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Alright now.

Come on with it.

Wanda got him a record deal.

He's on a contract.

This place is in trouble. All of their bands are crashing.

Be careful with Jenny. Jenny's emptying daddy's coffers to make me richer.

Fuck, I look like fucking up the game. This artist is a gangbanger who taunts

the police on every track.

Which is why we should put every chip we have into grunge.

Cops ain't gonna disappear a nigga with a record deal.

So get your head right.

Distortion, of course, is a game, but money or war can't beat both.

Oh, that's for your little girlfriend. He my ex.

You got the winning hand.

Just finish the mix for Ryder, all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm working on

it, and I was finishing it right now, but I want to play you something new

first. No surprise songs, Wanda.

Ryder is the single. If I can't choose the songs people hear, what is the point

of making music?

I can't stand seeing my wife like this. I'm telling you, James. I hear you, but

this ain't Lamar's fault, sir. No?

Then whose is it?

Who got her falling apart if it ain't that precious boy of hers?

She doing it to herself.

Not Moore, not Wanda.

That's all her.

You asked me to protect Lamar.

I can't do that if he doesn't know the truth about Lamar. Don't you put this on

her.

You're the one that let him and Wanda go out there and start playing with a time

bomb.

Okay, fine. It goes both ways.

You know I want to make you proud, right?

Big Daddy, we gotta bring this thing to a head.

No.

You are poking.

And what happened to our daughter, boy?

Your mother?

And when that bomb stopped ticking, then what?

Well? Look, Mama G, we, um, gotta tell you something.

Uh...

Wanda

and Martin ain't listen to you.

They still working with the music light.

Yeah, I knew she'd snake me.

I've been able to read her since she was a child.

This is your fault. You favor her too much.

Now, baby, I don't favor nobody but you.

Don't.

Lamar's a man now.

He ain't never wanted nothing but music.

Mama G, look, I... If it means anything, I think that Lamar

is just as special as she was.

You just gotta hear what...

I told you, it's a Wanda and Lamar problem.

Jenny's radio team needs an ass whooping. This interview was supposed to

start an hour ago.

You want to push your new song?

My ride is about to be a hit on the radio.

Smile cuz.

This is huge.

How do you do it? You fuck me over and then move on as if nothing ever

happened?

You're mad now, but when you hear your song over them airways?

But what is taking so long?

Our artillery is liable to get one of these snow bunnies pregnant by the time

they play your song.

Hey!

Rebecca, is it?

Jenny's gonna be pissed.

Ask me if I give a shit.

You just had artillery yanked off the fucking radio? I made myself clear, Jen.

And you spent the money anyway.

Jesus Christ.

Rap is not our focus.

Instead of yelling at me, take it up with your label. They're not the one

pulling our song.

Yes, they are. Someone from Macroscope Legal called and literally told us not

to play it.

What the fuck?

Wow.

Once again, Crackers gonna hit us with the woo-bop.

Lamar, I'll talk to Jenny and DG. I'm sure I can get to the bottom of this,

find out what happened. Maybe somebody... By pulling our song, you've

just undercut the only thing in this building that had momentum. Just stop.

Ignoring my orders is not how this works. Not anymore. What are you gonna

do? Fire me?

My own company? No.

You'll keep your title.

But, uh, effective immediately?

All new artist initiatives.

Report to Cal.

Hey, sometimes, check his B's chest, homie.

If you really want Cal gone, let me throw his crack ass in the trunk.

Come on, D.

You know you here to balance out them bloods in that nigga Leon in case he

gets scrappy.

Not kiddin' that white people, nigga.

We gotta gut out Cal so that Jenny's father turns on him.

We ain't a white man's house.

So if we can't beat them at their own fucking game, nigga, we done.

I may have something on Cal.

Big enough to get Jenny back in? A pressure point, but let me just land

this plane and then we can celebrate.

Jesus Christ.

What the fuck happened?

Microscope pulled us off the radio?

Cal went behind Jenny's back.

Why the fuck can't they see this is it?

The old man wants to sell the label and Cal's got him thinking and none of the

big buyers.

Want to touch our dirty jungle music? Okay, then fuck that. I gotta play, too.

We go to the other labels, we're back to the hood. That shit is hard as fuck.

Macklemore owns it.

No, Jenny hasn't even heard of you. She don't know it exists. They own it.

They own everything y'all fucking do.

We signed you to a production deal with options on anything that you can fucking

imagine.

We? Stop, Wanda.

We are in the same fucking boat.

I can't sit on my hands.

Lamar fucking hates me, Daryl. What, because of the Masters?

Yes. Okay, just come clean then.

What?

Oh, that shit is inconceivable to you, huh?

