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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:40,166 --> 00:00:41,458 Oh, yeah. 2 00:00:44,166 --> 00:00:45,791 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 3 00:00:53,208 --> 00:00:55,333 I want my baby girl to come back to me. 4 00:00:55,416 --> 00:00:56,875 A crime so gruesome... 5 00:01:04,583 --> 00:01:06,000 Pants don't fit? 6 00:01:06,416 --> 00:01:08,791 That's right. New Fat Crusher 2000. 7 00:01:24,791 --> 00:01:26,416 Oh, shit! 8 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,458 What do you think of a woman turning 40? 9 00:01:48,541 --> 00:01:51,000 40? Girl, 40 ain't shit. 10 00:01:51,083 --> 00:01:52,833 You? Almost 40? 11 00:01:52,916 --> 00:01:56,208 I started living my life when I was 40. 12 00:01:56,291 --> 00:01:58,291 Damn, you that old, Miss B? 13 00:01:58,375 --> 00:01:59,750 Ay! Forty?! 14 00:02:00,041 --> 00:02:02,791 40 means... juicy down there. 15 00:02:02,875 --> 00:02:08,375 Shit, I figured you were like 30, maybe even 35, but 40? 16 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,041 Damn, that's just... that's just crazy. 17 00:02:11,166 --> 00:02:13,000 Oh, shit! 18 00:02:18,708 --> 00:02:20,500 When a single woman turns forty, 19 00:02:20,583 --> 00:02:23,000 she's like fruit from the tree that falls to the ground 20 00:02:23,083 --> 00:02:24,250 for the bugs to eat. 21 00:02:24,708 --> 00:02:25,583 Gracias. 22 00:02:25,666 --> 00:02:26,791 You're welcome. 23 00:02:26,958 --> 00:02:28,041 Now 70? 24 00:02:28,458 --> 00:02:31,458 Call me when you turn 70 and can't control your bowels. 25 00:02:33,833 --> 00:02:34,791 Oh, shit. 26 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,166 Oh, God. 27 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:41,000 {\an8}Wait. Oh, come on. 28 00:02:41,458 --> 00:02:43,625 {\an8}Come on, sir, you see me standing right here. 29 00:02:43,708 --> 00:02:45,333 {\an8}Please? I'm late. 30 00:02:45,958 --> 00:02:47,875 {\an8}Thank you. 31 00:02:50,208 --> 00:02:51,833 {\an8}You just made your mother proud. 32 00:02:52,416 --> 00:02:53,500 {\an8}My mother's dead. 33 00:03:00,083 --> 00:03:01,458 {\an8}Sorry...? 34 00:03:02,458 --> 00:03:03,666 {\an8}Okay. Sorry. 35 00:03:10,041 --> 00:03:12,458 {\an8}Excuse me. Sorry about that. Sorry. 36 00:03:12,541 --> 00:03:14,458 {\an8}Hey, it's your brother. 37 00:03:14,583 --> 00:03:18,791 {\an8}It's been a year, so don't you think we should take care of Mom's apartment? 38 00:03:19,625 --> 00:03:20,916 {\an8}Aight, hit me back. 39 00:03:24,541 --> 00:03:25,375 {\an8}Thank you. 40 00:03:27,333 --> 00:03:28,500 {\an8}Oh, great. 41 00:03:35,750 --> 00:03:37,125 {\an8}Oh, fuck me. 42 00:03:42,750 --> 00:03:43,625 {\an8}Great. 43 00:03:44,750 --> 00:03:45,625 {\an8}Great. 44 00:03:49,916 --> 00:03:51,291 {\an8}Excuse me, sir? 45 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,375 {\an8}Sir? Sir? Do you think I could just, like, 46 00:03:54,458 --> 00:03:57,125 {\an8}jump out before you let the people in. 47 00:03:57,208 --> 00:03:59,666 {\an8}I'm really late. I'll just jump out before you... 48 00:03:59,750 --> 00:04:02,000 {\an8}Sorry for the delay, folks, 49 00:04:02,083 --> 00:04:05,500 {\an8}but this lady here doesn't want me to help the disabled people on. 50 00:04:05,583 --> 00:04:07,333 {\an8}Oh, come on! 51 00:04:07,416 --> 00:04:09,541 {\an8}I... that did not... 52 00:04:09,625 --> 00:04:11,041 {\an8}I didn't... I didn't say that. 53 00:04:11,125 --> 00:04:13,458 {\an8}But, no, please. As you were. 54 00:04:13,541 --> 00:04:15,708 {\an8}Thanks. Thanks a lot. Please. 55 00:04:16,875 --> 00:04:18,250 {\an8}Oh, shit. 56 00:04:18,875 --> 00:04:19,750 {\an8}No! 57 00:04:20,083 --> 00:04:22,416 Stupid-ass Scorpio 58 00:04:22,833 --> 00:04:25,375 Your stingy-ass ways mean we can't flow 59 00:04:25,708 --> 00:04:28,375 And you bullshit Libra 60 00:04:28,708 --> 00:04:30,208 Fucking deceiver 61 00:04:30,291 --> 00:04:32,750 Step off, Gigantor No one believes you 62 00:04:33,291 --> 00:04:35,916 And Mr. Gemini 63 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,125 You're too feminine 64 00:04:38,208 --> 00:04:40,875 Can't rock with a nigga's ass Bigger than mine 65 00:04:40,958 --> 00:04:43,541 See me? I'm focused 66 00:04:44,041 --> 00:04:48,041 My sweet mid-body lust Is just for those who I trust 67 00:04:48,125 --> 00:04:52,083 Why? Because I'm a cli-cli-cli-Taurus 68 00:05:00,208 --> 00:05:01,708 Wow. 69 00:05:03,166 --> 00:05:04,041 Wow. 70 00:05:04,625 --> 00:05:07,083 Come on, guys. Come on. Clap it up for Elaine. 71 00:05:07,958 --> 00:05:09,083 Thank you. 72 00:05:11,791 --> 00:05:14,833 Thank you. Thank you for sharing that, Elaine, really. 73 00:05:15,333 --> 00:05:16,666 Okay, um... 74 00:05:17,333 --> 00:05:21,000 Any more thought on what kind of play we want to write? 75 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:22,333 Rosa? 76 00:05:22,750 --> 00:05:24,833 I say we do some sci-fi shit. 77 00:05:25,208 --> 00:05:26,041 Like? 78 00:05:26,583 --> 00:05:31,291 Like this strange blue cloud comes down from the sky raining on everybody, right? 79 00:05:31,375 --> 00:05:34,291 But then the next day, every man caught in the rain, 80 00:05:34,375 --> 00:05:36,375 they wake up with no dick. 81 00:05:37,375 --> 00:05:41,750 Hmm. So, like, um, a sci-fi mystery kind of thing. 82 00:05:41,833 --> 00:05:43,333 - Yeah. - Okay. 83 00:05:43,416 --> 00:05:46,750 No, no, no. We should do some racial-type political shit, 84 00:05:46,833 --> 00:05:50,958 where a Black man fucks this white girl and dies. 85 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,125 And that's political because... 86 00:05:55,208 --> 00:05:59,625 'Cause a white vagina is a plot to destroy a Black family. 87 00:05:59,708 --> 00:06:02,958 Shit, my mom would kill me if I even touch one, you feel me? 88 00:06:03,041 --> 00:06:04,458 Consider yourself dead, bro. 89 00:06:05,166 --> 00:06:06,583 Mm, mm-mm-mm. 90 00:06:06,916 --> 00:06:11,541 Okay, guys, can we come up with ideas that don't involve genitalia? 91 00:06:11,916 --> 00:06:16,125 You know, just in case somebody's grandmother wants to come to the show. 92 00:06:16,208 --> 00:06:18,625 For what? My abuela loves balls. 93 00:06:19,750 --> 00:06:23,166 Ha, ha, ha. Very funny. Okay, that's fine. 94 00:06:23,250 --> 00:06:26,166 Make jokes. Just remember, it's your play. 95 00:06:26,791 --> 00:06:28,625 It'll be whatever you put into it. 96 00:06:28,708 --> 00:06:30,916 If you put in nothing, it'll be nothing. 97 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,041 Like your career? 98 00:06:32,375 --> 00:06:34,375 Ooh. 99 00:06:36,375 --> 00:06:37,250 Ouch. 100 00:06:38,416 --> 00:06:39,375 Really, Elaine? 101 00:06:39,458 --> 00:06:40,708 I googled you. 102 00:06:41,125 --> 00:06:44,000 Last time you did anything was, what, 2010? 103 00:06:44,083 --> 00:06:48,375 Oh, 2012, and they ain't producing her 'cause white people scared of the truth. 104 00:06:48,458 --> 00:06:49,500 Right, Miss B? 105 00:06:49,583 --> 00:06:51,791 Rosa, thank you, but it's not about me. 106 00:06:51,875 --> 00:06:55,208 Right, Brosa, so stop kissing her ass. You ain't going down on her. 107 00:06:55,291 --> 00:06:57,375 Fuck you. I could dream. 108 00:06:57,458 --> 00:07:00,333 Damn, Elaine, why you gotta be so negative? 109 00:07:00,416 --> 00:07:01,416 I'm saying... 110 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:05,166 how's somebody who ain't had no real hit gonna tell me how to write a fucking play? 111 00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:06,958 She ain't no Tyler Perry. 112 00:07:07,041 --> 00:07:08,708 I actually appreciate that. Thank you. 113 00:07:08,791 --> 00:07:10,458 And that's why she's teaching at the school, 114 00:07:10,541 --> 00:07:12,750 coming late every day when nobody wants to be here. 115 00:07:12,833 --> 00:07:14,458 Oh-ho-ho! 116 00:07:14,666 --> 00:07:19,541 I told you there were 20 invalids on my bus today, okay? 117 00:07:19,625 --> 00:07:22,125 But you know what, Elaine? This isn't Dangerous Minds. 118 00:07:22,541 --> 00:07:24,250 You can leave whenever you want. 119 00:07:24,333 --> 00:07:28,041 And, by the way, I actually have a production coming up. Thank you. 120 00:07:28,125 --> 00:07:30,708 Oh! 121 00:07:31,208 --> 00:07:32,583 I'm just saying. 122 00:07:32,666 --> 00:07:34,166 Um, workshop production. 123 00:07:34,250 --> 00:07:36,250 It ain't even regional theater. Please. 124 00:07:36,333 --> 00:07:39,041 Oh-ho! 125 00:07:39,333 --> 00:07:41,375 Yo, Elaine, sit down. 126 00:07:42,333 --> 00:07:44,416 - What'd you say? - Uh, Rosa, don't bother. 127 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:47,791 I said sit your disrespectful ass down. Now, puta. 128 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:49,250 - What? - Oh, shit! 129 00:07:49,583 --> 00:07:50,708 Oh! Ooh-hoo-hoo! 130 00:07:50,791 --> 00:07:53,500 Okay, guys. Guys, shut up. 131 00:07:53,583 --> 00:07:57,333 Okay? Now, girls... I mean, gender non-conformists. 132 00:07:57,416 --> 00:07:59,416 Make me sit down, dyke. 133 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:01,500 Ooh! 134 00:08:01,583 --> 00:08:03,958 Guys, can we just calm down and make art please? 135 00:08:04,041 --> 00:08:06,416 'Cause you look like Bustin' Bieber I'm supposed to be scared? 136 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:08,041 - Oh, no. - I ain't scared. 137 00:08:08,125 --> 00:08:09,583 You still a bitch, bitch. 138 00:08:12,125 --> 00:08:13,083 Oh, shit! 139 00:08:13,166 --> 00:08:15,041 - Girls, no! - Shit, they fighting! 140 00:08:15,125 --> 00:08:16,208 Pop her titty out! 141 00:08:16,416 --> 00:08:17,833 Yo, call security! 142 00:08:17,916 --> 00:08:18,916 Guys, come on! 143 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 - Pull her fucking weave! - Stop it! 144 00:08:22,208 --> 00:08:24,541 Pull her fucking weave out! 145 00:08:27,041 --> 00:08:27,958 Ya'll break it up! 146 00:08:31,041 --> 00:08:32,125 Boo! 147 00:08:33,958 --> 00:08:35,583 Fuck Time Out New York! 148 00:08:35,666 --> 00:08:37,583 You're five stars Black Shakespeare, ma! 149 00:08:37,666 --> 00:08:41,750 Like RadhaMUSprime, you'll rise again to slay all these Decepticunts out here! 150 00:08:42,666 --> 00:08:44,416 - Oh, my God. - You all right? 151 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:46,125 - Yes. - You good? 152 00:08:46,208 --> 00:08:47,125 Yeah. 153 00:08:47,416 --> 00:08:48,416 Oh, my God. 154 00:08:49,583 --> 00:08:53,333 They don't pay me enough for this shit. 155 00:08:53,458 --> 00:08:55,791 Hi! You've reached Archie Choi. 156 00:08:55,916 --> 00:08:58,041 - Do the thing! Ciao! - Great. 157 00:08:58,208 --> 00:09:00,625 Where the fuck are you, Archie? 158 00:09:00,708 --> 00:09:04,083 I'm either gonna kill or fuck one of these damn kids. 159 00:09:04,166 --> 00:09:07,291 Archie, where's my regional production? Like, what do I gotta do? 160 00:09:07,375 --> 00:09:11,000 Write a... slave musical? An all-white play? 161 00:09:11,875 --> 00:09:14,041 Like, who do I have to blow around here? 162 00:09:14,125 --> 00:09:15,125 Elaine. 163 00:09:15,750 --> 00:09:19,083 Oh, hey, Avery. What? 164 00:09:19,166 --> 00:09:22,583 Elaine probably would have chilled if you just complimented her stupid poem. 165 00:09:23,750 --> 00:09:24,666 You're right. 166 00:09:26,208 --> 00:09:28,208 Oh, why you drinking that diet shit? 167 00:09:28,791 --> 00:09:30,166 I prefer my woman thick. 168 00:09:30,791 --> 00:09:33,625 Thanks. No, no. no. 169 00:09:34,375 --> 00:09:36,666 Avery, that's not appropriate. 170 00:09:37,083 --> 00:09:38,375 I'm... I'm your teacher. 171 00:09:40,125 --> 00:09:41,583 I turn 20 in two weeks. 172 00:09:43,708 --> 00:09:44,625 I bet you do. 173 00:09:45,375 --> 00:09:46,333 All over. 174 00:09:48,166 --> 00:09:50,791 Help me. Please, help me. 175 00:09:54,208 --> 00:09:55,666 When I got that call... 176 00:09:57,583 --> 00:09:59,750 I felt my balls shrivel up. 177 00:10:01,541 --> 00:10:02,916 When I got that call... 178 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I thought, "Damn, Darlene... 179 00:10:07,583 --> 00:10:09,000 that's fucked up." 180 00:10:15,750 --> 00:10:16,625 I need a minute. 181 00:10:17,125 --> 00:10:18,166 A minute? 182 00:10:19,208 --> 00:10:20,416 Come on, man. 183 00:10:41,166 --> 00:10:42,791 Mmm! 184 00:10:43,208 --> 00:10:44,333 Is that patchouli? 185 00:10:45,291 --> 00:10:47,791 Smells great. Smells really good. 186 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:50,500 Um... 187 00:10:50,750 --> 00:10:55,041 Forrest, thank you for meeting me so last minute. 188 00:10:55,125 --> 00:11:00,208 I, uh, wanted to talk to you about my workshop production with you... 189 00:11:00,291 --> 00:11:02,833 YOUmoja Theater. Yeah. 190 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:04,833 It's true, uh... 191 00:11:04,916 --> 00:11:09,750 Black theater spaces are often under-resourced and underfunded, 192 00:11:09,833 --> 00:11:10,875 but it's... 193 00:11:13,291 --> 00:11:15,791 it's important that... 194 00:11:18,458 --> 00:11:20,125 that I work with my people. 195 00:11:20,875 --> 00:11:25,125 Still, my agent thinks that, um, at this point in my career, 196 00:11:25,208 --> 00:11:27,541 you know, I've done the 30 Under 30... 197 00:11:27,625 --> 00:11:30,958 Yes, it was quite a couple years ago, but I... I did win that award. 198 00:11:31,041 --> 00:11:36,666 He feels that I should maybe have a regional production of the play, 199 00:11:37,041 --> 00:11:39,291 instead of a workshop production. 200 00:11:39,458 --> 00:11:44,375 And, uh, for a fee that, I don't know, is enough to pay my rent... 201 00:11:44,916 --> 00:11:45,916 would be nice. 202 00:11:47,375 --> 00:11:48,208 Maybe. 203 00:11:48,791 --> 00:11:50,625 Ooh. Okay. 204 00:11:59,666 --> 00:12:00,541 Okay. 205 00:12:12,333 --> 00:12:13,166 Oh, I should... 206 00:12:19,958 --> 00:12:23,208 Oh, sorry. My knees are a little out of shape there. 207 00:12:26,125 --> 00:12:29,541 The ancestors, they're always with us, 208 00:12:29,625 --> 00:12:32,291 always watching, I trust them. 209 00:12:32,375 --> 00:12:35,333 They told me, despite the numerous challenges, 210 00:12:35,416 --> 00:12:38,000 that I must preserve this theater. 211 00:12:38,083 --> 00:12:41,458 And now, they're reminding me that what we create here 212 00:12:41,958 --> 00:12:45,791 - is imbued with a spirit of cause. - Yes. 213 00:12:46,916 --> 00:12:48,166 Not commerce. 214 00:12:53,083 --> 00:12:54,291 The ancestors said that? 215 00:12:56,583 --> 00:12:58,250 They don't want my rent paid? 216 00:12:59,083 --> 00:13:01,791 Can we try my ancestors this time? 217 00:13:02,041 --> 00:13:05,791 So, I have an Aunt Karen and I know she... wants my rent paid. 218 00:13:05,875 --> 00:13:07,666 No? Okay, I'll just back off. 219 00:13:11,833 --> 00:13:14,875 Guess who finally booked two tickets to Greece? 220 00:13:14,958 --> 00:13:17,000 Antonio picked out our matching thongs. 221 00:13:17,083 --> 00:13:19,291 Anyway, meet me downtown in, like, an hour. 222 00:13:19,375 --> 00:13:21,041 There's someone I want you to meet. 223 00:13:21,125 --> 00:13:22,958 Could be a game changer. 224 00:13:23,583 --> 00:13:24,875 Oh, and be on time! 225 00:13:26,041 --> 00:13:27,625 Hey, you have the address, right? 226 00:13:27,708 --> 00:13:29,583 Okay, please dress it up a bit. 227 00:13:29,666 --> 00:13:30,666 See you in a few. 228 00:13:31,625 --> 00:13:33,541 Oh, shit! 229 00:13:34,625 --> 00:13:37,958 Maybe you'll finally get a nigga to go home with you tonight, huh? 230 00:13:38,916 --> 00:13:41,666 It's been a long time since you had somebody up there. 231 00:13:41,750 --> 00:13:43,958 And by up there, I mean 232 00:13:44,041 --> 00:13:48,708 - up in there! - Yeah, got it. Thanks. 233 00:13:53,416 --> 00:13:55,333 I've been sworn to secrecy. 234 00:13:55,416 --> 00:13:57,708 Come on, you can tell me. 235 00:13:58,166 --> 00:14:00,458 - Okay, but not a word. - No. 236 00:14:01,458 --> 00:14:08,291 Michael and I are invested in a multi-racial revival of Fences! 237 00:14:08,375 --> 00:14:11,291 My God! August Wilson? Timeless. 238 00:14:11,375 --> 00:14:13,333 I know and now integrated. 239 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,083 Oh, no, I don't want those at all. 240 00:14:16,166 --> 00:14:18,791 - Tempted? - No! Mm-mm. 241 00:14:19,541 --> 00:14:22,458 I'm gonna lose 40 by 40. I'm doing smoothies, boo. 242 00:14:22,541 --> 00:14:24,875 Oh, that's why your breath, uh... 243 00:14:25,583 --> 00:14:27,000 What? 244 00:14:27,291 --> 00:14:29,125 So there may be an opportunity. 