The Drop: A Snowfall Saga (2026) s01e04 Episode Script

Aight now.
Come on with it.
Wanda got him a record deal.
He signed a contract.
[Leonard] This place is in trouble.
All of their bands are crashing.
Be careful with Jenny.
[Darryl] Jenny's emptying daddy's coffers
to make me richer.
Fuck I look like, fucking up the game?
This artist is a gangbanger
who taunts the police on every track,
which is why we should put
every chip we have into grunge.
Cops ain't gonna disappear
a nigga with a record deal.
So get your head right.
Extortion a part of the game, but
Money or war. Can't be both.
All this for your little girlfriend.
He my ex.
You got the winning hand. Just finish
the mix for "Rydah," all right?
Yeah, yeah, I'm working on it,
and I was finishing it right now,
but I want to play you
something new first.
[Jenny] No surprise songs, Wanda.
"Rydah" is the single.
If I can't choose the songs people hear,
what is the point of making music?
[cassette clicks open]
[soft music playing]
[Big Daddy] I can't stand seeing my wife
like this. I'm telling you, James.
[James] I hear you,
but this ain't Lamar's fault, sir.
[Big Daddy] No? Then whose is it?
Who got her falling apart
if it ain't that precious boy of hers?
She doing it to herself.
Not Mar, not Wanda.
That's all her.
- [sucks teeth, grunts]
- [James] You asked me to protect Lamar.
I can't do that if he doesn't know
the truth about Mom.
Don't you put this on her.
You're the one that let him
and Wanda go out there
and start playing with a time bomb.
Okay, fine. It goes both ways.
[Gerty grunts, breathing heavily]
You know I want to make you proud, right?
[scoffs]
Big Daddy,
we got to bring this thing to a head.
No. You are poking at what happened
to our daughter, boy.
Your mother.
And when that bomb stop ticking,
then what?
[upbeat music playing]
[Gerty sighs]
[breathing deeply]
Well?
- Look, Mama G, we
- [Big Daddy groans]
We gotta tell you something.
This
[chair creaks]
[James] Wanda and Lamar,
they ain't listen to you.
They're still working
with the music label.
Yeah, I knew she'd snake me.
I've been able to read her
since she was a child.
This is your fault.
You favor her too much.
Now, baby, I don't favor nobody but you.
Oh, don't. Just
[Big Daddy sighs]
Lamar's a man now.
Babe, he ain't never wanted nothing
but music.
Mama G. Look, I [sighs]
If it means anything, I think that Lamar
is just as special as she was, but just
you just gotta hear what they--
Mama--
[James sighs]
[Big Daddy] I told you.
This a Wanda and Lamar problem.
[softly] Fuck, man.
[Wanda] Jenny's radio team
needs a ass-whupping.
This interview was
supposed to start an hour ago.
[tape tapping]
You wanna push your new song.
But "Rydah" is about to be a hit
on the radio!
Smile, Cuz. This is huge.
[Lamar] How do you do it?
You fuck me over and then move on
as if nothing ever happened?
You're mad now, but when you hear
your song over them airwaves
But what is taking so long?
Artillery is liable to get
one of these snow bunnies pregnant
by the time they play your song.
Hey.
Rebecca, is it?
[Cal] Jenny's gonna be pissed.
[Enzo] Ask me if I give a shit.
[Jenny] You just had Artillery
yanked off the fucking radio?
[Enzo] I made myself clear, Jen.
And you spent the money anyway.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
[Enzo] Rap is not our focus.
Instead of yelling at me,
take it up with your label.
- They're not the one pulling our song.
- Yes, they are.
Someone from Macroscope legal called
and literally told us not to play it.
[quietly] What the fuck?
Wow.
Once again,
crackers gonna hit us with the woo-wop.
Lamar, I'll talk to Jenny and DG.
I'm sure I can get to the bottom of this,
find out what happened.
- Maybe somebody
- [Jenny] By pulling our song,
you've just undercut the only thing
in this building that had momentum.
Just stop.
Ignoring my orders
is not how this works. Not anymore.
What are you gonna do?
Fire me from my own company?
