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[upbeat hip-hop music plays]

♪ ♪

[Raq] Previously on Raising Kanan...

Thought you were dead.

Been getting that a lot.

I'm here because it never hurts

to have partners in crime.

You can't be droppin' bodies, not even your girlfriend.

You need to go talk to Akbar out in Trenton.

I got the soldiers you need.

I'll have to set up a manufacturing facility.

Well, how long will that take?

Two or three weeks.

I love the work ethic with you people.

Ah, salute.

[Marvin] Where my gun at?

[Jukebox] I wasn't doing nothing bad with it,

- just some target practice. - [gunshots]

Just give me back my motherfuckin' gun.

Let's get out of here.

[dramatic music plays]

Jess, your old girlfriend.

You should let her know that she left her jewelry here.

I'm sure she's lookin' for it.

Hey, don't...

- [Jackie] I'm Jackie. - [Jukebox] Laverne.

Can I buy you a drink, Laverne?

I'm--I'm good, but thanks.

[Kanan] I'm paying good money for anything about Fame.

Nobody knows shit.

Somebody gotta know somethin'.

[Raq] André said the feds watchin' Stefano's shop.

He said they saw you walkin' out of there

a couple days ago.

Well, got me confused with some other nigga.

They know who you are, Marvin.

Then they lyin', just like they always do.

This white motherfucker out on Howard Beach

ended me for ten large,

talkin' to me about how he a made nigga,

so he allowed to carry that debt.

Do what the fuck you need to do.

- This you? - I don't know what that is.

[Pernessa] It's full of money.

Been getting these for months.

[Raq] Why the fuck am I gonna leave money

in your mom's mailbox?

[O-Cee] Kanan's skimmin'.

Not sure what he plannin' to do with it,

but he takin' every week.

My father hid piles of cash right in our house,

a tradition which I've continued to this day.

Got this caper you might want to fuck with.

We got to do it soon.

[Joyce] I'm asking you to do your mother a mercy.

Help me go.

And he said, no.

so you ask me to do it.

I can't.

Raq do this with every nigga she's ever been with.

She plays them, and she takes what they got.

This bitch think I'm dead.

You know, you ain't wrong about this butter pecan.

I ain't ever been more fuckin' alive.

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

[50 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 shit I'm gon' take it ♪

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

♪ Make money Make, make, make money ♪

♪ When shit hit the fan We'll take money, Southside ♪

♪ Beef with the best of 'em ♪

♪ Done shot At the rest of 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Checks, I'm collectin' 'em ♪

♪ Check, boy I'm finessin' 'em ♪

♪ Bag Supreme Boy, you fuck 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 fuck, hey ♪

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

Ha ha. That's right.

♪ Put a hole in a nigga Right in front of you ♪

♪ Your heartbeat pacin' ♪

[Rileyy and 50 Cent] ♪ And it's all right ♪

[50 Cent] ♪ That's how We do it on this side ♪

♪ Niggas 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 shit I'm gon' take it ♪

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

♪ Hey, hey ♪

[Rileyy vocalizing]

[dramatic music plays]

[Grown Kanan] Nothin' I'm gonna say

gonna make sense of this shit.

So I ain't gonna say nothin' at all.

Let me just shut the fuck up.

You and Kanan really thought Ronnie could do

what you never could.

That was your first fuckin' mistake, Raq.

You been fuckin' up ever since.

The fuck?

I'm still alive,

despite your best fuckin' efforts.

[Raq] My efforts?

Fuck does that even mean?

I would never.

I don't know shit about what happened Unique,

and I sure as hell didn't have nothin' to do with it.

♪ ♪

Fuckin' lyin'!

I ain't High Post, bitch.

Not Def Con neither.

You thought I was one of these clown-ass niggas

you could play and put down so you could take they work.

But that ain't me, Raq.

On my child, I don't know what you talkin' 'bout.

Like you give a fuck about your child.

Time to show these New York niggas how New Jerz do.

Ain't droppin' bodies yet, but we plantin' that fuckin' flag.

Let everybody know that these corners,

this nigga 'Nique's now.

[indistinct chatter]

♪ ♪

Look, I ain't have shit to do

with what Ronnie did to you 'Niq.

He was on his own shit.

If your lips movin', you fuckin' lyin', bitch.

You was settin' me up from the start, you and Kanan.

