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Any other needs, sir? -Well, let's see. Ladies? Gentlemen?

John, would you like something?

- The food does look great. - I think we're fine, Thomas, thanks.

Please tell Cheryl that this is spectacular.

- She's outdone herself. Thank you. - It's just fabulous.

All right, everybody. Napkins, please, on the laps.

This is quail and it tastes great. You're going to love it.

How the grapes look like flowers.

- Everything's perfect. - And we have walnuts and a terrific sauce.

What you have to do is slice little pieces off and then dip it in the sauce.

- Hi, Katie, Charles. - Well, well, well, well. What an honor.

Only a half hour late. My baby.

Hi, John. May I ask where you've been, Charlie?

Hi, daddy. I been at the liberry.

The liberry? Tell me something, is that any relation to the institution

knows as a library?

Come on, dad. Can't we have one dinner where we don't argue?

I hope so, but I've told you. If you must wear that ridiculous gold tooth,

do it outside. Not in my house.

And take your jacket off, too.

What were you guys doing before you decided to become

rap artists and cut your first album.

Come on, man. What that got to do with what we talking about right now, man?

I came here as a... as a businessman coming to do business with you in your

establishment, and you giving me the run-down on all this shit like you the police

or something, man. This is what this place is. Isn't it a recording studio?

It is a recording studio. I'm trying my best to accommodate you.

I'm a kid of the street, man. Trying to do my thing. Trying to get on.

Make music. Live a better life.

Graduating this year.

I sure am.

God willing, with a little luck and a few bribes.

Dad, why you always got to say shit like that? Why can't you just be normal?

Why do you always have to be such a nut?

- A nut? Excuse me? -You don't see me, like, coming in here and, like,

talking about your problems. You know?

Why you got to always fuck with me?

Rich is like the guy behind the Cream Team. Is that correct?

- Rich is in the mind behind Cream Team. - And his name is Rich.

- Rich Bower, yeah. - The guy meeting us here is Rich Bower?

- What you heard? Tell me what you heard. - Just some stories. Gossip and

shit about all the trouble you guys might have been in.

Well, you see, that's in the past now. We dealing with the present.

- What we gonna do. -Actually, Cigar, to be totally honest with you,

I can't give you a firm answer to that right now. We're really jammed up.

What's going on, gov?

Still negotiating, nigger?

- I thought we had a deal. - Yo, this is the cat who owns the studio, man.

- He's trying to take us through some... - Arnie Tishman.

Feel free to look around.

By the way, which library were you studying in, anyway?

Surely you remember the name?

No, I don't remember.

She was studying in the library an hour ago,

but ask her which one, and she doesn't remember.

What the fuck you mean you can't take care of us, man? What's the problem?

- Our money ain't green? -Don't fuck with cash? You don't like money?

- No, no, no. It's not that. It's just... -Cash is king, man.

What the fuck is wrong with you? What's up with you man?

- Who's... - He acting like, you acting like you on drugs, man.

These in here got you bugging the fuck out.

- Who's your lawyer? - What lawyer's got to do with this? We our lawyers.

What the fuck? You the police or something, man? We just trying to book some

studio time. Fuck. What the fuck you talking about my lawyer?

Like, you don't treat me like you do treat, like, everyone else.

- Don't you start with comparisons. - Katie's so perfect.

- Katie's nine years old. -Yeah, but it's like you think she's so perfect, and like I'm

just this like disgusting leech that you have. With my friends, I don't feel that

way. I'm having a good day, hanging out with my friends, going to the library and shit,

and then you have to go and ruin it for me.

You cut your first album somewhere else. You use this studio in the future.

Come on, man. We gonna see you, man. We'll be back.

This is why people be getting hurt, man.

'Cause when you make a person feel this sort of type of way...

- And you shut them out. - Wait a minute. Is that a threat I heard?

We don't make threats, man. We said we'll be back.

That's a promise, man.

You know, there's a time and there's a place for this, but

I don't think right now, this moment, is the right time.

Let's just all sit here and let's enjoy this quail and have a meal together.

Hello? Hello Wren.

Hey, Charlie.

- You lighting up? -Charlie? I missed you after school

All right?

So I listened to Rae pour out all her boyfriend problems.

Yo, that's good for Rae. I'm glad she's doing that shit.

Of course I love you, baby. Love me?

You do?

Please. I love you, too.

What's up, girl?

Yo, what's up, Rich? What you doing?

Yeah, I'm going to call you back, okay?

- Wait a second, Charlie... - Shut up, I'm going to call you back...

Who you talking to that...

Hello?

- Yeah. - Yo, what's up? What you doing?

You're chiling? Just chiling.

Did you have fun today? No doubt.

Guaranteed.

Yeah, that was nice, right?

It was all right. I would go for it again.

Whenever you're ready. When?

Okay.

Damn. Let me go down here and see what's going on.

Slow the fuck down, man.

- Mother fucking D.A.'s son. -Calm down. Relax, man. Fucking relax.

Rich, come on, man! I got to talk to you about some really important shit.

My nigga's gonna wanna see me.

So you better tell him that I'm here, man.

What the fuck did I expect from having this motherfucker working for me.

Rich. I need to talk to you. There's some shit going down.

There is some disrespect going down, and you cannot

allow this to happen. Just between you and me.

- No, me and you and every fucking body else in here. - This club going down.

Shit that I need to talk to you about!

I know Rich gonna slap the shit out of him.

- Word up. - And his father's the fucking D.A.

- Yo, man. -You can't be coming up in my joint, blowing the spot

like that, man. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Yo, I'm doing this for you, man. I don't do any of this stuff for myself.

I'm working here for you. You know what I do with my life.

These guys open up a club in your turf without calling you,

without asking for any... any kind of any... and no compensation, nothing.

- It's bullshit, man. I th... - So you gonna tell me what's going on at my 'hood?

Fuck, I know these cats. Scotty and Erik and all these other motherfuckers. White

cats that I know that are opening up this club in your fucking 'hood with no calls,

with no nothing. I don't think it makes any fucking sense at all. What are you gonna do

- about it? -What I'm gonna do? What the fuck you mean, what I'm gonna

- do? What's your part? You got the information, right? - Yeah.

So just keep the fucking information coming and you're gonna see what the fuck I'm

- gonna do, man. - I understand, I understand. I understand what I got to do.

- Later, all right? -Yeah, see, that's what I'm trying to say to this little

knucklehead right here, man. You can't be like... or you can't act like you looking for

rapping.

What's up, home?

He want to be a rapper.

- Yeah? - Telling him everybody can't be a rapper, know what I mean?

Know what I'm saying?

Yeah, no doubt. Dean. Dean.

- Like I was saying... How you set? You all right? -What's going on, man?

What's up, Greta?

Hi.

It's a nice spot, man. What's going down?

Yeah, cool. You like it?

Think I'll look outside.

Come on. Let me show you this. Shorty want to be a rapper?

- Ran into your man, Will, on my way up, man. - That's my agent.

- He had a wild look in his eyes. - We didn't know what he was

saying and all, but he looked like he had something on this mind.

What's up with him?

Just a white boy trying to be

- a nigga. -He even said what's up? To me, man.

- Fuck all that, man. How's your game doing? - You got to come see me play

Guaranteed. Some time, man.

Young people are always more given to admiring what is wild than what is reasonable.

That is a quote. Delacroix. I want to examine today, with you, the question of identity

and is culture involved, and is race a factor?

- Charlie? - I want to be black. I want to get into the hip-hop thing.

Raven. I want to go there.

Times are definitely, you know, different now. Things are different,

and obviously now, you see a...

a lot of white kids, you know, that... that admire and look up to the

Black community and hip-hop and, you know, and rappers.

- Wren? -I think if... I think if people are struggling with who

they are, I mean that's a big thing, and being a teenager is the transition from being a

kid to being an adult, and when you're an adult, you have to kind of know who you are.

Marty?

What's not healthy about, you know, choosing a style? I mean saying, you know, I should

treasure my Russian heritage and then, you know, get all caught up with what's going

on in Russia right now? I don't give a fuck, 'cause it's never gonna affect me.

- Kim? - You don't want to be what people expect of your race.

You know? Like people say, Okay, you're white. You have to be this way. You... you

can't walk around and talk whatever,

Ebonics, you know. And they're saying... I don't know.

Sometimes, you just don't want to be... be what your race is supposed to be.

I'm a little kid, but little kids go through phases. I mean, I like it now and I'm

gonna like, stand up for it and be like, yeah, I'm into hip-hop, but you know, when it

comes down to it, I'll be over it soon. But for right now, while I'm in school, and while

I've got comfort and... and I'm okay, and all my friends are into it, I can go and hang

out with them, and I can go and be a part of that. I can do whatever I want. I'm a kid,

Shari? In America.

Well, first of all, not everybody in here is white. I'm from the 'hood,

I don't want to go back and live there. I go there sometimes to visit my friends,

and they're trying to get out. They want to go on to a college education. They stay

in school and get their grades so they can get out.

