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{\an8}<i>(car engine rumbling)</i>

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{\an8}<i>(buzzer sounding)</i>

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{\an8}<i>(Graham Central Station's
"I Can't Stand the Rain" plays)</i>

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{\an8}<i>(rain pattering)</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>SINGER:
♪ I can't stand the rain ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ Against my window ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ It's bringing
back sweet memories ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ Hey, window pane ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ Do you remember ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ How sweet it used to be? ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>MIKE: I'm back,
back to what my mother</i>

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{\an8}<i>and everyone else said
was my destiny.</i>

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{\an8}<i>No matter how many fights
I won or millions I earned,</i>

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{\an8}<i>right back where I started, man.</i>

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{\an8}Maybe this is who I am.

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{\an8}<i>SINGER:
♪ So grand ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>MIKE: Racing pigeons
can fly 1,000 miles,</i>

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{\an8}<i>but they always come right back</i>

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{\an8}<i>to the dirty boxes
they call home.</i>

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{\an8}<i>SINGER:
♪ That I just can't stand ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ I can't stand the rain ♪</i>

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{\an8}Six years might as well be life.

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{\an8}<i>SINGER:
♪ Against my window, oh ♪</i>

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{\an8}I'm 25, in my prime.

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{\an8}Snatching the title back
from Buster would've been cake.

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{\an8}<i>SINGER:
♪ I can't stand the rain ♪</i>

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{\an8}But when I get out,
I'll be 30-fucking-1.

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{\an8}Not a lot of 31-year-old
champions of the world

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{\an8}out there...

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{\an8}especially after six years
no training, bad food.

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{\an8}Bend and spread.

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{\an8}<i>MIKE: Prison steals
everything it can from you.</i>

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<i>Every hope I have
is all fucked up now.</i>

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Who will I be when
I get out of here?

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(chuckles)

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Welcome home, Champ.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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(bars rattling)

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And by then,
will anyone even care?

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RAY RAY:
Hey, Mike.

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I'm Ray Ray.

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(inmates clamoring)

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<i>SINGER:
♪ It almost makes me sad ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Fucking rain
keeps falling down ♪</i>

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<i>MIKE: I feel a little bad about
how Ray Ray and I got started.</i>

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<i>It was fucking prison, man.</i>

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<i>I needed to claim that shit.</i>

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<i>I wasn't about to be
anyone's bitch.</i>

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Can you imagine livin'
with me in a 8-by-9-foot cell?

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(audience laughs)

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Ray Ray turned out to be
more patient than Job, man.

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Ray Ray tried to keep me
out of trouble--

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as if anyone had ever
succeeded at that.

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(audience laughs)

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Now is the time for you
to figure out

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what you're gonna do
when you get out this place.

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But you got time
to figure that shit out.

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(distant buzzer sounds)

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Keep fuckin' around, though,

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the system will steal
your future from you.

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Take it from one who knows.

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I ain't got no future.

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You want to make this
worth something?

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Read books, real ones,

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starting with The Constitution.

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Fuck you.

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(audience murmuring)

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Those first months,
I had to prove I wasn't a punk,

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because everyone was
looking to make their name

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by taking a shot at me.

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Or so I thought.

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<i>RAPPER: ♪ Somebody,
everybody, anybody, nobody ♪</i>

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You eat that shit.

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Probably pissed in it,
creepy fuck.

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Damn!

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<i>RAPPER: ♪ Anybody, nobody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Somebody, everybody,
anybody, nobody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Pop on everybody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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Tyson, you tree jumper fuck!

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"Tree jumper"?

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Never heard that one before.

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Sir, tree jumper.

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What do you think it mean?

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Uh, probably
some kind of racial...

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"You're a monkey,
climbing trees."

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(audience murmurs)

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You know, I should kick
your ass for saying that.

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- You're wrong.
-(audience laughs)

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Turns out it's a nickname
for a rapist

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hiding behind a tree,

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waiting for women to walk by
so he can pounce on them.

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I ain't fuckin'
do nothin' like that.

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<i>So I let him know
he'd been misinformed.</i>

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(inmates cheering)

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They put me
in solitary for that one.

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Alone in a small dark pit
23 hours a day

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with nothing but my thoughts.

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And my thoughts weren't
that healthy to begin with.

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<i>RAPPER: ♪ Somebody, everybody,
anybody, nobody ♪</i>

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<i>-♪ Somebody, everybody ♪
-♪ Everything busted ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I heard somebody's mad ♪</i>

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<i>♪ 'Cause I'll jack
anybody's song ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Everybody got connects...♪</i>

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It's designed to murder hope.

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It works.

