"All my life was like I was in prison or something." "I kept tryin' to break out, but that only got me deeper in what I was tryin' to get away from." "It's like I'm wading in quicksand." "After what happened, I don't expect people to feel sorry for me." "I did what I had to do." "That's, that's true anyway." "It was just that everywhere I look people got things and I ain't got nothing." "So I just tried to even it out a little bit, that's all." "They have all the power." "What did I have?" "What I got now?" "Nothin'." "I'm just a goose egg." "A zero." "You really want to know the truth about it?" "I ain't shit." "When the deal went down..." "I was like a trapped panther." "I couldn't get out of it any way I tried." "So..." "I try to bring down everybody with me." "I didn't mean to hurt that dude..." "You gotta to believe that!" "I try to act tough..." "that's my cover." "I ain't tough." "I don't even know how to love somebody without hurting them." "God, please... somebody..." "Help me!" "Please help me." "Fuck!" "Alright, alright!" "Be cool, be cool!" "Take it easy man!" "Take it easy man!" " Alright." " Chill!" "You better chill." "Don't get rab on me motherfucker!" "Alright, alright, take it easy." "Alright man." "Vince..." "You are one ugly motherfucker." "But you're cool man." "You're cool." "That's all that matters." "Why don't you keep that damn child quiet?" "Shut up!" "Damn." "Shut up, please." "Yo Vince man, where you going so early?" "Nowhere." "I know where you're going..." "You going out hustling, ain't you?" "Hey..." "Go back to sleep." "Yo man, I found this last night." "Where you get this, son of a bitch?" "Snooping through my shit playing Colombo Junior on me?" "What you think this is?" ""L.A. Law", motherfucker?" "Yo man, you cross me, and I don't care if you are my little brother." "I will take your osa ass out faster than old Edith eat stink, you got me?" "D'you got me?" "Don't hurt me Vince man, don't hurt me." "I found it last night in your pocket, that's all." "I was just trying to help." "Wow!" "You breathe a word about this to anybody..." "And when I will be in your ass so fast..." "You'll wish Freddy Kruger was in your nightmares." "You got me?" "I won't tell nobody, Vince." "I swear!" "Hey man, I wouldn't fink on my brother." "Yo okay." "Yo okay, man." "Y'a'ight?" "Get ready for school." "Thanks man." "Yo man, can I hang out with you?" "I can help." "Get ready for school." "School?" "Man, school's for punks." "I don't wanna go to school." "I'm not going to school." "No." "I'm not going." " You bad, ain't you?" " I'm not playing, man." "Get off!" "Yo man." "Yo, eh?" "On the strength, man." "Do what I say..." "Not what I do." "Okay?" "Understand me?" "Here." "And get ready for school." "I'm outta here, man." "Vince, where you going at this time of the morning?" "To work." "Vince, who you kidding?" "You ain't had no job in 2 years." "Why don't you go back to school, like Vicki and make something of yourself." "We got to go over all this again, Mom?" "Vince, I'm just feeling kind of responsible for you." " Ain't nothing else." " Yeah, I know that." " Vince?" " What now?" "I need money." "I just gave you some money yesterday, Ma." "I spent it." "I need some more." "You sure don't like how I make my money, but you don't mind spending it neither, do you?" "I'm still you're mother, Vince." "Don't talk to me that way." "I was 13 when I had Vince." "Babies making babies." "The day he was born I was in labour for 22 hours." "I swore if the Lord let me get through this one I'd never let another man put his thing up inside of me again." "Then out he come." "Feet first and so blue," "I thought he was dead." "When he comes in here, with all that money in his pocket," "I knew right away what was going on." "He ain't got no job or nothing." "Ain't no woman going to give him no money." "Not with that face he's got." "I suppose if I stop taking the money, he'd stop stealing it." "But what we gonna live on?" "All them people in government..." "Supposed to be so smart..." "Seems they'd know that people just want to live like human beings." "And when people don't let 'em they do troubled things to others, and to themselves too." "That's why Vince steals." "You know it, and I know it." "I ain't trying to make no excuses for being a bad mother." "But Lord knows I've tried." "I sure have tried." "Vince, your father." "Honey, look out!" "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" "This fuckin' ride is dope, man." "I'm gonna get me one of these bad boys." "You better believe that." "Look at this shit." "Damn!" "S'up Lawrence?" "What's going on, man?" "Livin' large, you know?" "Hey man, I can see it." "I can see it." " You like that, man?" " Yo, it's vibe, man." "Who wouldn't, man." "Come on." "Give me a break." "Look at this shit, man." "Yeah, I hear you." "Ladies first, too." "I know you're too smart to use it yourself." "Right, Vince?" " Right?" " So?" "I know you like me." "You like fast cars..." "Loose women." "Am I right?" "Yeah, man." "So what's up?" "There ain't nothing you won't be able to buy." "You know what I'm saying?" "Look at that!" "It's lovely, ain't it?" "Ain't nothing like the fresh smell of pussy in the morning." "All you gotta do is just hang out." "The product sells itself." "What, at elementary schools pushing that shit on 10 year-olds man?" "I ain't with that man." "I see this little nickel and dime shit you doing out here, man." "What makes you so high and mighty?" "Yo my brethren, I ain't high and mighty." "I'm just me." "That's all." "You know what I'm saying?" "Yeah." "Keep it, man..." "Give it to someone you love." "You have a nice day too, my brother." "I