And I have friends that do want to rap

And they rap about stuff so that they can get out of the 'hood. They're trying to

move up. They all trying to go there.

I want to leave you with a quote on this subject of identity.

It's from Shakespeare's Othello.

Iago, who has no identity, says,

"I am not what I am."

Excuse me. Excuse me, my name is Sam Donecker and this is my husband, Terry Donecker...

And I am a freelance documentary filmmaker. I'm doing a project on a

phenomenon that I've actually followed throughout America of white high school kids who

imitate Black hip-hop life, and I would love to include you in my documentary. This is

something that's really important to me. I have a vision. I want it to be very

- real and raw and honest. - You're looking for people like us?

You think you... you think we fit this description?

I think you do.

Yo, what? So you want to know

- why we call ourselves niggas? - So you actually use that term? The term, niggers?

- Isn't that a derogatory term, I mean... - No, no.

Nigger... nigger is a derogatory term. Niggas isn't.

Okay, um...

Niggas is like, Yo, these are

- my niggas. -This is something that people don't... this is

- exactly what I'm talking about. - We should introduce her to

- Will, man. -Yeah! Will! You got to meet Will, his brother. Yo, he's

- the true nigga. -This is my girl, Kim. I'm Marty. That's Wren, Raven,

- Wren's girl, Charlie. -Well, I'm Sam. And Terry and, um... include me in... in your

All right. Day, all right?

- So you gonna make us famous, is that it? - Whatever I can do.

That's good. So, where'd you learn how to make movies?

Well, I went to NYU film school.

Yeah, fourteenth is no good. We can do it on the, thirteenth or fifteenth.

Okay, let's make it the thirteenth at two o'clock.

- Um, hold on one second. Steve. -Arnie.

- It is great to see you. - How you doing? Good to see you. Good to see you.

- I think you know Rich. - Absolutely. We met here yesterday.

- And I believe you know Cigar. - How you doing? Cigar, my buddy.

And this is Dean. Dean's a point guard on the Rider basketball team.

You know how much I love watching those smooth moves you got.

You know what I'd suggest? For you guys to go take a look downstairs and get a run of

- the joint. Steve and I will talk some business up here. - Friendly business.

This is gonna be big for everybody.

Steve, it's a ball to see you, baby. Have a seat right over here.

I'm so glad you called and we got this thing straightened out.

These white motherfuckers kill me, man. Yesterday, me and 'Gar come in here by ourself.

No fucking deal. Today, we bring another cracker, and it's all good. Could you

- explain this shit to me? - That's just your reputation preceding you.

- But that's all gonna change now. - What I cannot afford is a

corpse in my lobby, a Biggy Smalls, a Tupac, a body in my elevator.

You know, that's not good for business.

- So, what do you think about me and Greta getting back? -Back and forth, back and

forth. It's your game, baby. Do what you want. Whatever turns you on.

Yeah, she's writing her anthropology graduate thesis on race.

- Good for her. - I think we're really gonna make it this time, man.

Let me ask you a question. What do you think these white people really want from

us, man? You know what I'm talking about. White motherfuckers out here trying

to imitate us, trying to rap, trying to dress Black and all this shit. Bitches throwing

pussy all over. What's going on with this shit? A lot of people just think it's like

size. You know, the myth. Niggas got bigger dicks and shit. But I don't think that's

it, though, man. I think they think they gonna get some kind of life-force or some shit

from fucking with us. Had some white chicks in the park with me the other day. Some preppy

little chicks, freaking them off, you know what I mean? Pops is an

investment banker, orders bullshit, Central Park West living and all that.

Shit, I don't know what the fuck she thinks she's going to get from being around me.

I'm probably trying to get a little bit of her information

and see what I can do with it.

Yeah, but man, let me tell you something. White people are as different from each other as

Black people. You can't just lump them all together like that. No, the thing I got with

Greta, it's different.

- What up, kid? What's up, baby? - Hi.

What's going on? You okay?

How are you?

- Yeah. I'm a little shocked. - You all sneaking up on us and shit.

I'm not sneaking up on you. I can't believe this shit's happening.

Yo, we gonna make hits, I'm telling you.

- Congratulations. - I'm telling you, we gonna make hits.

- Where's Rich? -Rich is right up in the cup. He up there talking to Dean.

You know?

They're not in jail. They're professionals, and they just

want to work, and I'd really appreciate if we can work here with you.

Hey, how are you?

What's up, girl?

- Yeah. This is like real shit? - Just trying to do my biz,

- that's all. Make a record. You proud of me, baby? -Yeah, I'm proud. I just

want you to know that I care about you a lot. If you do feel like you're going, like

- into a bad route... -I know what to do. I'm gonna come see you and get my

blessings.

Good, then. You know.

Keep them blessings in your heart for me, that's all.

Steve, four words. You've got a deal.

Thanks. All right, man.

I've... I've got one. I've got one for us, for... for Kim. It said something, I...I

remember earlier. About I don't want any dick tonight.

Dirty mouth. Just eat my pussy right.

- I was, is that, Well, you know that's Little Kim. That's a quote, but...

- Yeah, she's a rapper. - But... but that... but that's also Big Kim right here.

Wait, if you're... making that sort of assumption,

is it that you would like to have a girl

eating your pussy, you don't want dick that night?

- Well, I'm just saying like, guys for so long have just

been taking what they want, just getting their come on, so it's time girls fucking get

- their come on. -What about you guys, Sam? I mean you're

straight and your husband's obviously gay. What's that about?

Love. That's what it's about. And my husband is a very sensitive and complex person,

- and we're crazy about each other. Right, darling? - Absolutely, my angel.

I have a question for everyone. Origin of the word, fuck. Who knows it?

What's the origin of the word, fuck, honey? Tell them what the origin of the word is.

Egyptian...

You tell them.

Seventeenth Century, Charles the One. Fornication Under Consent of the King.

I don't think I can comfortably be interviewed with this guy.

Tell me what they can offer you. What is it? What is it?

What do they offer you? What... why do you want

to be involved in it? Why do you want to emulate them?

'Cause they're cool. They offer us, like, safety.

- Safety from what? -Safety from... from like anyone who wants to fuck with

with us.

- Hey. Hi. I'm Mark Clear. - How you doing? Hey, there, bro.

- I'm Mark. - All right. How you doing, Mark?

Yeah, that's me. You're Dean, right?

The you're the point guard on the Rider team.

Yeah. Yeah, man.

- All right. Good luck, man. -Good luck with what? What... what does that mean?

- Well, basically, that's my way of saying, See you later. - Really?

That's too bad, 'cause I had

- like... something I wanted to talk to you about. - Yeah, what's that?

I was just wondering if you wanted to make $50,000.

Ten up front.

What are you, some kind of quiz show host or something?

No, man. I'm your future.

Well, then you got the wrong guy, my man.

Really, so like the outcome of some little rinky-dink basketball game

that nobody gives a shit what the score is tomorrow

is more important to you than making $50,000 in cash.

- I'm starting to think you're serious. - I'm totally serious.

I don't know about this, man. This is...

Criminal stuff you're talking about, man.

Criminal in what way, though? It's a crime against the federal government.

It's not a crime against some old woman or, you know, you're not hurting anybody.

You're basically hurting the federal government.

Don't know if you give a shit about them, I don't.

What they do for you lately? They haven't done too much for me.

Look, here's the thing. I'm wondering. You haven't gotten drafted yet, have you?

No.

I'm just wondering, what happens to you after you graduate?

I've got some more interesting things going on than throwing a game.

I'm not trying to talk you into anything.

I mean, if you don't want it, don't take it.

What if I turned you in right now?

Turn me in? I don't think you'd turn me in.

Would this be the worst thing you ever did in your entire life?

What? A few bad passes, a few missed layups.

Who the hell would ever know?

- What's in it for you? - Don't worry about me, all right?

I'll bet what I wanna bet on the game.

I'm gonna make a lot more money than you will. Think about it, all right.

And I don't know, tomorrow, if you're around at noon, Time Cafe downtown.

Okay.

Nine hundred words? No way. I need at least 1,800.

This is a major article I'm writing, darling. My God, look who's sitting there.

It's District Attorney King!

So, you boys were playing football?

- What's the verdict? - Good hands. He's got good hands.

Runs in the family.

They see us. Billy.

There's an odd-looking guy who keeps staring at you. Looks like he knows you.

Maybe he does.

I think I should make my way over and introduce myself to our illustrious D.A.

George Wayne, Vanity Fair. Writer.

I read your column every month. You're wonderful.

You're the much loved, much praised District Attorney of Manhattan.

- I don't know about praised and loved. - And you are Sheila King.

Formerly Sheila Blair, assistant District Attorney, in charge of sex crimes.

Very good.

I interrupted your lunch because I was having a meeting with my editor

and we're thinking about doing a story: Ten Who Run New York. And, Mister District Attorney,

you're are on the short list with the likes of Donald Trump and the mayor.

