1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:02:35,407 --> 00:02:39,008 Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Can't nobody get me. 3 00:02:39,105 --> 00:02:40,620 Can't nobody get me. 4 00:02:45,060 --> 00:02:46,403 Can't nobody get me. 5 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,547 One, two, three, four, five, 6 00:02:53,657 --> 00:02:56,025 six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve... 7 00:02:56,096 --> 00:02:57,528 I want chocolate. 8 00:02:57,597 --> 00:02:59,759 You gonna get yours. Everybody gonna get theirs. 9 00:02:59,833 --> 00:03:02,894 - I want chocolate. - All right. Here you go. 10 00:03:03,872 --> 00:03:05,499 You got a rhyme or something? 11 00:03:05,573 --> 00:03:07,302 I got a rhyme or something. 12 00:03:07,377 --> 00:03:09,369 I kick rhymes automatic. 13 00:03:09,446 --> 00:03:11,210 Addicted to changes like leaves. 14 00:03:11,283 --> 00:03:12,578 My black is gold like bees. 15 00:03:12,649 --> 00:03:15,484 So stingray on a sunny day, 16 00:03:15,553 --> 00:03:19,182 while the little kids sit out and play or converse. 17 00:03:19,292 --> 00:03:21,726 Getting ready for the ice cream truck... 18 00:03:24,565 --> 00:03:26,693 You wrote somethin'? 19 00:03:26,801 --> 00:03:28,702 No, I just know a little something. 20 00:03:28,771 --> 00:03:31,638 - What you got? - I got a little something. 21 00:03:31,706 --> 00:03:35,199 My name is little Troy, and I'm known as a big boy. 22 00:03:35,276 --> 00:03:39,339 I gotta put some more at the end, though. 23 00:03:39,417 --> 00:03:41,580 I'll help you with it, if you want. 24 00:03:44,427 --> 00:03:47,224 So, yo, what's up with Keisha? 25 00:03:47,296 --> 00:03:49,092 Yo, the chick is bugging yo. 26 00:03:49,165 --> 00:03:51,362 She keeps hitting on me. 27 00:03:56,573 --> 00:03:59,409 I need something to get my head right, know what I'm saying? 28 00:03:59,479 --> 00:04:00,673 You gonna share some blessing with me? 29 00:04:00,746 --> 00:04:01,804 Oh, yeah. I got you. 30 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,649 - Please. - Medicine for you. 31 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,554 This is my prescription. 32 00:04:08,622 --> 00:04:10,283 Ah, that's what I'm talkin'. 33 00:04:10,359 --> 00:04:13,956 This is that Maui-Waui, right? 34 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:16,464 This is the truth. So help you God. 35 00:04:16,566 --> 00:04:19,595 So, uh, after smokin' this, 36 00:04:19,704 --> 00:04:22,673 I'll understand some of that shit you be talkin' about in your rhymes, right? 37 00:04:24,143 --> 00:04:26,110 Probably not. 38 00:04:26,311 --> 00:04:28,406 - Good luck. - Peace. 39 00:04:37,094 --> 00:04:39,085 Them brothers is strong. Them brothers is strong. 40 00:04:39,163 --> 00:04:45,537 - He pulled that trigger, too. - He didn't pull that trigger. 41 00:04:45,706 --> 00:04:48,140 Ain't nobody comin' up in Dodge City like that, man. 42 00:04:48,207 --> 00:04:50,676 If I have to go through there, if I have to go through there, 43 00:04:50,744 --> 00:04:52,644 somebody gonna be like Biggie and Tupac. 44 00:04:52,713 --> 00:04:54,704 Look, you handle your business. Don't let your business handle you. 45 00:04:54,816 --> 00:04:56,510 You know what I'm saying? 46 00:05:11,137 --> 00:05:13,665 - What's up, yo? - Hey, what's up? 47 00:05:26,291 --> 00:05:29,785 - Hey, what's up, man? - What's going on? 48 00:05:30,663 --> 00:05:33,155 So, I got some good things I'm tryin' to invest in, you know? 49 00:05:33,266 --> 00:05:35,929 - I hear. I know. - I gotta make it big. 50 00:05:36,003 --> 00:05:38,735 - You know I'm writing everyday. - Everyday. You gotta give me that. 51 00:05:38,808 --> 00:05:41,469 'Cause I'm going with you, you know what I'm saying? 52 00:05:41,544 --> 00:05:42,602 So, you gonna start the label? 53 00:05:42,711 --> 00:05:44,806 Yeah, I want you to do that record label. 54 00:05:44,881 --> 00:05:46,610 I got the money invested in it. 55 00:05:46,683 --> 00:05:48,448 Look, I want you to do me a favor. 56 00:05:48,519 --> 00:05:51,354 - What's that? - I got this new chick, right? 57 00:05:51,424 --> 00:05:55,450 I want you to give me some good shit to tell her, you know? 58 00:05:55,527 --> 00:05:57,830 Slick shit to say to her. You know what I'm saying? 59 00:05:57,901 --> 00:06:01,462 I'm serious, man. You got to do that for me, man. 60 00:06:01,539 --> 00:06:03,266 You gotta give me the right poems and shit. 61 00:06:03,339 --> 00:06:06,437 Man, look, I don't want to read that junk, you know, 62 00:06:06,513 --> 00:06:08,479 I just want to remember something. 63 00:06:08,548 --> 00:06:09,946 I think if you write it, you better read that shit. 64 00:06:10,015 --> 00:06:13,418 I don't want you to write no heavy poems and shit. 65 00:06:13,486 --> 00:06:14,919 I ain't gonna be sittin' there singin' to the bitch. 66 00:06:15,021 --> 00:06:17,615 I ain't no R. Kelly. Know what I'm saying? 67 00:06:17,724 --> 00:06:20,719 I want you to sit there and give me a little something. 68 00:06:20,796 --> 00:06:23,422 You know what I'm saying? It's like that. 69 00:06:23,498 --> 00:06:24,728 You my man. You gotta look out for me. 70 00:06:24,801 --> 00:06:27,168 - I got ya. Look... - What's up? 71 00:06:27,238 --> 00:06:29,297 Um, I'm runnin' low, can you look out for me? 72 00:06:29,374 --> 00:06:31,707 Yeah. I got that. I'll look out for you. 73 00:06:31,778 --> 00:06:33,609 But, look, come back later on, 74 00:06:33,713 --> 00:06:35,908 meet me at Dodge City, around about 1O:3O. 75 00:06:35,982 --> 00:06:39,178 - And I got you, okay? - And I got you then, too. 76 00:06:39,853 --> 00:06:41,343 - Bye. - Okay. 77 00:07:42,235 --> 00:07:44,227 It's gonna be a hot one tonight. I can feel it. 78 00:07:44,304 --> 00:07:46,331 I'm gettin' too old for this shit. 79 00:07:48,276 --> 00:07:50,176 Tell them to get some additional units because, 80 00:07:50,245 --> 00:07:52,579 they been actin' kind of silly, know what I mean? 81 00:07:52,682 --> 00:07:53,910 These young boys, you know, 82 00:07:53,984 --> 00:07:57,852 that rap music they got is drivin' 'em crazy. 83 00:07:57,922 --> 00:07:59,185 Come in, EC-1. 84 00:07:59,258 --> 00:08:02,624 Let all units know that... be heads up. 85 00:08:02,694 --> 00:08:03,956 You got it, EC-1. 86 00:08:05,932 --> 00:08:08,093 You remember that song, "What's your name?" 87 00:08:08,168 --> 00:08:09,796 - Oh, yeah, yeah. - Remember that one? 88 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,075 Why don't you hit it? Hit it. 89 00:08:14,146 --> 00:08:18,047 ? What's your name?? 90 00:08:18,116 --> 00:08:22,315 - ? Have I seen you before?? - ? Have I met you before... 91 00:08:22,422 --> 00:08:23,650 You don't remember that song, man? 92 00:08:23,723 --> 00:08:25,624 It's "I have seen you before," goddamn it. 93 00:08:25,693 --> 00:08:26,489 So, how does it go? 94 00:08:26,593 --> 00:08:28,925 Is it "What's your name? I have seen you before? 95 00:08:28,996 --> 00:08:30,155 May I walk you to your door?" 96 00:08:30,229 --> 00:08:33,999 Jesus Christ. What you talkin' about? You know the damn song. 97 00:08:34,070 --> 00:08:37,904 ? What's your name?? 98 00:08:37,974 --> 00:08:41,912 ? I have seen you before? 99 00:08:41,979 --> 00:08:45,643 ? What's your name?? 100 00:08:45,717 --> 00:08:49,622 ? May I walk you to your door?? 101 00:09:08,415 --> 00:09:10,178 - What's up? - What's up? 102 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:11,946 What's goin' on? 103 00:09:12,019 --> 00:09:14,852 How you doin', man? Here you go. 104 00:09:14,923 --> 00:09:18,859 - Be careful with that. - Thank you. 105 00:09:19,027 --> 00:09:20,997 - Everything all right? - Yeah. 106 00:09:21,063 --> 00:09:22,690 Look, I want you to do what I asked you. 107 00:09:22,766 --> 00:09:25,166 I got you. This is what you're gonna say: 108 00:09:25,236 --> 00:09:27,230 "You massage the universe's spine, 109 00:09:27,307 --> 00:09:31,266 the way you twirl through time, and leave shadows on the sun." 110 00:09:33,078 --> 00:09:34,945 - You got that? - You a bad motherfucker. 111 00:09:35,016 --> 00:09:37,108 I ain't got that though. Give me that shit again. 112 00:09:37,183 --> 00:09:41,214 "You massage the universe's spine the way you twirl through time, 113 00:09:41,291 --> 00:09:43,852 and leave shadows on the sun." 114 00:09:43,928 --> 00:09:45,760 That's all right. 115 00:10:30,922 --> 00:10:32,584 I didn't do anything. 116 00:10:32,724 --> 00:10:34,455 - What's this? - It's just weed. 117 00:10:34,529 --> 00:10:37,088 Just weed? It's illegal weed. 118 00:10:37,196 --> 00:10:40,499 What makes you think you can use drugs in our city? 119 00:10:40,570 --> 00:10:42,560 - What's your name? - Raymond Joshua. 120 00:10:42,639 --> 00:10:45,401 - Raymond what? - Raymond Joshua. 121 00:10:45,473 --> 00:10:48,035 Buddy, let me tell you. You're in deep shit. 122 00:10:49,380 --> 00:10:50,608 Let's go, man. 123 00:11:03,232 --> 00:11:06,690 Matter before the court, number 47 on the lock-up, 124 00:11:06,801 --> 00:11:10,136 United States vs. Raymond Joshua. 125 00:11:10,207 --> 00:11:12,300 Your Honor, the defendant was apprehended 126 00:11:12,408 --> 00:11:14,240 fleeing the scene of a shooting. 127 00:11:14,312 --> 00:11:16,874 A man was shot in the head during a drug transaction 128 00:11:16,950 --> 00:11:18,941 in which this man was involved. 129 00:11:19,019 --> 00:11:21,316 My God, what a way to start a Monday morning. 130 00:11:21,387 --> 00:11:25,486 Here you have the Congress taking a lot of power from the city counsel 131 00:11:25,561 --> 00:11:27,720 and the office of the Mayor, the Board of Education, 132 00:11:27,796 --> 00:11:32,566 and the people of Washington and then we have Mr. Joshua. 133 00:11:32,637 --> 00:11:34,866 Without getting into whether you're guilty or not, 134 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:39,968 I just know that these drugs are killing our community. 135 00:11:40,078 --> 00:11:43,015 Mr. Prosecutor, what's the government's position on bail? 136 00:11:43,083 --> 00:11:44,550 The government feels that this defendant 137 00:11:44,651 --> 00:11:47,119 poses a substantial risk of flight, Your Honor. 138 00:11:47,220 --> 00:11:49,688 He was apprehended fleeing the scene of a shooting. 139 00:11:49,757 --> 00:11:54,424 We would like to see the bond set in the amount of $10,000 surety. 140 00:11:55,934 --> 00:12:00,531 This court will enter a plea of not guilty on behalf of Mr. Joshua. 141 00:12:00,607 --> 00:12:03,302 And this proceeding is adjourned until Monday morning, 11 o'clock. 142 00:12:03,377 --> 00:12:04,900 Thank you, gentlemen. 143 00:12:04,978 --> 00:12:06,376 Thank you, Your Honor. 144 00:12:25,940 --> 00:12:27,304 Watch your step. 145 00:12:29,909 --> 00:12:31,104 - Watch your step. - Ow! 146 00:12:39,189 --> 00:12:42,181 Turn on the fucking air conditioner. 147 00:12:42,259 --> 00:12:46,359 AC, motherfucker. Give me some fucking AC. 148 00:12:46,434 --> 00:12:48,264 Man, will you shut the fuck up back there? 149 00:12:48,335 --> 00:12:50,931 My name is fucking Jimmy Huang. 150 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,976 Get me the fuck out of this van. 151 00:12:54,044 --> 00:12:57,912 Hey! You, up there in the front. 152 00:12:57,982 --> 00:13:01,040 I shouldn't fucking be in this van, man. 153 00:13:01,116 --> 00:13:02,949 You know who my dad is? 154 00:13:03,020 --> 00:13:05,923 Shit. It's hot in this fucking van. 155 00:13:05,991 --> 00:13:07,688 You scared, man? 156 00:13:07,762 --> 00:13:09,786 Shut the fuck up. 157 00:13:35,162 --> 00:13:37,256 It ain't nothing but sweat inside my hands. 158 00:13:37,433 --> 00:13:39,128 So I dig into my pockets... 159 00:13:39,535 --> 00:13:41,970 There's an MC in the van. 160 00:13:42,038 --> 00:13:45,601 There's an MC in the van. Great. 161 00:13:45,677 --> 00:13:48,238 Another black rapper. 162 00:13:52,018 --> 00:13:53,350 ...thinking of the master plan. 163 00:13:53,687 --> 00:13:56,783 So I walk up the street, whistling this, 164 00:13:56,892 --> 00:13:59,156 feeling out of place, 'cause, man, do I miss, 165 00:13:59,261 --> 00:14:02,527 a pen and a paper, a stereo, a table... 166 00:14:03,566 --> 00:14:06,297 Would you shut the fuck up? Would you shut the fuck up? 167 00:14:06,370 --> 00:14:09,396 Would you shut the fuck up? Would you shut the fuck up? 168 00:14:09,473 --> 00:14:13,504 Would you shut the fuck up? Would you shut the fuck up? 169 00:14:15,615 --> 00:14:18,016 Get this guy to shut up. 170 00:14:41,115 --> 00:14:43,949 I'd like to find out who's gonna keep this little thing quiet. 171 00:14:44,486 --> 00:14:48,650 Shake his hand and say, thank you. 172 00:14:48,923 --> 00:14:54,195 Damn. I miss Italy. 173 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:56,664 Do you miss Italy? 174 00:14:57,838 --> 00:15:00,672 You ever listen to Wu Tang? 175 00:15:34,884 --> 00:15:36,980 All right. Let's go. Let's go. 176 00:15:51,408 --> 00:15:53,969 What's up, man? 177 00:15:54,044 --> 00:15:57,014 - You heard about Mike? - Yeah, I heard about it. 178 00:15:57,814 --> 00:15:59,478 So, what happened? 179 00:15:59,618 --> 00:16:01,143 I don't even know. 180 00:16:01,221 --> 00:16:03,017 I can't call it. 181 00:16:03,255 --> 00:16:06,156 You know, the word in here is, "watch your back." 182 00:16:08,263 --> 00:16:09,660 All right. 