Ninth Street-SD
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00:00:24 In them days they called Junction City a lot of names.
00:00:27 Junktown, Holville.
00:00:31 Why you could address a letter saying City, Kansas
00:00:35 and they know to deliver it to us.
00:00:38 Why? Well, hell, cause of us.
00:00:42 Cause of our street.
00:00:44 Oh yeah, they gambled down there.
00:00:48 They bootlegged and them gals did turn tricks for them soldiers.
00:00:53 You're gonna have that in an army town.
00:00:57 See, Junction City was the way it was
00:01:00 because of them 20,000 soldiers stationed outside of town at Fort Riley.
00:01:05 Military payday is big money, baby.
00:01:09 That money turned a little country town like this into a boom town.
00:01:14 [music]
00:01:19 The street served us black G.I.s of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.
00:01:24 The world famous Buffalo Soldiers.
00:01:27 Which I was a proud member of.
00:01:31 If that street hadn't been down there we'd have nowhere to go.
00:01:35 We'd gone crazy.
00:01:37 [music]
00:01:42 It was one whole block of black owned businesses.
00:01:46 Negroes.
00:01:48 It was all Harlem and Kansas.
00:01:51 Anything a colored man wanted he could get down there.
00:01:55 Yeah, I loved that old street.
00:01:58 Yes, everybody.
00:02:00 And in them days I loved me some wine too.
00:02:05 I was the wine drinker down there.
00:02:07 On the corner I had a job, see.
00:02:10 A role.
00:02:14 I offered guidance.
00:02:16 I told them how to live.
00:02:19 My ace boom coon, my buddy, was Huddy.
00:02:24 Huddy had him a couple of wives.
00:02:27 They'd run off and he got on that wine.
00:02:31 Huddy was my friend.
00:02:33 My best friend.
00:02:36 But primetime, baby, was always at our home, Wino Couch.
00:02:41 Wino Couch was Grand Central.
00:02:44 That's where we held court.
00:02:46 Everything from street preachers to hole chasers appeared before us.
00:02:51 We watched over the street, the kids and whatnot.
00:02:54 Protected and served.
00:02:57 We was regular public servants.
00:02:59 [music]
00:03:04 There it is.
00:03:06 Friday night, pay day, party time.
00:03:11 Sold your money, burns in them jokers' pockets, boy.
00:03:15 Them soldier boys spread the word about the street, see.
00:03:18 That's how the legend grew.
00:03:20 Soldiers partied down there from all over the country.
00:03:24 Then they'd go all over the world talking about the times they had.
00:03:28 From Heidelberg, West Germany, to Seoul, South Korea, to Japan,
00:03:33 to them Philippine islands.
00:03:35 You knew you'd be on honored ground when you snapped your fingers
00:03:41 and shook your behind on the internationally acclaimed,
00:03:45 world-renowned block known as Nice Street.
00:03:49 [music]
00:04:01 Nice Street is a hot street.
00:04:09 Nice Street is a cold street.
00:04:17 Nice Street is a tough street.
00:04:24 Nice Street is a rough street.
00:04:33 Come on, you soldier boys.
00:04:35 Play with these grown-up toys.
00:04:40 Can't believe your eyes.
00:04:42 Soldiers paradise.
00:04:49 You can get the high price.
00:04:52 Just one roll of the dice.
00:04:56 Boys, hold your ore.
00:04:58 You the man.
00:04:59 Take a chance.
00:05:03 Nice Street is a blue street.
00:05:11 Nice Street is a cool street.
00:05:20 Chicks so fine.
00:05:23 Ease will blow your mind.
00:05:27 If you got the money, you can get that money.
00:05:34 Come on, you soldier boys.
00:05:37 Dance to the beat.
00:05:39 Feel all that body heat.
00:05:42 $10, you forget about it.
00:05:46 Come to Nice Street.
00:05:50 Nice Street is a dream street.
00:05:54 Nice Street is a mean street.
00:06:11 I told you no more.
00:06:13 You got it.
00:06:16 Get out here and stay out.
00:06:21 I hope you know you almost made me spill the wine.
00:06:30 Letty being my wife, I'd come to accept that life was one ass whooping after another.
00:06:39 But I couldn't stay home much, no how, because Huddy and I, we had the daily requirements of our unlimited partnership.
00:06:48 Which had its problems.
00:06:52 17 cents.
00:06:53 What?
00:06:54 You got some money?
00:06:55 I ain't got a pot to piss in, no boot to pull it out with.
00:06:58 Ain't got a quarter.
00:06:59 Nothing.
00:07:00 Bird calls.
00:07:01 52 cents and a penny tax.
00:07:05 Bubba, Bubba got some money.
00:07:07 No, no.
00:07:09 That nigger think he shit on a rose bush since he got that job on the city.
00:07:19 You know, I never told you this, but Mama Butler, she got the hots for you.
00:07:30 Always did.
00:07:32 Get out of here.
00:07:34 I'm telling you, you know Mama Butler, she had box, you know.
00:07:50 Funny eyes, huh?
00:07:51 Funny eyes.
00:07:56 Well, hell, what I got to lose?
00:07:58 You ain't got nothing to lose, boy.
00:08:00 Go on, get your stuff, boy.
00:08:01 I'm humming this move.
00:08:03 That don't mean nothing, hell.
00:08:04 Go on, boy.
00:08:05 Get the wine, man.
00:08:06 Wish me luck.
00:08:07 Boy, you don't need no luck.
00:08:09 Boy, go on and tell her to send us some of them Dale donuts.
00:08:19 That boy as nice as he can be.
00:08:22 He ain't got a chance.
00:08:27 Hey, Mama.
00:08:28 Yes, baby?
00:08:29 Tell Willie about Buck.
00:08:30 Oh, you want to hear about Buck?
00:08:31 Oh, yeah.
00:08:33 Okay.
00:08:34 When me and my husband first opened up down here, wasn't all this killing and shooting
00:08:39 up.
00:08:40 The only shooting we had down here was between Buck and Double J down at the depot.
00:08:45 Both of them carried four or five guns apiece, 'cause they couldn't shoot worth a shit.
00:08:51 Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
00:08:55 They run out of bullets and have to quit.
00:09:02 Then there was June Buck and Juan Mary Sue.
00:09:06 Oh, I remember you.
00:09:08 Oh, yeah.
00:09:09 They'd drink and argue and get mad, and she'd carve into June Buck's behind like a Christmas
00:09:15 turkey.
00:09:16 She didn't want to kill him, just cut him, you know.
00:09:20 But she'd be ready, carry that butcher knife in that purse.
00:09:24 One day, she hid him and forgot she had that butcher knife in that purse.
00:09:28 Stabbed him in the heart.
00:09:30 Oh, yeah.
00:09:32 Sad, huh?
00:09:34 Mm-hmm.
00:09:35 Then there was Grandma Popa and her grandson, Big Dog.
00:09:39 Big Dog was one of the baddest jokers that ever come through here.
00:09:43 Got in a fight one time when a man bit three of his fingers off.
00:09:47 Sure did.
00:09:48 But he should have known better than to joke with his grandma.
00:09:51 Big Dog come down talking about, "Grandma, I'm going home now.
00:09:55 Quit fucking with me.
00:09:56 I'm Big Dog.
00:09:57 Don't nobody run Big Dog.
00:09:59 Shit."
00:10:00 All of a sudden, bam!
00:10:02 Boy, I brought you in this world, and I take you out.
00:10:05 Now get on in this automobile before I air condition your ass some more.
00:10:09 [laughter]
00:10:16 Honey, knife to change.
00:10:18 Thank you.
00:10:19 These soldiers coming through here now, they scare me.
00:10:22 They really do.
00:10:24 Them gals on the corner, they love them some mama
00:10:27 because she take them under her wing and help them, like Carrie Mae.
00:10:34 She did real good last night.
00:10:36 She slept all night.
00:10:37 Remember, you need to pay biscuit Friday.
00:10:39 I'm going to have your money.
00:10:42 Girl, you're looking kind of peaky.
00:10:44 You better get some rest.
00:10:46 Soldiers payday tonight, and I know you going to be after some of that money.
00:10:51 Did you get the baby them shots I told you she needed?
00:10:59 Tip and Toe ran B&W Cab.
00:11:03 I admired that joker.
00:11:05 Him and his wife got along.
00:11:07 They've been married I don't know how long.
00:11:10 Tip retired off that railroad.
00:11:13 That railroad was good to Tip as a government check.
00:11:16 But Tip wasn't too good.
00:11:18 He wouldn't sit down and have a drink with us.
00:11:21 What you say now?
00:11:25 Goddamn, Tip and Toe, boy, make some noise.
00:11:29 Your old goat ought to clean that shit out your ear.
00:11:34 What's going on, Cap?
00:11:37 You ever read that thing that said to sit on it?
00:11:40 Well, shit, if it ain't piss down here, it's rain.
00:11:44 If it ain't rain, it's piss.
00:11:46 Oh, there he go.
00:11:48 What's going on, Cap? What's going on?
00:11:51 Kicking but not high.
00:11:54 Trying to keep that old cab stand from going under.
00:11:58 ...on rooftops near the compound and are firing on American personnel inside the building.
00:12:04 And Pa Bottle Ruby.
00:12:06 They was always putting her crazy self in the Topeka State Mental Hospital.
00:12:11 ...commandoes penetrated the site.
00:12:13 Them white folks downtown couldn't figure out why she was always watching that war on the television.
00:12:18 ...to Saigon itself.
00:12:20 American casualties also are estimated to be...
00:12:22 Move it.
00:12:24 ...1968 by...
00:12:25 Hey, dammit, I said move it along now, now.
00:12:28 Move it.
00:12:30 Get it.
00:12:32 ...Saigon, this is Robert Sokol reporting.
00:12:39 You know me?
00:12:42 Only in the spirit.
00:12:44 Do you know who I am?
00:12:46 My name is Ruby. They call me Pop Bottle Ruby.
00:12:49 I'm Father Cody.
00:12:55 You scared of me?
00:12:58 Should I be?
00:13:00 What's your favorite Bible story?
