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- [ music playing ] - ♪ Yeah, Brooklyn

- ♪ Them young boys be whilin' ♪ - ♪ Whilin'

♪ All this money and violence ♪

- ♪ Them young boys be whilin' ♪ - ♪ Yeah

♪ All this money and violence ♪

- ♪ Yeah - ♪ See, I don't wanna see you hurt ♪

♪ But pain brings you a little closer ♪

♪ You said you ride to die, you're supposed to be like my soldier ♪

♪ Said you was lookin' out, but I'm lookin' over my shoulder ♪

♪ Holding hammers like grudges, the bitch ass around us, they know us ♪

♪ Them young boys be whilin', all this money and violence ♪

- ♪ Yeah, them young boys be whilin' ♪ - ♪ Whilin'

♪ All this money and violence ♪

- ♪ Yeah, them young boys be whilin' ♪ - ♪ Whilin'

♪ All this money and violence ♪

♪ Them young boys be whilin' ♪

♪ All this money and violence. ♪

[ gunshot echoes ]

Let me call this nigga right now.

[ phone rings ]

- Yo. - Yo, that order just went in, my nigga.

It's looking like it's dinnertime.

- You around? - I'm close.

- Close enough to touch? - Close enough to touch anything moving.

Get yourself together, my nigga.

I'm gonna hit you back with the details, you ready?

All right. All right. Bye.

[ phone rings ]

- Yo. - Yo, the homie lined up some food ASAP.

- You trying to eat? - Nigga, I gotta answer that?

Not at all. Yo, meet me ASAP on Bev.

All right, man. I'm coming to you as we speak.

I'll see you in 20. Cool.

Shay, how you gonna do that to me?

You make me come out the house

and then you don't even show up.

My bad, girl.

Where I was at, I fell asleep.

And when I woke up, it was too late

for me to be traveling from the Bronx.

The Bronx?

Last I remember,

the only business you had in the Bronx was me.

I was chilling with a friend of mine.

But anyway, I'm sorry.

Sorry?

I ended up sitting in the corner of a bar by myself.

I waited for you for two hours.

I couldn't even drink because that's unsafe.

Listen, with or without me

you should've made sure you had a good time.

You was already out.

How? How could I have had a good time

when every two seconds there's some guy in my ear

trying to talk to me and I don't have a friend to run interference?

Hmm, they was on you like that?

You already know, niggas is gonna be niggas.

Look, Shay,

I left the house

to get stuff off my mind

and I came back in the house

more frustrated than when I left.

Frustrated? I think I need to go to the store and get you a "magic wand,"

'cause that sounds like sexual frustration to me.

I don't care about these niggas' dicks

or the problems that they come with, okay?

I hear you, girl.

Seriously, Shay,

just-- next time, shoot me a text,

call, something.

Like, you can't have me hanging like that.

All right. You're right.

- I got you. - I'm gonna get some water.

- [ door closes ] - Still cute.

Yo, what the fuck?

[ grunting ]

Take the fucking bag off, man.

Yo, come on, man. Don't kill me, man.

I got kids. Don't kill me, man, please.

- Don't kill me, man, please. - Gunman: Lay down.

- I ain't looking at you. I ain't looking at you. - Lay down.

Just take it, man. Just take it, man. Go ahead.

Gunman: Lay the fuck down, man!

- Yo, how'd that go? - That shit was easy food, man.

Homie cooperated. We ain't have to bust no shots.

Nigga, as soon as I put that joint in that nigga's face,

he was more than happy to give that shit up.

- So what we got? - Yo, we didn't even look in there yet.

Let me see that shit.

Oh, damn. Ooh! What?

What...?

What the fuck?

Miz: Yo, what the fuck is that?

Shit looking like a compressor, my nigga.

Looks like that nigga was stepping all over that shit

before he was handing that shit to your peoples.

Yo, for a nigga who won't fuck with the coke,

you sure do know a whole lot about this.

Yeah, my nigga, I don't fuck

with that hustling shit, man. I rob, nigga.

But I've been out here on these streets

and when you're out here robbing everything,

you're gonna get cash and product

so I was forced to learn.

I told you I don't fuck with the work, nigga.

I ain't never said nothing about not knowing nothing about it, man.

I hear you, my nigga. Let's weigh this out and see what we're working with.

