Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021) s05e01 Episode Script
By Blood
1
[FUNKY HIP-HOP BEAT LAYERS IN]
[MAN] Previously on Raising Kanan
In Chinese mythology,
there's a monster called Hundun.
A blind, deaf, faceless demon.
Hundun is chaos.
[SHARP, JARRING GUNSHOTS]
- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- [GUNFIRE]
Evil.
Corrupting and polluting
all that it touches.
Raq hired some dirty police
to kill your friend.
[IRWIN] What's most scary
about Hundun's true evil
- We in business, Hafiz.
- isn't what it does
You gon' do what they won't?
Where is it?
but that it can't see itself.
Just 'cause you didn't see me
didn't mean I didn't see you.
[IRWIN] It doesn't know
that it's a monster.
[GUNSHOT]
Just like you.
We both got family, 'Nique.
I'm a street nigga
who do street nigga shit.
I'm ready to go back to war
next to y'all.
If you want work, I got work for you.
Both of you get in the fuckin' car.
Come on, baby. It's gon' be all right.
Let's go, nigga.
But you need to step up
and take care of your daughter.
I know You don't think I know that?
[KRYSTAL] And I am worried
you're gonna do
somethin' crazy about Famous.
Famous was my brother.
But he wouldn't want you
to fuck yourself up for him.
[CAPTAIN BAPTISTE] There's no world
where the murder of a cop
goes unanswered.
Squeeze hard on anyone you can.
[GARCIA] I'm police.
She's safe with me.
They found the Jane Doe
in a stairwell over at Edgemere.
One of the tenants had said
that they saw
a Black woman leaving the apartment
where we think your friend
was murdered.
- [GUNSHOT]
- Call the police,
tell 'em some white boy
with tattoos came in here
and did all of that to these people.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Phil Russo and his fuckin' gang
of misfits in Jersey
think they can go toe-to-toe
with me now.
I overstepped, and I apologize.
[GRUNTING]
We look out for ours on this side.
You got the streets wired
with these bike niggas.
You and me join forces?
[SNAPS] We want a bigger piece
of the pie
out on Southside, Jamaica.
And we got our own supplier.
[SNAPS] We bring together
you and Unique
and then connect you with our nephew.
Niggas call me Breeze.
Word.
You don't know that it was Raq, Kanan.
If you ain't with me, you against me.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Why'd you kill Krystal?
I didn't kill your girlfriend.
I know you killed Fame too.
I'm done making excuses for you
and for me.
Tonight, I'ma do what I shoulda done.
I would never hurt you
like that. I love you.
Only person you ever loved is you.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
I'm a hustla, baby ♪
- I'm a hustla, baby ♪
- Yeah ♪
I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪
Bitch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪
I been through The ups and downs ♪
You know I get around ♪
So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪
If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪
I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪
No need to say shit
I'm gon' take it ♪
Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪
Make money Make-make-make money ♪
When shit hit the fan
We'll take money, Southside ♪
Beef with the best of 'em
Done shot at the rest of 'em ♪
Checks, I'm collectin' 'em
Check, boy, I'm finessin' em ♪
Big bags of bread ♪
Boy, you fuck around
Put a big bag on your head ♪
'Fore the weather break
You're dead ♪
Let's get to it ♪
They don't do it Like we do it ♪
Cop it, whip it Bag it, flip it ♪
Re-up, we up G'd up, what up? ♪
Runnin' 'round this bitch
Still not givin' a fuck ♪
When it come to that paper
There'll be no complications ♪
Ha-ha, that's right ♪
Put a hole in a nigga
Right in front of you ♪
Your heartbeat pacin' ♪
And it's alright ♪
That's how we do it On this side ♪
Niggas get to it On this side ♪
I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪
Bitch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪
I been through The ups and downs ♪
You know I get around ♪
So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪
If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪
I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪
No need to say shit
I'm gon' take it ♪
Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪
Ayy, ayy ♪
[RILEYY VOCALIZATION]
[KANAN] That's why you killed 'em all.
D, Fame, Krystal
even my own fuckin' father!
[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
That's why I gotta do this right now.
So you can't take nobody else
away from me.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[MUSIC BUILDS DRAMATICALLY]
[GUNSHOT]
[CASINGS CLATTER ON FLOOR]
[DARK AMBIENT NOTES PLAY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[ECHOING THUD]
What'd you do?
What the fuck you just do?!
- Lou.
- [GRUNTING SOFTLY]
- [CRYING] Please.
- [GASPING, MOANING]
[GRIM, OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS, SWELLS]
Fuck, no!
Lou!
I'll call a ambulance.
Fuck you gonna tell 'em, Ruben?
[TENSE, SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
Breathe, baby.
[WHIMPERS]
[RAQ SOBBING]
- [LOU GASPING]
- [RAQ CRYING]
I love you, Lou.
[GASPING LAUGHS]
I love you.
[MUSIC DARKENS]
[SOBBING]
Go, Kanan.
Now!
[GRIM, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATHING SOFTLY]
Gonna clean this up.
[PHONE LINE RINGING]
♪
[RINGING CONTINUES]
[PHONE BEEPS]
[CRICKETS CHIRRING]
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [PLASTIC RUSTLING]
[GENTLE, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING IN DISTANCE]
[RUBEN] We gotta go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[CAR DOORS CLOSE, ENGINE STARTS]
[CAR PULLS AWAY]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[MUSIC FADES]
I wasn't gonna shoot Kanan.
I was just tryin'
to get his attention.
What's done is done.
Shit don't even matter no more.
All that matter is that
you can't tell nobody
about what happened here tonight.
Not ever.
And I'm not just talkin' about police.
That shit go without sayin'.
Talkin' about your nearest
and fuckin' dearest, nigga.
Can't tell nobody.
That shit gotta go to the grave
with you.
I'm sorry about it.
[WINDOW WHIRRING]
Yo, Ruben.
Let me hit you off
for this extra work tonight.
I'm good.
Nah.
Nah, this shit was above and beyond.
[SIGHS]
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [RUBEN GRUNTS]
[INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[SIREN WAILING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[OLDER KANAN] I ain't got
regrets in my life.
I just got shit
that's uncomfortable
that don't ever go away.
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRIES OUT]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOBBING]
[INHALES SHARPLY, EXHALES]
I was calling you last night.
There was some wild shit
happening with Kanan,
but you weren't picking up.
I'm busy on some bullshit.
What's the word with your cousin?
He was on one about Aunt Raq.
Was going over there real angry.
I got worried.
Reached Uncle Lou.
He said he was gonna run through
and check on shit.
I ain't heard nothin'
about any of that.
Been callin' Kanan
and Uncle Lou, but
neither one of 'em pickin' up.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
That's you.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Police.
Marvin Thomas?
Is Louis Thomas your brother?
[MUFFLED CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
I told you ♪
That I would never Betray you ♪
But you ♪
You took my trust
And left me in the dust ♪
So when it's going down
Where do I run? ♪
[MICHELLE] What you want?
["TORN" BY TAMAE
AND SLEEP DEEZ CONTINUES]
Friends of Rilla's.
From the, uh, studio.
[CHILD WHIMPERS]
Rilla know Lou Thomas, right?
- Yeah. Shh.
- [CHILD WHIMPERS]
Well, we just tryin' to track
him down on some business.
I've been lookin' for Bryan too.
Oh, it's okay.
He was supposed to come through
and watch the baby.
We met up yesterday so I could
get some stuff from him,
but I ain't heard from him since.
Where'd y'all link?
Outside some raggedy-looking
mall on Merrick.
[CHILD CRIES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
A'ight. Well, if you see Rilla
before we find him,
tell him Unique came callin'.
All right?
How y'all know Bryan again?
[SUCKS TEETH, SIGHS]
We don't.
But now we know you.
And we know where you
and your baby live.
