Crooklyn Page #12

Synopsis: Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
PG-13
Year:
1994
115 min
3,524 Views


Now it's only gettin' worse #

# Buckshot and ace

in the land of the waste #

# Stickin' you in your face

We be doin' it up Crooklyn style #

# What does it take

to get you wild #

# My mentality

is gettin' iller, killer #

# Instinct is tryin'

to infiltrate but wait #

# I know you want to enter

but I can't let you in #

# My mind stays the maddest

I'm gone with the wind #

# Because it is

survival of the fittest #

# When the sh*t hits the fan

I got my shank in my hand #

# Like man

with the permanent tan #

# I come from the vill'

that never ran, damn #

# I'm fillin'

another part of reality #

# Hit me when I represent

the F.A.P. #

# Straight from the hill 'til

Then played the Hilton #

# I mean it really when

I say I make a killing #

# From a cipher, see

I'm fillin' the busta piper #

# Original heads represent

the Brooklyn all-nighter #

# Do or die

I'm sayin' it's you and I #

# Bring your clique so we can get

stoned like Family Sly #

# Used to C.I. In the bush

Mighty McFool rockin' the rock

Givin' the push #

# We did it like that

and now we do it like this #

# We did it like that and now

we do it like this #

# No one saw a finer time

that you miss #

# And just think about

the steel in your fist #

# It's just an extension of your arm

It's the ghetto type of charm #

# That makes all

the homeboys swarm #

# Can I drop the bomb

Oh, yes, I can #

# Move with the grooves

Move like Geechee Dan #

# Who is the man

That kid there #

# Who is the chick

with the pick in her hair #

# Angela, ah, Davis

and we roll like Avis #

# Rent-a-car

Kid, there you are #

# You know where to find me

whenever you need me #

# If you know the half

follow the path #

# To the land of the aftermath

but don't frolic in the mix #

# Crazy-ass Crooklyn kicks 'cause they

always throwin' a body on my lawn #

# I'm gettin' in a rock, voila

without a collar #

# Get off my block

or you give me a dollar #

# For the trouble of gettin'

blown up like a bubble #

# Let's take a sec to think back

to the year of the 7-0 #

# When Brooklyn was the place to go

flow on a journey up to the Heights #

# Ebbets Field, feel the real

the rail on your life #

# Trite individuals live

in the PJ's #

# The evil check my DJ #

# Hey, play

what I wanna play in the day #

# But in the night

I feel the right, took the left #

# Uptown Brooklyn

break it down #

# Heads from state to state

travel less or unravel the rate #

# Howitt, Tapscot and Sudder #

# I remember way back in the days

playin' hot peas and butter #

# Brother, if there were

another lesson #

# Brooklyn session

Take it back, black Smith & Wesson #

# Press your luck you get stuck

Blow your bucks #

# Master ace has

the taste for ducks #

# And ducks off

so tell Lord Digger #

# Dig a dray for the bones

sticks and stones #

# While I kick some ancient homes

through your domes #

# Ack went back

to attack your homes #

# So Tip, can I flip

Yes, you can #

# I'm in the world war

with Mohammed, my man #

# Feels so good to be

a Crooklyn dodger #

# What's happenin'

to Rerun and Roger #

# I think I seen 'em wearin' Timberlands

and runnin' down the block #

# From Dwayne

and Dwayne had a clock #

# 'Cause he be sellin' rock

for the Partridge Family #

# And Reuben Kinkaid

drives a 300-E #

# And he be pimpin' Chrissy

from Three's Company #

# Plus he stuck Mr. for all his jewelry #

# This is a Seventies thing from the

days when kids didn't act so crazy #

# Crooklyn #

[Radio Announcer] Here comes the

pitch. It's a line drive to left field.

[Announcer Shouting Indistinctly]

And Brooklyn wins!

- Brooklyn's the borough #

- [Announcer] Brooklyn wins!

Brooklyn wins!

Brooklyn wins!

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Joie Lee

Joie Susannah Lee (; born June 22, 1962) is an American screenwriter, film producer and actress. She has appeared in many of the films directed by her brother, Spike Lee, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Mo' Better Blues (1990). She also co-wrote and produced the film Crooklyn (1994). more…

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