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PERSON:
Psst, Mike!

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Big fan.

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I brought you your mail, homey.

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<i>RAPPER: ♪ Nobody move,
nobody get hurt ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Somebody better tell 'em
we ain't came to play ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Everybody sound
the fucking same today ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Everybody, everybody ♪</i>

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Keep the faith.

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We are showin' up strong.
I put the article in here.

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Your people love you, Mike.

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<i>MIKE:
People were talking.</i>

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We will not let Desiree
get away with using us

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to destroy one of the greatest
men we've ever known!

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-(crowd chanting)
<i>- MIKE: I had my supporters,</i>

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<i>including this guy.</i>

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We're gonna argue
that Desiree perjured herself.

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She denied retaining an attorney

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to go after you
in that civil court

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before the criminal case
even started,

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meaning she is all
about the money, honey!

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<i>MIKE:
Alan Dershowitz,</i>

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Harvard professor--

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best lawyer in the world.

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More like all talk, big bill.

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- An albino Don King.
-(audience laughs)

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I lost my appeal,

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and the Indiana Supreme Court
refused to review it.

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That's the day I lost faith
in the system.

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Time got real.

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(grunts)

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(groans, coughs)

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(distant inmates chattering,
cell door closes)

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Ah, fuck.

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RAY RAY: You got to stop
fucking with the guards.

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From my sister.

146
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They can't break Iron Mike.

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Can I borrow that?

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- RAY RAY: The Constitution?
- MIKE: Yeah.

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(distant buzzer sounds)

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RAY RAY: Better yet.

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Keep it.

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It was hard for me to believe

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people telling me
I had a bright future--

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Barkim, Cus, now Ray Ray.

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I came from shit.

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As far as I knew, I was shit.

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Now, I know some of y'all think
I deserved to be locked up.

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-(audience shouting)
- Agree to disagree.

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Point is, I became just
another nigga with a number.

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And in the '90s, niggas
with numbers was big business.

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<i>(mellow RandB)</i>

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<i>SINGERS: ♪ Oh, oh ♪</i>

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You got to understand,

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in the '90s,
there was a war on "drugs."

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<i>GEORGE H.W. BUSH:
This...</i>

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<i>this is crack cocaine,</i>

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<i>seized a few days ago
by drug enforcement agents</i>

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<i>in a park just across the street
from the White House.</i>

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MIKE: Ray Ray's bag
was half that size.

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They took half his life.

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<i>It was 100-to-1 disparity
between the amount of cocaine</i>

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<i>that triggered a mandatory
minimum sentence versus crack.</i>

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<i>You want to know why there's
so many brothers in here?</i>

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In an Indiana cornfield?

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'Cause white boys selling coke
got suspended sentences,

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while brothers selling crack
got 20 years.

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<i>GEORGE H.W. BUSH:
We need more prisons,</i>

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<i>more jails, more courts,
more prosecutors.</i>

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MIKE:
Even with all those new prisons,

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we were packed tight
and wound tighter.

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These people don't need prisons.

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They need psychiatrists,
myself included.

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It's not about correction.
It's about punishment.

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<i>Treat people like animals...</i>

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Who the fuck
do you think you are?

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<i>MIKE:
They're gonna fuckin' roar.</i>

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<i>Ah, what can I say?
I'm a stubborn fuck.</i>

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PERSON:
Let's go.

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<i>MIKE:
But so was Ray Ray.</i>

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<i>And eventually he got me
reading all kinds of shit.</i>

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Better than comic books,
young blood?

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MIKE:
Not better but interesting.

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He never let the pigs
get him down.

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Even in prison.

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He saw the system
for how it really works.

196
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Don King used to say
he didn't serve his prison time,

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his prison time served him.

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I never knew what he
was talking about.

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Now you do.

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Inmate number 856951,
time to go.

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What's this about?

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SEAN: Oh, you're being
transferred to Supermax,

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- effective immediately.
- What?

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This don't make no sense!

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- Hey, let him go!
- Ah, ah, ah, ah!

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Give me an excuse.

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RAY RAY: My people ain't
gonna know where I am!

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Mike, call my sister!

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317-555-0153!

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Mike, call my sister!

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317-555-0153!

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<i>MIKE: I never saw Ray Ray again,
and I was looking for revenge.</i>

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LLOYD:
Mike Tyson.

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<i>MIKE: And thanks
to the stupid fucking guards,</i>

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<i>- I found it.</i>
- Lloyd Franklin.

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Shut the fuck up
and don't touch my shit.

217
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(chuckles)

218
00:09:07,130 --> 00:09:09,260
I know Ray Ray
taught you better.