183 00:16:28,157 --> 00:16:30,421 - What's wrong with me? - China dog. 184 00:16:30,526 --> 00:16:31,686 What's wrong with me, China dog? 185 00:16:31,859 --> 00:16:33,691 I shouldn't be in this fucking jail, man! 186 00:16:33,828 --> 00:16:35,320 I don't want to be here! 187 00:16:35,464 --> 00:16:37,990 I shouldn't be here with you motherfuckers! 188 00:16:38,167 --> 00:16:41,695 Get the fuck away from me! I'll get the fuck away from you! 189 00:16:41,839 --> 00:16:44,071 Fuck you, motherfucker! 190 00:16:44,210 --> 00:16:46,440 Hey, man, y'all need to shut up! 191 00:16:46,546 --> 00:16:49,106 Just get me some toilet paper. 192 00:16:49,551 --> 00:16:53,114 What do you want with me, man? Get off of me. 193 00:16:54,156 --> 00:16:57,249 What's up, yo? What's up, yo? 194 00:16:57,326 --> 00:17:00,192 What, what the fuck do you want with me, man? 195 00:17:00,263 --> 00:17:02,288 I'll fuckin' kill all of you! Shit! 196 00:17:02,365 --> 00:17:04,095 Get the fuck off me, I'll kill you! 197 00:17:04,167 --> 00:17:06,070 - Sit the fuck down, man. - Fuck you, man! 198 00:17:06,138 --> 00:17:07,935 Sit down. Sit down. All right? 199 00:17:10,909 --> 00:17:13,608 What's your fuckin' problem, yo? 200 00:17:13,748 --> 00:17:17,048 You're about to get fuckin' killed in this place. 201 00:17:17,686 --> 00:17:20,352 Yeah? I guess I am. 202 00:17:33,875 --> 00:17:36,969 What the fuck you tryin' to do? Why don't you just sit down, all right? 203 00:17:37,078 --> 00:17:41,176 If you're not supposed to be here, then you won't be here. 204 00:17:41,385 --> 00:17:44,148 Give it a second and you'll disappear. 205 00:17:45,822 --> 00:17:48,020 Hey, Mr. Huang, let's go. 206 00:17:48,095 --> 00:17:50,325 That's me. 207 00:17:50,396 --> 00:17:52,991 I told you I was out of here, man. 208 00:18:01,044 --> 00:18:02,511 Time to go. 209 00:18:03,146 --> 00:18:05,377 I told you guys. 210 00:18:05,650 --> 00:18:07,345 Remember when you spit on my buddy? 211 00:18:07,486 --> 00:18:09,715 We got a goin' away present for you. 212 00:18:09,787 --> 00:18:11,687 - Let's go. - A what? 213 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:13,693 A what? No! 214 00:18:25,807 --> 00:18:27,776 I'm your attorney. 215 00:18:27,877 --> 00:18:29,436 I've been assigned by the court to represent you. 216 00:18:29,513 --> 00:18:32,951 I'm a public defender. I've been asked by the prosecutor 217 00:18:33,051 --> 00:18:36,614 to see if we can cut a deal, which means plead guilty or cop out. 218 00:18:36,690 --> 00:18:38,851 Let me ask you this: Are you guilty? 219 00:18:40,295 --> 00:18:44,163 - Of what? - Of the marijuana, possession of marijuana. 220 00:18:49,573 --> 00:18:52,543 Uh, I mean, I don't know. 221 00:18:55,081 --> 00:18:57,346 I can't get a trial or something? 222 00:18:57,416 --> 00:18:59,350 Well, you can get a trial. They call that cop or rock. 223 00:18:59,418 --> 00:19:01,250 You can take the cop, we plead, 224 00:19:01,321 --> 00:19:03,051 or you can rock, which means we can take it to trial. 225 00:19:03,157 --> 00:19:04,989 But if you lose, you're looking at ten. 226 00:19:05,060 --> 00:19:08,393 Mandatory ten. You have to do 85 percent of ten. 227 00:19:08,464 --> 00:19:10,662 Which means eight and a half years. 228 00:19:10,736 --> 00:19:12,168 So wait. If I try to fight it, 229 00:19:12,236 --> 00:19:14,830 I have to serve more time for just trying to fight it? 230 00:19:14,906 --> 00:19:17,339 If you get found guilty, you would. 231 00:19:17,608 --> 00:19:21,638 And usually, the success ratio of convictions on drug cases, 232 00:19:21,782 --> 00:19:23,716 is about 9O to 95 percent. 233 00:19:23,784 --> 00:19:26,547 If you lock up ten people, nine, nine and a half go to jail. 234 00:19:26,653 --> 00:19:30,718 But the chances of beating it, is like trying to throw a... 235 00:19:30,827 --> 00:19:32,762 a snowball into an elephant's mouth at a hundred feet. 236 00:19:32,864 --> 00:19:34,800 You can't make it. 237 00:19:34,869 --> 00:19:37,565 You are in trouble. You are a victim, a casualty of war. 238 00:19:37,638 --> 00:19:39,433 You got two options, three: 239 00:19:39,506 --> 00:19:41,599 You can plead guilty to a simple possession, 240 00:19:41,675 --> 00:19:44,700 which is two to three years, eighteen months to two years. 241 00:19:44,777 --> 00:19:48,149 You can go to trial and run the risk of doing ten years if guilty. 242 00:19:48,217 --> 00:19:52,017 Or, you can cooperate. Which means you can rat, snitch, 243 00:19:52,089 --> 00:19:55,581 blow the whistle on whoever you want to blow it on, in order to get out. 244 00:19:55,659 --> 00:19:58,561 Cooperate, which I'm not gonna do. 245 00:19:58,629 --> 00:20:01,225 You say I can't even fight it 'cause I'll serve more time. 246 00:20:01,334 --> 00:20:05,136 This doesn't make any fucking sense. None whatsoever, man. 247 00:20:05,206 --> 00:20:06,606 It don't make any sense at all. 248 00:20:06,675 --> 00:20:08,073 There's niggas out there doing mad shit. 249 00:20:08,143 --> 00:20:12,410 My man is down, you know? They shoot my man, they're running free. 250 00:20:12,481 --> 00:20:14,279 There's niggas out there selling all types of shit. 251 00:20:14,352 --> 00:20:16,252 I got a quarter pound of weed, and you're telling me here 252 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,381 I got to serve five to ten years and there's not shit you can do for me? 253 00:20:19,458 --> 00:20:21,394 I don't have any choices? 254 00:20:21,462 --> 00:20:23,986 Fuck this old casualty of war shit, man. 255 00:20:24,064 --> 00:20:27,933 I'm saying, I'm just out there surviving. 256 00:20:28,004 --> 00:20:30,233 What can I do? 257 00:20:30,339 --> 00:20:32,274 I know it sounds like a lot of time, 258 00:20:32,341 --> 00:20:34,674 but most guys get a lot longer than that, man. 259 00:20:34,778 --> 00:20:38,941 The best or most I can do is try to get you two or three. 260 00:20:39,048 --> 00:20:42,782 Even if you were innocent, I could only get you two to three. 261 00:20:42,854 --> 00:20:45,552 You are a victim, brother. You're black, you're young, 262 00:20:45,624 --> 00:20:47,286 you come from the Southeast, you're in the inner city. 263 00:20:47,395 --> 00:20:50,159 You don't have a chance. Your best chance is to see 264 00:20:50,231 --> 00:20:53,256 how little time you get before you get back to society. 265 00:20:53,334 --> 00:20:55,895 It ain't about beating it. When they lock you up, you dead. 266 00:20:57,842 --> 00:21:01,106 Raymond Joshua, step out. 267 00:21:05,950 --> 00:21:08,045 When you're in this building, I want you to stay alive. 268 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:11,420 So listen carefully to me. Nobody in here is your brother. 269 00:21:11,490 --> 00:21:14,653 I don't care if they're as black as you are, or as light as daylight. 270 00:21:14,727 --> 00:21:16,358 They are not your brother. 271 00:21:16,433 --> 00:21:18,560 You mind your business, son, and you'll stay alive. 272 00:21:18,634 --> 00:21:20,661 Every day somebody gets shanked in here. 273 00:21:20,737 --> 00:21:22,673 Every day somebody gets beaten up in here. 274 00:21:22,742 --> 00:21:24,332 We got predators in here, son. 275 00:21:24,409 --> 00:21:27,639 We got people that'll cut your throat for nothing but a pack of cigarettes. 276 00:21:27,712 --> 00:21:31,877 You mind your business in here, son. Do you understand where you are? 277 00:21:34,052 --> 00:21:35,489 Have a seat in here. 278 00:21:52,849 --> 00:21:54,476 Raymond Joshua. 279 00:22:01,056 --> 00:22:04,392 Right over here, come on. Put everything on the table. 280 00:22:16,945 --> 00:22:19,709 Open your mouth. Lift your arms. 281 00:22:19,782 --> 00:22:21,306 Lift your tongue. 282 00:22:21,384 --> 00:22:23,317 Lift your balls. 283 00:22:23,386 --> 00:22:25,717 Turn around and spread your cheeks with both hands at the same time. 284 00:22:25,787 --> 00:22:28,383 Show me the bottom of your feet. 285 00:22:28,459 --> 00:22:30,362 Turn around and face me. Bend over at the waist. 286 00:22:30,429 --> 00:22:33,262 Run your fingers through your hair. 287 00:22:33,333 --> 00:22:35,266 Hold this under your chin just like this. 288 00:22:37,206 --> 00:22:38,728 Your number is going to be given to you. 289 00:22:38,806 --> 00:22:40,535 It's a sequential number. 290 00:22:40,607 --> 00:22:42,703 It's not a random set of numbers, son. 291 00:22:42,779 --> 00:22:44,508 That number means something. It's yo'number. 292 00:22:44,580 --> 00:22:47,780 It's yo' number now. Know what that number represents? 293 00:22:47,851 --> 00:22:50,754 276,000. Now listen carefully to me, 294 00:22:50,823 --> 00:22:53,518 and you'll understand what makes me so angry. 295 00:22:53,591 --> 00:22:57,892 We have less than 500,000 people in the District of Columbia. 296 00:22:57,964 --> 00:22:59,898 Now only 70 percent of them are black. 297 00:22:59,967 --> 00:23:02,059 Now what's 7O percent of 500,000? 298 00:23:02,136 --> 00:23:06,200 Do the math. We got about 350,000 black people in DC. 299 00:23:06,276 --> 00:23:08,903 Of the 350,000, half of them are female, aren't they? 300 00:23:09,345 --> 00:23:11,815 What's that? Do the math, son, do the math. 301 00:23:11,884 --> 00:23:16,344 Less than 175,000 people are males like yourself. 302 00:23:16,422 --> 00:23:20,621 Not all of 'em are over 21 years of age. Half of 'em are kids. 303 00:23:20,693 --> 00:23:24,133 How the devil, if we got only 75 to 80 thousand adult males 304 00:23:24,199 --> 00:23:27,862 in the District of Columbia, is this number 276,000 today? 305 00:23:27,970 --> 00:23:29,494 Figure it out for yourself. 306 00:23:29,571 --> 00:23:32,770 We've exhausted the 21-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 19-year-olds. 307 00:23:32,843 --> 00:23:34,777 We're working on 18. 308 00:23:34,844 --> 00:23:38,111 We're moving down the line. By the time we cross 300,000, 309 00:23:38,183 --> 00:23:40,812 we'll be down to 16-and 17-year-olds. 310 00:23:40,887 --> 00:23:43,448 We're wiping out our race in Washington, DC. 311 00:23:43,523 --> 00:23:46,014 And here you are in here playing these silly ass games. 312 00:23:46,093 --> 00:23:49,324 Well, we got something for you. Welcome to the DC jail. 313 00:23:50,165 --> 00:23:52,190 You might make it outta here, you might not. 314 00:24:05,988 --> 00:24:07,957 Door three. One gate. 315 00:25:41,743 --> 00:25:44,306 Well bakey bakes, niggas better fuckin' run, 316 00:25:44,381 --> 00:25:48,182 pack the guns leavin' niggas numb, motherfuckin' run, 317 00:25:48,253 --> 00:25:51,920 lookin' at hoods lookin' like thugs life at the stoplight, 318 00:25:51,994 --> 00:25:55,519 get up in their guts, only little fuckin' put put, 319 00:25:55,595 --> 00:25:58,997 psychopath nut, bet they get a bigger fuckin' case, 320 00:25:59,067 --> 00:26:02,128 cuz my love the nigga's down for a double name case, 321 00:26:02,204 --> 00:26:05,334 what the fuck did they want, it's a motherfuckin' gun, 322 00:26:05,408 --> 00:26:09,575 from the G's APC's where the fucker's from, niggas better run, 323 00:26:09,681 --> 00:26:11,614 if they don't catch up 324 00:26:11,681 --> 00:26:14,951 they just get fucked by my motherfuckin' focus. 325 00:26:15,023 --> 00:26:18,792 Knock you off your motherfuckin'ass, not afraid to pass, 326 00:26:18,863 --> 00:26:21,955 get me all of that cash, so I can quit my fuckin' gash. 327 00:26:22,031 --> 00:26:25,229 Die, foci, then the motherfuckin' gangs 328 00:26:25,302 --> 00:26:28,273 selling cocaine roll my fuckin' brain like Jesse James... 329 00:26:28,341 --> 00:26:32,540 Yo sun, as in solar, simply, because we are, we be, 330 00:26:32,613 --> 00:26:34,945 the rising stars and the sun that never set. 331 00:26:35,014 --> 00:26:37,984 Word up, Jack. Wanna make a bet, black? 332 00:26:38,085 --> 00:26:39,347 I got the formula. 333 00:26:39,419 --> 00:26:41,513 Throw me in the sky, and I'll warm ya. 334 00:26:41,589 --> 00:26:44,788 Get your sun block. Throw me in the cell block. 335 00:26:44,895 --> 00:26:46,864 Indeed, I got the science you need. 336 00:26:46,965 --> 00:26:50,595 Lessons more ancient than Greece. Apollo never my creed, my creed. 337 00:26:50,668 --> 00:26:53,761 Obatala will battle you, so bring your troops if you wanna. 338 00:26:53,838 --> 00:26:56,866 Satellites in the sky, some selling clouds on the corner. 339 00:26:56,942 --> 00:26:59,914 But, we livin' for the land, from the soil to the sand. 340 00:26:59,982 --> 00:27:02,883 And the water in the sea be the essence of me. 341 00:27:02,952 --> 00:27:05,820 If you ain't ready for this fruit, than put it back on the tree. 342 00:27:05,890 --> 00:27:09,017 Uh. Give me the strength to bend back these bars. 343 00:27:09,093 --> 00:27:12,288 Got the locks of Samson. I'm Sam's son. He's my father. 344 00:27:12,362 --> 00:27:14,357 Tried praying to the Father, Son, but Holy Ghost. 345 00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:16,402 I miss my motherfucking sanity. 