Quest (2017) - full transcript

It didn't look like it.

But, um, they were getting
into an argument,

and the fire got started
on the third floor,

somehow worked its way

all the way downstairs
into the kitchen.

William said, if I was
walking down the street,

he'd, uh, vote for McCain.

Everybody was saying,

"We know you ain't say that
around the polls."

You vote Obama?

We know where you live at.
- Okay.



It was alive
for the first time

in, like, umpteen years
down here.

We need to get a meeting
with this historian.

Got to make sure this part,
the bow's showing

so the bow will be
sticking out forward.

You got to make, like --

But it all faces
towards all the people?

Well, it depends on which way
you're going to be facing.

'Cause his shirt is pink.

It's like a cotton-candy pink
with white stripe.

Why you wearing a pink shirt?

Because your mother
made me get it.

Now, how do you want it up?

- Nice, man.
- Good?



- Yeah, it's cool.
- It's perfect.

What's up, Kyle?

- How you doing, man?
- Hi, what's up, chief?

Dear God, we thank you,
and we bless you

for this man and this woman.

Together, they can
conquer anything.

Keep your hand on them, God.

God, we pray in the name
of Jesus

that you do this
not for our sake, God,

but that you get the glory
out of their lives.

In Jesus' name we pray,
for Christ's sake, amen.

- Amen.
- Amen.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I present to you

Mr. and Mrs...

- Rainey.
- ...Rainey.

Yes.

Is it done?

Yeah.

Just a little flap.

Just gonna keep that water down.

Which way do you want to go?

Um...that way.

I'm ready.

- Cool?
- Uh-huh.

I'll be here to pick you up.
All right?

In our minds, we were
already married, you know,

just being together
throughout the years

and knowing that we both wanted
the same things in life.

We were both tired of the BS
and the crap.

That's for sure.
- Yeah.

Anytime you turn around,
you know,

you see couples going
through arguments,

people cheating on each other,
just doing each other wrong,

and both of us
been down that road

so many times in our past lives

that when we actually did
hook up and get together

and start talking to each other,

we came to the equal conclusion
that that's not worth it.

You know, you just need
one person to love.

We've been together for
pretty much about 15 years,

and when Chris and I first met,

we had older children
from previous relationships.

You know, that are grown,
doing their thing now

and, you know,
living their lives.

P.J. is the one
we had together,

so she's the baby.

Mm-hmm.

Once we had P.J., that kind of
solidified everything, you know?

Mm-hmm.

It's a left hand
and a right hand,

and they definitely work well
together, you know,

and I think that's how
our relationship is.

We definitely
are total opposites

on everything, pretty much.

- Yeah.
- You know?

Because I don't like
the TV shows he watch.

And I sure don't like
the ones she watch.

You know, she's more like "CSI,"

crime stories
and things like that.

He likes cartoons.

And I'm more or less
the cartoons.

- All night.
- Yeah.

I get away from the real world
as much as I can

because I'm always
in the real world, so to speak.

And I just like
a good storyline.

♪ Unh, yeah ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Oh, check, yo ♪

♪ Unh, Bobby Ogden ♪

♪ Everquest Studio's
Freestyle Friday, listen ♪

♪ I passed a lot
of haters on my way up ♪

♪ Bars tearing my state up ♪

♪ Flows getting my weight up ♪

♪ The streets like to cheat,
so figured we had to break up ♪

♪ But I still keep
that thing on my hip ♪

♪ It's like a pager ♪

♪ Sex ruined her makeup,
mascara running ♪

♪ Turn a good girl
into the new Belladonna ♪

♪ Have her begging
out the passenger side ♪

♪ If there's a problem ♪

♪ Like Keisha did Smitty
in "New Jack City" ♪

♪ Tree wrapped
like a murder score ♪

♪ Hunger Game theory ♪

♪ I'm the bogeyman
from under the bed ♪

♪ You better fear me ♪

♪ I came to hunt you
in those boots ♪

♪ 'Cause, unh ♪

Everquest Studio's
Freestyle Friday, man.