am not angry." "I'll cut you ..." "I said put it down." "Stop it." " Play it cool." " ..." "I will." "You want me to tell you about Vince, I suppose." "Somehow or other I knew you'd be coming." "Children, somebody's talking." "I was a lot younger in those days." "And Harlem was probably the last place that I should've been." "Children!" "You boys stop fighting right this second!" "You're behaving like savages!" "Vince!" "You're always fighting!" "Why are you always fighting?" "I quit teaching intracity kids shortly after that." "In the cafeteria the other teachers would talk about the kids as though they were animals." "When they weren't talking about the students they were discussing their condos and co-ops." "What surprises me, is not that Vince turned out the way he did but that there are not more Vinces." "Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa!" "You see this?" "You see that?" "Don't give me a hard time!" "You gotta problem there, babe?" "Get your arms, get your arms down." "Come on, the other arm, let's go." "How you living, my brother?" " Money." " S'up pal?" " Give that mother s'up." " What for, man?" "You don't know how to play, your shit is weak, man!" "You can't play no ball!" "Cool out, man!" "I ain't with that shit, man." "Chill out, man!" "I know you can fight, man, I know what you can do with your hands." "I heard what you did to Tyrone, man." "You broke his fuckin' jaw." "I'm gonna tell you one thing, I might not can fight as well as you." "But I could rap circles around your fuckin' head, boy." "Yo, man, why don't you do that rap you was doin' the other night man..." "That funky funky shit you was rockin', man." "Oh, you know the shit." "Black Flag." "Fuck the terminator!" "Rule in the streets!" "Yeah the Darth Vaders!" "Girlies on the tip!" "Yeah, we like the hoodies." "Put 'em on the streets, sucker." "We get money!" "You could step to me..." "I'll be playin' the fool." "I'll take you out, sucker." "We gettin' paid in full." "Black Flag, gettin' mine." "Hold up, hold up man, hold up now." "Gimme the beat!" " No, fuck that." "Chill man." "Chill." " Fuck ya'll." "You pulled the beat, man." "Listen, man..." "Just stick to fuckin' play." "Don't fuck around, boy." "Just stick to boxing, you understand?" "I might get you a fight at The Garden..." "Amateur night!" "Word." "Yo bust this though." "Let me get a rhyme..." "Let me show you what it should be, man." "You wanna be down with this posse, man?" "I'm gonna show you who I am." "You understand?" "Check it out." "I'm the leader..." "of the syndicate..." "I'm puttin' holes in suckers that ain't legit." "MCs that step to me and try to get hyper." "I'm going up coz I'm the MC sniper." "Opening odds for those who don't know of this." "I'm not new to this..." "I'm a part of this dawn, of all MCs." "You're the pupil, I'm the master..." "Obey me." "Stop barking' or I'll shut your trap." "You was hard, and now you're soft like a pussy cat." "Coz I'm a 10 and you're a minus 9." "And if I see you half steppin' your ass is mine." "You was tough but I like them tougher." "The rougher, the tougher, the more I make 'em suffer." "So if you want a battle, boy, here's the deal..." "Make sure you have break force and carry Blue Shield." "Coz when I'm through, you'll be sore and lumpy..." "Or broken up like Humpty Dumpty." "Don't laugh!" "It's not a fairytale..." "There's no escaping the syndicate like going to jail." "You did a bit, and now you think you're all that." "But for the rest of your life, you got to watch your back." "Thick is what you want to be..." "But city boy is all I see." "Because Scotty's got your body and you're straight as an arrow." "Like the stem you're sucking on your ass is narrow." "And if you had wings, you'd fly away like a sparrow." "But you can't, sucker, so just bow to the Pharaoh." "Black Flag, motherfucker." "Yo man." "Yo." "You oughtta do somethin' with that, man." "Yo man, what the fuck's up with Peppy, man?" "I dunno know, man." "He gonna be at the bus station or not, man?" "He better." "Word up." "So how ya'll do today?" "I mean, you make any money or what?" "No, we didn't make out, man." "We stepped to this motherfucker Wall Street punk man." "But the feds rolled on him first." "Fucked that shit up." "How'd you make out, man?" "You know me, brother." " I'd figured that much." " I hit this old dude, man." "You hitting senior citizens now, man?" "What the fuck is up with that?" "I gave him the discount, brother." "You're a hard core motherfucker, man." "You cold, Vince." "Hey yo, my brother, you gotta be cold in this world to survive, man." "On the stress, serious, Mike." "Look around you, man." "Just look around you." "They got everything." "We ain't got shit." "And yo, man, I don't give a fuck who else don't have..." "I'm gonna get mine, alright?" "One way or another." "I'm gonna get mine." " I hear you." " Yo Black Flag, man." " That's on the strip, man." " That's how we livin', man." "I'm hungry as a motherfucker, man." "It's that reefer, man." "Come on, man, I'll get you something to eat, nigga." "Oh come on, man." "Let's go, motherfucker." "Yo, man, you come up with any new raps lately?" "You know it, man." "What're you looking at, man?" "He's got a problem." "He's so fat, man, should use a VCR for a beeper, man." "I got something for you, baby." "Melvin, what's this?" "I got paid." "There must be close to $4,000 here." "What'd you do?" "Hey, I do what I do." "I get paid." "Don't you worry about it none, because today we're goin' out to buy you a new dress." "That's right." "And a new pair of shoes." "That's right." "And a new hat." "From now on things are going to be different around here." "Quit