Hmm?

Oh, sh*t.

Not when she trying to
save her mama, she not.

[KOOL MOE DEE'S "I GO TO WORK" PLAYING]

♪ ♪

♪ I go to work like a doctor ♪

♪ When I rock the mic you got to like ♪

♪ The way I operate I
make miracles happen ♪

♪ Just from rappin' I'm
so lyrically potent ♪

♪ And I'm flowin' and explodin' ♪

♪ On the scene mean
I got the potential ♪

♪ To make you go then chill ♪

♪ I got the credentials
that are so essential ♪

♪ To make a rhyme send chills
then you know I will fulfill ♪

♪ Make a couple of mil
as I build a guild ♪

♪ For all the rappers
of skill and k*ll ♪

♪ The weak rappers with no thrills ♪

♪ Hang 'em in effigy ♪

♪ If he's a sucker hang
him to the left of me ♪

♪ 'Cause my right-hand
man is my mic stand and ♪

♪ The microphone that I
own and my game plan ♪

♪ Is keeping at a steady pace ♪

♪ Running around holding ya head ♪

♪ Asking your homeboy ♪

♪ "Yo, man, you heard what he said?" ♪

♪ Another funky rhythm ♪

♪ Look at your man and
give him a high five ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm live
running round with him ♪

♪ Telling everybody
hanging out on the block ♪

♪ It's time to wake up
and check the clock ♪

♪ I go to work ♪

[GUARD] Hey, get...

[JUKEBOX] Get the f*ck off me, man!

- [GUARD] Calm down. Stop.
- Let me go!

[GUARD] Stop, stop.

I know you.

Keep it.

We're even now, all right?

You understand?

Get the f*ck out of here.

Next time, I won't let you go.

You got that?

[FUNKY MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[KANAN] Damn.

sh*t messy.

Well, they say messy m*therf*ckers

is geniuses.

Then you Albert Einstein.

Hey, don't tell your moms.

sh*t supposed to be
all counted and bundled,

and tidy and sh*t.

Look, man, we gonna
load it into them boxes,

cover with that sh*t.

We gonna march it right into the bodega

like we doing the day's deliveries.

Where Scrappy at?

sh1tting himself back at the crib.

Yo, start packing, n*gga.

[RAPPER] ♪ Living on the edge ♪

♪ And taking green in large sums ♪

♪ Always on the run, going to it... ♪

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYS]

We about to tax these
m*therf*ckers, man.

♪ ♪

Yo, keep boxing up.

I'll be back in .

Make sure your slow ass is done by then.

I'ma lock it up.

Make sure you don't f*cking
open the door for no one.

Yo. For no one.

[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]

I saved his ass last time.

[CHUCKLES] And he saved mine.

He let me go with the jacket.

Yeah, see? That's karma.

You do nice things, and
nice things happen to you.

I gotta be honest, though.

This just seems like a regular jacket.

I don't get it. I don't get

risking everything
for a f*cking ski coat.

That's 'cause that sh*t
was made for you, Nicole.

You and all your friends.

See, me

and people that look like me,

we ain't supposed to have that jacket.

Supposed to be out of reach for us.

Part of a world that ain't ours.

Ralph Lauren came up in the Bronx.

And his name wasn't even Ralph Lauren.

It was Ralph Lifshitz,

and Ralph Lifshitz didn't
come from no money.

He was poor as hell.

Didn't have nothing.

That's what his whole
Polo sh*t's based on.

Things he wished he had.

Things he was striving for.

Some kind of life that
wasn't meant for him,

A life he dreamed of living.

So...

Ralph Lauren like me.

He a lowlife.

sh*t. I don't wanna mess it up.

I'm giving it to you.

But I thought the whole point
was so you can sell it

so you can get money
and get into a studio.

It's like that whole karma
thing you were talking about.

That security guard just
let me have it like he did,

and...

I'm thinking...

maybe you're right about
all this boosting anyway.

[LAUGHS]

I want you to have it.

I want you to think of me
every time you wear it.

I think about you

anytime I'm thinking about anything.

[THE CURE'S "JUST LIKE HEAVEN"
PLAYING OVER RADIO]

sh*t. I love this song.