Homeboy putting it down
for the homies since,

like, 19-whenever, whatever.

We started the studio,
what, 13 years ago.

I've always played
crowd control,

so I'm pretty much
like a mom to everybody.

I don't want to be
everybody's mom,

but somewhere along the line,

they just started
calling me "ma."

Hello?

- Hi.
- You got everybody tonight?

- Yes, I do.
- All right.

Did you sign your...yet?
- No.

When you get a chance,
can you do that for me?

Okay.

We have homeless women
and children on-site,

and it's our job to make sure
these children are safe

and the ladies here are safe.

I'm always telling somebody
what they supposed to be doing,

what they should be doing,
where they supposed to be at.

I'm always feeling like
I'm somebody's mom.

Hey, babe.

None, so I decided
to take my 15.

It's so quiet.

I think it's going to be
the most boring night ever.

I don't mind.

Boring is good.

All right, I'm going to
let you go, here, baby.

I ain't going to hold you up.

All right. I love you.

Bye.

And good evening
to everyone out there.

We're live in Philadelphia,
New Jersey, Delaware,

and other parts of the world.

We have a lot to do here
today in the studio,

so we're going to get
right down to it.

We also have as our
very special guest today

brother Chris Rainey,

one of Philadelphia's premier
record promoters and producers.

There's so much talent,
so much genius

come out of beautiful
North Central Philadelphia.

Yeah.

Get up them damn steps.

The step is the minimum.

I love North Philly.

This is the neighborhood that
we lived in all our lives.

We ballplayers down here.

We're more about the streets

and everybody just
hanging out as a whole.

When you do talk to people,

you find out they're not as hard
as they appear to be.

Put a little kick into it.

P.J. wants to be a deejay.

Music is her life.

We started it
while she was in the womb.

Like, at 3 months old, we could
hold her while the music was on,

and she actually would bounce
to the beat of the music,

like she had rhythm
from the door.

You was about 3 when
you recorded your first song.

Yeah.

She's turning into a teenager.
I don't like that.

Can you just go back
to being, like, 5,

because you were, like,
the coolest 5-year-old ever.

I know.

What's up, man?

Nothing.
How you doing, Mo?

- Guess I'll be all right.
- Mm-hmm.

My oldest boy, William,
he's 21.

On my birthday this year,
he went to the emergency room.

He was having eye pains
and a lot of different problems,

so they did an MRI,

and they found a tumor
on his brain

pressing on his pituitary gland.

His hair was about a foot long
two months ago.

That's when he found out
it was cancerous.

He's scared.

I'm scared for him.

His girlfriend was pregnant

before we found out
he had cancer.

I think the baby gives him
a little hope.

He's gotten really good
at holding his head up, Will.

Bless you.

I never thought
I'd feel this way.

I knew I would love
my grandchild,

but I didn't know it was
going to feel like this,

like, this deep.

But it's, like,
the good and the bad,

just the cancer and the baby.

It's hard.

There's a lot of other things
that go along with life,

and, like, I got to balance
being a mom

and raising my teenager.

She's 13.

Um...

Lots of people in the house,
my job...

It's tiring, but as a mom,
all we can do is, like,

roll with the punches
and deal with it.

- What's up, homie?
- He got all these clothes

that he ain't going to be able
to wear in, like, two weeks.

He's growing out
of everything so fast.

Like, them black boots up there,
they're size zero.

He might not even be able
to fit them right now.

I hope that after the chemo
and the radiation is done

that I can go
and try to become a fireman

or a nurse or something

so we don't have to keep
living with people.

I'm hoping that
I get a good job soon

so that he doesn't have to see
what struggling feels like.