Let me go find the connect and set up shop

so you could take it all from me,

just like you always do.

Was Lil' Linguini in on it with you?

You not hearin' me.

Stefano wasn't in on shit

because there wasn't nothin' to be in on.

I didn't set you up. I wouldn't do that.

You and me, we felt somethin'.

[Unique] All I felt...

was the blade you was slidin' through my ribs

while you was lyin' to my fuckin' face!

I was there that night, Raq.

That night that you put down my brother and Howard,

tyin' up loose ends like you do.

You get these sorry-ass niggas to do your dirty work for you,

and then you put slugs in they fuckin' heads.

It wasn't like that.

I thought Ronnie had grabbed up Kanan, and he was--

I said, stop fuckin' lyin'!

I watched you and that boy walk out together,

smiles on your fuckin' faces!

Yeah, listen.

I'm takin' back everything that belongs to me,

startin' tonight.

OK?

You got it all wrong.

Nah, it's the rightest I've ever been.

[suspenseful music plays]

♪ ♪

[person] All right, let's go, man.

[indistinct chatter]

Your head's all fucked up.

You not hearin' reason or facts.

But you need to recognize that I got Stefano and all of them

lined up behind me.

So you fuckin' with me, you fuckin' with them.

And you don't want none of that.

[phone beeping]

Well, look like it's too late.

You see that right there, it's gonna be about me.

[chuckles]

So it's you who been hittin' us?

Motherfucker.

You see, I was gonna just straight drop

all y'all at once, but I thought it'd be

a little bit more fun to take my time

and fuck with you a little bit.

Nah, that's not what it is.

Whoever backin' you

is scared of static with Stefano and all of them.

Nah. I'm done bein' dead, Raq.

See, I'm alive as a motherfucker now.

And I want you to watch as I take back everything from you.

I want you to know what it feels like

to be left to die in a pile of shit

on the side of the fuckin' road.

But before I bury you in the ground,

I'ma bury you on these blocks first.

I've been hittin' it soft from the back

for a while.

Now I'm circlin' around...

to smash hard from the front while you watch.

Just how you like it.

By the way, your man, um... [snapping fingers]

Mr. Coffee,

he went out like a bitch, word.

Yeah.

I hope you two wasn't planning on startin'

no family or nothing like that.

What, you got so many niggas runnin' through you,

you don't know who the fuck I'm talkin' 'bout?

I'm talkin' 'bout that fool who was pushin' up on you

outside the coffee shop on 12th.

Yeah, I put his sorry ass down before you could.

You killed my fuckin' lawyer?

[laughs]

Judge, jury, executioner

on that nigga and anybody else who you give a fuck about!

♪ ♪

I'll get at you.

♪ ♪

Fuck.

[distant siren wailing]

All I'm asking is for you to be honest

if you're sleeping with other people,

especially if one of those people

is your former girlfriend.

It was some shit that just happened really unexpectedly.

Just came into town for her brother's homegoin',

and we was both fucked up about it.

I get it. You can do what you want.

And frankly... [scoffs]

That's not any of my business anyway.

I just don't want to start

feeling something about you

and then get my heart broken.

I'm not gonna break your heart, Imani.

Shit with Jess was just two people who was hurt,

tryin' to numb that pain.

That's all.

I don't want you to hurt, Lou.

I don't want you to hurt neither.

That nigga was dead. Now he alive?

You sure you was awake and this wasn't no fuckin' dream?

I was awake then, and I've been awake ever since.

Unique is alive as hell, Marvin.

They said they found pieces of his head

all over the floor of that tailor shop.

Nah, cops say anything they can to put that shit to bed.

Where was your fuckin' security at?

Neighbors was talkin', so I gave him the night off.

So he hit the Chinese spot, and Sei Yap.

Yeah, and he dropped André Barnes too.

[Kanan] He took out the lawyer?

He doin' everything and anything he can to hurt us.

So why didn't he take you out last night?

'Cause if he do that, he fuckin' with everybody money

behind me and he don't want that mess right now.

Maybe later?

You think he took out Fame?

The way Fame got knocked around and dumped up

in the Bronx like he did, it just don't make

a whole lot of sense for Unique.

And he would have told me if he'd done it.

I mean, he was real fuckin' happy to say he dropped André.

I know we hittin' this nigga back.

No, no, no, we need to find out who backin' him, Marvin.

