Nothin' 2 Lose (2000) - full transcript
A woman gives her hot-shot music producer boyfriend 30 days to change from a partying bachelor into a respectable marrying man.
(upbeat hip hop music)
- Last summer,
last summer was low, man.
I mean, I can't think of no
other way to describe it,
except it was just
straight up crazy, man.
My mind still has
trouble comprehending
what all went down in
like a three month period.
- Last summer?
Last summer was an
emotional rollercoaster.
My feelings felt like
they were on a Pogo stick.
Up, down, up, down, up, down
- It all started back in June
on the day my boy Scooter
was about to begin
serving his life sentence.
It was his wedding day.
I don't know what it is, man
but something about weddings
seemed to strike a chord
in my girl, Yasmine.
- I love weddings anyway, but
Tymkia was getting married.
I mean, that's my
girl, we are like this.
- Dearly beloved.
We are gathered here
today before God
to join these young blacks
together in holy matrimony.
If there is anyone
who feels these two
should not be joined
together may they speak now
or forever hold their peace.
I says, may they speak now.
Ms. Johnson was a good woman.
She never did nothing to nobody,
but don't y'all feel
sorry for her Saints
because she's with the lord now.
Would anybody like to come
up and say a few words
on her behalf?
- This fool's
ruining my wedding.
- No, no, no baby.
- Reverend, Ms. Johnson
funeral was last week.
- Say what?
- This is a wedding, man.
- I know what this is boy.
We shall proceed.
Tammy Kia.
- That's Tymkia.
- Whatever, do you
take this brother
to be your lawfully
wedded husband?
For richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health
for as long as you
both shall live?
- I do.
(sobbing loudly)
- Scoop hair Jones.
- That's Scooter.
- Whatever, do you
take this sister
to be your lawfully wedded wife
for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health
for long as you both
shall stay black?
- He does.
- It's got to come
out of his mouth.
- I do.
(sobbing loudly)
- By the almighty
power vested up in me,
I now pronounce
you man and wife.
You may tongue your bride.
(guests clapping)
♪ Come on man I spit
for street cats ♪
♪ That get it in droves ♪
♪ That love dope
but don't love ♪
♪ Cats that fly out of
state just for fun ♪
♪ That get two guns and
get papers for one ♪
♪ Cats that's got voices
and living it up ♪
♪ Got choices the
whip or the truck ♪
♪ I spit for cats
that think big ♪
♪ Stay on the two way dog
but they never talking ♪
♪ Cats that got real ill flows ♪
♪ Got more groupies
than you do deal ♪
♪ No videos ♪
- You look so scrumptious,
I want to gobble you up
with some hot water cornbread.
- Do you want to make love to
me or do you want to eat me?
- Both.
- You got issues
and you tripping.
- That's why you love me.
- This is so beautiful.
I wish it was us.
- It is us, shorty.
- I'm talking about the
reception, the ceremony,
the whole wedding thing.
Kwame, we've been dating
for two years now.
Don't you think it's time
we start making some
wedding plans of our own?
(coughing loudly)
- My throat feels
a little drizzy.
I'm gonna go get a little
something something to drink.
Want something,
champagne, wine, floatie?
- No, I'm straight.
- All right.
Hey girl.
- Hey.
- We've been friends
for a long time,
I need to call in a huge favor.
- What's that?
- This whole bouquet toss thing?
Now I'm thinking if I
break it to the left,
you could throw
it in such a way.
- No, the fix is not gonna
be in my bouquet toss.
Stop acting so desperate girl.
If you really want it
and it's meant to be
it's gonna happen.
Kiss kiss.
- Don't kiss me.
You about to get your butt
kicked on your wedding day.
- Ta ta.
♪ Throw your hands in the
air like we don't care ♪
♪ Virginia you ain't heard ♪
♪ We don't care ♪
♪ Pop Chris drop six
with a topless chick ♪
♪ Shorty looking at my wrist
what kind of watch is this ♪
♪ My bottle you don't know ♪
♪ I spend chips slide
those panties off ♪
- All my single ladies, it's
time for the bouquet toss.
- Damn, looks like we retire
your jersey next, playboy.
- Hell no, man
that's superstition.
It ain't got nothing
to do with real life.
- Look what I got.
- Congratulations
baby, I saw that.
It was sort of fake
the way it just fell
right in your hands.
- I'm gonna put it in the house
before one of them hood rats
tries to take it away from me.
A couple of them were looking
at me kind of sideways
after the bouquet happened
to land in my hands.
- All right shorty, will
you get me a piece of that
wedding cake while
you're in there?
- Okay baby.
- Yo, check this out Kwame.
Two former members of
the Boogaloo posse.
- Just 'cause I'm married,
don't take my
status away from me.
Hey, I'm a member for life
dog, a member for life.
- Your is honorary.
- Honorary my, look
I'm still gonna be
hanging with the homies.
I even pushed back my honeymoon
so I can play in that basketball
game with y'all tomorrow.
- I hear you talking,
but you like Lance.
See, before today
we ain't even seen
or heard from him in months.
Talk to this boy Lance,
tell him, talk to him.
(mumbling incoherently)
- Baby, accept it man.
Your ripping and running days,
like the million man march
and Shaft, are
black history baby.
- Kwame you're talking
all that trash,
but you need to do what it
takes to make Yasmine happy.
'Cause you ain't pulling
them like you used to, bro.
- I'm with my girl right now
because I choose to be man.
But anytime I wanted to get
back in the game, I could.
And would wreck
shop like I used to,
pulling the finest
biddies on the East coast,
West coast and the dirty south.
My game is nationwide baby.
- What game?
- I think Scoot is right, Kwame.
You know you've been with
Yasmine for a minute, player.
See these hoochies today,
well all they're worried
about is bills bills bills.
Frankly your, is
broke broke broke.
- Allow me to tell y'all about
the elephant and the mouse.
One day they was just chilling,
walking through the jungle
and the elephant
fell in the ditch.
So the mouse said don't even
trip man I'm gonna get you out.
So he runs off and he comes
back with a brand spanking new
BMW, tells him to wrap his
trunk around the bumper,
revs up the engine, takes
off and pulls him to safety.
The elephant's grateful man.
Two weeks later, they walking
through the same jungle
and the mouse
falls in the ditch.
So the elephant
leans over the ditch
and lets his hang in the
ditch, tells him to grab on.
The mouse does and he
pulls them out to safety.
- So the moral of
the story is what?
- Point being, when you have
a big, you don't need no BMW.
(all laughing)
- I'm feeling that,
I'm feeling that.
(upbeat music)
- There's your cake.
- My man you gonna
eat the rest of that?
(laughing loudly)
- I can pull them
like I used to.
- You're still the man you know.
- Those look tasty,
can I get a grape?
I'll interpret that as a no.
Look Yas, I know me
acting really silly
and stupid tonight
embarrassed you.
It shouldn't have happened.
- What was that
tack head anyway,
are you fooling around with her?
- No, last time I
messed with girls
was back when MC
hammer had money
and you know that
was a long time ago.
- Are you sexually
attracted to her?
Be honest with me, it's okay
if you are, it's human nature.
It only becomes a problem
when you act on it.
Tell the truth.
- Well her booty is ghetto
fabulous, you know what I mean?
Not that I be looking, but
from what I can remember,
baby could clap her louder than
most could clap their hands.
Wait wait wait, baby
I'm playing I'm playing.
I'm just messing with you girl.
She is too hoochie-fied
to pique my interest
sexually or intellectually.
You're the only one for
me girl, I love you.
Nobody could ever
take your place.
So quit tripping.
- I love you too Kwame
with all my heart
but you got to learn
to be more sensitive
and think about my
feelings sometimes
before you do some
of the stuff you do.
- Okay I'll concentrate
on getting in touch
with my feminine side.
- I didn't say all that.
That sounded too much like
you going to be wearing
my panties next week.
- Come here, kiss me.
- Wasn't Tymkia's wedding fat?
- It was cool, if you
like to see a brother
walk down the aisle
to the gas chamber.
- Tymkia looked so beautiful.
And she was so happy.
I want my wedding to
be just like that,
but maybe in a church though.
Kwame, when are we
going to get married?
- 2010.
- Stop playing
boy, I'm for reals.
When are you going
to pop the question?
- Well, I can pop it tonight,
but we still ain't
getting married 'til 2010.
That's the soonest I see
myself getting out the game.
- Getting out of what game?
- You know, retire.
Hang up the jersey,
put the sneakers away.
Metaphors baby, now
come on back to bed
so I can enjoy the ride.
- No Kwame.
- Okay, then you
can enjoy the ride.
I don't mind being
on the bottoms.
- I think it's time
we discussed this.
- Look, can we talk about
this nonsense later?
- That's all this is
to you, is nonsense?
- At this moment, hell yeah.
Now come on back to bed.
- I think you need to raise
up and get to stepping
'cause I'm going to
be sleeping by myself.
- Oh hell no, you gonna get
a brother all hot and horny
then tell him you're going
to be sleeping by yourself?
What you trying to
do, give blue balls?
- Handle it.
- Yas, don't front, you know
you all hot and horny too.
Let's just get a quickie,
bang, bang, smack, smack, bang,
go to sleep and talk
about it in the morning.
- I'm going to be okay.
- A vibrator?
What the hell is that for?
- You don't know?
And what part of step
don't you comprehend?
(snoring softly)
- Kwame, wake up fool.
You were supposed to
be coming to pick me up
so we can be at the
courts by nine o'clock.
- What time is it?
- 9:30.
- Why you didn't
call and wake me up?
- Look fool.
- I'm gonna go hop
in the shower man.
- Man damn that,
we ain't got time.
Look, we gotta go right
now, we gotta be out.
- Man this couch
whooped my, playboy.
- Stop whining like a punk.
You know what?
You better be glad that
she didn't make your
sleep on the porch like a
dog, you know what I'm saying?
Hey, what'd you do anyway?
- Man Yasmine starts squawking
about this marriage thing.
When we're gonna get married?
Right before we's about
to do the naked tango.
- What?
Yo, females be tripping
you know what I'm saying?
After they've been to a wedding,
especially when it's one of
their girls getting married.
She might be nagging yo
for months, maybe years.
- Damn that.
I allowed her to have
a moment last night.
She bring that again, it can
get ugly up in this camp.
I don't want to hear
about it no more.
We get married in 2010, 2015.
And that's that.
- Player player.
- I'm the King of this castle.
- Preach on brother.
- There's only shack bully
wearing the pants
in this hiz-house.
I'm running things in this crib.
And you can quote me on that.
- Is that right?
- Hey baby I thought
that you had,
had already left for church.
Did the alarm not go off?
I'm just, I've been meaning
to get that thing fixed.
I got to get it,
I'm gonna fix it,
but you want some
breakfast or something?
I can make you something,
some cream of wheat,
grits, spamwich.
- I heard your
conversation, Kwame.
- What conversation?
- Don't punk out
now, shack bully.
- Yeah so check it--
- No Kwame, you check it.
You have played me
for the last time.
All this talk about
we getting married
when you say we get married
is dead and stinking.
Newsflash king of the castle.
We get married in
30 days or else.
- Or else what?
- Or else you can kiss the
fattest part of my black
'cause love won't
live here anymore.
- Damn Kwame, you think she mad?
- Scoot.
Where the hell is
your homeboys man?
- Man, they'll be here
just hold on, all right?
- Hey, we ain't got all day.
Either they're coming or
they're not, so what's up?
- Damn Mookie, I said
they'd be here chill.
- What's up Scoot, baby?
Sorry about discarding you dog.
- In case you forgot,
I'm boarding a plane
to Jamaica today
for my honeymoon.
I gotta be at the airport
in a couple of hours.
Now where the hell
have y'all been?
- Let's just call it
domestic discourse dog.
But chill, don't even trip.
This ain't gonna take long.
- It's late.
- I know Mookie, but
your mama was in the mood
to barf up balls this morning
so I had to let her
get her gobble on
before I left the rack.
(all laughing)
Shall I shoot for outs?
- Yeah Kwame shoot for outs
'cause we bought to beat you
like you stole something.
- Mook, I done told you.
The only person that
beats me is your mama.
And I wish the crusty would
stop because my, is sore.
- You know, since you so
confident and arrogant,
what do you say we
raise the stakes?
- What you want to do?
- A G.
- Oh man, I thought you was
talking about some real money.
What do you say we up
the ante to 2G, you game?
- Oh, hell yeah.
It'd be like taking
candy from a baby.
- Not when that
baby's a bad thug.
- Show the money.
- Mookie, you know
we good for it.
- No, no, no.
We'll play for what you
got on you right now.
- All right then, hold up.
Scoot.
- What?
- I need you to flash
a couple of grand
of your honeymoon money.
- Kwame is you crazy?
A couple of grand is
my honeymoon money.
- Come on, stop
being a punk man.
We ain't gonna lose this game.
Look, when was the last time
we lost on the blacktop anyway?
- It's just for show, man.
And if by some stretch of
the imagination we lose,
I'll go straight to the bank
and get your money back.
And if we win, when we
win, Iggy and I get $600,
you'll get eight.
Come on man.
- All right it sounds cool
but I don't have time
to go to the bank
in case we lose, man.
I'm already cutting
it close as it is
'cause y'all was late.
- Look man I'll wire
you the duckets.
It'll be there before you land.
- I don't know man,
Tymkia will kick my
if I lose this money.
- Tymkia Tymkia Tymkia man,
what you got, one testicle?
- I got two balls.
- Well how big is
your balls, this big?
- All right, damn.
(laughing)
- Kwame, you really got 2G's
if we lose this game right?
- Nope.
- That's jacked up, I'm
proud of you man, I'm proud.
- Yo, 15 by ones.
Winner take out,
gotta win by two.
- I know the rules, punk.
- Shoot for outs.
- I'm like the spa baby, I'll
be giving you facials all day.
(upbeat hip hop music)
(speaking over each other)
(whooping quietly)
(laughing)
- We're done with these punks,
so who's next, who's next?
- I thought we weren't
gonna lose, man.
- What's this?
- That's my itinerary
so you know which hotel
to wire the money to.
- Scoot, baby, man.
I sort of exaggerated
about having all the money,
but man I'll wire
you what I got.
- Well, how much you got?
- Oh, I got about 15.
- Oh what, $1,500?
- No, $15.
- Damn you promised me we
wasn't gonna lose, man.
- Yo man who knew we
was gonna lose man?
We never lost before.
- Damn, damn man, what am I
going to tell Tymkia, man?
- Look dog, I got about
four or five labels
looking to sign my
artist Chantal man.
