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Previously on Raising Kanan.

Deal with these guys. The guys you steal stuff with? One of us makes the call, we

all gotta answer.

It's hard enough.

You wanna be a singer?

You're gonna sing.

Has Lou told you that my little brother Famous is a rapper?

It ain't come up.

Hey, yo! Who are you? What are you doing?

Uh, my bad. It's, uh, Canem, right?

Reinforced door.

Security canvas.

Take it or leave it. I take it.

I got something for you.

Nick's real.

What a man I'm cut. Do your fucking jobs, taxi.

These people always circle the block four times before they get here.

Only one king can rule the kingdom, Nick. One king, one

code, one crew.

I'm a hustler, baby.

I'm a hustler, baby. I know heartbreaks set back.

Bitch, if I crap out, I'm sure I'ma get back. I've been through the ups and

downs. You know I get around, so do me. It's all a part of the game. I ain't the

code man or the dope man. I'm almost the show man. I gotta take it. I don't need

to say shit. I'm gonna take it. Robbery, crime, homicide, it's nothing to play

with.

Make money, make, make.

Make money. When shit hit, the fam will take money.

Southside. Be with the best of them. Done shot at the rest of them. Yeah.

Checks, I'm collecting them. Check, boy, I'm finessing them. Big bags of bread.

While you fuck around, put a big bag on your head for the weather break today.

Let's get through it. Don't do it like we do it all. Cop it with big bag. It's

flippin'. We up, we up.

Beat up, what up?

Running around this bitch still not giving a fuck. When it come to that

paper, there'll be no complications.

Ha ha, that's right.

Put a hole in the nigga right in front of you, your heartbeat pacing. And it's

over.

That's how we do it on this side. Niggas get to it on this side. I know

heartbreaks, setbacks. Bitch, if I trap out, I'm sure I'm gonna get back. I've

been through the ups and downs. You know I get around. So to me, it's all a part

of the game. If I ain't the code man, or the dope man, I'm almost a shell man.

I gotta tank it. No need to say shit.

You see that bitch-ass nigga running?

That's Trash G.

He and Nick grew up on the same floor.

Played Little League together.

Pop wanted to got their dicks up for the first time on the same night at the same

party They won this To the grave niggas but

none of that adds up to shit in the game How

do you do please fucking remind me man when

this nigga here so you can hear what I'm saying

You was getting high on my time, T.

While you was watching my shit!

That ain't me.

You know that ain't me.

You right.

That ain't you, B.

It's the fucking crackhead that you turned into, man.

Get you, man. I'm gonna fucking recognize you, man.

One time.

I don't think this nigga get it.

You

know,

I kind of blame myself that I brought you into this.

I saw this coming.

I closed my eyes to it.

You know why?

Because you my fucking heart, man.

Fucking hot.

I love you too, my Nick.

I love you too.

All that history between them?

Traz never thought Nick would turn on him.

Counted on that.

Bet on that.

Slept on that.

And you know what they say.

Sleep is the cousin of death.

You're always talking about some cold food when I'm late.

Oh, but you do it, and then... You

already ate.

No, we're ready for dinner.

In fact, I was just telling your mom I'm starving.

Let's do this.

For real, I'm hungry as hell, baby.

Spaghetti and meatballs.

Classic. You can't go wrong with that.

Oh, let me set the...

Table. And, uh, let's get to eating.

I can keep it simple.

Thanks, baby.

Presentation's dope.

Kanan.

I appreciate you making room at the table for me, Kanan.

I know you weren't expecting me.

Do you hear what Symphony said to you?

Yeah, you're right.

I wasn't expecting it.

The sauce is bananas.

It got a little kick to it.

I mean, I'd pay for this.

Where'd you learn to cook, Ken?

Mom's.

He needs to know how to fend for himself.

Make some meals, do the dishes.

Still working on getting him to do his own laundry, though.

Well, Kana got this part still unlocked.

Tonight's usually when Kana makes dinner for me.

I forgot.

