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Chapter & Verse Page #7
- (cheering)
But what we get
out of this, though?
What do you get? Pride.
That we did something.
And we showed all
these kids out here that
we about something.
They killing brothers
left and right,
from Harlem to Brooklyn,
from Florida
or St. Louis, Missouri.
They even got little kids
in handcuffs.
Little Scott,
five years old in handcuffs.
It's done,
We organizing against this
to stop this.
So, on the count of three,
we all one hood.
- One, two, three.
- All:
We all one hood!- We all one hood!
- We all one hood!
- Let's go! Come on!
- (chanting "We all one hood")
Yo, so,
you're not coming?
Nah, shorty. Do you.
(music playing)
(cheering)
(Miss Maddy groaning)
Sir Lance...
What is all this?
Just let me get
my thoughts straight.
I'ma tell you.
All this is everything
I made bartending.
All my tips.
This one is for Shay-Shay.
It's $15,000.
By the time
she goes to college,
it oughta be 20.
This one is for my Ty.
Now, it's 30,000.
try for scholarships.
This $10,000 is for you.
- Miss Maddy,
I don't need no money.
- Son, just...
$17,000 cash.
That's to take care of Ty
until he's ready to
go to college.
You can move in here
if you want to.
- He, um, he don't mind.
- Miss Maddy.
'Cause, ooh,
- Why me?
- Because you're here.
Thank God you here.
Jomo:
They chase L to the roofof the building, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- He's running.
I'm telling you, Ty,
like sprinting full out.
He leaps,
jumps 20 feet.
Lands on the roof
of the other building,
gets away.
- For real?
- Straight up.
- It was more like ten feet.
- Nah, come on.
- It was ten feet.
- No, man.
And cops still came
and dragged my dumb
12-year-old ass out the bed,
- so I don't know
what the point was.
- Man, you missed your call.
- Okay, all right.
- '96 Olympics.
That should've been you.
Sir Lance.
- You got jokes, huh?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, so let's joke
about them grades.
- Mm.
- Oh, tone changed, huh?
- And it gets quiet.
- It's the teachers, right?
- The teachers don't like me.
- Oh, here we go.
- The teach-- Come on.
- Jomo.
- Did we-- we said that, right?
- Come on now.
- Come on.
- The teacher
really don't like me.
- Teacher's racist, right?
- (both groan)
Now she racist.
You're making excuses, man.
- You said
the same sh*t we said.
- Look, look.
When I raise my hand,
and the teacher
will call on the lighter-skin
brother next to me.
Oh, Jomo, I think
he calling you out.
You directing that
toward someone on
this side of the table?
What race is
this teacher?
- Wha-- wha--
- She's of African-American
descent.
"African-American descent."
You got real intellectual
with it.
- Y'all playing.
- You playing.
- (knocks on door)
- It's open.
- Who's this?
- I'm like your wet dream
come true, baby.
When I saw you,
I told Lance, I said,
on a man-eating shark,
climb Mount Everest butt-naked
with bare hands, baby,
just to meet the central lady
I saw on your Facebook page."
For real?
I'm just a badass dude
from around the way, all right?
I'm a bodybuilding ex-con.
I got my own business.
I cut hair.
Amongst other things.
I make love all night,
every night.
Like it's my last night.
What? Hmm?
- (glass clinks on table)
- Oh, you gonna tell me?
Or you gonna put that on ice
and water and give it
some thought?
Make yourself comfortable.
In your apartment
or in your world?
So, uh, yeah, L,
you good to go, man.
Unless you want to engage
in some sexual gymnastics.
- It's on you, brother.
- Nah, bro, I'm good.
Okay, bet.
Get home safe.
Ingram, come here.
So the cheap bastards
got me a new computer.
That's cool.
Yeah, it's a touchscreen,
a camera.
- Try it out.
- Nah, I'm good.
- It's nice, though.
- (chuckles)
Have a seat.
So, you've been
all right?
Yeah.
No illegal activity?
- No associating with criminals?
- Nah. None of that.
- Been saving your money?
- I save most of my check.
run you about 750 a month.
That's with the subsidy.
- Can you handle that?
- Excuse me?
You're leaving
the halfway house.
Own apartment.
No curfew.
Parole visits
once a month.
You ready for that,
or you need more time here?
- Uh, I'm ready.
- Yeah?
Yeah.
Then sign right here.
- Ty:
To your new place.- To L-boogie's new place.
I wound up in and out
of prison just like you.
Remember all those times
you used to smack me on my head
and tell me I wasn't sh*t?
You don't do that
to your son.
I got my own
apartment now.
I got a job.
Own business.
They tell me every time
they bring you to a shelter,
you wind up
back out here.
So, I guess this is
where you want to be.
Check it.
Pick out any one
of these people.
Imagine what
their life is like.
Who they are.
Where they're going.
Ty:
He's a Wall Street guy.
Gonna go close
I can see that.
Ty:
She's a fashion editor.
Heading to her office.
All right.
He's a dentist.
Gonna go pull out a tooth.
bringing the pain?
'Cause he's a dentist.
Where's Ty?
Heading to work at his graphics
and animation company.
That's what's up.
Is he carrying
a college diploma?
Nah, he's not carrying it
around like some nerd.
But he's got two.
Hanging up on the wall
in his office.
That's what's up.
If you can see it,
you can be it.
- Or some corny sh*t like that.
- (both laughing)
- Yo, there's this girl
I like at school.
- Oh, yeah?
I don't want you to explain
How you're afraid of me
Yeah, I just want you
to remain
Ooh, ooh, baby, baby, baby
How can you just go away?
When you were telling me
Yeah, you were telling me
Ooh, baby, baby, baby
I don't want you
to explain
How you're afraid of me
Yeah, I just want you
to remain
Isn't my heart
your main supplier?
Ain't that what
you told me all along?
If it's too wet,
I'll make it drier
But it's not time
to take it home
Isn't it hot
just like a fire?
Won't it get cold
if left alone?
(chattering)
Yo, we need to find
something to do.
Nah, now, like,
get into it, little bro.
Hell, yeah.
What's good, fool?
What you got into today, man?
Where you coming from, son?
Chilling with my girl.
- Oh, yeah, yeah?
- Yeah, living the good life.
- Go on a little date
and sh*t like that?
- Yeah, you know.
Yeah, yeah, but you--
what you fittin' to do now?
- Oh, I ain't got nothing to do.
- Let me holler at you
real quick.
Yeah, yeah, so, uh,
sh*t and all that, right?
- Yeah, you know.
- Okay, cool.
Cool, cool, cool.
Yeah.
(doorbell rings)
G-Rod said
they have to jump me out
or they're gonna mess up
Grandma and Shay-Shay.
Did he give you
a number?
Ty.
Two.
Get some rest.
I'll tell your grandma
you're staying with me tonight.
Miss Maddy.
Miss Maddy.
Miss Maddy,
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