00:13:03 The miracle of the loaves and fishes.
00:13:05 Mine is the woman at the well.
00:13:08 Why?
00:13:10 I am the woman at the well.
00:13:16 Everybody else, they scared of me.
00:13:24 Oh, no, no, it's too much.
00:13:26 I'm gonna take it back.
00:13:27 Oh, good.
00:13:28 You sure?
00:13:29 Most white folks from town were scared to come down here.
00:13:32 He wasn't.
00:13:33 He was a Catholic worker.
00:13:36 He helped us.
00:13:37 He helped a lot of folks.
00:13:39 Now, his church told him to keep his ass out from around here.
00:13:43 Shit, he didn't.
00:13:46 Now, I guess I best tell you about Love.
00:13:50 Donnie Love.
00:13:52 The boy wanted to be like Banker Drysdale.
00:13:55 Thing is, he had to put them gals on the corner to get it.
00:14:00 Love made big money running them gals across the state line from Fort Sill to Fort Bragg.
00:14:06 He'd find these old gals out in the sticks and take them to the store,
00:14:10 buy them a little something-something, and turn them straight on out.
00:14:16 Love stole from other gal runners.
00:14:18 He's not Snooki from some negro out of Lawton, Oklahoma.
00:14:23 Love sure could get them gals to make that money for him.
00:14:28 He knew how to run that game, Marty.
00:14:32 The Dow Industrial Average closed at 840 and one-half point.
00:14:36 The Transportation Index was also up 847.
00:14:40 Thank you, Marty.
00:14:43 [moaning]
00:14:45 What's the matter? Why'd you stop?
00:14:59 No, I don't need this from you.
00:15:02 That's not why I love you.
00:15:05 That's not why I need you.
00:15:08 Ever since I met you, I've been trying to show you how I feel about you.
00:15:14 Now it's time for you to show me.
00:15:17 I'll show you, Love. I'll show you anything you want.
00:15:21 Shh.
00:15:23 I want you to go get you some rest.
00:15:28 Go get prettied up.
00:15:31 Soldiers get paid tonight.
00:15:34 You can show me how you feel for me.
00:15:37 [radio playing]
00:15:40 How we do?
00:15:57 You tell me.
00:16:01 Not to look at the market. We'll be right back after this.
00:16:05 "G was Love's muscle, his gun.
00:16:10 "Together them bucks gave us old-timers fits.
00:16:14 "What Love wasn't buying up, G was killing up.
00:16:27 "They say G will kill a man for $50.
00:16:31 "What the fuck?
00:16:36 "I say it's more like five."
00:16:39 "We saw a lot of jokers go off to Vietnam.
00:16:46 "Fine young men. Come back half nuts.
00:16:50 "They sure knew how to send 'em over there.
00:16:53 "But they just didn't know what to do with 'em when they came back.
00:16:57 "Huddy and I both knew knife street was changing.
00:17:01 "And not for the better."
00:17:06 [cheering]
00:17:09 [music]
00:17:12 [music]
00:17:15 [music]
00:17:44 I want part of the business.
00:17:46 You want what? Say that again.
00:17:50 I want part of the business.
00:17:53 Look here, honey. I'm Jesse James, and I'm riding this train.
00:17:57 This here's a community, and we takes care of one another.
00:18:01 That's what I'm saying.
00:18:03 White folks wouldn't be having that.
00:18:05 We got to start planning and organizing.
00:18:09 These weak motherfuckers got to go.
00:18:12 You the motherfucker got to go.
00:18:15 And my place of business is like a hawk watching a chicken.
00:18:19 Child, no little ashy, beady-shod head, pigtail-ass kid
00:18:23 going to steal what me and my husband done worked so hard to build.
00:18:27 You old, and one day they going to carry you up out of here.
00:18:33 Then, knife will be mine.
00:18:37 And honey, when they do, you still going to be a pussy.
00:18:42 [laughing]
00:18:51 Piggy Pop?
00:18:57 Come on, I got a whole bag now.
00:18:59 Come on, honey, I don't want no Piggy Pop.
00:19:01 Put some of that hot sauce on it. You like it with the hot sauce, don't you?
00:19:04 Get it away from me, honey.
00:19:05 Can I talk to you for a minute?
00:19:07 First Temple of Faith, we having a revival.
00:19:10 People getting filled with that Holy Ghost.
00:19:12 Yes, Lord. Either one of you been saved?
00:19:15 No, I ain't been saved. You been saved, honey?
00:19:18 No, sir, I can't say I have.
00:19:20 Y'all interested in getting saved?
00:19:22 Shit.
00:19:24 Save me.
00:19:27 A lot of folks down here like this passage.
00:19:30 Happy are those that follow the word of God.
00:19:33 You know what happened?
00:19:36 The reason you living like this, cause you living in sin.
00:19:41 What you want me to do?
00:19:43 Go sit up in the church all day?
00:19:45 You know, I had a problem on these streets.
00:19:48 Doing fine now.
00:19:49 Got me a job sanitizing bottles.
00:19:52 Bought me a new car.
00:19:54 Goddamn, it's going to be some shit now.
00:20:00 Hey, girl.
00:20:01 How y'all doing?
00:20:02 Sit on down here and get your teeth.
00:20:04 Where's it at?
00:20:05 Here you go.
00:20:06 Ruby, hold on now.
00:20:08 Ruby, wait a minute now.
00:20:10 Shit.
00:20:12 You know they trying to send me to peak state again.
00:20:15 I ain't going.
00:20:16 No, I ain't going.
00:20:18 Filling me up with all that old dopey medicine so I can't feel.
00:20:22 You selling that dope, boy?
00:20:26 Found me a whole mess of strays.
00:20:28 Somebody done throw it away.
00:20:31 Come to the Lord.
00:20:32 He'll help you.
00:20:33 Oh, that's hot.
00:20:34 Put that inside.
00:20:35 Got that book sweating like one of these hoes.
00:20:38 Like them when something's in them.
00:20:44 When they empty.
00:20:46 Mr. Honey.
00:20:50 Mm-hmm.
00:20:52 I don't know why they scared of me.
00:20:53 Oh, yeah.
00:20:55 Calling me crazy.
00:20:59 I ain't crazy, what the damn?
00:21:01 Ray Lee?
00:21:05 Ray Lee?
00:21:09 You know they killed my baby just so they could watch television?
00:21:12 Ray Lee?
00:21:16 Find any strays, save them for me.
00:21:23 All right now, Ruby.
00:21:26 [clattering]
00:21:28 [indistinct chatter]
00:21:32 You out of coals again?
00:21:49 You pull that knob?
00:21:51 Yeah.
00:21:53 Anything come out?
00:21:55 No.
00:21:56 Then it ain't nothing in there.
00:21:58 I admire you, Mr. Tippy-Toe.
00:22:08 You seem content in your place.
00:22:11 Well, you can see a lot from down here.
00:22:16 Man's character, for one.
00:22:22 Yeah.
00:22:24 You learn a lot from the bottom up.
00:22:27 But then again, some of us can't handle a goddamn thing.
00:22:32 You mean you actually make some money with these raggedy-ass caps?
00:22:36 If I didn't make a damn dime, that's my business.
00:22:41 I see this is like a hobby for you.
00:22:44 Nigga, I know you think you Mr. Big Business and all,
00:22:51 but don't you come in here talking to me like I'm a goddamn child, yeah?
00:22:56 I seen this boy reading the Wall Street Journal.
00:23:00 Ain't that the shit?
00:23:03 Don't your narrow ass know this ain't no Wall Street?
00:23:07 This is 9th Street!
00:23:09 I don't like to be talked to like that.
00:23:14 Well, kiss my ass.
00:23:17 Today just ain't your day, is it?
00:23:20 [radio chatter]
00:23:23 If you could beat Sense into a dog, you'd be beating him all the time.
00:23:48 You afraid of dying, B-Boy?
00:23:51 I specs I'm more afraid of living than I am of dying.
00:23:55 I mean, I don't know, you know.
00:23:58 I'm kind of looking forward to this shit, you know?
00:24:01 Oh, B-Boy, but what have we done with our lives, huh?
00:24:04 What we done ain't done nothing.
00:24:06 Sit up here, ain't done nothing. Just looking.
00:24:08 Looking what we done.
00:24:10 So we ain't some of them so-called successful people.
00:24:13 Well, what makes them right anyhow? 'Cause they made a whole lot of money?
00:24:18 Well, what if God wanted everybody to be like us, huh?
00:24:23 We the only ones succeeded.
00:24:26 Don't nobody know.
00:24:28 I sure hope to hell you right.
00:24:30 Damn straight I'm right. Am I ever wrong?
00:24:34 Shit.
00:24:38 I don't want them people looking and gawking at me,
00:24:43 talking about he wasn't this, he wasn't that.
00:24:45 Keep that casket closed. Keep it closed now.
00:24:47 Fool, ain't nobody gonna be looking at you.
00:24:50 You dead. What do you care?
00:24:52 Hell, for me, I don't want to lay up in no bed.
00:24:56 Boy, I seen too many people get in them death beds and never get out.
00:25:00 Not me, no somebody.
00:25:02 See, I want to die standing up with my boots on.
00:25:06 Just like that cowboy Randolph Scott.
00:25:09 Now, them was real men, boy.
00:25:11 You died in the sack.
00:25:13 Oh, Bebo, Randolph Scott wasn't nothing but a movie actor.
00:25:17 I don't care, P. Don't you worry about it.
00:25:21 Long as I got my baby here, I ain't worried about nothing.
00:25:25 See, it's like that boy Samson.
00:25:27 See, his strength be in his hair.
00:25:30 This here be my strength.
00:25:32 Long as I got my wine, I ain't never gonna die.
00:25:36 [coughing]
00:25:43 Oh, yeah.
00:25:45 Looks like you're living on borrowed time, Bebo.
00:25:51 Thank you, Pete.
00:25:53 Oh, no, Bob, that's on the house.
00:25:55 All right, thank you, brother.
00:26:02 Not bad for a white man.
00:26:05 See you guys later.
