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Hey, baby. Hurry up. We gon' be late.

The wedding starts in ten minutes.

Oh, Gina. How we gonna be late, Gina, to a black wedding?

Know what I'm sayin'? They probably ain't even

paid the reverend yet.

- Ha-ha-ha. - Ha-ha-ha. Beep. Beep.

Oh, my Lord! Let me..

See what the.. See that?

- Hey. Alright, stop playing. - What?

Hey, you know what? You owe me $50 for this present.

- I forgot to tell you. - Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

$50, Gina? Come on, babe.

Why do you go out and spend that much money

on a wedding gift, Gina?

They only gon' get divorced anyway, babe.

Martin! They are not gonna get divorced.

Katrina and Daryl love one another.

- Oh! Is that so? - Yes.

I don't know about all that, Gina.

Shoot! You should have seen Daryl at the bachelor party.

They, you know

when the strippers they came out of the gate

well, you know, he started ridin' up

into the thing, you know.

You know, so I got on him, right, I was on his..

But I knew I couldn't really be with this, jumpin' around

like that, you know.

That's so funny, 'cause, um

you told me you was just playing cards. That's it.

That's what you told me.

Yeah. I think that's what I heard.

I shouldn't have told you that.

Yeah. You shouldn't have.

Alright.

Pam, do you have to fight for the bouquet

every time we go to a wedding?

Look, Gina, I call the fair catch for this one.

Yo, Pam. I need you to come down to the gym tomorrow, girl.

Help me work on my jab.

The way you had the maid of honor's head goin' back.

- Yeah. - Hey, hey, Martin.

Did you see the groomsmen

come cabbage patcher down the aisle?

- Hey! - Yo.

In a green velvet suit, Tommy. Huh?

- Your boy Daryl went out. - Hey, man.

I wonder, what made him finally propose after 11 years.

Probably their kids.

You saw how happy Daryl Jr. was

when he gave his mother away? That was nice.

That was so nice, wasn't it?

I mean, Daryl and Katrina celebrating their love.

They gon' be celebrating their love all week

locked in that hotel room getting their freak on, dawg.

Hey. I can do that.

Just me, Gina and room service.

Damn a wedding! Huh! Ain't that right, baby?

Excuse me. Excuse me, Martin.

- Yeah, baby. What's wrong? - Um..

Is that how you really feel about us getting married?

You know, I just wanna know.

Cole, grab the remote. Foxy Brown's on. Grab that remote.

Oh, snap! That's right, it's, uh, uh..

Uh, Pam Grier week on B-E-T.

There you go. Alright.

Well, why do weddings make you nervous or something, Martin?

Okay, now pay attention, Cole.

This is were they gon' spill out for no reason.

Out the blouse. Check it out.

- Bam! There they are! - You see?

No, I got to go.

So..

When exactly are you and Gina getting married, Martin?

You know, I got to start saving up for my dress, bruh.

Yeah, well, uh..

I don't know, Pam. Okay? Alright?

I mean, I'm happy. Gina's happy.

Everything is alright.

Love's alright.

I mean, me and Gina could go like this, what

another two, three, nine years? I don't know.

Nine years? Oh, no.

No, no, Martin, we gotta talk.

Y'all got to go. Buh-bye. It was nice.

- I had-- - Wait a minute. Hold on, Gina.

Now you don't just go throwing people out. That's rude.

Now, your mother did not raise you that way.

- N-- - No, no, now stop it.

Y'all wanna stay and have something to eat?

Please, have some apple juice or somethin'.

- Thank you. I'm starving. - No, no. No, no, no, no.

Tommy and Cole, we go buh-bye.

- Bye-bye. - Say "bye-bye."

- Bye-bye. - Yo, Gina.

- Handle your business. - Thank you, girl.

It was fun now. Y'all go home.

Love's in your face.

Ah! Girl!

I thought they'd never leave. Sit on down here.

Woman, have I told you..

...how beautiful you are.

No. No. No.

Girl, it's your personality. Yes.

- Thank you, Martin. - 'Alright.'

- Thank you. - 'You're welcome.'

You know, we gotta talk about that timetable

you just laid out.

Oh! Okay, well, uh..

Wha-what, what you-what you wanna say?

Okay, good. Look.

Martin, we have been together for almost three years now

and I really think it's time for us to move on..

I don't know! Something from the reception!

The food. My stomach's bubbling. Ah!

