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00:00 [Music]
00:28 I know I've been on your mind I'm getting sick of all these lies
00:33 How many times can we say goodbye? My sick love twisted lullaby
00:39 Swear to God that the world won't fight I'ma have to go and call it on my ride
00:44 How many times can we say goodbye? My sick love twisted lullaby
00:50 [Music]
01:09 What's up with you?
01:10 Hey, what's up?
01:11 You know I live in Lost and Conscious Street. We just met up over there.
01:15 I don't know you like that. We met one time and that hardly even counts.
01:20 So what you don't count for us in the pictures at the club?
01:23 What you think? What if I was drunk and I just dry ass you for your IG?
01:30 Man, you wasn't drunk. If you was drunk I would never even say nothing to you.
01:33 Sure you wouldn't ask.
01:35 Bro, what's that supposed to mean?
01:36 Um, I'ma be real with you. I don't trust niggas.
01:41 Goddamn.
01:42 I don't mean to be blunt. I'm just being a friend. It takes a lot for me to trust whatever you're saying.
01:49 So what, I'm assuming this trauma comes from what, past relationships?
01:53 Um, past relationships, um, family, life lessons. Not just relationships, but them for sure.
02:05 What if I said I could change your views?
02:08 Mmm.
02:14 Came out of the club. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:18 Bro, what's wrong with you?
02:24 Bro, what you mad about right now? Like, why you do this every single time I'm about to get ready to leave?
02:28 Cause you about to go out with God knows who you don't get back to whenever.
02:33 And you expect me to sit here like some goofy. The fuck?
02:38 Why you cursing? If you think I'm out here messing with other people then just say something like that.
02:43 Are you?
02:46 I'm not about to answer that. I can't make you change your mind.
02:50 But, you just gonna believe whatever you wanna believe anyway, so.
02:53 Skrt. Okay, that's not fair. Because if you was to ask me if I was talking to another nigga I would tell you.
03:00 Shit, man.
03:03 If I had to ask, I wouldn't be here.
03:08 Neither would you.
03:11 I'm just doing my thing.
03:14 And I'm about to go chill with the homies.
03:18 Yeah, homies my ass. Them ain't no fucking homies.
03:22 See, you don't even believe nothing I say.
03:25 Kim, you better bring your ass home tonight.
03:28 You see? You see how you do me?
03:31 Really?
03:33 If I find out you cheat on me, that's gonna be your ass. I'm not playing with you.
03:38 How y'all doing tonight? My name is Maurice. The owner of Maurice's.
03:53 Can I start y'all with some drinks tonight?
03:55 I'll take some wine.
03:58 I'll get that for you. We have my waiter here. He's gonna be your waiter for the night. His name is Courtney Elias.
04:03 He'll handle everything. All your needs.
04:06 I'm real hands on. I got you. You said some wine?
04:09 Please, let's do it.
04:12 God bless.
04:14 Yeah, I'm not gonna assume you're doing anything, but whatever my intuition is, I'm trusting that over everything.
04:20 So, I'm guessing if you don't trust nobody, you're probably one of those real modern, independent women, huh?
04:26 And if I was, is that an issue?
04:29 Nah, not at all. But I would like to get to know your views on dating and everything. Like, how you feel about it.
04:36 Well, in dating, I feel like men still single. That's why I don't throw around that boyfriend shit or whatever.
04:46 But if we dating, we dating. I don't feel like it needs to be publicized. I like my dating to be private.
04:52 Makes sense.
04:54 Also, finances. I don't need no man trying to buy me. If we going out, I'm gonna pay my portion of the date.
05:01 I ain't no bro-co. I don't need no man trying to control none of my finances or what I got going on.
05:06 Too much for you?
05:09 Nah, I'm listening.
05:11 Oh, you lucky. Because you getting to hear this before you even try anything.
05:14 Because the moment somebody tries to buy me or win me over, it's a wrap.
05:19 Wow, so you telling me a bro trying to look out for you and possibly do some business with you on some power couple shit, you ain't going for it?
05:27 I mean, we can do business, but I ain't dating you if we doing business.
05:32 I'm very passionate about my business and I never mix that with somebody I'm passionate about.
05:37 Something's gonna lose and I ain't trying to jeopardize nothing.
05:41 [Music]
05:53 [Music]
06:16 Clear.
06:18 [Music]
06:26 What?
06:27 What? What you walking in here like you about to whoop somebody for?
06:31 Because I just left the stuff.
06:33 And?
06:34 And my car declined.
06:36 That just mean you spending too much money.
06:38 How the hell I'm spending too much money on everything I'm trying to buy for the damn house.
06:43 Why you just didn't put some of it back and got it when you could?
06:46 That's fucking embarrassing.
06:48 Who the hell wants to be at the store trying to figure out why they can't afford groceries?
06:52 You know, if this how this money management thing gonna work, then maybe you should do all the grocery shopping.
06:58 Okay.
06:59 You saying okay now, but you know damn well your ass ain't gonna do shit.
07:03 If it was up to you, we'd be in this bitch starving.
07:05 And we'd be in this bitch broke than the bitch if it was up to you.
07:09 T, you trash at managing money.
07:11 We've been through this.
07:12 You do shit like get your nails done before getting the all fixed on the car.