219
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When I got
transferred here in '88,

220
00:09:12,344 --> 00:09:13,894
Ray Ray showed me the terrain.

221
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(distant buzzer sounding)

222
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Like your fan mail, for example.

223
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Solid gold, brother.

224
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<i>SINGER:
♪ This is how we do it ♪</i>

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LLOYD: "As per your request,
I have deposited $50

226
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"in your commissary account.

227
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God Bless you, Champion."

228
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That's, like, $1,000 already.

229
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Uh-uh, move that
decimal point, playboy.

230
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More like 10,000, and rising.

231
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This young lady sent photos.

232
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Vicky?

233
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Even the uglies get 40 in trade.

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<i>MIKE:
But like any solid franchise,</i>

235
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<i>it expanded quickly.</i>

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<i>SINGER: ♪ It's Friday night,
and I feel all right ♪</i>

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This joint
was ripe for a takeover.

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<i>It was like</i> Let's Make a Deal,
<i>prison edition,</i>

239
00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:54,886
<i>and I was Monty fucking Hall.</i>

240
00:09:54,886 --> 00:09:56,716
Okay, sweetie,
I'm gonna put you on the phone

241
00:09:56,805 --> 00:09:57,755
with my good buddy...

242
00:09:57,764 --> 00:09:58,974
- Cephus.
- Cephus.

243
00:09:59,057 --> 00:10:00,807
I want you
to show him a good time, okay?

244
00:10:00,809 --> 00:10:03,349
<i>SINGER: ♪ In my hood tonight ♪</i>

245
00:10:03,353 --> 00:10:04,813
Hi.

246
00:10:04,813 --> 00:10:07,573
<i>MIKE:
Man, fuck the outside world.</i>

247
00:10:07,649 --> 00:10:11,029
<i>In here, I don't have to train
every morning at 5:00.</i>

248
00:10:11,111 --> 00:10:13,031
<i>I don't need to be
beating up motherfuckers</i>

249
00:10:13,113 --> 00:10:15,033
<i>for your entertainment.</i>

250
00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:17,025
<i>In here, I'm an entrepreneur.</i>

251
00:10:17,117 --> 00:10:18,987
<i>SINGER: ♪ I'm kinda buzzed,
and it's all because ♪</i>

252
00:10:19,077 --> 00:10:21,247
<i>MIKE:
Safe, pressure's off.</i>

253
00:10:21,246 --> 00:10:24,416
<i>SINGER: ♪ Ooh, South Central
does it like nobody does ♪</i>

254
00:10:24,416 --> 00:10:26,536
<i>♪ This is how we do it ♪</i>

255
00:10:26,543 --> 00:10:29,053
<i>♪ To all my neighbors,
you got much flavor ♪</i>

256
00:10:29,129 --> 00:10:31,009
-(both laughing)
<i>-♪ This is how we do it ♪</i>

257
00:10:31,006 --> 00:10:33,626
<i>MIKE: I had everyone
on the inside working for me.</i>

258
00:10:33,717 --> 00:10:36,257
<i>Shit, I even had this dumb
motherfucker bring me doughnuts.</i>

259
00:10:36,261 --> 00:10:38,471
<i>SINGER: ♪ To all my neighbors,
you got much flavor ♪</i>

260
00:10:38,555 --> 00:10:40,845
<i>♪ This is how we do it ♪</i>

261
00:10:40,849 --> 00:10:42,849
So I was the king of the prison.

262
00:10:42,851 --> 00:10:44,891
And I liked it that way.

263
00:10:44,978 --> 00:10:47,308
What I wanted was to just stay
in prison and hide.

264
00:10:47,397 --> 00:10:49,437
Outside felt like prison.

265
00:10:49,441 --> 00:10:52,031
And, you know, I'm just being
real with you guys right now.

266
00:10:52,027 --> 00:10:53,277
I just kept pushing the envelope

267
00:10:53,278 --> 00:10:54,898
with the kind of shit
I was getting into.

268
00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:57,568
But instead of tacking
more time on my sentence,

269
00:10:57,574 --> 00:10:59,704
they just kept shaving it off
for my "good behavior."

270
00:10:59,701 --> 00:11:00,791
(audience laughs)

271
00:11:02,704 --> 00:11:03,664
CRONY: Hey, you sure about this?

272
00:11:03,747 --> 00:11:05,497
They'll throw the book at you
for sure if you get caught.

273
00:11:05,582 --> 00:11:07,882
MIKE: Don't worry about it.

274
00:11:07,876 --> 00:11:11,496
CRONY: A'ight.
Don't say I didn't warn you.