I'm feeling like I'm
going to have a deal
by the end of this week.
- Well, that doesn't exactly
help me today
Kwame, now does it?
- Yo man, yo can I
borrow some money?
- I can't help you Scooter.
My rent's due this week man.
- Iggy, you're with your mama.
- You know that she be
charging me $200 a month.
If I don't pay, or
even if I'm a day late,
then I'm gonna be homeless.
- Damn.
- Scoot, you don't want the $15?
- Well at least tell Tymkia
that we say hi, all right?
- [Tymika] You lost our
honeymoon money on a stupid
basketball game with
your crusty homies?
Oh hell no.
- Baby please, come on.
Baby please, no no.
Come on now, damn baby.
Damn.
♪ You made my feet walk
right over to your door ♪
♪ You had my ankles ♪
♪ Tangled and puzzled ♪
♪ You had my knees to
the point they buckled ♪
♪ What you doing to me ♪
♪ In the light of day I
stumble over your waist ♪
♪ Couldn't wait for
the night time ♪
♪ The high time the right time ♪
♪ We had to close the door ♪
♪ It was like turning away
from a million bucks ♪
♪ But I can't see you no more ♪
♪ It's like cold
of a lonely night ♪
(thudding quietly)
- Look, it's been
like three weeks
since she gave you
that ultimatum player.
- Man she just
trying to scare me,
Yasmine ain't going nowhere.
- I heard that.
(laughing)
- What the hell?
- What is it Kwame? I
got a lot of work to do.
- What's up with the
packed boxes at the house?
Is our lease up, are we moving?
- Well, since it's been 23 days
and you haven't
reached a decision,
I don't want to influence
it either way so
I'm going to go away
for a little while
and give you some space.
- Okay okay all right Yasmine.
This little ultimatum thing
has gone on long enough.
What do you want?
- What do I want?
- Excuse me, Yasmine.
The meeting's in 20 minutes.
- What is this about?
A new dinette set, a
sexy piece of lingerie,
a shopping spree at
the swap meet, what?
- Dinette set? Lingerie?
Shopping spree at the swap
meet, you don't get it do you?
You're right.
This ultimatum thing
has gone too far.
Kwame, I don't want to be
someone's girlfriend forever.
I want to be a bride.
Have a family, I deserve that.
I just don't see that
happening with us.
- So what you saying?
- [Coworker] Pardon me,
the meeting's been moved
to the conference room.
- Thank you.
Kwame, we seem to be headed
in opposite directions.
I think maybe it's best
if we cut our losses
and do our own thing.
- So what, just
like that it's over?
Cool.
You know, if that's
what you want
but don't come
crawling back to me
begging for no second chance
'cause I don't go there,
the train don't back up.
- I understand.
I have a meeting to prepare
for, I'll see you later.
- Peace you know?
Shoot, not like you'd be out
gang banging or
nothing like that.
I just mean peace like
you know, be cool.
'Cause I'm gonna be cool.
- I truly believed
he still loved me
and God knows I was
still cuckoo for Kwame.
I mean he was all that and
a bucket of spicy hot wings.
Cute,
charming,
sexy.
- With Yasmine gone, I can
work on my music at the house
to all hours of the night.
The homies could kick
it 'til the sun came up.
That was cool for
the first few nights.
But after that, I can't front.
I missed the hell
out of that girl.
Her touch, her smell, her smile.
One night, I must've stayed
up to the crack of dawn,
not chilling with the
homies, not making music,
but just reminiscing.
Looking at pictures,
reading old letters and
listening to old songs
that had special meaning to it.
- When I initially made the
ultimatum, it was in anger.
But the more I thought about it,
the stronger I felt about it.
I mean he had gotten
complacent in our relationship,
took me for granted,
putting all his time and
money into his music,
contributed little or
nothing to the household.
I was practically
taking care of him.
Excuse my French but it was
time for Kwame to either
or get off the pot 'cause
he had been constipated
for much too long.
- [Kwame] That's when I
decided to seek advice
from the fellows.
- Marriage?
Marriage is cool, man.
It's the best decision
I've ever made in life.
Yo I think you ought to do it.
It's time, it's time.
- Oh hell no.
Look, if you give in to this,
she will be pimping
you with ultimatums
for the rest of your life.
Take out the trash
or I ain't going to
give you none of this.
- Marriage is a nightmare.
Well, it starts off good
but ask any married sucker after
a few months what it's like
he'll tell you it feels like
living with the grim reaper
and being held
hostage up in hell.
Nags me all the time,
done ballooned up 14 sizes
since the last time
we've been together.
Sweats a brother 24/7 Kwame.
Hell I'd have more
freedom up in the pen.
- [Wife] You been out
there way too long.
Get your butt in the house.
(mumbling incoherently)
- I got to go but remember this,
walking down that altar is
like walking down the plank.
If you ain't got a gun to
your head, don't do it.
Okay Kwame? Never get married.
Coming, my queen.
- My momma's collard greens
with a ham hock in
the middle for flavor.
Ain't nothing like
it boy, I tell you.
- Kwame, I can't cook with you
moving around in the kitchen.
Go over there and sit down.
- All right all right,
but if you need anybody
to sample something,
say the greens or the
corn bread, I'm your man.
Oh mama, I seen
uncle Coop today.
What's been up?
I heard you had a little
brush with the law last week.
- Yeah, I spent a
few nights in jail.
Got arrested for being a
black man on a sunny day.
And it was sunny so
what you could do?
So where's miss missy at?
What's her name, Jasmine.
- Yasmine.
- Spasmin, Yasmine,
whatever where's she at?
- We're not together
no more, Coop.
- You're not together no more?
Let me guess.
Some pigeon head gal stumbled,
fell on your, Rasman
found out about it, no?
Oh well she wants you to get
married and you ain't ready.
- Yeah, how you know?
- Oh man your uncle Coop been
in the love game a long time.
It's written all over your face
like stank on a bathroom wall.
- So what you think I should do.
- Well what you should do
is do what you want to do,
do how you feel, see?
Now I know for me,
I tried that six times
and don't work for me.
You understand what I'm saying?
Worse than a damn job.
Can't take a time off,
can't call in sick.
And the worst thing is,
it don't go over
well with the other.
Stay single.
Some hot sauce on it, it's good.
- So what's going on
with you and Yasmine?
- She gone mama, she gone.
- It's all right baby, tell
mama why, what happened?
- She said some junk
about being tired of
being a bridesmaid.
So marry me or else.
- Well see that's
not junk to her,
just like your music
is not junk to you,
you got to respect her feelings.
I love you boy, but
I'm not mad at the girl
for looking out for her future.
- I am,
I mean, I was her future.
- The older you get
the harder it is
to find that special somebody.
I haven't found anybody
since your father and I
fell out 20 years ago.
Well let's just say she waits
three, five years for you.
And then you don't marry her.
I'm not saying for
you to be pressured
into doing anything
you don't want to do,
but this is a defining
moment in your life.
And it may end up being
defined in two parts.
Before the ultimatum
and after the ultimatum.
So you be sure
that you can live with the
consequences of your decision.
- Damn pimping.
I can't believe you got me
waiting outside of a booty club
to go on a blind
date with a stripper.
Don't it bother you dude
that Cassandra is a
hairdresser by day
and a stripper by night?
- No.
- Kind of feel guilty dog,
like I shouldn't be doing this.
- What?
She quit yo man.
Look, we just out here
trying to have a good time
trying to take your
mind off of that.
It's just a date player.
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah you right.
What'd you say she
looked like again?
- I don't really know.
- I thought you
said she was fine.
- I said that's what I heard.
I also heard that, you
know, the brothers,
well they really just be
like dating her one time
because of the problem
that she used to have.
But it's cool.
- What you talking
about, man what problem?
- Here she comes.
- All right, let's go.
Let's go.
- Girl you are
wearing my carpet out
with all that pacing back
and forth, look at you.
- Please, them six
crumb snatchers
you got running around here
wore this carpet out years ago.
- I miss Kwame and I
feel guilty as hell
like I shouldn't be doing this.
- Look, what you
need to do is go out
and have yourself
some fun for real.
And maybe you and little Junebug
might develop a booty
job for each other.
- Little Junebug?
- Yeah.
- How little is he?
(doorbell ringing)
- What's up cous?
- Which one of you high
class hoochies is Yasmine?
- So what do you like to do?
(farting quietly)
You like to dance?
I like to dance.
I like to go out to the club.
(farting louder)
And then afterwards, I want
to get something to eat?
So I think I'm
getting hungry now.
Maybe some breakfast
food or something.
Maybe like some
pancakes, some eggs.
(farting loudly)
- I wanna get an
advertisement secretary job
so I can get my shop
on like that girl.
You've got a week's wardrobe
in them bags and look.
I got a damn sock.
- Where's the other one?
- I couldn't afford it.
- Girl please, I shop
when I'm depressed.
You better lucky you have a BMW.
- What?
- Black man working.
You're not waiting to exhale
like some of us, okay?
Is that Lance?
- They are so trifling.
Anyway, don't keep me
in suspense, tell me.
How was your date with tattoo?
- He spent half
the night talking
and the other half trying
to get in my panties.
Yo yo baby, back that up so
little Junebug can whack.
- He got any money girl?
- Hell no, I had to put in $2
so I could supersize
my kid's meal.
- What, why you
get a kid's meal?
- Because when we were at
the drive through window,
he made it clear that if I
ordered anything over $5,
I will have to give
him some booty.
I was hungry, but
not that hungry.
- I know that girl.
- Hold up Yasmine, hold up
I just want to rap to you.
Two minutes.
- You got one minute.
- Well, I guess I better
get right to the point
since you cut my time all short.
I want you back Yasmine.
Baby what we had was special.
I want us to recapture that
and rekindle that magic.
If you would just give
me another chance.
- Why?
So you can cheat on me again
with another white girl?
- Baby that was a long time ago.
I've matured since then.
I'm a one woman, man.
- I don't know Mookie.
My mama always told me if
barks like a dog, it's a dog.
- You leaving me, that
was the best thing
that ever happened to me.
It forced me to grow up
and be a man about myself.
- I'm glad something positive
came out of my broken heart.
- I want the same thing Yasmine.
To settle down and
raise a family.
Now I've got the dollars.
I've got the clothes.
I've got the car and
I've got the house.
The only thing that's
missing is you, Yasmine.
- I don't think so Mookie.
- It's Kwame huh?
You are going to waste your
whole life waiting for Kwame
because he is not
going to marry you.
His mentality is,
why pay for the cow
when I can get
the milk for free.
I don't know why you want to
marry that brother anyway,
the brother is a scrub.
If you didn't pay his bills,
he'd be at home
living with his mom.
That's appealing to you?
- One minute is up.
- Well you know the number boo,
when you want the
company of a real man.
- Yas, does Mookie
still have that Porsche?
What's that?
He drives a Porsche
and he's romantic?
Mookie kind of got it going on.
You might want to reconsider
giving that brother
another chance.
- This isn't from Mookie.
- Look who it is madam.
- Hi, it's good to see you.
- It's good to see you
too, you look beautiful.
- Thank you, you look
very handsome yourself.
- It's just a little
something I picked up
back at the dumpster.
- So what is it you brought
me here to talk about
that requires me to
dress to impress?
- Well, I just thought
we'd have a little dinner.
Discuss important issues.
Inflation, why gangsters
don't dance, they boogy, us.
- I would like that.
- That's not all.
Mac and chizzies.
- You made me mac
and cheese boy?
You know that's my favorite.
I know you're trying
to break a sister off
with more than that,
that ain't even gonna
take the edge off.
- My bad my bad my bad, dang.
(moaning)
- Damn baby, slow down.
Ain't nobody going to take
it from you, I promise.
- What's that?
- What?
- That.
Oh how cute.
- Yas, you are the
most beautifulest
and intelligent woman I know.
You mean the world to me and
I don't ever want to lose you.
I will never ever meet
another woman like you.
You are the woman of my dreams.
Yasmine Denise Brooks, I
want you to be my wife.
Will you marry me?
- Yes Kwame,
yes.
Hold up, exactly what decade
are you talking about?
- I'm talking about
the end of this month.
♪ Can I lay you down ♪
♪ Lay you down ♪
♪ Lay you down now baby ♪
♪ It's not very hard to see ♪
♪ That your body's in me ♪
♪ And my body's the remedy ♪
♪ I wanna go deep inside ♪
♪ And find the freak
you try to hide away ♪
♪ Can I lay there ♪
♪ Can I lay you down ♪
♪ Let your body now ♪
♪ Can I lay you down now ♪
♪ Cause I gotta feel you ♪
♪ All I wanna do ♪
♪ Is see the freak in you ♪
♪ So let me ♪
- Man I cannot believe
that a player like you,
of all people is
going out like this.
- I'm getting out the game dog.
Ain't nothing in them
streets, but trouble.
Three weeks from now,
I'll be a married man.
- All right player look,
before you make that drastic
move into everlasting lockdown,
you need to let me hook
you up with my friend Liza.
- Big booty Liza
from 112th street?
- Hell yeah, y'all
make a good couple.
- Man that broad is a hoe.
- No pimping.
- Dude, if she had as many
on her as she had in her,
she'd look like
a damn porcupine.
- Why do you think she
won't give me nothing?
(laughing)
- Well well well, if it
isn't the non ball playing,
no game having, can't
shoot brother named Kwame.
- Mook, I'm not tripping
off one loss, man.
Everybody loses once or twice.
- Really?
I don't.
- Just be talking
about basketball.
'Cause if I can remember
right, about two years ago,
you lost a pretty little
thing named Yasmine to me.
And our wedding's right
around the corner.
- Well that game isn't
over yet playboy.
And remember, I never lose.
- Your mama lost when
she had your black.
- Yo man, I was busting the
house party the other night,
place went crazy dude.
$25 for your CD, 25 baby.
So hook me up, let
me get a couple more.
- That's $20 homie.
- So what's up, y'all performing
at the platinum
club tomorrow night?
- Oh for sure little homie.
- All right me and my
boys will be there.
Peace out dog.
- All right, I hate that.
- Excuse me, can I
get one of those CDs?
- This might be a
little too explicit
and funky for you pops.
But I got some Isley
Brothers in the truck
if you want to buy that.
- I think I can handle it.
- I'm gonna hook you up
but I got to warn you.
These beats are off
the funk richter scale.
So turn it down real low
when you listen to it
so that you don't blow
your hearing aids.
$10.
