Shottas (2002) Movie Script

[GUNS COCKING]
[SHOTGUN COCKS]
[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[GUNSHOT]
[SIREN WAILING]
Yo, Max.
[GUNSHOTS]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[GUNFIRE]
[WELCOME TO JAMROCK PLAYING]
Out in the street
They call it murder
Welcome to Jamrock
Camp where the thugs
They camp at
Two pound of weed
In a van bag
It in your handbag
Your knapsack
It in your backpack
The smell a-give
Your girlfriend contact
Some boy now notice
Them only come around
Like tourist
On the beach
With a few club sodas
Bedtime stories
And pose like their name
Chuck Norris
And don't know
The real hard-core
'Cause Sandals
Are now back too
If thugs, then we do
What them got to
And won't think twice
To shot you
Don't make them spot you
Unless you carry guns
A lot too
A pure tough thing
Come at you
When Trenchtown man
Stop laugh
And block-off traffic
Then them wheel
And pop off
And them start clap it
With the pin file dung
And it a-beat drop it
Police come in a jeep
And them can't stop it
Some say them a playboy
A playboy rabbit
Get dropped
Like a bad habit
So nobody pose tough
If you don't have it
Rastafari stands alone
Welcome to Jamrock
Ugh
Welcome to Jamrock
Out in the street
They call it murder
Ugh
Welcome to Jamrock
Poor people are dead
At random
Political violence
Can done
Pure ghost and phantom
The youth
Them get blind by stardom
Now the King of Kings
A-call
Old man to Pickney
So wave only one
If you with me
To see the sufferation
Sick me
[ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[ALL LAUGHING]
[FAR EAST PLAYING]
[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]
[HORN HONKING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[SNIFFS]
[GUNSHOTS]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[TRUCK DEPARTS]
[RUSTLING]
[WOMAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
[WHISTLES]
[WHISTLING]
[TRIAL AND CROSSES PLAYING]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[DOOR CLOSES,
ENGINE STARTS]
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
-Give me the money.
-[GUN COCKS]
The money, give it to me.
Where's the rest of the money?
Jesus Christ!
-Wayne, go get it.
-DRIVER: It's under the seat.
Jesus Christ.
[LITTLE JOHN'S
"IN THE GHETTO" PLAYING]
Days in the ghetto
I was born and raised
In the ghetto
I'm a man, I'm a man
Of the ghetto
WOMAN ON P.A. SYSTEM:
Attention, please.
Flight 33 from Miami
has just arrived.
Sit down.
All right. Cool, cool.
Me said,
"Where you come from?"
America.
America. (CHUCKLES)
Constable.
Yes, sir.
Fingerprint this boy for me.
Yes, sir.
Stand up.
[BARKS]
[COMING IN FROM THE COLD
PLAYING]
WOMAN ON P.A. SYSTEM:
For baggage claim, proceed to
Carousel Number two.
We're coming in
Coming in
We're coming in
Coming in
We're coming in
Coming in
We're coming in
Coming in
Coming in
From the cold
It's you
It's you
It's you
It's you
It's you I'm talking to
[WHISTLING]
It's you
It's you
-[WHISTLING]
-You I'm talking to now
Why do you look so sad
And forsaken?
When one door is closed
Don't you know
Other is opened...
Yeah, I'm here.
What's up, nigga?
How you livin'?
How we livin'?
That's how we livin'.
-Yes, brethren.
-Glad you're here. Come in.
Respect.
[DEAD THIS TIME PLAYING]
Yeah!
[BOTH LAUGH]
Nice. Relaxing, you know.
[LAUGHS]
[LAUGHS]
-Yeah, my man.
-Big boy.
(CHUCKLES)
[BAD LONG TIME PLAYING]
See them now, right now.
But anything. Listen to me.
I don't know Jamaica
like that.
And I don't know
these cats like that.
See what I'm saying?
It been 20 years.
since I've been back
to this motherfucker, yo.
Play it.
Yo.
Listen to me.
Nigga, that's what it is.
What the fuck you
talking about?
But, yo...
WAYNE: Hello, baby.
Hello,
what happened?
[PHONE BEEPS]
-Like your hair.
-Hello, Mr. Chin?
