The Chi (2018) s07e03 Episode Script

1
[JADA] Previously on The Chi
[KIESHA] I can't believe this shit.
I can.
My pullout game weak as hell. [CHUCKLES]
How many kids are there?
Between all of us or
I have a son. They have a son.
And he has two other children.
[TIFF] With two different women.
What is this
some Black, ghetto Brady Bunch shit?
You need to dice smaller
and move way faster.
[JAMAL] You gonna be my teacher?
[DOM] Mm-mm. I don't got time to train.
I gotta hear it in the
streets that you moving to LA.
Come with me. I want to be with you.
I love you.
I love you, too.
[TIERRA] I don't want your identity
to be so wrapped up in who you're with.
You need to focus on who you want to be.
So I should dump Jake?
That's your decision to make, love.
I'd rather have a child without you
than be childless with you.
Is this it for us?
I think so.
There he is.
You want to play with guns?
'Cause we could always
use another shooter.
So you in now.
And this shit
this shit is for life.
Let me ask you something, Douda.
Is there anything that
I can do different?
You have nothing to worry about.
[GUNFIRE]
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]
I'm not giving you no more money,
and I don't work for you.
Bye, nigga.
[GUNSHOTS]
[TIFF] I can't sleep. I feel nauseous.
I just don't feel like myself.
- I need some time.
- Anything for you.
- [TIFF] For real?
- [KIESHA] Yes, we family.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
♪
[OBJECT TAPPING, PERSON
SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
♪
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
Yeah, huh ♪
Huh ♪
Hey ♪
I should've known I
was coming with you ♪
Huh, it's right here, nigga ♪
♪
- Yeah ♪
- Man down ♪
[ECHOING] There's a man down ♪
Man down, there's a man down ♪
It's right here, nigga ♪
- Hey ♪
- Yeah ♪
If you want it, you
can come and get it ♪
Where's it at? ♪
I got it on me ♪
- Yeah ♪
- Man down ♪
Listen up to what I say
and then get out of my way ♪
I ain't got no time to play ♪
Then get out of my way ♪
Man down, there's a man down ♪
You can fuck with me and my niggas ♪
Pay attention, we can
show you how to get it ♪
Been nice since a little nigga ♪
Yeah, I know it's been a minute ♪
Still got it, don't forget it ♪
If you want it, you
can come and get it ♪
Huh ♪
I got it on me ♪
Yeah ♪
I got it on me ♪
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
♪
[SMOOTH MUSIC]
[LAUGHTER, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey, who kids is these?
Look at my baby mamas, y'all.
- Y'all know what I mean.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Oh ♪
[LAUGHING] Y'all know what I mean.
- [LAUGHTER]
- Goddamn, yo.
- Oh.
- Jesus, I guess
I just have to accept
it all at this point.
Listen, babies are a blessing,
no matter which way they
come into this world, okay?
- Let's just celebrate.
- You're right.
♪
- Hey, baby!
- [CHILD BABBLES]
- All right.
- Yo, sorry we late, y'all.
- [NUCK] What's up?
- Congratulations.
♪
I'm gonna go to the car,
get the rest of the gifts.
- What the hell is that?
- I got y'all a Snoo, man.
[EMMETT] Damn.
Yeah, I heard it rock the
baby to sleep and shit.
[EMMETT] Hello. Ooh, hold up.
- Wow. Thank you.
- [NUCK] Mm-hmm. No problem.
- This is nice.
- We already have a Snoo.
Okay, now you got another one.
Well, maybe we can exchange
it for something else.
- No, maybe you can
- Thank you, Nuck.
Thank you.
Not today.
Please.
Time for cake.
[TIFF SIGHS] Thank you.
You need anything, I'm here.
[SCOFFS] No, Alicia got
everything under control.
She don't got me wanting for nothing.
Mm, the rich lady that lives
on the top of the hill, huh?
[LAUGHS] And you're the
crook with a heart of gold.
My heart might be cold,
but my head is cool.
That's why a nigga still standing.
Okay, well, thank you for the Snoo.
Oh, no problem.
It's nice to see Nuck
stepping up, isn't it?
[TIFF] Yeah, he been real sweet
ever since he found out I was pregnant.
- He's complicated.
