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-I manage Kold & Windy. We want to do a song.

-♪ We gone set the tone -Previously on

"Kold X Windy"... -We need to shoot a video

with him ASAP.

Take full advantage of Stony Island's popularity

while he's still hot.

-What you know about GeGe owing

140 stacks in taxes on the house?

-GeGe ain't going nowhere.

-Was you happy to see your boo at the lounge the other night?

-I'm fighting a gun charge.

That's how I lost my son to the system.

-Your mama's working really hard

to get you back home with her, okay?

-No.

-Junior was all I had, fellas.

And the streets took him from me.

[Round chambers]

The streets owe me something now.

-I need something that's gonna connect Windy

to the shooting of the Payne girl.

-No, no, no!

-Nae! [Thud]

I think she OD'ing!

-Remember, everything you do is gonna come right back to you.

Shelly Winter -- pow!

♪♪

-Most people gain respect when they work hard at something

and get good results.

You ready?

[Magazine clicks, round chambers]

Some people get respect based on who they are.

You ready?

[Magazine clicks]

While others get respect

because of their friends and associates.

Let's get it.

♪♪

Some don't deserve respect.

The ones that do,

be ready to die for it.

-BoxWorld, bitch! Grab this bitch!

Y'all know what it is. -Give me the bag right now.

-Yo, let's get that. -Empty them pockets!

And give me that. -BoxWorld, bitch.

-Goofy.

♪♪

♪ Everybody dying, bitch

♪ Everybody gone -♪ Yuh

-♪ We ain't solving nothing, bitch ♪

♪ Tullie to the dome -♪ Okay

-♪ If you scared to die, hoe, leave yo' ass at home ♪

♪ Kold & Windy, Stony Island, we gone set the tone ♪

-♪ Hey -♪ Murder this land

♪ It's merched, I'm locked, I die 'bout it ♪

♪ I jus' want my people out them trenches, I can't lie about it ♪

♪ Jus' -- [Laughter]

-What?! Y'all actin' like y'all ain't never shot

no video before!

Every shot costs money, and I'm sure Stony got better things

that he could be doing.

-You tweakin' 'cause we laughed a couple times?

[Both laugh] This bitch is crazy.

-Look, y'all not supposed to be high or drunk.

This is irritating!

It's like I'm babysitting a bunch of little kids!

[Laughter] -We're not --

We're not little kids, though, like...

-You won't escape the hood

if you don't act professional when it's time to work.

-Well, since you the HBIC, Temper,

what do you want us to do?

-Get through these last takes with no antics.

And then you can giggle all you want.

-Our music paid for Stony and this music video,

so we can giggle whenever the hell we want to.

-Periodt. -On Box.

-Because once people lose respect for you,

it's almost impossible to get it back.

♪♪

-♪ Kold 'n Windy world erday live like suicide ♪

♪ And u betta get how u living, boa, it's do or die ♪

♪ Bet not do no lackin', homie, that mite be yo' homicide ♪

♪ Streets ain't neva love nobody specially when u from the Chi ♪

-I don't think we're from around here.

-♪ Aye, we shoot, we don't miss, foenem smoked u, now u lit ♪

♪ We was born into this lane

♪ And it's to death we never quit ♪

♪ We be slidin' around this city checkin' opps up off the list ♪

♪ And it's merch we never losin' we gone score off erry hit ♪

♪ And them blicks be runnin' laps ♪

♪ Get big motion, never sit

♪ Been outside since we were shortys ♪

♪ OG never took a hit

♪ No new insiders allowed, it's survival of the fit ♪

♪ Ain't no nan no other place

♪ In the whole world as real as this ♪

-Where is this? -♪ Hey, we get down outside

♪ It ain't no pump back in this lane, shorty ♪

♪ We could take your life just like your maker ♪

♪ Ain't no game, shorty, backed up 247 ♪

♪ Ain't no lackin', keep yo' eyes, shorty ♪

♪ When we on you, ain't no way that you can ever hide from me ♪

-♪ Kold 'n Windy world erday live like suicide ♪

♪ And u betta get how u living, boa, it's do or die ♪

♪ Bet not do no lackin', homie, that mite be yo' homicide ♪

♪ Streets ain't neva love nobody specially when u from the Chi ♪

♪♪

[Police radio chatter]

♪♪

[Camera shutter clicks]

♪♪

-[Sighs] Look like it's about to be an all-out war

between BoxWorld and J-City.