245 00:14:30,958 --> 00:14:33,708 To drown in a sea of old white women? 246 00:14:33,791 --> 00:14:35,125 Beyond the ladies. 247 00:14:37,958 --> 00:14:39,750 - That's J. Whitman. - I know. 248 00:14:40,875 --> 00:14:43,375 Why would I care about J. Whitman? 249 00:14:43,791 --> 00:14:46,166 In between drinks and trying to grope my ass, 250 00:14:46,625 --> 00:14:49,208 he said they have a last minute slot to fill. 251 00:14:49,291 --> 00:14:50,125 And? 252 00:14:50,208 --> 00:14:52,791 And it might be a chance to get your play up. 253 00:14:53,208 --> 00:14:56,625 You know women of color playwrights are very hot right now. 254 00:14:58,166 --> 00:15:01,166 Or would you rather have the roof leaking on your production at YOUmoja? 255 00:15:01,250 --> 00:15:05,500 J. Whitman only does Black poverty porn plays of which mine are not. 256 00:15:05,583 --> 00:15:08,166 Great, so I stopped masturbating, 257 00:15:08,250 --> 00:15:11,208 got dressed, and resisted those succulent ribs for nothing? 258 00:15:11,791 --> 00:15:13,625 Didn't someone almost stab you today? 259 00:15:13,708 --> 00:15:14,541 No! 260 00:15:15,458 --> 00:15:17,083 I was vigorously pushed. 261 00:15:17,166 --> 00:15:18,291 They're good kids, okay? 262 00:15:18,375 --> 00:15:20,708 "Archie, where's my regional production?" 263 00:15:20,791 --> 00:15:25,125 I'd rather do a workshop production with Forrest and his stingy-ass ancestors 264 00:15:25,208 --> 00:15:27,958 than suck it up to J. Whitman. Ugh! 265 00:15:28,583 --> 00:15:31,916 Look, I let that man graze my ass, so you're going to ingest a breath mint 266 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,041 and go see what that man has to say. 267 00:15:35,083 --> 00:15:36,500 But why would I... 268 00:15:37,416 --> 00:15:38,958 - I know you're not trying... - Mmm! 269 00:15:47,708 --> 00:15:49,458 - Fuck you. - Ooh, better! 270 00:15:52,833 --> 00:15:54,750 I'm not afraid of controversy. 271 00:15:54,833 --> 00:15:58,708 Our all-female production of 12 Angry Men, my idea, 272 00:15:58,791 --> 00:16:01,541 but a live cow on stage? 273 00:16:01,625 --> 00:16:05,833 I'm sorry, but I draw the line at fresh cow shit. 274 00:16:07,083 --> 00:16:09,041 Radha! Excuse me, ladies. 275 00:16:09,125 --> 00:16:11,916 - Radha! Hey! - How are you? 276 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,375 Just puckering up to the patrons, as usual. 277 00:16:14,458 --> 00:16:16,000 - How are you? - Good. 278 00:16:16,083 --> 00:16:18,375 Archie tells me you're teaching. 279 00:16:18,458 --> 00:16:20,625 I've been teaching for a while now. 280 00:16:20,708 --> 00:16:22,500 Well, theater misses you. 281 00:16:22,833 --> 00:16:24,208 - Does it? - Mm-hmm. 282 00:16:24,291 --> 00:16:26,791 Is it looking for me? Because I've been here. 283 00:16:27,166 --> 00:16:29,791 Now, Archie insisted I read your play. 284 00:16:29,875 --> 00:16:30,916 Awesome. Thank you. 285 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,125 It's... 286 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,625 Yes...? 287 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,708 Why don't you tell me about it in your own words? 288 00:16:38,208 --> 00:16:39,083 Okay. 289 00:16:39,333 --> 00:16:40,333 Um... 290 00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:43,833 Harlem Ave is about a young Black man 291 00:16:43,916 --> 00:16:48,125 who inherits a grocery store from his dead mom and pop, 292 00:16:48,208 --> 00:16:52,166 and how he struggles to keep the business afloat 293 00:16:52,666 --> 00:16:54,458 with the help of his lovely wife... 294 00:16:55,250 --> 00:16:56,333 who's an activist. 295 00:16:58,625 --> 00:16:59,791 Hmm. 296 00:17:00,458 --> 00:17:01,291 That's it? 297 00:17:02,041 --> 00:17:04,250 No... no, no, no. 298 00:17:04,333 --> 00:17:07,166 It's about gentrification. Mmm. 299 00:17:07,250 --> 00:17:10,708 And how this young couple struggles to... 300 00:17:10,791 --> 00:17:13,416 - You didn't like it. - The idea is powerful. 301 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:14,500 But? 302 00:17:14,583 --> 00:17:17,291 It rang a little inauthentic. 303 00:17:18,416 --> 00:17:21,375 Okay. Well, thank you for that note. I appreciate it. 304 00:17:21,458 --> 00:17:24,750 - There's something there. - Okay. 305 00:17:24,833 --> 00:17:26,958 I just wish you hadn't shied away from darkness. 306 00:17:27,041 --> 00:17:29,541 I mean if you're going to call it Harlem Ave, 307 00:17:29,625 --> 00:17:31,791 you gotta give me Harlem Ave. 308 00:17:31,875 --> 00:17:35,083 I should write in a teen mother shooting up in an alley. 309 00:17:35,166 --> 00:17:36,291 No, no, no! 310 00:17:37,666 --> 00:17:39,750 No. No, you're missing my point. 311 00:17:39,833 --> 00:17:42,083 I'm talking about gentrification. 312 00:17:42,166 --> 00:17:46,583 A Black Harlem shifting under a white hipster land grab, 313 00:17:46,666 --> 00:17:48,583 but your play never goes there. 314 00:17:48,666 --> 00:17:51,791 I ask myself, "Did a Black person really write this?" 315 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,500 - Now, look, sweetheart. - Yes. 316 00:17:58,583 --> 00:18:02,041 There's definitely a voice under all those words... 317 00:18:02,125 --> 00:18:05,291 - All those words. - ...but the writing needs work. 318 00:18:05,916 --> 00:18:07,791 - The good news is... - Hmm? 319 00:18:08,583 --> 00:18:11,875 I still need a writer for my Harriet Tubman musical. 320 00:18:17,041 --> 00:18:18,291 Wow. 321 00:18:21,791 --> 00:18:22,916 Okay. 322 00:18:25,791 --> 00:18:28,833 That's... that's great. 323 00:18:31,166 --> 00:18:32,125 That's great. 324 00:18:33,750 --> 00:18:35,041 Hey, J! 325 00:18:38,875 --> 00:18:40,000 Fuck. 326 00:18:49,541 --> 00:18:51,875 I just want to be an artist. 327 00:18:53,333 --> 00:18:54,833 Mommy, please. 328 00:18:56,625 --> 00:18:59,208 Mommy, please. Tell me what to do. 329 00:19:20,208 --> 00:19:21,958 Yo, where my period at? 330 00:19:22,625 --> 00:19:24,166 Oh, shit, there it go 331 00:19:24,541 --> 00:19:27,458 Right next to belly bloating And this spotty flow 332 00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:29,791 Yo, where my damn house keys? 333 00:19:29,875 --> 00:19:31,500 Why my lower legs hurt? 334 00:19:31,583 --> 00:19:34,000 Sciatica, locked legs like Attica 335 00:19:34,083 --> 00:19:36,583 Word, yo, why my ass always horny? 336 00:19:36,666 --> 00:19:38,375 Why I always gotta pee? 337 00:19:38,458 --> 00:19:41,333 Why the young boy on the bus Offer his seat to me? 338 00:19:41,416 --> 00:19:43,125 Why my skin so dry? 339 00:19:43,208 --> 00:19:44,833 Why am I yawning right now? 340 00:19:44,916 --> 00:19:48,041 Why them AARP niggas Sending shit to my house? 341 00:19:48,375 --> 00:19:50,125 Why my ass so impatient? 342 00:19:50,208 --> 00:19:51,375 But I like them young bucks 343 00:19:51,458 --> 00:19:54,583 But ten o'clock roll around And I'm too tired to fuck 344 00:19:55,208 --> 00:19:58,583 Why my knees be writing checks That my back can't cash? 345 00:19:58,666 --> 00:20:01,791 Why I think I'm gonna fart But my ass got other plans? 346 00:20:01,875 --> 00:20:05,208 Why most hip hop got me feeling So much older, yo? 347 00:20:05,291 --> 00:20:08,041 When the fuck is this loud-ass song Gon' be over? 348 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:11,500 Yeah, I tried to dance hard But my knees straight caught me 349 00:20:11,583 --> 00:20:14,333 Cause, yo, this is 40, niggas! 350 00:20:14,416 --> 00:20:15,791 This is 40! 351 00:21:01,625 --> 00:21:03,000 Oh! Uh... 352 00:21:04,541 --> 00:21:05,375 Damn. 353 00:21:05,458 --> 00:21:08,458 Antonio, just pick out a villa on the beach and I'll cover it, okay? 354 00:21:08,583 --> 00:21:10,250 I can't, I'm meeting Radha. 355 00:21:10,333 --> 00:21:14,250 She's still very fragile, very Miss Sofia after jail, you know? 356 00:21:14,625 --> 00:21:16,000 She needs some cheering up. 357 00:21:16,125 --> 00:21:17,041 Hey. 358 00:21:17,166 --> 00:21:20,708 Oh, my Unabomber realness. Okay, baby, I'll call you back. Bye. 359 00:21:21,125 --> 00:21:23,625 - Come here! Hey! - Hey. Hey. 360 00:21:23,750 --> 00:21:25,083 How are you? 361 00:21:25,208 --> 00:21:28,291 I'm okay, I'm okay, but listen, I need to talk to you about something. 362 00:21:28,375 --> 00:21:31,416 - Me, too. So, last night... - Last night was crazy. 363 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,708 - Something happened after... - Don't worry about it. 364 00:21:33,791 --> 00:21:35,583 - I know, but something happened after... - Listen! 365 00:21:35,666 --> 00:21:38,666 Radha, I think there's a way to smooth things over with Whitman. 366 00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:39,750 If we can just... 367 00:21:39,833 --> 00:21:42,083 Got off 145 Guess who pass? 368 00:21:42,166 --> 00:21:43,041 What? 369 00:21:43,125 --> 00:21:46,166 A skinny white dude with the fattest ass 370 00:21:46,250 --> 00:21:48,375 Yo, he was standing with his Becky 371 00:21:48,458 --> 00:21:51,541 When her eyes met mine She looked away like she was shamed, G 372 00:21:51,625 --> 00:21:53,833 They must have had a real love 373 00:21:53,916 --> 00:21:56,625 Or that bitch had a fetish For some Black girl butt 374 00:21:56,708 --> 00:21:59,291 But a butt But a butt painted white 375 00:21:59,375 --> 00:22:01,416 Connected to this pink ding-a-ling 376 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:02,958 It made me sing 377 00:22:03,041 --> 00:22:06,833 White man with a Black woman's butt 378 00:22:07,583 --> 00:22:10,708 How you carry all that back there? 379 00:22:10,791 --> 00:22:12,916 What the fuck? 380 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:15,833 Yes, what the fuck? 381 00:22:15,916 --> 00:22:19,083 - Look, just... just think about it. - What? Think about what? 382 00:22:19,166 --> 00:22:20,708 What are you talking about? 383 00:22:20,958 --> 00:22:23,083 Think about me doing hip-hop. 384 00:22:23,666 --> 00:22:24,750 Doing what to it? 385 00:22:25,291 --> 00:22:26,583 I want to make a mixtape. 386 00:22:27,125 --> 00:22:28,541 About a white man's ass? 387 00:22:28,625 --> 00:22:31,625 No, about the 40-year-old woman's point of view. 388 00:22:31,708 --> 00:22:33,916 Dry vag, soupy tits. Am I missing something? 389 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,041 Archie, where did I spend most of my time in high school? 390 00:22:37,125 --> 00:22:38,250 With your regrets. 391 00:22:38,791 --> 00:22:41,000 No, I was in the cafeteria, 392 00:22:41,625 --> 00:22:45,875 beating out beats on the table, rhyming all day, all night. 393 00:22:45,958 --> 00:22:47,875 All of my composition books filled with rhymes. 394 00:22:47,958 --> 00:22:50,083 You used to charge people to battle me 395 00:22:50,166 --> 00:22:52,041 because I was the best MC in high school. 396 00:22:52,125 --> 00:22:54,625 Honey, we are not in high school. We are almost 40. 397 00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:56,041 So? 398 00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:58,958 So... So that means I can't make great music? 399 00:22:59,125 --> 00:23:00,583 I can make real music, 400 00:23:00,666 --> 00:23:03,625 not the bullshit that my students listen to, but real music. 401 00:23:03,708 --> 00:23:08,708 I found this Brownsville DJ-producer on Instagram. 402 00:23:08,791 --> 00:23:09,833 Oh, my Jesus. 403 00:23:09,916 --> 00:23:12,375 His name is D. He doesn't take calls. 404 00:23:12,458 --> 00:23:16,000 I think you just show up with a bag of weed or something, but anyway, 405 00:23:16,333 --> 00:23:17,500 his beats... 406 00:23:19,333 --> 00:23:22,333 - Come on, Archie! - Okay, yeah. Radha. Radha. 407 00:23:22,958 --> 00:23:24,291 Last night we had a bad moment. 408 00:23:24,375 --> 00:23:26,416 See, this is about creating something that is mine. 409 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:28,125 And now we're having a little breakdown. 410 00:23:28,208 --> 00:23:31,583 Something that doesn't rely on critics or gatekeepers. 411 00:23:31,666 --> 00:23:33,333 Or choking out a white man? 412 00:23:35,375 --> 00:23:37,958 Do you smell the burning carcass of friendship? 413 00:23:38,041 --> 00:23:39,375 Yeah, I definitely smell it. 414 00:23:39,458 --> 00:23:41,458 Radha, look, I get it. 415 00:23:41,541 --> 00:23:43,375 Your... Your mom's gone. 416 00:23:44,041 --> 00:23:46,125 You're a little sad, a little stuck. 417 00:23:46,208 --> 00:23:47,208 A lot of eating. 418 00:23:47,750 --> 00:23:50,666 You're in mourning, but you're not done with theater. 419 00:23:51,291 --> 00:23:54,750 What, so there's a 40 under 40 list that I don't know about? 420 00:23:57,458 --> 00:24:01,875 Okay, look, you make your little music, if that's what you need to do. 421 00:24:01,958 --> 00:24:03,875 - Thank you. I appreciate it. - In the meantime, 422 00:24:03,958 --> 00:24:07,791 I will smooth things over with Whitman, and you can tighten up your script. Okay? 423 00:24:07,875 --> 00:24:09,041 - Oh, my God. - Hello? 424 00:24:10,208 --> 00:24:12,083 - Radha. - Oh, my God. 425 00:24:12,250 --> 00:24:13,083 What? 426 00:24:13,958 --> 00:24:16,750 Two big white butts in one day 427 00:24:17,041 --> 00:24:19,208 They call that an omen, ho-may 428 00:24:19,958 --> 00:24:21,958 Sorry to say, boo-bae 429 00:24:22,416 --> 00:24:24,791 I got rhymes to write today 430 00:24:24,875 --> 00:24:27,583 - Radha? Radha! - I'll call you later, Archie! 431 00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:29,166 You wanna do what? 432 00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:31,208 Hip hop. Hippity hop. 433 00:24:33,666 --> 00:24:35,250 What's a mixtape? 434 00:24:35,333 --> 00:24:36,333 Really? 435 00:24:36,750 --> 00:24:42,166 We sisters finally got a Michelle Obama out here and you want to go do this 436 00:24:42,250 --> 00:24:44,750 ri-damn-diculousness? 437 00:24:47,208 --> 00:24:48,041 Hear that? 438 00:24:48,375 --> 00:24:51,125 Harriet Tubman just shot herself in the afterlife. 439 00:24:51,333 --> 00:24:53,166 Mmm! Mm-mm-mm. 440 00:24:55,791 --> 00:24:59,208 Hey, I straightened up over at Mom's... 441 00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:01,208 but there's a lot of stuff, yo. 442 00:25:01,416 --> 00:25:02,791 When you coming by? 443 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,958 A bunch of your shit is still over there. 444 00:25:06,916 --> 00:25:08,333 Aight, hit me. 445 00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:10,166 Later. 446 00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:38,833 Is D here? 447 00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:15,041 Hey, yo, mama, what you need? 448 00:26:15,125 --> 00:26:16,583 Um... 449 00:26:16,708 --> 00:26:18,500 Beats. Tracks. 450 00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:20,583 For what? 451 00:26:21,666 --> 00:26:22,541 For me. 452 00:26:23,708 --> 00:26:24,875 What, you rhyme? 453 00:26:25,916 --> 00:26:27,708 Yes, I do. 454 00:26:29,208 --> 00:26:33,291 Oh, and, uh, yes, I have currency. 455 00:26:33,375 --> 00:26:34,625 Oh, aight. 456 00:26:34,875 --> 00:26:36,708 No doubt. So what you call yourself? 457 00:26:36,791 --> 00:26:38,750 - Huh? - So, what they call you? 458 00:26:38,833 --> 00:26:43,833 - What they call you? - Radha... MUSprime. 459 00:26:45,458 --> 00:26:46,291 What? 460 00:26:46,375 --> 00:26:47,958 RadhaMUSprime. 461 00:26:48,375 --> 00:26:51,250 Oh, shit, like, uh, like Optimus. - Yeah. Yeah. 462 00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:52,541 Yeah. 463 00:26:52,625 --> 00:26:54,083 Yeah. Yeah, aight. 464 00:26:54,166 --> 00:26:55,625 Yeah, that's me. Yeah. 465 00:26:56,708 --> 00:26:57,791 Hey, yo D. 466 00:26:59,208 --> 00:27:00,291 Yo D! 467 00:27:00,958 --> 00:27:02,125 Yo, this is RadhaMUSprime. 468 00:27:03,083 --> 00:27:04,375 She needs some beats, yo. 469 00:27:11,916 --> 00:27:13,000 Oh! 470 00:27:13,083 --> 00:27:14,833 - Yo, what the fuck? - Sorry. 471 00:27:14,916 --> 00:27:16,750 Gosh, your poor feet. 472 00:27:37,083 --> 00:27:38,083 I'm good. 473 00:27:52,125 --> 00:27:53,000 Oh, shit. 474 00:27:54,541 --> 00:27:55,958 Shit, what time is it? 475 00:27:56,291 --> 00:27:57,125 Two. 476 00:27:58,458 --> 00:27:59,291 A.M.? 477 00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:02,125 Where's D? 478 00:28:03,291 --> 00:28:04,125 Gone. 479 00:28:05,041 --> 00:28:05,875 Where? 