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[upbeat hip-hop music plays]

♪ ♪

[Grown Kanan] Previously on Raising Kanan...

Yeah?

I'm Laura Walsh, the county social worker.

I'm here for your and Kanan's home visit.

Somebody put that in my bag. That gun does not belong to me.

My boy didn't kill himself.

Someone put a bullet in my son's head.

Give me what you got, nigga!

You ain't gonna do shit, Famous.

[gunshots]

- I'm proud of you, Louis. - I think I'm proud of me too.

Maintaining. Staying focused.

I mean, there was a fucking awful murder

just the other day.

- You got a name? - Alumadeen Tippett?

Azumadeen.

Ain't no little nigga like you

moving that heroin on his own.

Who said shit about heroin?

Get up yourself. You know how it's done.

Ain't got funds.

We will make a small investment

in your burgeoning enterprise.

Unique always gonna be my brother.

I thought my husband was always going to be my husband.

And one day, he was gone.

So it was Raq you're fucking. Ronnie told me.

This my life you fucking with, man.

My world, Ronnie!

[tense music plays]

♪ ♪

[body thudding]

[Rileyy] ♪ I'm a hustler, baby I'm a hustler, baby ♪

[50 Cent] ♪ Yeah, I know Heartbreaks, setbacks ♪

♪ Bitch, if I crap out I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through the ups and Downs, you know I get around ♪

♪ So to me It's all a part of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man I got to take it ♪

♪ No need to say shit I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turned homicide It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Make money Make, make, make money ♪

♪ When shit hit the fan We'll take money, Southside ♪

♪ Beef with the best of 'em ♪

♪ Done shot At the rest of 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Checks, I'm collectin' 'em ♪

♪ Check, boy I'm finessin' 'em ♪

♪ Bag Supreme Boy, you fuck around ♪

♪ Put a big bag on your head ♪

♪ Before the weather break You're dead ♪

♪ Let's get to it, they Don't do it like we do it ♪

♪ Nah, cop it, whip it Bag it, flip it ♪

♪ Re-up, we up G'd up, what up? ♪

♪ Runnin' round this bitch Still not givin' a fuck, hey ♪

♪ When it come to that paper There'll be no complications ♪

Ha ha. That's right.

♪ Put a hole in a nigga Right in front of you ♪

♪ Your heartbeat pacin' ♪

[Rileyy and 50 Cent] ♪ And it's all right ♪

[50 Cent] ♪ That's how We do it on this side ♪

♪ Niggas get to it On this side ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪

♪ Bitch, if I crap out I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through the ups and Downs, you know I get around ♪

♪ So to me It's all a part of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man I got to take it ♪

♪ No need to say shit I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turned homicide It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Hey, hey ♪

[Rileyy vocalizing]

[insects droning]

[ominous music plays]

♪ ♪

[Grown Kanan] Nobody know everything,

but we convince ourselves we know enough.

We know enough to leave every morning

and come home safe every night.

But we also know

there gon' be that night when we don't come home.

That shit guaranteed for all of us.

Only thing we don't know is how that night gon' be

or how the shit gon' go down.

♪ ♪

So we really don't know shit.

And we get scared thinking tonight could be that night.

But that ain't nothin' to be scared about.

How you gon' be scared about somethin'

you know gonna happen?

♪ ♪

[pounding on door]

[person] I know you here. Open up.

[pounding continues]

It's Pernessa! I need to talk to you.

[pounding continues]

I know you in there. Open the door!

[persistent pounding]

I know you here. Open the door!

Pernessa, whatever you think happened...

Where is he? Where's 'Nique?

What you do to him?

I don't know what you're talkin' about.

You know exactly what the fuck I'm talkin' about.

I don't.

You went to that tailor shop

and you did somethin' to him.

And then you took him.

- [Raq] Pernessa, I ain't... - Just tell me...

tell me where the fuck he is.

Pernessa, I ain't do shit to you.

Yes, you did, just like you did to fuckin' High Post.

Right? That's what you do?

You bring 'em in, and then you kill 'em,

and you take what's theirs?

You talking that shit,

you better be willing to pull that trigger.

But you're not built for that.

It's not who you are.

[cocks pistol]

You probably fucked him so you could take him from me.

You don't love him.

I love him. I've always loved him.

I have fucking...

♪ ♪

[Pernessa groans]

I said I didn't do nothin' to 'Nique.

And the only reason you still alive right now

is because I know he don't want me to hurt you.

[smooth music plays]

♪ ♪

♪ Wakin' up in cold sweats I can't get no rest ♪

♪ I'm jumpin' in my sleep I can barely catch my breath ♪

♪ Havin' flashbacks when I put Them bullets in his chest ♪

♪ 'Cause now I'm paranoid And all I see is death ♪

♪ This is... ♪

♪ ♪

[music stops]

Fuck you stop for?

You was right there.

[sniffles] I know.