playing with your food, boy!" " Did you hear what I said?" " Melvin, don't hit him!" "Look at him." "He a little man, ain't he?" "Look at that face." "What's the matter?" "You wanna fight, huh?" "Come on." "You wanna fight?" "Come on!" "Come on." "Come on." "Come on!" "Yo what's the deal with that dude at the bank, Mike?" "Talked to him, man." "Everything is fresh, man." "We gonna do this, man." "Yo, man." "This ain't no nickel and dime deal." "I mean this is serious." "If this shit goes right, we'll be in the papers and shit, man ." "We'll be in the fuckin' big time." " F'real, man." "I know man." "Bust it man." "Don't get nervous." "Just chill out, man." "Everything is fresh, man." "Yo my brother, I'm not nervous." "I just want you to realize this ain't no nickel and dime deal." "Look at this shit, man." "Peppy ain't even here, man." "We're supposed to plan this job, and the motherfucker..." "It's just weak." "Fuck Peppy." "If we gotta to do this shit ourselves, man, we'll do it." "You understand?" "So this dude's cool, right?" "Yo, man, this motherfucker is definitely cool, man." "He better be, man." "Yo, man, bust this, man." "Whaddaya say after we finish eating, man, we go down by the bus station, man." "Talk some dollars, man." "Yo." "Yo, Vince, man?" " Yo, my man, did you hear me?" " I said alright, man." "Damn, Mike!" "How many times do I gotta tell you, man?" "I'm talking about getting paid, man." "You ain't gotta base like that, man." "Hey yo, look Mike, you ain't gotta tell me how I gotta talk, man." "Turn around, mother...!" "Yo, man, it's just weak." " You need some help with your bags, man?" " No, thank you." " You need help with your bags?" " No." "Excuse me, ma'am." "Can I help you with your bags?" " How much does it cost?" " I wouldn't ..." "Why don't you mind your business?" "Whatever you want to give." "Alright, young man, help me to the taxi." "Thank you very much." "You know these guys?" "Don't let them jive on you." "Yo, man watch, watch where you're going!" "I come here every winter to visit my daughter." "I go where I want, do what I want." "Nothing ever happens." "I always say if you start out with a negative attitude thinking something's gonna happen, that's when it does." "Yeah." "Oh my god." "Help!" "That man stole my bag!" "Help!" "That man stole my bag!" "Oh, excuse me!" "Let me get a hot dog?" "Hey!" "He's got my wallet!" "Hold it right there, scumbag!" "Get those fuckin' hands up." "Higher!" "Higher!" "Is that the man?" "I don't want any trouble." "I understand, ma'am." "I'm just asking if you can identify him, if that's the man that robbed you." "Am I going to get my money back?" "Ma'am, I can't promise you that." "When we arrested him, he didn't have any money on him." "I don't want any trouble, especially if I'm not gonna get my money back." "What good would it do?" "For one thing..." "It'd keep punks like him off the streets, so they don't bother decent folks like yourself." "No." "No, I was mistaken." "I'm sorry." "I don't want any trouble, Captain." "Alright." "Thank you, ma'am." "The desk captain will see you out." "Pick him up!" "Now there's a fuckin' way to do this!" "I only deliver body blows." "That way... there's no fuckin' evidence... because it doesn't fuckin' show." "Now if every punk that came through here knew they'd get something like this you'd see how fast crime would slow down." "I'm not going to hurt you, okay?" "Jesus..." "Christ..." " What are you doin'?" " You fuckin' son of a bitch!" "Don't you ever fuckin' talk to me like that!" "I'm going to rip your fuckin' nuts off and shove them down your throat!" "No, no, no, Captain!" "Leave me the fuck alone!" "That could have been my mother!" "You understand, punk?" "Now, you listen to me." "You fuckin' look at me!" "Look at me when I'm talking to you!" "And when I'm not talking to you, don't you ever stare at me." "Look at me, boy." "Don't you fuckin' cry." "Now I'm going to give you a choice." "I'm going to give you a fuckin' choice." "You understand?" "Now you can fuckin' either go to prison..." "You can go to prison..." "Or you can lick my shoe." "You know what it's like in prison?" "You fuckin' know what it's like?" "I'll tell you what it's like." "They got guys twice your fuckin' size, with dicks as big as your leg." "And you know what they do?" "Beat the shit out of punks like you." "Then they fuck 'em in the ass." "They fuck 'em till their assholes bleed." "So before I take you down an' book ya..." "I'm going to beat the living shit out of you." "And you can still walk." "I'm gonna take care of that." "Now what's it gonna be boy, huh?" "What the fuck's it gonna be?" "I won't do it." "You won't do it, huh?" "You fuckin' won't do it?" "Tell me you won't do it!" "Tell me you won't do it!" "Tell me you fuckin' won't do it!" "You better do it." "I'll do it." "Goddamn right you'll do it." "You don't come into my fuckin' precinct and tell me what you won't do." "Lick my shoe!" "Lick it again, asshole!" "Lick it again!" "Lick it again!" "Get your nasty tongue off of there!" "He likes it, Captain." "You sure know how to handle them." "Listen, a fuckin' bootlicker's worse than an ass-kisser." "Now if every fuckin' punk came through here like this and I taught them a fuckin' lesson like you..." "I'd clean up the city." "You understand?" "I'd have this fuckin' city spick and span in a fuckin' week!" "Now you get the fuck outta ..." "Get this son of a bitch out!" "Get the hell of a bitch outta here or I'll motherfuckin' kill him!" "Get him the fuck out of my precinct." "You heard the Captain." "Stacked in a pile not worthwhile of a profile." "Meek and mild ..." "Override then punished in the