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[exhales heavily]
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[man and woman moaning]
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[muffled thumping]
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Oh, yeah.
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[moaning intensifies]
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[man and woman sobbing]
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[exhales]
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[thuds]
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[woman on TV]
I want my baby girl to come back to me.
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[narrator] A crime so gruesome--
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-["Pound da Poundcakes" playing]
-♪ Girl, don't flake ♪
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♪ Bitch, let's bake ♪
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♪ Bring dat ass here
Let me pound da poundcakes ♪
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♪ I said "Girl, don't flake
Bitch, let's bake-- ♪
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[man] Pants don't fit?
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That's right. New Fat Crusher 2000.
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[man vocalizing]
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[man] Oh, shit!
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[groans]
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[Radha]
What do you think of a woman turning 40?
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40? Girl, 40 ain't shit.
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You? Almost 40?
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I started living my life when I was 40.
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Damn, you that old, Miss B?
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[in Spanish] Ay! Forty?!
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40 means... juicy down there.
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Shit, I figured you were like 30,
maybe even 35, but 40?
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Damn, that's just... that's just crazy.
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-["Pound da Poundcakes" playing]
-Oh, shit!
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-Ooh-hoo!
-[both] ♪ Girl, don't flake ♪
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♪ Bitch, let's bake ♪
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♪ Bring dat ass here
Let me pound da poundcake ♪
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When a single woman turns forty,
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she's like fruit from the tree
that falls to the ground
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for the bugs to eat.
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[Radha] Gracias.
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You're welcome.
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Now 70?
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Call me when you turn 70
and can't control your bowels.
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["Electric Relaxation"
by A Tribe Called Quest playing]
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[Radha] Oh, shit.
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Oh, God.
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Wait. Oh, come on.
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Come on, sir, you see me
standing right here.
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Please? I'm late.
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[relieved sigh] Thank you.
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You just made your mother proud.
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My mother's dead.
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Sorry...?
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Okay. Sorry.
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Excuse me. Sorry about that. Sorry.
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[man on phone]
Hey, it's your brother.
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It's been a year, so don't you think
we should take care of Mom's apartment?
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Aight, hit me back.
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Thank you.
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Oh, great.
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Oh, fuck me.
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Great.
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Great.
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Excuse me, sir?
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Sir? Sir? Do you think I could just, like,
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jump out before you let
the people in.
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I'm really late.
I'll just jump out before you--
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Sorry for the delay, folks,
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but this lady here doesn't want me to help
the disabled people on.
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[busriders groaning] Oh, come on!
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I... that did not...
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I didn't... I didn't say that.
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But, no, please. As you were.
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Thanks. Thanks a lot. Please.
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[under breath] Oh, shit.
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No!
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[rapping] Stupid-ass Scorpio
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Your stingy-ass ways mean we can't flow
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And you bullshit Libra
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Fucking deceiver
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Step off, Gigantor
No one believes you
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And Mr. Gemini
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You're too feminine
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Can't rock with a nigga's ass
Bigger than mine
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See me?
I'm focused
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My sweet mid-body lust
Is just for those who I trust
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Why?
Because I'm a cli-cli-cli-Taurus
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Come on, guys. Come on.
Clap it up for Elaine.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you for sharing that,
Elaine, really.
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Okay, um...
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Any more thought on what kind of play
we want to write?
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Rosa?
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I say we do some sci-fi shit.
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Like?
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Like this strange blue cloud comes down
from the sky raining on everybody, right?
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But then the next day,
every man caught in the rain,
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they wake up with no dick.
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[Radha] Hmm. So, like, um,
a sci-fi mystery kind of thing.
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-Yeah.
-Okay.
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No, no, no. We should do some
racial-type political shit,
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where a Black man
fucks this white girl and dies.
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And that's political because...
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'Cause a white vagina is a plot
to destroy a Black family.
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Shit, my mom would kill me
if I even touch one, you feel me?
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Consider yourself dead, bro.
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Mm, mm-mm-mm.
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Okay, guys, can we come up with ideas
that don't involve genitalia?
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You know, just in case somebody's
grandmother wants to come to the show.
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For what? My abuela loves balls.
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[laughing]
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Ha, ha, ha. Very funny. Okay, that's fine.
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Make jokes. Just remember, it's your play.
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It'll be whatever you put into it.
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If you put in nothing, it'll be nothing.
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Like your career?
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[students] Ooh.
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Ouch.
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Really, Elaine?
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I googled you.
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Last time you did anything was,
what, 2010?
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Oh, 2012, and they ain't producing her
'cause white people scared of the truth.
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Right, Miss B?
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Rosa, thank you, but it's not about me.
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Right, Brosa, so stop kissing her ass.
You ain't going down on her.
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Fuck you. I could dream.
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Damn, Elaine,
why you gotta be so negative?
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I'm saying...
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how's somebody who ain't had no real hit
gonna tell me how to write a fucking play?
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-She ain't no Tyler Perry.
-[students react]
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I actually appreciate that. Thank you.
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And that's why
she's teaching at the school,
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coming late every day
when nobody wants to be here.
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[students] Oh-ho-ho!
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I told you there were 20 invalids
on my bus today, okay?
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But you know what, Elaine?
This isn't Dangerous Minds.
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You can leave whenever you want.
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And, by the way, I actually have
a production coming up. Thank you.
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[students] Oh!
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I'm just saying.
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[Elaine] Um, workshop production.
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[scoffs]
It ain't even regional theater. Please.
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[students reacting] Oh-ho!
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Yo, Elaine, sit down.
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-What'd you say?
-Uh, Rosa, don't bother.
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I said sit your disrespectful ass down.
Now, puta.
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-What?
-Oh, shit!
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Oh! Ooh-hoo-hoo!
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[Radha] Okay, guys. Guys, shut up.
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Okay? Now, girls...
I mean, gender non-conformists.
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Make me sit down, dyke.
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[students] Ooh!
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Guys, can we just calm down
and make art please?
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'Cause you look like Bustin' Bieber
I'm supposed to be scared?
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-[student] Oh, no.
-[Elaine] I ain't scared.
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You still a bitch, bitch.
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[students reacting]
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Oh, shit!
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-Girls, no!
-[student] Shit, they fighting!
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Pop her titty out!
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[student 2] Yo, call security!
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Guys, come on!
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-Pull her fucking weave!
-[Radha] Stop it!
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[shouting indistinctly]
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-[student] Pull her fucking weave out!
-[screaming]
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[girls yelling indistinctly]
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Ya'll break it up!
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[students booing]
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Boo!
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[indistinct chatter]
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Fuck Time Out New York!
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You're five stars Black Shakespeare, ma!
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Like RadhaMUSprime, you'll rise again
to slay all these Decepticunts out here!
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-Oh, my God.
-You all right?
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-Yes.
-You good?
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Yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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[panting]
They don't pay me enough for this shit.
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[man on phone]
Hi! You've reached Archie Choi.
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-Do the thing! Ciao!
-Great.
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-[voicemail beeps]
-Where the fuck are you, Archie?
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I'm either gonna kill
or fuck one of these damn kids.
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Archie, where's my regional production?
Like, what do I gotta do?
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Write a... slave musical?
An all-white play?
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Like, who do I have to blow around here?
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Elaine.
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Oh, hey, Avery. What?
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Elaine probably would have chilled
if you just complimented her stupid poem.
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You're right.
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Oh, why you drinking that diet shit?
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I prefer my woman thick.
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[chuckles] Thanks. No, no. no.
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Avery, that's not appropriate.
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I'm-- I'm your teacher.
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I turn 20 in two weeks.
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I bet you do.
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All over.
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Help me. Please, help me.
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[man] When I got that call...
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I felt my balls shrivel up.
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When I got that call...
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I thought, "Damn, Darlene...
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that's fucked up."
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[whispering indistinctly]
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I need a minute.
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[actor] A minute?
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Come on, man.
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["Cristo Redentor" by Donald Byrd playing]
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[sniffs] Mmm!
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Is that patchouli?
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Smells great. Smells really good.
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Um...
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[coughs] Forrest, thank you
for meeting me so last minute.
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I, uh, wanted to talk to you about
my workshop production with you...
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YOUmoja Theater. Yeah.
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It's true, uh...
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Black theater spaces are often
under-resourced and underfunded,
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but it's...
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it's important that...
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that I work with my people.
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Still, my agent thinks
that, um, at this point in my career,
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you know, I've done the 30 Under 30...
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Yes, it was quite a couple years ago,
but I-- I did win that award.
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He feels that I should maybe
have a regional production of the play,
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instead of a workshop production.
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And, uh, for a fee that, I don't know,
is enough to pay my rent...
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would be nice.
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Maybe.
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Ooh. Okay.
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Okay.
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Oh, I should...
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[knees crack]
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[whispering] Oh, sorry.
My knees are a little out of shape there.
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[Radha exhales]
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[Forrest] The ancestors,
they're always with us,
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always watching, I trust them.
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They told me,
despite the numerous challenges,
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that I must preserve this theater.
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And now, they're reminding me
that what we create here
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-is imbued with a spirit of cause.
-Yes.
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Not commerce.
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The ancestors said that?
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They don't want my rent paid?
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[clears throat]
Can we try my ancestors this time?
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So, I have an Aunt Karen and I know she...
wants my rent paid.
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No? Okay, I'll just back off.
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[blowing air]
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[Archie] Guess who finally booked
two tickets to Greece?
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Antonio picked out our matching thongs.
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Anyway, meet me downtown
in, like, an hour.
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There's someone I want you to meet.
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Could be a game changer.
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00:13:23,583 --> 00:13:24,875
Oh, and be on time!
255
00:13:26,041 --> 00:13:27,625
Hey, you have the address, right?
256
00:13:27,708 --> 00:13:29,583
Okay, please dress it up a bit.
257
00:13:29,666 --> 00:13:30,666
See you in a few.
258
00:13:31,625 --> 00:13:33,541
[man] Oh, shit!
259
00:13:34,625 --> 00:13:37,958
Maybe you'll finally get a nigga
to go home with you tonight, huh?
260
00:13:38,916 --> 00:13:41,666
It's been a long time
since you had somebody up there.
261
00:13:41,750 --> 00:13:43,958
And by up there, I mean
262
00:13:44,041 --> 00:13:48,708
-up in there! [laughing]
-Yeah, got it. Thanks.
263
00:13:48,791 --> 00:13:50,791
[indistinct chatter]
264
00:13:53,416 --> 00:13:55,333
[woman] I've been sworn to secrecy.
265
00:13:55,416 --> 00:13:57,708
Come on, you can tell me.
266
00:13:58,166 --> 00:14:00,458
-Okay, but not a word.
-No.
267
00:14:01,458 --> 00:14:08,291
[quietly] Michael and I are invested
in a multi-racial revival of Fences!
268
00:14:08,375 --> 00:14:11,291
My God! August Wilson? Timeless.
269
00:14:11,375 --> 00:14:13,333
-I know and now integrated.
-[groans in pleasure]
270
00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,083
Oh, no, I don't want those at all.
271
00:14:16,166 --> 00:14:18,791
-Tempted?
-No! Mm-mm.
272
00:14:19,541 --> 00:14:22,458
I'm gonna lose 40 by 40.
I'm doing smoothies, boo.
273
00:14:22,541 --> 00:14:24,875
Oh, that's why your breath, uh...
274
00:14:25,583 --> 00:14:27,000
What? [exhaling]
275
00:14:27,291 --> 00:14:29,125
So there may be an opportunity.
276
00:14:30,958 --> 00:14:33,708
To drown in a sea of old white women?
277
00:14:33,791 --> 00:14:35,125
Beyond the ladies.
278
00:14:37,958 --> 00:14:39,750
-That's J. Whitman.
-I know.
279
00:14:40,875 --> 00:14:43,375
Why would I care about J. Whitman?
280
00:14:43,791 --> 00:14:46,166
In between drinks
and trying to grope my ass,
281
00:14:46,625 --> 00:14:49,208
he said they have
a last minute slot to fill.
282
00:14:49,291 --> 00:14:50,125
And?
283
00:14:50,208 --> 00:14:52,791
And it might be a chance
to get your play up.
284
00:14:53,208 --> 00:14:56,625
You know women of color playwrights
are very hot right now.
285
00:14:56,750 --> 00:14:58,041
[imitates sizzling sound]
286
00:14:58,166 --> 00:15:01,166
Or would you rather have the roof leaking
on your production at YOUmoja?
287
00:15:01,250 --> 00:15:05,500
J. Whitman only does Black poverty porn
plays of which mine are not.
288
00:15:05,583 --> 00:15:08,166
Great, so I stopped masturbating,
289
00:15:08,250 --> 00:15:11,208
got dressed, and resisted
those succulent ribs for nothing?
290
00:15:11,791 --> 00:15:13,625
Didn't someone almost stab you today?
291
00:15:13,708 --> 00:15:14,541
No!
292
00:15:15,458 --> 00:15:17,083
I was vigorously pushed.
293
00:15:17,166 --> 00:15:18,291
They're good kids, okay?
294
00:15:18,375 --> 00:15:20,708
[mocking]
"Archie, where's my regional production?"
295
00:15:20,791 --> 00:15:25,125
I'd rather do a workshop production
with Forrest and his stingy-ass ancestors
296
00:15:25,208 --> 00:15:27,958
than suck it up to J. Whitman. Ugh!
297
00:15:28,583 --> 00:15:31,916
Look, I let that man graze my ass,
so you're going to ingest a breath mint
298
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,041
and go see what that man has to say.
299
00:15:35,083 --> 00:15:36,500
-But why would I--
-[grunts]
300
00:15:37,416 --> 00:15:38,958
-I know you're not trying--
-Mmm!
301
00:15:47,708 --> 00:15:49,458
-[whispering] Fuck you.
-Ooh, better!
302
00:15:52,833 --> 00:15:54,750
[Whitman] I'm not afraid of controversy.
303
00:15:54,833 --> 00:15:58,708
Our all-female production
of 12 Angry Men, my idea,
304
00:15:58,791 --> 00:16:01,541
but a live cow on stage? [laughing]
305
00:16:01,625 --> 00:16:05,833
I'm sorry, but I draw the line
at fresh cow shit.
306
00:16:05,916 --> 00:16:06,958
[all laughing]
307
00:16:07,083 --> 00:16:09,041
Radha! Excuse me, ladies.
308
00:16:09,125 --> 00:16:11,916
-Radha! Hey!
-How are you?
309
00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,375
Just puckering up to the patrons,
as usual.
310
00:16:14,458 --> 00:16:16,000
-How are you?
-Good.
311
00:16:16,083 --> 00:16:18,375
Archie tells me you're teaching.
312
00:16:18,458 --> 00:16:20,625
I've been teaching for a while now.
313
00:16:20,708 --> 00:16:22,500
Well, theater misses you.
314
00:16:22,833 --> 00:16:24,208
-Does it?
-Mm-hmm.
315
00:16:24,291 --> 00:16:26,791
Is it looking for me?
Because I've been here.
316
00:16:27,166 --> 00:16:29,791
Now, Archie insisted I read your play.
317
00:16:29,875 --> 00:16:30,916
Awesome. Thank you.
318
00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,125
It's...
319
00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,625
Yes...?
320
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,708
Why don't you tell me about it
in your own words?
321
00:16:38,208 --> 00:16:39,083
Okay.
322
00:16:39,333 --> 00:16:40,333
Um...
323
00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:43,833
Harlem Ave is about a young Black man
324
00:16:43,916 --> 00:16:48,125
who inherits a grocery store
from his dead mom and pop,
325
00:16:48,208 --> 00:16:52,166
and how he struggles to keep
the business afloat
326
00:16:52,666 --> 00:16:54,458
with the help of his lovely wife...
327
00:16:55,250 --> 00:16:56,333
who's an activist.
328
00:16:58,625 --> 00:16:59,791
Hmm.
329
00:17:00,458 --> 00:17:01,291
That's it?
330
00:17:02,041 --> 00:17:04,250
No... no, no, no.
331
00:17:04,333 --> 00:17:07,166
It's about gentrification. Mmm.
332
00:17:07,250 --> 00:17:10,708
And how this young couple struggles to--
333
00:17:10,791 --> 00:17:13,416
-You didn't like it.
-The idea is powerful.
334
00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:14,500
But?
335
00:17:14,583 --> 00:17:17,291
It rang a little inauthentic.
336
00:17:18,416 --> 00:17:21,375
Okay. Well, thank you for that note.
I appreciate it.
337
00:17:21,458 --> 00:17:24,750
-[stammers] There's something there.
-Okay.
338
00:17:24,833 --> 00:17:26,958
I just wish you hadn't shied away
from darkness.
339
00:17:27,041 --> 00:17:29,541
I mean if you're going to
call it Harlem Ave,
340
00:17:29,625 --> 00:17:31,791
you gotta give me Harlem Ave.
341
00:17:31,875 --> 00:17:35,083
I should write in a teen mother
shooting up in an alley.
342
00:17:35,166 --> 00:17:36,291
No, no, no!
343
00:17:36,458 --> 00:17:37,541
[both laughing]
344
00:17:37,666 --> 00:17:39,750
No. No, you're missing my point.
345
00:17:39,833 --> 00:17:42,083
I'm talking about gentrification.
346
00:17:42,166 --> 00:17:46,583
A Black Harlem shifting under
a white hipster land grab,
347
00:17:46,666 --> 00:17:48,583
but your play never goes there.
348
00:17:48,666 --> 00:17:51,791
I ask myself,
"Did a Black person really write this?"
349
00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,500
-Now, look, sweetheart.
-Yes.
350
00:17:58,583 --> 00:18:02,041
There's definitely a voice
under all those words...
351
00:18:02,125 --> 00:18:05,291
-All those words.
-...but the writing needs work.
352
00:18:05,916 --> 00:18:07,791
-The good news is...
-Hmm?
353
00:18:08,583 --> 00:18:11,875
I still need a writer
for my Harriet Tubman musical.
354
00:18:17,041 --> 00:18:18,291
-Wow.
-[chuckles]
355
00:18:21,791 --> 00:18:22,916
Okay.
356
00:18:23,916 --> 00:18:25,666
[both chuckling]
357
00:18:25,791 --> 00:18:28,833
That's... that's great.
358
00:18:31,166 --> 00:18:32,125
That's great.
359
00:18:33,750 --> 00:18:35,041
[woman] Hey, J!
360
00:18:36,625 --> 00:18:38,791
-[Whitman groaning]
-[table clatters]
361
00:18:38,875 --> 00:18:40,000
Fuck.
362
00:18:40,375 --> 00:18:42,375
[sobbing]
363
00:18:49,541 --> 00:18:51,875
I just want to be an artist.
364
00:18:53,333 --> 00:18:54,833
Mommy, please.
365
00:18:56,625 --> 00:18:59,208
Mommy, please. Tell me what to do.
366
00:19:01,291 --> 00:19:04,083
["Pound da Poundcakes" playing]
367
00:19:06,416 --> 00:19:07,708
♪ Girl, don't flake ♪
368
00:19:07,791 --> 00:19:09,000
♪ Bitch, let's bake ♪
369
00:19:09,083 --> 00:19:11,125
♪ Bring dat ass here
Let me pound da poundcakes ♪
370
00:19:11,208 --> 00:19:12,833
♪ I said girl, don't flake ♪
371
00:19:12,916 --> 00:19:14,375
♪ Bitch, let's bake ♪
372
00:19:14,458 --> 00:19:16,125
[music fades]
373
00:19:20,208 --> 00:19:21,958
[rapping] Yo, where my period at?
374
00:19:22,625 --> 00:19:24,166
Oh, shit, there it go
375
00:19:24,541 --> 00:19:27,458
Right next to belly bloating
And this spotty flow
376
00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:29,791
Yo, where my damn house keys?
377
00:19:29,875 --> 00:19:31,500
Why my lower legs hurt?
378
00:19:31,583 --> 00:19:34,000
Sciatica, locked legs like Attica
379
00:19:34,083 --> 00:19:36,583
Word, yo, why my ass always horny?
380
00:19:36,666 --> 00:19:38,375
Why I always gotta pee?
381
00:19:38,458 --> 00:19:41,333
Why the young boy on the bus
Offer his seat to me?
382
00:19:41,416 --> 00:19:43,125
Why my skin so dry?
383
00:19:43,208 --> 00:19:44,833
Why am I yawning right now?
384
00:19:44,916 --> 00:19:48,041
Why them AARP niggas
Sending shit to my house?
385
00:19:48,375 --> 00:19:50,125
Why my ass so impatient?
386
00:19:50,208 --> 00:19:51,375
But I like them young bucks
387
00:19:51,458 --> 00:19:54,583
But ten o'clock roll around
And I'm too tired to fuck
388
00:19:55,208 --> 00:19:58,583
Why my knees be writing checks
That my back can't cash?
389
00:19:58,666 --> 00:20:01,791
Why I think I'm gonna fart
But my ass got other plans?
390
00:20:01,875 --> 00:20:05,208
Why most hip hop got me feeling
So much older, yo?
391
00:20:05,291 --> 00:20:08,041
When the fuck is this loud-ass song
Gon' be over?
392
00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:11,500
Yeah, I tried to dance hard
But my knees straight caught me
393
00:20:11,583 --> 00:20:14,333
Cause, yo, this is 40, niggas!
394
00:20:14,416 --> 00:20:15,791
This is 40!
395
00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,875
["Stakes Is High" by Unwrapped playing]
396
00:21:01,625 --> 00:21:03,000
Oh! Uh...
397
00:21:04,541 --> 00:21:05,375
Damn.
398
00:21:05,458 --> 00:21:08,458
Antonio, just pick out a villa
on the beach and I'll cover it, okay?
399
00:21:08,583 --> 00:21:10,250
I can't, I'm meeting Radha.
400
00:21:10,333 --> 00:21:14,250
She's still very fragile,
very Miss Sofia after jail, you know?
401
00:21:14,625 --> 00:21:16,000
She needs some cheering up.
402
00:21:16,125 --> 00:21:17,041
Hey.
403
00:21:17,166 --> 00:21:20,708
Oh, my Unabomber realness.
Okay, baby, I'll call you back. Bye.
404
00:21:21,125 --> 00:21:23,625
-Come here! Hey!
-Hey. Hey.