I... it's... it's a lot.

It's... it feels...

[Lou-Lou] Scary?

If you scared, that means you in the pocket.

You know that something is happening that's real

when it hurts, man.

Only way to get that poison from inside you...

is to spit it out, man.

So spit it out on that mic for me.

[smooth music starts]

Come on.

♪ ♪

♪ Wakin' up in cold sweats I can't get no rest ♪

♪ I'm jumpin' in my sleep I can barely catch my breath ♪

♪ Havin' flashbacks when I put Them bullets in his chest ♪

So the tailor shop was all fucked up.

It has blood everywhere.

And nobody can find him.

It's been a week,

and me and Jerome ain't even heard from him.

And he always gonna check up on his son, no matter what.

[low somber music plays]

[Pernessa sniffles]

'Nique is dead.

I can feel it.

'Cause somethin' inside of me is dead now too.

What the police sayin'?

The police don't give a fuck about 'Nique.

Shit, they hopin' that he's gone.

Look, I ain't do shit to 'Nique.

You need to know this.

On my own child.

So what happened to him?

Where is he?

♪ ♪

What's Ronnie sayin'?

♪ ♪

Ronnie's not sayin' nothin', like always.

♪ ♪

N-no.

What? No.

No. There's... there's no way.

Ronnie couldn't do that.

I mean, they have been beefin', but Ronnie loves 'Nique.

He used to try to beat down anybody

that even looked at his little brother the wrong way

when they was comin' up.

Times change. And so do brothers.

No, I don't believe that.

I can't believe it.

Well, whether you believe it or not,

whoever came for 'Nique is still out there.

Now, you need to keep your eyes up

and your gun off safety.

[smooth music playing]

♪ What's the 411? ♪

♪ What's the 411? ♪

♪ I thought the streets was ill Until I shot that gun ♪

♪ What's the 411? What's the 411? ♪

♪ Thinkin' 'bout Catching bodies ♪

♪ It changed my life, done ♪

♪ ♪

[music stops]

You got somethin', Fame...

somethin' I ain't even know you got.

I don't know if I got it or...

if it got me.

I heard that.

Thing is, that's... that's crazy.

It's like...

I sit to write this shit, and it just writes itself.

I don't even gotta think about that shit,

and it's just there.

It's like...

all this bad shit that's in my brain

is tryin' to push itself out onto the paper.

It's 'cause you confessin'.

You goin' to church in there.

Ain't even lyin', neither. It feel better once it get out.

Like I might be able to sleep tonight.

Or I might not. Who the fuck knows?

I did some ill shit, Lou, like some ill shit.

And I'm just tryin' to get myself

to not be underneath it no more.

It's like you just said.

Say that shit out loud, it gets lighter.

[soft pensive music plays]

♪ ♪

Let that truth save you, nigga.

♪ ♪

So you don't think this Kadeem Mathis disappearance

touches the task force?

I can ask around and see if Unique and Camacho

had anything going, but I never heard that.

Seems like this Mathis kid is somethin' else.

Hmm.

I'm starting to think Camacho's a red herring anyway.

I don't doubt that

some of the witnesses we've interviewed

actually believe that he was involved.

I just don't believe he was.

So you have other suspects in mind?

I can't really tell you much more than that.

[clears throat]

The fruits of this investigation are proprietary,

not for consumption for anyone

outside the members of the team.

Especially for a fuckin' flatfoot like me.

All I can say is that I feel like we're making progress.

All I can say is that

you won't be missed once you're finished here.

Well, we haven't done our jobs

until we've outstayed our welcome.

[Howard sighs and chuckles]

Tanner, you guys were never welcome.

♪ I want to Be there by your side ♪

[upbeat hip-hop music playing]

♪ Tell all the fellas ♪

♪ It's just you And me tonight ♪

♪ I need your body Close to mine ♪

[all] ♪ Mine ♪

♪ I been cravin' A little quality time ♪

[all] ♪ I can't stay away My mind is made ♪

♪ All I want is you ♪

♪ I'm rollin' with you ♪

♪ I can't stay away ♪ My mind is made ♪

♪ All I want is you ♪

♪ I'm rollin' with you ♪

[vocalizing]

- [softly] We did it! - [laughs]

Um, y'all want a... a water or anything?

No, thank you.

[record executives whispering]

Don't know why y'all are even talking.

Shit clear as day.

- Dad. - [laughs]

You need to get down with these girls.

Only question you should have is, um,

why my daughter ain't out in front.

Dad, stop.

I mean, she got the best voice of all of 'em,

and she has the better moves.

- We gonna be leaving now. - Wait, no, no.

No offense to the Supremes, but my daughter's Diana Ross.

I got ears and eyes. I know what I heard and seen.

What the hell is wrong wit' you?

You need to go before you fuck all this up for me.

Look, if you ain't gonna speak for yourself,

I'ma talk for you. I'm your father.