-BoxWorld did this? -Who knows.

But I bet you somebody's gon' to put the body on them.

They was beefin' with the music.

Now it done spread to the streets.

-I know you want to get ahead of this.

So we need to canvass the area as quickly as possible.

-Yes, ma'am.

♪♪

[Camera shutter clicking]

-Aw, hell, naw! Somebody's gotta pay for this!

-What's wrong now, Nae? -What's wrong?

Nothing, besides the fact that somebody recorded

Temper's spazz on us and posted it.

-This is irritating!

It's like I'm babysitting a bunch of little kids!

[Laughter]

-They bogus for that. How they gon' stop the video

before we even snapped back?

-We look so weak, bro!

Merch, she did this.

-I don't think so. From the angle of the video

it looked like one of them extras did it.

-I'm gon' smoke they ass then.

-They're not the problem, Nae. Temper is.

Didn't I tell you she texted me

saying she want 20% instead of 10%?

-Girl, what? Twenty perc--

Make it make sense. What make her think she deserve a raise?

-She think we're in a better position

to do this independent thing,

since we did this song with Stony.

-Who said we stayin' independent?

We always said we signin' with a label.

-And we is. Temper ain't runnin' nothin' but her mouth.

-[Sighs] I can't stand this ho. Eh.

-I ain't stuntin' her. She'll be a'ight.

[Camera shutter clicks]

♪♪

-Oh! [Laughs]

Hey, baby. -Hey.

-I didn't even hear you come in. -Duh.

That's what I was trying to do.

-Oh, don't forget my college roommate, Rebecca,

is coming over for dinner tomorrow.

-Oh, yeah. I did forgot.

I probably can't make it.

-[Sighs]

Whenever it comes to my friends, you can't make it.

But when it's about your music or your friends, anything goes.

-Here you go. -No. Here you go.

I support everything you do.

-[Sighs] -You don't want me around

with your music because you think it'll hurt your image.

That hurts my feelings,

but I stick around anyway.

-I'm sorry, baby.

I am.

Look, I'll try to reschedule my meeting. Okay?

Okay?

-[Chuckles] Okay. -Come on.

-I don't know if I told you this,

but she's the president of my "We Count Too" chapter.

So it would be great if you could cook.

-Cook?

You already got me schmoozin' with the pseudo Dr. Umar.

Like, I don't feel like cooking.

-Please, baby. -[Sighs]

You know you cook better than me.

-I spoil you way too much. -Mm-hmm.

-Come here. [Both chuckle]

♪♪

-I can't believe somebody killed El Train.

-Yeah, shorty kept it on 'em.

I can't believe he got caught loafing out here.

-I'm ready to go smoke somebody. You wit' it?

-We definitely speaking the same language.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

-You in trouble with your taxes, GeGe?

-Uh, no.

No, I just need to get on a payment plan.

Oh, I left that bill out, huh?

-Yeah.

I got a little nervous when I saw that red letter.

If you need some cash, I can help you.

-Now, when have you ever known GeGe

to have a money problem, huh?

Hell, I'll just wait and pay their ass last.

[Laughing] That's all.

-Yo, Ge, we got a hit on our hands.

-What? Okay. -Yeah.

-I can't wait to hear it.

Now tell me -- what's the difference

between this song and the other songs y'all made?

-Well, for one,

we got the hottest rapper in Chicago on it.