00:26:06 All right.
00:26:10 Yeah, you're gonna need all the practice your ass can get.
00:26:13 Oklahoma fools better not come around here trying to take my girl.
00:26:17 I air conditioned they ass out, baby.
00:26:21 Oh, shoot.
00:26:24 Here we go.
00:26:26 Hit something.
00:26:27 I got this one.
00:26:29 I got it.
00:26:31 You couldn't even hit the back of the phone.
00:26:32 That wasn't it.
00:26:38 You asked me to learn how to aim.
00:26:40 I don't need to know how to aim.
00:26:41 That's what I got you for.
00:26:43 Yeah.
00:26:44 I ain't worried about no Oklahoma motherfuckers.
00:26:46 I took her and she's mine.
00:26:48 Let me show you how this is done.
00:26:49 Love bullets is for mama buck.
00:27:00 Ruby, don't you want to come in here and eat?
00:27:02 I don't want to be in there with them people, no.
00:27:04 Are you sure?
00:27:05 Sure I'm sure.
00:27:08 All right, have it your way.
00:27:11 Praise the Lord and bless the cook.
00:27:17 Whoo!
00:27:19 Boy, this shit can put tits on a bull, boy.
00:27:23 Tip, look here now.
00:27:26 You're going to have to take that snuff out your mouth now.
00:27:28 Don't do that.
00:27:29 You hear that shit?
00:27:31 He picky about his wine.
00:27:33 I ain't griping about shit.
00:27:39 Give me that.
00:27:40 Go on.
00:27:46 Good.
00:27:47 Grace is a night.
00:27:49 Shit.
00:27:50 Tip, my granddaddy used to drink a gallon of corn whiskey a day.
00:27:54 He lived to be 102.
00:27:56 Yeah, but you're a Jim Crow daddy.
00:27:57 Negro today is salt.
00:28:01 Cut him with a butter knife.
00:28:02 Sure am.
00:28:03 You know, back then a colored man was a bad mojo.
00:28:06 Sure was.
00:28:07 Or, uh, Jesse Owen.
00:28:10 Jesse Owen.
00:28:11 Paul Robeson.
00:28:12 Remember Satchel Pan?
00:28:14 Satchel Pan.
00:28:15 Go on now.
00:28:16 Boy, pitch for the Monarchs.
00:28:17 Kansas City Monarchs.
00:28:18 Yeah.
00:28:19 Now, them was some tough Negroes.
00:28:22 Jack Johnson.
00:28:23 Yeah, old Jack.
00:28:24 Yeah, but them white guys was on Jack's behind.
00:28:27 Boy, that boy couldn't go to the toilet stool without them white guys coming in behind him.
00:28:32 Yeah, he liked them old white guys, didn't he?
00:28:33 Yes, he did.
00:28:34 He did.
00:28:35 He liked them.
00:28:36 How you think white folks took that, him having a white woman at home?
00:28:38 Oh, how you think they took it?
00:28:40 Like that about as much as the plague?
00:28:42 Yeah, that's one thing the white man don't like.
00:28:45 Y'all messing with his women.
00:28:47 He don't want nobody abusing him but him.
00:28:51 That's true.
00:28:52 [dog barking]
00:29:11 [baby crying]
00:29:13 I'm coming, dammit.
00:29:20 Wait a minute.
00:29:21 [baby crying]
00:29:23 Where am I gonna go?
00:29:35 What about the baby?
00:29:37 How am I gonna quit the life, huh?
00:29:39 You see Luther blow that horn?
00:29:41 He's improvising.
00:29:43 That's all life is, is improvising.
00:29:45 You figure it out as you go along.
00:29:47 By you leaving may not make your life no better, but that's the blues.
00:29:51 The blues is about possibility, tomorrow, rigging and scuffling and making a way.
00:29:57 Karen, I may not know much about life, but I know about the blues.
00:30:00 And the blues ain't nothing but life, and life is God.
00:30:03 The blues is what you're riding high on when you ain't got a pot.
00:30:07 Don't be scared of the blues, girl.
00:30:09 That's what gives you meaning.
00:30:36 Bebo. Bebo.
00:30:38 Bebo, look here.
00:30:40 [coughs]
00:30:44 I bet you they looking for that boy that robbed that liquor store last night.
00:30:49 You know, they say Clifford done it.
00:30:51 Clifford? Clifford Jones?
00:30:54 Yes, sir.
00:30:55 I can believe that.
00:30:57 That boy's on some serious narcotic.
00:31:00 I seen that boy last week standing right there on that corner, buck naked.
00:31:05 Boy didn't have no shirt, no drawers on, no nothing except some tennis shoes so he could run.
00:31:11 I bet the whole company.
00:31:12 I knew then that boy was upset.
00:31:14 Well, they say he beat that white man up awful bad.
00:31:18 White man, huh?
00:31:20 Old white man.
00:31:22 Oh, Clifford.
00:31:24 Boy, we won't be seeing your ass for a long time, boy.
00:31:29 You want to have to you find him?
00:31:31 [gunshot]
00:31:32 [cheering]
00:31:35 Look here. Look here.
00:31:37 Running out of here like chickens with their heads cut off.
00:31:40 Yeah, uh-huh.
00:31:41 Yeah, you niggers love to talk shit,
00:31:43 but when the man come down here, you run out of here making knack.
00:31:47 Bunch of titty suckers.
00:31:49 Bunch of natural born titty suckers.
00:31:51 That's what y'all is.
00:31:53 Say, say, Mr. Policeman, I ain't afraid of you guys.
00:31:56 I ain't scared of it.
00:31:58 Huh? What you gonna do, huh?
00:32:00 When you run out of room in the jailhouse, huh?
00:32:02 You're just a mower, you know.
00:32:04 Huh? What you gonna do, huh?
00:32:06 Goddamn it.
00:32:08 [gunshot]
00:32:09 [cheering]
00:32:11 Get down, now!
00:32:13 You can't put all the niggers in the wall.
00:32:16 Can the who's count?
00:32:18 You can't do it.
00:32:19 Shoot 'em, B-boy.
00:32:20 There's too many of us.
00:32:21 B-boy, you gonna get us in trouble.
00:32:24 We in trouble now.
00:32:26 Then you get your money.
00:32:29 You ain't supposed to be down here.
00:32:32 You're supposed to be on the hill protecting the nation.
00:32:35 You can't kill all these black motherfuckers down here.
00:32:38 You can't do it.
00:32:39 You can't do it, Mr. Policeman.
00:32:41 So what you gonna do, huh?
00:32:43 What you gonna do, Mr. Policeman?
00:32:46 B-boy, take your ass out of the street.
00:32:49 Hey, B-boy, stay out of this, man.
00:32:52 [music playing]
00:32:56 [music playing]
00:32:59 All y'all just get inside.
00:33:05 Get your ass on in the house.
00:33:07 Hell, y'all ain't shit.
00:33:09 Scared of everything.
00:33:11 Scared you're gonna die.
00:33:13 Hell, y'all was born dead.
00:33:15 [music playing]
00:33:18 [chatter]
00:33:21 [chatter]
00:33:24 [chatter]
00:33:27 [chatter]
00:33:30 [chatter]
00:33:33 Don't be throwing no rocks.
00:33:36 Throw another one.
00:33:37 I'll knock your ass out.
00:33:39 [chatter]
00:33:42 You better hush up if one of them jokers come over here
00:33:45 and call cocky upside your head.
00:33:47 Man get tired of seeing the same thing every day.
00:33:50 [music playing]
00:33:53 [music playing]
00:33:56 [music playing]
00:33:59 [music playing]
00:34:02 [music playing]
00:34:05 People say talking trash is a waste of time.
00:34:08 But talking shit is what keeps most black men
00:34:11 from going stark raving mad.
00:34:14 This might sound foolish here, B-boy, and whatnot,
00:34:16 but feel sorry for the white man.
00:34:19 Oh, honey--
00:34:20 I do now, I swear.
00:34:21 Always having to watch his stuff.
00:34:24 I bet he want to blink sometime, you know?
00:34:26 See, I just wish things would just turn around, you know?
00:34:35 This be our country, and they be working for us.
00:34:39 See, wouldn't that be something, honey?
00:34:41 See, white folks need some money.
00:34:44 Got to go to Negro for a loan.
00:34:47 We be handing out the money.
00:34:49 Wouldn't be no more of that bull in November.
00:34:52 Pick the rich white man of your choice for president.
00:34:55 Be a colored man?
00:34:56 It's our country, ain't it?
00:34:57 Shh.
00:34:58 Hell, boy, white folks couldn't take being a nigger, boy.
00:35:01 Be just like in '29.
00:35:02 They be jumping out of windows again.
00:35:04 A colored president, Abernathy, Thurgood Marshall.
00:35:09 Maybe Cassius Clack.
00:35:10 Couldn't be no worse than what they got running now.
00:35:14 Nixon.
00:35:15 He got the nerve to run again.
00:35:18 That boy want to be president bad.
00:35:21 He look like a crook to me.
00:35:22 Oh, you can see it in his eyes.
00:35:24 You know, sneaky.
00:35:26 Say, he got a good chance of winning.
00:35:28 Oh, hell, he'll probably win.
00:35:30 See, white folks vote for anybody.
00:35:33 See, if I wasn't colored, I'd run for president and win.
00:35:37 See, all you got to do is be a trickster, a con man, or actor,
00:35:42 something like that.
00:35:43 And I can ask my ass off, boy.
00:35:45 See, I tell them fools what they want to hear.
00:35:48 And they'll believe it.
00:35:49 They'll believe anything.
00:35:51 We'll see what they did to that young boy, Kent.
00:35:54 Bobby, shot that boy down.
00:35:56 Say, he's going to do a lot for colored people, too.
00:35:58 Why you think he dead?
00:36:01 Yeah, you can't help nobody when you dead.
00:36:04 Well, hell, I lost my leg fighting some people I ain't never,
00:36:08 ever seen before.
00:36:09 Can't speak the language.
00:36:10 Pooh, hi, heesh, and all that shit.