Martin! Martin!

Martin! Martin, come out!

'Gina, please. Look-look, go away.'

'I could be in here all night, Gina.'

'You don't wanna be here when the door opens.'

Okay. Okay. I'm going.

You feel better, alright? I-I'll see you later.

'Okay. Love you, bye!'

Oh, I love you too! Buh-bye!

Put the pressure on. Brother gonna make..

- Let's go. - Hold on. Hold on, Pam.

I gotta get my keys.

You know what, Gina, I meant to ask you.

Didn't the district manager offer you

that job in New York again?

'That's a big promotion, girl.'

'No, but I'm not going anywhere.'

'I like the job I have now'

and besides, Martin's here

and I'm not ready to kick him to curb yet.

- Are you sure? - You know what I think?

- Girl. - Girl.

Don't be startled.

But I am serious.

Gina, Martin ain't thinking about you.

So what I think is that you should

pack your little hefty bag

and hitchhike on to the Big Apple. Big Apple!

- Sheneneh. Get out. - Yes?

Yes, Sheneneh. Beat it.

This is none of your business.

Just walkin' up in the house like it's her house.

Excuse. Excuse me. Uh. Um. Hello.

I guess you're probably wondering

why I ain't jumped all over you.

See, a year ago, I would've body slammed you. Alright?

But you know what? Sheneneh has evolved.

I am a woman. Alright?

I will not bust your ass unless I have to.

Oh!

You better watch that finger--

Now. I was trying to give some advice si-sis-si-sister.

Uh-uh! I mean, can I give advice?

Can I talk when the sister's around? Uh-uh?

Okay. Okay, Sheneneh. Fine. Fine.

She's not leavin'!

Girl, please come, come.

Alright, sit down.

Be a part of this.

Now...Gina..

...Martin ain't thinking about you.

So I think you should just leave town

and find yourself a new man while you still can.

What? Now you sound like that one over here.

Hey, I'm right.

Gina..

...you ain't gettin' no younger.

You're already starting to crack all up around about your eyes.

Gina, I am a cosmopolitician.

I know these things. Uh-uh.

Sheneneh, maybe, maybe you think she could use

a little moisturizer at night.

Yeah. Earl base?

That's right, the Earl base so you li-lightly--

Thank you. Thank you!

Thank you. Thank you both!

Thank you for your advice.

But I am fine, okay?

My career is fine. My relationship is fine.

And my skin is fine.

Look. Look.

Even if I wanted to take that job in New York, which I don't

Martin wouldn't want me to go because he loves me.

Thank you.

Well then, prove it, Gina.

Huh? You tell Martin you're goin' to New York.

If he's a real man, like my man Lafonse..

Whoa! He'd go crazy. He will lose his mind.

I mean, hell, Lafonse won't even let me go wig shopping

unless he's right up onto me.

I mean, he go to the store and get my personals

when it's that time of my everything.

You know what I mean? Okay?

You know what, Gina?

As hard as it is for me to admit it, Sheneneh's right.

I mean, Martin either needs to come correct or step off.

Thank you. You aw-iight when you wanna be.

- Don't start, Sheneneh. - I'm just saying, okay?

- Can the sister's-- - Alright--

I like what you just said, alright.

- Okay? - Fine!

- I'm not-- - Okay.

- Fine. - Alright, Sheneneh.

I will tell, Martin. Ladies.

I will tell him, and he won't want me going to New York

that's the bottom line, because I know him.

Okay, well, let the sister ride.

Ha! Well, you think you know a man

till he steals your new car and sells it to the chop shop.

You talking about Clevon?

Sheneneh, please don't tell me you know Clevon.

Girl, he'd have hit every lonely woman in town.

'Oh!'

Oh, girl, he got Keylolo's new Lancer.

You are lying!

No, he stole the sunroof

the Nakamichi system, everything gone!

You think you can get your girls to jump him?

Girl, I'll give you my pager or nothing.

Okay, I gotta give you my code.

So, what'd you do this weekend, man?

I took Gina to this fancy wedding.

- 'Ooh!' - Mm-mm. Mm-mm, mm-mm.

Martin, never take a single woman to a wedding.

- Man, it just gives them ideas. - So what, Stan?

Gina knows I ain't marrying nobody

till I'm damn good and ready.

Women have got ways of stretching your arm, Martin.

They keep droppin' them subtle hints, like..