07:15 And if the car break down, who gotta get that bitch back up?
07:19 Yeah, me.
07:20 Exactly.
07:21 I don't wanna hear that shit.
07:23 When we got together two years ago, I didn't know I was getting serious with no bank manager.
07:30 And I didn't know I was gonna get with no impulsive spender either.
07:33 It's only impulsive because you don't see the shit that I consider a need of value.
07:36 Do you see me putting the count on freeze before you take out $200 so you get a retwist?
07:41 I could've did that shit.
07:43 You done?
07:44 I'm serious, Dane.
07:46 We need to figure something else out.
07:48 Why?
07:49 I don't have a problem with the way things are.
07:51 We not homeless.
07:53 We still got food in the fridge.
07:55 The bill's paid.
07:56 I don't see a single flaw in this picture.
07:59 Even if I did suggest a better way to go about this, is you gonna listen?
08:04 Baby, I'm always listening.
08:07 No, for real.
08:09 Promise me you're gonna try this one thing I think could work for us.
08:13 What is it?
08:15 Man, when you said let's go to the payroll, I didn't know you meant today.
08:28 Well, welcome guys.
08:31 How y'all doing?
08:32 Let's get this over with, bro.
08:34 Alright.
08:35 So, Dae, do you feel like there's anything you could do for T to make her feel more comfortable in this relationship?
08:42 Honestly, I have no idea.
08:45 I thought I was contributing in a positive way.
08:48 How's that?
08:50 She bad with money.
08:53 I'm good with money.
08:55 Let me control it.
08:57 Simple.
08:58 This is not about--
08:59 Just a second, T.
09:01 So, Dae, you feel like the underlying issue in the relationship is money?
09:06 I mean, yeah.
09:07 What else could it be about?
09:09 It's not like I'm trying to control her.
09:11 Just the finances.
09:13 And that's how I know this is exactly not about the money.
09:16 I just want you to feel where I'm coming from.
09:18 If you say you got control over something that I'm upset about, why you just can't make it right?
09:23 Make it right with money, right?
09:25 So, Dae, I think what T is trying to express is that showing some consideration, maybe even listening to her, will let her know that you're really with her or against her.
09:34 Thank you. That's it. Act like you like the bitch or something.
09:37 Man, I'm here, eh?
09:39 Like, bro, I'm right here.
09:41 I don't do no shit like this for no reason.
09:44 So, T, do you believe he sees what the underlying issue in the relationship is?
09:49 He might.
09:50 Well, Dae, do you feel where she is coming from by taking more consideration of her feelings?
09:55 But although you say you're willing to do that for her, are you cognitively able to do that?
10:01 Man, first off, I don't even know what "cognitive" mean.
10:06 Are you trying to call me insensitive or something?
10:09 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
10:11 Hell, you might be. You act just like your mama, and she don't give a fuck about nobody's feelings.
10:15 Man, don't be talking about my mama.
10:17 Say, did I ever see this, bro?
10:19 See, that's what it is, doc.
10:21 It's in his DNA. He don't know how to consciously care for a woman.
10:25 I mean, you could do for me.
10:27 You can grant me everything you want me to have, but it should be getting a roof over my head, food on the table.
10:32 But anything more or less than him is like pulling teeth with this nigga.
10:35 So, Dae, is this true?
10:39 Do you feel like he looks like your mama?
10:42 I mean, shit, we kinda look alike.
10:47 But mentally, I'm a man. She a woman.
10:51 So I'ma go with no.
10:53 Y'all don't look like shit.
10:55 Man, I tell you that, I'm my mama, man.
10:57 Excuse the sirens. This is still a safe space.
11:02 So, T, is there anything else you want to open up about during the rest of this session?
11:07 I just want to feel something from him.
11:09 Besides being an object that he can just pick up and drop when he want.
11:13 This bitch done brought me in here.
11:15 Talked about me in my face to a stranger.
11:17 Talk about I'm insensitive.
11:19 I love bitches.
11:21 That's why I get that inconsiderate, inconsistent vibes from him.
11:26 Like, tell me how I can be a better partner to him.
11:30 So he can listen to me and see when I just need companionship.
11:35 So, essentially, this is solely up to Dae.
11:38 She talking about my mama.
11:40 She really need to be taking a look at my pops.
11:42 That's where I really get it from.
11:44 It's not on me, it's in me.
11:46 That's what she don't understand.
11:48 This damn therapist might be right.
11:50 I can't give this girl no air-crack.
11:52 And I'm not about to beat myself up about it either.
11:55 What the hell they talking about?
11:57 Dae, can you be the companion T needs you to be?
12:01 I'm too played for this shit.
12:12 Nigga, what?
12:14 Hey, ain't no refunds.
12:17 Okay, man, you slid your nose a little quick.
12:31 You passed the love hurt.
12:33 Don't waste my shit.
12:35 I got you, man.
12:37 That's for you, man.
12:39 Thank you.
12:40 That's for you, baby.
12:42 You drive, you don't need to drink too much.
12:44 You look familiar. Where you from?
12:46 I mean, like, down 43rd Street.
12:49 You know what I'm saying?
12:50 They got a Burger King that sit right there on the left-hand side.