♪ I'm the master,
I'm the master ♪

♪ I'm the master,
I'm the master of ceremony ♪

♪ I'm the master of rites,
I'm the master ♪

♪ I'm the master of ceremony ♪

♪ I'm the master of ceremony ♪

♪ I'm the master of ceremony ♪

♪ I'm the master of ceremony ♪

♪ I'm the master of ceremony ♪

♪ I'm the master,
I'm the master of ceremony ♪

♪ Ever since
I knew how to rap ♪

♪ It's been the real...about
what I'm going through ♪

♪ What real niggas feel
so they can relate to it ♪

♪ Other niggas saying,
hating me, and doubting me ♪

♪ But I kept on writing music ♪

♪ In the process
of getting mad money ♪

♪ But for now, as I speak,
I'm still hungry ♪

♪ Price is legendary ♪

♪ Yeah, Price is legendary ♪

♪ Understand I'm concerned
about being ignored ♪

♪ But most of all,
I want to change ♪

♪ 'Cause Price got soul ♪

♪ Get it from my wife,
my son, my little girl ♪

♪ Wouldn't trade my son for
all the riches in the world ♪

♪ Or all the possessions
in the Earth ♪

♪ Before I'm in a hearse,
I release my music ♪

♪ I want to really work, and
I'm taking affirmative action ♪

♪ I'm an MC, I ain't a rapper ♪

♪ Confused, don't get it ♪

♪ Niggas hating now
more than the critics ♪

♪ I'ma drop this album
'cause they're waitin' ♪

♪ I'm soon to be nominated,
soon to be nominated ♪

♪ I'm the master,
I'm the master ♪

♪ From the karaoke,
I'm the master ♪

♪ Freestyle from the karaoke
to the booth ♪

♪ From the -- From the ♪

♪ Everything's starting
to change ♪

♪ Everything's starting
to change ♪

♪ Everything's starting
to change ♪

♪ Pain to draw my feeling
deep inside my soul ♪

♪ I can't see myself living old,
living old ♪

You used come -- I'd say,
"Price, come to the studio.

We're gonna record tomorrow,"
you was there.

But now, it just seem like
so much on your mind

and you doing so many things.

I don't know --
I don't know if...

But then, when I see you,
I only see the drunk side.

I never see the sober side
anymore.

I'm still drinking, you know,
like, real heavy.

You know, I admit.

You know, but, um,
at the same time,

as far as, like,
other substances,

I'm not -- I'm not...

It's hard when you down here
and you trying to get up here,

so, like, that's where
I'm at now.

Like, I feel as though,
like, I have --

I don't know what to believe,
to be honest with you.

We did hundreds and hundreds
of songs together.

I know what he's capable of.

He should have been out there.

Like, he would have been one
of the greats right now.

I think if Price would
have stayed sober,

I think we would probably
have been somewhere

a little bit further off
into the music business,

a little bit deeper.

Must...
- Glass of water?

- ...get doctor.
- You want the doctor?

Yep.

You all right?

Oh.

He just looks really cool.

He's not ready to be
a father yet.

He really can't focus a lot.

He just needs to talk
to his wife

about that a little bit more
and, like,

get her to understand it,
you know,

because she's always at work.

But it's not easy for her,
either.

Hard to believe -- scenes
of tragedy and destruction

in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

You're looking at what's left

of part of Breezy Point,
New York.

I hope each
and every one of you

had a wonderful weekend
this past weekend.

I hope each and every one of you
are ready to go to the polls

on Tuesday and vote your choice.

In fact, I'll be glad
when Tuesday is over.

I mean, we have been
bombarded with --

- Yeah.
- And this whole

birth-certificate thing
is Donald Trump.

This is, like, driving me crazy.

A lot of people have, like,
racist stickers on their car.

It's a picture
on Facebook, too,

also where Barack has
a noose around his neck.

- Oh, man.
- Yeah.

All this noose imagery too.
Yeah.

Voter-suppression efforts --

we were talking about that
a little bit earlier,

the voter ID and
the intimidation at the polls.

Good morning, everyone,
and if you're watching this

for your election-day
forecast and more,

Katie's in the weather center.
Good morning.

Yeah, good morning, Eugene.

You know, we've got
a pretty calm election day,

but it's a cold morning
out there --

still a lot of readings into
the 20s on our temperature map,

so make sure you bundle up for
whatever your day has in store

besides getting out
to the polls.

In the end, both campaigns
told us the same thing --

It's razor-edge close.