No. You'll keep your title.
But, uh, effective immediately,
all new artist initiatives
report to Cal.
Hey. Sometimes
checkers beats chess, homey.
If you really want Cal gone,
let me throw his cracker ass in the trunk.
Come on, D. You know you're here
to balance out them Bloods
and that nigga Leon
in case he gets scrappy
- [chuckles]
- not kidnap white people, nigga.
We gotta gut out Cal
so that Jenny's father turns on him.
We in a white man's house.
So if we can't beat them at they
own fucking game, nigga, we done.
I may have something on Cal.
Big enough to get Jenny back in?
Pressure point,
but let me just land this plane,
and then we can celebrate.
Jesus Christ. [sighs]
[Wanda] What the fuck happened?
Macroscope pulled us off the radio?
Cal went behind Jenny's back.
Why the fuck can't they see this is it?
The old man wants to sell the label,
and Cal's got them thinking
that none of the big buyers
wanna touch our dirty jungle music.
Okay, then fuck that. I got a play too.
We go to the other labels with "Back to
the Hood." That shit is hard as fuck.
- Macroscope owns it.
- I got a list of pe--
Nah. Jenny hasn't even heard it yet.
She don't know it exists.
They own it.
They own everything y'all fucking do.
We signed you to a production deal
with options on anything
that you can fucking imagine.
- [scoffs] "We"?
- Stop, Wanda.
We are in the same fucking boat.
[sighs] I can't sit on my hands.
Lamar fucking hates me, Darryl.
- What, because of the masters?
- Yes.
Okay, just come clean then.
- [scoffs] What?
- [laughs]
- That shit is inconceivable to you, huh?
- [sighs]
Please. Wanda.
Do not do anything fucking stupid.
We are in a very dangerous position,
and if we don't make the right
fucking move, this run is over.
And if that's the case,
your cousin was probably
gonna hate your ass anyway.
[pool balls clack]
[Wanda] Deon.
Mm-hmm. Keep on walking.
["Walk Around Heaven All Day" playing]
[worker] Gospel song the boy playing
became a staple at funerals
back in the day.
[customer] Yeah, but also they played it
at altar calls
and some of the reflective moments
in the church services.
- I ain't looking for no argument.
- And I ain't giving you one.
What are you talking then?
I thought I'd find you here.
Hungry?
You fucked up our trust, Wanda.
I'll make it up to you.
You're not hearing me.
You were always the one
when we were kids that got me.
Like, really
I don't know, got me, you know?
And now we're, like,
doing this music business stuff, and
[sighs] What is it about this contract
that made you turn on me?
I mean, if this is how it's gonna be,
why are we doing it at all?
I lied. I'm sorry.
But you lied too. So if we're
gonna go back and forth about--
Look, if you're gonna try to spin this
on me, I can't beat you at that.
But don't bullshit me.
- At least come clean.
- Fuck.
You got to understand
what I've been through.
Game is how I survived.
Game kept me alive. It kept me
high.
What I'm saying is,
I'll probably lie again.
But I'll never betray you, and I didn't.
I only told DG
'cause I thought you were wrong.
How could you hear that song
and not hear a new level?
You're right, okay? Shit. [chuckles]
You are growing up.
Even had your first squabble.
[Lamar] I just want to decide
if people hear my music.
[Wanda] Mmm.
I got ideas on how to get
your music heard.
Meet me at my apartment tomorrow.
And don't forget.
You and me, Cousin.
We gonna make it happen.
