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00:30Previously on Raising Canaan.
00:32I can't have no wildness around me and my son.
00:35You know, you and me, we in different places right now.
00:38I think we gotta pump the brakes.
00:40I mean, we just kickin' it anyway, right?
00:42It's a cafe-a-boo.
00:43I need you to put that on the airwaves.
00:45Get it bubbling in these streets.
00:47I'm here to move weight.
00:48So what I do is who I am.
00:49So what the fuck am I doing here?
00:51You're throwing him back fast.
00:52It's a bar, right?
00:53Throwing him back is what you do in a bar.
00:55Think of the good times, too.
00:57Please.
00:58Kel Thomas, Special Agent Preston Tanner.
01:01I'd like you to come in for a conversation.
01:03I'm gonna have to call my lawyer.
01:04I'm the big dog, nigga.
01:05One of your fucking entrepreneurs ain't no big dog shit.
01:09That's bitch shit!
01:17I heard about our friend, Yonique.
01:19I'm sorry.
01:20I'm gonna step in the way he started with you.
01:21Take it over.
01:22Let's give it the old college try.
01:24Yonique's gone, and he ain't coming back.
01:27Now we do business.
01:28If we do this, it's you and me.
01:29Preston isn't involved, and no one else can know.
01:32Time to go to work.
01:33This right here is about knowing that I win every fucking day.
01:37Your mom's is fucking with our investment.
01:39She needs to be handled.
01:45I told you not to ever fuck with my family.
01:47You don't tell me shit, little boy.
01:50I know Ronnie had a...
01:53The math is real easy on us.
01:55It's either Marvin, or it's you, me, and Kanan.
01:57You adding shit up all wrong.
01:58The feds on you, not me.
02:00Ronnie.
02:01It's Kanan.
02:02I want my son back safe.
02:03What does Ronnie want for the boy?
02:05Five.
02:06That cruddy-ass nigga want $500,000?
02:09I got your money.
02:10Now give me my son.
02:11Ain't nobody kidnap me, Ma.
02:13Y'all do the same.
02:14You and Ronnie in on this together?
02:16Throw that over you.
02:19Shit's all you, Ma.
02:25I'm a hustler, baby.
02:27I'm a hustler, baby.
02:56Yeah.
03:19That's right.
03:26That's how we do it on this side.
03:27Niggas get to it on this side.
03:29I know heartbreaks, setbacks.
03:32Bitch, if I crap out, I'm sure I'ma get back.
03:34I've been through the ups and downs.
03:36You know I get around, so do me.
03:38It's all a part of the game.
03:39If I ain't the gold mine, or the dough mine,
03:42I'm almost for sure mine.
03:43I gotta take it.
03:44No need to say shit.
03:46I'm gon' take it.
03:47Robberies, time homicides, nothing to play with.
03:56Before you can figure out where you're going,
03:58you gotta look back at where you've been.
04:02And you gotta look real close.
04:05Because you missed shit.
04:07Forget details.
04:09There's things that happen that seem like they didn't mean nothing at the time.
04:14But then you realize they mean everything.
04:16That's why you gotta look back.
04:20Because now that you see where you're at,
04:22you gotta understand how the fuck you got there.
04:52Fuck.
05:23I need to fucking talk to you, man.
05:28I'm all fucked up.
05:31You're early.
05:33I need you to come get me.
05:53Fuck.
06:04Shit.
06:06Goddamn, boy.
06:08I...
06:10Oh, slow.
06:12Try again.
06:23Fuck.
06:30Don't even know how you still alive, boy.
06:33You been worked the fuck over.
06:35Been worked over three more fucking times.
06:39Goddamn.
06:52Come on.
06:58Come on, man.
07:03Stay.
07:07Careful.
07:15Come here.
07:16Come here.
07:22Everything you've seen here happened already.
07:26But we didn't peep it the way we needed to.
07:28Because we wasn't looking.
07:42Let me get a water, please.
07:45Yo, Ju.
07:47Didn't mean to get at you.
07:51I'm sorry that I missed your audition.
07:55Been dealing with some shit.
07:57And it got the best of me.
07:59It's all good, Uncle Lou.
08:01It's not, though. I'm fucked up.
08:03I know I've been saying that a lot lately.
08:06Trying to figure my shit out.
08:13I like the spot.
08:17It's good, right?
08:20That's my uncle.
08:23That's Uncle Lou?
08:24Yeah.
08:25He and Ju tight?
08:28We family.
