Original subtitles

[rhythmic piano music] ♪ ♪

- Everything that I said I would

never do once cocaine entered into my life,

I did that and some.

And it took me from Beverly Hills to behind the trash

dumpsters in Fifth Ward.

So you could consider me, I was a Liberty Road whore,

French Town, Third Ward.

But I spent the majority of my--

my crack career in Fifth Ward on Liberty Road.

-♪ You look so down ♪

♪ And you frown so often ♪

♪ It seems you lost in the same place ♪

♪ All your smiles was tossing ♪

♪ If I could offer you happiness ♪

♪ I would gladly do that ♪

♪ It's just after all of the madness ♪

♪ A smile is hard to crack ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile ♪

♪ My best friend ♪

♪ Nothing less than ♪

♪ But so much more than my ex-best ♪

♪ So the question remains ♪

♪ Are we running the same ♪

♪ I'm so used to hurting for love ♪

♪ That we in love with the pain ♪

♪ There's blood on the page of my notebook ♪

♪ We let the beef slow cook ♪

♪ Pull it together for the pleasure ♪

♪ Then we both pushin' away ♪

♪ You pushing to leave me ♪

♪ Pushing to stay ♪

♪ You pushed me right out the door ♪

♪ Then we push for another day ♪

♪ There's gotta be another way ♪

♪ Come and lay beside me ♪

♪ Guide me down the heavenly body ♪

♪ The ebony and ivory ♪

♪ I be on my knees ♪

♪ So to stand and hand you official things ♪

♪ Is the same as a bended knee ♪

♪ Don't change an official thing ♪

♪ Tender kisses you bring ♪

♪ Lets me know that you miss the king ♪

♪ When I'm gone ♪

♪ When I get home, it's only right ♪

♪ You be queen of my throne ♪

♪ Your love Jones ♪

♪ Make me feel like I'm a child again ♪

♪ Enough with the crying ♪

♪ I want to see you smile again ♪

♪ You look so down and you frown so often ♪

♪ It seems you lost in the same place ♪

♪ All your smiles was tossing ♪

♪ If I could offer you happiness ♪

♪ I would gladly do that ♪

♪ It's just after all of the madness ♪

♪ A smile is hard to crack ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ That's it ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ All I ever wanted to do is make you smile ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile again ♪

♪ All I want to do is see you smile ♪

[knocks]

- Yo, hurry up!

Say, other people got to piss, yo.

Come on, open the door.

- Come on.

[dog barking]

- My auntie looks happy.

- I hate these supervised visits.

- It's Tony's fault. I hate him.

Mama, it is hot.

- Just five more blocks to go.

- Mama!

- There's your little girlfriend.

- Mama.

- Missed you at church, pumpkin.

- Yeah, I had to work.

I'll be there Sunday if you singing.

- All right.

See you then.

- Bye, James.

Ow!

Mama, it hurts!

- Girl, hush.

[hip-hop music]

♪ ♪

- There.

- You making that catfish tonight, right?

You are making it, right?

- You'll see.

- Who's that?

- Looks fine as ever, too.

- So who's that?

- Babe.

I'm going to need you to get the fuck out.

- What?

- Get out!

Fuck out, man.

- What's wrong with you?

- Get the fuck out.

I'll see you at the club tonight.

You better not be late.

Look at all that pretty hair.

Mina.

Come on now.

Mina.

- Who's that?

- Shit, Mina.

- Nobody.

Just keep up.

- Shit.

- That's not necessary.

I'm just trying to help out.

What's up, little man?

- What you want, Blue?

- I'm trying to give you a ride home.

Come on, Mina.

It's hot as hell out here.

You know me!

- It is an honor and a pleasure to receive an award. - Hey.

- Hey.

- Look at your tie.

- You came.

- I'm still your wife.

- I didn't think you wanted to be.

- You know better.

- I can do better.

- Excuse me.

We wanted to inform you that we're

just about ready to begin.

- Thank you.

Hey.

- I'm going to go get me a seat.

- So the last preacher says to the other three,

well, my sin is I can't keep a secret.

And I can't wait to get up out of here.

[laughter]

No, but seriously, listen.

