Original subtitles

- So in summary, he changed the world one commercial at a time.

Marcus Graham made us want to pay attention to the ads,

rather than dismiss them.

This groundbreaking commercial

aired during the '97 Super Bowl,

and is one of the first ads to break the Internet.

- The Internet was easy to break back then.

- [scoffs]

I'm sorry, uh, what was that?

- I'm just sayin', it wasn't that hard

to break the Internet in '97.

- Hmm.

Um...

As I was saying, uh, Marcus Graham was pretty much

the Michael Jordan of the advertising industry.

- ♪ Welcome to Atlanta, hammers and vogues ♪

♪ Back to the mackin' and [...] the clothes ♪

♪ Adolescents [...] a knock on the door ♪

- ♪ Who is it? - ♪ I would happen to know

♪ The one with the flow - ♪ Who did it?

- ♪ It was me, I suppose JD in the Rolls ♪

- ♪ And Luda's in the Cut Supreme ♪

♪ Skatin' down Old Nat, tucked and lean ♪

♪ I [...] your spleen

♪ As a matter of fact, I [...] your team ♪

♪ No blood on the sneaks

♪ Gotta keep it so my kicks is clean ♪

♪ I get the cream, cops see me flick my beams ♪

♪ I'm allergic, the doc prescribed antihistamines ♪

♪ Oink, oink, pig, pig do away with the pork.

- How long have you been standing there?

- Simone Graham.

[chuckles] What's up?

Oh, man.

I haven't seen you since we were kids.

What'cha doing here?

I thought you got into Syracuse.

- I did, but the only way

my dad was gonna pay for my college

was if it was a historically black one.

- Classic Marcus Graham.

- Stop saying his first and last name.

- I'm sorry, it just rolls off the tongue like that.

What's this all about?

- I've got one hour to sell 50 black t-shirts.

If I can sell 100, I can get into BAM.

- Oh, so you trying to be down

with the Black Advertising and Marketing club.

But you know, I'm already a member

so maybe I can put in a good word.

- Nah, I'm good.

- Aight.

Now how you gonna sell all these plain black t-shirts?

- I'm gonna flirt.

- You know you gotta do a little more

than squint your eyes and lick your lips, right?

- Is this where you tell me what to do?

- Look, these kids here are black as hell.

I mean, there's nothing they love more than being black.

I mean, if they could tattoo,

"Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud,"

on their forehead, they would.

[R&B beat]

- So I should make the shirts about them.

♪

Guys, pro-black t-shirts, $10.

♪

- XL. Thank you.

- Thanks.

- Hey, yo, Bryson, what are you doing?

We gonna be late for debate team.

- Ari, you don't have to be on time for everything, man.

Hey, babe. - Yo, I'm the first in my family

to go to college.

I will not be a disappointment

to them or my race. Come on, bro.

Mm!

- Bryson, you can go. I'm all good.

- Are you sure? - Yeah.

Your friends are ready to go.

- Well, I'll see you around.

- Maybe.

- Okay.

- Let's go.

♪

- ♪ Wrote you a letter

♪ Now that I'm here without you ♪

♪ Hope that you're better

♪ Hope that you found someone new ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm getting older know that I've changed ♪

♪ And I can't go back now, nothing's the same ♪

[indistinct speech on TV]

- ...that rain just continues every single day

before slowly starting to taper off

as we get closer into the weekend.

Get ready for a super soaker.

[thunder rumbling]

[hip-hop music playing]

- I'm glad she cheated on yo ass.

- Babe, why would you say that?

- Bryson, I know you love her dirty drawers and everything,

but she wasn't your equal, bruh.

- Nah, I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.

- No, you didn't.

- Yes, I did.

- What about the color contact lenses?

- [laughing]

- A lot of y'all was doing that for a while.

- Simone, I heard you tried to get away

with the purple joints.

- They were violet, I was having

an Elizabeth Taylor moment.

- Ain't nothing wrong with color contact lenses.

♪

- Why is she here?

- She got a name.

- If it wasn't for her

I'd still be stranded at the airport.

- That don't mean you owe her ass a meal.

- You know what you look like?

[laughing]

You look like a...

anorexic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

[laughter]

♪

- Who are you?

- I'm a bad bitch

and if you keep talkin' about me like I'm not here,

we gonna fight.

- [mouthing] I like her.

[chuckles]

[thunder rumbling]

- Who you texting?

- Don't worry about it.

