Hustle & Flow Page #3

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for a few now, so we got that, right?

And me not pimping you

because of...

...your demonstration,

it just puts us in a whole...

...different kind of place,

you know what I mean?

You want me to leave.

Hell, no.

Why would you say

something like that?

I just feel like...

Like I'm having one of them

midlife crisis, you know?

I mean, my daddy...

...you know, his heart

gave out on him when he was, like...

Well, sh*t, when I was 12 years old.

Sh*t, he was my age.

And that sh*t just been...

Just been f***ing

with my mind, you know?

It got me feeling

like this is it for me.

I just don't know what

I'm supposed... Supposed to do.

I get bad dreams.

Dreams like me giving birth

to dead dogs.

Sometimes I'm breast-feeding

a big old ugly catfish.

- For real?

- Yeah.

But that's just my mind

touching in on something

I ain't said yet.

What's that?

I'm scared, D.

Sometimes I just get so scared...

Most gracious and heavenly Father,

we pray that you

bless this food and this house

in Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen.

So Beth Ann tells me

the reason I didn't

get that sales-supervisor position

is because she says I have issues

enforcing company policy

with my coworkers,

who, by the way,

she referred to as my friends.

Not "coworkers," mind you,

but "friends."

And I said to her,

"Hey, just because I am pleasant

and supportive does not mean

that I cannot crack a whip."

Because, you know,

I can crack a whip.

Yeah, you can, baby.

Because what we talking about here,

huh? Folding some sweaters?

Shoot, sales supervisors

don't even handle the safe.

So I go in and I talk to Leonard.

Because he always talking about,

"Come in and air your grievances,"

right? So I did.

- What did he say?

- You know what he says to me?

He says I am incapable of writing

somebody up because I'm so friendly.

And I said,

"Hey, give me a pen, Leonard, okay?

I'll tell you everything

that everybody's doing wrong."

What, Beth Ann, she take

way too long on her lunch break.

Alan, that little sh*t down in Receiving

came to work the other day high.

And Sally, just yesterday, came in with

this skirt with the discontinued line.

Remember that, baby?

Remember that little skirt I had?

And I know she didn't pay for it.

He think I'm gonna take some kind of

blind eye to all of these violations

if I was sales supervisor

just because I'm nice?

Clyde?

- Damn.

- What the hell you doing here, Djay?

Hey, look here, baby. I know you about

sick and tired of seeing me right now,

- but I just wanted to be able...

- Clyde. Who is it?

- It's just...

- Just an old school buddy, ma'am.

- From back in the day.

- Well, we was just having dinner.

I'm so sorry, y'all. And I'd have

left them in the car,

but this one right here, man,

she just

sniff out an air-conditioning unit

like an old bloodhound b*tch.

Hey. Hey, man, respect my house.

Look, man, anyplace you and me

could just sit down

and talk for a minute?

Djay, things don't always

come together

just because you want them to,

all right, man?

Look, just because you got the bacon,

the lettuce and tomato,

hell, man, that don't mean

I'm gonna give you my toast.

Look, man, I know you done learned

a whole mess of sh*t

hustling out on the street, right?

Let me tell you what I learned

while working on my job.

- Thank you.

- There are two types of people:

Those that talk the talk

and those that walk the walk.

People who walk the walk,

they sometimes talk the talk.

But most of the time, they don't

talk at all, because they walking.

Now, people who talk the talk,

when it comes time for them to walk,

- you wanna know what they do?

- What is that?

They talk people like me

into walking for them.

Look, I'm just asking you...

Just listen to what I got here,

man, all right? Just listen to it.

And if you ain't... If you ain't feeling it,

man, I'm out your life, okay?

So can I get y'all anything?

No, ma'am.

Hey, I really like your hair.

It's got some, like,

chocolate colors in it.

Oh, thank you.

I have this great guy that does it

over in Germantown,

the coloring.

- That sound all right.

- The whole time it's gonna have

this thing going like:

- Then I come in...

- When you gonna start a rhyme?

Just gotta get my mode on, man,

just give me a second. All right.

These b*tches pop it for some paper

Pop that ass for some cash flow

Do it like I like it

And I give you what you ask for

I try and do my hair

every couple of months

because it keeps the tricks guessing.

- You know?

- I'm sorry, keep the what?

Well, my hair has to be redone a lot

because these ain't me real braids,

these just extensions.

Nola, would you just

shut the f*** up, please?

What makes you think this lady

care about your kitchen-ass hairdo?

I think, you know what, it's nice.

It's okay...

Lady, you don't got to be nice to her

because she's sitting on your couch.

You think her hair look like a wet

dust mop, go on and tell her so. I do.

- Damn, Lex.

- Well, I didn't. I mean, I don't.

Lex, why you gotta be so ugly?

Get a nigga minx

Grab her by the hand

Take her back for some convo

Drop a couple grams

Now you're back at the condo

- Ugly as a swamp-duck ho.

- God!

Everybody else

says my hair looks sexy.

And then they nut.

Clyde?

Clyde?

Real fast

Shake it, shake it real fast

Put your hands on your knees

Shake it, shake it real fast

Shake it, shake it real fast

Shake it, shake it real fast

- What's up, nigga, you run out of spit?

- No, man, I just...

Clyde!

What are you doing?

Walking.

I see you're down with that next nigga

Tryin' to make your chest bigger

See you're down with that next nigga

Tryin' to make your chest bigger

Working on your flex

Figure what? Nigga, f*** that sh*t

Let's get this to work, Djay.

The roadblock

Got niggas jumpin' up

Tryin' to move the rock

It's like all my days, I've been

hearing this beat in my head, man,

like a pounding.

I mean, sometimes it's real raw,

like a eightball joint, but then

sometimes, man, it get real soft,

like Otis Redding and sh*t, man.

And this beat, this pounding, man,

that's what I been calling my mode,

this feeling. And, Key, if my mode

is cracking, man,

it's like I can't be stopped, man.

It's like I'm Mike, and it's showtime.

Nigga, it's on, you know what I mean?

You know?

Because, sh*t, when I'm out here

on this track,

I gotta keep my game tight, man.

Because it's hard out here

for a pimp, man. For real, man.

Hold on, I like that, man.

"It's hard out here for a pimp."

Hot 107. 1. Big up to South Memphis

out there, checking in.

I got your requests, and I got

that coming up for you.

Keep your radios locked.

This is messing with my mode.

This is a bunch of bullshit, man.

This is all I got

So I keeps it hot

How I'm supposed to not?

Read your post to plot

"Read your post to plot."

Baby, this is some hard sh*t

right here.

Trying to take what's

in your head, man,

and put it into words that fit together

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