What do you think of that notion, young buck?

You know, actually maybe you should interview some of his past wives, too.

Wives?

Yeah, yeah.

He's got two others besides this woman here.

- Okay, Marty. - You should meet my brother, Will.

He's got a nice resume, too, you know.

Is Will studying to be a lawyer?

Actually, on his way to law, but in a different sense. You know what I mean, George?

My son has a vivid imagination.

- So it seems. - Yeah, I got a good imagination, George.

- Why don't you call my office tomorrow? - Sounds like a great idea.

- Yeah, we can lock it up. - I like that notion. Lock it up.

Nice to meet you, George.

Thanks for the intrusion.

Ciao! Goodbye, George!

What's wrong with you?

- Why... the guy's a journalist. - Marty, this is a great opportunity for your father.

Why do you fucking care? What does it have to do with you?

It's his fucking career. You know I care. I actual...

Watch your mouth.

Are you being serious? Watch my mouth?

Since when do you say watch my mouth? Since she's around?

If you ever disrespect my wife or me in front of a stranger again,

I will cut you off. Go be with your brother.

Buy you fancy Avirex and Kangol hats. Go uptown. Hang out with him.

You're scaring me, pop. You're really scaring me.

Well, then go. Why don't you leave right now?

Go home and pack your bags. Move out of our house.

What's that supposed to be, a punishment?

You bet it is, Marty. You play by my rules or you get out. You hear me? Support yourself.

What would your father say, if he knew you were in bed with two Black women?

What do yo mean, "What would he say?"

Well he's the D.A. isn't he?

He's the D.A. but that doesn't mean he can fuck with my life.

Anyway, we don't even talk to each other.

- Hey, Rich. - You all are ready to play or what?

That's what I'm talking about.

If cultural anthropology is to serve a useful function in the debate on race,

it must eliminate bogus categories like Negroid, Caucasoid and Mongoloid.

Race must be viewed not as a set of people defined strictly

and separated each from the other, but rather as a series of color gradations.

The blackest black not nearly so close to the lightest tan

as the lightest tan is to the average normal white.

This would not only correct socially destructive forms of bigotry which result from

race-based analysis, it would also, to quote Henry Kissinger,

have the additional virtue of being true.

Well what? Well?

My head is just... Forget it.

Yeah, go on. Like what?

- It's just somewhere else right now. That's all. - You want to talk about it?

Something happened real strange today. You can't tell anybody. Nobody.

You don't trust me?

Well, I'm listening to the guy, and the way he was coming at me, I didn't...

I don't understand what you're talking about.

The guy who approached me was a gambler.

So, what's your point?

He offered me $50,000 to throw a game.

That's the kind of thing Luke used to do when I was living with him.

He would bribe players.

- Why would you want to live with somebody like that? - Like someone like you?

What's that supposed to mean?

Well, he paid bribes.

You're gonna take a bribe. What's the difference?

Should I do it or not?

Just be true to yourself.

We have no absolute sponsor, no liquor sponsors, nothing.

And we're going to open up a club in three days?

No, no, we do have a sponsor. We do have a sponsor.

What sponsor?

Celebrity plus models equals bash. It's gonna be sick, I promise.

Get on the phone right away and check all the RSVPs.

Better stop stressing or you're going to die before you're, like, 25.

I want it to be right. Slow down.

Shit.

White boys, white boys. White people

Let me get a fucking representative up.

Who the man in charge here?

Back up.

I want the man in charge.

I am

You in charge? Yeah, Scotty.

Yeah. You here with me?

Yeah. Pay attention to him!

Listen, everybody shut the fuck up and let me handle my fucking business!

White boys came to the 'hood. That's ill! Y'all some blind motherfuckers for trying that.

Ain't this a bitch?

Shut the fuck up!

Yeah, I know where I'm at. You know where you at?

I don't think you know where the fuck you at.

I ain't get no phone calls from you or none of your people.

I think so. You know who I am?

I need 75% of this joint right here, 75% me...

25% for you and your guys.

What are you giving us for 75%?

Who the fuck is you? I thought he was the fucking spokesman.

This is the fuck from what. You, do you... do you understand?

Turn around and look at him. You fucking understand what I'm talking about?

If you all don't want this fucking shit happening every fucking five minutes.

All right, all right, all right! Hey! Hey, hey, hey! I

I don't know! I... I... I don't have any money, all right?

- What you say? - It's not my money. It's somebody else's money.

So why the fuck you stepped up like you was the fucking man in charge, then?

- 'Cause he is. -'Cause I didn't know who you were, all right?

- You wannna be in charge? Come here? - Shut up, all right? Please.

- Please, please, please? - Don't watch my gun, man. Guns don't kill. People kill.

Tell this guy. Tell him who your uncle is.

What the fuck? Fuck his fucking uncle!

All right. Take down his phone number, all right?

What? You all down with the mob or some shit?

What you want? My number?

Hey! Can you shut up, man? Yeah, your number.

Five... five... five, 29... 75.

What's that? I'm sorry.

- What was your number? - Five... five... five, 29... 70 fucking 5.

White boys, y'all got heart.

Tell them Rich Bower.

Rich Bower. Rich Bower?

- Come to the gym tomorrow. How's that? - What gym you talking about?

Where Tyson trains. -You want to get Ricky Martined to death, man?

You all motherfuckers make sure you get your shit right, man, 'cause I'll be back.

Tell the boys to reach out to me!

Scotty, man, we had nothing to do with that, dude.

What the fuck is going on, Scott? You all right? You all right? You know these guys?

- Who are those fucking guys? - They're from the fucking neighborhood.

Nigger motherfuckers come in here. Who the fuck are they?

Hi.

So we're on?

What makes you so sure?

You showed up.

Yeah. I'm here.

- Did you tell anybody about this? - No.

Nobody. Nobody?

Not even your girlfriend or anything?

How you know I got a girlfriend?

I don't know you have a girlfriend, I just assumed you have a girlfriend.

I mean you're a young man...

- So, did you tell her? - Why would I tell my girlfriend?

'Cause if you do, we're fucked. You know. You don't want to fuck me, right?

I hadn't thought about it, but you know, I think I'll pass on it.

Seriously, you don't want to fuck me, right?

You're asking me some real strange questions, man.

You know, there's gonna be a fuck fest and we're, both of us, are gonna be fucked

if you should say... say anything to anybody.

Look, man, I don't think you want to do this. You act like you don't want to.

So, you want me to say no?

Want you to say no? I don't want you to say no.

I want you to say whatever you want to say.

I want you... If you want to do it, I want you to do it.

If you want to basically take a lot of money to fix a basketball game.

I just want you to be clear with this. You're committing a felony.

You're losing a basketball game for money.

I want to be clear that. I want you to understand you're breaking the law.

If you're fine with that, then I'm fine with that.

Tell me you understand what you're doing here.

I know what I'm doing, You got the money or what?

I got the ten. I got the ten, then you get the 15, then the 25.

Where is it?

It's in the, it's in the bathroom.

Well, it's not in the bathroom. It's in my underwear.

I would go... I think we should go in the bathroom to get it.

I could get it out of my underwear now.

I think we should go in the bathroom and get it out of my underwear.

All right, all right, okay. Let's go to the bathroom and get your money.

Let's go to the bathroom and get it out of my underwear.

It's crazy.

The things we do to throw a basketball game?

So?

- Hey, man, don't try no funny stuff. - Funny stuff?

You're like a pervert or something.

I'm not a pervert.

Yo, man, you are a mad strange man. Will you stop fumbling around and give me the money?

I'm trying... what is that supposed to mean? What does that mean?

Mad strange? How do I take this?

Take it how you want it.

What up, what up, what up?

How you? Chiling.

Checked out that club you told me about.

Glad to be of service.

What's happening?

Same old, same old. Taking care of shit.

You taking care of what? What shit?

Just coming from down the street. Smoke a little weed, see some girls.

Who down there?

Just some girls I saw.

Nothing belonged to me down there?

Four guys, three cows, two sheep, anything you need.

You got a sick mind, Will.

Nah.

White boy. This motherfucker come up with some crazy shit sometimes.

Fucking D.A.'s psycho son.

Yo, man. What you been doing?

Haven't seen you, man. What's up? What's up?

Hey, Will, Will. Chiling. Chiling.

This, right here, this is the infamous, the Will.

Infamous? Hey. Sam Donecker.

That's a big title. Nice to meet you.

Of course, you're infamous. You're fam. Of course, baby.

- I don't deserve that. - Hey, I'm doing a film on your brother.

This is my husband, Terry.

Hiya. Hey.

- Yeah, she found us... - Yeah, we're doing a documentary.

And she's doing like this documentary. Ain't you got your own friends, man?

Who are these guys? Will you introduce us?

I do, but she's a cute girl.

Will you introduce us?

No? Shit.

- Yo. What up? - We came up here to meet these people.

You came running up to me.