past, palookas." "You'se is a zip gun, I'm a bazooka." "Others come crew to my voice, top ten booming'." "Stompin' and stepping' and stompin'." "There's no room in the house and on a stage the grooving is clear." "I'm dumb dope to the dome, boy." "And I'm out of here, don't you understand." "Cold crest lyricist, justice with the mike in his hand." "MCs I put you out like candles and don't you know boy, I'm just too hype to handle." "Stupid, man." "S'up with you, man?" "You don't look too good." "Man, I'm fine." "Y'alright?" "Yo man, you gotta give this up, man." "I mean the life, I mean, in the streets." "I mean, you can hang with me until you get yourself straight." "I'm not getting crazy paid, but I'm not robbing anybody either." "You know what I'm saying?" " You're with it, man." "I hear you." " Word." "So what's up today, man?" "You know I can't do that, man." "Why not?" "I can't rap." "I sure as hell can't dance." "I hear you." "Vince Williams was a bad boy." "I always knew he would come to no good." "He was rotten to the core." "All our efforts to get through to him were useless." "It just wound up making more work for everyone else." "He used to organize younger boys and send them out to steal." "When they got caught the courts would just let them go... or have them spend a week or two in reform school." "They were usually back on the streets within 24 hours stealing, and giving Vince 25 per cent of their take." "One day I called him into my office." "I asked him why he did such terrible things." "You know what he told me?" "That's the way big corporations operate, like General Motors, ain't it?" "They let someone else do the dirty work and then they keep all the profits." "How are you supposed to reach a kid like that... who doesn't understand the uniqueness of our great free enterprise system?" "S'up troop?" "Yo, what's up, trooper?" " How you living, man?" " Just got out?" "Hey man, you don't look too good, my brother." "What the fuck did they do to you, man?" "You need a doctor or somethin'?" "Fuck a doctor!" "Where the fuck is Peppy at, man?" "He better not blow this shit." "He'll be here, man." "Just chill the fuck out, man." "What's up with that dude from the bank..." "Karl?" "I don't know, man." "Shit, here he comes now, man." "Wha's up trooper, how you feel, man?" "Karl, this is Vince." "Vince, this is Karl." "Look, I can't stay long." "I gotta get back to the bank." "Did they tell you what the deal was?" "Look, I just want to go over this one more time..." "So you all know what we're doing." "There's this guy from Golden Kitchens..." "Comes into the bank every Friday." "This fuckin' guy is like clockwork, man, you could set your watch by him." "He walks about three blocks back to his job." "Now what you're going to have to do is come into the bank..." "Go over to one of the officers and ask 'em "How do I go about opening an account?"" "Look for me, I'll point the guy out to you." "Then you take it from there." "Say man, where the hell is Peppy at, man?" "Yo man, he's used to that small time shit." "You know what I'm sayin'?" "Give him a big job like this and he starts punkin' out." "Look, look, look." "You can go ahead and do this shit with two people, man." "Two, man?" "Yo, yo, yo, yo... we already planned this shit for three, blood." "Look." "I got to get back man." "Mike said you ain't got no piece, man." "Piece?" "What I need a piece for, blood?" " Yo, what the fuck?" " Take it man." "Take it." "Look, just in case." " Mike, I got to get back." " Yo, peace, man." "Alright." "What the fuck's this all about, man?" "Billy went down on some dumb shit like this." "Take this motherfucker." "It's alright, it's cool." "Now give me the fuckin' gun, man!" "Yo man, that shit's whacked, home boy!" "That's fucked up, Mike." "Yo, where you been, man?" "Yo, I'm sorry man, you know, the subway system had a problem." " I'm sorry." " You're sorry?" "Yo, Mike, he's sorry." "How the fuck we supposed to get this thing planned right if you ain't here, blood?" "This ain't that nickel and dime shit you're used to, man." "Yo man, chill, man." "We'll talk about it on the way there, man." "I outta kick your fuckin' ass, walkin' in here like that." "You know that?" "Yo man, I can't control the fuckin' mass-transit authority, man." "Hell, the man can't even control it, man!" "Yo man, we still got time to..." "Man, what time you think we got?" "Fuck it, it's off man." "It's off." "Yo Vince, it's fine, man." "We're talking about three Gs here." "Ask him why, blood." "Yo, man." "We could go right now!" "Man, right now." "I said it's off, motherfucker!" "Alright!" "?" "Yo man, let's talk." "We can do this shit next week, man." " There's no sense in this." " Yo man, get this shit straight right now." "Alright?" "I say when this shit is on and when it's off." "Okay?" "Oh, I see." "I see what the problem is." "I see what the problem is, man." "You punkin' out, man." "You fuckin' punkin' out." "You tryin' to..." " Chill the fuck out, man." " Get the fuck off me." "Yo, motherfucker ..." "When I catch you, that's your ass, faggot." "Yeah, you better run, motherfucker." "Yeah, we see who the fuckin' chicken is, don't we?" "Sure." "Yo man, what the fuck's wrong with you?" "I'm right, ain't I?" "What the fuck is wrong with you?" "You ain't right man." "Aw fuck you, man." "Fuck you too, Mike." "Look, fuck it, man." "I'm out of here." "Fuck this." "Better get the fuck out of here, man." "You just don't want to get paid, man, that's all." "You're acting stupid!" "Tell me what's wrong with you now." "Tell me why I never seem to make you happy." "Though heaven knows I've tried." "You say it's me who hurt you." "I say it's