- Trust me, I know. [CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS] I hope things
stay as quiet as they been.
Yeah, I need things to
be this calm for a while.
- [BOTH SHOUT]
- So is your single journey
coming to an end, or are
you just enjoying the view?
- I mean, I ain't blind, shit.
- No, horny is what you are.
No, I can satisfy myself.
[LAUGHS] Well, we both know
that gets old real quick.
[TRACY] Ooh, no, it
does. It really does.
[LAUGHTER]
I never said it was gonna last forever.
I just needed a moment to myself
so I didn't feel like I was running
- behind a man, you know?
- [JADA] Mm-hmm.
And I'd be lying if I said
Douda's death didn't impact me.
- [JADA] Oh, of course.
- Yeah.
It really just boiled down
to me taking a little time to myself
and finally fulfilling my own needs.
And now that you've
done that, how's it feel?
Good.
I got a better understanding
of what it is that I need.
Mm.
So if somebody does come along,
I can tell them exactly what I want.
He ain't gotta try to figure it out.
Ooh, I heard that.
Sound like somebody ready to
jump back into the dating pool.
I don't know about none of that.
It's a little scary out here.
I heard it got pee and shit in it, girl.
- What? [CHUCKLES]
- It is not that bad.
Yeah, but you jumped your
ass out to marry Darnell.
Well, because he finally
got his shit together.
- Oh, okay.
- [JADA] Mm-hmm.
Well, I'm just trying to
have a little fun for once.
- That's all.
- Well, as you should.
- Cheers.
- Cin cin.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
- [JADA] Ooh.
[LAUGHTER, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
- [KIESHA LAUGHING] Okay.
- [TIFF] Hey, EJ.
You excited about our new baby?
Ah.
Don't be like that.
I think he's just tired.
You tired?
Come here.
- EJ, come to Mommy.
- EJ.
- You okay? Look at me.
- Can I play a video game?
You should go play with the kids.
Go play your game.
[CHUCKLES] Oh, now you love me?
- [CHUCKLES]
- [EJ GIGGLES]
I don't like that.
You don't like what, how I raise my son?
You asked us to help raise him.
I asked you to watch him for a while.
I just don't want him getting confused.
Confused about what?
I think you the one that's confused.
I'm not confused. I
know you're his mother.
But he's been our responsibility
- for the past six months.
- You said it was cool, Kiesha.
- It is, but
- But what?
I don't want to do this today.
♪
It's okay, girl.
My mood is all over the place.
♪
Yeah, I can't imagine
what this experience
has been like for you.
It's hell.
And you in heaven.
My life is complicated, too.
But you still got Emmett.
Hey, y'all gonna play Pin
the Diaper on the Baby?
It's fun.
What's wrong?
- Daddy's here.
- Stop.
Can you leave us alone?
- What'd I do?
- Just go host, please.
That's what I've been doing,
and I work all day tomorrow.
- I know you ain't complaining.
- [EMMETT] I'm tired, too.
From talking to us about being tired.
- Y'all been a lot lately.
- For good reason.
I wish both of these babies
would hurry up and come
so y'all can get back to normal
because this some bullshit.
Can you just go get some cheese dip?
They ran through it.
- [KIESHA SIGHS]
- Let me help you.
♪
[TIFF SIGHS]
♪
You okay?
♪
Thank you. I needed that.
♪
[SCOFFS] Shit.
♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Who is it?
- [KNOCKING CONTINUES]
- [SHOUTING] Who is it?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
♪
What's up, Jake?
♪
I thought you was dead.
You saw somebody put me in the ground?
- No.
- [REG] Then I wasn't dead.
- I see.
- You happy to see me?
Yeah.
- I'm just freaked out.
- Don't be.
Just be grateful.
- Anybody else know?
- You was my first stop.
- How you know where I live?
- I got a lookout.
- Who?
- I can't tell you all that.
- Man, I'm your brother.
- So?
What made you come back?
- I heard Douda dead.
- Yeah.
Yeah, it sure took y'all long enough.
I would have been popped his ass.
Why you ain't come back and do it, then?
It wasn't worth the risk.
♪
You look grown, boy! [LAUGHING]
I am grown.
So what's your move now?
I gotta meet the new nigga in charge.
What, you want to
thank him or something?
No.