346 00:27:16,469 --> 00:27:18,494 Never been here and never planned to be. 347 00:27:18,605 --> 00:27:21,130 But my own plans had plans for me. 348 00:27:21,207 --> 00:27:24,233 And now that man's hands got plans for me. 349 00:27:24,311 --> 00:27:27,440 And now that man's hands got plans for me. 350 00:27:27,516 --> 00:27:30,247 And now that man had plans, so I jetted and ran. 351 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,519 The mike cord pulled me back. I should have dropped it from my hand 352 00:27:33,591 --> 00:27:36,651 and left it at the scene of the rhyme. 353 00:27:37,561 --> 00:27:41,056 Now we all serving time. Even my prose is on probation. 354 00:27:41,168 --> 00:27:44,731 Refugees they ain't just Haitian. Come on. Fucking shit. Come on. 355 00:27:44,806 --> 00:27:48,207 Keep it going now. Ba bam, ba bam bam... 356 00:27:49,245 --> 00:27:52,043 And what the fuck. You're fuckin' with a psychopath nut. 357 00:27:52,447 --> 00:27:56,579 Put on my fucking glasses and 'bout to bust a nut in your ass motherfucker, 358 00:27:56,888 --> 00:27:59,153 as I blast in your motherfucking gut... 359 00:27:59,525 --> 00:28:01,356 Put a motherfuckin' mask on your face. 360 00:28:01,528 --> 00:28:04,361 You should of never fucked with a nigga from the base. 361 00:28:04,465 --> 00:28:07,629 So now I'm packing steel, keeping the shit really real, 362 00:28:07,703 --> 00:28:10,637 motherfucka you ducked trying to hop up in the truck. 363 00:28:10,772 --> 00:28:12,138 Got blocked down. 364 00:28:12,343 --> 00:28:16,938 So motherfuckas really want the judge to understand my motherfucking deal. 365 00:28:17,047 --> 00:28:20,313 I'm packin' steel. Slam dunkin' like Shaquille O'Neal. 366 00:28:20,385 --> 00:28:23,480 ...bam, ba bam, ba bam bam. 367 00:28:23,588 --> 00:28:26,421 I had to be strong... That shit is dope, yo. 368 00:28:26,492 --> 00:28:28,894 Damn, man. You got some talent with you man. 369 00:28:28,964 --> 00:28:30,865 - Oh, definitely. - That shit was tight, yo. 370 00:28:31,033 --> 00:28:32,966 We are lookin' out, son. 371 00:29:04,976 --> 00:29:07,138 What's up, partner? Thanks for the tray, slim. 372 00:29:07,212 --> 00:29:08,007 I know you ain't want'n that shit. 373 00:29:08,180 --> 00:29:10,149 Come on, nigga. I ain't trying to play this shit. 374 00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:11,479 What's up, partner? 375 00:29:11,551 --> 00:29:13,988 I ain't eaten all day. I ain't trying to play. 376 00:29:14,057 --> 00:29:17,892 I ain't trying to play this shit. Get the fuck off me, nigga. 377 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,590 It's my motherfucking tray. It's my tray. 378 00:29:20,665 --> 00:29:23,258 I'm eating this tray. 379 00:29:23,367 --> 00:29:24,130 Nigga, you don't know me. 380 00:29:24,202 --> 00:29:25,726 I ain't about to sit here and let you eat my shit. 381 00:29:25,904 --> 00:29:27,302 I ain't got to know you. 382 00:29:27,375 --> 00:29:29,139 You ain't gonna eat unless I say you eat. 383 00:29:29,210 --> 00:29:32,008 This is my motherfucking tray. 384 00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:35,851 Any problems? 385 00:29:35,851 --> 00:29:39,547 Nah. If I don't eat, don't nobody fucking eat. 386 00:29:42,426 --> 00:29:44,416 Oh shit. Here we go. 387 00:29:54,006 --> 00:29:55,975 Break it the fuck up. 388 00:30:17,804 --> 00:30:20,171 Get the fuck back to your cells. 389 00:30:20,274 --> 00:30:22,369 Shit. Lock it down. 390 00:30:40,465 --> 00:30:42,234 Hey... 391 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:44,273 Wakey, wakey. Hands off snakey. 392 00:30:46,144 --> 00:30:48,077 Open 20. 393 00:30:52,486 --> 00:30:54,418 Grab your shit. We're leaving. 394 00:30:56,889 --> 00:30:59,087 Take care of yourself, all right? 395 00:30:59,161 --> 00:31:00,956 Peace, black. 396 00:31:01,162 --> 00:31:03,461 - Keep it real, man. - Mm-hm. 397 00:31:10,173 --> 00:31:13,008 Some get by, but they never get away. 398 00:31:25,893 --> 00:31:27,795 First cell to your left. 399 00:31:29,099 --> 00:31:31,228 - Stand right here. - Yo. 400 00:31:31,302 --> 00:31:32,359 How ya' doin' G? 401 00:31:32,469 --> 00:31:34,437 - Where the fuck's my paper at? - Your man's here to see you. 402 00:31:34,506 --> 00:31:36,942 - Who's that? - I got a 32 ready for him. 403 00:31:43,152 --> 00:31:44,982 What's happening? 404 00:31:47,023 --> 00:31:49,286 Come on in, man. 405 00:31:52,461 --> 00:31:54,090 Take a seat. 406 00:31:54,164 --> 00:31:56,760 I'm Hopha, man. 407 00:31:56,868 --> 00:31:59,497 - What's going down? - Mike told me a lot about you. 408 00:31:59,572 --> 00:32:01,402 He told me a lot about you too, man. 409 00:32:01,473 --> 00:32:02,942 You know what I'm saying? 410 00:32:03,311 --> 00:32:05,368 So what the cops is telling you, man? 411 00:32:07,915 --> 00:32:11,148 I know they been trying to ask you questions about Mike. 412 00:32:11,589 --> 00:32:14,423 They asked me a few questions, but I don't know shit, y'know. 413 00:32:14,492 --> 00:32:17,461 So I just told 'em I don't know shit. 414 00:32:17,562 --> 00:32:20,029 You sure you ain't telling 'em nothing? 415 00:32:20,196 --> 00:32:22,793 I didn't tell them shit, yo. 416 00:32:23,235 --> 00:32:27,833 See, this is the problem, man. People think you did. 417 00:32:27,941 --> 00:32:31,277 - What? - Tell them something. 418 00:32:31,380 --> 00:32:34,872 That shit that happened, you probably didn't know nothing about this, 419 00:32:35,419 --> 00:32:36,944 but you're the center of attention now. 420 00:32:37,087 --> 00:32:40,455 - What do you mean? - Everybody wants a piece of you, man. 421 00:32:40,525 --> 00:32:43,961 - How's that? - Because they think you set Mike up. 422 00:32:44,029 --> 00:32:45,892 I didn't do that shit, yo. I didn't do that. 423 00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:47,899 I know you didn't fucking do it. 424 00:32:47,967 --> 00:32:51,234 They don't know that shit. They coming for you, man. 425 00:32:51,305 --> 00:32:55,504 You got every motherfucker in here ready to take a piece of your ass. 426 00:32:55,577 --> 00:32:59,243 And if I take the fucking veil down, it's gonna fucking happen. 427 00:33:01,852 --> 00:33:04,824 You stepped right into the frying pan now. 428 00:33:06,728 --> 00:33:10,096 So be ready to get down. You want some treats? 429 00:33:10,164 --> 00:33:11,927 I got some sweets. 430 00:33:12,066 --> 00:33:15,968 Some cookies or something? Here, let me hook you up. 431 00:33:16,237 --> 00:33:18,002 Take some of this. 432 00:33:18,108 --> 00:33:20,509 Where's the guard at? Where's my fucking newspaper at? 433 00:33:22,012 --> 00:33:23,950 That son of a bitch. 434 00:33:25,119 --> 00:33:27,984 That nigga brings me some shit, too. I ain't saying you're sweet, 435 00:33:28,054 --> 00:33:31,218 want some baby powder? 436 00:33:31,660 --> 00:33:33,957 Here, get yourself some Kool-Aid, or something, man. 437 00:33:34,029 --> 00:33:36,827 Take what you want, man. Take what you fucking want. 438 00:33:36,898 --> 00:33:40,561 You home, man. You home, baby. You know what I'm saying? 439 00:33:41,937 --> 00:33:44,409 You home here now. 440 00:33:44,476 --> 00:33:46,605 You with us. 441 00:33:48,113 --> 00:33:53,109 Word. Let the boys know that we got a new member now. 442 00:33:53,218 --> 00:33:55,688 Everything's gonna be all right now. 443 00:33:58,796 --> 00:34:00,490 You like that book? 444 00:34:00,563 --> 00:34:02,465 Most of all, I must see to it 445 00:34:02,534 --> 00:34:06,559 that I do not lend myself to the evils which I condemn. 446 00:34:11,512 --> 00:34:14,537 Yeah, well, you know what I say about that? 447 00:34:14,715 --> 00:34:17,549 Stay the fuck out our way. 448 00:34:17,751 --> 00:34:20,550 That's all I got to say about that shit. 449 00:34:20,621 --> 00:34:22,681 You know what I mean? 450 00:34:22,824 --> 00:34:25,227 Hey, I love people, but I don't tell them that shit. 451 00:34:25,529 --> 00:34:27,225 You know what I mean? 452 00:34:27,533 --> 00:34:29,228 And when it comes to me and mine, 453 00:34:29,334 --> 00:34:32,702 I defend mine very well. Fuck that. 454 00:34:32,771 --> 00:34:35,706 I want to get out of the game, yo. For real. That's all I want. 455 00:34:35,806 --> 00:34:39,440 Ain't no way out of this, man. Ain't no way out of this, man. 456 00:34:39,515 --> 00:34:41,813 If you move into records, if you move into shit, with us, man, 457 00:34:41,884 --> 00:34:45,480 you are taking the game with you. It's all in sync, man. 458 00:34:45,555 --> 00:34:49,456 I ain't trying to be a part of the whole game, gang bullshit... 459 00:34:49,526 --> 00:34:51,893 - Listen, listen. Fuck that. - I'm trying to write. 460 00:34:51,964 --> 00:34:53,592 - I need a pen and some paper. - I don't wanna hear that shit. 461 00:34:53,665 --> 00:34:57,830 Nigga, you are in jail, man. Bottom line. 462 00:34:58,004 --> 00:35:00,030 You down with us. 463 00:35:00,174 --> 00:35:02,334 Ain't no coming out of this shit. 464 00:35:02,442 --> 00:35:05,971 This shit's the same shit on the fucking street. 465 00:35:06,081 --> 00:35:08,744 The beef ain't gonna stop for you. 466 00:35:08,819 --> 00:35:11,081 Who the fuck is you? You gonna stop this beef? 467 00:35:11,791 --> 00:35:14,192 You can't stop it. 468 00:35:14,594 --> 00:35:16,459 You help us stop it. 469 00:35:18,333 --> 00:35:20,926 I'm trying to think straight, man. I need a pen and a pad. 470 00:35:21,001 --> 00:35:23,995 I hear you, man. I hear you, man. It's gonna be all right. 471 00:35:24,073 --> 00:35:26,871 You know what I mean? It's gonna be all right. 472 00:35:26,942 --> 00:35:29,207 Don't worry about it. 473 00:35:29,279 --> 00:35:31,212 Just wait until you get here. 474 00:35:31,281 --> 00:35:34,081 Guess y'all gonna have to make me secretary of state. 475 00:35:35,655 --> 00:35:38,421 Or secretary of defense. 476 00:35:38,492 --> 00:35:40,790 How's that? 477 00:35:40,862 --> 00:35:43,954 What, you don't like that? Minister of defense, then. 478 00:35:44,030 --> 00:35:47,365 Minister of information, but can fight. How's that? 479 00:35:47,437 --> 00:35:51,134 You know what I mean? 'Cause you gonna have to fight, cuz. 480 00:35:51,208 --> 00:35:54,406 Make no mistake about it. This is jail. 481 00:35:57,216 --> 00:35:59,242 Yeah, we got to handle that. 482 00:35:59,319 --> 00:36:02,117 When he come out, we got to take care of that. 483 00:36:02,188 --> 00:36:06,421 It's motherfucking personal. It's personal. 484 00:36:06,493 --> 00:36:07,621 'Cause you know that nigga we beat down? 485 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:10,757 Yeah, you know he down with Hopha, right? 486 00:36:10,867 --> 00:36:12,803 - What? - Yeah, and they going against us. 487 00:36:12,871 --> 00:36:15,203 'Cause ain't nothing gonna stop this motherfucking drug game. 488 00:36:15,272 --> 00:36:17,333 You know? Stop none of my motherfucking business. 489 00:36:17,442 --> 00:36:20,844 'Cause we ain't having that shit. It's Thug Life for life. 490 00:36:20,913 --> 00:36:23,210 I got the word he's down with Union Crew. 491 00:36:23,282 --> 00:36:25,878 We gonna get him. He's down with Union Crew. 492 00:36:25,953 --> 00:36:29,651 And I don't like no bitch-ass nigga cutting into my motherfucking business. 493 00:36:29,725 --> 00:36:32,192 - You get what I'm saying? - We get you. We down with you. 494 00:36:32,262 --> 00:36:33,320 Fuck that. 495 00:36:33,395 --> 00:36:36,058 If I got to push the steel in the motherfucking nigga. 496 00:36:36,132 --> 00:36:37,759 We gonna do that. 497 00:37:00,163 --> 00:37:01,961 We got some problems. 498 00:37:02,032 --> 00:37:04,194 - See them niggas over there? - Check 'em out. 499 00:37:04,269 --> 00:37:06,205 You know what I'm saying? 500 00:37:06,272 --> 00:37:07,205 Yeah, I see them, niggas. 501 00:37:07,275 --> 00:37:09,503 Man, there's a difference with us and them, man. 502 00:37:09,576 --> 00:37:11,545 You know what I'm saying? 503 00:37:11,812 --> 00:37:14,406 We organized. 504 00:37:14,849 --> 00:37:17,078 That bunch of stupid motherfuckers, man. 505 00:37:17,184 --> 00:37:19,117 They can't handle no business. 506 00:37:19,186 --> 00:37:21,124 We already did that drug shit 507 00:37:21,192 --> 00:37:23,991 and that fucking hand-to-hand bullshit, man. 508 00:37:24,062 --> 00:37:27,262 I want cake, B. Don't you want cake? 509 00:37:27,335 --> 00:37:29,269 We want fucking cake, man. 510 00:37:31,238 --> 00:37:34,368 If y'all want some cake, man. 511 00:37:34,444 --> 00:37:37,812 We do this shit, make this move on these motherfuckers, man. 512 00:37:40,018 --> 00:37:41,782 I don't give a fuck what happens. 513 00:38:02,546 --> 00:38:05,640 Even your man don't fucking like you, faggot. 514 00:38:05,717 --> 00:38:06,741 Fuck you. 515 00:38:06,818 --> 00:38:09,185 Yeah, fuck y'all. 516 00:38:09,255 --> 00:38:11,222 If you was fucking smart, you'd be over here, too. 517 00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:13,190 We wouldn't have to be doing this. 518 00:38:13,259 --> 00:38:15,592 - Y'all trying to rap? - We wouldn't have to be doing this. 519 00:38:15,663 --> 00:38:19,828 Fuck these niggas, man. Fuck them niggas, man. 520 00:38:19,901 --> 00:38:22,930 Nah, nah, nah, nah. You stay back. Lay back. Lay back. 521 00:38:23,041 --> 00:38:24,905 You make the choice who the fuck you gone to be with. 522 00:38:24,976 --> 00:38:26,945 You get your ass over there with Union Crew. 523 00:38:27,046 --> 00:38:27,979 - Fuck Thug Life. - Fuck you. 524 00:38:28,048 --> 00:38:30,071 - Fuck Thug Life. - Fuck you, nigga. 