It was my fault.

I didn't know when I took her out.

My bad.

Now that I know, it won't happen again.

She know.

Man,

I'm never gonna get tired of watching this.

You're gonna be like the big singer.

You know, like fucking world famous.

I'm serious.

You know, I think I need to kick your ass, knock some sense into you.

Okay.

Now you just talk crazy.

You think you're stronger than me?

You underestimate this white girl from the Upper East Side. I let you win.

Now why would you do that?

It sounds like the ceiling's about to cave in.

Dancing. We're dancing.

Okay, well, you might want to tone it down for the neighbors, Martha Graham.

Oh, my God.

You two are on television.

Yeah, it's a tape. We made it at the mall.

This is fantastic.

Laverne, you are fantastic.

What a voice.

That's what I keep telling her.

Wow, look at you two.

All right, this is better than any shit they play on the radio.

How about you watch your mouth around our guest?

Well, I'm sure she's heard worse. Am I right, Laverne?

No doubt.

No doubt. Well, that doesn't mean she needs to hear it in this home. Come on,

let's just go set the table for dinner. Very fly.

Daddy says I'm fly.

Super fly, apparently.

So weird.

Your parents are cool.

Yeah, about some things.

Not everything.

Yeah. Oh,

shit.

Oh, fuck.

Oh, my God.

Oh,

shit.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, I know. I'm sick.

I don't do that shit.

Don't you just sell it?

Oh, my God.

Come here.

What the fuck are you doing?

Cuddling.

I thought you said you dated brothers there.

Ain't no brothers I know, cuddle.

I've dated plenty of black guys who like to cuddle Marvin.

Well, we're having all these cuddlin' ass niggas.

Cause you here with me.

Shit.

Wait, are you for real?

You're seriously gonna leave because I wanted to get close to you?

Yo, we different, Tony.

Okay?

Black, white, bitch, nigga.

I'm from the hood, you from...

Wherever the fuck you from, that ain't the hood.

So, by your logic, you'd be willing to cuddle a black guy from South Jamaica?

Yo, I know you didn't just call me a faggot.

Yo, LT ain't got no food.

I ran out yesterday.

Dog hadn't eaten since yesterday.

But I bet you ate, right?

Look, Marvin, I like you, okay? I don't want us to end like this. End?

Us?

Shit ain't in the tone.

Shit ain't even started. How the fuck is going in?

LT, roll in with me.

You don't want to be hungry no more.

LT was a gift. You gave him to me. I also gave you this dick.

Want me to leave that behind, too?

LT!

You can't just take him.

Come on.

All right. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Yeah.

Word.

Nigga being nervous.

Say you want to press pause or let me re-up until the police show their hand.

Say it's too hot right now.

We dying now, Henny.

Not enough work to get us through the week.

If the Kinect gets us, we dead. That cop played the fuck out of us.

Killed us. Trust something on that class dick is what killed us. Pee-wee took us

off the fucking ball, man.

Say it about no Howard.

I never trusted that cop.

I never tell that pig shit.

Don't trust nobody.

Let's be motherfucking clear, man.

Any one of y'all can end up like trash.

Everyone here is suspect.

Load them corners up. Step hard on what we got, man.

Listen, nigga.

Ain't no crackhead gonna fuck with us later if we put in our whack-ass rock

now. That's why we gonna put them on us orange caps, P.

New batch.

When we all the way up again, we gonna roll out them tornado testers.

Pink caps.

Put niggas on they backs and shit, all right?

But for now, stomp on that shit, man.

It's already stressful. Shut your s'more there, nigga!

Rocks stink all over this shit. Small ass man.

He going in back, though.

I just got to figure out if it's going to be to the body or to the head.

Look, I'm sorry about dinner.

But I'm done asking my 15 year old son to forgive me for spending time with a

dude that I like.

I heard you ask for forgiveness.

And you ain't gonna hear it.

That's what I'm telling you. That's what you need to make peace with.

Dr. West called.