I want to let him know that Reg is back
and the streets of Chicago belong to me.
Nigga! [SCOFFS]
Since when you start talking
about yourself in third person?
Since I died and came
back to life, motherfucker.
Okay, Black Jesus.
I like the sound of that for now.
[CHUCKLES] Man, nigga, fuck you.
My little brother, man.
Cut it out.
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
♪
[VICTOR] You look like
you just seen a ghost.
Yeah.
What?
Somebody with me.
Who? You in trouble?
I don't know.
- What the fuck going on?
- Look
- somebody's here.
- [SHOUTING] Who?
♪
The fuck?
So you tried to replace me, huh?
[VICTOR SIGHS] What?
I hear you like niggas.
[SIGHS]
Yeah, I can take a punch now.
I see.
I ain't with all that gay shit.
Oh, but you with that gangster shit?
- [REG] I'm with all that shit.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let's just smoke.
♪
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
I got trust issues ♪
I don't trust these hos,
I don't trust these niggas ♪
I only trust myself,
cannot love these niggas ♪
And it's all your fault
if I don't fuck with ya ♪
Nah, nigga.
♪
Nigga, we was getting drunk at his age.
- And it wasn't right.
- [SCOFFS] Man, come on.
We celebrating.
No, we is not.
Oh, you afraid I'm gonna
take away your shine?
Not at all. I made
something with my life.
- What you been doing?
- Shit, laying low.
The block got hot.
Yeah, that's why you
got your ass shot up.
Block cooled down after
Douda died, for real.
[REG] Mm.
Time to turn that shit up.
Why the fuck would you want to do that?
Bro, I'm not no suit-and-tie-ass nigga.
I like being outside, touching paper.
Where you gonna live?
- Here.
- Hell, no.
It's his crib, Trig.
It's Victor.
- Since when?
- Since now.
If I don't fuck with ya,
I don't trust these hos ♪
- You can sleep on the couch.
- [VICTOR SCOFFS]
Damn! I can't get the bed?
- No, this is my crib.
- [REG SCOFFS]
- These kids so disrespectful.
- [VICTOR] Very.
[CHUCKLES]
So what's your plan?
I'm still figuring it out.
Figure that shit out fast.
And don't be bringing
no shit to Jake door.
He won't.
I ain't talking to you, Jake.
- I was talking to you.
- You better watch your mouth.
Man, this is my crib.
Damn.
[LAUGHING]
Listen, nigga
I'm glad you not dead, but
I hope you didn't come back
just so you could get killed again.
I'm invincible.
[SCOFFS] That's what you think.
He alive, ain't he?
For now.
[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey, Mr. DJ ♪
Play me a song ♪
♪
[ALL CHEERING]
[LAUGHING] It's a boy! It's a boy.
Oh, Rob sent us a new
heir to the throne.
- He would be so happy.
- He would be.
Don't make me cry.
Beautiful.
♪
That could be us.
Drop it, Emmett.
[EMMETT] I know we
agreed to wait, but
Then why we still talking about it?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You know I want to be a girl dad.
Well, let's just wait.
♪
Can I try?
- You too young for whiskey.
- [SCOFFS] Come on.
I seen more than men twice my age.
- Is that so?
- It is.
♪
[ALICIA] Come here.
[WHISKEY POURING]
♪
No, no, no, what are you doing?
I'm trying it.
[ALICIA] No, you have to smell it first.
Look.
[SNIFFS] Sniff it.
- Give yourself a preview.
- [CHUCKLES]
Let it fill your whole nostrils.
What are you laughing at?
Nothing.
All right, now drink.
All right.
♪
Fuck that shit. That shit burn. Sorry.
Ah, now you understand why
this is for grown folks.
Mm, mm, mm. [CHUCKLES]
Why you look out for me so much?
♪
Because I see something in you.
I wouldn't have invested
in your future if I didn't.
And since we're on this topic,
I know that my scholarship
does not cover room and board.
- So who you living with?
- A friend.
What friend?
Nobody you know.
Hey, Mr. DJ ♪
Hey!
[GIGGLES]
♪
Hey!
- You look good.
- Oh, thank y'all.
Yes, welcome to the club.
Shit, it's a wild ride, I tell you.
But Emmett do seem different
now that he with you.