525 00:39:21,750 --> 00:39:23,685 Hey, how you doing? 526 00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:33,295 Is it hot enough for you out there? 527 00:39:41,175 --> 00:39:43,110 Just my keys in my front pocket. 528 00:40:31,641 --> 00:40:33,334 What's up, yo? 529 00:40:33,442 --> 00:40:34,537 What's up? 530 00:40:34,945 --> 00:40:36,914 You see him there? 531 00:40:37,015 --> 00:40:39,107 Man, I want you to do the right thing, man. 532 00:40:39,218 --> 00:40:41,185 What the fuck is the right thing? 533 00:40:41,285 --> 00:40:43,450 The right thing is for me to just be my fucking self. 534 00:40:43,525 --> 00:40:45,458 You know what I'm saying? Do you know what I'm saying? 535 00:40:45,526 --> 00:40:47,015 I mean, it's not about... 536 00:40:47,094 --> 00:40:49,791 It's hard to be yourself here, man. 537 00:40:49,898 --> 00:40:51,958 Look around, man. 538 00:40:52,033 --> 00:40:54,262 It's hard to be yourself in here, man. 539 00:40:58,274 --> 00:41:00,742 My crew gotta know where you stand. I know where they standing at. 540 00:41:00,811 --> 00:41:01,937 What the fuck? 541 00:41:02,014 --> 00:41:04,346 This ain't no rites of passage or some shit. 542 00:41:05,585 --> 00:41:08,109 You see them lined up? 543 00:41:08,186 --> 00:41:10,658 We got our shit locked over here. 544 00:41:10,758 --> 00:41:12,818 Ain't nobody coming over here, fucking with this shit. 545 00:41:12,929 --> 00:41:14,556 There's a place for you over here. 546 00:41:14,630 --> 00:41:16,656 If not, go the fuck over there with your friend, then. 547 00:41:24,543 --> 00:41:26,033 All right, look, 548 00:41:26,112 --> 00:41:27,578 let's not get too close, you know what I mean? 549 00:41:37,694 --> 00:41:39,525 - It's going down today. - It's going down today. 550 00:41:39,629 --> 00:41:40,596 It's going down today. 551 00:41:40,697 --> 00:41:43,063 He gots to go. 552 00:41:43,133 --> 00:41:46,033 He gots to go. He gots to go. 553 00:41:46,101 --> 00:41:48,070 Pass that joint. 554 00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:50,404 I want everybody high. Everybody high. 555 00:41:50,476 --> 00:41:52,273 I want everybody high. 556 00:41:52,345 --> 00:41:53,710 It's the thug in us. 557 00:42:41,342 --> 00:42:42,741 Fuck you. 558 00:42:43,947 --> 00:42:47,941 I stand on the corner of the block slinging amethyst rocks, 559 00:42:48,018 --> 00:42:51,854 drinking 40's of Mother Earth's private nectar stock, dodging cops. 560 00:42:51,924 --> 00:42:53,551 'Cause five-oh be the 666. 561 00:42:53,625 --> 00:42:55,788 And I need a fix of that purple rain, 562 00:42:55,863 --> 00:42:57,888 the type of shit that drives membranes insane. 563 00:42:57,999 --> 00:43:01,457 Oh, yeah, I'm in the fast lane, snorting candy yams 564 00:43:01,537 --> 00:43:04,472 that free my body and soul and send me like Shazam. 565 00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:07,532 Never question who I am. God knows. 566 00:43:07,611 --> 00:43:11,606 And I know God personally. In fact, he let's me call him me. 567 00:43:11,682 --> 00:43:16,278 Yeah, I'm serious B. Doggonned niggas plottin' shit, lovely, 568 00:43:16,353 --> 00:43:19,324 but the Feds is also plottin' me. 569 00:43:19,392 --> 00:43:21,691 They're tryin' to imprison my astrology. 570 00:43:21,796 --> 00:43:24,891 Put our stars behind bars, our stars in stripes, 571 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,733 using blood-splattered banners as nationalist kites. 572 00:43:27,806 --> 00:43:31,172 But I control the wind. That's why they call it the hawk. 573 00:43:31,242 --> 00:43:34,507 I am Horus, son of Isis, son of Osiris, 574 00:43:34,579 --> 00:43:36,979 worshipped as Jesus, resurrected like Lazarus, 575 00:43:37,048 --> 00:43:39,416 but you can call me Lazzie, lazy, 576 00:43:39,519 --> 00:43:42,976 yeah, I'm lazy, cause I'd rather sit and build than work and plow a field. 577 00:43:43,056 --> 00:43:45,457 Worshipping a daily yield of cash green crops. 578 00:43:45,527 --> 00:43:48,985 Stealing us was the smartest thing they ever did. 579 00:43:49,365 --> 00:43:52,028 Too bad they don't teach the truth to their kids. 580 00:43:52,136 --> 00:43:54,866 Our influence on them is the reflection they see 581 00:43:54,939 --> 00:43:58,341 when they look into their minstrel mirror and talk about their culture. 582 00:43:58,409 --> 00:44:01,071 Their existence is that of a schizophrenic vulture. 583 00:44:01,243 --> 00:44:03,078 Yeah. There's no repentance. 584 00:44:03,183 --> 00:44:07,281 They are bound to live an infinite consecutive executive life sentence. 585 00:44:07,355 --> 00:44:09,153 So what are you bound to live, nigga? 586 00:44:09,257 --> 00:44:11,195 So while you're out there serving the time, 587 00:44:11,195 --> 00:44:14,130 I'll be in sync with the sun while you run from the moon. 588 00:44:14,197 --> 00:44:16,962 Life of the womb reflected by guns. 589 00:44:17,035 --> 00:44:19,902 Worshiper of moons. I am the sun. 590 00:44:20,141 --> 00:44:22,609 And we are public enemies number one. 591 00:44:23,012 --> 00:44:28,710 One, one, one. One, one, one. 592 00:44:39,132 --> 00:44:40,758 I forgot what the fuck I was thinking. 593 00:44:52,614 --> 00:44:54,514 Are you all right? 594 00:44:55,483 --> 00:44:57,954 - Are you okay? - Um, yes. 595 00:44:58,058 --> 00:45:00,251 I just saw what you did out there. 596 00:45:01,895 --> 00:45:03,725 Do you need any help? 597 00:45:04,064 --> 00:45:06,931 - No. - Cool. 598 00:45:08,267 --> 00:45:10,635 Um, hi. My name is Lauren. 599 00:45:10,704 --> 00:45:13,937 Lauren Bell. I teach writing here. 600 00:45:17,148 --> 00:45:19,083 Where did you get that from? 601 00:45:19,215 --> 00:45:21,013 I'm sorry, um... 602 00:45:21,152 --> 00:45:24,747 The poem that you did out there. Did you, did you write that? 603 00:45:24,854 --> 00:45:25,824 Yeah. 604 00:45:25,924 --> 00:45:27,482 - Excuse me. - Um... 605 00:45:27,592 --> 00:45:29,824 - Are you okay? - Yes, I'm fine. 606 00:45:29,896 --> 00:45:31,831 What are you doing out here in the hall? 607 00:45:31,898 --> 00:45:33,664 He's just talking to me. He's on his way to... 608 00:45:33,736 --> 00:45:35,669 Okay. But he's not supposed to be out here. 609 00:45:35,737 --> 00:45:39,175 North three, let's go. Right now. Right now. 610 00:45:39,276 --> 00:45:41,074 You have no right to be out here. Let's go. 611 00:45:41,178 --> 00:45:43,476 All right you're in north three. I'll put in a request for you. 612 00:45:43,547 --> 00:45:45,709 I'll put in a request for you. 613 00:45:45,782 --> 00:45:48,048 You have to tell the CO that you want to come to class, 614 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:49,747 and he'll let you come down. 615 00:45:50,756 --> 00:45:52,283 You are out of place. Let's go. 616 00:46:01,939 --> 00:46:04,066 I've been searching myself, man. 617 00:46:05,578 --> 00:46:08,410 I know you all have too. 618 00:46:08,513 --> 00:46:10,709 The world is fucking leaving us behind, man. 619 00:46:10,783 --> 00:46:12,751 What Ray said was right. 620 00:46:12,818 --> 00:46:14,615 I didn't agree with his methods, you know what I'm saying? 621 00:46:14,687 --> 00:46:17,623 - You know... - What the hell was that? 622 00:46:17,725 --> 00:46:19,921 I still don't fuckin' know entirely, man. 623 00:46:19,995 --> 00:46:24,762 But what that nigga did out there was just fucking fascinating. 624 00:46:43,758 --> 00:46:46,629 I ain't fucking coming back here, man. 625 00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:48,963 Fuck that shit. I love y'all and all that shit. 626 00:46:49,067 --> 00:46:51,569 I ain't coming the fuck back here. 627 00:46:51,569 --> 00:46:54,266 You know what I mean? I ain't turning on y'all. 628 00:46:54,340 --> 00:46:56,001 Like I said, I love y'all, 629 00:46:56,076 --> 00:46:58,270 but I'm telling it the way it fucking is, man. 630 00:46:59,749 --> 00:47:04,049 Them motherfuckers outside this place don't give a fuck about us. 631 00:47:04,121 --> 00:47:06,953 We started off fighting, we gonna end off fighting. 632 00:47:07,022 --> 00:47:10,152 But how we fight is the fight. 633 00:47:10,226 --> 00:47:12,753 That's the way it goes. 634 00:47:12,832 --> 00:47:14,561 If I'm gonna die for something, 635 00:47:14,633 --> 00:47:16,694 I'm gonna die for something that's worth it, dig? 636 00:47:36,228 --> 00:47:38,957 We've been discussing the chapters as we've been going along, 637 00:47:40,902 --> 00:47:43,666 but now we've finished the whole book. 638 00:47:43,805 --> 00:47:49,745 And what I want to know is... 639 00:47:49,745 --> 00:47:54,685 what came to your mind last night 640 00:47:54,786 --> 00:47:57,153 when you were lying in your cell 641 00:47:57,223 --> 00:47:59,954 and you were reading the assignment? 642 00:48:00,027 --> 00:48:02,552 What was the first thing that came to your mind? 643 00:48:02,630 --> 00:48:05,462 I mean, sure, I know I want to stay off the street. 644 00:48:05,533 --> 00:48:10,028 I know I want to be a positive person to my family, right. 645 00:48:10,106 --> 00:48:13,735 But I know that, me personally, if the situation arose 646 00:48:13,810 --> 00:48:18,112 where it was either starve or my children starving, 647 00:48:18,182 --> 00:48:22,554 or doing the right thing, then, you know, it's trey ball. 648 00:48:22,623 --> 00:48:24,991 Or Monster Cody got to do what he got to do. 649 00:48:24,991 --> 00:48:27,959 I do not agree with Joseph. 650 00:48:28,328 --> 00:48:32,834 Sadly, too many of our brothers got the mentality of Joe, 651 00:48:32,834 --> 00:48:34,998 and come here and say, because of this and that, 652 00:48:35,072 --> 00:48:37,767 I'm gonna put this in my hand using my family for an excuse. 653 00:48:37,842 --> 00:48:41,211 When all the time, like you said, you got to be responsible for you. 654 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,649 So you gonna use, "My family was hungry so I went out and shot a motherfucker for money." 655 00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:45,946 Fuck no. You still coming to jail. 656 00:48:46,086 --> 00:48:49,182 I don't know whether you know it or not, brother, but we are capitalists. 657 00:48:49,259 --> 00:48:52,126 Whether we're capitalists on a small scale, 658 00:48:52,194 --> 00:48:54,221 we live in a capitalist country. 659 00:48:54,331 --> 00:48:55,729 And that is what we are. 660 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,258 We are born to learn how to capitalize on whatever it is. 661 00:48:59,370 --> 00:49:00,496 It's about money. 662 00:49:00,605 --> 00:49:04,337 So Joe and John are saying that there are not enough resources out there 663 00:49:04,410 --> 00:49:07,973 to help you change your life. Is that true? 664 00:49:08,048 --> 00:49:10,415 We just happened to be born our color, 665 00:49:10,484 --> 00:49:13,181 and we at the bottom of the ladder. You understand? 666 00:49:13,254 --> 00:49:16,818 Now, if I could make it out, and have me some real dough, 667 00:49:16,894 --> 00:49:18,760 yeah, then it wouldn't be like this. 668 00:49:18,831 --> 00:49:21,025 All right. Y'all ready for the poetry reading? 669 00:49:21,099 --> 00:49:22,564 Yes. 670 00:49:22,634 --> 00:49:24,296 I didn't hear everybody. 671 00:49:24,402 --> 00:49:25,699 I said are y'all ready for the poetry reading? 672 00:49:25,836 --> 00:49:27,362 Yes. 673 00:49:28,441 --> 00:49:30,468 - Ron, you ready? - Yeah. 674 00:49:30,580 --> 00:49:32,775 Let's go. 675 00:49:36,051 --> 00:49:39,953 The name of my little piece is, uh, "Why." 676 00:49:40,024 --> 00:49:46,192 I shot three motherfuckers, but I didn't know why. 677 00:49:46,264 --> 00:49:49,632 I guess I just wanted to see something die. 678 00:49:49,702 --> 00:49:54,072 You see, I bought this gun for a few rocks 679 00:49:54,139 --> 00:49:58,944 just to get even, so I thought, with those shit-eating cops. 680 00:49:59,048 --> 00:50:02,177 Holding the cold, blue steel in the palm of my hand, 681 00:50:03,453 --> 00:50:07,446 not quite sixteen, yet totally a man. 682 00:50:07,557 --> 00:50:10,085 My only plan was money in my hand. 683 00:50:10,163 --> 00:50:13,862 I wore Falacci, Gucci, Nikes, and Eddie B. 684 00:50:13,935 --> 00:50:17,301 I was the coolest motherfucker in Southeast DC. 685 00:50:19,207 --> 00:50:22,178 School? What the fuck. 686 00:50:22,246 --> 00:50:24,441 That was a thing of the past. 687 00:50:24,514 --> 00:50:29,284 Getting paid, school and all that other square shit could kiss my ass. 688 00:50:30,356 --> 00:50:32,587 Mad at my bun, toying with my gun, 689 00:50:32,659 --> 00:50:36,687 tipped on over to my favorite poolroom just to have some fun. 690 00:50:36,764 --> 00:50:40,325 Rips was at full blast, so I chalked up my cue, 691 00:50:40,434 --> 00:50:42,700 ready to kick some ass. 692 00:50:42,771 --> 00:50:46,071 I played a few hours, beat all the old timers 693 00:50:46,141 --> 00:50:48,303 and was about to go. 694 00:50:48,378 --> 00:50:50,871 Until the three- 695 00:50:50,949 --> 00:50:54,249 one of the three bama motherfuckers stepped on my toe. 696 00:50:55,556 --> 00:50:58,957 A split second later, whip, bam, it was on. 697 00:50:59,028 --> 00:51:01,623 The ass kicking begun. 