Said your grades still slipping that you haven't even turned in some term paper

that you over history.

I had a lot of my mom Then let me clear your mind for you.

I told you that if you didn't get your books, right things were gonna change

You're done with the stash house. You're moving on Why I'm ready

to move up. Thank you.

Well, you think you getting a promotion up in here?

Hell, no, I signed you up for an after-school class I'm doing the paper.

I'd have it in this little too late

I found you a class at City College. It meets two days a week after school and

every other Saturday.

Saturday? Ain't no school on Saturday. Today is for you. I just said I'll do

the paper. And I just said that it's too late for that.

You need to worry less about who I'm kicking it with, Kanan, and a hell of a

lot more about your schoolwork.

Yo. Okay.

Not bad.

The flow is nice.

I think lyrically you just made me a little help.

Um, that last line worked.

The streets need a body.

The rest was a little corny to me.

I don't think nobody buying your high school last shooting affair.

You know, heads need the truth.

That street shit.

That dope boy realness.

Now, your audience is gonna smell your bullshit from a mile away.

You got this.

It's right here. Find it.

Find it.

Take your time.

Famous can do whatever you want him to do.

You think?

Yeah. Did I tell you that he was on the radio?

Yeah, when he was nine, because he wrote a poem about littering that was the best

in the whole city?

Yeah, you told me.

And they started calling him famous right then because they knew that he was

gonna be somebody.

Well, he's a nobody right now.

And I don't think niggas is bumping poems about litter out there, Alpine.

Look, I got a showcase coming up.

It's an opportunity for a select few artists just to get in the room and

perform for some industry heads.

Mm-hmm.

Fan a sign with me?

And let's just assume that we can get the track in the right place.

I feel like putting them in that room full of trendsetters and tastemakers,

you know, see what they think.

But you know that's gonna mean we have to work together real close.

Whatever it takes.

All right.

Let's do it.

If you're excited, I'm excited. Let's do this.

Let's go.

Hey, baby.

What's good?

Yeah. What

are

you doing here?

Business, Lou.

I'm doing business.

That's what you call business now?

Okay, you know how your big sister put you on?

Well, I'm doing the same for famous.

What happened to all that shit you was feeding me about me doing this music

thing? Having my own shit? Yeah, I said you should do it. I didn't say that I'd

wait for you to do it.

I'm on a different clock than you, Lou.

So is my little brother. What are you, on crown time?

I'm on my time.

I meant what I said, okay?

Lou, you...

You could do whatever you want.

But I can't do it for you. You need to do it for yourself.

I gotta get back in there.

14 gauge, double reinforced still.

Got locks and dead bolts up and down and shit.

Nobody gets in here unless I say so. Got me? Mm-hmm.

It's my guys.

Alright, calm down, calm down, yo.

Yo, he good. He's got a shitty attitude, that's all.

Nigga need training.

Just like his owner.

Yo, man, kiss my ass, look.

Marvin's gonna oversee the movement and storage of our product in cash.

This is gonna be the new stash. More secure, more secret, more private.

I want you to move everything today.

Well, how much more drugs and money?

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it? I have to know.

We tell you what you need to know, gang.

I demand to know how much you bring. This is my place of business. This is my

place of business now, Papi.

And don't ever tell me what the fuck to do again. I don't answer to you.

I'm not gonna see you tonight.

Stay out of the fucking way.

I'd rather go to some after-school shit than have to come home and babysit every

day.

So who watches it while you're at school?

Been paying the neighbor, but he's starting to call the crib.

Yo, is your mom still talking to that same guy?

Davina, how about this fool bum-rush my dinner the other night?

I cook for me and my mom, A Tuesday.

And this motherfucker just pulls up a check?

It's nice that you all eat together.

Your moms like to.

Don't you want your mom to be happy?

Look, on the real, I wish my mom gave enough of a fuck about me to send me to

some after-school class.

Shit, I don't even know where the fuck my mom is right now.

Make her a baby soldier?