12:52 You pass that, you go 16 lights above that,
12:54 and then you're gonna make a left right by the Kroger Black Backpack.
12:57 That area, that's my neighborhood.
12:59 I'm from around the parks.
13:01 So, where you from?
13:08 I'm from Houston.
13:10 What side?
13:11 Do that really matter?
13:13 Um, yeah.
13:15 So, you saying that because you probably talked to XYZ
13:18 or they the north side and the south side, nigga?
13:20 Is that right?
13:21 Yes.
13:22 So, tell me which one you like better, the north or the south?
13:25 No, no, you can't do that.
13:27 Nah, come on, you gotta answer that.
13:29 Which one you like better, the north or the south?
13:31 Mmm...
13:33 I'ma say the north side. I like them better.
13:36 Good answer, good answer.
13:37 So, you from the north?
13:39 Yep.
13:40 South side niggas just--
13:42 ugh, they just too Houston.
13:44 You know how you met somebody that's just too Houston?
13:47 Yeah, yeah.
13:48 Them south side niggas just too Houston.
13:50 Yeah, the culture on the south is heavy,
13:53 but you know, some of my best partners, you know,
13:55 they from the south side, so I understand what you're saying.
13:58 But what nigga on the south done broke your heart?
14:00 My daddy?
14:03 Oh, damn, I wasn't expecting that.
14:06 Nah, you cool.
14:08 It's just, I got to see how pops treated women.
14:11 He was never married, but he always threw that wife and girlfriend,
14:14 you know, name around, to any woman he could dominate
14:17 or anybody that made him feel good.
14:19 And that's how everybody was around him, too.
14:22 And even in high school.
14:24 I just seen how people was when it came to love and affection,
14:27 and it wasn't appealing to me at all.
14:30 Damn, I'm surprised you're not gay.
14:33 Don't play. I'm just saying.
14:36 Man, I wasn't playing with you.
14:38 That's probably why you got trust issues now.
14:41 Oh, so you a comedian and a therapist, huh?
14:43 You ain't know.
14:45 Nah, but for real, ain't nothing wrong with a little therapy.
14:47 Oh, so you'll go to therapy?
14:49 Hell yeah, I'll go to therapy.
14:51 That's just like having another person to talk to,
14:53 except I got all the answers.
14:55 You know what I'm saying?
14:57 So you got all the answers, huh?
14:59 Nah, I ain't say that.
15:01 I don't got your answers. I just got the answers for me.
15:04 That's all I'm saying.
15:06 You know people with answers you just gave got something to hide, right?
15:10 What you mean?
15:13 You got ego issues, huh?
15:15 So you just gonna look deep into my pores and tell me that I got an ego issue?
15:20 How you come up with something like that?
15:22 It's because I may be insinuating
15:24 where I don't need anybody but myself.
15:27 That's just me.
15:29 So, say we dating,
15:31 and we in the same field as entrepreneurs, right?
15:34 And I'm flourishing, and you're not.
15:36 How you think you would feel?
15:38 Well, I believe if I'm not getting money in my field,
15:42 that I get it out.
15:58 I appreciate your time and patience with this deal.
16:01 Just give me some time, and the money will be rolling in real soon.
16:04 That sounds so great.
16:06 Can I wait to close this deal?
16:08 So I can just bounce them away from social media.
16:10 Alright, good.
16:11 Thank you.
16:12 Okay.
16:13 Well, text me when you make it home.
16:15 Absolutely.
16:16 Y'all stay well.
16:17 Y'all you too.
16:18 [Music]
16:34 Hey, bae, I'm home.
16:38 [Door slams]
16:54 [Music]
17:20 [Click]
17:22 [Door opens]
17:23 [Door closes]
17:29 [Click]
17:32 [Door closes]
17:35 [Sighs]
17:40 [Gulps]
17:43 [Sighs]
17:44 [Sighs]
17:45 [Sighs]
17:54 How was your meeting?
17:58 You scared the shit out of me.
18:00 The meeting was well.
18:02 Yeah, you do realize what time it is, right?
18:05 Oh yeah, babe, so what happened was I got in the car, I called my sister,
18:08 she talked my ear off all the way home.
18:10 I think she had trouble with the baby.
18:13 You know, single moms deserve to ruin VP because she really be doing her thing.
18:18 You was up. The bed is made up and everything.
18:20 And of course the bed is still made up, Ki.
18:22 It's hard to sleep when you're alone.
18:24 Okay, so we having that conversation again?
18:26 Technically, we never had the conversation.
18:28 You just not holding up your end of hour agreement.
18:30 But of course, you probably forgot about all that because you so busy doing other stuff.
18:34 Okay, so this is because I didn't call you back. I'm sorry.
18:37 Okay.
18:41 You really going to act like a little girl right now?
18:44 Ugh.
18:45 I want a breakup.
18:54 Excuse me?
19:03 Excuse me!
19:05 It's not working, Ki. It's not working.
19:09 Okay, so you want a breakup with me. Why exactly?
19:12 Because I'm not home when you want me to be?
19:14 Or because you want me to be like these other bitches you been talking to that has nothing else better to do but punch a cop?
19:18 Is that what it is, James Hopps?
19:20 See, see, see, for you to say all that just helps me understand why we shouldn't be together.