[theme music playing]
["I Miss You" playing]
[singer vocalizing]
Oh ♪
Oh ♪
I miss you, baby ♪
Oh, I ♪
- [choir] Oh, I Oh, I ♪
- [singer] Oh ♪
- [choir] Miss you, miss you ♪
- [singer] I miss you, baby ♪
- [choir] Miss you, miss you, miss you ♪
- [singer] I swear I do ♪
[singer humming]
Ever since you went away ♪
I ain't been doing nothing but ♪
[choir] Thinking, thinking, thinking
Thinking, thinking ♪
[singer] With my head in my hands ♪
You been away from me so long ♪
And I just don't think I can carry on
So I start ♪
[choir] Drinking, drinking, drinking
Drinking, drinking ♪
[singer] Each and every night ♪
[choir vocalizing]
[singer] Trying to drown
All my loneliness away ♪
And I don't forget a day ♪
Fall down on my hands and knees
Wishing for your return ♪
- [singer] And, oh, how I hurt ♪
- [choir] Oh, how I hurt ♪
- [singer] 'Cause I ♪
- [choir] Oh, I ♪
- [singer] Oh, I ♪
- [choir] Oh, I ♪
- [door banging]
- [singer] I miss you, baby ♪
- [choir] Miss you, miss you, miss you ♪
- [singer] I miss you, baby ♪
Without you
I don't know what to do with myself ♪
[banging continues]
[singer] Hello? Did I disturb you?
[banging continues]
[singer] I didn't mean to take up
too much of your time, but
Just thought I'd give you a ring
and see how you was doing.
- [singer vocalizing]
- [choir] Oh, I Oh, I ♪
- What you want?
- I have a opportunity for you.
- At midnight?
- Just hear me out.
You know how hard I've been working
to get Lamar's song on the radio, right?
[Leon] Nah.
[Wanda] Okay
Look, Lee, Jenny's fired. I lost my deal.
I need help to get things moving.
You need the money.
- I need you to invest. A couple G's.
- [sighs]
Once you hear my ideas,
you're gonna love 'em.
Wanda, fucking stop, all right?
I done settled shit with DG and Dara.
I done bailed your cousins out.
What the fuck else you want from me?
This why we can't be together.
Really?
Whatever. Ignore me.
Ignore my dreams
while you sit here reliving the old days.
And that's why we can't be together.
You ain't been right
since we lost the baby.
Fuck you, Leon.
You're drunk. I should fuck you up.
[Leon] There it is.
That monster that came out
when you was down bad is times ten now.
And what about you?
Sitting in this house, drinking
with ghosts, dreaming about the past.
See, there there you go.
Say something vicious
instead of getting real.
Say something.
Fuck this.
- Drunk ass.
- [Leon] Fuck you going?
I know where you keep your money.
[sighs]
- Wanda.
- [Wanda] Fucking I'll show your ass.
[Leon] Wanda.
[Wanda] Where is it, Lee?
You moved it?
- Shit.
- [Leon] out your mind?
[Wanda] You moved it?
You move it, huh?
You cool with keeping money
in random places so niggas can rob you,
but you can't invest
in Lamar and Art and me?
Are you out your mind? You need to stop.
You don't know what I need, nigga.
Why the fuck would I invest in this?
Look how you acting.
'Cause we supposed to be family.
I know you like to block out the past.
But that ain't how I address you.
What's your play?
Bless me with some cash,
and I'll double you up.
I'ma pay you back.
Just do something with it.
I lost her too, Leon.
[door closes]
[cassette stops]
[knocking on door]
- [Lamar] Hey.
- [Wanda] What's up?
[Lamar sighs]
For printing tapes.
- We about to push "Back to the Hood."
- How?
When I was running with Leon and Franklin,
I had a front-row seat
to how they changed the game.
Their suppliers
didn't define their market, they did.
Macroscope ain't no different
than the ones who sent the dope.
They only know what we show them.
We know our customers
'cause we are customers.
We know where to find them.
We know the music they like.
Shit.
All we need is more people
who know the streets.
I got product coming.
It's just a start,
but all we gotta do is move it.
Which makes y'all the runners.
So how much we charging?
We do exactly what Leon did.
The first hit's for free.
[scoffs] I love it. We gonna stay broke.
How the fuck are we supposed
to make money like that, Wanda?
If the product is good,
it'll sell itself on the re-up.
Trust me.
We start where we know
we'll get the most play.
All you gotta do is hand it to 'em.
- What do I get?
- [Wanda scoffs]
Why you always gotta want something, cuz?
Play it over the store speakers.
If anybody asks,
sell it to them and keep the money.
All right, but I definitely
don't need no two damn boxes.
Just keep the damn boxes, nigga.
