0 00:00:20,754 --> 00:00:22,745 You sure you don't mind talking? 1 00:00:24,090 --> 00:00:25,580 No, man, we're cool. 2 00:00:26,126 --> 00:00:27,991 So, how old are you, DeAndre? 3 00:00:28,194 --> 00:00:31,357 - 16 in May, if I make it. - You don't think you'll make it? 4 00:00:32,165 --> 00:00:34,599 I'm gonna be thick out here, you know what I'm sayin'? 5 00:00:34,701 --> 00:00:37,568 It's Monroe and Fayette. Niggers be dying. 6 00:00:38,638 --> 00:00:41,471 You don't think you're being a little melodramatic? 7 00:00:43,309 --> 00:00:46,176 Overly dramatic to make a point. 8 00:00:47,213 --> 00:00:48,703 I know what it means. 9 00:00:49,149 --> 00:00:53,108 You think I gotta be some college-ass motherfucker to know what words mean? 10 00:00:54,821 --> 00:00:58,552 I'm saying niggers be thinking this a game. This shit is for real. 11 00:01:02,529 --> 00:01:05,464 It's hard work selling drugs in the Baltimore ghetto. 12 00:01:05,632 --> 00:01:07,964 Hard work being a black man in America. 13 00:01:08,802 --> 00:01:10,929 You've been selling drugs how long? 14 00:01:12,939 --> 00:01:16,067 Since I was 13, off and on. 15 00:01:17,677 --> 00:01:19,372 You ever been arrested? 16 00:01:20,113 --> 00:01:22,411 - Twice. - So you've seen jail? 17 00:01:22,982 --> 00:01:25,143 No, I got recons both times. 18 00:01:25,718 --> 00:01:28,380 But I still gotta go to juvenile court, though. 19 00:01:28,922 --> 00:01:31,254 But it's not like that's all I'm about. 20 00:01:31,825 --> 00:01:34,259 I'm just trying to get some money right now. 21 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,454 I'm going back to school this semester, get put back on the rolls. 22 00:01:37,564 --> 00:01:39,122 What grade are you in? 23 00:01:39,566 --> 00:01:40,533 Ninth. 24 00:01:41,835 --> 00:01:44,895 You're almost 16, and you're only in the ninth grade? 25 00:01:45,972 --> 00:01:47,200 I got put out. 26 00:01:47,874 --> 00:01:49,739 If I'm cool with it for a while... 27 00:01:49,843 --> 00:01:52,209 I'll get a social promotion to the tenth grade soon. 28 00:01:52,312 --> 00:01:54,007 What's a social promotion? 29 00:01:54,147 --> 00:01:56,945 It's when they promote you for being cool with it. 30 00:01:57,917 --> 00:01:59,612 Let me ask you, DeAndre... 31 00:02:02,455 --> 00:02:04,389 why do you sell drugs... 32 00:02:05,925 --> 00:02:08,485 knowing what heroin has done to your father? 33 00:02:11,931 --> 00:02:14,627 - You know my father? - Yeah, we talked. 34 00:02:15,702 --> 00:02:19,968 So, how do you sell drugs, knowing where they left him? 35 00:02:22,008 --> 00:02:23,441 People who use... 36 00:02:24,244 --> 00:02:25,609 they're gonna use. 37 00:02:25,712 --> 00:02:29,341 They'll buy it from somebody somewhere. Might as well be me. 38 00:02:30,550 --> 00:02:32,279 Does your mother use drugs? 39 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:39,554 Look, I didn't mean anything by it. 40 00:02:39,659 --> 00:02:42,457 I was just asking. Listen, DeAndre. 41 00:02:45,298 --> 00:02:47,493 Death row. 42 00:02:56,409 --> 00:02:57,933 - Hey, Curt. - Hey, Blue. 43 00:02:58,044 --> 00:03:00,239 - What's up? - Check Hungry out. 44 00:03:03,449 --> 00:03:04,677 Hungry on the hood. 45 00:03:09,656 --> 00:03:11,647 Boy got that look in his eye. 46 00:03:13,159 --> 00:03:15,593 He better not be thinking about stealing. 47 00:03:18,598 --> 00:03:20,259 Who are you talking for? 48 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,367 Scott. 49 00:03:22,135 --> 00:03:24,569 Them New York boys don't play that shit. 50 00:03:28,041 --> 00:03:29,235 Take it easy. 51 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:51,996 Them men don't worry about the consequences, that's what it is. 52 00:03:53,032 --> 00:03:54,795 - Hey, darling. - 'Morning, Ella. 53 00:03:54,901 --> 00:03:57,165 Mr. Blue, Mr. Curt, how you doing today? 54 00:03:57,270 --> 00:03:59,568 - Anything to help the Lord. - I hear that. 55 00:03:59,706 --> 00:04:01,435 - How about yourself? - I'm doing fine. 56 00:04:01,541 --> 00:04:03,634 We still need you at the rec center. 57 00:04:03,743 --> 00:04:07,577 I've been thinking, Miss Ella, I ain't pulled my paints out in a while. 58 00:04:07,714 --> 00:04:09,477 The kids love arts and crafts. 59 00:04:09,582 --> 00:04:12,278 I'm going to keep bugging you till you come on by. 60 00:04:12,385 --> 00:04:14,376 - I don't mind that. - All right. 61 00:04:15,722 --> 00:04:18,156 - You all have a good day. - Have a good day. 62 00:04:20,927 --> 00:04:23,088 - What's up? - Scalio! 63 00:04:24,163 --> 00:04:26,427 - What you got? - Diamond in the raw. 64 00:04:26,566 --> 00:04:29,194 That shit is ripe. Any clean works up in there? 65 00:04:29,302 --> 00:04:30,496 Talk to Reno. 66 00:04:34,707 --> 00:04:37,039 Hey, Miss Ella, how you doing? 67 00:04:39,312 --> 00:04:41,940 - Why aren't you in school today? - It's half a day. 68 00:04:42,048 --> 00:04:45,211 - I thought Wednesday was half a day. - Today is Wednesday. 69 00:04:45,418 --> 00:04:47,818 - Damn, Tae. - Today's Thursday. 70 00:04:48,621 --> 00:04:50,521 It's half a day today, too. 71 00:04:50,657 --> 00:04:54,218 - Teachers meeting or something like that. - Yeah. Teachers meeting. 72 00:04:58,731 --> 00:05:02,132 - You said we can have a basketball team. - I said I'd think on it. 73 00:05:02,235 --> 00:05:03,862 Come on, we be good. 74 00:05:04,103 --> 00:05:07,937 I'll talk to Miss Davis at Francis Woods and see if she'll let us use their gym. 75 00:05:08,041 --> 00:05:11,477 - But we gonna get uniforms, right? - I said I'll talk to Rose Davis. 76 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:13,639 Red and white for the Bulls. 77 00:05:13,946 --> 00:05:15,709 If we do get a basketball team... 78 00:05:15,815 --> 00:05:18,648 the boys who play will be the ones who go to class. 79 00:05:18,818 --> 00:05:22,151 R.C.'s gonna ride the bench then, 'cause he'll never go to school. 80 00:05:22,255 --> 00:05:25,782 Yo, what can I say, man? Ringing the bell don't say nothing to me. 81 00:05:27,927 --> 00:05:29,394 Hello, Kayla. 82 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:31,822 Come on in. 83 00:05:33,232 --> 00:05:34,893 Come on in, DeAndre. 84 00:05:38,171 --> 00:05:39,297 Yo, Dre. 85 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:43,466 Miss Ella said we'll have a basketball team and can play in the Rec League. 86 00:05:44,010 --> 00:05:46,137 - Boo didn't come with you? - No. 87 00:05:51,951 --> 00:05:53,646 - What up? - What's up, boy? 88 00:05:55,321 --> 00:05:56,447 Hey, Kay. 89 00:05:58,191 --> 00:05:59,658 Girl, you're strong. 90 00:06:00,159 --> 00:06:03,424 Check it out, R.C., she can lift more than you. 91 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:05,258 Fuck you, man. 92 00:06:06,099 --> 00:06:08,226 Sorry, Miss Ella, I forgot where I was. 93 00:06:08,334 --> 00:06:09,926 Let's see what there is to eat. 94 00:06:12,004 --> 00:06:14,131 Come on, you know you got $5. 