698 00:51:01,697 --> 00:51:05,191 I ducked a few pool balls and eased out my gun. 699 00:51:06,537 --> 00:51:09,735 Ratta-tat-tat and that was that. Three was whacked. 700 00:51:09,808 --> 00:51:11,467 Ten years later. 701 00:51:11,575 --> 00:51:14,375 As I sit here in my jail cell about to cry, 702 00:51:14,446 --> 00:51:15,276 I'm thinking, 703 00:51:15,347 --> 00:51:18,045 I shot three motherfuckers and I don't know why. 704 00:51:22,758 --> 00:51:24,725 Thank you, Ron. 705 00:51:24,926 --> 00:51:29,767 Oh, I, um, I don't know if all of you guys know, 706 00:51:29,767 --> 00:51:33,704 but, um, today's my last day here. 707 00:51:35,841 --> 00:51:38,571 Oh, God. 708 00:51:38,745 --> 00:51:41,578 I'm gonna miss you guys. 709 00:51:41,681 --> 00:51:45,120 - We gonna miss you too. - Especially me. 710 00:51:45,188 --> 00:51:48,522 Um, they, um, 711 00:51:48,793 --> 00:51:51,316 it's so wild that we had this conversation today, because, 712 00:51:51,428 --> 00:51:54,625 they have, they cut this program. 713 00:51:56,302 --> 00:51:59,501 And it's just brought home the fact that, you know, 714 00:51:59,573 --> 00:52:02,475 it really isn't about rehabilitation anymore, you know? 715 00:52:02,544 --> 00:52:04,170 And you were right, Joe. 716 00:52:04,312 --> 00:52:05,509 Like I was trying to tell you earlier, 717 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,434 Yeah, it's gonna be hard when you leave here. 718 00:52:08,503 --> 00:52:10,599 It's gonna be real hard. 719 00:52:10,674 --> 00:52:15,440 It's really fucked up that you were born in Southeast, in the ghetto. 720 00:52:15,512 --> 00:52:18,275 It's really fucked up that you were born black. 721 00:52:18,380 --> 00:52:21,144 It's really fucked up that you've had a hard time in your life. 722 00:52:21,217 --> 00:52:23,150 Whatever your story is, 723 00:52:23,220 --> 00:52:25,154 whatever it is that brought you here in your life, 724 00:52:25,223 --> 00:52:27,157 that shit is really fucked up. 725 00:52:27,224 --> 00:52:31,126 If you keep shoving the anger and the pain and the frustration down, 726 00:52:31,194 --> 00:52:33,754 and you keep saying that's all right, I'm gonna do what I gotta do 727 00:52:33,829 --> 00:52:37,197 and you don't let it come out, that keeps pushing you down. 728 00:52:37,267 --> 00:52:38,530 That is your prison. 729 00:52:39,202 --> 00:52:42,399 You gotta let that shit out 'cause once you let that frustration out, 730 00:52:42,471 --> 00:52:46,100 it doesn't hold you back anymore. It doesn't lock you down. 731 00:52:46,209 --> 00:52:48,074 And then you can stand up with some courage. 732 00:52:48,143 --> 00:52:50,136 You can say, okay, yeah, it's fucked up, 733 00:52:50,248 --> 00:52:52,409 but I am not gonna live like this. 734 00:52:52,516 --> 00:52:55,608 I am going to take my destiny into my own hands. 735 00:52:55,718 --> 00:52:58,016 That's the only way to go now. 736 00:52:58,088 --> 00:53:01,818 I grew up with guys just like y'all. All of y'all. 737 00:53:01,890 --> 00:53:04,825 My brother was sitting in your seat. 738 00:53:04,895 --> 00:53:06,828 My brother's not here anymore. 739 00:53:08,630 --> 00:53:11,501 He grew up in your era, Joe, in your era, Ronald, 740 00:53:11,570 --> 00:53:15,198 when everybody wanted to be Superfly. Remember that? 741 00:53:15,273 --> 00:53:18,072 It was all about being Superfly or the Mac, remember that? 742 00:53:18,142 --> 00:53:20,703 Now it's about being a gangsta or OG. 743 00:53:23,415 --> 00:53:26,349 He had a good heart just like y'all. I know y'all are good guys. 744 00:53:26,416 --> 00:53:28,543 The people out there, they see your face in the paper, 745 00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,847 they think y'all, they think you're monsters. 746 00:53:31,956 --> 00:53:35,619 I know you're good guys inside. My brother had a good heart. 747 00:53:39,263 --> 00:53:41,925 I know your dreams. I've been there. 748 00:53:43,467 --> 00:53:49,098 But chasing them, thinking you can achieve them by selling drugs... 749 00:53:49,173 --> 00:53:53,542 that's just a part of the trap, y'all. That's just a part of the trap. 750 00:53:53,610 --> 00:53:57,639 And yeah, you're right, Ronald. The cycle just keeps continuing. 751 00:53:57,716 --> 00:54:02,015 Who's gonna stop it? Y'all got to stop it. Y'all been in. 752 00:54:02,086 --> 00:54:04,612 Y'all can go back out, change your life 753 00:54:04,723 --> 00:54:08,749 and show the young brothers that they don't have to come back in here like this. 754 00:54:10,293 --> 00:54:13,629 Freedom isn't out here. 755 00:54:13,700 --> 00:54:16,495 It's in here. 756 00:54:16,834 --> 00:54:19,098 You can be free anytime you want. 757 00:54:20,537 --> 00:54:23,005 Anytime. 758 00:54:23,073 --> 00:54:30,479 Never give anyone the power to take away your freedom. 759 00:54:30,580 --> 00:54:34,641 That's yours. It don't belong to nobody but you. 760 00:54:36,187 --> 00:54:38,213 Remember that. 761 00:54:41,227 --> 00:54:43,786 I'm not going to go on and on. 762 00:54:43,862 --> 00:54:46,955 Besides, my tissue's falling apart. 763 00:54:47,031 --> 00:54:49,625 - We gonna miss you, all right? - I'm gonna miss you too, Red. 764 00:54:49,700 --> 00:54:52,067 And I'm gonna miss you too. And I'm gonna miss you too. 765 00:54:52,136 --> 00:54:55,402 - Give me a hug. - All right. All right. 766 00:55:00,046 --> 00:55:02,477 Ritchy, give me a hug, baby. 767 00:55:02,547 --> 00:55:04,411 - Okay. - You gonna be okay? 768 00:55:04,515 --> 00:55:08,043 I'm gonna be all right. You gonna be okay? 769 00:55:08,153 --> 00:55:10,644 I'm gonna be fine after that poem you wrote me. 770 00:55:10,755 --> 00:55:12,815 You gonna write me now, right? 771 00:55:12,890 --> 00:55:15,449 Okay. Good. All right, now. 772 00:55:15,525 --> 00:55:17,550 Take care, baby. Bye-bye. 773 00:55:18,896 --> 00:55:21,525 Ray, you hangin' back for a minute? 774 00:55:24,535 --> 00:55:26,471 So what did you think of the class? 775 00:55:27,939 --> 00:55:31,204 I think you're a wonderful teacher. 776 00:55:31,276 --> 00:55:36,807 - Ray, what are you doing in here? - I sold weed. 777 00:55:36,916 --> 00:55:39,851 So you just happened to be selling weed? 778 00:55:39,951 --> 00:55:41,886 I mean, I don't know. I don't know. 779 00:55:41,953 --> 00:55:43,477 I got caught. 780 00:55:43,588 --> 00:55:46,922 Yeah, I know you got caught. I know you got caught. 781 00:55:46,993 --> 00:55:49,291 I mean, it's not that simple. It's not... 782 00:55:51,796 --> 00:55:53,892 - I mean... - What, are you in school? 783 00:55:53,966 --> 00:55:55,694 No. 784 00:55:55,768 --> 00:55:59,001 So you sell weed for a living? That's it? 785 00:55:59,072 --> 00:56:01,232 And you write poetry. And you read books. 786 00:56:01,306 --> 00:56:03,241 I never really thought of myself as writing poetry. 787 00:56:03,308 --> 00:56:06,745 You know, I write, I'm here on, 788 00:56:06,845 --> 00:56:10,007 I'm really here on a petty weed charge. 789 00:56:11,284 --> 00:56:16,051 Although, I've been told that I have to cop a plea. 790 00:56:18,523 --> 00:56:21,049 And if I do, 791 00:56:21,127 --> 00:56:24,619 I may be looking at like a couple of years, 792 00:56:24,696 --> 00:56:27,531 but... I don't know. 793 00:56:32,270 --> 00:56:35,899 - I don't know how to say... - Just stay in touch. 794 00:56:35,975 --> 00:56:39,409 Just stay in touch. 795 00:56:39,780 --> 00:56:43,647 You never know. You never know, you know? 796 00:56:48,187 --> 00:56:49,847 I gotta go. 797 00:57:08,041 --> 00:57:09,098 You got me thinking. 798 00:57:09,175 --> 00:57:11,166 You remember that book that was in my cell? 799 00:57:11,244 --> 00:57:15,577 The Art of War? Man named Sun Tzu? 800 00:57:15,681 --> 00:57:19,310 Some old guy. Chinese guy a long time ago. 801 00:57:19,418 --> 00:57:22,217 The man said it's about learning to lead people. 802 00:57:22,355 --> 00:57:27,314 It's about being able to win wars without violence. 803 00:57:27,427 --> 00:57:29,257 You know what I mean? 804 00:57:29,328 --> 00:57:33,286 He wasn't no sucker, now, he'd get ready to get down, you know? 805 00:57:33,365 --> 00:57:37,098 But he won wars from the beginning 806 00:57:37,169 --> 00:57:39,295 without ever having to use violence. 807 00:57:39,371 --> 00:57:41,535 He said that's where the real power is. 808 00:57:42,076 --> 00:57:43,565 Shit bugged me the fuck out. 809 00:57:43,678 --> 00:57:45,474 I thought what the fuck's this nigga talkin' about? 810 00:57:45,546 --> 00:57:47,675 I mean, I thought about it. 811 00:57:47,783 --> 00:57:49,842 But how many people really do that, you know? 812 00:57:49,952 --> 00:57:54,386 How many people really do that? You did that. 813 00:57:55,122 --> 00:57:56,453 I'm telling you, man, 814 00:57:56,557 --> 00:57:58,989 you got more talent than maybe even you know. 815 00:57:59,092 --> 00:58:01,027 You got a hell of a lot of decisions. 816 00:58:01,095 --> 00:58:03,620 I can't help you with the decisions, man. 817 00:58:03,699 --> 00:58:05,790 You know, but I'm always there for you. 818 00:58:05,866 --> 00:58:09,324 I've made my decisions, yo. You can see. 819 00:58:09,404 --> 00:58:12,132 There's no fear in my heart no more. There's no fear. 820 00:58:12,204 --> 00:58:13,901 I don't give a fuck. 821 00:58:13,975 --> 00:58:16,238 I'm scared every day, but I'm not afraid. 822 00:58:16,311 --> 00:58:19,904 You dig? To me there's a difference. 823 00:58:19,979 --> 00:58:25,007 To you there's a difference. You showed that. 824 00:58:25,117 --> 00:58:28,214 You gonna be a great man. You got great things to fucking do. 825 00:58:28,823 --> 00:58:34,693 And one of them is to pass this to an old friend of mine. 826 00:58:34,762 --> 00:58:38,161 This is something a friend of mine gave me a long time ago. 827 00:58:38,232 --> 00:58:40,791 I'm gonna get you out of here. All right? 828 00:58:40,869 --> 00:58:45,770 - How you gonna get me outta here? - You're not listening to me, man. 829 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,773 You're not listening to me, man. 830 00:58:47,841 --> 00:58:50,173 I'm gonna put up the bail for you. All right? 831 00:58:50,243 --> 00:58:53,508 If you do this piece of work for me, I'm here. 832 00:58:57,051 --> 00:58:58,984 - What's your name? - Raymond Joshua. 833 00:58:59,085 --> 00:59:01,054 Okay. You're being released on cash collateral. 834 00:59:04,591 --> 00:59:06,524 Take your suit off and put it in the basket. 835 00:59:25,046 --> 00:59:27,741 - Yo, where's my shirt? - It got lost. Shit happens. 836 00:59:30,784 --> 00:59:32,810 Take that. You going home in these. 837 00:59:45,165 --> 00:59:47,189 Let's see your arm band. 838 00:59:47,266 --> 00:59:50,260 Hold it right there so I can see it. Okay. 839 00:59:50,337 --> 00:59:55,333 Hey, Ray, this is your last time in here, right? 840 00:59:55,412 --> 00:59:57,402 I want you to take something out the door with you when you leave. 841 00:59:57,479 --> 00:59:59,878 Those six digits on that band I told you about, 842 00:59:59,947 --> 01:00:02,009 they'll be there waiting for you if you ever come back. 843 01:00:02,118 --> 01:00:04,951 Now get your ass out of my jail. 844 01:00:05,054 --> 01:00:07,387 Door. 845 01:00:27,908 --> 01:00:29,970 All right, going out with one. 846 01:00:30,046 --> 01:00:32,879 - What's your name? - Raymond Joshua. 847 01:00:32,948 --> 01:00:36,212 - Your number? - 274001. 848 01:00:36,317 --> 01:00:38,581 Okay. Officer, what's he going out on? 849 01:00:38,686 --> 01:00:40,620 He's going out on cash collateral. 850 01:00:49,531 --> 01:00:51,591 - Good luck. Take care. - Thanks a lot. 851 01:00:51,668 --> 01:00:53,066 All right. 852 01:02:17,922 --> 01:02:21,323 - How you doing, Ray? - Hey, Ray, where you been? 853 01:02:21,391 --> 01:02:23,383 - What's up? - Where you been, Ray? 854 01:02:23,494 --> 01:02:26,486 - I saw a police car, Ray. - Yeah? 855 01:02:26,596 --> 01:02:29,155 - What's happening? - Nothin' much. 856 01:02:29,231 --> 01:02:31,497 Where you been at for a couple of days? 857 01:02:31,570 --> 01:02:35,665 - We ain't seen you. - Bye, Ray. 858 01:02:44,013 --> 01:02:45,914 Everything cool, man? 859 01:02:49,919 --> 01:02:51,284 How did they treat you in camp, man? 860 01:02:51,353 --> 01:02:53,446 - All right. - Just hold on for a second. 861 01:02:53,556 --> 01:02:55,648 - I got something for ya. - All right. 862 01:03:11,777 --> 01:03:15,336 - What's up, man? - Yooo. 863 01:03:15,478 --> 01:03:17,912 What's up, man? 864 01:03:18,181 --> 01:03:20,114 What's up? 865 01:03:22,285 --> 01:03:26,416 - I'm alive, man. - I cannot believe this shit. 866 01:03:26,523 --> 01:03:28,490 You been all right in there? 867 01:03:28,592 --> 01:03:33,653 Yeah, I been cool. You... I been great. 868 01:03:33,763 --> 01:03:35,890 Well, I'm all right, man. 869 01:03:35,965 --> 01:03:37,991 You know what? 870 01:03:38,068 --> 01:03:40,560 I'm blind now, man. 871 01:03:40,639 --> 01:03:43,005 I can't see shit, man. 872 01:03:43,074 --> 01:03:45,905 Somebody in Dodge City gonna have to take care of that. 873 01:03:48,045 --> 01:03:52,244 - Take care of what? - Man, I'm hurtin', man. 874 01:03:52,317 --> 01:03:54,409 And the only thing I can do 875 01:03:54,485 --> 01:03:58,046 to feel better is to know that somebody else is hurtin'. 