405
00:21:23,750 --> 00:21:25,083
How are you?
406
00:21:25,208 --> 00:21:28,291
I'm okay, I'm okay, but listen, I need
to talk to you about something.
407
00:21:28,375 --> 00:21:31,416
-Me, too. So, last night--
-Last night was crazy.
408
00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,708
-Something happened after--
-Don't worry about it.
409
00:21:33,791 --> 00:21:35,583
-I know, but something happened after--
-Listen!
410
00:21:35,666 --> 00:21:38,666
Radha, I think there's a way
to smooth things over with Whitman.
411
00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:39,750
If we can just--
412
00:21:39,833 --> 00:21:42,083
[rapping] Got off 145
Guess who pass?
413
00:21:42,166 --> 00:21:43,041
What?
414
00:21:43,125 --> 00:21:46,166
A skinny white dude
with the fattest ass
415
00:21:46,250 --> 00:21:48,375
Yo, he was standing with his Becky
416
00:21:48,458 --> 00:21:51,541
When her eyes met mine
She looked away like she was shamed, G
417
00:21:51,625 --> 00:21:53,833
They must have had a real love
418
00:21:53,916 --> 00:21:56,625
Or that bitch had a fetish
For some Black girl butt
419
00:21:56,708 --> 00:21:59,291
But a butt
But a butt painted white
420
00:21:59,375 --> 00:22:01,416
Connected to this pink ding-a-ling
421
00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:02,958
It made me sing
422
00:22:03,041 --> 00:22:06,833
White man with a Black woman's butt
423
00:22:07,583 --> 00:22:10,708
How you carry all that back there?
424
00:22:10,791 --> 00:22:12,916
What the fuck?
425
00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:15,833
Yes, what the fuck?
426
00:22:15,916 --> 00:22:19,083
-Look, just... just think about it.
-What? Think about what?
427
00:22:19,166 --> 00:22:20,708
What are you talking about?
428
00:22:20,958 --> 00:22:23,083
Think about me doing hip-hop.
429
00:22:23,666 --> 00:22:24,750
Doing what to it?
430
00:22:25,291 --> 00:22:26,583
I want to make a mixtape.
431
00:22:27,125 --> 00:22:28,541
About a white man's ass?
432
00:22:28,625 --> 00:22:31,625
No, about the 40-year-old woman's
point of view.
433
00:22:31,708 --> 00:22:33,916
Dry vag, soupy tits.
Am I missing something?
434
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,041
Archie, where did I spend
most of my time in high school?
435
00:22:37,125 --> 00:22:38,250
With your regrets.
436
00:22:38,791 --> 00:22:41,000
No, I was in the cafeteria,
437
00:22:41,625 --> 00:22:45,875
beating out beats on the table,
rhyming all day, all night.
438
00:22:45,958 --> 00:22:47,875
All of my composition books
filled with rhymes.
439
00:22:47,958 --> 00:22:50,083
You used to charge people to battle me
440
00:22:50,166 --> 00:22:52,041
because I was the best MC
in high school.
441
00:22:52,125 --> 00:22:54,625
Honey, we are not in high school.
We are almost 40.
442
00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:56,041
So?
443
00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:58,958
So-- So that means
I can't make great music?
444
00:22:59,125 --> 00:23:00,583
I can make real music,
445
00:23:00,666 --> 00:23:03,625
not the bullshit that my students
listen to, but real music.
446
00:23:03,708 --> 00:23:08,708
I found this Brownsville DJ-producer
on Instagram.
447
00:23:08,791 --> 00:23:09,833
Oh, my Jesus.
448
00:23:09,916 --> 00:23:12,375
His name is D. He doesn't take calls.
449
00:23:12,458 --> 00:23:16,000
I think you just show up with
a bag of weed or something, but anyway,
450
00:23:16,333 --> 00:23:17,500
his beats...
451
00:23:17,625 --> 00:23:19,208
[hip-hop beat playing on phone]
452
00:23:19,333 --> 00:23:22,333
-Come on, Archie!
-Okay, yeah. Radha. Radha.
453
00:23:22,958 --> 00:23:24,291
Last night we had a bad moment.
454
00:23:24,375 --> 00:23:26,416
See, this is about creating
something that is mine.
455
00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:28,125
And now we're having a little breakdown.
456
00:23:28,208 --> 00:23:31,583
Something that doesn't rely
on critics or gatekeepers.
457
00:23:31,666 --> 00:23:33,333
Or choking out a white man?
458
00:23:35,375 --> 00:23:37,958
Do you smell the burning carcass
of friendship?
459
00:23:38,041 --> 00:23:39,375
Yeah, I definitely smell it.
460
00:23:39,458 --> 00:23:41,458
Radha, look, I get it.
461
00:23:41,541 --> 00:23:43,375
Your-- Your mom's gone.
462
00:23:44,041 --> 00:23:46,125
You're a little sad, a little stuck.
463
00:23:46,208 --> 00:23:47,208
A lot of eating.
464
00:23:47,750 --> 00:23:50,666
You're in mourning,
but you're not done with theater.
465
00:23:51,291 --> 00:23:54,750
What, so there's a 40 under 40 list
that I don't know about?
466
00:23:57,458 --> 00:24:01,875
Okay, look, you make your little music,
if that's what you need to do.
467
00:24:01,958 --> 00:24:03,875
-Thank you. I appreciate it.
-In the meantime,
468
00:24:03,958 --> 00:24:07,791
I will smooth things over with Whitman,
and you can tighten up your script. Okay?
469
00:24:07,875 --> 00:24:09,041
-Oh, my God.
-Hello?
470
00:24:10,208 --> 00:24:12,083
-[Archie] Radha.
-[Radha] Oh, my God.
471
00:24:12,250 --> 00:24:13,083
[Archie] What?
472
00:24:13,958 --> 00:24:16,750
[rapping] Two big white butts in one day
473
00:24:17,041 --> 00:24:19,208
They call that an omen, ho-may
474
00:24:19,958 --> 00:24:21,958
Sorry to say, boo-bae
475
00:24:22,416 --> 00:24:24,791
I got rhymes to write today
[laughing]
476
00:24:24,875 --> 00:24:27,583
-Radha? Radha!
-[Radha] I'll call you later, Archie!
477
00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:29,166
-You wanna do what?
-[hip-hop beat playing]
478
00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:31,208
Hip hop. Hippity hop.
479
00:24:31,291 --> 00:24:33,583
[both] ♪ Girl, don't flake
Bitch, let's bake ♪
480
00:24:33,666 --> 00:24:35,250
[in Spanish] What's a mixtape?
481
00:24:35,333 --> 00:24:36,333
Really?
482
00:24:36,750 --> 00:24:42,166
We sisters finally got a Michelle Obama
out here and you want to go do this
483
00:24:42,250 --> 00:24:44,750
ri-damn-diculousness?
484
00:24:44,833 --> 00:24:46,958
♪ Bring dat ass here
Let me pound da poundcakes ♪
485
00:24:47,208 --> 00:24:48,041
Hear that?
486
00:24:48,375 --> 00:24:51,125
Harriet Tubman just shot herself
in the afterlife.
487
00:24:51,333 --> 00:24:53,166
Mmm! Mm-mm-mm.
488
00:24:53,250 --> 00:24:55,666
["Wrath of My Madness"
by Queen Latifah playing]
489
00:24:55,791 --> 00:24:59,208
[brother] Hey, I straightened up
over at Mom's...
490
00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:01,208
but there's a lot of stuff, yo.
491
00:25:01,416 --> 00:25:02,791
When you coming by?
492
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,958
A bunch of your shit is still over there.
493
00:25:06,916 --> 00:25:08,333
Aight, hit me.
494
00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:10,166
Later.
495
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,541
[door buzzes and clicks]
496
00:25:16,416 --> 00:25:19,541
[hip-hop beat blaring]
497
00:25:34,541 --> 00:25:35,916
[coughing]
498
00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:38,833
Is D here?
499
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,416
[man rapping]
500
00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:15,041
Hey, yo, mama, what you need?
501
00:26:15,125 --> 00:26:16,583
Um... [clears throat]
502
00:26:16,708 --> 00:26:18,500
Beats. Tracks.
503
00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:20,583
For what?
504
00:26:21,666 --> 00:26:22,541
For me.
505
00:26:23,708 --> 00:26:24,875
What, you rhyme?
506
00:26:25,916 --> 00:26:27,708
Yes, I do. [clears throat]
507
00:26:29,208 --> 00:26:33,291
Oh, and, uh, yes, I have currency.
508
00:26:33,375 --> 00:26:34,625
Oh, aight.
509
00:26:34,875 --> 00:26:36,708
No doubt. So what you call yourself?
510
00:26:36,791 --> 00:26:38,750
-Huh?
-So, what they call you?
511
00:26:38,833 --> 00:26:43,833
-What they call you?
-Radha... MUSprime.
512
00:26:45,458 --> 00:26:46,291
What?
513
00:26:46,375 --> 00:26:47,958
RadhaMUSprime.
514
00:26:48,375 --> 00:26:51,250
Oh, shit, like, uh, like Optimus.
-Yeah. Yeah.
515
00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:52,541
-[imitates robot]
-Yeah.
516
00:26:52,625 --> 00:26:54,083
Yeah. Yeah, aight.
517
00:26:54,166 --> 00:26:55,625
Yeah, that's me. Yeah.
518
00:26:56,708 --> 00:26:57,791
Hey, yo D.
519
00:26:59,208 --> 00:27:00,291
Yo D!
520
00:27:00,958 --> 00:27:02,125
Yo, this is RadhaMUSprime.
521
00:27:03,083 --> 00:27:04,375
She needs some beats, yo.
522
00:27:11,916 --> 00:27:13,000
[feet shuffling] Oh!
523
00:27:13,083 --> 00:27:14,833
-[man] Yo, what the fuck?
-Sorry.
524
00:27:14,916 --> 00:27:16,750
Gosh, your poor feet.
525
00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:34,916
[coughing]
526
00:27:37,083 --> 00:27:38,083
I'm good.
527
00:27:43,458 --> 00:27:45,458
[snoring]
528
00:27:52,125 --> 00:27:53,000
Oh, shit.
529
00:27:54,541 --> 00:27:55,958
Shit, what time is it?
530
00:27:56,291 --> 00:27:57,125
Two.
531
00:27:58,458 --> 00:27:59,291
A.M.?
532
00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:02,125
Where's D?
533
00:28:03,291 --> 00:28:04,125
Gone.
534
00:28:05,041 --> 00:28:05,875
Where?
535
00:28:06,125 --> 00:28:07,333
[man grunts]
536
00:28:18,083 --> 00:28:20,791
Stupid fucking door. Shit.
537
00:28:21,875 --> 00:28:23,791
I came all the way to Brooklyn
for this bullshit?
538
00:28:24,375 --> 00:28:25,208
Fuck.
539
00:28:28,083 --> 00:28:29,166
[man] Just say it.
540
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,916
Say what you have been meaning
to say to me from the moment that you
541
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,375
first laid eyes on me.
542
00:28:35,833 --> 00:28:37,208
[woman] Fine, fine.
543
00:28:39,166 --> 00:28:41,416
I love red meat.
544
00:28:43,666 --> 00:28:46,958
-Congrats, Josh, it's your next hit.
-I try.
545
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:48,791
You look great.
546
00:28:48,875 --> 00:28:50,916
Considering my neck
was in a vice last week.
547
00:28:51,250 --> 00:28:53,458
Again, I'm so sorry.
548
00:28:53,541 --> 00:28:55,125
Can I help you with something?
549
00:28:55,541 --> 00:28:57,916
I want to thank you
for not pressing charges.
550
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,583
Well, it wasn't that tight a grip.
551
00:29:00,666 --> 00:29:01,500
Pilates.
552
00:29:02,458 --> 00:29:03,958
I appreciate your loyalty.
553
00:29:04,041 --> 00:29:06,166
I don't quite understand
the attachment, though.
554
00:29:06,250 --> 00:29:07,958
["This Is How We Do It"
by Montell Jordan plays]
555
00:29:08,083 --> 00:29:10,958
-She has a real voice.
-She's good. She's not special.
556
00:29:11,541 --> 00:29:12,708
That's bullshit.
557
00:29:13,291 --> 00:29:15,666
-She just needs someone to--
-[chuckling] Stop.
558
00:29:15,916 --> 00:29:16,958
Seriously.
559
00:29:18,041 --> 00:29:20,583
Begging doesn't suit
your lovely cheekbones.
560
00:29:23,083 --> 00:29:25,166
You should be producing theater,
561
00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:28,291
not letting some washed-up writer
weigh you down.
562
00:29:29,916 --> 00:29:31,875
-But if you could just reconsider--
-Sorry.
563
00:29:33,750 --> 00:29:35,125
There's nothing else to say.
564
00:29:43,375 --> 00:29:45,583
Boom. So, right, the sperm.
565
00:29:45,666 --> 00:29:47,833
He gotta go through all these different
portals and shit,
566
00:29:47,916 --> 00:29:49,416
like parts of the vagina, the chocha...
567
00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:52,708
But at each portal,
he gotta fight mad assault ninjas,
568
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:55,750
like a crab ninja because, you know,
bitch had crabs once.
569
00:29:56,666 --> 00:29:58,916
-We should write in a tampon ninja.
-You're right.
570
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,458
Anyway, so, right, after all these trials,
571
00:30:01,541 --> 00:30:05,083
he finally gets to Vagzilla,
the Queen of the Vaginal Eggs.
572
00:30:05,166 --> 00:30:07,250
I prefer Eggliza though, brother.
573
00:30:07,333 --> 00:30:09,375
Same shit. Now, right?
574
00:30:10,333 --> 00:30:12,625
The queen, she all fine and shit,
575
00:30:12,708 --> 00:30:16,000
but Old Spermy, he gotta seduce
her and shit, so he could...
576
00:30:16,083 --> 00:30:17,833
[both] Come to Be.
577
00:30:18,708 --> 00:30:21,583
[chuckling] You get it? That's the title.
578
00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:23,916
What you... what you thinking?
579
00:30:26,458 --> 00:30:27,583
Sure, why not?
580
00:30:27,666 --> 00:30:28,500
What?
581
00:30:28,583 --> 00:30:30,583
-[students reacting]
-[school bell droning]
582
00:30:30,666 --> 00:30:32,416
-I already told you.
-Um...
583
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:34,291
guys, let's pick up next week.
584
00:30:34,375 --> 00:30:37,166
You tight. You tight. You tight.
You dead tight.
585
00:30:37,250 --> 00:30:38,958
-[laughing]
-Keep it up.
586
00:30:39,625 --> 00:30:41,250
Yeah. I see you, Avery.
587
00:30:41,541 --> 00:30:43,541
Uh, Rosa, Elaine?
588
00:30:44,208 --> 00:30:45,208
What up, Miss B?
589
00:30:45,583 --> 00:30:47,833
Uh, don't "Miss B" me, okay?
590
00:30:47,958 --> 00:30:49,166
[door closes]
591
00:30:49,250 --> 00:30:51,958
Now, the dean said I could kick
the both of you out of the class
592
00:30:52,041 --> 00:30:53,208
after what happened last week.
593
00:30:53,291 --> 00:30:55,000
-No!
-[sarcastic] So terrible.
594
00:30:55,083 --> 00:30:56,791
But I won't. Why?
595
00:30:56,875 --> 00:30:59,083
Because even though
we'd all rather be someplace
596
00:30:59,166 --> 00:31:00,916
other than this terribly lit room...
597
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,541
-Not me.
-...we committed to telling a story,
598
00:31:03,625 --> 00:31:06,750
and not some version
of poverty porn, either, okay?
599
00:31:06,833 --> 00:31:09,666
So, don't think if you don't
get what you want, Elaine,
600
00:31:09,750 --> 00:31:11,250
that the world should stop for you.
601
00:31:11,333 --> 00:31:12,791
Mmm, I like this, Miss B.
602
00:31:12,875 --> 00:31:15,583
Or that if someone says
something you don't like, Rosa,
603
00:31:15,666 --> 00:31:17,083
you get to choke them the fuck out.
604
00:31:17,166 --> 00:31:18,791
You're right, my bad.
605
00:31:19,791 --> 00:31:23,541
Now, Elaine,
your poem was great. Okay?
606
00:31:24,541 --> 00:31:25,375
Yeah?
607
00:31:25,791 --> 00:31:26,666
Yes!
608
00:31:27,625 --> 00:31:28,458
But...
609
00:31:28,958 --> 00:31:31,000
don't think because you created something
610
00:31:31,083 --> 00:31:33,666
that people would appreciate it, okay?
611
00:31:33,750 --> 00:31:36,000
Or you'll end up some washed-up,
612
00:31:36,083 --> 00:31:39,208
forty-year-old playwright with some
stupid notion to become a rapper
613
00:31:39,291 --> 00:31:43,833
and the shits from drinking a diet drink
that doesn't quite meet the FDA standards.
614
00:31:43,916 --> 00:31:45,916
Now, do you want that for yourselves?
615
00:31:46,083 --> 00:31:47,791
I said, "Is that what you want?"
616
00:31:47,875 --> 00:31:48,833
-No.
-No.
617
00:31:49,958 --> 00:31:50,791
Fine.
618
00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:52,041
A rapper, Miss B?
619
00:31:52,916 --> 00:31:54,166
I'll see you next week.
620
00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:00,625
Wow, she's like Queen Latifah
and Judge Judy, but rolled into one, yo.
621
00:32:03,750 --> 00:32:06,333
[students chattering]
622
00:32:08,750 --> 00:32:10,333
-What the fuck?
-Yo, Miss B.
623
00:32:11,625 --> 00:32:13,083
Hey, Avery.
624
00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:16,333
-[phone ringing]
-Oh, shoot, sorry. I gotta take this.
625
00:32:16,750 --> 00:32:18,375
-Have a good one.
-[Avery] You, too.
626
00:32:18,458 --> 00:32:20,250
Oh, sweet Jesus.
627
00:32:20,333 --> 00:32:22,333
Yes, I am your salvation.
628
00:32:22,875 --> 00:32:23,875
[Radha] What's up?
629
00:32:24,416 --> 00:32:26,916
So, I just saw Whitman.
His new play is trash.
630
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Anyway, your name came up.
631
00:32:29,083 --> 00:32:29,916
[Radha] So?
632
00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:31,958
So, I told him straight up, like,
633
00:32:32,041 --> 00:32:34,333
-[phone buzzing]
-"What's up with my girl, you know?"
634
00:32:34,541 --> 00:32:36,250
-And he said--
-Wait, hold up, Archie.
635
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,333
Uh, hello? Radha?
636
00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:40,250
Hello?
637
00:32:41,041 --> 00:32:42,583
This motherfucker.
638
00:32:43,291 --> 00:32:44,166
Excuse me?
639
00:32:44,458 --> 00:32:45,750
Mmm!
640
00:32:46,208 --> 00:32:48,333
-Hey, Archie, let me call you back.
-No, wait!
641
00:32:48,916 --> 00:32:49,875
Fuck!
642
00:32:51,166 --> 00:32:53,166
No, not you. I'd never fuck you.
643
00:32:54,541 --> 00:32:56,291
[hip-hop music playing]
644
00:32:56,375 --> 00:32:57,458
[brother on phone] Hey.
645
00:32:57,541 --> 00:32:59,875
The storage people are ready
to pick up stuff,
646
00:33:00,541 --> 00:33:05,250
but I waited... because maybe you want
to look through her stuff first?
647
00:33:06,166 --> 00:33:09,083
Come on! What's the fucking deal?
648
00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:19,541
Hey.
649
00:33:20,708 --> 00:33:23,541
Look, um... I don't know you...
650
00:33:24,291 --> 00:33:28,041
and you damn sure don't know me
to pull some ghosting shit like you did,
651
00:33:28,250 --> 00:33:30,666
but, um, nigga, I'm from Brooklyn, too.
652
00:33:30,750 --> 00:33:35,625
Okay?
I grew up on Mother Gaston in the '90s.
653
00:33:35,708 --> 00:33:39,625
By aroma alone, I can tell the difference
between three grades of crack,
654
00:33:39,708 --> 00:33:42,708
so don't go treating me
like I'm some white, newbie hipster
655
00:33:42,791 --> 00:33:46,666
exploring the Black terrain
when I'm fucking from here, okay?
656
00:33:58,416 --> 00:34:00,250
This motherfucker.
657
00:34:02,333 --> 00:34:05,166
[hip-hop beat blaring]
658
00:34:06,208 --> 00:34:07,375
[door closes]
659
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,125
If you didn't want to work with me,
you should have just said something.
660
00:34:24,416 --> 00:34:26,208
You know what's really fucked up?
661
00:34:26,791 --> 00:34:29,125
All you so-called "brothers"
letting a sister
662
00:34:29,208 --> 00:34:33,166
walk to a Brownsville train station
by herself at 2:00 a.m. in the morning.
663
00:34:34,708 --> 00:34:36,125
Does that even sound right?
664
00:34:38,541 --> 00:34:39,458
[music stops]
665
00:34:39,541 --> 00:34:41,041
No, it don't.
666
00:34:42,083 --> 00:34:42,916
Okay.
667
00:34:44,083 --> 00:34:45,375
It was, like, 2:10.
668
00:34:46,375 --> 00:34:48,583
You went to the corner bodega
and got some Funyuns.
669
00:34:48,666 --> 00:34:51,541
You went down to the station.
Your train came in, like, ten minutes.
670
00:34:54,291 --> 00:34:56,291
[music starts again]
671
00:34:59,166 --> 00:35:00,125
I knew that.
672
00:35:02,083 --> 00:35:03,125
Going in or what?
673
00:35:04,625 --> 00:35:05,541
What, now?
674
00:35:06,416 --> 00:35:07,750
Did you want another beat?
675
00:35:09,583 --> 00:35:10,416
Maybe.
676
00:35:11,125 --> 00:35:13,666
[new hip-hop track playing]
677
00:35:17,458 --> 00:35:20,083
[track changes]
678
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
[track changes again]
679
00:35:34,625 --> 00:35:36,625
[track changes]
680
00:35:37,916 --> 00:35:39,750
No, wait. The last one.
681
00:35:40,750 --> 00:35:42,500
[switches to prior track]
682
00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:45,958
-[phone ringing]
-Oh, shit.