275
00:11:11,588 --> 00:11:16,088
<i>SINGER:
♪ Nobody's fault but mine ♪</i>

276
00:11:16,176 --> 00:11:20,596
<i>♪ Nobody's fault but mine ♪</i>

277
00:11:20,597 --> 00:11:25,437
<i>♪ If I die and my soul be lost ♪</i>

278
00:11:25,435 --> 00:11:29,225
<i>♪ Nobody's fault but mine ♪</i>

279
00:11:29,314 --> 00:11:31,824
<i>MIKE:
It was the perfect cover.</i>

280
00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,110
<i>I stayed
out of their Islam shit,</i>

281
00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:37,025
<i>and they stayed out of my shit.</i>

282
00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,410
<i>SINGERS: ♪ But mine ♪</i>

283
00:11:39,491 --> 00:11:44,451
<i>♪ If I die and my soul be lost ♪</i>

284
00:11:44,454 --> 00:11:45,914
<i>♪ Nobody's fault... ♪</i>

285
00:11:45,914 --> 00:11:49,214
<i>MIKE: We started spending
a lot of time there.</i>

286
00:11:49,209 --> 00:11:51,539
<i>SINGER: ♪ Mother taught me
how to pray ♪</i>

287
00:11:51,628 --> 00:11:53,048
<i>MIKE:
These guys were always busy</i>

288
00:11:53,046 --> 00:11:54,546
<i>praying to their higher power.</i>

289
00:11:54,631 --> 00:11:57,381
<i>SINGER: ♪ Mother taught me
how to pray ♪</i>

290
00:11:57,384 --> 00:11:59,144
<i>MIKE:
I had my own higher power.</i>

291
00:11:59,219 --> 00:12:03,309
<i>SINGER:
♪ If I die and my soul be lost ♪</i>

292
00:12:03,390 --> 00:12:04,720
<i>♪ Mother taught me how... ♪</i>

293
00:12:04,808 --> 00:12:07,018
<i>MIKE: They never said
a fucking word to me,</i>

294
00:12:07,102 --> 00:12:08,062
<i>until one day...</i>

295
00:12:08,061 --> 00:12:10,811
Hey, Champ.
Champ, check this out.

296
00:12:10,814 --> 00:12:13,154
$900 value, all right?
You can get faxes on this shit.

297
00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:14,443
One-hour battery life.

298
00:12:14,526 --> 00:12:15,736
You even got a stylus,
and you can write

299
00:12:15,819 --> 00:12:17,029
in your calendar,
you know what I'm saying?

300
00:12:17,112 --> 00:12:18,202
I'm in jail, nigga.

301
00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:20,366
What kind of appointments
I'm makin'?

302
00:12:20,365 --> 00:12:21,775
- You right, Champ, you right.
- Yeah.

303
00:12:21,783 --> 00:12:23,123
So, I mean,
if you don't want it--

304
00:12:23,118 --> 00:12:24,368
Just take this shit out of here.

305
00:12:24,369 --> 00:12:25,449
Okay, all right.

306
00:12:27,330 --> 00:12:29,580
The new toy of yours won't work.

307
00:12:29,666 --> 00:12:31,076
Bullshit, it's a phone.

308
00:12:31,084 --> 00:12:33,254
Ain't nothing but a brick

309
00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:34,963
unless it talk to the upstairs.

310
00:12:34,963 --> 00:12:36,923
(distant buzzer sounding)

311
00:12:37,007 --> 00:12:39,297
Satellite.

312
00:12:39,384 --> 00:12:41,054
We don't get
that kind of signal out here.

313
00:12:42,846 --> 00:12:45,556
You use this space
to transact your business.

314
00:12:47,684 --> 00:12:50,064
But you always stay
for the prayers.

315
00:12:51,396 --> 00:12:52,856
You can join us in prayer,
if you like.

316
00:12:54,607 --> 00:12:56,817
The only thing I ask...

317
00:12:56,818 --> 00:12:58,778
is that you remove your shoes.

318
00:12:58,862 --> 00:13:02,492
<i>(mellow RandB music)</i>

319
00:13:02,574 --> 00:13:04,204
<i>MIKE: At first,
the appeal of Islam was,</i>

320
00:13:04,284 --> 00:13:05,834
<i>they're just
the baddest of the bad.</i>

321
00:13:05,827 --> 00:13:09,537
<i>First time I saw it was
Don's chauffeur, Captain Joe.</i>

322
00:13:09,539 --> 00:13:11,119
DON KING: Larry Holmes
a multimillionaire.

323
00:13:11,124 --> 00:13:13,214
Mike Tyson sleeps
on a bed of money!