I... I know shit. I'm just tryin' to help.

Just go!

Go!

I get loud sometimes.

You know how I am, but I... I... I don't mean nothin' by it.

I'll talk to you later.

- [door opens] - Shit.

[door closes]

[soft tense music plays]

[indistinct muffled chatter]

[Kanan] We not going to... you an answering service.

So that means you answer the damn phone.

So I got customers sayin'

this shit just ring when they call.

'Cause money I'm payin' you, shouldn't ring more than once.

Get your shit correct

or I'ma have to take my business somewhere else

'cause now you fucking up my world.

- [receiver slams] - Shit.

What's up, man?

You just gonna stand there or you gonna help?

K, look, I... I got...

Where the fuck you been at, anyway?

I was layin' down tracks with Lou.

I just crashed over there.

Um...

look, I gotta... I gotta tell you, um...

I know how that gun got in your bag, K.

Yeah?

What you know?

[tense music plays]

Hey, no, no. Speak, nigga.

♪ ♪

It was your mom's.

What the fuck you just say, F-Fame?

My mother?

How you know that shit was my mom's, man?

- Fame. - I was... I... I... I was here.

You saw her do this shit, and you ain't tell me?

♪ ♪

You were here.

So you ain't just see her do this shit, you let her.

Raq told me not to say anything.

And your moms is fuckin' scary.

- What was I supposed to do? - You didn't do shit.

Listen, you don't realize how difficult it was

to keep this shit inside me.

I had to get this off my chest

'cause you my fuckin' brother, and I fuckin' love you.

I don't wanna hide shit from you.

You not my fuckin' brother, man.

You just sold me out, nigga.

No, I...

And I know my mother broke you off some shit

to keep your fuckin' mouth closed.

'Cause your loyalty come at a price.

It's not even fucking like that.

It's exactly like that, nigga!

♪ ♪

You got five minutes to pack your shit

and get the fuck out of here.

K.

[Kanan] If you're here when I get back,

we gonna have a problem, Famous.

I'm scary too, motherfucker.

Don't you forget that shit.

K, I... I'm...

[door slams]

♪ ♪

[Iesha] Your dad just loves you.

[laughing] That's all.

I mean, he's not wrong. You should be the lead.

My dad's never been right about anything

- a day in his life. - [laughs]

Well, there's a first time for everything.

[chuckles]

Your daddy's a damn fool.

Don't ever talk about my family.

I'll talk about whoever the hell I wanna talk about.

- And I'ma fuck your ass up. - Mm-hmm.

No. Y'all, come on, now. Don't do this.

Um, I hope y'all arguin' about that sad dancin'.

Because after that performance,

that's all you should be arguin' about.

Good news is, they think there might be something here.

Bad news is, I think they wrong.

The choreography is sloppy. The chemistry is nonexistent.

There is no connection between the three of you.

Just three girls doin' they own thing.

That's because we don't know who the lead is.

We all just everywhere out there.

You know what, Krystal?

You might not even be wrong.

Every group needs a leader.

And I been waitin' for one of you to just step up

and grab it, to make it your own,

to show me that you're that girl,

but none of you have. Not even close.

You think you're entitled to it.

You think you're not good enough for it.

And you?

I don't even know what the hell you think.

You want it?

Prove it!

Prove it to me, to the other girls,

to yourself!

You wanna fight each other?

Fight to be out front.

Fight to be the best!

Because as far as y'all concerned,

that's the only fight that matters.

[Krystal sighs]

[tense music plays]

♪ ♪

Ronnie, what the fuck are you doin'?

Stop. That's not yours. That's your brother's.

Ronnie, he's gonna be looking for it

when he comes back.

[gasps] Ronnie!

[grunts]

♪ ♪

[Raq] I did what I had to do.

[Kanan] Well, what if your little plan didn't work?

[Raq] Whatever! No. I did what I had to do, Kanan.

And I don't regret none of it.

All right? You my son.

That's your answer for everything.

You cover up all your lies and bullshit

by sayin' it's all about me.

- It is all about you. - No, it's not!

- Yes, it is. - [doorbell rings]

Hello again.

I'm here to meet with Kanan.

Come on in, Ms. Walsh.

Kanan right in here.

I heard some voices when I walked up to the door.

My son and me, we some loud talkers.

Mm.

Uh, baby, this is Ms. Walsh.

The social worker I told you about.

Nice to meet you.

It's good to finally meet you, Kanan.

Is there somewhere Kanan and I can speak alone?

We not doin' this together?

I'll talk to Kanan separately,

and then we can all regroup together.

Okay.

I guess you can go right in there.

♪ ♪

- After you. - [Laura] Thank you.

♪ ♪

[door closes]

[phones ringing]

- [Howard knocks] - Hey, Cap. You got a minute?

Yeah, yeah. Come on.

So I've been talkin' to Ogden... over in Narcotics?