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how
to change my life ♪
♪ So I can be glad ♪
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how
to change my life ♪
♪ Sometimes life gets so rough ♪
♪ That even the strongest
wouldn't be tough enough ♪
♪ To deal with
everyday problems ♪
♪ Why can't it be
a little easier ♪
♪ Some days I laugh ♪
♪ Some days I cry ♪
♪ The tears won't dry ♪
♪ Out my natural eye ♪
♪ And I try to think
of something good ♪
♪ Here comes the pain ♪
♪ It throws my
smile out the blue ♪
(Kwame yelling loudly)
(Yasmine screaming loudly)
(Kwame screaming playfully)
- The phone, the
phone, the phone.
I got to get the phone,
it might be your mom.
- Okay but no funny
stuff colored boy.
- No funny stuff, I'm
picking up the phone.
Who this?
Yeah this is him.
For real?
Yeah yeah yeah that's
cool, that's cool.
All right, I'll be there.
That was Sy Jackson,
executive at Sky High Records.
He said somehow, the
tape that I produced
came across his desk and he
wants me in his office tomorrow.
- That's great baby,
congratulations.
- This calls for a celebration.
Let's go in the room
and play wrestlers
so I can put the smack down.
- And we can get to that after
this diva soaks you
from head to toe.
- Baby whoa whoa
that was an accident.
I didn't mean to get you all
wet, besides you look good.
All right maybe you
don't look exactly good,
and your hair is nappy
and your face is all
smeared up to be damned.
But that ain't no reason
for no spray down.
Yasmine, this black on
black crime has got to stop.
Put the gun down.
Damn.
(Kwame screaming playfully)
- Tell Mr. B Love
that the soundtrack
will be completed in
the next few weeks
and will not hold up
the release of the film.
- Mr. Jackson, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize in
the parking lot--
- Save your breath kid.
That's the script to
B Love's new movie.
He's a hot new filmmaker.
Produce and write a song
for page 47, scene 21.
Use the female artist
featured in your demo.
You have two weeks
to submit it to me.
If I like it, we talk contracts.
If not, no luck.
Any questions?
- No sir.
- Good, now get the
hell out of here.
(all cooing softly)
- Kwame gonna like that.
(laughing loudly)
- I'm laid all out
and you laughing?
I'm taking my black
home, I'm tired.
- Kwame, you play
basketball for hours.
We've been here all of 10
minutes and you're tired?
That must've been a
hell of a bachelor party
you had last night.
I'm sure you had four or five
naked skanks running around.
- No baby, it was civilized.
Just a bunch of fellas
chilling, playing dominoes.
What are you asking some
like that for anyway?
What, you got a
guilty conscience?
What y'all have some
male Chippendales
dancers at the party?
- Please, it was just
the girls sitting around
playing bid wiz.
Hey isn't that Lance?
Damn, she be pimping him.
- [Cooper] Worse than a damn
job, can't take a time off.
Can't call in sick.
- [Iggy] She will be
pimping you with ultimatums
for the rest of your life.
- Look at you, about
to be a husband.
And you still need your--
- Mama.
- Please, I used to wipe
your butt, quit tripping.
- [Reverend] Places everyone,
showtime's in 10 minutes.
- Congratulations, son.
- I want you to
remember one thing.
When that reverend tells
you, you may kiss the bride,
I want you to do it like a man.
I want you to grab that, that--
- Yasmine?
- That Scrasmine.
- Yasmine.
- Whatever.
I want you to grab
that Scrasmine,
I want you to
slobber up and down,
I want you to stick your
tongue so far down her throat
you touch her tonsils.
She can feel that way down here.
Way down here, you understand?
See that way, you get
control of the marriage
right from the get go.
From the beginning, right
down here to the end,
you got control here here here.
Stay strong little one.
Give me some love.
(yelling)
- Honey you look more
beautiful as a bride
than I did 27 years ago.
- She also 200 pound lighter
than you were then too.
That's a fact.
- Okay okay,
I hate to cut this
sentimental moment short,
but it's time to get started.
- Love you.
- You look so beautiful.
- May god strike you
dead before you say I do.
- Thanks for your support.
- Don't mention it.
- All right, you
ready to do this dog?
- I don't know dog.
- What do you mean
you don't know man?
Half of Yasmine's family
flown in from Chinatown
and you talking
about, you don't know?
Come on.
- My bad, my bad man.
I'm just, the butterflies
got me tripping, man.
Let's do this.
- Let's do it.
Yeah, come on baby let's do it.
Come on man.
(knocking)
- Who is it?
- [Kwame] It's Kwame.
- Kwame, what are
you doing here?
Now you know you're not
supposed to see the bride
before the wedding.
- I need to speak to Yasmine.
- [Tymika] Kwame.
- [Yasmine] It's okay girl,
we'll talk through the door.
- All right but if
y'all have bad luck,
don't say I didn't
try to prevent that.
- Can't believe we're
finally getting married,
aren't you excited?
- Yeah?
- Well what is it Kwame
that it couldn't wait
until after the wedding?
- I just wanted to
say that I love you,
Yasmine Denise
Brooks, one more time.
- I love you too.
(guests chatting quietly)
- Let's do this baby.
Come on man, it's showtime.
"Yas, I can't do it,
please forgive me, Kwame."
Damn.
- You see what had happened
was, the timing wasn't right.
I mean, I ain't no
astrologer or nothing,
but the stars wasn't aligned
properly on that day.
You dig?
♪ Is there a key to my heart ♪
♪ Everyday ♪
♪ We see people that
we might wanna envy ♪
♪ Many dreams drown
in an empty sea ♪
- Okay,
okay I deserved that.
I know what I did was
wrong and I'm sorry.
Say something.
- What do you want Kwame?
- Excuse me?
- Why are you here?
- Because I love
you, I miss you.
- Save it all right?
- Look Yas, I want
us to be together.
But marriage is a
giant step right now,
a step that I'm just
not ready to take.
So how come we can't
go back to kicking it
like we used to with
you being my woman
and me being your man?
- I can't believe you
could even come up in here
and say something like
that after what you did.
- I know what went down
was wrong, I messed up.
- Messed up? No,
what you did was, up.
You hurt me Kwame.
- I'm sorry Yas--
- What was supposed to be
happiest day of my life
turned out to be the most
humiliating and embarrassing.
And your trifling didn't
even have the balls
to tell me to my
face like a man.
- Baby I blew it, okay?
I messed up big time.
My actions were those
of a punk coward.
- I don't want to hear this.
Your whole program is tired.
- I'm sorry Yasmine.
- Yes you are, you're one sorry.
- I bet he trifling too.
- It's going to take some
time and a lot of hard work,
but we can overcome this
baby, I know we can.
- Let me break it down for you.
There is no we.
It's over, kaput, done,
finished, finito, comprende?
I have outgrown you and
this whole situation.
- So what I mean, what you're,
you're not trying
to talk about this?
- No.
Now if you'll excuse me,
I'm in the middle of moving.
- Look, Yasmine--
- Bye.
(TV blaring)
- Oh, snap.
Confirmation to the Kwame
site, brother is back in town.
- I didn't hear a knock at the
door nor me saying come in.
- It's probably cause
you didn't say it fool.
Damn home boy, looks like
you've been burglarized
or something up in here.
- What you doing?
- My hands is clean.
Yo you missed it.
Yasmine left the church
on y'all's wedding day,
she flipped out.
Scooping up your gear so quick.
Make your head spin
worse than the exorcist.
- Is those my boots?
- Oh look at the time.
I got to get out of here now
and finish delivering
yesterday's mail.
You know what I'm
saying, all right peace.
Mookie and them challenged us
to another basketball
game tomorrow.
11 o'clock for two grand.
You trying to be down or what?
- Man where are we going
to get that kind of money?
- Look, we ain't never
lost two games in a row.
The fools can't beat us again.
You just had an off day.
- Man I know that
but I'm saying,
Mookie like you to show
the skrilla up front.
- Player player player,
I got it covered, baby, covered.
- Is that somebody's
money out the mail?
- Look, we be telling
these fools all the time,
do not send cash in the mail.
It got a tendency to get lost.
So you're trying
to be down or what?
- I'll be there.
- [Iggy] Can you
really try to be there?
- Damn man I said I'll be there.
- All right but you
better not be late either.
- Fellas fellas, it's 11:45 man.
Might as well forfeit
and come out of pocket.
Come on,
come on.
Don't make this any harder
than it needs to be,
let's do this.
Come on Iggy.
That's what I'm talking about.
- [TV Host] On the
next Terry Ringer Show,
transvestites and
midgets who live alone.
- Hey mama, how you doing?
- Oh I'm fine, question
is how are you?
- Oh, I'm cool.
I mean, I've had better
days but you know.
- I spoke to Iggy,
he said you stood him
and Scooter up today.
- I forgot.
- Kwame I raised a
stronger man than this.
You can't run from fear.
You have to face it head on.
You can't sit around here
wallowing in self pity.
- Me and my TV is
having a good day.
Don't rock our world,
Mama, we is comfortable.
- Well, you need to come
out of your comfort zone.
'Cause right now you're
acting like a punk.
You act like you lost
your best friend.
- I did mama.
Yasmine quit me,
I missed the deadline to submit
my tape to Sky High Records.
Everything is
jacked up right now.
- So the chips are
down right now.
But you let your obstacles be
a detour, not a derailment.
If you want to be a producer,
then you get up and you produce.
If you want Yasmine back,
go win the woman
back or get over it
because nothing's
going to happen
as long as you sit on your and
watch that Terry Ringer show.
Kwame, it is time for you
to grow up and be a man.
- Mr. Jackson.
- Don't be running up
on me like that boy,
unless you trying
to get cold cut.
- I'm sorry, I didn't mean
to startle you or nothing.
- This is the executive floor,
how the hell did
you get up here?
- I slipped your
secretary my last fifty.
- Give me security please.
- Mr. Jackson, please, please
just give me 30
seconds of your time.
- What do you want boy?
I'm about to have an
important meeting.
- I know I missed the deadline
to submit my songs
for the movie,
but if I can get it to you
within the next couple of weeks,
is there any way that you
would even consider it?
- I'm submitting the
package of songs tomorrow
to the executive producer
of the soundtrack,
Mr. B Love himself
who's going to choose the
songs he likes for the film.
- Mr. Jackson, please, I've
had some really rocky times.
Me and the missus
to be fell out.
- Get it on my desk by
tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.
If I like it, I'll submit
it with the package
just because I like your work.
But if it arrives at nine
oh one, it's too late.
Now, get out.
- Thanks Mr. Jackson.
- Can I come in?
- Oh yeah yeah yeah,
come on in Chantal.
Yo, I appreciate you coming
over here on such short notice.
- Oh, no problem you know
I'd drive the world for you,
but I mean you okay?
I heard about your
disappearance.
- Yeah I was just
on a DL for a minute
building those mind muscles,
but I'm cool thanks for asking.
- No problem.
- Yeah, so yeah, let's
just jump right into this
and let's just do it.
♪ Why can't it be
a little easier ♪
♪ Some days I laugh ♪
♪ Some days I cry ♪
♪ The tears won't dry ♪
(clapping loudly)
- Yeah,
yeah,
that was tight.
Girl, you got sick with it,
that's what I'm talking about.
- Only 'cause I had a dope
producer to bring it out of me.
What was that for?
- Thank you.
♪ Ever since we were kids
the love we had was real ♪
♪ Everything that we did we
let each other know the deal ♪
♪ Even when we would
walk to school ♪
♪ We had each other's back ♪
♪ We were inseparable ♪
♪ The strength that
we would lack ♪
♪ On that day when they called ♪
♪ And let me know the drill ♪
♪ I began to cry tears for you ♪
♪ And even though
we time we shared ♪
♪ Was the time
that I will miss ♪
- Whoa whoa whoa
hold up, hold up.
- What's the matter,
that didn't feel good?
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It felt real good,
it felt incredible.
But I mean, I just
can't do this you know?
Nothing to do with you
'cause you got it going on
three or four times
over with the law loud.
It's just me.
- It's you or Yasmine?
- I love that woman.
That's what my heart is
and that's where I belong.
- I can respect that
Kwame, but I mean
if you ever change
your mind, I mean.
Friends?
- For sure.
- All right.
- Yo, I'll let you
know what the haps is
when I hear from Sky High.
Damn.
(snoring)
(phone ringing)
Who this?
Yeah yeah yeah that's cool.
Thanks Mr. Jackson, okay,
all right I'll see you then.
Yes.
- So then I just got real
ugly with that trick.
You know what I'm saying?
I told her, look, if
we are in the night,
then you going to
have to regurgitate
all I just bought you
and I mean everything.
I'm talking about the
fries, the hamburger,
the shake, all of that.
She said, I can't do that
what are you talking about?
I say, the hell you can't.
Then I slipped three or
four x-lax up in her b pod.
- No.
- She gonna be,
'til Tuesday kid.
- Yo fellas man,
hold up, hold up.
I want to apologize for missing
that game the other day dog,
I feel responsible that
y'all lost that money.
So I set up another game
with Mookie and them
tomorrow for 10 G.
- Now where are we supposed to
get that kind of money from?
- Hey, hey, hey,
I can go through the
mail like I usually do,
you know what I'm saying?
See what I come up with.
- Sky High Records optioned
one of my songs for five grand.
And I put up all
my music equipment
to represent the rest.
- Kwame, you can't do that, man.
Your equipment is worth
way more than that.
- I know, man but that's all
that Mook would give me for it.
- Cool man, cool we'll be there.
- No, no, no, no, no I
can't let you do that Kwame.
We know that music is the
most important thing to you.
Next to Yasmine, that's
the most important thing
in the world to you.
- Yeah man but it's on me that
y'all lost y'all money dog.
It's time I stood up and
started taking responsibility
for my own man.
You got a wife
and a house Scoot.
I still never really
made it up to you
for y'all's honeymoon.
You need your money.
- Yo and I need my money,
you know what I'm saying?
All of them hoochies
and hood rats.
- Yo, what time?
- Nine o'clock.
- It's on.
- Yeah.
- Hey yo Scoot though, man.
I need a place to crash
for a few days, man.
A brother done been evicted.
- No problem bro I got you,
but I gotta warn you man.
Yasmine staying at the house
while she's waiting on her
new place to get ready.
- How are you doing ladies?
How you doing Yasmine?
- Fine, thank you.
- I guess you heard I'm gonna
be sleeping on the couch
for a few days since
you took Scooter's
last vacant guest room.
I was going to see if you
wanted to kick it tonight.
Maybe rent some
movies or something
but it looks like you getting
ready to go somewhere.
- I got plans.
- That's cool.
I got these for you.
Hey Yasmine, you little
chocolate wonder.
I'll set it on the bed.
- Congratulations.