683
00:35:47,875 --> 00:35:49,958
[groans] Archie. Jesus.
684
00:35:50,041 --> 00:35:50,875
Um... [scoffs]
685
00:35:50,958 --> 00:35:52,041
I'm so sorry.
686
00:35:53,625 --> 00:35:56,750
[sighs] He's just... it's my agent.
687
00:35:56,833 --> 00:35:58,291
Um... [clears throat]
688
00:35:58,833 --> 00:36:02,416
I've been working on this...
social commentary
689
00:36:03,291 --> 00:36:09,875
about, um, the white gaze's eroticism
of Black pain, and, um...
690
00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:15,875
Don't you want to know
what I'm rhyming about?
691
00:36:17,083 --> 00:36:18,583
I just make the beats, lady.
692
00:36:20,583 --> 00:36:21,416
[Radha] Okay.
693
00:36:30,541 --> 00:36:32,916
[music switches to headphones]
694
00:36:38,458 --> 00:36:39,541
[whispering] Sorry.
695
00:36:39,708 --> 00:36:41,125
[D sighs]
696
00:36:46,583 --> 00:36:49,625
Aight, so, you gonna come in...
697
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,208
You gonna come in on the eight.
698
00:36:53,291 --> 00:36:55,083
[rapping against music]
♪ Yo, here's a little story ♪
699
00:36:55,166 --> 00:36:56,208
♪ About a girl who's Black ♪
700
00:36:56,291 --> 00:36:57,625
♪ With herpes, diabetes ♪
701
00:36:57,708 --> 00:36:59,958
♪ Chick's notoriously fat
Let's add some asthma attacks ♪
702
00:37:00,041 --> 00:37:02,000
♪ From all the courtyard crack use ♪
703
00:37:02,083 --> 00:37:04,666
♪ True, current use is low
But I want my shit produced ♪
704
00:37:04,750 --> 00:37:07,125
♪ So, no happy Blacks
In the plot lines, please ♪
705
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:10,125
♪ But a crane shot of Big Mama
Crying on her knees ♪
706
00:37:10,208 --> 00:37:13,000
♪ For her dead son, the B-Ball star
Who almost made it out ♪
707
00:37:13,083 --> 00:37:15,583
♪ Sounds fucked up enough
To gain my film some capital ♪
708
00:37:15,666 --> 00:37:18,208
♪ So I'mma pitch some fucked up shit
Made just for the screen ♪
709
00:37:18,291 --> 00:37:20,958
♪ The most pathos-drenched story
That's ever been seen ♪
710
00:37:21,041 --> 00:37:23,666
♪ Sure, Blacks be having
Huxtable achievements ♪
711
00:37:23,750 --> 00:37:26,500
♪ But these white producers
Just don't be believing shit ♪
712
00:37:26,583 --> 00:37:31,083
♪ Yeah, it's poverty porn
I'll write some poverty porn ♪
713
00:37:31,166 --> 00:37:37,166
♪ Yo, if I wanna get on
Better write me some poverty porn, yo ♪
714
00:37:37,250 --> 00:37:40,125
♪ Yo, you like that shit?
Yeah, I could add some more ♪
715
00:37:40,208 --> 00:37:42,958
♪ A bunch of toddlers getting shot
In front of liquor stores ♪
716
00:37:43,041 --> 00:37:46,083
♪ Damn, why was them kids
outside anyway? ♪
717
00:37:46,166 --> 00:37:49,041
♪ They moms was sucking dicks
In dimly lit hallways of ♪
718
00:37:49,125 --> 00:37:51,500
♪ Dark, fucked up, seedy-ass tenements ♪
719
00:37:51,583 --> 00:37:54,708
♪ The roof is where gangs rape
Old ladies just for sentiment, yeah ♪
720
00:37:54,791 --> 00:37:56,708
♪ Now, this shit is getting
Real ghetto prolific ♪
721
00:37:56,791 --> 00:37:59,625
♪ Ain't no hipsters gentrifying
Gotta keep this shit authentic ♪
722
00:37:59,708 --> 00:38:02,000
♪ So, no soy milk in the bodega yet ♪
723
00:38:02,083 --> 00:38:04,625
♪ Just shells and 40s and blunts
In the gutter wet ♪
724
00:38:04,708 --> 00:38:07,750
♪Now, does this make you wanna throw up
Your hands and holler? ♪
725
00:38:07,833 --> 00:38:10,541
♪ How 'bout I add a three-year-old
crackhead sucking dick for a dollar? ♪
726
00:38:10,625 --> 00:38:14,833
♪ Yo, it's poverty porn
You regular Blacks are just such a yawn ♪
727
00:38:15,333 --> 00:38:20,666
♪ Yo, if I wanna get on
Better write me some poverty porn ♪
728
00:38:20,750 --> 00:38:21,583
♪ Yeah! ♪
729
00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:25,666
How was that last one?
730
00:38:27,041 --> 00:38:27,958
Good.
731
00:38:28,041 --> 00:38:28,916
[clicking mouse]
732
00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:31,916
It felt good.
733
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,500
If my kids could see me now.
734
00:38:39,291 --> 00:38:40,666
Not my kids, I don't...
735
00:38:41,458 --> 00:38:42,416
I don't have kids.
736
00:38:43,166 --> 00:38:45,500
[clears throat] I mean my students.
737
00:38:47,333 --> 00:38:48,500
I'm a teacher.
738
00:38:48,583 --> 00:38:50,000
I teach playwriting.
739
00:38:51,916 --> 00:38:55,000
I'm a playwright, but I don't really feel
like one these days.
740
00:38:56,291 --> 00:38:59,166
Anyway, my students would get
a real kick out of this.
741
00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:02,791
Not that you're listening
to anything I'm saying.
742
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:08,500
[Radha] Ah.
743
00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:15,916
Coltrane, huh?
744
00:39:17,541 --> 00:39:19,875
What, I'm from Brownsville,
so I don't know?
745
00:39:20,833 --> 00:39:22,875
No, I'm just saying, Coltrane.
746
00:39:24,458 --> 00:39:26,041
Yeah, my moms put me on.
747
00:39:28,583 --> 00:39:30,166
Your mom has good taste.
748
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,458
So, what does she think of your music?
749
00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:40,458
I don't know. She died.
750
00:39:52,958 --> 00:39:54,250
I'm sorry to hear that.
751
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,541
You know what? Um...
752
00:40:02,791 --> 00:40:03,791
I'm gonna go.
753
00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:08,833
The session was great.
I just should probably get on my way.
754
00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:14,125
Um, but before I forget.
755
00:40:16,583 --> 00:40:18,333
[chuckles] Nah.
756
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:20,583
Don't I owe you for the session?
757
00:40:20,666 --> 00:40:22,583
No, we good from last time. It's cool.
758
00:40:23,333 --> 00:40:24,291
Okay.
759
00:40:25,541 --> 00:40:26,958
More for me. [chuckles]
760
00:40:28,083 --> 00:40:29,583
Okay.
761
00:40:29,916 --> 00:40:32,000
Um, oh, you need me to...
762
00:40:32,083 --> 00:40:36,333
walk you or follow you to the train again?
763
00:40:36,625 --> 00:40:41,750
Uh, no, but, um... I want to come back.
764
00:40:43,708 --> 00:40:45,708
I want to make a mixtape.
765
00:40:48,333 --> 00:40:49,666
-Man.
-What?
766
00:40:50,791 --> 00:40:52,500
Nothing. I mean...
767
00:40:53,041 --> 00:40:55,458
you could. It'd be nice.
768
00:40:56,708 --> 00:40:57,833
What did you just say?
769
00:40:58,750 --> 00:41:00,750
Come on, you heard what I said.
770
00:41:02,416 --> 00:41:05,083
You don't think I'm some crazy old broad
for doing this?
771
00:41:05,791 --> 00:41:07,666
I mean, I ain't say all that...
772
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:10,500
but what you're doing...
773
00:41:11,916 --> 00:41:12,916
it's interesting.
774
00:41:15,250 --> 00:41:16,083
Thanks, D.
775
00:41:18,541 --> 00:41:20,125
I'm gonna go. [chuckles]
776
00:41:20,416 --> 00:41:21,750
Yeah, thanks.
777
00:41:25,333 --> 00:41:26,291
[D] Yo.
778
00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:29,625
What you doing on Thursday?
779
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,791
[rapping] Poverty porn
I'll write some poverty porn
780
00:41:36,666 --> 00:41:38,041
Yeah, bitch.
781
00:41:38,125 --> 00:41:39,833
-[Radha] Archie--
-Don't "Archie" me.
782
00:41:39,916 --> 00:41:41,625
I was just about to call you.
783
00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:44,000
You got me waiting
in your not-gentrified-enough-for-me
784
00:41:44,083 --> 00:41:46,625
part of Harlem getting harassed
by Homeless Harry over there.
785
00:41:46,708 --> 00:41:48,333
It's Lamont...
786
00:41:48,416 --> 00:41:49,250
but okay.
787
00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:51,250
-Look, I want--
-No, you look.
788
00:41:51,333 --> 00:41:55,041
You're blowing me off when I'm trying to
tell your tired, unproduced ass
789
00:41:55,125 --> 00:41:56,375
some good news.
790
00:41:56,458 --> 00:41:57,333
What?
791
00:41:58,125 --> 00:42:00,625
Harlem fucking Ave.
792
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:02,958
Whitman wants to produce it.
793
00:42:03,375 --> 00:42:04,291
What?
794
00:42:04,375 --> 00:42:07,208
He said he's over the thing
and wants to do your play,
795
00:42:07,291 --> 00:42:10,875
pending we make some changes around length
and tone and did I say length?
796
00:42:11,291 --> 00:42:13,333
Doesn't matter. He's all in.
797
00:42:13,583 --> 00:42:14,708
Mmm...
798
00:42:15,208 --> 00:42:16,416
-What?
-I don't know.
799
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:18,791
Does that... does this even feel right?
800
00:42:18,875 --> 00:42:21,041
Does an after-dinner fart feel right?
Hell's yes.
801
00:42:21,125 --> 00:42:22,583
No, I mean...
802
00:42:23,333 --> 00:42:27,458
do I want to compromise my play
for some arrogant asshole?
803
00:42:28,166 --> 00:42:30,500
-You choked that asshole.
-Shh.
804
00:42:30,583 --> 00:42:32,750
That asshole didn't press charges.
805
00:42:32,833 --> 00:42:36,166
That asshole still wants to work with you.
806
00:42:37,166 --> 00:42:40,000
This is the major production you wanted.
807
00:42:40,333 --> 00:42:43,291
Yeah, but do I want it this way?
808
00:42:44,208 --> 00:42:45,291
[scoffs]
809
00:42:46,041 --> 00:42:47,166
[Radha] What?
810
00:42:47,250 --> 00:42:50,958
You know, the whole "us against the world"
thing was cute in high school,
811
00:42:51,416 --> 00:42:55,291
but I like opportunity,
and eating out, and silken robes.
812
00:42:56,666 --> 00:42:59,333
Just know, to stay an underdog,
you have to lose shit.
813
00:42:59,875 --> 00:43:01,750
Archie, we can find another producer.
814
00:43:01,833 --> 00:43:03,000
I'm talking about me.
815
00:43:04,375 --> 00:43:05,333
What?
816
00:43:06,833 --> 00:43:09,541
[chuckling]
Archie, you don't even mean that.
817
00:43:09,625 --> 00:43:13,916
I've known you since I was skinny
and you pretended to like girls.
818
00:43:14,708 --> 00:43:17,833
Look, I'm doing this show on Thursday.
819
00:43:18,250 --> 00:43:19,500
Show? With who?
820
00:43:20,041 --> 00:43:21,458
D from Brownsville.
821
00:43:21,958 --> 00:43:23,666
He's doing this artist showcase
822
00:43:24,125 --> 00:43:27,291
-and he invited RadhaMUSprime to perform.
-Who-da-mus?
823
00:43:28,958 --> 00:43:30,791
Seriously, it would mean a lot
if you came.
824
00:43:34,375 --> 00:43:35,208
Archie.
825
00:43:36,458 --> 00:43:39,500
[Lamont] Give a bitch a chance, man.
826
00:43:39,583 --> 00:43:42,125
Her desperation is making me nauseous,
827
00:43:42,208 --> 00:43:46,750
although technically, you gotta eat
something to throw up, know what I mean?
828
00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:51,166
Whitman had some notes.
Will you look them over?
829
00:43:52,041 --> 00:43:53,875
I will seriously consider it.
830
00:43:56,458 --> 00:43:57,458
See you on Thursday?
831
00:43:57,541 --> 00:43:59,458
Whatever, bitch. Look at the notes.
832
00:43:59,541 --> 00:44:00,708
You 40 yet?
833
00:44:00,791 --> 00:44:02,000
[Radha] Not yet, ma'am.
834
00:44:02,083 --> 00:44:03,791
Still trying that rapping shit?
835
00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:05,333
Yes, I am, ma'am.
836
00:44:05,416 --> 00:44:07,291
You know, you're not going to be satisfied
837
00:44:07,375 --> 00:44:10,541
until you sleeping in a box
like that fool over there.
838
00:44:10,958 --> 00:44:12,125
[Lamont] Hey, mama.
839
00:44:12,208 --> 00:44:14,708
[woman] Shut up with that mama mess.
840
00:44:14,791 --> 00:44:16,583
I'll beat some homeless ass.
841
00:44:18,208 --> 00:44:20,875
[school bell droning]
842
00:44:20,958 --> 00:44:23,250
[students chattering in distance]
843
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,500
Why are you guys still here?
844
00:44:30,458 --> 00:44:31,333
Hello?
845
00:44:31,916 --> 00:44:35,791
My ex-girl's older half cousin
says you rhyming in a show.
846
00:44:36,708 --> 00:44:37,750
It's true, Miss B?
847
00:44:40,208 --> 00:44:41,958
Don't you guys have someplace to be?
848
00:44:42,041 --> 00:44:44,375
-Damn, it's like that?
-For real?
849
00:44:44,708 --> 00:44:46,458
You just gonna shut the youth
out of a moment
850
00:44:46,541 --> 00:44:48,208
that could potentially
change how we dream,
851
00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:50,791
how we look at the cold world out there,
how we confront--
852
00:44:50,875 --> 00:44:53,083
Yes, damn it. Okay.
853
00:44:53,166 --> 00:44:55,000
Shit. That's what's up, Miss B.
854
00:44:55,125 --> 00:44:56,208
[Radha sighs]
855
00:44:56,333 --> 00:44:59,500
-Yo, we can come through, right?
-Mmm. I don't know, guys.
856
00:44:59,583 --> 00:45:01,208
Come on, Miss B.
857
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,000
You know we live
for this kind of shit.
858
00:45:04,083 --> 00:45:07,125
And you not just talking about shit.
You making shit. Shit!
859
00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:11,541
Okay, but just you two.
860
00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:14,625
-[both] Ooh-hoo-hoo!
-Okay, you cannot tell another soul.
861
00:45:14,708 --> 00:45:15,583
Bet!
862
00:45:15,791 --> 00:45:19,041
We got you Miss B.
Mum's the fucking word.
863
00:45:20,083 --> 00:45:21,791
[student] We all on that damn list.
864
00:45:21,875 --> 00:45:24,208
Ain't no minors here. We're majors, son.
865
00:45:24,291 --> 00:45:27,541
-Why you trying to play us?
-What you want, some money, some weed?
866
00:45:27,625 --> 00:45:30,000
Shut up, stupid and stupider.
867
00:45:30,458 --> 00:45:31,375
I got this.
868
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,958
Now, you know the charge
for looking at a minor's titties?
869
00:45:38,750 --> 00:45:39,583
Yeah.
870
00:45:39,666 --> 00:45:42,166
You know the charge.
That's what I'm talking about.
871
00:45:42,333 --> 00:45:43,333
This is my friend.
872
00:45:45,208 --> 00:45:46,333
[Radha exhales]
873
00:45:46,458 --> 00:45:47,708
[D] That's your moms?
874
00:45:48,666 --> 00:45:50,166
-Yeah.
-She coming?
875
00:45:51,750 --> 00:45:53,666
In spirit, I guess.
876
00:45:57,333 --> 00:45:58,458
Oh, shit.
877
00:45:59,333 --> 00:46:00,833
Yo, why you ain't say nothing?
878
00:46:02,750 --> 00:46:06,291
Don't you get tired of adding people
to the dead-mom club in your head?
879
00:46:08,708 --> 00:46:09,875
[Radha sighs]
880
00:46:11,291 --> 00:46:13,833
[chuckles] That's what we doing now?
881
00:46:14,291 --> 00:46:16,875
Yeah, that's what we doing now. Shit.
882
00:46:17,291 --> 00:46:18,708
"That's what we doing now,"
883
00:46:18,791 --> 00:46:21,666
says the person with the metabolism
of a baby goat.
884
00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:23,500
You'll see.
885
00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:26,458
It gets much harder to lose weight
when you get older.
886
00:46:28,666 --> 00:46:30,666
Well, there ain't nothing wrong with you.
887
00:46:31,291 --> 00:46:33,166
Mm. No, just my nerves.
888
00:46:34,166 --> 00:46:35,750
Yo, it is one song.
889
00:46:35,833 --> 00:46:37,291
I know, but I just--
890
00:46:37,375 --> 00:46:39,833
-Now, come on. Let's go.
-What?
891
00:46:39,916 --> 00:46:40,833
Where we going?
892
00:46:41,833 --> 00:46:42,958
Where we going?
893
00:46:43,041 --> 00:46:46,458
[man rapping] Like, I eat Vietnamese food
I ain't going for the top spot
894
00:46:46,541 --> 00:46:47,666
[Radha] No.
895
00:46:47,833 --> 00:46:50,250
Come on. It's gonna chill you out.
896
00:46:50,708 --> 00:46:51,541
Trust me.
897
00:46:52,333 --> 00:46:55,166
[man] I write liquor flows
And draft beers the fans hearing
898
00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:57,250
If you have ears, come give Mick a lobe
899
00:46:57,916 --> 00:46:59,958
Ambidextrous, tag team drawn
900
00:47:00,041 --> 00:47:02,666
Both hands on the bars
Like a trapeze artist
901
00:47:02,791 --> 00:47:05,416
-[man 2] Ooh!
-Inverted triangle on the overcoat
902
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:07,666
I feel like Forrest Gump
When he lost polio
903
00:47:08,125 --> 00:47:10,458
That was too straightforward
Let me space out
904
00:47:10,583 --> 00:47:13,041
I'm glad that I had the gumption
To break out
905
00:47:13,125 --> 00:47:15,125
If y'all ain't catch that bars
Time to OD
906
00:47:15,208 --> 00:47:18,208
Brace yourself
Gumption is what broke free
907
00:47:18,291 --> 00:47:19,250
[all react]
908
00:47:19,333 --> 00:47:20,333
Okay.
909
00:47:20,416 --> 00:47:23,291
[rapping] Another brother died
All they did was make a shirt of it
910
00:47:23,375 --> 00:47:24,875
I was there in body and spirit
911
00:47:24,958 --> 00:47:27,708
These is my lyrics
Niggas hang on every word of it
912
00:47:28,375 --> 00:47:30,750
I'mma trim the fat like a Foreman Grill
913
00:47:30,833 --> 00:47:32,833
I give you the word like a foreign film
914
00:47:32,916 --> 00:47:35,333
Politicians been a problem
Since the birth of it
915
00:47:35,416 --> 00:47:37,750
I don't fit into your vision
Every different stance
916
00:47:37,833 --> 00:47:40,208
Vincent van Gogh
Because the left never heard of it
917
00:47:40,291 --> 00:47:41,291
[man] Woo!
918
00:47:41,375 --> 00:47:43,333
Niggas act like I actually like
That conscious shit
919
00:47:43,416 --> 00:47:45,916
Nah, my spirit been there
All my albums is posthumous
920
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,166
I see motherfuckers pay a grip
For an Oculus Rift
921
00:47:48,250 --> 00:47:50,500
And still can't see it through
My fucking eyes and shit
922
00:47:50,583 --> 00:47:53,500
I didn't beat the odds and shit
Niggas where I'm from don't see the prize
923
00:47:53,583 --> 00:47:56,458
All our moms believe in God
And all they sons is demonized
924
00:47:56,541 --> 00:47:59,583
I thought going to school was selfish
Because of how expensive college is
925
00:47:59,666 --> 00:48:02,250
Now, I do a college and get paid
A fucking scholarship
926
00:48:02,333 --> 00:48:03,416
Woo!
927
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:05,000
Crazy, bro. Crazy.
928
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,791
Um... [clears throat]
929
00:48:08,041 --> 00:48:08,916
[man] Oh, okay.
930
00:48:10,333 --> 00:48:12,500
[rapping] Yo, this be a moment, B
931
00:48:12,583 --> 00:48:14,291
Down in all these groceries
932
00:48:14,375 --> 00:48:18,083
Niggas act like they don't notice me
But they ashen, get some lotion, B
933
00:48:18,166 --> 00:48:21,041
-[all laughing]
-RadhaMUS is the chosen, see
934
00:48:21,125 --> 00:48:22,833
At the top of the totem tree
935
00:48:23,208 --> 00:48:25,625
While these niggas hang low
Like them scrotums be
936
00:48:26,083 --> 00:48:28,541
You're not pee
So you're just loaders, free
937
00:48:28,625 --> 00:48:30,833
You're both crooked and straight bogus, B
938
00:48:30,916 --> 00:48:32,583
Your own momma is toasting me
939
00:48:32,666 --> 00:48:34,458
She second that emotion, B
940
00:48:34,541 --> 00:48:36,583
Yo, get some power and stop ghosting me
941
00:48:36,666 --> 00:48:37,916
-[all react]
-[man] Okay!
942
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,083
Shiny bevels, swarmy levels
Where your devotion be?
943
00:48:41,750 --> 00:48:44,416
Yo, yo, it's almost time to go
944
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:47,000
I hope I do D proud enough
To give a bitch some more
945
00:48:47,083 --> 00:48:50,458
Because I'm hooked, shook
Gotta pain for them beats, hits
946
00:48:50,541 --> 00:48:52,208
Like a diabetic for sweet shit
947
00:48:52,708 --> 00:48:55,791
If beat's the mother of invention
Then I'm sucking on her sweet tit
948
00:48:55,875 --> 00:48:56,750
Damn!