Please, Wanda, do not do anything fucking stupid.

We are in a very dangerous position, and if we don't make the right fucking move,

this run is over.

And if that's the case,

your cousin was probably gonna hate your ass anyway.

Yeah,

but also they played it at altar calls and some of the reflective moments in

the church services. I ain't looking for no argument.

I ain't giving you one. I thought I'd find you here.

Hungry?

You fucked up our church, Wanda.

I'll make it up to you.

You're not hearing me you always the one when we were kids they got me like

really I don't know got me you know and and now we're like doing this music

business stuff and What is it about this contract that made you turn on me? I

mean if this is how it's gonna be Why are we doing it at all?

I? Lied I'm sorry

But you lied too, so if we're gonna go back and forth about... If you're gonna

try to spin this on me, I can't beat you with that.

But don't bullshit me.

At least come clean.

Fuck.

You gotta understand what I've been through.

Game is how I survived.

Game kept me alive. It kept me...

What I'm saying is, I'll probably lie again, but I'll never betray you, and I

didn't. I only told DG because I thought you were wrong.

How could you hear that song and not hear a new level? You're right, okay?

Shit!

You are growing up.

You even had your first squabble.

I just wanted a shot at people hearing my music.

I got ideas on how to get your music heard.

Meet me in my apartment tomorrow.

And don't forget.

You and me, cousin. We gonna make it happen.

Yeah.

Still going.

Real comfortable.

Nah.

Simple ambition feed family.

Stack millions, stay real and speak heavy. Nah.

me and my mama had static but the truth is I appreciate the fact that she had me

single black female I see now it ain't easy still you taught me to speak and

breathe well on 60th street we seen hell but I knew I'm falling right in they

plans if we fail cause you told me I'm a young black squirrel don't love you

that's just one fact you go to jail you gonna come back cause the odds all

against you that's just one stack I heard them talking like it was that I

had to catch my second wind but my lungs back

It's none that's real. I've been fighting these demons. Let your son back

kill him. No, turn it down. We can run at him.

It's in the game like you've done that.

Shut him down. Go shut him down. Young David and Goliath got the whole gang

proud.

I swear I do.

Every since you went away, I ain't been

doing nothing but thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking. With my head in my

hand.

You've been away from me so long.

And I just don't think I can carry on. So I start drinking, drinking.

Drinking, drinking, drinking.

I miss you, baby.

Without you, I don't know what to do with myself, what to do with my time.

Hello?

Did I disturb you?

I didn't mean to take up too much of your time, but I just thought I'd give

you a ring and see how you was doing.

How's everything?

At midnight.

Just hear me out.

You know how hard I've been working to get Lamar's song on the radio, right?

Nah.

Okay.

Look, Lee, Jenny's sidelined. I lost my deal.

I need help to get things moving.

You need some money.

I need you to invest.

A couple Gs. Once you hear my ideas, you're gonna love my deal. Wanda,

fucking stop.

All right, look, I done settled shit with DG and Dara. I done bailed your

cousins out. What the fuck else you want from me?

This is why we can't be together.

Really? Whatever.

Ignore me. Ignore my dreams while you sit here reliving the old days.

That's why we can't be together.

You ain't been right since we lost the baby. Fuck you, Leon.

You're drunk as I should fuck you up. That is.

That monster that came out when you was down bad, it's times ten now.

And what about you?

Sitting in this house, drinking with ghosts, dreaming about the past.

Sure.

There you go. Say something vicious instead of getting real.

Say something.

Fuck this.

Fuck you going?

I know where you keep your money.

Wanda!

Wanda!

Where is it, baby?

You moved it?

Watch your mind.

You moved it?

You moved it, huh? You cool with keeping money in random places to make it to rob

you, but you can't invest in Lamar and Arden and me? Are you out your mind?

You need to stop. You don't know what I mean, nigga.

Why the fuck would I invest in this? Look how you acting.

Because we supposed to be family.

I know you like to block out the past, but that ain't how I address you.

What's your play?

Bust me with some cash and I'll double you up.

I'm gonna pay you back.

Just do something with it.

I lost her to Leon.

Hey. What's up?

Print tapes.

We about to push back to the hood.

How? When I was running with Leon and Franklin.

I had a front row seat to how they changed the game.

Their suppliers didn't define their market, they did.

Macroscope ain't no different than the woods who sent the dough. They only know

what we show them.

We know our customers because we are customers.

We know where to find them.

We know the music they like. Shit.

All we need is more people who know the streets.

I got a product coming.

It's just a start, but all we gotta do is move it.

Which makes y'all the runners.

So how much we charging?

We do exactly what Leon did.

The first hits for free.

I love him. We gonna stay, bro.