00:36:12 But when they kills colored folks over here,
00:36:14 we're supposed to be nonviolent.
00:36:16 Well, how am I going to be nonviolent when everybody's killing me?
00:36:19 Jesus did it.
00:36:21 Jesus, daddy, was God.
00:36:23 I ain't got no relatives like that.
00:36:25 I guess I never wanted it that bad.
00:36:27 Couldn't do the things Mr. Charlie do.
00:36:29 It would have been a damn sight better than sitting on that sofa.
00:36:33 I ain't going to kill to get off that corner.
00:36:35 You's a fool.
00:36:36 You must be one, too, then.
00:36:40 [dog barking]
00:36:43 Well, one of these days, white folks,
00:36:45 they're going to put the wrong idiot in office.
00:36:47 In Russia, one of them is going to call him up and talk about his mama,
00:36:51 and boom, that crazy son of a gun push that button.
00:36:54 Wake up in the morning dead.
00:36:56 Wouldn't that be a bitch?
00:36:57 Then what they going to say?
00:36:58 We're sorry, we're sorry, walking around, picking up shit, you know?
00:37:04 You think in Russia they're really going to drop something on us?
00:37:06 Not unless we can make some money out of it.
00:37:09 I was thinking they're going to drop that bomb on them Vietcongs,
00:37:12 one of them things on them Congs over there.
00:37:14 See, ain't no money in that kind of war.
00:37:17 You got to use a lot of tanks, airplanes, shit like that.
00:37:20 How are these big shots going to make their money?
00:37:23 One big boom make the whole war a bad investment.
00:37:26 You sure?
00:37:27 Telling you what I know now.
00:37:28 Don't you worry about them Russians.
00:37:30 They too busy trying to stay warm.
00:37:32 Here, keep your eye on these motherfuckers over here.
00:37:37 See, you hear that right there?
00:37:38 Yes, sir.
00:37:39 Yes, sir.
00:37:42 Why?
00:37:44 Why you think them men's going up on that move?
00:37:51 You want the gospel truth?
00:37:53 Of course.
00:37:55 You probably won't believe this.
00:37:57 What?
00:37:59 I believe the government is going up there because of it.
00:38:05 One day they're going to ship all the niggers up there.
00:38:10 Oh, look here, now, the moon ain't worth nothing.
00:38:14 Ain't nothing but a bunch of big hoes in the ground.
00:38:17 I reckon.
00:38:18 So why they going somewhere it ain't worth nothing?
00:38:21 I don't know why.
00:38:23 Because they plan on putting all the undesirables,
00:38:27 and that's about all of us, on the moon.
00:38:30 See, it's like them Russians.
00:38:32 Them Russians got this place called Siberia
00:38:35 where they put all the Russians that can't get along.
00:38:37 So?
00:38:39 So that's what this country planning to do,
00:38:41 put all the niggers on the moon, boy.
00:38:44 Mark my word, one day get rid of them.
00:38:46 Are you serious?
00:38:48 I am serious as the bubonic plague.
00:38:51 One by one, the white man going to snatch us up
00:38:54 and ship us to the moon, boy.
00:38:55 I'm telling you, we're the known now.
00:38:57 They just wasting money, they just wasting more money.
00:39:00 Maybe so, maybe so.
00:39:04 But if one morning you wake up and I ain't here,
00:39:12 you know they got me.
00:39:15 [music]
00:39:19 The Bible talks about it.
00:39:32 Sins of the flesh, fornication, it's all here.
00:39:35 In my opinion, we should run all these whores and harlots
00:39:38 out of this street.
00:39:39 Scandalous, the Bible talks about it.
00:39:42 Here's that casserole I made for your mama.
00:39:44 I hope she gets to feel it.
00:39:46 Thank you.
00:39:48 Son, you have a church in here.
00:39:50 Sinners down here on these streets, some in this room,
00:39:53 those people go into that bottomless pit,
00:39:55 that lake of fire.
00:39:57 What people you talking about?
00:39:59 Yeah, Johnny, you got to get out of here.
00:40:01 No, uh-uh, uh-uh, let him stay.
00:40:03 I want to hear this.
00:40:05 You run in the business of sins, whores, and liquor, vice,
00:40:09 your way is hell, straight to hell.
00:40:11 Look here, boy, I don't play this.
00:40:13 Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, mama, please.
00:40:15 Son, I don't think you realize how disrespectful
00:40:17 you're being to this good woman.
00:40:19 Disrespectful?
00:40:20 Look at you, supposed to be a man of God?
00:40:23 You drink, don't you?
00:40:24 Smoke?
00:40:25 Who knows what all?
00:40:27 How can you ever hope to help someone
00:40:29 talking to them like that?
00:40:31 The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it.
00:40:34 See, we're all missing the point.
00:40:36 The fact is, this street out here is going to die soon
00:40:39 unless it gets some help.
00:40:41 The street is sin, the way of sin is death.
00:40:44 Y'all come on down to the church, get right.
00:40:46 Didn't Dr. King say the church is the place to go forth from?
00:40:50 You and I are in the same business,
00:40:51 this business of religion.
00:40:53 Shouldn't religion make it easier for people to be good?
00:40:56 Dr. King, if King had been in the church being Reverend King
00:41:00 instead of out there on them streets being Dr. King,
00:41:03 he wouldn't be dead now.
00:41:07 Maybe you're right.
00:41:08 Amen, I know I'm right.
00:41:10 God bless you, brother.
00:41:12 God don't care about all that marching and going on,
00:41:17 being all in the world.
00:41:19 Get right, live right.
00:41:20 First Temple of Faith, 704 14th Street.
00:41:23 Thank you, Jesus.
00:41:25 Come and get saved.
00:41:27 Don't play Johnny No Mind.
00:41:32 I've seen kids like him before.
00:41:34 He's afraid, that's all it is, fear.
00:41:37 Come on, let me buy you a beer.
00:41:40 How we doing, Mr. Honey?
00:41:44 How y'all doing?
00:41:45 Fine, fine, same old 76.
00:41:47 Now, we'd be doing a whole lot better if we had a taste.
00:41:51 Oh, look at me, honey.
00:41:53 I'm as broke as the Ten Commandments.
00:41:55 Just spent my last dime, though, on this new outfit.
00:41:58 What do y'all think?
00:42:00 What kind of get up you call that?
00:42:02 This what they call hot pants.
00:42:05 Shit, when them suckers showing off his hot shit,
00:42:08 got me to sweating.
00:42:09 Somebody call a firehouse.
00:42:11 Fool, you need to quit.
00:42:13 Like they say, baby, you got to spend money to make money.
00:42:17 A toast to the white man who wants to go to the moon.
00:42:23 May that motherfucker stay there.
00:42:25 I swear, Bebo, you ain't got a lick of sense.
00:42:29 How you make it, girl?
00:42:31 Them Okie Lawton, out-of-state Kansas City, Florida hoes,
00:42:35 they be taking all the money on payday.
00:42:38 Everything be all right, though, if it wasn't for that shit.
00:42:41 So you done got away from love?
00:42:43 Yeah, honey.
00:42:44 Carrie don't need no nigga.
00:42:46 Girl, what you ever see in that joker anyhow?
00:42:49 He ain't even pretty.
00:42:51 What I see, I see something strong.
00:42:54 Strong shit.
00:42:56 That boy ain't doodler squat.
00:42:58 Compared to what me and Huddy put out in our day,
00:43:01 hell, you just think he's so much 'cause he got money.
00:43:04 Baby, that ain't got nothing to do with it.
00:43:06 When you be sitting beside love in that car,
00:43:09 you be feeling good.
00:43:11 Aw, come on now, Carrie.
00:43:13 You act like some school gal.
00:43:15 Well, maybe I is.
00:43:17 Maybe I want to be.
00:43:19 Feel good having a man do for you.
00:43:21 These lame dudes can't do for me.
00:43:23 Shit, Color Man been held back a long time.
00:43:26 Yeah, I done heard y'all cry about it all my damn life.
00:43:30 Now, now, wait a minute now.
00:43:32 No, you wait a minute.
00:43:34 Which one of these men 'round here gonna do for me?
00:43:36 Not nail one, can't do for theyself.
00:43:39 Her love? That child done got over.
00:43:41 Girl, girl, get up off the Color Man now.
00:43:43 It's the truth.
00:43:45 Y'all sitting on a white-o couch acting like y'all part of the world.
00:43:48 I'm sorry. Y'all a part of nothing.
00:43:51 And that boy love is, huh?
00:43:53 Damn straight he is.
00:43:55 Love don't need none of them civil rights.
00:43:57 He out there right now equal.
00:43:59 If that boy is so damn much,
00:44:02 why ain't you with him?
00:44:04 Tell you something, Mr. Bebo.
00:44:09 I done known y'all since I was a kid.
00:44:12 See, I ain't one of them,
00:44:14 "Hey, Daddy this, Daddy that" women no more.
00:44:18 I need a change.
00:44:21 I'm getting off this corner.
00:44:24 That girl need to get off of that corner.
00:44:28 I heard her.
00:44:30 She act like she don't want to quit.
00:44:32 Karen may do 'em what she know.
00:44:34 Her mama was on that corner.
00:44:36 Long as that military got that money,
00:44:38 these girls gonna be after these men.
00:44:40 Only job and time,
00:44:42 they either gonna ma'am or trick 'em or both.
00:44:44 Let that military leave and this whole town drive like a broom.
00:44:48 Them girls out there got their uniforms on,
00:44:50 marching down the street ready to take orders.
00:44:53 Girl, you need to quit.
00:44:55 Honey, let me tell you.
00:44:57 These soldiers in these holes, they just the like.
00:45:01 They know they being pimp, but they want that money.
00:45:04 But why turn tricks?
00:45:07 Letting all them no-count men jook all up in you?
00:45:10 Oh, no.
00:45:12 Oh, shit, Winifred.
00:45:14 Why you think all them little young niggas
00:45:16 over there killing them Chinamans in Vietnam?
00:45:18 'Cause some big-shot pimp want 'em to.
00:45:22 Myself, I ain't throwing no stone.