I appreciate y'all coming.
Por supuesto. We're family now, girl.
In spite of all the shit
we been through with Emmett,
we have got to stick together.
- [SHAY] Girl.
- [KIESHA] I love that, y'all.
We gotta include Tiff in this village.
- Well, she already is, with EJ.
- I mean with the new baby.
If anybody needs a village,
it's that baby that
just lost its father.
Mm. Whew.
Raising a Black man in
this city ain't easy.
Who you telling?
That's why me and Neva
just buried our hatchet,
so we can raise our boys together.
Yeah, you know, both of our kids
were put in remedial classes,
then diagnosed with ADHD
and prescribed drugs.
EJ went through a similar
experience like that
with his reading.
They'd rather hold him
back than catch him up.
- [NEVA] Hmm.
- Mira, see, I told you.
Some of these schools ain't shit.
We need to build something new.
Like what?
Girl, I already got a
curriculum for Ronnie
before preschool, and for EJ.
It's going really, really good.
Okay. Girl, I love that.
Sound like you running your own
little home school over there.
I guess so.
[SOUL MUSIC]
♪
Hey, so I have some great news.
I've been talking to
this guy from New York
who owns a small label,
and he's gonna be here this weekend,
and he wants to meet with us.
I thought we weren't
going the label route.
Yeah, we weren't, but we
haven't made any money.
We'll get there.
Not fast enough.
Look, let's just meet with him.
Fine.
♪
You really saving yourself for marriage?
I am.
So what if we don't ever get married?
Then we'll always wonder.
Look, I know people say
I'm loose and shit, but
- You've been around.
- And you've been to jail.
- What's worse?
- [LAUGHTER]
Why are we judging each other?
I just want my life to be
different this time around.
Yeah.
That's not to say you haven't
already added so much, and
I love how I feel around
you, how much fun we have.
And you think sex is gonna
knock you off your square.
I have an addictive personality.
I don't want sex with
you to become a new drug.
Yeah, I don't want that.
[SIGHING] I can be patient.
[SCOFFS] It's hard for me, too.
[CHUCKLES] Literally.
[WILD LAUGHTER]
You crazy, bro. What the fuck wrong
- [HANNIBAL] Ain't shit changed.
- [LAUGHING]
[JAKE] Yo, Hannibal.
So you knew my brother
wasn't dead all this time,
and you ain't say shit?
Nigga, I don't owe you.
I owe Reg, all right?
- How my nigga been living?
- Man, I'm good, man.
Hey, you know I'm selling shrooms now.
- It's big money in that?
- It's a slow burn.
See, no, I need a raging fire, bro.
See, I knew your ass was
gonna come back to town
looking for some shit.
Why you think I pulled up
on your ass first, nigga?
Yeah, but who else you pulling up on?
Don't worry about all that, man.
- See how he do.
- [MUFFLED] Come on, bro.
Hey, I can ride with you?
Of course.
You gonna stay close to me.
Well, I do be making my
own clothes now, so
[HANNIBAL] That shit
decent, too good looking.
Oh, you like a fashionista?
That shit sound kind of gay, bro.
Nigga, I like clothes.
So I made my own.
It's called Chi Seeds.
Bro, I got some real
business for you, bro.
- You can make some real money.
- I'm all right, bro.
I'm making rent every month.
How much you got left over
after you pay the shit?
Enough.
You could make way more
than that hustling, bro.
I'm cool, bro.
Plus, I like having my
own business, anyway.
- Hey, Reg!
- I got it. I got
Bro, bro, this my brother. I got it.
You the only thing I
got in this world, nigga.
You not finna be putting no
weak-ass business over me.
I wasn't.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Just stay locked in with me.
All right.
Okay, we good?
Me and bro just getting reacquainted.
[EZEKIEL CHUCKLES]
Yeah, there is no greater devil
than the flesh of someone you love
but can't touch.
[CROWD CLAMORS]
Until you make that vow before God,
- we must keep our legs closed.
- [APPLAUSE]
And the only place
that our hands should be
is in prayer.
- Amen?
- [ALL] Amen.
Amen.
I know you want to lay down
with that special someone.
Come on, now, I'm human, too.
God doesn't want us to
be weak to those desires
that'll have us acting out of character
the minute the deed is done.