Turns out he's gonna hang 'em up soon,

move to Florida.

And you want his job.

[Howard] I'd get some good overtime.

That would juice the hell out of my pension

while I ride off into the sunset myself.

Be careful what you ask for, Howard.

Now, that job drags you in all kinds of shit,

like this fuckin' task force disaster, for example.

These assholes are turnin' my world upside down.

You give me Ogden's spot, I'll get them off your back.

Them fat assholes,

they get half of their intel from me already.

Frankly, a new opportunity for you makes sense.

Especially with everything that went on with Burke?

Get you some distance from all that.

[Howard] That's what I'm talkin' about.

I could use a change of scenery.

It's not the worst idea I ever heard.

Let me make some calls, see what's what.

Thanks, Cap.

[tense music playing]

♪ ♪

'Nique's gone.

Uh, what do you mean?

[Ronnie] 'Nique's gone. And he ain't coming back.

Just like you said.

Now we do business.

♪ ♪

If we do this, it's you and me.

Only between us.

My cousin isn't involved, and no one else can know.

You want heroin.

♪ ♪

How much?

So Kanan tell you I take a bat to him

when he don't eat his carrots?

Child abuse isn't something we joke about, Ms. Thomas.

Ah, 'course not.

I was just messin' around, being stupid.

My fault.

Kanan and I had a productive and informative conversation.

He told me that you were vigilant

about his comings and goings

and that you're very involved in his day-to-day activities.

Kanan also feels like at times,

you might be slightly overbearing.

Yeah, he just feels that way because...

As I said to him,

I wish more of the parents I work with were overbearing.

These children need more supervision, not less.

And frankly, possession of a firearm

on school grounds is very serious.

Yeah. Kanan knows that.

My mom knows that too.

Based on what I've heard from Kanan

and experienced firsthand in your home,

I feel...

satisfied about where things stand right now.

I'll be back to check on both of you,

but I feel encouraged by what I've seen.

I'm pleased with your progress, Kanan.

Thanks.

We'll walk you out.

We really appreciate you comin' out to see us.

[Laura] Mm-hmm.

I'll see you both again soon.

- Bye, Kanan. - [Kanan] Bye.

Keep up the good work.

I will.

[Raq sighs]

That was good.

I shoulda told her you put the gat in the bag.

Look, I know you don't wanna believe me.

And I get it, but I did that because I love...

'Cause you love me, right?

I don't even know if you know how to love somebody.

It ain't even just about me.

You had this same shit with Uncle Lou.

The shit with your uncle Lou

ain't the same, Kanan, all right?

You speakin' on things that you don't know nothin' about now.

I'm pretty sure Uncle Lou

feel the same way about you I do.

So I don't doubt you done done him like you did me.

You know, you're gonna get older.

And you're gonna feel different about all this.

You're gonna understand why I did what I did.

I'm never gonna understand none of this shit.

I'm damn sure never gonna understand you.

[ominous music plays]

♪ ♪

Yo, that rear speaker on the right sound blown to me.

We ain't openin' up tonight unless that shit's on point.

Now switch 'em. Come on.

[speaker crackling]

[Shirley] He's a stickler, your brother.

I guess so.

You do this long enough,

you know what heartbreak looks like.

And it looks exactly like you sittin' there right now.

[Marvin sighs]

Heartbreak look like my daughter.

- How old? - Eighteen.

I'll make it a double.

What's good, big brother?

Not a damn thing.

- What'd you do this time? - [Marvin sighs]

Rolled through Juke's rehearsal

for some big-time music mufuckers

and fucked it all up.

Amateur Marvin,

telling the professionals how to do they job, huh?

You know, I just...

I just wanna be there for my daughter, man.

I'm tryin' to come correct on this dad shit.

- Respect - [Marvin scoffs]

For real.

Look, I can't even pretend to know

how to be someone's daddy, but I do know it ain't easy.

Might be easy for somebody,

but sure as hell ain't easy for me.

No, man.

This families thing, it's the toughest shit ever.

Nobody know that better than me.

Don't stop.

Don't ever stop.

I gotta finish this sound check.

- Thanks, Shirley. - [Shirley] Mm.

[Kanan] You hitting Flushing today.

- [messenger 1] Got it. - [Kanan] You in Sunset Park.

[messenger 2] Word.

- You in Whitestone. - [messenger 3] You got it.

Hey.

You are fuckin' up my business, Kanan, all right?

This... this shit keeps happenin', all right?

I got nobody to work my runs

'cause they're all... they're all workin' for you.

First of all, don't ever push up on me like that.

Secondly...

they came to me.

I ain't go get them.

My jobs pay more than yours,

so who you think they gonna want to fuck with?

I agreed to lend them to you.

I didn't agree to let you

just straight up take them altogether.

You're not understandin'.

I didn't take shit, Paul. They came to me.