480 00:28:18,083 --> 00:28:20,791 Stupid fucking door. Shit. 481 00:28:21,875 --> 00:28:23,791 I came all the way to Brooklyn for this bullshit? 482 00:28:24,375 --> 00:28:25,208 Fuck. 483 00:28:28,083 --> 00:28:29,166 Just say it. 484 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,916 Say what you have been meaning to say to me from the moment that you 485 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,375 first laid eyes on me. 486 00:28:35,833 --> 00:28:37,208 Fine, fine. 487 00:28:39,166 --> 00:28:41,416 I love red meat. 488 00:28:43,666 --> 00:28:46,958 - Congrats, Josh, it's your next hit. - I try. 489 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:48,791 You look great. 490 00:28:48,875 --> 00:28:50,916 Considering my neck was in a vice last week. 491 00:28:51,250 --> 00:28:53,458 Again, I'm so sorry. 492 00:28:53,541 --> 00:28:55,125 Can I help you with something? 493 00:28:55,541 --> 00:28:57,916 I want to thank you for not pressing charges. 494 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,583 Well, it wasn't that tight a grip. 495 00:29:00,666 --> 00:29:01,500 Pilates. 496 00:29:02,458 --> 00:29:03,958 I appreciate your loyalty. 497 00:29:04,041 --> 00:29:06,166 I don't quite understand the attachment, though. 498 00:29:08,083 --> 00:29:10,958 - She has a real voice. - She's good. She's not special. 499 00:29:11,541 --> 00:29:12,708 That's bullshit. 500 00:29:13,291 --> 00:29:15,666 - She just needs someone to... - Stop. 501 00:29:15,916 --> 00:29:16,958 Seriously. 502 00:29:18,041 --> 00:29:20,583 Begging doesn't suit your lovely cheekbones. 503 00:29:23,083 --> 00:29:25,166 You should be producing theater, 504 00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:28,291 not letting some washed-up writer weigh you down. 505 00:29:29,916 --> 00:29:31,875 - But if you could just reconsider... - Sorry. 506 00:29:33,750 --> 00:29:35,125 There's nothing else to say. 507 00:29:43,375 --> 00:29:45,583 Boom. So, right, the sperm. 508 00:29:45,666 --> 00:29:47,833 He gotta go through all these different portals and shit, 509 00:29:47,916 --> 00:29:49,416 like parts of the vagina, the chocha... 510 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:52,708 But at each portal, he gotta fight mad assault ninjas, 511 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:55,750 like a crab ninja because, you know, bitch had crabs once. 512 00:29:56,666 --> 00:29:58,916 - We should write in a tampon ninja. - You're right. 513 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,458 Anyway, so, right, after all these trials, 514 00:30:01,541 --> 00:30:05,083 he finally gets to Vagzilla, the Queen of the Vaginal Eggs. 515 00:30:05,166 --> 00:30:07,250 I prefer Eggliza though, brother. 516 00:30:07,333 --> 00:30:09,375 Same shit. Now, right? 517 00:30:10,333 --> 00:30:12,625 The queen, she all fine and shit, 518 00:30:12,708 --> 00:30:16,000 but Old Spermy, he gotta seduce her and shit, so he could... 519 00:30:16,083 --> 00:30:17,833 Come to Be. 520 00:30:18,708 --> 00:30:21,583 You get it? That's the title. 521 00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:23,916 What you... what you thinking? 522 00:30:26,458 --> 00:30:27,583 Sure, why not? 523 00:30:27,666 --> 00:30:28,500 What? 524 00:30:30,666 --> 00:30:32,416 - I already told you. - Um... 525 00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:34,291 guys, let's pick up next week. 526 00:30:34,375 --> 00:30:37,166 You tight. You tight. You tight. You dead tight. 527 00:30:37,250 --> 00:30:38,958 Keep it up. 528 00:30:39,625 --> 00:30:41,250 Yeah. I see you, Avery. 529 00:30:41,541 --> 00:30:43,541 Uh, Rosa, Elaine? 530 00:30:44,208 --> 00:30:45,208 What up, Miss B? 531 00:30:45,583 --> 00:30:47,833 Uh, don't "Miss B" me, okay? 532 00:30:49,250 --> 00:30:51,958 Now, the dean said I could kick the both of you out of the class 533 00:30:52,041 --> 00:30:53,208 after what happened last week. 534 00:30:53,291 --> 00:30:55,000 - No! - So terrible. 535 00:30:55,083 --> 00:30:56,791 But I won't. Why? 536 00:30:56,875 --> 00:30:59,083 Because even though we'd all rather be some place 537 00:30:59,166 --> 00:31:00,916 other than this terribly lit room... 538 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,541 - Not me. - ...we committed to telling a story, 539 00:31:03,625 --> 00:31:06,750 and not some version of poverty porn, either, okay? 540 00:31:06,833 --> 00:31:09,666 So, don't think if you don't get what you want, Elaine, 541 00:31:09,750 --> 00:31:11,250 that the world should stop for you. 542 00:31:11,333 --> 00:31:12,791 Mmm, I like this, Miss B. 543 00:31:12,875 --> 00:31:15,583 Or that if someone says something you don't like, Rosa, 544 00:31:15,666 --> 00:31:17,083 you get to choke them the fuck out. 545 00:31:17,166 --> 00:31:18,791 You're right, my bad. 546 00:31:19,791 --> 00:31:23,541 Now, Elaine, your poem was great. Okay? 547 00:31:24,541 --> 00:31:25,375 Yeah? 548 00:31:25,791 --> 00:31:26,666 Yes! 549 00:31:27,625 --> 00:31:28,458 But... 550 00:31:28,958 --> 00:31:31,000 don't think because you created something 551 00:31:31,083 --> 00:31:33,666 that people would appreciate it, okay? 552 00:31:33,750 --> 00:31:36,000 Or you'll end up some washed-up, 553 00:31:36,083 --> 00:31:39,208 forty-year-old playwright with some stupid notion to become a rapper 554 00:31:39,291 --> 00:31:43,833 and the shits from drinking a diet drink that doesn't quite meet the FDA standards. 555 00:31:43,916 --> 00:31:45,916 Now, do you want that for yourselves? 556 00:31:46,083 --> 00:31:47,791 I said, "Is that what you want?" 557 00:31:47,875 --> 00:31:48,833 - No. - No. 558 00:31:49,958 --> 00:31:50,791 Fine. 559 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:52,041 A rapper, Miss B? 560 00:31:52,916 --> 00:31:54,166 I'll see you next week. 561 00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:00,625 Wow, she's like Queen Latifah and Judge Judy, but rolled into one, yo. 562 00:32:08,750 --> 00:32:10,333 - What the fuck? - Yo, Miss B. 563 00:32:11,625 --> 00:32:13,083 Hey, Avery. 564 00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:16,333 Oh, shoot, sorry. I gotta take this. 565 00:32:16,750 --> 00:32:18,375 - Have a good one. - You, too. 566 00:32:18,458 --> 00:32:20,250 Oh, sweet Jesus. 567 00:32:20,333 --> 00:32:22,333 Yes, I am your salvation. 568 00:32:22,875 --> 00:32:23,875 What's up? 569 00:32:24,416 --> 00:32:26,916 So, I just saw Whitman. His new play is trash. 570 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Anyway, your name came up. 571 00:32:29,083 --> 00:32:29,916 So? 572 00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:31,958 So, I told him straight up, like, 573 00:32:32,041 --> 00:32:34,333 "What's up with my girl, you know?" 574 00:32:34,541 --> 00:32:36,250 - And he said... - Wait, hold up, Archie. 575 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,333 Uh, hello? Radha? 576 00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:40,250 Hello? 577 00:32:41,041 --> 00:32:42,583 This motherfucker. 578 00:32:43,291 --> 00:32:44,166 Excuse me? 579 00:32:44,458 --> 00:32:45,750 Mmm! 580 00:32:46,208 --> 00:32:48,333 - Hey, Archie, let me call you back. - No, wait! 581 00:32:48,916 --> 00:32:49,875 Fuck! 582 00:32:51,166 --> 00:32:53,166 No, not you. I'd never fuck you. 583 00:32:56,375 --> 00:32:57,458 Hey. 584 00:32:57,541 --> 00:32:59,875 The storage people are ready to pick up stuff, 585 00:33:00,541 --> 00:33:05,250 but I waited... because maybe you want to look through her stuff first? 586 00:33:06,166 --> 00:33:09,083 Come on! What's the fucking deal? 587 00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:19,541 Hey. 588 00:33:20,708 --> 00:33:23,541 Look, um... I don't know you... 589 00:33:24,291 --> 00:33:28,041 and you damn sure don't know me to pull some ghosting shit like you did, 590 00:33:28,250 --> 00:33:30,666 but, um, nigga, I'm from Brooklyn, too. 591 00:33:30,750 --> 00:33:35,625 Okay? I grew up on Mother Gaston in the '90s. 592 00:33:35,708 --> 00:33:39,625 By aroma alone, I can tell the difference between three grades of crack, 593 00:33:39,708 --> 00:33:42,708 so don't go treating me like I'm some white, newbie hipster 594 00:33:42,791 --> 00:33:46,666 exploring the Black terrain when I'm fucking from here, okay? 595 00:33:58,416 --> 00:34:00,250 This motherfucker. 596 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,125 If you didn't want to work with me, you should have just said something. 597 00:34:24,416 --> 00:34:26,208 You know what's really fucked up? 598 00:34:26,791 --> 00:34:29,125 All you so-called "brothers" letting a sister 599 00:34:29,208 --> 00:34:33,166 walk to a Brownsville train station by herself at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. 600 00:34:34,708 --> 00:34:36,125 Does that even sound right? 601 00:34:39,541 --> 00:34:41,041 No, it don't. 602 00:34:42,083 --> 00:34:42,916 Okay. 603 00:34:44,083 --> 00:34:45,375 It was, like, 2:10. 604 00:34:46,375 --> 00:34:48,583 You went to the corner bodega and got some Funyuns. 605 00:34:48,666 --> 00:34:51,541 You went down to the station. Your train came in, like, ten minutes. 606 00:34:59,166 --> 00:35:00,125 I knew that. 607 00:35:02,083 --> 00:35:03,125 Going in or what? 608 00:35:04,625 --> 00:35:05,541 What, now? 609 00:35:06,416 --> 00:35:07,750 Did you want another beat? 610 00:35:09,583 --> 00:35:10,416 Maybe. 611 00:35:37,916 --> 00:35:39,750 No, wait. The last one. 612 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:45,958 Oh, shit. 613 00:35:47,875 --> 00:35:49,958 Archie. Jesus. 614 00:35:50,041 --> 00:35:50,875 Um... 615 00:35:50,958 --> 00:35:52,041 I'm so sorry. 616 00:35:53,625 --> 00:35:56,750 He's just... it's my agent. 617 00:35:56,833 --> 00:35:58,291 Um... 618 00:35:58,833 --> 00:36:02,416 I've been working on this... social commentary 619 00:36:03,291 --> 00:36:09,875 about, um, the white gaze's eroticism of Black pain, and, um... 620 00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:15,875 Don't you want to know what I'm rhyming about? 621 00:36:17,083 --> 00:36:18,583 I just make the beats, lady. 622 00:36:20,583 --> 00:36:21,416 Okay. 623 00:36:38,458 --> 00:36:39,541 Sorry. 624 00:36:46,583 --> 00:36:49,625 Aight, so, you gonna come in... 625 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,208 You gonna come in on the eight. 626 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:25,666 How was that last one? 627 00:38:27,041 --> 00:38:27,958 Good. 628 00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:31,916 It felt good. 629 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,500 If my kids could see me now. 630 00:38:39,291 --> 00:38:40,666 Not my kids, I don't... 631 00:38:41,458 --> 00:38:42,416 I don't have kids. 632 00:38:43,166 --> 00:38:45,500 I mean my students. 633 00:38:47,333 --> 00:38:48,500 I'm a teacher. 634 00:38:48,583 --> 00:38:50,000 I teach playwriting. 635 00:38:51,916 --> 00:38:55,000 I'm a playwright, but I don't really feel like one these days. 636 00:38:56,291 --> 00:38:59,166 Anyway, my students would get a real kick out of this. 637 00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:02,791 Not that you're listening to anything I'm saying. 638 00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:08,500 Ah. 639 00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:15,916 Coltrane, huh? 640 00:39:17,541 --> 00:39:19,875 What, I'm from Brownsville, so I don't know? 641 00:39:20,833 --> 00:39:22,875 No, I'm just saying, Coltrane. 642 00:39:24,458 --> 00:39:26,041 Yeah, my moms put me on. 643 00:39:28,583 --> 00:39:30,166 Your mom has good taste. 644 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,458 So, what does she think of your music? 645 00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:40,458 I don't know. She died. 646 00:39:52,958 --> 00:39:54,250 I'm sorry to hear that. 647 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,541 You know what? Um... 648 00:40:02,791 --> 00:40:03,791 I'm gonna go. 649 00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:08,833 The session was great. I just should probably get on my way. 650 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:14,125 Um, but before I forget. 651 00:40:16,583 --> 00:40:18,333 Nah. 652 00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:20,583 Don't I owe you for the session? 653 00:40:20,666 --> 00:40:22,583 No, we good from last time. It's cool. 654 00:40:23,333 --> 00:40:24,291 Okay. 655 00:40:25,541 --> 00:40:26,958 More for me. 656 00:40:28,083 --> 00:40:29,583 Okay. 657 00:40:29,916 --> 00:40:32,000 Um, oh, you need me to... 658 00:40:32,083 --> 00:40:36,333 walk you or follow you to the train again? 659 00:40:36,625 --> 00:40:41,750 Uh, no, but, um... I want to come back. 660 00:40:43,708 --> 00:40:45,708 I want to make a mixtape. 661 00:40:48,333 --> 00:40:49,666 - Man. - What? 662 00:40:50,791 --> 00:40:52,500 Nothing. I mean... 663 00:40:53,041 --> 00:40:55,458 you could. It'd be nice. 664 00:40:56,708 --> 00:40:57,833 What did you just say? 665 00:40:58,750 --> 00:41:00,750 Come on, you heard what I said. 666 00:41:02,416 --> 00:41:05,083 You don't think I'm some crazy old broad for doing this? 667 00:41:05,791 --> 00:41:07,666 I mean, I ain't say all that... 668 00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:10,500 but what you're doing... 669 00:41:11,916 --> 00:41:12,916 it's interesting. 670 00:41:15,250 --> 00:41:16,083 Thanks, D. 671 00:41:18,541 --> 00:41:20,125 I'm gonna go. 672 00:41:20,416 --> 00:41:21,750 Yeah, thanks. 673 00:41:25,333 --> 00:41:26,291 Yo. 674 00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:29,625 What you doing on Thursday? 675 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,791 Poverty porn I'll write some poverty porn 676 00:41:36,666 --> 00:41:38,041 Yeah, bitch. 677 00:41:38,125 --> 00:41:39,833 - Archie... - Don't "Archie" me. 678 00:41:39,916 --> 00:41:41,625 I was just about to call you. 679 00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:44,000 You got me waiting in your not-gentrified-enough-for-me 680 00:41:44,083 --> 00:41:46,625 part of Harlem getting harassed by Homeless Harry over there. 681 00:41:46,708 --> 00:41:48,333 It's Lamont... 682 00:41:48,416 --> 00:41:49,250 but okay. 683 00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:51,250 - Look, I want... - No, you look. 684 00:41:51,333 --> 00:41:55,041 You're blowing me off when I'm trying to tell your tired, unproduced ass 685 00:41:55,125 --> 00:41:56,375 some good news. 686 00:41:56,458 --> 00:41:57,333 What? 687 00:41:58,125 --> 00:42:00,625 Harlem fucking Ave. 688 00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:02,958 Whitman wants to produce it. 689 00:42:03,375 --> 00:42:04,291 What? 690 00:42:04,375 --> 00:42:07,208 He said he's over the thing and wants to do your play, 691 00:42:07,291 --> 00:42:10,875 pending we make some changes around length and tone and did I say length? 692 00:42:11,291 --> 00:42:13,333 Doesn't matter. He's all in. 693 00:42:13,583 --> 00:42:14,708 Mmm... 694 00:42:15,208 --> 00:42:16,416 - What? - I don't know. 695 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:18,791 Does that... does this even feel right? 696 00:42:18,875 --> 00:42:21,041 Does an after-dinner fart feel right? Hell's yes. 697 00:42:21,125 --> 00:42:22,583 No, I mean... 698 00:42:23,333 --> 00:42:27,458 do I want to compromise my play for some arrogant asshole? 699 00:42:28,166 --> 00:42:30,500 - You choked that asshole. - Shh. 700 00:42:30,583 --> 00:42:32,750 That asshole didn't press charges. 701 00:42:32,833 --> 00:42:36,166 That asshole still wants to work with you. 702 00:42:37,166 --> 00:42:40,000 This is the major production you wanted. 703 00:42:40,333 --> 00:42:43,291 Yeah, but do I want it this way? 704 00:42:46,041 --> 00:42:47,166 What? 705 00:42:47,250 --> 00:42:50,958 You know, the whole "us against the world" thing was cute in high school, 706 00:42:51,416 --> 00:42:55,291 but I like opportunity, and eating out, and silken robes. 707 00:42:56,666 --> 00:42:59,333 Just know, to stay an underdog, you have to lose shit. 708 00:42:59,875 --> 00:43:01,750 Archie, we can find another producer. 709 00:43:01,833 --> 00:43:03,000 I'm talking about me. 710 00:43:04,375 --> 00:43:05,333 What? 711 00:43:06,833 --> 00:43:09,541 Archie, you don't even mean that. 712 00:43:09,625 --> 00:43:13,916 I've known you since I was skinny and you pretended to like girls. 