[CROWD CLAMORS]
We all have righteous paths to walk.
[ALL] Amen!
But we can't walk that
path in the streets
doing our thing between the sheets
[CHUCKLES] with anyone
that slips in our DMs
or tells us we're cute.
That is not what we were put here for.
We were put here to build with someone.
And that someone deserves to know
we are only with them, only with them
before God and no one else,
because, mm, my God,
when that bedroom gets too crowded,
your thoughts, they get cloudy,
and you can't see the
path in front of you.
And you lose your way,
all for a desire to be wanted.
I promise you, no one
is sexier than the path
God has put before you.
- Amen. Amen.
- [ALL] Amen.
[CHUCKLES]
You know his wife was
sleeping with Jake's young ass.
Don't cuss in church.
I'm just saying I'm
hearing what he's preaching,
but I don't know if he's living it.
He's preaching directly to us.
And I don't know if I agree with it.
You're not listening.
I can find my path
and still have pleasure along the way.
[ORGAN MUSIC PLAYS]
Here.
So I just gotta keep going ♪
Like do it, do it ♪
Do it, do it, hey ♪
Do it, do it, do it, do it ♪
Do it, do it, hey ♪
- Do it, do it ♪
- [SONG FADES]
It's sleepy.
But it's good.
We have other songs.
- Don't be so desperate.
- I'm still finding my voice.
You need to hurry up.
I told you.
Come to New York, and I
can try to develop her.
I got a look, and I got a sound.
You see this? This is why nobody sticks.
All you artists think
you know everything.
- And you don't know shit.
- [SCOFFS]
[ALI] Some of y'all
get one song to trend,
and you think you Berry Gordy.
Please.
This game is a marathon.
And all of y'all walking laps.
I care about this shit.
Then be humble and let
somebody tell you something.
Look, we don't have the funds
to relocate to another city.
I can get a label to
get y'all an advance,
and y'all can stay together.
- Are y'all fucking?
- You can't ask us that.
I'm keeping it professional.
That's smart.
You know how this industry shit go.
I don't.
But I ain't trying to
find out the hard way.
The business is changing.
Artists ain't getting
paid like they used to.
Let's work on your sound, see
if we get something to pop.
- Bet.
- I'm game.
[ALI] Hmm.
Run it back.
Yeah, yeah ♪
Fresh up out of bed and grab a tree ♪
Twist a OG moon rock, lot of kef ♪
Little dab underneath,
that's completion ♪
Keep my body high, high ♪
When you be talking,
I ain't listening ♪
Shit, I'm probably high, high ♪
Yeah, I probably
died probably 40 times ♪
Blowing back with a couple
niggas with gang ties ♪
And when they get high,
they throw up gang signs ♪
But we only conversate
about them green guys ♪
My bitch still bad,
and my white boy's there ♪
And my money blowing what's
in the white-boy stash ♪
Little Fire OG, little
oil from the hash ♪
Before we twist it up, we
call it snake in the grass ♪
You got that puff, puff, pass ♪
I got that puff, cough, pass ♪
OG dick serum, be no
fucking with that ass ♪
Before the grass, I spent a lot ♪
Since you my day one,
I'll give y'all a 10%
discount on anything you need.
- Nah, I need 20% off.
- 20 damn, you
Look, I got a lounge
you can sell out of.
That way, you ain't gotta worry
about folks in your business.
[SIGHS] I like that.
Look, we only buy in bulk,
and we'll purchase from you.
So the discount'll be justified.
All right?
[SCOFFS] All right.
- My nigga.
- My nigga.
- Deal?
- Deal.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Just makes it so beautiful,
so I'm with you, man.
Whatever you guys need, I'm here.
Just give me a call when
you need it, all right?
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Never really been a fan of megachurches.
Well, we're not like others.
We'll see.
- Can I pray for you?
- I don't know.
The Holy Spirit is is
moving me to pray for you.
Okay.
May I?
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, Lord, please cover, um
Tracy.
Tracy, uh, in her walk with You.
Mm, I can tell she's
had her heart mishandled,
and her soul has been
shaken to its core.
Please, Father, cover her,
as she may doubt the
plans You have for her.
And please remind her to
be obedient to Your will,
for it will be done
in the mighty, mighty name of Jesus.