949
00:48:56,833 --> 00:48:58,125
That's crazy! That's good.
950
00:48:58,208 --> 00:49:00,958
Yo, look. It's a packed show up there.
951
00:49:01,041 --> 00:49:02,000
I'mma see y'all, aight?
952
00:49:02,083 --> 00:49:03,416
Aight, yeah, I'mma go up with you.
953
00:49:06,666 --> 00:49:08,166
Sucking on her sweet tit?
954
00:49:08,250 --> 00:49:09,250
You fuck with girls?
955
00:49:12,333 --> 00:49:14,333
[crowd cheering]
956
00:49:15,625 --> 00:49:17,458
[woman] All right!
957
00:49:17,833 --> 00:49:19,125
All right.
958
00:49:19,208 --> 00:49:21,166
Y'all feeling good tonight?
Having a good time?
959
00:49:21,250 --> 00:49:23,166
-[all cheering] Yeah!
-All right, all right.
960
00:49:23,250 --> 00:49:26,416
Thanks so much for coming out
to support our little showcase, man.
961
00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:29,125
Yo, D worked so hard on all the beats
your hear tonight.
962
00:49:29,208 --> 00:49:31,625
-So let's give it up for D, man.
-[cheering and applause]
963
00:49:31,708 --> 00:49:34,041
Give me some of that Big D energy.
964
00:49:34,125 --> 00:49:35,958
Yeah, yeah. All right.
965
00:49:41,250 --> 00:49:43,291
Oh, no. I'm good. Thank you.
966
00:49:44,375 --> 00:49:46,208
You said you want to keep flowing, right?
967
00:49:47,458 --> 00:49:50,625
Okay. Yeah, it's a little puff, right?
[chuckles]
968
00:49:50,833 --> 00:49:51,666
Yeah.
969
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,000
Mmm!
970
00:49:57,291 --> 00:50:00,083
[imitating robot]
971
00:50:00,208 --> 00:50:02,583
[chuckling] Yeah, RadhaMUS!
972
00:50:02,750 --> 00:50:04,291
Yeah. Flowing.
973
00:50:05,333 --> 00:50:06,291
Mmm.
974
00:50:07,750 --> 00:50:09,166
Is that Colorado? That's...
975
00:50:10,291 --> 00:50:12,875
I can't take any credit for this next act.
976
00:50:12,958 --> 00:50:15,291
No, this is all D's discovery, yo.
977
00:50:15,625 --> 00:50:20,625
Give it up for a much older female MC,
RadhaMUSprime!
978
00:50:20,750 --> 00:50:22,291
[audience cheering]
979
00:50:28,291 --> 00:50:29,500
[student] Yeah, Miss B!
980
00:50:30,541 --> 00:50:32,791
Hey, guys. Thanks for coming out.
981
00:50:32,875 --> 00:50:34,875
Friends, students.
982
00:50:34,958 --> 00:50:36,416
[whistling]
983
00:50:36,625 --> 00:50:40,916
Kick that beat, DJ. D... J.
984
00:50:41,041 --> 00:50:42,916
[hip-hop beat playing]
985
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:43,916
[Radha] Yeah.
986
00:50:45,291 --> 00:50:46,625
Yo. Uh!
987
00:50:47,375 --> 00:50:48,375
Yeah.
988
00:50:48,458 --> 00:50:51,583
It's RadhaMUSprime. 40-year-old version.
989
00:50:52,083 --> 00:50:53,333
Go, Radha!
990
00:50:53,708 --> 00:50:55,791
-You got this, B!
-[Radha] ♪ Yo, yo ♪
991
00:50:55,875 --> 00:50:58,333
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
992
00:50:58,416 --> 00:51:01,166
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
993
00:51:01,916 --> 00:51:04,291
Yo. Archie?
994
00:51:05,666 --> 00:51:06,958
Oh, my God, Archie?
995
00:51:07,041 --> 00:51:09,166
DJ, DJ, cut the music off.
996
00:51:09,250 --> 00:51:10,291
Cut the music off.
997
00:51:10,375 --> 00:51:11,375
[music stops]
998
00:51:11,458 --> 00:51:13,625
Oh, my God, Archie. You came to my show.
999
00:51:13,708 --> 00:51:15,166
You never let me down, do you?
1000
00:51:15,750 --> 00:51:19,041
Guys, give it up for Archie.
This is my best friend since...
1001
00:51:21,041 --> 00:51:25,666
You can't tell right now, but he used
to have a beard in high school.
1002
00:51:27,625 --> 00:51:29,625
[laughing]
1003
00:51:29,875 --> 00:51:31,958
Oh, my God! That was funny.
1004
00:51:32,041 --> 00:51:35,625
Before I go on,
let's give it up for D,
1005
00:51:35,708 --> 00:51:39,625
who awesomely crafted all the beats
that you're hearing here tonight...
1006
00:51:39,708 --> 00:51:41,250
[audience chattering]
1007
00:51:41,333 --> 00:51:45,333
...making Brooklyn and his dead mother
so proud, you know.
1008
00:51:46,041 --> 00:51:47,375
See, not all Black men
1009
00:51:47,458 --> 00:51:51,458
are in jail knocking up babies
that they can't take care of.
1010
00:51:51,583 --> 00:51:53,333
[imitates explosion]
1011
00:51:53,458 --> 00:51:54,416
Woke.
1012
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:56,833
So, uh... [stammering] Sorry.
1013
00:51:56,916 --> 00:51:58,791
Bring that beat back. How about that?
1014
00:51:58,875 --> 00:52:00,500
-Huh? Huh?
-[hip-hop beat playing]
1015
00:52:00,583 --> 00:52:01,583
Yeah.
1016
00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:03,583
Come on, y'all.
1017
00:52:03,666 --> 00:52:06,000
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
1018
00:52:06,083 --> 00:52:07,750
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
1019
00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,416
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
1020
00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:13,083
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
1021
00:52:13,166 --> 00:52:16,125
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
1022
00:52:16,208 --> 00:52:19,666
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
1023
00:52:19,791 --> 00:52:21,500
-What the fuck?
-[Radha] ♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
1024
00:52:21,583 --> 00:52:23,125
♪ Yo, yo ♪
1025
00:52:23,208 --> 00:52:25,666
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
1026
00:52:25,750 --> 00:52:27,291
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
1027
00:52:27,375 --> 00:52:29,625
♪ Yo, yo… yo ♪
1028
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,000
Yo?
1029
00:52:33,541 --> 00:52:34,500
[Radha sobbing]
1030
00:52:34,916 --> 00:52:37,500
Archie, what's wrong with me?
1031
00:52:37,583 --> 00:52:40,083
[Archie] Hey, it's okay.
1032
00:52:40,791 --> 00:52:43,208
[Radha] I'm not a fucking rapper.
1033
00:52:43,291 --> 00:52:45,000
I'm a playwright.
1034
00:52:45,083 --> 00:52:46,500
[sobbing]
1035
00:52:46,708 --> 00:52:50,625
Oh, God. Give me a chance
to make this right.
1036
00:52:50,708 --> 00:52:52,041
Oh! Oh, God.
1037
00:52:52,666 --> 00:52:55,125
I'm-- I'm still rhyming,
1038
00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:57,458
and I didn't mean to rhyme,
1039
00:52:57,833 --> 00:52:59,583
not that time.
1040
00:52:59,666 --> 00:53:01,708
Oh, God, I'm still doing it.
1041
00:53:03,125 --> 00:53:05,166
Damn. Damn, damn.
1042
00:53:05,250 --> 00:53:07,458
Oh, I'm so sorry.
1043
00:53:07,541 --> 00:53:10,083
Oh, my poor ebony flower.
1044
00:53:10,625 --> 00:53:16,125
I'm not going to use
my lips to tell you I told you so, but...
1045
00:53:20,916 --> 00:53:23,791
[woman] Folks out there is watching us.
1046
00:53:24,708 --> 00:53:28,250
We gots to give
some kind of contribution.
1047
00:53:30,250 --> 00:53:31,125
You know?
1048
00:53:34,083 --> 00:53:38,000
["For the One Who Planted Roses
in My Heart" by Courtney Bryan playing]
1049
00:54:21,750 --> 00:54:23,125
[Archie] Did you want them back?
1050
00:54:23,833 --> 00:54:24,916
[Radha] Mm-mm.
1051
00:54:25,541 --> 00:54:27,458
Why? They're yours.
1052
00:54:28,250 --> 00:54:29,166
You paid for them.
1053
00:54:30,666 --> 00:54:33,416
You were one of her few actual patrons.
1054
00:54:34,833 --> 00:54:36,125
[Radha sighs]
1055
00:54:37,416 --> 00:54:41,625
You know, they say that after your
mother dies you see her in a dream, but...
1056
00:54:42,666 --> 00:54:44,416
a whole year passes and nothing.
1057
00:54:46,250 --> 00:54:49,875
Oh, shit, even my dreams need rewrites.
1058
00:54:51,166 --> 00:54:52,666
You should talk to someone.
1059
00:54:52,750 --> 00:54:53,916
[Radha grunts]
1060
00:54:54,166 --> 00:54:55,750
How's your brother holding up?
1061
00:54:56,208 --> 00:54:58,791
I don't know. We keep missing each other.
1062
00:55:02,833 --> 00:55:03,916
Wait a minute.
1063
00:55:04,833 --> 00:55:05,875
Where's Antonio?
1064
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,041
[grunts] He left.
1065
00:55:09,041 --> 00:55:11,541
What?
1066
00:55:12,333 --> 00:55:14,541
-Jack Llenna's premiere got moved.
-Mm-hmm.
1067
00:55:14,666 --> 00:55:16,958
He's my top-grossing client.
I couldn't miss it.
1068
00:55:17,916 --> 00:55:20,083
So, I had to postpone Greece.
1069
00:55:20,791 --> 00:55:23,000
No thongs. Shit.
1070
00:55:24,250 --> 00:55:28,750
Antonio lost it. Said I care more
about my clients than I do him.
1071
00:55:29,416 --> 00:55:30,250
Lies.
1072
00:55:32,583 --> 00:55:35,000
-[pops tongue]
-[chuckles]
1073
00:55:35,250 --> 00:55:37,916
-Well, you know what? Fuck Antonio.
-[scoffs]
1074
00:55:38,166 --> 00:55:39,750
Maybe now you can date Korean.
1075
00:55:39,833 --> 00:55:41,291
You sound like my mother.
1076
00:55:41,375 --> 00:55:43,500
[Asian accent]
"Why you not try Korean guy?"
1077
00:55:43,666 --> 00:55:45,625
"Why you not bring Korean baby?"
1078
00:55:45,708 --> 00:55:47,291
-Um, no.
-What?
1079
00:55:47,958 --> 00:55:50,708
What? Oh, I can't do that
because I'm Black?
1080
00:55:50,791 --> 00:55:52,291
Uh, who's racist now?
1081
00:55:52,375 --> 00:55:55,541
And scene.
That's a wrap on Shut the Fuck Up.
1082
00:55:55,666 --> 00:55:57,000
[both chuckle]
1083
00:56:05,375 --> 00:56:06,208
I'll do it.
1084
00:56:06,875 --> 00:56:07,791
Shut the Fuck Up?
1085
00:56:09,041 --> 00:56:10,041
No, Whitman.
1086
00:56:11,666 --> 00:56:13,916
I'll do the play if you think
that he would still--
1087
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,583
Of course. I had him in the palm...
1088
00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:18,875
He'll do it.
1089
00:56:20,958 --> 00:56:22,041
Are you sure?
1090
00:56:23,458 --> 00:56:24,291
Yeah.
1091
00:56:24,375 --> 00:56:26,375
[shouting gleefully]
1092
00:56:28,666 --> 00:56:30,666
"Come. Drink of mommy milk."
1093
00:56:34,625 --> 00:56:37,708
Look, I ain't say that you couldn't,
1094
00:56:38,250 --> 00:56:39,458
but you shouldn't.
1095
00:56:40,416 --> 00:56:43,666
[woman]
Not some rapping pipe dream at your age.
1096
00:56:43,750 --> 00:56:44,875
Hell no!
1097
00:56:46,041 --> 00:56:48,416
We gots to be sensible.
1098
00:56:54,666 --> 00:56:56,458
Now, since retiring,
1099
00:56:57,416 --> 00:57:00,208
I took it upon myself to impart
1100
00:57:00,291 --> 00:57:03,500
my own ministry of truth around Harlem.
1101
00:57:07,125 --> 00:57:09,166
You might not want to hear the truth,
1102
00:57:11,916 --> 00:57:13,916
but like these mosquitoes...
1103
00:57:14,375 --> 00:57:16,208
[rapping indistinctly]
1104
00:57:16,375 --> 00:57:18,166
...I'm biting that ass.
1105
00:57:21,458 --> 00:57:26,041
[Whitman laughing]
1106
00:57:30,458 --> 00:57:33,333
-I love the new characters.
-You do?
1107
00:57:33,416 --> 00:57:37,250
Yes. The sassy old Black woman
doling out unwanted advice.
1108
00:57:37,333 --> 00:57:38,708
Love her.
1109
00:57:38,791 --> 00:57:43,208
The teens are fine. You just need to
spice them up with a little rap number.
1110
00:57:43,833 --> 00:57:44,833
[Radha] Hmm.
1111
00:57:44,916 --> 00:57:45,750
Don't stress.
1112
00:57:45,833 --> 00:57:49,375
We're going to organize a workshop
and you'll be able to see all the changes.
1113
00:57:49,708 --> 00:57:51,250
Great. Um...
1114
00:57:52,166 --> 00:57:56,666
Before I forget, I just wanted
to say to you that I--
1115
00:57:56,750 --> 00:57:58,750
It's okay. I spoke to Archie.
1116
00:57:59,208 --> 00:58:01,375
And I know about your dead mom
1117
00:58:01,458 --> 00:58:03,458
and how sorry you are for choking me.
1118
00:58:03,708 --> 00:58:05,583
-Mmm.
-Look, no more apologies.
1119
00:58:05,666 --> 00:58:08,250
-I'm over it and we can move on.
-Okay.
1120
00:58:08,416 --> 00:58:12,625
Plus, we've got a little buzz,
and buzz means butts in seats.
1121
00:58:12,708 --> 00:58:14,166
-[laughing]
-Great.
1122
00:58:15,250 --> 00:58:18,833
I also wanted to talk to you about...
1123
00:58:19,916 --> 00:58:22,375
having a Black director is really
important to me.
1124
00:58:22,458 --> 00:58:25,375
Of course, we want that for you, too.
We'll make that happen.
1125
00:58:25,458 --> 00:58:26,875
-Okay? All right.
-Yeah.
1126
00:58:27,625 --> 00:58:29,416
-Oh, one more note...
-Mm-hmm?
1127
00:58:29,541 --> 00:58:30,875
Gentrification.
1128
00:58:31,583 --> 00:58:34,916
It shouldn't just be this thing
that's happening out there.
1129
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,375
We need to personify it in the play,
you know?
1130
00:58:38,833 --> 00:58:41,583
-[sharply inhales] Not quite.
-Well-- well, look...
1131
00:58:41,708 --> 00:58:45,333
If we have a Black couple
facing gentrification in Harlem,
1132
00:58:46,291 --> 00:58:49,041
we need to know just who's gentrifying.
1133
00:58:52,041 --> 00:58:54,958
Mmm, I don't know. See, my play is about--
1134
00:58:55,041 --> 00:58:56,458
I know what your play's about,
1135
00:58:56,541 --> 00:58:58,708
and I also know we need to grab
the core audience.
1136
00:59:00,291 --> 00:59:03,333
And to do that,
you have to write them in the play.
1137
00:59:06,833 --> 00:59:07,666
Good.
1138
00:59:10,166 --> 00:59:12,166
[students laughing]
1139
00:59:12,750 --> 00:59:15,625
I wish I could have been there.
Oh, my God.
1140
00:59:15,708 --> 00:59:17,833
She's like, "Yo, yo, yo!"
1141
00:59:18,125 --> 00:59:21,666
Okay, fine. So we have this spermazoid.
1142
00:59:22,083 --> 00:59:24,083
Ah, but what is his motivation?
1143
00:59:24,458 --> 00:59:26,375
-What is he after? You know?
-Hey.
1144
00:59:27,375 --> 00:59:30,333
-Heard your show was "da bomb."
-[girls laughing]
1145
00:59:30,500 --> 00:59:32,958
[imitating Radha]
"Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo!"
1146
00:59:33,041 --> 00:59:34,833
RadhaMUS? More like NotiMUS.
1147
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,208
[laughing]
1148
00:59:37,458 --> 00:59:38,916
I'll bust her ass if you want.
1149
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,208
Man, fuck her, Miss B.
1150
00:59:41,916 --> 00:59:44,541
Aight? We just glad to have you back.
We missed you.
1151
00:59:45,291 --> 00:59:47,583
Word, yo. What happened up there?
1152
00:59:48,166 --> 00:59:50,416
Sound like you was having
a stroke or something.
1153
00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:53,583
No pendejo.
Clearly she had a nervous breakdown.
1154
00:59:54,958 --> 00:59:58,416
They was calling you "frozen yo-gurt,"
Miss B.
1155
00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:01,250
[student]
I heard somebody say "the human yo-yo."
1156
01:00:02,166 --> 01:00:03,250
You want to talk about it?
1157
01:00:06,291 --> 01:00:08,166
[girls continue laughing]
1158
01:00:25,625 --> 01:00:28,083
[Archie]
So, you're okay with everything, then?
1159
01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:32,708
Well, no, it's not the director
that I wanted, you know?
1160
01:00:32,791 --> 01:00:35,708
Her all-male version of Steel Magnolias
was amazing.
1161
01:00:36,041 --> 01:00:37,125
There go my fears.
1162
01:00:37,625 --> 01:00:39,458
It's just a workshop, right?
1163
01:00:39,541 --> 01:00:43,583
No, you're right. It's just a workshop.
I'm going to power through it.
1164
01:00:44,416 --> 01:00:45,416
That's my girl.
1165
01:00:45,500 --> 01:00:46,791
[footsteps approaching]
1166
01:00:47,416 --> 01:00:50,416
-Look, Archie, I'm gonna call you later.
-Okay, bye.
1167
01:00:50,500 --> 01:00:51,541
Thanks.
1168
01:00:52,416 --> 01:00:54,583
-Hey, girl!
-Hey!
1169
01:00:56,500 --> 01:00:58,708
You recovered from the other night?
1170
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,166
Who, me? Oh, yeah. No, I'm good.
1171
01:01:01,458 --> 01:01:07,458
Yeah, that was like a live... performance
experimental thing that I was going for.
1172
01:01:07,541 --> 01:01:08,625
But I'm glad you're here.
1173
01:01:08,708 --> 01:01:10,708
-Girl, you know I love this play.
-Cool.
1174
01:01:10,791 --> 01:01:14,291
I mean, it's a bit different
than I remember.
1175
01:01:14,375 --> 01:01:16,916
Yeah, my producer gave me some notes.
1176
01:01:17,416 --> 01:01:20,166
Um, turns out I don't need 15 characters.
1177
01:01:20,250 --> 01:01:21,250
[laughing]
1178
01:01:21,333 --> 01:01:23,750
And he's writing the check,
so you know how that goes.
1179
01:01:23,833 --> 01:01:26,875
-Yeah.
-So you fine with all the changes?
1180
01:01:27,750 --> 01:01:28,791
Uh, yeah.
1181
01:01:29,166 --> 01:01:31,166
Yeah. I mean, you know, Stacey,
1182
01:01:31,250 --> 01:01:34,625
writing is rewriting,
and I just decided with this draft,
1183
01:01:34,708 --> 01:01:38,416
to hone in on a more, uh,
universal tone, you know?
1184
01:01:39,625 --> 01:01:40,458
Harlem.
1185
01:01:41,208 --> 01:01:44,333
For all its color and splendor
and beauty,
1186
01:01:44,791 --> 01:01:47,166
still has a way to go, you know?
1187
01:01:47,958 --> 01:01:51,916
Like, what's a girl gotta do
to get some soy milk around here?
1188
01:01:58,291 --> 01:02:02,250
Baby, I hear you. I'm not suggesting
we change our whole flow,
1189
01:02:02,333 --> 01:02:06,291
just that we incorporate some of
the things these new Harlemites want.
1190
01:02:06,375 --> 01:02:08,041
"New Harlemites"?
1191
01:02:08,125 --> 01:02:09,833
Does that even sound right?
1192
01:02:09,916 --> 01:02:12,125
Baby, we can't be changing for them.
1193
01:02:12,208 --> 01:02:13,125
We gots to--
1194
01:02:14,458 --> 01:02:15,666
[exhales]
1195
01:02:15,916 --> 01:02:17,000
We gots to--
1196
01:02:17,125 --> 01:02:18,333
[exhales]
1197
01:02:19,083 --> 01:02:20,500
Um, Radha?
1198
01:02:22,125 --> 01:02:22,958
Yeah.
1199
01:02:23,291 --> 01:02:24,625
Look, I don't mean to...
1200
01:02:24,708 --> 01:02:26,875
No. Go ahead.
This is exactly why we're here.
1201
01:02:26,958 --> 01:02:28,875
This is the work. We are working it.
1202
01:02:28,958 --> 01:02:31,708
Okay. Why is she talking like this?
1203
01:02:33,333 --> 01:02:34,833
[both] Um...
1204
01:02:35,125 --> 01:02:37,416
-Uh, that's a good question.
-[Radha] Mm-hmm.
1205
01:02:37,500 --> 01:02:41,666
The wife, she is trying
to persuade her husband.
1206
01:02:42,291 --> 01:02:45,833
He wants to stock the shelves
with soy milk,
1207
01:02:45,916 --> 01:02:48,166
and she's concerned
about the gentrification.
1208
01:02:48,250 --> 01:02:51,583
No, no, I know what her concerns are.
1209
01:02:51,666 --> 01:02:53,916
I'm wondering about the language.
1210
01:02:54,500 --> 01:02:57,708
Ah! The vernacular, the verbiage.