Where you at? I'll be over there at the Wall, man.

The Wall? Hey, what's the

- Wall? What's the Wall? - All right. Peace.

That's like where they're from, where they congregate. It's like their thing.

- No. No. - Can we go to the Wall?

- Of course we can go. - No, you can't go to the Wall.

- Don't go to the Wall. - We'll go to the fucking Wall, it's a free fucking country.

You can't go to the Wall, don't go there. Don't follow them there.

Why don't you go downtown? I'm not following anybody.

Why don't you do that?

Let's go to the Wall.

Why don't you go downtown? I'm from up here as much as you are.

What? What's wrong with the Wall? Why can't we go to the Wall?

- Yeah, we could go if you want to go. - Let's go to the Wall.

Why does he got to be so fucking possessive?

- We'll take the boat and go down there now. - Let's go the Wall.

My brother's a pretty cool guy, isn't he?

Are you guys all just imitating a Black culture, a Black lifestyle?

We're not imitating it. We're influenced by it.

But did you always have that way of speaking, that gold tooth?

I mean is that the way you were brought up?

Whatever. It just happens, you know what I mean? Like if you moved to London right now,

in like two years, you'd be talking like some English person.

Do you talk like this to your parents?

What do your parents think about the way you dress and talk?

They hate it, but their parents hated what they did.

So it is about rebelling against your parents?

It's about being yourself. It's just about them.

It's about just doing what the fuck you want to do.

Want to live forever!

Sam?

My God! How are you? My God, hi! How are you?

My God. You've changed so much. Your hair...

It's been a few years. I've changed. I have.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm doing a documentary on these kids.

What's your name?

Scott.

Howdy, Scott.

How you doing, pal?

What do you want?

Nothing, just watching. What do you want?

Watching what?

The approach to Staten Island.

Are you married, are you...?

- Yeah, I'm married. I live on the upper East side. - Sure.

- I don't mean to be strange or pushy or... - Well, you are.

- Or come off like a cushion pusher to you. - You are.

Pardon? Dude, I don't understand.

Why do guys always gotta come up to me and try to talk to me?

Right. I'm not gay.

Is there a sign on me that says "fuck me" or something?

- No. - I like dick? 'Cause I don't like dick.

All right? So stop with... Right.

- I'm going to my girlfriend's house now, girlfriend. - Right.

What's his name? You understand?

His name. Real funny.

I'm married, too. Actually, that's my husband.

You just back up, man. Every fucking day, I got one of you freaks

coming up to me, trying to hit on me, man.

I ain't with it. I don't understand. What's the deal?

Do I look gay? Am I wearing a fucking G-string and fucking Daisy Dukes?

It's more of just an energy.

Do I got a tight shirt on?

Do I skip around? I mean, let me know. If you see it, 'cause I don't know what it is.

I just saw you walk in. I didn't notice if you were...

Do I walk like feminine or something? I don't understand.

Let me see. Give me your walk.

I ain't giving you my... Did you see it when I walked in?

I wasn't really paying attention then.

- What makes you think I'd talk to you? - There was a certain energy...

There was an energy about me?

Yes.

So there's nothing I can do about that, then.

Don't know if it's internalized or if you're...

- Do you just go up to people randomly and bother them? - Yes, I do.

I don't mean to bother you. 'Cause you're bothering me.

Well, can you please leave me alone, then?

Certainly, as I said, Scott.

Okay, so. Nice meeting you.

- Let's leave it at that. Goodbye. - Very well, sir.

Very well. Take care, pal.

I don't know about this shit, man. We should be...

Just trust me on this shit, son.

- That's my nigga, Brett Ratner, right here. - Rich. Good to meet you.

- Motherfucker directed Rush Hour. - Cigar, what up?

I heard your record, man. I'm a big fan. It's just incredible.

- I don't make records, sir. - Incredible. He sent me the demo.

I sent the tape to him

He sent it to me.

Sent him the Cream Team shit.

Why d'you think I'm out here?

Well, I hope you out here to do work, 'cause that's what we want.

Hell yeah. I'm here to sell records for you.

Yo, not to cut you... every time I call this nigga, he be having the joint playing.

It's a hit. I'm doing Hollywood films, you got a hit record, okay?

I want to do the video because if I do the video,

it's gonna cross over. I've never been to Staten Island before, okay?

But I know what you're about,

and I would know what your music's about, and I would know what you're saying.

Right. I respect what he do, but me and him ain't the same type of people.

I'm black. He white. No doubt. I recognize...

Truth is, I'm white. I'm from Miami, okay? But I love your music.

I'm just here to make it look great. That's my job, know what I'm saying?

Yo, man, he gonna Hollywoodize it for us. He gonna put the stamp on it...

I'm gonna give you the production value.

Exactly. He gonna make it look like it's Hollywood even though it ain't Hollywood.

We gonna take it from the, from the purest form.

I know what your audience wants, and I know how to cross it over the same time.

You know what I'm saying?

Yo, man, all I want to say,

man is that, yo, man, my man believe in you, I believe in you.

Hi. Um, excuse me?

What's going on?

Put that camera away, man.

Okay. Sorry. Sam Donecker. I'm doing a documentary, um...

Rolling up on a nigga with a camera and all this shit. Who you working with?

It's just a camera. I'm just... I'm working with myself. I'm just doing a

documentary on... this phenomenon actually that I've witnessed all over America.

Hi. I'm Sam. What's your name?

Brett Ratner.

Rush Hour. Okay, right.

I overheard that you said you were going to the Wall? Is this the Wall?

Adding in more shit. Interview this nigga, man. Throw it on him.

Shit! Brett fucking Ratner! What up, baby?

I know you know this cat, man.

What's up with you? Fuck this nigga right here.

I'm gonna do their video. I'm gonna do their video.

Damn. Now I know I got to watch my back, now. analog niggas like that? Yo.

- Yo. What up, kid? Come on, man. - What's up with you?

Yo, what up? Rae. I'm gonna start with the rap.

You know these motherfuckers? - Hell no, I don't know them,

But they bought your record.

Shit, they got...

Hey, don't leave me out.

Hey, what goes on there?

- Love is law. My God. - This the pesky lady with the camera right here.

I'm doing a documentary. You can respect that? -Donecker. Name's Donecker.

Yeah. Sam. Sam's my name. I can respect that.

- What you be needs to know? - I want to know about the Wall. Tell me about the Wall.

All right, Sam. I'll tell you about the Wall.

This wall right here is a monument to two fallen soldiers that lived out here.

America is definitely eating its young. And it's past time that we did something about it

and took responsibilities for our own ways and actions.

You know what I mean? That's why you got "Can it be... all so

- It ain't that simple. - You know what I mean? It's never that simple.

That's why after the laughter, there's always tears. You be surprised how many white kids

do know what time it is, you know? And um, the same way we was taught when we

came over here on the slave ships. We teaching now. You know what I mean?

And I mean the coaches...

So who are the slaves today?

Who are the slaves today? We still the slaves.

Regardless, the average working man is a slave.

You know what I'm saying? We're share... croppers.

We all share cropping. But the thing that is... this music is so influential and so

real, there's not a wall built that can hold it down.

Hey, Rich. Me and Charlie want to come hang out with you.

You all got too much extra baggage around with y'all for me.

- If we lose our boyfriends, can we come? - What'd I just tell you?

I want to go. It's phat.

As soon as we get off the ferry, let's jump in a cab, and we'll ditch them.

Maybe we should go get something to eat when we get back.

Maybe Little Italy. We could go to Chinatown

So there's only one cab. There's not enough for everybody.

We have to stick with these kids, Terry.

We gotta take two cabs. I'll go with Charlie

Just wanna chill out.

Let's just go to my house.

Charlie, wait.

We'll talk tomorrow. Charlie! Wait. I'll go w...

I can't find my nose ring.

Something's fucked up. Let's follow them.

This shit is fucking bullshit.

Get in. Go.

Come on, I ain't got all day, man.

You're under arrest.

For what?

I want you to be clear with that.

I want you to understand that you're breaking the law.

Are you fine with that? If you're fine with that, then I'm fine with that.

Just tell me you understand what you're doing.

I know what I'm doing. You got the money or what?

I got the ten. I got the ten, then you get the 15, then the 25.

Where is it? It's...

What you want from me, man? It's in the bathroom.

Rich? Rich.

Yo. Rich is not even... he don't even... he just...

Yeah, he's just the biggest gangster in Harlem.

Rich is in entertainment rap, man. He's a mogul. He ain't no street hustler.

Okay, then. You go to jail.

What's this all about, man?

This is about you going to jail unless you give me Rich.

You're fucked.

I'm a fucking New York City detective, asshole. You're under arrest.

You're under arrest. You're fucked.

$50.000.

You and Cigar arrange that meeting at the gym for me?

I'm okay. You know I handled that. Two o'clock, me and Cigar.

Everybody gonna be there.