[shaver buzzing]
[chuckles] Oh. Hey
How you doing, cuz?
Where you from?
I'm good. Uh
My brother sent me. James Kinsey.
- Y'all know Jay Loco, right?
- [all] Ah. [clamoring]
[Wanda] They hit neighborhood spots.
Red. Blue.
- Anywhere people can bump this shit.
- [Lamar] Hey, check this out right here.
[Wanda] Including places
nobody wants to go.
So y'all just want me to let y'all
hand these out around here for free?
What if that shit bunk?
What? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This shit is dope.
- I'll let you hear it if you want.
- Damn, Dara, what color your eyes is?
What color are yours?
And how you gonna call Artillery bunk?
You right.
He definitely is the hardest Blood rapper.
All I'm saying is,
if you just let me fuck once,
for sure fucking twice,
and I need coochie now.
[chuckles] See, now you're doing too much.
Come on.
I never fucked nobody as fine as you.
Bless me, baby.
Hey, you should probably know
she trying to fuck Leon now.
Back in the day
We don't like that nigga now.
You gonna help me or what?
[clicks tongue, sucks teeth]
Yeah, all right.
But you gotta let me, you know,
spladow on that tadow.
Yeah.
Take both those boxes, fool.
What the fuck you handing me
the boxes for, blood? Hand it to him.
Do it look like I carry boxes?
["Back to the Hood" playing
through speakers]
- Yeah, I told you.
- [customer] You got that, right?
I'm sorry, "Back to the Hood" is sold out.
You trippin'.
Did you just say that
y'all sold out all 250 copies?
Boy, we moved that batch in four days.
Had to copy extras.
- Y'all got something special.
- They sellin' too.
- [chuckles]
- [worker] Yeah.
The proceeds.
Where's your cuz?
[suspenseful music playing on TV]
Is she here?
Yeah, she in the kitchen.
Yeah. But regardless,
you all right with me.
[sighs]
- Mama G? You wanted to talk?
- [Gerty sighs]
You didn't?
Mm-hmm.
Should I [stammers]
You gonna hang up?
Oh.
Well, I, um
I was wrong to go behind your back.
But I promise you I'ma make it up to you.
[Gerty] Mm-hmm. Copping a plea.
That's what she doing. Mm-hmm.
Please, Mama G, let's just talk.
- Oh.
- [Gerty] Mm-hmm.
He was always gonna end up in music.
You knew that.
I genuinely regret
letting you back into our family.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Looking sick, girl,
like she don't bite from both ends.
You really believe this wasn't
gonna happen regardless?
I believe if what happened to
my daughter happens to him
that's on you.
Yeah, I said it to her face.
Yeah. You should see her, pudding,
just standing here,
looking at me like I'm in the wrong
for telling her the truth.
Mm-hmm.
[scoffs]
Oh, this is 'cause you're scared to tell
that boy the truth about his mama.
[Gerty] Wanda.
[phone slams]
Wanda.
- [grunts]
- [grunts]
- Wanda, Wanda.
- [cries]
[door closes]
[suspenseful music playing]
[sorrowful music playing]
[sighs]
[Wanda] Thank you for coming.
Big Daddy tell you
me and Mama G got into it?
Yeah.
Lee, it got ugly.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
- The other night, at the house, I--
- Look, I was wrong too.
I shouldn't have
dropped that shit on you about
You know.
Yeah.
[softly] Yeah.
You straight?
Just had a run-in with
some little niggas today.
You remember when we was in Ghana,
we had dinner with those musicians?
[scoffs] I set it up.
[Leon] Remember they was talking
to us about Liberia,
and they told us about
how the freed slaves moved back to Africa
and brought back the white man's sickness.
Started enslaving other Africans.
Yeah. That night was heavy.
Well, I'm helping James Sr. with
the gang interventions and the kids,
and all I could think about is Liberia.
And it's, like,
these kids don't know the difference
between war with a man or killing
a woman or even killing a child.
And I thought I'd be able
to connect with them,
but it's like
I don't even speak their language.
[Wanda] You do it with music.
Music is a universal language, Lee.
It's healing,
the truth and everything in between.