[CHILD WHIMPERS]
I-I gotta go.
That mall's Raq's spot.
Tool the fuck up.
[MUSIC FADES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Is that your brother?
Is that him?
Yeah, that's Lou.
[MUSIC FADES]
[TRAFFIC HUMMING]
[CHATTER]
Was it him?
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
Oh, my God.
[MARVIN SOBBING]
[WHIMPERS]
Oh, my God.
[SOBBING]
♪
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [TELEPHONE RINGING]
Hey. Good luck, captain.
See ya, captain.
[CHATTER]
About to head out.
[SIGHS] You're gonna be missed.
By everyone.
You do this job long enough,
you gonna make a hell of a lot
more enemies than friends.
Just because they got me riding
out into the fucking sunset
doesn't mean that your work
is done, Garcia.
You wanna get
on the commissioner track,
find who put down Malcolm Howard.
I'm still pressing on the Thomas girl.
Yeah, Burke's old CI.
You need to dig deeper, Garcia.
I'd like to believe I did
more good than harm here.
But that's gonna be God's call.
Getting justice for Howard
would sure help my cause
at them pearly fuckin' gates,
though, Garcia.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Don't let me down.
[B-RILLA] Where the fuck
is this nigga Lou?
[PERNESSA WHIMPERING, CRYING]
I ain't sign up for this
babysittin' bullshit.
[PERNESSA WHIMPERING]
Nigga, fuck this.
[PERNESSA SOBBING]
I'm telling you
if you don't shut the fuck up,
I will kill you and that boy.
- No!
- Bitch.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[SOBBING]
Finally.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Yo, Lou, that you?
Yo, Lou.
[RAPID GUNSHOTS]
You all right, baby?
They hurt you?
No, no. Just scared, that's all. Shit.
Well, you ain't gotta be scared
no more
'cause I'm here, all right?
I got you.
I always got y'all.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[RAQ] Juke know?
She over at Kanan's, telling him.
You gon' want to reach out to him.
He gon' be all fucked up.
Police got thoughts on what happened?
Had to be this motherfucker 'Nique.
He dumped Lou.
Like he was a-a piece of trash.
Like he wasn't even a person.
'Nique must be out his fuckin' mind
comin' after us and Stefano like this.
Juke spoke to Lou.
He was on his way over here
to get in between some shit
you and Kanan was havin'.
He never got here.
And the thing with me and Kanan
wasn't nothin' but the usual drama.
Maybe Ruben saw something
when he was out front.
I ain't talked to him
since last night.
I'll reach out.
You handlin' this
a whole lot better than me.
'Cause I'm ready to kill any nigga
who even breathe in my direction.
Shit.
I'm not handlin' anything.
Fuck you want me to do, Marvin?
You just told me that
our baby brother is gone.
I'm fucked up.
I just lost a piece
of my fuckin' heart.
I'm just sayin', you ain't
you ain't cryin' or nothin'.
We all deal with this shit different.
Don't tell me how to hurt.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[SIGHS]
Where 'Nique people at?
Pernessa and that boy
is the only leverage
that we got right now.
Where they at?
You can't, Marvin.
I know you want to,
I do too, but you can't.
Tell me where the fuck they are, Raq.
[MUSIC DARKENS]
They at the mall.
But you do this
there ain't no turnin' back.
Lou gone.
Already ain't no turnin' back.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[SIGHS]
I called him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Told him about you goin' to Raq's.
He said he was gonna go over there.
I never saw him.
All the fucked up shit
this family into
[SCOFFS]
and I still can't believe
he's gone.
You think I'd expect it,
or be ready for it,
or some shit,
but I guess I just thought
for all our bullshit
that we was untouchable.
Nobody's untouchable.
[HEAVY, GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
Word.
♪
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
[SNAPS] How you settin' up, Breeze?
Southside ain't no different
from East New York.
Blocks change, work stay the same.
You just make sure you get yourself
a few safe spots out there.
Somewhere where you can post up
when shit gets perilous
'cause shit will get perilous, nephew.
I ain't heard from Kanan or Unique.
They'll come around.
Shit, they ain't got
nowhere else to go.
Still don't understand why
I gotta fuck
with this nigga Unique.
Kanan's a special case.
We know this.
But this other motherfucker
redundant as hell.
Why we need him when we got me?
He still got soldiers
out on those streets.
We take him out, they gon' turn on us.
Gotta finesse this shit.
Smooth it out.
Y'all finessin' when you bum-rushed
all them banks back in the day?
We ain't bum-rushed shit.
We come right through
the front fuckin' door, nigga.
Look, you gon' move this work
outta our old pawn shop
on Guy Brewer.
We got police on payroll
who know to leave that spot
the fuck alone.
[SNAPS] And no side hustles
this time around, Breeze.
Your work is our work.
For old retired heads,
y'all stay real busy.
Game needs us, nigga.
With Raq and Unique and all them
runnin' around like damn banshees,
we gotta ride in like the cavalry
and calm them the fuck down.
We got money on those streets.
We need to protect it.
You gon' make more money with me
than you ever would
with them other niggas.
[CHUCKLES] Why half-step
when you can put
your whole foot up that ass?
Huh? [LAUGHS]
Ooh, baby Come back to me ♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Fuck!
[MUSIC FADES]
[GARCIA] Just heard about your uncle.
Trouble really does seem
to follow you and your family.
- Only shit following me is you.
- All right. All right.
I helped you out with that girl
we found in Edgemere,
now you need to help me.
I don't know nothin'
so I can't do shit for you.
When you were working with Burke,
did she ever say anything to you
about Howard and what he was into?
You really askin' me
about what one cop
was sayin' about another cop?
Fuck outta here.
I wasn't workin' with Burke.
I ain't workin' wit' you neither.
I've been playing good cop
with you for a while, Laverne.
You're about to see bad cop.
Y'all the same to me.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SUCKS TEETH]
You put down Lou Thomas?
'Cause that's gonna blow back
on me, man.
What the fuck I tell you?
I'm done with South Jamaica.
Well, maybe one of your peoples
took matters into they own hands
and dropped him behind your back then.
Anybody takes matters
into their own hands,
I cut their fuckin' hands off
one finger at a fuckin' time.
Look.
You're on your own from here on out.
I'm in a fight for my fuckin' life.
All due respect,
I ain't got time for your bullshit.
Carmine will show you out.
[INTENSE, FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN] This is bullshit.
Tell Hafiz I have a schedule
to keep to
and not to keep me waiting next time.
I have another date across town
in forty five minutes.
[WOMAN SIGHS]
I need to talk to him.
I'll see if he's available.
[CAR SHIFTS INTO GEAR]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[UPBEAT, TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
[SIGHS]
♪
[MUSIC DARKENS, INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC FADES]
I ain't gonna sugarcoat it.
We're in a fucked up spot, Hafiz.
We're gonna get out of it,
but for right now, shit's tough.
You assured me that your demand
would meet my supply.
And it will.
I just gotta get my ducks in a row.
But that ain't gon' take long.
I can promise you that.
In my country, we're defined
by the promises we make,
the vows we keep,
and the oaths we take.
Where I'm from,
it is better to be dead
than to betray a promise.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
Amber, we want you to know
that you're not in any danger
or in trouble.
We just wanna find out
what happened to the Lovetts.
Yeah, we're gonna keep you safe.
I told you, it was a white guy
with tattoos.
But like these police officers
said, Amber,
one of the neighbors
said they saw someone
who looked very different
from the person you described
run out of the house.
Yeah, they said they saw a Black man
leave the home after the gunshots.
It was a white guy with tattoos.
Why don't you tell me
again what you saw, Amber.
[SIGHS] I was in the bedroom
with the baby
and we heard a noise
She's scared.
And she's lying.
Give me a week with her.
I think I can get her to open up.
She really likes this family
she's with.