324
00:13:13,293 --> 00:13:15,753
I make you HBO motherfuckers
a fortune.

325
00:13:15,754 --> 00:13:17,174
You love my Black ass!

326
00:13:17,172 --> 00:13:19,632
So don't waste
my motherfucking time!

327
00:13:19,716 --> 00:13:22,086
<i>SINGER:
♪ But I was happy ♪</i>

328
00:13:22,177 --> 00:13:24,637
I need something to eat.

329
00:13:24,721 --> 00:13:26,391
This bean pie's
pretty delicious.

330
00:13:26,473 --> 00:13:27,433
Mm.

331
00:13:27,432 --> 00:13:29,522
<i>MIKE:
Man, Captain Joe was no joke.</i>

332
00:13:29,601 --> 00:13:31,601
<i>This dude taught Malcolm X,</i>

333
00:13:31,603 --> 00:13:33,313
<i>and he was
Elijah Muhammad's ace.</i>

334
00:13:33,313 --> 00:13:34,813
(clattering)

335
00:13:34,898 --> 00:13:36,648
Now, I'm sitting here trying
to make motherfuckers money.

336
00:13:36,733 --> 00:13:38,033
I tell you
I need something to eat,

337
00:13:38,026 --> 00:13:39,646
and the best thing
you can come up with

338
00:13:39,736 --> 00:13:41,026
is a motherfucking bean pie?

339
00:13:41,029 --> 00:13:42,779
God damn it!

340
00:13:42,781 --> 00:13:45,331
I need some real food!

341
00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:46,365
(thuds on floor)

342
00:13:46,368 --> 00:13:49,158
Pick it up, fry it up.

343
00:13:49,162 --> 00:13:51,122
Come on.

344
00:13:51,206 --> 00:13:53,786
You know I don't touch pork.

345
00:13:53,792 --> 00:13:55,252
Then motherfucker, you fired.

346
00:13:55,335 --> 00:13:58,505
<i>(mellow RandB continues)</i>

347
00:13:58,505 --> 00:14:05,465
<i>♪ ♪</i>

348
00:14:05,470 --> 00:14:07,850
What'd you do that for, Don?

349
00:14:07,931 --> 00:14:10,061
DON KING:
Mike, sometimes you got to show

350
00:14:10,058 --> 00:14:12,098
these motherfuckers
who's in charge.

351
00:14:12,102 --> 00:14:13,732
I said I'll call you tomorrow.

352
00:14:13,812 --> 00:14:16,062
And don't worry about HBO.
They'll come around.

353
00:14:16,064 --> 00:14:18,734
They always do.

354
00:14:18,817 --> 00:14:23,317
<i>SINGER: ♪ Help me understand ♪</i>

355
00:14:23,405 --> 00:14:24,445
<i>♪ Oh ♪</i>

356
00:14:24,531 --> 00:14:26,071
Who the fuck are these niggas?

357
00:14:26,074 --> 00:14:27,834
Brother King.

358
00:14:27,826 --> 00:14:32,826
I'm here to respectfully convey
Captain Joe is never terminated.

359
00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:36,630
If anyone is to be terminated,

360
00:14:36,710 --> 00:14:38,210
it will be you.

361
00:14:38,211 --> 00:14:40,961
<i>MIKE: Yeah, Don didn't fuck
with Captain Joe after that.</i>

362
00:14:40,964 --> 00:14:42,804
(Mike snickering)

363
00:14:44,926 --> 00:14:46,716
<i>MIKE: These guys
were bad motherfuckers,</i>

364
00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,970
<i>but they also had some really
interesting stuff to say.</i>

365
00:14:49,973 --> 00:14:51,433
- You--
-(grunts)

366
00:14:52,726 --> 00:14:54,806
It's chicken.
It's not pork.

367
00:15:01,026 --> 00:15:03,106
I should probably jog more.

368
00:15:03,111 --> 00:15:06,411
There's no boxing in here--
Indiana prison rules.

369
00:15:08,158 --> 00:15:09,988
That's all external.

370
00:15:12,662 --> 00:15:16,832
How exactly do you intend
to address your flabby spirit?

371
00:15:19,377 --> 00:15:21,757
You got
less than a year in here,

372
00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:24,085
if you manage
to stay out of trouble.

373
00:15:24,174 --> 00:15:26,304
(distant buzzer sounding)

374
00:15:26,301 --> 00:15:29,141
But the true freedom...

375
00:15:29,137 --> 00:15:31,767
the true freedom...

376
00:15:31,765 --> 00:15:35,225
comes from elevating
above base pursuits.