- Hey, yo! Who is it? - Wren and Marty to see Charlie and Kim.

- Hey, yo, don! - Shit.

Yeah, let them in.

- What the fuck are they doing here? - I don't know, but chill, yo.

Yo, Charlie. Come on, I want to talk to you.

No. Not now. What do you want? What?

Come on. I want to talk to you please.

No! Tell me now. What?

Look, can we just talk?

What do you... stop it. What do you want to talk about?

- Yo, calm down, man. - You know, I thought I could trust you.

Yo, get off it. Don't be starting with him. That's my problem. I'll deal with it.

What do you mean, "Don't be starting with it, that's your problem."

It's my problem. I don't even want to talk to you, right now.

Don't want to talk to you now. Yeah, all right.

Just yo, chill out with that bullshit, man.

- I thought I could trust you. What is this? -You can. What did I do?

You can come over here. I thought you were going to Kim's house.

I thought I was going to Kim's house, too, but whatever, Rae.

I didn't know that you knew these people like this.

Look, we were in the cab. What you mean "these people"?

- And they were talking about place and I've never been... - Motherfucker.

You've never gone somewhere in a cab and changed your mind right then? Ever? Come on.

We didn't even know. We would've... we totally would've told you.

I'm sorry for following... It's like you come in here...

You come in here and you're disrespectful to everybody. -Disrespectful?

- To everyone? What? I'm trying to talk to you.

- You know, it was a chill, mellow environment until your ass showed up.

It was cool in here. We were all relaxing.

Look, you know what?

Smoking joints, watching TV.

You told me you were going to Kim's.

Yeah, and then we changed our mind.

Yeah, in the middle of the cab drive.

Why are you here? All right, just...

Let her chill out. Come over, help me finish this.

Chill out. Smoke a joint.

All right, come on.

It's cool. Come on. You know, she's... everybody's just a little crazy right now.

You know how this shit is.

Whatever. Why you got to be getting involved with my problems?

- What do you mean, why I got to be getting involved -Just chill with shit.

- You always disrespecting me. - You brought your problem to me when you came in my world.

So fucking what? You brought your shit here.

You're always telling me like I'm some kind of your pussy...

Whatever. Shut the fuck up.

You've got to be chiling on that shit.

Is that, is that Mike Tyson over there?

Yeah, that's Mike Tyson. You filming everything and all that?

It's part of the documentary.

Yo, check the joint out, man.

- Hey, yo, give me that shit. - Hey, no. What? Look, it's part of the documentary.

- Film them a second? - You know, I'm not doing anything bad with it.

- So what's up, man? -Okay. See this is me. This is what I look like

Let's ask you some questions.

- You acting like you're a secret garden or something.

Is that really Mike Tyson?

Yeah, that's Mike Tyson.

- Yeah. Women in the Paleolithic Era. - The Golden Age.

Breeders. Yeah. Goddesses.

They ruled.

No one understood procreation.

How would anybody know without being told?

People just go on being naive and ignorant.

Yeah. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense.

We didn't go to the bookstore.

- Yeah. Yeah, we'll do it tomorrow. - Before noon or something.

Keep well.

Yeah, you too. Bye.

Hey, did you know that women in the Paleolithic Era were like...

What's the matter?

The game didn't work out? I'm fucked.

Nothing worked out. The guy was a cop.

The guy who approached you?

The guy who paid me.

You took the money.

You act surprised. You thought I should take the money, too.

I said, do what you want, just be true to yourself.

And what was that supposed to mean?

That means free will. Your choice. And you chose to take the bribe.

So, what's the problem now? You regret it?

Yeah, I regret it. I got caught.

But suppose you hadn't been caught.

Then what?

Then you would have felt good about yourself, right?

So who you are is really based on external judgments and not any conviction.

Are you listening to yourself? I'm in the worst trouble of my life,

and you're examining my shit like it's one of your terms papers

What happened?

I guess. He arrest you?

What do you mean you guess?

Well, he didn't want me.

He wanted Rich. What did he want?

He wanted me to rat out Rich because of all the shit he's doing.

And then he'll let you go?

That's what he said.

I don't know. So what are you going to do?

I thought Rich was your friend.

We grew up together. I mean, he went his way, I went my way.

All his shit is about fucking with the law.

That's right. And you've been straight.

And now you just broke away and got nailed.

So what are you saying? I'm supposed to go to jail?

No, I'm just saying be true to yourself.

What would you do?

Doesn't matter.

- Sorry, are you having a private moment? - Yeah.

- Excuse me, brother. - I'm sorry, my heart is just pounding right now.

I'm just so excited to just meet you and stuff and... and

if I could have a minute of your time, just to tell you some things that I'm...

That I feel, it would be wonderful.

What can I do for you, my friend?

I'm Terrence Donecker.

What can I do for you?

I um, I'm sorry. I'm so nervous.

I met you... in... the Versace store...

in... Los Angeles a while back, and I was a little drunk.

- I don't know you. - No, I didn't say that we knew each other.

I'm saying that I had met you before and I wanted to apologize if I said anyth...

You don't even remember? Well, I don't remember.

Good. 'Cause I... I barely remember myself, so good, okay... good.

Whatever. Okay, man.

Okay. Okay.

I had a dream about you.

This is what I wanted... this is why my heart's racing, I'm so fluttery...

if I seem strange, well I... I'd like to apologize.

I had a dream about you two weeks ago.

It's so funny because you were wearing a shirt a lot like the shirt you're wearing now.

And in the dream...

Listen...

I'm on parole, brother, please.

Please, just, just...

Right. Am I annoying you?

I'm just having a peaceful moment here, please.

Okay. Well, in the dream, you were holding me. That's all...

God! Steady, fella.

You fucker...

Steady.

Motherfucker! Motherfucker!

Sam, are you getting this? Are you getting this?

Don't fuck with me like that again, motherfucker..

No, no, no! Don't!

I've had it with this shit

God! What are you doing?

Don't fuck with me! You hear me, cum drinker?

Shit!

All right. Are you dumb?

I'm sure Mister Tyson would rather speak to so many other people right now.

Um, I'm Sam.

Please, ma'am.

Are you all right? Please

You got it on tape, right?

- Yeah, all right. - That isn't right. You ain't right.

Listen, I don't know anything about this white fag shit your guys... you white guys.

Listen, I'm from a different culture. I'm...

- Steady on the assault and battery. - I'm actually interested in...

I was in a penitentiary, now, you know what I mean?

They say I raped somebody, so just...

You know, it's... you want to talk to me about it?

- No. That's okay. - I'll take your word for it. Can I just...

They put you underneath the penitentiary for the white women. I... I just can't...

There's a difference? Is there a difference? I mean, what's the difference

between the white women versus Black women?

I don't trust no white bitch. Not so done got me up there and got me with that other...

Do you want me to turn it off? Do you want me to turn it off?

- Listen, stop, please, now. - Okay. Would you like me to turn it off? Yes. Okay.

Yes? Okay, it's off. Please.

You're not dealing with a animal. This is not a study of animals.

- It's off. It's off. Okay? - Please allow me to... just leave me here, please.

- Please. - Can I just introduce myself to you?

Please.

In all honesty, I'm a fan.

I really. Please.

Go ahead with that strange individual wherever he...

- I don't think he meant any harm. I really don't. - Hey, buddy. You all right?

Mike, you better have your fucking wallet over there with you, man.

What's his name?

Who's name?

The cop?

Mark Clear.

What does he look like?

What does he look like?

Yeah.

What difference does it make what he looks like? Just curious.

Just curious.

He looks like what he is.

So what are you gonna do now?

I mean you're definitely beautiful to look at.

You really believe that?

Yeah. Why would I say that?

Think I want you mad at me for lying? I'm not gonna lie to you.

I wouldn't be angry at you, 'cause no one ever expressed to me that I was

that I was gorgeous or...

But you are. You really are. Come on. You've got beautiful

You've got beautiful eyes.

Really?

- So are you, and I'm in the phone book. - Really?

Sam Donecker.

Donecker.

You all was loving it.

Hold on for a minute.

Hey don, a chick named Greta wants to holler at you.

Greta?

What the fuck she want to holler at me for? What the fuck is going here?

Are you okay, honey? 'Cause that was great stuff...

Rich right here. Speak to me.

Listen, Rich, I've got to see you right away.

For what? What's on your mind?

Not on the phone. You're in a lot of trouble.

I want to help you, but you have to come out and meet me.

What do you mean, I may be in a lot of trouble?

What the fuck you gonna help me with?

Be at the Roger Williams Hotel, room 406, in one hour.

Meet you at a hotel?

That's right.

Why you can't tell me over the phone?

Just be there. Trust me.

Let's get this shit straight.

Ain't no funny business going on up ahead, now.

Me and my man, Dean, been down for too long, since we was kids.

Like five years old, you know what I'm saying?

Shit.

All right.

- What the hell? Come on, baby, I'm trying to take a piss. - Go right ahead.