[MUSIC LOUDENS]

♪ ♪

♪ Show me, show me, show me ♪

♪ How you do that trick ♪

♪ "The one that makes
me scream", she said ♪

♪ "The one that makes
me laugh", she said ♪

♪ Threw her arms around my neck ♪

♪ "Show me how you do it ♪

♪ And I promise you ♪

♪ I promise that I'll
run away with you ♪

♪ I'll run away with you"... ♪

♪ ♪

I've never done this before.

I have.

Mm. What should I do?

Uh, whatever feels good.

[ROBERT SMITH] ♪ I
had to make her glow ♪

♪ "Why are you so far away?" She said ♪

♪ "Why won't you ever know ♪

♪ That I'm in love with you ♪

♪ That I'm in love with you" ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You ♪

♪ Soft and only ♪

♪ You, lost and lonely ♪

♪ You ♪

[g*nsh*t]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[KANAN GRUNTS, COUGHS]

Don't even breathe, m*therf*cker.

♪ ♪

How much more?

Yo, you need to stop sweating me, man.

♪ ♪

We get busy about five o'clock.

I don't want my customers
to be disturbed.

I'm the only customer
that matters, n*gga.

C-c...

♪ ♪

Where'd your mans take the rest?

Yo, I don't know, all right?
They don't tell me sh*t.

Don't think I don't know
who you are, n*gga.

And I know you were
there when Buck got hit.

I oughta just cap you on
the strength of that alone.

♪ ♪

[CURTIS MAYFIELD'S "IF
THERE'S A HELL BELOW]

[WE'RE ALL GOING TO GO" PLAYING]

♪ And Nixon talking about ♪

♪ "Don't worry worry, worry, worry" ♪

♪ He say, "Don't worry, worry
worry, worry, worry, worry" ♪

♪ He say, "Don't worry, worry
worry, worry, worry, worry" ♪

♪ He say, "Don't worry,
worry worry, worry" ♪

♪ But they don't know ♪

These m*therf*ckers.

[CURTIS MAYFIELD]
♪ There can be no show ♪

♪ ♪

♪ And if there's hell below ♪

♪ ♪

♪ We're all gonna go ♪

[SHOUTING]

[GRUNTS]

[DARK MUSIC PLAYS]

- Go!
- [TIRES SQUEALING]

Go!

[HORN BEEPS]

♪ ♪

I'm gonna walk out of here,
or I'ma put a b*llet

in this little n*gga head, you hear me?

[MARVIN] Breathe, brother.

Yo, just breathe.

You know whose kid that is?

Yeah, I know who he...

[GRUNTING]

[COUGHING AND SPLUTTERING]

'Nique's boy.

♪ ♪

[g*nsh*t]

g*dd*mn!

Yo, you hit?

[COUGHING]

Yo, half our sh*t just left in that van.

Hey, you should've just let him k*ll me.

Once my mom find out I'm
here, I'm dead anyway.

Yo, that's why she ain't gon' find out.

We gon' clean this
sh*t up, get you home,

and she'll never know you were here.

sh*t. I shouldn't have left you here.

f*ck!

[SCARFACE'S "BORN k*ller" PLAYING]

♪ ♪

♪ I'm a born k*ller, you're
face-to-face with Scarface ♪

You're late, Kanan.

Got caught up at the
pizza spot with Famous.

I'll be down in a few.

You got one minute.

♪ ... warned you 'bout a n*gga like me ♪

♪ 'Cause I don't eat and I don't sleep ♪

♪ Save that m*therf*cking flack ♪

♪ 'Cause talk is cheap ♪

♪ And, uh since you got beef ♪

♪ Let's take it to the streets ♪

♪ And I'ma bring it to your ass, G ♪

♪ I'm coming from the heart son ♪

♪ And I don't take no sh*t
but I'm about to start some ♪

♪ Now, which one of you hos wanna jump ♪

♪ If you got static, then
get it off your chest, punk ♪

♪ 'Cause I ain't barring none ♪

♪ If you're feeling lucky ♪

♪ Then go ahead and get you some ♪

♪ I ain't with this f*cked sh*t ♪

♪ If you ain't in trick
then get your ass ♪

♪ In your trunk, bitch ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm about to square it off ♪

♪ Hit your ass in the
chest with the Tec ♪

♪ And system ♪

♪ Send you back to
Mommy in some plastic ♪

♪ And have the bitch out
hunting for a casket ♪

♪ I'm on the for realla tilla my nilla ♪

♪ I'm a born k*ller ♪

♪ ♪

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Wait up.