And you seem to be getting' hit off

pretty nice for they time.

I don't see you complainin' about the money

I'm puttin' in your pocket,

all the free dope you gettin' to smoke up.

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

What, uh, what if I told the cops

about what you're doing here, huh?

Bet that'd change things pretty fuckin' fast.

[tense music plays]

I don't think you wanna talk to me like that, Paul.

[sarcastically] Huh? What are you gonna do?

You gonna fight me at recess?

I'm a grown man, Kanan. You're a fuckin' kid.

I done seen a lot of grown men get put down by kids out here.

♪ ♪

Look, I just need a couple guys for deliveries, okay?

Y'all go fuck with him on some runs.

We tryin' to get paid, man.

If we wanted to fuck with him, we'd fuck with him.

[sighs] Look, I...

I'll have work for y'all when y'all get back.

- All right. - I got you.

[Paul] I'm the one that hired you in the first place, man.

Come on.

Come on. You gonna look like that?

Fuckin' disgruntled? Unbelievable.

Said you was gonna be here 20 minutes ago.

- They waitin' for you. - [messenger 4] All right, man.

Y'all give me a second.

♪ ♪

I see you puttin' in this work.

I'm just doin' what need to be done.

I'm havin' a party tonight, Olympic Palace.

Come through.

I'm good.

You're gonna wanna be there.

Fuck for?

'Cause everybody gonna wanna be there.

[tense music plays]

♪ ♪

[Howard sighs]

What you want now?

What you know about Unique?

I was gonna ask you the same.

As usual, NYPD ain't about shit.

Well, I can't say that 'Nique's case

is a high priority at the precinct.

Truth be told, I thought it was you.

Figured you finally settled that score.

So y'all ain't got no leads, no ideas, or nothin'?

Why the fuck you even care?

Ain't this a good thing for you?

Your competition out the way.

And I thought you said you was done.

If you ain't in the game,

why are you worried about the players?

Yo, Raquel, straight up.

[soft dramatic music plays]

'Nique dead, yo.

We ain't got a body yet, but it don't take no police

to take one look at that tailor shop

and know he ain't never coming home.

I mean, the blood, the violence.

Shit.

We found a steel pipe with trace bone fragments

and hair on it.

'Nique gone for good.

And y'all ain't doin' shit to find out who did it.

It's on our to-do list.

Y'all can't front.

'Nique, Deen.

Cats is out here droppin'.

Maybe you thinkin' you next?

That's why you got me all the way out here?

You scared, Raq?

There a big difference between bein' scared

and bein' aware.

Scared motherfuckers so busy lookin' over their shoulder,

they don't see what's comin'.

Niggas who aware, they know every angle.

And they know exactly what the fuck is headed they way.

See your partner who got put down,

she was scared. I'm aware, nigga.

[engine turns over]

♪ ♪

[footsteps approach]

[Jukebox clears throat]

What you got goin' today?

School, rehearsal.

You got home late last night.

I was, um, with your Uncle Lou.

Helpin', uh... helpin' out at his club.

Yo, look, um, I'm sorry about blowin' up the spot

like I did yesterday.

I... I... I just...

I just got excited, I... you're just so good.

I shouldn't have yelled on you like I did.

You was just lookin' out for me.

Turns out maybe you could be right.

I could be the leader of the group.

N'Kiyah ain't made up her mind yet, but...

See? That's what I'm sayin'. That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Your uncle say I don't know shit,

but these ears, they know.

That's my girl right there. That's my girl.

Wait, wait, I'm bein' a...

I'm... I'm bein' a damn fool again.

I'm actin' like it's about me instead of you.

I should be celebratin' you,

but instead, I'm poundin' my own chest.

[sighs]

[soft tender music plays]

I need your help, Juke.

I need to understand how to...

how to do this right, you know,

how to be here for you, uh, how to be a father.

You want me to tell you how to be my father?

♪ ♪

Now that you s...

I hear you say it,

it just sound, um, it sound real... uh, real dumb.

I gotta go.

Right. You got school.

- Okay. - I'll... I'll...

Later.

♪ ♪

[jazzy music plays]

[singer vocalizing]

♪ ♪

[music clicks off]

What you doin' here?

That was Daddy on that.

What do you want, Raq?

I wanted to come through and say I'm sorry

for missing your club openin'.

Spot got potential.

I like it.

So what, you gonna take this from up under me too?

I don't wanna take anything from you, Lou.

Enough been taken from all of us already.

I'm here to give.

Respect, love, support, all of that.

Maybe everybody else believes that you out.

That you left the game behind, not me.

Can't leave yourself.

That's what you don't understand.

This ain't about what you did.

It's about who you are.

I want us to get back to who we were, Lou.

To what we had, you and me.

Ain't nowhere for you and me to go.

It's not like you gave a fuck about me anyway.

I was just the hammer that you pull out of your toolbox

whenever you needed shit knocked around.