19:23 Well, you not telling me shit!
19:25 Why the f-- Why are you cursing?
19:26 Shut the fuck up because you just tried to break up with me.
19:28 I didn't try to break up with you. I'm telling you, we're done.
19:31 Well, if you think you finna kick me out in the middle of the night, you got me fucked up.
19:36 Now you too good to call an Uber, huh?
19:39 And what is that supposed to mean?
19:41 What it supposed to mean, huh?
19:44 You wasn't too good to call an Uber when you was leaving from your little late night dinner, from your little photo shoot.
19:50 Yeah, but now it matters when it comes to our relationship.
19:53 Make that make sense, Ki.
19:54 Keep that same energy, that same nonchalant and dismissive energy that you have for me our entire relationship.
20:00 Okay, so you are really in your feelings right now.
20:02 You let my dreams and aspirations dictate this relationship.
20:05 What? I had goals and aspirations too.
20:07 I had dreams and shit that I wanted to accomplish, but they ain't gonna stop me from wanting to spend quality time with you.
20:11 But you know what? All you ever want to do is come home, hang out, and fuck.
20:14 Anybody can do that, Ki.
20:16 That ain't no relationship.
20:17 Right.
20:18 Right? Am I wrong?
20:19 On so many levels because I make time.
20:22 No, you don't make time, but you know what you do make time for?
20:24 You make time for your little friends to do your little photo shoots and then you try to squeeze little James in like he a freaking puzzle or something.
20:29 That ain't making time for me.
20:31 Oh, so you want me to treat you like a job?
20:33 You want me to put you above making my ends meet?
20:35 You were never someone I saw as work, so I'm not gonna treat you as such.
20:38 Our time is supposed to be fun, peaceful, a getaway.
20:41 But you want to be up under me every hour, on and hour, texting me and shit, and that's not me.
20:45 And you knew that since the beginning.
20:47 You know what? You right.
20:49 Right.
20:50 That's my fault that I thought things was gonna change between us.
20:53 So that's my bad.
20:54 But the question is, now what?
20:56 'Cause I'm done with you.
20:57 I'm done. It's over with, okay?
20:59 Yeah, we're done.
21:00 We're done the moment your ego had to take the backseat to my career.
21:03 The backseat of your career?
21:04 Bitch, you do YouTube!
21:06 The moment you get to undermine anything that I have going on, you do it by saying I just do YouTube?
21:16 You're a fucking joke.
21:20 You and everyone else you know know I do more than just that.
21:23 Your friends see it.
21:24 Your family sees it.
21:26 You know, they be telling me all the time, "Take James with you.
21:29 He's so talented.
21:30 Y'all can be a power couple."
21:32 But see, the little small detail that no one seems to understand is that James is scared to be fucking overshadowed.
21:37 Cassidy as Key's boyfriend instead of someone that's known as coming up by himself.
21:41 You know, let me tell you something, James.
21:43 You'll never be able to enter a room without people knowing where they recognize you from.
21:46 You know why?
21:47 Because I'm the one.
21:48 I'm the one that shared my life with you to help you.
21:51 And the fact that you'll sit here tonight, end your career with some ego you can't control,
21:55 you're not just a power trip.
21:56 You're a fucking dummy.
21:58 Get the fuck--get out, man.
21:59 Get out!
22:00 Gladly, gladly.
22:01 Gladly.
22:02 This nigga got me fucked up.
22:05 Can't stand this motherfucker, man.
22:08 Get out, man.
22:10 Get the fuck out, man.
22:13 Get the fuck out of here with this shit, man.
22:16 Get the fuck out, man.
22:20 Get out of here with this shit, motherfucker.
22:23 Hey, and come lock up because I would hate for someone to come and steal a little bit of private you have left.
22:26 Can't wait to see no stupid shit like this, man.
22:30 Get out, man.
22:33 Get out of here, motherfucker.
22:36 I'm too afraid I need you in my life.
22:38 I'm too afraid to say I need you back.
22:41 I'm too afraid to even call your line.
22:43 I'm too afraid that I could love you back.
22:45 No, I'm a good one, but I'm complicated.
22:49 Let my guard down, oh, I'm misbehaving.
22:51 Can't explain this, think I'm going crazy.
22:53 I just want to know, do you understand me?
22:55 I'm too afraid I need you in my life.
22:57 I'm too afraid to say I need you back.
22:59 I'm too afraid to even call your line.
23:02 I'm too afraid that I could love you back.
23:04 No, I'm a good one, but I'm complicated.
23:07 Let my guard down, oh, I'm misbehaving.
23:10 Can't explain this, think I'm going crazy.
23:12 I just want to know, do you understand me?
23:15 Say, say, say, say, say.
23:18 I like that.
23:19 Who is this?
23:21 Nobody, now.
23:23 OK.
23:24 Well, let me know when I direct deposit it to your account.
23:26 Thank you so much.
23:27 Oh, no problem.
23:28 My pleasure.
23:29 I like that.
23:30 What's the situation?
23:31 I'm too afraid to say I need you in my life.
23:34 I don't have a problem with you cheating with me,
23:36 as long as it's appropriate.
23:38 Yeah, right, until you get with somebody that got her own money,
23:41 or she had that only the nigga for nothing attitude, then what?