377
00:15:38,229 --> 00:15:40,019
Are you ready to do that?

378
00:15:41,191 --> 00:15:43,191
<i>MIKE: The fucking guy
knew his shit.</i>

379
00:15:43,193 --> 00:15:45,203
<i>I got to say, I liked him.</i>

380
00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:48,525
<i>Nobody had talked to me
like that since Cus.</i>

381
00:15:48,615 --> 00:15:52,195
I started getting in shape
spiritually, then physically.

382
00:15:52,202 --> 00:15:54,372
You know, Don only cared
about the second part.

383
00:15:54,371 --> 00:15:56,371
-(audience murmuring)
- I had maybe six months left,

384
00:15:56,373 --> 00:15:59,083
and he was hyping the world
for my triumphant return.

385
00:15:59,084 --> 00:16:00,794
Every million dollars
added to my purse

386
00:16:00,794 --> 00:16:03,094
was another million pounds
of pressure,

387
00:16:03,088 --> 00:16:06,088
scaring me shitless about
whether I could still bring it,

388
00:16:06,091 --> 00:16:07,721
for all of you--

389
00:16:07,801 --> 00:16:10,301
I mean, if you even
still wanted to see me.

390
00:16:10,387 --> 00:16:12,387
Ah, man,
I was freaking the fuck out.

391
00:16:12,389 --> 00:16:14,849
So I asked for help.

392
00:16:18,061 --> 00:16:21,731
Dr. Angelou, I didn't--
I didn't think you'd show.

393
00:16:21,815 --> 00:16:23,355
You asked.

394
00:16:23,358 --> 00:16:27,198
And if I'm being honest...

395
00:16:27,195 --> 00:16:30,985
I'm not exactly sure
what I can say to you.

396
00:16:31,074 --> 00:16:34,244
But if a word from me can help,

397
00:16:34,244 --> 00:16:38,084
then certainly
I can find that word.

398
00:16:38,081 --> 00:16:41,631
Still? Even with all
they're saying about me?

399
00:16:41,710 --> 00:16:45,210
I approach people
as they are now,

400
00:16:45,213 --> 00:16:49,093
without judgment
for what they have been,

401
00:16:49,092 --> 00:16:51,852
even Mike Tyson.

402
00:16:51,845 --> 00:16:56,015
That we all have
the possibility of becoming.

403
00:16:56,016 --> 00:16:57,516
MIKE: "You may write me
down in history

404
00:16:57,517 --> 00:16:59,557
"with your bitter, twisted lies.

405
00:16:59,561 --> 00:17:01,351
"You may trod me in the dirt,

406
00:17:01,438 --> 00:17:03,978
but still, like dust,
I'll rise."

407
00:17:03,982 --> 00:17:07,902
(chuckles) I love when someone
quotes me to me.

408
00:17:07,986 --> 00:17:11,906
I wish I was as knowledgeable
about prizefighting.

409
00:17:11,990 --> 00:17:14,120
MIKE: Well, the thing is,
I've been really trying.

410
00:17:14,117 --> 00:17:18,957
Been training again
and, even better, reading.

411
00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:21,789
Just trying to be
a better man, you know?

412
00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:24,875
For you or for them?

413
00:17:27,339 --> 00:17:32,889
Where does that leave you when
you're not their champ anymore?

414
00:17:40,018 --> 00:17:41,558
GUARD:
No touching.

415
00:17:42,854 --> 00:17:45,824
You can be more than that.

416
00:17:48,068 --> 00:17:50,448
Excuse me, Officer.

417
00:17:50,445 --> 00:17:52,905
Would you be so kind

418
00:17:52,906 --> 00:17:55,366
as to take a picture

419
00:17:55,367 --> 00:17:59,907
of me and Mr. Tyson?

420
00:18:06,628 --> 00:18:09,878
(camera shutter clicks,
camera whirring)

421
00:18:11,633 --> 00:18:14,263
It's beautiful, brother.

422
00:18:14,344 --> 00:18:16,394
Maya be reppin' the culture
for real.

423
00:18:17,847 --> 00:18:19,557
MIKE: 50.

424
00:18:19,641 --> 00:18:21,431
Say what?

425
00:18:21,518 --> 00:18:23,768
For the photo.
50 bucks.

426
00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:25,520
<i>Yeah, I sold the picture...</i>

427
00:18:25,522 --> 00:18:26,942
And doughnuts.