08:29We all tight.
08:32I saw them.
08:35You ever met Ju's friend, Nicole?
08:38I did.
08:40She cool?
08:43No doubt.
08:44Is she pretty?
08:47Nicole a'ight.
08:52Ju's so dope.
08:54Nicole was lucky.
08:58Happy to be here with you, Canaan.
09:02Pretty good, right?
09:03And he's cute.
09:04Bet you never heard of him.
09:05Never heard of him.
09:07Don't tell me you went to All Land Watch November shit show.
09:10I think it's May-December, but no.
09:13I like my men like your mesquite.
09:15Aged.
09:16I heard that.
09:19He's talented, though.
09:21And he's got stage presence.
09:27Excuse me for a minute.
09:31Hey.
09:36I'm too famous.
09:37Excuse me.
09:42You good?
09:43For sure.
09:44You still coming over for dinner with my parents later this week, right?
09:48No, though.
09:50Good.
09:56Yo, I thought Rock was coming through the spot.
09:58I don't know what the fuck she doing.
10:00She got her own life and I got mine.
10:20They think they smell something.
10:22But they're realizing it's just their own stench.
10:25It's no there there and they know it.
10:28I feel very confident that you won't have to worry about the FBI or the so-called task force anymore.
10:33These dogs simply don't hunt.
10:36Everything okay?
10:38I just got crazy hungry.
10:40Guess I ain't eating in a minute.
10:42Tell me what you want.
10:43I'll go back and get it.
10:44I appreciate that, but I got to see what they got.
10:47Can't have you bringing me back no nasty-ass Mounds bar or some shit.
10:51I'll wait for you outside.
10:58Who's this?
11:00You sure you want to talk to me and not my sister instead?
11:07Alright.
11:11I'll come through then.
11:29Okay.
12:00He's seriously injured.
12:02I can't x-ray him here, but I'm betting he has multiple skull fractures.
12:06I ain't his daddy. I don't fucking care about all that.
12:09All I need to know is whether he's going to live long enough to pay for services provided.
12:12He'll survive, but recovery from head trauma like this is long and difficult.
12:16He's going to need constant care and monitoring.
12:19Someone in his condition should be in a rehabilitation facility with him.
12:24Someone in his condition should be in a rehabilitation facility with him.
12:29Where he can recover while under the care of a full medical staff.
12:32That shit ain't going to happen.
12:34We often see significant personality changes in people with these kinds of brain injuries.
12:39Can you speak normal, nigga? Because I don't get all that Dr. Needs you speaking.
12:43When he wakes up, he could be different than who he was before.
12:46It's not unusual for people with this kind of injury to experience significant bouts of anxiety, even rage.
12:52Like I said, Doc, I need to know the fool won't give me my money.
12:57Because I came straight out of pocket for your fucking time tonight, and it sounds like my work ain't even done.
13:02Getting you your money is going to be the least of your friend's problems.
13:16Look, while you seem to be out of their crosshairs, I can't say the same for everybody else in your circle.
13:22The FBI doesn't like to leave a party empty-handed.
13:26Frankly, there's no depths to which they won't stoop to get an indictment.
13:30You and your family need to keep your side of the street squeaky clean for the foreseeable future.
13:35Let's also acknowledge tonight for the win that it is.
13:38Right now, at this moment, they have nothing at all on you or anyone else in your circle.
13:43Which is inarguably and undeniably good news.
13:47I'll be in touch.
13:49Have a good night.
13:50You too.
14:10Where's my blouse?
14:17I didn't step the fuck off.
14:20Fuck.
14:26Tell her I'm a little...
14:31Tired out.
14:50I'm sure you were surprised to hear from me.
14:54Never... met you face-to-face like this before.
14:59Heard good things from my sister, though.
15:01Well, I was really impressed with your work with our pal from Jersey.
15:05I wanted to put a name to her face.
15:07Hey, by the way, that job executed flawlessly.
15:12Felt like I could've tightened it up in a couple spots, but...
15:15I appreciate the commitment.
15:16Felt like I could've tightened it up in a couple spots, but...
15:19I appreciate the kind words.
15:21Hey, you're wondering why I reached out to you.
15:25And the answer is twofold, my friend.
15:29First off, as discussed, you are a true professional.
15:35I mean, in a business that is sorely lacking in that particular area.
15:40And secondly, as was the case with our late comrade in Newark,
15:44I have a job that demands a little bit of distance and some cover for me.
15:52You need me to do more work for you?