I heard about Sky High Records
optioning one of your songs.
I'm happy for you.
- Thanks shorty.
Yasmine.
- Girl I feel terrible, like
I shouldn't be doing this.
- Think about how
terrible you felt
being stood up at the altar.
Kwame.
- And I told Scooter,
you got here first.
Kwame needs to go
stay with his mom.
- She's in a hotel.
Her house is being painted.
- Whatever.
- I'm so nervous.
- Look, it's not like
you don't know the man.
Just be yourself
and order the most
expensive thing on the menu.
- What kind of
perfume should I wear?
- Well, I read in
Sister Girl magazine,
that the best perfume
for a woman to wear
is her own natural juices.
- Juices?
How many long Island iced
teas had you had that day?
- None girl.
- See right here, here
it is in black and white.
Though men often joke about
the smell of the vaginal area
and its juices, it
actually turns men on
and reminds them of
a romantic interlude.
If a woman wants to dab
her own natural juices
on her neck and behind her ears,
it is sure to drive a man crazy.
I'm gonna try it.
- You and this
magazine is trifling.
(doorbell ringing)
- I guess I'll get the door.
- What's up Kwame?
- The game ain't
'til tomorrow, bro.
And even then, you
don't need to be
trying to break a
brother off with roses.
'Cause I don't get
down like that.
- I didn't come here
to see you, man.
I came here to pick up my date.
- You with my boy's wife Tymkia?
Man I will whoop your.
- [Yasmine] He's
here to pick me up.
- Hey snuggles,
you look beautiful.
- You look very
handsome yourself.
- Thank you.
- Snuggles.
- Is that a tailor
made Italian cut suit?
- Why yes it is.
- Now remember, order the most
expensive thing on the menu
and bring me back a plate
of whatever you get.
Although I kinda got
a taste for chicken.
- I'm not bringing you no
plate girl, that is so ghetto.
- Come on Yas, you know black
folks do it all the time.
- I kind of got a taste
for some big pig feet.
- Yas we gotta get going, baby.
Our reservations at the
Chanderelle are in 30 minutes.
- Yas, can I holler at you
quick minute over here?
- No Kwame, we're late
for our reservation.
- It'll only take a second.
- Bye bye.
- Hey don't forget
my plate girl.
- Tymkia, what the hell
was that all about?
- I'm just trying to get
my eat on, I'm hungry.
- I'm talking about
Yasmine and Mookie.
- Well, to be honest, Kwame,
if I was her I would
do the same thing.
I lost a gang of respect for you
when you stood my
girl up at the altar.
When I heard you
was back in town,
I wanted to cut you.
Scooter wouldn't let me.
He saved your life, black.
- I know I screwed up all right?
- You can't blame her for
getting on with her life.
You made it perfectly clear
that you didn't
want to be with her.
So now she's going to
find somebody who does.
Oh, if you could
please tell old girl
to leave my plate on the table.
Kwam, you like my new perfume?
- Girl you smell
like a dead fish.
- See, that's why you
all by yourself tonight.
(soft upbeat music)
- Bye Mookie, I had a good time.
I'll see you later boo.
Kwame, what are
you still doing up?
- Watching TV.
- Okay, good night.
- Where have you been?
- Excuse me?
- You need to wipe that
joker smile off your face.
'Cause ain't nobody
making jokes.
Where have you been?
- Nonya, as in none
of your business.
- Ain't nobody playing
with you Yasmine.
- And I'm not playing with
you either Kwame Getman.
- You come walking
in here at dawn
with the sun hitting
you in the crack of your
talking about none of
my business, ain't cool.
- On the real Kwame,
you need to get some business
and stay out of mine.
- Was he playing
with my kitty cat?
- What?
- Did I stutter?
- First of all, it's not
your kitty cat, it's mine.
Second, let's not go there son
'cause you might get
your feelings hurt.
Now I'm going to bed
'cause you getting on my nerves.
- I'm not done talking to you,
don't walk away from me girl.
- Hey I just came to
wish you good luck.
- Thanks Chantal.
- Girl you gonna hook me up
with some of that punani, right?
Well how about, can
I just smell it?
- Yo, let's do this.
Come on.
(players shouting)
- That's what I'm talking about.
- Now that was a
killer crossover dog
but you don't know
nothing about that.
You know, my game is as
smooth as butter, boy.
Six nothing.
- Mookie.
- That's what I told
Yasmine last night.
And not only did she
do it, she loved it.
She tossed my salad too, boy.
(talking over each other)
- You take JD, I got Mookie.
No no no Kwame, come on.
Yo man.
You gotta get this
Yasmine your mind man,
just for a minute.
Yo, she still loves you man
but she's so hurt
by what you did
that she's trying
to hurt you back.
You need the weather
the storm brother.
Weather the storm and
she'll be back, you feel me?
All right, let's
get our hoops on.
Let's do this.
(shouting over each other)
(cheering)
(cheering loudly)
- You really mean what you said
about Yasmine coming
back to me, man?
I mean, did Tymkia
tell you that?
- Tymkia didn't tell me that,
that's just what
my gut says, man.
Look, the sooner
that you put this
Mookie thing outta your mind,
the sooner man that
y'all get back together.
But as long as she thinks
she's got your guard,
as long as she thinks that
is as long as she's going
to run the table on you man.
Good game, good game.
(whooping loudly)
- You the man.
- I gotta go handle
something real quick.
(cheering)
Can I holler at
you for a minute?
- What's up?
- I just want to apologize
for the way I've
been acting lately.
You know, what you
do is your business.
You know, if Mookie makes
you happy, then I'm happy.
We're just going to
kick back in the cut
and let you do your own thing.
- Excuse me, come again?
- I did not stutter
or stammer girl.
I'm happy to see you
moving on with your life.
And I'm realizing that it's
time for me to do the same.
- I see.
- Homies?
- Yeah.
- So we about to go
get something to eat,
you wanna roll?
- Thank you but no, Mookie
and I are going to brunch.
You played great out there.
I'm just sorry it was at
the expense of my man.
- Oh, he's your man now?
- Sort of.
- Well that's cool, that's cool.
You know, like I said, your
happiness is what's important.
- I better go.
- Yeah yeah yeah.
You don't want to
keep the Mookster
waiting or nothing like that.
(upbeat guitar music)
- [Yasmine] You can
do it, come on Mookie.
- [Mookie] Slow down.
- You're doing good,
you're doing good.
♪ I can see that you are lost ♪
♪ I finally find you ♪
♪ Even though you chose
to leave and go your way ♪
♪ You thought you'd find more
than what I could give you ♪
♪ So I let you go ♪
♪ Still I want you to know ♪
♪ I've seen you struggle ♪
♪ I've seen you crying ♪
♪ Seen you do those
thing you swore ♪
- You know what?
Since we won some
of that money back,
well all of that money
back and then some,
I see a trip to
Jamaica, you know?
(laughing)
- What's up pimping?
Never known you to
be late for no party.
Oh,
what happened?
- Man me and Cassandra
fell out, all the way out.
I didn't even know
that she knew about
Roxanne, and Yvonne and LaToya
'til my black god
about the chair.
I knew that I should never
been talking to no barber.
You know what I'm saying?
Yo player, you're
taking this stuff
with Yasmine and
Mookie pretty cool.
- Man I just know our break
up's a temporary situation.
- Kwame, I need to talk to you.
- Girl, can't you see I'm
trying to get my grub on?
- Party people hold up,
I got an announcement.
What started off as a barbecue
has now turned into
an engagement party.
My mans right here,
Mookie Jenkins
will wed the lovely
Yasmine Brooks next week.
And everybody's invited.
So DJ, play a song for the
mister and missus to be.
(guests clapping)
- Congratulations.
- Kwame wait.
- We gotta dance baby,
this song's for us.
- Can I come in?
- Sure.
- Where are you going?
- I got me a little
spot in old town.
- You don't have to go.
- I was leaving anyway even
before the big announcement.
Just hadn't had a
chance to tell you.
- You were?
- Yeah you know after
the basketball game
and Sky High Records
breaking me off,
I'm cool on dough so
I'm gonna skedaddle.
- Can I have a hug?
♪ How can I be sure
the way I feel ♪
♪ If you say that you
don't know how I feel ♪
- Thanks Yasmine
for teaching me about life,
living,
myself,
and how to love somebody.
Be good to yourself shorty.
- I'm gonna miss you Kwame.
(wedding bells ringing)
- Oh you look beautiful Yasmine.
- Thanks girl.
- I remember when I
was in your position
just a few short months ago and,
now it's finally your turn.
- Who knew how much drama
it would take to get here?
- Oh, it was the
best day of my life
and I hope it's all that
and a bucket of pigs
feet for you too, boo.
- Tymkia, you have
always looked out for me
and no matter what,
you have always had my
best interest in mind.
I love you for that.
- Oh, I love you too girl.
- Kwame, I'm surprised
to see you here, man.
- You know, Yasmine and I've
been friends for a long time.
So I had to come and represent.
- I'm sorry man, that
this is going down.
How you holding up, you cool?
- All right.
- Well keep your head up.
- I'm glad you
could make it Kwame.
And look, I just wanted
to thank you brother
for keeping the cobwebs
out of Yasmin's coochie
while she and I were
on hiatus all right?
(laughing)
- Mommy, daddy.
- Hey baby.
- Now we know we
only have 10 minutes.
So I'll make this brief.
Sweetie, destiny has
been good to you.
I do believe Mookie
is the one for you.
Y'all going to have a
beautiful life together
and just remember anything
you need, anything you want,
you just know that
your mom and daddy
have your love and support.
- Yeah baby girl.
- Thanks mommy and daddy.
- You know that lowdown
trifling ex boyfriend
had the nerve to
show up here today.
- Kwame's here?
- Yes he's here
and I don't know who in
the hell invited him.
- I did mommy,
we're still friends.
- Oh honey, you're more
of a woman than I am.
'Cause every time I saw his
black, I throw rocks at him.
Standing my baby
girl up at the altar?
The girl I gave life to?
What the hell is
wrong with him anyway?
- Your mother's not the only
one upset with his presence.
I don't know if I
can restrain myself.
'Cause I might just snap
and give him the old
fashioned beat down.
- Please, your little butt
ain't big as a minute.
You couldn't even kick your own.
- I can whoop your,
that much I do know.
- Mom, Dad, please.
- Now see there, you upset
Yasmine on her wedding day.
Look baby, I apologize for him.
Now I'll see you outside
as Mrs. Jenkins.
- Yas, your face lit up
like a Christmas tree
when you heard Kwame's name.
Are you sure you're
doing the right thing?
- Yes, this is
something I have to do.
- No, the only thing you have
to do is stay black and die.
- A woman only gets
so many proposals.
One has to seize the moment.
This could be the last
ship leaving the harbor.
- This may be the last boat,
but it may be the wrong boat.
Ask our ancestors about that.
- What's up dog?
Cassandra and me, we decided
to get back together.
Try to work things out,
you know what I'm saying?
I finally realized you know
that she the only one for me.
You all right?
(wedding march playing)
- Dearly beloved, we
are gathered here today
to baptize this brother and
sister in the name of the...
We are gathered here today
to join these two
in holy matrimony.
If there is anyone
who feels these two
should not be joined together,
let them speak now or
forever hold their peace.
Mookie Jenkins, do
you take this woman
to be your lawfully wedded
wife to have and to hold
from this day forward for as
long as you both shall live?
- I do.
- Yasmine Brooks,
do you take this man
to be your lawfully
wedded husband
to have and to hold
from this day forward,
for as long as you
both shall live?
- Yasmine, would you be my wife?
- Would you marry me Yasmine?
- What the hell are you doing?
- Shorty, I love you, I
am miserable without you.
I can't even think
half the time.
You are the most beautiful
woman on the planet.
Yas, say that you
will be my wife
today, right here, right now.
I want you, I want you
and I need you in my life
for richer or broker in
sickness and in health
'til death do us
part, Yas please.
- Yes Kwame, yes.
- Yasmine, baby.
I got the cash, I got
the car, I got the house.
What could this fool possibly
have that I ain't got?
- My heart.
- Please man.
- Yasmine, I love you.
- I'm sorry, Mookie
but I don't love you.
I love Kwame.
- Look is anybody
getting married?
'Cause I got to be at a funeral
for a damned dog in 20 minutes.
- Yeah yeah yeah
right here homey.
- Dearly beloved, we are
now gathered here today
to unite Kwame Getman
and Yasmine Brooks
in holy matrimony.
If there is anyone here today
who feels these two
should not be together,
let them speak now, right now,
or forever hold their peace.
Yasmine Brooks, do
you take this man
to be your lawfully
wedded husband
to have and to hold
from this day forward
for as long as you
both shall live?
- I do.
- And Kwame Getman,
do you take this woman
to be your lawfully wedded
wife to have and to hold
from this day forward for as
long as you both shall live?
- I do.
- By the power vested in
me, I now pronounce you
man and wife.
Kwame, you may kiss the bride.
(guests applauding)
- [Yasmine] Love you boo.
- [Kwame] I love you too Yas.
(upbeat music)
- I still can't believe
Iggy and Cassandra
finally got married.
- Yeah who would've thunk
Iggy would ever retire?
- Wasn't their wedding fat?
- No, but Tymkia is.
- Don't be making
cracks about my friends.
I think she looks beautiful.
Besides I think it's time
we start making plans
for a little one of our own.
Kwame, when are we
gonna have a baby?
♪ That leaves me
yearning for your touch ♪
(upbeat hip hop music)
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how to change
my life so I can be glad ♪
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how
to change my past ♪
♪ Sometimes life gets so rough ♪
♪ That even the strongest
wouldn't be tough enough ♪
♪ To deal with
everyday problems ♪
♪ Why can't it be
a little easier ♪
♪ Some days I laugh
some days I cry ♪
♪ But the tears won't dry ♪
♪ From out my natural eye ♪
♪ And I try to think
of something good ♪
♪ Here comes the pain
there goes my smile ♪
♪ I got those blues ♪
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
(upbeat hip hop music)
♪ I wanna be by your side ♪
♪ Thinking about you
all the day and night ♪
♪ No one makes me feel ♪
♪ My heart skips a beat ♪
♪ When I hear you say ♪
♪ You made my feet walk
right over to your door ♪
♪ You had my ankles
tangled puzzled ♪
♪ You had my knees to
the point they buckled ♪
♪ What you doing to me ♪
♪ By the light of day I
stumbled over your waist ♪
♪ Couldn't wait for
the night time ♪
♪ The high time or
the right time ♪
♪ We had to close the door ♪
♪ It was like turning away
from a million bucks ♪
(soft jazzy music)
- Last summer,
last summer was low, man.