1211
01:02:57,791 --> 01:03:00,958
Um, well, um,
why don't we ask our playwright?
1212
01:03:03,375 --> 01:03:09,166
Okay. Uh, well, the wife, um...
she's from the old school.
1213
01:03:09,500 --> 01:03:10,791
She's 35.
1214
01:03:10,875 --> 01:03:12,875
I know. I know that.
1215
01:03:13,666 --> 01:03:14,708
I know that.
1216
01:03:15,375 --> 01:03:17,958
Um, I guess what I mean is that she
1217
01:03:18,333 --> 01:03:24,208
is rooted in, like,
a deep... Southern mystical charm.
1218
01:03:24,291 --> 01:03:26,500
-You know?
-Not quite.
1219
01:03:27,416 --> 01:03:28,250
I get it.
1220
01:03:28,833 --> 01:03:33,750
I'm wondering why she's the only
character talking like that.
1221
01:03:33,833 --> 01:03:37,791
Jamie doesn't talk like that.
Marcus doesn't talk like that.
1222
01:03:38,125 --> 01:03:43,083
Okay, the fact that the wife speaks
one way and Jamie speaks another
1223
01:03:43,166 --> 01:03:44,958
is because, um...
1224
01:03:45,166 --> 01:03:48,416
-I'm white.
-No, no, no! No!
1225
01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:49,458
No, no, no.
1226
01:03:49,541 --> 01:03:53,375
Race in this moment
is completely irrelevant.
1227
01:03:53,458 --> 01:03:57,125
Okay, look, I know why
the wife speaks this way.
1228
01:03:57,208 --> 01:04:01,458
I just, uh, can't quite articulate that,
but I need for you to keep
1229
01:04:01,541 --> 01:04:04,375
talking that way
so I can learn what it is
1230
01:04:04,458 --> 01:04:09,166
and then give that to you
so that you can then give that to us.
1231
01:04:09,250 --> 01:04:10,083
Okay?
1232
01:04:10,541 --> 01:04:11,416
[Julie] Okay.
1233
01:04:12,750 --> 01:04:14,000
Back to it, baby.
1234
01:04:15,291 --> 01:04:17,291
[phone ringing]
1235
01:04:19,041 --> 01:04:21,791
I... wow. I am so sorry.
1236
01:04:21,875 --> 01:04:24,666
I'm just gonna take this really quickly.
1237
01:04:28,500 --> 01:04:30,500
-Hello?
-[hip-hop beat playing]
1238
01:04:30,625 --> 01:04:33,375
[rapping] ♪ I'm fresh to death
I want my check ♪
1239
01:04:33,458 --> 01:04:35,833
♪ I want respect
I want my check ♪
1240
01:04:35,916 --> 01:04:38,458
♪ All eyes on deck
I want my check ♪
1241
01:04:38,541 --> 01:04:41,416
♪ Don't start no shit
Give me my check ♪
1242
01:04:45,500 --> 01:04:47,500
And, uh, who the fuck is that?
1243
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:49,333
RosettaMUSprime.
1244
01:04:50,208 --> 01:04:51,083
Funny.
1245
01:04:51,458 --> 01:04:53,833
[D] I mean, you don't want these beats.
1246
01:04:53,916 --> 01:04:55,333
I never said that.
1247
01:04:56,041 --> 01:05:00,625
Look, I sent you, like, 300 texts,
my nigga, and I don't text.
1248
01:05:00,958 --> 01:05:04,375
Yeah, uh, I've just been busy
with rehearsals of my play.
1249
01:05:04,916 --> 01:05:06,583
[D] Yo, when we finishing this shit?
1250
01:05:08,625 --> 01:05:09,791
You had a bad night.
1251
01:05:09,875 --> 01:05:12,125
No, I had a lapse in judgment.
1252
01:05:12,208 --> 01:05:13,500
[D] What you talking about?
1253
01:05:14,416 --> 01:05:17,333
Oh, a lapse in judgment
is when someone is, you know--
1254
01:05:17,416 --> 01:05:18,666
No, I know.
1255
01:05:19,125 --> 01:05:21,583
What? You don't want
to fuck with this music shit no more?
1256
01:05:23,333 --> 01:05:24,166
Hello?
1257
01:05:24,666 --> 01:05:26,083
-D...
-What?
1258
01:05:27,166 --> 01:05:28,541
Don't be that way, okay?
1259
01:05:28,625 --> 01:05:30,166
Look, it's not a total loss.
1260
01:05:30,625 --> 01:05:34,583
I'm actually thinking of incorporating
some of the rhymes into my play.
1261
01:05:34,666 --> 01:05:35,583
What?
1262
01:05:35,666 --> 01:05:39,375
[Radha] Look, I just, um...
I need to be realistic about things.
1263
01:05:39,458 --> 01:05:41,750
I'm three months shy of 40, okay?
1264
01:05:42,125 --> 01:05:42,958
[D] So?
1265
01:05:43,375 --> 01:05:45,708
So I need to stay in my lane.
1266
01:05:46,250 --> 01:05:47,375
You know?
1267
01:05:48,916 --> 01:05:49,958
Hello?
1268
01:05:50,333 --> 01:05:51,166
I heard you.
1269
01:05:51,625 --> 01:05:53,291
[Radha] Look, it's just that I--
1270
01:05:54,666 --> 01:05:55,583
Hello?
1271
01:05:56,833 --> 01:05:57,708
Really?
1272
01:05:59,541 --> 01:06:02,000
Hey, are we going to spit this fire
or what?
1273
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:09,541
This... is not... soy milk, people.
1274
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:17,291
No, what's in this carton is what each
of the characters need from each other.
1275
01:06:18,041 --> 01:06:19,916
It's... it's love.
1276
01:06:21,083 --> 01:06:22,250
It's fresh air.
1277
01:06:23,333 --> 01:06:25,750
It's fresh produce. It's...
1278
01:06:26,416 --> 01:06:29,791
rent-controlled apartments.
It's block parties.
1279
01:06:29,875 --> 01:06:30,708
It's...
1280
01:06:31,833 --> 01:06:33,250
it's old Black women...
1281
01:06:34,416 --> 01:06:35,500
sitting on a stoop,
1282
01:06:36,750 --> 01:06:38,166
humming...
1283
01:06:39,666 --> 01:06:40,958
as they open...
1284
01:06:41,500 --> 01:06:42,500
their arms...
1285
01:06:42,583 --> 01:06:43,500
[panting]
1286
01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:47,708
...to welcome the fresh blood
1287
01:06:48,125 --> 01:06:51,208
into the veins of Harlem.
1288
01:06:52,583 --> 01:06:54,750
This is not soy milk.
1289
01:06:56,125 --> 01:06:57,416
This is life.
1290
01:07:07,458 --> 01:07:08,333
Fuck.
1291
01:07:10,875 --> 01:07:12,958
[on phone] It's your brother, again.
1292
01:07:13,083 --> 01:07:14,375
For real, Radha?
1293
01:07:14,833 --> 01:07:16,458
You're not going to call me back?
1294
01:07:16,958 --> 01:07:18,208
That's fucked up, yo.
1295
01:07:19,208 --> 01:07:23,000
Got these good oils, people.
These good oils, you wanna get in on this.
1296
01:07:23,083 --> 01:07:26,250
Get on this, sweetheart.
Got these good oils. My brother.
1297
01:07:26,583 --> 01:07:28,791
Hey, sister, I got these oils.
1298
01:07:29,458 --> 01:07:30,458
You should buy them.
1299
01:07:31,291 --> 01:07:33,291
It only costs a dollar. You should try it.
1300
01:07:33,875 --> 01:07:36,375
-I'm okay.
-I'm your local Muslim from the hood.
1301
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,375
Sister, let me make you smell good.
1302
01:07:40,458 --> 01:07:42,083
You look like you stressed...
1303
01:07:43,333 --> 01:07:46,333
but I'mma give it the best.
Understand that. Get these good oils.
1304
01:07:46,708 --> 01:07:49,041
Right here,
from your Muslim man right here.
1305
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:03,750
[keys clacking] "Well, I have ideas, too.
1306
01:08:04,916 --> 01:08:07,916
[Radha] Why can't we just make
a community garden?"
1307
01:08:08,041 --> 01:08:09,291
"It's not that simple."
1308
01:08:09,833 --> 01:08:13,291
"It is.
You just have to change your perspective."
1309
01:08:13,666 --> 01:08:16,416
"T'aint nothing wrong
with my damn perspective."
1310
01:08:16,500 --> 01:08:19,416
"Excuse me? Don't take that tone with me."
1311
01:08:19,500 --> 01:08:22,375
"Ladies, ladies, stop.
1312
01:08:23,208 --> 01:08:25,083
Just... stop."
1313
01:08:27,500 --> 01:08:29,500
[Radha moaning]
1314
01:08:30,041 --> 01:08:31,916
"This some bullshit."
1315
01:08:33,375 --> 01:08:34,833
[exhales]
1316
01:08:35,375 --> 01:08:38,333
[rapping] This some bullshit
This some, this some bullshit
1317
01:08:38,916 --> 01:08:41,791
This some bullshit
This some, this some bullshit
1318
01:08:45,750 --> 01:08:48,500
[hip-hop beat playing]
1319
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:54,000
♪ This some fucking bullshit
Why you fucking do this? ♪
1320
01:08:54,083 --> 01:08:55,625
♪ Who the fuck you fooling? ♪
1321
01:08:55,708 --> 01:08:58,541
♪ Acting like your cool, sis
Selling out your soul ♪
1322
01:08:58,625 --> 01:09:01,583
♪ But fucking up your axis
Trying to get some flow ♪
1323
01:09:01,666 --> 01:09:03,166
♪ But laying on your back, sis ♪
1324
01:09:03,250 --> 01:09:06,250
♪ Lettin' niggas fuck you raw
Just to get some access ♪
1325
01:09:06,333 --> 01:09:09,541
♪ Mama raised you better
But yet and still your ass is ♪
1326
01:09:09,625 --> 01:09:11,916
♪ Fucking for chips
Sucking white, wrinkly dicks ♪
1327
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:15,000
♪ Just to be
a New York Times theater pick ♪
1328
01:09:17,291 --> 01:09:18,125
♪ Shit ♪
1329
01:09:20,791 --> 01:09:21,750
[student] So...
1330
01:09:22,125 --> 01:09:24,375
you gonna let me in or what?
1331
01:09:25,083 --> 01:09:26,291
Preposterous!
1332
01:09:26,583 --> 01:09:30,541
You killed all my gods,
destroyed my spermicide castle,
1333
01:09:30,625 --> 01:09:33,333
and now you expect me to let you in?
1334
01:09:33,666 --> 01:09:36,750
Have I not proven that I'd do anything
to get to you?
1335
01:09:37,125 --> 01:09:40,083
What I look like, some stupid ho
that I go for dumb shit like that?
1336
01:09:40,166 --> 01:09:41,958
That's not even the line, Rosa!
1337
01:09:42,416 --> 01:09:43,416
[Rosa] So?
1338
01:09:43,500 --> 01:09:46,416
So, you just can't be
changing shit up like that.
1339
01:09:46,500 --> 01:09:49,208
Aight, first of all,
she got to be more feminist, yo.
1340
01:09:49,291 --> 01:09:50,791
She can't just be letting
some dude...
1341
01:09:50,875 --> 01:09:51,708
[Radha] Hey!
1342
01:09:53,916 --> 01:09:55,875
-You coming in?
-Nah, I'm good.
1343
01:09:57,625 --> 01:10:00,208
-You sure? You can, you know.
-I'm good.
1344
01:10:04,625 --> 01:10:06,833
You're not good, you're bad as hell
is what you are.
1345
01:10:06,916 --> 01:10:08,666
-[beat playing]
-♪ Niggas wanna laugh, laugh ♪
1346
01:10:08,750 --> 01:10:10,208
♪ We clap, clap with Black acts ♪
1347
01:10:10,291 --> 01:10:13,250
♪ Niggas wanna switch hit
We get lit with six clips ♪
1348
01:10:13,333 --> 01:10:15,583
♪ Niggas wanna slide by like drive bys? ♪
1349
01:10:15,666 --> 01:10:18,083
♪ We got clockwork orange
Needles for eyes, guys ♪
1350
01:10:18,166 --> 01:10:19,791
♪ I rack them hoes, take them blows ♪
1351
01:10:19,875 --> 01:10:21,833
-[beat stops]
-Shake up the re-up boys and--
1352
01:10:21,916 --> 01:10:24,416
Yo, nigga, what the fuck, man?
Hello?
1353
01:10:24,500 --> 01:10:26,291
Yo, my fault, son.
You wanna run that back?
1354
01:10:26,375 --> 01:10:28,125
-[beat starts again]
-Nigga, where you at?
1355
01:10:28,208 --> 01:10:29,791
You still tripping over that old broad?
1356
01:10:29,875 --> 01:10:31,541
Nigga, fuck you. She's not old.
1357
01:10:31,625 --> 01:10:33,250
Shit, nigga, she ain't young.
1358
01:10:33,333 --> 01:10:35,583
-[laughing]
-Nigga going, "She ain't old."
1359
01:10:36,083 --> 01:10:38,541
You know, at least she gave me
some storytelling.
1360
01:10:39,458 --> 01:10:41,625
Like, what the fuck are you
even saying in there?
1361
01:10:42,083 --> 01:10:42,958
You even know?
1362
01:10:44,208 --> 01:10:45,583
Yo, half of y'all niggas,
1363
01:10:45,666 --> 01:10:49,041
y'all just be coming in here stringing
words together like you doing something.
1364
01:10:49,375 --> 01:10:52,083
Nigga, I make the beats,
but God damn, son!
1365
01:10:52,166 --> 01:10:54,250
Sometimes you need some storytelling.
1366
01:10:54,333 --> 01:10:56,083
Like, what are you even talkin' about?
1367
01:10:57,958 --> 01:10:59,625
[clicks tongue] Man... my shit.
1368
01:11:00,541 --> 01:11:02,416
I'm ready, fuck it. Play the beat.
1369
01:11:03,875 --> 01:11:04,708
Harlem...
1370
01:11:05,458 --> 01:11:08,041
the place I've called home my whole life.
1371
01:11:09,958 --> 01:11:10,833
Harlem...
1372
01:11:11,416 --> 01:11:15,875
she wrapped me in her arms and mothered me
when my own mother passed on.
1373
01:11:17,500 --> 01:11:18,333
Harlem...
1374
01:11:18,791 --> 01:11:20,416
where I became a wife,
1375
01:11:20,875 --> 01:11:22,125
a business owner,
1376
01:11:22,208 --> 01:11:25,375
where I'd imagine
owning my own home one day,
1377
01:11:25,458 --> 01:11:28,583
but where a woman
can't even afford the damn rent.
1378
01:11:28,708 --> 01:11:30,500
-[muffled shouting]
-Harlem...
1379
01:11:30,625 --> 01:11:32,458
-a place where I imagine...
-[thudding]
1380
01:11:32,541 --> 01:11:34,916
...preparing meals in my own kitchen
1381
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,500
and hope to hear my children
call out to me--
1382
01:11:37,583 --> 01:11:39,458
-[D] Yo, Radha!
-What the fuck?
1383
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:41,208
I'm so sorry.
1384
01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:43,875
Let me... excuse me. Sorry.
1385
01:11:43,958 --> 01:11:45,750
I'll be right back. I'm so sorry.
1386
01:11:47,125 --> 01:11:48,875
I will fuck you up in this hallway,
you hear me?
1387
01:11:48,958 --> 01:11:50,666
-[Radha] Oh, shit! D!
-I will fuck you up.
1388
01:11:50,750 --> 01:11:52,291
[guard] You're not doing
anything like that.
1389
01:11:52,375 --> 01:11:54,125
Hey, hey, hey! What's going on here?
1390
01:11:54,250 --> 01:11:56,083
Radha, can you tell this bitch
you know me?
1391
01:11:56,208 --> 01:11:58,333
Sir, he's with me, please.
1392
01:12:01,458 --> 01:12:03,666
Fucking Robopop. Shit.
1393
01:12:04,750 --> 01:12:05,583
Radha.
1394
01:12:06,666 --> 01:12:08,958
Archie, this is D. D, this is Archie.
1395
01:12:09,416 --> 01:12:11,125
Can you give us a second, please?
1396
01:12:12,333 --> 01:12:13,291
Please?
1397
01:12:17,458 --> 01:12:18,666
[exhales]
1398
01:12:19,625 --> 01:12:20,500
Are you okay?
1399
01:12:21,041 --> 01:12:22,916
Yeah, when we finishing these tracks?
1400
01:12:24,041 --> 01:12:27,333
You can't be serious.
I'm in the middle of a rehearsal.
1401
01:12:27,875 --> 01:12:29,208
[D] All right. I'll wait.
1402
01:12:32,833 --> 01:12:33,666
Okay.
1403
01:12:40,041 --> 01:12:43,541
I don't understand.
I gave you guys a list of names.
1404
01:12:43,625 --> 01:12:47,625
We tried, but all the working
Black directors are working.
1405
01:12:48,416 --> 01:12:50,416
-This fucking sucks.
-It's gonna be fine.
1406
01:12:50,791 --> 01:12:54,583
Julie will give you what you need.
She directed Raisin in the Sun, you know.
1407
01:12:54,666 --> 01:12:58,583
Radha, we need to move forward, okay?
Good night.
1408
01:13:00,375 --> 01:13:03,750
Look, I know it's not ideal, but in three
months when you're on Broadway,
1409
01:13:03,833 --> 01:13:05,458
you won't even remember this shit.
1410
01:13:08,833 --> 01:13:10,833
Oh, hello.
1411
01:13:11,541 --> 01:13:14,333
All right, listen. You just work
on those rewrites that we talked about,
1412
01:13:14,416 --> 01:13:16,875
and then I'll talk to Whitman,
and we'll smooth it--
1413
01:13:17,083 --> 01:13:17,916
Radha?
1414
01:13:18,541 --> 01:13:19,541
Radha!
1415
01:13:19,625 --> 01:13:21,666
♪ Oooh la la ah oui oui ♪
1416
01:13:21,750 --> 01:13:24,583
♪ I say Muhammad Ali
Ya say Cassius Clay ♪
1417
01:13:24,666 --> 01:13:27,791
♪ Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay ♪
1418
01:13:27,875 --> 01:13:29,666
["DWYCK" by Gang Starr playing]
1419
01:13:29,750 --> 01:13:31,916
♪ Oooh la la ah oui oui ♪
1420
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,791
♪ I say Muhammad Ali
Ya say Cassius Clay ♪
1421
01:13:34,875 --> 01:13:38,083
♪ Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay ♪
1422
01:13:39,791 --> 01:13:41,791
[music continues on car stereo]
1423
01:13:42,250 --> 01:13:44,375
"Julie will give you what you need."
1424
01:13:45,250 --> 01:13:47,000
"Julie will give you what you need."
1425
01:13:47,083 --> 01:13:49,583
"Don't worry, Radha.
Julie will give you what you need."
1426
01:13:51,166 --> 01:13:53,500
What the fuck does Julie know
about living in Harlem?
1427
01:13:57,125 --> 01:14:00,166
Wait, where are we even going?
1428
01:14:05,250 --> 01:14:06,875
Guess I'm being kidnapped.
1429
01:14:09,875 --> 01:14:11,000
Is that you?
1430
01:14:11,833 --> 01:14:13,083
[D] What you think?
1431
01:14:14,125 --> 01:14:16,125
♪ Oooh la la ah oui oui ♪
1432
01:14:16,250 --> 01:14:19,125
♪ I say Muhammad Ali
Ya say Cassius Clay ♪
1433
01:14:19,208 --> 01:14:21,500
♪ Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay ♪
1434
01:14:21,625 --> 01:14:22,666
[Radha] It's good.
1435
01:14:24,375 --> 01:14:26,250
♪ Oooh la la ah oui oui ♪
1436
01:14:26,333 --> 01:14:29,333
♪ I say Muhammad Ali
Ya say Cassius Clay ♪
1437
01:14:29,458 --> 01:14:32,625
♪ Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay ♪
1438
01:14:34,500 --> 01:14:37,625
♪Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh ♪
1439
01:14:48,375 --> 01:14:49,458
[Radha] Oh.
1440
01:14:50,416 --> 01:14:51,583
We're in the Bronx.
1441
01:14:52,375 --> 01:14:56,250
Exactly where I thought
I'd end my night and my life.
1442
01:14:57,041 --> 01:14:59,041
Thanks. Perfect.
1443
01:15:04,583 --> 01:15:05,750
What is going on?
1444
01:15:07,416 --> 01:15:09,625
No. No, no, no.
1445
01:15:09,708 --> 01:15:11,750
I'm not going to a damn party.
1446
01:15:11,833 --> 01:15:13,416
Look, it's not a party.
1447
01:15:14,041 --> 01:15:15,041
Just come on.
1448
01:15:15,916 --> 01:15:17,708
No, I have rewrites.
1449
01:15:17,791 --> 01:15:20,333
[D] Rewrites of what? That bullshit play?
1450
01:15:22,250 --> 01:15:23,375
Fuck you.
1451
01:15:23,458 --> 01:15:24,750
Aight, look.
1452
01:15:25,250 --> 01:15:27,708
Before, I overheard it from the hallway...
1453
01:15:27,791 --> 01:15:29,125
and the shit is corny.
1454
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:32,916
Like you know anything about theater.
1455
01:15:33,458 --> 01:15:34,333
[D] There you go,
1456
01:15:34,416 --> 01:15:37,500
making your fucked up assumptions.
Like, who ain't seen Hamilton?
1457
01:15:39,458 --> 01:15:41,625
-No, I'm not going to--
-Yo.
1458
01:15:41,708 --> 01:15:45,791
-Come on. Come on.
-Great. Well, welcome to the Bronx.
1459
01:15:46,625 --> 01:15:49,166
[woman] Yeah, Babs Bunny the Girl.
First lady of the streets.
1460
01:15:49,250 --> 01:15:52,000
QOTR. Y'all already know what it is.
1461
01:15:52,083 --> 01:15:54,291
Y'all ready for that real shit?
1462
01:15:54,375 --> 01:15:57,291
[audience cheering] Yeah!
1463
01:15:57,375 --> 01:16:00,041
Y'all ready for that raw shit?