15:55My daughter Paulette. Her new husband, Tommaso.
15:59He's embarrassing her. And me. And that's unacceptable.
16:03Problem is, is Tommaso's a made guy,
16:06so I can't have one of my own guys go over there and knock some much-needed sense into him.
16:10That's against the rules.
16:11You mafia guys seem to find a whole lot of ways around the rules, though.
16:15Well, it's not so much the letter of the law as it is the spirit, if you know what I'm saying.
16:22Anyway, this piece of shit Tommaso,
16:27you know, he's running around with my daughter, which, in and of itself,
16:31it's not the end of the world that happens to the best of us.
16:34But the issue is, Tommaso's doing it in such a public way that it's insulting to my family.
16:40And that's why I come in.
16:42Now look, this is gonna have to be between the two of us.
16:45That's why I didn't contact your sister.
16:48I don't like mixing my businesses. It confuses the conversations.
16:53Rock ain't the king of me.
16:56I got my own life and my own interests.
17:00I do what I do.
17:02A man after my own heart, huh?
17:05All right, so we're agreed.
17:07Now you'll set my son-in-law straight for me, and we'll keep this to ourselves.
17:14You give me that information, and we'll roll up on that sucker and see what he's talking about.
17:19Marvin, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
17:29I know I say this to you every time that we meet,
17:33but I just cannot help but remember when you were in the 10th grade,
17:35and I encouraged you to take the test to go to Stuyvesant.
17:39That seems like another lifetime ago.
17:43Things turn out how they're supposed to, Dr. West.
17:47Our lives are what we make of them, Kanan.
17:50And your grades are what you make of them.
17:53Which is why you're here.
17:58Ms. Terrell tells me that if you don't turn in your research paper on one of your grandparents
18:02before the end of the semester, you'll fail her class,
18:05which will put you in violation of the terms set forth by the social worker who's managing your court case.
18:10I told Ms. Terrell I'd do a paper.
18:13I just wanted to do it on something else.
18:16I ain't really got no grandparents to write about.
18:18I spoke to your mother,
18:20who says that both your grandmother and your late grandfather
18:24have wonderful histories you could explore.
18:27You don't get to decide what work you're going to do.
18:30You don't get to decide what work you're assigned, Kanan.
18:33This paper has to get done.
18:36Immediately.
18:38Understood?
18:40Understood.
18:42This is for the pain.
18:44But he really should be in a hospital early.
18:47He ain't going nowhere.
18:49I don't know who did this to him.
18:51And I don't know if they're still out there waiting to finish the damn job.
18:54Just last week, we had a German Shepard.
18:57He was in a hospital.
18:59He was in a hospital.
19:01He was in a hospital.
19:03He was in a hospital.
19:05He was in a hospital.
19:07He was in a hospital.
19:09He was in a hospital.
19:11He was in a hospital.
19:13He was in a hospital.
19:15He was in a hospital.
19:17He was in a hospital.
19:19He was in a hospital.
19:21We had a German Shepard,
19:23who got hit by a car
19:25and had similar head trauma.
19:27When the dog finally regained consciousness,
19:30he turned vicious.
19:32Gave one of my nurses stitches.
19:34We had to put him down.
19:36Last time I checked,
19:38this fucked up nigga ain't a German Shepard.
19:39Hell no, you can't write about my family, you don't even know them.
19:52That's why I'm trying to learn, man.
19:55I mean, they my grandparents too, right?
19:57Could be good for me to know who they are.
19:59Why don't you just write about your mother's parents, man?
20:01Nah, then I gotta talk to her.
20:03And I'm really not about that right now.
20:08You can't write about my peoples.
20:10Why don't somebody put two and two together, start asking questions, realize you ain't
20:18Def Con's son.
20:20You want people to know you a cop's kid?
20:23Look, I haven't given up on you and me.
20:28I'm still thinking maybe we could connect, be something to each other.
20:34I mean, we ain't there yet.
20:37Maybe we can get there.
20:38I'm hoping we can get there.
20:41But you writing some history paper about my family, that just ain't smart, yo.
20:52I gotta get back to work.
20:54Hey yo, for future reference, showing up to my place of business is probably not the brightest
20:59idea you ever had.
21:00Ayesha never stops raving about you, Jukebox, which is a nickname I absolutely love.
21:18And I need to know the origin of it.
21:21Thank you for having me.
21:23And Jukebox is what my family called me because I was always singing when I was young.