-Wait. Y'all not the hottest?

-I mean, we hot, but not like him.

He got songs with the biggest artists out.

When this video drop, we goin' up till it's stuck!

-Oh, well, well, well, hold up, hold up. Unh-unh.

So that means y'all done did another video

and didn't put GeGe in it? -Oh, my God.

-Where the love at, huh? I don't feel it. Where the love?

-GeGe, you know we got love for you.

But you ain't wanna be on this shoot.

It was thugs, killers, drugs. -Mnh-mnh.

-Who the hell you think be up in here with me every night?

GeGe ain't never scared.

GeGe ain't never scared! -Okay.

GeGe, we know you never scared.

We got you on the next one. But to be honest,

I really didn't like the guy we did the song with.

-You stay acting like Stony done did something to you.

-I wish he would. That would make my day!

[Chuckles] -All y'all ever talk about

is work, work, work. You know that?

I can't wait till y'all get my age,

and you gon' find out all this stuff you're chasing

is overrated.

And look here -- you ain't got to like your co-workers.

All you got to do is work with them.

-Mnh-mnh. I ain't doin' another song with him,

so I'm cool, on Box.

♪♪

-It's always some good light up in here, GeGe.

-Get it, boo. -Okay.

-Don't you get tired of showing yo' ass on social media?

-Like you don't be showing yo' ass,

arguing with Shelly online all the time.

You full of hate today. First Stony, now me.

-Now, Renee',

you remember that time when y'all was about 10 years old.

You came home running from the park, crying,

"This boy talkin' about me. He called me ugly."

Remember that? -Not really.

-Oh, I do, 'cause he liked Lika.

And Lika wasn't paying him no attention.

You didn't even notice the boy.

But you had a crush on him

and was mad 'cause he was all in her face.

-Mm-hmm. -Okay.

What's the point of this story, GeGe?

-I'm getting to it.

Y'all came home, and y'all made a plan

to make that boy look like a fool at the park the next day.

And when y'all got home,

y'all was laughing and giggling and all together.

You know what I'm sayin'? -Okay. And?

-And the girl can't help how she look

or how people see her.

But what y'all can control is how you treat each other.

-Plus, these selfies get us more views

when guys watch our videos.

-Mm. And I'm proud of you

for not letting that Pop Off situation go any further.

'Cause some women don't respect themselves enough

to stop a man from hitting them before it's too damn late.

-Mm.

♪♪

You see this right here, Ge?

If Pop was on fire, right here and right now,

I'd drink it as fast as I could.

-[Laughs] -Let him burn, baby!

-Let him burn. -On Box!

-On Box! -'Cause you know that's

what I taught you yet again. -[Chuckles]

-'Cause we don't play that. I don't think so, buddy.

♪♪

I'm about to open the store now.

Y'all hurry up.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[Cellphone vibrates]

[Glass thuds]

♪♪

-♪ Ah

Stony Island in this bitch. Murderland.

-Also, don't forget about this little area over here.

-♪ Shorty thick, strip sum'n

♪ Bitch, bring a friend, I'm off a 10 ♪

♪ I'm tryin' to kill sum'n

-Punk-ass... -Look at this guy.

[Scoffs]

-Y'all looking at us like we opps.

We here to solve a murder of somebody you probably know,

and instead of you helping, y'all mean-muggin' us?

Fellas, I grew up a couple of blocks from here,

so I probably hooped with your daddies and your uncles.

I genuinely care.

Ask your people about Grover Caine.

So please, put some respect on my name.

-♪ Yeah, it's time to drill sum'n ♪

♪♪

-[Sighs]

Have to admit,

when that kid gave us that dirty look,

it stung a little bit.

-I felt it, too.

-I wish they understood that all cops are not bad.

I know there are quite a few who are.

They need to learn the difference.

-Yeah.

It's tough when all you encounter are bad apples, so...

