Roxanne, Roxanne

[Bobby Barnes' "Keep It Funky"

playing over speakers]

Keep it funky now

What'd I tell you about sucking your

thumb, huh? You'll mess up your teeth.

Look at your lips. You wearing

my red lipstick. You think you grown?

Nobody in the house wears

red lipstick besides me. Let's go.

Where are we going?

To the Park Jam.

Just follow the music, Ms. Peggy.

The champ is here. The champ is here.

- The champ is here!

- Okay, Ranita.

Enough with all that yelling.

We get the point.

Well, excuse me.

[man 1] There you go. That's right.

Hey, hey, hey!

Oh, sh*t. They're here.

The Queensbridge Battle Rap Champ

has arrived. Let's get it on!

[crowd cheering]

Everybody to the DJ booth.

Come on.

Let's get it on. The Queensbridge

Battle Rap Champ has arrived. Let's go.

[Ranita]

The champ is here. The champ is here.

The champ is here. The champ is here.

- [woman] Oh, you don't know...

- [man 2] That's right.

- Yo, what is this sh*t?

- Didn't I tell you the champ was here?

Bro, I ain't battling no little girl.

- You can't be serious.

- You asked for the Queensbridge champion.

All right, who's going first?

Remember, this is hip-hop, breaking,

MC-ing, graffiti and DJ-ing.

Why do we do it? Peace, love, unity

and to safely have fun, all right?

Now, let's get this battle started!

[man 3] My man got this.

Can I curse?

I don't care what you do

as long as you win that $50.

Yo

[Mike James Kirkland's

"What Have We Done" playing]

What have we done?

- [Fastima] It's the way I like it.

- [Shante laughing]

Go, Fast. Go, Fast.

Go, Fast.

Stop, you're gonna cut me with your teeth.

So what? I'm getting in my kisses.

[laughing]

Shante. Come on. If you're gonna

do this, go take that in your room,

and tell Latifa to come out here

and let's get dinner going. It's ready.

What have we done?

[giggles]

Watch this.

Shante, stop.

Mommy want you.

What have we done?

What have we done?

[laughing]

Mommy, I picked out my room.

You did? Well, let me see.

- I like this room with the window.

- Mm-hm.

And I really, really, really want it.

You have to fight that out with

your sisters. What do you think?

[laughing]

You can have what you want.

- Go wash your hands.

- Okay.

Ho-oh!

What's all this, baby?

We're celebrating.

Celebrating what?

Life.

- New beginnings, honey.

- All right.

- [laughing]

- Alrighty, then. Come on.

Tell me you love me.

- You know how I feel...

- I wanna hear you say it.

- Tell me you love me.

- Know what? I'll tell you this.

- [grunting]

- [laughing]

Come on. Come on, come on, come on.

[grunting]

We're dancing.

Let me see what you got.

Let me see if you still got it.

[Shante] All right, Fastima,

five more minutes.

Can't be late your first day of school.

Man, y'all are lucky.

- Are you getting your own room, too?

- No.

But it don't matter.

I'm happy we have a backyard,

so she can stop playing

on dirty-ass mattresses.

Yeah, that's true.

Anyway...

you see them new Sergio Valente

jelly bean jackets?

- Mm-mm.

- Fresh to death.

[Ranita] I gotta get me one.

[Shante] Yeah, and the jeans, too.

So, when you, uh, grab yours,

make sure you grab me one, too.

[both laughing]

[Ronald] Well, you ain't sh*t, Shante.

[Shante] Excuse you?

I ain't battling you again, Ronald.

Yeah, she already dusted your ass,

you need to kill that noise.

- Nobody talking to your big-head ass.

- [Ranita] Watch your mouth.

I'm the dopest rapper in the Bridge.

No, the world.

I've been practicing. I'm ready now.

You need to practice some more.

[laughing]

- All right, Fast. Time's up, come on.

- I got 50 I could beat you.

Fifty? That's it? She ain't took

a battle for less than 100 in years.

- Get your broke ass out of here.

- Seventy-five.

- A hundred. Can't hear?

- I don't have 100.

You don't have a battle neither.

We Audi 5000, homeboy.

Move.

Y'all a bunch of ugly chicks.

Mad 'cause nobody wants y'all.

Take them slanted eyes

back to the projects.

- Want me to put your head to bed?

- Word up.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Say something else.

Come on.

[school bell rings]

Good morning, class. We have

a new student joining us this semester.

Welcome Ms. Lolita Gooden.

Y'all can call me Shante.

[Ronald groans]

[Lester] Young man.

- Do you want some problems?

- He already know he don't.

[students groaning]

So, tell us a little bit

about yourself, Shante.

Uh...

I'm from Queensbridge,

but I went to school in Woodside.

[Lester] Woodside? You know,

Woodside is a really good school.

Not to say that 802 isn't. But it...

Understand what I'm saying?

Yeah. I had to transfer,

'cause I needed to be closer to home.

My little sister started school,

and I gotta pick her up.

You know, grown people stuff.

Oh.

All right. Uh, well, once again,

welcome to 802.

You can have a seat.

Now, I have strong rules.

One of them is keep your area clean.

Don't lose it.

I'll hang it in my new room.

- You gotta color inside the lines, Fast.

- Mommy said I don't.

[The Harvey Allison Experience's "This Is

Our Love Story" playing over speakers]

How it was when we first met

I said I know you...

- Who knew what I was thinking?

- Mm.

You know Gina's kids, Sharonda and Nicole?

Ah.

What do you think about bringing them

to that house we're gonna get?

[both laughing]

- Yeah, baby. They could come.

- Why are you laughing?

Because, baby. I mean,

you know, that's why I dig you, girl.

You always thinking about everybody else.

But we ain't gonna be able

to get that house right now.

I got something for you.

And we gonna get that house.

[both laughing]

- Baby, is this what I think it is?

- You have to open it and see.

- And this is all for the down payment?

- Yes.

- Where'd you get this?

- I saved it.

- Peggy.

- I saved a little bit every day.

I will do anything for my babies.

Oh, babe. You know what?

We getting that house.

Are we?

We getting that house, girl.

- We getting that house? [laughing]

- Getting that f***ing house. Come here.

You should be sleep. You a big girl now.

You gotta get up for school.

You should do the same.

You gotta go to school, too.

Go to sleep.

So, you telling us

you a Guardian what today?

You need to go ahead

and take that sh*t back to the store.

You can't stop crime

with a T-shirt and a hat.

- Anything else you want?

- You gonna get your ass hurt.

He already look hurt.

[all laughing]

Don't look for me

when you get robbed on the train.

- Whatever.

- Aw... Here we go, man.

Kill that noise. Sucker.

- [Ranita] Whatever.

- [Shan] He's a sucker.

Hey. Pick out what you want, man.

Aw. Look at Lil Cross. Cutie pie.

Looking just like his daddy.

[pager beeping]

Who blowing you up? Your girlfriend?

No.

But, yo, can you help him

pick out some candy?

- I gotta make this call quick.

- Wait. How much you paying?

[chuckles]

You can have whatever this is. Hey.

I'll be right back, all right?

You want a bite?

You know you definitely buying

my licorice, right?

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