23:46 Is that you?
23:47 Yeah, but I just think that's a Scorpio in me.
23:50 Oh, so you toxic?
23:51 Not at all.
23:52 I just turn people toxic.
23:54 So you're in the Zodiacs?
23:56 Not really, but that may just be the Leo in me.
23:59 I can't stand y'all.
24:02 I just know women really love Zodiac signs,
24:05 and women really love their birthday, too.
24:07 Oh, so you must be one of them anti-celebrate-my-birthday-for-a-week
24:11 kind of people, huh?
24:13 Nah, I ain't saying all that.
24:14 Celebrate your birthday.
24:16 I'm just not going to the clubs and the hookah lounges or the stranger houses.
24:20 The fuck?
24:22 You must ain't been to too many parties in Houston.
24:24 And why are you against all them places like it's your birthday?
24:28 I don't care if we friends or together.
24:31 If I invite you to my party, you better show up, period.
24:34 But I don't even like being around all the folk, rubbing shoulders and shit.
24:38 I'll just play it out, be for real.
24:40 Well, what about a brunch?
24:43 I'll do a brunch.
24:45 But if I come, I need to know at least 50% of the people that's going to be there.
24:49 You funny.
24:50 But if I'm doing a brunch, it's just going to be me and my family.
24:54 Now, what if I don't even like your family?
24:56 Do you think you could be with somebody and not like their family?
25:00 It's possible.
25:02 I mean, as long as they ain't doing no weird shit like putting Coon in the gumbo.
25:07 Coon in the gumbo, nigga?
25:09 I'm going to have to cut it off.
25:11 [laughter]
25:13 I don't know about that.
25:15 [footsteps]
25:24 What you want to eat since you think you brought with you over there?
25:27 I'm going to hungry.
25:29 Okay.
25:30 Well, what do you want to eat?
25:32 Because I know you're going to be hungry later.
25:35 I just do it the ass off.
25:37 Damn.
25:38 [clatter]
25:41 [music]
26:00 What's your problem?
26:02 I'm constipated.
26:06 Really?
26:09 Yes, really.
26:10 And you probably know that if you cared about anything I have going on in my life.
26:13 Or if you even cared about anything that makes me happy.
26:17 So being constipated makes you happy?
26:20 Really?
26:22 That's all you heard after everything I just said?
26:24 You're going to respond with that dumbass comment?
26:27 Well, then you just tell me what the hell your problem is.
26:30 You want to get those dumbass comments out of me.
26:32 Why is it rocking science for you to figure out something that's fucking bothering you?
26:36 I answer you ask questions when I ask you a question.
26:40 Okay, Quay.
26:41 What's your question?
26:43 What's the problem?
26:44 You're my problem.
26:46 How am I--
26:47 I answered your question when you asked me a question.
26:50 So now you need to answer mine.
26:52 What's the fucking question?
26:54 Why is it rocking science for you to figure out when something bothers me?
26:57 When I tell you every little fucking thing that irritates me?
27:00 Maybe because too much shit bothers you.
27:02 No, maybe because you're full of shit.
27:04 You don't even care about my happiness.
27:06 No, you full of shit.
27:08 Mentally and physically.
27:10 Inside and out.
27:11 Just nasty, bro.
27:13 Like, you always want to fucking argue.
27:15 Like that's going to make our relationship better.
27:17 That shit dumb.
27:19 Oh, God.
27:33 I'm sorry, baby.
27:35 Just tell me what's wrong so we can get through this shit.
27:39 I don't mind letting you know what the issue is,
27:41 but you just have to promise you're not going to annihilate and demolish my emotions.
27:45 Okay.
27:47 I promise.
27:50 Why are you so comfortable letting my family think our relationship's not successful?
27:56 I ain't gonna lie.
27:58 With all due respect to your feelings and your emotions,
28:01 fuck your family.
28:03 See, that's the part right there, Kwe.
28:06 You'd rather jump off a building than the goddamn blood that can center my feelings.
28:09 You don't even know how hard it is to be with you around my family.
28:12 You don't speak, you don't eat their food,
28:14 and God forbid you spend the living room long enough for me to introduce you to someone.
28:18 You're selfish, Kwe.
28:19 Selfish, arrogant, and hurtful.
28:21 So oblivious to the little things that make me happy,
28:24 like my family, my friends, my future endeavors.
28:27 You don't even see that you're the reason for my anger,
28:29 my heartbreak, my introspect.
28:32 Don't you like that shit in here?
28:37 Are you done?
28:38 Are you done?
28:40 You can't even stand or even fucking sit around my family on my birthday.
28:44 And if that's the case, that's the underlying problem that we need to address.
28:47 You couldn't even get me the smallest thing I wanted,
28:49 and that's some shit that should just be given.
28:52 I got you everything you wanted for your birthday.
28:55 Excuse me.
28:57 So out of everything I just said, that's how you respond?
29:02 Keys, you know why I don't mess with your family like that.
29:04 I do?
29:07 Yeah.
29:09 I'm like, don't, but enlighten me.
29:13 You for real?
29:14 I'm so for real.
29:17 We was going through that shit a while back.
29:19 I overheard your mama talking to you.
29:21 She said you shouldn't fuck with me because she said I was a bullshit ass nigga.