428
00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:30,110
<i>You know how hard it is to get
fucking doughnuts in prison?</i>

429
00:18:30,110 --> 00:18:32,610
- Yeah.
-(objects clatter)

430
00:18:32,696 --> 00:18:37,406
<i>SINGER:
♪ Everybody needs a friend ♪</i>

431
00:18:37,409 --> 00:18:41,039
<i>MIKE: But those words,
they stayed with me.</i>

432
00:18:41,121 --> 00:18:45,331
<i>SINGER: ♪ Well, I got a few
'cause you love me ♪</i>

433
00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:47,587
The thing is,
no fighter in history

434
00:18:47,669 --> 00:18:50,419
ever got back on top
after three years away.

435
00:18:50,422 --> 00:18:52,592
No one ever came
out of prison in one piece,

436
00:18:52,674 --> 00:18:56,434
mentally, spiritually,
anything else.

437
00:18:57,637 --> 00:18:59,557
What made everyone think
I would be the one?

438
00:18:59,556 --> 00:19:01,806
(grunting)

439
00:19:01,808 --> 00:19:04,018
IMAM: The world is waiting
for your return tomorrow.

440
00:19:04,019 --> 00:19:06,099
Not mine, Mike Tyson's.

441
00:19:06,104 --> 00:19:08,984
Don says
he's worth $100 million.

442
00:19:08,982 --> 00:19:11,282
IMAM:
What's Mike Tyson worth?

443
00:19:11,276 --> 00:19:13,526
Mike Tyson ain't worth shit.

444
00:19:13,528 --> 00:19:15,948
Mike Tyson feels safer in here.

445
00:19:16,031 --> 00:19:17,661
And why do you think that is?

446
00:19:18,867 --> 00:19:20,157
I know what you're trying to do.

447
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:21,870
You're trying to say
this is Allah's way

448
00:19:21,870 --> 00:19:23,870
of telling me
to leave the game behind.

449
00:19:23,872 --> 00:19:26,582
Devote my life to what?

450
00:19:26,583 --> 00:19:29,043
Look, I walk out
these doors tomorrow.

451
00:19:29,044 --> 00:19:30,804
I don't need
no more riddles or stories,

452
00:19:30,879 --> 00:19:31,919
none of that bullshit.

453
00:19:32,005 --> 00:19:33,875
Just tell me what
the fuck I need to do.

454
00:19:53,485 --> 00:19:54,895
Mike Tyson...

455
00:19:56,488 --> 00:19:59,528
You serve no one but Allah.

456
00:20:01,117 --> 00:20:03,407
And with that knowledge,

457
00:20:03,495 --> 00:20:06,405
you can choose
whatever path you want.

458
00:20:10,126 --> 00:20:13,706
<i>MIKE: Man, I was terrified
to walk out those doors.</i>

459
00:20:13,797 --> 00:20:16,167
<i>My life was so out of control
out there.</i>

460
00:20:16,174 --> 00:20:19,224
<i>In prison, I made the rules,
and I ran things.</i>

461
00:20:19,219 --> 00:20:21,049
<i>In prayer,
I was finally able to make</i>

462
00:20:21,054 --> 00:20:23,474
<i>all those outside voices
shut the fuck up.</i>

463
00:20:23,473 --> 00:20:27,023
<i>(Tedashii's "Get Out My Way")</i>

464
00:20:27,102 --> 00:20:33,442
Peace and mercy of Allah
be on you.

465
00:20:33,525 --> 00:20:35,685
<i>♪ ♪</i>

466
00:20:35,694 --> 00:20:38,664
All right, Mike...
time to go.

467
00:20:38,655 --> 00:20:41,565
<i>RAPPER: ♪ I lost my mind,
I need my space ♪</i>

468
00:20:41,658 --> 00:20:43,868
<i>♪ Get out my way,
get out my way ♪</i>

469
00:20:43,952 --> 00:20:46,082
<i>MIKE: What if I couldn't fight
no more?</i>

470
00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:49,079
<i>I was just so scared
you guys were gonna hate me.</i>

471
00:20:49,082 --> 00:20:50,252
<i>But I was just as scared</i>

472
00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:52,670
<i>of going back
to the old fucked-up Mike,</i>

473
00:20:52,669 --> 00:20:54,249
<i>the guy who had everyone,
including me,</i>

474
00:20:54,254 --> 00:20:57,094
<i>convinced I was gonna
end up in an early grave.</i>

475
00:20:57,090 --> 00:20:58,840
<i>RAPPER: ♪ Black Forgiatos
on the tires ♪</i>

476
00:20:58,842 --> 00:21:01,092
<i>♪ Got me sittin' high
like a gladiator ♪</i>

477
00:21:01,094 --> 00:21:02,514
<i>MIKE:
Those were my choices.</i>

478
00:21:02,512 --> 00:21:04,642
(cheering and whooping)

