Roxanne, Roxanne Page #3

- Been about it.

All right. Two-fifty ain't sh*t.

We gonna see what's up.

- But otherwise, everything good?

- Yeah.

Don't we look good? [chuckles]

All right, Shante.

- If you need to go to the bathroom, go.

- I don't have to go.

Fast, just go and use the bathroom.

- I'll go with you.

- No.

Come on, girl.

Stop. I'm not going.

Why don't you wanna go in?

You scared you gonna miss him?

Get up.

Get up, Fast. We not going in the house.

Neek, LaLa. We need to crowd around her.

Come on. Spread out your dresses.

Fast, come in the middle of us.

You can go right here.

What she need to do

is just get in the house.

Don't get it on my feet.

Ah.

I feel like a whole new woman.

[Denise] Just a damn shame.

These babies learning

how to be disappointed by men

at such an early age.

It's gonna happen sooner or later.

Shante!

There's some beans and cornbread

on the stove if y'all hungry.

Baby, just sit down.

Or go on back to your place.

I'll look after them.

I want y'all to take this as a lesson.

You don't ever wait for no motherf***er.

This is what happens when you think

they love you and you find out they don't.

Trifling-ass motherf***er.

Come on, Shante.

Come on inside and get something to eat.

Give me my baby, Shante.

Don't be giving me no attitude,

'cause I ain't him.

[R&B music playing over speaker]

[humming]

- You ain't gonna eat nothing?

- No.

You know what time my door closes.

Mommy.

[humming]

Get on my f***ing nerves, man.

I'm out here f***ing trying.

Karate Bob in the place to be.

All right. For this, it's gonna be 500.

- Go on ahead and do that for 250.

- Two-fifty?

For six cashmere sweaters?

- Mm-mm. It costs 1000 in-store.

- Two-fifty, Shante.

It's only gonna take you 30 minutes,

there and back.

Two hundred and 50 bills

for 30 minutes of work?

You can't beat that.

Miss? Miss?

Hey! Come back here!

[panting]

F*** you! I'm done!

Hey, yo, I'm for real

about that 50 a week.

- Don't be coming up short.

- I won't.

Here.

Put your money in this, all right?

This what you put it in every week.

And I'm serious about coming up

short, Shante. I'm counting that sh*t.

Tone. [chuckles]

Thank you.

It's all good, Shante.

We family.

That's why I'm inviting you into my spot.

Ah.

Man, these lights be tripping and sh*t.

So... how you gonna pay this rent, huh?

You still be boosting?

Man, you old-school hustling.

Let them bums do that sh*t.

We out here heavy, right?

You need to get down.

I told you to be there in a minute.

Hey, yo.

Shante. What's up?

That phone do something to you?

No, it's broken.

I got you. Use my cellular if you want.

- Yo, how you work this thing?

- Dial the number and press the red button.

- [Neek over phone] Hello?

- Neek Neek. What's up? Shante. Hey, where are you?

I can't tell you.

- But what's up? How are things?

- When you coming back home?

I ain't coming back, Neek. Not to live.

- But I'm gonna bring some money, though.

- Mommy. She's been drinking a lot.

I wanna leave, Shante.

I wanna live with you.

Can you come get us?

Everything copasetic?

Yo, Shante.

The f***?

[knocking on door]

What you want? [man] A dart.

[sighs]

[man using door as drum]

I'm not rapping.

The f*** you think this is,

a free concert?

- Hi, I'm VJ Ralph McDaniels.

- And I'm the Vid Kid.

- We've been receiving letters and calls

- Crazy mail.

about people telling us they don't know

what time the Box comes on.

They don't know what time

Video Music Box comes on?

- Tell them what time it is.

- Monday through Friday, 3:30...

[Tone] Hey, yo, Shante.

- I came to grab something, all right?

- All right.

Money for rent is in the jar.

It's piling up,

waiting for you to take it.

Let it pile.

- You got some more Kool-Aid?

- Yeah. It's in the fridge.

Word.

Yo, Shante, what you got on, yo?

You can't be walking around like that.

Need some pajamas on around this joint.

All these dudes here. You can't be

walking around like that. Straight up.

What you mean? I always wear this.

No, Bee.

What? Ever since I moved in here,

I wear the same pajamas.

No, yo.

Hey, yo, yo, where you going?

Stop it, Tone.

- What is you doing?

- What you doing?

Come on. Stop tripping, yo.

- No, Tone.

- Shut up.

- Chill out.

- No! Tone, quit...!

- Stop fighting, yo.

- No, don't.

Shut up.

Stop!

- Come on.

- Don't.

[whimpering]

- You gotta go, yo.

- What?

You gotta go.

- Get the f*** out.

- No.

- You better leave...

- I don't got nowhere to go, Tone.

I don't give a f***.

- Now, come on, yo. Let's go.

- All right. I'll do it.

I'm sorry, I'll do it.

Come on, I'll do it. I can't leave.

Out there in the world thinking you grown,

and you're back now?

You tell me one good reason why

I should let your ass back in my house.

Because you my daughter?

[Shante] Y'all got any more clothes?

I ain't picking that up.

What you think this is?

- I'm telling Mommy you ain't cleaning.

- Oh, really?

How are you gonna make it out to tell her?

I missed you, old mean butt.

[Marley] Hey, yo!

Yo, yo, Shante!

Yo, you still rhyme?

- Yeah.

- I got this beat I want you to rhyme over.

- I ain't got time, I got laundry to do.

- One verse. It ain't gonna take long.

- What you gonna give me for doing this?

- I ain't got no money to give you.

You still work

at the Sergio Valente factory?

I want jeans for me and my sisters.

I want Western Sergios.

All right, I can get those.

- You coming up?

- Yeah.

I need to put this in the laundry.

My mother been on me.

- I gotta get it done.

- All right. Hurry up, though.

- I only got ten minutes. Put on the beat.

- One second.

- I need four pair of them Western Sergio.

- All right, I got you.

Yo, you heard that song by UTFO,

"Roxanne, Roxanne"?

- Yeah.

- Can you get down to that?

All right, we'll see.

Marley, what you doing?

You wasting my time.

You gotta put the headphones on

to hear the beat, Shante.

I'm about to play it back.

[UTFO's "Roxanne, Roxanne"

instrumental playing]

Well, my name is Roxanne

A- don't you know

I just a-cold rock a party

And I do this show

You see I met these three guys

You know it's true

A-let me tell you

And explain them all to you

Shante, where you going?

We gotta play it back and listen.

I'm done. I don't wanna hear

my mother talking sh*t.

[phone ringing]

- Hello?

- [girl 1] You on the radio. Oh, my God.

[girl 2] Oh, my God, Shante! Oh, my...!

[phone ringing]

[girl 3] Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

You're on the radio!

Stop calling.

You're gonna get me in trouble.

[chuckles]

[whispering] I wonder what I sound like.

You're Shante? We heard you on the radio.

You sounded dope.

All right, back up, back up.

She's a superstar now.

Okay. Come on.

Move it, move it. Move.

No, she ain't signing.

It's crazy how Shante

is all over the newspaper.

Newspaper? What newspaper?

Oh, you don't know?

Well, what happened now?

- What trouble did she get herself into?

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