95 00:06:14,307 --> 00:06:16,434 I got $5, and I'm gonna keep it. 96 00:06:17,844 --> 00:06:19,106 Yo, Boo. 97 00:06:21,647 --> 00:06:23,342 I'm down to 16. 98 00:06:25,151 --> 00:06:26,209 All right. 99 00:06:30,823 --> 00:06:32,757 Don't make me chase you, motherfucker. 100 00:06:32,859 --> 00:06:34,918 We ain't done shit. 101 00:06:35,061 --> 00:06:37,930 You ain't done shit that we ain't seen. Get your hands on the fucking wall. 102 00:06:37,930 --> 00:06:38,862 You ain't done shit that we ain't seen. Get your hands on the fucking wall. 103 00:06:38,965 --> 00:06:41,399 Why y'all messing with us? We ain't doin' nothing. 104 00:06:41,501 --> 00:06:43,662 You name Big Daddy whoever, but you're doomed. 105 00:06:43,770 --> 00:06:46,102 Put your face down on the ground, hear me? 106 00:06:47,273 --> 00:06:49,264 All right, we're cool. 107 00:06:50,676 --> 00:06:52,735 Get on that ground and stay right there. 108 00:06:52,845 --> 00:06:55,313 Shut the fuck up, or I'll smack you, you hear me? 109 00:06:58,384 --> 00:06:59,851 Where you hiding it? 110 00:07:00,386 --> 00:07:01,353 What? 111 00:07:02,288 --> 00:07:03,949 Where's the ground stash at? 112 00:07:06,225 --> 00:07:07,419 In my pocket. 113 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:11,657 I was gonna put it down, I didn't get a chance. 114 00:07:16,769 --> 00:07:18,862 I got called that you took my son. 115 00:07:19,705 --> 00:07:21,104 I guess you want him back. 116 00:07:21,607 --> 00:07:22,835 Not really. 117 00:07:23,676 --> 00:07:27,271 Agent Cassidy, Line 78. 118 00:07:28,014 --> 00:07:30,244 - Am I going to Hickey? - You're 15? 119 00:07:30,750 --> 00:07:32,047 16 in May. 120 00:07:32,185 --> 00:07:35,518 You're not going to Hickey. If your mother shows up, you'll go home. 121 00:07:36,055 --> 00:07:37,249 Disappointed? 122 00:07:38,825 --> 00:07:40,622 I ain't never been to Hickey. 123 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,924 - I ain't never been locked up. - You keep at it... 124 00:07:45,131 --> 00:07:46,257 you'll get there. 125 00:07:46,365 --> 00:07:48,094 I can jail if I have to. 126 00:07:48,568 --> 00:07:50,229 - Is he McCullough? - Yes. 127 00:07:50,403 --> 00:07:52,928 His mama's at the desk. What was it this time? 128 00:07:53,039 --> 00:07:55,564 Distribution, coke, 16 pieces, man. 129 00:07:55,675 --> 00:07:58,872 - You ain't find no drugs on me. - No, we took the money off you. 130 00:07:58,978 --> 00:08:00,445 The money's on you, you go. 131 00:08:00,546 --> 00:08:02,207 I'm saying, I don't sell drugs. 132 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:04,283 And I'm saying, we watched you. 133 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:05,974 And I'm saying, ouch. 134 00:08:08,254 --> 00:08:10,119 Any of y'all know Bob Brown? 135 00:08:10,456 --> 00:08:11,684 Yeah, what about him? 136 00:08:11,791 --> 00:08:13,782 He be snatching up bodies every day. 137 00:08:13,893 --> 00:08:15,554 You wanna say hi to Bob Brown? 138 00:08:15,661 --> 00:08:17,288 That won't be necessary. 139 00:08:17,597 --> 00:08:19,724 I'll give you some advice, DeAndre. 140 00:08:20,099 --> 00:08:21,589 You want some advice? 141 00:08:22,435 --> 00:08:26,166 - "This is your brain on drugs." - No, wasn't gonna waste my time. 142 00:08:26,939 --> 00:08:30,431 I was gonna tell you, if you're gonna juggle coke on my corner... 143 00:08:31,077 --> 00:08:32,874 you need to cut them dreads. 144 00:08:33,246 --> 00:08:35,373 We made you from three blocks away. 145 00:08:35,748 --> 00:08:37,545 Stand out too much, man. 146 00:08:39,552 --> 00:08:41,247 Yeah, but I look good. 147 00:08:43,890 --> 00:08:45,482 Damn, Boo's dumb as shit. 148 00:08:45,892 --> 00:08:48,190 He got the ground stash right in his pocket. 149 00:08:48,294 --> 00:08:52,697 I wonder what else he's got down his pants. Guns, knives, a hand grenade maybe. 150 00:08:53,499 --> 00:08:57,196 I ain't going to tell you again. This shit is not for you. 151 00:08:57,737 --> 00:08:58,829 Yeah, all right. 152 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:02,603 Think you're a man? You're not. 153 00:09:03,142 --> 00:09:06,202 You're still my child, and this is not for children. 154 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:09,579 - Please, come on. - You see what this shit did to your dad. 155 00:09:09,682 --> 00:09:12,776 You see where I'm at with it. This ain't no fucking joke. 156 00:09:14,420 --> 00:09:17,617 You keep on with it, and I'll put your ass out of my house. 157 00:09:17,723 --> 00:09:19,384 - All right. - I'm serious. 158 00:09:19,725 --> 00:09:21,886 And you're going back to school, too. 159 00:09:24,997 --> 00:09:26,658 How much did they get? 160 00:09:27,099 --> 00:09:28,430 16 pills. 161 00:09:28,868 --> 00:09:31,234 And all the cash I had on me, like $200. 162 00:09:32,071 --> 00:09:33,561 Bugsy gonna be mad. 163 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,907 I'm just glad they ain't get the rest of the G-pack. 164 00:09:38,144 --> 00:09:40,908 - You still got the rest of the package? - Yes. 165 00:09:41,147 --> 00:09:42,910 We had just re-upped. 166 00:09:43,316 --> 00:09:45,750 I'll have to get rid of it all to pay Bugsy back. 167 00:09:45,851 --> 00:09:46,977 That shit's dead. 168 00:09:47,253 --> 00:09:48,584 What do you mean? 169 00:09:48,988 --> 00:09:50,387 I mean that shit's dead. 170 00:09:50,489 --> 00:09:53,515 When you got locked up, the police took your whole stash. 171 00:09:54,894 --> 00:09:56,293 They just took 16. 172 00:09:57,663 --> 00:09:59,927 You're going to put it with the police, okay? 173 00:10:00,032 --> 00:10:02,660 You tell Bugsy the police got your whole pack. 174 00:10:02,802 --> 00:10:06,761 Then you re-vial that shit as something else, and you sell it somewhere else. 175 00:10:07,773 --> 00:10:10,765 Now you see? You're still thinking like a little boy. 176 00:10:11,644 --> 00:10:14,772 But you just told me you'd put me out if I keep slinging. 177 00:10:14,947 --> 00:10:18,144 Now you're telling me to put the rest of Bugsy's stuff out there? 178 00:10:18,250 --> 00:10:19,911 Just give it to me, okay? 179 00:10:20,119 --> 00:10:23,054 I'll take half, and I'll give you the rest. 180 00:10:26,258 --> 00:10:29,284 I'm not saying I want you playing at this, but, damn, Dre. 181 00:10:29,595 --> 00:10:32,530 You want me to let you make a fool of yourself? 182 00:10:32,798 --> 00:10:35,062 You get locked up for some other man's shit... 183 00:10:35,167 --> 00:10:38,364 and the first thing out of your mouth is how to pay him back? 184 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:40,564 That whole package got to be dead. 185 00:10:42,041 --> 00:10:43,633 Now, what about school? 186 00:10:44,610 --> 00:10:45,872 What about it? 187 00:10:50,549 --> 00:10:52,983 Your teachers tell me that you're bright. 