00:45:26 By the way,
00:45:30 why don't you hold on that one time?
00:45:33 Fuck!
00:45:42 Told Love your motherfucking ass was gonna be trouble.
00:45:44 He should have never took you from them Oklahoma motherfuckers.
00:45:47 Well, send my ass back then.
00:45:50 You know what? Back in the day,
00:45:52 you could take a motherfucking ho,
00:45:54 but right now, motherfuckers don't play that shit!
00:45:57 I know these guys.
00:45:59 They ain't gonna do shit.
00:46:01 He should have left your backwoods country ass
00:46:04 right where the fuck he found you!
00:46:06 Fuck you, G.
00:46:08 You just blame me for every goddamn thing.
00:46:11 You think 'cause you loves money, ho,
00:46:14 I can't fuck you up?
00:46:17 Well, let me tell you something.
00:46:19 Those backwoods country ass motherfucking Oklahomans
00:46:23 will come here and find you belly up in Milford Lake.
00:46:27 You got that?
00:46:42 You, uh...
00:46:44 you love Lettie?
00:46:46 Why?
00:46:48 You want her?
00:46:50 No.
00:46:52 You don't want that woman?
00:46:54 Just wondering...
00:46:56 if you loved her.
00:46:58 Love.
00:47:00 Shit.
00:47:02 What's that mean?
00:47:04 Who?
00:47:06 A woman got something everybody want,
00:47:08 and she know how to use it.
00:47:10 Have your nose wide open.
00:47:12 You act like I don't know that.
00:47:14 You don't.
00:47:16 You the one love every woman you run into.
00:47:18 So?
00:47:20 So use too good to your women.
00:47:22 You treat a woman good, she think you weak.
00:47:25 Well, you treated all your women bad.
00:47:29 Look where it got you.
00:47:31 Smartass.
00:47:37 Smartass?
00:47:39 Hell, I wanted to do for Lettie.
00:47:42 Couldn't do for myself.
00:47:44 She be talking about get a job
00:47:47 and quit your drinking
00:47:49 and telling me about what the neighbors had to say about me.
00:47:52 Hell, I done heard what the neighbors had to say all my damn life.
00:47:56 They don't want to let me in that door.
00:47:58 Then I don't want in there no more.
00:48:00 They can keep it.
00:48:02 I ain't all hung up on that mess.
00:48:04 Why, she got to be.
00:48:06 She ain't never had a chance to go uptown.
00:48:08 She ain't--
00:48:10 Well, if she ain't, then it's a blessing.
00:48:13 No, Lettie still want me to be like everybody else.
00:48:18 Can't she see they won't let me be like everybody else?
00:48:22 Once upon a time
00:48:25 Our love was solid as a rock
00:48:30 What happened to you, baby?
00:48:33 Caused that good loving to stop
00:48:37 Fran, I--
00:48:43 16 coaches long
00:48:47 and not alone.
00:48:49 Need a cab to the post?
00:48:52 [on radio]
00:48:54 Can I help you with something?
00:48:58 Son?
00:49:00 Something?
00:49:03 Son?
00:49:07 [on radio]
00:49:09 Over.
00:49:11 [on radio]
00:49:19 I got a passenger going to Chesterdale with Neal Grimm.
00:49:22 And an ex-whore like that whole midnight,
00:49:26 if you can accept her past
00:49:29 as the finest woman a man can marry.
00:49:31 I ain't going for it.
00:49:33 Oh, Pete, you'd have married her.
00:49:35 No, I wouldn't have.
00:49:36 Yes, you would have.
00:49:37 No, I wouldn't have.
00:49:38 Yes, you would have.
00:49:39 No, I wouldn't have.
00:49:40 Yes, you would have.
00:49:41 I'd have married her.
00:49:42 I'd have married her too, if I had some money.
00:49:44 She wouldn't have no other ho.
00:49:46 Oh, look at that.
00:49:48 Hey, we all brothers down here on the block.
00:49:58 Boy, get your hands off me, love.
00:50:00 I ain't one of your bitches.
00:50:02 Now, straight up now,
00:50:03 'cause I don't play with kids, boy.
00:50:05 Son, I don't like you.
00:50:07 You or none of these other half-ass gangsters around here.
00:50:11 Boy, 9th Street used to be a paradise
00:50:13 'til y'all come down here.
00:50:15 Yeah, we hustle,
00:50:16 but we wasn't into all that gangster shit.
00:50:19 We didn't just use people and put 'em in the street.
00:50:23 Nobody want to hear that shit.
00:50:27 [piano music]
00:50:29 What's it gonna be?
00:50:36 Give me a razor line.
00:50:38 Mama Butlin, some of these boot-licking Toms,
00:50:45 scared they gonna close these tired, hunky tunks.
00:50:48 Oh, shit. Here I go.
00:50:50 Leonardo Strassi.
00:50:53 And I do wear $100 gators.
00:50:56 And our plan's to be the first nigga in town
00:50:59 to get me one of them cold-blooded '69 Eldorados,
00:51:03 knocking 'em dead.
00:51:04 Boy, that make you somebody.
00:51:06 Boy, I got dirty drums on, and I know I'm somebody.
00:51:10 9th and changed.
00:51:11 You think I like whooping my hoes?
00:51:13 Gee'll tell you.
00:51:15 Everybody wants tough.
00:51:16 You got to be tough.
00:51:18 Tough? What the hell is that?
00:51:20 My hoes call me Westmoreland
00:51:22 'cause I gives them a Vietnam-ass kickin'.
00:51:25 [laughs]
00:51:26 You know a woman loves a good beatin' every now and then.
00:51:29 Love? You make my ass sick, boy.
00:51:31 Yeah, I get a kick out of you old fossils.
00:51:34 Fossils? Ain't that a bitch.
00:51:38 Try and understand this, old man.
00:51:40 Life, good life, in order to have it,
00:51:43 you got to kick a little ass sometimes.
00:51:45 It ain't just given to you.
00:51:47 You got to earn it, baby.
00:51:49 As y'all should know,
00:51:51 this shit's called progress, you dig?
00:51:53 Progress?
00:51:55 You know, buildin' buildings and shit.
00:51:58 I don't even know why I talk to y'all.
00:52:01 It's the same shit every week.
00:52:03 Bebo talkin' about the system.
00:52:05 Hell, ain't nothin' wrong with this shit.
00:52:07 America's numero uno, baby.
00:52:09 It'd work for y'all
00:52:11 if you got off your dead fossilized asses
00:52:13 and do somethin'.
00:52:15 Ain't we doin' somethin'?
00:52:17 Y'all ain't helpin' shit.
00:52:19 We tryin' to help you.
00:52:21 Gee.
00:52:23 That gets you an opinion.
00:52:30 Stick with me, I'll get you in the mainstream.
00:52:33 Boy, I wouldn't go around the block with your ass.
00:52:37 You fossils got to learn how to compromise.
00:52:40 How many times I got to tell y'all that?
00:52:42 Never no more.
00:52:46 Y'all heard people speak in tongues?
00:52:49 Just them people uptown, boy.
00:52:52 You know, this street been cursed.
00:52:54 Lord done cursed this street.
00:52:56 Now, what we done did
00:52:58 that the Lord wanna curse us, huh?
00:53:00 Y'all full of sin.
00:53:02 Ain't a soul down here that's free of sin.
00:53:04 Cursed? Shit.
00:53:06 Boy, ain't nobody in your church love God and ain't shit.
00:53:09 I mean, you know love God and ain't successful.
00:53:12 You get off that sofa, you could be.
00:53:15 Somebody shut the door on me, boy.
00:53:17 Lazy excuses.
00:53:19 Y'all just like being down here with these low-life losers.
00:53:22 Boy, Jesus was a loser.
00:53:24 'Cause, boy.
00:53:26 Hell, the boy was the world's greatest failure on these terms.
00:53:29 Your terms.
00:53:31 Boy, the boy could've had everything.
00:53:33 Got home to a tree.
00:53:35 Hell, you talkin' that money bullshit.
00:53:37 With Jesus, I'm a free man, boy.
00:53:39 I'm a free man. Shit.
00:53:41 Go on, live your life, wino.
00:53:43 I believe. Do you know Jesus?
00:53:45 Do I know Jesus?
00:53:47 Do I know Jesus?
00:53:49 Talked to the nigga on the telephone a week ago Sunday.
00:53:51 Oh, that's the devil talkin'.
00:53:53 Look here, boy. I done played enough with God for one day.
00:53:56 Let me tell you something.
00:53:58 Jesus, oh, he comin' back.
00:54:00 But don't think he comin' to sit up in your church.
00:54:02 'Cause if you read your Bible,
00:54:04 you'll see that Jesus kept comin' in with the prostitutes.
00:54:07 Wine drinkers, tax collectors.
00:54:10 But let me tell you this before you go.
00:54:13 Don't be sittin' up waitin' for Jesus in his house.
00:54:17 'Cause you don't stay home much.
00:54:19 He like visitin' for ya.
00:54:21 You wanna see Jesus, come on down here to 9th Street.
00:54:25 He'll probably be over there talkin' to one of them hoes.
00:54:29 [laughs]
00:54:31 ♪ ♪
00:54:39 Please, Cobb.
00:54:42 No, son, I think some best off right here.
00:54:47 Mmm-hmm.
00:54:49 ♪ ♪
00:54:56 I'm sorry, honey.
00:54:58 Go on with him if you want to.
00:55:01 I ain't goin' no place.
00:55:03 I'm waitin' for him.
00:55:05 ♪ ♪
00:55:12 Ten and two, baby, and I'll take you around the world.
00:55:15 Ten dollars? God damn.
00:55:17 What do you say I give you about five or six dollars
00:55:20 if you drop me off in St. Louis?
00:55:22 Baby, if this ain't the goodwill,
00:55:24 I'm out here for the money.
00:55:27 I'm gonna make a man pat his pockets.
00:55:29 Pat your happy ass on the head.
00:55:31 Come on.
00:55:33 You know better than to be on my corner?
00:55:35 Pepper, I ain't never had to sit on your corner to make it.