21:28What do your parents do, Jukebox?
21:31Actually, my mom's passed kind of recently.
21:36Ayesha told us, and we're sorry about that.
21:41And my dad, he does a whole lot of different things.
21:46Juke's dad is so cool.
21:48He's been to a few of our rehearsals and says the funniest stuff.
21:52My dad always talking.
21:55So what are your plans for next year, Jukebox?
21:59Where are you thinking about going to college?
22:02Can Juke just enjoy her dinner without being interrogated by you guys?
22:08Right now, I'm kind of just focused on butter, I guess, seeing where that goes.
22:15Well, this singing group is a wonderful extracurricular activity for you girls, but it's a diversion.
22:22It's a lark.
22:23Wow.
22:24Thanks for stomping on our hopes and dreams, Mom and Dad.
22:27We are not stomping on anything.
22:30Last time I checked, you've been dreaming of going to Spelman since you were eight years old.
22:35I'm just saying, not everybody has to have the same dreams.
22:41I'm quite certain Jukebox wants a bright future for herself.
22:45Right?
22:46Right.
22:54I don't want to do it in the car again.
23:04Can't we, like, go to a hotel or something?
23:24This nigga don't give a fuck at all.
23:44Does the father know?
23:45No.
23:48Are you planning on telling him?
23:50He's dead.
23:52Sorry.
23:53Is that why you're terminating the pregnancy?
23:55I ain't got no room for another kid in my life right now.
23:58Just so you're aware, you are going to need to meet with one of the clinic's social workers when you return for your follow-up.
24:05We are just as concerned about your emotional well-being as we are about your physical health.
24:11Let's get the schedule.
24:20Yo, Hurley.
24:22Give me the keys to one of them rides, man.
24:24Just where the fuck you think you're going?
24:29I gotta let Vanessa and Jerome know I'm alive.
24:32Doc says you in a danger zone.
24:35You need to stay your ass in bed.
24:37I'm paying you to do what the fuck I tell you to do, nigga.
24:40You ain't paying me shit, boy.
24:42I'm still waiting on my fucking money.
24:45Give me them keys.
25:00This fool won't get behind the wheel.
25:03Can't even walk across my damn pitch.
25:11Clown ass motherfucker, man.
25:20Special occasion over here.
25:25Not often my grandson comes calling.
25:31So, to what do I owe this pleasure?
25:36Because you know I love seeing you any chance I get.
25:39I'm sorry I haven't come over more often.
25:41I just, I've been caught up with the school stuff.
25:44Uh-uh.
25:45You don't ever need to apologize to me, baby.
25:48I'm not your mother.
25:50I don't put expectations and demands on you.
25:56Look, I got this assignment.
25:58Gotta write a research paper on one of my grandparents.
26:03Just thinking I'll write it on Grandpa Elijah.
26:07I haven't heard so many stories about him, but I don't know this story, if you know what I'm saying.
26:14I know exactly what you're saying, and I think it's a great idea.
26:17You should know more about your grandfather.
26:20Because he would have loved you, Kanan.
26:25You have that same spirit he had.
26:28That same belief in yourself.
26:32Look, your grandfather did what he did because he didn't like his life and the world around him.
26:39He didn't like me much, neither.
26:42But for most of his life, he believed he could do anything he set his mind to.
26:47That's why he had so many jobs and interests and passions.
26:51Elijah was capable and skilled and brilliant.
26:59Just like you.
27:01I appreciate that.
27:03You don't have to thank me, baby. I'm your grandma.
27:06I'm supposed to pile praise on you.
27:10I'm gonna tell you my point of view of your grandfather.
27:14And your mother and your uncles, they're gonna tell you something different.
27:17So I'm not saying I'm right about all this.
27:19I'm just saying, this is how I remember him.
27:24You got your pencil and paper?
27:26Yeah, no doubt.
27:36Elijah Thomas was born in 1925 in Clinch County, Georgia.
27:44His daddy, Charles, worked on the railroads.
27:49His mama, Ruth, did laundry for white folks.
27:57Hey.
28:18Yo, Tommaso.
28:21You lost?
28:23Um, is four green?
28:26Not even close.
28:28You got off on the wrong exit, boy.
28:31Maybe, so I've never been good with directions.
28:35Hmm. All right, well, here's something you should follow.
28:38Get the fuck back in your car right now, and we won't make you eat the fucking curb.
28:43Okay?
28:46My bad. I was expecting you to say that I should make a left at the light and then my second right at some shit.