713 00:43:14,708 --> 00:43:17,833 Look, I'm doing this show on Thursday. 714 00:43:18,250 --> 00:43:19,500 Show? With who? 715 00:43:20,041 --> 00:43:21,458 D from Brownsville. 716 00:43:21,958 --> 00:43:23,666 He's doing this artist showcase 717 00:43:24,125 --> 00:43:27,291 - and he invited RadhaMUSprime to perform. - Who-da-mus? 718 00:43:28,958 --> 00:43:30,791 Seriously, it would mean a lot if you came. 719 00:43:34,375 --> 00:43:35,208 Archie. 720 00:43:36,458 --> 00:43:39,500 Give a bitch a chance, man. 721 00:43:39,583 --> 00:43:42,125 Her desperation is making me nauseous, 722 00:43:42,208 --> 00:43:46,750 although technically, you gotta eat something to throw up, know what I mean? 723 00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:51,166 Whitman had some notes. Will you look them over? 724 00:43:52,041 --> 00:43:53,875 I will seriously consider it. 725 00:43:56,458 --> 00:43:57,458 See you on Thursday? 726 00:43:57,541 --> 00:43:59,458 Whatever, bitch. Look at the notes. 727 00:43:59,541 --> 00:44:00,708 You 40 yet? 728 00:44:00,791 --> 00:44:02,000 Not yet, ma'am. 729 00:44:02,083 --> 00:44:03,791 Still trying that rapping shit? 730 00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:05,333 Yes, I am, ma'am. 731 00:44:05,416 --> 00:44:07,291 You know, you're not going to be satisfied 732 00:44:07,375 --> 00:44:10,541 until you sleeping in a box like that fool over there. 733 00:44:10,958 --> 00:44:12,125 Hey, mama. 734 00:44:12,208 --> 00:44:14,708 Shut up with that mama mess. 735 00:44:14,791 --> 00:44:16,583 I'll beat some homeless ass. 736 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,500 Why are you guys still here? 737 00:44:30,458 --> 00:44:31,333 Hello? 738 00:44:31,916 --> 00:44:35,791 My ex-girl's older half cousin says you rhyming in a show. 739 00:44:36,708 --> 00:44:37,750 It's true, Miss B? 740 00:44:40,208 --> 00:44:41,958 Don't you guys have some place to be? 741 00:44:42,041 --> 00:44:44,375 - Damn, it's like that? - For real? 742 00:44:44,708 --> 00:44:46,458 You just gonna shut the youth out of a moment 743 00:44:46,541 --> 00:44:48,208 that could potentially change how we dream, 744 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:50,791 how we look at the cold world out there, how we confront... 745 00:44:50,875 --> 00:44:53,083 Yes, damn it. Okay. 746 00:44:53,166 --> 00:44:55,000 Shit. That's what's up, Miss B. 747 00:44:56,333 --> 00:44:59,500 - Yo, we can come through, right? - Mmm. I don't know, guys. 748 00:44:59,583 --> 00:45:01,208 Come on, Miss B. 749 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,000 You know we live for this kind of shit. 750 00:45:04,083 --> 00:45:07,125 And you not just talking about shit. You making shit. Shit! 751 00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:11,541 Okay, but just you two. 752 00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:14,625 - Ooh-hoo-hoo! - Okay, you cannot tell another soul. 753 00:45:14,708 --> 00:45:15,583 Bet! 754 00:45:15,791 --> 00:45:19,041 We got you Miss B. Mum's the fucking word. 755 00:45:20,083 --> 00:45:21,791 We all on that damn list. 756 00:45:21,875 --> 00:45:24,208 Ain't no minors here. We're majors, son. 757 00:45:24,291 --> 00:45:27,541 - Why you trying to play us? - What you want, some money, some weed? 758 00:45:27,625 --> 00:45:30,000 Shut up, stupid and stupider. 759 00:45:30,458 --> 00:45:31,375 I got this. 760 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,958 Now, you know the charge for looking at a minor's titties? 761 00:45:38,750 --> 00:45:39,583 Yeah. 762 00:45:39,666 --> 00:45:42,166 You know the charge. That's what I'm talking about. 763 00:45:42,333 --> 00:45:43,333 This is my friend. 764 00:45:46,458 --> 00:45:47,708 That's your moms? 765 00:45:48,666 --> 00:45:50,166 - Yeah. - She coming? 766 00:45:51,750 --> 00:45:53,666 In spirit, I guess. 767 00:45:57,333 --> 00:45:58,458 Oh, shit. 768 00:45:59,333 --> 00:46:00,833 Yo, why you ain't say nothing? 769 00:46:02,750 --> 00:46:06,291 Don't you get tired of adding people to the dead-mom club in your head? 770 00:46:11,291 --> 00:46:13,833 That's what we doing now? 771 00:46:14,291 --> 00:46:16,875 Yeah, that's what we doing now. Shit. 772 00:46:17,291 --> 00:46:18,708 "That's what we doing now," 773 00:46:18,791 --> 00:46:21,666 says the person with the metabolism of a baby goat. 774 00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:23,500 You'll see. 775 00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:26,458 It gets much harder to lose weight when you get older. 776 00:46:28,666 --> 00:46:30,666 Well, there ain't nothing wrong with you. 777 00:46:31,291 --> 00:46:33,166 Mm. No, just my nerves. 778 00:46:34,166 --> 00:46:35,750 Yo, it is one song. 779 00:46:35,833 --> 00:46:37,291 I know, but I just... 780 00:46:37,375 --> 00:46:39,833 - Now, come on. Let's go. - What? 781 00:46:39,916 --> 00:46:40,833 Where we going? 782 00:46:41,833 --> 00:46:42,958 Where we going? 783 00:46:43,041 --> 00:46:46,458 Like, I eat Vietnamese food I ain't going for the top spot 784 00:46:46,541 --> 00:46:47,666 No. 785 00:46:47,833 --> 00:46:50,250 Come on. It's gonna chill you out. 786 00:46:50,708 --> 00:46:51,541 Trust me. 787 00:46:52,333 --> 00:46:55,166 I write liquor flows And draft beers the fans hearing 788 00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:57,250 If you have ears, come give Mick a lobe 789 00:46:57,916 --> 00:46:59,958 Ambidextrous, tag team drawn 790 00:47:00,041 --> 00:47:02,666 Both hands on the bars Like a trapeze artist 791 00:47:02,791 --> 00:47:05,416 - Ooh! - Inverted triangle on the overcoat 792 00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:07,666 I feel like Forrest Gump When he lost polio 793 00:47:08,125 --> 00:47:10,458 That was too straightforward Let me space out 794 00:47:10,583 --> 00:47:13,041 I'm glad that I had the gumption To break out 795 00:47:13,125 --> 00:47:15,125 If y'all ain't catch that bars Time to OD 796 00:47:15,208 --> 00:47:18,208 Brace yourself Gumption is what broke free 797 00:47:19,333 --> 00:47:20,333 Okay. 798 00:47:20,416 --> 00:47:23,291 Another brother died All they did was make a shirt of it 799 00:47:23,375 --> 00:47:24,875 I was there in body and spirit 800 00:47:24,958 --> 00:47:27,708 These is my lyrics Niggas hang on every word of it 801 00:47:28,375 --> 00:47:30,750 I'mma trim the fat like a Foreman Grill 802 00:47:30,833 --> 00:47:32,833 I give you the word like a foreign film 803 00:47:32,916 --> 00:47:35,333 Politicians been a problem Since the birth of it 804 00:47:35,416 --> 00:47:37,750 I don't fit into your vision Every different stance 805 00:47:37,833 --> 00:47:40,208 Vincent van Gogh Because the left never heard of it 806 00:47:40,291 --> 00:47:41,291 Woo! 807 00:47:41,375 --> 00:47:43,333 Niggas act like I actually like That conscious shit 808 00:47:43,416 --> 00:47:45,916 Nah, my spirit been there All my albums is posthumous 809 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,166 I see motherfuckers pay a grip For an Oculus Rift 810 00:47:48,250 --> 00:47:50,500 And still can't see it through My fucking eyes and shit 811 00:47:50,583 --> 00:47:53,500 I didn't beat the odds and shit Niggas where I'm from don't see the prize 812 00:47:53,583 --> 00:47:56,458 All our moms believe in God And all they sons is demonized 813 00:47:56,541 --> 00:47:59,583 I thought going to school was selfish Because of how expensive college is 814 00:47:59,666 --> 00:48:02,250 Now, I do a college and get paid A fucking scholarship 815 00:48:02,333 --> 00:48:03,416 Woo! 816 00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:05,000 Crazy, bro. Crazy. 817 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,791 Um... 818 00:48:08,041 --> 00:48:08,916 Oh, okay. 819 00:48:10,333 --> 00:48:12,500 Yo, this be a moment, B 820 00:48:12,583 --> 00:48:14,291 Down in all these groceries 821 00:48:14,375 --> 00:48:18,083 Niggas act like they don't notice me But they ashen, get some lotion, B 822 00:48:18,166 --> 00:48:21,041 RadhaMUS is the chosen, see 823 00:48:21,125 --> 00:48:22,833 At the top of the totem tree 824 00:48:23,208 --> 00:48:25,625 While these niggas hang low Like them scrotums be 825 00:48:26,083 --> 00:48:28,541 You're not pee So you're just loaders, free 826 00:48:28,625 --> 00:48:30,833 You're both crooked and straight bogus, B 827 00:48:30,916 --> 00:48:32,583 Your own momma is toasting me 828 00:48:32,666 --> 00:48:34,458 She second that emotion, B 829 00:48:34,541 --> 00:48:36,583 Yo, get some power and stop ghosting me 830 00:48:36,666 --> 00:48:37,916 Okay! 831 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,083 Shiny bevels, swarmy levels Where your devotion be? 832 00:48:41,750 --> 00:48:44,416 Yo, yo, it's almost time to go 833 00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:47,000 I hope I do D proud enough To give a bitch some more 834 00:48:47,083 --> 00:48:50,458 Because I'm hooked, shook Gotta pain for them beats, hits 835 00:48:50,541 --> 00:48:52,208 Like a diabetic for sweet shit 836 00:48:52,708 --> 00:48:55,791 If beat's the mother of invention Then I'm sucking on her sweet tit 837 00:48:55,875 --> 00:48:56,750 Damn! 838 00:48:56,833 --> 00:48:58,125 That's crazy! That's good. 839 00:48:58,208 --> 00:49:00,958 Yo, look. It's a packed show up there. 840 00:49:01,041 --> 00:49:02,000 I'mma see y'all, aight? 841 00:49:02,083 --> 00:49:03,416 Aight, yeah, I'mma go up with you. 842 00:49:06,666 --> 00:49:08,166 Sucking on her sweet tit? 843 00:49:08,250 --> 00:49:09,250 You fuck with girls? 844 00:49:15,625 --> 00:49:17,458 All right! 845 00:49:17,833 --> 00:49:19,125 All right. 846 00:49:19,208 --> 00:49:21,166 Y'all feeling good tonight? Having a good time? 847 00:49:21,250 --> 00:49:23,166 - Yeah! - All right, all right. 848 00:49:23,250 --> 00:49:26,416 Thanks so much for coming out to support our little showcase, man. 849 00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:29,125 Yo, D worked so hard on all the beats your hear tonight. 850 00:49:29,208 --> 00:49:31,625 So let's give it up for D, man. 851 00:49:31,708 --> 00:49:34,041 Give me some of that Big D energy. 852 00:49:34,125 --> 00:49:35,958 Yeah, yeah. All right. 853 00:49:41,250 --> 00:49:43,291 Oh, no. I'm good. Thank you. 854 00:49:44,375 --> 00:49:46,208 You said you want to keep flowing, right? 855 00:49:47,458 --> 00:49:50,625 Okay. Yeah, it's a little puff, right? 856 00:49:50,833 --> 00:49:51,666 Yeah. 857 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,000 Mmm! 858 00:50:00,208 --> 00:50:02,583 Yeah, RadhaMUS! 859 00:50:02,750 --> 00:50:04,291 Yeah. Flowing. 860 00:50:05,333 --> 00:50:06,291 Mmm. 861 00:50:07,750 --> 00:50:09,166 Is that Colorado? That's... 862 00:50:10,291 --> 00:50:12,875 I can't take any credit for this next act. 863 00:50:12,958 --> 00:50:15,291 No, this is all D's discovery, yo. 864 00:50:15,625 --> 00:50:20,625 Give it up for a much older female MC, RadhaMUSprime! 865 00:50:28,291 --> 00:50:29,500 Yeah, Miss B! 866 00:50:30,541 --> 00:50:32,791 Hey, guys. Thanks for coming out. 867 00:50:32,875 --> 00:50:34,875 Friends, students. 868 00:50:36,625 --> 00:50:40,916 Kick that beat, DJ. D... J. 869 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:43,916 Yeah. 870 00:50:45,291 --> 00:50:46,625 Yo. Uh! 871 00:50:47,375 --> 00:50:48,375 Yeah. 872 00:50:48,458 --> 00:50:51,583 It's RadhaMUSprime. 40-year-old version. 873 00:50:52,083 --> 00:50:53,333 Go, Radha! 874 00:51:01,916 --> 00:51:04,291 Yo. Archie? 875 00:51:05,666 --> 00:51:06,958 Oh, my God, Archie? 876 00:51:07,041 --> 00:51:09,166 DJ, DJ, cut the music off. 877 00:51:09,250 --> 00:51:10,291 Cut the music off. 878 00:51:11,458 --> 00:51:13,625 Oh, my God, Archie. You came to my show. 879 00:51:13,708 --> 00:51:15,166 You never let me down, do you? 880 00:51:15,750 --> 00:51:19,041 Guys, give it up for Archie. This is my best friend since... 881 00:51:21,041 --> 00:51:25,666 You can't tell right now, but he used to have a beard in high school. 882 00:51:29,875 --> 00:51:31,958 Oh, my God! That was funny. 883 00:51:32,041 --> 00:51:35,625 Before I go on, let's give it up for D, 884 00:51:35,708 --> 00:51:39,625 who awesomely crafted all the beats that you're hearing here tonight... 885 00:51:41,333 --> 00:51:45,333 ...making Brooklyn and his dead mother so proud, you know. 886 00:51:46,041 --> 00:51:47,375 See, not all Black men 887 00:51:47,458 --> 00:51:51,458 are in jail knocking up babies that they can't take care of. 888 00:51:53,458 --> 00:51:54,416 Woke. 889 00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:56,833 So, uh... Sorry. 890 00:51:56,916 --> 00:51:58,791 Bring that beat back. How about that? 891 00:51:58,875 --> 00:52:00,500 Huh? Huh? 892 00:52:00,583 --> 00:52:01,583 Yeah. 893 00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:03,583 Come on, y'all. 894 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,000 Yo? 895 00:52:34,916 --> 00:52:37,500 Archie, what's wrong with me? 896 00:52:37,583 --> 00:52:40,083 Hey, it's okay. 897 00:52:40,791 --> 00:52:43,208 I'm not a fucking rapper. 898 00:52:43,291 --> 00:52:45,000 I'm a playwright. 899 00:52:46,708 --> 00:52:50,625 Oh, God. Give me a chance to make this right. 900 00:52:50,708 --> 00:52:52,041 Oh! Oh, God. 901 00:52:52,666 --> 00:52:55,125 I'm... I'm still rhyming, 902 00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:57,458 and I didn't mean to rhyme, 903 00:52:57,833 --> 00:52:59,583 not that time. 904 00:52:59,666 --> 00:53:01,708 Oh, God, I'm still doing it. 905 00:53:03,125 --> 00:53:05,166 Damn. Damn, damn. 906 00:53:05,250 --> 00:53:07,458 Oh, I'm so sorry. 907 00:53:07,541 --> 00:53:10,083 Oh, my poor ebony flower. 908 00:53:10,625 --> 00:53:16,125 I'm not going to use my lips to tell you I told you so, but... 909 00:53:20,916 --> 00:53:23,791 Folks out there is watching us. 910 00:53:24,708 --> 00:53:28,250 We gots to give some kind of contribution. 911 00:53:30,250 --> 00:53:31,125 You know? 912 00:54:21,750 --> 00:54:23,125 Did you want them back? 913 00:54:23,833 --> 00:54:24,916 Mm-mm. 914 00:54:25,541 --> 00:54:27,458 Why? They're yours. 915 00:54:28,250 --> 00:54:29,166 You paid for them. 916 00:54:30,666 --> 00:54:33,416 You were one of her few actual patrons. 917 00:54:37,416 --> 00:54:41,625 You know, they say that after your mother dies you see her in a dream, but... 918 00:54:42,666 --> 00:54:44,416 a whole year passes and nothing. 919 00:54:46,250 --> 00:54:49,875 Oh, shit, even my dreams need rewrites. 920 00:54:51,166 --> 00:54:52,666 You should talk to someone. 921 00:54:54,166 --> 00:54:55,750 How's your brother holding up? 922 00:54:56,208 --> 00:54:58,791 I don't know. We keep missing each other. 923 00:55:02,833 --> 00:55:03,916 Wait a minute. 924 00:55:04,833 --> 00:55:05,875 Where's Antonio? 925 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,041 He left. 926 00:55:09,041 --> 00:55:11,541 What? 927 00:55:12,333 --> 00:55:14,541 - Jack Llenna's premiere got moved. - Mm-hmm. 928 00:55:14,666 --> 00:55:16,958 He's my top-grossing client. I couldn't miss it. 929 00:55:17,916 --> 00:55:20,083 So, I had to postpone Greece. 930 00:55:20,791 --> 00:55:23,000 No thongs. Shit. 931 00:55:24,250 --> 00:55:28,750 Antonio lost it. Said I care more about my clients than I do him. 932 00:55:29,416 --> 00:55:30,250 Lies. 933 00:55:35,250 --> 00:55:37,916 Well, you know what? Fuck Antonio. 934 00:55:38,166 --> 00:55:39,750 Maybe now you can date Korean. 935 00:55:39,833 --> 00:55:41,291 You sound like my mother. 936 00:55:41,375 --> 00:55:43,500 "Why you not try Korean guy?" 937 00:55:43,666 --> 00:55:45,625 "Why you not bring Korean baby?" 938 00:55:45,708 --> 00:55:47,291 - Um, no. - What? 939 00:55:47,958 --> 00:55:50,708 What? Oh, I can't do that because I'm Black? 940 00:55:50,791 --> 00:55:52,291 Uh, who's racist now? 941 00:55:52,375 --> 00:55:55,541 And scene. That's a wrap on Shut the Fuck Up. 942 00:56:05,375 --> 00:56:06,208 I'll do it. 943 00:56:06,875 --> 00:56:07,791 Shut the Fuck Up? 944 00:56:09,041 --> 00:56:10,041 No, Whitman. 945 00:56:11,666 --> 00:56:13,916 I'll do the play if you think that he would still... 946 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,583 Of course. I had him in the palm... 947 00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:18,875 He'll do it. 948 00:56:20,958 --> 00:56:22,041 Are you sure? 949 00:56:23,458 --> 00:56:24,291 Yeah. 950 00:56:28,666 --> 00:56:30,666 "Come. Drink of mommy milk." 951 00:56:34,625 --> 00:56:37,708 Look, I ain't say that you couldn't, 952 00:56:38,250 --> 00:56:39,458 but you shouldn't. 953 00:56:40,416 --> 00:56:43,666 Not some rapping pipe dream at your age. 954 00:56:43,750 --> 00:56:44,875 Hell no! 955 00:56:46,041 --> 00:56:48,416 We gots to be sensible. 