Roxanne, Roxanne Page #5

You like it?

[laughing]

Cross, why you playing with me?

Just wanted to match your fly...

when I take you out tonight.

I don't know about this.

People gonna think we a couple.

Ain't nobody ever gave me

nothing like this.

Here, let's get it right on you.

Cute.

I like your freckles.

I ain't ready for all that.

Me neither.

[The Georgettes' "Would You Rather"

playing over speakers]

Would you rather

That I never fell in love

Pull over right up there.

Right in front of this car.

I wouldn't be

Too much for you to see

Just how in love with me

Pop the trunk button.

Be right back.

Happy we would be

[inaudible dialogue]

You can run along Everything all right?

We don't gotta go out.

No. Just a little tired.

Let's go.

This is why I do this.

[The Egyptian Lover's "Egypt, Egypt"

playing over speakers]

[singing] Roxanne, Roxanne

I wanna be your man

Homeboy, you see who the f*** she with?

It's nothing like that.

I'm just singing a song.

Come on, Cross.

[laughing]

You're beautiful.

You cute, too.

Pretty eyes.

Every girl in here gonna be all on you.

It's obvious who I'm here with tonight.

Why you messing with me, Cross?

You know how old I am?

Good.

I don't trust sh*t

moving out here, Shante.

There's something about you.

I want family.

A family bond. I need that in my life.

Let me give that to you.

Give what to me?

Love, Shante. You ever feel that?

Hmm?

[chuckles]

Get it right, baby, Roxanne Shante

Hi, Roxanne, and how do you do? My

name is Sparky Dee I'm pleased to meet you

Let me tell you something, girl

That you should know

I'm Sparky Dee and I'm running this show

You got braces in your mouth...

I'm telling y'all, this is huge.

We gonna get paid. Mm.

Check it. We take them out on tour

like prize fighters.

Make it a big event every night.

Roxanne Shante vs. Sparky Dee.

Round One.

This will be epic. I mean, you ain't never

seen anything like this before.

And they're ripping each other apart.

Fans gonna love this.

A right guard? A wrong turn?

This is something that you must learn

Because you took it too far

Yeah, that's right

Now it's my turn, yes, to get on the mic

To prove to you that I'm the best

When I say my rhymes

And prove they are fresh

Hey, you, new dude.

- Shante, can I kick my rhyme to you?

- I'm in a rush. Next time.

Yeah, you. You see a lady

carrying bags, you help her.

- Your mother didn't teach you no manners?

- My bad.

You gotta pay some dues around here.

You gotta put in work if you wanna get to my

level. -Take my bags. - Let me kick my rhyme to you.

Yo, kid, if you wanted to rhyme,

you would've started already.

But f*** it. Rap.

Yo... Yo...

What's your name?

- Nasir.

- Nasir.

If you don't have your rap together

the next time I see you,

I'm gonna f*** you up.

I'm dead serious, too.

Take your ass to school.

Why you over there, Ranita?

Just about to walk to school.

- We can get you a ride.

- No, I'll walk.

- First big tour, huh?

- Yeah, I know.

Wish you could have found a way to come.

I don't.

You was my first DJ and hype man.

Feels like they waiting on you.

Come here.

Why you so sad, Ranita?

It's not like I'm not coming back.

I don't wanna go either.

The first record was "Roxanne's Revenge."

I did it to prove a point.

To prove to him that I could rap.

The way it was done was, she was

doing laundry, washing drawers.

I told her to forget about the laundry,

come up, do this record.

- So, she came up...

- You had to tell them the laundry story?

Just gonna bring up I was doing laundry?

- He always telling the laundry story.

- It's the truth.

She was doing laundry,

I told her to come up and do this record.

Marley, I wasn't washing drawers.

It was my mother's laundry.

Yo, if it wasn't for me, Shaunie,

you'd still be washing panties.

Whatever. I still did

our biggest record in one take.

Boom. I made a record and did laundry

at the same time.

See what I've been telling you?

Gotta embrace and be nice

when they're yelling,

"Roxanne, I wanna be your man."

Let their imagination work.

Feed them.

Hmm? Be a fantasy to them.

Yeah, they can be your man.

Like this dude right here. Feed his ass. Look,

it's all a part of being Roxanne Shante, okay?

Look, Shaunie, you a phenomenon now.

You coming, Roxanne?

Got you.

I own, like, ten of these types

of garages.

We get cars left and right.

- So, you big-timing, then?

- That's right.

These Southern boys get money, too.

- Gimme a minute, playboy.

- All right.

I wanna show you

what we call Southern hospitality.

I saved this one for you.

Seriously? We just met, Doug.

I don't know about all that.

I don't care.

You Roxanne Shante, baby.

You bigtime. You deserve it.

It's nothing for me.

I'm just enjoying this time with you.

Let me spend the money.

So, do you want it?

Of course.

We got a connect at the DMV.

Should we put the car in your name?

- I don't think it can go in my name.

- Who's name, then?

It can go in my manager's name.

Let's do one more.

You like jewelry?

You shouldn't be taking gifts from people.

- What?

- You heard me.

You shouldn't be taking gifts.

You know what they want.

Ain't nobody giving nothing.

Mind your business.

- You doing some ho sh*t, Shaunie.

- F*** you, Marley.

- Y'all two chill out?

- No, Ray. She acting like a ho.

- You just mad 'cause you can't f*** me.

- Whoa, what the f*** is going on here?

We brothers and sisters.

What is y'all on?

Word up.

She really feeling herself right now.

Don't nobody want your young ass.

You know what? Give me this sh*t.

Get off me.

F*** you. I don't give a f***

about that sh*t anyway.

Give it to one of your girlfriends,

broke-ass house DJ.

- I f***ing made you.

- Make another.

You just jealous. You wanna be in my spot.

What's up, Shaunie?

What's the deal with y'all?

- F*** him.

- Yo, and another thing?

I ain't DJ-ing your sh*t no more.

Ever again.

Find somebody else. We done.

Yeah, you jealous.

- Yo, he got all my records.

- Yo, wait.

You have to kill him

to get those records from him.

- He dead, then.

- Chill, Shaunie. You ain't got to do that.

I'll beat-box the show for you.

- Beat-box?

- [Biz] Yeah.

- The entire show?

- Yeah, that's what I do.

Watch. They gonna love us.

- I'll see you soon.

- Go back to school, little girl.

Hey, baby girl.

- Blackout, it's cool. I know him.

- She in good hands, big man.

[chuckles]

That's your new bodyguard? What happened

to the other big motherf***er?

- What you doing here?

- I needed some sh*t.

Plus, you know, I had to come

check on my Shante.

Roxanne, Roxanne. Mm.

I wanna be your man.

- It takes a lot to be my man.

- Get your b*tch-ass out of here, man.

- What the f***, Cross?

- My bad, yo.

I just ain't seen you in a minute.

See if I bruised those freckles.

I gotta go do this show.

I'll be right here.

Let's do this.

[Shan] You getting close to him, Shaunie?

- This ain't good.

- Don't need to hear this right now, Shan.

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