Look, 'Nique wants us to go head up

in this motherfucker, which is exactly why

we got to sit tight for a minute.

You supposed to be so damn good at all of this.

Things is still fuckin' up.

When you sit at the top,

you supposed to take care of the niggas below you.

You not doin' that, and you've never done that.

Watch what you say to your mother, boy.

She need to watch what she's sayin' to all us.

We's out here gettin' our asses handed to us,

and you want us to lay back in the cut?

Uncle Marvin, that feel right to you?

Does that make you feel safe?

You know, you alive right now because I kept you safe, boy.

Because every time you fucked up,

I was there to clean up your mess.

Yeah, I made all your wrong shit right, Kanan,

to keep you breathin'.

So don't you dare lecture me about no fuckin' top spot

or how I talk.

Because your ass should be talkin' less

and listenin' a whole lot more.

And when you do talk, all you should be sayin' is thank you.

[dramatic music plays]

Thank you for fuckin' everything up,

like you always do.

Said it once, I said it a million times,

that boy need to meet a belt.

Kanan grown.

So, what the fuck should we do,

with your cousin and his fuckin' mouth?

Listen.

♪ ♪

[soft music plays]

♪ ♪

[gasps]

[yelps]

'Nique?

♪ ♪

[sobbing]

Oh, my God.

[laughs]

Oh, my God.

Already gettin' word that his people

posted up on the corners.

[sighs] 'Nique just gettin' started.

I don't get why we sittin' on our fuckin' hands, then.

If this just the start, what the fuck is next?

He ain't steppin' onto the floor with us

unless he got a team around him that can play with ours.

Look, we need to know who backin' him.

We can't take the chance of startin' somethin' bigger

than Southside Jamaica without runnin' that shit

up the flagpole.

'Nique think Kanan and me set up Ronnie

to kill him and then we killed Ronnie.

That nigga's out of his fuckin' mind.

Yo, fuck this. Marvin's right.

We can't stand down right now.

We got to get up in front of this motherfucker.

We got to make this nigga dead again.

Finally, baby brother ready to get busy.

[laughs] Shit!

Welcome home, Lou.

I've been home, Marvin.

And I'ma protect home.

If 'Nique is comin' at y'all or Kanan or Juke,

he got to fuck with me first.

Yeah, but y'all need to hear me.

'Nique ain't tryin' to fuck with us too hard yet.

Somebody is holdin' him back for now.

Tell that to André Barnes.

[tense music plays]

Look, we gonna make the rounds, you and me, all right?

We gonna get with our people,

and we gonna see what the fuck they talkin' about.

We're gonna gather this intel, and we're gonna figure out

this fuckin' battle plan.

'Cause no matter what y'all might think,

I ain't never left these fuckin' trenches.

Just 'cause guns ain't been blazin'

don't mean that I ain't been at fuckin' war this whole time.

I mean, it's like you always said, P.

Raq a black fuckin' widow

who gonna suck the blood out of anybody

who get caught in her shit.

But I'm about to pull them spider legs one by fuckin' one.

I mean, I don't doubt that she was plannin'

to sell you out, but I--

I don't know if she was doin' all that with Ronnie.

I just don't see it.

[glasses clatter]

You think you know better than me, then?

That's what you fuckin' tryin' to say right now?

You know better than me?

You know what happens when you dead, P?

- You fuckin' see the light! - Baby.

You see all this shit that other niggas miss!

I done seen all that shit and then some!

And now you turnin' on me, too?

No.

Is there a fuckin' bitch out here

who gonna stand by her fuckin' man?

'Nique, I'm with you!

I'm with you!

Look at me. Come here. It's me. It's me.

I'm just...

me and Jerome was alone out here.

'Nique, we were alone.

You just don't know what that shit feels like!

[sobs]

Pack up.

Y'all gettin' out of here.

We're leavin'?

Yeah.

Southside about to get real fuckin' smoky.

[ominous music plays]

♪ ♪

You think 'Nique's comin' for us?

If he wanted to, he woulda did it already.

The nigga been alive for months now.

This shit not about us. It's about her.

I ain't even worried about 'Nique.

I took that nigga crazy brother.

I'll take his ass out, too.

'Nique ain't Ronnie.

And I still ain't scared.

Especially if I got you next to me.

I ain't next to nobody.

Just sayin', if you ever feelin' ready

to put some work out here, I got you.

'Cause you good at this shit.

