Red Hook Summer Page #5

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Walk in Jerusalem just like John

And he declared he'd meet me there

Walk in Jerusalem just like John

l want to be ready

l want to be ready

l want to be ready

To walk in Jerusalem just like John

ENOCH:
Ifyou get there before I do

ALL:
Walk in Jerusalem just like John

Tell all my friends l'm a-coming, too

Walk in Jerusalem just like John

l want to be ready

l want to be ready

l want to be ready

To walk in Jerusalem just like John

Sing it again!

l want to be ready

l want to be ready

l want to be ready

To walk in Jerusalem just like John

Walk in Jerusalem just like John

(CONGREGATlON APPLAUDlNG)

(PEOPLE CALLlNG OUT lN APPROVAL)

-Yes!

-Praise the Lord!

Bless, y'all. Be seated. Be seated, y'all.

You know, l was reading

in the newspapers today

about everyone's worries.

They're worried about the economy.

They're worried about the weather.

They're worried about the politics.

Always worried about something.

We're worried about

what we should have been doing,

and what we're going to do.

Drowning our sorrows in the wrong thing.

(ALL AGREElNG)

Gurgling down the devil's milk

as if man's answers to man's problems

can be solved by anybody else

other than God Himself.

Amen!

Talking about what we would do

if we had some money.

People saying, "Bishop, what we gonna do

about the oil bill?

"What we gonna do about the roof bill?

"The church is falling apart!"

Well, l told you,

you know what you got to have?

-ALL:
Faith!

-Faith!

Faith!

Now look here.

l had a vision.

l had a vision that God's gonna

send somebody through that door

and he's gonna say, "Bishop Enoch,

you done brought Jesus to me.

"And He's made me feel so good that now

l wanna give His house something.

"l wanna fix up His house.

"l want to make it right. Yes, sir."

But, you know,

when God blesses you,

He ain't always talking about money.

-(ALL AGREElNG)

-Oh, no.

You know, some folks

just flew out of the Hook

when they got money.

Talking about a better house,

a better school, a better life.

Well, guess what?

The white folks done moved

right back up in here,

gentrification done reared its ugly head.

And right now we in the belly of the beast!

And now the old timers say,

"Well, l should have known."

Well, if you had Jesus,

you would have known.

Look here, look here,

y'all turn to Matthew here.

1 6:
26 says,

"What is a man's advantage

"if he gains the whole world,

the whole world,

"and loses his own soul?"

Who are you? Who do you belong to?

Whose house you gonna fix up?

-Come on, tell me, y'all.

-ALL:
Jesus!

Who do you need?

ALL:
Jesus!

Stand up and shake your neighbor's hand

and tell them you love Jesus!

-l love Jesus.

-l know you do, l know you do.

God moves in mysterious ways,

His wonders to perform.

ENOCH:
All right, Deacons,

get the mourning bench down here.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

l feel it again.

(CONGREGATlON CALLlNG OU lN APPROVAL)

Yes.

There's somebody here who needs God.

l said there's somebody here

who needs Jesus in their life.

There's somebody here

who needs God in their life.

Just step forward, son. Don't be afraid now.

Just come on up to the bench.

Oh, yes, there's somebody here.

Oh, there's somebody else.

There's somebody else who needs Jesus.

There's somebody else.

Yes, you wondering why the world's so bad!

There's somebody wondering

why the world is so bad!

Yes, there's somebody here

who thinks that the world is bad.

There's somebody here

who's drowning their sorrows

in the devil's liquid.

Yes, taking their nips and dips,

their nightcaps and ice-breakers.

And before you know it,

that little dip turns into a valley.

So quit that chugging, and get God's loving!

Come home to Jesus!

He is never there when you want Him.

But He's always what?

ALL:
Right on time!

-Yes, yes! Right on time!

-(CONGREGATlON APPLAUDlNG)

Now l'm all sloppy sweet in my jowls!

l need something to salt my mouth up!

(CHUCKLlNG)

You know, you're stupid,

but Bishop Enoch was too hard

on Uncle Zee.

ZEE:
l ain't against nobody

coming up in this mug

on a white stallion and helping me.

Need every swingin' Willie we can get.

Got boo-koo square feet up in here.

Where's my Wall Street Journals?

l'm investing and digesting.

l'm gonna let white Jesus help me.

l wouldn't give a care

if every nigga,

Puerto Rican and Dominican

broke into a dice game

and crapped all over themselves.

(SHOUTlNG)

l got a crazy family.

You and me both.

You like Melo?

l love Melo.

"And now, introducing Number 7.

"Standing at 6'8", from Syracuse University,

"Carmelo Anthony!"

(lMlTATES CROWD CHEERlNG)

We live in Apartment 1 C.

The same apartment he lived in

before his family moved to Baltimore.

You lying.

Ask anybody. See if l'm lying.

BOX:
Hey, get up,

why you touching me? Chill.

-Now get me something to drink real quick.

-WOMAN:
Okay.

BOX:
Get all of us something to drink.

WOMAN:
Yeah.

-You heard me?

-Aight.

What you looking like that for?

Get up, move.

And leave that attitude.

(WOMAN MUTTERlNG lN SPANlSH)

Got you, Blood, you know that.

Look at this little nigga again, man.

(LAUGHlNG)

This little nigga, all in blue.

What's your problem, little man?

Chazz says she lives in

Carmelo Anthony's old apartment. 1 C.

True story.

Seen Melo do work all up in the Garden.

How'd you get tickets?

l'm connected, baby.

You run a couple errands for me,

put you on to get you some.

Put some real dollar eagles in your pocket,

you understand?

l just wanted to put you in my iPad 2.

You know,

ask you some questions and stuff.

l'm doing a documentary about Red Hook.

What kind of questions

you want to ask me, man?

Like, what do you do

that makes my granddaddy so mad?

l didn't do nothing to that old timer, man.

l'm a rapper, that's what l do.

He know that, all right?

That's why l'm out here hustling,

so l get enough dough to make my mix tape.

(ALL AGREElNG)

l could shoot your video. Gimme a taste.

-"Gimme a taste."

-(ALL LAUGHlNG)

-You'll shoot my video with that?

-Yeah.

-Right now?

-Right now.

Go get 'em!

All right, let's do this.

-You see me? l'm good?

-Yeah.

-Good money?

-Good money.

All right, so look.

(RAPPING) lt's hot as hell in this jail cell

Ain't hard to tell

Sh*t you learn ain't in books, nigga

This Red Hook

Home of my nigga Melo

My crew to he l carry

Pumping D's in the dice to dream cemetery

lt's grim work, love

Arming my troops

Talk slick

We make you eat your words

Alphabet soup

So re-group,

before you think you can step...

Wait, hold up, hold up, hold up.

Now, l don't want you biting my sh*t, man.

lt ain't copywritten.

What's that?

Don't matter.

Just burn me a copy real quick.

l can't do it now.

What?

l can't do it now.

ENOCH:
Hey, gentlemen,

hope to see you up in Lil' Heaven.

All right, l'll do it myself!

No. Why you playing?

F*** off, little man!

ENOCH:
Herbert. Herbert!

GANGSTERS:
Whoa!

-Come on, let's go!

-What's wrong with you?

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