Yo, pass me that scale.

Uh, that's a bird right there.

Whoo, fuck!

Four grams for the bag, a thousand for the fucking brick?

- That's a bird right there, my nigga. - Rafe: Mm-um-um.

That's a bird right there, my nigga.

Oh, my-- whee...!

That's a fuckin' bird right there, nigga.

Calm down, nigga.

Good shit, my nigga. Nice little come-up.

For all of us. Listen--

what's the breakdown for this, my nigga. How we doing this?

Yo, let me check this shit.

666.66 grams for each of us.

That's over half a bird, my nigga.

Listen, I'm about to holler at Big Dog,

make them chef that shit up for me so I can put it in baggies,

hit the block-- you already know, my nigga.

- You're trying to eat all that chicken. - I need every dollar, nigga.

Yo, somebody hit the fucking store, my nigga.

Go get some Ziplocs, man, so we can get the fuck up out of here.

- Miz: I'ma go get them. - Yo.

- Good looking, my nigga. - You know I got you.

- Yo, what up, man? - What up, man?

Same shit. I'm just out here doing a damn thing,

- you know how it go. - I hear you.

But, yo, my bad for the shit

that went down the other night, man.

I just be eager for me and you to move up to the next level.

I be really really trying to make shit happen for us.

I feel you, my nigga, but shit don't happen overnight.

It took a minute for my situation with Miz

to get as comfortable as it is right now

and it's gonna take even longer with another nigga.

Miz don't be wantin' it back for nothing.

- You just gotta be patient, my nigga. - My connect got that fire.

And when I seen that, I saw an opportunity

for me and you. You my bro,

so you know I'ma look out for what's best for you.

But that's not what's best.

Miz is fronting us. Is your man doing that?

No. This shit ain't rocket science.

It ain't. I see where you're coming from.

Yeah, that was some real bozo shit you pulled the other day.

You don't just have me walk in anywhere

without giving me the heads up what's going on.

What if the spot would've got raided?

I'd have been there like, "What the fuck is going on?"

Come on, Shane. What the fuck is the chances of that happening?

My nigga, you never know.

And the next time you decide to make a decision for me...

- don't. - I read you loud and clear.

So what you trying to say?

You ain't trying to fuck with homie at all?

My nigga, are you listening to anything I'm fuckin' saying?

No, I'm not fuckin' with dude.

Cool, Shane. Have it your way.

But homie got that grade-A work.

- "Have it your way?" - Yeah, nigga. Have it your way.

Whatever, nigga. So what up?

Homie selling work out that laundrymat?

I don't know. I brought you there

so he could give you a sample or something.

- I don't know what he doin'. - Well, I hope this is a dead issue, man,

'cause I don't wanna talk about this shit no more.

We don't gotta talk about this shit anymore.

I'm just gonna have to do what I gotta do to get this chicken

- 'cause you ain't feeling me. - Good luck.

Yo! Got me out here in your neck of the woods, man. I hope it's worth it.

- What's up, brother man? - Ain't nothing, man.

- You said you got something for me. - Yeah, I do.

- Talk to me. - All right, peep in.

I got this cousin, right? He's been running around here doing scamming shit,

you know, fucking with the plastic and the funny money and all that.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

Anyway, this guy's getting paper.

He's running around here in that new Range

and I know he keep, like, 20, 30 racks in that Range.

- Okay. - Yeah, but he a bitch-ass nigga.

He don't try to put family on at all.

He be coming around straight stunting, flashing all that cash and all that.

- Well, what you want me to do? - I'm trying to line the nigga up.

I want you to get him. I mean, he be out here with all that cash,

but he ain't got no hammer 'cause he ain't built like that.

- This your cousin? - Yeah, but he on some fag or something.

- I don't give a fuck about that nigga. - I hear everything

that you're saying, man, but let me ask you this.

- You cool with me killin' him? - What?

Are you cool with me killin' him?

That's not what I'm asking you to do. I'm asking you to get him.

Man, I understand what you're saying, my dude,

but are you cool with me killin' him? Can you live with that?

Yo, what are you talking about, Rafe?

I'm asking you to get the nigga, you keep talkin' about taking his life.

Yo, I understand what you're asking me,

but I also have to keep in mind what if this dude resists?