So if I tell her she won't
be able to stay with them
if she doesn't tell the truth,
she'll start talking.
This guy came in with a gun
and he was white and he had tattoos
and he started shooting everywhere.
Where were his tattoos?
All over.
His arms and his body.
Well, this is new information.
So his shirt was open
so you could see his body?
CPT, off to other cities and
shit. No longer just ♪
Fuck the West Coast.
We got Pete Rock.
Who the fuck they got?
Uh Dre?
- [LAUGHS]
- Whatever, man.
Yeah, whatever.
Whatever.
And the shit That I been through ♪
Like fightin' and shootouts
And bangin' and shit ♪
Fuck y'all doin'?
I can tell you what we ain't doin'.
Making that fuckin' money.
["JUS LYKE COMPTON"
BY DJ QUIK CONTINUES]
You ain't the only one, nigga.
That gonna change anytime soon?
'Cause I need to get paid.
Or I'm gonna need to get
into some other shit.
[KRANK] I heard this new guy,
Wheeze or Sneeze or some shit,
puttin' niggas on over out
that pawn shop on Guy Brewer.
Breeze.
Yeah. Him.
And for every nigga We done shot ♪
They done shot two ♪
What he payin'?
Whatever it is,
gotta be better than what you givin'.
Just give me a day or two.
I'ma figure some shit out.
Oakland ♪
Is just like Compton ♪
Yeah, I'm telling y'all Oakland ♪
[DEMONIC LAUGH]
Is just like Compton ♪
How many more times
I gotta rebuild this shit?
[SUCKS TEETH]
Fixing my fuckin' face cost way less
than replacing
this fuckin' display case.
Greetings, brothers.
They a'ight.
Love what you've done with the place.
Chinese got they feng shui,
this right here my feng shit.
At least you ain't lost
your sense of humor.
It's all I got.
Appreciate you two comin' through.
Can we talk alone for a minute?
Lead the way.
[GLASS CRUNCHING UNDERFOOT]
Look, I ain't get as far as I have
by not being able
to read the fuckin' weather.
Without them Jersey dagos
looking out for me,
shit gettin' real dark
and stormy out here.
Y'all was talkin' 'bout
a partnership of sorts.
That's a conversation
I'm willing to have.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
That's the right choice.
But you gonna need to talk
to our nephew first,
see if the Southside's
big enough for the both of you.
[SIREN WAILING]
[MUSIC FADES]
How's your dad doin'?
Fucked up.
Yeah, I bet you feelin' the same too.
I just don't want you
to start thinking that
just 'cause all this bad stuff
keeps happening
that everything is bad.
So
I should think everything good?
No.
None of it's good.
It's all horrible.
And
[SIGHS]
I'm so, so sorry, Juke, but
you shouldn't think things
are never gon' get better.
They will.
How you know that, Iesha?
[LAUGHS UNCOMFORTABLY]
How you know that what happened
to my uncle
ain't gon' happen to my father?
Or Kanan?
Or me?
Don't even say that out loud, Juke.
[SCOFFS] Oh, so I shouldn't say
out loud
what's the most obvious shit
in the world?
All these people around me are dying.
Why wouldn't the same happen to me?
'Cause you not like them.
I am, though.
That's the thing.
That's what I keep trying to tell you.
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[SIGHS]
[BRIGHT HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
[JUKE SINGING, DISTANT, ECHOING]
Do ♪
What you gotta do ♪
My ♪
Wild, sweet love ♪
Though it may mean ♪
That I'll never ♪
Kiss those sweet lips ♪
Again, yeah ♪
Uh, huh, la-da-da-da ♪
Uh, la-da-da-da-ah ♪
[SINGING FADES, ECHOES]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[INHALES SHARPLY, SIGHS]
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
["HARD CORE" BY ARMANDO
"MANDO BEATS" COLON PLAYING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[GRUNTING]
[MAN] Yeah!
[GRUNTING]
You a Blow Pop nigga
I ain't never been a sucker ♪
You wanna get paid,
you gonna have to put
a nigga's head to bed.
[SCREAMING]
I'm outta my mind crazy
Have you ghost like Swayze ♪
I'm the real deal
You dudes is fugazie ♪
[CROWD SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
I'm out, man. I'm done. He got it.
Like Breeze said, that ain't
how this shit work, son.
You only get that money when
you put this nigga on his back.
Yo, but he said he done.
Ain't about whether he done.
It's about whether I'm done.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Put him down
or I put you down.
Yeah, it's like that, nigga.
[CROWD SHOUTING, JEERING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[CROWD JEERING]
[BREEZE] Yeah!
Check out the champ, y'all!
[CHEERING]
We on some gladiator shit!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [BREEZE] That's how we do!
Two niggas walk in
only one walk out!
[CROWD CHEERING]
[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
[OLDER KANAN] For all them
smiles and charms,
this nigga right here the most
cold-blooded motherfucker
I ever known.
He don't give a fuck.
[CROWD CHEERING]
[MUSIC FADES]
It's not safe no more, 'Nique.
Not for me.
Not for Jerome.
Definitely not for you.
It is what it's always been, Pernessa.
Ain't nothin' changed.
All these rewards we got
come with risks.
Shit, you knew that
since you pushed up on me
in the seventh grade.
In the seventh grade,
we didn't have a child, 'Nique.
In seventh grade, nobody was
putting a gun to my head
and grabbing me up outta my home.
You get bigger, niggas get bolder.
All this time we been together,
I think you thought I was doin'
what you said
because the shit made sense.
'Cause I thought you was right.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
'Nique, I been following you
because I fuckin' love you.
Not because I believe
any of the bullshit
that come outta your mouth.
It's not about you and me
anymore, baby.
It's about Jerome.
About giving him what we didn't have.
Fuck you think I'm doing, P?
[SIGHS]
All this for you and Jerome.
Stop it. No, it's not.
It's not. This is about you.
This is what you want.
'Cause I'd give up all this shit
right now for you to be with us.
You're what we want, 'Nique.
You're all we want.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
I love you.
I always gon' love you.
But I'm a mother.
And mothers protect their sons.
Against everyone and everything.
Even they own daddies.
Still trying to figure out
what shit might look like
if you and me linked.
Ain't much to figure.
We join our crews
and expand your shit.
Ain't just gon' be about
bikes for you no more.
You gonna have corners,
buildings, and territories.
You was a business before
now you a corporation.
Makin' moves on the turnpike
Blacked out Lincoln ♪
Body in the trunk ♪
I still don't get why me, though.
Snaps and Pop talkin' 'bout legacy
and history with DefCon and all that.
This about money.
It's always about money.
You a earner, my nigga.
Tried and true.
And yeah, you-you got a pedigree
which mean more than you think.
That hustler DNA is real.
At least it is to me.
What about the competition out here?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Ain't no competition.
Your moms is out the game.
We got this whole shit
wired and workin'.
Snaps, Pop, and the Italians,
they all down wit' us.
All we missin' is you, brother.
So what you think?
Ready to run the table
on the Southside?
[STEFANO] Doc says if my cock
wasn't so big
I'd be dead right now.
Fuckin' knife nicked it on the way in
and saved my liver.
[LAUGHTER]
Christ.
I must have been really close to dead
'cause that wasn't that funny.
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
Now, look.
I know you all got, uh,
questions as to what I was doing
meeting with Phil Russo alone.
And those are legitimate concerns.
But they're for another time.
Because as much as this is about me,
it's not about me at all.
I mean, this
this thing of ours
it's far bigger than me and you
and certainly Phil fuckin' Russo.
That's why I want his head
on a fuckin' pike.
I want everyone who's come before
and all our friends
who come after to know
that when our code was threatened
by this piece of shit,
that we hit back
in the strongest and clearest terms.
And if it starts a war,
so be it.
'Cause this will be a just war,
my friends.