I mean, I can't think of no
other way to describe it,
except it was just
straight up crazy, man.
My mind still has
trouble comprehending
what all went down in
like a three month period.
- Last summer?
Last summer was an
emotional rollercoaster.
My feelings felt like
they were on a Pogo stick.
Up, down, up, down, up, down
- It all started back in June
on the day my boy Scooter
was about to begin
serving his life sentence.
It was his wedding day.
I don't know what it is, man
but something about weddings
seemed to strike a chord
in my girl, Yasmine.
- I love weddings anyway, but
Tymkia was getting married.
I mean, that's my
girl, we are like this.
- Dearly beloved.
We are gathered here
today before God
to join these young blacks
together in holy matrimony.
If there is anyone
who feels these two
should not be joined
together may they speak now
or forever hold their peace.
I says, may they speak now.
Ms. Johnson was a good woman.
She never did nothing to nobody,
but don't y'all feel
sorry for her Saints
because she's with the lord now.
Would anybody like to come
up and say a few words
on her behalf?
- This fool's
ruining my wedding.
- No, no, no baby.
- Reverend, Ms. Johnson
funeral was last week.
- Say what?
- This is a wedding, man.
- I know what this is boy.
We shall proceed.
Tammy Kia.
- That's Tymkia.
- Whatever, do you
take this brother
to be your lawfully
wedded husband?
For richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health
for as long as you
both shall live?
- I do.
(sobbing loudly)
- Scoop hair Jones.
- That's Scooter.
- Whatever, do you
take this sister
to be your lawfully wedded wife
for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health
for long as you both
shall stay black?
- He does.
- It's got to come
out of his mouth.
- I do.
(sobbing loudly)
- By the almighty
power vested up in me,
I now pronounce
you man and wife.
You may tongue your bride.
(guests clapping)
♪ Come on man I spit
for street cats ♪
♪ That get it in droves ♪
♪ That love dope
but don't love ♪
♪ Cats that fly out of
state just for fun ♪
♪ That get two guns and
get papers for one ♪
♪ Cats that's got voices
and living it up ♪
♪ Got choices the
whip or the truck ♪
♪ I spit for cats
that think big ♪
♪ Stay on the two way dog
but they never talking ♪
♪ Cats that got real ill flows ♪
♪ Got more groupies
than you do deal ♪
♪ No videos ♪
- You look so scrumptious,
I want to gobble you up
with some hot water cornbread.
- Do you want to make love to
me or do you want to eat me?
- Both.
- You got issues
and you tripping.
- That's why you love me.
- This is so beautiful.
I wish it was us.
- It is us, shorty.
- I'm talking about the
reception, the ceremony,
the whole wedding thing.
Kwame, we've been dating
for two years now.
Don't you think it's time
we start making some
wedding plans of our own?
(coughing loudly)
- My throat feels
a little drizzy.
I'm gonna go get a little
something something to drink.
Want something,
champagne, wine, floatie?
- No, I'm straight.
- All right.
Hey girl.
- Hey.
- We've been friends
for a long time,
I need to call in a huge favor.
- What's that?
- This whole bouquet toss thing?
Now I'm thinking if I
break it to the left,
you could throw
it in such a way.
- No, the fix is not gonna
be in my bouquet toss.
Stop acting so desperate girl.
If you really want it
and it's meant to be
it's gonna happen.
Kiss kiss.
- Don't kiss me.
You about to get your butt
kicked on your wedding day.
- Ta ta.
♪ Throw your hands in the
air like we don't care ♪
♪ Virginia you ain't heard ♪
♪ We don't care ♪
♪ Pop Chris drop six
with a topless chick ♪
♪ Shorty looking at my wrist
what kind of watch is this ♪
♪ My bottle you don't know ♪
♪ I spend chips slide
those panties off ♪
- All my single ladies, it's
time for the bouquet toss.
- Damn, looks like we retire
your jersey next, playboy.
- Hell no, man
that's superstition.
It ain't got nothing
to do with real life.
- Look what I got.
- Congratulations
baby, I saw that.
It was sort of fake
the way it just fell
right in your hands.
- I'm gonna put it in the house
before one of them hood rats
tries to take it away from me.
A couple of them were looking
at me kind of sideways
after the bouquet happened
to land in my hands.
- All right shorty, will
you get me a piece of that
wedding cake while
you're in there?
- Okay baby.
- Yo, check this out Kwame.
Two former members of
the Boogaloo posse.
- Just 'cause I'm married,
don't take my
status away from me.
Hey, I'm a member for life
dog, a member for life.
- Your is honorary.
- Honorary my, look
I'm still gonna be
hanging with the homies.
I even pushed back my honeymoon
so I can play in that basketball
game with y'all tomorrow.
- I hear you talking,
but you like Lance.
See, before today
we ain't even seen
or heard from him in months.
Talk to this boy Lance,
tell him, talk to him.
(mumbling incoherently)
- Baby, accept it man.
Your ripping and running days,
like the million man march
and Shaft, are
black history baby.
- Kwame you're talking
all that trash,
but you need to do what it
takes to make Yasmine happy.
'Cause you ain't pulling
them like you used to, bro.
- I'm with my girl right now
because I choose to be man.
But anytime I wanted to get
back in the game, I could.
And would wreck
shop like I used to,
pulling the finest
biddies on the East coast,
West coast and the dirty south.
My game is nationwide baby.
- What game?
- I think Scoot is right, Kwame.
You know you've been with
Yasmine for a minute, player.
See these hoochies today,
well all they're worried
about is bills bills bills.
Frankly your, is
broke broke broke.
- Allow me to tell y'all about
the elephant and the mouse.
One day they was just chilling,
walking through the jungle
and the elephant
fell in the ditch.
So the mouse said don't even
trip man I'm gonna get you out.
So he runs off and he comes
back with a brand spanking new
BMW, tells him to wrap his
trunk around the bumper,
revs up the engine, takes
off and pulls him to safety.
The elephant's grateful man.
Two weeks later, they walking
through the same jungle
and the mouse
falls in the ditch.
So the elephant
leans over the ditch
and lets his hang in the
ditch, tells him to grab on.
The mouse does and he
pulls them out to safety.
- So the moral of
the story is what?
- Point being, when you have
a big, you don't need no BMW.
(all laughing)
- I'm feeling that,
I'm feeling that.
(upbeat music)
- There's your cake.
- My man you gonna
eat the rest of that?
(laughing loudly)
- I can pull them
like I used to.
- You're still the man you know.
- Those look tasty,
can I get a grape?
I'll interpret that as a no.
Look Yas, I know me
acting really silly
and stupid tonight
embarrassed you.
It shouldn't have happened.
- What was that
tack head anyway,
are you fooling around with her?
- No, last time I
messed with girls
was back when MC
hammer had money
and you know that
was a long time ago.
- Are you sexually
attracted to her?
Be honest with me, it's okay
if you are, it's human nature.
It only becomes a problem
when you act on it.
Tell the truth.
- Well her booty is ghetto
fabulous, you know what I mean?
Not that I be looking, but
from what I can remember,
baby could clap her louder than
most could clap their hands.
Wait wait wait, baby
I'm playing I'm playing.
I'm just messing with you girl.
She is too hoochie-fied
to pique my interest
sexually or intellectually.
You're the only one for
me girl, I love you.
Nobody could ever
take your place.
So quit tripping.
- I love you too Kwame
with all my heart
but you got to learn
to be more sensitive
and think about my
feelings sometimes
before you do some
of the stuff you do.
- Okay I'll concentrate
on getting in touch
with my feminine side.
- I didn't say all that.
That sounded too much like
you going to be wearing
my panties next week.
- Come here, kiss me.
- Wasn't Tymkia's wedding fat?
- It was cool, if you
like to see a brother
walk down the aisle
to the gas chamber.
- Tymkia looked so beautiful.
And she was so happy.
I want my wedding to
be just like that,
but maybe in a church though.
Kwame, when are we
going to get married?
- 2010.
- Stop playing
boy, I'm for reals.
When are you going
to pop the question?
- Well, I can pop it tonight,
but we still ain't
getting married 'til 2010.
That's the soonest I see
myself getting out the game.
- Getting out of what game?
- You know, retire.
Hang up the jersey,
put the sneakers away.
Metaphors baby, now
come on back to bed
so I can enjoy the ride.
- No Kwame.
- Okay, then you
can enjoy the ride.
I don't mind being
on the bottoms.
- I think it's time
we discussed this.
- Look, can we talk about
this nonsense later?
- That's all this is
to you, is nonsense?
- At this moment, hell yeah.
Now come on back to bed.
- I think you need to raise
up and get to stepping
'cause I'm going to
be sleeping by myself.
- Oh hell no, you gonna get
a brother all hot and horny
then tell him you're going
to be sleeping by yourself?
What you trying to
do, give blue balls?
- Handle it.
- Yas, don't front, you know
you all hot and horny too.
Let's just get a quickie,
bang, bang, smack, smack, bang,
go to sleep and talk
about it in the morning.
- I'm going to be okay.
- A vibrator?
What the hell is that for?
- You don't know?
And what part of step
don't you comprehend?
(snoring softly)
- Kwame, wake up fool.
You were supposed to
be coming to pick me up
so we can be at the
courts by nine o'clock.
- What time is it?
- 9:30.
- Why you didn't
call and wake me up?
- Look fool.
- I'm gonna go hop
in the shower man.
- Man damn that,
we ain't got time.
Look, we gotta go right
now, we gotta be out.
- Man this couch
whooped my, playboy.
- Stop whining like a punk.
You know what?
You better be glad that
she didn't make your
sleep on the porch like a
dog, you know what I'm saying?
Hey, what'd you do anyway?
- Man Yasmine starts squawking
about this marriage thing.
When we're gonna get married?
Right before we's about
to do the naked tango.
- What?
Yo, females be tripping
you know what I'm saying?
After they've been to a wedding,
especially when it's one of
their girls getting married.
She might be nagging yo
for months, maybe years.
- Damn that.
I allowed her to have
a moment last night.
She bring that again, it can
get ugly up in this camp.
I don't want to hear
about it no more.
We get married in 2010, 2015.
And that's that.
- Player player.
- I'm the King of this castle.
- Preach on brother.
- There's only shack bully
wearing the pants
in this hiz-house.
I'm running things in this crib.
And you can quote me on that.
- Is that right?
- Hey baby I thought
that you had,
had already left for church.
Did the alarm not go off?
I'm just, I've been meaning
to get that thing fixed.
I got to get it,
I'm gonna fix it,
but you want some
breakfast or something?
I can make you something,
some cream of wheat,
grits, spamwich.
- I heard your
conversation, Kwame.
- What conversation?
- Don't punk out
now, shack bully.
- Yeah so check it--
- No Kwame, you check it.
You have played me
for the last time.
All this talk about
we getting married
when you say we get married
is dead and stinking.
Newsflash king of the castle.
We get married in
30 days or else.
- Or else what?
- Or else you can kiss the
fattest part of my black
'cause love won't
live here anymore.
- Damn Kwame, you think she mad?
- Scoot.
Where the hell is
your homeboys man?
- Man, they'll be here
just hold on, all right?
- Hey, we ain't got all day.
Either they're coming or
they're not, so what's up?
- Damn Mookie, I said
they'd be here chill.
- What's up Scoot, baby?
Sorry about discarding you dog.
- In case you forgot,
I'm boarding a plane
to Jamaica today
for my honeymoon.
I gotta be at the airport
in a couple of hours.
Now where the hell
have y'all been?
- Let's just call it
domestic discourse dog.
But chill, don't even trip.
This ain't gonna take long.
- It's late.
- I know Mookie, but
your mama was in the mood
to barf up balls this morning
so I had to let her
get her gobble on
before I left the rack.
(all laughing)
Shall I shoot for outs?
- Yeah Kwame shoot for outs
'cause we bought to beat you
like you stole something.
- Mook, I done told you.
The only person that
beats me is your mama.
And I wish the crusty would
stop because my, is sore.
- You know, since you so
confident and arrogant,
what do you say we
raise the stakes?
- What you want to do?
- A G.
- Oh man, I thought you was
talking about some real money.
What do you say we up
the ante to 2G, you game?
- Oh, hell yeah.
It'd be like taking
candy from a baby.
- Not when that
baby's a bad thug.
- Show the money.
- Mookie, you know
we good for it.
- No, no, no.
We'll play for what you
got on you right now.
- All right then, hold up.
Scoot.
- What?
- I need you to flash
a couple of grand
of your honeymoon money.
- Kwame is you crazy?
A couple of grand is
my honeymoon money.
- Come on, stop
being a punk man.
We ain't gonna lose this game.
Look, when was the last time
we lost on the blacktop anyway?
- It's just for show, man.
And if by some stretch of
the imagination we lose,
I'll go straight to the bank
and get your money back.
And if we win, when we
win, Iggy and I get $600,
you'll get eight.
Come on man.
- All right it sounds cool
but I don't have time
to go to the bank
in case we lose, man.
I'm already cutting
it close as it is
'cause y'all was late.
- Look man I'll wire
you the duckets.
It'll be there before you land.
- I don't know man,
Tymkia will kick my
if I lose this money.
- Tymkia Tymkia Tymkia man,
what you got, one testicle?
- I got two balls.
- Well how big is
your balls, this big?
- All right, damn.
(laughing)
- Kwame, you really got 2G's
if we lose this game right?
- Nope.
- That's jacked up, I'm
proud of you man, I'm proud.
- Yo, 15 by ones.
Winner take out,
gotta win by two.
- I know the rules, punk.
- Shoot for outs.
- I'm like the spa baby, I'll
be giving you facials all day.
(upbeat hip hop music)
(speaking over each other)
(whooping quietly)
(laughing)
- We're done with these punks,
so who's next, who's next?
- I thought we weren't
gonna lose, man.
- What's this?
- That's my itinerary
so you know which hotel
to wire the money to.
- Scoot, baby, man.
I sort of exaggerated
about having all the money,
but man I'll wire
you what I got.
- Well, how much you got?
- Oh, I got about 15.
- Oh what, $1,500?
- No, $15.
- Damn you promised me we
wasn't gonna lose, man.
- Yo man who knew we
was gonna lose man?
We never lost before.
- Damn, damn man, what am I
going to tell Tymkia, man?
- Look dog, I got about
four or five labels
looking to sign my
artist Chantal man.
I'm feeling like I'm
going to have a deal
by the end of this week.
- Well, that doesn't exactly
help me today
Kwame, now does it?