We're here today to recognize an officer

who's worked tirelessly with our kids

through the DARE Initiative.

He's one of Houston's finest.

And his name is Lieutenant Robert Kennedy.

Now, on behalf of the city, I'd like to thank you

for supervising over 10,000 hours

of instructions to our kids.

So, ladies and gentlemen, let's give them a hand.

Step up here, Robert.

Step up here.

[applause]

- First of all, I want to thank Councilman Davis, HISD, and

the entire Houston Police Department

for giving me the opportunity, opportunity to serve my city

as well as my community.

The kids are our future.

And protecting them and their dreams is

what we're all fighting for.

I think it's important to be a worthy servant,

and I try to do that every single day.

So I want to say once again, thank you.

Thank you for the honor and recognizing me.

So thank you very much.

[applause]

Yes, please.

- Reggie Johnson, Action News.

First, congratulations.

Now, what message would you like to give the kids that

are watching this broadcast?

- Well, you know, I grew up not far from here in Fifth Ward.

And I think the best advice I can give

is, don't be afraid to dream.

Don't stick for just settling on surviving.

I think if you-- if you dig down deep

and go for the hard things in life,

you, too, can be very, very successful.

And that's-- that's the motivation

I'd like to give the kids out there today is, keep striving.

Keep striving to be the best, striving for success,

and don't settle for less.

[applause]

- Hello.

Hello, everyone.

Marcy Wiggins, senior legislative assistant.

We will take one more question at the podium,

and then we will retire to the atrium for the reception.

And you can ask more questions there if you'd like.

- Here.

- Margo Howell, Houston Protector.

You had mentioned earlier about protecting our kids.

What did you mean by that?

- I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

- Weren't you the one involved in the case

with Jamal Woods, the mentally handicapped

man who died of dehydration in city jail three years ago?

- I actually stood up for Mr. Woods

and reported the abuse on the leadership

to the proper authorities.

- But you were a part of that same leadership, correct?

- No water for a week?

So what did you do exactly to protect Jamal?

- I think I answered your question.

- Lieutenant Robert Kennedy is a hero.

And I'm glad that we could honor him today.

Thank you guys all for coming.

Refreshments are in the atrium.

[applause]

- That is my--

too tired to see.

Gotta make this place alive and free.

And I would definitely make it my PYC.

And--

[clangs]

No, not a PYC.

Okay, yeah, yeah, I know.

Gangster for real in my life, T. Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I like that.

- Ray Ray, help your brother bring in these groceries.

- Alone at last.

Is that Ray, Jr.?

Man, he looks just like his daddy.

- What you want, Blue?

- I'm just trying to help.

And Ray was my man.

Remember, we did have a band together.

- Nigga, please.

We had a band together.

You was just the--

- Band manager.

- Roadie.

Thief.

Drug dealer.

- Oh.

- Manager.

Really?

That's what they call pimps these days?

- Didn't I book us at the Zydeco Fest

for three years in a row, huh?

- And stole half the money.

- Wow.

Why are you so mean to me?

- Should I be anything else?

- Look, I heard Tony was going to be on lock for a minute.

So I just wanted to see if you need any bread.

- Hey, Mom, are you good?

- Yeah, baby.

Just give me one second.

- Look here.

If you need some work, I own and manage

a couple of nightspots around town that might

be in need of a lead singer.

- Blue, whatever you're selling,

I don't want no part of it.

- Just like that?

That's how you're going to play it?

Still got it.

Damn, she fine.

- Ray Ray?

I need you to go to the corner store

and get a small bag of cornmeal.

- I was going to go to Bam's.

- You can fool around with your friends

after you finish your homework.

Take your little brother with you.

- Mama.

Come on, James.

- Wait!

I don't-- I don't see why you're so pissed.

We fixed it.

- I fixed it, Marcy.

I'm up for reelection.

A simple request, all right?

A photo op of me pinning a medal

on a Black man in uniform.

Boom.

And that gets fucked up.

- We're ahead in the polls.

- By five points.

- Lavelle chose him.

- And you chose Lavelle.

He works for you.

I should have went with the fucking fireman.

- Lavelle's sneaky.

He's trying to destroy me.