We have to be the difference.

-We damn sure better be.

♪♪

-I thought you were going to get me out by now.

-I know you're mad at me, Khiry,

but I can't just let you run away

and stay here with me.

They'll never release you back into my custody.

-I guess.

-Me and your Te-Te just did a new song

that's probably gonna get us closer to the top.

-So we gonna be rich? -[Laughs]

Yep. We're gonna be rich,

and then mommy can buy you whatever you want.

-Whatever I want? -Mm-hmm.

What's the first thing you want me to get you?

-Hmm.

I want a million Doe Bucks for the game I play on my phone.

Then I can buy all the drip and cars and clout they got.

I'll beat everybody then!

-[Chuckles] Okay.

That sound like fun.

-They just called me to eat lunch.

-Okay.

I'll talk to you later, baby.

I love you. -I love you too, Ma.

-♪ Yeah, I did it jus' like I done said we gone do it ♪

♪ We choke on gas, hoe

♪ I just turned yo' daddy into yo' junior ♪

♪ Cuh you gone die before

♪ My AK gone have u gettin that limbo, u gone get down low ♪

-♪ Stop ackin' like you never seen my M16 ♪

-Yo, this song -- this song

is gonna put us where we need to be.

-Mm-hmm. Hell, yeah.

It ain't got nothin' to do with Stony ass.

Yo' beat so raw, it can't do nothing but be a hit.

[Both laugh]

-Speaking of hits, when we gon' bust another stain?

'Cause my pockets sitting on E.

-You ain't never lied.

I'm popped, too.

Yo.

We should hit Stony ass.

♪♪

-You know what?

He's never got less than $50,000 in jewelry on.

-Plus, whatever he got in them pockets.

Temper acting like that's the reason why we blowing up.

Yo, after we lay his ass down,

he ain't gon' have no more clout!

-[Chuckles] At all!

[Both laugh]

Yo, let's listen to it again.

Yeah!

-Kold and Windy, bitch.

-We back, but we really never left.

-Heh!

♪♪

[Keys clacking]

-You sure you still want to go out to eat?

You seem stressed or something.

-Yeah, no, I still want to go.

I'm just having a rough day, though.

-What happened?

-This rehab I'm working on.

It's not important, baby.

-It's got to be, if it's on your mind like that.

[Cellphone thuds]

-It's just the price of lumber is super crazy right now

and I've got to finish this project.

-That's the one you said you needed to build

a new back porch for?

-Yeah.

So I based the estimates on the prices three months ago.

Now my cards are basically maxed out.

-What kind of wood do you need

and how much of it?

I don't know nothin' about construction.

-I'll show you.

[Keys clacking]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

-[Laughing] I'm killin' it!

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

No.

♪♪

[Laughing] Whoa.

♪♪

♪♪

Ooh!

Wow.

♪♪

♪ Everybody dying, bitch, everybody gone ♪

♪ We ain't solvin' nothing, bitch, Tullie to the dome ♪

♪ If you scared to die, hoe, leave yo' ass at home ♪

♪ Kold & Windy, Stony Island, we gone set the tone ♪

-♪ Murder this land

♪ It's merched, I'm locked, I die about it ♪

♪ I just want my people out them trenches ♪

♪ I can't lie about it

♪ Just give me a 30, some top from a red bone baddie ♪

♪ I'm comin' up off this music ♪

♪ I'm richer, the opps can stand it ♪

♪ They won't trick me out my spot ♪

♪ I'm coming to get my Grammy

-It was so raw hearing y'all on the radio.

Y'all really blowing up.

-I know.

This low key feel crazy.

-Hey, how you even get fo'nem on a song with y'all, anyway?

-Temper.

She reached out to him and made it happen.

-She like manager of the year for that.

-Nah.

She tweaked on us during that video shoot.

Somebody recorded it.

She got us out here looking goofy.

-What you mean, she tweaked? Tweaked for what?