1464
01:16:00,125 --> 01:16:01,625
[audience] Yeah!
1465
01:16:01,708 --> 01:16:05,666
Well, I need y'all to give it up
for the ladies!
1466
01:16:05,750 --> 01:16:08,541
[audience cheering] Yeah!
1467
01:16:08,833 --> 01:16:09,666
Wow.
1468
01:16:09,750 --> 01:16:12,125
[host] Yeah, yeah, well we going
to get right into it.
1469
01:16:12,208 --> 01:16:15,791
-[bell dinging]
-Representing Murderville, Mount Vernon,
1470
01:16:15,875 --> 01:16:18,458
give it up for Shooney Da Rapper!
1471
01:16:18,541 --> 01:16:19,583
[cheering and applause]
1472
01:16:20,041 --> 01:16:22,958
[host] Representing Brooklyn,
1473
01:16:23,041 --> 01:16:26,083
-give it up for Ms.Fit!
-[cheering and applause]
1474
01:16:26,166 --> 01:16:30,125
[host] Representing Queens,
give it up for Miss Undastood!
1475
01:16:30,208 --> 01:16:31,541
[cheering and applause]
1476
01:16:31,625 --> 01:16:33,833
[host] Representing the BX, the Bronx,
1477
01:16:33,916 --> 01:16:36,958
give it up for Norma Bayts!
1478
01:16:37,041 --> 01:16:38,166
[cheering and applause]
1479
01:16:38,250 --> 01:16:40,208
Ladies, y'all already know what it is.
1480
01:16:40,291 --> 01:16:41,875
Ms.Fit, it's on you.
1481
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:43,125
-[woman whooping]
-[man] Yeah, sis!
1482
01:16:43,208 --> 01:16:45,041
[rapping] What the fuck is up?
1483
01:16:45,416 --> 01:16:47,416
Acting all fucking tough
1484
01:16:47,708 --> 01:16:51,166
Came here with your girls
Fucking sluts
1485
01:16:51,625 --> 01:16:55,041
Probably suck a dick for
Some pork rinds and a couple bucks
1486
01:16:55,125 --> 01:16:56,208
[audience reacting]
1487
01:16:56,291 --> 01:16:57,708
Enough's enough
1488
01:16:58,083 --> 01:17:01,125
I'll make you kiss the Glock
Get your lips locked
1489
01:17:01,625 --> 01:17:02,833
Now, pucker up
1490
01:17:02,916 --> 01:17:04,375
[audience reacting]
1491
01:17:04,458 --> 01:17:07,458
I'll fuck her up
My life was a hassle
1492
01:17:07,541 --> 01:17:11,583
I fight when I have to
So keep it fruitful or this banana clip
1493
01:17:11,958 --> 01:17:13,625
Aim right for your apple
1494
01:17:14,333 --> 01:17:16,500
Ratchets blam
Slap a fan
1495
01:17:16,583 --> 01:17:18,375
I'm good with the g's, bitch
1496
01:17:18,625 --> 01:17:22,000
Dapper Dan, I'll back the can
Clap your man's
1497
01:17:22,083 --> 01:17:25,000
Your crew get out of line
What it is, slime
1498
01:17:25,250 --> 01:17:27,958
Bow! I don't think your pack'll stand
1499
01:17:29,166 --> 01:17:30,625
[bell dinging]
1500
01:17:33,041 --> 01:17:35,875
[rapping] I handle business how I see fit
1501
01:17:35,958 --> 01:17:38,416
Celebrity status, I've got the once
1502
01:17:38,500 --> 01:17:41,083
Now, this the last time
Y'all gonna see Fit
1503
01:17:41,166 --> 01:17:44,000
Who we talking 'bout?
You going to play who?
1504
01:17:44,083 --> 01:17:46,708
Bitch, the autographic
For trying to game
1505
01:17:46,791 --> 01:17:49,291
I pull out the sweeper
And it's cleaning the room
1506
01:17:49,375 --> 01:17:51,750
Then it's metal to her face
MF Doom
1507
01:17:51,833 --> 01:17:55,416
I've been Queen of the Ring
So my body of work is solidified
1508
01:17:55,500 --> 01:17:56,666
It's a big difference
1509
01:17:56,750 --> 01:17:58,708
You wasn't with us shooting in the gym
1510
01:17:58,791 --> 01:18:01,833
So to get fit is cheap
Planet Fitness
1511
01:18:01,916 --> 01:18:03,916
-[audience] Oh!
-[bell dinging]
1512
01:18:06,333 --> 01:18:08,000
[audience cheering]
1513
01:18:08,583 --> 01:18:09,583
[rapping] Give it up
1514
01:18:12,541 --> 01:18:13,958
For Norma Bayts
1515
01:18:14,375 --> 01:18:17,541
The one who's battle rap career
Is all over the place
1516
01:18:17,958 --> 01:18:20,500
Your butt might be real
But your soul is fake
1517
01:18:20,583 --> 01:18:23,291
You are a salami and bacon with it
1518
01:18:23,375 --> 01:18:25,666
So I can't eat nothing off of
Norma's plate
1519
01:18:25,750 --> 01:18:27,166
[audience reacting]
1520
01:18:27,291 --> 01:18:28,458
Is this y'all queen?
1521
01:18:28,541 --> 01:18:30,375
[audience] Hell no!
1522
01:18:30,458 --> 01:18:33,083
Y'all should watch how to throw
An enormous shake
1523
01:18:33,166 --> 01:18:36,125
Come in here looking like
A five-dollar movie Tuesday's
1524
01:18:36,208 --> 01:18:37,625
That's a cheap date
1525
01:18:37,708 --> 01:18:40,541
I'm trying to make it off my skills
And my passion
1526
01:18:40,625 --> 01:18:43,458
You trying to make it
Solely by thirst-trapping
1527
01:18:43,541 --> 01:18:46,083
Battle rap porn? Ma
1528
01:18:46,541 --> 01:18:48,166
You're going to need a hijab
1529
01:18:48,791 --> 01:18:51,541
Judging by your face
You gonna need a kneecap
1530
01:18:51,625 --> 01:18:55,291
And I'mma call an imam
To come and get this she-man
1531
01:18:55,375 --> 01:18:58,500
'Cause she GMO like watermelons
Without the seeds, man
1532
01:18:58,583 --> 01:19:01,250
[audience cheering]
1533
01:19:02,291 --> 01:19:04,916
[rapping] Okay? Okay?
1534
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:07,375
[all] Oh fucking kay!
1535
01:19:07,875 --> 01:19:09,708
I don't care if you Muslim
1536
01:19:09,791 --> 01:19:12,208
That dirty scarf mean your hair not done
1537
01:19:12,291 --> 01:19:13,208
Alhamdulillah
1538
01:19:13,625 --> 01:19:16,708
I plan to blow shit in this building
When I'm done
1539
01:19:16,791 --> 01:19:18,000
I wax bitches
1540
01:19:18,083 --> 01:19:20,416
She need a hearing aid
Read these lips, bitch, you're done
1541
01:19:20,500 --> 01:19:22,625
I'll carve the beats in her forehead
1542
01:19:22,708 --> 01:19:24,875
She'll get the reminder where I'm from
1543
01:19:24,958 --> 01:19:26,250
You seem smarter than you look
1544
01:19:26,333 --> 01:19:29,083
Nah, she that dumb
You couldn't fuck with me in a threesome
1545
01:19:29,166 --> 01:19:30,833
Body bag would be this outcome
1546
01:19:30,916 --> 01:19:33,208
Bruce Leroy, you get Sho'nuff
1547
01:19:33,291 --> 01:19:35,666
How we kick it
Head crack if I call a bluff
1548
01:19:35,750 --> 01:19:38,666
But a crackhead and her brains
Spilling out is not enough
1549
01:19:39,208 --> 01:19:42,833
Y'all gonna have to dig up out the dirt
To see the diamond in the rough
1550
01:19:42,916 --> 01:19:44,916
-[audience reacting]
-Babs hit my line
1551
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,583
With the negotiations
Like this a paid hit job
1552
01:19:47,666 --> 01:19:50,041
Cool because I pull it off
The hip quick with no prob
1553
01:19:50,125 --> 01:19:53,125
And it'll be a permanent head wrap
For a hijab
1554
01:19:53,208 --> 01:19:55,875
-[audience cheering]
-[bell dinging]
1555
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:59,833
["I Want In" by Babs Bunny playing]
1556
01:20:09,416 --> 01:20:13,416
Oh, my God. My God, my God, my God.
1557
01:20:13,500 --> 01:20:14,666
That was amazing.
1558
01:20:16,250 --> 01:20:17,291
Glad I dragged you, huh?
1559
01:20:17,375 --> 01:20:20,458
Yes! Yes, I mean, I...
1560
01:20:21,375 --> 01:20:22,750
I heard about them,
1561
01:20:23,083 --> 01:20:26,583
and I might have seen a Queen of the Ring
clip online or some shit,
1562
01:20:26,666 --> 01:20:29,333
but to be in there...
1563
01:20:30,375 --> 01:20:32,375
Thank you. Thanks.
1564
01:20:34,250 --> 01:20:35,416
Ah, no worries.
1565
01:20:36,416 --> 01:20:38,916
I got you. Anything you need.
1566
01:20:41,666 --> 01:20:45,833
["Adventure Time" by Nai Br.XX playing]
1567
01:20:51,583 --> 01:20:53,583
♪ Not asking for much ♪
1568
01:20:55,833 --> 01:20:58,583
♪ Just a little extra attention ♪
1569
01:20:58,916 --> 01:21:00,916
♪ No need to mention ♪
1570
01:21:01,291 --> 01:21:02,125
What?
1571
01:21:03,375 --> 01:21:04,208
Nothing.
1572
01:21:04,500 --> 01:21:07,708
♪ More than I can bear ♪
1573
01:21:10,541 --> 01:21:16,041
♪ And boy you're like
my favorite pastime ♪
1574
01:21:16,875 --> 01:21:17,708
What?
1575
01:21:18,916 --> 01:21:19,750
Nothing.
1576
01:21:21,125 --> 01:21:24,166
♪ Never find a love like this ♪
1577
01:21:24,333 --> 01:21:29,500
♪ Make me feel like
I never find a love like you ♪
1578
01:21:29,875 --> 01:21:30,875
Oh, yes.
1579
01:21:32,500 --> 01:21:34,500
Oh, brother. Oh, brother.
1580
01:21:35,166 --> 01:21:36,208
Oh, yeah.
1581
01:21:36,500 --> 01:21:37,750
Oh, oh.
1582
01:21:38,375 --> 01:21:40,041
Oh, shit. Mmm.
1583
01:21:40,250 --> 01:21:42,750
That's...
Yeah, that's a young tongue there.
1584
01:21:43,125 --> 01:21:46,125
Oh, God.
Are you... beat boxing down there?
1585
01:21:46,208 --> 01:21:48,208
Oh, my God! Oh shit!
1586
01:21:48,291 --> 01:21:52,833
D... E, F, G, H, I, J, K.
1587
01:21:53,375 --> 01:21:56,458
Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
1588
01:21:57,208 --> 01:21:58,416
Oh, shit.
1589
01:22:02,166 --> 01:22:03,166
What you doing?
1590
01:22:04,625 --> 01:22:08,833
[clicks tongue] Me?
I'm-- I'm writing on my bullshit play.
1591
01:22:09,375 --> 01:22:11,375
[both chuckle]
1592
01:22:11,541 --> 01:22:13,125
Yo, let me ask you a question.
1593
01:22:13,375 --> 01:22:14,708
You just asked me one.
1594
01:22:15,333 --> 01:22:16,750
I gotta ask you another one.
1595
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:17,916
What?
1596
01:22:18,583 --> 01:22:20,041
Yo, you Muslim or something?
1597
01:22:20,750 --> 01:22:21,583
What?
1598
01:22:22,416 --> 01:22:24,291
Why you always got that thing
on your head?
1599
01:22:26,958 --> 01:22:28,000
[scoffs]
1600
01:22:29,041 --> 01:22:30,416
I just... I wear my...
1601
01:22:31,291 --> 01:22:32,791
What does D stand for?
1602
01:22:35,625 --> 01:22:37,833
-You got it.
-Okay. All right.
1603
01:22:41,750 --> 01:22:43,625
Oh, now, that's dope.
1604
01:22:44,583 --> 01:22:46,875
-Oh, the leg tat?
-Yeah.
1605
01:22:47,291 --> 01:22:48,333
Thanks.
1606
01:22:49,166 --> 01:22:50,291
My mother drew that.
1607
01:22:51,750 --> 01:22:54,791
It's part of a series of greeting cards
she did in the '70s
1608
01:22:54,875 --> 01:22:57,291
that never quite took off, but, yeah.
1609
01:22:58,083 --> 01:22:59,750
That must have been dope, though.
1610
01:22:59,833 --> 01:23:00,833
What?
1611
01:23:00,916 --> 01:23:02,875
Having an artist for your moms.
1612
01:23:03,291 --> 01:23:04,291
That's crazy.
1613
01:23:05,708 --> 01:23:07,708
She was great, but...
1614
01:23:09,208 --> 01:23:11,375
there were other parts, you know.
1615
01:23:11,458 --> 01:23:16,125
Government cheese, and, uh... squatting.
1616
01:23:17,083 --> 01:23:19,500
-Artist life.
-Nah, word?
1617
01:23:19,583 --> 01:23:23,541
Yeah, God, my mother struggled.
My dad did, too. Both of them.
1618
01:23:23,875 --> 01:23:25,541
As artists, you know?
1619
01:23:26,166 --> 01:23:27,916
My father was a jazz drummer.
1620
01:23:28,708 --> 01:23:31,875
But to support the family,
he would do plumbing work.
1621
01:23:32,666 --> 01:23:37,750
And he did it so much that it would leave
like permanent oil stains on his hand.
1622
01:23:38,583 --> 01:23:41,083
-That's crazy.
-Yeah, and my mother...
1623
01:23:41,958 --> 01:23:44,000
when she wasn't painting,
she was teaching.
1624
01:23:45,791 --> 01:23:47,583
[sighs] I said I would never.
1625
01:23:49,666 --> 01:23:51,875
Said you would never what?
Like, teach kids?
1626
01:23:53,791 --> 01:23:54,833
Struggle.
1627
01:23:56,250 --> 01:23:57,541
But here I am.
1628
01:23:58,083 --> 01:23:59,416
[D sighs]
1629
01:24:00,458 --> 01:24:04,250
Yeah, my mom didn't think me making music
made sense, either.
1630
01:24:04,333 --> 01:24:05,375
No?
1631
01:24:05,458 --> 01:24:07,916
Nah, but I'm like...
1632
01:24:08,708 --> 01:24:11,500
"You're the one that put
Coltrane and Quincy, like, in me."
1633
01:24:11,583 --> 01:24:13,500
Know what I'm saying?
"What did you expect?"
1634
01:24:13,583 --> 01:24:14,416
Right.
1635
01:24:15,500 --> 01:24:16,750
We good now, though.
1636
01:24:17,541 --> 01:24:18,375
Yeah?
1637
01:24:19,458 --> 01:24:21,916
I know she up there jamming
to my shit right now,
1638
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:23,625
-you know what I mean?
-[chuckles]
1639
01:24:24,458 --> 01:24:25,416
Yours too, though.
1640
01:24:26,750 --> 01:24:27,958
[Radha] What? Jamming?
1641
01:24:28,625 --> 01:24:30,500
Nah, your moms.
1642
01:24:31,583 --> 01:24:32,708
She proud of you.
1643
01:24:35,750 --> 01:24:38,791
You ain't never try to... talk to her?
1644
01:24:40,958 --> 01:24:41,791
No.
1645
01:24:43,458 --> 01:24:44,541
Why not? Like...
1646
01:24:46,625 --> 01:24:48,583
I don't know.
I don't know what I would say.
1647
01:24:51,666 --> 01:24:52,750
[D chuckles]
1648
01:24:54,916 --> 01:24:56,916
[beatboxing]
1649
01:25:00,208 --> 01:25:01,083
What?
1650
01:25:02,708 --> 01:25:03,791
What, what?
1651
01:25:05,250 --> 01:25:06,916
[rapping] Mama, Mama may I
1652
01:25:08,083 --> 01:25:09,708
Mama, Mama may I
1653
01:25:10,958 --> 01:25:12,666
Mama, Mama may I
1654
01:25:13,791 --> 01:25:15,541
Mama, Mama may I
1655
01:25:16,791 --> 01:25:20,333
Mama may I tell you
How much I love you
1656
01:25:21,416 --> 01:25:24,666
And I would give all of these
Beats equipment up
1657
01:25:24,750 --> 01:25:26,791
Just for one more chance to hug you
1658
01:25:26,875 --> 01:25:27,958
[Radha] Mmm!
1659
01:25:28,583 --> 01:25:29,916
Mama, may I
1660
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,416
Mama, may I tell you
how much I miss you
1661
01:25:34,166 --> 01:25:37,916
They preach all this masculinity shit
But if you was here I'd kiss you
1662
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:38,833
Wow.
1663
01:25:39,625 --> 01:25:42,625
Tell you, despite it all
I still love you
1664
01:25:44,208 --> 01:25:46,583
Showed me gratitude by the handful
1665
01:25:48,333 --> 01:25:51,291
I know you not here
I can still say that I'm thankful
1666
01:25:52,375 --> 01:25:53,458
Mama, may I
1667
01:25:54,541 --> 01:25:56,541
Mama, Mama, may I
1668
01:25:58,500 --> 01:26:00,000
Mama, may I
1669
01:26:00,083 --> 01:26:03,041
Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, may I
1670
01:26:04,791 --> 01:26:08,500
Mama, may I say
I wonder sometimes like
1671
01:26:09,041 --> 01:26:11,500
Are you the person
feeding these rhymes
1672
01:26:11,583 --> 01:26:14,500
And if I'm not creating art
Am I committing a crime
1673
01:26:14,583 --> 01:26:15,625
Mama, may I
1674
01:26:16,625 --> 01:26:19,875
'Cause sometimes
I just be missing you like
1675
01:26:20,541 --> 01:26:24,791
Wishing you were here
Instead of out there somewhere
1676
01:26:25,291 --> 01:26:26,458
Mama, may I
1677
01:26:26,833 --> 01:26:28,708
Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, may I
1678
01:26:28,791 --> 01:26:30,458
May I, may I
1679
01:26:32,708 --> 01:26:33,833
Mama, may I
1680
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:36,875
Mama, Mama, may I
1681
01:26:38,166 --> 01:26:39,041
Mama...
1682
01:26:41,333 --> 01:26:42,375
Are you good?
1683
01:26:42,958 --> 01:26:44,208
[Radha] Mm.
1684
01:26:45,208 --> 01:26:47,041
-Yeah, I'm good.
-Are you sure?
1685
01:26:47,125 --> 01:26:48,500
-You sure?
-Yeah. I'm good.
1686
01:26:49,041 --> 01:26:49,916
I'm good.
1687
01:26:50,708 --> 01:26:51,625
I'm good.
1688
01:26:57,875 --> 01:27:00,333
Yo, come through later.
1689
01:27:00,875 --> 01:27:03,833
Oh, I have rehearsals later, so...
1690
01:27:04,375 --> 01:27:05,875
So, come through after that.
1691
01:27:09,416 --> 01:27:12,583
I have previews
in a couple of weeks, so...
1692
01:27:12,750 --> 01:27:14,416
um...
1693
01:27:14,875 --> 01:27:18,333
Yeah. No, that's cool.
Fuck it. Do what you want.
1694
01:27:19,458 --> 01:27:20,791
What's the problem?
1695
01:27:23,250 --> 01:27:24,750
Let me ask you a question.
1696
01:27:25,125 --> 01:27:27,125
You were just talking shit before, right?
1697
01:27:27,416 --> 01:27:28,250
I'm sorry?
1698
01:27:28,791 --> 01:27:30,333
Nah, like, for the mixtape.
1699
01:27:30,541 --> 01:27:32,375
You never wanted to do this shit.
1700
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,708
Nah, it's just another trip
to the Black terrain for you.
1701
01:27:35,791 --> 01:27:37,708
I don't know what you're talking about.
1702
01:27:38,416 --> 01:27:40,416
That's crazy.
I came to Harlem for this shit?
1703
01:27:41,083 --> 01:27:42,166
[car alarm beeps]
1704
01:27:42,250 --> 01:27:44,541
D! D, wait!
1705
01:27:44,708 --> 01:27:47,541
[clapping]
1706
01:27:47,750 --> 01:27:50,750
My baby's finally got her back blown out.
1707
01:27:50,875 --> 01:27:52,125
[grunts and laughs]
1708
01:27:52,291 --> 01:27:54,833
Come here. Come here.
Let me talk to you.
1709
01:28:00,250 --> 01:28:01,333
[woman] I am me.
1710
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:03,166
I am she.
1711
01:28:03,583 --> 01:28:05,500
I am Black divorcee.
1712
01:28:05,583 --> 01:28:07,125
Cut. I don't believe you.
1713
01:28:08,416 --> 01:28:10,791
Where's the rotting carcass
of your broken heart?
1714
01:28:10,875 --> 01:28:12,208
I need to smell it.
1715
01:28:13,250 --> 01:28:14,250
I need to smell it.
1716
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:15,833
Yeah.
1717
01:28:27,041 --> 01:28:29,833
There should be a fire
in the crack of your ass.
1718
01:28:30,208 --> 01:28:31,291
Be the phoenix.
1719
01:28:32,708 --> 01:28:36,250
I am bursting out from behind the head!
1720
01:28:36,333 --> 01:28:38,208
Yes, damn it! Yes, damn it!
1721
01:28:38,291 --> 01:28:40,583
-You had your chance, Darlene!
-Yeah, you had it!
1722
01:28:40,666 --> 01:28:43,750
-You had it, Darlene. Yes!
-Now stay the fuck away!
1723
01:28:43,833 --> 01:28:45,750
Give it to me. Give it to me.
1724
01:28:46,125 --> 01:28:48,708
-Just let me say what I got to say.
-Yes.
1725
01:28:48,791 --> 01:28:49,791
-Okay?
-Uh-huh!
1726
01:28:50,500 --> 01:28:51,833
-I am me.