956 00:56:54,666 --> 00:56:56,458 Now, since retiring, 957 00:56:57,416 --> 00:57:00,208 I took it upon myself to impart 958 00:57:00,291 --> 00:57:03,500 my own ministry of truth around Harlem. 959 00:57:07,125 --> 00:57:09,166 You might not want to hear the truth, 960 00:57:11,916 --> 00:57:13,916 but like these mosquitoes... 961 00:57:16,375 --> 00:57:18,166 ...I'm biting that ass. 962 00:57:30,458 --> 00:57:33,333 - I love the new characters. - You do? 963 00:57:33,416 --> 00:57:37,250 Yes. The sassy old Black woman doling out unwanted advice. 964 00:57:37,333 --> 00:57:38,708 Love her. 965 00:57:38,791 --> 00:57:43,208 The teens are fine. You just need to spice them up with a little rap number. 966 00:57:43,833 --> 00:57:44,833 Hmm. 967 00:57:44,916 --> 00:57:45,750 Don't stress. 968 00:57:45,833 --> 00:57:49,375 We're going to organize a workshop and you'll be able to see all the changes. 969 00:57:49,708 --> 00:57:51,250 Great. Um... 970 00:57:52,166 --> 00:57:56,666 Before I forget, I just wanted to say to you that I... 971 00:57:56,750 --> 00:57:58,750 It's okay. I spoke to Archie. 972 00:57:59,208 --> 00:58:01,375 And I know about your dead mom 973 00:58:01,458 --> 00:58:03,458 and how sorry you are for choking me. 974 00:58:03,708 --> 00:58:05,583 - Mmm. - Look, no more apologies. 975 00:58:05,666 --> 00:58:08,250 - I'm over it and we can move on. - Okay. 976 00:58:08,416 --> 00:58:12,625 Plus, we've got a little buzz, and buzz means butts in seats. 977 00:58:12,708 --> 00:58:14,166 Great. 978 00:58:15,250 --> 00:58:18,833 I also wanted to talk to you about... 979 00:58:19,916 --> 00:58:22,375 having a Black director is really important to me. 980 00:58:22,458 --> 00:58:25,375 Of course, we want that for you, too. We'll make that happen. 981 00:58:25,458 --> 00:58:26,875 - Okay? All right. - Yeah. 982 00:58:27,625 --> 00:58:29,416 - Oh, one more note... - Mm-hmm? 983 00:58:29,541 --> 00:58:30,875 Gentrification. 984 00:58:31,583 --> 00:58:34,916 It shouldn't just be this thing that's happening out there. 985 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,375 We need to personify it in the play, you know? 986 00:58:38,833 --> 00:58:41,583 - Not quite. - Well... well, look... 987 00:58:41,708 --> 00:58:45,333 If we have a Black couple facing gentrification in Harlem, 988 00:58:46,291 --> 00:58:49,041 we need to know just who's gentrifying. 989 00:58:52,041 --> 00:58:54,958 Mmm, I don't know. See, my play is about... 990 00:58:55,041 --> 00:58:56,458 I know what your play's about, 991 00:58:56,541 --> 00:58:58,708 and I also know we need to grab the core audience. 992 00:59:00,291 --> 00:59:03,333 And to do that, you have to write them in the play. 993 00:59:06,833 --> 00:59:07,666 Good. 994 00:59:12,750 --> 00:59:15,625 I wish I could have been there. Oh, my God. 995 00:59:15,708 --> 00:59:17,833 She's like, "Yo, yo, yo!" 996 00:59:18,125 --> 00:59:21,666 Okay, fine. So we have this spermazoid. 997 00:59:22,083 --> 00:59:24,083 Ah, but what is his motivation? 998 00:59:24,458 --> 00:59:26,375 - What is he after? You know? - Hey. 999 00:59:27,375 --> 00:59:30,333 Heard your show was "da bomb." 1000 00:59:30,500 --> 00:59:32,958 "Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo!" 1001 00:59:33,041 --> 00:59:34,833 RadhaMUS? More like NotiMUS. 1002 00:59:37,458 --> 00:59:38,916 I'll bust her ass if you want. 1003 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,208 Man, fuck her, Miss B. 1004 00:59:41,916 --> 00:59:44,541 Aight? We just glad to have you back. We missed you. 1005 00:59:45,291 --> 00:59:47,583 Word, yo. What happened up there? 1006 00:59:48,166 --> 00:59:50,416 Sound like you was having a stroke or something. 1007 00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:53,583 No pendejo. Clearly she had a nervous breakdown. 1008 00:59:54,958 --> 00:59:58,416 They was calling you "frozen yo-gurt," Miss B. 1009 00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:01,250 I heard somebody say "the human yo-yo." 1010 01:00:02,166 --> 01:00:03,250 You want to talk about it? 1011 01:00:25,625 --> 01:00:28,083 So, you're okay with everything, then? 1012 01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:32,708 Well, no, it's not the director that I wanted, you know? 1013 01:00:32,791 --> 01:00:35,708 Her all-male version of Steel Magnolias was amazing. 1014 01:00:36,041 --> 01:00:37,125 There go my fears. 1015 01:00:37,625 --> 01:00:39,458 It's just a workshop, right? 1016 01:00:39,541 --> 01:00:43,583 No, you're right. It's just a workshop. I'm going to power through it. 1017 01:00:44,416 --> 01:00:45,416 That's my girl. 1018 01:00:47,416 --> 01:00:50,416 - Look, Archie, I'm gonna call you later. - Okay, bye. 1019 01:00:50,500 --> 01:00:51,541 Thanks. 1020 01:00:52,416 --> 01:00:54,583 - Hey, girl! - Hey! 1021 01:00:56,500 --> 01:00:58,708 You recovered from the other night? 1022 01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,166 Who, me? Oh, yeah. No, I'm good. 1023 01:01:01,458 --> 01:01:07,458 Yeah, that was like a live... performance experimental thing that I was going for. 1024 01:01:07,541 --> 01:01:08,625 But I'm glad you're here. 1025 01:01:08,708 --> 01:01:10,708 - Girl, you know I love this play. - Cool. 1026 01:01:10,791 --> 01:01:14,291 I mean, it's a bit different than I remember. 1027 01:01:14,375 --> 01:01:16,916 Yeah, my producer gave me some notes. 1028 01:01:17,416 --> 01:01:20,166 Um, turns out I don't need 15 characters. 1029 01:01:21,333 --> 01:01:23,750 And he's writing the check, so you know how that goes. 1030 01:01:23,833 --> 01:01:26,875 - Yeah. - So you fine with all the changes? 1031 01:01:27,750 --> 01:01:28,791 Uh, yeah. 1032 01:01:29,166 --> 01:01:31,166 Yeah. I mean, you know, Stacey, 1033 01:01:31,250 --> 01:01:34,625 writing is rewriting, and I just decided with this draft, 1034 01:01:34,708 --> 01:01:38,416 to hone in on a more, uh, universal tone, you know? 1035 01:01:39,625 --> 01:01:40,458 Harlem. 1036 01:01:41,208 --> 01:01:44,333 For all its color and splendor and beauty, 1037 01:01:44,791 --> 01:01:47,166 still has a way to go, you know? 1038 01:01:47,958 --> 01:01:51,916 Like, what's a girl gotta do to get some soy milk around here? 1039 01:01:58,291 --> 01:02:02,250 Baby, I hear you. I'm not suggesting we change our whole flow, 1040 01:02:02,333 --> 01:02:06,291 just that we incorporate some of the things these new Harlemites want. 1041 01:02:06,375 --> 01:02:08,041 "New Harlemites"? 1042 01:02:08,125 --> 01:02:09,833 Does that even sound right? 1043 01:02:09,916 --> 01:02:12,125 Baby, we can't be changing for them. 1044 01:02:12,208 --> 01:02:13,125 We gots to... 1045 01:02:15,916 --> 01:02:17,000 We gots to... 1046 01:02:19,083 --> 01:02:20,500 Um, Radha? 1047 01:02:22,125 --> 01:02:22,958 Yeah. 1048 01:02:23,291 --> 01:02:24,625 Look, I don't mean to... 1049 01:02:24,708 --> 01:02:26,875 No. Go ahead. This is exactly why we're here. 1050 01:02:26,958 --> 01:02:28,875 This is the work. We are working it. 1051 01:02:28,958 --> 01:02:31,708 Okay. Why is she talking like this? 1052 01:02:33,333 --> 01:02:34,833 Um... 1053 01:02:35,125 --> 01:02:37,416 - Uh, that's a good question. - Mm-hmm. 1054 01:02:37,500 --> 01:02:41,666 The wife, she is trying to persuade her husband. 1055 01:02:42,291 --> 01:02:45,833 He wants to stock the shelves with soy milk, 1056 01:02:45,916 --> 01:02:48,166 and she's concerned about the gentrification. 1057 01:02:48,250 --> 01:02:51,583 No, no, I know what her concerns are. 1058 01:02:51,666 --> 01:02:53,916 I'm wondering about the language. 1059 01:02:54,500 --> 01:02:57,708 Ah! The vernacular, the verbiage. 1060 01:02:57,791 --> 01:03:00,958 Um, well, um, why don't we ask our playwright? 1061 01:03:03,375 --> 01:03:09,166 Okay. Uh, well, the wife, um... she's from the old school. 1062 01:03:09,500 --> 01:03:10,791 She's 35. 1063 01:03:10,875 --> 01:03:12,875 I know. I know that. 1064 01:03:13,666 --> 01:03:14,708 I know that. 1065 01:03:15,375 --> 01:03:17,958 Um, I guess what I mean is that she 1066 01:03:18,333 --> 01:03:24,208 is rooted in, like, a deep... Southern mystical charm. 1067 01:03:24,291 --> 01:03:26,500 - You know? - Not quite. 1068 01:03:27,416 --> 01:03:28,250 I get it. 1069 01:03:28,833 --> 01:03:33,750 I'm wondering why she's the only character talking like that. 1070 01:03:33,833 --> 01:03:37,791 Jamie doesn't talk like that. Marcus doesn't talk like that. 1071 01:03:38,125 --> 01:03:43,083 Okay, the fact that the wife speaks one way and Jamie speaks another 1072 01:03:43,166 --> 01:03:44,958 is because, um... 1073 01:03:45,166 --> 01:03:48,416 - I'm white. - No, no, no! No! 1074 01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:49,458 No, no, no. 1075 01:03:49,541 --> 01:03:53,375 Race in this moment is completely irrelevant. 1076 01:03:53,458 --> 01:03:57,125 Okay, look, I know why the wife speaks this way. 1077 01:03:57,208 --> 01:04:01,458 I just, uh, can't quite articulate that, but I need for you to keep 1078 01:04:01,541 --> 01:04:04,375 talking that way so I can learn what it is 1079 01:04:04,458 --> 01:04:09,166 and then give that to you so that you can then give that to us. 1080 01:04:09,250 --> 01:04:10,083 Okay? 1081 01:04:10,541 --> 01:04:11,416 Okay. 1082 01:04:12,750 --> 01:04:14,000 Back to it, baby. 1083 01:04:19,041 --> 01:04:21,791 I... wow. I am so sorry. 1084 01:04:21,875 --> 01:04:24,666 I'm just gonna take this really quickly. 1085 01:04:28,500 --> 01:04:30,500 Hello? 1086 01:04:45,500 --> 01:04:47,500 And, uh, who the fuck is that? 1087 01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:49,333 RosettaMUSprime. 1088 01:04:50,208 --> 01:04:51,083 Funny. 1089 01:04:51,458 --> 01:04:53,833 I mean, you don't want these beats. 1090 01:04:53,916 --> 01:04:55,333 I never said that. 1091 01:04:56,041 --> 01:05:00,625 Look, I sent you, like, 300 texts, my nigga, and I don't text. 1092 01:05:00,958 --> 01:05:04,375 Yeah, uh, I've just been busy with rehearsals of my play. 1093 01:05:04,916 --> 01:05:06,583 Yo, when we finishing this shit? 1094 01:05:08,625 --> 01:05:09,791 You had a bad night. 1095 01:05:09,875 --> 01:05:12,125 No, I had a lapse in judgment. 1096 01:05:12,208 --> 01:05:13,500 What you talking about? 1097 01:05:14,416 --> 01:05:17,333 Oh, a lapse in judgment is when someone is, you know... 1098 01:05:17,416 --> 01:05:18,666 No, I know. 1099 01:05:19,125 --> 01:05:21,583 What? You don't want to fuck with this music shit no more? 1100 01:05:23,333 --> 01:05:24,166 Hello? 1101 01:05:24,666 --> 01:05:26,083 - D... - What? 1102 01:05:27,166 --> 01:05:28,541 Don't be that way, okay? 1103 01:05:28,625 --> 01:05:30,166 Look, it's not a total loss. 1104 01:05:30,625 --> 01:05:34,583 I'm actually thinking of incorporating some of the rhymes into my play. 1105 01:05:34,666 --> 01:05:35,583 What? 1106 01:05:35,666 --> 01:05:39,375 Look, I just, um... I need to be realistic about things. 1107 01:05:39,458 --> 01:05:41,750 I'm three months shy of 40, okay? 1108 01:05:42,125 --> 01:05:42,958 So? 1109 01:05:43,375 --> 01:05:45,708 So I need to stay in my lane. 1110 01:05:46,250 --> 01:05:47,375 You know? 1111 01:05:48,916 --> 01:05:49,958 Hello? 1112 01:05:50,333 --> 01:05:51,166 I heard you. 1113 01:05:51,625 --> 01:05:53,291 Look, it's just that I... 1114 01:05:54,666 --> 01:05:55,583 Hello? 1115 01:05:56,833 --> 01:05:57,708 Really? 1116 01:05:59,541 --> 01:06:02,000 Hey, are we going to spit this fire or what? 1117 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:09,541 This... is not... soy milk, people. 1118 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:17,291 No, what's in this carton is what each of the characters need from each other. 1119 01:06:18,041 --> 01:06:19,916 It's... it's love. 1120 01:06:21,083 --> 01:06:22,250 It's fresh air. 1121 01:06:23,333 --> 01:06:25,750 It's fresh produce. It's... 1122 01:06:26,416 --> 01:06:29,791 rent-controlled apartments. It's block parties. 1123 01:06:29,875 --> 01:06:30,708 It's... 1124 01:06:31,833 --> 01:06:33,250 it's old Black women... 1125 01:06:34,416 --> 01:06:35,500 sitting on a stoop, 1126 01:06:36,750 --> 01:06:38,166 humming... 1127 01:06:39,666 --> 01:06:40,958 as they open... 1128 01:06:41,500 --> 01:06:42,500 their arms... 1129 01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:47,708 ...to welcome the fresh blood 1130 01:06:48,125 --> 01:06:51,208 into the veins of Harlem. 1131 01:06:52,583 --> 01:06:54,750 This is not soy milk. 1132 01:06:56,125 --> 01:06:57,416 This is life. 1133 01:07:07,458 --> 01:07:08,333 Fuck. 1134 01:07:10,875 --> 01:07:12,958 It's your brother, again. 1135 01:07:13,083 --> 01:07:14,375 For real, Radha? 1136 01:07:14,833 --> 01:07:16,458 You're not going to call me back? 1137 01:07:16,958 --> 01:07:18,208 That's fucked up, yo. 1138 01:07:19,208 --> 01:07:23,000 Got these good oils, people. These good oils, you wanna get in on this. 1139 01:07:23,083 --> 01:07:26,250 Get on this, sweetheart. Got these good oils. My brother. 1140 01:07:26,583 --> 01:07:28,791 Hey, sister, I got these oils. 1141 01:07:29,458 --> 01:07:30,458 You should buy them. 1142 01:07:31,291 --> 01:07:33,291 It only costs a dollar. You should try it. 1143 01:07:33,875 --> 01:07:36,375 - I'm okay. - I'm your local Muslim from the hood. 1144 01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,375 Sister, let me make you smell good. 1145 01:07:40,458 --> 01:07:42,083 You look like you stressed... 1146 01:07:43,333 --> 01:07:46,333 but I'mma give it the best. Understand that. Get these good oils. 1147 01:07:46,708 --> 01:07:49,041 Right here, from your Muslim man right here. 1148 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:03,750 "Well, I have ideas, too. 1149 01:08:04,916 --> 01:08:07,916 Why can't we just make a community garden?" 1150 01:08:08,041 --> 01:08:09,291 "It's not that simple." 1151 01:08:09,833 --> 01:08:13,291 "It is. You just have to change your perspective." 1152 01:08:13,666 --> 01:08:16,416 "T'aint nothing wrong with my damn perspective." 1153 01:08:16,500 --> 01:08:19,416 "Excuse me? Don't take that tone with me." 1154 01:08:19,500 --> 01:08:22,375 "Ladies, ladies, stop. 1155 01:08:23,208 --> 01:08:25,083 Just... stop." 1156 01:08:30,041 --> 01:08:31,916 "This some bullshit." 1157 01:08:35,375 --> 01:08:38,333 This some bullshit This some, this some bullshit 1158 01:08:38,916 --> 01:08:41,791 This some bullshit This some, this some bullshit 1159 01:09:20,791 --> 01:09:21,750 So... 1160 01:09:22,125 --> 01:09:24,375 you gonna let me in or what? 1161 01:09:25,083 --> 01:09:26,291 Preposterous! 1162 01:09:26,583 --> 01:09:30,541 You killed all my gods, destroyed my spermicide castle, 1163 01:09:30,625 --> 01:09:33,333 and now you expect me to let you in? 1164 01:09:33,666 --> 01:09:36,750 Have I not proven that I'd do anything to get to you? 1165 01:09:37,125 --> 01:09:40,083 What I look like, some stupid ho that I go for dumb shit like that? 1166 01:09:40,166 --> 01:09:41,958 That's not even the line, Rosa! 1167 01:09:42,416 --> 01:09:43,416 So? 1168 01:09:43,500 --> 01:09:46,416 So, you just can't be changing shit up like that. 1169 01:09:46,500 --> 01:09:49,208 Aight, first of all, she got to be more feminist, yo. 1170 01:09:49,291 --> 01:09:50,791 She can't just be letting some dude... 1171 01:09:50,875 --> 01:09:51,708 Hey! 1172 01:09:53,916 --> 01:09:55,875 - You coming in? - Nah, I'm good. 1173 01:09:57,625 --> 01:10:00,208 - You sure? You can, you know. - I'm good. 1174 01:10:04,625 --> 01:10:06,833 You're not good, you're bad as hell is what you are. 1175 01:10:19,875 --> 01:10:21,833 Shake up the re-up boys and... 1176 01:10:21,916 --> 01:10:24,416 Yo, nigga, what the fuck, man? Hello? 1177 01:10:24,500 --> 01:10:26,291 Yo, my fault, son. You wanna run that back? 1178 01:10:26,375 --> 01:10:28,125 Nigga, where you at? 1179 01:10:28,208 --> 01:10:29,791 You still tripping over that old broad? 1180 01:10:29,875 --> 01:10:31,541 Nigga, fuck you. She's not old. 1181 01:10:31,625 --> 01:10:33,250 Shit, nigga, she ain't young. 1182 01:10:33,333 --> 01:10:35,583 Nigga going, "She ain't old." 1183 01:10:36,083 --> 01:10:38,541 You know, at least she gave me some storytelling. 1184 01:10:39,458 --> 01:10:41,625 Like, what the fuck are you even saying in there? 