28:53But y'all, y'all crackers got different maps out here, I see.
28:59Y'all have a good night.
29:10It's fucking cool.
29:12I mean, does this look like four green?
29:14I don't see no monkeys swinging from the fucking trees, do you?
29:17Okay, we'll get a table.
29:20Like that.
29:28The doctor will walk you through the actual step-by-step process, but—
29:32Ain't my first time.
29:34Oh. I didn't see that in your chart.
29:37It was an off-the-books type thing when I was a lot younger.
29:41I'll let the doctor know, and I'll see you in the recovery room.
29:47Okay.
30:04Does it hurt?
30:06Nah. It's just uncomfortable, is all.
30:14Those knees.
30:18Look, if you want to drop your jaw or yell or some shit, do what you gotta do.
30:23Because I know shit's gotta be a shock.
30:26I mean, it's—it's a surprise.
30:30It's a surprise that I was carrying the baby of the nigga I was trying to kill for years.
30:34Come on, Juke, you gotta give me something better than that.
30:37Okay. It's a shock.
30:41Like, I can't even believe it.
30:46Like, I don't even know what to say.
30:50That's more like it.
30:53Of course you gotta keep this shit to yourself.
30:58To the grave, Juke.
31:00No doubt.
31:05Truth is, I can't even believe the shit myself.
31:10Can't believe none of it.
31:17Did you love him?
31:20I think I could've.
31:47This elephant-man-looking motherfucker eating solid food.
31:55Just give me a couple more days, and I'm gonna be ready to circle back on my brother.
32:01Settle this fucking score.
32:04You don't want to do all that right now.
32:08Like I keep saying, I don't give a fuck.
32:12Like I keep saying, I don't give a fuck about what you think I should or shouldn't do, early.
32:21Just hear me out, nigga.
32:23You got a damn superpower at the moment, man.
32:26You invisible.
32:28Everybody think you dead and gone.
32:30Why you want to go and fuck all that up?
32:33Let the dust settle.
32:34Lay back in the cut and see who comes to fill that hole you left behind.
32:38Because whoever step in behind had a hand in taking you out in the first place.
32:43I don't need to let nothing settle.
32:45Because I already know who did it.
32:48It was my own fucking brother, man.
32:52But maybe he had somebody behind him.
32:55It's a big move for a nigga to make dolo.
32:58Look, point is, element of surprise is the biggest advantage there is.
33:04And you got that shit in spades right now.
33:09All I'm saying, you ain't pay me shit.
33:12So I got to protect my investment.
33:14My investment is you, nigga.
33:17You get took out, all my money dealing with you.
33:22Well, I'm going to need you to do some recon for me, then.
33:26See what niggas is talking about out there.
33:30I need to understand the lay of the fucking land.
33:35Trust me when I say this.
33:38Just because I'm invisible right now, don't mean you ain't going to see your fucking money early.
33:50Every debt I owe is going to get paid.
33:54Every fucking one.
34:06You just gave up, man.
34:08Your grandfather threw up his damn hands.
34:11Check the fuck out.
34:13Didn't think about nobody else when he did it, neither.
34:15Because him being gone meant me having to step up and be daddy to your moms and uncle.
34:22Couldn't be no kid no more.
34:24Because I had to raise Rock and Lou.
34:26Had to help out any way I could.
34:33What your grandfather did was selfish, man.
34:38And weak.
34:40To him, it felt like it answered all his problems.
34:43But all he did was leave them problems behind.
34:47And some new ones, too, for the rest of us to figure out.
34:51So you don't have no good memories of him, then?
34:57Of course I do.
34:59I love that nigga, man.
35:02He was my father.
35:05That's why it hurts so bad.
35:08That's why I stay hurting.
35:16Man, I remember when he was prize fighting.
35:21That's when your mom was still young and Lou was a baby.
35:24He'd take me to his fights and I'd see him put fools on they backs.
35:31You know what that's like for a little nigga?
35:33Seeing his pops do that to another man?
35:38I remember it felt like his muscles was my muscles.
35:43It felt like nobody could fuck with me.
35:49See...
35:52I loved him most.
35:54Out of everybody.
35:59Which is why...
36:02I can't never forgive him.
36:24It's Paul Rock out there.
36:29She's picked up all the work.
36:31And she moving out of that old Chinese spot that you was fucking with, too.
36:36Yeah, I can't say for sure.
36:39But it's also sounding like she getting her supply from your old connect.
36:43This bitch tell me she done.