Can't have.

You don't want to change diapers.

Shit, I don't want to change diapers.

Go kick it with your cousin, if you can. All right.

Get at you later

Out in some spot in BK.

Out in East New York.

Belly of the motherfucking beast.

And I'm sorry to tell you like that. I know that shit sting.

Look, your mom's ain't all the way gone yet, though, Davina. She's still in

there somewhere.

In fact, I heard her bragging on you the other day. Talking about how you put

some shorty down.

Disrespecting Buck.

Said she'd love you for that. And walk with you.

You know Ruddy from around the way, right?

Well, Luddy's married to my cousin.

Fool smoked crack for a year straight.

Taxed everything in the crib but the copper pipes.

So I sent him away.

My dime.

Fool got clean.

Got a job or whatever.

Coaches his kid's hoops team now. Shit, he didn't turn a motherfucking heat clip

on us.

Look, I'm just saying, your moms can get clean like that too.

And I can pay for it.

You see?

Bus girl, I know you want me to look out for you the same way. I know he wants

you to look out for me, too Talking appreciation type shit, and I ain't

asking for much It's Ross baby boy talking about I see y'all, you know

getting all close and all that now Nothing Kenan's not even Yeah,

cuz I know you heard the same noise I did I look ain't saying can't put both

down

But the kid who did, G-Wiz or whatever his name is, that's Kanan's boy.

So that's the only reason that Kanan might know a little bit more than he

telling you, money.

Look, Kanan, we talked about that. Kanan doesn't know anything.

Yeah, why?

Man, she getting big.

Ready, ready, go to get clean.

Spot outside Utica, Davina.

You should see this shit.

Out in the woods, nature and shit.

Shit make me want to become a bass head just so I can get away and relax.

Listen, I want to help you and your mom. I really do.

All I'm asking for is a little love and return.

That's it.

You do me that and I got you.

Nothing happens to King.

My own kid.

I saw Kanan outside this house one time.

Yeah, where?

Yo.

Hurry up, man.

What's up, man?

About to take the top spot in this shit.

I score up in here. Oh!

I swear to God I've been blessed with some sort of Street Fighter greatness,

because I'm just a straight killer on this machine.

What the hell? Well, yo, I'm about to hit my rhymes on Stretch and Bobbito,

son. Ah, you putting the beat in there that makes me better?

What, the poem that made me famous, famous?

Fuck both of y'all, all right?

This dude named Crown gonna put me on. He got a record label and shit. I mean,

recording a song that I'm gonna perform in front of all these music industry

people at a show.

Crown Camacho.

Bulletproof records, Uncle Lou know them. Introduced them to my sister.

How you paying for studio time?

Like I said, Crown look it out for me.

Get your shit on wax, Duke, and maybe I can put you in front of Crown. And maybe

you can get on this mic, too, at the showcase.

But you gotta move with the quickness. Show's coming up fast.

What?

And what the fuck was that about?

She been boosting for months, trying to get loose with them.

Then your dumb ass just stumbles on you.

Ain't nobody stumbling, nigga.

Yeah, I got skills on these fucking machines.

I got skills on the MIC.

Yo, Scrap!

Yo, nigga, I know you home, man. I saw your Cherokee parked out front.

Yo, what the fuck happened to you?

Bad compound chicken.

It's killing me.

Yo, we gotta move everything from the stash house to the new spot.

Put some clean drawers on, settle the fuck up.

I said I'm sick, man. There's a bathroom in the stash house. You good?

My ass is leaking, nigga.

I ain't gonna know it.

Joe Joe good Famous just again his whack-ass

free studio time and a shot at this industry people thing Meanwhile, my ass

is saving up more my pennies just to get my goddamn foot in the door You won't

kick that door open cuz when that shit is you ain't never gonna be closed on

again. I gotta go All right, I catch up with you later

Overlooking for your way with ass.

Need some help.

Get in.

I can't. I got class tonight.

Class? What, you got night school, nigga? Learn to trade?