188 00:10:53,219 --> 00:10:55,312 That you can actually do the work. 189 00:10:55,688 --> 00:10:58,680 It's more a matter of you choosing to be here... 190 00:10:59,191 --> 00:11:01,557 and not doing stupid things to get suspended. 191 00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:03,060 Is that how you see it? 192 00:11:04,463 --> 00:11:05,760 Yes, Miss Davis. 193 00:11:05,898 --> 00:11:09,459 So I take it that you're here today to actually attend a class. 194 00:11:10,469 --> 00:11:11,436 Yes. 195 00:11:11,771 --> 00:11:14,968 That being the case, I intend to hold on to you. Sit down. 196 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:18,202 You're gonna get your act together? 197 00:11:18,644 --> 00:11:22,080 And you're gonna come to class. If you attend most of your classes... 198 00:11:22,181 --> 00:11:24,877 I will see that you're promoted to the tenth grade. 199 00:11:24,984 --> 00:11:26,542 Is that what you want? 200 00:11:27,787 --> 00:11:29,118 Yes, Miss Davis. 201 00:11:29,288 --> 00:11:32,485 I should see you every day of the semester, not just the first... 202 00:11:32,591 --> 00:11:35,719 and then you're off running the streets with your friends. 203 00:11:36,195 --> 00:11:37,787 No, I'm gonna do right. 204 00:11:40,566 --> 00:11:42,363 I want you to write it down. 205 00:11:52,778 --> 00:11:57,078 Metaphors and similes are creative ways to use language to express your moods. 206 00:11:57,183 --> 00:12:00,710 Rappers use metaphors all the time. We'll look at some examples. 207 00:12:00,820 --> 00:12:04,449 Right now, let's hear some creative ways to complete this metaphor. 208 00:12:04,590 --> 00:12:09,186 "Some people are hammers, but I am a blank." 209 00:12:13,165 --> 00:12:15,133 Wait till you see this backyard. 210 00:12:15,968 --> 00:12:18,960 "Some people are hammers, but I..." 211 00:12:19,205 --> 00:12:20,638 Look at this place. 212 00:12:21,173 --> 00:12:22,401 Hey, come on. 213 00:12:25,878 --> 00:12:29,439 I don't know, Gary, what do folks do out here? 214 00:12:31,016 --> 00:12:33,109 You saying, "Where the party at?" 215 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,810 What you want me to be? 216 00:12:35,921 --> 00:12:39,220 Twirling around the kitchen with an apron, baking cookies and all? 217 00:12:39,358 --> 00:12:40,848 That ain't me, okay? 218 00:12:43,162 --> 00:12:44,527 Ain't none of this me. 219 00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:13,418 What the hell are you watching? 220 00:13:13,926 --> 00:13:15,359 This ain't shit. 221 00:13:16,562 --> 00:13:19,326 Stop watching this shit. Come on. 222 00:13:22,034 --> 00:13:23,626 - You're a punk? - Stop. 223 00:13:24,537 --> 00:13:25,504 Stop it. 224 00:13:28,340 --> 00:13:30,035 You're giving me hiccups. 225 00:13:37,116 --> 00:13:38,708 All right, down there. 226 00:13:39,118 --> 00:13:41,916 Drop your weapons, and walk this way with your hands up! 227 00:13:46,091 --> 00:13:47,319 I don't know. 228 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:51,525 I don't know what you'll do when you got to run the streets. 229 00:13:51,764 --> 00:13:55,325 Can't say you don't want to fight 'cause you got hiccups and shit. 230 00:13:57,269 --> 00:13:59,362 What was it like when they locked you up? 231 00:14:01,874 --> 00:14:03,205 Ain't no big thing. 232 00:14:03,909 --> 00:14:05,376 They used handcuffs? 233 00:14:06,345 --> 00:14:07,937 Yeah, they always do. 234 00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:11,574 Ma says she's gonna put you out. 235 00:14:15,754 --> 00:14:16,721 So? 236 00:14:17,656 --> 00:14:18,987 I carry that, too. 237 00:14:19,825 --> 00:14:22,350 I've been taking care of myself for a long time. 238 00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:48,319 Where are you headed? 239 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:50,651 Boy, you think I'm playing? 240 00:14:52,625 --> 00:14:54,388 I have to whoop his ass. 241 00:14:54,693 --> 00:14:56,593 He's getting too big for that. 242 00:15:01,467 --> 00:15:04,300 To be honest, I don't know how much of a coach I'd be. 243 00:15:04,403 --> 00:15:05,597 You'd be great. 244 00:15:05,704 --> 00:15:09,504 I got heart trouble, endocarditis, been shot and cut a few times. 245 00:15:09,608 --> 00:15:11,769 - I won't do a lot of running. - That's okay. 246 00:15:11,877 --> 00:15:15,677 As long as there's adult supervision, we can use the gym at Francis Woods. 247 00:15:15,781 --> 00:15:18,807 I can do that much. Be down there to keep them out of trouble. 248 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:21,853 Like last time, we're gonna hit 'em up. 249 00:15:21,954 --> 00:15:23,717 What's up? 250 00:15:28,894 --> 00:15:32,557 - Staying out of trouble? - I'm staying out of trouble. 251 00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:36,066 Hey, Dre, here's that little fool I was talking about the other day. 252 00:15:36,936 --> 00:15:39,063 DeAndre, Dinky, everybody. 253 00:15:39,171 --> 00:15:42,231 Everybody settle down, Tae, Boo, R.C. 254 00:15:42,341 --> 00:15:43,638 Hey, everybody. 255 00:15:45,477 --> 00:15:46,967 Settle down. 256 00:15:50,215 --> 00:15:51,944 I want you to meet House. 257 00:15:52,518 --> 00:15:54,008 This is gonna be your coach. 258 00:15:54,119 --> 00:15:55,780 - We got us a coach? - Yeah. 259 00:15:55,921 --> 00:15:57,616 This is the basketball team. 260 00:15:57,723 --> 00:15:59,122 How you brothers doing? 261 00:15:59,224 --> 00:16:01,624 Check me out, Coach. I got skills. 262 00:16:03,429 --> 00:16:05,522 You got skills, you got played. 263 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:07,531 - What? - You heard me. 264 00:16:09,201 --> 00:16:10,896 They just need some discipline. 265 00:16:12,504 --> 00:16:13,664 You're too much. 266 00:16:13,772 --> 00:16:16,240 All right, calm down, please. 267 00:16:16,442 --> 00:16:19,036 Now go on over to the school and have a good practice. 268 00:16:19,411 --> 00:16:22,278 - Hey, stop crying, come on. - I'm out of here. 269 00:16:22,881 --> 00:16:25,042 - See you later, Miss Ella. - All right. 270 00:16:25,884 --> 00:16:27,818 - Talking shit. - What are you talking about? 271 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,412 You're gettin' bumped this time. It's always the same game. 272 00:16:31,523 --> 00:16:34,014 Just know, this time, you can't walk five steps. 273 00:16:34,126 --> 00:16:35,957 You're broke, man. 274 00:16:39,064 --> 00:16:40,964 Death Row putting out a new package. 275 00:16:42,568 --> 00:16:43,933 What, testers? 276 00:16:44,536 --> 00:16:47,266 Them fiends lining up for their free blast. 277 00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:51,906 Come on, pass. 278 00:17:12,765 --> 00:17:14,096 Give me the ball. 279 00:17:19,571 --> 00:17:21,004 Nigger, what you want? 280 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:22,771 Give me the ball. 281 00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:26,375 Give me the ball. 282 00:17:30,983 --> 00:17:33,884 R.C., you gotta pass the ball sometime. You're a damn hog. 283 00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:34,975 Let me have the ball. 284 00:17:35,087 --> 00:17:37,578 - Coach, you see that shot? - Give me the goddamn ball. 285 00:17:37,689 --> 00:17:38,713 What's wrong, Coach? 