- This is not an episode of "Scandal," Marcy.

Grow the fuck up.

- Where are you going?

- I have a meeting with the mayor, remember?

- Let me grab my things. - I'm already late.

Please.

- Just wait for five seconds.

Will you please just wait?

Give me five seconds.

Five.

- Five.

- I'm sorry.

Baby, I'm sorry.

Don't be mad at me.

- Grr.

- You still coming by tonight?

- I can't.

I got plans.

- Love you.

- James, hurry up, man. Close the door.

[music playing]

♪ ♪

- Give me your money, fool.

- Nigga, stop playin'.

- Hey, what's wrong with you?

- Nothing.

- Hey, you finish that song?

- Yeah, almost.

- "Stressing" is up to 10,000 plays on SoundCloud.

My cousin said he might be able to get that on Worldstar

if he keeps up.

But we got to go hard on this next track.

- All we gotta do is get some real recording

time in a real studio.

- Yeah, well, that's real money that we don't got.

But if we just keep pushing, bro, I feel like, I don't know,

we could just make that happen.

Bro, I see it all.

I'm talking lights, all of that.

Big stages, bro.

- Yeah.

- That shit going to be crazy.

- Shit.

- Hey.

Yeah, we should go see what's there.

That's that nigga Seth, right?

Look at this man's whip, bro.

That's that kind of money that I'm trying to get, man.

- I ain't trying to go over there with them niggas.

Fool, Seth is papered up, bro.

- Look, it ain't going to hurt to go

over there and see what's up.

Come on.

Seth.

- What's good?

- Out here representing Crane Street.

You know how that go.

- All right, all right.

- Who's this right here, man.

- That's my boy Ray Ray.

He sang on that track you like.

- Yeah, yeah.

That shit was jamming, man.

I'm on my way to the studio right now.

- For real? - Yeah, right now.

- And we can go right now? - We can roll.

What's up?

- Already?

Appreciate you, fam.

- I'm going to hook that up right now.

- Yo, come on, come on.

Hey, bro.

We finna do this.

- I can't.

- What?

- I promised my mama I was going

to walk James to the store.

- Ray, I think the little nigga could walk the last

half a block by himself.

Come on.

- Man, you know what these fools is into.

- I don't give a fuck, my nig.

This music shit is all I got, and

this could be our big break.

- I don't know, dawg.

- Ray, you gotta trust somebody sometimes,

bro, or you're always going to have nothing.

Just saying.

- Yo, what's up, man?

Y'all rolling or what?

[music playing]

♪ ♪

- Don't look at me like that.

I can have a drink.

I'm a grown-ass man.

- Bob.

- Kendrick, my man.

- What's going on?

- Glad you could make it.

- How's LaDonna? - I don't know.

Ask Loretta.

- They see each other more than we do.

- Right?

- So what's going on?

You up here reliving your old glory days?

- Hardly.

Fat Boy.

They all laughed when this old quarterback

dipped his toe into politics, though, didn't they?

- Yeah.

But you're the man now.

No one's laughing.

- No, no one's laughing-- unless I tell them to.

- [laughs]

- Hey, you want a drink? - No thank you.

I'm good. - Really?

- No, no. I'm good.

Yeah, I got a meeting later.

- All right.

Hey, you ever-- you ever think about your legacy, Kendrick?

- I think about a lot of things, Bob.

- Yeah?

Like getting reelected?

- [laughs]

- Yeah.

Sure. - Have a seat.

Let's talk.

- So, what's going on?

- Well, that meeting with the NFL commissioner

that I had went better than can be expected.

Looks like we got a real chance to bring an NFL franchise

right back here to Houston.

And that is big, huge for the redevelopment of downtown.

It means jobs.

- And gentrification means a whole lot

of white people moving into Fifth Ward,

displacing all the Black folks that have

lived there their whole lives.

Bob, we've done this before.

- No, no, no, Councilman.

No, that's not true.

I've gone over all the HUD development reports personally.

Me and the DSI team, we've looked--

- Yeah, yeah, right.

Bob, come on.

I don't give a damn what those reports say.

- Hmm.

May I remind you, Kendrick, that your family's bank

controls one third of all the lots and

properties in the Fifth Ward?