And I shouldn't have been that nigga for you.

And maybe if I had said no...

[pensive music plays]

maybe Scrap, D-Wiz, maybe Zisa...

No, you got bodies on you.

That's yours and yours alone, baby brother.

But you wanna blame it on me,

sayin' I turned you into somethin' that you not.

Nobody can make you somethin' that you not.

You made decisions for me

when I was too young to make 'em for myself, Raq.

Yeah, well, you grown now. We both are.

It's time for us to take responsibility

for the things that we did, for the decisions that we made.

You were my big sister.

I followed you wherever you went.

Well, I'm here right now.

With you.

Where you wanna go?

[tense music plays]

I'm goin' back to work.

You can see yourself out.

♪ ♪

Can't even imagine what Amber and Alice

will be like as teenagers.

I don't even want to imagine that.

Just imagine bigger, angrier, smarter,

more expensive versions of what you got already.

[Gerald laughs]

[children laughing]

You know, I've been thinking about it a lot.

A story about your daughter might make a lot of sense

for me and The Voice.

It's got a nice local angle,

and the human interest piece has broader appeal.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

Humans gonna be interested in this shit.

I'd have to interview her and you too.

Stories like this need a lot of background.

Readers want to get a sense of

where your daughter's from

and, uh, who has helped her to get where she is.

Mm.

Yo, appreciate this, G.

- More than you know. - [Gerald chuckles]

[chuckling] Hey, my man!

What's going on?

[soft tense music plays]

- Don't know you, man. - [person] Of course you do!

I worked at Lanes. Remember?

I... I must have walked in on you and Toni like 100 times.

Don't know you or no Toni. Got the wrong guy, man.

Toni Deep, man.

You and her were together.

♪ ♪

I told you, I don't know you.

You need to move the fuck on.

My mistake then. Sorry.

Hey. Let's go, buddy. Come on.

Brothers all look the same to these white boys.

Toni Deep.

Sounds like a porn star.

What she sound like to me

is somebody I don't even fuckin' know.

As soon as I heard about this party,

I told Juke to hit you and see if you wanted to go.

I'm real glad you could come through.

That's real sweet of you, Kanan.

- Me too. - [Kanan chuckles]

Where Fame at?

I'm not fucking with Famous no more.

Seriously?

- What the hell happened? - [elevator bell rings]

[Kid 'n Play's "Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody" playing]

[singer] ♪ Man, I'm gonna have fun ♪

♪ Ain't gonna hurt nobody ♪

♪ We just dancing ♪

♪ Ain't gonna hurt nobody Out there on the floor ♪

♪ Ain't gonna hurt nobody We just dancing ♪

What kinda party is this?

[singer] ♪ Ain't gonna hurt nobody ♪

♪ Gonna give you more ♪

You here.

Just stopping through to see what's good.

It's this nigga's party?

Ain't your brother missin' or some shit?

And you throwin' a damn party?

'Nique takin' time off. He'll be back.

That's not what I heard.

Young buck makes an appearance.

Ronnie said that you might come through.

Ishmael Henry,

but around the giddy-up, most folks call me Snaps.

- I know who you are. - [Snaps] Yeah?

Hey, this is my cousin, Jukebox.

- And this our friend, Iesha. - [Snaps] Ladies.

My distinct pleasure.

And may I present to you, uh, the queen of the kingdom,

belle of the ball, lady of the manor,

her highness, her excellency, the apple of my eye,

and the song in my heart.

This is my soul mate, my life, my wife, Pop Henry.

Nigga left some shit out, but you get the picture.

[laughs]

You got your daddy's good looks.

Sounds like you got Def Con's good sense too.

Yeah.

Ronnie's been tellin' us.

Business is boomin'.

Yeah. Congratulations are in order.

What business?

Just makin' ends, that's all.

Come on in, y'all.

There's food, drinks, whatever you need.

[upbeat hip-hop music plays]

♪ ♪

Uh, what happened with you and Famous?

We at a party right now, Juke.

Nobody wanna talk about that shit.

Come on.

[Snaps] Right this way, right this way.

Come on, yeah.

The water's everywhere.

Why are you callin' me?

Call the damn plumber.

Calling the plumber's the landlord's job.

[ominous music plays]

♪ ♪

[sighs]

[Salt-N-Pepa's "I'll Take Your Man" playing]

[Pepa] ♪ Well, I'll take Your man right out the box ♪

[Kanan] Yeah, show me some! [laughs]

[Pepa] ♪ So when you See us together ♪

♪ Chillin' in the place ♪

♪ Cold walkin' and sportin' Him in your face ♪

♪ Go ahead, roll your eyes Suck your teeth ♪

♪ Keep huffin' and puffin' Like a dog in heat ♪

♪ You can call me a crook A robber, a thief ♪

♪ But I'll be your butcher If you got beef ♪

♪ You know what's up I ain't no poo-putt ♪

♪ 'Cause Pepa kicks butts ♪

- [Kanan and Iesha laughing] - We gotta go.