- I hope it's not that whack-ass rapper.

- Really, Simone? Don't be that girl.

- First of all, don't judge me.

Second of all, he's not just some typical rapper.

- Who is it, Crys?

- Some rapper named Prisoner.

- [clicks tongue]

- [scoffs] Are you serious?

This dude doesn't even write his own shit.

- That's a rumor.

- I mean, y'all got a lot in common.

I mean, he's only relevant 'cause his father's an icon

and that gave him a head start in life, so just like you.

- So y'all know how to play Celebrity?

- Hell yeah, but let's do the black version.

- That's the best version. - Duh. We move the culture.

- We are the culture.

Yo, okay, my bad about earlier.

- Apology accepted.

I'm just glad I didn't have to pull this razor out

from underneath my tongue.

[uncomfortable laughter]

- Where's Ari?

- You good.

What up? Come on. - Thank you.

[hip-hop music]

- No ID, no entry. - I lost my wallet.

- That ain't my problem.

- Come on, man. We supposed to be family.

- I ain't yo family.

- So you working the door at a gay club but you ain't gay?

- This ain't a gay club, it's gay night.

- So you never been with a man. - Hell no.

- Why not?

- That ain't even my style, bruh.

- How you know something's not your style

if you never try it on?

♪

- You doing a lot to get in this club, bruh.

You need to take your ass home.

- I don't have a ride.

♪

- Come on in, man.

[indistinct chatter]

- ♪ What I've been missing

♪ Always on my own

- Thanks for the ride.

- Yeah, man. Sure. It's nothing.

- ♪ For someone

♪

♪ Now you're here, like you've been before ♪

♪ And you know just what I need ♪

♪ It took some time for me

♪ To see you

[door opens]

♪ You give good love to me, baby ♪

[door closes]

♪ So good, take this heart of mine ♪

♪ Into your hands, you give good love to me ♪

♪ Never too much

♪ Baby, you give good love

- Hey ladies, you know y'all get in free before midnight.

Yeah, there you go. There you go.

Buy the album, brother.

Hey, free before midnight, baby.

- Thanks, man. - Buy the album.

Free before midnight.

Bryson, look alive, man. You're not even trying.

- Man, I'm doing you a favor.

- You ain't doing nothing but looking for Simone's ass.

[hip-hop music]

It's Prisoner.

- ♪ That car I'm drivin' make you feel some type of way ♪

- ♪ I know you do - ♪ That custom Breitling

♪ Make you feel some type of way ♪

- Come on.

- Why are you always...

♪

- Yo, Prisoner! - [indistinct chatter]

- We putting in that work. Lovin' the new album, bro.

You the man right now.

- I'll be that forever, man.

- If you say so. - Hold on.

Those are my friends, I wanna say hi.

- Hurry up.

♪

- Hey, y'all. - Come on, man.

- What's up?

- I didn't know y'all were working the event.

- Maybe you would've if you stopped

changing your number every five minutes.

- I'm sorry. His groupies are crazy.

I don't know how they keep getting my number.

- It's good to see you. - It's good to see you too.

- I'm trying to see the inside of the club.

Tell your dude to hook us up.

- Hey, if it was up to me,

y'all would walk in with us right now.

- Why can't it be up to you?

- Hey, yo, what part of hurry up don't you understand?

- I'll text you.

- Make sure you got my number. - I got it.

♪

- We're not getting in there. - I know.

♪

Man!

[horns honking]

[cheering]

Bryson, come on, man, It ain't no use.

- ♪ So back to what I was saying ♪

♪ This could be us, but you playin' ♪

♪ This could be us, but you playin' ♪

♪ I'm [...] hope I don't sound crazy ♪

♪ What them [...] was saying

- [chuckles]

[sighs]

- ♪ This could be us, but you playin' ♪

- I'm gonna do it tonight.

- Congrats, bruh.

- Really?

- ♪ I ball like Tracy McGrady ♪

- You gonna break up the crew?

- Why can't you just be happy for me?

- Oh, so you're a changed man now?

Well, people just don't change over night.

- We can do anything through Christ.

- ♪ Wish we would ball till we fall ♪

♪ I'm the big bad wolf, there's a full moon, y'all ♪

♪ Toss the money in the air

[hip-hop music]

- What you trying to do? Drink him away?

- Yeah, you need to ease up.

- I'm trying to figure out why I was so dumb.

- You never had dick like that before so it messed you up.

- It was more than that.