That's a lot of money, friend.

Are you willing to walk away from all that?

- [chuckles] Bob, now, you know it's unethical,

illegal for me to use my position as an elected

official for financial gain.

- [laughs]

I got you that community center.

I did that.

Appointments-- I got those.

Campaign contributions-- that was me.

You need me.

You owe me.

- Bob, the Fifth Ward is not for sale.

And neither am I.

- Kendrick.

Nice press conference.

- [chuckles] I learned from the best.

- You better go back to class.

Son of a bitch.

[music playing]

♪ ♪

- There go your boyfriends.

- Y'all go ahead.

I'm going to catch up.

[music playing]

♪ ♪

- Where are they going?

- Making cool cups.

- Yeah.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

It is hot outside.

Your hair's pretty.

- You know what?

I think I want an orange juice instead of a cool cup.

Wait.

You got that money you owe me?

- I got you.

- Come on, let's go.

- You think I'm pretty?

- Hell yeah!

- [screams]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[gunshots]

- [non-English speech]

- Crazy bitch! You could have shot us!

- We're going to sue your asses!

We're going to sue!

[mournful music]

♪ ♪

[intense music]

[intense music] - Okay. - I like that.

- Kill it, man.

♪ Nothing is what it seems ♪

♪ Trying to chase the dream ♪

♪ Broken by what I've seen ♪

♪ Someone have mercy ♪

♪ I know what this means ♪

♪ I've been trying to stand up tall ♪

♪ My back up against the wall ♪

♪ Nowhere to run or to hide ♪

♪ Please, please catch me before I-- ♪

♪ Before I fall ♪

♪ Before I'm caught up in the streets ♪

♪ And you get that call ♪

♪ Before the sound of the police ♪

♪ Come and get that boy ♪

♪ Yellow tape up in the scene ♪

♪ Can't forget that noise ♪

♪ Before I fall ♪

♪ Before I'm just another number ♪

♪ Locked behind them bars ♪

♪ See the man up in the mirror ♪

♪ I don't know at all ♪

♪ Just another lost soul ♪

♪ Trapped up in my ward. ♪

- This little nigga got some flow.

- I told you, Seth.

All we needed was a real studio.

- Yeah, my boy from Capitol Records,

A&R, he going to be here at the end of the month.

We're going to see what he say.

- Yes, sir.

I'm going to run it back.

- --them kind of biscuits.

- [laughs]

- Thank you.

- I'm not silly.

- Can we get through one dinner without your little mistress

texting you every 15 minutes?

- Okay, stop, stop. She's an employee.

Come on now.

Okay, you know what?

Off, off, off.

Bam!

See?

Now I'm just a normal, loving husband having dinner

with his beautiful wife.

- Who knows where all the bodies are buried?

- I love it when you talk dirty.

- You are so full of shit, Kendrick.

You're just full of shit.

- You got it? - I do.

- All right. - Here we are.

- What am I looking at?

- Well, we had six foreclosures and 12 new residential loans.

- What's the mortgage company?

- Page 2.

- Okay.

- Oh, and one commercial loan.

Yeah, right here.

Dat and Huong and their two daughters,

they want to open up a store.

- Now, you see--

you see, if given a chance and banks lend,

then businesses will come back to the Fifth Ward.

- We are the only bank crazy enough to land in a red-line

residential zone.

- Why are we always arguing?

Anyway--

- Anyway--

- A profitable end--

- Yes.

- Week end, I should say, to a profitable quarter.

- Ditto.

That's good.

- This is real good.

Tonight, it's going down.

- Is it?

- And we're going to sweat all that out.

You're going back to Africa.

- Sorry to interrupt.

[whispering]

- Ah, shit.

- If you leave this table, I won't

be here when you get back.

- One second.

Just give me a second, okay?

Councilman Davis.

Marcia-- Marcia, I thought I told you.

What?

When?

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Hey, Mama.

- Why have you not been picking up your phone?

Where are you?

- At the studio with Bam.

- Where's James?

- He's not with you?

- No!

He's not home with me.

- Okay, Mama.

- Oh, my God.

Jesus!