00:55:38 So why don't you take that mammy-made ass
00:55:41 and that bale of straw out of my face?
00:55:43 Listen to Miss Mice next.
00:55:45 You sure got ugly ways, girl.
00:55:47 But I forget, you pressin' another.
00:55:49 Who's up here?
00:55:51 Shh!
00:55:53 She somethin', Miss Parky.
00:55:55 Girl, this was love at the time.
00:55:57 Squat on his arm like he had a Jones for her.
00:56:00 Whip my ass, but you the winner.
00:56:02 Tell me to get up off of his woman.
00:56:04 You ain't nothin' but another knife street hoe.
00:56:07 And that makes two of us.
00:56:09 Carrie Mae, heard you was puttin' this life down.
00:56:13 Heard you was gonna get off the corner.
00:56:15 Gonna get off the corner, huh?
00:56:17 I see your feet still on it.
00:56:20 You gonna get off the corner?
00:56:22 Kiss my ass, motherfucker.
00:56:25 Keep your mama off the street and she won't get fucked.
00:56:28 Stop her, fool! Stop her!
00:56:31 Motherfucker, let me go!
00:56:33 You're fuckin' with me.
00:56:35 Come here.
00:56:37 Didn't I tell you not to mess with her?
00:56:40 You understand me? You understand?
00:56:44 [thud]
00:56:46 ♪ Going to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come ♪
00:57:03 [mimics guitar]
00:57:06 ♪ Going to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come ♪
00:57:09 ♪ Tee-go-do ♪
00:57:11 ♪ They got crazy little women there ♪
00:57:13 ♪ I'm gonna get me one ♪
00:57:15 ♪ Tee-go-do ♪
00:57:17 ♪ I be standing on the corner ♪
00:57:19 ♪ Of a truncated vine ♪
00:57:21 ♪ Tee-go-do ♪
00:57:24 Oh, Lord, boy, don't talk about vine.
00:57:27 Hurts me to my heart.
00:57:29 Kansas City, Missouri, boy, good times.
00:57:32 Them women on vine was fine.
00:57:35 You remember old Clary's Walker, don't you?
00:57:37 Clary's Walker?
00:57:39 What about Georgia Tid?
00:57:41 Georgia Tid?
00:57:43 Boy, that nasty was tight as a bark on a tree, boy.
00:57:46 How'd you know that?
00:57:48 He don't know. He don't know, Tim.
00:57:50 He don't know. He don't know.
00:57:52 A whole lot of them big names you stopped down on 9th, too.
00:57:55 Big Nick Nicholas.
00:57:57 ♪ Where's my Kansas City, baby? ♪
00:57:59 ♪ My bottle of Kansas City wine? ♪
00:58:01 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪
00:58:04 Bird.
00:58:07 ♪
00:58:09 ♪
00:58:11 Joker stopped down there to the Flamingo Club,
00:58:14 had a jam session.
00:58:16 Boy played that straight-ahead jazz.
00:58:18 Straight-ahead, huh?
00:58:20 Old Charlie be having a fit on that hose.
00:58:22 Yeah, he do.
00:58:24 Bird get to sweating that funky jazz.
00:58:26 Man, man, man.
00:58:28 ♪
00:58:30 Man, you can feel them blues all the way down in your...
00:58:33 Oh, Tim, what you say?
00:58:35 Do it, boy.
00:58:37 Come here.
00:58:39 Doop-a-doop-a-doop.
00:58:41 Doop-a-doop-a-doop.
00:58:43 Yeah, nice.
00:58:45 Yeah, baby.
00:58:47 ♪
00:58:49 Hey, hey.
00:58:51 ♪
00:58:53 ♪
00:58:55 ♪
00:58:57 ♪
00:58:59 Get it.
00:59:01 Get it, man.
00:59:03 ♪
00:59:05 ♪
00:59:07 ♪
00:59:09 ♪
00:59:11 ♪
00:59:13 ♪
00:59:15 Let me tell you, boy, let me show you what I can do.
00:59:17 I can do the side.
00:59:19 Oh, check it out.
00:59:21 ♪
00:59:23 Go on side there, boy.
00:59:25 Yeah.
00:59:27 Hey, man.
00:59:29 ♪
00:59:31 ♪
00:59:33 ♪
00:59:35 ♪
00:59:37 ♪
00:59:39 ♪
00:59:41 ♪
00:59:43 Mama Butler told me
00:59:45 Vine ain't nothing but a shell now.
00:59:47 Ain't nothing down there.
00:59:51 Vine Street?
00:59:53 A shell?
00:59:55 Mm-hmm.
00:59:57 Well,
00:59:59 nothing lasts forever.
01:00:01 Even mine wears out.
01:00:03 Mm-hmm.
01:00:07 Mm.
01:00:15 See, I told him don't go down there.
01:00:17 Then here they come in them suits they wear
01:00:19 when they trying them pressing things,
01:00:21 talking that USA,
01:00:23 Heavenly Father,
01:00:25 Glory, Glory shit.
01:00:27 Mixed that witch's brew up.
01:00:29 Had them colors coming.
01:00:31 Hero smoke.
01:00:33 Bubbling up from the pot.
01:00:35 Ray Lee gone and breathed it.
01:00:37 Lord Almighty, he breathed it in.
01:00:39 Baby breathed it in
01:00:45 and ain't been the same never no more.
01:00:47 You know, they took his mind.
01:00:49 Stars and striped men.
01:00:53 Ray Lee wanted something to believe in.
01:00:55 Of course, looking at all them pictures
01:00:57 on the wall they had,
01:00:59 he wanted something.
01:01:01 Needed something.
01:01:03 Lord knows he did.
01:01:05 You understand.
01:01:09 I know that you do.
01:01:11 They fooled them kids.
01:01:13 They fooled.
01:01:15 I know.
01:01:17 I know they game.
01:01:19 Sending me all them letters,
01:01:21 dollar money,
01:01:23 talking that hero shit.
01:01:25 I want my boy.
01:01:29 I don't want no more damn letters.
01:01:31 I want to feel again.
01:01:33 Everybody hear me?
01:01:37 You understand.
01:01:41 God knows you do.
01:01:43 Don't breathe that smog
01:01:45 whatever you do.
01:01:47 Stay clear of the smog.
01:01:49 I used to be fine
01:01:51 till I breathed it in.
01:01:53 Got me.
01:01:57 Sure did.
01:01:59 'Cause it got my baby.
01:02:01 Got my boy.
01:02:03 Them Oklahoma motherfuckers in town,
01:02:17 they been asking about you.
01:02:19 Man, fuck the motherfuckers.
01:02:23 Carrie Mae in here?
01:02:27 Yeah. She's at the bar.
01:02:29 Let me buy you a drink.
01:02:45 No.
01:02:47 Why don't you leave that girl alone?
01:02:53 You know you don't mean her no good.
01:02:55 No. Your nose is too long.
01:02:59 Get you some goddamn business.
01:03:13 [music playing]
01:03:15 Why you want to run?
01:03:29 We had something special.
01:03:31 I never treated you like you was a commodity.
01:03:35 You was my lady.
01:03:41 You know how we talked about
01:03:43 quitting the life,
01:03:45 getting out of this damn town.
01:03:47 Go somewhere.
01:03:49 Just you and me.
01:03:51 You my heart.
01:03:55 Come on back home.
01:03:59 [music playing]
01:04:03 [chatter]
01:04:05 [music playing]
01:04:07 [chatter]
01:04:09 [music playing]
01:04:25 [chatter]
01:04:27 This is me, Fossils.
01:04:41 69 El Dorado.
01:04:43 Son, you all in the Kool-Aid
01:04:45 and don't know what flavor it is?
01:04:47 Look here, Antique.
01:04:49 I'm out here trying to make a living,
01:04:51 something y'all ain't never done.
01:04:53 You right, Steph.
01:04:55 'Cause there ain't about to be no motherfucker like you.
01:04:57 Son, that's a terrible way to think now.
01:04:59 Terrible.
01:05:01 Maybe if you thought like me, Mr. Huddy,
01:05:03 your ass wouldn't be sitting here now.
01:05:05 Let me tell you something.
01:05:09 All them things you be talking about,
01:05:11 they ain't nothing but dead dreams.
01:05:13 You and all them things you hold up so high
01:05:17 die.
01:05:21 Boy,
01:05:23 you best find you something don't die.
01:05:25 [music playing]
01:05:27 [car horn]
01:05:29 [music playing]
01:05:31 Hey, D,
01:05:43 the white trick Brenda you looking for,
01:05:45 she ain't here.
01:05:47 You see her?
01:05:49 She ain't here.
01:05:51 You see them two colored bitches over there?
01:05:53 I'll get you both of them for the price of the white trick.
01:05:55 Is that cool?
01:05:57 Yeah.
01:05:59 Bet.
01:06:01 [music playing]
01:06:03 Selling that Gap goody.
01:06:07 $55.
01:06:09 Cash money, baby.
01:06:11 Can't touch his ass with a red apple now.
01:06:13 Boy,
01:06:15 somebody gonna set your ass
01:06:17 on a duster.
01:06:19 Wine-os think they the smartest
01:06:23 motherfuckers in the world.
01:06:25 [music playing]
01:06:27 Tippy.
01:06:33 Tippy.
01:06:39 Tippy!
01:06:43 What?
01:06:45 [music playing]
01:06:47 Show us it.
01:06:51 I'm good.
01:06:53 Hit one for myself.
01:06:55 There it is.
01:06:57 21, blackjack.
01:06:59 What you doing?
01:07:01 What?
01:07:03 You had 17 and now you're hitting yourself again.
01:07:05 That's the rules.
01:07:07 I'm the dealer.
01:07:09 What rules?
01:07:11 The rules of the game, Tippy.
01:07:13 The game we playing,
01:07:15 the game they play in Las Vegas,
01:07:17 is called blackjack,
01:07:19 where the dealer hits himself.
01:07:21 Not if the player got over 16
01:07:23 and you had 17, fool.
01:07:25 I know the Las Vegas rules.
01:07:27 What you know about Las Vegas?
