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And have some fun.

Ah, he's home.

Dane, what's up, man?

Troublegum, my brother.

My troubles are over.

- What say you give me some love?

- This is it, gangsta paradise.

- Right?

- I'm glad to see you.

Thanks to you, thanks to you.

Come give me a hug.

I don't know you, but...

That's Gretta.

Great singer and songwriter.

- Let's get another one.

- Another one?

Where have you been?

It's been two or three years.

- I don't appreciate this sh*t.

- Been on the down low a little bit.

- Doing this, doing that.

- Waiting for the next move.

Anticipating the next groove.

I know you got a lot of

sh*t to prove. Right?

Been on the underground,

looking for that new sound.

We ain't f***ing around.

Yeah, 'cause if it ain't right,

then ifs wrong.

And the road is long,

and you're only as strong

as your next move.

- You feel that?

- Good, man.

- That's pretty much it.

- Damn, that was like some...

...paranormal activity

type sh*t moving through me.

- You know me.

- I'm just so happy to see you.

So nice.

Fat Jimmy, did you get that down?

- Yeah, I got it.

- 'Cause that was exceptionally good.

Hold my hand, baby, come on.

Now, how can I help you, brother?

An outdoor album?

- That's right.

- That's f***ing crazy.

I wish I could've thought of that.

What do you want me to do?

I need musicians.

I need a bass player and a drummer.

- I got plenty of musicians.

- The problem is we can't pay them.

F*** it, I'll pay them.

- Why?

- What do you mean, why?

For him, of course.

- Now, come on...

- No.

- Get your sexy self in the pool.

- Come on.

No. Don't you touch me.

I will kill you. I will.

She's English.

She's a little uptight.

Yeah...

- Good luck on the album, Gretta.

- Thank you.

Everything you see around here,

this crib, these cars,

they're all because of him,

and I don't ever forget that.

- I get it.

- No, no, no, no, no.

You can't know.

A guy like that falls on his lip

for a couple of years,

people lose sight of who he is,

and they don't treat him

with the respect he deserves.

Hey, don't listen to anything

he's saying. it's bullshit.

- Come on.

- Yeah.

- Thanks.

- All right.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Anything you need, OK?

- I love you, man. Thank you.

I like her.

Are you serious?

Are you listening to this? Really?

We're gonna use it!

It's gonna be genius.

- You're a genius.

- You're not listening to this.

You don't hear what I hear.

You're gonna make this

amazing, beautiful.

- I love it.

- Got it?

Those kids are gonna be

all over this track.

- Come here.

- Just so you know.

Take that.

Little children,

yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo!

Let me see this for a second.

Listen, I'm shooting

a song down here,

I need you to be

quiet for five minutes.

- No, thanks.

- I'll... I'll pay you.

- How much?

- A buck each.

- You're funny. Five dollars.

- Five bucks for all of you guys.

OK, hey, OK, two bucks,

two bucks each.

- No.

- No way.

All right, all right,

all right, five bucks each.

We're gonna do this for five bucks

and five lollipops,

one for each of us.

Throw in a box of

cigarettes and a lighter.

I'll give you one cigarette

for each of you to smoke

and you share it,

and a pack of matches, all right?

- Yes.

- All right. Can you sing?

Yes! Yes, that was it.

Yes, it's gonna work!

Oh my God,

is that the Empire State?

Yeah, right here.

- Yeah?

- Set up here.

- Get that.

- It's really good.

- Yeah, it's great.

- The Wind's good, right?

It's not too loud.

It's good, it's good,

I think it's good.

And we can look into people's windows,

which is always fun.

You want to come with me

to get Violet?

- Is that OK?

- Yeah, come on.

- Cool.

- My brother, there you go.

Thank you very much.

There she is.

That's her.

This is Gretta. She's the songwriter

I was telling you about.

- Hello. How you doing?

- My daughter, Violet.

So who was the cute guy?

The one in the blue shirt.

- Greg. You noticed him?

- Sure. I mean, who wouldn't?

- He's gorgeous.

- He's totally out of our league.

He's out of your league?

Well, I mean, he didn't look out

of your league.

Ignore him.

How do you get someone to notice you're

ignoring them if they're ignoring you?

He's not ignoring you.

You're beautiful.

He knows that you're there.

He's just hedging his bets.

But...

I mean, you have to be really sure

that you actually like him, you know.

That's it's not just that

he's the guy at school to be seen with.

No, I do really like him.

Well, then you have to find a way

to get him to ask you out.

Yes, but how?

Well, for starters, stop dressing

like you're totally easy.

I thought this was son of sexy,

ifs American Apparel.

No, it is son of sexy.

It's very, very sexy,

but it doesn't leave much

to the imagination, you know?

I guess.

You want to go shopping?

I do.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

OK, good.

We're going shopping.

Here you go.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

Good luck on the rest of your album.

- It sounds cool.

- Thank you.

- You have your key?

- Yep. I got it.

Hey, you should come

and sing on a track.

I can't sing.

I can play a bit of guitar,

- if that's...

- We're doing one on Thursday.

It's gonna be simple.

You should come play.

Can I, Dad?

I need to...

I need to contemplate that.

What are you doing?

- That ain't cool.

- What? What?

I don't know if she can play guitar

well enough to play on a track.

I don't want to embarrass her.

What if she can't play?

Look, it's going to be easy.

Let her do it.

Yeah?

Hey, babe? Hey.

- Um, where's Violet?

- Well, she's... Violet?

Listen, I was wondering, uh,

you think it would be cool

if she came and played guitar

on one of these songs

that I'm recording on Thursday?

She's terrible at guitar.

- Well, she's not bad.

- She's terrible.

I think she'll be OK.

- Well, she's...

- Yeah. 5:
00, will you bring her?

I mean, that's up to you.

- Yeah. I'll text you the address.

- I mean, I'll bring her.

Why don't you come, too?

Mm-mm.

- Come on.

- No way.

Come on.

Just come. It'll be fun.

- I want you to come.

- I'll think about it. OK.

I'll come, maybe.

- Thank you.

- All right.

- Bye.

- Thank you.

Bye.

You know, it was nice

to see you with Violet today.

- It must be hard not seeing her more.

- Yeah, it's...

So why don't you?

I mean, she obviously

really needs her father around.

What, are you the f***ing

social services now?

No, no, I mean, I'm just saying.

It must have been fairly tense

for you to leave,

especially seeing as how much

she obviously wants you around.

I... I'm gonna split.

I'll see you tomorrow morning.

F***, man.

F*** that sh*t.

Dan.

Hey, look, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

What? What do you want from me?

What game are you playing?

What does that mean?

Look, I just...

- What?

- I saw how sweet she was today,

and I just felt sorry

for you being away from that.

That is such a crock of sh*t.

You were back the rejudging me.

You think that I left

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