See, I didn't do nothing I was
planning on doing today.

Already.

You were the reason
for my status this morning.

What I say?
What you say? What?

"Not feeling my daughter
this morning.

If she were running
for president,

I wouldn't vote for her."

Say if I really
ran for president...

If you ran for president,

the world would think
I'm a crazy person

because I would be running down
the street screaming,

"Vote for P.J.!"

You know?

That's what we was doing
for Obama.

It was a bunch of us.

They say they was going
to have people standing in line

to overcrowd the voting parties

and try to make people not vote,

try to frustrate people
on voting...

- Really?
- ...or try to sway people votes.

You have to pay people
to do that.

That's what they do.
That's what they said.

We was talking about it
on the radio the other day.

- That they what?
- Find ways to frustrate you

or to sway your opinion.

You are good to go, sister.

Mommy said my new curfew
is 6:00.

Why 6:00?

Because it's
Daylight Savings Time.

Oh, and it gets darker, yeah,
a lot faster.

Yeah, but it's no point
in having a curfew at 6:00.

I mean, I might as well stay
in the house all the time

and just, like...

I don't get home
until, like, 4:30,

and then it take me
a couple, like --

and it take me a while
to do my homework and stuff.

Welcome to route three,
service to...

A lot of people say, you know,
their neighborhoods were tough,

but North Philly definitely
is a tough neighborhood.

P.J. has, you know, a curfew.

She has to be in
at a reasonable time.

She's rebellious about it,
but she doesn't disobey me.

Good morning.

I lived in the Diamond Street
projects when I was younger.

It was always rough
around there.

Crack came to Philly,
like, 1983.

They was getting
kids like us to sell it.

As time went on, I started
seeing what it was doing

to some of the people
in our communities.

People started fighting over it.

People started killing over it.

Knowing friends
would be around one day,

and then hearing that
they died the next day,

you could get tired of that.

When I was growing up,
our dad wasn't really around,

but I was fortunate, you know?

My mom really raised us right.

She taught me, instead of doing
something destructive,

do something constructive.

Bob Schieffer,
one of the states...

They're talking
about each state.

...that will tip the balance

for one of these men tonight
is the state of...

They're saying Romney most
likely going to get Virginia.

Obama most likely going
to get Ohio.

African Americans
that go to Iowa win.

People said, "Wait a minute.

This guy might be somebody
who's going to win."

Let me just
take a short pause.

Bear with me one second
while CBS News projects.

Ohh!

"CBS News projects
Obama re-elected."

They out there celebrating.

Dang, man.

I wish my mom
would've seen this.

She'd have been tripping.

The President, of course,
is in Chicago,

but here is the White House,

where he will be living

for the next four years,
it appears.

He will be inaugurated...

- ♪ Let's go, let's go ♪
- We trying to put people on,

give them something to do,
get them off the streets,

stop killing each other,
stop trying to hurt each other.

I mean...

God, it's...

What's up?

We going to get you
in the booth.

We going to get you on the mic,

and we going to see
what you got.

Yeah.
That's what we want to do.

Two people at a time
on the mic.

♪ What's up
with the tree ♪

♪ Tryin' to smoke the D ♪

♪ As for me, really can't see ♪

Y'all are really
making me mad.

I'm about to just say "...it,"
you know?

♪ And they get shot ♪

♪ And I'm about
to break through there ♪

♪ And make your top ♪

"Make your top"?
Make it drop.

What we doing here --
uncensored radio.

We trying to let the hood
do what they do.

♪ I lost a lot,
so I thank God I'm still here ♪

♪ But haters don't want me here,
and I can see it clear ♪

♪ Go ahead, make your move,
nigga, I double dare ♪

♪ I got a tear 'cause I wish
Hop was still here ♪

♪ I miss Lee, too,
this is what I go through ♪

♪ The North Philly jungle,
you all think I bought the zoo ♪

- Way to bring it back, boy.
- Brought it back.

Telling people.
We do this every Friday, right?

- Every Friday.
- Every Friday.