29:24 So you do know?
29:26 I mean, yeah, but I thought you would have been grew up and let that shit go.
29:29 I didn't know you was holding on to that grudge.
29:31 Look, I don't give a damn if it was today or last week.
29:35 And you say some shit like that, I ain't got to fuck with you no more.
29:38 Nigga, that was three years ago.
29:40 And still no apology?
29:42 Really quick.
29:44 Fuck that shit, though.
29:46 My mom was over that shit.
29:48 So you can't even really be mad at nobody.
29:50 Your ego's so fucking enlarged that you can't even see you standing in some bullshit by yourself.
29:55 Parties and gatherings acting like the weird kid that wanted to be the problem.
29:58 We get it. You're an outcast.
30:00 You got it, bruh.
30:01 You got it, bruh.
30:02 Fuck my family.
30:04 I guess I got to hang around with your country ass people and act like I don't have a problem with Coon and the fucking gumbos.
30:09 Hey, my people ain't never said no shit like that about you.
30:15 Big difference.
30:16 Okay, well, then fuck my family and fuck your family, too.
30:19 Fuck 'em. I don't care. You ain't got to come to no more of our shit.
30:22 Our shit? So now I'm not a part of the family?
30:24 You keep talking like this and you won't be.
30:26 You know what? Better for me.
30:28 I'm tired of doing chores at your mama's house anyways.
30:31 Stop talking about my mama, bro.
30:32 Why I got to stop talking about her? You don't even like mine.
30:35 Why you keep acting like there's not a clear difference between our two families?
30:38 Because your issue isn't with the whole family. Your issue is with my mom.
30:41 I'm not about to be fake. She don't respect me enough to even watch.
30:44 She don't have to say nothing to you. She's already falling out.
30:47 I don't give a damn. She needs to talk to me.
30:49 [screaming]
30:51 How we doing tonight? Was everything to your liking?
30:58 Mm-hmm.
30:59 Okay, are you done with the wine? Would you like any more?
31:02 No. We ain't got no more anyway.
31:04 Okay, so have they paid you?
31:05 Nah.
31:06 You have to pay for the entire bottle. It's just not the glass.
31:09 Okay. Do we get to take that bottle with us?
31:11 Uh, yes.
31:12 Okay.
31:13 You pay for the bottle.
31:16 Yeah.
31:17 Can you pick up the stuff, please?
31:19 I'll give it to him.
31:20 Okay, man.
31:21 You need some help, brother?
31:24 He don't want to sit.
31:26 You got it.
31:27 I told you when I hired you, this was a part of the job.
31:31 I got you, man.
31:32 Can you lift 40 pounds? Can you pick up the cups?
31:34 I got it, man.
31:35 All right, come on now.
31:36 Pay me another week.
31:38 Yeah, I hope we get that bottle of wine.
31:43 So, how important is family to you?
31:46 Family is important.
31:47 I'm just so keen to have everybody really do their own thing.
31:50 They got their own issues, so I really just hit them up to check on them.
31:54 Hmm.
31:55 So, when was the last time you talked to your mama?
31:58 Damn, that's a good question.
32:00 Nobody really never asked me that.
32:02 But, to answer your, it's been about a couple months, honestly.
32:06 Wow. Really?
32:08 Yeah, we just don't be seeing eye to eye, though.
32:11 Hmm. You from Greenspoint, huh?
32:13 Nah. Why I gotta be from Greenspoint?
32:16 I'm just trying to see why I sound like you grew up abandoned and battered.
32:20 It ain't nothing like that.
32:22 Me and my mama just don't see eye to eye on some things.
32:25 You know, so I just see her when I see her.
32:27 It's been like that for a while, so it is what it is, though.
32:30 Hmm. So, you got mama issues and I got daddy issues.
32:33 We got a lot in common, right?
32:35 Except the fact that I talk to my mama almost every day.
32:40 And I see her about every other weekend.
32:43 It's nothing that I know that she don't.
32:46 So, she gonna know about me after today?
32:48 That's cool. Just let me know how she feels about it.
32:51 Relax. Relax, okay?
32:54 Anyways, so who do you talk to when you're trying to get through something?
32:58 I don't talk to nobody.
33:00 You know, I really just go to my books and do some reading.
33:03 Poetry, specifically.
33:05 You know, I try to apply the metaphors to my life.
33:08 How, you know, music do for others.
33:11 That's different. Who your favorite poet?
33:13 My favorite poet? It's a guy from L.A.
33:16 He's done some work with Snoop Dogg.
33:19 His name is Joseph Summers, a.k.a. Jody.
33:22 [Music]
33:34 I need some of your work to print by next week.
33:37 The editor's just asking I come through and check out these illustrations
33:40 since they couldn't get in there through email.
33:43 Oh, I know. But this is my first time putting illustrations on my poetry,
33:47 so I just need to make sure that the visuals match up with the verbs on this one.
33:52 Right. The numbers still the same, right?
33:57 Okay, okay, cool, cool. Sounds good.
34:01 But check this out. I'm filling the way over there now.
34:04 All right. All right.
34:08 They like the new book?
34:10 Yeah, but the publisher is just insisting I go work with this new illustrator,
34:14 so that's why I be doing all that today.