Amen.
Amen.
[BELL JINGLES]
[SOFT MUSIC]
Don't come in and out
this house again ♪
So you really leaving?
[SIGHS] Kevin can't hold water.
He's just so excited.
Yeah, I guess I'm doing it.
How you feel?
Like if I don't go now, I never will.
But I've been saving up
for the past few months
to make sure I'm good
out there, so it's time.
I'm cool if you go,
only if it's for you,
not for my brother.
I mean, it's it's
a little bit of both.
- Like, that that's my man.
- Oh, my God.
You've made sacrifices
to be with Emmett.
Well, that's different. We
grown, and we're parents.
I really like this photography thing.
And LA has a bunch of opportunities.
So in order for me and
Kev to have a chance,
we have to be in the same city.
I get that.
I don't think I could do a
long-distance relationship.
- See, and you coming for me.
- [BOTH CHUCKLING]
Maisha, you're a star.
You always have been.
Thank you.
So when you get out there,
don't change for nobody.
Always be you.
It's gonna get you
wherever you want to go.
[MAISHA CHUCKLES]
I want to spread my wings.
You deserve to.
[JAZZY HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪
Are you okay?
You just inspire me, that's all.
[VOICE BREAKING] We're
gonna miss you around here.
[CHUCKLES] I'm gonna come back to visit.
You better.
♪
And tell my brother
he needs to call more.
[CHUCKLES] I'm already on it.
♪
[CHUCKLES]
Have you thought of a name yet?
I haven't.
I'd like to name him
Robert Lafayette, Jr.
[LAUGHS]
I already have one junior.
I want him to have his own legacy.
But I am his legacy, and he's mine.
- [LAUGHS] I'm his mother.
- And you're living in my house.
And you're carrying my grandson.
You asked me to move in.
Tiff, my son died
before he could make his name count.
And that baby is giving him that chance.
I'll think about it.
You do that.
[SOFT JAZZ MUSIC]
♪
[CHARLES CLEARS THROAT]
Hey, brother, you gotta start knocking.
You gotta be more careful.
Give us the room.
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
♪
- What are you doing?
- Minding my business.
You're sleeping with a white
woman you're not married to.
My divorce with Tatiana is over.
You need to get off of
this celibacy kick, Pastor.
I think the people need it.
People want to know you're
practicing what you preach.
Who am I supposed to be, Barry White?
[SCOFFS]
If it gets out that you're
fucking a white woman,
we'll lose half our congregation.
It's my congregation.
- Hmm.
- [PAPERS THUD]
Just let her go.
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]
Nigga, your little ass can't drive.
[SCOFFS] Man, this my car now.
Nah, you was just
holding this motherfucker.
- Uh-uh, this is me.
- Did you buy it?
No, but Vic gave it to me.
It wasn't his to give,
and stop calling him that.
As a matter of fact, get out.
- Why?
- I want to drive.
- [SCOFFS] Man, come on, bro.
- Get out.
[SCOFFS] Whatever.
Yeah, get your little
ass out my car, man.
Now what you know about this nigga Nuck?
Not much.
You know the niggas he be with?
Yeah, Bakari his right hand.
- Where he at?
- I can tell you where to go.
All right, bet.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER, REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
♪
That sermon was a lot.
- [JAMAL] I liked it.
- I'm sure you did.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
Should we get married?
♪
Are you proposing to me?
Yeah, why not?
- You don't even sound sure.
- If we married, it's cool.
You just want to get
married so we can have sex.
Who else gonna want to marry us?
This is not romantic.
Neither one of us that
attractive on paper.
All right, you know what?
Me having a sexual past and
you having a criminal one
- is not the same thing.
- [CHUCKLES] I know, I know.
That came out wrong.
All I'm saying is, we both got a past.
So how about me and
you against the world?
What do you say?
I do.
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
♪
- [JAKE] When you move?
- We leave next week.
Hmm, that was fast.
Yeah, it all moved pretty quickly.
And Ali and Britney are
like two peas in a pod, so
You don't sound so happy.
I guess I just don't
know what lies ahead.
Yeah, none of us do.
I guess I'm just scared.
- Of what?
- Failing.
If you do, you can always come back.
You gonna wait for me?