you." "We have got to get together or baby we're through." "Y'know, the show was cool... you know what I'm saying?" "I think it's just..." "Well, I do." " But that fat dude, his shit is weak." "Well how did I do?" "You sounded like shit." "Why you want to put me down, Vince?" " Come on, damn baby, I was only kidding." " No, you wasn't." "You always doing this." "Look." "Look." "Look." "Look, I brought you something, baby." "Woo, yeah, that's my girl." "You shouldn't see ill in so much." "You know what I'm saying?" "I was only fuckin' with you." "Vince?" "So you want to know about Vince?" "You know, a lot has happened since then." "I got a new manager, I just signed a recording contract," "I got a lot of stuff happening for me." "All that other stuff seems like it was ages ago." "Actually, it was a little more than a year." "I'd just started working the clubs." "I'd known Vince since high school." "I was kinda wild back then." "You know with the drinking and the cocaine." "I don't know whether I'm still in love with Vince." "Or if I was ever in love with Vince." "I think of it as a mutual desperation." "I had absolutely no self-confidence." "And neither did Vince." "I guess that's why he was always putting me down." "Well look what the wind blew in." "Yo baby, what's up?" "How you been?" "So..." "How you been, baby?" "You still ain't answered me." "Why don't you try calling me and find out?" "I've been hustling, you know?" "A man's gotta make a living, right?" "You ain't been so busy you can't pick up a phone, Vince." "Oh, come on baby, you know I love you, come on." "For real, Vince?" "Yes, for real." "I brought you something." "Something for me?" "Come on Vince, you know I haven't done coke in weeks." "Get me a beer." " Then can I have some?" " We'll see." "Go ahead." "Go ahead." " Here, Vince." " Oh, thanks." "Now can I have some coke?" "Light me a cigarette." "Come on, Vince, don't tease me like this." "Light me a cigarette." "They're in my jacket." "Now can I have some." "Okay, you can have some, right." "All you got to do... is lick my shoe." "What?" "!" "Lick my shoe." "You heard me." "No Vince, I ain't licking your shoe!" "You can't treat me like that, like I was some dog or something." "Lick it!" "You know, you don't respect me no kind of way." "I don't know how come I still see you." "Get the fuck down there." "Lick it!" "Vince, you're hurting me!" "Look baby, all you gotta do is put your tongue out." "Okay?" "I don't want to." "Your shoe is dirty." "Oh come one, you've licked dirty things before now." "That was different." " Why do I have to do this?" " Because I want you to." "Come on." " Then can I have some coke?" " Yes." "You didn't do it long enough!" "Come on." "If it's anything I hate, it's a bootlicker." "Ouch!" "Vince, you're hurting me." "Shut the fuck up." "You like it, don't you, don't you?" "Vince, you're hurting me!" "Vince..." "Vince." "How come you treat me so rough?" "What you mean rough?" "You know rough." "Like you don't care nothing about me." "Come on baby, you know I love you now." "I don't know that when you treat me rough like you do, like I was some whore or something." "Why don't you treat me gentle?" "You want somebody to treat you gentle, why don't you make love to a woman?" "Maybe I will someday." "You a crazy girl." "You know that?" "I have to practice." "Turn that shit back on, I was watchin'." "I'm supposed to sing at Zappos tomorrow night." "Turn it back on!" "I was watching it!" "I got to rehearse now, Vince." "Get the fuck out the way." "Rehearsin' ain't gonna help you  you can't sing nohow." "See!" "Why do you always have to put me down?" "Huh?" "No." "Don't even answer that." "Because by putting me down it makes you seem more of a big deal." "You know that ain't right, Vince." "This is my home." "You know what?" "Ever since you got down with that singing shit, you've been this serious fuckin' trip." "Then you go back to night school and boom, right away you got a fuckin' attitude problem." "What's that all about, huh?" "This is my..." "So what, it's your house?" "So what if it is?" "That's what I thought." "Vince, I don't want to see you no more." "You don't want to see me, huh?" "You don't want to see me?" "You telling me to leave, baby?" " Are you fuckin' telling me to leave?" " Let me talk, please!" "Okay, okay, you got the floor." "Go ahead, talk." "What you got to say?" "You know, when you and I first met, we both liked the same kind of things." "We wasn't going nowhere." "I didn't even know there was some place to go." "But then something went down..." "And I started changing." "I decided that if I'm ever going to be a singer, I have to do it now." "I know I'm still weak." "I like to do a little coke." "But not like I used to." "Look baby, why you telling me all this shit?" "It doesn't mean a..." " It doesn't mean anything." " Can I please finish?" "Okay." "You got the floor." "What I'm sayin' is, I'm changing my life." "I know we ain't no big time lovers or nothing." "And all my friends say I'm a fool for caring about you, Vince." "But I do." "That's why it's hard for me to tell you this." "You know you suffocating' me." "You swallow me up." "I feel like my life is being sucked into a big black pit." "Vince, I gotta have out." "What you take me for?" "Some kinda fuckin' fool?" "Huh?" "Huh?" "You think I'm in love with you?" "You got someone else, don't you?" "You got someone else filling' your head with this shit?" "!" "Don't tell me this shit." "Don't tell me you ain't, or I'll slap your ass again." "C'mere." "Get the..." "get the... fuck..." "You're hurting me!" "You're hurting me!" "You're hurting me!