-Me and Renee' was high, and we messed up a couple times.

-And somebody recorded it?

Let me show you.

Damn!

Look at all these views!

-It's like I'm babysitting a bunch of little kids!

-Oh. Oh, nah.

That's unprofessional.

She shoulda took y'all to the side to do that.

At least she got you that song with Stony.

-Yeah.

But me and Renee' had to pay for him out pockets.

-See, that's what I'm talkin' about, Lika.

You need to learn how to monetize your music more.

These stains ain't gon' last forever.

-[Chuckles]

I know you're right about that.

I wish I could just hit one big stain for like a million dollars

and then I could just quit

and focus on nothing except Khiry and music.

-Then that's what you need to do.

It might not be for a milli,

but a little something to make you comfortable.

I'd hate for a stain to be the reason

why you don't get Khiry back.

-I've never had a man actually

try to help me figure out what to do.

I'm always the one trying to help them make it happen.

-You ain't gon' be thinkin' about me

when your music blow up.

You'll be on tour.

Havin' me missin' yo' li'l ass.

-Boy, that's so far away. [Chuckles]

What you gon' miss about me, though?

-What I'm gon' miss about you?

Everything, girl.

That smile, those eyes, dat ass.

-Wanna show me what you're gonna miss about me?

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Wait till you get to that honeypot.

I heard it's real sweet.

-Oh, I remember.

♪♪

-[Gasps] -You think I forgot?

-[Breathing heavily]

♪♪

♪♪

[Cellphone vibrating]

-[Chuckles]

Hey, Marlon.

-Hey, baby.

Do you know anything about this lumber that got delivered today?

-Yeah. I got up after you fell asleep last night.

I was already hitting a lick

for some liquor at this wholesale store.

So I figured I might as well order you the lumber.

-I don't like that.

Number one, I don't want nothing illegal tied to my business.

And number two, I'm a man.

I-I can do it myself.

-Well, excuse me, Mr. Man.

I was just trying to help you out

after you said you couldn't do it.

I -- [Sighs]

You want me to get somebody to come pick it up?

-Whoa. [Chuckles]

Nah. Might as well use it since it's here and all.

[Laughs]

-Boy, you need to stop. [Chuckles]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

-Ooh! I like that!

You should put a clap or something right here.

What you think, Nae?

-Oh, you already know she don't care

about adding nothing to a beat, Malika.

You been on it lately. You finna take my job?

-Naw, nothin' like that.

I do wanna start messing with beats, though.

I be hearin' stuff in my head sometimes.

I just can't put it into words.

-[Chuckles] You probably got some heat cookin' up there.

There, I just put your clap in. -Hey!

-You should get some equipment.

I'll show you how to work it.

-We'll see. [Chuckles]

♪♪

-Hey! So, I just got off the phone with the radio station.

And they just premiered "Resolve."

-Ah, yeah! -[Laughs]

-It is getting such a phenomenal response,

they may even put us in regular rotation.

-Wow. That's crazy.

-We have our very first hit on our hands.

The first of many!

And it's all because we put Stony Island on there.

-Temper don't play no games. I see you, shorty!

-I want to make a toast

to our bright future that is on the horizon!

This is only the beginning for Kold & Windy!

-That's right! -Yeah!

-Whole bottle.

-[Laughs] -Drink up!

-♪ They won't trick me out my spot ♪

♪ I'm coming to get my Grammy

♪ These streets raw, but they can't trap me ♪

♪ I'm poppin' out like a Plan B ♪

♪ Showin' out for these li'l shorties ♪

♪ Inspire for what they can be

♪ Yeah, we birf'ed a lot of drillers ♪

♪ We winners, too, just watch me ♪

-♪ Everybody dying, bitch, everybody gone ♪

♪ We ain't solvin' nothing, bitch, Tullie to the dome ♪

[Song stops]

♪♪

-Okay. So we know it was them.