"Marry me, Stan, or I'll pull the trigger."

You know, Gina has been kind of pressing me to marry her.

Watch out. She's gonna trap you.

Yeah, man. Stan is right.

And they're always after your money, Martin.

That's why I'm making my girlfriend sign a pre-nuptial

'cause I'd be damned if she's getting half my trailer.

Yeah.

Hey, you see how strong I just came.

Peace out. Alright.

Never surrender! Never. Ha-ha!

Shawn is wild, man.

But you know what, Gina wouldn't play me like that.

All I'm saying, Martin, is women always come up with somethin'.

So call her bluff, if she claims she's pregnant

check the test out yourself.

And if she claims some certain terminal illness

snatch the plug out of the life support system

and watch how fast she jumps up.

Yeah. It worked for me two out of three times.

Uh, may Lyla rest in peace.

Alright, baby. Come here!

Honey.

Baby, I was going to bed anyway.

Look, I got some new sheets for ya.

No. No, Gina. I can't sleep on that, baby.

That's a woman's bed.

You better put some NFL sheets

some Naughty By Nature sheets on there, girl.

- Shut up, it's not funny! - Uh-huh? Show you r..

Baby, listen, I, I got to tell you something.

Yeah. Yeah, baby. What you wanna tell me?

This is what you want to tell your man, huh?

You wanna be up all night? That it, girl? Huh?

- Is that it, huh, girl? - Stop, stop.

- Listen. Listen. - Yeah. Was-wassup?

Um, my boss offered me a promotion and a raise.

Another one already?

Girl, pretty soon, you gonna be rollin' like Oprah, huh?

Ha-ha! Gimme some sugar, girl.

Wait. Baby, wait.

- There's a problem. - What?

The job is in New York.

New York, Gina?

Are you serious?

Martin, I don't know. I'm considering it.

That's why I wanted to talk to you after the wedding yesterday.

- Hm. After the wedding, huh? - Yes, Martin.

Remember you got sick and had that stomach thing.

Uh-huh. So-so, so let me get this straight.

One day we go to a wedding, and the next day, out of the blue

you got to move to New York.

Uh-huh.

Wha-wha-what else, Gina? You-you pregnant? Huh?

Tell your man. I mean..

Huh?

No, Martin. Please!

Now, come on. What about this job in New York?

I think you should go.

Yeah. You know, I think it's a good move.

I hope you catch a good rate on the flight

two weeks in advance.

You just let me go, just let me go like that. Just go.

Gina, please! Do not let me stand in your way.

What, what are you, surprised?

Yes, I am. What about our relationship?

Oh, girl, I'll be out there to see you..

...as soon as the Pistons play the Knicks.

Baby, set that clock, I gots to get up in the morning.

You, you alright? Okay.

I cannot believe Martin playing it all cool

like he doesn't even care.

He hasn't said anything about you moving to New York?

Oh, yeah, he did, I forgot.

Umm, "Don't be calling me collect

'cause you know I got bills."

- He's such a jackass. - King of the jackasses.

But I love him.

Then stay here.

And wait on Martin forever? Oh, no.

I don't.. What.. Why is Martin so afraid of marriage?

What is it that men think that they're givin' up?

The other two billion women in the world

that don't want them anyway.

Look, men are always afraid that the freak train's

about to pull out of the station and they're gon' miss it.

Martin can keep waitin' on because I'm going to New York.

See? Now that's where your head should be.

You know what I'm saying? Because the streets

are paved with bankers and lawyers

and the Giants and the Knicks and the Nets.

Dammit, I wish I was going.

Pam, I'm not going to find somebody new.

I'm hoping the separation will make our relationship

grow stronger.

And if it doesn't?

Then, I gotta go find us some Knicks and lawyers and stuff.

I know you don't mean that, but I hear what you're saying.

I'mma miss your big head!

- I'm gonna miss you too, girl. - Mm-hmm..

Okay, get off of me.

Yo, man. I gotta give it to, Gina.

She's good at this little game she's playing, man.

Look, she got boxes all packed up, alright?

Uh-uh, she turned off the lights, the heat.

Wait a minute. My baby even turned off the phone.

Now how she gonna talk to me?

Yeah. Ha-ha-ha. Word.

You know what, I thought Big Shirley

tried that on me once, right? You know?

But, uh, it just turned out she was broke.

She can borrow some money from Gina 'cause Gina got money, man.