This is something
we trying to do...

Hit us up, MC.
Y'all head to the bars.

...to give our hood
a little something, something.

These guys,
when they come here,

I don't know
what's on their mind.

I just pray to God
it's just something

that we can work through
and help each other out.

These young men
need somebody to talk to,

and they look to you
for courage and encouragement.

♪ It's not like the violence ♪

♪ I heard you going
to your boy's funeral ♪

♪ Suited up like a client ♪

A sense of friendship,
a sense of worth,

something to hold on to,
something to call our own.

Yeah, newbie, this child

that I see y'all
messing with right here.

You know how we do.
- You got the seed.

Somebody needs to plant that
seed and let it grow, you know,

and that's what I'm trying
to do for my neighborhood.

I'm trying to plant that seed
and let it grow.

Yeah, hood, yeah,
the low-rider swing beat.

It's a swing beat.
It's like this.

That's what it is.
They like that swing beat.

Easy for them to get to.

The majority of those
who died today were children,

beautiful little kids between
the ages of 5 and 10 years old.

They had their entire lives
ahead of them --

birthdays, graduations,

weddings, kids of their own.

As a country, we have been
through this too many times.

Whether it's an elementary
school in Newtown

or a shopping mall in Oregon

or a temple in Wisconsin

or a movie theater in Aurora

or a street corner in Chicago,

these neighborhoods
are our neighborhoods,

and these children
are our children.

Don't let 'em take that ball.

Don't let 'em take the ball.

Chris had just
got out of the shower.

When I opened the door,

Portia, the little girl
from around the corner,

was running towards me,
screaming, "P.J. got shot."

So, like, all I can do is scream
at the top of my lungs

and run in the direction
she's talking about.

Now, mind you, the shoot-out
was to the left,

a whole block away.

P.J. was to the right,
a whole block away.

In my eyes, P.J. was on
22nd Street in a playground

playing basketball
like she always do.

Hey, Mom.
- Hi.

Still in surgery right now.

We're waiting for them
to tell us that she's out.

Man.

They removed the bullet,
or she lost the eye permanently?

All right.
Ready?

Take your --
Take your time, baby.

Take your time.
I've got you.

I'm going to put this
on your arm, sweetie.

It's okay.

You're gonna be out
of the hospital soon.

So, see that white car
right there --

on the left side
of the street,

left side of the street,
down the block?

She was right there
when I went there to go --

- Shh.
- When I found her.

Where I ran around the corner.

She says she was crossing
Hamburger Street

walking straight here.

She had turned the corner.

She had turned right here.

She had turned right here,
and she was walking this way.

The surgery went well.

Okay, that's good.
That's good.

They put the eye in
and everything.

- She all right?
- Yeah.

She going to be coming home
either Friday...

- Or Saturday.
- ...or Saturday.

- Or Saturday.
- Or Saturday.

- One of the two.
- And we going to try to do

something on the block for her,

I mean, so everybody
can come around and stuff.

She want deviled eggs,

mac and cheese,
cranberry sauce, and corn.

What?

She want deviled eggs,
mac and cheese,

cranberry sauce, and corn.

Definitely.

Okay.

- Hey, fellas.
- Mr. Chris?

- Yes, sir.
- Need us for anything?

Yeah. We going to clean
the block in a little bit

and just, like, try to give her
a little welcome-home thing.

She going to be
coming home Saturday.

- Say when? Saturday?
- Saturday, yeah.

- We'll be there wherever.
- Okay. Thank you, fellas.

Thank you very much.
All right, y'all.

- They got the bullet out?
- Yeah.

They took the bullet out.
It was no problem.

Had a little bit of nerve damage
inside of there,

but they said everything
all right, though.

She's not going to be able
to see out of there, right?

Going to look like
she can see out of it,

and it's going to move
just like a regular eye,

but she ain't going to be able
to see out of it, no.

She going to look like
it's normal again?

Yep. She look left,
it's going to look left.

She look right, same thing.
- That's good.

She going to be able to cry
out of it and everything.

She got to wear
them type of glasses.