01:07:29 I know what I know
01:07:33 about the Las Vegas rules.
01:07:35 Las Vegas rules my ass.
01:07:39 What you hear
01:07:41 is just plain law.
01:07:43 You lost then,
01:07:47 and I can see that you're lost now.
01:07:49 Let me see.
01:07:51 What about the god damn--
01:07:53 I--
01:07:55 That ain't even 21.
01:07:57 [music playing]
01:07:59 I know the Las Vegas rules.
01:08:09 I know the shit.
01:08:11 The homie rules.
01:08:13 No, I got the blues bad, boy.
01:08:15 Like Oedipus.
01:08:17 Like who?
01:08:19 Oedipus, you know, the king.
01:08:21 You know the story,
01:08:23 Oedipus.
01:08:25 I don't know that story.
01:08:27 Oh, you ought to read that, boy.
01:08:29 That's a motherfucker.
01:08:31 [music playing]
01:08:33 Say, man,
01:08:35 is this the 9th Street?
01:08:37 [music playing]
01:08:39 [laughter]
01:08:41 Is this the 9th Street?
01:08:43 Is this the 9th Street?
01:08:45 Boy, this here
01:08:47 is the internationally acclaimed,
01:08:49 world-renowned block
01:08:51 known as 9th Street.
01:08:53 Feel privileged, boy.
01:08:55 Where the women at, Pops?
01:08:57 I heard this place be jumpin'.
01:08:59 What kind of women you lookin' for, son?
01:09:01 All y'all got down here is a bunch of hoes.
01:09:03 You didn't come down here
01:09:05 lookin' for love, did you?
01:09:07 Boy, this is 9th Street.
01:09:09 This how we serves the community.
01:09:11 [laughter]
01:09:13 What's your name, boy?
01:09:15 Jax is my name.
01:09:17 You been to war?
01:09:19 What you mean, real war?
01:09:21 Boy, let me show you something here.
01:09:23 Come here.
01:09:25 Let me show you something.
01:09:27 Are you nuts?
01:09:29 You just stabbed yourself in the leg.
01:09:31 Yeah, wood leg.
01:09:33 You always doin' that to people, Poops.
01:09:35 Scared you, didn't I?
01:09:37 That's right, boy. I gave my leg to the U.S. government.
01:09:39 Fightin' them Jerrys,
01:09:41 them Nassers in WWII.
01:09:43 Northern Africa system.
01:09:45 1941, '42.
01:09:47 You know the year they didn't make no cars.
01:09:49 Just because it happened to you don't mean it's gonna happen to me.
01:09:51 What they want from you?
01:09:53 I gotta go to NAMA and kill some V.C.
01:09:55 It ain't nothin'.
01:09:57 Hey, what are y'all?
01:09:59 Some of them hippies
01:10:01 that in the war shit?
01:10:03 Uh, son, I was hippie
01:10:05 before they was born.
01:10:07 Color man ain't got no business over there, no how.
01:10:09 What you protectin', boy?
01:10:11 This shit?
01:10:13 Better than standin' on it.
01:10:15 Son, when you die of thirst, you want anything to look like water.
01:10:17 If I was you,
01:10:19 I'd haul my ass up north
01:10:21 with them politician sons.
01:10:23 Dessert?
01:10:25 Hell, dessert, lunch, dinner, hell.
01:10:27 I call it keepin' my ass amongst the livin'.
01:10:29 Wow.
01:10:31 Son, that war business is what's wild.
01:10:33 Let me tell you, son,
01:10:35 when I lost my leg,
01:10:37 used to hurt me down here.
01:10:39 When my leg was gone,
01:10:41 wasn't nothin' there
01:10:43 and it still hurt me.
01:10:45 Don't hurt me there no more.
01:10:47 Hurt me in here.
01:10:49 How you mean?
01:10:51 How I mean?
01:10:53 I mean I shouldn't have come back
01:10:55 to this country after the war.
01:10:57 They tried to make me stay.
01:10:59 No, I come back to this country
01:11:01 thinkin' things have changed.
01:11:03 Shit.
01:11:07 Oh, don't pay him no mind, boy.
01:11:11 He'll be all right.
01:11:13 Lord'll watch you, boy.
01:11:17 He'll watch you.
01:11:19 Here's a little somethin' here
01:11:23 so you can keep your mind.
01:11:25 A little somethin' here
01:11:27 so you don't be forgettin'.
01:11:29 Go on.
01:11:33 Hey, well, you
01:11:39 better go on and get you one of them bitches
01:11:41 before they all gone.
01:11:43 Yo, dudes, take care.
01:11:47 All right, sir.
01:11:49 You think he gonna be all right?
01:11:53 He look like he can run fast.
01:11:55 But you sure got messed up
01:11:57 in that war.
01:11:59 Your leg, your arm there.
01:12:01 I didn't hurt my arm
01:12:05 in no war.
01:12:07 You didn't?
01:12:09 How you do that?
01:12:11 Done it to myself.
01:12:15 How you mess your arm up all like that?
01:12:17 Tryin' to cut the black off.
01:12:23 Yeah.
01:12:25 You gotta start takin' care of business, girl.
01:12:27 Okay?
01:12:29 Uh, and get the baby's shots.
01:12:31 Can I help you, baby?
01:12:33 Shit.
01:12:38 You're gonna have to speak English, honey.
01:12:40 We don't speak that language here.
01:12:42 I'm gonna have to get you a shot.
01:12:48 I'm gonna have to get you a shot.
01:12:50 (speaking in foreign language)
01:12:52 Oh, my God!
01:13:08 Don't hurt nobody up in here, okay?
01:13:10 Take it easy.
01:13:12 Take it easy, honey.
01:13:14 Take it easy.
01:13:16 Calm down.
01:13:18 Calm down.
01:13:20 Calm down now.
01:13:22 Take it easy.
01:13:24 I'm your friend.
01:13:26 I'm your friend.
01:13:30 I'm your friend.
01:13:34 I'm your friend.
01:13:36 (speaking in foreign language)
01:13:54 (dramatic music)
01:13:56 (gunshot)
01:14:16 No!
01:14:20 Mama, no!
01:14:22 (speaking in foreign language)
01:14:24 (speaking in foreign language)
01:14:26 (screaming)
01:14:36 (gunshot)
01:14:38 (explosion)
01:14:40 (knocking)
01:15:06 Hey! Hey, you!
01:15:08 Crazy lady!
01:15:10 You won't find her there.
01:15:12 She's dead.
01:15:14 Soldier done blowed her head clean off.
01:15:16 She's in hell now.
01:15:18 Amen.
01:15:20 (woman vocalizing)
01:15:22 (woman vocalizing)
01:15:26 No!
01:15:28 No, no, no, no, no!
01:15:30 No, no, no, no!
01:15:32 No!
01:15:34 No!
01:15:36 Can't be stopped!
01:15:38 (gunshot)
01:15:40 (explosion)
01:15:42 Yeah.
01:15:50 Yeah.
01:15:52 Yeah.
01:15:54 Yeah.
01:15:56 Shame about Mama Butler.
01:15:58 Real shame.
01:16:00 She was the last of the old-timers.
01:16:04 'Sup, y'all?
01:16:08 Get yourself something that won't
01:16:22 blow your damn guts out.
01:16:24 Here.
01:16:34 No, man. Keep it.
01:16:36 No, here.
01:16:38 Take your money.
01:16:40 We don't need it.
01:16:42 I didn't mean...
01:16:44 You old fossils.
01:16:50 Fuck you, then.
01:16:52 You know,
01:17:00 as bad as we needed that money,
01:17:02 I'm glad we didn't take it.
01:17:04 Yeah.
01:17:06 That's our problem.
01:17:08 We ain't never took their money.
01:17:10 We're commanded by the gospel
01:17:14 to follow the nonviolent Jesus.
01:17:16 And my church is in bed
01:17:18 with the state on the Vietnam War.
01:17:20 Where can that possibly lead?
01:17:22 I wonder about my work here,
01:17:26 whether it had any worth.
01:17:28 Sometimes I wonder if I ever
01:17:30 should have come down here on Ninth Street.
01:17:32 But I love the life here,
01:17:34 the powerful nourishment it gave me.
01:17:36 And I wanted to take that nourishment
01:17:38 to my parishioners.
01:17:40 And I proved only to be a scandal for 'em.
01:17:44 That's why they're transferring me.
01:17:46 Mm-hmm. That's what they're doing.
01:17:48 Scandalous behavior.
01:17:50 But you want to know something?
01:17:52 The worst scandal of all is Jesus Christ himself.
01:17:54 Because the more you think and act
01:17:56 like a nonviolent Jesus,
01:17:58 the more scandalous you're bound to become.
01:18:00 [woman crying]
01:18:02 I thought you knew that.
01:18:04 [laughs]
01:18:08 Take care of yourself, boy.
01:18:10 You, too. I'm gonna miss you, brother.
01:18:12 Oh, I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:14 No, I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:16 No, I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:18 I'm telling you I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:20 [laughs]
01:18:22 Take care of yourself.
01:18:24 You, too.
01:18:26 Take care of yourself.
01:18:28 [thunder rumbling]
01:18:30 [rain pattering]
01:18:32 [thunder rumbling]
01:18:36 [thunder rumbling]
01:18:38 [dramatic music]
01:18:40 [glass shattering]
01:18:42 [woman crying]
01:18:44 You ain't gonna kill nobody!
01:18:46 No more!
01:18:48 I'm gonna kill myself!
01:18:50 No!
01:18:52 What the hell are you doing?
01:18:54 You crazy, boy!
01:18:56 What are you doing?
01:18:58 Hold on, will you?
01:19:00 [woman crying]
01:19:02 [dramatic music]
01:19:04 [woman crying]
01:19:06 [dramatic music]
01:19:08 [woman crying]
01:19:10 [dramatic music]
01:19:12 I ain't going! I ain't going!
01:19:14 [dramatic music]
01:19:16 I ain't going!
01:19:18 [dramatic music]
01:19:20 [dramatic music]
01:19:22 [siren wailing]
01:19:24 'Fore night got so rough,
01:19:26 them big shots used to come down here
01:19:28 and need a cab.