Okay, sir. There's some men
at the front too.
-He'll be with you.
He's coming, okay?
-All right. Pretty.
Me no have it yet.
[SECRETARY SCREAMING]
Yo.
Yo, I'm just saying though,
what the fuck was that?
[BACKSHOT PLAYING]
[MAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
So where you from?
Miami.
Where in Miami are you from?
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
[CATCH A FIRE PLAYING]
Every time I hear
The crack of a whip
Origins of slavery
Blood and gravy...
[ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
BIGGS: Big move.
WAYNE: Big move for who?
[PHONE RINGING]
WAYNE: Checkmate
in two more turns.
-JOHN JOHN: Hello.
-A full four more.
How you learn
to play this game?
Say what?
[ALL CHATTERING]
Not a talking game,
it's a killing game.
[KEYS BEEPING]
SECRETARY ON PHONE:
Mr. Anderson, Wayne is
on the phone for you.
Wayne, what's happening?
How is everything?
What happened now, Wayne?
Your boys getting
out of control?
Laing is an officer
of the law.
And if your boys won't listen,
there is very little I can do.
All Chinese business people
knew that Blacka
and Mad Max were behind
-their colleague's murder.
-They never have to kill him.
When things get like that,
it's out of my hands.
Wayne,
you need to come to my office
and see me.
Yo...
[GUN MAN TUNE PLAYING]
Mr. Anderson, Mr. Anderson.
Wayne.
How you doing, friend?
Uh, have a seat,
gentlemen.
Mm.
So,
what can I do
to cool things ?
I don't want you and Officer
Laing going at it, you know.
Come on.
Listen to yourself.
I'm really sorry
about your brother,
but he was like a mad dog
running wild.
Wayne, election is coming up,
and I cannot afford to have
any unnecessary wrongs
in my constituency.
You're going to have
to work with me, Wayne.
As you know,
I have a very good
connection at the embassy.
I will get you
and your friends the visa.
And you leave the island
and go cool out for a while.
Because I can't take the heat
that is about
to come on me.
I have a whole community
depending on me.
Wayne,
there is nothing else
on the table.
Wayne, Wayne,
don't put me in a spot.
Wayne.
Wayne.
Wayne.
ANDY: Detective Laing,
this is Patrick Anderson, MP.
Not good.
Detective,
we both have a common problem.
His name is Wayne.
You're familiar with him,
you killed his brother.
And now it's his turn.
You can find him
at Waterhouse,
anytime after dark.
And, detective,
just make sure
that this problem
is permanently eradicated.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Understand?
-[LINE RINGING]
-Yeah.
-Mr. Anderson's office.
-Hello, good afternoon.
May I speak to Mr. Anderson,
please.
May I ask who's calling,
please?
Tell him it's Detective Laing.
SECRETARY ON SPEAKER PHONE:
Mr. Andy,
it's Officer Laing again.
WOMAN ON TV:
Seven wanted men were killed
by police in a shootout.
Detective Laing.
I've been watching
the news all day,
and none of those seven bodies
is identified as our friend,
Wayne Smith.
You fuck up this time!
Wayne?
[CHUCKLING]
Wayne.
Wayne, you know that this is
a big misunderstanding.
We can talk, you know, friend.
What about that visa thing
I told you about? Hm?
That deal still stands,
you know.
I will personally
take care of it myself.
Wayne, you got my word on it.
We're gonna work this thing
out for the better.
Hello, Wayne?
Wayne.
[WHIMPERING]
So let her go now, Wayne.
[PANTING]
[GANGSTA STORY PLAYING]
Yo, what's up?
Who own it this way?
Yo, Gussy.
Fucking rug rats running up
on my goddamn window.
[CHUCKLES]
What's up, killer?
What you got?
What are y'all doing
back here?
Gussy, we here to take
this bitch over.
Who?
Oh, yeah.
Well, I think we gotta pay
Mr. Bruck Shut a visit.
What you say?
Yes, I said.
BIGGS: I hope
that nigga inside.
All right.
All right, watch this.
Yeah.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Look who the fuck is back.
The king of Miami.
At least him once was.
[ALL LAUGHING]
[WOMEN SCREAMING]
I got a message
for you, bitch.