- So you think Dean's your friend? - Yeah, he's my friend.

And what would you do if you knew that Dean was approached by a gambler and offered

$50,000 to shave points on a game?

Shit, fifty thousand? I'd probably tell him to take it.

I'd take it, depending on the circumstances.

What would you do if you knew that he took that money, threw the game, then found out

that the gambler wasn't really a gambler, but a cop?

Then I'd say Dean got trouble on his hands.

And suppose the cop wasn't really after Dean, but after his friend, Rich.

And Dean decided to sell him out,

have him go to jail so he could stay free. Then what would you do?

Shit. I'd have to be double-platinum, 100% sure

before I even thought about doing anything.

Is that right? You can be.

That's right.

So what would you do?

- Might have to do something to his girl. - Like what?

- Depends. Whatever turned her on, whatever excites her.

And what about Dean? What would you do to Dean?

Don't worry about Dean.

Yes. Take a break. You hungry?

You know what? We'll go get some pasta. I'll take you to Scores tonight.

I want to go there. I never been there.

Will you take me there, please? 'Cause I need to go there.

- Get a nice bite. -Only thing I got to do is go home and see my wife,

get my morning run, take my kid to school and come back and go to the gym.

Then we'll go there.

The guys are here, Chuckie.

What's going on, man?

What's up, my man? All right.

- How are you? - Hey, Rich, Chuck. This is Cigar. My friend, Chuck.

- How you doing? - That was some crazy shit last night?

- That weird-ass white motherfucker. - Just came to get some wisdom.

Wisdom, yeah, really? Tell me about wisdom.

Now that was damn wisdom.

I've made too many mistakes to be a man known for his wisdom.

Except you can't make the same mistakes twice and shit. Know what I'm saying?

I made quite a few. Not the same, but I always get the same consequences.

- Pain. - Shit, all this shit boils down to pain.

It's like, you know that cat, Dean and shit. He got arrested for some bullshit,

And he kind of like, trying to stagnate my process, know what I'm saying?

Via where I came from as to where the fuck I'm going.

That's a age-old story, brother.

- Deceit, treachery. - Dude is in a squeeze where it's like, yo.

He gonna get me rocked so he can save himself, basically.

He gonna try to, it's like this police business and all that shit.

All right, so this is what you're telling me. Listen, this is what...

I'm deciphering from your... your vernacular. You fucked with a nigger.

He got in trouble and he told on you.

I got two possibilities, Mike.

I can kill the motherfucker or not kill him.

If I don't kill him, I'm going to jail.

What... what's your suggestion? What should I do?

You have a problem with somebody, you have to solve the problem.

Take care of the problem. You're angry and you're angry about people

that you feel that's betrayed you, but if... if you're not

willing to be nice to somebody constantly, then you should kill them,

'cause if you're not nice to them and you have them around,

once you empower them, they're gonna kill you or hurt you.

So you're telling me I should go ahead and murder the dude.

Whoa, whoa! My friend, I said nothing of the sort.

I'm too fastidious with my words. I choose them very carefully.

What I said is you have a problem, deal with the repercussions of it.

Are you willing to deal with the responsibility of going to a penitentiary?

I've been there. You don't want to go to prison.

Random strip search, random kick in your ass, having dogs look up your ass.

You know what I mean? Some pervert guard playing with your asshole and your balls.

- Is that what you want? - You're fucking with words, man.

- I'm not playing with words. -I know you're very articulate and all that, but

My God.

Come on, we're from the same motherfucking part of town, man.

I ain't even understand that whatever the fuck word it was you just said.

I'm trying to get to the point.

In other words, in other words,

a bug needs to be stomped on.

But listen, I love you there, brother. Always will love you.

Like Dean, too, But your guy chose this life, um, deal with that problem.

You should come with me to Scores. They got good pasta.

Come on, man, I got a fucking headache, you're talking some fucking Scores.

Well, shit, man. that could relieve your headache.

I'm out of here.

Got to go, got to go.

Cigar, what up, man? You ready? Let's make moves, man.

See you tomorrow night, Mike.

What up, Chuck?

Fellas. What's up, Rich?

Mister Roberto, talk to me.

Listen, right, there was some trouble the other night in the club with him and him?

Fucking right it was trouble.

First of all, boys, this is my nephew, Scotty, and that's Frank.

- Yeah, and? - Okay, so tell me what happened.

- I'll tell you what happened. - I want to hear this. He tried to take half.

The club's getting opened up in my neighborhood,

Neighborhood I been in all these years of my life.

Twenty block radius there of me and my cool rule.

We're gonna work something out, me and you, 'cause I got something else I want

to do a later, but as far as this thing's concerned, it's all straightened out.

We'll take care of it. Shake hands with nephew.

- Shake hands. Come on, Rich. Shake hands! - On what? What...?

Shake hands! Don't, come on!

All right!

No more problems, no more. There's not gonna be no more problems.

- We'll work it out. What we got to do, okay? - All right.

All right, guys. I'll see you at the opening.

Just remember man, this is not a game.

Next time, you go to him first.

Why did you make me look fucking stupid, I want to know

Next time, you go to him first. Let him make you...

I look like an asshole now, this guy comes in here and calls me soft!

I do business with him. You got it? I do business, he's a good guy!

- He's a good guy! Shut the fuck up! Shut up! What are you talking...

Just shut up and let him talk!

Hi. Excuse me. Excuse me, are you Inspector Deck?

- Yeah. -Well, it's really nice to meet you. I'm Sam Donecker,

I'm a really big fan. This is my husband, Terry Donecker.

Hey. Want to do me a favor and introduce me to your friends?

I'm heading out over there anyway, know what I mean?

You want to introduce me? Would you mind?

I really appreciate it.

This is Sam.

Love, love, love. Everyone, it's Sam.

Yeah, Sam. Nice to meet you.

We were talking about how your music actually influences kids today.

Sticks. What's your name?

Sticks. Why Sticks?

That's what I do every night.

Sticks. Sticks.

What does that mean?

That mean don't let me catch you on a late night walking around...

What's going on, Billy? How you doing? You all right?

Yeah. How do you like the club? Looks good, right?

Right? Looks nice. Nice.

- Rich, how are you? - Calling on you for that favor right about now that we...

You got it. What is it? No problem. What do you got?

Got a kid in the club, Dean. I need to get him hit.

I need one of your boys to take care of it for me.

- Tonight? -Tonight, man! Right now! In here!

Rich, it's opening night. You want me to kill the fucking guy?

Let the place warm up a couple of weeks. Give me a fucking break.

- Listen, listen... - I want you to do it right now.

Listen, Guy will be here in two days. You can't wait two days?

I ain't got two days, man. Fuck it, I'm going to deal with it right now.

What do you want me to do? Kill the guy myself tonight?

I'm gonna deal with it, man. Don't even worry about it.

Do you feel exploited by it?

- Yeah, man. That shit is bullshit, man. - Really, why?

- It's a crock! -What's bullshit about it? What's a crock about it?

What? You know what it's like?

It's like... it's like, the motherfucking, the big... ass tourist bus that be riding

through Harlem. Looking at us like we motherfucking on display and some shit.

So you're saying that you cannot know it unless you live it.

Gentlemen, what's the word?

I just can't think of it. It's just too weird thinking about it.

- A tumor festering in my brain. - That's true.

Help. This is... sorry. I'm so scared.

Come on, I'm just trying to have fun, too. I thought we share.

We do. We share.

Come on, let me hit that, let me hit that, let me hit that.

- Um, a little bit too much to drink tonight? - What is that you're wearing?

This?

No, the cologne.

It's Aramis.

Get out of here.

- It's a throwback. You remember Aramis, don't you? - That's the same that I wear.

Come one. You're shitting me.

I swear to God.

My God. Is that just nuts?

She's gone. Who cares?

She was pretty smart. What's your name again?

Terry. Terry Donecker. What's your name?

Casey. It's nice to meet you.

It's my pleasure.

Where the fuck you been at, white boy? I've been looking for your little ass, man.

Man, watch the 'do. What's going on, man?

Come on, your 'do is fucked up anyway, man. Stop this bullshit.

What's up, yo? What do you think of the digs?

Shit is right.

It's right, right?

What's up with you, though? What's going down?

- Chiling, chiling, I'm feeling this vibe. Chiling. - Feeling it? You feeling it?

Hi, everybody. Hi Muffy. How you been, baby?

Muffy? Who's this? Her mom?

Watch my coat.

You borrowed my coat!

That's my coat, not yours.

I'm um, Sam Donecker.

- Sam? -I'm doing a documentary, on your daughter and

Really? All of her friends.

It's like about how, like, we're all into hip-hop and shit.

I got some serious shit I need to really get at you.

Well, I'm the one. I'm the one, man. What you need?

You the one for what? You don't even know what I'm talking about.

I deal with the serious shit.

What one are you?

I take care of the serious shit, yo.

You're live like that?

I'm live like that.

- Your balls look kind of small to me, playboy.