36:45Now she got my work.
36:51She let me get shit up and running just so she could take it from me.
36:58And your brother fucking with Rock's kid, too.
37:01Ronnie and that boy working together.
37:14So you was right then, huh?
37:17Rock had Ronnie's back.
37:19He conspiring against me and shit.
37:26And then had Ronnie take me out for his mom's so she could jack my work.
37:31I mean, you jumping to a lot of conclusions there, but...
37:35Some of it sound like it could be real.
37:37It's her fucking son, nigga.
37:40That motherfucker don't wipe his nose without her say so.
37:43They all working together against me, man.
37:47Rock do this with every nigga she's ever been with.
37:50From DEF CON to Hot Posts.
37:54She plays them and she takes what they got.
37:57That's how she do.
37:59You ain't been a man like that.
38:06Yo, you got a gat.
38:09That's what you gonna do with it?
38:10Hold it, nigga.
38:24Hold it.
38:28Yeah.
38:52This bitch think I'm dead.
38:57I ain't never been motherfucking alive.
39:07What your mom say about your grandfather?
39:10I didn't really talk to her.
39:13Get you back home because of the school shit?
39:16That don't mean me and her talking.
39:19But look, I'm still learning shit about your grandfather that I didn't know.
39:24But here's something your moms and grandmom don't understand about your grandpa.
39:28Nigga was a creator.
39:32He'd take nothing, turn it into something.
39:35Was real good with his hands.
39:38Go used to make a lot of the furniture we had up in the crib.
39:42And I know you know he was a hell of a horn player.
39:45Yeah.
39:47Make him blow, boy.
39:49I mean, he get lost in his shit.
39:53He close his eyes.
39:55He blow that horn.
39:56He was a million miles away.
39:59So much better than here.
40:01He always work for himself.
40:03He was his own fucking man.
40:05Never lick no nigga boots.
40:07Never took no shit from nobody.
40:09Wish I could say the fucking same about myself.
40:14You know, I used to be real angry at him for leaving us like he did.
40:19I'd lie up in my bed at night.
40:22Screaming through my pillows so no one could hear me.
40:25Raging at that motherfucker.
40:28Now I'm older, though.
40:33Understand him better.
40:37Understand why he did what he did better, too.
40:41Death gotta be easy, King.
40:44Life is fucking hard.
40:58Yo, Mikey.
40:59Sorry about that check.
41:00I thought you saw me coming.
41:01No, you didn't.
41:03You're right, I didn't.
41:04Fuck you, Tommaso.
41:05Oh, don't get your panties in a bunch.
41:07You're fine.
41:17Who the dumb Ofe, motherfucker?
41:19Standing out in some brick-ass cold.
41:21Peep the fucking sheet of ice and thought,
41:23Yo, let's slide around on that shit.
41:26Fucking sticks in our hands.
41:29I got off on the right exit this time, my boy.
41:33Who the fuck are you?
41:37You've been disrespecting your wife with that other bitch.
41:39I'm here to tell you to knock that shit off.
41:41You following my directions, nigga?
41:44Say it out loud, motherfucker!
41:47I hear you.
41:52Yeah.
41:53You're dead.
42:16What are you doing?
42:19Working on this paper on Grandpa Elijah.
42:22Yeah, school called me on that.
42:24I meant to talk to you about it, but I got caught up in other things.
42:30So you ain't got no questions for me about your grandpa?
42:34I mean, you know I was his favorite.
42:35I talked to Grandma, Uncle Marvin, and Uncle Lou.
42:39They gave me what I needed.
42:48You know, it don't matter to me what you think of me, Kenan.
42:51It don't matter to me at all.
42:54I don't need you to love me for me to love you back.
43:02You understand what I'm saying?
43:06I love you.
43:08So much.
43:11Don't mind if you hate me.
43:42Fuck.
44:05So happy to hear from you, Laverne.
44:08I just wanted to say thank you for telling me about that audition.
44:11I decided to try out after all, and I got picked for the group.
44:16Oh, my gosh!
44:20That is such wonderful news.
44:24Oh, I am so happy for you.
44:29Nicole would be so happy for you.
44:33Wow, but I thought you said you were tired of singing, that you didn't want to do it anymore.
44:37I thought I'd give it a shot.
44:41I owe it to myself, I guess.
44:42Well, you did, and you do.
44:47I'm so proud for you.
44:49Thanks.
44:52There was something I wanted to ask you.
44:54Please.