286 00:17:38,824 --> 00:17:41,588 Man, we gotta start with some basics. 287 00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:45,719 I want you to line up. Give me two lines. We're gonna do a lay-up drill. 288 00:17:45,831 --> 00:17:47,890 - Come on. - Give me two lines. 289 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,366 It's team ball. It's not every man for himself. 290 00:17:50,469 --> 00:17:53,563 You wanna play team ball, line up, we gonna do some basics. 291 00:17:53,672 --> 00:17:55,139 This is basic stuff. 292 00:17:55,274 --> 00:17:57,333 Okay, come on, let's go, man. 293 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:04,307 Come on, next man. 294 00:18:05,350 --> 00:18:07,113 Come strong. 295 00:18:19,798 --> 00:18:21,026 Hey, my man. 296 00:18:24,570 --> 00:18:25,798 Come here, man. 297 00:18:34,379 --> 00:18:35,937 What's your name, man? 298 00:18:36,482 --> 00:18:37,915 They call me Black. 299 00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:40,744 You like to do things your own way? 300 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:44,214 - I guess so. - You need to check yourself. 301 00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:48,324 Could we just play? Can we run the game? 302 00:18:51,763 --> 00:18:53,390 Go ahead, run the game. 303 00:19:00,672 --> 00:19:02,367 - Give me that ball. - Right here. 304 00:19:13,352 --> 00:19:16,844 - What are you doing? - Writing down stuff I want for my birthday. 305 00:19:17,723 --> 00:19:19,156 Making a list. 306 00:19:24,596 --> 00:19:27,588 - We ain't got no cereal? - Where was you at last night? 307 00:19:28,867 --> 00:19:29,891 I went to the movies. 308 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:32,232 Bunchie told me she saw you on Fairmount. 309 00:19:32,337 --> 00:19:34,669 I told you to leave them corners alone. 310 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:38,036 You don't think I'd kick your ass out of my house? 311 00:19:38,143 --> 00:19:39,974 I ain't been slinging. 312 00:19:42,981 --> 00:19:44,676 You must think I'm stupid. 313 00:19:45,684 --> 00:19:47,549 - Do you? - What? 314 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,585 - Think I'm stupid? - No, Ma. 315 00:19:51,123 --> 00:19:53,557 Then what was you doing down on Fairmount? 316 00:19:56,261 --> 00:19:58,786 Boo be selling off everything we got left. 317 00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:00,597 But he keep messing up. 318 00:20:00,699 --> 00:20:04,032 So I went down there to get him straight. That's all. 319 00:20:04,970 --> 00:20:06,699 - Get upstairs. - What? 320 00:20:10,008 --> 00:20:14,069 You don't want him to hear? You think he don't know he live in a drug house? 321 00:20:14,179 --> 00:20:17,205 Be quiet. I'm trying my damndest to stay calm right now. 322 00:20:17,316 --> 00:20:19,614 You don't think he know what you do in the basement? 323 00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:23,176 Let me tell you something. I'm still your mother. You are my child. 324 00:20:23,288 --> 00:20:26,189 As long as you're living here, you're gonna respect my house. 325 00:20:26,291 --> 00:20:28,350 I ain't no child. You can forget that. 326 00:20:28,460 --> 00:20:31,156 You're a man now. You ain't gotta listen to nobody, right? 327 00:20:31,263 --> 00:20:32,594 Not to you. 328 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:38,669 Get! 329 00:21:02,761 --> 00:21:04,558 You wanna play it like that? 330 00:21:06,365 --> 00:21:07,332 All right. 331 00:21:12,704 --> 00:21:15,104 You've never dealt me a decent hand. 332 00:21:16,141 --> 00:21:18,974 - You cheat. - Cheat? 333 00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:21,838 I win, I don't cheat. 334 00:21:22,180 --> 00:21:23,738 Hey, Fran. Hey, Bunchie. 335 00:21:25,183 --> 00:21:27,310 Bunchie, can I get, like, one cigarette? 336 00:21:29,421 --> 00:21:30,683 It's my last. 337 00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:33,817 I put DeAndre out. 338 00:21:36,261 --> 00:21:40,493 I told him if he kept on selling for Bugsy I was gonna put him out, and I did. Okay? 339 00:21:40,999 --> 00:21:44,935 Now he's up there on Monroe, or down on Fairmount, almost every night. 340 00:21:49,107 --> 00:21:50,665 You hear me, Gary? 341 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:54,976 I put your son out. Put his little ass right out. 342 00:21:56,748 --> 00:22:01,276 I'm guessing he's gonna go over to the old place and set up shop, like Superfly himself. 343 00:22:02,888 --> 00:22:06,324 That is till he gets tired of living with no water or electric. 344 00:22:08,727 --> 00:22:11,321 What? You down at your mama's, right? 345 00:22:12,597 --> 00:22:14,656 I stay at the old place sometimes. 346 00:22:15,767 --> 00:22:17,701 You got a roommate, then. 347 00:22:18,537 --> 00:22:21,233 You're a smart man. Charge him rent. 348 00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:24,836 He makes enough money from Bugsy to pay. 349 00:22:28,714 --> 00:22:31,114 Finally, I get a decent hand here. 350 00:22:31,316 --> 00:22:33,284 - Play something. - Yeah, okay. 351 00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:30,740 We can paint this. There's gonna be a nice coat on that. 352 00:23:30,842 --> 00:23:32,366 Gonna look nice. 353 00:23:32,477 --> 00:23:34,843 Come here, DeAndre. Come here, son. 354 00:23:38,550 --> 00:23:39,949 Gary. 355 00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:43,713 The ceilings are so high. 356 00:23:43,822 --> 00:23:45,483 - You like that? - I like it. 357 00:23:52,764 --> 00:23:55,665 Now, how in the hell is one all-alone woman... 358 00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:57,928 gonna fill this thing up with clothes? 359 00:24:04,242 --> 00:24:06,210 This here is Victorian style. 360 00:24:06,812 --> 00:24:09,076 It's, like, very Victorian. 361 00:24:10,582 --> 00:24:13,483 There's money here, baby. This here is money. 362 00:24:14,352 --> 00:24:17,719 Down in the yard space, there's a place to play. 363 00:24:18,089 --> 00:24:19,784 Check this out. Come on. 364 00:24:22,828 --> 00:24:24,921 This spider bag looks light. 365 00:24:35,006 --> 00:24:36,132 What the... 366 00:24:36,708 --> 00:24:38,107 It's all right. 367 00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:42,405 You scared me, creeping like that. 368 00:24:44,149 --> 00:24:46,674 You had the headphones on. 369 00:24:46,818 --> 00:24:48,308 Yeah, I was deep in a vibe. 370 00:24:53,258 --> 00:24:55,123 Ma got mad, put me out. 371 00:24:56,161 --> 00:25:00,097 You cool with it, right? You're always at Grandma's house, anyway. 