-We don't, though. Ain't nobody see who it was.

-They say it was a big dude with a hoodie on.

But it was dark.

-Bro, who else would want to kill him?

Not the opps.

They just started posting about it,

which means they just found out.

-You right. It wasn't them, then.

-It had to be BoxWorld.

-Alright. So what we gon' do?

-Man, we can't shoot up GeGe crib.

It's always killers and kids over there.

-Yeah, I don't want no smoke with her crazy ass.

-We got to find out where Malika ass live at.

-I heard Pop Off was locked up,

so maybe she at home by herself.

-You never know with that ho,

but that's good to know.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[Device beeps]

♪♪

[Siren wailing]

-Are we even going to be able to see the shooter?

-See, the issue is,

the closer we zoom in, the more pixelated the picture becomes.

-Mm-hmm. -Let's see what we can get

without zooming in first, alright?

♪♪

-That was cold-blooded murder.

-Sure was.

Definitely not his first rodeo.

♪♪

-Look at Khiry in his new outfit.

-Aww! So cute. [Door opens]

-Malika? Renee'?

I had a contract drafted that I need you both to sign.

-Contract for what?

-It just states that I get 20% of everything that we generate.

-We agreed on 10%, Temper.

And why we need a contract now, all of a sudden?

-Yes, we agreed on 10%.

But that was before we started to get all this attention.

It's just so that everyone is comfortable.

-We already comfortable, Temper.

You and this contract stuff gon' make things uncomfortable.

-Look, business is business,

and it's time we start taking better care of ours.

It's only a matter of time

before these established managers start coming at y'all.

And I'm not trying to do all this work

just to get left behind.

-Why would we do that to you, Temper?

We love you like a big sister.

-And I love y'all.

But just like Stony Island said,

once the money comes in, people start acting different.

-Yeah, you already actin' different

before we even get a chance to get to the money.

Let me see the contract.

-Wow.

-What's this shit?

[Paper crumpling]

Kobe! [Laughs]

-That was a 3.

[Siren wailing]

-Alright, our last option is to track him

to see where he goes after the shooting.

We can follow him with the cameras we have access to

on the path that he walks.

♪♪

Watch.

♪♪

Some businesses give us access to their systems.

It helps with something like this.

♪♪

-Damn. We lost him.

-Yeah.

There's a blind spot right here.

About five stores in a row

either don't have cameras or didn't give us access.

Let me see if I can get him with another view.

♪♪

Ah. Here he is.

-We didn't get a clear picture of him.

♪♪

[Sighs]

-Don't worry about it.

I've got an idea of who it is anyway.

Just a hunch.

but I want to make sure I'm right.

♪♪

-Yo. What's the word? What's the word?

It's over for a lot of y'all.

Any opps we got, finna be fans after tonight.

'Cause the Kold & Windy takeover has begun! On Box!

Y'all tryin' to hear some bars?

Alright.

♪ Windy, bitch, I'm blowin'

♪ These breezes gon' blow your face off, goofy ♪

♪ Pop two up, two cup me

♪ I'm ready, we finna take off, goofy ♪

♪ Ain't no L's, no losses

♪ My blickies come good and plenty ♪

♪ On Box, we run the Raq

♪ Tell Shelly to get up with me ♪

♪ My heart got replaced with Remy ♪

♪ Got bodies tryin' take some more ♪

♪ That's Shelly, li'l Drip and Dirty ♪

♪ 3-pointer to up the score

♪ This Wesson look like a bless-- ♪

♪♪

Y'all [chuckles] this thing smokin'.

Look, let me get my high ass off this live.

Y'all stream the world premiere tonight.

Kold & Windy featuring Stony Island, "Resolve."

♪♪

-I love what you've done with the place.

-Thanks. -You've always had such

good style. -You know teal's my favorite.

-Dinner is served. -Thank you, babe.

-Thank you.