-Me.
1727
01:28:52,541 --> 01:28:53,916
-I am free.
-Free.
1728
01:28:54,458 --> 01:28:58,083
-I am Black di-vor-cee!
-[shouting] Black di-vor-cee!
1729
01:28:58,166 --> 01:29:00,041
Yes! Yes!
1730
01:29:00,375 --> 01:29:01,291
[Forrest] Yes!
1731
01:29:08,166 --> 01:29:11,000
I'm Frank DiLella. Remember this face?
1732
01:29:11,083 --> 01:29:15,125
She was one of Spotlight Magazine's
30 Under 30 playwrights to watch.
1733
01:29:15,833 --> 01:29:17,500
We watched, but where'd she go?
1734
01:29:18,208 --> 01:29:20,250
Well, after years of obscurity,
she's returned
1735
01:29:20,333 --> 01:29:24,166
to the theater in J. Whitman's
searing new production of Harlem Avenue,
1736
01:29:24,250 --> 01:29:26,166
directed by Julie Lipshitz.
1737
01:29:26,625 --> 01:29:29,208
It's Harlem Ave, but okay.
1738
01:29:29,291 --> 01:29:31,916
Harlem Ave premieres
in just a couple days.
1739
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:34,291
Welcome, New York playwright,
Radha Blank.
1740
01:29:34,375 --> 01:29:37,083
Frank, it's so awesome to be
sitting with you. Thanks for having me.
1741
01:29:37,833 --> 01:29:38,875
Radha, where have you been?
1742
01:29:39,583 --> 01:29:41,750
I've been, uh, writing plays
1743
01:29:41,833 --> 01:29:45,083
and teaching theater to teens in Harlem.
1744
01:29:45,166 --> 01:29:46,000
Hey, guys.
1745
01:29:46,333 --> 01:29:48,041
-What's up?
-[students] Hi!
1746
01:29:48,208 --> 01:29:49,833
Mmm, my boo look nice.
1747
01:29:49,916 --> 01:29:51,458
Yo, she's official, son.
1748
01:29:51,541 --> 01:29:53,208
That's my teacher, yo.
1749
01:29:53,291 --> 01:29:55,875
Speaking of Harlem,
what is Harlem Ave about?
1750
01:29:56,875 --> 01:29:58,416
Harlem Ave is about...
1751
01:30:01,041 --> 01:30:04,666
a young Black couple,
and their young white neighbor,
1752
01:30:04,750 --> 01:30:07,416
and how the three of them see
gentrification from different angles.
1753
01:30:07,708 --> 01:30:09,333
What inspired you to write this?
1754
01:30:10,041 --> 01:30:12,875
I just wanted to talk about
what's going on in Harlem.
1755
01:30:13,416 --> 01:30:15,500
Is it true you and J. Whitman
1756
01:30:15,583 --> 01:30:18,500
are collaborating on his new
Ida B. Wells musical?
1757
01:30:19,375 --> 01:30:21,333
Who told you that? [chuckles]
1758
01:30:21,833 --> 01:30:24,000
With opening night just days away,
1759
01:30:24,083 --> 01:30:26,208
and a return to the theater
in almost a decade...
1760
01:30:26,291 --> 01:30:27,125
Yes.
1761
01:30:27,208 --> 01:30:29,708
...what scares you the most
about this moment?
1762
01:30:38,250 --> 01:30:39,750
-[Archie] Yes!
-[Radha] No.
1763
01:30:39,833 --> 01:30:42,416
You are giving me Miss Sofia
in the motherland realness.
1764
01:30:42,500 --> 01:30:44,791
No, I look like an angry mushroom.
1765
01:30:45,250 --> 01:30:46,625
No. No.
1766
01:30:46,708 --> 01:30:48,875
Look, don't worry about it.
We'll find something.
1767
01:30:49,625 --> 01:30:50,625
My God.
1768
01:30:51,166 --> 01:30:54,208
Opening night is like, a few nights away,
1769
01:30:54,291 --> 01:30:56,625
and I feel like shit, Archie.
1770
01:30:56,708 --> 01:30:59,166
It's nerves. I've seen it a million times.
1771
01:30:59,708 --> 01:31:01,333
No, it's not nerves.
1772
01:31:01,791 --> 01:31:03,208
You still drinking that diet drink?
1773
01:31:05,250 --> 01:31:06,291
It's the play.
1774
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:09,375
It's not mine anymore.
1775
01:31:11,416 --> 01:31:12,625
The next one will be.
1776
01:31:15,375 --> 01:31:17,375
What kind of fucking response is that?
1777
01:31:19,666 --> 01:31:22,750
Oh, no, hon. Do not come for me.
1778
01:31:24,083 --> 01:31:25,166
Why not?
1779
01:31:26,041 --> 01:31:28,125
Why not, Archie? You played your part.
1780
01:31:28,208 --> 01:31:29,625
-What?
-Yeah.
1781
01:31:29,708 --> 01:31:33,166
Look, you got yourself here, okay?
No one forced you to do anything.
1782
01:31:33,250 --> 01:31:35,500
You always do what you want.
You fucked that 25-year-old.
1783
01:31:35,583 --> 01:31:38,000
-26!
-Yeah, you did that rapping shit.
1784
01:31:38,083 --> 01:31:40,333
That rapping shit made me feel
good about myself.
1785
01:31:40,416 --> 01:31:42,250
[Archie] Yeah, well,
we all need something.
1786
01:31:42,333 --> 01:31:44,333
You acted like Whitman was our only shot.
1787
01:31:44,416 --> 01:31:46,083
Like I wasn't going to have
another chance.
1788
01:31:46,166 --> 01:31:49,083
Don't you dare accuse me
of not believing in you, okay?
1789
01:31:49,166 --> 01:31:50,708
Do you have any idea what I...
1790
01:31:53,750 --> 01:31:54,666
What?
1791
01:31:55,541 --> 01:31:57,708
Jiggled his balls a little, yes.
1792
01:31:58,375 --> 01:31:59,750
Anything for a friend.
1793
01:32:00,583 --> 01:32:01,666
[Radha] Oh!
1794
01:32:02,041 --> 01:32:05,375
Well, let's give it up
for patron saint Archie.
1795
01:32:05,458 --> 01:32:09,166
Jiggling old wrinkly balls
on behalf of the poor.
1796
01:32:09,250 --> 01:32:11,541
Please, Archie,
you ain't do that shit for me.
1797
01:32:11,625 --> 01:32:13,375
-What?
-You did it for yourself.
1798
01:32:13,458 --> 01:32:16,916
Now, tell me why the fuck
am I still your client?
1799
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:18,166
Oh, you want to go there.
1800
01:32:18,250 --> 01:32:19,541
We don't have to.
1801
01:32:19,625 --> 01:32:22,916
We all know you keep me around
because it makes you feel better.
1802
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:23,875
About?
1803
01:32:24,500 --> 01:32:26,875
About paying $5,000 a month for rent.
1804
01:32:27,333 --> 01:32:31,583
About taking vacations to Greece
in your thongs and shit.
1805
01:32:31,666 --> 01:32:33,958
-Acting like you're not really even--
-What?
1806
01:32:36,208 --> 01:32:37,083
Korean?
1807
01:32:37,791 --> 01:32:38,750
I didn't say that.
1808
01:32:41,208 --> 01:32:44,000
Was my dad thrilled
that my prom date was Black?
1809
01:32:44,083 --> 01:32:46,583
No, but thank God you were a girl.
1810
01:32:47,375 --> 01:32:50,291
You played along
and saved my sissy ass from getting beat,
1811
01:32:50,750 --> 01:32:52,750
and I will always love you for that,
1812
01:32:53,250 --> 01:32:54,875
but we are grown,
1813
01:32:54,958 --> 01:32:57,958
and I am out and proud,
1814
01:32:58,041 --> 01:32:59,750
and very Korean.
1815
01:33:00,375 --> 01:33:03,333
And I don't owe you anything
except friendship and honesty.
1816
01:33:03,416 --> 01:33:05,625
Yes, you are fucking talented.
1817
01:33:05,708 --> 01:33:10,166
Yes, your mom is dead,
but you are not above being a sellout.
1818
01:33:16,125 --> 01:33:17,583
I'm not a sellout, Archie.
1819
01:33:18,125 --> 01:33:19,166
Take it back.
1820
01:33:21,500 --> 01:33:23,333
I said take it back.
1821
01:33:28,458 --> 01:33:29,333
You know what?
1822
01:33:30,916 --> 01:33:31,750
Fuck you.
1823
01:33:34,333 --> 01:33:37,166
Fuck these ugly-ass dresses.
1824
01:33:37,875 --> 01:33:40,250
And fuck opening night.
I'm not even going.
1825
01:33:41,541 --> 01:33:44,083
-That dress did not deserve that!
-[door slams]
1826
01:33:47,208 --> 01:33:49,083
Fuck! Fuck!
1827
01:33:56,083 --> 01:33:59,875
["Footsteps Of A Queen"
by Courtney Bryan playing]
1828
01:36:11,791 --> 01:36:13,208
[exhales]
1829
01:36:16,291 --> 01:36:18,791
[hip-hop track playing]
1830
01:36:40,333 --> 01:36:43,333
[man rapping]
One bad apple just spoiled the bunch
1831
01:36:43,416 --> 01:36:46,583
Looking at your face
I just spoiled my lunch
1832
01:36:46,666 --> 01:36:49,500
You can't mess me or even test me
1833
01:36:49,583 --> 01:36:52,875
Because if you do, your face I'll punch
[laughs]
1834
01:36:53,041 --> 01:36:54,375
Mmm, not quite.
1835
01:36:54,458 --> 01:36:56,208
[man chuckling]
1836
01:36:56,416 --> 01:36:57,750
About fucking time.
1837
01:36:58,458 --> 01:36:59,333
I'm here.
1838
01:37:08,458 --> 01:37:10,416
[Radha] When did she do this one?
1839
01:37:10,583 --> 01:37:11,541
I don't know.
1840
01:37:12,583 --> 01:37:14,625
I think right after you were born.
1841
01:37:15,458 --> 01:37:16,500
[Radha] Hmm.
1842
01:37:17,458 --> 01:37:22,208
Her Ethiopian Coptic art phase
of the '70s.
1843
01:37:22,291 --> 01:37:24,583
[both chuckling]
1844
01:37:25,750 --> 01:37:27,333
So, what do we do with it now?
1845
01:37:28,333 --> 01:37:32,000
[sighs] I got most of her work at my place,
1846
01:37:32,083 --> 01:37:33,750
and I don't have any more room.
1847
01:37:34,083 --> 01:37:36,750
Uh, neither do I.
I live in a box, remember?
1848
01:37:38,750 --> 01:37:39,666
Fine.
1849
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:42,208
[scoffs] I guess we'll put it in storage.
1850
01:37:45,416 --> 01:37:46,416
[Radha] Wow.
1851
01:37:48,916 --> 01:37:52,000
You come here with a dream
and your work ends up in storage.
1852
01:37:53,500 --> 01:37:55,083
Is that what you think of Ma?
1853
01:37:55,666 --> 01:37:57,250
No, I'm just saying.
1854
01:37:59,250 --> 01:38:00,958
Ma did what she wanted to.
1855
01:38:01,416 --> 01:38:05,083
She was a teacher. She was a curator.
1856
01:38:05,750 --> 01:38:07,708
She chanted. She traveled.
1857
01:38:08,083 --> 01:38:10,208
She did some art. She did some theater.
1858
01:38:10,708 --> 01:38:11,958
She lived a life.
1859
01:38:14,458 --> 01:38:16,708
She was a lot more
than just these paintings.
1860
01:38:17,541 --> 01:38:20,916
No, but she came to New York
to become a famous artist.
1861
01:38:21,666 --> 01:38:23,791
And what does she have
to even show for it?
1862
01:38:24,791 --> 01:38:26,583
Us, you dummy.
1863
01:38:27,250 --> 01:38:29,750
She said that we were
her greatest creation.
1864
01:38:33,500 --> 01:38:34,541
Mmm.
1865
01:38:42,750 --> 01:38:43,791
I really miss her.
1866
01:38:44,333 --> 01:38:45,291
Me too, sis.
1867
01:38:46,500 --> 01:38:47,750
[sighs]
1868
01:38:47,875 --> 01:38:49,875
[students chattering]
1869
01:39:02,958 --> 01:39:05,000
-'Sup, Miss B?
-Hey. [chuckles]
1870
01:39:13,375 --> 01:39:14,291
Elaine.
1871
01:39:19,041 --> 01:39:20,208
You got a second?
1872
01:39:29,500 --> 01:39:30,500
How's it going?
1873
01:39:35,208 --> 01:39:37,666
I think you should come back to class.
1874
01:39:38,333 --> 01:39:39,208
I'm good.
1875
01:39:40,666 --> 01:39:41,666
I know.
1876
01:39:41,750 --> 01:39:44,041
That's why I think you should
come back to class.
1877
01:39:45,041 --> 01:39:46,500
You're a natural, Elaine.
1878
01:39:50,250 --> 01:39:51,916
Look, I know we have some beef,
1879
01:39:52,458 --> 01:39:54,500
but I am completely over it,
1880
01:39:55,500 --> 01:39:58,000
especially since I know it had
nothing to do with me.
1881
01:39:59,375 --> 01:40:00,291
What you mean?
1882
01:40:01,666 --> 01:40:06,541
I'm talking about expecting
to like one kind of person
1883
01:40:06,625 --> 01:40:10,083
and then this other
kind of person comes along and...
1884
01:40:11,125 --> 01:40:12,208
they affect you.
1885
01:40:14,500 --> 01:40:15,333
Rosa.
1886
01:40:16,125 --> 01:40:17,000
What about her?
1887
01:40:17,166 --> 01:40:19,166
[school bell droning]
1888
01:40:20,416 --> 01:40:22,083
I think you should stay for class.
1889
01:40:26,500 --> 01:40:28,083
Well, look here!
1890
01:40:28,166 --> 01:40:30,625
-Oh, boy.
-Oh, shit. You back?
1891
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:32,833
[Radha] Elaine?
1892
01:40:36,083 --> 01:40:39,916
Well, I guess if the dean said
you have to come back to class,
1893
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:42,083
you can understudy Rosa.
1894
01:40:42,208 --> 01:40:45,916
Wow. Black Jesus is really shining on you.
1895
01:40:46,583 --> 01:40:47,958
-Understudy?
-Mm-hmm.
1896
01:40:48,083 --> 01:40:49,625
Nah. Mm-mm.
1897
01:40:49,791 --> 01:40:53,000
Oh, shit. Wild Woman Fights, Part Deux.
1898
01:40:53,083 --> 01:40:54,125
Look, Rosa, I don't even--
1899
01:40:54,208 --> 01:40:56,583
Nah, fuck that, Miss B.
She ain't understudying me.
1900
01:40:56,666 --> 01:40:57,958
Calm down, Rosa, okay?
1901
01:40:58,875 --> 01:41:00,875
-She can have the damn part.
-[all] What?
1902
01:41:01,458 --> 01:41:03,166
I'm sick of playing this broad, yo!
1903
01:41:03,250 --> 01:41:05,583
I mean, no offense,
but these breeding chicks?
1904
01:41:05,666 --> 01:41:07,833
And then to have this Dumbo
all up on me and shit?
1905
01:41:07,916 --> 01:41:10,458
I mean, I got range and shit,
but I ain't that good.
1906
01:41:10,541 --> 01:41:12,041
Please, Elaine, take this shit.
1907
01:41:14,250 --> 01:41:15,166
You heard her.
1908
01:41:16,208 --> 01:41:20,583
So, does that mean I can simulate
running up in Elaine now?
1909
01:41:21,041 --> 01:41:22,125
[student] Word, yo.
1910
01:41:23,500 --> 01:41:25,125
-Move!
-Damn.
1911
01:41:29,583 --> 01:41:30,708
Wow.
1912
01:41:32,416 --> 01:41:33,541
About fucking time!
1913
01:41:33,625 --> 01:41:34,958
[all chuckle]
1914
01:41:35,291 --> 01:41:39,625
Hail, hail our new Queen of Vaginal Eggs.
1915
01:41:40,291 --> 01:41:43,000
[all] Hail, hail.
1916
01:41:43,291 --> 01:41:44,708
[Radha's knees crack]
1917
01:41:46,750 --> 01:41:49,791
[soft piano playing]
1918
01:41:58,208 --> 01:42:00,791
[Archie] Hey, let's not fight.
It gives us wrinkles.
1919
01:42:02,333 --> 01:42:05,708
Look, I know you wanted to skip out,
but it's still your big night.
1920
01:42:06,500 --> 01:42:07,541
Hope to see you.
1921
01:42:08,708 --> 01:42:09,583
Bye.
1922
01:42:16,666 --> 01:42:17,500
[D] Yo.
1923
01:42:17,666 --> 01:42:18,916
[answering machine beeps]
1924
01:42:19,708 --> 01:42:23,916
Hey, D, it's me, Radha.
1925
01:42:25,625 --> 01:42:26,666
Um...
1926
01:42:29,291 --> 01:42:30,416
I was just calling.
1927
01:42:33,208 --> 01:42:35,041
[exhales] Um...
1928
01:42:35,750 --> 01:42:38,833
Yeah, I don't know
why I always wear this thing on my head.
1929
01:42:40,375 --> 01:42:44,333
Maybe for a... sense of comfort?
1930
01:42:48,375 --> 01:42:50,708
Anyway, I was just calling.
1931
01:42:52,458 --> 01:42:53,333
Okay.
1932
01:42:54,333 --> 01:42:56,333
See you later... or not.
1933
01:43:14,625 --> 01:43:15,916
[grunting]
1934
01:43:19,041 --> 01:43:20,125
Mmm!
1935
01:43:21,750 --> 01:43:22,583
Wait.
1936
01:43:23,916 --> 01:43:25,291
Why you all dressed up?
1937
01:43:26,916 --> 01:43:28,166
You going to a funeral?
1938
01:43:29,958 --> 01:43:31,250
What's up with this sandwich?
1939
01:43:33,250 --> 01:43:34,333
You poisoning me?
1940
01:43:35,041 --> 01:43:37,291
Shit! I'm dead.
1941
01:43:37,791 --> 01:43:38,791
[coughing]
1942
01:43:38,958 --> 01:43:40,708
I better finish it, though, huh?
1943
01:43:47,125 --> 01:43:48,416
Oswaldo Rivera.
1944
01:43:49,125 --> 01:43:50,791
Sorry, you're not on the list.
1945
01:43:50,875 --> 01:43:52,250
No, no, we on that list.
1946
01:43:52,333 --> 01:43:53,875
We know her. That's our teacher.
1947
01:43:54,500 --> 01:43:57,000
You just think we came from
Harlem and got all dressed up and shit
1948
01:43:57,083 --> 01:43:59,375
just to harass your pasty white ass,
that's what you saying?
1949
01:43:59,458 --> 01:44:01,916
What's the problem, lady?
You need to see my tits or something?
1950
01:44:02,458 --> 01:44:03,541
[Radha] Okay, true.
1951
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:05,583
It's my opening night, right?
1952
01:44:07,083 --> 01:44:08,250
But Archie was right.
1953
01:44:09,625 --> 01:44:10,625
I sold out.
1954
01:44:11,750 --> 01:44:12,583
And now what?
1955
01:44:12,666 --> 01:44:15,291
I have to go down
and sit through that shit?
1956
01:44:18,708 --> 01:44:19,958
[sighs]
1957
01:44:20,500 --> 01:44:23,291
So, this is the part
where I tell you I was an artist
1958
01:44:23,375 --> 01:44:25,125
who'd fallen from grace, right?
1959
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:29,500
Then I impart some wisdom to you
that changes your outlook
1960
01:44:30,375 --> 01:44:32,583
because you gave me a fucking sandwich?
1961
01:44:33,958 --> 01:44:37,041
Like I'm some fucking magical Negro
1962
01:44:37,125 --> 01:44:39,250
just sitting here with shit in my pants
1963
01:44:39,333 --> 01:44:41,875
so I can help you make up your mind?
1964
01:44:42,375 --> 01:44:45,291
Nope, I ain't that nigger.
1965
01:44:46,250 --> 01:44:48,958
And maybe next time, if it don't kill you,
1966
01:44:49,375 --> 01:44:54,083
could you put some mayonnaise
on both sides of this dry-ass bread?
1967
01:44:55,458 --> 01:44:57,958
Trying to cut my throat the slow way.
1968
01:45:01,666 --> 01:45:02,791
You're welcome.
1969
01:45:03,375 --> 01:45:05,000
-Exciting, huh?
-Yes.
1970
01:45:07,166 --> 01:45:09,416
And I've got insurance tonight,
1971
01:45:09,500 --> 01:45:11,166
so no bathroom breaks for me.
1972
01:45:11,250 --> 01:45:14,375
You missed the whole second act
of that last play we went to,
1973
01:45:14,458 --> 01:45:17,250
-and the mockingbird didn't die.
-Oh, good.
1974
01:45:22,416 --> 01:45:23,458
Radha?
1975
01:45:29,750 --> 01:45:30,750
Radha?
1976
01:45:36,458 --> 01:45:39,250
-Hey. Hey.
-Hey.
1977
01:45:39,916 --> 01:45:42,625
It's a really friendly house
out there, you guys.
1978
01:45:42,708 --> 01:45:44,541
-Oh, good.
-Yeah, break a leg.
1979
01:45:44,625 --> 01:45:45,541
[both] Thank you!
1980
01:45:45,625 --> 01:45:47,625
[Stacey vocalizing]
1981
01:45:48,500 --> 01:45:51,666
[Whitman chuckling]
Enjoy yourselves tonight. Thank you.
1982
01:45:51,750 --> 01:45:55,958
-Archie!
-Hey, I love the look.
1983
01:45:56,041 --> 01:45:58,000
Well, thank you. You, too.
1984
01:45:58,541 --> 01:46:00,875
-It's five minutes to curtain.
-She's on her way.
1985
01:46:01,625 --> 01:46:02,500
I hope so.
1986
01:46:03,041 --> 01:46:06,083
Actually, I want her to meet the investors
for the Shirley Chisholm musical.
1987
01:46:07,291 --> 01:46:09,291
Maybe you could come on
as a producer.