[SIGHS] Truth?
Always.
[SIGHS] I don't think so.
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
But I love you.
♪
Not enough to wait for me.
I love you enough to be honest with you.
♪
I loved you, Jake.
Why it gotta be past tense?
Just 'cause I don't know
if I love you anymore.
Then why'd you ask me
if I'll wait for you?
I just wanted to know.
♪
Well, now you do.
- Thanks for the clarity.
- [CHUCKLES]
I think it's the best
gift I could give you.
♪
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
[SNIFFLES, SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
♪
[SNIFFLES]
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
[LAUGHTER]
- [EMMETT] I love it, man, yes.
- [VICTOR] Hmm.
Hmm, so Jemma is moving to New York.
Damn. That's what's up, man.
- Congrats.
- What's in New York?
She's got an opportunity
with her, uh, music-management
thing out there.
Oh.
Sound like she doing big things.
- [SHAAD] Yeah.
- You should be proud.
Honestly, I don't know
how I feel about it.
Jemma's a smart girl.
She'll be all right.
Yeah, but New York's not Chicago.
That's a whole other ball game.
Oh, shit, that ain't nothing
but a plane ride away.
If I had a daughter and she
was trying to move to New York,
I'd be moving, too.
See, man, that's why
I don't want no kids.
[LAUGHTER]
Hey, dog, whatever you
decide, we with you.
Appreciate y'all.
[SHAAD] Cheers, brother, cheers.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC]
♪
[TRACY] Oh, my gosh.
It's a nice night tonight.
Um, excuse me, ladies.
We close early today.
No, this is her son's
spot. I think we're good.
Come on, let's go.
I'm sure this man got
a family to get back to.
- Oh, no, I don't got a family.
- Oh, so you single?
I am.
Ooh. And so is she.
Jada.
I don't believe that for one second.
- There you go.
- I'm serious.
I done seen so many
beautiful Black women
come through that door
either with they friends
or by theyself.
It's like, what these niggas doing?
Well, why don't you tell us?
Well, it's hard being a
Black man in this world.
Oh, you think it's easy
being a Black woman?
I'm just saying, we want
y'all to be everything to us,
but we don't know how to
be everything to y'all.
I don't need you to be my everything.
I'm trying to be
something for myself first.
- What's your name?
- It's Keith.
Nice to meet you, Keith. I'm Tracy.
It's a pleasure.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
Oh, shit.
All right, I'm gonna see you tomorrow.
- Where you headed?
- To my new Lamaze class.
Oh. Who's going with you?
Nobody.
You want me to go?
You don't have to do that.
No, I want to.
Okay, well, come on.
Hurry up, 'cause I'm already late.
All right.
[GRUNTS]
The Blackness ♪
[MARCUS] How would you feel
about me moving to New York with you?
- [JEMMA] Annoyed.
- [MARCUS] Why?
'Cause I'm trying to do my own thing.
I don't need you following me around.
- I'd have my own life.
- Mm-hmm.
But I'd be around in
case you needed some help.
[JEMMA] Like financial help?
- Maybe.
- Okay.
Just don't live next door to me.
You can't afford to live near me.
You gonna miss Maisha?
Yeah.
You gonna miss Jemma?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Huh?
You need Jesus.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Never say die ♪
Optimistic ♪
And in the midst of sorrow ♪
You can't see up when looking down ♪
A brighter day tomorrow will bring ♪
[VOCALIZING]
Optimistic ♪
You hear the voice of reason ♪
Telling you this can never ♪
To Jemma and Britney,
going off to New York and
starting a new chapter.
And to Maisha, who's moving to LA
and gonna run the fucking city.
- [BAKARI] Hell, yeah!
- [ALL CHEER]
Don't give up and don't give in ♪
Although it seems you
never win, never win ♪
You will always pass the test ♪
As long as you keep
your head to the sky ♪
[VOCALIZING]
You can win, you can win ♪
As long as you keep
your head to the sky ♪
Yeah ♪
You can win, yes, you can win ♪
Well, thanks for coming.
I told you, I'm here for
you, whatever you need.
[CHUCKLES] Well, I don't
like asking for help.
Well, you need to work on that.
Stop trying to do
everything by yourself.
- Lean on me.
- Okay.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I always dreamed about having
a family when I was inside.