How the fuck are we supposed to make money like that one? If the product is

good, it'll sell itself on the re-up. Trust me.

We start when we know we'll get the most play.

All you gotta do is hand it to him.

What'd I get?

Why y'all gotta want something, cuz?

Play it over the store speakers.

If anybody has...

Keep the money, but I definitely don't need no two damn boxes. Just keep the

damn boxes nigga How

you doing cuz where you from I'm good my

brother sent me James Kenzie Y'all know Jay loco,

right They hit neighborhood spots read blue

Anywhere people can bump this shit.

Including places nobody wants to go.

So y'all just want me to let y'all hand these out around here for free?

Hope that shit bump.

What? No, no, no, no, no, no. This shit is dope.

I'll let you hear it if you want. Damn, Dara.

What color your eyes is?

What color yours?

And how you gonna call artillery bump?

You right.

It definitely is the heart's blood, rapper.

All I'm saying is, if you just let me fuck once, for sure fucking twice,

and I hate Gucci now.

See, now you're doing too much.

Come on.

I never fucked nobody as fine as you.

Bless me, baby.

Hey, uh, yeah, you should probably know.

She's trying to fuck with Leon now.

From back in the day?

We don't like that nigga now.

You gonna help me or what?

You alright?

You gotta let me, you know?

Splat out in that tat out.

Yeah.

Take both those boxes, fool.

The fuck you handing me the boxes for? Blood handed to him.

Don't look like I carry boxes.

Yeah, I told you. Yeah, you got that right. I'm sorry. Back to the Hood is

sold out. Let me trick him.

Did you just say that y'all sold out all 250 copies? Well, we moved that batch in

four days. Had to copy extras.

Y'all got something special.

He's selling, too.

Yeah.

The proceeds.

Where's your cuz?

She here?

Yeah, she in the kitchen.

Yeah, but regardless, you all right with me?

Mama G?

You wanted to talk?

You didn't?

Mm-hmm.

Should I...

You gonna hang up?

Oh.

Well, I, um... I was wrong to go behind your back. But I promise you, I'm gonna

make it up to you. Mm-hmm.

Cop on a plea. That's what she doing.

Mm-hmm.

Please, Mama G, let's just talk.

Oh. Mm-hmm.

He was always gonna end up in music. You knew that.

I genuinely regret letting you back into our family.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, looking sick, girl.

Like she don't bite from both ends.

You really believe this wasn't gonna happen regardless?

I believe if what happened to my daughter happens to him,

that's on you.

Yeah, I said it to her face.

You should see her putting, she's standing here looking at me like I'm in

the wrong for telling her the truth.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, just because you're scared to tell that boy the truth about his mom.

Wanda.

Wanda.

Oh.

Wanda, Wanda.

Thank you for coming.

Big Daddy tell you me and Mama G got into it?

Yeah.

Well, it got ugly.

I don't know what's wrong with me.

The other night at the house, I... I was wrong, too.

I shouldn't have dropped that shit on you about.

You straight?

Just had a run-in with some little niggas today.

You remember when we was in Ghana, we had dinner with those musicians?

I set it up.

I remember they was talking to us about Liberia.

And they told us about how the free slaves moved back to Africa and brought

back the white man's sickness.

Started enslaving other Africans.

Yeah.

that night was heavy well i'm helping james senior with the gang

interventions and the kids and all i could think about is liberia and it's

like these kids don't know the difference between war with a man or

killing a woman or even killing the child and i thought i'd be able to

connect with them but it's like i don't even speak their language you're dealing

with music

Music is a universal language, Lee.

It's healing, the truth, and everything in between.

That's how you speak to them kids.

Wow.

I saw crips out there buying

music with the blood on the mic.

And soon, bloods will be bobbing their heads to a crip on the mic.

Something is happening, Lee.

And I'm at the front of it.

I just gotta scale up.

I know a manufacturer who could mass produce for me.

They press Toddy T's Batarang.

It's worth a shot if you want in.

I'll fund you next step.

I'll even give you a plan on how to scale up.

I got people who can move stuff wholesale.

Watch the left.

That's right. Keep it coming.

Right, right, right. Come on, come on.

All right, all right.

All right.

Let's do this.

Yeah,

they ain't give me no options. Englewood nigga named Ringy.

Hollywood's the con.

Crowned out pants, got the girlies watching.

Gotta keep a gun when you're based in Boston. Skeddoberg hemmed up, cuffed

from the curb.

Norbert, we protect and serve.

Stuck in the cell, young, wild as hell.

Back to the hood, I got dope to sell. On my level.

Putting on for the ghetto.

Now back to the hood, I got dope to sip, fool.

On my level.