What if for some reason he do got a hammer on him or around him?

I'm not gonna let this dude take my life

just 'cause he's your cousin, man.

I gotta protect my life at all costs.

So if you're not cool with me taking his life,

then don't ask me to rob him.

'Cause in a split second, it could be all or nothing, man.

I ain't looking to get the nigga killed, Rafe.

I'm just looking to teach him a lesson and get some bread at the same time.

I know you didn't think about it like that, man.

I'm glad that you came to me and not somebody else

because they wouldn'ta gave a fuck, man.

Just always keep in mind that once you walk through certain doors,

you leave the possibility open for anything to happen, man.

I ain't see it like that.

You ain't see it like that?

Yo, what you trying to do is throw homie

into a pit of wolves, man.

Once he's in that pit, ain't no way to control what happens.

Fucked-up nigga or not,

I wouldn't do that to my family, man.

But I don't know that nigga, so you let me know.

If you cool with the possibility of me taking his life,

then, yo, you let me know and we move forward.

- I don't know, man. - Yo, no rush, Mal.

You sit and you think about it, man,

and you hit me up if you wanna make that happen.

- All right? Shout me out, man. - All right.

Think about it.

Daddy!

I didn't know you were gonna come pick me up from school today.

Yeah, I wanted to surprise you, baby.

I told your mommy I'd come get you and I'd bring you home later.

- How was school today? - It's okay.

I got 100 on my science test today.

Yeah? Wow! That's my little girl.

- Daddy! - What?

- I'm not a little girl. - Oh, Storm, you'll always be my little girl.

- But, baby? - Yes, Daddy?

I have something I want to talk to you about.

- What, Daddy? - I know that you haven't been seeing me like that.

I see you, Daddy, and we speak almost every day on the phone.

Yeah, we do, but, you know,

we don't see each other like the way that we used to.

I just want you to know that Daddy's working, you know?

I'm working very hard to make sure that you don't need for nothing.

I don't need anything. All I need is you and Mommy.

I know, beautiful.

But, you know, I just wanted to talk to you

because I didn't want you to ever think that Daddy doesn't love you.

I can never think that, Daddy.

Come here. Mm.

- You hungry? - Yes.

Let's go get something to eat.

Yo, you said you wanted to holler at me. What's up?

Yeah, man. I think I got the drop on some food for us.

- What is it? - This nigga Tai fuck with this homie.

- I think he a plug. - Nigga, everybody's a plug nowadays.

Nah, dead ass. I was at the spot and all.

So what, you looking for another connect, little nigga?

Nah, nigga, I'm good with you,

but this nigga brought me there

not letting me know what I was walking into.

- What kinda bullshit he on? - That's the same shit I said.

But I handled that situation. We oughta go up there.

It's a laundrymat and the whole time I was in there

- nobody did no laundry. - What, you think it's a front?

I don't know, but the way this nigga Tai talking,

- I think this nigga got something. - I don't know, Shane.

- What? - Man, this nigga Tai

look like one of them niggas that use his shit.

That nigga see five minutes, he's gonna tell you it's 30.

- I don't know, man. - Yo, I got that gut feeling

this nigga got something, man.

Yo, where this laundrymat at?

It's on Crescent.

Where's that at? That's the east?

Nah, near Ridgewood.

How many people you saw in there?

All I saw was the dude with one Spanish chick.

Homie took Tai downstairs, but like I said,

we oughta do a little bit more looking into it.

Man, I'm skeptical about the whole thing, but when I get some free time,

me and Rafe will go take a look at it.

Just know when everything fall through

- who put you onto this. - Nigga, don't I always?

- I'ma holler at you. - My nigga.

[ music playing ]

Oh, shit. What's up?

I haven't seen you round here in a minute.

- Yeah, what's good, though? - Same shit, different day.

You keep playing, you're gonna lose your hood pass around here.

Man, I can't lose my hood pass.

I'm Far Rock born and raised. Home is where the heart is.

Please, boy. You a Flatbush nigga now.

Man, I only fuck with them niggas like that over there.

But what's good with you? You're still doing what you do?

I'm still on the ground. Still doing whatever for that paper.

That's what's up. Yo, I got something for you.

- Something like what? - Yo, I've been hustling with this dude out in Flatbush

and this nigga's been slowing me up and shit.