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "You try to act like your shit don't stink, but I know the real deal, baby!" "This is Vince!" "You can't pull that lost innocent shit with me." "Please!" "Leave me alone!" "Look at yourself!" "Look at your fuckin' self!" "You be scheming all up and down Washington Heights!" "Baby, you ain't nothing but a common fuckin' junkie." "No, I'm not!" "No, I'm not!" "I stopped!" "What?" "What?" "Two, three, four weeks?" "You'll go back, baby, coz you gotta have it." "Who do you think you are, girl?" "Tryin' to make out you're fuckin' better 'n me, huh?" "I know every game you play." "Shut the fuck up." "I know how you used to make ends meet, selling' yourself for 10 cents." "I know, cause I'm the one who saved your ugly ass." "Leave me alone!" "Calm the fuck down!" "Calm down." "Calm..." "Calm down." "I ain't nasty to you baby, just chill out." "Shut up!" "Please." "Just..." "look baby, you've been foolin' around on the side, alright?" "Forget it, okay?" "I'm broadminded." "Forgive and forget." "Look, we gotta learn to accept each other's faults." "Look, I know I was hard on you, but it's because I love you, baby." "I gotta go make some money." "But I'll make this up to you, I promise, Vicki, tomorrow night." "Tomorrow night, we'll go downtown." "And we'll spend a bunch of money." "We'll have dinner." "Just like we used to, okay?" "Okay?" "I said "okay?"!" "I'm fuckin' talking to you!" "I'm outta here." "Yo Joe, what's up, homeboy?" "What's happening, man?" "I ain't seen you in a while, man." "How you livin', man?" "I hear you, man." "Yo, how you been, man?" "Alright." " Crazy cop, out here, man." " Word up." " You hit Grand Central yet?" " Yeah, I scored yesterday, man." "Me too." "Never hit the same place twice." "You know what I'm sayin'?" "I hear you." "I rule this motherfucking island, man." "Yo, this shit is mine!" "Don't matter, man." " I know where you're coming from, Vince." " But you gotta be careful." "Billy's wake is tonight, man." "I know you're coming." "I heard you were there when it went down." " Yo Vince, be cool." " Alright, man." "You remember me from the restaurant this morning?" "No." "You, you must be thinking of something else." "You have the wrong guy." "I ain't got the wrong nothing, motherfucker." "That was you lookin' at me how I eat, tryin' to make me feel like dirt." "No, I didn't mean anything by it." "Yes, you did." "You had the power!" "Now I got it motherfucker, right here, yeah." "Try Huggies." "They work." "All my life I'd been unhappy" "When it came to love I never win" "It seemed like there was no-one for me" "So I lived the life of loneliness" "But then I met you, I felt so strange" "You really made some changes in my life" "You made me feel that love can happen..." "Hey buddy, for $20 she's yours." "That's alright, man, I gotta get back to work." "Oh my god, he's got my purse!" "What's the fuckin' matter with you?" "Yo man, easy." "C'mon." "Get the fuck off me!" "You're fucking out of your mind!" "What's the matter with you?" "Get the fuck off me, man!" "He's in the tunnel!" "Where'd he go?" "Shit." "Shit!" "It's history, man!" "First time he was arrested, I was the arresting officer." "He was a young kid around 10 or 11." "You know, typical story..." "Stealing a baseball glove out of Woolworths." "He was strictly small time, but he tried to look tough." "I keep thinking." "I can remember it as clear as if it was yesterday." "There's just something about this kid." "I don't know." "If I could just think of some way to get next to him." "Maybe we can save him." "Even then you could see it coming." "Yet there was nothing you could do about it!" "Sometimes you just feel so goddam useless!" "What a friend we have in Jesus" "All our sins and griefs to bear" "What a privilege to carry" "Everything to God in prayer" "We are here but a short time on this earth, then we are passed on." "From dust we come and unto dust the Lord will deliver us." "We know that it is God's decision to take us when He will." "And yet we cannot help but ask ourselves..." "Why did this terrible tragedy come to happen?" "To William Moses." "William was not a bad boy." "In fact, when William was younger he even sang in the church choir." "How then did he go wrong, like so many of our young people?" "Why did he turn away from God, with such a bright future ahead of him?" "And such a loving and dutiful mother." "Only God knows the answer to those questions." "Let us pray." "Welcome William Moses, oh Lord..." "Unto your holy bosom." "For it was you, Lord Jesus Christ, who taught us that the good shepherd... was sent to save the lost sheep." "And it was also you, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... who taught us if two... or three, are gathered in your name, their prayers shall be granted them, Amen." "Billy!" "Billy!" "Oh my God!" "My poor boy!" "He's dead." "Oh God Jesus." "They put my poor boy into the ground." "You!" "You should be in there where my poor boy is." "I don't care!" "It's true!" "You should be where my son is!" "I wish you were dead!" "Just a few more weary days and then" "I'll fly away" "To a home on God's celestial shore" "I'll fly away" "You." "So you read all this fucking shit, man?" "Uhuh." "Don't touch me, motherfucker, not till I tell you to." "Maybe we'd be more comfortable in the other room?" "That's alright, I'm fine right, right here." "Well, here it is then." "Don't fucking touch me till I tell you to." "You understand me?" "You like that shit, don't you?" "Don't you?" "Yeah, you like that." "I can tell." "I can see it in your eyes." "You don't have to hurt me." "I'm going to make it so nice for you." "Get the fuck away from me!" "Just give me