- Yo man, yo can I
borrow some money?
- I can't help you Scooter.
My rent's due this week man.
- Iggy, you're with your mama.
- You know that she be
charging me $200 a month.
If I don't pay, or
even if I'm a day late,
then I'm gonna be homeless.
- Damn.
- Scoot, you don't want the $15?
- Well at least tell Tymkia
that we say hi, all right?
- [Tymika] You lost our
honeymoon money on a stupid
basketball game with
your crusty homies?
Oh hell no.
- Baby please, come on.
Baby please, no no.
Come on now, damn baby.
Damn.
♪ You made my feet walk
right over to your door ♪
♪ You had my ankles ♪
♪ Tangled and puzzled ♪
♪ You had my knees to
the point they buckled ♪
♪ What you doing to me ♪
♪ In the light of day I
stumble over your waist ♪
♪ Couldn't wait for
the night time ♪
♪ The high time the right time ♪
♪ We had to close the door ♪
♪ It was like turning away
from a million bucks ♪
♪ But I can't see you no more ♪
♪ It's like cold
of a lonely night ♪
(thudding quietly)
- Look, it's been
like three weeks
since she gave you
that ultimatum player.
- Man she just
trying to scare me,
Yasmine ain't going nowhere.
- I heard that.
(laughing)
- What the hell?
- What is it Kwame? I
got a lot of work to do.
- What's up with the
packed boxes at the house?
Is our lease up, are we moving?
- Well, since it's been 23 days
and you haven't
reached a decision,
I don't want to influence
it either way so
I'm going to go away
for a little while
and give you some space.
- Okay okay all right Yasmine.
This little ultimatum thing
has gone on long enough.
What do you want?
- What do I want?
- Excuse me, Yasmine.
The meeting's in 20 minutes.
- What is this about?
A new dinette set, a
sexy piece of lingerie,
a shopping spree at
the swap meet, what?
- Dinette set? Lingerie?
Shopping spree at the swap
meet, you don't get it do you?
You're right.
This ultimatum thing
has gone too far.
Kwame, I don't want to be
someone's girlfriend forever.
I want to be a bride.
Have a family, I deserve that.
I just don't see that
happening with us.
- So what you saying?
- [Coworker] Pardon me,
the meeting's been moved
to the conference room.
- Thank you.
Kwame, we seem to be headed
in opposite directions.
I think maybe it's best
if we cut our losses
and do our own thing.
- So what, just
like that it's over?
Cool.
You know, if that's
what you want
but don't come
crawling back to me
begging for no second chance
'cause I don't go there,
the train don't back up.
- I understand.
I have a meeting to prepare
for, I'll see you later.
- Peace you know?
Shoot, not like you'd be out
gang banging or
nothing like that.
I just mean peace like
you know, be cool.
'Cause I'm gonna be cool.
- I truly believed
he still loved me
and God knows I was
still cuckoo for Kwame.
I mean he was all that and
a bucket of spicy hot wings.
Cute,
charming,
sexy.
- With Yasmine gone, I can
work on my music at the house
to all hours of the night.
The homies could kick
it 'til the sun came up.
That was cool for
the first few nights.
But after that, I can't front.
I missed the hell
out of that girl.
Her touch, her smell, her smile.
One night, I must've stayed
up to the crack of dawn,
not chilling with the
homies, not making music,
but just reminiscing.
Looking at pictures,
reading old letters and
listening to old songs
that had special meaning to it.
- When I initially made the
ultimatum, it was in anger.
But the more I thought about it,
the stronger I felt about it.
I mean he had gotten
complacent in our relationship,
took me for granted,
putting all his time and
money into his music,
contributed little or
nothing to the household.
I was practically
taking care of him.
Excuse my French but it was
time for Kwame to either
or get off the pot 'cause
he had been constipated
for much too long.
- [Kwame] That's when I
decided to seek advice
from the fellows.
- Marriage?
Marriage is cool, man.
It's the best decision
I've ever made in life.
Yo I think you ought to do it.
It's time, it's time.
- Oh hell no.
Look, if you give in to this,
she will be pimping
you with ultimatums
for the rest of your life.
Take out the trash
or I ain't going to
give you none of this.
- Marriage is a nightmare.
Well, it starts off good
but ask any married sucker after
a few months what it's like
he'll tell you it feels like
living with the grim reaper
and being held
hostage up in hell.
Nags me all the time,
done ballooned up 14 sizes
since the last time
we've been together.
Sweats a brother 24/7 Kwame.
Hell I'd have more
freedom up in the pen.
- [Wife] You been out
there way too long.
Get your butt in the house.
(mumbling incoherently)
- I got to go but remember this,
walking down that altar is
like walking down the plank.
If you ain't got a gun to
your head, don't do it.
Okay Kwame? Never get married.
Coming, my queen.
- My momma's collard greens
with a ham hock in
the middle for flavor.
Ain't nothing like
it boy, I tell you.
- Kwame, I can't cook with you
moving around in the kitchen.
Go over there and sit down.
- All right all right,
but if you need anybody
to sample something,
say the greens or the
corn bread, I'm your man.
Oh mama, I seen
uncle Coop today.
What's been up?
I heard you had a little
brush with the law last week.
- Yeah, I spent a
few nights in jail.
Got arrested for being a
black man on a sunny day.
And it was sunny so
what you could do?
So where's miss missy at?
What's her name, Jasmine.
- Yasmine.
- Spasmin, Yasmine,
whatever where's she at?
- We're not together
no more, Coop.
- You're not together no more?
Let me guess.
Some pigeon head gal stumbled,
fell on your, Rasman
found out about it, no?
Oh well she wants you to get
married and you ain't ready.
- Yeah, how you know?
- Oh man your uncle Coop been
in the love game a long time.
It's written all over your face
like stank on a bathroom wall.
- So what you think I should do.
- Well what you should do
is do what you want to do,
do how you feel, see?
Now I know for me,
I tried that six times
and don't work for me.
You understand what I'm saying?
Worse than a damn job.
Can't take a time off,
can't call in sick.
And the worst thing is,
it don't go over
well with the other.
Stay single.
Some hot sauce on it, it's good.
- So what's going on
with you and Yasmine?
- She gone mama, she gone.
- It's all right baby, tell
mama why, what happened?
- She said some junk
about being tired of
being a bridesmaid.
So marry me or else.
- Well see that's
not junk to her,
just like your music
is not junk to you,
you got to respect her feelings.
I love you boy, but
I'm not mad at the girl
for looking out for her future.
- I am,
I mean, I was her future.
- The older you get
the harder it is
to find that special somebody.
I haven't found anybody
since your father and I
fell out 20 years ago.
Well let's just say she waits
three, five years for you.
And then you don't marry her.
I'm not saying for
you to be pressured
into doing anything
you don't want to do,
but this is a defining
moment in your life.
And it may end up being
defined in two parts.
Before the ultimatum
and after the ultimatum.
So you be sure
that you can live with the
consequences of your decision.
- Damn pimping.
I can't believe you got me
waiting outside of a booty club
to go on a blind
date with a stripper.
Don't it bother you dude
that Cassandra is a
hairdresser by day
and a stripper by night?
- No.
- Kind of feel guilty dog,
like I shouldn't be doing this.
- What?
She quit yo man.
Look, we just out here
trying to have a good time
trying to take your
mind off of that.
It's just a date player.
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah you right.
What'd you say she
looked like again?
- I don't really know.
- I thought you
said she was fine.
- I said that's what I heard.
I also heard that, you
know, the brothers,
well they really just be
like dating her one time
because of the problem
that she used to have.
But it's cool.
- What you talking
about, man what problem?
- Here she comes.
- All right, let's go.
Let's go.
- Girl you are
wearing my carpet out
with all that pacing back
and forth, look at you.
- Please, them six
crumb snatchers
you got running around here
wore this carpet out years ago.
- I miss Kwame and I
feel guilty as hell
like I shouldn't be doing this.
- Look, what you
need to do is go out
and have yourself
some fun for real.
And maybe you and little Junebug
might develop a booty
job for each other.
- Little Junebug?
- Yeah.
- How little is he?
(doorbell ringing)
- What's up cous?
- Which one of you high
class hoochies is Yasmine?
- So what do you like to do?
(farting quietly)
You like to dance?
I like to dance.
I like to go out to the club.
(farting louder)
And then afterwards, I want
to get something to eat?
So I think I'm
getting hungry now.
Maybe some breakfast
food or something.
Maybe like some
pancakes, some eggs.
(farting loudly)
- I wanna get an
advertisement secretary job
so I can get my shop
on like that girl.
You've got a week's wardrobe
in them bags and look.
I got a damn sock.
- Where's the other one?
- I couldn't afford it.
- Girl please, I shop
when I'm depressed.
You better lucky you have a BMW.
- What?
- Black man working.
You're not waiting to exhale
like some of us, okay?
Is that Lance?
- They are so trifling.
Anyway, don't keep me
in suspense, tell me.
How was your date with tattoo?
- He spent half
the night talking
and the other half trying
to get in my panties.
Yo yo baby, back that up so
little Junebug can whack.
- He got any money girl?
- Hell no, I had to put in $2
so I could supersize
my kid's meal.
- What, why you
get a kid's meal?
- Because when we were at
the drive through window,
he made it clear that if I
ordered anything over $5,
I will have to give
him some booty.
I was hungry, but
not that hungry.
- I know that girl.
- Hold up Yasmine, hold up
I just want to rap to you.
Two minutes.
- You got one minute.
- Well, I guess I better
get right to the point
since you cut my time all short.
I want you back Yasmine.
Baby what we had was special.
I want us to recapture that
and rekindle that magic.
If you would just give
me another chance.
- Why?
So you can cheat on me again
with another white girl?
- Baby that was a long time ago.
I've matured since then.
I'm a one woman, man.
- I don't know Mookie.
My mama always told me if
barks like a dog, it's a dog.
- You leaving me, that
was the best thing
that ever happened to me.
It forced me to grow up
and be a man about myself.
- I'm glad something positive
came out of my broken heart.
- I want the same thing Yasmine.
To settle down and
raise a family.
Now I've got the dollars.
I've got the clothes.
I've got the car and
I've got the house.
The only thing that's
missing is you, Yasmine.
- I don't think so Mookie.
- It's Kwame huh?
You are going to waste your
whole life waiting for Kwame
because he is not
going to marry you.
His mentality is,
why pay for the cow
when I can get
the milk for free.
I don't know why you want to
marry that brother anyway,
the brother is a scrub.
If you didn't pay his bills,
he'd be at home
living with his mom.
That's appealing to you?
- One minute is up.
- Well you know the number boo,
when you want the
company of a real man.
- Yas, does Mookie
still have that Porsche?
What's that?
He drives a Porsche
and he's romantic?
Mookie kind of got it going on.
You might want to reconsider
giving that brother
another chance.
- This isn't from Mookie.
- Look who it is madam.
- Hi, it's good to see you.
- It's good to see you
too, you look beautiful.
- Thank you, you look
very handsome yourself.
- It's just a little
something I picked up
back at the dumpster.
- So what is it you brought
me here to talk about
that requires me to
dress to impress?
- Well, I just thought
we'd have a little dinner.
Discuss important issues.
Inflation, why gangsters
don't dance, they boogy, us.
- I would like that.
- That's not all.
Mac and chizzies.
- You made me mac
and cheese boy?
You know that's my favorite.
I know you're trying
to break a sister off
with more than that,
that ain't even gonna
take the edge off.
- My bad my bad my bad, dang.
(moaning)
- Damn baby, slow down.
Ain't nobody going to take
it from you, I promise.
- What's that?
- What?
- That.
Oh how cute.
- Yas, you are the
most beautifulest
and intelligent woman I know.
You mean the world to me and
I don't ever want to lose you.
I will never ever meet
another woman like you.
You are the woman of my dreams.
Yasmine Denise Brooks, I
want you to be my wife.
Will you marry me?
- Yes Kwame,
yes.
Hold up, exactly what decade
are you talking about?
- I'm talking about
the end of this month.
♪ Can I lay you down ♪
♪ Lay you down ♪
♪ Lay you down now baby ♪
♪ It's not very hard to see ♪
♪ That your body's in me ♪
♪ And my body's the remedy ♪
♪ I wanna go deep inside ♪
♪ And find the freak
you try to hide away ♪
♪ Can I lay there ♪
♪ Can I lay you down ♪
♪ Let your body now ♪
♪ Can I lay you down now ♪
♪ Cause I gotta feel you ♪
♪ All I wanna do ♪
♪ Is see the freak in you ♪
♪ So let me ♪
- Man I cannot believe
that a player like you,
of all people is
going out like this.
- I'm getting out the game dog.
Ain't nothing in them
streets, but trouble.
Three weeks from now,
I'll be a married man.
- All right player look,
before you make that drastic
move into everlasting lockdown,
you need to let me hook
you up with my friend Liza.
- Big booty Liza
from 112th street?
- Hell yeah, y'all
make a good couple.
- Man that broad is a hoe.
- No pimping.
- Dude, if she had as many
on her as she had in her,
she'd look like
a damn porcupine.
- Why do you think she
won't give me nothing?
(laughing)
- Well well well, if it
isn't the non ball playing,
no game having, can't
shoot brother named Kwame.
- Mook, I'm not tripping
off one loss, man.
Everybody loses once or twice.
- Really?
I don't.
- Just be talking
about basketball.
'Cause if I can remember
right, about two years ago,
you lost a pretty little
thing named Yasmine to me.
And our wedding's right
around the corner.
- Well that game isn't
over yet playboy.
And remember, I never lose.
- Your mama lost when
she had your black.
- Yo man, I was busting the
house party the other night,
place went crazy dude.
$25 for your CD, 25 baby.
So hook me up, let
me get a couple more.
- That's $20 homie.
- So what's up, y'all performing
at the platinum
club tomorrow night?
- Oh for sure little homie.
- All right me and my
boys will be there.
Peace out dog.
- All right, I hate that.
- Excuse me, can I
get one of those CDs?
- This might be a
little too explicit
and funky for you pops.
But I got some Isley
Brothers in the truck
if you want to buy that.
- I think I can handle it.
- I'm gonna hook you up
but I got to warn you.
These beats are off
the funk richter scale.
So turn it down real low
when you listen to it
so that you don't blow
your hearing aids.
$10.