We got rehearsal in the morning.

Hey, yo, yo, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, y'all gotta go?

Yo, this party is live is hell, Juke.

We just got here.

Let's stick around for a little bit, a'ight?

See what's good.

Iesha and me got work in the morning.

[sighs]

- Juke's right. We should go. - [groans]

All right. Whatever, man. Fine.

I mean, you can stay if you want.

[Jukebox] Mm-mm. Kanan leavin' with us.

Ain't nothin' for him here.

Also...

Kanan got a business to run, right?

Y'all wanna go, let's go.

Heads wanna meet you.

We leaving.

You ain't got nothin' to say to them thugsters.

They ain't thugsters.

There go Prince Ra and Toni XL over there.

Black Noise by the bar.

Kaz Allah talkin' to them girls over there.

They all in the game.

And they all thugsters.

You wanna meet some people or not?

Look, I'ma catch up with y'all later.

I'm sure Kanan gonna be okay.

Raq wouldn't want you bein' here.

I don't give a fuck what she want.

Later, Iesha.

[tense music plays]

Let's go.

Come on. He's gonna be fine.

♪ ♪

[chill music plays]

♪ ♪

♪

My lovely wife seems to think that I spoke out of turn

when I brought up your success in front of those young ladies.

My husband got a big mouth to go with all them big words.

I keep work and family separate.

Wise man.

Family business is the very definition of oxymoron.

More big words.

We wanna fuck with you.

You on that nickel and dime shit right now.

Together, we could make real money.

[Snaps] What our esteemed colleague, Ronnie,

is trying to say

is that he's very impressed with what you've accomplished.

He's interested in partnering with you in a trade

that is gonna be a lot more lucrative

than that in which you are currently engaged.

We talkin' about different work,

shit that's got a higher upside that's easier to move.

Now, Snaps and me, we don't deal with the day to day.

We just put some money up.

But we do want to safeguard our investment,

if you know what I'm saying.

Well, alls I got is niggas on bikes.

Y'all can go get that shit y'all selves, easy.

You already up and runnin'.

[Snaps] Why build what is already built?

My shit is me and me only.

Ain't got nothin' to do with my mother.

If we thought you was with Raq,

we'd be talkin' to Raq.

Fuck Raq.

[singer] ♪ So now I'm gonna depend on you ♪

♪ Just 'cause I need... ♪

Fuck Raq.

[singer] ♪ A woman, yeah, baby ♪

♪ Where is love? ♪

You must ain't got shit to do

if you gonna stay here with me and watch this.

I was drivin' by, saw your truck,

and was wonderin' what happened.

Well, now you know.

[soft tense music plays]

Then there's these mufuckers.

- They messin' with you? - They tryin'.

Everybody and everything is trying me

right about now, Marvin.

You hear about 'Nique?

They're sayin' he's a missing person.

He's dead.

I heard it from the police myself.

Damn.

That's fucked up.

Man, I know you and 'Nique was gettin' to be friends and all.

I got out the game like I did.

I know you ain't believe it was real.

I never said I didn't believe it was real,

it just seemed quick, that's all.

Went down in, like, one night.

[scoffs] Yeah, well, it was a hell of a night.

It was.

I don't think I fully believed it

when I said it neither.

But it seemed like the right thing to do.

For Kanan, for myself, for everybody.

Extreme circumstances call for extreme action.

My business was goin' anyway.

And them baloney mufuckers blew the whole shit up,

so if I'm being honest,

it made my decision a lot easier.

This shit right here, Marvin?

What the fuck do I know about bein' a damn landlord?

It ain't me.

Don't nobody believe it's me neither.

Shit, they still thinkin' I'm hustlin'.

What's the point of bein' right

when everybody thinkin' you wrong?

[Marvin chuckles]

♪ ♪

But you know what else?

I'm good at that other work.

I know how to do it as well as anybody who ever done it.

Some people born to be doctors, lawyers, ballplayers.

I'm here to move weight.

It's what I do. It's who I am.

So what the fuck am I doin' here?

Why am I tryin' so damn hard not to be me?

♪ ♪

[singer] ♪ I heard there was a Party and they need an emcee ♪

♪ So fly The depression is never ♪

♪ It's the eyes on the left And you know that I'm clever ♪

♪ Pat to the back Get my pants down low ♪

Hold on.

Come on. Join us, Kanan.

It's a'ight.

Come on. You belong.

[singer] ♪ It's the fashion show ♪

♪ I hop up on the mic And it's baddest flow ♪

♪ It's the flyest one With the patch on her eye ♪

♪ Telling many stories Like once upon a time ♪

All right.