the money, that's all I want." "I don't have any money." "What do you mean you don't have any money?" "I don't have any money." "I'm broke." "You mean you brought me all the way over here and you don't have any fucking money?" "You motherfucker!" "You fucking faggot!" "You don't have motherfucking money, man?" "You fucking serious?" "Are you fucking crazy?" "Yeah, motherfucker." "Faggot!" "Excuse me!" "Do you happen to have a light?" "I believe I do." "Give me your fucking money." "That's all I want." "Freeze, you son of a bitch!" "You're under arrest." "Vince!" "My man!" "What's up?" "Gilbert!" "Whassup?" "Hey man, I haven't seen you in a while, bro'." "How you doing, man?" "Look who's here, man." "It's Vince." "I haven't seen you in months, man." "You lookin' nice." "What the hell is this, old home week?" "That's how bad it is these days, you gotta go to the joint to visit you brave men." "Yo, who he laughing' at, man?" "Oh, that?" "That's Jones." " He's erm... what do you call it?" " Obnoxious." "He's harmless, man." "They caught him trying to blow up the Statue of Liberty." "Statue of Liberty?" "Don't pay him no attention." "He's crazy." "I don't care if he's crazy or not." "He laughing at me, I'm gonna give him somethin' to be crazy about." "Don't mind my laughter, my man." "I'm just a failed anarchist!" "I can't even make a decent Molotov cocktail." "But killing... is one thing they're good at." "They got millions of bombs and all of them work." "Weapons is our number one industry." "What the hell is he talking about?" "I don't know..." "but he must be on the pipe." "He's crazy." "You know, safe little jails, to incarcerate guys like you!" "Yo Vince, what the hell is he talking about, man?" "I can't tell you, my brother." "But he's crazy." "Don't you understand everything you steal, every gold chain, every wrist watch..." "You're telling the world how valuable it is." "Madison Avenue couldn't even pay for a commercial like that." "A walking ad from life." "A walking ad from life!" "Don't you understand where I'm coming from?" "Don't you know what I'm talking about?" "I know you better get outta my face, motherfucker..." "I'll cut your fucking throat for you." "Calm, man..." " Don't touch my hand!" "Come on man, come on brother, he ain't worth it, man." "I guess you don't understand." "Besides, who'd listen to a guy who can't even make a decent Molotov cocktail?" "Long live socialism." "What happened to the equality of man?" "Calloway brought him to the Police League." "He was a nice kid." "You have to work with kids like this to understand them." "He was real sensitive." "So he covered it up by acting tough." "But deep down inside, you could tell there was good stuff." "With some of these kids who have talent... playing sports can keep them out of trouble." "Vince wasn't that bad a boxer." "Had a little luck in the Golden Gloves." "But he couldn't hit the side of a barn with a basketball." "Let alone a basket." "For kids like Vince... they see only two things..." "sports and music." "That's their passports out of the ghetto." "That ain't a whole lot of options." "And if they don't have outstanding talent in one of those, well..." "Look out." "Your Honor, Mr. Williams is charged with robbery and assault of an undercover police officer with a deadly weapon." "Counsellor, how does your client plead?" "Your honor, my client pleads guilty." "Except for an incident when Mr. Williams was sent to reform school for six months... he has no record of prior convictions." "We're therefore requesting that my client be released on his own recognizance." "Your Honor, the record shows that Mr. Williams has been arrested 8 times in the past 2 months." "Your Honor, if it pleases the court, it should be noted that none of those arrests resulted in conviction." "I'm putting this down on the calendar for April 13th at which time... a sentence will be handed down." " You can walk." " What?" "You can walk." "You're free to go." "But you must return here on April 13th at 9 o'clock." "If you're lucky you'll get six months." " Six months?" " If you're lucky!" "What do you want?" "You tried to rob a police officer." "Mind if I have a piece of your sandwich?" "Get out of here!" "Beat it, man!" "Can't you see I'm eating?" "Here." "Here, now get out of here!" "Just go!" "I'm 72 years old next week." "I've been sleeping in city shelters for 3 years since they threw me out of my room." "I've got enough problems without you and the weight of the world on my shoulders." "Just get out of here." "I was a biologist once." "I used to have a good job when my wife was alive." "Now... all I can do is beg." "Nobody cares for me." "I'm just living until I die." "Take my advice." "Do something with your life while you're young and strong." "It's hell being old." "I'd have killed myself a long time ago if I weren't such a coward." "Kill yourself?" "For what?" "When you got life you got hope, man." "You're so young and full of ideas, you still believe in hope." "I've known 100s of kids like you." "Acting tough." "Trying to beat the system." "Don't you know they hate you because you're black?" "Just like they hate me because I'm old." "They'll take away everything you have." "But there's one thing they don't take." "That's your shame." "They leave you that to rot in... until the day you die." "Nah, you eat it all..." "You need your strength for it." "It's the only place." "Get over it and get off of the stairs." "Oh fuck!" "Told you, blood." "Shit ain't with it, man." "Damn!" "Vince." "Hospital called." "Vicki tried to commit suicide." "What hospital?" "Harlem hospital, number 732." "Vince, I need money." "Here, just, just take it