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how
to change my life ♪
♪ So I can be glad ♪
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how
to change my life ♪
♪ Sometimes life gets so rough ♪
♪ That even the strongest
wouldn't be tough enough ♪
♪ To deal with
everyday problems ♪
♪ Why can't it be
a little easier ♪
♪ Some days I laugh ♪
♪ Some days I cry ♪
♪ The tears won't dry ♪
♪ Out my natural eye ♪
♪ And I try to think
of something good ♪
♪ Here comes the pain ♪
♪ It throws my
smile out the blue ♪
(Kwame yelling loudly)
(Yasmine screaming loudly)
(Kwame screaming playfully)
- The phone, the
phone, the phone.
I got to get the phone,
it might be your mom.
- Okay but no funny
stuff colored boy.
- No funny stuff, I'm
picking up the phone.
Who this?
Yeah this is him.
For real?
Yeah yeah yeah that's
cool, that's cool.
All right, I'll be there.
That was Sy Jackson,
executive at Sky High Records.
He said somehow, the
tape that I produced
came across his desk and he
wants me in his office tomorrow.
- That's great baby,
congratulations.
- This calls for a celebration.
Let's go in the room
and play wrestlers
so I can put the smack down.
- And we can get to that after
this diva soaks you
from head to toe.
- Baby whoa whoa
that was an accident.
I didn't mean to get you all
wet, besides you look good.
All right maybe you
don't look exactly good,
and your hair is nappy
and your face is all
smeared up to be damned.
But that ain't no reason
for no spray down.
Yasmine, this black on
black crime has got to stop.
Put the gun down.
Damn.
(Kwame screaming playfully)
- Tell Mr. B Love
that the soundtrack
will be completed in
the next few weeks
and will not hold up
the release of the film.
- Mr. Jackson, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize in
the parking lot--
- Save your breath kid.
That's the script to
B Love's new movie.
He's a hot new filmmaker.
Produce and write a song
for page 47, scene 21.
Use the female artist
featured in your demo.
You have two weeks
to submit it to me.
If I like it, we talk contracts.
If not, no luck.
Any questions?
- No sir.
- Good, now get the
hell out of here.
(all cooing softly)
- Kwame gonna like that.
(laughing loudly)
- I'm laid all out
and you laughing?
I'm taking my black
home, I'm tired.
- Kwame, you play
basketball for hours.
We've been here all of 10
minutes and you're tired?
That must've been a
hell of a bachelor party
you had last night.
I'm sure you had four or five
naked skanks running around.
- No baby, it was civilized.
Just a bunch of fellas
chilling, playing dominoes.
What are you asking some
like that for anyway?
What, you got a
guilty conscience?
What y'all have some
male Chippendales
dancers at the party?
- Please, it was just
the girls sitting around
playing bid wiz.
Hey isn't that Lance?
Damn, she be pimping him.
- [Cooper] Worse than a damn
job, can't take a time off.
Can't call in sick.
- [Iggy] She will be
pimping you with ultimatums
for the rest of your life.
- Look at you, about
to be a husband.
And you still need your--
- Mama.
- Please, I used to wipe
your butt, quit tripping.
- [Reverend] Places everyone,
showtime's in 10 minutes.
- Congratulations, son.
- I want you to
remember one thing.
When that reverend tells
you, you may kiss the bride,
I want you to do it like a man.
I want you to grab that, that--
- Yasmine?
- That Scrasmine.
- Yasmine.
- Whatever.
I want you to grab
that Scrasmine,
I want you to
slobber up and down,
I want you to stick your
tongue so far down her throat
you touch her tonsils.
She can feel that way down here.
Way down here, you understand?
See that way, you get
control of the marriage
right from the get go.
From the beginning, right
down here to the end,
you got control here here here.
Stay strong little one.
Give me some love.
(yelling)
- Honey you look more
beautiful as a bride
than I did 27 years ago.
- She also 200 pound lighter
than you were then too.
That's a fact.
- Okay okay,
I hate to cut this
sentimental moment short,
but it's time to get started.
- Love you.
- You look so beautiful.
- May god strike you
dead before you say I do.
- Thanks for your support.
- Don't mention it.
- All right, you
ready to do this dog?
- I don't know dog.
- What do you mean
you don't know man?
Half of Yasmine's family
flown in from Chinatown
and you talking
about, you don't know?
Come on.
- My bad, my bad man.
I'm just, the butterflies
got me tripping, man.
Let's do this.
- Let's do it.
Yeah, come on baby let's do it.
Come on man.
(knocking)
- Who is it?
- [Kwame] It's Kwame.
- Kwame, what are
you doing here?
Now you know you're not
supposed to see the bride
before the wedding.
- I need to speak to Yasmine.
- [Tymika] Kwame.
- [Yasmine] It's okay girl,
we'll talk through the door.
- All right but if
y'all have bad luck,
don't say I didn't
try to prevent that.
- Can't believe we're
finally getting married,
aren't you excited?
- Yeah?
- Well what is it Kwame
that it couldn't wait
until after the wedding?
- I just wanted to
say that I love you,
Yasmine Denise
Brooks, one more time.
- I love you too.
(guests chatting quietly)
- Let's do this baby.
Come on man, it's showtime.
"Yas, I can't do it,
please forgive me, Kwame."
Damn.
- You see what had happened
was, the timing wasn't right.
I mean, I ain't no
astrologer or nothing,
but the stars wasn't aligned
properly on that day.
You dig?
♪ Is there a key to my heart ♪
♪ Everyday ♪
♪ We see people that
we might wanna envy ♪
♪ Many dreams drown
in an empty sea ♪
- Okay,
okay I deserved that.
I know what I did was
wrong and I'm sorry.
Say something.
- What do you want Kwame?
- Excuse me?
- Why are you here?
- Because I love
you, I miss you.
- Save it all right?
- Look Yas, I want
us to be together.
But marriage is a
giant step right now,
a step that I'm just
not ready to take.
So how come we can't
go back to kicking it
like we used to with
you being my woman
and me being your man?
- I can't believe you
could even come up in here
and say something like
that after what you did.
- I know what went down
was wrong, I messed up.
- Messed up? No,
what you did was, up.
You hurt me Kwame.
- I'm sorry Yas--
- What was supposed to be
happiest day of my life
turned out to be the most
humiliating and embarrassing.
And your trifling didn't
even have the balls
to tell me to my
face like a man.
- Baby I blew it, okay?
I messed up big time.
My actions were those
of a punk coward.
- I don't want to hear this.
Your whole program is tired.
- I'm sorry Yasmine.
- Yes you are, you're one sorry.
- I bet he trifling too.
- It's going to take some
time and a lot of hard work,
but we can overcome this
baby, I know we can.
- Let me break it down for you.
There is no we.
It's over, kaput, done,
finished, finito, comprende?
I have outgrown you and
this whole situation.
- So what I mean, what you're,
you're not trying
to talk about this?
- No.
Now if you'll excuse me,
I'm in the middle of moving.
- Look, Yasmine--
- Bye.
(TV blaring)
- Oh, snap.
Confirmation to the Kwame
site, brother is back in town.
- I didn't hear a knock at the
door nor me saying come in.
- It's probably cause
you didn't say it fool.
Damn home boy, looks like
you've been burglarized
or something up in here.
- What you doing?
- My hands is clean.
Yo you missed it.
Yasmine left the church
on y'all's wedding day,
she flipped out.
Scooping up your gear so quick.
Make your head spin
worse than the exorcist.
- Is those my boots?
- Oh look at the time.
I got to get out of here now
and finish delivering
yesterday's mail.
You know what I'm
saying, all right peace.
Mookie and them challenged us
to another basketball
game tomorrow.
11 o'clock for two grand.
You trying to be down or what?
- Man where are we going
to get that kind of money?
- Look, we ain't never
lost two games in a row.
The fools can't beat us again.
You just had an off day.
- Man I know that
but I'm saying,
Mookie like you to show
the skrilla up front.
- Player player player,
I got it covered, baby, covered.
- Is that somebody's
money out the mail?
- Look, we be telling
these fools all the time,
do not send cash in the mail.
It got a tendency to get lost.
So you're trying
to be down or what?
- I'll be there.
- [Iggy] Can you
really try to be there?
- Damn man I said I'll be there.
- All right but you
better not be late either.
- Fellas fellas, it's 11:45 man.
Might as well forfeit
and come out of pocket.
Come on,
come on.
Don't make this any harder
than it needs to be,
let's do this.
Come on Iggy.
That's what I'm talking about.
- [TV Host] On the
next Terry Ringer Show,
transvestites and
midgets who live alone.
- Hey mama, how you doing?
- Oh I'm fine, question
is how are you?
- Oh, I'm cool.
I mean, I've had better
days but you know.
- I spoke to Iggy,
he said you stood him
and Scooter up today.
- I forgot.
- Kwame I raised a
stronger man than this.
You can't run from fear.
You have to face it head on.
You can't sit around here
wallowing in self pity.
- Me and my TV is
having a good day.
Don't rock our world,
Mama, we is comfortable.
- Well, you need to come
out of your comfort zone.
'Cause right now you're
acting like a punk.
You act like you lost
your best friend.
- I did mama.
Yasmine quit me,
I missed the deadline to submit
my tape to Sky High Records.
Everything is
jacked up right now.
- So the chips are
down right now.
But you let your obstacles be
a detour, not a derailment.
If you want to be a producer,
then you get up and you produce.
If you want Yasmine back,
go win the woman
back or get over it
because nothing's
going to happen
as long as you sit on your and
watch that Terry Ringer show.
Kwame, it is time for you
to grow up and be a man.
- Mr. Jackson.
- Don't be running up
on me like that boy,
unless you trying
to get cold cut.
- I'm sorry, I didn't mean
to startle you or nothing.
- This is the executive floor,
how the hell did
you get up here?
- I slipped your
secretary my last fifty.
- Give me security please.
- Mr. Jackson, please, please
just give me 30
seconds of your time.
- What do you want boy?
I'm about to have an
important meeting.
- I know I missed the deadline
to submit my songs
for the movie,
but if I can get it to you
within the next couple of weeks,
is there any way that you
would even consider it?
- I'm submitting the
package of songs tomorrow
to the executive producer
of the soundtrack,
Mr. B Love himself
who's going to choose the
songs he likes for the film.
- Mr. Jackson, please, I've
had some really rocky times.
Me and the missus
to be fell out.
- Get it on my desk by
tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.
If I like it, I'll submit
it with the package
just because I like your work.
But if it arrives at nine
oh one, it's too late.
Now, get out.
- Thanks Mr. Jackson.
- Can I come in?
- Oh yeah yeah yeah,
come on in Chantal.
Yo, I appreciate you coming
over here on such short notice.
- Oh, no problem you know
I'd drive the world for you,
but I mean you okay?
I heard about your
disappearance.
- Yeah I was just
on a DL for a minute
building those mind muscles,
but I'm cool thanks for asking.
- No problem.
- Yeah, so yeah, let's
just jump right into this
and let's just do it.
♪ Why can't it be
a little easier ♪
♪ Some days I laugh ♪
♪ Some days I cry ♪
♪ The tears won't dry ♪
(clapping loudly)
- Yeah,
yeah,
that was tight.
Girl, you got sick with it,
that's what I'm talking about.
- Only 'cause I had a dope
producer to bring it out of me.
What was that for?
- Thank you.
♪ Ever since we were kids
the love we had was real ♪
♪ Everything that we did we
let each other know the deal ♪
♪ Even when we would
walk to school ♪
♪ We had each other's back ♪
♪ We were inseparable ♪
♪ The strength that
we would lack ♪
♪ On that day when they called ♪
♪ And let me know the drill ♪
♪ I began to cry tears for you ♪
♪ And even though
we time we shared ♪
♪ Was the time
that I will miss ♪
- Whoa whoa whoa
hold up, hold up.
- What's the matter,
that didn't feel good?
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It felt real good,
it felt incredible.
But I mean, I just
can't do this you know?
Nothing to do with you
'cause you got it going on
three or four times
over with the law loud.
It's just me.
- It's you or Yasmine?
- I love that woman.
That's what my heart is
and that's where I belong.
- I can respect that
Kwame, but I mean
if you ever change
your mind, I mean.
Friends?
- For sure.
- All right.
- Yo, I'll let you
know what the haps is
when I hear from Sky High.
Damn.
(snoring)
(phone ringing)
Who this?
Yeah yeah yeah that's cool.
Thanks Mr. Jackson, okay,
all right I'll see you then.
Yes.
- So then I just got real
ugly with that trick.
You know what I'm saying?
I told her, look, if
we are in the night,
then you going to
have to regurgitate
all I just bought you
and I mean everything.
I'm talking about the
fries, the hamburger,
the shake, all of that.
She said, I can't do that
what are you talking about?
I say, the hell you can't.
Then I slipped three or
four x-lax up in her b pod.
- No.
- She gonna be,
'til Tuesday kid.
- Yo fellas man,
hold up, hold up.
I want to apologize for missing
that game the other day dog,
I feel responsible that
y'all lost that money.
So I set up another game
with Mookie and them
tomorrow for 10 G.
- Now where are we supposed to
get that kind of money from?
- Hey, hey, hey,
I can go through the
mail like I usually do,
you know what I'm saying?
See what I come up with.
- Sky High Records optioned
one of my songs for five grand.
And I put up all
my music equipment
to represent the rest.
- Kwame, you can't do that, man.
Your equipment is worth
way more than that.
- I know, man but that's all
that Mook would give me for it.
- Cool man, cool we'll be there.
- No, no, no, no, no I
can't let you do that Kwame.
We know that music is the
most important thing to you.
Next to Yasmine, that's
the most important thing
in the world to you.
- Yeah man but it's on me that
y'all lost y'all money dog.
It's time I stood up and
started taking responsibility
for my own man.
You got a wife
and a house Scoot.
I still never really
made it up to you
for y'all's honeymoon.
You need your money.
- Yo and I need my money,
you know what I'm saying?
All of them hoochies
and hood rats.
- Yo, what time?
- Nine o'clock.
- It's on.
- Yeah.
- Hey yo Scoot though, man.
I need a place to crash
for a few days, man.
A brother done been evicted.
- No problem bro I got you,
but I gotta warn you man.
Yasmine staying at the house
while she's waiting on her
new place to get ready.
- How are you doing ladies?
How you doing Yasmine?
- Fine, thank you.
- I guess you heard I'm gonna
be sleeping on the couch
for a few days since
you took Scooter's
last vacant guest room.
I was going to see if you
wanted to kick it tonight.
Maybe rent some
movies or something
but it looks like you getting
ready to go somewhere.
- I got plans.
- That's cool.
I got these for you.
Hey Yasmine, you little
chocolate wonder.
I'll set it on the bed.
- Congratulations.
I heard about Sky High Records
optioning one of your songs.
I'm happy for you.
- Thanks shorty.
Yasmine.