01:19:30 Tipper told this.
01:19:32 Tipper told that.
01:19:34 Treat me like a goddamn child.
01:19:36 People ain't shit.
01:19:38 Son, they walking around dead.
01:19:40 I ain't done much with what God give me.
01:19:44 I ain't done much.
01:19:46 What you talking about?
01:19:48 I sat up here begging.
01:19:52 Depending.
01:19:54 Tipper, I've had me two fine wives.
01:19:56 Good women.
01:19:58 I couldn't keep 'em.
01:20:00 That drink, that drink been my downfall.
01:20:06 Why the Lord gonna love this here, huh?
01:20:08 Ain't gonna look one in 'em.
01:20:12 Honey, honey.
01:20:14 Every man.
01:20:16 I said every man got a part of him.
01:20:18 He can't do nothing with.
01:20:20 Now, the Lord don't expect
01:20:22 nothing from nobody.
01:20:24 I don't want the Lord to understand, Tipper.
01:20:26 I don't. Don't now.
01:20:28 You talking about that job shit again, ain't you?
01:20:34 Fool. Shit.
01:20:36 Job don't give you meaning.
01:20:38 Living what give you meaning.
01:20:40 Honey.
01:20:46 Just 'cause a man ain't got much
01:20:50 don't mean he ain't got nothing to give.
01:21:02 But in me,
01:21:04 we never talk like that.
01:21:06 Or we philosophize and such.
01:21:08 But not them things.
01:21:10 Not the important things.
01:21:12 I should have told that boy
01:21:14 his life had meaning
01:21:16 when I had the chance.
01:21:18 See, what I'm gonna do first,
01:21:22 knock all that dough shit out of there.
01:21:24 Love, you're supposed to take me to the store.
01:21:26 Right. See, then, then,
01:21:28 I'm gonna put up some of them double doors
01:21:30 and some of them kind of lights around it.
01:21:32 Love, you promised me you'd take me to the store.
01:21:34 Man, let me take this bitch to the store.
01:21:36 Don't ever do that shit again, you hear me?
01:21:42 You told me nothing. I don't wanna hear that shit.
01:21:44 Fuck!
01:21:46 Get that!
01:21:48 [gunshots]
01:21:50 Kansas, motherfucker!
01:21:56 [train whistle blows]
01:21:58 [saxophone plays]
01:22:14 ♪
01:22:16 ♪
01:22:18 ♪
01:22:20 ♪
01:22:22 ♪
01:22:24 ♪
01:22:52 Last of that, uh,
01:22:54 bread Mama Butler made.
01:22:56 Mm.
01:22:58 Oh.
01:23:00 Mama Butler.
01:23:06 Show slow down when you get old.
01:23:14 Yeah. Yeah, it sure do.
01:23:20 Got time to do all the things
01:23:22 we used to want to do.
01:23:24 Now we can't do 'em.
01:23:26 Ain't that a kick in the head.
01:23:30 Too much damn time, boy.
01:23:32 Too much.
01:23:34 You know,
01:23:36 ain't but one thing
01:23:38 worse than being old.
01:23:40 Being old and poor.
01:23:46 I knowed you was gonna say that.
01:23:48 [laughs]
01:23:50 Yeah.
01:23:54 I wish I could work
01:23:56 out at a king.
01:23:58 Do something.
01:24:02 Anything.
01:24:04 Done got a week now.
01:24:06 Forgetful.
01:24:08 Ain't no use to nobody.
01:24:12 You're used to me.
01:24:14 When I'm old,
01:24:16 I'm used to me.
01:24:18 Where else am I gonna lie to?
01:24:20 If I didn't have you, boy,
01:24:24 it'd be a dull existence.
01:24:26 Aspects.
01:24:30 Aspects.
01:24:34 You know,
01:24:36 I remember,
01:24:38 I remember the first time I saw you, boy.
01:24:40 You was coming out
01:24:42 of club tall to the bridge.
01:24:44 Had that conchaline
01:24:46 in your head.
01:24:48 And about a pound
01:24:50 of Murray's pomade on top of that.
01:24:52 Swear to God,
01:24:54 you was really excited, boy.
01:24:56 You should have seen you.
01:24:58 Had a gal on each arm.
01:25:00 Them old pointed toe shoes.
01:25:02 That old blue suit.
01:25:04 Shane hanging down to the ground.
01:25:06 We'd been in this liquor.
01:25:10 We'd all slid out in the middle of the street.
01:25:12 (laughs)
01:25:14 Yeah, boy, knife.
01:25:20 Knife been good to us.
01:25:22 We been good to knife.
01:25:26 Here.
01:25:30 (jazz music)
01:25:32 Tonight's street
01:25:44 made it live well.
01:25:46 And to all the cats
01:25:50 we done seen come up and down
01:25:52 this here block,
01:25:54 this be a touch for y'all.
01:25:56 (jazz music)
01:25:58 (jazz music)
01:26:00 (jazz music)
01:26:20 (jazz music)
01:26:22 (jazz music)
01:26:48 (jazz music)
01:27:16 Hey, boo.
01:27:18 Boy down here.
01:27:20 Give me this little bottle here.
01:27:22 Jack, shit, hell.
01:27:24 It ain't wine, but it ain't bad.
01:27:26 God damn.
01:27:30 Shit.
01:27:32 No wonder I'm a wino.
01:27:34 Yeah, get it, boy.
01:27:36 Hand now, hand now.
01:27:38 Come on, boy. Please, please, please.
01:27:40 Honey goddamn, boy.
01:27:44 Honey, wake up, boo.
01:27:46 Honey, honey, wake up.
01:27:48 What's the matter, boy?
01:27:50 You sick?
01:27:52 Honey.
01:27:54 Hey, boy, wake up, honey.
01:27:56 Honey.
01:28:00 Boy.
01:28:02 Wake up now.
01:28:04 Honey, get up.
01:28:06 Come on, honey.
01:28:08 You got to wake up now.
01:28:10 Come on, sleep.
01:28:12 Hey, boys.
01:28:14 Look at my sister in Oakland.
01:28:16 She'll send for us.
01:28:20 We'll see the movie stars.
01:28:24 The weather will be fine.
01:28:26 And then it'll be all right.
01:28:30 Only me with these motherfuckers.
01:28:34 Honey.
01:28:36 Honey.
01:28:40 [laughing]
01:28:42 [indistinct chatter]
01:28:54 [laughing]
01:28:56 [indistinct chatter]
01:28:58 [indistinct chatter]
01:29:00 [indistinct chatter]
01:29:02 [horn honking]
01:29:04 [indistinct chatter]
01:29:06 [horn honking]
01:29:08 [horn honking]
01:29:10 [horn honking]
01:29:12 [horn honking]
01:29:14 [horn honking]
01:29:16 [horn honking]
01:29:18 [horn honking]
01:29:20 [horn honking]
01:29:22 [horn honking]
01:29:24 [horn honking]
01:29:26 [horn honking]
01:29:28 After Huddie Pass,
01:29:30 I went and lived with my sister.
01:29:32 Checked into the VA and dried out.
01:29:34 Well, I ain't had a drink in 20 years.
01:29:36 In 1976,
01:29:38 the city got tired
01:29:40 and they tore the street down.
01:29:42 It's a parking lot now.
01:29:44 When I think on the street being gone,
01:29:46 it don't make me sad.
01:29:48 It's like Huddie always said,
01:29:50 "Some things just don't die."
01:29:52 Some things just don't die.
01:29:54 [upbeat music]
01:30:00 ♪ Night street
01:30:12 ♪ is a hot street
01:30:14 ♪ Night street
01:30:20 ♪ is a cold street
01:30:22 ♪ Night street
01:30:28 ♪ is a tough street
01:30:30 ♪ Night street
01:30:36 ♪ is a rough street
01:30:38 ♪ Night street
01:30:40 ♪ is a tough street
01:30:42 ♪ You can get the high price
01:31:00 ♪ with just one roll
01:31:02 ♪ of the dice
01:31:06 ♪ Come on, Soulja Boy
01:31:08 ♪ You the man
01:31:10 ♪ Take a chance
01:31:12 ♪ Dance to the beat
01:31:14 ♪ And feel all that
01:31:16 ♪ vibe you choose
01:31:18 ♪ Come on, you Soulja Boy
01:31:22 ♪ Play with these grown-up toes
01:31:24 ♪ All your fantasies
01:31:26 ♪ Come to Night Street
01:31:28 ♪ Night Street
01:31:34 ♪ On this corner
01:31:36 ♪ blues-dyed corner
01:31:38 ♪ Thinking 'bout
01:31:40 ♪ what I could have been
01:31:42 ♪ Thinking 'bout
01:31:44 ♪ what I should have been
01:31:46 ♪ Trying to be anything
01:31:48 ♪ but what I am
01:31:50 ♪ Can't stand the pain
01:31:52 ♪ Can't play the game
01:31:54 ♪ It's a blues life
01:31:56 ♪ My life
01:32:00 ♪ It's a blues life
01:32:02 ♪ My life
01:32:04 ♪ I hear the echoes
01:32:14 ♪ from jointers on the wall
01:32:16 ♪ Big Joe shouts
01:32:18 ♪ "That bird in the jar"
01:32:20 ♪ Lord, this street
01:32:22 ♪ doesn't live this small
01:32:24 ♪ Jitterbugs bounce
01:32:26 ♪ to the rotten floors
01:32:28 ♪ Fingers popped
01:32:30 ♪ Fingers popped
01:32:32 ♪ Crying for some more
01:32:34 ♪ It's a blues life
01:32:36 ♪ My life
01:32:38 ♪ It's a blues life
01:32:40 ♪ My life
01:32:42 ♪ Mm-hmm
01:32:44 ♪ Talking 'bout
01:32:46 ♪ It's a blues life
01:32:48 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
01:32:50 ♪ Well, ooh-ooh
01:32:52 ♪ Talking 'bout
01:32:54 ♪ my life
01:32:56 ♪ Oh, my life
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