all, alright!" "You must be Vince." "Yeah." "It's against hospital policy for you to be here." "She's been asking for you all night." "I guess it'll be alright." "Don't stay too long." "Hey, girl." "Hey." "Hey, girl, don't scare me like this." "Hey, Vince." "How you doing?" "They had to pump my stomach." "All the while they were doing it, it felt so bad." " I kept wanting to die." " Don't talk that way." "You're going to be alright." "You're going to be alright." "You gotta be." "Oh my god." "Look at what I done to you." " Look at what I done." " I had to do it, Vince." "I had to." "I couldn't go on living like that." "Like I was." "I felt like I was in prison." "Don't ever treat anybody the way you treated me." "It's worse than being dead." "I don't know why I did it, baby." "I don't know how come I act this way." "I don't know why I don't know how to love." "I mean..." "I feel all hemmed in... you know," "...and when you try to break out and have somethin' all your own they're after you with the quickness." "So you strike back." "Vicki, I'm telling you, I..." "I don't know if I've got the strength left to change." "I mean, after dodging bullets and knife thrusts..." "I don't I don't know if I can change." "After the way they make you hate yourself." "I don't know if I can be human again." "Okay, I try to act tough..." "But baby, I ain't tough." "I just don't know how to act no other way." "I just don't know how to be nobody else." "Don't come any closer, Vince, man." "Yo man, what's up with you, Peppy?" "Yo man, if it is about this afternoon I'm sorry, man." "I don't know where my head was at." "Word, man." " See, I told you he was a punk, man." " Don't call me no fucking punk, man!" "I ain't telling you no more." "I don't give a fuck if you've got a gun or anything, man." "I ain't no punk." "Vicki tried to commit suicide, man." "That shit was my fault." "Just get me to do a taxi, man." "It's a serious job, my brother." "This shit will be just like old times, man." "You down with it or what?" "I ain't with it, man." "I'm through with this shit." "You know, my woman, man." "Vicki, I promised her, man." "I'm gettin' too old for this shit, man." "I don't know, maybe I'll go back to school too." "Or get a job or somethin' like that." " Man, I told you he was a punk." " Don't call me no fuckin' punk!" "I ain't no punk." "You ain't a punk?" "Then prove it, man." "Prove it." "So uh, where you guys going?" "The Trump Tower, man." "Come on, give me a break, guys." " 81st St, man." "Take Riverside." " Word." "Thanks a lot." "What do you guys think about those Giants?" "Fuck the Giants, man." "They're a bunch of fuckin' coke-heads." "Yeah, you're absolutely right about that." "Er, you guys just finished coming out of a night club or something?" "Can't you see we're coming from a hospital, man?" "We went to visit a friend..." "who's sick." "You know between my studies and..." "Why don't you shut the fuck up, and pay attention to what you doing?" "!" "Alright." "Alright." "Take it easy, guy." "Take it easy." "Oh, god." "You know it seems like it's going to be one of those nights." "I can just feel it." "One of those nights." "Yo driver, pull over, man." "I want to take a piss." "I'm afraid not, guys." "You know, I'll take you to your destination." "Get out, man!" "Alright, take it easy, man." "Take it easy!" "Take it easy, man." "I don't want no problems." "Get the fuck out the car!" "Come on!" "Move it, motherfucker!" "Get the fuck out." "Take it easy." "Take it easy." "Take it easy, man." "Alright, man!" "Shut the fuck up." "Get your ass down the steps." "Move it." "Move it." "That's right." "Get your fucking hands off me, bro'." "I'll make sure you die, motherfucker." "Move it!" "You fucker!" "Move it, you pesky motherfucker!" "Shut the fuck up!" "Look at him, man." "Look how scared he is, man." "That motherfucker, he done pissed in his pants." "You ever see a motherfucker this scared before?" "Nah man, I ain't never seen a motherfucker this scared before." "Yo Vince, what about you, man?" "Why don't we just take his fuckin' money and get the fuck out of here?" "Go on!" "I got a better idea, man." "I say we off him." "Yo Peppy, that's crazy, man!" "Get the fuck, get your fucking hands up!" "Get your hands up!" "Shit!" "Got to be about 4 or 5 bills here, man." "It's your lucky motherfucking night, boy!" "You just might live!" "I say we off him anyway, man." "I say we get the fuck out of here, man." "He gave us the money, why hassle him?" "Give us?" "He didn't give us nothing, man." "We took it, man." "Yo man, you is a punk!" "Don't call me no fuckin' punk!" "I ain't telling you no more." " Then you yellow, man." " Fuck you!" "You're the fuckin' punk, Peppy." "You know what, man?" "You're fuckin, suck-ass!" "You always was and you always will be." "I ain't afraid of shit, including that fuckin' gun, man." "Oh, you ain't afraid of nothin'?" "Nothin', motherfucker!" "Then prove it, man." "You off him, man!" "You know what?" "Off you, motherfucker." "Yeah, Peppy... just as I thought." "No god, please..." "Please don't." "No." "No." "Fuck that, man." "No." "Why should I off him, man?" "He ain't never done nothing to me." "He's just out here tryin' to survive like we are, man." "No, God, no!" "Get the fuck up!" "I ought to burn your fuckin' ass right here." "You ain't nothin' but a cockroach, motherfucker." "We're Black Flag." "You know what we do with cockroaches?" "Terminate 'em!" "Pussy-ass!" "I ain't even with this shit, man!" " Don't gimme this shit, man!" " He ain't worth it, man!" "Yo Peppy man, why go to jail for nothin'?" "Get the fuck outta here, man." "Fuck!" "Peppy, no!" "Sync and corrections by FatPlank"