And way things is playin' out right now,

I need niggas around that I can trust.

Ain't nobody I trust more than you.

Yeah, I've been puttin' loot to the side,

so I can start up my own business.

No Raq, no Ronnie, no Unique,

nobody other than me.

And you, if you down.

I'm just sayin', think about it, a'ight?

You and me, like always.

Except now we gettin' mad big.

I ain't workin' for you, son, if that's what you thinkin'.

Hell no.

We'd be partners,

tag teamin' in this motherfucker.

You're the hardest nigga I know, Juke.

I just want to find out who dropped Fame.

I ain't got no plans beyond that.

You think Raq was right?

That Unique ain't the one who put him down?

If 'Nique put Fame down,

he'd be screamin' that shit out loud, and he not.

I'm still thinkin' about what Kwelz and them said

when we rolled up on 'em.

That it was the police.

These crooked-ass cops ain't do that shit on they own.

Somebody out here paid them for that work.

[tense music plays]

If this police shit is real...

that call on Fame came from the street.

When we find out who made that call,

we gon' take it back to the street.

No doubt.

♪ ♪

I guess you two don't hear everything after all.

Ah, clearly our friend Unique kept a decidedly

low profile durin' his convalescence.

So Unique thinkin' you and Kanan

had Ronnie take him out,

so you could grab up his little brother's work.

And then he think we dropped Ronnie.

Can't lie, that really sound like some shit you'd do, Raq.

Except I ain't had nothin' to do with it.

'Nique ain't gonna bump up against you, Stefano,

and the Italians, unless he got someone

who's that same make and model behind him.

Well, Stefano said that all the New York families

in line with him.

Yeah, they all in line until they not in line.

Yeah, we'll keep our ear to the ground.

But I suggest that you reach out to Stefano himself.

Look, we all need to handle Unique together,

'cause this shit is only gonna get stupider.

Yeah, what you mean "we," Kemo Sabe?

Well, we in business together.

Our problems is your problem.

No, we in business with Kanan.

'Nique comin' for Kanan, too. He comin' for everybody.

Well, consider us warned.

♪ ♪

I'll be in touch.

♪ ♪

More trouble.

Could be trouble.

Could be an opportunity.

♪ ♪

Let me get, uh, fried rice with three special sauce.

No special sauce.

The fuck you talkin' about, no special sauce?

How the fuck you run out of special sauce?

[Reggie] Yo, homeboy.

They got all that special sauce you need across the way,

and the shit cost less.

Food here is garbage anyway!

Shit, I like your food, Mr. Miyagi.

[laughs]

[tense music plays]

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

♪ ♪

If it's Italians behind him,

they're not from the five boroughs.

I can tell you that with utmost certainty.

What I can't account for

is our fuckin' friends across the river.

Sal's people.

Yeah, this has got that Jersey stench all over it.

Well, can you call 'em off?

Well, if it's them, they backed Unique,

knowin' full well that it would bring them into direct conflict

with me and my family 'cause that's what they want.

They want a war with y'all?

Uh.

But for now, more like a-- more like a proxy war.

Fuck kind of war is that?

That's where two big guys who don't like each other

make little guys fight for them.

And we the little guys.

Assuming it's Jersey that is backing Unique, yeah.

Well, we not goin' to war for you or nobody else.

[Stefano] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, easy.

I'm hearin' your--your inventory is depleted.

Your shelves are bare.

You know, maybe if your coffers were full

and you would have played nice with Quân,

you wouldn't be in such a fuckin' pickle.

First shipment from the Afghan

gon' be here any minute.

Yeah, yeah.

And while you wait for Kenny fuckin' Kebab,

Unique is takin' all your business.

And my people are tellin' me

that he is workin' with Quân now.

A-a-and what makes you think

Quân won't steer your Chinese restaurants to his new partner?

You know, they stick together.

You know, the Orientals.

Black men the original Asiatic.

I don't even know what the fuck that means, Marvin.

The restaurant's not goin' nowhere.

And I don't know where the fuck

you get your confidence from.

It sure as hell ain't from the fuckin' facts

right in front of your face.

Look, I don't want this to escalate

any more than it already has.

Keep your pistols in your pockets.

I want to see what I can find out.

All right?

Now get out of here.

Oh, and hey.

I hope your, uh, feelings for Unique

won't get in the way of anything that

might have to happen here.