1185 01:10:42,083 --> 01:10:42,958 You even know? 1186 01:10:44,208 --> 01:10:45,583 Yo, half of y'all niggas, 1187 01:10:45,666 --> 01:10:49,041 y'all just be coming in here stringing words together like you doing something. 1188 01:10:49,375 --> 01:10:52,083 Nigga, I make the beats, but God damn, son! 1189 01:10:52,166 --> 01:10:54,250 Sometimes you need some storytelling. 1190 01:10:54,333 --> 01:10:56,083 Like, what are you even talkin' about? 1191 01:10:57,958 --> 01:10:59,625 Man... my shit. 1192 01:11:00,541 --> 01:11:02,416 I'm ready, fuck it. Play the beat. 1193 01:11:03,875 --> 01:11:04,708 Harlem... 1194 01:11:05,458 --> 01:11:08,041 the place I've called home my whole life. 1195 01:11:09,958 --> 01:11:10,833 Harlem... 1196 01:11:11,416 --> 01:11:15,875 she wrapped me in her arms and mothered me when my own mother passed on. 1197 01:11:17,500 --> 01:11:18,333 Harlem... 1198 01:11:18,791 --> 01:11:20,416 where I became a wife, 1199 01:11:20,875 --> 01:11:22,125 a business owner, 1200 01:11:22,208 --> 01:11:25,375 where I'd imagine owning my own home one day, 1201 01:11:25,458 --> 01:11:28,583 but where a woman can't even afford the damn rent. 1202 01:11:28,708 --> 01:11:30,500 Harlem... 1203 01:11:30,625 --> 01:11:32,458 a place where I imagine... 1204 01:11:32,541 --> 01:11:34,916 ...preparing meals in my own kitchen 1205 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,500 and hope to hear my children call out to me... 1206 01:11:37,583 --> 01:11:39,458 - Yo, Radha! - What the fuck? 1207 01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:41,208 I'm so sorry. 1208 01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:43,875 Let me... excuse me. Sorry. 1209 01:11:43,958 --> 01:11:45,750 I'll be right back. I'm so sorry. 1210 01:11:47,125 --> 01:11:48,875 I will fuck you up in this hallway, you hear me? 1211 01:11:48,958 --> 01:11:50,666 - Oh, shit! D! - I will fuck you up. 1212 01:11:50,750 --> 01:11:52,291 You're not doing anything like that. 1213 01:11:52,375 --> 01:11:54,125 Hey, hey, hey! What's going on here? 1214 01:11:54,250 --> 01:11:56,083 Radha, can you tell this bitch you know me? 1215 01:11:56,208 --> 01:11:58,333 Sir, he's with me, please. 1216 01:12:01,458 --> 01:12:03,666 Fucking Robopop. Shit. 1217 01:12:04,750 --> 01:12:05,583 Radha. 1218 01:12:06,666 --> 01:12:08,958 Archie, this is D. D, this is Archie. 1219 01:12:09,416 --> 01:12:11,125 Can you give us a second, please? 1220 01:12:12,333 --> 01:12:13,291 Please? 1221 01:12:19,625 --> 01:12:20,500 Are you okay? 1222 01:12:21,041 --> 01:12:22,916 Yeah, when we finishing these tracks? 1223 01:12:24,041 --> 01:12:27,333 You can't be serious. I'm in the middle of a rehearsal. 1224 01:12:27,875 --> 01:12:29,208 All right. I'll wait. 1225 01:12:32,833 --> 01:12:33,666 Okay. 1226 01:12:40,041 --> 01:12:43,541 I don't understand. I gave you guys a list of names. 1227 01:12:43,625 --> 01:12:47,625 We tried, but all the working Black directors are working. 1228 01:12:48,416 --> 01:12:50,416 - This fucking sucks. - It's gonna be fine. 1229 01:12:50,791 --> 01:12:54,583 Julie will give you what you need. She directed Raisin in the Sun, you know. 1230 01:12:54,666 --> 01:12:58,583 Radha, we need to move forward, okay? Good night. 1231 01:13:00,375 --> 01:13:03,750 Look, I know it's not ideal, but in three months when you're on Broadway, 1232 01:13:03,833 --> 01:13:05,458 you won't even remember this shit. 1233 01:13:08,833 --> 01:13:10,833 Oh, hello. 1234 01:13:11,541 --> 01:13:14,333 All right, listen. You just work on those rewrites that we talked about, 1235 01:13:14,416 --> 01:13:16,875 and then I'll talk to Whitman, and we'll smooth it... 1236 01:13:17,083 --> 01:13:17,916 Radha? 1237 01:13:18,541 --> 01:13:19,541 Radha! 1238 01:13:42,250 --> 01:13:44,375 "Julie will give you what you need." 1239 01:13:45,250 --> 01:13:47,000 "Julie will give you what you need." 1240 01:13:47,083 --> 01:13:49,583 "Don't worry, Radha. Julie will give you what you need." 1241 01:13:51,166 --> 01:13:53,500 What the fuck does Julie know about living in Harlem? 1242 01:13:57,125 --> 01:14:00,166 Wait, where are we even going? 1243 01:14:05,250 --> 01:14:06,875 Guess I'm being kidnapped. 1244 01:14:09,875 --> 01:14:11,000 Is that you? 1245 01:14:11,833 --> 01:14:13,083 What you think? 1246 01:14:21,625 --> 01:14:22,666 It's good. 1247 01:14:48,375 --> 01:14:49,458 Oh. 1248 01:14:50,416 --> 01:14:51,583 We're in the Bronx. 1249 01:14:52,375 --> 01:14:56,250 Exactly where I thought I'd end my night and my life. 1250 01:14:57,041 --> 01:14:59,041 Thanks. Perfect. 1251 01:15:04,583 --> 01:15:05,750 What is going on? 1252 01:15:07,416 --> 01:15:09,625 No. No, no, no. 1253 01:15:09,708 --> 01:15:11,750 I'm not going to a damn party. 1254 01:15:11,833 --> 01:15:13,416 Look, it's not a party. 1255 01:15:14,041 --> 01:15:15,041 Just come on. 1256 01:15:15,916 --> 01:15:17,708 No, I have rewrites. 1257 01:15:17,791 --> 01:15:20,333 Rewrites of what? That bullshit play? 1258 01:15:22,250 --> 01:15:23,375 Fuck you. 1259 01:15:23,458 --> 01:15:24,750 Aight, look. 1260 01:15:25,250 --> 01:15:27,708 Before, I overheard it from the hallway... 1261 01:15:27,791 --> 01:15:29,125 and the shit is corny. 1262 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:32,916 Like you know anything about theater. 1263 01:15:33,458 --> 01:15:34,333 There you go, 1264 01:15:34,416 --> 01:15:37,500 making your fucked up assumptions. Like, who ain't seen Hamilton? 1265 01:15:39,458 --> 01:15:41,625 - No, I'm not going to... - Yo. 1266 01:15:41,708 --> 01:15:45,791 - Come on. Come on. - Great. Well, welcome to the Bronx. 1267 01:15:46,625 --> 01:15:49,166 Yeah, Babs Bunny the Girl. First lady of the streets. 1268 01:15:49,250 --> 01:15:52,000 QOTR. Y'all already know what it is. 1269 01:15:52,083 --> 01:15:54,291 Y'all ready for that real shit? 1270 01:15:54,375 --> 01:15:57,291 Yeah! 1271 01:15:57,375 --> 01:16:00,041 Y'all ready for that raw shit? 1272 01:16:00,125 --> 01:16:01,625 Yeah! 1273 01:16:01,708 --> 01:16:05,666 Well, I need y'all to give it up for the ladies! 1274 01:16:05,750 --> 01:16:08,541 Yeah! 1275 01:16:08,833 --> 01:16:09,666 Wow. 1276 01:16:09,750 --> 01:16:12,125 Yeah, yeah, well we going to get right into it. 1277 01:16:12,208 --> 01:16:15,791 Representing Murderville, Mount Vernon, 1278 01:16:15,875 --> 01:16:18,458 give it up for Shooney Da Rapper! 1279 01:16:20,041 --> 01:16:22,958 Representing Brooklyn, 1280 01:16:23,041 --> 01:16:26,083 give it up for Ms.Fit! 1281 01:16:26,166 --> 01:16:30,125 Representing Queens, give it up for Miss Undastood! 1282 01:16:31,625 --> 01:16:33,833 Representing the BX, the Bronx, 1283 01:16:33,916 --> 01:16:36,958 give it up for Norma Bayts! 1284 01:16:38,250 --> 01:16:40,208 Ladies, y'all already know what it is. 1285 01:16:40,291 --> 01:16:41,875 Ms.Fit, it's on you. 1286 01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:43,125 Yeah, sis! 1287 01:16:43,208 --> 01:16:45,041 What the fuck is up? 1288 01:16:45,416 --> 01:16:47,416 Acting all fucking tough 1289 01:16:47,708 --> 01:16:51,166 Came here with your girls Fucking sluts 1290 01:16:51,625 --> 01:16:55,041 Probably suck a dick for Some pork rinds and a couple bucks 1291 01:16:56,291 --> 01:16:57,708 Enough's enough 1292 01:16:58,083 --> 01:17:01,125 I'll make you kiss the Glock Get your lips locked 1293 01:17:01,625 --> 01:17:02,833 Now, pucker up 1294 01:17:04,458 --> 01:17:07,458 I'll fuck her up My life was a hassle 1295 01:17:07,541 --> 01:17:11,583 I fight when I have to So keep it fruitful or this banana clip 1296 01:17:11,958 --> 01:17:13,625 Aim right for your apple 1297 01:17:14,333 --> 01:17:16,500 Ratchets blam Slap a fan 1298 01:17:16,583 --> 01:17:18,375 I'm good with the g's, bitch 1299 01:17:18,625 --> 01:17:22,000 Dapper Dan, I'll back the can Clap your man's 1300 01:17:22,083 --> 01:17:25,000 Your crew get out of line What it is, slime 1301 01:17:25,250 --> 01:17:27,958 Bow! I don't think your pack'll stand 1302 01:17:33,041 --> 01:17:35,875 I handle business how I see fit 1303 01:17:35,958 --> 01:17:38,416 Celebrity status, I've got the once 1304 01:17:38,500 --> 01:17:41,083 Now, this the last time Y'all gonna see Fit 1305 01:17:41,166 --> 01:17:44,000 Who we talking 'bout? You going to play who? 1306 01:17:44,083 --> 01:17:46,708 Bitch, the autographic For trying to game 1307 01:17:46,791 --> 01:17:49,291 I pull out the sweeper And it's cleaning the room 1308 01:17:49,375 --> 01:17:51,750 Then it's metal to her face MF Doom 1309 01:17:51,833 --> 01:17:55,416 I've been Queen of the Ring So my body of work is solidified 1310 01:17:55,500 --> 01:17:56,666 It's a big difference 1311 01:17:56,750 --> 01:17:58,708 You wasn't with us shooting in the gym 1312 01:17:58,791 --> 01:18:01,833 So to get fit is cheap Planet Fitness 1313 01:18:01,916 --> 01:18:03,916 Oh! 1314 01:18:08,583 --> 01:18:09,583 Give it up 1315 01:18:12,541 --> 01:18:13,958 For Norma Bayts 1316 01:18:14,375 --> 01:18:17,541 The one who's battle rap career Is all over the place 1317 01:18:17,958 --> 01:18:20,500 Your butt might be real But your soul is fake 1318 01:18:20,583 --> 01:18:23,291 You are a salami and bacon with it 1319 01:18:23,375 --> 01:18:25,666 So I can't eat nothing off of Norma's plate 1320 01:18:27,291 --> 01:18:28,458 Is this y'all queen? 1321 01:18:28,541 --> 01:18:30,375 Hell no! 1322 01:18:30,458 --> 01:18:33,083 Y'all should watch how to throw An enormous shake 1323 01:18:33,166 --> 01:18:36,125 Come in here looking like A five-dollar movie Tuesday's 1324 01:18:36,208 --> 01:18:37,625 That's a cheap date 1325 01:18:37,708 --> 01:18:40,541 I'm trying to make it off my skills And my passion 1326 01:18:40,625 --> 01:18:43,458 You trying to make it Solely by thirst-trapping 1327 01:18:43,541 --> 01:18:46,083 Battle rap porn? Ma 1328 01:18:46,541 --> 01:18:48,166 You're going to need a hijab 1329 01:18:48,791 --> 01:18:51,541 Judging by your face You gonna need a kneecap 1330 01:18:51,625 --> 01:18:55,291 And I'mma call an imam To come and get this she-man 1331 01:18:55,375 --> 01:18:58,500 'Cause she GMO like watermelons Without the seeds, man 1332 01:19:02,291 --> 01:19:04,916 Okay? Okay? 1333 01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:07,375 Oh fucking kay! 1334 01:19:07,875 --> 01:19:09,708 I don't care if you Muslim 1335 01:19:09,791 --> 01:19:12,208 That dirty scarf mean your hair not done 1336 01:19:12,291 --> 01:19:13,208 Alhamdulillah 1337 01:19:13,625 --> 01:19:16,708 I plan to blow shit in this building When I'm done 1338 01:19:16,791 --> 01:19:18,000 I wax bitches 1339 01:19:18,083 --> 01:19:20,416 She need a hearing aid Read these lips, bitch, you're done 1340 01:19:20,500 --> 01:19:22,625 I'll carve the beats in her forehead 1341 01:19:22,708 --> 01:19:24,875 She'll get the reminder where I'm from 1342 01:19:24,958 --> 01:19:26,250 You seem smarter than you look 1343 01:19:26,333 --> 01:19:29,083 Nah, she that dumb You couldn't fuck with me in a threesome 1344 01:19:29,166 --> 01:19:30,833 Body bag would be this outcome 1345 01:19:30,916 --> 01:19:33,208 Bruce Leroy, you get Sho'nuff 1346 01:19:33,291 --> 01:19:35,666 How we kick it Head crack if I call a bluff 1347 01:19:35,750 --> 01:19:38,666 But a crackhead and her brains Spilling out is not enough 1348 01:19:39,208 --> 01:19:42,833 Y'all gonna have to dig up out the dirt To see the diamond in the rough 1349 01:19:42,916 --> 01:19:44,916 Babs hit my line 1350 01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,583 With the negotiations Like this a paid hit job 1351 01:19:47,666 --> 01:19:50,041 Cool because I pull it off The hip quick with no prob 1352 01:19:50,125 --> 01:19:53,125 And it'll be a permanent head wrap For a hijab 1353 01:20:09,416 --> 01:20:13,416 Oh, my God. My God, my God, my God. 1354 01:20:13,500 --> 01:20:14,666 That was amazing. 1355 01:20:16,250 --> 01:20:17,291 Glad I dragged you, huh? 1356 01:20:17,375 --> 01:20:20,458 Yes! Yes, I mean, I... 1357 01:20:21,375 --> 01:20:22,750 I heard about them, 1358 01:20:23,083 --> 01:20:26,583 and I might have seen a Queen of the Ring clip online or some shit, 1359 01:20:26,666 --> 01:20:29,333 but to be in there... 1360 01:20:30,375 --> 01:20:32,375 Thank you. Thanks. 1361 01:20:34,250 --> 01:20:35,416 Ah, no worries. 1362 01:20:36,416 --> 01:20:38,916 I got you. Anything you need. 1363 01:21:01,291 --> 01:21:02,125 What? 1364 01:21:03,375 --> 01:21:04,208 Nothing. 1365 01:21:16,875 --> 01:21:17,708 What? 1366 01:21:18,916 --> 01:21:19,750 Nothing. 1367 01:21:29,875 --> 01:21:30,875 Oh, yes. 1368 01:21:32,500 --> 01:21:34,500 Oh, brother. Oh, brother. 1369 01:21:35,166 --> 01:21:36,208 Oh, yeah. 1370 01:21:36,500 --> 01:21:37,750 Oh, oh. 1371 01:21:38,375 --> 01:21:40,041 Oh, shit. Mmm. 1372 01:21:40,250 --> 01:21:42,750 That's... Yeah, that's a young tongue there. 1373 01:21:43,125 --> 01:21:46,125 Oh, God. Are you... beat boxing down there? 1374 01:21:46,208 --> 01:21:48,208 Oh, my God! Oh shit! 1375 01:21:48,291 --> 01:21:52,833 D... E, F, G, H, I, J, K. 1376 01:21:53,375 --> 01:21:56,458 Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. 1377 01:21:57,208 --> 01:21:58,416 Oh, shit. 1378 01:22:02,166 --> 01:22:03,166 What you doing? 1379 01:22:04,625 --> 01:22:08,833 Me? I'm... I'm writing on my bullshit play. 1380 01:22:11,541 --> 01:22:13,125 Yo, let me ask you a question. 1381 01:22:13,375 --> 01:22:14,708 You just asked me one. 1382 01:22:15,333 --> 01:22:16,750 I gotta ask you another one. 1383 01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:17,916 What? 1384 01:22:18,583 --> 01:22:20,041 Yo, you Muslim or something? 1385 01:22:20,750 --> 01:22:21,583 What? 1386 01:22:22,416 --> 01:22:24,291 Why you always got that thing on your head? 1387 01:22:29,041 --> 01:22:30,416 I just... I wear my... 1388 01:22:31,291 --> 01:22:32,791 What does D stand for? 1389 01:22:35,625 --> 01:22:37,833 - You got it. - Okay. All right. 1390 01:22:41,750 --> 01:22:43,625 Oh, now, that's dope. 1391 01:22:44,583 --> 01:22:46,875 - Oh, the leg tat? - Yeah. 1392 01:22:47,291 --> 01:22:48,333 Thanks. 1393 01:22:49,166 --> 01:22:50,291 My mother drew that. 1394 01:22:51,750 --> 01:22:54,791 It's part of a series of greeting cards she did in the '70s 1395 01:22:54,875 --> 01:22:57,291 that never quite took off, but, yeah. 1396 01:22:58,083 --> 01:22:59,750 That must have been dope, though. 1397 01:22:59,833 --> 01:23:00,833 What? 1398 01:23:00,916 --> 01:23:02,875 Having an artist for your moms. 1399 01:23:03,291 --> 01:23:04,291 That's crazy. 1400 01:23:05,708 --> 01:23:07,708 She was great, but... 1401 01:23:09,208 --> 01:23:11,375 there were other parts, you know. 1402 01:23:11,458 --> 01:23:16,125 Government cheese, and, uh... squatting. 1403 01:23:17,083 --> 01:23:19,500 - Artist life. - Nah, word? 1404 01:23:19,583 --> 01:23:23,541 Yeah, God, my mother struggled. My dad did, too. Both of them. 1405 01:23:23,875 --> 01:23:25,541 As artists, you know? 1406 01:23:26,166 --> 01:23:27,916 My father was a jazz drummer. 1407 01:23:28,708 --> 01:23:31,875 But to support the family, he would do plumbing work. 1408 01:23:32,666 --> 01:23:37,750 And he did it so much that it would leave like permanent oil stains on his hand. 1409 01:23:38,583 --> 01:23:41,083 - That's crazy. - Yeah, and my mother... 1410 01:23:41,958 --> 01:23:44,000 when she wasn't painting, she was teaching. 1411 01:23:45,791 --> 01:23:47,583 I said I would never. 1412 01:23:49,666 --> 01:23:51,875 Said you would never what? Like, teach kids? 1413 01:23:53,791 --> 01:23:54,833 Struggle. 1414 01:23:56,250 --> 01:23:57,541 But here I am. 1415 01:24:00,458 --> 01:24:04,250 Yeah, my mom didn't think me making music made sense, either. 1416 01:24:04,333 --> 01:24:05,375 No? 1417 01:24:05,458 --> 01:24:07,916 Nah, but I'm like... 1418 01:24:08,708 --> 01:24:11,500 "You're the one that put Coltrane and Quincy, like, in me." 1419 01:24:11,583 --> 01:24:13,500 Know what I'm saying? "What did you expect?" 1420 01:24:13,583 --> 01:24:14,416 Right. 1421 01:24:15,500 --> 01:24:16,750 We good now, though. 1422 01:24:17,541 --> 01:24:18,375 Yeah? 1423 01:24:19,458 --> 01:24:21,916 I know she up there jamming to my shit right now, 1424 01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:23,625 you know what I mean? 1425 01:24:24,458 --> 01:24:25,416 Yours too, though. 1426 01:24:26,750 --> 01:24:27,958 What? Jamming? 