Ray Ray, bring your ass home now.

Right now!

- Yo, you good?

[tense music]

- Damn.

♪ ♪

- Hey, yo, I gotta go.

My little brother never made it home.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

♪ - I finally got him asleep.

- He going to be all right.

He going to be all right.

Okay?

- We do everything we can to keep him safe.

- I know.

- Poor Pumpkin.

I mean, I can't even imagine what

she's going through right now.

- Is y'all close?

- Not really, but I feel like I should do something.

- Hey, Mina, listen to me.

Don't nothing good happen in Fifth Ward.

It's always bad.

Everything out here is bad.

- But there's beauty here, too, if you choose to see it.

- All right.

I got that.

Listen, I think you need to take these boys

and get up out of here before it's too late.

I'll help you get out of here. You just tell me--

- Sad.

So sad.

- What?

- Brothers get all educated and get

a chance to get out of here.

- Wow.

- You know, they grab it with two hands and hold on tight.

And I get that.

I get you trying to forget your old life here.

But when the best of us get out,

it leaves a hole in our community.

- The community got to take responsibility, man.

- Fifth Ward needs you.

- Fifth Ward killed my brother!

- And he was my husband!

- So where are we at?

- But I still have hope.

That's why we never moved--

hope.

- [chuckles] Hey, look.

You and these boys need any money?

- We're fine.

- Mom. Mom.

Is James okay?

Uncle Robert, hey, is--

Is James okay? - James is fine.

He's going to be all right.

Hey, look at me.

You gotta take care of your mom and your brother.

You hear me?

You hear me?

- Yes, sir.

- Hey, look.

Next week, I'll come by here, and I'll check

on Jamie, if that's all right.

- That's fine.

- All right.

- Mama, I'm sorry.

I just-- I screwed up.

- We'll talk about it in the morning.

- [groaning]

- Damn!

- So, what you really want to do about this?

You want me to put my people on it?

- Who is that?

- Marcie again.

You're not taking it?

- No, I'm not.

She is becoming a pain.

- It's been nearly a week since police finished their initial

investigation into the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Latasha

Washington at this corner market at the hands of Nasreen

Kapur, a Pakistani immigrant.

And yet the store remains closed, not

because of the police investigation,

but out of fear of retaliation from neighborhood residents.

Store owner Sunil Kapur showed our cameras

the acts of vandalism against his store.

There was even a failed firebombing attempt.

So all of the damage occurred since the shooting?

- We love the people of the neighborhood.

We love America.

But we've been robbed six times in three years.

The shooting was a terrible accident, but me and my wife

were trying to run a good business.

But it looks like we'll have to close.

- Tensions are high, as there have been no charges

brought against Mrs. Kapur.

And Latasha Washington's funeral is now just days away.

But surprisingly, reactions in the neighborhood

are mixed to the Kapur store closing.

- Man, them minions ain't do nothing wrong to me.

Now I got to walk nine blocks all the way down

Miles Avenue to get my cigarettes.

People need to let them open the store back up!

- Where are our leaders?

The mayor, Councilman Davis?

I tell you the truth--

it's time for a change.

- Now, of course, Reverend Parker

is in a tight runoff race against

Councilman Kendrick Davis for City Council District B seat.

We reached out to Councilman Davis's office,

but they had no comment, stating

this is an ongoing police investigation.

The election vote is in two weeks.

Allyson Lathan, Action News.

- This is a disaster.

- Everybody, back to work.

- We should do a press release.

- We shouldn't panic.

- Well, my ears and the mayor's office

informed me that Reverend Parker

is meeting with Coletti to secure

his endorsement as councilman.

- Really?

And just when did your ear inform you of this, Marcie?

Because now, it looks like we're hiding.

- [chuckles] Matthew, Chapter 18, Verse 9.

My father was a preacher, remember?

Give me that number on that Kapur guy.

And Marcie, find out when's the funeral.

This dog has a few tricks left in him yet.

- And God understands how you feel. You think that there's something that you have to do.

He sits high, but he looks low.

So what I stopped by to let you know today

is God understands exactly how you feel.

But baby, you don't have to worry how God's going to do it.

You don't have to worry about when.