1988
01:46:11,375 --> 01:46:14,250
If by "producer,"
you mean "jiggle your balls again,"
1989
01:46:14,333 --> 01:46:15,708
I think I'll pass.
1990
01:46:19,666 --> 01:46:21,333
Patty, Billy, how are you?
1991
01:46:21,416 --> 01:46:23,250
Isn't this a wonderful evening?
1992
01:46:27,708 --> 01:46:33,875
♪ Harlem ♪
1993
01:46:34,041 --> 01:46:36,958
-♪ Ave ♪
-[gun fires]
1994
01:46:38,500 --> 01:46:40,250
[upbeat hip-hop playing]
1995
01:46:40,375 --> 01:46:42,375
[vocalizing]
1996
01:46:52,208 --> 01:46:54,833
♪ Harlem Ave, Harlem Ave ♪
1997
01:46:55,458 --> 01:46:59,125
-[chuckling] Oh, shit.
-♪ You might find love on Harlem Ave ♪
1998
01:46:59,208 --> 01:47:01,875
♪ Harlem Ave, Harlem Ave ♪
1999
01:47:01,958 --> 01:47:05,916
♪ You just might get shot on Harlem Ave ♪
2000
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:08,625
♪ Harlem Ave,
hub of Black and brown life ♪
2001
01:47:08,708 --> 01:47:12,041
♪ Where a culture once ripe
Changed like the speed of light ♪
2002
01:47:12,125 --> 01:47:15,791
♪ Got your culture for sale
Got your vultures that's pale ♪
2003
01:47:15,875 --> 01:47:19,250
♪ But the pulse of the city
keeps raging on ♪
2004
01:47:20,083 --> 01:47:21,583
Is that supposed to be me?
2005
01:47:22,750 --> 01:47:24,416
♪ The pulse of the city keeps raging on ♪
2006
01:47:24,500 --> 01:47:26,791
-Oh, my bad.
-It's okay.
2007
01:47:26,875 --> 01:47:29,625
♪ The pulse of the city keeps raging on ♪
2008
01:47:29,750 --> 01:47:32,375
♪ The pulse of the city keeps raging on ♪
2009
01:47:32,833 --> 01:47:36,375
♪ I said the pulse of the city
Keeps raging on ♪
2010
01:47:36,791 --> 01:47:39,458
-♪ Harlem Ave, Harlem Ave ♪
-Oh, ho, ho!
2011
01:47:40,125 --> 01:47:43,166
♪ You might find love on Harlem Ave ♪
2012
01:47:43,875 --> 01:47:46,666
-♪ Harlem Ave, Harlem Ave ♪
-[Whitman laughing]
2013
01:47:46,750 --> 01:47:50,416
♪ You just might get shot on Harlem Ave ♪
2014
01:47:50,500 --> 01:47:52,041
[audience cheering]
2015
01:47:52,833 --> 01:47:54,833
Oh, you're all so wonderful.
2016
01:48:03,791 --> 01:48:07,250
Baby, I'm not saying I want
to go back down south.
2017
01:48:07,333 --> 01:48:10,916
So... what are you saying, baby?
2018
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:14,708
I'm saying it's just getting
too expensive to stay here.
2019
01:48:14,791 --> 01:48:17,166
We gots to figure it outs.
2020
01:48:20,750 --> 01:48:24,291
What's a girl gotta do to get some
soy milk around here?
2021
01:48:24,458 --> 01:48:26,458
[audience chuckling]
2022
01:48:30,125 --> 01:48:31,250
[Radha exhales]
2023
01:48:36,625 --> 01:48:38,625
[applause on monitor]
2024
01:48:39,500 --> 01:48:41,291
[groans]
2025
01:48:41,625 --> 01:48:44,166
[audience groaning on monitor]
2026
01:48:45,166 --> 01:48:47,166
[audience laughing]
2027
01:48:48,875 --> 01:48:50,833
What are you saying, sir?
2028
01:48:50,916 --> 01:48:53,166
Yeah, what are you saying?
2029
01:48:53,250 --> 01:48:57,208
I'm offering you
half a million dollars for your shop.
2030
01:48:57,666 --> 01:48:59,250
[street kid] Mister, you can't do that.
2031
01:48:59,333 --> 01:49:00,833
Yo, this shop means everything to us.
2032
01:49:00,916 --> 01:49:01,791
Yeah, everything.
2033
01:49:01,875 --> 01:49:03,791
This shop means everything to me.
2034
01:49:05,583 --> 01:49:08,666
[developer]
Well, it's not up to you... is it?
2035
01:49:10,625 --> 01:49:13,708
So... what'll it be?
2036
01:49:16,208 --> 01:49:17,041
Baby.
2037
01:49:18,041 --> 01:49:18,875
Honey.
2038
01:49:25,125 --> 01:49:28,291
♪ Harlem Ave ♪
2039
01:49:33,708 --> 01:49:36,625
♪ Harlem Ave ♪
2040
01:49:37,291 --> 01:49:39,291
-[gun blasts]
-[all gasp]
2041
01:49:39,416 --> 01:49:42,125
♪ Harlem ♪
2042
01:49:42,250 --> 01:49:43,791
[applause]
2043
01:49:46,750 --> 01:49:48,125
[women chattering]
2044
01:49:52,375 --> 01:49:54,416
[woman] So much for insurance.
2045
01:49:54,958 --> 01:49:56,916
[groans] I'll be fast, promise.
2046
01:49:57,000 --> 01:49:59,500
[woman 2] You must. I can't miss a thing.
2047
01:49:59,583 --> 01:50:01,875
The first act was quite powerful,
wasn't it?
2048
01:50:01,958 --> 01:50:04,791
[woman] Yes. And I love that Jamie girl.
2049
01:50:04,875 --> 01:50:06,791
-[woman 2] She's a star.
-She's fabulous.
2050
01:50:06,916 --> 01:50:09,416
-[toilet flushes]
-[woman 2] Raging on.
2051
01:50:09,500 --> 01:50:11,666
-City keeps raging on.
-[woman] Catchy, isn't it?
2052
01:50:11,750 --> 01:50:13,083
I love that tune.
2053
01:50:15,541 --> 01:50:18,708
Marcus would still be here
if it wasn't for you!
2054
01:50:19,583 --> 01:50:20,583
What did I do?
2055
01:50:20,666 --> 01:50:24,208
You came here... to Harlem.
That's what you did.
2056
01:50:24,291 --> 01:50:25,208
Mm-hmm.
2057
01:50:26,416 --> 01:50:29,083
I do not accept your energy.
2058
01:50:29,625 --> 01:50:32,583
I'm not your enemy, I'm your neighbor.
2059
01:50:32,666 --> 01:50:34,916
Your friend, your...
2060
01:50:37,208 --> 01:50:38,208
Sister?
2061
01:50:45,541 --> 01:50:46,833
[both softly gasp]
2062
01:50:56,458 --> 01:51:00,708
[audience cheering, applause]
2063
01:51:25,500 --> 01:51:27,250
That was just fabulous.
2064
01:51:34,416 --> 01:51:36,958
Thank you. Thank you.
2065
01:51:37,041 --> 01:51:39,416
Isn't this a glorious night?
Thank you so much.
2066
01:51:39,500 --> 01:51:42,416
Oh, my goodness. What a surprise.
Thank you so much.
2067
01:51:42,500 --> 01:51:44,791
-This is just so wonderful...
-Thank you, everybody.
2068
01:51:45,458 --> 01:51:48,875
-Our director, Julie Lipshitz. Thank you.
-Thank you.
2069
01:51:48,958 --> 01:51:52,916
If I may, I just am so excited
to share this moment with all of you.
2070
01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:57,375
I just want to thank our incredible cast.
They worked so hard.
2071
01:51:57,458 --> 01:52:00,375
But nobody worked harder
than our playwright.
2072
01:52:00,458 --> 01:52:02,333
-Yes.
-And I would love to call her up.
2073
01:52:02,416 --> 01:52:04,750
-Radha, are you here?
-Is she here? Did she come?
2074
01:52:04,875 --> 01:52:06,583
-Radha?
-[Julie] Radha?
2075
01:52:06,833 --> 01:52:08,916
-Where are you?
-[Whitman chuckling] Are you there?
2076
01:52:09,708 --> 01:52:11,833
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, Radha Blank.
2077
01:52:11,916 --> 01:52:12,916
Here she comes.
2078
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:14,375
[all cheering, applause]
2079
01:52:16,583 --> 01:52:18,750
[Whitman] What a night.
2080
01:52:18,875 --> 01:52:21,083
Radha, this is so exciting for you.
Congratulations.
2081
01:52:21,625 --> 01:52:23,083
Thank you. [chuckles]
2082
01:52:24,500 --> 01:52:26,666
Say something! Radha Blank!
2083
01:52:26,833 --> 01:52:28,666
[applause]
2084
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:30,166
Yeah, Miss B!
2085
01:52:30,291 --> 01:52:31,500
[Radha] Um...
2086
01:52:32,166 --> 01:52:34,083
I want to thank this amazing cast.
2087
01:52:34,625 --> 01:52:38,041
Um, my amazing director Julie Lipshitz.
2088
01:52:38,125 --> 01:52:40,166
Thank you for bringing Harlem alive.
2089
01:52:40,250 --> 01:52:42,791
And, um, of course, J. Whitman.
2090
01:52:42,875 --> 01:52:45,041
-Thank you.
-Where would I be without you?
2091
01:52:45,125 --> 01:52:47,125
[both chuckle]
2092
01:52:48,583 --> 01:52:49,750
Um...
2093
01:52:50,083 --> 01:52:51,875
[clicks tongue] Wow.
2094
01:52:52,041 --> 01:52:53,916
So, um... [clears throat]
2095
01:52:54,666 --> 01:52:58,125
Every playwright dreams of this...
2096
01:52:59,416 --> 01:53:00,458
moment.
2097
01:53:02,916 --> 01:53:04,125
[Radha clears throat]
2098
01:53:05,875 --> 01:53:07,875
Every playwright hopes...
2099
01:53:08,916 --> 01:53:10,625
every playwright hopes...
2100
01:53:13,333 --> 01:53:17,000
they don't write a piece of shit
like this play.
2101
01:53:17,500 --> 01:53:19,875
[audience murmuring]
2102
01:53:25,208 --> 01:53:29,375
My, um... mother raised me to be fearless,
2103
01:53:29,458 --> 01:53:30,833
and, um...
2104
01:53:32,291 --> 01:53:34,375
I guess when she died, I...
2105
01:53:35,750 --> 01:53:37,791
that's when I started getting afraid.
2106
01:53:43,166 --> 01:53:44,666
Oof. [chuckles]
2107
01:53:47,125 --> 01:53:50,166
[imitating robot]
2108
01:53:53,166 --> 01:53:54,250
Hmm.
2109
01:53:55,708 --> 01:53:57,583
[rapping] I got really afraid
2110
01:53:58,750 --> 01:54:01,750
Scared of the choices
And the bullshit I made
2111
01:54:02,958 --> 01:54:05,208
Thinking I wouldn't get paid
2112
01:54:05,291 --> 01:54:08,541
But I'm Carol's daughter
So that shit don't stain
2113
01:54:09,208 --> 01:54:12,375
I gotta tell you, a nigga was choking
2114
01:54:12,833 --> 01:54:17,125
Tired of selling my soul
For these tokens, these coins
2115
01:54:17,666 --> 01:54:20,500
[scoffs] But guess what?
I made a different choice
2116
01:54:20,875 --> 01:54:24,958
Because it's time to FYOV
Find your own voice
2117
01:54:25,375 --> 01:54:26,791
FYOV
2118
01:54:27,333 --> 01:54:28,750
FYOV
2119
01:54:29,208 --> 01:54:32,000
Forty-year-old version, indubitably
2120
01:54:32,416 --> 01:54:33,583
FYOV
2121
01:54:34,250 --> 01:54:35,666
FYOV
2122
01:54:36,125 --> 01:54:39,083
Not telling truth
Just don't make sense to me
2123
01:54:39,583 --> 01:54:41,958
Holding back from who you should be
2124
01:54:42,041 --> 01:54:43,666
FYOV
2125
01:54:44,541 --> 01:54:45,875
Fund your own vision
2126
01:54:46,708 --> 01:54:48,291
Fill your own void
2127
01:54:48,708 --> 01:54:50,291
Find your own voice
2128
01:54:51,375 --> 01:54:52,958
Fuck you old vultures
2129
01:54:54,291 --> 01:54:55,916
Forty-year-old version
2130
01:54:56,291 --> 01:54:57,666
That's who I be
2131
01:55:00,041 --> 01:55:00,958
I'm out
2132
01:55:01,083 --> 01:55:03,083
-[mic feeding back]
-[audience murmuring]
2133
01:55:03,208 --> 01:55:05,250
[students cheering] Yeah!
2134
01:55:05,333 --> 01:55:06,208
Woo!
2135
01:55:06,458 --> 01:55:08,125
Miss B, that's right!
2136
01:55:17,041 --> 01:55:18,291
-Radha.
-No!
2137
01:55:18,375 --> 01:55:19,791
-Radha...
-No!
2138
01:55:19,875 --> 01:55:20,916
-Radha!
-No!
2139
01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:22,833
If you're gonna tell me that
I fucked up again,
2140
01:55:22,916 --> 01:55:24,541
-I don't want to hear it.
-Radha, I get it.
2141
01:55:26,583 --> 01:55:27,833
You did good.
2142
01:55:29,833 --> 01:55:30,791
I'm proud of you.
2143
01:55:34,458 --> 01:55:35,583
-I quit.
-You're fired.
2144
01:55:36,750 --> 01:55:37,916
[both chuckle]
2145
01:55:42,208 --> 01:55:43,500
I love you, Archie.
2146
01:55:45,166 --> 01:55:46,166
I love you, too.
2147
01:55:49,791 --> 01:55:50,875
[Radha sighs]
2148
01:55:52,291 --> 01:55:54,291
-Okay, I gotta go.
-What?
2149
01:55:55,458 --> 01:55:57,500
I gotta handle some business.
2150
01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:01,208
You know... business.
2151
01:56:03,250 --> 01:56:05,250
Oh!
2152
01:56:05,416 --> 01:56:06,500
Okay.
2153
01:56:06,583 --> 01:56:07,541
Mmm.
2154
01:56:07,666 --> 01:56:09,208
-[Archie] Mm-hmm.
-Mm-hmm!
2155
01:56:09,916 --> 01:56:12,250
Get it. Get it.
2156
01:56:12,333 --> 01:56:14,166
["Love and Peace" by Quincy Jones playing]
2157
01:56:14,250 --> 01:56:17,500
[woman on PA]
This is a Brooklyn bound C local train.
2158
01:57:28,250 --> 01:57:30,625
[woman rapping]
♪ From these words out my lips ♪
2159
01:57:30,791 --> 01:57:33,375
♪ Fucking vocal eclipse
'Cause your shit isn't lit ♪
2160
01:57:33,458 --> 01:57:36,000
♪ Not remarkable or sparkable
Like lyrical spliffs ♪
2161
01:57:36,083 --> 01:57:37,666
♪ I'm lit as it gets... ♪
2162
01:58:12,250 --> 01:58:14,791
That girl that was rhyming?
2163
01:58:16,125 --> 01:58:19,458
Oh, yeah, that's Kaya from Queens.
2164
01:58:20,750 --> 01:58:23,625
-She's fucking dope.
-Yeah.
2165
01:58:23,708 --> 01:58:25,708
And age appropriate.
2166
01:58:26,833 --> 01:58:28,458
And also my little cousin.
2167
01:58:31,958 --> 01:58:32,791
For real?
2168
01:58:33,750 --> 01:58:35,166
[chuckles] Yeah.
2169
01:58:35,250 --> 01:58:36,291
Okay.
2170
01:58:38,458 --> 01:58:39,333
You look nice.
2171
01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:42,875
Thank you. It was opening night.
2172
01:58:44,000 --> 01:58:44,875
Of your play?
2173
01:58:45,416 --> 01:58:46,250
Yep.
2174
01:58:47,250 --> 01:58:48,583
So, what you doing here?
2175
01:58:52,541 --> 01:58:53,416
I don't know.
2176
01:59:01,916 --> 01:59:05,875
[D] I got this new joint, though!
It's crazy!
2177
01:59:06,375 --> 01:59:07,583
[Radha] Let me guess.
2178
01:59:08,333 --> 01:59:12,083
You looped baby goats crying.
2179
01:59:12,166 --> 01:59:13,916
Nah, but that's good.
2180
01:59:14,958 --> 01:59:17,291
-Mennonite chants.
-Oh.
2181
01:59:17,958 --> 01:59:20,750
-What? [laughing]
-Yeah, shit's crazy.
2182
01:59:20,916 --> 01:59:23,083
-On a serious note, though...
-What?
2183
01:59:23,166 --> 01:59:25,625
You been...
like, you been writing since...
2184
01:59:26,375 --> 01:59:27,208
[Radha] No.
2185
01:59:30,083 --> 01:59:33,583
[D] So, we go off top of the dome, then.
2186
01:59:34,250 --> 01:59:36,500
-[Radha] Okay.
-I got a beat on me right now.
2187
01:59:36,583 --> 01:59:38,333
-What we doing?
-What? What you got?
2188
01:59:38,500 --> 01:59:40,958
[D beatboxing]
2189
01:59:41,791 --> 01:59:42,666
[Radha rapping] Yeah
2190
01:59:43,166 --> 01:59:44,416
Uh
2191
01:59:44,625 --> 01:59:45,541
Word
2192
01:59:46,083 --> 01:59:46,916
Yo
2193
01:59:47,458 --> 01:59:49,041
I think I just saw a rat
2194
01:59:51,666 --> 01:59:55,000
This gonna make
a fat girl start running
2195
01:59:56,583 --> 01:59:57,750
Under the sun and
2196
01:59:58,708 --> 02:00:00,250
Out, in and out
2197
02:00:00,833 --> 02:00:02,041
Ain't no doubt
2198
02:00:03,166 --> 02:00:06,000
I used to have clout like Cardi B
2199
02:00:08,000 --> 02:00:09,208
There's a part of me
2200
02:00:10,875 --> 02:00:12,625
[laughing] That's real hard on me
2201
02:00:12,791 --> 02:00:16,125
["Love and Peace - Da Beatminerz Remix"
by Quincy Jones playing]
2202
02:00:36,208 --> 02:00:38,541
[woman] Hey, not a bad ending.
2203
02:00:38,708 --> 02:00:41,416
Could have been
a little bit more sex in there,
2204
02:00:41,500 --> 02:00:44,291
but, hey, life is interesting.
2205
02:00:44,375 --> 02:00:46,416
I know because I done it.
2206
02:00:46,500 --> 02:00:49,791
Been here around this United States,
2207
02:00:49,875 --> 02:00:53,375
had many lovers, interesting jobs,
2208
02:00:53,458 --> 02:00:57,125
like coat check girl at the Savoy.
2209
02:00:57,208 --> 02:01:00,583
Hell, I even ran some numbers.
2210
02:01:01,083 --> 02:01:02,333
So, you see,
2211
02:01:02,416 --> 02:01:04,708
I know how to make it out here.
2212
02:01:04,791 --> 02:01:07,291
For one, I went to Paris.
2213
02:01:07,375 --> 02:01:09,500
[Lamont] Would you shut up already?
2214
02:01:09,583 --> 02:01:13,375
Now, if you ain't gonna come over here
and give me some food
2215
02:01:13,458 --> 02:01:17,375
or some ass, shut the fuck up!
2216
02:01:29,791 --> 02:01:31,666
[Radha] ♪ Yo, DJ Jahmedicine ♪
2217
02:01:31,750 --> 02:01:34,250
♪ You know I don't believe
What I just saw, yo ♪
2218
02:01:34,333 --> 02:01:37,166
♪ I got off 145
Guess who pass? ♪
2219
02:01:37,250 --> 02:01:39,958
♪ A skinny white dude
with the fattest ass ♪
2220
02:01:40,041 --> 02:01:42,166
♪ Yo, he was standing with his Becky ♪
2221
02:01:42,250 --> 02:01:45,208
♪ When her eyes met mine
She looked away like she was shamed, G ♪
2222
02:01:45,291 --> 02:01:47,083
♪ They must of had a real love ♪
2223
02:01:47,166 --> 02:01:50,000
♪ Or that bitch had a fetish
For some Black girl butt ♪
2224
02:01:50,083 --> 02:01:52,250
♪ But a butt
But a butt painted white ♪
2225
02:01:52,333 --> 02:01:54,291
♪ Connected to a pink ding-a-ling ♪
2226
02:01:54,375 --> 02:01:55,625
♪ It made me sing ♪
2227
02:01:55,708 --> 02:01:59,458
♪ White man with a Black woman's butt ♪
2228
02:02:00,291 --> 02:02:03,375
♪ How you carry all that back there? ♪
2229
02:02:03,458 --> 02:02:05,625
♪ What the fuck? ♪
2230
02:02:05,708 --> 02:02:10,041
♪ White man with a Black woman's butt ♪
2231
02:02:10,125 --> 02:02:13,375
♪ How you carry all that back there? ♪
2232
02:02:13,458 --> 02:02:14,625
♪ What the fuck? ♪
2233
02:02:14,708 --> 02:02:17,708
♪ Yo, you seen the Color Purple? ♪
2234
02:02:17,791 --> 02:02:20,833
♪ So maybe you know what us
Black women go through, not! ♪
2235
02:02:20,916 --> 02:02:22,625
♪ Every day on the street ♪
2236
02:02:22,708 --> 02:02:25,291
♪ Niggas holla at us like we just
A piece of meat ♪
2237
02:02:25,375 --> 02:02:27,375
♪ But, but you the white man ♪
2238
02:02:27,791 --> 02:02:30,666
♪ With an ass so fat,
maybe you understand ♪
2239
02:02:30,750 --> 02:02:32,791
♪ I bet dudes think they straight ♪
2240
02:02:32,875 --> 02:02:35,708
♪ Then they look at your fat ass
And think, "Wait!" ♪
2241
02:02:36,333 --> 02:02:40,166
♪ White man with a Black woman's butt ♪
2242
02:02:40,250 --> 02:02:42,500
[audience laughing]