What you mean by slowing you up?

Yo, I got the plug

where me and son could actually eat.

He got the work for cheaper,

but this nigga ain't tryin' to fuck with it.

- Okay. - I can't have this nigga fuckin' my shit up.

If we don't fuck around and cop something soon,

this nigga's gonna fuck around and make me lose a connect.

- So? - So, homie that I fucks with,

he's the nigga with the paper.

I'ma need you to get that nigga

so I can actually cop something.

- So how we gonna do this? - You're cool with coming to Flatbush, right?

Didn't you hear me say whatever for that paper?

Cool. We gonna line that nigga up.

We're gonna make that shit happen. That nigga a plate.

All right, nigga. So let's eat.

- I'm gonna holler at you. Time for me to go. - All right.

[ music playing ]

[ crickets chirping ]

Yo, brethren.

You're not gonna knock on the door?

Knock whose door, brethren?

Nobody knock on this, eh, man?

- Auntie. What's goin'? - Hey, welcome home, huh?

- Fresh: Good evening. - How you doing?

- What's up, Fresh? Good to see you. - How you doing?

- Where's Uncs, Auntie? - What you going on with?

You know what? I think he's in the back.

- In the back? - Somewhere. You know Blue.

You can't always never find him.

- G: Everything good with Blue? - Yeah, man, everything good.

- What you guys up to? - Just wanna talk with Uncle about something, you know?

Oh, okay. Blue?

Blue?

I don't even know where him is.

Him always in the back or something.

You know, I think he might be down the water.

- Right over there. - Yeah, okay. We're gonna have some words with him.

- All right, darling. Later. - All right.

- Yeah, man, Fresh, good to see you. - You, too.

- Fresh: All right. - All right, baby. Later.

[ speaking Patois ]

Look, Uncle. Look there.

- That G-Money lad. - Mm.

- Dad: Ah. What say, family? - How you doing?

Ah, family.

- What y'all say? Everything blessed? - Everything's good.

[ all speaking Patois ]

We need to talk with you, Uncle.

Everything good, nephew?

Everything criss, but remember

how you would tell me say "a smart man

never wait for a war to build him army"?

There may be a soldier in every general,

but not a general in every soldier.

I see some part of me growing inside you.

Uncs, I wanna plant a seed in me now

because after a while me must grow.

Spoken like the wise. Each one teach one

until the student becomes a teacher.

- Well done, my youth. - About the situation with Donovan, Uncs.

Don't speak that boy's name.

We have not earned the right to speak that boy's name

until his enemy becomes his company.

Unless you deal with the business.

Uncs, we're moving in the right direction.

But we've just not sorted it out yet.

So, family, what brings you here?

This situation might be more than a war

and in battle, the side with the least preparation

is the side what needs it the most.

- General. - Uncs, me in for import

some brethren from down the yard.

We need for take a different approach.

The man them done face already, sir.

We even up the advantage of surprise again, Uncs.

You have lost one of your biggest advantages.

What have you gained for that sacrifice?

Nothing, Uncle.

My family, my youth.

You am unleash some of the uncivilized mad dogs from the yard,

you think you can control them, my youth?

I know I can control them.

Won't let them loose and let them get murdered on the streets.

Hello. We must keep a tight grip on that leash.

- This was a job for you. - And it still is.

As the general, them give the word in for the battle, Uncs,

not the soldier them. It's still my fight.

May I make the call

for that you need for make the boy rest in peace.

By weekend, commando men reach Yankeeside.

Give thanks, Uncs. That we really need.

Yeah, man.

'Course you must always remember

can't put your trust in them mad dogs, my youth.

If they get too aggressive,

you'll have to go put them down, you know.

I'll put things in place.

Hit me now, so I can deal with it, all right?

Blackside.

Respect.

- Fresh, my brother. - Fresh: Bless.

[ music playing ]

♪ I get one for just coming, two to do a show ♪

♪ Can't wait for me to come on 'cause I does this, yo ♪

♪ I get one for me to come in, two to do a show ♪

♪ Can't wait for me to come on 'cause I run this show ♪

♪ New York is in the building ♪

♪ That's what's up, get up ♪

♪ Roll over niggas like monster trucks ♪

♪ Only here to click confusion ♪

♪ Better get your crews done ♪