You don't have to worry about where, why.

Come on, church!

Why?

Because God is on the throne.

Amen?

[applause]

Amen.

Now we're going to have a selection by our choir.

["his eye is on the sparrow"]

♪ ♪

♪ Why should I feel discouraged ♪

♪ And why must the shadows come ♪

♪ Tell me, why should my heart feel lonely ♪

♪ And long for heaven and home ♪

♪ When Jesus is-- is my portion ♪

♪ A constant friend is He ♪

♪ His eye is on-- ♪

♪ on the sparrow ♪

♪ And I know he watches me ♪

♪ I sing because I'm happy ♪

♪ I sing because-- 'cause I'm free ♪

♪ I know His eye is on the sparrow ♪

♪ And I know he watches over-- ♪

♪ Yes, he watches me, yeah ♪

[applause]

- Come on, church!

Come on, church!

Say glory!

- Glory!

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He watches on the sparrow.

He watches you too.

- Yo, what up, my nig?

- Hey, chill, chill, chill, chill.

Hey, chill out, chill out.

Where'd you get the whip?

- Hey, Seth got us laced up, bro.

- Swag.

- Oh, and I just heard from the mans at Capitol Records too.

- Swag!

- Yeah, but we got to go now, so hop in.

Come on.

Hop in.

- I don't know, man.

Mom punish me.

- What are you, crazy?

- All right, come on.

- You be tripping, bro.

I'm telling you.

Let's go.

Man.

Yo, man, this joint is going to be crazy, cuz.

- Where'd your brother go?

Come on in the house.

- Good afternoon. Here you go.

- Thank you.

What now?

[sighs]

- I'll have the bullet points up

later for you in about a half an hour, about 30 minutes?

- Excellent.

I'd like to have those revisions before I head down

to City Hall this afternoon.

- Yes, sir.

- Hey, Marguerite.

- Hello there, Councilman Davis.

- How you doing?

- I'm fine.

- Benny.

- Kendrick.

- I was about to fix myself another drink.

Can I pour you one?

- No.

- Are you sure?

Benny, where are you keeping the good stuff?

Marguerite, I remember this boy here,

he used to have the good stuff, for sure.

You sure you don't want one?

- Will you excuse us for a minute, please?

- Yes, sir.

- Good to see you, Marguerite.

- You too, Councilman.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- Using a baby's death for politics?

Come on.

- How did you get in here?

- Well, this is my daddy's church.

- What do you want?

- Nothing from you.

How about you?

What do you want?

- To watch you burn.

- Revenge.

- That was my niece.

And you manipulated her.

You used her.

Internship?

- Come on.

She knows what's going on.

- That's beside the point.

But nevertheless, I'm about to cut a deal with the mayor,

and then that's your ass.

- Are you sure about that?

[phone ringing]

You should probably get that.

- Yes, Marguerite.

- The mayor's office.

They need to reschedule.

- Well, one of us has a meeting at City Hall today.

If you'll excuse me, I have a press conference to attend.

What do you do with the money?

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- This shit don't even work, bro. - I told you about buying them cheap-ass lighters, man.

- Whatever, nigga.

Hey, regardless, I love this shit.

Yo, when we get signed, I'm going to buy, like,

three of these motherfuckers.

What you going to do with your money?

- Shit.

Get my mama out the hood.

- Much respect.

- She does a lot for us, you know.

I'm going to get her something that's hers, something nice.

What?

- The cops.

Don't look, nigga. Put the weed up.

Put the weed up.

- Shit!

Fuck!

- I stole this truck.

- Nigga, what the fuck?

Ah, we're fucked!

Ah, we're fucked!

[sirens fading]

- Shit!

Woo!

- Hey, man, get me off this raggedy motherfucker, man.

- Chill, bro.

- Now, nigga! Now!

- Look, look, look. We're here.

We're here.

Fuck!

Tripping.

- Shit ain't funny, dude.

♪ Nigger snow started that ♪

♪ Nigger snow put their motherfucking ♪

♪ blood sweat and tears ♪

♪ Hard years, hard-- ♪

- Ain't this Seth's chop shop?