876 01:03:58,155 --> 01:04:00,418 What we gonna do is handle this. 877 01:04:00,556 --> 01:04:03,252 Handle this how, nigga? What the fuck are you talking about? 878 01:04:03,325 --> 01:04:05,261 - Are you fucking real or what? - No, no, no, no. What... 879 01:04:05,362 --> 01:04:07,297 I got a motherfucking bullet in my head, 880 01:04:07,364 --> 01:04:09,194 and whoever put it there, they gonna pay. 881 01:04:09,265 --> 01:04:11,564 Now is you with that or what? 882 01:04:11,634 --> 01:04:14,569 Man, we've been doing this for years. For what? 883 01:04:14,638 --> 01:04:16,570 I don't understand it. I understood it before, 884 01:04:16,638 --> 01:04:18,698 but I don't understand that shit. 885 01:04:18,775 --> 01:04:20,266 'Cause you know what? 886 01:04:20,344 --> 01:04:22,141 When I was inside, I realized something. 887 01:04:22,212 --> 01:04:25,342 I was blind for a long time, yo. 888 01:04:26,018 --> 01:04:31,215 I see now. And I see that this shit has to end. 889 01:04:31,388 --> 01:04:33,825 There's not shit you can do. 890 01:04:33,893 --> 01:04:37,659 There is no one you can shoot, not even the fucking doctor, 891 01:04:37,796 --> 01:04:39,787 that would give you your fucking vision back. 892 01:04:41,465 --> 01:04:43,763 There's nothing, no one you could shoot. 893 01:04:43,868 --> 01:04:45,836 You could shoot the sun, 894 01:04:47,472 --> 01:04:50,635 and everybody else would just be blind. 895 01:04:51,977 --> 01:04:54,172 I spoke to your man inside, yo. 896 01:04:54,245 --> 01:04:57,805 - You what? - I spoke with your man, yo. 897 01:04:57,881 --> 01:05:00,681 - Hopha. - What'd he say? 898 01:05:00,753 --> 01:05:02,275 What'd he say? 899 01:05:02,354 --> 01:05:05,288 He said the same shit I'm saying. That this shit is silly. 900 01:05:05,357 --> 01:05:07,552 He don't want any type of retaliation. 901 01:05:07,657 --> 01:05:10,093 Man, that's bullshit. Fuck that bullshit you talking. 902 01:05:10,161 --> 01:05:11,923 It's not bullshit. 903 01:05:11,996 --> 01:05:13,932 Man, Hopha ain't say nothing like that, man. 904 01:05:14,001 --> 01:05:17,696 He know Dodge City sticks together no matter what. 905 01:05:17,769 --> 01:05:20,738 Anybody in Dodge City go down, 906 01:05:20,805 --> 01:05:22,898 the motherfucker's being dealt with. 907 01:05:22,975 --> 01:05:25,238 - What's this? - What is this? 908 01:05:25,309 --> 01:05:26,869 Where the fuck you get this from, man? 909 01:05:26,945 --> 01:05:32,349 Your boy. He knew you wouldn't believe shit I was telling you. 910 01:05:32,417 --> 01:05:35,318 And what the fuck are we retaliating for? 911 01:05:35,386 --> 01:05:37,354 We don't need this shit any more. 912 01:05:37,421 --> 01:05:39,390 So what are you saying? Dodge City is breaking up? 913 01:05:39,457 --> 01:05:42,358 What the fuck you talking about? This ain't the temptations or some shit. 914 01:05:42,427 --> 01:05:44,190 We ain't breaking up. 915 01:05:45,930 --> 01:05:48,364 What makes you think me and you can go talk to somebody 916 01:05:48,466 --> 01:05:51,229 that tried to kill me, man, and tried to kill you? 917 01:05:51,302 --> 01:05:53,327 The fucking mayor can't even talk to these people. 918 01:05:53,405 --> 01:05:55,102 The government can't even talk to these people. 919 01:05:55,174 --> 01:05:57,108 I ain't talking about the mayor. I ain't talking about the government. 920 01:05:57,175 --> 01:05:59,907 Nigga, I love you. I love you. 921 01:05:59,979 --> 01:06:03,710 I just don't wanna see you go out like a million other niggas before you. 922 01:06:09,054 --> 01:06:10,988 Man, I'm scared. 923 01:06:11,056 --> 01:06:15,459 - I know you're scared. - Can you help me out, man? 924 01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,823 - I'll help you, Jack. - Help me, man. 925 01:06:33,978 --> 01:06:37,243 Time is running out tick-tock like grains of sand? 926 01:06:37,315 --> 01:06:40,719 Every man's sharpest man, like steel's sharpest steel? 927 01:06:40,787 --> 01:06:42,482 The threat of a war is real? 928 01:06:42,556 --> 01:06:46,013 Where my soldiers fought on the battlefield? 929 01:06:58,036 --> 01:06:59,197 - What's up, man? - What's up, babe? 930 01:06:59,271 --> 01:07:02,639 - What's up, man? - What's up with you? 931 01:07:02,709 --> 01:07:05,801 Man, look, man. What the fuck is up, dude? 932 01:07:05,877 --> 01:07:08,244 I'm trying to get back. I'm trying to get back. 933 01:07:08,315 --> 01:07:10,976 Motherfuckers. Man, they blinded you, man. 934 01:07:11,050 --> 01:07:12,985 I'm trying to blind one of them other niggas. 935 01:07:13,052 --> 01:07:16,489 - They drew first blood, baby. - I understand. 936 01:07:16,590 --> 01:07:18,148 And they know me. You know what I'm saying? 937 01:07:18,258 --> 01:07:20,589 They know all of us. They know how we go. 938 01:07:20,660 --> 01:07:21,990 They know how we go. 939 01:07:22,061 --> 01:07:23,858 You gonna go over there and take one of them out, right? 940 01:07:23,929 --> 01:07:25,920 - Pow pow baby. - Pow pow baby. 941 01:07:25,998 --> 01:07:27,934 Live by the sword, I'm gonna die by the sword. 942 01:07:28,001 --> 01:07:29,901 - You know what I'm saying? - For who? 943 01:07:29,971 --> 01:07:31,994 Who the fuck you fighting for? What are you fighting to protect? 944 01:07:32,072 --> 01:07:33,835 For my man. Dodge City. 945 01:07:34,007 --> 01:07:36,407 You live in the motherfucking projects. It's an experiment. 946 01:07:36,475 --> 01:07:38,842 Projects, experiment. Government experiment. 947 01:07:38,912 --> 01:07:41,677 You serving time outside of the penitentiary 948 01:07:41,748 --> 01:07:44,683 doing exactly what they want you to do. Pow pow all day. 949 01:07:44,751 --> 01:07:46,718 That's the motherfucking master plan, nigga. 950 01:07:46,786 --> 01:07:49,687 That's the motherfucking master plan. 951 01:07:49,755 --> 01:07:52,747 Let's see what Mike got to say about it. 952 01:07:52,857 --> 01:07:55,053 - Mike, make the house call. - I'm making the call, man. 953 01:07:55,128 --> 01:07:57,858 You know, I want the guns down. I want the guns down. 954 01:07:57,931 --> 01:08:01,798 - You heard what he said. - Let's put the guns down. - Put the guns down. 955 01:08:01,867 --> 01:08:04,700 There was one last bullet that was shot around here, 956 01:08:04,770 --> 01:08:06,965 and that was the bullet in my head. 957 01:08:22,088 --> 01:08:25,648 ? Time is running out tick-tock like the grains of sand? 958 01:08:25,825 --> 01:08:28,454 ? My man's sharpest man, like steel's sharpest steel? 959 01:08:28,662 --> 01:08:30,425 ? The threat of a war is real? 960 01:08:30,597 --> 01:08:33,087 ? Where my soldiers fought on the battlefield? 961 01:09:00,062 --> 01:09:02,394 - I can't believe you made it. - I did. 962 01:09:02,598 --> 01:09:04,533 Well, come on in. 963 01:09:12,273 --> 01:09:15,243 Hey, lmani, hold on. Ray, meet lmani. 964 01:09:15,310 --> 01:09:18,040 - Hi. - How ya' doing? 965 01:09:18,112 --> 01:09:20,046 - Ray. Ray, this is DJ. - Yo, what's up 966 01:09:20,113 --> 01:09:23,083 - This is Ray, a friend of mine. - I'm DJ Renegade. 967 01:09:23,151 --> 01:09:26,346 DJ's a phat poet. You got to hear his work. 968 01:09:26,419 --> 01:09:28,080 Actually, tonight you probably hear some of his work because 969 01:09:28,188 --> 01:09:30,124 we're gonna do a little poetry reading. 970 01:09:30,192 --> 01:09:33,683 Brothers and sisters, love will leave you melancholy as a muted trumpet. 971 01:09:33,794 --> 01:09:37,229 Bluer than a cloudless sky, bluer than a Viking's eye. 972 01:09:37,331 --> 01:09:41,233 You see, love is a blue-bottle fly flitting between blue and green. 973 01:09:41,301 --> 01:09:44,499 Wings raggedy as a pair of old jeans. 974 01:09:44,572 --> 01:09:47,666 Merci beaucoup. Love is Winnie the Pooh 975 01:09:47,742 --> 01:09:50,303 doing voodoo in corrective shoes. 976 01:09:52,913 --> 01:09:57,044 - Yo, you write? - Um, a little bit. 977 01:09:57,119 --> 01:09:59,087 Oh, okay. You gonna kick a piece later? 978 01:09:59,154 --> 01:10:02,417 - Um, I don't know. - Yeah, He's gonna kick a piece later. 979 01:10:02,489 --> 01:10:05,652 I have a million things going on in my head. 980 01:10:05,758 --> 01:10:08,091 Oh, okay. Oh, so you gonna free-style? 981 01:10:08,161 --> 01:10:09,561 No. 982 01:10:10,631 --> 01:10:15,796 His intergalactic free-style jazz licks... my ears. 983 01:10:16,536 --> 01:10:20,439 As I ride his tongue and groove 984 01:10:20,507 --> 01:10:25,446 to the sound of chords no man has ever touched. 985 01:10:25,514 --> 01:10:28,846 His touch tempts me to taste 986 01:10:28,917 --> 01:10:33,285 flesh of my flesh from which he is made. 987 01:10:33,353 --> 01:10:35,185 His invisible strokes are felt 988 01:10:35,288 --> 01:10:39,055 as he stands on the stage in front of me. 989 01:10:39,126 --> 01:10:43,861 A mike and a million miles away from me. 990 01:10:43,965 --> 01:10:45,898 Everything is kind of new now. 991 01:10:45,965 --> 01:10:47,957 Like I wouldn't want to read anything I'd written before. 992 01:10:48,035 --> 01:10:49,698 It's too old. 993 01:10:50,973 --> 01:10:53,100 It's nice to have you on the outside, truly. 994 01:10:53,175 --> 01:10:55,199 It's good to be on the outside. Truly. 995 01:10:55,276 --> 01:10:57,506 It's all right. I'm not tripping. 996 01:10:57,578 --> 01:10:59,875 You massage the universe's spine 997 01:10:59,946 --> 01:11:02,677 the way you twirl through time 998 01:11:03,652 --> 01:11:06,678 and leave shadows on the sun. 999 01:11:09,022 --> 01:11:11,551 My love is the wind song. 1000 01:11:11,628 --> 01:11:15,062 If it is up to me, I'll never die. 1001 01:11:15,163 --> 01:11:18,100 If it is up to me, I'll die tomorrow a thousand times 1002 01:11:18,202 --> 01:11:20,169 in an hour and live seven minutes later. 1003 01:11:20,637 --> 01:11:23,230 If it is up to me, the sun will never cease to shine 1004 01:11:23,372 --> 01:11:25,306 and the moon will never cease to glow 1005 01:11:25,375 --> 01:11:28,241 and I'll dance a million tomorrows in the sun rays of the moon waves 1006 01:11:28,309 --> 01:11:31,179 and bathe in the yesterdays of days to come, 1007 01:11:31,247 --> 01:11:34,648 ignoring all of my afterthoughts and preconceived notions. 1008 01:11:34,717 --> 01:11:39,246 If it is up to me, it is up to me. 1009 01:11:39,321 --> 01:11:42,916 And thus, is my love. Untainted. 1010 01:11:43,025 --> 01:11:44,014 Eternal. 1011 01:11:45,928 --> 01:11:49,294 The wind is the moon's imagination. Wandering. 1012 01:11:50,932 --> 01:11:53,764 It seeps through cracks, 1013 01:11:53,835 --> 01:11:58,137 ripples the grass, explores the unknown. 1014 01:12:00,009 --> 01:12:02,342 My love is my soul's imagination. 1015 01:12:03,980 --> 01:12:05,914 How do I love you? 1016 01:12:06,984 --> 01:12:08,244 Lmagine. 1017 01:12:10,118 --> 01:12:12,452 I can't believe you actually came. 1018 01:12:14,857 --> 01:12:18,257 Glad I came. Very glad I came. 1019 01:12:18,325 --> 01:12:20,487 I have thought of you. 1020 01:12:20,596 --> 01:12:25,829 Um, and, um... 1021 01:12:25,902 --> 01:12:28,495 What else? 1022 01:12:28,570 --> 01:12:30,562 What else is there? 1023 01:12:34,276 --> 01:12:36,301 Today, now. 1024 01:12:36,411 --> 01:12:39,006 There's tomorrow. 1025 01:12:39,182 --> 01:12:41,276 And the next day and the next. 1026 01:12:41,350 --> 01:12:44,080 Not today. 1027 01:12:44,220 --> 01:12:47,451 - Not now. - Yeah. Well... 1028 01:12:47,623 --> 01:12:50,650 Tomorrow and the next day and the next for me 1029 01:12:50,728 --> 01:12:54,025 is not exactly like... 1030 01:12:58,035 --> 01:12:59,865 I'm sorry, I mean... 1031 01:12:59,937 --> 01:13:02,131 - Ray... - lf, if you want me to go... 1032 01:13:02,204 --> 01:13:07,109 I don't know what I want you to do to be quite honest with you. 1033 01:13:07,176 --> 01:13:09,202 Um, today you're here. 1034 01:13:09,279 --> 01:13:12,144 Tomorrow and the next day, I mean, you still, 1035 01:13:12,215 --> 01:13:14,115 you still have to go to court. 1036 01:13:14,182 --> 01:13:20,246 I mean, you still have to possibly, um, go away. 1037 01:13:20,323 --> 01:13:24,489 I still have to try to get back into prison to do my job... 1038 01:13:24,562 --> 01:13:29,123 No. I really can't. 1039 01:13:29,232 --> 01:13:31,726 I can't go there right now. I just can't. 1040 01:13:33,606 --> 01:13:36,004 It's really difficult, Ray. 1041 01:13:36,474 --> 01:13:37,941 Who you telling? 1042 01:13:38,041 --> 01:13:41,407 You made an impression on me. 1043 01:13:41,478 --> 01:13:44,037 And, um, it's funny, 1044 01:13:44,113 --> 01:13:48,312 I wasn't certain of when I'd be able to see you again. 1045 01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:50,615 But... 1046 01:13:53,157 --> 01:13:57,148 this is all I'm asking for, now. 1047 01:15:24,682 --> 01:15:26,706 Look at the little one with the ponytail. 1048 01:15:54,213 --> 01:15:55,873 So you coming to the slam tonight? 1049 01:15:56,047 --> 01:15:59,950 Um, I don't know. I may. 1050 01:16:00,053 --> 01:16:02,020 - You should. - I want to. 1051 01:16:02,187 --> 01:16:05,520 You should. You should. I can get you up on stage. 1052 01:16:05,624 --> 01:16:08,820 I just, yeah. I'm not trying, I not thinking about performing. 1053 01:16:09,995 --> 01:16:13,590 I need to think. You know, I just... 1054 01:16:14,300 --> 01:16:16,233 I have to go to court on Monday. 