44:55Remember Nicole saying to me one time that you were in the Army back in the day?
45:00I was just wondering what that was like and how you felt about it and all that.
45:05Are you thinking about enlisting in the military?
45:08It's something I'm considering.
45:11Well, I was on an ROTC scholarship in college, which requires four years of service after graduation.
45:17I served in the intelligence branch.
45:19And for me, the service helped.
45:23It taught me discipline, commitment.
45:26It gave me some direction that I lacked.
45:28The Army is not for everyone.
45:30It's a very conservative institution, especially when it comes to certain societal issues.
45:42But look, you're going to be a huge pop star.
45:46You're not going to have time for anything else.
45:48Tell me about the group.
45:50It's called Butter with an A.
45:53Ooh, Butter with an A.
45:55I love it.
45:57I'm going to buy 20 copies of the record just because of the name alone.
46:02Butter.
46:03Yeah.
46:04Wow. Wow. I'm so proud of you.
46:16We ain't open yet.
46:18Not here for a drink, Lou.
46:21Oh, shit.
46:23It's Jess.
46:25It's me.
46:29Fame told me you was working here a while ago.
46:33I like it.
46:34No, you don't.
46:36It ain't high post enough for you.
46:37I'm still a Southside Jamaica girl, Lou.
46:39I won't ever change.
46:41That Cali life look good on you, though.
46:43It never rains over there.
46:45It feels like you're always on vacation.
46:47Shit, I could use a vacation.
46:49You could do big things in L.A.
46:51And what?
46:53Leave all this behind.
47:00I heard about Crown.
47:02Crown, yeah.
47:03That nigga's dirt finally caught up to him.
47:05And they still don't know who did it.
47:07Crown was owing crazy Lou to a lot of people.
47:13Anyway, I'm in town for a minute just doing some label meetings.
47:17Family doesn't even know I'm here, but I wanted to stop by and see you.
47:21Now you see me.
47:30You know, I tell the people I work with about you all the time.
47:34I'm always talking about how talented and smart you are.
47:38How one day we all gonna be working for Lou Thomas.
47:47Anyway, I gotta get going.
47:50But I'll be back in New York soon, so we all come through and see you.
47:55Good, though.
47:57I'd be okay, too.
48:00You know, one day you're gonna have to forgive yourself for all this shit that wasn't even your fault in the first place.
48:07I love you.
48:19I miss you.
48:30Man, you got us out here all day and night delivering shit.
48:34You gotta make it worth our while.
48:36We need more money.
48:38So the other niggas sent you in here to negotiate with me for their fucking races.
48:43They know I'm about business.
48:45We paying y'all way more than Paul was hitting you all for his courier shit.
48:49But Paul was only working us nine to five Monday to Friday.
48:52You got us out here 24-7.
48:54You making 24-7 money?
48:57Ain't enough.
49:00All right, I'll run some numbers.
49:02I'll get back to y'all and I'll see what's good.
49:05Word.
49:06I'll let the crew know.
49:12Everybody always wants home.
49:14Shit never ends.
49:15You can't ever control the money coming in.
49:18You can only control what's going out.
49:22What the fuck you know about it, Crystal?
49:24My father owned a health food store.
49:27And before he bounced on us, he was always telling me this stuff.
49:31What else your father have to say?
49:33If everyone else going one way, you go the other.
49:37Because that's where the opportunity is.
49:42Where you get that shit? A cereal box or something?
49:48Hello?
49:50Grandma, where are you?
49:55I'm on the way.
49:56I'm on the way.
49:58It's your grandmother.
50:00She at the hospital.
50:01I gotta go. I'll get at you later.
50:02Well, you want me to come with you?
50:10Come on, mama. Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit.
50:12Here, try this on for size, huh?
50:14Here, let me light it for you.
50:18Yeah, there you go. There you go.
50:20There you go.
50:22Hey, so, Tommaso, he just booked a cruise to the Bahamas for him and Paulette.
50:28So, whatever you said did the trick.
50:32I just told him a good woman's hard to find.
50:35Hey, so's a dismembered body.
50:39Hey, Marvin, I owe you one.
50:41And believe me, that's great news for you.
50:51Hey.
51:01You must be the grandson.
51:02Yeah.
51:03I'll let you two talk.
51:10Grandma, what happened?
51:13I fainted. It's no big deal.
51:16Happens at my age.
51:18They're going to discharge me in about an hour or so, which is why I called you.
51:23I could use a little help getting home.