A righteous
fuckin' war.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
A war for everything
we believe in and
and stand for.
'Cause we are nothing
if not men of honor
and character and commitment.
Let Phil Russo's fuckin' blood
be a testament to that.
[GROANS]
[MUSIC FADES]
Wish you'd come wit' us.
I can't do that. [SUCKS TEETH]
You can do whatever you want, 'Nique.
I'ma get my shit in order here
and then I'ma come see y'all.
Look, I know you may not
always believe me,
but you still believe in me, right?
Always.
You should get goin'
before it get dark.
Okay. I'll call you
when we get up there.
Gonna see you soon, J, a'ight?
[DARK, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC FADES]
I held
Louis Thomas in my arms
the day he was born.
I went to the hospital
to pray with his parents,
Joyce and Elijah.
Joyce handed him to me
and told me to ask God
to take care of him.
And I did.
And yet, here we are,
laying Louis to rest
far, far, far too soon.
And we have to ask God, why?
Why have you forsaken Louis?
And why have you ignored our prayers?
And yet, it is our prayers
and God's love for the Thomas family
that has brought Lou into God's arms.
[GRIM, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
You gotta make sure they get
re-upped over on Archer.
They ran out yesterday.
That's loot we lost
that ain't comin' back.
You fuck up that supply chain
you fuckin' up everything, Taz.
adjacent to the telly
You stayin' in ♪
One tough cookie, rookie
What you must take me for ♪
You really 'bout to give
that kid corners and all that?
Worry about your business.
Not his, nigga.
[DOOR INTERCOM BUZZES]
[LOCK BUZZING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[UNIQUE] Hey, yo, man.
I'm in the market for one
of them dookie chains.
What y'all niggas got?
[LAUGHS]
If we don't have what you want
just point out the nigga who do
and we'll tax that fool.
Kadeem mufuckin' Mathis in the house.
Only police and my mama
call me that
I know you ain't my mama.
If I am police
you're under arrest, nigga,
for stealin' my style.
Can't be stealin'
when I had that shit first.
Yo, Taz.
Might have met my match right here.
Nah. I'm unmatched, my nigga.
If you don't know,
you better ask somebody.
Been expecting you, my brother.
Have a seat. Let's talk.
♪
[MUSIC FADES]
I know we in a church.
And when you here, it's about
forgiveness and-and all that
but I won't never forgive
whoever did this to my brother.
Pastor Evans, you said you-you pray
pray to protect Lou.
[SNORTS SOFTLY]
But you also gonna need to pray
[CLEARS THROAT]
for the motherfucker
who did this to him
'cause he gon' meet me
before he meet God.
[ALARMED CHATTER]
Marvin
I- I know.
I know. I-I-I'm sorry.
I'm
a nigga hurtin' right now.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
And I know my pain ain't any worse
than the hurt other people feel
who been through the same shit.
But I'm not them.
I'm Marvin Thomas.
Lou-Lou's big brother.
♪
And this shit too much for me.
[COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
[SIGHS] Yo
Fuck it. I
I can't do this. [CLEARS THROAT]
[MUSIC FADES]
You need to know
that this shit right here
ain't the only opportunity
I'm considering.
I got options.
Just tryin' to figure out
which one is best for me.
Let me be clear, brother.
I ain't tryin' to sell you on shit.
Snaps and Pop feel like
there's a lane for us to link
and do some big things
on the Southside.
I agree with 'em, by the way.
But I respect you too much
to try to twist your arm.
I'm sure you aware that
I been beefin' with Raq Thomas,
and that shit been gettin'
extra hot recently.
I'm very aware.
For the record
I ain't had shit to do with
Lou Thomas gettin' put down.
The nigga snatched up my family,
so given the chance
I woulda dropped him.
But it wasn't me.
Point is, Raq and hers
gon' be gunnin' for me
over some shit I didn't do,
and I know you might be fuckin'
with Kanan Stark.
lyin' on his dick All the time ♪
I can see straight through ♪
It's not a concern.
I met with Kanan.
He ain't even bring up his uncle.
Kanan only thinkin' 'bout
this business.
Yo, I can see Straight through ♪
["STRAIGHT THROUGH" CONTINUES]
So how would this shit
work between us?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
We all got dreams of what we gonna do,
who we gon' be.
Those dreams are not just about us.
They about you
and everyone around you.
So when you lose someone,
you lose a part of yourself.
Part of your dream.
You lose what mighta happened, or
coulda happened, or
shoulda happened
for the person who gone.
We don't know what kind of music
Lou coulda made.
And we're never gonna find out
what kind of man
he coulda been to his woman.
And we're never gonna see
what kind of father
Lou-Lou coulda been.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
All that's gone.
All those things and people
they not never gonna happen now.
When we lost Lou
we lost those dreams.
We lost everything.
[MUSIC DARKENS]
Don't have to be complicated.
We link our operations,
we grow this shit out.
Beauty is that the more work we move,
the deeper the discount
from the connect,
the more money we make.
Who's Snaps and Pop
gettin' all this product from?
Hittin' goals
At a all-time high wit' it ♪
Move wit' ya heat ♪
[BREEZE] That ain't
our concern, brother.
As long as the price is right,
we good.
So you and I will be partners, right?
Ain't like I'm workin' for you, or
you workin' for me.
Partnership mean
ain't no reason to start no shit.
[SUCKS TEETH]
[SOMBER ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING IN CHURCH]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You okay?
I'm not.
Me neither.
I'm so sorry, Marvin.
I don't even know what else to say.
You said it all when you
said that, though, Shirley.
[RAQ] Kanan.
Haven't heard from you
this whole time.
And as usual, I clean up your mess
and you don't even look back.
Ain't nothin' to look back at.
It's over, Kanan.
You and me.
This whole shit we been doin'.
[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm washing my hands of all of it.
You on your own.
You and me, we don't mean
nothin' to each other no more.
Okay.
My heart too broke to ever
be put back together again.
You expecting me to say I give a fuck?
I don't.
You ain't never had a enemy
like me, Kanan.
I've had you as a enemy
my whole fuckin' life.
♪
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[ENGINE STARTS]
♪
[OLDER KANAN] Niggas
always tryin' to fix shit
after they break it.
But some shit can't never be fixed.
Especially when you
the shit that's broken.
sync & corrections awaqeded
Shame on a nigga who try
To run game on a nigga ♪
Wu buck wild With the trigger ♪
Shame on a nigga who try
To run game on a nigga ♪
Wu bucks-I'll fuck your ass up ♪
Yo, hut one, hut two
Hut three, hut! ♪
Ol' Dirty Bastard Live and uncut ♪
Styles unbreakable Shatterproof ♪
To the young youth
You wanna get gun? Shoot ♪
Blaow! How you like me now? ♪
Don't fuck the style Ruthless wild ♪
Do you wanna get your teeth
Knocked the fuck out? ♪
Wanna get on it like that
Well, then shout ♪
Uh, yo, RZA, yo, razor
Hit me with the major ♪
The damage, my Clan
Understand it be flavor ♪
Gunning, humming Coming at ya ♪
First I'm gonna get ya
Once I got ya, I gat ya ♪
You could never capture
The Method Man's stature ♪
For rhyme and for rapture ♪
Got niggas resigning Now master ♪
My style? Never, I put the
fucking buck in the wild, kid ♪
I'm terror Razor sharp, I sever ♪
The head from the shoulders
I'm better than my competta ♪
You mean competitor
Whatever, let's get together ♪
Shame on a nigga who try
To run game on a nigga ♪
Wu buck wild With the tri ♪
- Blaow! ♪
- I react so thick, I'm phat ♪
And yo, Rae came blowing
And blew off your headphones ♪
Black, rap from, yo, Cali to Texas ♪
Smoother than a Lexus
Now's my turn to wreck this ♪
[FUNKY HIP-HOP BEAT LAYERS IN]
[MAN] Previously on Raising Kanan
In Chinese mythology,
there's a monster called Hundun.