Don't nobody never got to worry about my feelins.

♪ ♪

Famous last words.

[tense music plays]

♪ ♪

[trunk clacks]

Motherfucker.

These fettuccine motherfuckers

tryin' to get us to fight they battles for 'em.

Sal's people gettin' payback for they mans.

And for real, Quân might be able to swing

these Chinese spots 'Nique's way, just like Stefano said.

None of this happen if 'Nique ain't come back.

That nigga the head of the fuckin' snake.

We cut him off, the rest of it gonna die.

Nah, these fools out in Jersey

just gonna lay down like that, Marvin.

They usin' 'Nique and us to get to Stefano.

So maybe we gotta make peace for a minute, then.

Split the blocks up with 'Nique

till we up with the Afghan, then take all the shit back,

put his ass in the ground for good.

Stefano ain't gonna never let Sal's people

take a piece of this business, Marvin.

That shit would make him look weak as fuck

in front of the other families.

He'd be dead in a month.

How we know Stefano ain't gonna make a deal with Jersey

and fuck us?

We don't.

[soft dramatic music plays]

So maybe we gotta make a move on Stefano.

♪ ♪

That's a big fuckin' move.

This a big fuckin' problem.

♪ ♪

Welcome to our new home, baby.

Oh, my God.

'Nique.

[laughs] Oh!

What?

Come here.

See right there? That's Fort Tryon Park.

- Ah. - You and Jerome got

the whole city to look at.

[laughs]

Listen, you can change whatever you want.

It's yours, baby.

'Nique...

'Nique.

[laughs]

Look, you can't go back to the Southside,

not until I say you can.

I have to check on my mother.

Nah, fuck your moms.

I have to take her for her dialysis.

You, I mean--

You and Jerome was my only two witnesses.

So you gonna do what the fuck I tell you to,

and you ain't gonna ask no questions,

just like it's always been.

Ain't nothin' changed.

Look, I'll have one of the guys go and take

your mother to the doctor.

But as of right now, you and Jerome gonna post up here

until I say you could leave.

- I-- - Look.

I've been dead once.

I ain't doin' that shit again.

Not for you, not for Jerome, not for nobody.

[ominous music plays]

You been messin' with this gat again.

[gun clicks]

Take it.

This ain't me testin' you or nothin' like that.

I want you to have it, for real.

Shit wild right now,

and with what happened to Fame and all that.

But don't get it twisted.

This ain't me sayin' I want you out there

buckin' that shit off on the block.

I just want to make sure you got protection.

And like I keep sayin', though,

I don't want that for you...

that life, that world.

That world is this world.

It's the one we livin' in.

I live here, not you.

Once shit's settled down, you're givin' it back.

[soft dramatic music plays]

♪ ♪

[distant sirens wailing]

I need a ETA, Hafiz. All right?

I'm losin' business every second of every fuckin' day.

We're movin' as fast as we can.

Not fast enough.

My country is in chaos right now.

It makes things more complicated.

- When? - A month.

I don't have a fuckin' month.

[hip-hop music plays]

Yo, where the fuck is O-Cee at?

He ain't been around.

Yeah, no shit.

I been hittin' him all day to tell him we outta work.

And you just decidin' to tell me O-Cee's missin'

in fuckin' action?

I need to find this nigga.

So y'all need to hit the block and put the word out.

Shit's mad hectic right now.

Watch y'all backs.

Fuckin' do somethin'!

[rapper] ♪ Now, they got the vapors ♪

♪ I used to be by me ♪

♪ Livin' kind of cruddy ♪

[car honking]

[indistinct chatter and laughter]

[whistling]

Where you goin', brown sugar?

[laughter]

You don't want to talk to me?

[jeering and laughter]

I love Black chicks!

[ominous music plays]

[indistinct chatter]

Come on, man.

♪ ♪

So I staked out the spot earlier in the week

with no cameras or any real security

to speak of beyond an alarm system

that they need to trigger manually,

which isn't gonna happen.

[sighs]

Hold up. There's somebody home.

The fuck am I doin' with this?

We jackin' these fools.

We talked about this caper.

We said straight smash and grab.

We ain't say shit about nobody bein' up in the house.

If this record guy keeps his money in a safe or a vault

or some secure location, we won't need a key

or a combination or whatever.

We need someone to be home for that, my Nubian brother.

Nah, yo, this motherfucker knows who the fuck I am.