♪ DJ, come on And play my jam ♪

♪ I'ma keep them on they toes Like Mr. Boogie Man ♪

♪ I'm more than one No doubt about that ♪

♪ I'm so original That's nothing but facts ♪

♪ True facts Never got it like that ♪

[bell rings]

Hey.

If it isn't my favorite retiree.

[laughs]

I thought you'd be in Florida by now.

Is this the mailman?

Special delivery.

Ah!

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow, huh?

[chuckles] I love this fucking guy here.

Come, come.

We'll... we'll talk someplace more private.

Come on. Come back.

Giorgio, hold my calls.

Come on. [chuckles]

Here we go.

There he is, huh?

Hey, uh, you know, I heard about our friend Unique

from my contacts at the police department,

and, uh, I'm sorry.

'Nique was about his business, just like me.

Which is why I'm here.

[suspenseful music plays]

I wanna step into what he started with you,

take it over.

[chuckling] Wow. Man, oh man.

It sure fits you. You are really somethin', huh?

I mean, they... they haven't even found the body yet.

You ready to move in?

'Nique would do the same shit.

That work don't stop for nothin' and nobody.

Yeah, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute, wait a minute.

I thought you were done.

I mean, uh, out of the game, as you say.

I'm done doin' what I did and how I did it.

I'ma do it different now.

Uh, I don't know.

Frankly, uh, I'm a little hesitant.

I mean, you're in, you're out, now you're back in.

I'm gettin' whiplash from your comings and goings.

Makes me a little nervous.

I mean, I...

you know, I need consistency, Raq, somebody I could count on.

It seemed like, you know, you could count on my sister

when it was time to put your mans down.

Didn't hesitate then.

The postman delivers again.

♪ ♪

I'll tell you what.

Let's give it the old college try.

[chuckles]

But just so we're clear,

now that you're back in,

there's only one way out.

♪ ♪

[pounding on door]

Fame, answer the door.

[pounding continues]

Shit.

[pounding continues]

[groans]

[pounding continues]

Fuck me.

Hey, man. A'ight.

[pounding continues]

[Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" playing]

[Curtis] ♪ I'm your mama I'm your daddy ♪

♪ I'm that nigga In the alley ♪

♪ I'm your doctor When in need ♪

♪ Want some coke? Have some weed ♪

♪ You know me I'm your friend ♪

♪ Your main boy Thick and thin ♪

♪ I'm your pusherman ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I'm your pusherman ♪

Time to go to work, nigga.

♪ ♪

[Curtis] ♪ Ain't I clean? Bad machine ♪

♪ Super cool, super mean ♪

♪ Feelin' good for the man ♪

♪ Super fly, here I stand ♪

♪ Secret stash, heavy bread ♪

♪ Baddest bitches in the bed ♪

♪ I'm your pusherman ♪

Heard you were lookin' for me?

What do you know about this asshole?

What happened to all of that "fruits of your investigation

are only consumed by you" bullshit?

Rules were made to be broken, Detective Howard.

And we could use your insight.

[sighs] It's a local guy.

Did some time on distribution, always into somethin'.

Why?

He was implicated in a cocaine operation

by a witness who was later murdered

up in Westchester County a while back.

The hitter on that job was one Marco Boselli,

Sal Boselli's kid.

[ominous music plays]

A first grader could connect these dots.

[Grown Kanan] Life's about choices,

the moves you make and the ones you don't.

Thing is, as time goes on, all that starts to add up

to who you are, to what you are.

But most niggas don't realize that shit till it's too late.

They don't understand that all they done

turnt them into who they are.

I told him, man, you know, I... I told him not to do it.

But I didn't... I didn't stop him.

I didn't.

[low tense music plays]

I should have said no.

I should have got in between, but I...

I just let it happen.

And I was there, so it's on me.

It's...

It's my fault, you know?

It's my fault, that...

♪ ♪

that your son's dead.

And Scrap's gone. I'm so sorry.

I'm so fuckin' sorry.

I... I couldn't stop him.

I try... I did...

he not here no more, and it's my fault.

[Grown Kanan] And once they figure it out,

they try to course correct, change it up.

But you can't undo what's been done.

You can't go back. You're you, nigga.

And hard as you may try to change,

you ain't never gonna be anything but you.

[Bobby "Blue" Bland's "I Pity the Fool" plays]

[Bobby] ♪ I pity the fool ♪

[bluesy rock music plays]

♪ I said I pity the fool ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Oh, I pity the fool, yeah ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I said I pity the fool ♪

♪ ♪

♪ That falls in love With you ♪

♪ And expect you to be true ♪

♪ Oh, I pity the fool ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Look at the people ♪

♪ I know you wonder What they're doing ♪

♪ They're just Standing there ♪

♪ Watching you make a fool Of me ♪

♪ Look at the people ♪

♪ I know you wonder What they're doing ♪

♪ They're just Standing there ♪

♪ Watching you Make a fool of me ♪

♪ Oh, I pity the fool ♪

♪ ♪