34:18 That doesn't sound too bad.
34:21 It only sounds bad when you got the editor on the phone
34:24 talking about make it relate with all genders.
34:27 Like it already made to relate to all genders.
34:29 Like I don't understand.
34:31 No need to go on that rainbows and shit to the cook.
34:34 You know what I'm saying?
34:38 Well, you definitely need to check on that.
34:40 No, no, no. For sure. For sure.
34:42 You still going to be here when I get back from work, right?
34:44 You already know it. Okay.
34:46 I'm just going to the store in a little bit.
34:47 I got something special to make for you tonight.
34:49 So I'm going to be back. Okay. All right.
34:51 I like how that sound.
34:53 The spare key is in the room by my drawer.
34:55 So you can go get that anytime you need to make sure you lock it up.
34:58 And everything. But I'm going to go ahead and head up out of here.
35:00 You still going to be here when I get back from work, right?
35:02 Yeah, I'm going to be here.
35:04 All right. I'm going to see you later.
35:05 I'm going to go with you anywhere.
35:06 Okay. All right. I'm going to hug you. I'm going to see you later.
35:08 All right.
35:09 And I'm going to text you on my break too.
35:11 Okay. All right.
35:12 Bye.
35:13 Bye.
35:14 Bye.
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35:48 [Music]
35:49 (door slams)
35:51 (footsteps)
35:53 (footsteps)
35:56 (footsteps)
35:58 (footsteps)
36:01 (clinking)
36:04 (clinking)
36:32 - A cold summer kiss.
36:34 - A cold summer kiss, laid frozen on full lips.
36:39 Since the summer heat couldn't seem
36:40 to thaw that icy moment, I felt so much for one second,
36:44 but that awkward moment is a first
36:46 that will stay frozen in my memory forever.
36:49 As that day fell further away,
36:51 I fall slightly closer to a kiss lacking warmth
36:53 in the summer breeze, wondering why your love for me
36:56 can never be shown and has yet to be achieved.
37:00 - Aw, he really be knowin' what to say in these poems.
37:04 Your new boyfriend.
37:10 - Couldn't complain when you said every guy
37:11 you ever dated was completely the same,
37:14 until your new boyfriend wasn't me
37:16 and my first impression, what a lame.
37:20 I now question your definition of the word same,
37:22 since there's a big difference from what you have now
37:25 and what you could have to gain.
37:27 The dreams I have of us are filled
37:28 with a feeling far from a fantasy.
37:30 They could turn reality unreal.
37:33 If you're holdin' back, please let it be revealed,
37:35 'cause I can't grasp the love that's vaguely concealed.
37:38 Just when you thought you had someone
37:40 that could save you from those lonely nights,
37:42 you will realize that you settled
37:44 for the imperfections of Mr. Right.
37:46 Any pair of hands could lock perfectly,
37:48 but everything that fits isn't always compatible.
37:51 - Who the hell's he talkin' about in these poems?
37:55 (papers rustling)
37:58 - You never wanted a kiss so bad
38:01 that you closed your eyes to reminisce in that exact moment,
38:05 only to realize how engaging your lips are
38:08 when you're not even there.
38:10 - Bitch, this man has poems to this day
38:17 about hoes I don't even know.
38:19 Nah, ain't no way he's still talkin' to these hoes.
38:23 But I've been reading books of poems
38:24 and I know none of them about me, none of 'em.
38:27 Bitch, I just know they not.
38:30 - Bitch, I told you that those poems were not about you.
38:34 I know you was writing about somebody else,
38:35 I just fucking knew it. - Listen to this shit
38:36 right here.
38:38 Yes, it's called "A Relationship Ago."
38:41 A novice to the feeling of a heart sunk,
38:44 a lesson learned after only being taught once.
38:47 Alone but still having feelings
38:51 that occupy space you no longer want.
38:53 That wasn't even about you.
38:55 Nothing about that poem said anything about your vix.
38:58 - Those songs that express the feelings I can't speak
39:03 is why you always be attached to me.
39:06 This cloudy cotton memory comes back unexpected
39:08 like tears after a yawn
39:10 or the dew settling at the crack of dawn.
39:13 Traced by faith in due time to find out I'm just too late.
39:17 Unable to move with all this space.
39:20 The sun shades our days becoming shaded gray.
39:23 Hopefully the moon will glow as I wish on a shooting star
39:27 that things will go back to the way that they were,
39:29 a relationship ago.
39:31 (eerie music)
39:33 (phone ringing)
39:36 (eerie music)
39:38 - Yvette!
40:05 - Yvette!
40:07 - The days of gray clouds will soon be floods
40:10 as my fingers wrinkle from the wave of tears
40:12 I wipe from your cheeks.
40:14 Even though you are now relieved
40:16 from the headaches and countless grief,
40:18 it devastates me that you will soon be okay without me.
40:22 What I have done has placed me in a situation
40:25 where me and you will only be
40:28 if a wish was granted upon a flip coin
40:30 and into an enchanted sea.
40:33 - Yvette.
40:33 - I'm not finished!
40:35 (eerie music)
40:37 Oh, how I love for this fairytale scenario
40:40 of you coming back to soon come true.
40:43 But fate plays a part in heartbreak
40:46 when just being sorry is well overdue.