Playtime is over.
[GUN COCKS]
Good.
Now tell your fucking goons
to sit the fuck down before
we start squeezing
in this bitch.
We don't want these
innocent people getting hurt.
Bitch ass.
[IT A RING PLAYING]
[GUN COCKS]
[LAUGHING]
[GUN COCKS]
Hello, who this?
Teddy Bruck Shot!
That's what I say!
I know you ain't
gonna let them niggas
extort you like that, man.
Come on.
Shotta! I don't give a fuck
if they shotta-cock
or whatever the fuck they are!
I don't give a fuck!
Check me and it's done!
Hello? Hello?
MAX: Yes, sir!
[GUN COCKS]
[MUFFLED SPEECH]
What you want
for Christmas this year?
Five million dollars.
What you gonna do with
five million dollars, man?
I would buy me some clothes,
some shoes,
some Jheri, and some women.
Some...
[LAUGHING]
What you gonna do
with women?
What's up, killer?
Hey, man.
Yo, watch my son.
How you all doing?
What's going on?
Trying to eat.
-As you said,
you know how we do.
-Trying to eat?
It look like you
eating to me, man.
Porsche.
Small thing.
But me and you,
we need to talk, you know.
We don't need to talk
about nothin'.
Ain't nothin' happening.
Nothing happen for me.
Like you all say in Jamaica.
I got nothin' for you. Boy!
Boy!
[FIRE PLAYING]
Let's go
Set your block on fire
BIGGS: Yo, is this Raquel?
What's up, girl?
Come on, now. How many niggas
you got calling you?
This is Biggs, I'm outside.
All right. Bitches.
Let's go
Set your block on fire
I said if you're ready
Then let's go
While my niggas smoke fire
I'm telling you,
that girl's hot.
All my ladies smoking fire
Shake it to the wire
Let's go...
Plus, she's a fucking flirt.
What's up?
-What are you talking about?
-That's my partner, Wayne.
Wayne, that's Raquel.
-Raquel, how you doing?
-I'm fine.
That you are.
-So, what's up?
-Nothing.
What you doing tonight?
Coming to the club with me?
Do you want me to go
to the club with you?
Of course.
What kind of question is that?
What time you coming
to pick me up?
Pick you up?
Fuck picking you up.
Let's go now.
But I'm not even dressed.
See. You always worrying about
the wrong things.
We going to the mall.
Shop time.
Let's go
While my niggas
Smoking fire...
Hello, gentlemen.
How may I help you?
Are you looking
for anything special?
CASHIER: Presidential Rolex.
Diamond-encrusted.
Oh, yes,
it's a beautiful piece.
This is the platinum
Cartier Pasha.
Uh... Don't you wanna know
the prices?
Baby, if I gotta ask a price,
that mean I can't afford it.
[GIGGLES]
And I got cash.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean any harm at all.
I said, I'm very sorry.
Let me handle
the business first, okay?
All right.
[LAUGHS] Hey, boy.
All right.
That'll be $67,000.
Is that okay with you?
-Yeah, man.
-Oh, good.
Yeah, I've got it.
Don't worry.
All right, I'll be back
with your receipts
and your packages.
-Okay.
-Hey, baby.
You got a bunch of bags.
What's up?
I know, and I didn't even
get everything I wanted.
-All these bags,
you ain't get what you want?
-No.
Can I get you guys
something to drink?
Coffee, water,
champagne, whatever?
Where's mine?
[MEN LAUGH]
Can I get you something?
If you ready
Then let's go
While my niggas
Smoking fire
Looking for some riders
And I don't really wanna
Let go
While my niggas
Smoking fire
Shake it to the wire
Baby, get your shit
And let's go
I'm a-set you on fire
Yeah
[MAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
Take away your oxygen
Trap you in a cellar
Beretta
[MAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
Get these niggas
Off me, man...
[WOULD A LET YOU GO PLAYING]
[ENGINES REVVING]
The gentleman over there.
[ENGINE REVVING]
Yeah. What? I'm MC Hammer.
What? What?
Yo, let my man go up there and
play this new dub-plate, man.
Dangles! Take that!
-Yeah.