- Girl I feel terrible, like
I shouldn't be doing this.
- Think about how
terrible you felt
being stood up at the altar.
Kwame.
- And I told Scooter,
you got here first.
Kwame needs to go
stay with his mom.
- She's in a hotel.
Her house is being painted.
- Whatever.
- I'm so nervous.
- Look, it's not like
you don't know the man.
Just be yourself
and order the most
expensive thing on the menu.
- What kind of
perfume should I wear?
- Well, I read in
Sister Girl magazine,
that the best perfume
for a woman to wear
is her own natural juices.
- Juices?
How many long Island iced
teas had you had that day?
- None girl.
- See right here, here
it is in black and white.
Though men often joke about
the smell of the vaginal area
and its juices, it
actually turns men on
and reminds them of
a romantic interlude.
If a woman wants to dab
her own natural juices
on her neck and behind her ears,
it is sure to drive a man crazy.
I'm gonna try it.
- You and this
magazine is trifling.
(doorbell ringing)
- I guess I'll get the door.
- What's up Kwame?
- The game ain't
'til tomorrow, bro.
And even then, you
don't need to be
trying to break a
brother off with roses.
'Cause I don't get
down like that.
- I didn't come here
to see you, man.
I came here to pick up my date.
- You with my boy's wife Tymkia?
Man I will whoop your.
- [Yasmine] He's
here to pick me up.
- Hey snuggles,
you look beautiful.
- You look very
handsome yourself.
- Thank you.
- Snuggles.
- Is that a tailor
made Italian cut suit?
- Why yes it is.
- Now remember, order the most
expensive thing on the menu
and bring me back a plate
of whatever you get.
Although I kinda got
a taste for chicken.
- I'm not bringing you no
plate girl, that is so ghetto.
- Come on Yas, you know black
folks do it all the time.
- I kind of got a taste
for some big pig feet.
- Yas we gotta get going, baby.
Our reservations at the
Chanderelle are in 30 minutes.
- Yas, can I holler at you
quick minute over here?
- No Kwame, we're late
for our reservation.
- It'll only take a second.
- Bye bye.
- Hey don't forget
my plate girl.
- Tymkia, what the hell
was that all about?
- I'm just trying to get
my eat on, I'm hungry.
- I'm talking about
Yasmine and Mookie.
- Well, to be honest, Kwame,
if I was her I would
do the same thing.
I lost a gang of respect for you
when you stood my
girl up at the altar.
When I heard you
was back in town,
I wanted to cut you.
Scooter wouldn't let me.
He saved your life, black.
- I know I screwed up all right?
- You can't blame her for
getting on with her life.
You made it perfectly clear
that you didn't
want to be with her.
So now she's going to
find somebody who does.
Oh, if you could
please tell old girl
to leave my plate on the table.
Kwam, you like my new perfume?
- Girl you smell
like a dead fish.
- See, that's why you
all by yourself tonight.
(soft upbeat music)
- Bye Mookie, I had a good time.
I'll see you later boo.
Kwame, what are
you still doing up?
- Watching TV.
- Okay, good night.
- Where have you been?
- Excuse me?
- You need to wipe that
joker smile off your face.
'Cause ain't nobody
making jokes.
Where have you been?
- Nonya, as in none
of your business.
- Ain't nobody playing
with you Yasmine.
- And I'm not playing with
you either Kwame Getman.
- You come walking
in here at dawn
with the sun hitting
you in the crack of your
talking about none of
my business, ain't cool.
- On the real Kwame,
you need to get some business
and stay out of mine.
- Was he playing
with my kitty cat?
- What?
- Did I stutter?
- First of all, it's not
your kitty cat, it's mine.
Second, let's not go there son
'cause you might get
your feelings hurt.
Now I'm going to bed
'cause you getting on my nerves.
- I'm not done talking to you,
don't walk away from me girl.
- Hey I just came to
wish you good luck.
- Thanks Chantal.
- Girl you gonna hook me up
with some of that punani, right?
Well how about, can
I just smell it?
- Yo, let's do this.
Come on.
(players shouting)
- That's what I'm talking about.
- Now that was a
killer crossover dog
but you don't know
nothing about that.
You know, my game is as
smooth as butter, boy.
Six nothing.
- Mookie.
- That's what I told
Yasmine last night.
And not only did she
do it, she loved it.
She tossed my salad too, boy.
(talking over each other)
- You take JD, I got Mookie.
No no no Kwame, come on.
Yo man.
You gotta get this
Yasmine your mind man,
just for a minute.
Yo, she still loves you man
but she's so hurt
by what you did
that she's trying
to hurt you back.
You need the weather
the storm brother.
Weather the storm and
she'll be back, you feel me?
All right, let's
get our hoops on.
Let's do this.
(shouting over each other)
(cheering)
(cheering loudly)
- You really mean what you said
about Yasmine coming
back to me, man?
I mean, did Tymkia
tell you that?
- Tymkia didn't tell me that,
that's just what
my gut says, man.
Look, the sooner
that you put this
Mookie thing outta your mind,
the sooner man that
y'all get back together.
But as long as she thinks
she's got your guard,
as long as she thinks that
is as long as she's going
to run the table on you man.
Good game, good game.
(whooping loudly)
- You the man.
- I gotta go handle
something real quick.
(cheering)
Can I holler at
you for a minute?
- What's up?
- I just want to apologize
for the way I've
been acting lately.
You know, what you
do is your business.
You know, if Mookie makes
you happy, then I'm happy.
We're just going to
kick back in the cut
and let you do your own thing.
- Excuse me, come again?
- I did not stutter
or stammer girl.
I'm happy to see you
moving on with your life.
And I'm realizing that it's
time for me to do the same.
- I see.
- Homies?
- Yeah.
- So we about to go
get something to eat,
you wanna roll?
- Thank you but no, Mookie
and I are going to brunch.
You played great out there.
I'm just sorry it was at
the expense of my man.
- Oh, he's your man now?
- Sort of.
- Well that's cool, that's cool.
You know, like I said, your
happiness is what's important.
- I better go.
- Yeah yeah yeah.
You don't want to
keep the Mookster
waiting or nothing like that.
(upbeat guitar music)
- [Yasmine] You can
do it, come on Mookie.
- [Mookie] Slow down.
- You're doing good,
you're doing good.
♪ I can see that you are lost ♪
♪ I finally find you ♪
♪ Even though you chose
to leave and go your way ♪
♪ You thought you'd find more
than what I could give you ♪
♪ So I let you go ♪
♪ Still I want you to know ♪
♪ I've seen you struggle ♪
♪ I've seen you crying ♪
♪ Seen you do those
thing you swore ♪
- You know what?
Since we won some
of that money back,
well all of that money
back and then some,
I see a trip to
Jamaica, you know?
(laughing)
- What's up pimping?
Never known you to
be late for no party.
Oh,
what happened?
- Man me and Cassandra
fell out, all the way out.
I didn't even know
that she knew about
Roxanne, and Yvonne and LaToya
'til my black god
about the chair.
I knew that I should never
been talking to no barber.
You know what I'm saying?
Yo player, you're
taking this stuff
with Yasmine and
Mookie pretty cool.
- Man I just know our break
up's a temporary situation.
- Kwame, I need to talk to you.
- Girl, can't you see I'm
trying to get my grub on?
- Party people hold up,
I got an announcement.
What started off as a barbecue
has now turned into
an engagement party.
My mans right here,
Mookie Jenkins
will wed the lovely
Yasmine Brooks next week.
And everybody's invited.
So DJ, play a song for the
mister and missus to be.
(guests clapping)
- Congratulations.
- Kwame wait.
- We gotta dance baby,
this song's for us.
- Can I come in?
- Sure.
- Where are you going?
- I got me a little
spot in old town.
- You don't have to go.
- I was leaving anyway even
before the big announcement.
Just hadn't had a
chance to tell you.
- You were?
- Yeah you know after
the basketball game
and Sky High Records
breaking me off,
I'm cool on dough so
I'm gonna skedaddle.
- Can I have a hug?
♪ How can I be sure
the way I feel ♪
♪ If you say that you
don't know how I feel ♪
- Thanks Yasmine
for teaching me about life,
living,
myself,
and how to love somebody.
Be good to yourself shorty.
- I'm gonna miss you Kwame.
(wedding bells ringing)
- Oh you look beautiful Yasmine.
- Thanks girl.
- I remember when I
was in your position
just a few short months ago and,
now it's finally your turn.
- Who knew how much drama
it would take to get here?
- Oh, it was the
best day of my life
and I hope it's all that
and a bucket of pigs
feet for you too, boo.
- Tymkia, you have
always looked out for me
and no matter what,
you have always had my
best interest in mind.
I love you for that.
- Oh, I love you too girl.
- Kwame, I'm surprised
to see you here, man.
- You know, Yasmine and I've
been friends for a long time.
So I had to come and represent.
- I'm sorry man, that
this is going down.
How you holding up, you cool?
- All right.
- Well keep your head up.
- I'm glad you
could make it Kwame.
And look, I just wanted
to thank you brother
for keeping the cobwebs
out of Yasmin's coochie
while she and I were
on hiatus all right?
(laughing)
- Mommy, daddy.
- Hey baby.
- Now we know we
only have 10 minutes.
So I'll make this brief.
Sweetie, destiny has
been good to you.
I do believe Mookie
is the one for you.
Y'all going to have a
beautiful life together
and just remember anything
you need, anything you want,
you just know that
your mom and daddy
have your love and support.
- Yeah baby girl.
- Thanks mommy and daddy.
- You know that lowdown
trifling ex boyfriend
had the nerve to
show up here today.
- Kwame's here?
- Yes he's here
and I don't know who in
the hell invited him.
- I did mommy,
we're still friends.
- Oh honey, you're more
of a woman than I am.
'Cause every time I saw his
black, I throw rocks at him.
Standing my baby
girl up at the altar?
The girl I gave life to?
What the hell is
wrong with him anyway?
- Your mother's not the only
one upset with his presence.
I don't know if I
can restrain myself.
'Cause I might just snap
and give him the old
fashioned beat down.
- Please, your little butt
ain't big as a minute.
You couldn't even kick your own.
- I can whoop your,
that much I do know.
- Mom, Dad, please.
- Now see there, you upset
Yasmine on her wedding day.
Look baby, I apologize for him.
Now I'll see you outside
as Mrs. Jenkins.
- Yas, your face lit up
like a Christmas tree
when you heard Kwame's name.
Are you sure you're
doing the right thing?
- Yes, this is
something I have to do.
- No, the only thing you have
to do is stay black and die.
- A woman only gets
so many proposals.
One has to seize the moment.
This could be the last
ship leaving the harbor.
- This may be the last boat,
but it may be the wrong boat.
Ask our ancestors about that.
- What's up dog?
Cassandra and me, we decided
to get back together.
Try to work things out,
you know what I'm saying?
I finally realized you know
that she the only one for me.
You all right?
(wedding march playing)
- Dearly beloved, we
are gathered here today
to baptize this brother and
sister in the name of the...
We are gathered here today
to join these two
in holy matrimony.
If there is anyone
who feels these two
should not be joined together,
let them speak now or
forever hold their peace.
Mookie Jenkins, do
you take this woman
to be your lawfully wedded
wife to have and to hold
from this day forward for as
long as you both shall live?
- I do.
- Yasmine Brooks,
do you take this man
to be your lawfully
wedded husband
to have and to hold
from this day forward,
for as long as you
both shall live?
- Yasmine, would you be my wife?
- Would you marry me Yasmine?
- What the hell are you doing?
- Shorty, I love you, I
am miserable without you.
I can't even think
half the time.
You are the most beautiful
woman on the planet.
Yas, say that you
will be my wife
today, right here, right now.
I want you, I want you
and I need you in my life
for richer or broker in
sickness and in health
'til death do us
part, Yas please.
- Yes Kwame, yes.
- Yasmine, baby.
I got the cash, I got
the car, I got the house.
What could this fool possibly
have that I ain't got?
- My heart.
- Please man.
- Yasmine, I love you.
- I'm sorry, Mookie
but I don't love you.
I love Kwame.
- Look is anybody
getting married?
'Cause I got to be at a funeral
for a damned dog in 20 minutes.
- Yeah yeah yeah
right here homey.
- Dearly beloved, we are
now gathered here today
to unite Kwame Getman
and Yasmine Brooks
in holy matrimony.
If there is anyone here today
who feels these two
should not be together,
let them speak now, right now,
or forever hold their peace.
Yasmine Brooks, do
you take this man
to be your lawfully
wedded husband
to have and to hold
from this day forward
for as long as you
both shall live?
- I do.
- And Kwame Getman,
do you take this woman
to be your lawfully wedded
wife to have and to hold
from this day forward for as
long as you both shall live?
- I do.
- By the power vested in
me, I now pronounce you
man and wife.
Kwame, you may kiss the bride.
(guests applauding)
- [Yasmine] Love you boo.
- [Kwame] I love you too Yas.
(upbeat music)
- I still can't believe
Iggy and Cassandra
finally got married.
- Yeah who would've thunk
Iggy would ever retire?
- Wasn't their wedding fat?
- No, but Tymkia is.
- Don't be making
cracks about my friends.
I think she looks beautiful.
Besides I think it's time
we start making plans
for a little one of our own.
Kwame, when are we
gonna have a baby?
♪ That leaves me
yearning for your touch ♪
(upbeat hip hop music)
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how to change
my life so I can be glad ♪
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel so sad ♪
♪ And wondering how
to change my past ♪
♪ Sometimes life gets so rough ♪
♪ That even the strongest
wouldn't be tough enough ♪
♪ To deal with
everyday problems ♪
♪ Why can't it be
a little easier ♪
♪ Some days I laugh
some days I cry ♪
♪ But the tears won't dry ♪
♪ From out my natural eye ♪
♪ And I try to think
of something good ♪
♪ Here comes the pain
there goes my smile ♪
♪ I got those blues ♪
♪ Sometimes I hurt so bad ♪
(upbeat hip hop music)
♪ I wanna be by your side ♪
♪ Thinking about you
all the day and night ♪
♪ No one makes me feel ♪
♪ My heart skips a beat ♪
♪ When I hear you say ♪
♪ You made my feet walk
right over to your door ♪
♪ You had my ankles
tangled puzzled ♪
♪ You had my knees to
the point they buckled ♪
♪ What you doing to me ♪
♪ By the light of day I
stumbled over your waist ♪
♪ Couldn't wait for
the night time ♪
♪ The high time or
the right time ♪
♪ We had to close the door ♪
♪ It was like turning away
from a million bucks ♪
(soft jazzy music)