40:48 - Hey, hey.
40:49 - This apparent belief of being in love
40:52 has now been drug through the memory
40:55 of feral kisses and goodbye hugs.
41:02 - So you still miss your exes and old flings, huh?
41:05 - When I write, I write from emotion.
41:07 That don't mean I still got them same feelings.
41:09 - Bullshit.
41:11 You write it 'cause you still feel it.
41:13 - No, I don't.
41:14 - Liar!
41:15 - What the hell, Yvette?
41:18 So you mean to tell me you done all this right here
41:21 because you assume that I still have feelings
41:23 about the people I write about?
41:25 - I'm just not dumb.
41:27 And I can see you behind the little stanza
41:29 bringing some metaphors.
41:30 You got the vibe one.
41:32 You got hoes in your phone probably texting you right now
41:34 talking about, "Oh, do you miss me?
41:36 "Do you write about me?
41:38 "A boo-hoo!"
41:39 You're sick.
41:42 - I'm sick?
41:42 You crazy.
41:43 Did you not realize this is all you?
41:46 You probably got your hands on my manuscripts
41:48 and can't even depict which ones are about you.
41:51 - That's the point.
41:53 I don't want any of them to be about me.
41:56 I'm a whole ass bad bitch.
41:57 You ain't got me next to these girls,
41:58 these little one-night stands
41:59 that you be a-crying about.
42:01 Do you realize that I'm better than all that shit?
42:04 Come on now, am I disappointing you?
42:06 - Yes, obviously.
42:10 Girls have such silly reasons
42:16 for doing the most serious things.
42:18 Eaters of water, roaming feet.
42:22 - Are you fucking serious?
42:24 - Before you go looking for it,
42:26 your book of forms that talk so lavishly about others
42:29 that I can never replace have been defaced.
42:32 Those pages that lay warmly between the covers
42:35 of your words have been ripped of its existence,
42:37 tossed in the garbage and reduced to ashes,
42:40 melted the ink of every stressful syllable
42:42 that increased my insecurities.
42:45 A plastic bag ironically holds many descriptions of filth.
42:49 Piles of personalities poetically purged
42:51 in my presence of disturbed peace.
42:53 Although I stop and stare at this trash and debris,
42:57 I just refuse to throw it away.
42:59 (somber music)
43:01 Thanks for the poem.
43:02 - So, is this like a good date for you or what?
43:11 - This is not a date, we just hanging out,
43:13 so chill out with that D word, all right?
43:15 - Yeah, you right, you right.
43:17 But you don't trust me yet neither though?
43:20 - Of course not.
43:21 You a little manipulative and egotistical.
43:24 - Bruh, your observations are crazy.
43:27 - Maybe, but you cool too.
43:31 I can see us hanging out pretty soon.
43:33 - Yeah, I agree, I agree.
43:34 - So, Jay is a man who self-diagnosed his own mental issues,
43:41 controlling and arrogant,
43:45 but also successful in self-talk.
43:47 I guess it's some pros and cons mixed in there.
43:51 - I mean, if you like it, I love it.
43:54 Women sure can read men easy nowadays.
43:57 So, what can you analyze about me?
43:59 Be my interest, babe.
44:00 - Lord have mercy.
44:02 (both laughing)
44:05 - You for real?
44:06 ♪ Tell when you shoot your shot ♪
44:08 ♪ Go for the win ♪
44:11 ♪ They ain't me ♪
44:13 ♪ You know that I can't compete ♪
44:15 ♪ They just tease ♪
44:17 ♪ You know that I am the police ♪
44:19 ♪ Nobody fuckin' with me ♪
44:20 ♪ So if you come feel the heat ♪
44:22 ♪ They ain't me ♪
44:25 ♪ They ain't me, no ♪
44:28 (all shouting)
44:31 ♪ You know it's I-F-E on the M-I-C ♪
44:47 ♪ You already know this ♪
44:50 ♪ But I'm too afraid I need you in my life ♪
44:54 ♪ I'm too afraid to say I need you back ♪
44:56 ♪ I'm too afraid to even call your line ♪
44:59 ♪ I'm too afraid that I could love you back ♪
45:01 ♪ No, I'm a good one but I'm complicated ♪
45:04 ♪ Let my guard down, I want misbehaving ♪
45:07 ♪ Can't explain this, think I'm going crazy ♪
45:09 ♪ I just wanna know, do you understand me ♪
45:11 ♪ I'm too afraid I need you in my life ♪
45:13 ♪ I'm too afraid to say I need you back ♪
45:15 ♪ I'm too afraid to even call your line ♪
45:18 ♪ I'm too afraid that I could love you back ♪
45:20 ♪ No, I'm a good one but I'm complicated ♪
45:23 ♪ Let my guard down, I want misbehaving ♪
45:26 ♪ Can't explain this, think I'm going crazy ♪
45:28 ♪ I just wanna know, do you understand me ♪
45:30 ♪ Say, say, say, say, say ♪
45:34 ♪ I think it's nonsense ♪
45:37 ♪ I'm a slave to the way I feel ♪
45:39 ♪ And I think it's nonsense ♪
45:41 ♪ Don't want you to leave ♪
45:42 ♪ Don't want you to go ♪
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