That's 'cause these pants is big, yo.

Yeah. Yeah?

I need you to do something for me and shit.

I'm the one. What you need to do? What's going on?

You sure you up to it?

Depends on what it is, but, you know, most of the time,

I can deal with what you need me to do.

Depends on what? What the fuck you mean, "most of the time"?

What the fuck it depend on? Either you with it or you ain't.

I'm with it. What you need me to... what?

You... you up to do a murder?

Damn, yo, this is a fucking club, man. What you talking...

Don't give me this club shit, man. I don't give a fuck about that.

What the fuck, man? You up for it?

Who do you need to get murdered?

Dean.

Whoa. Whoa. I don't know about that, man. What the fuck, man? Dean's like...

What do you mean you don't know? I thought you just said you with it.

I am with it, man. I am with it, but what the fuck, yo? Dean is like your boy.

He's like my boy. What's the fuck's up with Dean?

What the fuck you mean? What he did to me is not important. I thought you was down for me.

So you need me to do this right away? What the fuck, do you think?

Yeah, I need you to do it right away. I need you to do this shit now.

All right. It's done. I'll do it. I'll do it for you, no problem. It's done.

You gonna do it? Yeah, I'm gonna do it. I said I would.

- Remember me? - What's up, baby. How you doing?

- What the fuck is going on? - What do you mean, "What's going on?"

What are you talking about? What is going on?

Don't act like you don't... I know what the fuck is going on.

I've seen you walk around this club four times,

you're having these little conversations with people. What is this?

Look me in the eye. What the fuck is going on? You're full of shit. I can tell.

Fucking silencer. What the fuck am I doing?

Pop! That's what the fuck I really ought to do.

This one is mine, right. This one is mine.

You ready? Yeah.

Ready? -Ready to roll. You time's up, pal.

There's a lot of stuff about Rich that I don't even know, man.

You got enough on him, just like I got enough on you.

- Where you gonna be at eight o'clock? - The gym.

- I'll be waiting outside. - I'm gonna make a lot of enemies out of this shit.

My heart's breaking for you, Dean.

Nah, man. I'm not playing.

You ain't playing? You finished?

I'm finished for the day.

Dean.

Stay the fuck right there. Don't fucking move.

Yo, yo, relax.

You fuck! Stay right there!

- What's up with this? - You know what the fuck you did.

Look, you don't understand. You don't understand.

You know what you did.

You don't want to do this.

Don't try and fuck my fucking head. You stay right fucking there.

Let me and him talk about this.

Rich don't want to talk to you!

- You gonna shoot me? - Shut the fuck up, and back up!

Don't you fucking come up these stairs, man. Fuck.

Don't let him get in your head.

Don't you try and fuck my fucking head.

You don't understand, man. You're making a big mistake,

Don't you take another fucking step, Dean!

Look, me and you will talk about, all right.

- Swear to God, I'm gonna pop you. - Don't let him do it?

- Don't let him do this. -You stay right fucking there. Fuck you! Stay the fuck back.

Fuck you, Dean. Relax.

Fuck you. Just relax.

Detective units, we got a report of a homicide at a Rider basketball court.

One, eight, seven. All units in the vicinity, please respond.

Again, we've got a report of a possible homicide. City Rider basketball court.

One, eight, seven. Possible homicide. Please respond. Thirteen eighty sixty... one,

Thirteen A, 61, 13 Victor 6.

Hi.

What's so urgent.

What's so urgent?

Yeah, urgent. Remember? That's the word you used.

Yeah. Hi. Hi.

Yeah? Hi.

You want to start out like that? I mean, what do you...

No, hey, hey, hey. What is this? I mean...

I mean, this is our...

This is our... does this place bring back any...

Doesn't it conjure up any old...

No. What is this about, Luke?

That guy.

What guy?

The guy... what's his name.

The basketball player.

Dean. His name's Dean.

Right. Was.

Dean

What do you mean, "Was"?

He's dead.

You didn't know that? You didn't hear it on the news?

No.

You know what fascinates me?

It's really... it's... it's very interesting to me that, here's this guy that's weak, greedy,

fucking corrupt asshole that you fall for, that you leave me for, and you get all crazy

about, right? And then I tell you he's dead, and you have less reaction to it than,

than if I told you, like a squirrel had been hit by a van.

You know about this?

- No, I don't. - Don't lie, 'cause I can tell so easily when you're lying.

- How was he killed? - I didn't say he was killed. I said he was dead.

- Yeah, you did. - No, no. I said he was dead. I never said he was killed.

- No, it was just the way you were saying it. - You're lying to me, right?

- You're lying to me. You know about this, don't you? - What?

I never said he was killed. I said he was dead.

Did you have something to do with this?

- No, did you? -No. I have noth... what, what? No

I can't believe we're even having this conversation.

See, I wish we could, like, get together some time and talk about us.

How was he killed?

He was, you know, shot in front of his locker, 'cause he

was a weak, greedy, scumbag, bribe-taking motherfucker. That's why

How would you know that?

How would I know that?

There's a lot of stuff I know that you don't know.

What? What's your name?

After you became a detective, did you change your name?

To what name? Yeah.

To what name?

Mark Clear.

You fucking Rich Bower?

Fuck you.

Fuck you. You're fucking Bower, right?

Right? Right? Dean told you, let me get this straight.

Dean told you, then you went to Rich Bower because it turned you off that Dean would

be so weak, right, to actually open up to you. Just like when I left, you considered it

weak that I would do something to change my life, right? To actually turn my

life around. That's weak.

You're so fucking twisted, do you know that?

Don't you get it? God. You haven't changed.

You're the same guy, except that now, you're hiding behind a badge.

So when are you gonna come back to me?

Why is that so crazy?

In local news, the killer of City Rider senior, Dean Carter

is still at large. Police continue to investigate this tragic shooting. Carter

was found dead on the stairs outside his locker room with a gunshot wound to the chest. If

you have any information relating to this incident, please call our Crime Watch

hotline. Five five five, one two three four. That's five five five, one two three four.

Right now, it's time to check our weather.

Once again, it'll be mild tonight, with very comfortable temperatures in the

mid-fifties and a slight breeze out of the West.

Did you know I got locked up in Memphis?

For what? What the fuck you was doing?

- Being black, son. -You're right about that. Shit, you in the South, boy.

Never forget where the fuck, what time it is, and where you at?

I was in the middle of the street, signing autographs,

Nigga pulled up, I pulled it off to the side.

Came back, he just maced me over the top.

Maced me. Sprayed me right in my eyes. Shit was burning, face on fire.

Damn!

And he locked me up after that. Them bad dogs, you understand?

What's up? You got up out of that shit.

One day served. I serve my night, went to see the judge.

The night for what?

The night for obstruction of traffic and motherfucking resisting arrest.

Yeah. Yeah?

That shit was bad, but they did it 'cause I was Black, trust me.

That's where Martin Luther King got killed there.

Peace black.

I will.

Hey. Chill.

Loving you. Whoa, shit.

- Fuck that, bite the ear and shit. - My nigger.

- Look what you did, son. -My niggas is burning each other up, dropping this shit

on my rug. What the fuck? Damn, man!

Come on, man. I'm lucky, you all know I got cash pool man,

Yo, Tyson. My nigga!

Yo, what's up. Yo, man.

What's up? You got these cats disrespecting your crib? What's up?

No, that ain't no disrespect. It was an accident, brother. You know how I play the game.

It's all over the place about that thing we discussed in the gym.

When you moved on this kid? Everything clean? You took care of that on your own?

- I hired somebody to do the shit. - Hired who?

- This kid. - A brother member, a family member?

I mean, shit, not your brother or my brother.

Kid, that's a bad move, man. You're playing dirty pool.

What are you talking about, kid?

You can't send no child to do a man's job. You're supposed to handle that on your own.

Soon as he needs a fix or something, you're burned man?

- Nigga don't get high, man. - Would he tell you that? You don't know nothing about him.

And I'm just trying to save your ass.

You out here telling me, "I got somebody to..." -Save my ass?

Come on, man. I'm fucking taking your advice.

I know, but you wasn't man enough to do it by yourself.

Come on, man. You had to be a man.

When you make moves, you got to do it... all right, listen.

Come on, man. You insulting my, assassinating my character, man.

Assassinating your character? Insulting my manhood.

- No doubt, man. - You got some kid you don't know, I don't know.

I know him!

- Yes, hi. Is this District Attorney King? - Yes, it is.

I'm Mark Clear.

I'm a detective with the N.Y.P.D., sir, I have information about your son,

Will, that I'd like to meet you about.

What information are we talking about?

It's very important, I think I should meet you in person.

I'm free from 2:00 to 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, all right?

No, tomorrow isn't good. I'd say, in about an hour would be the best time.

Right away would be really good. I think you should drop everything you're

doing right now and, meet me. If you know what I mean.

What's up with your friend, Charlie? She ain't want none of this dick today?