Is my nephew about to be a plumber up in this motherfucker?

Mom set it up.

Like, starts in a couple hours.

This ain't gonna take that long.

Let's ride.

What?

Gotta move shit out the stash.

Mommy told me to stash off limits. I ain't supposed to touch it. Yo, man, we

gonna be in and out so fast, you won't even know we was there.

Neither will she.

No, I ain't working for free. This ain't work because you're still in training.

Time to put them reps in.

I

need

two units.

One on top of the other. For real?

Those is full.

No vacancies. Not to throw people out on the street. Maybe I hit them off with

some relocation money.

I don't know, though.

They file a complaint or some shit, then how's it gonna be up in my ass, so...

Well, maybe I should go over to the 40s and see what they got available.

Jamaica houses?

They ain't got no empty apartments, neither.

I might be able to move the manager over there in a way that you ain't willing to

move.

i might have some apartments on the seventh floor seventh and eighth floor

like i said one on top of the other

So, Famous gets free studio time, and your niece gets nothing.

It's good to see you too, Juke. Come on, Uncle Lou.

How you gonna do me like this?

You think I wouldn't get you studio time if I could?

It ain't my thing.

Famous' sister made that happen for Famous, not me. But you can make it

happen for me.

Do you know this guy Crown just asking for a favor?

Come here.

Let me tell you something.

Favors are just another way of ending up under somebody's thumb.

I don't know about you, but I already got way too much of that in my life, you

heard me?

What about this show for all these music industry people?

Can you help me with that?

I can't.

Damn.

You turning into my dad.

Good for nothing.

Now, you know I'd give you the money myself, but Marvin would lose his damn

mind. Talk about, she's my daughter.

We doing shit for her. We had to do it for ourselves. She got to do it for her.

I don't want your money anyway.

If you had the hookup, that's one thing.

But just hitting me off?

See? You same as me.

Don't want to owe nobody.

That's a good rule to have.

You eat?

Love you, too.

Well, what happened to all that when somebody makes a call, we all gotta

answer it bullshit?

I need this 120.

Some shit's coming up, and I gotta get this cat quick, fast, in a hurry.

I'm going to the same spot. They're the only ones getting suicides in the city.

That's why I need someone looking out.

Fuck you then.

Fuck all y'all.

Bitch didn't lie.

Shit. Now what you trying to say from my machine, huh?

Like a doctor, when I rock the mic, you've got to like the way I operate. I

make big moves to happen, just for rapping. I'm so lyrically focused, and

I'm good, and they start with all the same. I mean, I got potential to make it

go that chill. I got the credentials, that is so essential, to make it rock

that chill. Then you know I will fulfill, make a couple of mills. I build

a guild, for all the rappers of skill and kill. The weak rappers with no

thrill. Hang him in energy, if he's a sucker. Hang him to the left of me, if

my right hand man is my mic stand. And the microphone that I own in my game

plan is keeping at a steady pace.

I know

you.

Keep it.

We're even now, alright?

You understand?

Get the fuck out of here.

Or next time I won't let you go.

You got that?

Damn.

Shit messy.

Well, they say messy motherfuckers are geniuses. You out with Einstein.

Don't tell your mom.

Shit supposed to be all counted, bundled, and tiny and shit.

Look, man, we gonna load into them boxes, cover with that shit. We gonna

march it right into the bodega like we doing our daily deliveries.

Where's Scrappy at?

Shitting on himself back at the crib.

Let's start packing, nigga.

I'm about to test these motherfuckers, man.

Keep boxing up.

I'll be back in 20.

Make sure your slow ass is done by then.

I'm gonna lock it up.

Make sure you don't fucking open the door for no one.

Yo, for no one.

I saved his ass last time.

And you saved mine.

You let me go.

With the jacket.

Yeah, see?

That's karma.

Yeah, do nice things and nice things happen to you.

I gotta be honest, though.

This just seems like a regular jacket.

I don't get it. I don't get risking everything for a fucking ski coat.