Putting on for the ghetto.

I told you, Lee.

All right, y'all, we done. Let's pack up them boxes.

You right, cousin.

Back to the hood is connecting.

Told you.

Didn't I tell your ass not to do anything stupid?

I spent bank.

To get dirt on cow.

Oh, my God.

Lee, this shit is so fucking embarrassing.

In the middle of Jenny's meeting, Macroscope says, Wanda's in the streets

selling our music like motherfucking Mexican popcorn.

So I hope you like slinging tapes in the motherfucking streets, because your days

in the music biz are over.

Believe that.

Darryl, don't. No, don't Darryl me. Don't do me like that.

What if she just gave you the money?

As a gesture.

Oh, now you mad after stealing my product?

Give it to him.

Blow that on a bitch, man.

It's still a win.

Back to the hood is a hit.

Shit, back to the hood is a true.

I know.

But that was our moon.

It's just one bag. Don't trip.

Hey, I ain't gonna lie. I thought this shit was retarded.

That's y'all's song?

That motherfucker's hooked.

Hey, let's celebrate!

Last Kings?

Last Kings.

Last Kings.

Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.

I'm famous.

I'm fucking famous, bro. Like strangers asking for my autograph.

Famous.

It was crazy out there. I mean, I know that this might be like as good as it

gets, but I'm just so fucking happy that I got to experience it for once.

You know?

We're going out to celebrate.

What?

What's up?

Come with us, man.

Please?

Look, I'm gonna chill, bro.

You go ahead.

Tell me how I'm supposed to feel after watching it all happen again

You still silence been

almost 20 years and you still just

with our song.

It's everything.

That was one of Mom's songs?

Yeah.

Just popped in my head.

I remember it from that night.

What's going on, bro?

You should go ahead and bounce before they come out, man.

Omar.

Have fun with your homies.

You ain't so bad either at last the Mecca

You straight?

Yeah, I guess I just feel like James should be here.

Let's just enjoy tonight.

We need it.

I don't know how this works.

I'm off the clock.

It works however you want. All right, fellas. You've been waiting for her.

Here she is. Give it up for Cinnamon.

Well, I met this girl. Her name was Joan. She got the way I rock on the

microphone. When I met Joan, I took her home. That's right, fellas.

The next 30 minutes, drink special, two to one. I met another girl. Her name was

Anne. All she wanted was the...

When I met Ann, I shook her hand. We ended up freaking by a garbage can. The

next young freak I met was red.

This is just the beginning, Lee.

I got so many ideas.

About time you used that big head with something useful.

Whatever.

You can't lie.

We did the damn thing with that music.

Y'all impressive with some amateurs.

I always got to play cool.

I'm unstoppable, baby.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more amped in here.

Who that? I see you, OG.

DJ Block.

He runs the mix show at KRZO.

I'm about to get us on the radio.

B.I.P. is now open.

B.I.P. Now is your chance.

Yeah, let's go.

Damn, girl, where they find you at?

Wanda Bell, Black Banner Music A&R.

Look, I'm not working tonight.

But I got some shit you gonna love. You just need to hear my song. Hey, like I

told you, I'm not working tonight.

I know you ain't coming here to get high.

You trying to fight?

Excuse me?

Girl, I'm just fucking with you.

So, what's up?

Y'all pick your songs, right?

I want to make some extra cash.

That's our song.

Art, that's our song.

Artillery, that's our song. That's Back to the Hood.

They're playing Back to the Hood.

Oh, hell yeah.

Now back to the hood, I got dope to set, fool.

On my level, putting on for the ghetto.

Now back to the hood, I got dope to set, fool.

You can die if you move wrong.

Made a left turn, now we dead and gone.

Look, permanent retaliation was a must, I pray that we don't miss. God, we

trust. I've been a bot, me a lowbrow.

Easy in the scratch, dodging the trash.

I

got

dope to say.

I know he's here right now.

Everybody was dancing to my music, bro.

Everybody. I think I'm in love, Mark.

I'm this closely this close to finally winning Thank

you

We're better as friends,

right Is he a man or not

I need a fucking gangsta in my life, and I want you.

Yeah, I may be afraid to choose, but I'm not.

I'm putting my bid in.

And if you have to, nigga, I think you are. I'll be every kind of woman you

want me to be.

Every kind.

That's all I wanted to say.

This the man of the hour with the people who got the power DJ blocking the block

party on the only station giving you hip-hop

992. Now for this next song, you know I heard it at the strip club.

Pour you a drink, grab the homies, turn this mother up.

It's the debut track from the meanest spitter on the streets right now.

Artillery. This is Back to the Hood.

Just listen to this again.

It's gonna change everything for y'all.