That's how you speak to them kids.
But how?
[sighs]
I saw Crips out there
buying music with a Blood on the mic.
And soon Bloods will be
bobbing their heads to a Crip on the mic.
Something is happening, Lee.
And I'm at the front of it.
I just gotta scale up.
I know a manufacturer
who can mass produce for me.
They pressed Toddy Tee's "Batterram."
It's worth a shot if you want in.
I'll fund your next step.
I'll even give you a play
on how to scale up.
[truck alarm beeping]
I got people who can move stuff wholesale.
[man] Watch the left.
- [horn honks]
- That's right. Keep it coming.
Right, right, right. Come on, come on.
All right, all right.
Aight. Let's do this.
["Back to the Hood" playing]
[customer] Hey, I'll take one of them.
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Loves me better ♪
Yeah, ain't gimme no watches ♪
Inglewood nigga name ringin'
Hollywood's a-comin' ♪
Chromed-out Benz
Got the girlies watchin' ♪
Gotta keep a gun
When you're raised in violence ♪
Ghetto bird, hemmed up
Cuffed on the curves ♪
I'm North Block
And we can take the search ♪
Duckin' the cell, young, wild as hell ♪
Back to the hood
I got dope to sell, fool ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- On my level ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Puttin' on for the ghetto ♪
Ain't nobody ♪
Now back to the hood
I got dope to sell, fool ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- On my level ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Puttin' on for the ghetto ♪
[song ends]
I told you, Lee. [chuckles]
All right, y'all, we done.
Let's pack up them boxes.
You right, Cousin.
"Back to the Hood" is connecting.
[Lamar] Told you.
[Darryl] Didn't I tell your ass
not to do anything stupid?
I spent bank to get dirt on Cal.
Oh, my God. Lee?
This shit is so fucking embarrassing.
In the middle of Jenny's meeting,
Macroscope says,
"Wanda's in the street selling our music
like motherfucking Mexican popcorn."
Shit.
So I hope you like slinging tapes
in the motherfucking streets.
'Cause your days in the music biz
are over, believe that.
- Darryl, don't--
- No, don't "Darryl" me.
Don't do me like that.
What if she just gave you the money?
- Fuck [stammers]
- [Lamar] What?
[Leon] As a gesture.
[Darryl] Oh, now you mad
after stealing my product?
Give it to him.
[chuckles]
Blow that on a bitch, man.
[Artillery] It's still a win.
[Lamar] "Back to the Hood" is a hit.
- Shit, "Back to the Hood" is the truth.
- I know.
But that was our money.
[Leon] It's just one bag. Don't trip.
[runner] Hey, I ain't gonna lie.
I thought this shit was retarded.
But y'all song got motherfuckers hooked.
[Artillery chuckling]
Hey, let's celebrate. Last Kings?
Last Kings.
[Lamar's friend] Last Kings.
[Big Daddy] You know, I can't keep
playing referee with you and her.
[Gerty] Since you can't put
your foot down on this,
- I'm doing it for you.
- [Big Daddy] She's our family.
- It It ain't right or Christlike.
- [Gerty] You've got the nerve.
Don't bring Jesus Christ into this.
Dude, dude, dude, dude,
dude, dude, dude, dude.
I'm famous. I'm fucking famous, bro.
[stammers] Like "strangers asking
for my autograph" famous.
[chuckling] It was crazy out there.
I mean, I I know that this might be,
like, as good as it gets,
but I'm just so fucking happy that
I got to experience it for once, you know.
[Gerty] Leave me alone.
- We going out to celebrate.
- [Big Daddy] I'm tired of this.
[Gerty] Go lay down
if you're so tired of this.
- What?
- [James sighs]
- What's up?
- [Big Daddy] I lost Rochelle too.
[Gerty] You willing to
keep Wanda around Lamar
until the same thing happens to him?
[Big Daddy]
You creating things in your head.
[Gerty] She stood in our kitchen that day
knowing she was gonna defy me.
- I'm done talking about this.
- Come with us, man.
[Gerty] You're gonna make me late, Senior.
- I'm not gonna be late.