The doctor described
a strap around the back

because they have to make sure

that nothing happens
to the other eye,

and she going to hate
them glasses.

Come on.

You keep going up there,
sitting by her door.

What -- What neighborhood
do you consider this?

Is this still -- Is this
Brewerytown, or what is...?

North Philly.

Excuse me.

It's her left eye.

- Her left eye.
- Yeah.

The way she described it,

what she said is,
she heard the shots.

She looked around,
and she saw the smoke

down the street,

but when she looked,
the bullet --

it felt like a rock
hit her in the eye.

Just seems like nobody cares

about this little section
of the city

except for the police officers
doing their job.

You know, other than that,

the only time politicians
come down here,

if they building
a new building, for what?

But so they can build
another prison or a casino?

They have no problem getting
a license for a casino,

but I only ask for is to have
somebody there after school

so the kids can have
something to do.

It's ridiculous.

She blaming herself
for getting shot.

I mean, I'm blaming myself
because I let her,

you know what I mean,
be out here.

When I see my child bleeding
from her face, screaming,

"Daddy, I'm sorry for getting
shot," what do you say to that?

Be safe, brother.

Definitely.

I tell you, this world really
turned into something

that really don't
care about nothing.

It's crazy.

Don't care about nothing
these days.

Young boys shooting,

they putting casinos
in nigga neighborhoods

and getting rid
of the...schools.

It's crazy.

I hear these shots every day.

Every day, I go out there

just to make sure
ain't nobody I know.

I never thought I'd go out there
for my child.

It's like I just, like...

watched my daughter's life
change instantly.

And probably maybe
two more steps closer,

she could've been dead --
probably a half an inch closer.

It could've penetrated
the back of her skull.

Lay your head down.
Lay it down.

This feels sticky. It's tacky.

- Don't put it on the edge of it.
- I know.

As long as it don't touch the
tape and don't run, it's cool.

It's all right, baby.

- P.J.
- It's Tim.

- P.J.
- You want to see Tim?

Your mom told you about
Aunt Sila's husband?

He was playing.

He was about your age,
and ran into a bush.

It went straight
through his eye.

He lost his eye, but now
he's riding motorcycles.

He's the top IT person
for the city of Philadelphia.

- I'm not good at --
- He drives a dirt bike.

Mnh-mnh.

Anything you put your mind to,
you can do.

Oh, boy.

Don't let nobody never
tell you you can't.

- Goodbye to you guys.
- It's right back?

Let me know if you see
one of your friends.

I see that's who you looking
for, to see if you see somebody.

Oh, they on
the basketball court.

We should ride around here
real quick.

They on the basketball court.

You ready?

Hmm?
You sure?

Yes, Dad!

- Okay.
- Come on down home now.

Come on, Tim.

I been praying for you, baby.

You been on my mind
since the thing happened.

All right.

It'll be all right.

This'll be moist,
and that will be moist,

so they went
and they attached it,

let the bones grow together
and everything.

- P.J.!
- What's up?

Wanted to ask you about --
you know, about your...

I would like to invest in
some awnings for this house.

This a moment
where I miss our tree.

Yeah, I miss the tree.
- The tree, yeah.

The tree definitely was shady.

And I just wanted
to let you know that

you're still beautiful,
and God loves you.

It was God's way of something
happening to God be the glory,

and know that,
at the end of the day,

that you are beautiful
no matter what.

No matter what, you --
- She is gorgeous.

She knows she's beautiful.
- Mm-hmm.

Aw, look at the pretty girl.

She wants to go in the house.

- Okay.
- Aw.

Smile!
You're still pretty.

Look how pretty she is.

Smile, pretty girl, smile.

Let me see that smile.

What's the matter, baby?
You all right?

Everybody gettin' on you --
You want some quiet time?

Huh?

You know what I'm saying,

you want everybody
to stay out your face?

Everybody keep making,
like, a big deal.

"You're still pretty."
I know.

Oh, my God.
I know I'm not ugly.

I'm not worried about my eye.

Y'all just make me think
about my eye more.