I can't just run up in his spot.

That's why we got masks, nigga.

[sighs]

Nah, yo. That ain't me.

I ain't down for this shit.

So what you sayin'?

Lowell gonna know it's me before I even

come through the door.

I gotta wait in the van.

That's not how we typically do things--

in for a penny, in for a pound.

But you did bring us this score,

so we'll make an exception.

[tense music plays]

We takin' the keys to the van, though.

Can't have your bitch ass leavin' us on the side

of the fuckin' road.

Do the fuck you gotta do.

I ain't goin' nowhere.

♪ ♪

["Supermodel" by RuPaul playing]

[singer] ♪ You better work ♪

♪ Cover girl ♪

♪ Work it, girl ♪

♪ Give a twirl ♪

♪ Do your thing ♪

♪ On the runway ♪

♪ Work, supermodel ♪

♪ You better work it, girl ♪

♪ Of the world ♪

♪ Wet your lips and make Love to the camera ♪

♪ Work ♪

♪ Turn to the left, work ♪

♪ Now turn to the right ♪

♪ Work ♪

♪ Sashay, shantay ♪

♪ Work, turn to the left ♪

♪ Work ♪

♪ Now, turn to the right ♪

♪ Work ♪

♪ Sashay, shantay ♪

♪ It don't matter What you wear ♪

♪ It don't matter what You wear ♪

♪ They're checkin' out Your savoir faire ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah ♪

♪ And it don't matter What you do ♪

♪ 'Cause everythin' Looks good on you ♪

♪ Supermodel, work ♪

♪ Cover girl, work it, girl ♪

[grunts]

[gunshots]

Oh, shit.

[gunshots]

Fuck.

[singer] ♪ Sashay, shantay ♪

♪ Work ♪

♪ Turn to left ♪

♪ Work ♪

♪ Now turn to the right ♪

♪ Work ♪

♪ Sashay, shantay ♪

♪ I see your picture Everywhere ♪

♪ I see your Picture everywhere ♪

♪ A million-dollar derriere ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh yeah ♪

♪ And when you walk Into the room ♪

♪ You had everybody's Eyes on you ♪

♪ Supermodel ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Linda, work, mama ♪

♪ Naomi ♪

♪ She is fierce ♪

♪ Christy ♪

♪ Foxy lady, out of sight ♪

♪ Cindy ♪

♪ I can feel it ♪

♪ Claudia ♪

♪ Sell the garment ♪

♪ Niki ♪

♪ Work the runway, sweetie ♪

♪ I have one thing to say ♪

♪ Sashay, shantay ♪

♪ Shantay, shantay ♪

♪ Shantay, shantay, shantay ♪

♪ I have one thing to say ♪

[sighs]

[suspenseful music plays]

♪ ♪

Shit.

- [grunts] - [B-Rilla] Hey, yo.

Yo, I heard gunshots.

[Julius] Your mans was strapped!

[Kenyatta] We gotta go.

- [B-Rilla] What happened? - [grunts]

Hey, yo, what the fuck happened?

Your friend had a gun and shot Samir.

- [Samir groaning] - We put him and his bitch down.

Nigga, they dead?

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

[relaxing music plays]

♪ ♪

So, uh, you wanna get a drink?

I'm good.

All right. Can I get your number?

♪ ♪

Uh...

This ain't that.

But I had fun, though.

Thank you.

♪ ♪

All right, tell them I'll be in touch.

All right? [mumbles]

[Giorgio] You got it.

My apologies.

A friend of ours just got fished out of the East River

this morning.

- I'm sorry for your loss. - Ah.

Guy's the son of a real big shot

who is, sadly, no longer with us.

Capo di Tutti, boss of bosses

from out here in Howard Beach.

[grunts] And no idea at all who did it.

[mumbles]

Hey, so, look,

your sister's in a tough spot.

That's why I wanted to speak to you alone, Marvin.

Listen,

there are things that men understand

that the fairer sex doesn't and never will.

Raq has made some poor decisions

that have compromised all of us.

Raq bein' a broad ain't have shit to do

with 'Nique bein' alive again.

Yeah, but she fucked up the relationship with Quân,

which opened the door to give Unique a foothold.

She's just tryin' to make more money for us and y'all.

Unique's got Sal Boselli's old gang behind him.

Some piece of shit named Phil Russo out in Jersey

is backin' him up.