She told me so much about you when we were roommates.

I can't believe I'm finally getting to meet you.

-Yeah, I've heard a lot about you, as well.

All of it good. [Laughter]

-When she told me that your parents

didn't accept the fact that you all were dating,

it crushed me.

-Yeah. They actually tried to send me to a camp

where they turn gay people straight, so I ran away.

-And you've just been on your own since then?

-Yes. For six years...

until I accidentally bumped into her at the mall.

-Now, that is a modern-day love story.

-It really is, right?

-So, since you all grew up on the same block,

I assume that your parents are wealthy, too?

-[Scoffs]

Yes, but money doesn't make

a person more tolerant or accepting than a poor person.

They never even reached out to me.

I'm just really glad they lived right next door to Amber.

-[Chuckles]

♪♪

-It's Kold & Windy live in 4K! -Yup.

-We just dropped the new visual on the tube,

so we want y'all to go check it out

and come back and let us know what y'all think.

-And I'm-a let y'all know before y'all watch it.

Song and video of the year.

Plus, ya girls went crazy on there!

-Y'all already know we murdered it!

[Both laugh]

Okay. Look like y'all are rockin' with us.

-Ahh. -Hold on.

Look like somebody tryin' to jump in on the live.

I wonder who this is?

What's the word, Stony?

-Psch. I'm out here in L.A. chilling in the hills, G.

Waiting on y'all asses, fool.

-Oh, you know I'm trying to find a house next to your crib.

I see you out there shining, G!

-Hey, it's the only thing to do out here with all this sun.

Hey, yo, look, this song finna be bigger

than what we thought, G.

My line been going crazy on flow.

-I think we got us a new anthem.

Chicago, stand up! This one for y'all!

-Let's go! Yeah!

-Okay!

♪♪

[Laughter]

-Okay, so, I was listening

to some satellite radio on the way up here.

And they played rap from when we were growing up

and they followed it up with rap from today.

-What did you think?

-[Sighs] Rap is different now.

It's not fun.

I mean, everybody's a gangster, if you believe their stories.

There's no balance.

-Well, a lot of people say that it's just a reflection

of what they've experienced growing up in the inner city.

-No, I don't buy that.

I mean, I think I could probably

be a rapper if I wanted to be.

-I swear I can't stand you suburbanite bitches!

If you said that shit in the street,

somebody would smoke yo' ass!

The streets ain't sweet!

-Um...

E-Excuse me. I...

I didn't mean to offend you.

♪♪

-My bad.

♪♪

♪♪

-Let's get her ass right now.

-Nah, nah, Shelly want us to track her

so we can find out where Malika live at.

-Bro, I'm tired of following her dope fiend ass.

-[Chuckles] Shorty do be fried.

-All day, every day.

-Bum, bum.

-Shit.

♪♪

[Engine starts]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[Vehicle approaching]

♪♪

♪♪

[Engine shuts off]

♪♪

-Damn.

What you got going on in here with this $500 champagne bottle

and all these damn cheese platters?

-I just hit a stain for a bunch of high-end liquor.

It sold so fast, I'm glad I grabbed us a few bottles.

I had a few bucks left on the card,

so I figured I'd rent this space out for us.

-Cheers! [Both laugh]

-I feel like we just made a hit, Nae.

We need to just take some time

and relax before things take off.

So, I figured since you, you know,

love drawing so much, I put together a paint and sip for us.

-Aww.

Okay, well, first can we talk about Temper arrogant ass first?

-Ugh. Not tonight, Nae. -Okay.

But can we both agree to fire her?

I feel like we can manage ourselves and keep our 20%.

-[Chuckles]

Sure.

Everything is so different now.

Remember when we didn't have a clue

what we was going to do in our life?

[Both laugh]

I said I was gonna open a big-ass art gallery

and sell only my paintings.

-And I thought I was gonna be the next top model.

-You still a top model with all them damn selfies you take.