But you know what, she just tryin' force me to marry her.

But check it out. I'm just calling her bluff.

Calling her bluff.

But you know, I-I really don't think she's bluffing, Martin.

Look, you have got to face it, Gina is ready to settle down.

Now if it doesn't happen, she got to move on, dawg.

You know what, man. Why women always gotta get married, man?

Why are they always so ready

to put a chokehold on a brother? Am I right? Huh?

- Why? - Hey. Hey, bruh. Excuse me.

They gotta ham you up. Alright?

'Cause they know that there are two billion other sisters

out there, you know what I'm sayin'? Just wantin' you.

You know what I'm sayin'?

That's why a brother like me ain't marrying nobody

'cause when they load up the freak train..

...a brother like me, gon' have a front row seat.

Oh! Yes. A front row seat.

Yeah.

- Ah.. - What, Tommy?

I didn't say nothin'. Nothin'. I didn't..

- No. - Look, man, alright?

Gina just playing these little games, man.

- I thought she loved me. - Martin, she does love you.

And you know you love her, right?

So why don't you propose to her?

Tommy, because if I do, then Gina gon' think

she can muscle me into doing whatever she wants me to do.

Give me a house. Give me a baby.

Yeah, right, but I thought those all the things

you wanted to build for Gina, anyway.

Tommy, I do, alright?

But I'll be damned if she gon' make me do 'em.

Oh, come on, Martin.

Don't you see what is happening, brother?

You have forced her into a corner.

- You told her to go, right? - Yeah.

Now, you better do something to make her stay.

You, you know, you're t-t-this Good Samaritan thing, man.

You know what I'm saying? Like-like-like what, Tommy?

Marry her.

Ain't nothin' happening, captain. Excuse me.

I can't get nothin' over there. Okay?

- So, I need you to be here. - Right.

Now, dammit. Talk to me. What can I get from you?

Let her go.

- Yeah. - Yeah. Let her go, man. Okay?

Because she'll be miserable in New York without you.

- She'll come right back. Okay? - Right.

It'll start to eat away at her. You know what I'm sayin'?

A-and she'll turn to alcohol, drugs, worse, you know.

Worse? Cole, what the hell?

W-where the hell did you get this?

Brother, I reads, okay?

Okay? I know things.

I got it from "Jet Magazine," brother.

You know what? Gina wants me to give her a reason to stay.

I'll give her a whole list of reason to stay.

Wh-wh-where you talkin' about?

Right here, man. Paragraph two.

- Okay. - See?

Go ahead, listen to Cole.

You see, baby? It says it right here.

"There's pressure in the big cities.

"Pressure leads to alcohol.

Alcohol leads to harder stuff."

Oh! Yes, Gina. Alcohol is a drug.

Is that right, Martin?

Uh-huh. You see, baby.

In corporate America, there's only one brother

for every 50 sisters.

So you done climb that ladder too high.

Ain't no other brothers up there.

No brothers. Uh-huh. Any I know.

So let me get this straight.

First, I'm gonna be a drug addict.

Then I'mma end up with a white man?

Scares me. You know what I'm sayin'?

Uh, did you see "Mahogany?"

Success is nothing

without a brother you love to share it with, Gina.

A brother.

Baby, don't let the man tear us apart.

I do not believe thi..

Martin! Is that the best

you could come up with to keep me here?

Is that I'm gonna go crazy without you, is that it?

I am trying to look out for you, you don't know no better.

Well, thank you, Martin. Thank you.

But you know what? From now on, I'll be looking out for myself.

Okay, so, if that's it

Pam is waiting for me downstairs. I gotta go.

Girl, y-you just gonna go and play this little game--

Play! Play? What play, Martin? This is not a game.

This is serious. This is real life and I'm going!

Okay. Fine. Fine, baby. Gina, okay, fine.

Please. Alright? Your little plan worked.

What are you talkin' about, Martin?

Gina, please. Here. Sit.

Okay, baby, you plotted

and you schemed and clank, clank!

You finally got me, Gina. Okay, fine.

Gina...I will marry you.

Damn! I mean, are you happy now?

That was beautiful.

That was the proposal I've been dreaming about all my life.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I got a plane to catch.

Come on..

Don't. You are..

Girl, you gon' play this little game..

I'mma tell you, you should be a actress.

One, two, three.

Gina..

Damn!

She played me.

This..