1055 01:16:17,870 --> 01:16:20,099 Wow, that soon? 1056 01:16:20,171 --> 01:16:22,435 Damn, you just got out. 1057 01:16:27,212 --> 01:16:29,510 Have you thought about what you're gonna do? 1058 01:16:31,716 --> 01:16:33,810 I have no clue. I need time to think it over, 1059 01:16:33,919 --> 01:16:37,218 'cause I can't see what it is I'm supposed to be doing now. 1060 01:16:37,289 --> 01:16:39,779 None of this makes sense to me. 1061 01:16:45,264 --> 01:16:47,198 You only have until Monday though, right? 1062 01:16:47,266 --> 01:16:48,927 - Yes. I only have... - What did your lawyer say? 1063 01:16:50,535 --> 01:16:52,469 My lawyer told me to cop a plea. 1064 01:16:52,570 --> 01:16:54,505 He told me that's the best thing I should do. 1065 01:16:54,573 --> 01:16:56,302 He said if I fight it, 1066 01:16:56,375 --> 01:16:58,569 I'll probably just end up getting more time. 1067 01:16:58,642 --> 01:17:02,080 - It's... - What's, what's your charge? 1068 01:17:03,649 --> 01:17:05,980 Possession of illegal substance. 1069 01:17:06,050 --> 01:17:08,612 Are you guilty? Did you do it? 1070 01:17:09,823 --> 01:17:11,347 I had it on me. 1071 01:17:13,660 --> 01:17:15,889 What's going to be is going to be. 1072 01:17:15,993 --> 01:17:18,360 You stand up and you face it. 1073 01:17:18,430 --> 01:17:20,396 It's a lot to face. 1074 01:17:20,500 --> 01:17:22,935 It's a hell of a lot to face... 1075 01:17:24,104 --> 01:17:26,470 ...for some weed, you know. 1076 01:17:26,538 --> 01:17:28,336 Man, they caught you with the shit red-handed. 1077 01:17:28,408 --> 01:17:31,740 - What are you gonna do? Run? - No, I... 1078 01:17:31,809 --> 01:17:33,743 I think there has to be another way out. 1079 01:17:33,811 --> 01:17:36,248 I pray there has to be another way out. 1080 01:17:36,316 --> 01:17:40,911 Copping a fucking plea? That shit is not my way. 1081 01:17:40,986 --> 01:17:42,976 I can't, I can't feel that shit. I can't see that shit. 1082 01:17:43,054 --> 01:17:45,319 Wait a minute. You acting like you did not do this shit. 1083 01:17:45,389 --> 01:17:48,052 Like copping a plea would be like lying to yourself. 1084 01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:49,957 Well, you... you did that shit, Ray. 1085 01:17:50,028 --> 01:17:52,460 I did do the shit, but I don't feel guilty about it. 1086 01:17:52,531 --> 01:17:54,296 I don't feel guilty. 1087 01:17:54,368 --> 01:17:56,302 I'm sorry, but I don't feel guilty. 1088 01:17:56,402 --> 01:17:57,771 But you did it. 1089 01:17:57,771 --> 01:17:59,466 So the fuck what? I don't care. 1090 01:17:59,606 --> 01:18:01,973 - I did it. I did it. - Yeah. 1091 01:18:02,042 --> 01:18:05,738 But what the fuck did I do? And what are they doing to me? 1092 01:18:05,813 --> 01:18:08,679 What the fuck is the punishment for that shit? 1093 01:18:08,748 --> 01:18:10,578 There, there has to be magical doors. 1094 01:18:10,683 --> 01:18:13,208 I'm looking for the fucking magical doors. 1095 01:18:13,385 --> 01:18:15,513 That's what I need. That's what I need. 1096 01:18:15,655 --> 01:18:18,283 That's what's gonna get me out of this shit, you know? 1097 01:18:18,359 --> 01:18:22,988 I mean, yesterday, I woke up in a fucking prison. 1098 01:18:23,096 --> 01:18:26,327 I woke up on a fucking ship. I woke up there, you know? 1099 01:18:26,431 --> 01:18:29,595 I woke up there. And then I went home. 1100 01:18:29,703 --> 01:18:32,034 And I saw that for what it was. 1101 01:18:32,105 --> 01:18:34,505 And then, I came here, 1102 01:18:35,708 --> 01:18:39,304 and it was like, it was like a fucking new world to me. 1103 01:18:39,379 --> 01:18:41,848 It was a new world. 1104 01:18:41,916 --> 01:18:43,908 And I was like, ah, this is fucking home. 1105 01:18:43,984 --> 01:18:45,008 This is where I need to be. 1106 01:18:45,084 --> 01:18:47,451 This is the shit that I've dreamt about, you know? 1107 01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:51,184 This is the shit that I can feel. This is the new world that I want. 1108 01:18:51,258 --> 01:18:55,059 But I don't want to have to go through the fucking middle passage to get to the new world. 1109 01:18:55,162 --> 01:18:57,155 That's not for me. 1110 01:19:02,670 --> 01:19:05,331 Look, Ray, all I'm saying is you made a mistake, baby, 1111 01:19:05,671 --> 01:19:07,605 I mean we all make mistakes. I've made mistakes. 1112 01:19:08,173 --> 01:19:10,006 All you got to do is just walk up in that court 1113 01:19:10,109 --> 01:19:12,043 with your head up high. 1114 01:19:13,112 --> 01:19:15,581 Accept responsibility for what you've done. Go to jail. 1115 01:19:15,650 --> 01:19:18,082 Do your time. Make the most of your time. 1116 01:19:18,151 --> 01:19:20,016 You read, write, do whatever it is you gotta do... 1117 01:19:20,086 --> 01:19:22,578 What the fuck are you saying? What are you saying? 1118 01:19:22,691 --> 01:19:25,660 No, no, no, no, no. This isn't class now. 1119 01:19:25,826 --> 01:19:28,954 My only responsibility is to my fucking dreams. 1120 01:19:29,029 --> 01:19:31,326 You know what I'm saying? That's my responsibility. 1121 01:19:31,798 --> 01:19:35,497 Not to no other shit like that. You know, l... 1122 01:19:35,603 --> 01:19:38,038 This is a part of your dreams, Ray. You cannot have your dreams if you don't- 1123 01:19:38,138 --> 01:19:40,571 This is not a part of my fucking dreams. 1124 01:19:40,674 --> 01:19:43,200 This is not no fucking metaphor. This is my life. 1125 01:19:43,276 --> 01:19:45,437 Motherfucker, who you think you jumping up on? 1126 01:19:47,281 --> 01:19:49,614 You don't know this. 1127 01:20:01,827 --> 01:20:04,592 I know about your dreams. 1128 01:20:04,697 --> 01:20:08,098 And I know about not being able to get your dreams 1129 01:20:08,167 --> 01:20:10,695 and wanting them and having them and seeing all these roadblocks in your way. 1130 01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:13,205 I know something about that shit, Ray. It doesn't... - 1131 01:20:13,275 --> 01:20:15,572 I haven't been in jail. 1132 01:20:15,644 --> 01:20:18,136 I haven't done time, but I know something about that, Ray. 1133 01:20:18,213 --> 01:20:21,546 And all I'm saying is, this thing that you're going through 1134 01:20:21,650 --> 01:20:26,848 right now is what is going to catapult you into a fucking dream. 1135 01:20:27,187 --> 01:20:29,680 You can't see that right now because you haven't been there. 1136 01:20:29,859 --> 01:20:31,791 - I've been there. - You haven't fucking been there. 1137 01:20:31,892 --> 01:20:34,062 - Where the fuck have you been? - Don't you fucking tell me 1138 01:20:34,062 --> 01:20:36,964 I haven't been there before. You don't know me. 1139 01:20:37,065 --> 01:20:39,556 You don't know my fucking life story, motherfucker. 1140 01:20:39,767 --> 01:20:41,292 And you know mine? 1141 01:20:41,402 --> 01:20:45,203 Oh, yeah. You just spilled it all right here. 1142 01:20:45,307 --> 01:20:47,609 You don't know what kind of prisons I've been a part of. 1143 01:20:47,609 --> 01:20:50,544 You don't know what it's like to sell your ass 1144 01:20:50,611 --> 01:20:52,977 on the street for a hit of crack. 1145 01:20:53,079 --> 01:20:54,708 You don't know what that's like, motherfucker. 1146 01:20:54,883 --> 01:20:56,818 I've been a slave. Fuck being a prisoner. 1147 01:20:56,953 --> 01:20:58,853 Oh, don't come for me, motherfucker. 1148 01:20:58,853 --> 01:21:00,651 Let me tell you something. 1149 01:21:00,722 --> 01:21:03,417 You don't know me. Remember that. 1150 01:21:03,559 --> 01:21:04,924 You don't know where I come from. 1151 01:21:04,993 --> 01:21:07,790 But everything you telling me right now? I know it. 1152 01:21:08,028 --> 01:21:10,555 I know it like the back of my motherfucking hand. 1153 01:21:10,700 --> 01:21:12,633 What the fuck do you mean I don't know? 1154 01:21:12,803 --> 01:21:15,133 You've been a fucking slave? What do you think I've been? 1155 01:21:15,236 --> 01:21:16,066 You don't know. 1156 01:21:16,237 --> 01:21:18,762 Where did you think I was in that fucking metaphor? 1157 01:21:18,839 --> 01:21:22,172 Where do you think I was, huh? When you were the fucking slave, 1158 01:21:22,277 --> 01:21:24,973 who was the fucking overseer? Where did you think I was then? 1159 01:21:25,947 --> 01:21:27,415 Who was the one giving it to you? 1160 01:21:27,514 --> 01:21:29,983 Who was the one selling that shit? 1161 01:21:30,051 --> 01:21:32,076 - That was me. - Oh, oh. Awareness. 1162 01:21:32,254 --> 01:21:35,312 Bing. Say that shit again. Say it again, goddamn it. 1163 01:21:35,389 --> 01:21:38,087 Say it again. Who was it? Who was it? 1164 01:21:38,159 --> 01:21:40,128 Who was it that put me in my prison? 1165 01:21:40,197 --> 01:21:43,824 Who was it that enslaved me? Who was it, goddamn it? 1166 01:21:43,898 --> 01:21:46,365 Who the fuck was it, huh? 1167 01:21:46,434 --> 01:21:49,164 Who was it? Huh? 1168 01:21:49,269 --> 01:21:53,708 It was you. It was you. 1169 01:21:53,809 --> 01:21:57,437 It was you. You wanted to be there. 1170 01:22:00,081 --> 01:22:02,482 It ain't easy, baby, escaping it. 1171 01:22:02,584 --> 01:22:06,418 It hasn't been easy. It hasn't been easy for none of us. 1172 01:22:09,858 --> 01:22:14,521 You ain't the first motherfucker to be up in this piece, like this. 1173 01:22:14,661 --> 01:22:15,922 And you won't be the last. 1174 01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:23,558 All I'm trying to do, Ray, is help you, baby. 1175 01:22:23,671 --> 01:22:25,539 'Cause I've been there. That's all. 1176 01:22:25,742 --> 01:22:28,074 That's all I'm trying to say. That's all that was. 1177 01:22:28,245 --> 01:22:30,269 That was just to show you that I've been there. 1178 01:22:30,378 --> 01:22:33,440 I know what it's like. I know what the fear is like. 1179 01:22:33,550 --> 01:22:36,781 I know what the pain is like. I know what it's like. 1180 01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,218 I know what it's like to be cornered. 1181 01:22:39,322 --> 01:22:41,585 I know what it's like. 1182 01:22:41,756 --> 01:22:44,353 Just trust me, baby. Just trust me. 1183 01:22:44,494 --> 01:22:47,986 All you gotta do is go through it. Don't fall into their traps. 1184 01:22:48,131 --> 01:22:51,622 Don't fall into their game. Please, just go. 1185 01:22:51,735 --> 01:22:55,329 'Cause if you run away from it, you just gonna get caught up later. 1186 01:22:57,006 --> 01:22:58,804 Trust me. 1187 01:22:58,875 --> 01:23:01,139 Your freedom is there. It's waiting for you. 1188 01:23:01,210 --> 01:23:04,509 It's waiting for you. And oddly enough, baby, 1189 01:23:04,579 --> 01:23:07,913 it's waiting for you in the goddamned prison. 1190 01:23:07,983 --> 01:23:10,280 It is. 1191 01:23:13,256 --> 01:23:14,847 I know you can't see it. 1192 01:23:14,925 --> 01:23:17,484 I know you can't see it, but it's there. 1193 01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:19,495 It's there. It's there. 1194 01:23:21,565 --> 01:23:23,622 Ray... 1195 01:23:23,699 --> 01:23:26,727 Ray. Ray. 1196 01:23:26,837 --> 01:23:27,769 Ray! 1197 01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:31,171 Damn. 1198 01:24:13,817 --> 01:24:15,307 Come on, let's hear it from you tonight. 1199 01:24:15,685 --> 01:24:18,448 Welcome to the Poetry Club, 1200 01:24:18,590 --> 01:24:21,455 where the words you say are the thoughts you live 1201 01:24:21,526 --> 01:24:24,790 and where nothing ever happens unless you say it first. 1202 01:24:24,860 --> 01:24:27,454 Tonight, let's see who our first poet is. 1203 01:24:27,531 --> 01:24:29,725 Who's gonna be coming up here for the slam tonight? 1204 01:24:29,797 --> 01:24:33,064 Please bring up Liza Jesse Peterson. 1205 01:24:35,138 --> 01:24:37,265 Ice cream. 1206 01:24:39,744 --> 01:24:42,110 Ice cream. 1207 01:24:42,181 --> 01:24:46,345 I used to be an ice cream fiend. 1208 01:24:54,792 --> 01:25:00,322 You see it all started when I had a large scoop of Rain Forest Crunch 1209 01:25:00,399 --> 01:25:03,161 with extra walnuts. 1210 01:25:03,266 --> 01:25:05,734 Would you like a cup or cone, Miss? 1211 01:25:05,803 --> 01:25:09,294 Cup or cone? 1212 01:25:09,407 --> 01:25:12,102 Cup or cone. 1213 01:25:12,175 --> 01:25:13,508 Cup or cone. I was in a zone 1214 01:25:13,579 --> 01:25:16,478 where I had to make a wise choice between a cup or a cone. 1215 01:25:16,547 --> 01:25:19,038 You see, it's more fun with a cone, 1216 01:25:19,117 --> 01:25:21,549 because I lick the tip 1217 01:25:21,619 --> 01:25:25,213 and then I crunch and munch the cone. 1218 01:25:25,288 --> 01:25:27,258 And then I lick the tip again, 1219 01:25:27,327 --> 01:25:29,316 and I crunch and I munch on the cone 1220 01:25:29,393 --> 01:25:31,486 until there's one sip at the bottom tip 1221 01:25:31,562 --> 01:25:34,224 and I pop it in my mouth and grin because I like that game. 1222 01:25:42,374 --> 01:25:44,308 You never cared about my mother... 1223 01:26:11,738 --> 01:26:14,035 I'm writing the poem that will change the world. 1224 01:26:14,106 --> 01:26:18,337 And it's "like Lilly, like Wilson" at my office door. 1225 01:26:18,409 --> 01:26:21,574 Lilly Wilson, a recovering "like" addict. 