- [Big Daddy] See, there you go.
Please?
Look, I'ma chill, Bro.
But you go ahead.
[James sighs]
Tell me how I'm supposed to feel
after watching it all happen again.
[chuckles]
You're still silent.
It's been almost 20 years,
and you're still just silent.
[piano playing in distance]
[Gerty sighs]
[piano continues]
[soft music playing]
[Gerty sighs]
[Gerty slaps leg, sighs]
That's our song.
[Gerty] That's our song.
[Gerty sobbing]
[Big Daddy whispering]
[piano fades]
That was one of Mom's songs?
Yeah.
Just popped in my head.
I remember it from that night.
[scoffs] Go along, Bro.
You should go ahead and bounce
before they come out, man.
Go, Mar.
[sighs]
Go have fun with your homeys.
[puts box down]
[door opens]
[door closes]
- Mmm. You look good.
- [chuckles]
You ain't so bad either.
[Artillery] At last, the mecca.
[Artillery chuckles]
You straight?
Yeah, I guess I just feel like
James should be here, you know?
[sighs] Let's just enjoy the night.
We need it.
["Back to Life" playing]
[singers vocalizing]
Steady, are you ready? ♪
What's going on? ♪
- Steady, are you ready? ♪
- Are you ready? ♪
- What's going on? ♪
- What's going on? ♪
Cold, fresh air ♪
Feel the melody that's in the air ♪
I'm down, take a look around ♪
What's going down? ♪
- However do you want me ♪
- However ♪
However do you need me ♪
However do you want me ♪
However do you need me ♪
I live at the top of the block ♪
There's no more room for anything more ♪
I'll state my name ♪
- My name's to claim ♪
- State it clearly ♪
Look ♪
- Look, it's my writing on the wall ♪
- However do you want me ♪
- However do you need me ♪
- Hoo ♪
- However do you want me ♪
- How ♪
However do you need me ♪
- [song continues]
- [chattering]
- Exciting. He's right here.
- The legendary Lamar.
- Sorry. I don't know how this works.
- [chuckles]
I'm off the clock.
It works however you want.
[announcer] All right, fellas.
You been waiting for her.
Here she is. Give it up for Cinnamon!
I met this girl
Her name was Joan ♪
She loved the way I rocked
On the microphone ♪
When I met Joan, I took her home ♪
[announcer] That's right, fellas. The next
30 minutes, drink special-- two for one.
Get it now.
All she wanted was to freak with a man ♪
When I met Ann, I shook her hand ♪
We ended up freakin' by a garbage can ♪
- [song continues]
- [Leon, Wanda chuckling]
[Wanda] This just the beginning, Lee.
I got so many ideas.
About time you used that big head
for something useful.
- [gasps] Whatever.
- [chuckles]
You can't lie.
We did the damn thing with that music.
Yeah, that was impressive
for some amateurs.
Always gotta play cool.
You know
I'm unstoppable, baby.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
[announcer] Just when you thought
it couldn't get any more amped in here.
- Who that?
- I see you, OG.
DJ Block.
He runs the mix show at KRZO.
I'm about to get us on the radio.
[announcer] VIP is now open.
VIP. Now's your chance.
Yeah, let's go.
Damn, girl. Where they find you at?
Wanda Bell. Black Banner Music A&R.
[sighs] Look, I'm not working tonight.
But I got some shit you're gonna love.
You just need to hear my song.
Hey, like I told you,
I'm not working tonight.
Okay.
[Dara snorts]
[Dara sighs]
I know you ain't come in here to get high.
[inhales sharply]
- You trying to fight?
- Excuse me?
Girl, I'm just fucking with you.
So what's up?
- Y'all pick your songs, right?
- [all] Mm-hmm.
Who wanna make some extra cash?
["Back to the Hood" playing]
[stammering] That's our song.
- Art. Art, that's our song.
- [Artillery] Mmm?
Artillery, that's our song.
That's "Back to the Hood."
They're playing "Back to the Hood."
- Aw, hell, yeah. Come here, baby.
- Shit. Shit!