1427 01:24:28,625 --> 01:24:30,500 Nah, your moms. 1428 01:24:31,583 --> 01:24:32,708 She proud of you. 1429 01:24:35,750 --> 01:24:38,791 You ain't never try to... talk to her? 1430 01:24:40,958 --> 01:24:41,791 No. 1431 01:24:43,458 --> 01:24:44,541 Why not? Like... 1432 01:24:46,625 --> 01:24:48,583 I don't know. I don't know what I would say. 1433 01:25:00,208 --> 01:25:01,083 What? 1434 01:25:02,708 --> 01:25:03,791 What, what? 1435 01:25:05,250 --> 01:25:06,916 Mama, Mama may I 1436 01:25:08,083 --> 01:25:09,708 Mama, Mama may I 1437 01:25:10,958 --> 01:25:12,666 Mama, Mama may I 1438 01:25:13,791 --> 01:25:15,541 Mama, Mama may I 1439 01:25:16,791 --> 01:25:20,333 Mama may I tell you How much I love you 1440 01:25:21,416 --> 01:25:24,666 And I would give all of these Beats equipment up 1441 01:25:24,750 --> 01:25:26,791 Just for one more chance to hug you 1442 01:25:26,875 --> 01:25:27,958 Mmm! 1443 01:25:28,583 --> 01:25:29,916 Mama, may I 1444 01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,416 Mama, may I tell you how much I miss you 1445 01:25:34,166 --> 01:25:37,916 They preach all this masculinity shit But if you was here I'd kiss you 1446 01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:38,833 Wow. 1447 01:25:39,625 --> 01:25:42,625 Tell you, despite it all I still love you 1448 01:25:44,208 --> 01:25:46,583 Showed me gratitude by the handful 1449 01:25:48,333 --> 01:25:51,291 I know you not here I can still say that I'm thankful 1450 01:25:52,375 --> 01:25:53,458 Mama, may I 1451 01:25:54,541 --> 01:25:56,541 Mama, Mama, may I 1452 01:25:58,500 --> 01:26:00,000 Mama, may I 1453 01:26:00,083 --> 01:26:03,041 Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, may I 1454 01:26:04,791 --> 01:26:08,500 Mama, may I say I wonder sometimes like 1455 01:26:09,041 --> 01:26:11,500 Are you the person feeding these rhymes 1456 01:26:11,583 --> 01:26:14,500 And if I'm not creating art Am I committing a crime 1457 01:26:14,583 --> 01:26:15,625 Mama, may I 1458 01:26:16,625 --> 01:26:19,875 'Cause sometimes I just be missing you like 1459 01:26:20,541 --> 01:26:24,791 Wishing you were here Instead of out there somewhere 1460 01:26:25,291 --> 01:26:26,458 Mama, may I 1461 01:26:26,833 --> 01:26:28,708 Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, may I 1462 01:26:28,791 --> 01:26:30,458 May I, may I 1463 01:26:32,708 --> 01:26:33,833 Mama, may I 1464 01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:36,875 Mama, Mama, may I 1465 01:26:38,166 --> 01:26:39,041 Mama... 1466 01:26:41,333 --> 01:26:42,375 Are you good? 1467 01:26:42,958 --> 01:26:44,208 Mm. 1468 01:26:45,208 --> 01:26:47,041 - Yeah, I'm good. - Are you sure? 1469 01:26:47,125 --> 01:26:48,500 - You sure? - Yeah. I'm good. 1470 01:26:49,041 --> 01:26:49,916 I'm good. 1471 01:26:50,708 --> 01:26:51,625 I'm good. 1472 01:26:57,875 --> 01:27:00,333 Yo, come through later. 1473 01:27:00,875 --> 01:27:03,833 Oh, I have rehearsals later, so... 1474 01:27:04,375 --> 01:27:05,875 So, come through after that. 1475 01:27:09,416 --> 01:27:12,583 I have previews in a couple of weeks, so... 1476 01:27:12,750 --> 01:27:14,416 um... 1477 01:27:14,875 --> 01:27:18,333 Yeah. No, that's cool. Fuck it. Do what you want. 1478 01:27:19,458 --> 01:27:20,791 What's the problem? 1479 01:27:23,250 --> 01:27:24,750 Let me ask you a question. 1480 01:27:25,125 --> 01:27:27,125 You were just talking shit before, right? 1481 01:27:27,416 --> 01:27:28,250 I'm sorry? 1482 01:27:28,791 --> 01:27:30,333 Nah, like, for the mixtape. 1483 01:27:30,541 --> 01:27:32,375 You never wanted to do this shit. 1484 01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,708 Nah, it's just another trip to the Black terrain for you. 1485 01:27:35,791 --> 01:27:37,708 I don't know what you're talking about. 1486 01:27:38,416 --> 01:27:40,416 That's crazy. I came to Harlem for this shit? 1487 01:27:42,250 --> 01:27:44,541 D! D, wait! 1488 01:27:47,750 --> 01:27:50,750 My baby's finally got her back blown out. 1489 01:27:52,291 --> 01:27:54,833 Come here. Come here. Let me talk to you. 1490 01:28:00,250 --> 01:28:01,333 I am me. 1491 01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:03,166 I am she. 1492 01:28:03,583 --> 01:28:05,500 I am Black divorcee. 1493 01:28:05,583 --> 01:28:07,125 Cut. I don't believe you. 1494 01:28:08,416 --> 01:28:10,791 Where's the rotting carcass of your broken heart? 1495 01:28:10,875 --> 01:28:12,208 I need to smell it. 1496 01:28:13,250 --> 01:28:14,250 I need to smell it. 1497 01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:15,833 Yeah. 1498 01:28:27,041 --> 01:28:29,833 There should be a fire in the crack of your ass. 1499 01:28:30,208 --> 01:28:31,291 Be the phoenix. 1500 01:28:32,708 --> 01:28:36,250 I am bursting out from behind the head! 1501 01:28:36,333 --> 01:28:38,208 Yes, damn it! Yes, damn it! 1502 01:28:38,291 --> 01:28:40,583 - You had your chance, Darlene! - Yeah, you had it! 1503 01:28:40,666 --> 01:28:43,750 - You had it, Darlene. Yes! - Now stay the fuck away! 1504 01:28:43,833 --> 01:28:45,750 Give it to me. Give it to me. 1505 01:28:46,125 --> 01:28:48,708 - Just let me say what I got to say. - Yes. 1506 01:28:48,791 --> 01:28:49,791 - Okay? - Uh-huh! 1507 01:28:50,500 --> 01:28:51,833 - I am me. - Me. 1508 01:28:52,541 --> 01:28:53,916 - I am free. - Free. 1509 01:28:54,458 --> 01:28:58,083 - I am Black di-vor-cee! - Black di-vor-cee! 1510 01:28:58,166 --> 01:29:00,041 Yes! Yes! 1511 01:29:00,375 --> 01:29:01,291 Yes! 1512 01:29:08,166 --> 01:29:11,000 {\an8}I'm Frank DiLella. Remember this face? 1513 01:29:11,083 --> 01:29:15,125 {\an8}She was one of Spotlight Magazine's 30 Under 30 playwrights to watch. 1514 01:29:15,833 --> 01:29:17,500 We watched, but where'd she go? 1515 01:29:18,208 --> 01:29:20,250 Well, after years of obscurity, she's returned 1516 01:29:20,333 --> 01:29:24,166 to the theater in J. Whitman's searing new production of Harlem Avenue, 1517 01:29:24,250 --> 01:29:26,166 directed by Julie Lipshitz. 1518 01:29:26,625 --> 01:29:29,208 It's Harlem Ave, but okay. 1519 01:29:29,291 --> 01:29:31,916 Harlem Ave premieres in just a couple days. 1520 01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:34,291 Welcome, New York playwright, Radha Blank. 1521 01:29:34,375 --> 01:29:37,083 Frank, it's so awesome to be sitting with you. Thanks for having me. 1522 01:29:37,833 --> 01:29:38,875 Radha, where have you been? 1523 01:29:39,583 --> 01:29:41,750 I've been, uh, writing plays 1524 01:29:41,833 --> 01:29:45,083 and teaching theater to teens in Harlem. 1525 01:29:45,166 --> 01:29:46,000 Hey, guys. 1526 01:29:46,333 --> 01:29:48,041 - What's up? - Hi! 1527 01:29:48,208 --> 01:29:49,833 Mmm, my boo look nice. 1528 01:29:49,916 --> 01:29:51,458 Yo, she's official, son. 1529 01:29:51,541 --> 01:29:53,208 That's my teacher, yo. 1530 01:29:53,291 --> 01:29:55,875 Speaking of Harlem, what is Harlem Ave about? 1531 01:29:56,875 --> 01:29:58,416 Harlem Ave is about... 1532 01:30:01,041 --> 01:30:04,666 a young Black couple, and their young white neighbor, 1533 01:30:04,750 --> 01:30:07,416 and how the three of them see gentrification from different angles. 1534 01:30:07,708 --> 01:30:09,333 What inspired you to write this? 1535 01:30:10,041 --> 01:30:12,875 I just wanted to talk about what's going on in Harlem. 1536 01:30:13,416 --> 01:30:15,500 Is it true you and J. Whitman 1537 01:30:15,583 --> 01:30:18,500 are collaborating on his new Ida B. Wells musical? 1538 01:30:19,375 --> 01:30:21,333 Who told you that? 1539 01:30:21,833 --> 01:30:24,000 With opening night just days away, 1540 01:30:24,083 --> 01:30:26,208 and a return to the theater in almost a decade... 1541 01:30:26,291 --> 01:30:27,125 Yes. 1542 01:30:27,208 --> 01:30:29,708 ...what scares you the most about this moment? 1543 01:30:38,250 --> 01:30:39,750 - Yes! - No. 1544 01:30:39,833 --> 01:30:42,416 You are giving me Miss Sofia in the motherland realness. 1545 01:30:42,500 --> 01:30:44,791 No, I look like an angry mushroom. 1546 01:30:45,250 --> 01:30:46,625 No. No. 1547 01:30:46,708 --> 01:30:48,875 Look, don't worry about it. We'll find something. 1548 01:30:49,625 --> 01:30:50,625 My God. 1549 01:30:51,166 --> 01:30:54,208 Opening night is like, a few nights away, 1550 01:30:54,291 --> 01:30:56,625 and I feel like shit, Archie. 1551 01:30:56,708 --> 01:30:59,166 It's nerves. I've seen it a million times. 1552 01:30:59,708 --> 01:31:01,333 No, it's not nerves. 1553 01:31:01,791 --> 01:31:03,208 You still drinking that diet drink? 1554 01:31:05,250 --> 01:31:06,291 It's the play. 1555 01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:09,375 It's not mine anymore. 1556 01:31:11,416 --> 01:31:12,625 The next one will be. 1557 01:31:15,375 --> 01:31:17,375 What kind of fucking response is that? 1558 01:31:19,666 --> 01:31:22,750 Oh, no, hon. Do not come for me. 1559 01:31:24,083 --> 01:31:25,166 Why not? 1560 01:31:26,041 --> 01:31:28,125 Why not, Archie? You played your part. 1561 01:31:28,208 --> 01:31:29,625 - What? - Yeah. 1562 01:31:29,708 --> 01:31:33,166 Look, you got yourself here, okay? No one forced you to do anything. 1563 01:31:33,250 --> 01:31:35,500 You always do what you want. You fucked that 25-year-old. 1564 01:31:35,583 --> 01:31:38,000 - 26! - Yeah, you did that rapping shit. 1565 01:31:38,083 --> 01:31:40,333 That rapping shit made me feel good about myself. 1566 01:31:40,416 --> 01:31:42,250 Yeah, well, we all need something. 1567 01:31:42,333 --> 01:31:44,333 You acted like Whitman was our only shot. 1568 01:31:44,416 --> 01:31:46,083 Like I wasn't going to have another chance. 1569 01:31:46,166 --> 01:31:49,083 Don't you dare accuse me of not believing in you, okay? 1570 01:31:49,166 --> 01:31:50,708 Do you have any idea what I... 1571 01:31:53,750 --> 01:31:54,666 What? 1572 01:31:55,541 --> 01:31:57,708 Jiggled his balls a little, yes. 1573 01:31:58,375 --> 01:31:59,750 Anything for a friend. 1574 01:32:00,583 --> 01:32:01,666 Oh! 1575 01:32:02,041 --> 01:32:05,375 Well, let's give it up for patron saint Archie. 1576 01:32:05,458 --> 01:32:09,166 Jiggling old wrinkly balls on behalf of the poor. 1577 01:32:09,250 --> 01:32:11,541 Please, Archie, you ain't do that shit for me. 1578 01:32:11,625 --> 01:32:13,375 - What? - You did it for yourself. 1579 01:32:13,458 --> 01:32:16,916 Now, tell me why the fuck am I still your client? 1580 01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:18,166 Oh, you want to go there. 1581 01:32:18,250 --> 01:32:19,541 We don't have to. 1582 01:32:19,625 --> 01:32:22,916 We all know you keep me around because it makes you feel better. 1583 01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:23,875 About? 1584 01:32:24,500 --> 01:32:26,875 About paying $5,000 a month for rent. 1585 01:32:27,333 --> 01:32:31,583 About taking vacations to Greece in your thongs and shit. 1586 01:32:31,666 --> 01:32:33,958 - Acting like you're not really even... - What? 1587 01:32:36,208 --> 01:32:37,083 Korean? 1588 01:32:37,791 --> 01:32:38,750 I didn't say that. 1589 01:32:41,208 --> 01:32:44,000 Was my dad thrilled that my prom date was Black? 1590 01:32:44,083 --> 01:32:46,583 No, but thank God you were a girl. 1591 01:32:47,375 --> 01:32:50,291 You played along and saved my sissy ass from getting beat, 1592 01:32:50,750 --> 01:32:52,750 and I will always love you for that, 1593 01:32:53,250 --> 01:32:54,875 but we are grown, 1594 01:32:54,958 --> 01:32:57,958 and I am out and proud, 1595 01:32:58,041 --> 01:32:59,750 and very Korean. 1596 01:33:00,375 --> 01:33:03,333 And I don't owe you anything except friendship and honesty. 1597 01:33:03,416 --> 01:33:05,625 Yes, you are fucking talented. 1598 01:33:05,708 --> 01:33:10,166 Yes, your mom is dead, but you are not above being a sellout. 1599 01:33:16,125 --> 01:33:17,583 I'm not a sellout, Archie. 1600 01:33:18,125 --> 01:33:19,166 Take it back. 1601 01:33:21,500 --> 01:33:23,333 I said take it back. 1602 01:33:28,458 --> 01:33:29,333 You know what? 1603 01:33:30,916 --> 01:33:31,750 Fuck you. 1604 01:33:34,333 --> 01:33:37,166 Fuck these ugly-ass dresses. 1605 01:33:37,875 --> 01:33:40,250 And fuck opening night. I'm not even going. 1606 01:33:41,541 --> 01:33:44,083 That dress did not deserve that! 1607 01:33:47,208 --> 01:33:49,083 Fuck! Fuck! 1608 01:36:40,333 --> 01:36:43,333 One bad apple just spoiled the bunch 1609 01:36:43,416 --> 01:36:46,583 Looking at your face I just spoiled my lunch 1610 01:36:46,666 --> 01:36:49,500 You can't mess me or even test me 1611 01:36:49,583 --> 01:36:52,875 Because if you do, your face I'll punch 1612 01:36:53,041 --> 01:36:54,375 Mmm, not quite. 1613 01:36:56,416 --> 01:36:57,750 About fucking time. 1614 01:36:58,458 --> 01:36:59,333 I'm here. 1615 01:37:08,458 --> 01:37:10,416 When did she do this one? 1616 01:37:10,583 --> 01:37:11,541 I don't know. 1617 01:37:12,583 --> 01:37:14,625 I think right after you were born. 1618 01:37:15,458 --> 01:37:16,500 Hmm. 1619 01:37:17,458 --> 01:37:22,208 Her Ethiopian Coptic art phase of the '70s. 1620 01:37:25,750 --> 01:37:27,333 So, what do we do with it now? 1621 01:37:28,333 --> 01:37:32,000 I got most of her work at my place, 1622 01:37:32,083 --> 01:37:33,750 and I don't have any more room. 1623 01:37:34,083 --> 01:37:36,750 Uh, neither do I. I live in a box, remember? 1624 01:37:38,750 --> 01:37:39,666 Fine. 1625 01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:42,208 I guess we'll put it in storage. 1626 01:37:45,416 --> 01:37:46,416 Wow. 1627 01:37:48,916 --> 01:37:52,000 You come here with a dream and your work ends up in storage. 1628 01:37:53,500 --> 01:37:55,083 Is that what you think of Ma? 1629 01:37:55,666 --> 01:37:57,250 No, I'm just saying. 1630 01:37:59,250 --> 01:38:00,958 Ma did what she wanted to. 1631 01:38:01,416 --> 01:38:05,083 She was a teacher. She was a curator. 1632 01:38:05,750 --> 01:38:07,708 She chanted. She traveled. 1633 01:38:08,083 --> 01:38:10,208 She did some art. She did some theater. 1634 01:38:10,708 --> 01:38:11,958 She lived a life. 1635 01:38:14,458 --> 01:38:16,708 She was a lot more than just these paintings. 1636 01:38:17,541 --> 01:38:20,916 No, but she came to New York to become a famous artist. 1637 01:38:21,666 --> 01:38:23,791 And what does she have to even show for it? 1638 01:38:24,791 --> 01:38:26,583 Us, you dummy. 1639 01:38:27,250 --> 01:38:29,750 She said that we were her greatest creation. 1640 01:38:33,500 --> 01:38:34,541 Mmm. 1641 01:38:42,750 --> 01:38:43,791 I really miss her. 1642 01:38:44,333 --> 01:38:45,291 Me too, sis. 1643 01:39:02,958 --> 01:39:05,000 - 'Sup, Miss B? - Hey. 1644 01:39:13,375 --> 01:39:14,291 Elaine. 1645 01:39:19,041 --> 01:39:20,208 You got a second? 1646 01:39:29,500 --> 01:39:30,500 How's it going? 1647 01:39:35,208 --> 01:39:37,666 I think you should come back to class. 1648 01:39:38,333 --> 01:39:39,208 I'm good. 1649 01:39:40,666 --> 01:39:41,666 I know. 1650 01:39:41,750 --> 01:39:44,041 That's why I think you should come back to class. 1651 01:39:45,041 --> 01:39:46,500 You're a natural, Elaine. 1652 01:39:50,250 --> 01:39:51,916 Look, I know we have some beef, 1653 01:39:52,458 --> 01:39:54,500 but I am completely over it, 1654 01:39:55,500 --> 01:39:58,000 especially since I know it had nothing to do with me. 1655 01:39:59,375 --> 01:40:00,291 What you mean? 1656 01:40:01,666 --> 01:40:06,541 I'm talking about expecting to like one kind of person 1657 01:40:06,625 --> 01:40:10,083 and then this other kind of person comes along and... 1658 01:40:11,125 --> 01:40:12,208 they affect you. 1659 01:40:14,500 --> 01:40:15,333 Rosa. 1660 01:40:16,125 --> 01:40:17,000 What about her? 1661 01:40:20,416 --> 01:40:22,083 I think you should stay for class. 1662 01:40:26,500 --> 01:40:28,083 Well, look here! 1663 01:40:28,166 --> 01:40:30,625 - Oh, boy. - Oh, shit. You back? 1664 01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:32,833 Elaine? 1665 01:40:36,083 --> 01:40:39,916 Well, I guess if the dean said you have to come back to class, 1666 01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:42,083 you can understudy Rosa. 1667 01:40:42,208 --> 01:40:45,916 Wow. Black Jesus is really shining on you. 1668 01:40:46,583 --> 01:40:47,958 - Understudy? - Mm-hmm. 1669 01:40:48,083 --> 01:40:49,625 Nah. Mm-mm. 1670 01:40:49,791 --> 01:40:53,000 Oh, shit. Wild Woman Fights, Part Deux. 1671 01:40:53,083 --> 01:40:54,125 Look, Rosa, I don't even... 1672 01:40:54,208 --> 01:40:56,583 Nah, fuck that, Miss B. She ain't understudying me. 1673 01:40:56,666 --> 01:40:57,958 Calm down, Rosa, okay? 1674 01:40:58,875 --> 01:41:00,875 - She can have the damn part. - What? 1675 01:41:01,458 --> 01:41:03,166 I'm sick of playing this broad, yo! 1676 01:41:03,250 --> 01:41:05,583 I mean, no offense, but these breeding chicks? 