A blind, deaf, faceless demon.
Hundun is chaos.
[SHARP, JARRING GUNSHOTS]
- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- [GUNFIRE]
Evil.
Corrupting and polluting
all that it touches.
Raq hired some dirty police
to kill your friend.
[IRWIN] What's most scary
about Hundun's true evil
- We in business, Hafiz.
- isn't what it does
You gon' do what they won't?
Where is it?
but that it can't see itself.
Just 'cause you didn't see me
didn't mean I didn't see you.
[IRWIN] It doesn't know
that it's a monster.
[GUNSHOT]
Just like you.
We both got family, 'Nique.
I'm a street nigga
who do street nigga shit.
I'm ready to go back to war
next to y'all.
If you want work, I got work for you.
Both of you get in the fuckin' car.
Come on, baby. It's gon' be all right.
Let's go, nigga.
But you need to step up
and take care of your daughter.
I know You don't think I know that?
[KRYSTAL] And I am worried
you're gonna do
somethin' crazy about Famous.
Famous was my brother.
But he wouldn't want you
to fuck yourself up for him.
[CAPTAIN BAPTISTE] There's no world
where the murder of a cop
goes unanswered.
Squeeze hard on anyone you can.
[GARCIA] I'm police.
She's safe with me.
They found the Jane Doe
in a stairwell over at Edgemere.
One of the tenants had said
that they saw
a Black woman leaving the apartment
where we think your friend
was murdered.
- [GUNSHOT]
- Call the police,
tell 'em some white boy
with tattoos came in here
and did all of that to these people.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Phil Russo and his fuckin' gang
of misfits in Jersey
think they can go toe-to-toe
with me now.
I overstepped, and I apologize.
[GRUNTING]
We look out for ours on this side.
You got the streets wired
with these bike niggas.
You and me join forces?
[SNAPS] We want a bigger piece
of the pie
out on Southside, Jamaica.
And we got our own supplier.
[SNAPS] We bring together
you and Unique
and then connect you with our nephew.
Niggas call me Breeze.
Word.
You don't know that it was Raq, Kanan.
If you ain't with me, you against me.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Why'd you kill Krystal?
I didn't kill your girlfriend.
I know you killed Fame too.
I'm done making excuses for you
and for me.
Tonight, I'ma do what I shoulda done.
I would never hurt you
like that. I love you.
Only person you ever loved is you.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
I'm a hustla, baby ♪
- I'm a hustla, baby ♪
- Yeah ♪
I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪
Bitch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪
I been through The ups and downs ♪
You know I get around ♪
So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪
If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪
I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪
No need to say shit
I'm gon' take it ♪
Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪
Make money Make-make-make money ♪
When shit hit the fan
We'll take money, Southside ♪
Beef with the best of 'em
Done shot at the rest of 'em ♪
Checks, I'm collectin' 'em
Check, boy, I'm finessin' em ♪
Big bags of bread ♪
Boy, you fuck around
Put a big bag on your head ♪
'Fore the weather break
You're dead ♪
Let's get to it ♪
They don't do it Like we do it ♪
Cop it, whip it Bag it, flip it ♪
Re-up, we up G'd up, what up? ♪
Runnin' 'round this bitch
Still not givin' a fuck ♪
When it come to that paper
There'll be no complications ♪
Ha-ha, that's right ♪
Put a hole in a nigga
Right in front of you ♪
Your heartbeat pacin' ♪
And it's alright ♪
That's how we do it On this side ♪
Niggas get to it On this side ♪
I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪
Bitch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪
I been through The ups and downs ♪
You know I get around ♪
So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪
If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪
I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪
No need to say shit
I'm gon' take it ♪
Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪
Ayy, ayy ♪
[RILEYY VOCALIZATION]
[KANAN] That's why you killed 'em all.
D, Fame, Krystal
even my own fuckin' father!
[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
That's why I gotta do this right now.
So you can't take nobody else
away from me.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[MUSIC BUILDS DRAMATICALLY]
[GUNSHOT]
[CASINGS CLATTER ON FLOOR]
[DARK AMBIENT NOTES PLAY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[ECHOING THUD]
What'd you do?
What the fuck you just do?!
- Lou.
- [GRUNTING SOFTLY]
- [CRYING] Please.
- [GASPING, MOANING]
[GRIM, OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS, SWELLS]
Fuck, no!
Lou!
I'll call a ambulance.
Fuck you gonna tell 'em, Ruben?
[TENSE, SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
Breathe, baby.
[WHIMPERS]
[RAQ SOBBING]
- [LOU GASPING]
- [RAQ CRYING]
I love you, Lou.
[GASPING LAUGHS]
I love you.
[MUSIC DARKENS]
[SOBBING]
Go, Kanan.
Now!
[GRIM, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATHING SOFTLY]
Gonna clean this up.
[PHONE LINE RINGING]
♪
[RINGING CONTINUES]
[PHONE BEEPS]
[CRICKETS CHIRRING]
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [PLASTIC RUSTLING]
[GENTLE, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING IN DISTANCE]
[RUBEN] We gotta go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[CAR DOORS CLOSE, ENGINE STARTS]
[CAR PULLS AWAY]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[MUSIC FADES]
I wasn't gonna shoot Kanan.
I was just tryin'
to get his attention.
What's done is done.
Shit don't even matter no more.
All that matter is that
you can't tell nobody
about what happened here tonight.
Not ever.
And I'm not just talkin' about police.
That shit go without sayin'.
Talkin' about your nearest
and fuckin' dearest, nigga.
Can't tell nobody.
That shit gotta go to the grave
with you.
I'm sorry about it.
[WINDOW WHIRRING]
Yo, Ruben.
Let me hit you off
for this extra work tonight.
I'm good.
Nah.
Nah, this shit was above and beyond.
[SIGHS]
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [RUBEN GRUNTS]
[INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[SIREN WAILING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[OLDER KANAN] I ain't got
regrets in my life.
I just got shit
that's uncomfortable
that don't ever go away.
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRIES OUT]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOBBING]
[INHALES SHARPLY, EXHALES]
I was calling you last night.
There was some wild shit
happening with Kanan,
but you weren't picking up.
I'm busy on some bullshit.
What's the word with your cousin?
He was on one about Aunt Raq.
Was going over there real angry.
I got worried.
Reached Uncle Lou.
He said he was gonna run through
and check on shit.
I ain't heard nothin'
about any of that.
Been callin' Kanan
and Uncle Lou, but
neither one of 'em pickin' up.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
That's you.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Police.
Marvin Thomas?
Is Louis Thomas your brother?
[MUFFLED CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
I told you ♪
That I would never Betray you ♪
But you ♪
You took my trust
And left me in the dust ♪
So when it's going down
Where do I run? ♪
[MICHELLE] What you want?
["TORN" BY TAMAE
AND SLEEP DEEZ CONTINUES]
Friends of Rilla's.
From the, uh, studio.
[CHILD WHIMPERS]
Rilla know Lou Thomas, right?
- Yeah. Shh.
- [CHILD WHIMPERS]
Well, we just tryin' to track
him down on some business.
I've been lookin' for Bryan too.
Oh, it's okay.
He was supposed to come through
and watch the baby.
We met up yesterday so I could
get some stuff from him,
but I ain't heard from him since.
Where'd y'all link?
Outside some raggedy-looking
mall on Merrick.
[CHILD CRIES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
A'ight. Well, if you see Rilla
before we find him,
tell him Unique came callin'.
All right?
How y'all know Bryan again?
[SUCKS TEETH, SIGHS]
We don't.
But now we know you.
And we know where you
and your baby live.
[CHILD WHIMPERS]
I-I gotta go.