"You're still pretty.
You're not ugly.

Don't worry. Smile."

Reminding me of it again.

You talking about that lady?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

She was a little...
- She crazy.

I mean, everything she said,
she meant well,

but some things,
it's just not even --

You don't feel like
talking about them.

Mm.

I thought you wasn't
going to make it.

Well, you bad.
I'm going to beat you.

Yeah, I bet...

No. I think I can
shoot better, though.

I don't know why.
It feels -- It feels different.

- Let me try.
- You want to try?

Oh!

You don't know how to play
basketball at all?

I can't play basketball.

I got two left feet.

Somebody could have been
on 22nd Street,

and they would've died
from that bullet.

For it to just stop where it
stopped and not go any further,

it's got to be more
than just luck.

That's why I told you,
you got to go to church

because you got to thank
somebody else

and not thank me
for saving your life.

I just want a picture.

You don't want
a picture of me.

Yes, I do.

Hello.

- I'm just happy you smiling.
- Mr. Chris!

Yo, girl, you got me
messed up right here.

You look like you okay,
and I'm not.

That's the problem.

Hell, why is you crying?

I love you.

- I love you, too.
- Give me a hug.

- You keep hugging me.
- Ah, I love you.

- I'm okay.
- You okay?

Yes.

I'm going to stop
asking you that.

- Yeah. She says --
- Today is gonna be the only day

I'm gonna ask you, "Are you
okay?" over and over again.

Okay?
- Okay.

Not even give P.J. a hug.

Yeah. He was there he crying.

Hi.

Much love to everybody
in the hood.

Showing peace and love.

My name is Frank.

To peace and love!

♪ Unh, unh, unh, unh ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ This is what I see
in my reflection in the mirror ♪

♪ Things starting to change ♪

♪ Things starting to look
more clear ♪

♪ This is what I see in
my reflection in the mirror ♪

♪ This is what I see
in my reflection in the mirror ♪

♪ This is what I see
in my reflection in the mirror ♪

♪ Things starting to change ♪

♪ Things starting to look
more clear ♪

♪ This is what I see in my
reflection in the mirror ♪

♪ Even broke, down, and out ♪

♪ This is what I see in
my reflection in the mirror ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Down, down, do your dance,
do your dance ♪

♪ Let me see you ♪

♪ Down, down, do your dance,
do your dance ♪

♪ Down, down, do your dance,
do your dance ♪

♪ Down, down, do your dance ♪

♪ To the right, to the right,
to the right, to the right ♪

♪ To the left, to the left,
to the left, to the left ♪

♪ Now kick, now kick,
now kick, now kick ♪

♪ Now walk it by yourself,
now walk it by yourself ♪

♪ Let me see you ♪

Mom, what'd you take?
Don't take it on Instagram.

I'm just taking
a regular picture.

Don't...

Instagram is different
than a regular picture.

No, Mom. Let me see.

I look like a crackhead.

You look like a crackhead?

I thought you looked
like my daughter.

Well, how is she doing now?

She's doing very well
right now.

- Mm-hmm.
- She's out.

She's -- She's starting
to socialize

with her friends a lot more.

- Mm-hmm.
- She's coming out, you know...

We're definitely not
keeping her in a shell,

making sure that
she has room to...

- Grow...
- ...grow...

- ...and live her life.
- ...and live her life,

and, like, dealing with
the realization of her balance

and, like, equilibrium,

getting to learn through
all that over again.

Yeah. Yeah.

She's trying to get
her jump shot right.

Oh, she's still shooting hoops?

- Yeah.
- Yeah. She's trying.

She says,
"Nothing going to stop me,"

but she needs time to --
like, to heal mentally...

Okay. That's right.

...and that's where
we at with her.

I'm healing mentally.
I'm telling you the truth.

We are. We are.

'Cause I love your family
tremendously,

but I'm glad to see that
you are coming through this,

you and your very strong wife.
- Yeah.

Thank you very much for that.

My wife, she's such
a strong woman.

Actually, I haven't even seen
her break down yet, you know,

so, you know, we all have
our time for that.