51:26Hey, of course.
51:31Why did you faint, though?
51:34This boy always asks the right questions.
51:39Your grandmother has kidney cancer.
51:42The treatment makes me weak sometimes, which is what happened today.
51:47But I'm okay.
51:50Like I said, they're letting me go home.
51:56So, Mom and Uncle Marvin and Uncle Lou know?
52:03You're the only one in the family who knows.
52:07And I'd like to keep it that way.
52:10I don't want everyone coming around, making this about themselves and all their problems with their mother.
52:22I'm asking you to keep this to yourself.
52:32I got you.
52:39I know.
53:01Louis.
53:03You can't drive like this.
53:05I'm alright.
53:06You're not. You're not. You're not.
53:08I'm not going to let you get behind that wheel.
53:10You give me those keys and let me drive this shit to a fucking tree.
53:13I'm not letting you do that.
53:17Over here.
53:20Alright.
53:22In we go.
53:24Alright, here's a step.
53:26There we go.
53:28Alright.
53:29Now we've got a step here.
53:31That's it.
53:33That's it.
53:35That's it.
53:36That's it.
53:37So, how are you feeling?
53:39Your feelings, that is.
53:41How are your feelings feeling?
53:43They're fine.
53:45I'm fine.
53:53Your chart says that the father is recently deceased.
53:58I'm sure that makes for some complicated emotions.
54:01Well, the only thing that makes it complicated is conversations like this.
54:05That kind of a loss, coupled with a terminated pregnancy, is a lot to grapple with.
54:10Everybody losing something every day.
54:12Time, money, people.
54:14It all comes and goes.
54:15And you can fight that shit all you want.
54:17Cry about how it ain't fair.
54:18But it ain't gonna change shit.
54:21You expected me to kick and scream about what I gave up here.
54:24And what I lost before.
54:25But I don't do that.
54:27That ain't me.
54:28And it ain't never gonna be me.
54:31You spend time crying about what you lost.
54:33You never get shit.
54:35And I'ma get mines.
54:37You can be goddamn sure of that.
54:42My feelings is good.
54:44Nobody need to worry about them.
54:46And nobody need to worry about me.
54:51I appreciate your time.
55:35Now here we are.
55:37Back where the fuck we started.
55:41See, you thought you knew everything.
55:43But turns out you didn't.
55:47Cause nobody know everything.
55:49And it's better that way.
55:52Cause if you knew everything, you'd know too much.
55:57You'd know how to do it.
55:59And you'd know how to do it.
56:01And you'd know how to do it.
56:03And you'd know how to do it.
56:05You'd know how many times you've been lied to.
56:07How many times you done lied to yourself.
56:12You'd know how many times you came close to dying.
56:15And how many times you almost made somebody die.
56:20And knowing about them lies and dying.
56:23That ain't no fucking way to live.
56:29Not at all.
56:35Casualties of war.
56:37As I approach the battlefield.
56:39Where's the enemy? Who do I meet?
56:41Bullets of Teflon bulletproof vest.
56:43Ripped, taken out of your flame.
56:45With a bag full of clips.
56:47Guess I got a family to wait for my return.
56:49To get back home is my main concern.
56:51I'ma get back to New York in one piece.
56:53But I'm better than saying that.
56:55As hot as the city streets.
56:57Skylights up like fireworks blind me.
56:59Bullets whistling over my head remind me.
57:01President Bush said attack.
57:03Flashback to now I might not make it back.
57:05Dreams waking up from a war of dreams.
57:07Heat up the M-16.
57:09Basic training.
57:11Train for Georgia.
57:13Take no prisoners.
57:15And I just caught you addicted to murder.
57:17Send more body bags.
57:19They can't identify them.
57:21Leave the names there.
57:23I get a rush when I see blood dead bodies on the floor.
57:25Casualties of war.
57:27Casualties of war.
57:29Casualties of war.
57:31Casualties of war.
57:33Day divides the night and night divides the day.
57:35There ain't no play.
57:37More than come back.
57:39It's far beyond that.
57:41Cause I got a kill or be killed kind of attack.
57:43Areas mapped out.
57:45But be no strategic.
57:47Me and Marple don't make a...
58:05First time I show my face up in this motherfucker.
58:08Here you are.
58:10Behind your mother's back.
58:12I don't feel safe in this apartment, Kanan.
58:14Unique is alive as hell.
58:16He doing anything he can to hurt us.
58:18Soldiers are made.
58:20Killers are born.