[Both laugh]

-And look at us now, Nae.

We're about to be the next top rappers.

-Mm. I'm here for it. On Box.

-You and me both.

Think about it, Nae.

All these years wanting and never having enough.

We about to put all that behind us.

-Hell, yeah.

-Okay, ready to start painting?

-Yeah, but, bitch, I don't want to paint no damn flowers,

It's not givin'.

-My bad. I forgot.

[Singsong voice] Jody!

Mmm. -Oh!

See, that's what I'm talkin' about, bro.

I can paint him all day.

-And all night.

-I know that's right.

-And never, ever wrong.

[Both laugh]

Okay?

♪♪

-Still smoking them unfiltered cigarettes, I see.

-Until they take me out of here.

-Some things never change.

-[Spits] It's funny you should say that.

I was thinking about Dexter the other day.

-Dexter Knuckles? -Yeah.

-[Chuckles]

He got killed a few weeks ago.

Some young dude shot him

because he was trying to bring some order back to the streets.

-That's why I was thinking about him.

You remember how

he could knock anybody out in less than two minutes?

-Mm-hmm. Of course.

That's how he got the name "Knuckles.

I saw him knock three dudes out in one fight

when we was in high school. -Exactly.

Everybody respected him because his knuckle game was crazy.

You remember why he went to jail?

-Not really.

Didn't he beat somebody to death?

-He did. Over his cousin.

The dude was a grown man, and Dex was only 18.

But he slapped Dexter's cousin.

-That's right. I remember.

Dexter caught his ass over on 63rd and went crazy.

Ton of witnesses, too.

-He knew people were over there

before he even left to whup that man's ass.

But since everybody knew that he slapped Dexter's little cousin,

he had to fix it.

-Yeah.

Dexter didn't do too well with disrespect.

-Not at all.

So he maintained his respect,

his cousin's respect,

and his family's respect in just one move.

-But he went to jail

and did 15 years behind that.

-I wonder what he would've said

if I could've asked him,

was it worth all the years he gave up?

♪♪

♪♪

I had to do it, Grover,

and maintain my family's respect.

♪♪

Well, might as well get this over with.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[Handcuffs clinking]

♪♪

♪♪

-Why, though?

♪♪

-Wife dead.

Son dead.

♪♪

Shop ain't making no money.

♪♪

Ain't nothing out here for me no more.

♪♪

I ain't even care if I got caught or not, to be honest.

♪♪

[Choir vocalizing]

♪♪

-♪ From the block to on top in the hills ♪

♪ Bus stop to a drop for the wheels ♪

♪ Stack it high, it ain't props ♪

♪ Nah, it's real

-Bye, Jody.

-Girl. -[Laughs]

-[Laughs] [Door closes]

That was fun. [Both laugh]

♪♪

-♪ Now I'm thrashin'

♪ And I owe it all up to the struggle ♪

♪ Shout-out the struggle

♪ And them nights that I would hustle ♪

♪ Remember nights where ain't nobody used to come through ♪

♪ It's funny how the money grow... ♪

-Most people gain respect

when they work hard at something and get good results.

♪♪

Some people get respect based on who they are.

♪♪

-And one, two, three. -Two, three.

Send. [Both laugh]

-While others get respect

because of their friends and associates.

-♪ Top shelf, that's the way that I like myself ♪

♪ You won't let me in, watch the way I invite myself ♪

♪ Own lane, self-made

♪ Own boss, self-paid

-Some don't deserve respect. [Beeping]

-♪ From the block to on top in the hills ♪

♪ Bus stop to a drop for the wheels ♪

♪ Stack it high, it ain't props ♪

♪ Nah, it's real

♪ It ain't no games being played, we are for real, look ♪

-The ones that do, be ready to die for it.

♪♪

Because once people lose respect for you,

it's almost impossible to get it back.

♪♪

[Car doors close]

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[Gunshots]

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