1226 01:26:21,647 --> 01:26:23,671 The worst I've ever seen. 1227 01:26:23,749 --> 01:26:26,012 So "like-bad" 1228 01:26:26,084 --> 01:26:28,677 that the entire eighth grade 1229 01:26:28,753 --> 01:26:33,189 started calling her, "like Lilly like Wilson like". 1230 01:26:34,360 --> 01:26:39,262 Until I made my classroom a "like-free" zone, 1231 01:26:39,331 --> 01:26:43,130 and she could not speak for days. 1232 01:26:53,177 --> 01:26:55,738 Another perfect score. A ten to the fifth power. 1233 01:26:58,551 --> 01:27:02,510 Another 9.5. Don't tell me there's synchronization here. 1234 01:27:09,428 --> 01:27:11,258 - Can I help you? - Yeah. 1235 01:27:11,330 --> 01:27:13,354 I'm supposed to be meeting someone here. 1236 01:27:14,533 --> 01:27:18,799 Every slam is a finality. 1237 01:27:18,904 --> 01:27:21,373 Every slam is the end. 1238 01:27:21,473 --> 01:27:24,476 And tonight there's no other way 1239 01:27:24,476 --> 01:27:29,142 to end this slam, but to bring up here 1240 01:27:29,215 --> 01:27:32,207 one of the true heroes of poetry. 1241 01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:37,181 Do y'all remember 1242 01:27:37,254 --> 01:27:40,691 when Lauren started out here? 1243 01:27:40,758 --> 01:27:42,626 Yeah. 1244 01:27:45,597 --> 01:27:51,002 Let's please bring Lauren up here 1245 01:27:51,070 --> 01:27:55,006 to make it happen for us right now. 1246 01:27:55,109 --> 01:27:58,976 There's nothing else that can happen in the word 1247 01:27:59,044 --> 01:28:03,572 but to make the word be the word itself. 1248 01:28:04,148 --> 01:28:06,208 Something that you've heard before. 1249 01:28:06,451 --> 01:28:07,815 Come on, Lauren. 1250 01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:13,084 This is, um, a poem that I found when I was drowning one day. 1251 01:28:13,559 --> 01:28:16,221 This is, um, for a friend of mine who's um, 1252 01:28:16,596 --> 01:28:19,565 goin' through a hard time right now. 1253 01:28:25,905 --> 01:28:28,032 I feel like my back is against a brick wall, 1254 01:28:28,141 --> 01:28:31,303 and I've got a Mac truck two inches from my face. 1255 01:28:31,376 --> 01:28:36,111 Every cell in my body is screaming run. 1256 01:28:36,183 --> 01:28:38,446 But I can't. 1257 01:28:38,518 --> 01:28:40,782 I'm kicking and stomping and running and jumping, 1258 01:28:40,853 --> 01:28:43,879 wreaking all kinds of havoc, creating a bloody mess 1259 01:28:43,957 --> 01:28:46,719 and I'm going nowhere. 1260 01:28:46,792 --> 01:28:49,160 Somewhere in my mind I think I am moving. 1261 01:28:49,229 --> 01:28:51,129 Somewhere in reality I am running. 1262 01:28:51,197 --> 01:28:55,190 Somewhere inside myself I am oh-so-still. 1263 01:28:55,268 --> 01:28:57,098 Quiet, dead. 1264 01:28:57,202 --> 01:29:00,296 My soul is not rising. My spirit is not lifting. 1265 01:29:00,404 --> 01:29:03,501 My life is not living. But I am running. 1266 01:29:03,609 --> 01:29:06,906 Moving through the universe, a whirling dervish with no end, 1267 01:29:06,978 --> 01:29:09,074 no purpose, no means, no life left to live. 1268 01:29:09,150 --> 01:29:11,743 And yet still I want to go to that place where I can run. 1269 01:29:11,819 --> 01:29:14,582 Run free my mind tells me. 1270 01:29:14,656 --> 01:29:18,491 But those two words cannot occupy the same space in reality. 1271 01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:21,323 Run, free. 1272 01:29:21,396 --> 01:29:25,627 My back is against a brick wall. I got a Mac truck two inches from my face! 1273 01:29:25,698 --> 01:29:28,223 Well run free, baby. Run now. 1274 01:29:28,301 --> 01:29:32,136 It just looks hard, but it's so easy. 1275 01:29:32,239 --> 01:29:34,069 Just turn around and go. Clip all the wires, 1276 01:29:34,140 --> 01:29:36,439 hookups and hangups, and then you're home free. 1277 01:29:36,510 --> 01:29:38,977 You can give birth to an excuse so easily, 1278 01:29:39,079 --> 01:29:40,670 you'll believe it's always been there. 1279 01:29:40,781 --> 01:29:44,047 Part of the natural order, made to order by your forever clever mind. 1280 01:29:44,118 --> 01:29:47,984 Constantly protecting you against things you no longer need to be protected from. 1281 01:29:48,055 --> 01:29:52,353 And I believe. I believe like a Holy Roller, 1282 01:29:52,425 --> 01:29:54,894 singing, sweating, preaching, go tell it on the mountain, 1283 01:29:54,961 --> 01:29:56,328 while speaking in twenty different tongues, 1284 01:29:56,397 --> 01:29:59,422 while diving in ten thousand feet of baptismal water without a life preserver. 1285 01:29:59,501 --> 01:30:02,367 I believe like my bullet-ridden brother out there somewhere 1286 01:30:02,437 --> 01:30:05,064 right now gurgling blood through his last breath, 1287 01:30:05,173 --> 01:30:08,300 spitting out a red ripe prayer so new, so sweet, so baby fresh, 1288 01:30:08,407 --> 01:30:11,379 so full of truth, he thinks it can save his life. 1289 01:30:13,281 --> 01:30:15,111 God does not exist in desperation 1290 01:30:15,182 --> 01:30:18,208 and hope is lying dead somewhere in the sewer down the street, 1291 01:30:18,285 --> 01:30:20,047 around the corner, in the alley, underneath the feet of somebody, 1292 01:30:20,119 --> 01:30:23,284 itching, scratching, trembling, jonesing for their next hit 1293 01:30:23,359 --> 01:30:26,088 and sucking somebody's dick. 1294 01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:28,684 I got two minutes, ya'll. I got two motherfucking minutes 1295 01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:31,754 before I run free or die, ya'll. 1296 01:30:31,833 --> 01:30:36,430 Two minutes before I smash my face into the grill of a Mac truck. 1297 01:30:36,504 --> 01:30:39,871 Before I get ten thousand bricks shoved up my ass. 1298 01:30:39,942 --> 01:30:43,432 Before I run free or die. 1299 01:30:54,988 --> 01:30:57,821 Lauren Bell. Lauren Bell. 1300 01:30:57,893 --> 01:31:00,416 Get her back up here. I need an encore. 1301 01:31:00,494 --> 01:31:03,363 I need an encore. 1302 01:31:03,432 --> 01:31:07,697 You know, it's about spreading love. 1303 01:31:07,802 --> 01:31:10,565 And I met somebody recently who, um, 1304 01:31:10,638 --> 01:31:13,105 who touched my, who moved me. 1305 01:31:13,205 --> 01:31:16,538 And I hope he does the same thing for you. 1306 01:31:16,642 --> 01:31:20,511 Um, this is his first time reading, 1307 01:31:20,581 --> 01:31:23,015 and he's a big, big talent, 1308 01:31:23,082 --> 01:31:25,611 and he needs our love and our support. 1309 01:31:25,688 --> 01:31:28,088 And I give you, Ray. 1310 01:31:28,157 --> 01:31:30,124 Come on up here. 1311 01:31:32,697 --> 01:31:34,788 Yeah, come on, Ray. 1312 01:31:34,864 --> 01:31:36,455 Everybody, come on. 1313 01:31:41,336 --> 01:31:43,166 Yeah, come on, Ray. 1314 01:32:03,725 --> 01:32:05,920 - Do it, now. - Take your time. 1315 01:32:11,001 --> 01:32:13,731 If I could find the spot where truth echoes, 1316 01:32:13,803 --> 01:32:17,499 I would stand there and whisper memories of my children's future. 1317 01:32:19,074 --> 01:32:20,973 I would let their future dwell in my past 1318 01:32:21,042 --> 01:32:24,136 so that I might live a brighter now. 1319 01:32:24,614 --> 01:32:28,811 Now is the essence of my domain and it contains all that was and will be 1320 01:32:28,885 --> 01:32:30,545 because I am and I will... 1321 01:32:32,321 --> 01:32:34,049 I'll try it again. 1322 01:32:50,837 --> 01:32:52,398 If I could find the spot where truth echoes, 1323 01:32:52,473 --> 01:32:56,138 I would stand there and whisper memories of my children's future. 1324 01:32:56,245 --> 01:32:58,237 I would let their future dwell in my past 1325 01:32:58,347 --> 01:33:01,214 so that I might live a brighter now. 1326 01:33:01,283 --> 01:33:03,683 Now is the essence of my domain, 1327 01:33:03,752 --> 01:33:05,687 and it contains all that was and will be. 1328 01:33:05,754 --> 01:33:09,780 And I am as I was and will be because I am and always will be that nigga. 1329 01:33:09,857 --> 01:33:12,326 I am that nigga. I am that nigga. 1330 01:33:12,395 --> 01:33:16,228 I am that timeless nigga that swings on pendulums like vines 1331 01:33:16,297 --> 01:33:19,757 through minds of booby-trapped minds that are enslaved by time. 1332 01:33:19,836 --> 01:33:23,032 I am the life that supersedes lifetimes, I am. 1333 01:33:23,105 --> 01:33:26,097 It was me with serpentine hair with a timeless stare 1334 01:33:26,208 --> 01:33:29,301 that with immortal glare turned mortal fear into stone time capsules. 1335 01:33:29,409 --> 01:33:32,472 They still exist as the walking dead as I do, 1336 01:33:32,581 --> 01:33:35,675 the original suffer-head, symbol of life and matriarchy's severed head. 1337 01:33:35,751 --> 01:33:37,513 Medusa, I am. 1338 01:33:37,585 --> 01:33:39,715 I am that nigga. I am that nigga. 1339 01:33:39,791 --> 01:33:41,620 I am that niggga. I am the Negro. 1340 01:33:41,692 --> 01:33:43,352 Yes, Negro. Negro from necro. 1341 01:33:43,426 --> 01:33:45,952 Meaning death. I overcame it, so they named me after it. 1342 01:33:46,031 --> 01:33:47,759 And I've been spittin' at death from behind 1343 01:33:47,832 --> 01:33:49,459 and putting "kick me" signs on its back. 1344 01:33:49,533 --> 01:33:52,194 Because I am not the son of sha clack clack. 1345 01:33:52,268 --> 01:33:54,600 I am before that. I am before. 1346 01:33:54,703 --> 01:33:58,161 I am before before. Before death is eternity. 1347 01:33:58,241 --> 01:33:59,732 After death is eternity. There is no death. 1348 01:33:59,843 --> 01:34:03,107 There's only eternity. And I be riding on the wings of eternity like, 1349 01:34:03,180 --> 01:34:05,943 ya, ya, ya, sha clack clack. 1350 01:34:06,015 --> 01:34:07,506 But my flight doesn't go undisturbed 1351 01:34:07,584 --> 01:34:11,350 because time makes dreams defer and all of my time fears 1352 01:34:11,420 --> 01:34:12,719 are turning my days into daymares. 1353 01:34:12,790 --> 01:34:16,590 And I live daymares reliving nightmares that once haunted my past sha clack clack. 1354 01:34:16,659 --> 01:34:17,785 Time is beatin' my ass. 1355 01:34:17,861 --> 01:34:20,523 And I be having dreams of chocolate-covered watermelons 1356 01:34:20,597 --> 01:34:22,564 filled with fried chickens like pinatas. 1357 01:34:22,631 --> 01:34:25,100 With little pickaninny sons and daughters standing up under them 1358 01:34:25,168 --> 01:34:26,796 with big sticks and aluminum foil, 1359 01:34:26,871 --> 01:34:29,965 hittin' them trying to catch pieces of fallen fried chicken wings. 1360 01:34:30,041 --> 01:34:31,802 And Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are standing in the corners 1361 01:34:31,908 --> 01:34:34,173 with rifles pointing at the heads of the little children. 1362 01:34:34,278 --> 01:34:35,768 "Don't shoot the children!" I shout. 1363 01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:37,813 "Don't shoot the children!" But they say,"It's too late. 1364 01:34:37,914 --> 01:34:39,611 They've already been infected by time." 1365 01:34:39,684 --> 01:34:43,016 But this shit is before my time. I need more time. 1366 01:34:43,088 --> 01:34:46,283 But it's too late. They start shooting at the children and killing them. 1367 01:34:46,356 --> 01:34:48,085 One by one, two by two, 1368 01:34:48,158 --> 01:34:49,749 three by three, four by four, 1369 01:34:49,825 --> 01:34:52,124 Five by five, six by six. 1370 01:34:52,194 --> 01:34:55,029 But my spirit is growing seven by seven. 1371 01:34:55,098 --> 01:34:56,828 Faster than the speed of light 1372 01:34:56,901 --> 01:35:00,426 because light only penetrates the darkness that's already there. 1373 01:35:00,570 --> 01:35:03,300 And I'm already there. I'm here at the end of the road, 1374 01:35:03,373 --> 01:35:05,341 which is the beginning of the road beyond time. 1375 01:35:05,441 --> 01:35:08,035 But where my niggas at? 1376 01:35:09,113 --> 01:35:11,981 Oh, shit. Don't tell me my niggas got lost in time. 1377 01:35:14,283 --> 01:35:16,845 My niggas are dying before their time. 1378 01:35:17,453 --> 01:35:21,254 My niggas are serving unjust time. 1379 01:35:21,458 --> 01:35:24,790 My niggas are dying because of time. 1380 01:36:07,271 --> 01:36:09,140 Look, um... 1381 01:36:09,140 --> 01:36:11,606 I just, uh... 1382 01:36:11,709 --> 01:36:14,975 I just want to apologize for what happened earlier. 1383 01:36:15,146 --> 01:36:18,081 I didn't, you know, mean for it to get out of hand. 1384 01:36:20,150 --> 01:36:22,813 Look, no, no, look, 1385 01:36:22,921 --> 01:36:27,291 I just want to you know that, um... 1386 01:36:27,359 --> 01:36:30,795 no matter what happens on Monday... 1387 01:36:30,929 --> 01:36:33,664 no matter what you decide to do, 1388 01:36:33,664 --> 01:36:36,326 I'm gonna be here for you. 1389 01:36:38,702 --> 01:36:41,606 Go home and write your own goddamn poems. Goddamn it. 1390 01:36:41,706 --> 01:36:44,675 You better get back out there. Can't you hear them? 1391 01:36:44,776 --> 01:36:47,973 Just one more. 1392 01:36:48,947 --> 01:36:50,279 I need to get some air. 1393 01:36:52,049 --> 01:36:54,519 - Then you'll come back? - Yeah. 1394 01:36:54,621 --> 01:37:00,182 Okay. Well, I'll hold the fort down till you get back. 1395 01:37:00,659 --> 01:37:01,852 Thank you. 1396 01:37:02,305 --> 01:37:08,251 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from OpenSubtitles.org