They pissed off you dropped they boy, Sal.

Indeed. You are correct, my friend.

But the compounding problem is you got no product to sell.

You're losin' market share as we speak.

And your primary competitor and biggest adversary,

namely Unique, he wants Raq's head on a stake.

I can't get in a fight with Jersey.

That's not good business for me,

especially over somethin' like this.

Hmm.

Look, the best way

to avoid bloodshed is to move Raq aside.

Ah, she's the fly in the ointment, so to speak, right?

Then we get somebody more reasonable,

more levelheaded, to step in for her.

And I think you are just the guy for the job.

[foreboding music plays]

♪ ♪

That ain't a job I'm lookin' for.

My sister done filled that position already.

And that's not shit you should ever say to me again.

You're puttin' me

in a very uncomfortable situation, Marvin.

All due respect, you put your own self there.

You the one who took out Sal.

Hey, hey, Marvin.

We are all in this together, whether we like it or not.

Yeah, yeah. Now, listen, I got to go,

take care of that situation

I was tellin' you about.

We are not done here, though.

Not by a long shot.

♪ ♪

Come on.

[rapper] ♪ Ride for your life This block ♪

♪ An eye for an eye ♪

♪ While the rockets pop ♪

♪ Play the game ♪

♪ Let the righteous watch ♪

Yo.

[rapper] ♪ We on a whole new level ♪

♪ Laws in effect ♪

♪ Don't flex in the ghetto ♪

Still nothin' from O-Cee?

No.

This nigga straight disappeared?

I know O-Cee like to kick it at that arcade

off Merrick by the hair spot.

Maybe check there.

Word.

Hey, yo. When we gettin' more work?

We gettin' calls, but we ain't got shit to move.

I'ma go look for O-Cee right quick,

and then I'll hit up the connect about that re-up.

I got y'all. Don't worry.

A'ight.

[soft dramatic music plays]

♪ ♪

His office called, said he'd be here soon.

Lowell office called?

He got some family shit he dealin' with.

But they said he was gonna be here.

They said it, and I said it, nigga.

[door clicks]

Sorry, gang.

Craziest shit happened to me.

What a wild world this is.

The couple who were renting my old house from me

were robbed and killed last night.

I've been talkin' to the police all morning.

[scoffs] Ain't nowhere safe.

And they don't have any suspects.

Lock your doors and windows, my friends.

Anyway, enough of my mishegas.

Imani says you're not sure about Rilla's new sound,

could use another set of ears.

Look no further than yours truly.

Okay, Lowell.

Let's load it up.

[B-Rilla rapping on record] ♪ Street tales, street tales ♪

♪ We with the nonsense ♪

♪ We come from hard shit ♪

♪ Rilla ♪

♪ Street tales, street tales ♪

♪ Shit is wild out here ♪

♪ The niggas and females ♪

♪ You know, Wanda from apartment 4B ♪

♪ Had the key, Gave a man a brick ♪

♪ And you know Nothin' here is free, no ♪

♪ They caught him In the cold ♪

[mellow hip-hop music plays]

[singer] ♪ Sometimes, We wonder why, why, why ♪

♪ IOGs got to die, die, die ♪

♪ That's why we stayin' High-igh-igh ♪

[ominous music plays]

♪ ♪

What're you talkin' about? I don't snore.

Well, my parents slept in separate bedrooms

startin' in they 50s.

My mother couldn't handle my father's sleep apnea.

Well, your parents hated each other.

We ain't sleepin' in a separate bedroom

because that ain't what married folk do.

[Kenny] Get back.

[tense music plays]

[Snaps] He's good, Kenny.

♪ ♪

If it isn't Southside Jamaica's

very own resurrected Lamb of God.

Just like Jesus, I died for other niggas' sins.

♪ ♪

You think she know we here?

Don't know.

Ain't really here for her anyway.

Just tryin' to make sure I ain't got no fucked up feelings

after she gone, you know.

You don't want nothin' hangin' over your head.

Fools who give you a lot of shit in life

leave it all behind for the rest of us

to figure out when they die.

What the doctors talkin' about?

Can't tell how much time she got left.

[somber music plays]

♪ ♪

She in a lot of pain, Marvin.

♪ ♪

Oh.

Damn.

Tryin' to decide if you gonna go in and see her?

Tryin' to decide if she was a shitty mother

or we was just some shitty kids.