372 00:25:05,470 --> 00:25:07,734 Come on, let's go. Come on, love. 373 00:25:24,222 --> 00:25:27,487 If you wanna try, you better get on this row. 374 00:25:27,993 --> 00:25:29,517 Death row, last call. 375 00:25:29,628 --> 00:25:32,188 White folk money always on time. 376 00:25:32,297 --> 00:25:34,788 - Most definitely. - What time you got? 377 00:25:35,867 --> 00:25:37,168 - Ten past. - Shop closed then, man. 378 00:25:37,168 --> 00:25:38,226 - Ten past. - Shop closed then, man. 379 00:25:38,403 --> 00:25:41,861 - We still got, like, 20. - Shift changeover, fool. 380 00:25:42,307 --> 00:25:46,004 You got to give them jump-out boys some respect now and then. 381 00:25:46,878 --> 00:25:48,345 What do you mean? 382 00:25:49,047 --> 00:25:52,312 See, you got to keep your mind on things. That's your trouble. 383 00:25:52,484 --> 00:25:55,044 Right now, the police, they done change shifts. 384 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,050 The rollers who've been here from afternoon to midnight... 385 00:25:58,156 --> 00:26:00,386 they've taken the cars back to the district. 386 00:26:00,492 --> 00:26:02,653 The rollers that's getting on at midnight... 387 00:26:02,761 --> 00:26:06,094 they just now hopping in them cars, getting ready to hit the streets. 388 00:26:06,197 --> 00:26:08,893 They gonna be all bright-eyed and shit, all pumped up. 389 00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:13,036 They'll go around the first hour snatching up bodies. How you gonna play that? 390 00:26:23,815 --> 00:26:26,579 How you gonna play it if you know shift change is coming? 391 00:26:29,554 --> 00:26:33,923 Damn, Boo, man. This ain't brain surgery. You just gotta think on it a little. 392 00:26:34,025 --> 00:26:36,619 You stay out when the police is on shift change, Boo. 393 00:26:36,728 --> 00:26:39,788 After they been out for a while, they're all tired and shit. 394 00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:43,459 That's right. You'd best roll out when fresh police come out. 395 00:26:43,668 --> 00:26:45,568 Yeah, that's what I meant. 396 00:26:50,742 --> 00:26:51,902 You see him there? 397 00:26:53,244 --> 00:26:56,509 That nigger with the key chain, he's running the crew. 398 00:26:57,482 --> 00:27:00,610 He ain't never gonna touch a vial. He won't go near that shit. 399 00:27:01,286 --> 00:27:04,346 So the police know what he about. They can't fuck with him. 400 00:27:05,557 --> 00:27:07,218 He has a gun though, right? 401 00:27:07,325 --> 00:27:09,793 If you don't wanna take a charge for holding drugs... 402 00:27:09,894 --> 00:27:12,761 what the fuck you be standing out there with a gun for? 403 00:27:13,698 --> 00:27:15,996 No, man. The gat's over there... 404 00:27:16,334 --> 00:27:17,961 on the back tire of that car. 405 00:27:18,603 --> 00:27:21,697 And that other nigger across the street, he muscle, too. 406 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,206 Why else you think he's holding an aluminum bat at 1:00 in the morning? 407 00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:28,176 Motherfucker ain't Babe Ruth. 408 00:27:29,347 --> 00:27:32,316 - They might wanna lock him up then. - For what, a bat? 409 00:27:32,884 --> 00:27:35,148 Ain't no law against baseball, right? 410 00:27:36,087 --> 00:27:39,284 It might not seem like there's a lot of thought to this shit. 411 00:27:39,391 --> 00:27:41,825 But that's because most motherfuckers don't think. 412 00:27:42,594 --> 00:27:46,121 These boys, Death Row, Diamond in the Raw... 413 00:27:47,432 --> 00:27:50,196 they got most of the fare 'cause they're smart. 414 00:27:50,602 --> 00:27:52,934 Diamond in the Raw been out here forever. 415 00:27:53,038 --> 00:27:55,165 The police ain't have shit to say about it. 416 00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:58,534 We got Fairmount and Gilmor wide open. 417 00:27:59,878 --> 00:28:03,279 That's our corner now. We just got to be cool with it. 418 00:28:04,749 --> 00:28:06,478 You know what I'm saying? 419 00:28:09,220 --> 00:28:11,347 - You hear me, Boo? - Damn! 420 00:28:12,357 --> 00:28:14,985 How they get their pussy to look so pink that way? 421 00:28:36,580 --> 00:28:38,980 - Hey. - Hey, Blue. What you need, man? 422 00:28:39,082 --> 00:28:40,549 Let me get an apple. 423 00:28:44,321 --> 00:28:47,484 - So, what's the bomb today? - Diamond in the raw. 424 00:28:47,657 --> 00:28:49,716 - Oh, yeah? - Without a doubt. 425 00:28:50,460 --> 00:28:53,054 - I see that in your face. - Bet you can. 426 00:28:53,163 --> 00:28:55,324 - Hey, Blue! - Hey, Gary! 427 00:28:56,399 --> 00:28:58,799 - Where you headed? - I got this, you know... 428 00:28:59,102 --> 00:29:01,036 I'm in hell or something. 429 00:29:08,044 --> 00:29:09,409 I haven't. 430 00:29:10,981 --> 00:29:14,473 - That's cool. It's okay. - Well, you know. 431 00:29:15,418 --> 00:29:17,511 I know. Just trust me. 432 00:30:14,210 --> 00:30:15,700 Hey, that hurt. 433 00:30:19,082 --> 00:30:20,379 Be gentle. 434 00:30:23,887 --> 00:30:25,184 Like this? 435 00:30:28,858 --> 00:30:29,825 Okay. 436 00:30:35,598 --> 00:30:37,896 Maybe I should get some boots instead. 437 00:30:39,669 --> 00:30:44,163 Whatever. Yo! You all got the new Jordans? The one with the red stripes? 438 00:30:44,774 --> 00:30:46,264 The Grant Hills? 439 00:30:46,376 --> 00:30:49,106 No, man, I ain't talking about them off-brand shit. 440 00:30:49,312 --> 00:30:52,247 The new Jordans got a red stripe where there was a black one. 441 00:30:52,348 --> 00:30:54,543 - Them shoes is the bomb. - You sure? 442 00:30:55,151 --> 00:30:59,178 They're priced at $139, but I think you'd like to be selling them for less. 443 00:31:00,790 --> 00:31:03,258 We selling any Jordans with a red stripe? 444 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:07,386 Those are new. On order, coming in tomorrow. $139, price them at $125. 445 00:31:08,765 --> 00:31:10,164 You're down with it, son. 446 00:31:12,035 --> 00:31:14,765 Grant Hills? Please, man. 447 00:31:18,174 --> 00:31:19,573 He said, "Grant Hills." 448 00:31:26,750 --> 00:31:28,615 This is what I'm talking about. 449 00:33:56,566 --> 00:33:58,033 What the fuck? 450 00:34:19,289 --> 00:34:21,883 Come on, quit moving, or I'm gonna blow the shot. 451 00:34:30,733 --> 00:34:31,700 Rollers. 452 00:34:34,237 --> 00:34:35,204 Rollers. 453 00:34:39,309 --> 00:34:40,867 DeAndre, my man. 454 00:34:42,045 --> 00:34:43,342 What's up? 455 00:34:46,816 --> 00:34:50,308 - You need to get yourself a new corner. - Man, I'm clean. 456 00:34:55,458 --> 00:34:57,016 Why don't you call it a night? 457 00:34:57,994 --> 00:35:01,293 We roll past here again and see that mop you call a hairdo... 458 00:35:01,764 --> 00:35:03,629 you're gonna take a humble. 459 00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:04,867 Oh, man! 460 00:35:18,815 --> 00:35:20,976 You might have to chill for a little bit. 461 00:35:26,456 --> 00:35:27,718 I need a break. 