That mall's Raq's spot.
Tool the fuck up.
[MUSIC FADES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Is that your brother?
Is that him?
Yeah, that's Lou.
[MUSIC FADES]
[TRAFFIC HUMMING]
[CHATTER]
Was it him?
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
Oh, my God.
[MARVIN SOBBING]
[WHIMPERS]
Oh, my God.
[SOBBING]
♪
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [TELEPHONE RINGING]
Hey. Good luck, captain.
See ya, captain.
[CHATTER]
About to head out.
[SIGHS] You're gonna be missed.
By everyone.
You do this job long enough,
you gonna make a hell of a lot
more enemies than friends.
Just because they got me riding
out into the fucking sunset
doesn't mean that your work
is done, Garcia.
You wanna get
on the commissioner track,
find who put down Malcolm Howard.
I'm still pressing on the Thomas girl.
Yeah, Burke's old CI.
You need to dig deeper, Garcia.
I'd like to believe I did
more good than harm here.
But that's gonna be God's call.
Getting justice for Howard
would sure help my cause
at them pearly fuckin' gates,
though, Garcia.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Don't let me down.
[B-RILLA] Where the fuck
is this nigga Lou?
[PERNESSA WHIMPERING, CRYING]
I ain't sign up for this
babysittin' bullshit.
[PERNESSA WHIMPERING]
Nigga, fuck this.
[PERNESSA SOBBING]
I'm telling you
if you don't shut the fuck up,
I will kill you and that boy.
- No!
- Bitch.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[SOBBING]
Finally.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Yo, Lou, that you?
Yo, Lou.
[RAPID GUNSHOTS]
You all right, baby?
They hurt you?
No, no. Just scared, that's all. Shit.
Well, you ain't gotta be scared
no more
'cause I'm here, all right?
I got you.
I always got y'all.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[RAQ] Juke know?
She over at Kanan's, telling him.
You gon' want to reach out to him.
He gon' be all fucked up.
Police got thoughts on what happened?
Had to be this motherfucker 'Nique.
He dumped Lou.
Like he was a-a piece of trash.
Like he wasn't even a person.
'Nique must be out his fuckin' mind
comin' after us and Stefano like this.
Juke spoke to Lou.
He was on his way over here
to get in between some shit
you and Kanan was havin'.
He never got here.
And the thing with me and Kanan
wasn't nothin' but the usual drama.
Maybe Ruben saw something
when he was out front.
I ain't talked to him
since last night.
I'll reach out.
You handlin' this
a whole lot better than me.
'Cause I'm ready to kill any nigga
who even breathe in my direction.
Shit.
I'm not handlin' anything.
Fuck you want me to do, Marvin?
You just told me that
our baby brother is gone.
I'm fucked up.
I just lost a piece
of my fuckin' heart.
I'm just sayin', you ain't
you ain't cryin' or nothin'.
We all deal with this shit different.
Don't tell me how to hurt.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[SIGHS]
Where 'Nique people at?
Pernessa and that boy
is the only leverage
that we got right now.
Where they at?
You can't, Marvin.
I know you want to,
I do too, but you can't.
Tell me where the fuck they are, Raq.
[MUSIC DARKENS]
They at the mall.
But you do this
there ain't no turnin' back.
Lou gone.
Already ain't no turnin' back.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[SIGHS]
I called him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Told him about you goin' to Raq's.
He said he was gonna go over there.
I never saw him.
All the fucked up shit
this family into
[SCOFFS]
and I still can't believe
he's gone.
You think I'd expect it,
or be ready for it,
or some shit,
but I guess I just thought
for all our bullshit
that we was untouchable.
Nobody's untouchable.
[HEAVY, GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
Word.
♪
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
[SNAPS] How you settin' up, Breeze?
Southside ain't no different
from East New York.
Blocks change, work stay the same.
You just make sure you get yourself
a few safe spots out there.
Somewhere where you can post up
when shit gets perilous
'cause shit will get perilous, nephew.
I ain't heard from Kanan or Unique.
They'll come around.
Shit, they ain't got
nowhere else to go.
Still don't understand why
I gotta fuck
with this nigga Unique.
Kanan's a special case.
We know this.
But this other motherfucker
redundant as hell.
Why we need him when we got me?
He still got soldiers
out on those streets.
We take him out, they gon' turn on us.
Gotta finesse this shit.
Smooth it out.
Y'all finessin' when you bum-rushed
all them banks back in the day?
We ain't bum-rushed shit.
We come right through
the front fuckin' door, nigga.
Look, you gon' move this work
outta our old pawn shop
on Guy Brewer.
We got police on payroll
who know to leave that spot
the fuck alone.
[SNAPS] And no side hustles
this time around, Breeze.
Your work is our work.
For old retired heads,
y'all stay real busy.
Game needs us, nigga.
With Raq and Unique and all them
runnin' around like damn banshees,
we gotta ride in like the cavalry
and calm them the fuck down.
We got money on those streets.
We need to protect it.
You gon' make more money with me
than you ever would
with them other niggas.
[CHUCKLES] Why half-step
when you can put
your whole foot up that ass?
Huh? [LAUGHS]
Ooh, baby Come back to me ♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Fuck!
[MUSIC FADES]
[GARCIA] Just heard about your uncle.
Trouble really does seem
to follow you and your family.
- Only shit following me is you.
- All right. All right.
I helped you out with that girl
we found in Edgemere,
now you need to help me.
I don't know nothin'
so I can't do shit for you.
When you were working with Burke,
did she ever say anything to you
about Howard and what he was into?
You really askin' me
about what one cop
was sayin' about another cop?
Fuck outta here.
I wasn't workin' with Burke.
I ain't workin' wit' you neither.
I've been playing good cop
with you for a while, Laverne.
You're about to see bad cop.
Y'all the same to me.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SUCKS TEETH]
You put down Lou Thomas?
'Cause that's gonna blow back
on me, man.
What the fuck I tell you?
I'm done with South Jamaica.
Well, maybe one of your peoples
took matters into they own hands
and dropped him behind your back then.
Anybody takes matters
into their own hands,
I cut their fuckin' hands off
one finger at a fuckin' time.
Look.
You're on your own from here on out.
I'm in a fight for my fuckin' life.
All due respect,
I ain't got time for your bullshit.
Carmine will show you out.
[INTENSE, FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN] This is bullshit.
Tell Hafiz I have a schedule
to keep to
and not to keep me waiting next time.
I have another date across town
in forty five minutes.
[WOMAN SIGHS]
I need to talk to him.
I'll see if he's available.
[CAR SHIFTS INTO GEAR]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[UPBEAT, TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
[SIGHS]
♪
[MUSIC DARKENS, INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC FADES]
I ain't gonna sugarcoat it.
We're in a fucked up spot, Hafiz.
We're gonna get out of it,
but for right now, shit's tough.
You assured me that your demand
would meet my supply.
And it will.
I just gotta get my ducks in a row.
But that ain't gon' take long.
I can promise you that.
In my country, we're defined
by the promises we make,
the vows we keep,
and the oaths we take.
Where I'm from,
it is better to be dead
than to betray a promise.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
Amber, we want you to know
that you're not in any danger
or in trouble.
We just wanna find out
what happened to the Lovetts.
Yeah, we're gonna keep you safe.
I told you, it was a white guy
with tattoos.
But like these police officers
said, Amber,
one of the neighbors
said they saw someone
who looked very different
from the person you described
run out of the house.
Yeah, they said they saw a Black man
leave the home after the gunshots.
It was a white guy with tattoos.
Why don't you tell me
again what you saw, Amber.
[SIGHS] I was in the bedroom
with the baby
and we heard a noise
She's scared.
And she's lying.
Give me a week with her.
I think I can get her to open up.
She really likes this family
she's with.