Both can be true.

Yeah, but we was just kids.

We get a pass for that.

Are we givin' our kids that same pass?

We ain't like her, Marvin.

Juke and Kanan the ones who decide that.

Maybe...

it's 'cause she on her way out, but...

I'm startin' to think that...

she did the best she could.

Like, maybe...

she was as good as she was gonna be.

So you lettin' her off the hook?

I'm lettin' me off the hook, Raq.

Can't spend the rest of my life blamin' her for shit

that she didn't know how to do right in the first place.

And it wasn't all bad with her, by the way.

Even after Pop, we had fun down the beach.

And remember-- [laughs]

Remember when you was five?

She made everybody in the neighborhood that had a dog

bring them up by the house so they can wish you

a happy birthday.

'Cause you loved dogs so damn much.

Harris's rottie tried to rip my fuckin' hand off.

Maybe Lou right.

Maybe she was good at what she was good at.

Doctor say it's just a matter of time.

How much?

Can't call it.

♪ ♪

She asked me, uh, to kill her.

End her pain and shit.

Told me she bought a needle full of dope

from one of these nurses that'd put her to sleep for good.

She asked me to do the same.

And y'all said no?

Why you think she ain't asked me?

'Cause she know you want her to suffer.

[Lou-Lou] Fuck, Marvin.

Sorry, but you know I'm right, though.

♪ ♪

You ain't wrong.

Anythin' on the nigga who won't die?

We standin' down till further notice.

All right.

I'ma get back to the studio, then.

Catch y'all later.

'Nique backed by Sal's old crew.

Where you hear that?

Stefano.

So that was you comin' out of the fish shop.

You fuckin' with Stefano behind my back.

Guess them feds wasn't confusin' you

with another nigga after all.

I did some side work for him.

It wasn't nothin', though.

And he wanted me to keep the shit between me and him.

Well, if it wasn't nothin', why he wanted to keep it

between the two of you?

And why you lie to me about it?

Because I didn't want to have

this fuckin' conversation, Raquel.

Well, we havin' it right now anyways,

so why didn't you just cop to it at the time?

I don't answer to you.

You been keepin' secrets, Marvin.

I'm just livin', Raq.

Not everything in my life gotta do with you.

[sighs]

Go see Ma.

It'd be good for you.

Nurse out back havin' a smoke,

so she alone.

[pensive music plays]

♪ ♪

[door closes]

[door clicks]

- Who the fuck? - It's me.

What are you doin' sittin' here in the dark, Kanan?

Can I trust you?

You got my back, Krystal?

Of course.

Why wouldn't I?

- I love you. - That don't mean nothin'.

Some of the worst shit that's been done to me

been done by people that say they love me.

I'm not one of those people, Kanan.

What's goin' on, baby?

What happened?

I know who killed Famous.

Who?

My mother.

What you standin' there for?

Didn't know you was awake.

[Joyce grunts]

[gulping, grunting]

[sighs]

Remember that birthday I had,

when you got the whole block to bring they dogs to see me.

You were turnin' five.

Why you do all that?

It was the only way I could get you to

stop askin' me to get you a damn dog

every ten minutes.

That was a good thing you did.

Mm.

Spent the next six months

vacuuming up dog hair in the livin' room.

Marvin and Lou told me what you asked them to do.

How you asked them to end shit.

I wasn't thinkin' straight.

Medicine messes with my head.

You sure about that?

Why?

You gon' do what they won't?

You want me to?

I don't...

want to hurt no more, Raquel.

[poignant music plays]

Where is it?

♪ ♪

You're my only daughter.

♪ ♪

You're my only mother.

♪ ♪

[sighs]

Take care of your brothers.

And take care of your son.

♪ ♪

[Joyce exhales]

[The Staple Singers' "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" playing]

♪ ♪

[singer] ♪ I was standin' ♪

♪ By my window ♪

♪ On a cold and cloudy day ♪

♪ When I saw the hearse ♪

♪ Come a-rollin' ♪

♪ Oh, to carry My mother away ♪

♪ Will the circle ♪

♪ Be unbroken ♪

♪ By and by, Lord ♪

♪ By and by ♪

♪ There's a better Home a-waitin' ♪

♪ In the sky, Lord, in the sky ♪

♪ For I told the undertaker ♪

♪ Undertaker, Please drive slow ♪