462 00:35:33,429 --> 00:35:35,624 How come you're always in my stuff? 463 00:35:52,181 --> 00:35:53,739 You coming back? 464 00:35:54,484 --> 00:35:55,644 Can I? 465 00:35:57,854 --> 00:35:59,754 You gonna keep up with school? 466 00:36:01,624 --> 00:36:02,648 Yeah. 467 00:36:06,429 --> 00:36:09,193 You gonna be bringing none of that shit in my house. 468 00:36:09,298 --> 00:36:11,027 I ain't slinging no more. 469 00:36:11,634 --> 00:36:14,398 I told Bugsy I need to be doing better things. 470 00:36:17,940 --> 00:36:19,407 Got anything left? 471 00:36:20,076 --> 00:36:21,543 A few dollars. 472 00:36:22,345 --> 00:36:23,573 No vials. 473 00:36:24,814 --> 00:36:27,908 I think my father been robbing me blind back at the old house. 474 00:36:34,524 --> 00:36:36,754 I'm gonna do good, Ma. You gonna see. 475 00:36:45,134 --> 00:36:47,261 You need to stay the hell away from it. 476 00:36:56,612 --> 00:37:00,742 As you all know, Robert was to represent the class in the public oratory contest... 477 00:37:00,850 --> 00:37:04,217 but with him out sick, we'll need someone else to step forward. 478 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,220 So, volunteers? 479 00:37:09,725 --> 00:37:12,159 Anyone at all. I'll be giving extra credit. 480 00:37:15,498 --> 00:37:18,729 I wouldn't expect you to memorize the speech on such short notice... 481 00:37:18,835 --> 00:37:21,531 so would anyone like to at least try reading it? 482 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:25,468 Yes, DeAndre. 483 00:37:26,976 --> 00:37:28,568 I'm volunteering... 484 00:37:31,914 --> 00:37:33,347 to give that speech. 485 00:37:34,484 --> 00:37:36,782 "And when we allow freedom to ring... 486 00:37:37,553 --> 00:37:40,852 "when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet... 487 00:37:41,057 --> 00:37:43,082 "from every state and every city... 488 00:37:43,192 --> 00:37:46,286 "we'll be able to speed up that day when all of God's children... 489 00:37:46,395 --> 00:37:49,125 "black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles... 490 00:37:49,332 --> 00:37:51,232 "Protestants and Catholics... 491 00:37:51,367 --> 00:37:55,736 "will be able to join hands and sing, in the words of that old Negro spiritual: 492 00:37:56,506 --> 00:37:58,736 "'Free at last, free at last. 493 00:37:59,408 --> 00:38:02,536 "'Thank God Almighty, we're free at last."' 494 00:38:09,952 --> 00:38:13,718 See him with the bald spots? That's how you can tell he's a thalidomide baby. 495 00:38:13,823 --> 00:38:15,256 They don't grow no hair. 496 00:38:15,725 --> 00:38:18,193 They don't grow... Hey! 497 00:38:18,995 --> 00:38:20,326 What you up to? 498 00:38:20,997 --> 00:38:23,363 - Going to see about a job. - A job? 499 00:38:24,333 --> 00:38:27,302 - Where? - Crab House, where Uncle Cardy work at. 500 00:38:27,737 --> 00:38:29,898 - He gonna hook me up. - Bay Island? 501 00:38:31,407 --> 00:38:33,341 Let me know how it goes. 502 00:38:36,746 --> 00:38:38,941 You know you can't eat none of them crabs? 503 00:38:39,048 --> 00:38:41,710 - Yeah, I know. I got an allergy. - That's right. 504 00:38:46,789 --> 00:38:49,815 - My baby gonna see about a job. - Yeah, I heard. 505 00:38:53,863 --> 00:38:57,299 First, you're gonna scrub out these steamers using steel wool. 506 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,961 Then you're gonna put the crabs into the steamer, okay? 507 00:39:02,505 --> 00:39:05,702 Don't worry. We'll give you thick gloves so they don't pinch you. 508 00:39:09,712 --> 00:39:14,149 And when that's done, you're gonna come up here and empty this out. 509 00:39:15,551 --> 00:39:17,644 Ricardo says you're Gary's son. 510 00:39:17,820 --> 00:39:19,185 Yes, ma'am. 511 00:39:19,589 --> 00:39:24,117 I remember when Gary first worked here. He was about the age you are. How is he? 512 00:39:25,361 --> 00:39:27,829 - Fine. - So when can you start? 513 00:39:31,167 --> 00:39:32,566 I know you're not serious. 514 00:39:33,936 --> 00:39:36,404 How will he learn about money if we don't show him? 515 00:39:36,505 --> 00:39:40,373 He don't need that kind of money. He don't know what to do with a dollar yet. 516 00:39:40,910 --> 00:39:42,241 I can afford it. 517 00:39:47,450 --> 00:39:49,714 This money comes from working, Andre. 518 00:39:49,986 --> 00:39:52,682 This money comes from your daddy working hard every day. 519 00:39:53,522 --> 00:39:55,456 You know? Give me a hug. 520 00:40:00,896 --> 00:40:02,591 Thanks for sharing, Gary. 521 00:40:02,698 --> 00:40:04,598 When I have it, I give it. 522 00:40:05,701 --> 00:40:08,192 And there go your problem, right there. 523 00:40:12,708 --> 00:40:14,369 You still got our stuff? 524 00:40:16,178 --> 00:40:19,045 I'm surprised you ain't taken it to a second-hand store. 525 00:40:19,148 --> 00:40:22,811 Hopefully one day I'm gonna use it. Don't wanna stay here forever. 526 00:40:22,918 --> 00:40:25,546 I remember when we bought this here dining room set. 527 00:40:26,589 --> 00:40:30,047 - Whatever it was, you know I'd pay cash. - I know, baby. 528 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:32,987 We had it, didn't we? 529 00:40:34,563 --> 00:40:36,030 It don't make sense. 530 00:40:36,532 --> 00:40:39,126 The way they were all so glad to see us fall. 531 00:40:39,568 --> 00:40:41,593 My whole damn family was glad. 532 00:40:44,473 --> 00:40:47,533 - Look where we're at with this shit, Gary. - I know. 533 00:40:50,946 --> 00:40:54,939 And DeAndre, off the corners, looking for a job and going to school. 534 00:40:55,051 --> 00:40:57,519 - Looking for a job? - Yeah, down at Bay Island. 535 00:40:57,653 --> 00:41:00,850 And, Gary, he's gonna give a speech at school. 536 00:41:01,190 --> 00:41:02,487 - Seriously? - Seriously. 537 00:41:02,591 --> 00:41:04,491 - When? - He gonna let me know. 538 00:41:04,727 --> 00:41:07,890 You know, all I'm saying is, with DeAndre out there trying... 539 00:41:07,997 --> 00:41:09,487 we've got to try. 540 00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:11,666 Only if I can... 541 00:41:12,635 --> 00:41:14,762 I can find some kinda work, you know. 542 00:41:15,271 --> 00:41:17,364 Maybe we can even find a place. 543 00:41:18,007 --> 00:41:19,565 Be a family again, baby. 544 00:41:23,546 --> 00:41:25,343 I might go over to BRC. 545 00:41:25,848 --> 00:41:28,248 They got this 28-day program over there. 546 00:41:29,485 --> 00:41:30,850 I'll go detox myself. 547 00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:33,645 You'll see, I'll get it right. 548 00:41:38,861 --> 00:41:41,659 You need some time to yourself here? 549 00:41:42,765 --> 00:41:43,732 Yeah. 550 00:42:06,856 --> 00:42:09,791 - Where'd you say that happened? - Down on Baltimore Street. 551 00:42:09,892 --> 00:42:13,487 Them terrorist boys running wild down there. Niggers banked me last week. 552 00:42:13,596 --> 00:42:16,087 A bullet went right by my ear and shit. 553 00:42:16,298 --> 00:42:18,357 Yo, we need to send a message. 