So if I tell her she won't
be able to stay with them
if she doesn't tell the truth,
she'll start talking.
This guy came in with a gun
and he was white and he had tattoos
and he started shooting everywhere.
Where were his tattoos?
All over.
His arms and his body.
Well, this is new information.
So his shirt was open
so you could see his body?
CPT, off to other cities and
shit. No longer just ♪
Fuck the West Coast.
We got Pete Rock.
Who the fuck they got?
Uh Dre?
- [LAUGHS]
- Whatever, man.
Yeah, whatever.
Whatever.
And the shit That I been through ♪
Like fightin' and shootouts
And bangin' and shit ♪
Fuck y'all doin'?
I can tell you what we ain't doin'.
Making that fuckin' money.
["JUS LYKE COMPTON"
BY DJ QUIK CONTINUES]
You ain't the only one, nigga.
That gonna change anytime soon?
'Cause I need to get paid.
Or I'm gonna need to get
into some other shit.
[KRANK] I heard this new guy,
Wheeze or Sneeze or some shit,
puttin' niggas on over out
that pawn shop on Guy Brewer.
Breeze.
Yeah. Him.
And for every nigga We done shot ♪
They done shot two ♪
What he payin'?
Whatever it is,
gotta be better than what you givin'.
Just give me a day or two.
I'ma figure some shit out.
Oakland ♪
Is just like Compton ♪
Yeah, I'm telling y'all Oakland ♪
[DEMONIC LAUGH]
Is just like Compton ♪
How many more times
I gotta rebuild this shit?
[SUCKS TEETH]
Fixing my fuckin' face cost way less
than replacing
this fuckin' display case.
Greetings, brothers.
They a'ight.
Love what you've done with the place.
Chinese got they feng shui,
this right here my feng shit.
At least you ain't lost
your sense of humor.
It's all I got.
Appreciate you two comin' through.
Can we talk alone for a minute?
Lead the way.
[GLASS CRUNCHING UNDERFOOT]
Look, I ain't get as far as I have
by not being able
to read the fuckin' weather.
Without them Jersey dagos
looking out for me,
shit gettin' real dark
and stormy out here.
Y'all was talkin' 'bout
a partnership of sorts.
That's a conversation
I'm willing to have.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
That's the right choice.
But you gonna need to talk
to our nephew first,
see if the Southside's
big enough for the both of you.
[SIREN WAILING]
[MUSIC FADES]
How's your dad doin'?
Fucked up.
Yeah, I bet you feelin' the same too.
I just don't want you
to start thinking that
just 'cause all this bad stuff
keeps happening
that everything is bad.
So
I should think everything good?
No.
None of it's good.
It's all horrible.
And
[SIGHS]
I'm so, so sorry, Juke, but
you shouldn't think things
are never gon' get better.
They will.
How you know that, Iesha?
[LAUGHS UNCOMFORTABLY]
How you know that what happened
to my uncle
ain't gon' happen to my father?
Or Kanan?
Or me?
Don't even say that out loud, Juke.
[SCOFFS] Oh, so I shouldn't say
out loud
what's the most obvious shit
in the world?
All these people around me are dying.
Why wouldn't the same happen to me?
'Cause you not like them.
I am, though.
That's the thing.
That's what I keep trying to tell you.
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[SIGHS]
[BRIGHT HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
[JUKE SINGING, DISTANT, ECHOING]
Do ♪
What you gotta do ♪
My ♪
Wild, sweet love ♪
Though it may mean ♪
That I'll never ♪
Kiss those sweet lips ♪
Again, yeah ♪
Uh, huh, la-da-da-da ♪
Uh, la-da-da-da-ah ♪
[SINGING FADES, ECHOES]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[INHALES SHARPLY, SIGHS]
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
["HARD CORE" BY ARMANDO
"MANDO BEATS" COLON PLAYING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[GRUNTING]
[MAN] Yeah!
[GRUNTING]
You a Blow Pop nigga
I ain't never been a sucker ♪
You wanna get paid,
you gonna have to put
a nigga's head to bed.
[SCREAMING]
I'm outta my mind crazy
Have you ghost like Swayze ♪
I'm the real deal
You dudes is fugazie ♪
[CROWD SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
I'm out, man. I'm done. He got it.
Like Breeze said, that ain't
how this shit work, son.
You only get that money when
you put this nigga on his back.
Yo, but he said he done.
Ain't about whether he done.
It's about whether I'm done.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Put him down
or I put you down.
Yeah, it's like that, nigga.
[CROWD SHOUTING, JEERING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[CROWD JEERING]
[BREEZE] Yeah!
Check out the champ, y'all!
[CHEERING]
We on some gladiator shit!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [BREEZE] That's how we do!
Two niggas walk in
only one walk out!
[CROWD CHEERING]
[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
[OLDER KANAN] For all them
smiles and charms,
this nigga right here the most
cold-blooded motherfucker
I ever known.
He don't give a fuck.
[CROWD CHEERING]
[MUSIC FADES]
It's not safe no more, 'Nique.
Not for me.
Not for Jerome.
Definitely not for you.
It is what it's always been, Pernessa.
Ain't nothin' changed.
All these rewards we got
come with risks.
Shit, you knew that
since you pushed up on me
in the seventh grade.
In the seventh grade,
we didn't have a child, 'Nique.
In seventh grade, nobody was
putting a gun to my head
and grabbing me up outta my home.
You get bigger, niggas get bolder.
All this time we been together,
I think you thought I was doin'
what you said
because the shit made sense.
'Cause I thought you was right.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
'Nique, I been following you
because I fuckin' love you.
Not because I believe
any of the bullshit
that come outta your mouth.
It's not about you and me
anymore, baby.
It's about Jerome.
About giving him what we didn't have.
Fuck you think I'm doing, P?
[SIGHS]
All this for you and Jerome.
Stop it. No, it's not.
It's not. This is about you.
This is what you want.
'Cause I'd give up all this shit
right now for you to be with us.
You're what we want, 'Nique.
You're all we want.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
I love you.
I always gon' love you.
But I'm a mother.
And mothers protect their sons.
Against everyone and everything.
Even they own daddies.
Still trying to figure out
what shit might look like
if you and me linked.
Ain't much to figure.
We join our crews
and expand your shit.
Ain't just gon' be about
bikes for you no more.
You gonna have corners,
buildings, and territories.
You was a business before
now you a corporation.
Makin' moves on the turnpike
Blacked out Lincoln ♪
Body in the trunk ♪
I still don't get why me, though.
Snaps and Pop talkin' 'bout legacy
and history with DefCon and all that.
This about money.
It's always about money.
You a earner, my nigga.
Tried and true.
And yeah, you-you got a pedigree
which mean more than you think.
That hustler DNA is real.
At least it is to me.
What about the competition out here?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Ain't no competition.
Your moms is out the game.
We got this whole shit
wired and workin'.
Snaps, Pop, and the Italians,
they all down wit' us.
All we missin' is you, brother.
So what you think?
Ready to run the table
on the Southside?
[STEFANO] Doc says if my cock
wasn't so big
I'd be dead right now.
Fuckin' knife nicked it on the way in
and saved my liver.
[LAUGHTER]
Christ.
I must have been really close to dead
'cause that wasn't that funny.
[GRUNTING]
[GROANING]
Now, look.
I know you all got, uh,
questions as to what I was doing
meeting with Phil Russo alone.
And those are legitimate concerns.
But they're for another time.
Because as much as this is about me,
it's not about me at all.
I mean, this
this thing of ours
it's far bigger than me and you
and certainly Phil fuckin' Russo.
That's why I want his head
on a fuckin' pike.
I want everyone who's come before
and all our friends
who come after to know
that when our code was threatened
by this piece of shit,
that we hit back
in the strongest and clearest terms.
And if it starts a war,
so be it.
'Cause this will be a just war,
my friends.