-Fuck it.
-So, what's up?
-What you got for me?
-Every Tuesday?
-Yeah, every Tuesday.
[CHUCKLING]
Yo.
That's what
I'm talking about, dog.
Yeah, yeah.
You should never
Diss the champion
No, no
[MAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
Yeah, yeah...
[ENGINES REVVING]
(CARS HONKING)
MAN: Yo, Gussy.
[ALL SCREAMING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
MAN: Proper.
I have it, I have it.
Give me that.
You see, I knew.
[REGGAE MUSIC PLAYING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Give me that.
[QUENCH A FIRE PLAYING]
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
t's gonna make me
a whole lot of money,
trust me, one of these days.
[ENGINE STARTS]
-Mario, hear me now.
-What?
Listen, they told Jimmy Cliff
the same thing.
You saw what happened?
Why are you so uptight?
What happened?
I'm gonna get you untight.
I'll tell you a joke.
You wanna hear one
of my jokes?
I'll tell you anyway,
motherfucker.
So listen, right,
it was this white man,
black man and this
Chinese man, right?
And one day
the king invited all of them
in his backyard,
and he was like,
[BRITISH ACCENT]
"Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.
"Whoever could swim past
this swimming pool
"I'll give my daughter
to you."
There was one goddamn problem.
Motherfucker had 20 sharks
in his swimming pool, right?
But you know the Chinaman.
The Chinaman not fear
no fucking thing.
[YELLING]
Shark looked at that
Chinese motherfucker
and just ate him up, man.
So then the white boy
jumped in next.
You know white people,
they always trying to reason.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Yeah, hello.
Forget about the white boy,
all right?
So the black man was in front
of the swimming pool.
Next thing you know: Woo!
And now the black man's
on the other side like this...
[PANTING]
So the king come over
and the king's like
"What is it that you want,
my son?
"I'll give you anything."
The black man look
at the king and he said,
[PANTING]
I want that motherfucker
that threw me
in the motherfucking pool!
[LAUGHS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Where the big man at?
I took care of it.
It's done, man.
You know
all that love you show me?
Want me to show you
the same love back?
Show me.
Bam!
[LAUGHING]
Make some runs.
I'll be back. All right?
I'm about
to take a shower.
[I BELIEVE PLAYING]
Never thought it would
Be this way
You are my secret treasure
How could I let you
Slip away?
Still,
I just wanna thank you
For every little thing
You've been more
Than wonderful
What joys
You have brang
Still, I believe true love
Will always find its home
Yes, it does, baby
But I really love you...
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
[ALL LAUGH]
[CHUCKLES]
[CHUCKLES]
[SNICKERS]
[GUN COCKING]
Hey, welcome, Max.
And how are you doing, Wayne?
-What's up, pretty lady?
-Hey, baby.
[LAUGHS]
[BIGGS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Nigga, you ain't saying shit.
Let me tell you that.
Money over bitches,
motherfucker.
[RAIN PLAYING]
Yea-yeah
Oh, I really wish
It would rain
Rain, maybe
It would wash away
My pain
I'm feeling in my soul
I pray my sorrows
Would be long gone
Long gone
Before the sunrise
In the morn
Oh, I wish
It would rain
I wish it would rain
Then maybe
It would wash away my pain
[SCREAMING]
I'm feeling in my soul
I pray my sorrows
Would be long gone
[GUNSHOTS]
Before the sunrise
In the morn
All of my days
Seem so
Sad and blue
Need them to be sunny
And bright
All of these heartaches
Pain and sorrows
And just keep giving those
A fight
I'm always pretending
White is black
Black is white
Black is white
[SCREAMING]
I teach them love
Still they fight
I tried to imagine
Night is day
Day is night
Day is night
Sometimes I forget
My whole life
And so I wish
It would rain
[GUNSHOT]
Then maybe
It would wash away my pain
I'm feeling in my soul
I pray my sorrows
Would be long gone
Long, long gone
Before the sunrise
In the morn
Think I'm dying
Children crying
And they have nowhere
To run
In the city
It's a...