554 00:42:19,034 --> 00:42:20,558 Go down there deep. 555 00:42:20,970 --> 00:42:23,404 - You see who it was, R. C? - I don't know. 556 00:42:23,672 --> 00:42:25,902 Fuck them project niggers. They ain't all that. 557 00:42:26,008 --> 00:42:29,842 You're not hearing me, man. I'm saying we should go strong. 558 00:42:32,314 --> 00:42:34,544 Last box, no snatch backs. 559 00:42:34,950 --> 00:42:36,611 R.C., shit! 560 00:42:42,625 --> 00:42:43,683 Fuck you, man. 561 00:42:43,793 --> 00:42:46,455 - What, nigger? Stop crying. - Your first time? 562 00:42:49,231 --> 00:42:51,199 I need more number tens. 563 00:42:58,340 --> 00:42:59,534 You all right? 564 00:42:59,942 --> 00:43:02,433 - I don't feel too good. - What's wrong, man? 565 00:43:02,845 --> 00:43:05,075 You didn't eat no crab meat, did you? 566 00:43:05,347 --> 00:43:08,214 I must be breathing it in, though. Something ain't right. 567 00:43:08,317 --> 00:43:11,309 - Let me get these tubes. - No, man, I got it. 568 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,012 - Ricardo, what's going on back here? - It's my nephew, Miss Mary. 569 00:43:15,658 --> 00:43:17,888 - I got an allergy. - Shellfish allergy. 570 00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:21,229 I thought it would only be a problem if he ate some... 571 00:43:21,330 --> 00:43:23,764 but I think it must be the smell that's doing it. 572 00:43:23,866 --> 00:43:26,198 Especially when I'm cleaning them pots. 573 00:43:26,469 --> 00:43:29,029 Just for today, how about you sweep up? 574 00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:32,132 - Sweep up? - That'll work, Miss Mary. 575 00:43:32,241 --> 00:43:34,300 I don't think he's allergic to brooms. 576 00:43:38,247 --> 00:43:40,511 So now I gotta push around a broom? 577 00:43:41,317 --> 00:43:42,409 Be thankful. 578 00:44:11,881 --> 00:44:15,009 - Can I help you? - Yeah, can I speak to Antoinette? 579 00:44:15,117 --> 00:44:17,642 - You got an appointment? - I just need to talk to her. 580 00:44:17,753 --> 00:44:21,416 - I'm Antoinette. Can I help you? - Yeah, I'm Fran Boyd, Vanessa's friend. 581 00:44:21,524 --> 00:44:25,016 - Right. You work with Vanessa at the... - The phone company. 582 00:44:25,127 --> 00:44:28,790 - Did you make an appointment? - No, I just need to talk to you, okay? 583 00:44:28,964 --> 00:44:31,262 I've got a minute till my appointments come in. 584 00:44:31,367 --> 00:44:34,165 I hear it's, like, an 8-week wait to get into rehab... 585 00:44:34,270 --> 00:44:36,704 and I was wondering if I can get in here sooner. 586 00:44:36,805 --> 00:44:39,797 - Do you have any medical insurance? - State assistance. 587 00:44:39,909 --> 00:44:44,346 State bids are scarce. It's usually six or eight weeks before those come in. 588 00:44:44,446 --> 00:44:46,243 I can put you on a waiting list. 589 00:44:46,348 --> 00:44:50,648 Then it's a matter of you calling here every Tuesday, to check your status on the list. 590 00:44:50,753 --> 00:44:51,879 Every Tuesday? 591 00:44:51,987 --> 00:44:55,184 That lets the staff know you're serious about the program. 592 00:44:56,892 --> 00:44:59,156 Do you want me to put you on the list? 593 00:45:13,142 --> 00:45:16,270 Diamond in the Raw are putting out some more testers tomorrow. 594 00:45:16,378 --> 00:45:19,142 Diamond is slinging like I don't know what. 595 00:45:19,248 --> 00:45:22,376 We need to get back out here on the corner with something. 596 00:45:23,953 --> 00:45:26,080 - Too slow, nigger. - Quit playing, fool. 597 00:45:26,188 --> 00:45:27,314 I'm sorry. 598 00:45:30,826 --> 00:45:32,623 Yo, Tae, there go that dude. 599 00:45:34,263 --> 00:45:35,230 Who? 600 00:45:35,564 --> 00:45:36,895 Ain't that him, Tae? 601 00:45:36,999 --> 00:45:38,432 - I think. - Who that? 602 00:45:39,101 --> 00:45:42,195 Dude who robbed me last week over by Lexington Terrace. 603 00:45:42,371 --> 00:45:43,804 Yeah, that is him. 604 00:45:44,607 --> 00:45:47,041 Yeah, well, he be in the wrong place now. 605 00:45:50,179 --> 00:45:51,305 Take him down. 606 00:45:54,984 --> 00:45:56,679 R.C., don't stop, man. 607 00:45:56,819 --> 00:45:58,377 Oh, shit. 608 00:45:59,054 --> 00:46:00,214 Damn, R.C. 609 00:46:00,456 --> 00:46:02,617 You see that nigger with them boots on? 610 00:46:02,725 --> 00:46:05,489 I ain't never seen a nigger run so fast in no damn boots. 611 00:46:05,594 --> 00:46:08,563 - Damn, R.C., you got blown away, kid. - I got close. 612 00:46:09,732 --> 00:46:11,222 All right, nigger. 613 00:46:11,333 --> 00:46:14,496 But you fuck with one of us, you're fucking with all of us. 614 00:46:15,304 --> 00:46:16,737 Good running, man. 615 00:46:20,542 --> 00:46:23,033 I gotta get back up with Bugsy, man. 616 00:46:23,312 --> 00:46:25,542 - You'd like to get back into this? - Yeah. 617 00:46:25,648 --> 00:46:27,582 Thought you was working at the Crab House. 618 00:46:27,683 --> 00:46:31,210 Fuck that! Sweeping up crab shit for $4.10 an hour, man. 619 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,185 - You down? - I'm down. 620 00:46:35,124 --> 00:46:37,422 - You all with it? - CMB, motherfuckers? 621 00:46:37,526 --> 00:46:39,357 CMB! 622 00:47:03,886 --> 00:47:04,944 Shit! 623 00:47:07,289 --> 00:47:08,847 Where's my stuff? 624 00:47:09,992 --> 00:47:12,790 - Where's my stuff? - I thought you'd leave them corners be. 625 00:47:12,895 --> 00:47:16,456 - Where it at? - You be joking, bringing that shit here. 626 00:47:16,565 --> 00:47:19,398 - Suppose DeRodd would have found it. - I ain't playing. 627 00:47:20,335 --> 00:47:23,702 What you bring in my house, under my roof... 628 00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:25,467 is mine. 629 00:47:27,042 --> 00:47:28,202 Where it at? 630 00:47:28,811 --> 00:47:29,800 Gone. 631 00:47:30,345 --> 00:47:31,437 And the.38? 632 00:47:32,915 --> 00:47:34,246 That, too. 633 00:47:36,418 --> 00:47:39,080 - You think that's funny? - Check yourself. 634 00:47:41,056 --> 00:47:43,752 - You gonna have to pay. - Are you threatening me? 635 00:47:45,661 --> 00:47:48,391 - That shit belongs to Bugsy. - So what are you saying? 636 00:47:48,497 --> 00:47:51,523 You gonna tell him? You little shit. I'll tell him. 637 00:47:52,067 --> 00:47:54,831 I'll tell him about using a minor to sell drugs. 638 00:47:54,937 --> 00:47:57,462 I'll tell him about sending his ass to jail. 639 00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,933 Yeah. Okay. 640 00:48:00,709 --> 00:48:02,506 Don't you walk away from me. 641 00:48:03,479 --> 00:48:06,846 I thought you was supposed to be getting into a detox program. 642 00:48:07,449 --> 00:48:10,043 It takes eight weeks for one of them beds to open up. 643 00:48:10,152 --> 00:48:11,141 So? 644 00:48:12,855 --> 00:48:16,450 So that don't have a goddamn thing to do with you bringing a gun in here... 645 00:48:16,558 --> 00:48:19,083 where your little brother could have got it. 646 00:48:20,629 --> 00:48:23,689 And you. You who was doing so good. 647 00:48:25,567 --> 00:48:28,263 Why don't you think about doing good sometimes? 