Gotta keep a gun
When you're raised in violence ♪
Ghetto bird, hemmed up
Cuffed on the curves ♪
I'm North Block
And we can take the search ♪
Duckin' the cell, young, wild as hell ♪
Back to the hood
I got dope to sell, fool ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- On my level ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Puttin' on for the ghetto ♪
Ain't nobody ♪
Now, back to the hood
I got dope to sell, fool ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- On my level ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Puttin' on for the ghetto ♪
Ain't nobody ♪
Now, back to the hood
I got dope to sell, fool ♪
You could die if you move wrong ♪
Made a left turn
Now we dead and gone ♪
Blood pumpin'
Now retaliation is a must ♪
Pray that we don't miss
In God we trust ♪
I'm finna buy me a low rider ♪
Uzi in the stash, dodgin' a crash ♪
Product of the ghettos, boy
Built to last ♪
Hard to stay in the present
When you get found, bye, get past ♪
Now, back to the future ♪
Made you some money
So the devil recruit you ♪
But check this out, cracker ♪
You'll never own me
Motherfuck the masters ♪
Duckin' the cell, young, wild as hell
Back to the hood ♪
I got dope to sell ♪
[song ends]
- [Lamar chuckling] I know you said
- [Wanda] Yeah, right, Leon.
Everybody was dancing to my music, bro.
Everybody.
I think I'm in love, Mar.
I think I found the one.
You a fool, homey. You know that?
[both chuckling]
I'm this close, Lee
this close to finally winning.
[chuckles]
Thank you.
We're better as friends.
Right?
[Dara] Is he your man or not?
["I Choose You" playing]
I need a fucking gangster
in my life, and I want you.
Y'all may be afraid to choose,
but I'm not.
I'm putting my bid in.
And if you half the nigga I think you are,
I'll be every kind of woman
you want me to be.
Every kind.
That's all I wanted to say.
Get in the back, fool.
[song continues]
I ♪
I choose you, baby ♪
What?
[radio presenter] It's the man of the hour
with the people who got the power,
DJ Block and the Block Party
on the only station giving you hip-hop,
ANT 99.2.
Now for this next song,
you know I heard it at the strip club.
Pour you a drink, grab the homeys,
turn this mother up.
It's the debut track from the meanest
spitter on the streets right now,
Artillery.
This is "Back to the Hood."
["Back to the Hood"
playing through speakers]
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Loves me better ♪
Yeah, and gimme no watches ♪
Inglewood nigga name ringin'
Hollywood's a-comin' ♪
Chromed-out Benz
Got the girlies watchin' ♪
Gotta keep a gun
When you're raised in violence ♪
What you doing out here?
Just listening to this again.
It's gonna change everything for y'all.
- Ain't nobody ♪
- On my level ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Puttin' on for the ghetto ♪
Ain't nobody ♪
Now, back to the hood
I got hope to sell, fool ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- On my level ♪
- Ain't nobody ♪
- Puttin' on for the ghetto ♪
Ain't nobody ♪
[song ends]
["Back to the Hood" playing in distance]
Blood pumpin'
Now retaliation is a must ♪
Pray that we don't miss
In God we trust ♪
I'm finna buy me a low rider ♪
Uzi in the stash, dodgin' a crash ♪
Product of the ghettos, boy
Built to last ♪
Hard to stay in the present
When you get found, bye, get past ♪
[song fades]
[Lamar] Mama G.
[stammering] Is everything okay?
[Gerty sighs]
It's time you knew
the truth about your mama.
All of it.
[Gerty sighs]
["Sometimes I Feel Like
a Motherless Child" playing]
Mm-hmm, I wanna go home ♪
Mm-hmm, I wanna go home ♪
Mm-hmm, I wanna go home ♪
I'm standing here at this crossroad ♪
And I don't know which way to turn ♪
This old life has never been straight ♪
That's why I know
I've got to find my way ♪
Mm-hmm, I wanna go home ♪
Mmm, sometimes I feel like ♪
Like a motherless, a motherless child ♪
Oh, sometimes, you know, I feel like ♪
Like a motherless
A motherless, a motherless child ♪
You know, sometimes I feel like ♪