We need to talk.

I'm already late.

[LOCK CLICKS]

I want you to like Symphony.

I will.

Dude just feels different, that's all.

Well, sometimes different is good.

I should probably get to class.

[LAUGHS] Never thought
I'd hear you say that.

All I'm asking is,

you just give him a chance, Kanan.

Just don't make no
decisions about him yet.

Nobody will ever be more
important to me than you.

You know this.

It's us against everybody.

Later, Ma.

♪ ♪

[SYMPHONY] All right,
so we're gonna go back

to the skyscrapers.

I'm glad you could make it, Kanan.

Welcome to History of New
York City Architecture.

Take a seat.

As I was saying,

New York City has the largest
and most varied collection

of skyscrapers in the world,

but it wasn't always skyscrapers.

You okay?

There's no other city in the world

that can rival the size and scope

of New York's skyline.

Why is that important?

[GROWN KANAN] When I was in the pen,

I met this dude who had
a disease or some sh*t

that made it so he never slept.

He'd close his eyes every now and then,

but most of the time,

that n*gga was wide awake.

And I remember saying to him,

"Man, that ain't a disease.
That's a blessing.

You keep your head up - ".

And he said, "Ain't no gift, n*gga.

You don't sleep, you don't dream.

You don't dream, you
don't ever go nowhere

but where you are".

But he was wrong.

You sleep in this game,

the only dreams you have are nightmares.

[SCARFACE] ♪ I'm a born k*ller... ♪

[GROWN KANAN] And them nightmares

all end the same way.

[SCARFACE] ♪ k*ller, born k*ller ♪

- ♪ Don't f*ck with me ♪
- ♪ Born k*ller ♪

♪ Don't f*ck with me ♪

♪ My mama did her part ♪

♪ But it ain't her fault that
I was born without a heart ♪

♪ In other words I'm heartless, duke ♪

♪ I don't love me how
the f*ck I'ma love you? ♪

♪ That's right you guessed it ♪

♪ I'm legally insane
marked manic-depressive ♪

♪ I'm taking all types of medication ♪

♪ To keep me out the
mood of premeditating ♪

♪ Yo, the longer I'm alone it's worse ♪

♪ I'm having thoughts of k*lling me ♪

♪ But I'm k*lling you first ♪

♪ My psychiatrist talks
but I don't listen ♪

♪ A victim of society
f*cked by the system ♪

♪ My whole life's been a seesaw ♪

♪ I'm up one day down
and out on tomorrow ♪

♪ Right now I'm even more upset ♪

♪ Some sh*t done happened to me ♪

♪ That I don't think I'd ever forget ♪

♪ You think I'd let it die but I ain't ♪

♪ It ain't 'cause I want
to it's because I can't ♪

♪ I'ma get ya but I
ain't going into it ♪

♪ 'Cause ain't nothing
to it but to do it ♪

♪ See, it ain't no sweat to me ♪

♪ 'Cause in the first
place you f*cked up ♪

♪ The minute that you stepped to me ♪

♪ I'm not your average dealer ♪

♪ I'm a born k*ller ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I'm a born k*ller born k*ller ♪

- ♪ Don't f*ck with me ♪
- ♪ Born k*ller ♪

♪ Don't f*ck with me ♪

♪ Now I'm living where I
can 'cause I'm homeless ♪

♪ Can't make important
calls 'cause I'm phoneless ♪

♪ I ain't ate and I'm starving, duke ♪

♪ I can't go to mama's house
'cause mama's starving too ♪

♪ Better grab that -gauge ♪

♪ 'Cause that's the only way
a n*gga's gonna get paid ♪

♪ ♪