479
00:21:04,723 --> 00:21:06,473
<i>RAPPER: ♪ You don't know
about the fast life ♪</i>

480
00:21:06,558 --> 00:21:08,728
<i>♪ I got scars
from my last fight ♪</i>

481
00:21:08,727 --> 00:21:10,977
<i>♪ Ice water in my bloodstream
from some old things ♪</i>

482
00:21:10,979 --> 00:21:14,109
<i>MIKE: I could go back
to being Cus's monster...</i>

483
00:21:14,107 --> 00:21:17,317
<i>Don's meal ticket...</i>

484
00:21:17,402 --> 00:21:21,072
<i>or I could be
the elevated man Ray Ray,</i>

485
00:21:21,156 --> 00:21:23,696
<i>Imam Siddiq,
and Maya saw inside of me...</i>

486
00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:25,830
<i>RAPPER: ♪ Tryna make us stumble,
rose up out the rubble ♪</i>

487
00:21:25,827 --> 00:21:27,447
<i>MIKE:
That I wanted to be.</i>

488
00:21:27,454 --> 00:21:29,044
<i>RAPPER: ♪ So why don't
y'all back up? ♪</i>

489
00:21:29,039 --> 00:21:30,749
<i>MIKE:
And I had to decide now.</i>

490
00:21:30,749 --> 00:21:32,499
<i>RAPPER:
♪ I just got knocked down ♪</i>

491
00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:34,464
<i>♪ I still got back up ♪</i>

492
00:21:34,461 --> 00:21:36,381
{\an8}<i>♪ There's no days off, boy ♪</i>

493
00:21:36,463 --> 00:21:38,133
{\an8}<i>♪ I take no breaks ♪</i>

494
00:21:38,131 --> 00:21:40,051
{\an8}<i>♪ I lost my mind ♪</i>

495
00:21:40,050 --> 00:21:42,840
{\an8}<i>♪ I need my space
get out my way ♪</i>

496
00:21:42,844 --> 00:21:46,724
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way ♪</i>

497
00:21:46,723 --> 00:21:48,523
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, unh ♪</i>

498
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,480
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, move ♪</i>

499
00:21:50,477 --> 00:21:52,347
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, yeah ♪</i>

500
00:21:52,354 --> 00:21:54,364
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, whoo ♪</i>

501
00:21:54,356 --> 00:21:55,726
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, well ♪</i>

502
00:21:55,732 --> 00:21:56,902
{\an8}<i>♪ I ain't never been safe ♪</i>

503
00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:58,110
{\an8}<i>♪ Ain't nobody blockin' ♪</i>

504
00:21:58,193 --> 00:22:00,323
{\an8}<i>♪ They can't stop me,
I'm on ten ♪</i>

505
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:01,860
{\an8}<i>♪ Ain't no other option ♪</i>

506
00:22:01,863 --> 00:22:03,743
{\an8}<i>♪ They just copy what I did ♪</i>

507
00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:05,410
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, move ♪</i>

508
00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:07,372
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, yeah ♪</i>

509
00:22:07,369 --> 00:22:09,039
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, whoo ♪</i>

510
00:22:09,037 --> 00:22:10,617
{\an8}<i>♪ Get out my way, well ♪</i>

511
00:22:10,622 --> 00:22:11,962
{\an8}<i>♪ I ain't never been safe ♪</i>

512
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,250
{\an8}<i>♪ Never fold
when you face pain ♪</i>

513
00:22:13,333 --> 00:22:15,133
{\an8}<i>♪ And they take aim
like a movie shoot ♪</i>

514
00:22:15,210 --> 00:22:17,170
{\an8}<i>♪ No vest when they
draw the lines ♪</i>

515
00:22:17,170 --> 00:22:19,090
{\an8}<i>♪ I be offsides
feelin' bulletproof ♪</i>

516
00:22:19,089 --> 00:22:20,969
{\an8}<i>♪ Use my past like a flashback ♪</i>

517
00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:22,759
{\an8}<i>♪ Overcome movin' past that ♪</i>

518
00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:24,589
{\an8}<i>♪ Movin' on, let the Audi run ♪</i>

519
00:22:24,678 --> 00:22:26,468
{\an8}<i>♪ On the Autobahn,
where the gas at? ♪</i>

520
00:22:26,471 --> 00:22:28,521
{\an8}<i>♪ Gettin' to it, yeah,
I'm gettin' to it ♪</i>

521
00:22:28,515 --> 00:22:30,555
{\an8}<i>♪ Took a lotta hits,
but I'm gettin' through it ♪</i>

522
00:22:31,601 --> 00:22:34,601
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