648 00:48:28,570 --> 00:48:31,130 Maybe if you detox, you could get back with my father... 649 00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:33,174 and everything could be like it was. 650 00:48:33,275 --> 00:48:35,368 Okay, so you just done lost your mind... 651 00:48:35,477 --> 00:48:38,503 because your daddy's just as much a dope fiend as I am. 652 00:48:38,614 --> 00:48:41,845 He'd still be on top right now if you hadn't drug him down. 653 00:48:42,518 --> 00:48:43,610 You know what? 654 00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,120 Gary McCullough is a grown man. 655 00:48:47,456 --> 00:48:51,051 And he made the choice to be out there doing what he's doing. 656 00:48:52,361 --> 00:48:53,988 You brought him down. 657 00:48:54,963 --> 00:48:56,863 Okay, that's it. Get out of here. 658 00:48:58,367 --> 00:49:00,164 Go. Out of here. Now. 659 00:49:08,043 --> 00:49:10,409 Bunchie, bring me a Newport. 660 00:49:16,752 --> 00:49:18,743 - You Fran? - Who are you? 661 00:49:21,190 --> 00:49:22,953 Black said you took my stuff. 662 00:49:23,759 --> 00:49:25,818 Shouldn't have brought it in my house. 663 00:49:25,928 --> 00:49:28,362 That's between you all. I want what's mine. 664 00:49:28,730 --> 00:49:32,257 65 vials, $200 in cash, and the.38. 665 00:49:42,010 --> 00:49:45,969 I can get the.38 back, but I ain't got the money or the stuff, all right? 666 00:49:46,215 --> 00:49:49,582 If you're planning on hurting DeAndre, I could pay you back. 667 00:49:49,718 --> 00:49:52,312 It's just gonna take me a little bit of time. 668 00:49:53,288 --> 00:49:54,312 All right? 669 00:49:56,258 --> 00:49:57,486 You get me the gun. 670 00:49:57,593 --> 00:49:59,993 He'll pay me back the money on the next go-around. 671 00:50:00,095 --> 00:50:01,790 You ain't gonna hurt him, right? 672 00:50:03,866 --> 00:50:05,857 He gonna give me my money back. 673 00:50:06,969 --> 00:50:11,133 But you all need to work it out so this type of thing don't happen again. 674 00:50:21,350 --> 00:50:22,442 Who's that? 675 00:50:23,285 --> 00:50:25,253 - Bugsy. - What did he want? 676 00:50:26,889 --> 00:50:28,288 What would he want? 677 00:50:29,825 --> 00:50:30,792 Damn. 678 00:50:31,526 --> 00:50:34,620 I can't believe DeAndre went and put his connect on you. 679 00:50:35,731 --> 00:50:38,199 Anyway, you got something to kick in for the rent? 680 00:50:58,820 --> 00:51:00,515 You got any money at all? 681 00:51:02,391 --> 00:51:04,154 I ain't talking about that. 682 00:51:04,726 --> 00:51:05,693 Not that. 683 00:51:08,163 --> 00:51:12,190 After paying Bugsy back, I'm busted out. You've seen to that. 684 00:51:12,301 --> 00:51:13,268 Damn. 685 00:51:13,468 --> 00:51:17,632 I didn't get him nothing on his birthday this year, and I got nothing to shop with. 686 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,031 - He's waited long enough. - I know. 687 00:51:20,142 --> 00:51:23,134 - Damn. - I thought some shit might've come through. 688 00:51:26,114 --> 00:51:27,081 Look... 689 00:51:27,549 --> 00:51:31,713 I'm going out to Mercer's at the Plaza before the stores close, to see what I can scoop. 690 00:51:32,554 --> 00:51:34,283 Ain't you balled out there? 691 00:51:35,424 --> 00:51:39,952 I been balled out of every mall in three counties. That don't stop the show. 692 00:51:41,930 --> 00:51:43,454 I'll see you later. 693 00:52:42,391 --> 00:52:44,552 Ma'am, stop right there! 694 00:52:45,227 --> 00:52:47,855 Give me security. I have a black female. She's around... 695 00:53:31,406 --> 00:53:33,636 Thought you might have had a little trouble. 696 00:53:45,287 --> 00:53:47,414 So you're back to steady slinging? 697 00:53:48,490 --> 00:53:49,457 No. 698 00:53:50,358 --> 00:53:53,452 Boo owed me a little something from the last go-around. 699 00:53:58,033 --> 00:53:59,625 You ain't gonna re-up? 700 00:54:02,571 --> 00:54:04,903 No, not no more. 701 00:54:33,201 --> 00:54:35,999 How long have you been here at the rec center, Ms. Thompson? 702 00:54:36,104 --> 00:54:39,164 Four years. A little more than that, actually. 703 00:54:39,541 --> 00:54:42,806 - So you came here after your daughter... - That's right. 704 00:54:43,678 --> 00:54:48,012 I decided, after that, the thing to do was work with the neighborhood children. 705 00:54:48,116 --> 00:54:50,414 So I just came down and volunteered. 706 00:54:51,153 --> 00:54:53,815 - And before that you were... - A mother. 707 00:54:54,389 --> 00:54:57,324 I raised five children, and they're all doing good. 708 00:54:58,827 --> 00:55:01,125 You raised your children... 709 00:55:01,229 --> 00:55:03,857 before the neighborhood became as bad as it did. 710 00:55:03,965 --> 00:55:05,592 Oh, it's not so bad. 711 00:55:05,734 --> 00:55:08,328 I mean, it's bad, but it can get better. 712 00:55:08,436 --> 00:55:11,769 That's what I tell my son, Keatie, when he tells me he wants to move. 713 00:55:11,873 --> 00:55:14,865 I tell him it will only get worse if everyone just gives up. 714 00:55:14,976 --> 00:55:19,675 So you see the rec center as some sort of focal point for the neighborhood? 715 00:55:21,283 --> 00:55:23,717 I open those doors every day at 3:00. 716 00:55:23,818 --> 00:55:26,446 When they're little, I get them for three hours a day. 717 00:55:26,555 --> 00:55:28,989 That's a good, safe place for them to be. 718 00:55:29,791 --> 00:55:33,420 What kind of a difference do you think it makes... 719 00:55:33,528 --> 00:55:37,828 for the older ones, like DeAndre McCullough? 720 00:55:39,067 --> 00:55:41,968 Well, I'm hoping to get a basketball team together. 721 00:55:42,270 --> 00:55:44,898 That might occupy their time and attention. 722 00:55:45,006 --> 00:55:47,804 And keep them away from the corners, you think? 723 00:55:48,944 --> 00:55:52,345 Because you're not naive, Ms. Thompson. 724 00:55:53,248 --> 00:55:56,240 You live on Fayette Street, and you know... 725 00:55:56,785 --> 00:55:59,811 that DeAndre and his crew are selling drugs. 726 00:56:00,689 --> 00:56:03,317 People label these children and write them off. 727 00:56:03,425 --> 00:56:05,916 But I see sides of them that you don't see. 728 00:56:07,596 --> 00:56:09,427 I know the corners are a reality... 729 00:56:09,531 --> 00:56:12,193 especially when they get to be around DeAndre's age. 730 00:56:12,300 --> 00:56:16,202 But I also know, from seeing them every day, in my heart... 731 00:56:16,938 --> 00:56:20,465 that DeAndre, and Dinky, Tae and R. C... 732 00:56:20,575 --> 00:56:22,839 have it in them to do good things. 733 00:56:25,180 --> 00:56:26,841 Are you ever frightened? 734 00:56:27,315 --> 00:56:28,282 I mean... 735 00:56:29,584 --> 00:56:32,075 - after what happened to your daughter? - No. 736 00:56:34,389 --> 00:56:35,356 Why not? 737 00:56:36,658 --> 00:56:37,818 I live here. 738 00:56:40,662 --> 00:56:42,254 This is where I live.