1677 01:41:05,666 --> 01:41:07,833 And then to have this Dumbo all up on me and shit? 1678 01:41:07,916 --> 01:41:10,458 I mean, I got range and shit, but I ain't that good. 1679 01:41:10,541 --> 01:41:12,041 Please, Elaine, take this shit. 1680 01:41:14,250 --> 01:41:15,166 You heard her. 1681 01:41:16,208 --> 01:41:20,583 So, does that mean I can simulate running up in Elaine now? 1682 01:41:21,041 --> 01:41:22,125 Word, yo. 1683 01:41:23,500 --> 01:41:25,125 - Move! - Damn. 1684 01:41:29,583 --> 01:41:30,708 Wow. 1685 01:41:32,416 --> 01:41:33,541 About fucking time! 1686 01:41:35,291 --> 01:41:39,625 Hail, hail our new Queen of Vaginal Eggs. 1687 01:41:40,291 --> 01:41:43,000 Hail, hail. 1688 01:41:58,208 --> 01:42:00,791 Hey, let's not fight. It gives us wrinkles. 1689 01:42:02,333 --> 01:42:05,708 Look, I know you wanted to skip out, but it's still your big night. 1690 01:42:06,500 --> 01:42:07,541 Hope to see you. 1691 01:42:08,708 --> 01:42:09,583 Bye. 1692 01:42:16,666 --> 01:42:17,500 Yo. 1693 01:42:19,708 --> 01:42:23,916 Hey, D, it's me, Radha. 1694 01:42:25,625 --> 01:42:26,666 Um... 1695 01:42:29,291 --> 01:42:30,416 I was just calling. 1696 01:42:33,208 --> 01:42:35,041 Um... 1697 01:42:35,750 --> 01:42:38,833 Yeah, I don't know why I always wear this thing on my head. 1698 01:42:40,375 --> 01:42:44,333 Maybe for a... sense of comfort? 1699 01:42:48,375 --> 01:42:50,708 Anyway, I was just calling. 1700 01:42:52,458 --> 01:42:53,333 Okay. 1701 01:42:54,333 --> 01:42:56,333 See you later... or not. 1702 01:43:19,041 --> 01:43:20,125 Mmm! 1703 01:43:21,750 --> 01:43:22,583 Wait. 1704 01:43:23,916 --> 01:43:25,291 Why you all dressed up? 1705 01:43:26,916 --> 01:43:28,166 You going to a funeral? 1706 01:43:29,958 --> 01:43:31,250 What's up with this sandwich? 1707 01:43:33,250 --> 01:43:34,333 You poisoning me? 1708 01:43:35,041 --> 01:43:37,291 Shit! I'm dead. 1709 01:43:38,958 --> 01:43:40,708 I better finish it, though, huh? 1710 01:43:47,125 --> 01:43:48,416 Oswaldo Rivera. 1711 01:43:49,125 --> 01:43:50,791 Sorry, you're not on the list. 1712 01:43:50,875 --> 01:43:52,250 No, no, we on that list. 1713 01:43:52,333 --> 01:43:53,875 We know her. That's our teacher. 1714 01:43:54,500 --> 01:43:57,000 You just think we came from Harlem and got all dressed up and shit 1715 01:43:57,083 --> 01:43:59,375 just to harass your pasty white ass, that's what you saying? 1716 01:43:59,458 --> 01:44:01,916 What's the problem, lady? You need to see my tits or something? 1717 01:44:02,458 --> 01:44:03,541 Okay, true. 1718 01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:05,583 It's my opening night, right? 1719 01:44:07,083 --> 01:44:08,250 But Archie was right. 1720 01:44:09,625 --> 01:44:10,625 I sold out. 1721 01:44:11,750 --> 01:44:12,583 And now what? 1722 01:44:12,666 --> 01:44:15,291 I have to go down and sit through that shit? 1723 01:44:20,500 --> 01:44:23,291 So, this is the part where I tell you I was an artist 1724 01:44:23,375 --> 01:44:25,125 who'd fallen from grace, right? 1725 01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:29,500 Then I impart some wisdom to you that changes your outlook 1726 01:44:30,375 --> 01:44:32,583 because you gave me a fucking sandwich? 1727 01:44:33,958 --> 01:44:37,041 Like I'm some fucking magical Negro 1728 01:44:37,125 --> 01:44:39,250 just sitting here with shit in my pants 1729 01:44:39,333 --> 01:44:41,875 so I can help you make up your mind? 1730 01:44:42,375 --> 01:44:45,291 Nope, I ain't that nigger. 1731 01:44:46,250 --> 01:44:48,958 And maybe next time, if it don't kill you, 1732 01:44:49,375 --> 01:44:54,083 could you put some mayonnaise on both sides of this dry-ass bread? 1733 01:44:55,458 --> 01:44:57,958 Trying to cut my throat the slow way. 1734 01:45:01,666 --> 01:45:02,791 You're welcome. 1735 01:45:03,375 --> 01:45:05,000 - Exciting, huh? - Yes. 1736 01:45:07,166 --> 01:45:09,416 And I've got insurance tonight, 1737 01:45:09,500 --> 01:45:11,166 so no bathroom breaks for me. 1738 01:45:11,250 --> 01:45:14,375 You missed the whole second act of that last play we went to, 1739 01:45:14,458 --> 01:45:17,250 - and the mockingbird didn't die. - Oh, good. 1740 01:45:22,416 --> 01:45:23,458 Radha? 1741 01:45:29,750 --> 01:45:30,750 Radha? 1742 01:45:36,458 --> 01:45:39,250 - Hey. Hey. - Hey. 1743 01:45:39,916 --> 01:45:42,625 It's a really friendly house out there, you guys. 1744 01:45:42,708 --> 01:45:44,541 - Oh, good. - Yeah, break a leg. 1745 01:45:44,625 --> 01:45:45,541 Thank you! 1746 01:45:48,500 --> 01:45:51,666 Enjoy yourselves tonight. Thank you. 1747 01:45:51,750 --> 01:45:55,958 - Archie! - Hey, I love the look. 1748 01:45:56,041 --> 01:45:58,000 Well, thank you. You, too. 1749 01:45:58,541 --> 01:46:00,875 - It's five minutes to curtain. - She's on her way. 1750 01:46:01,625 --> 01:46:02,500 I hope so. 1751 01:46:03,041 --> 01:46:06,083 Actually, I want her to meet the investors for the Shirley Chisholm musical. 1752 01:46:07,291 --> 01:46:09,291 Maybe you could come on as a producer. 1753 01:46:11,375 --> 01:46:14,250 If by "producer," you mean "jiggle your balls again," 1754 01:46:14,333 --> 01:46:15,708 I think I'll pass. 1755 01:46:19,666 --> 01:46:21,333 Patty, Billy, how are you? 1756 01:46:21,416 --> 01:46:23,250 Isn't this a wonderful evening? 1757 01:47:20,083 --> 01:47:21,583 Is that supposed to be me? 1758 01:47:24,500 --> 01:47:26,791 - Oh, my bad. - It's okay. 1759 01:47:52,833 --> 01:47:54,833 Oh, you're all so wonderful. 1760 01:48:03,791 --> 01:48:07,250 Baby, I'm not saying I want to go back down south. 1761 01:48:07,333 --> 01:48:10,916 So... what are you saying, baby? 1762 01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:14,708 I'm saying it's just getting too expensive to stay here. 1763 01:48:14,791 --> 01:48:17,166 We gots to figure it outs. 1764 01:48:20,750 --> 01:48:24,291 What's a girl gotta do to get some soy milk around here? 1765 01:48:48,875 --> 01:48:50,833 What are you saying, sir? 1766 01:48:50,916 --> 01:48:53,166 Yeah, what are you saying? 1767 01:48:53,250 --> 01:48:57,208 I'm offering you half a million dollars for your shop. 1768 01:48:57,666 --> 01:48:59,250 Mister, you can't do that. 1769 01:48:59,333 --> 01:49:00,833 Yo, this shop means everything to us. 1770 01:49:00,916 --> 01:49:01,791 Yeah, everything. 1771 01:49:01,875 --> 01:49:03,791 This shop means everything to me. 1772 01:49:05,583 --> 01:49:08,666 Well, it's not up to you... is it? 1773 01:49:10,625 --> 01:49:13,708 So... what'll it be? 1774 01:49:16,208 --> 01:49:17,041 Baby. 1775 01:49:18,041 --> 01:49:18,875 Honey. 1776 01:49:52,375 --> 01:49:54,416 So much for insurance. 1777 01:49:54,958 --> 01:49:56,916 I'll be fast, promise. 1778 01:49:57,000 --> 01:49:59,500 You must. I can't miss a thing. 1779 01:49:59,583 --> 01:50:01,875 The first act was quite powerful, wasn't it? 1780 01:50:01,958 --> 01:50:04,791 Yes. And I love that Jamie girl. 1781 01:50:04,875 --> 01:50:06,791 - She's a star. - She's fabulous. 1782 01:50:06,916 --> 01:50:09,416 Raging on. 1783 01:50:09,500 --> 01:50:11,666 - City keeps raging on. - Catchy, isn't it? 1784 01:50:11,750 --> 01:50:13,083 I love that tune. 1785 01:50:15,541 --> 01:50:18,708 Marcus would still be here if it wasn't for you! 1786 01:50:19,583 --> 01:50:20,583 What did I do? 1787 01:50:20,666 --> 01:50:24,208 You came here... to Harlem. That's what you did. 1788 01:50:24,291 --> 01:50:25,208 Mm-hmm. 1789 01:50:26,416 --> 01:50:29,083 I do not accept your energy. 1790 01:50:29,625 --> 01:50:32,583 I'm not your enemy, I'm your neighbor. 1791 01:50:32,666 --> 01:50:34,916 Your friend, your... 1792 01:50:37,208 --> 01:50:38,208 Sister? 1793 01:51:25,500 --> 01:51:27,250 That was just fabulous. 1794 01:51:34,416 --> 01:51:36,958 Thank you. Thank you. 1795 01:51:37,041 --> 01:51:39,416 Isn't this a glorious night? Thank you so much. 1796 01:51:39,500 --> 01:51:42,416 Oh, my goodness. What a surprise. Thank you so much. 1797 01:51:42,500 --> 01:51:44,791 - This is just so wonderful... - Thank you, everybody. 1798 01:51:45,458 --> 01:51:48,875 - Our director, Julie Lipshitz. Thank you. - Thank you. 1799 01:51:48,958 --> 01:51:52,916 If I may, I just am so excited to share this moment with all of you. 1800 01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:57,375 I just want to thank our incredible cast. They worked so hard. 1801 01:51:57,458 --> 01:52:00,375 But nobody worked harder than our playwright. 1802 01:52:00,458 --> 01:52:02,333 - Yes. - And I would love to call her up. 1803 01:52:02,416 --> 01:52:04,750 - Radha, are you here? - Is she here? Did she come? 1804 01:52:04,875 --> 01:52:06,583 - Radha? - Radha? 1805 01:52:06,833 --> 01:52:08,916 - Where are you? - Are you there? 1806 01:52:09,708 --> 01:52:11,833 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, Radha Blank. 1807 01:52:11,916 --> 01:52:12,916 Here she comes. 1808 01:52:16,583 --> 01:52:18,750 What a night. 1809 01:52:18,875 --> 01:52:21,083 Radha, this is so exciting for you. Congratulations. 1810 01:52:21,625 --> 01:52:23,083 Thank you. 1811 01:52:24,500 --> 01:52:26,666 Say something! Radha Blank! 1812 01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:30,166 Yeah, Miss B! 1813 01:52:30,291 --> 01:52:31,500 Um... 1814 01:52:32,166 --> 01:52:34,083 I want to thank this amazing cast. 1815 01:52:34,625 --> 01:52:38,041 Um, my amazing director Julie Lipshitz. 1816 01:52:38,125 --> 01:52:40,166 Thank you for bringing Harlem alive. 1817 01:52:40,250 --> 01:52:42,791 And, um, of course, J. Whitman. 1818 01:52:42,875 --> 01:52:45,041 - Thank you. - Where would I be without you? 1819 01:52:48,583 --> 01:52:49,750 Um... 1820 01:52:50,083 --> 01:52:51,875 Wow. 1821 01:52:52,041 --> 01:52:53,916 So, um... 1822 01:52:54,666 --> 01:52:58,125 Every playwright dreams of this... 1823 01:52:59,416 --> 01:53:00,458 moment. 1824 01:53:05,875 --> 01:53:07,875 Every playwright hopes... 1825 01:53:08,916 --> 01:53:10,625 every playwright hopes... 1826 01:53:13,333 --> 01:53:17,000 they don't write a piece of shit like this play. 1827 01:53:25,208 --> 01:53:29,375 My, um... mother raised me to be fearless, 1828 01:53:29,458 --> 01:53:30,833 and, um... 1829 01:53:32,291 --> 01:53:34,375 I guess when she died, I... 1830 01:53:35,750 --> 01:53:37,791 that's when I started getting afraid. 1831 01:53:43,166 --> 01:53:44,666 Oof. 1832 01:53:53,166 --> 01:53:54,250 Hmm. 1833 01:53:55,708 --> 01:53:57,583 I got really afraid 1834 01:53:58,750 --> 01:54:01,750 Scared of the choices And the bullshit I made 1835 01:54:02,958 --> 01:54:05,208 Thinking I wouldn't get paid 1836 01:54:05,291 --> 01:54:08,541 But I'm Carol's daughter So that shit don't stain 1837 01:54:09,208 --> 01:54:12,375 I gotta tell you, a nigga was choking 1838 01:54:12,833 --> 01:54:17,125 Tired of selling my soul For these tokens, these coins 1839 01:54:17,666 --> 01:54:20,500 But guess what? I made a different choice 1840 01:54:20,875 --> 01:54:24,958 Because it's time to FYOV Find your own voice 1841 01:54:25,375 --> 01:54:26,791 FYOV 1842 01:54:27,333 --> 01:54:28,750 FYOV 1843 01:54:29,208 --> 01:54:32,000 Forty-year-old version, indubitably 1844 01:54:32,416 --> 01:54:33,583 FYOV 1845 01:54:34,250 --> 01:54:35,666 FYOV 1846 01:54:36,125 --> 01:54:39,083 Not telling truth Just don't make sense to me 1847 01:54:39,583 --> 01:54:41,958 Holding back from who you should be 1848 01:54:42,041 --> 01:54:43,666 FYOV 1849 01:54:44,541 --> 01:54:45,875 Fund your own vision 1850 01:54:46,708 --> 01:54:48,291 Fill your own void 1851 01:54:48,708 --> 01:54:50,291 Find your own voice 1852 01:54:51,375 --> 01:54:52,958 Fuck you old vultures 1853 01:54:54,291 --> 01:54:55,916 Forty-year-old version 1854 01:54:56,291 --> 01:54:57,666 That's who I be 1855 01:55:00,041 --> 01:55:00,958 I'm out 1856 01:55:03,208 --> 01:55:05,250 Yeah! 1857 01:55:05,333 --> 01:55:06,208 Woo! 1858 01:55:06,458 --> 01:55:08,125 Miss B, that's right! 1859 01:55:17,041 --> 01:55:18,291 - Radha. - No! 1860 01:55:18,375 --> 01:55:19,791 - Radha... - No! 1861 01:55:19,875 --> 01:55:20,916 - Radha! - No! 1862 01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:22,833 If you're gonna tell me that I fucked up again, 1863 01:55:22,916 --> 01:55:24,541 - I don't want to hear it. - Radha, I get it. 1864 01:55:26,583 --> 01:55:27,833 You did good. 1865 01:55:29,833 --> 01:55:30,791 I'm proud of you. 1866 01:55:34,458 --> 01:55:35,583 - I quit. - You're fired. 1867 01:55:42,208 --> 01:55:43,500 I love you, Archie. 1868 01:55:45,166 --> 01:55:46,166 I love you, too. 1869 01:55:52,291 --> 01:55:54,291 - Okay, I gotta go. - What? 1870 01:55:55,458 --> 01:55:57,500 I gotta handle some business. 1871 01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:01,208 You know... business. 1872 01:56:03,250 --> 01:56:05,250 Oh! 1873 01:56:05,416 --> 01:56:06,500 Okay. 1874 01:56:06,583 --> 01:56:07,541 Mmm. 1875 01:56:07,666 --> 01:56:09,208 - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm! 1876 01:56:09,916 --> 01:56:12,250 Get it. Get it. 1877 01:56:14,250 --> 01:56:17,500 This is a Brooklyn bound C local train. 1878 01:58:12,250 --> 01:58:14,791 That girl that was rhyming? 1879 01:58:16,125 --> 01:58:19,458 Oh, yeah, that's Kaya from Queens. 1880 01:58:20,750 --> 01:58:23,625 - She's fucking dope. - Yeah. 1881 01:58:23,708 --> 01:58:25,708 And age appropriate. 1882 01:58:26,833 --> 01:58:28,458 And also my little cousin. 1883 01:58:31,958 --> 01:58:32,791 For real? 1884 01:58:33,750 --> 01:58:35,166 Yeah. 1885 01:58:35,250 --> 01:58:36,291 Okay. 1886 01:58:38,458 --> 01:58:39,333 You look nice. 1887 01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:42,875 Thank you. It was opening night. 1888 01:58:44,000 --> 01:58:44,875 Of your play? 1889 01:58:45,416 --> 01:58:46,250 Yep. 1890 01:58:47,250 --> 01:58:48,583 So, what you doing here? 1891 01:58:52,541 --> 01:58:53,416 I don't know. 1892 01:59:01,916 --> 01:59:05,875 I got this new joint, though! It's crazy! 1893 01:59:06,375 --> 01:59:07,583 Let me guess. 1894 01:59:08,333 --> 01:59:12,083 You looped baby goats crying. 1895 01:59:12,166 --> 01:59:13,916 Nah, but that's good. 1896 01:59:14,958 --> 01:59:17,291 - Mennonite chants. - Oh. 1897 01:59:17,958 --> 01:59:20,750 - What? - Yeah, shit's crazy. 1898 01:59:20,916 --> 01:59:23,083 - On a serious note, though... - What? 1899 01:59:23,166 --> 01:59:25,625 You been... like, you been writing since... 1900 01:59:26,375 --> 01:59:27,208 No. 1901 01:59:30,083 --> 01:59:33,583 So, we go off top of the dome, then. 1902 01:59:34,250 --> 01:59:36,500 - Okay. - I got a beat on me right now. 1903 01:59:36,583 --> 01:59:38,333 - What we doing? - What? What you got? 1904 01:59:41,791 --> 01:59:42,666 Yeah 1905 01:59:43,166 --> 01:59:44,416 Uh 1906 01:59:44,625 --> 01:59:45,541 Word 1907 01:59:46,083 --> 01:59:46,916 Yo 1908 01:59:47,458 --> 01:59:49,041 I think I just saw a rat 1909 01:59:51,666 --> 01:59:55,000 This gonna make a fat girl start running 1910 01:59:56,583 --> 01:59:57,750 Under the sun and 1911 01:59:58,708 --> 02:00:00,250 Out, in and out 1912 02:00:00,833 --> 02:00:02,041 Ain't no doubt 1913 02:00:03,166 --> 02:00:06,000 I used to have clout like Cardi B 1914 02:00:08,000 --> 02:00:09,208 There's a part of me 1915 02:00:10,875 --> 02:00:12,625 That's real hard on me 1916 02:00:36,208 --> 02:00:38,541 Hey, not a bad ending. 1917 02:00:38,708 --> 02:00:41,416 Could have been a little bit more sex in there, 1918 02:00:41,500 --> 02:00:44,291 but, hey, life is interesting. 1919 02:00:44,375 --> 02:00:46,416 I know because I done it. 1920 02:00:46,500 --> 02:00:49,791 Been here around this United States, 1921 02:00:49,875 --> 02:00:53,375 had many lovers, interesting jobs, 1922 02:00:53,458 --> 02:00:57,125 like coat check girl at the Savoy. 1923 02:00:57,208 --> 02:01:00,583 Hell, I even ran some numbers. 1924 02:01:01,083 --> 02:01:02,333 So, you see, 1925 02:01:02,416 --> 02:01:04,708 I know how to make it out here. 1926 02:01:04,791 --> 02:01:07,291 For one, I went to Paris. 1927 02:01:07,375 --> 02:01:09,500 Would you shut up already? 1928 02:01:09,583 --> 02:01:13,375 Now, if you ain't gonna come over here and give me some food 1929 02:01:13,458 --> 02:01:17,375 or some ass, shut the fuck up! 140220

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