♪ Time to get emotional ♪

♪ But that's what I'm supposed to do ♪

♪ I'll be-- ♪

- Nigga!

- Okay, okay, okay.

- I'm serious.

- No, look, look--

behind that gate is everything we've been working

for since the eighth grade.

And this is the closest we've ever been.

Think about it.

You've seen that studio.

Concerts, money, a real record deal--

didn't you just say you wanted to buy

a new house for your mama?

Huh?

Huh?

So you down?

Ray Ray, are you down?

Ray?

My nigga.

Come on, bro!

Yeah, this is what we gotta do-- road to success.

- All right.

- Yo, we outside.

Yeah.

All right.

We're in the game.

- Good first week.

- Oh, yeah.

Better than expected.

Jazmine.

Jazmine, come eat.

[non-English speech]

She's been so moody since the move.

- Just give her time.

- Go get your sister.

- Yeah.

- It's so stupid, transferring my junior year from Katy High.

So what-- so I can graduate valedictorian

at another school?

Yeah, but who's to say Wheatley High

doesn't have smart kids too?

- Mom said come eat.

- Yeah, I gotta go.

Bye.

- Okay, everyone, gather around.

- Dad, no pictures.

- Jazmine!

- Here's to our family.

Everyone smile.

[camera shutter clicks]

[police radio chatter]

- Well, this is nice and all, but it looks like you're

going to need a bigger office.

- [laughs]

- Greg!

- Sones.

- Oh, man, I remember.

How you doing?

- You remember me from the old academy?

- Man, that and some, man.

I've been watching you, man.

I mean, that gang task force you've

been doing for the last few years,

that's pretty impressive, bro.

All right?

I even used some of your data for my DARE program data.

I've been using it.

- Wow.

Glad I could be of service.

So congratulations.

This is a pretty big deal.

- Thank you, man.

Thank you.

A lot of unhappy campers in there?

- Well, you know, everybody had their favorites for the job.

Who am I kidding?

I wanted that job.

- [laughs]

- But you're a good cop, man.

- Thank you, man.

- It look a lot of guts to report what was going

on down at the city jail.

- Yeah, appreciate it.

- That's the kind of man I want to work for.

So anything you need--

- I'll tell you what I need.

Get some help with these boxes?

- You got it.

- Cool? All right, baby.

First day. Let's get it.

- All on you.

♪ Let's get this party started. ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

- There's a lot of money on the line.

What makes you think he won't betray our deal?

- Now, friend, he has no idea what's coming.

None.

- I stole a Bible.

Because I read scriptures every day out of that Bible.

Every day.

And I believe it was then that he carried me.

I would read those scriptures,

and I would truly believe that if Jesus

had a friend named Mary Magdalene,

she was a prostitute, then he still loved me.

So I felt that there was always hope for me.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- Okay.

Yes.

Mina Kennedy?

Mina Kennedy?

Mrs. Jackson will see you now.

- Stay here.

- We need to have a very serious conversation.

- Oh, if this is about James, he's totally fine.

Now everything's back to normal.

- Mrs. Kennedy, this is about your last urine sample.

- I haven't been drinking.

I haven't touched any drugs.

I haven't been smoking.

I haven't even been out for anyone

to slip anything in my drink.

- Mina, you are pregnant.

[music playing] ♪ And I don't know why ♪ I love you this way ♪

♪ And I don't know why ♪

♪ I can't stay away ♪

♪ Love is something I cannot describe ♪

♪ Like the look of a rose ♪

♪ The sight of your eyes ♪

♪ The smell of the rain ♪

♪ Or the feeling of forever ♪

♪ You make the days seem shorter ♪

♪ But time passes better ♪

♪ Your love gives me shelter through the stormy weather ♪

♪ I need you now ♪

♪ And I don't know why ♪

♪ Girl, I can't explain ♪

♪ How I feel inside ♪

♪ It's like something takes over me ♪

♪ When I speak your name ♪

♪ Even when you're away from me ♪

♪ No, I can't explain ♪

♪ But it feels like I'm getting high ♪

♪ Getting high, your love ♪

♪ Your love, I don't know why ♪

♪ But it feels like I'm getting high ♪

♪ Getting high off your love ♪