- Was it? 'Cause y'all barely talked.

- We talked all the time.

During sex. [laughter]

- That relationship was toxic.

He was starting to dim your light.

- Then why didn't you tell me that?

- I can't learn your lessons for you.

- Why not?

- Come here, girl.

- Y'all getting me all emotional in this bitch.

- [laughing]

- [clears throat] Okay.

Can we raise a glass, please?

- What we toasting to?

- To our last homecoming.

- To finally waking up.

- To never loving a man more than I love myself.

Mm-hmm.

♪

- Mm.

- Okay, enough. Let's go. - Mm-hmm.

- ♪ Bend it over, touch your toes ♪

♪ Whip it out, show them [...] ya bank roll ♪

♪ Slang it out, hit a broke [...] with it ♪

♪ Poke it out, damn, shorty, you can get it ♪

♪ If you got some [...] say

♪ If you got some [...] on ya shoulders ♪

- I have to pee.

- I think the bathrooms are downstairs.

- No, there's gonna be a long line.

- ♪ Bout yo check, drank Moet ♪

♪ Know the [...]

- All right, I got an idea. - ♪ Yeah

[light music]

♪

- [sighs]

♪

- Thanks for letting me use your bathroom.

- [groans]

♪

- You know what I was thinking about earlier today?

- Mm?

What's that?

- We've known each other for a really long time.

- Yeah, we have.

- When we were kids, you used to worship me.

- No! No, I did not.

- You threw rose petals at my feet.

- That's because I was obsessed with "Coming to America."

- [laughs] - That's it.

♪

- But I didn't see you.

♪

- Yes, you did. - Mm-mm.

♪

Not the way I should have.

♪

Then when I saw you freshman year

standing in front of that classroom,

commanding everyone's attention...

It was like Whitley and Dwayne

in that episode of "Different World."

- "Strangers on a Plane." - Yeah!

♪

It was like seeing you for the first time.

I looked at you and wondered

if you could be my forever.

♪

But you were taken.

- Toni's ass.

- Ugh. So basic.

- With a capital B.

♪

But then--

then-then-then I-I--

I saw you at Prisoner's party.

Right?

And you looked like...

The first day of summer.

- [laughs]

- For real, I had to have you.

- But I belonged to someone.

- Oh, yeah, someone with a lot more money than me.

- [chuckles]

♪

- I don't know--we finally caught up to each other.

- Yeah, we did.

[coughs, vomit splatters]

[retching and coughing]

- ♪ Don't try to fix me

- Uh...

- ♪ The devil's speaking to me ♪

♪ End my life in my sleep

♪ I hide till the pain stops

♪ The only way I can't feel

♪ You said I was the only one ♪

♪ Never speak now I feel alone ♪

♪ I want you to want me to want we to want us ♪

♪ To be seen again

♪ Your veins have been flowing cold ♪

♪ Tell me you just wanna be alone ♪

♪ I want you to want me to want we to want us ♪

♪ To be seen again

♪ Don't speak to me

♪ Don't think we'll be

♪ Don't play with me

♪ Don't wait for me

♪ I'm fine in the dark

- I love you, Simone Graham.

- ♪ I'm right where I should be ♪

♪ Don't try to fix me

♪ The devil's speaking to me ♪

- [sighs]

Hey, you.

- Hey.

- So, uh, are we gonna talk about what happened

last night or-- - Bryson.

- You're the best friend I've ever had.

I don't want to mess that up.

[phone buzzing]

If you're calling to apologize for your boy,

you can hang up right now.

- Nah, I'm glad you dropped his ass.

He wasn't worth it. - Nah, he wasn't.

- You tryin' to go get some food?

- Right now? - Yeah.

- I could eat. - Aight, where you at?

- I'm at my friend's house. Mulberry Lane.

Right now? Okay. See you soon.

Bye.

- ♪ I put too much in your hands ♪

♪ So much regret in the end ♪

♪ It's a shame for you

- Um, I'm gonna head out.

- All right. I'll holla at you later.

- Bye, Bryson. Thanks again.

- ♪ After the wrong is there a right? ♪

- Anytime.

[door opens, closes]

♪

- ♪ I love you too much

♪

♪ I love you too much

♪

♪ It's a shame for you

♪ It's a shame for me

♪

♪ Gotta be careful, I know, I know ♪

♪ You and me can't be nothin' no more ♪

♪ I been getting nothing at all ♪

♪ You're such a...