Shaman ditty
We can't seem
To have any fun
But, Lord, I am hoping
You know I am praying
To be in the valley
Of the sun
Where the sun shines
So bright
But I heard
A mother's scream
And I saw
A young man fail
There goes another victim
To the gun
And so I wish
It would rain
I wish it would rain
[WHISTLES]
Then maybe
It would wash away my pain
I'm feeling in my soul
I pray my sorrows
Will be long gone
Long, long gone
Before the sunrise
In the morn
Rise in the morning
Rise in the morning
Rise in the morn
Rise in the morn
Rise in the morning
'Cause it's the bloodshed
Down in the ghetto
It's the bloodshed...
-Wayne.
-[COUGHING]
Wayne.
[SOBBING]
Wayne.
[WHISTLING]
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
[SOBBING]
[GUN COCKS]
[GUNSHOT]
[GUNSHOT]
[PANTING] Biggs.
Yeah, but not
before you, bitch.
[GUNSHOT]
[GUNSHOTS
[CLICKING]
[PANTING]
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
[GRUNTING]
(GRUNTING)
[TIRES SCREECHING]
BIGGS: Hold the fuck on, man.
Hold on, man.
Hold on, dog. I'm gonna
get you to the hospital.
Hold on, man.
[MAX GRUNTING]
Biggs.
What, Max?
[RETCHES]
[GASPING]
[HORN HONKING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Help, I got an emergency!
Oh, my God.
I'll get you some help.
What happened to him?
-What happened to him?
-I picked him up like this.
Looks like a gunshot wound.
Get him inside, quick.
Do you know him?
Nah, I just gave him a ride.
WOMAN:
I think we lost him.
MAN: Sir?
WOMAN: Get him!
Sir, let me talk to you
for a second.
Sir, I need some
more information on him.
Sir? Sir?
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[DISCIPLINE CHILD PLAYING]
I was born
A disciplined child
Never knew how I got
So wild
I was born
A disciplined child
Never knew how I got
So wild
When we used to go
To school
They told me
The golden rule
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Nice and hot, baby.
Yeah?
Champagne, coming up.
[GIGGLING]
TEDDY: Papi!
Fucking champagne, huh?
[MARCIA SCREAMING]
[SCREAMS]
[SOBBING]
Biggs.
[ROCK SONG PLAYING]
Whoa, Ma
I wish you were around
To see how
They dragged me down
Whoa, Ma
I wish you were around
To see how
They dragged me down
They had me cornered
In a little alley
A thousand shotguns
Over me
I didn't stand a chance
I didn't want to die
I had to reach for the sky
Now I'm gone
Never know
Only four days ago
Now I'm gone
Never know
Only four days ago
[REVELATION TIME PLAYING]
Hold on
It's a revelation time
It's a revelation time
[MAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
It's a revelation time
It's a revelation time
[MAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
Rescue me
From these revelation time
It's a revelation time
I can see it
It's a revelation time
I can feel it
It's a revelation time
It's a revelation time
I cannot hide it
I can feel it
Hold on
I can feel it
Lord, I know it
Hold on
It's a revelation time
[THE MARCH PLAYING]
Let's go, soldier
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
I'm feeling crazy
I got my mind made up
No more teasing
I'm ready for war
Ghetto drama, drama
This situation's
My occupation
Buffalo soldiers
That's just what we are
Yeah
Squad up!
And when you're digging
Your trenches
Soldiers, make sure
You dig 'em deep
'Cause the only way
To survive in this town
Homey, is to never sleep
Whoo-ooh-ooh
You can see
That I'm not playing around
It's right here
On the neighborhood streets
More suckers are just living
To die
Welcome to the belly
Of the beast
You gotta learn
To draw from your pockets
Walk up
And put your mind at ease
'Cause you think
They give a fuck
About you for a second?
You might as well
Be deceased
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
Your left
Your left
Your left
Right, left
Respect it and check it
The south-side slayings
Won't stop
Until the entire world
Is mine
My coalition is from
Includes you, son
To live and die
In the streets
Tough lesson learned
Lord knows
I ain't a killer
But don't kill me
'Cause I'll squeeze
On my trigger
Until it's empty
And you will never catch me
Slip for a minute
'Cause I'm surrounded
By angels
That are heaven sent
Ooh
Ooh