A righteous
fuckin' war.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
A war for everything
we believe in and
and stand for.
'Cause we are nothing
if not men of honor
and character and commitment.
Let Phil Russo's fuckin' blood
be a testament to that.
[GROANS]
[MUSIC FADES]
Wish you'd come wit' us.
I can't do that. [SUCKS TEETH]
You can do whatever you want, 'Nique.
I'ma get my shit in order here
and then I'ma come see y'all.
Look, I know you may not
always believe me,
but you still believe in me, right?
Always.
You should get goin'
before it get dark.
Okay. I'll call you
when we get up there.
Gonna see you soon, J, a'ight?
[DARK, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC FADES]
I held
Louis Thomas in my arms
the day he was born.
I went to the hospital
to pray with his parents,
Joyce and Elijah.
Joyce handed him to me
and told me to ask God
to take care of him.
And I did.
And yet, here we are,
laying Louis to rest
far, far, far too soon.
And we have to ask God, why?
Why have you forsaken Louis?
And why have you ignored our prayers?
And yet, it is our prayers
and God's love for the Thomas family
that has brought Lou into God's arms.
[GRIM, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
You gotta make sure they get
re-upped over on Archer.
They ran out yesterday.
That's loot we lost
that ain't comin' back.
You fuck up that supply chain
you fuckin' up everything, Taz.
adjacent to the telly
You stayin' in ♪
One tough cookie, rookie
What you must take me for ♪
You really 'bout to give
that kid corners and all that?
Worry about your business.
Not his, nigga.
[DOOR INTERCOM BUZZES]
[LOCK BUZZING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[UNIQUE] Hey, yo, man.
I'm in the market for one
of them dookie chains.
What y'all niggas got?
[LAUGHS]
If we don't have what you want
just point out the nigga who do
and we'll tax that fool.
Kadeem mufuckin' Mathis in the house.
Only police and my mama
call me that
I know you ain't my mama.
If I am police
you're under arrest, nigga,
for stealin' my style.
Can't be stealin'
when I had that shit first.
Yo, Taz.
Might have met my match right here.
Nah. I'm unmatched, my nigga.
If you don't know,
you better ask somebody.
Been expecting you, my brother.
Have a seat. Let's talk.
♪
[MUSIC FADES]
I know we in a church.
And when you here, it's about
forgiveness and-and all that
but I won't never forgive
whoever did this to my brother.
Pastor Evans, you said you-you pray
pray to protect Lou.
[SNORTS SOFTLY]
But you also gonna need to pray
[CLEARS THROAT]
for the motherfucker
who did this to him
'cause he gon' meet me
before he meet God.
[ALARMED CHATTER]
Marvin
I- I know.
I know. I-I-I'm sorry.
I'm
a nigga hurtin' right now.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
And I know my pain ain't any worse
than the hurt other people feel
who been through the same shit.
But I'm not them.
I'm Marvin Thomas.
Lou-Lou's big brother.
♪
And this shit too much for me.
[COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
[SIGHS] Yo
Fuck it. I
I can't do this. [CLEARS THROAT]
[MUSIC FADES]
You need to know
that this shit right here
ain't the only opportunity
I'm considering.
I got options.
Just tryin' to figure out
which one is best for me.
Let me be clear, brother.
I ain't tryin' to sell you on shit.
Snaps and Pop feel like
there's a lane for us to link
and do some big things
on the Southside.
I agree with 'em, by the way.
But I respect you too much
to try to twist your arm.
I'm sure you aware that
I been beefin' with Raq Thomas,
and that shit been gettin'
extra hot recently.
I'm very aware.
For the record
I ain't had shit to do with
Lou Thomas gettin' put down.
The nigga snatched up my family,
so given the chance
I woulda dropped him.
But it wasn't me.
Point is, Raq and hers
gon' be gunnin' for me
over some shit I didn't do,
and I know you might be fuckin'
with Kanan Stark.
lyin' on his dick All the time ♪
I can see straight through ♪
It's not a concern.
I met with Kanan.
He ain't even bring up his uncle.
Kanan only thinkin' 'bout
this business.
Yo, I can see Straight through ♪
["STRAIGHT THROUGH" CONTINUES]
So how would this shit
work between us?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
We all got dreams of what we gonna do,
who we gon' be.
Those dreams are not just about us.
They about you
and everyone around you.
So when you lose someone,
you lose a part of yourself.
Part of your dream.
You lose what mighta happened, or
coulda happened, or
shoulda happened
for the person who gone.
We don't know what kind of music
Lou coulda made.
And we're never gonna find out
what kind of man
he coulda been to his woman.
And we're never gonna see
what kind of father
Lou-Lou coulda been.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
All that's gone.
All those things and people
they not never gonna happen now.
When we lost Lou
we lost those dreams.
We lost everything.
[MUSIC DARKENS]
Don't have to be complicated.
We link our operations,
we grow this shit out.
Beauty is that the more work we move,
the deeper the discount
from the connect,
the more money we make.
Who's Snaps and Pop
gettin' all this product from?
Hittin' goals
At a all-time high wit' it ♪
Move wit' ya heat ♪
[BREEZE] That ain't
our concern, brother.
As long as the price is right,
we good.
So you and I will be partners, right?
Ain't like I'm workin' for you, or
you workin' for me.
Partnership mean
ain't no reason to start no shit.
[SUCKS TEETH]
[SOMBER ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING IN CHURCH]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You okay?
I'm not.
Me neither.
I'm so sorry, Marvin.
I don't even know what else to say.
You said it all when you
said that, though, Shirley.
[RAQ] Kanan.
Haven't heard from you
this whole time.
And as usual, I clean up your mess
and you don't even look back.
Ain't nothin' to look back at.
It's over, Kanan.
You and me.
This whole shit we been doin'.
[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm washing my hands of all of it.
You on your own.
You and me, we don't mean
nothin' to each other no more.
Okay.
My heart too broke to ever
be put back together again.
You expecting me to say I give a fuck?
I don't.
You ain't never had a enemy
like me, Kanan.
I've had you as a enemy
my whole fuckin' life.
♪
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[ENGINE STARTS]
♪
[OLDER KANAN] Niggas
always tryin' to fix shit
after they break it.
But some shit can't never be fixed.
Especially when you
the shit that's broken.
sync & corrections awaqeded
Shame on a nigga who try
To run game on a nigga ♪
Wu buck wild With the trigger ♪
Shame on a nigga who try
To run game on a nigga ♪
Wu bucks-I'll fuck your ass up ♪
Yo, hut one, hut two
Hut three, hut! ♪
Ol' Dirty Bastard Live and uncut ♪
Styles unbreakable Shatterproof ♪
To the young youth
You wanna get gun? Shoot ♪
Blaow! How you like me now? ♪
Don't fuck the style Ruthless wild ♪
Do you wanna get your teeth
Knocked the fuck out? ♪
Wanna get on it like that
Well, then shout ♪
Uh, yo, RZA, yo, razor
Hit me with the major ♪
The damage, my Clan
Understand it be flavor ♪
Gunning, humming Coming at ya ♪
First I'm gonna get ya
Once I got ya, I gat ya ♪
You could never capture
The Method Man's stature ♪
For rhyme and for rapture ♪
Got niggas resigning Now master ♪
My style? Never, I put the
fucking buck in the wild, kid ♪
I'm terror Razor sharp, I sever ♪
The head from the shoulders
I'm better than my competta ♪
You mean competitor
Whatever, let's get together ♪
Shame on a nigga who try
To run game on a nigga ♪
Wu buck wild With the tri ♪
- Blaow! ♪
- I react so thick, I'm phat ♪
And yo, Rae came blowing
And blew off your headphones ♪
Black, rap from, yo, Cali to Texas ♪
Smoother than a Lexus
Now's my turn to wreck this ♪