- She's angry at you. - What the fuck is she angry about?

- Because of the other night. - Other night? What happened the other night?

You disrespected her.

She got what her hand called for.

Anyway, you think I can't satisfy you by myself?

I don't know.

Why don't you let me show you?

You can show me. But I still think of you and Charlie as a team.

Think of me as me. Charlie got her own problems.

Shit.

Mr. King. Hi, I'm Mark Clear.

Can I see some identification?

I'm a detective with the Fifteenth Precinct.

- I have some photographs that I'm going to show you. - Photographs?

You heard about the murder of that basketball player, Dean, from City.

Great. Of course. I've heard of it.

I'll be prosecuting the case as soon as we catch the killer. Can I see the photos?

Those were taken about two minute after your son, shot and killed the victim.

I don't want to arrest your son.

- Does anyone else know about these photographs? - Nobody.

What do you want?

Redemption.

I'm a D.A. I'm not a priest.

That's why you can help me.

A priest can't help me here. Let me tell you just a little about myself.

My dad is a lawyer, okay? He's a very liberal lawyer.

My mother was involved in voter registration in the South in the Sixties.

She put her life on the line for causes that she really believed in.

I went a different way. I became a gambler, I became a cheat, I stole.

I did everything wrong. Don't know if I was rebelling against what they were.

I don't know what the hell it was, but I also was very creative as a kid.

I actually made guitars, and I made my own clothes.

I'm very good with my hands. I can talk my way in and out of different situations,

and it's gotten me into trouble a lot in my life. It's also...

I've done incredibly well for me. For...

Have you ever heard of, Saul of Tarsus?

Do you know who that was in the Bible?

He became St. Paul, the Apostle.

They said he was an epileptic, and he had this incredible conversion.

All of a sudden, he decided he wasn't going to persecute Christians,

He was gonna become a Christian, like the most zealous Christian ever.

About six years ago, I had a big change in my life. I had this zeal...

I decided to become a cop.

I had this girlfriend who was not even a fucking girlfriend.

She was more like the only woman who I ever loved, you know?

She was just really fucking with my head, you know,

I think she got off on the fact that I was a criminal, and then when I had

a change in my life, when I decided, I'm going to do something.

I'm gonna persecute these fuckers, when I became this new guy,

who I am now, she couldn't deal with it. She fucking... She left.

She left and she, you know what? And, by the way... -What do you want from me?

- I've been trying to explai... -I'm leaving in one minute. What do you want from me?

I want to explain to you that, before I became a cop, like I said,

I was a gambler. I got involved in some very situations. Okay?

And there's one situation that I got involved with that is coming back now,

that's gonna come across your desk. There's a guy named Jimmy Fordo.

- There's a basketball fix. And I've changed... - I know the case.

- Okay. - I think I understand where you're leading...

Do you? 'Cause it's a really simple solution to this problem here, right?

I can help your son out. You can help me out. We can help each other.

I don't know, you see...

What you don't...

Know about my son and me is that...

We're not close.

He's your son.

Will and I, we haven't seen each other for two years.

I don't know if I want to help Will.

And I know I don't want to help you.

But I will have to speak with my son, and I will need some time.

All right. Okay.

I think you wanna...

I don't wanna tell you how to live your life, but I think you should help your son.

I think I could help you help your son.

What are you doing here?

What's going on?

What's up with you? Why are you out here like this?

I don't want those fucking hands on me right now, okay? Don't know where they been.

- What do you mean? - What's up with you and white girls?

Yeah. Me and white girls?

- There you go with this nonsense. - You said you'd never go there

Come on, you acting like it's my girl or something. What you talking about?

I just happen to walk in and see a fucking white bitch with hair down to her ass and blue

eyes with some granny underwear on with fucking flower prints on them.

I mean, we're not married or nothing. I don't see no ring on your finger or on mine.

I'm just trying to give you a reality check on how you're living right now,

and it's foul. It's disgusting.

- Why don't you come here and make my house your home. - It's not about me.

What you mean it's not about you?

I told you how I felt a long time ago.

You're used goods. I don't want to be with you. -I'm used goods.

You know what you need? You need to, like, go inside.

You need to do some fucking searching. Figure out who you are before it's too late

Come on.

Can you pop the trunk, please?

Hi, Richard. How are you?

Thank you. Great. Thanks.

Okay, there we go. Great. See you in a week.

Thank you, Stanley. We're off to the South.

What? Honey.

Come on.

What's the matter?

I... I... I'm not sure.

Please.

- Come on, don't be... don't do this. - I'm not sure that I'm going.

- No, don't do this again. Every time we fly.

- Or maybe I'll go, but maybe I should go, just go solo.

Solo? What's the matter with you? Come on, get in the car.

I'm not going.

You are going. Now, stop it.

This is crazy. I'm tired of living this lie.

Every time we go down there, we pretend, pretend, pretend.

Stop it. Just get in the car. Just get in the car, okay?

Don't!

I'm a cum guzzler. Mike nailed it.

- Stop it, okay? Just stop it. - I don't want to pretend anymore

Don't pretend, then. I'm gonna let my...

Richard! I'm gay!

He doesn't care, trust me.

Richard's known.

Richard, what do I do? She's out of town, there's boys in here.

- Stan, am I a fag or what? - Stop it. Stop it! Hey, so what? You're a fag!

- Who the fuck cares? - It's clear, everyone knows but you!

- You won't even admit it! - Of course I do admit it, I admit everything.

- I'm fine with it. -Can you pop the trunk? I'll be going solo, Richard.

- I am so fine with it. Stop. - You stay here. Get a life. Get a man.

- I've got a life. - You were so into Mike the other night.

- What? Are you fucking crazy? - You want a big Black man, not a little, stingy queen.

Didn't you see how scared I was? I was doing that for you.

I was trying to save him from hurting you. You're the one that was excited about it.

You're in denial. I'm taking your bags out.

- Don't project onto me. - Can you just pop the trunk again real quick?

Please don't do this. What, it's like The Day of the Dolphin, right?

Where you say you don't love me. Pa says he doesn't love the dolphins so they're safe.

Pa loves cock.

Sorry.

I don't get it. I just don't fucking get it.

Fucking just go. Keep fucking going. I hate this.

Just go, go, keep fucking going.

He'll come back.

I really feel spooked about that kid, Will, man.

I think he's gonna be a threat to us down in Harlem.

Pop?

Billy.

Sit down.

- Number one, the motherfucking nigga pops is the D.A. - Forget about that, Cigar.

We got to get away from that kind of thinking. All that shit is in the past, man.

Only hits we doing is on wax, man. We ain't killing nobody no more. You all understand?

A police officer, took these photographs.

He doesn't want you.

What he wants is...

He has a case that's coming before me, where he's indictable.

He wants me to throw the case out.

Cigar, you know that white kid wasn't right for that shit.

Yo, man. Let me tell you.

You know that.

There is no way I'm letting you go to jail.

We're going to have a new beginning, you and I.

We can't do this shit, man. We're not doing it

Let me take the stands for all of that, man.

'Cause he acting like we don't know what time it is,

like I don't see you working a nigga, or what you need to work him for.

A Detective Mark Clear.

- Hey, yo, whatever Rich say... - Bower? This is Detective Mark Clear.

Now, listen to me very carefully. I know what you did.

- I know everything you did. - I don't know what you're talking about.

No, no, no. Shut the fuck up and listen to me, asshole. You may think you got away with

what you did, you may think that, my life is free now, right? It isn't.

Sometimes people are lucky. They get a second chance. I got a second chance.

I'm Saul of fucking Tarsus.

I got a second chance. I'm not gonna blow it. You're gonna blow it. Maybe not right away,

but you will. And when you do, I'm gonna be right there to nail your fucking

ass. I'm going to annihilate you, asshole. You're going the fuck down.

I'm so fucked up.

In the Paleolithic Era, people believed that the female body was sacred.

Because it was creating life on its own.

They didn't make a connection between the sexual act

and a child being born nine months later.

So, for thousands of years, people considered that men were unnecessary.

Yeah, okay. I know that's right.

They were decoration, and women were everything.

They still are, baby. They still are.

Everybody looks great. Your hair, makeup.

What up, son?

Fucking right man.

- What's up, Bro? - Nice to see you, man. How you feel?

I'm happy you're here.

You happy I'm here? Your face ain't saying it.

I'm your man. I'm happy you made it.

It's like, now, there ain't no boundary. We all in it together, man. Black people,

white people, Asians, you know what I'm saying?

Indians, whoever. Know what I mean? Looking on TV, seeing Japanese

casts hopping around doing hip-hop singing, your record. It's a Japanese Cigar up there

You ever thought of that?

I don't think a lot of people wanted this shit that really exists like that, man.

And they have no control over the shit. Nobody can manage hip-hop, man.

Hip-hop is just fucking hip-hop, man.

Got your morals and your common sense,

and you got to bring out the true talent in

It's all about getting up. Don't be afraid.