[TRACY] Mm.
I'm definitely not having no more kids.
You got kids?
Yeah, I had a son.
He was killed seven years ago.
Oh, wow.
Look, I'm I am sorry to hear that.
Thank you.
[LIGHTS CLICKING]
Well [CHUCKLES]
it's time to go.
Yep.
Um
You think I can call you sometime?
Look, I didn't mean to be
too forward or anything.
No, no, no, no, no.
I've just been off
the market for a while.
I don't really know how this goes.
Me too.
I meant for that to be funny
'cause I been locked up.
- Oh.
- [LAUGHS]
You ever date anybody
with a criminal past?
[CHUCKLES]
That's all I ever seem to date.
You trying to break that pattern?
Yeah ♪
I just want to vibe
with our clothes off ♪
Don't you close the blinds,
let the neighbors talk ♪
We can do whatever you want ♪
I promise that you'll
be the only one I call ♪
I just want your hands,
want your hands on my body ♪
[KIESHA] I'm finishing with Ronnie.
I'll be down in a few.
[RONNIE BABBLING UPSTAIRS]
How you doing?
Why?
What you mean why?
You going through a lot.
I just want you to know I got your back.
Why are you a better partner
now that we ain't together?
[SCOFFS] I'm growing.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I'm stressed.
Anything I can do to help?
You taking EJ means a lot.
I like having him around all the time.
I just need you to make sure
that he doesn't forget me.
He would never. You're his mama.
No, Emmett.
I'm for real.
I'm begging you.
♪
What you want me to do?
Whatever it takes.
Okay.
- Thank you.
- Hey.
♪
I love you.
I love you, too.
[DISTANT SIREN WHOOPING]
EJ, come here, man.
Hey, uh, listen
your mom is going
through a lot right now.
So we have to, uh, show up for her.
You know what that means?
Well, it just means that we gotta put
what we want to the
side for a little bit
so someone else can get what they need.
Your mom loves you, man.
You know that?
Right now, she's really sad
and has a lot to hold.
So we gotta hold some of
that sadness for her
'cause she can't hold it all by herself.
Okay.
You want to write a note for Mommy?
- Yeah.
- All right.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
♪
[SCOFFS]
- [BAKARI] What up, Jake?
- Where Nuck at?
Why?
Motherfuckers just need to
chop it up with him real quick.
[SCOFFS] Too bad I don't
know where the fuck he at.
Man, stop lying, boy.
Nobody come to shoot this bitch up.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
I know the nigga here. Where he at?
[NUCK] Oh, shit.
[REG] Here you go.
Thought your ass was dead, boy.
Me too.
♪
The fuck you need, a job or something?
What the fuck I look
like coming back to work
- for your goofy ass, nigga?
- What you want?
- The mob.
- That's my shit. I run that.
I can run it better.
Hey, you and your
bitch-ass little brother
- get the fuck out of here.
- You already know I'm coming.
We can go to war today, tomorrow,
whenever the fuck you want to do it.
- I'm coming back for my shit.
- That's cool.
Just know, if I kill you, I'm
gonna bury the body myself.
[CHUCKLES]
Man, it feel like a ton ♪
I'm gonna remember that.
Y'all niggas better run ♪
Live and die by the gun ♪
♪
I live and die by the gun ♪
♪
Yeah, I move better in the night ♪
Suggest you get bright ♪
Flash on his ass, and
we're blinded by the light ♪
And once you see that,
it'll change your life ♪
Do it quick with the blick
or do it slow with a knife ♪
Give a fuck about your life,
yeah, I know it ain't right ♪
I'm a butcher to the
beef, yeah, I put it on ice ♪
Since we talking about ice,
yeah, I got it in my veins ♪
I'm immune to the shit,
I don't like to feel pain ♪
But when I make you feel
it, it's better for the game ♪
Everybody can't play,
and everybody can't go ♪
And remorse is a thing
that everybody can't show ♪
So you already know that
you fucking with a basket ♪
I'ma do him dirty, they
better close the casket ♪
So get your guys
'cause I'ma let it ride ♪
Let the slugs fly
and get the zip ties ♪
Heh, 'cause don't
never switch sides ♪
Carry a whole lot of shit ♪
[CHILD BABBLING]