That's because that shit was made for you, Nicole.

You and all your friends.

See, me and people that look like me...

We ain't supposed to have that jacket.

It's supposed to be out of reach for us.

Out of a world that ain't ours.

Ralph Lauren came up in the Bronx.

His name wasn't even Ralph Lauren.

It was Ralph Lipschitz.

And Ralph Lipschitz didn't come from no money.

He was poor as hell.

Didn't have nothing.

That's what his whole polo shit's based on.

Things he wished he had.

Things he was striving for.

Some kind of life that wasn't meant for him.

A life he dreamed of living.

So?

Ralph Lauren, like me.

He a lowlife.

Shit, I don't want to mess it up. I'm giving it to you.

But I thought the whole point was so you can sell it, so you can get money and

get into a studio.

It's like that whole karma thing you were talking about.

That security guard just let me have it like he did.

And... I'm thinking... maybe you write about all this boost in anyway.

I want you to have it.

I want you to think of me every time you wear it.

I think about you anytime I'm thinking about anything.

Shit, I love this song.

We've never done this before.

I know.

What should I do?

Whatever feels good.

Don't even breathe, motherfucker.

How much more?

Yo. You need to stop sweating me, man.

We get busy about 5 o'clock. I don't want my customers to be disturbed.

I'm the only customer that matters, nigga.

I

don't

know. Don't tell me shit. I don't know who you are, nigga.

And I know you were there when Buck got hit. I ought to just tap you on the

strength of that alone.

These motherfuckers

I'm gonna put a bullet in this little nigga head, you hear me? Breathe,

brother.

Just breathe.

You know whose kid that is?

Yeah, I know who.

Nice boy.

Just let him kill me. Once my mom found out I'm here, I'm dead anyway.

Yo, that's why she ain't gonna find out.

We gonna clean this shit up, get you home, you should've never knew you were

here.

Shit, I should've left you here.

Fuck!

You're late, Kanan. Got caught up at the pizza spot with famous.

I'll be down in a few.

You got one minute.

Wait up.

We need salt.

Already late.

I want you to like Symphony.

I will.

Dude, you still look different, that's all.

Sometimes different is good.

I should probably get to class.

Never thought I'd hear you say that.

All I'm asking is you just give him a chance, Kanan.

Just don't make no decisions about him yet.

Nobody will ever be more important to me than you. You know this.

It's us against everybody.

I'm going to go back on the skyscraper.

I'm glad you could make it, Kena.

Welcome to History of New York City Architecture.

Take a seat.

As I was saying, New York City has the largest and most varied collection of

skyscrapers in the world.

But it wasn't always skyscrapers.

You okay?

There's no other city in the world that can rival the size and scope of New

York's skyline.

Why is that important?

When I was in the pen, I met this dude who had a disease or some shit. It made

it so he never slept.

He closed his eyes every now and then.

Most of the time, that nigga was wide awake.

And I remember saying to him, man, that ain't a disease, that's a blessing.

Keep your head up 24-7.

And he said, ain't no gift, nigga.

You don't sleep, you don't dream.

You don't dream, you don't ever go nowhere but where you are.

But he was wrong.

You sleep in this game, the only dreams you have are nightmares.

And them nightmares, all in the same way.

right you guessed it i'm legally insane mark manic depressive i'm taking all

types of medication to keep me out the mood of premeditating yo the logger i'm

alone this works i'm having thoughts of killing

Cause ain't nothing to it but to do it. See, it ain't no sweat to me. Cause in

the first place, you fucked up the minute that you stepped to me. I'm not

your average dealer.

I'm a born killer.

I'm a born killer.

Killer.

Go fuck with me.

Killer.

Go fuck with me. Now I'm living where I can cause I'm homeless.

Can't make important calls cause I'm boneless. I ain't nating, I'm starving,

dude. I can't go to mama's house, cause mama's stopping too. Better grab that 12

gauge, cause that's the only way a nigga's gonna get paid.