- Yeah.
- You know, I just hope

I'm in the right place
at the right time

to be there with her.
- That's right.

At first, sleeping was hard.

Then there's the anger.

You don't know whether to cry,
be mad, go kill somebody.

When we first came home,
for her to get up

the first morning
and come downstairs,

and me to see
the patch on her eye

and remember that that was real,
that wasn't a dream,

there's anger, and there's
sadness and confusion

and just, like,
a whole fire in my heart,

because it shouldn't
have happened to her.

She didn't deserve it.

Some people don't get it
when I be trying to tell them

about what happened to me.

Look at my arms.

It's not a joke.

Look at my legs.

When I was 18 years old,
I ran through a fire.

My weave literally
melted to my hair.

My fingernails and toenails
started detaching from my body.

I went in my basement one night
to get some clean clothes

so I could leave out, and,
well, when I got down there,

my nose and my eyes
started burning,

and, well, it was like the wind
blew one time -- whoosh.

Everything around me
was on fire.

All my skin had bubbled up
by that point.

I had never seen
nothing like that --

like, that light spot
I got right there

covered all of this.

All of this was just
completely pink --

my face, everything.

And I remember, one day,
about two or three months later,

that that started filling in.

It took about 16 years for me
to get all this color back,

and all I can say for real is,
God is good all the time.

What I got to do for you
to send me copies?

No, where your music
that I gave you?

I just had --
I was high at the time.

You always high.

If I get my music
for the one last time,

you should be able to say,
"Okay, Price."

I'm asking now for months!

All I see right now

is you asking me to take another
chance on you before --

No. All you see right now
is the old me, the old me,

the person who used to come in,

take his music,
get high, lose it.

Yeah. That's what
I'm trying to tell you.

I'm not that same guy.

I'm trying to make you
see the new me.

All right, but listen.
New you is --

My music must really
mean a lot to you.

That's right.

- That's what it is.
- Yep. Yep.

So, if my music really mean
a lot to you,

how much you think
it mean to me?

So why you throw it away?

Why you ain't got it?
Why --

- I ain't got it...
- Where are your responsibilities?

...because I had an addiction
at the time.

Where are your
responsibilities?

But I'm changed now.
It's the truth.

It's the truth.

I had an addiction.

I'm over that now.

If I was the engineer
and you was the artist,

and you kept messing up,

I would give you
that extra hand.

I would lift out to you

because I would know
the history we have.

I know all the times we spent
in the studio recording,

constantly going in.

I remember that.
- Exactly.

Can I speak now?
All right.

I remember that, too,
so why do you think

I just want to throw that away
like you do?

If you so careless and carefree
about when I give you something

that you don't have no respect
for me when I say,

"I'm not going to
give you another copy,"

and then you still come here
and ask for another copy,

what respect do you got for me?

Because you know I'm a chump
and I'm going to give it to you?

'Cause you can't -- 'cause this
is not the first time,

it's not the second time,
it's not the third time,

it's not the fourth time,

it's not the fifth time,
it's not the sixth time.

- No, don't cross the sixth.
- Come on now.

- It's the fifth.
- Come on. Let's be real.

I'm borrowing the sixth.
You borrowing the sixth.

- Let's be real.
- No. Yeah.

- Are you invested in me?
- I'm -- Yeah!

- And I'm invested in you?
- Yeah!

I'm not letting my music
go out like that no more.

- Listen.
- No.

- Let's start over.
- Nope.

Nobody made
more albums than me.

- Price.
- Nobody.

- Price.
- Nobody made more albums.

Why wouldn't you want to do
business with a nigga like that?

But what I'm trying to tell you
is, how many times,

like, I give you something
before you --

Last time.

- Price, come on.
- I had an addiction.

I had an addiction.
- I had an addiction.

Well, you know
how the addiction is.

Exactly.
I know exactly how it is.

- It's hard to deal with.
- Right.

I had an addiction.

The music that I know now,

I would take it to the whole,
fullest extreme.

I wasn't the same way I was
a couple months ago.

He lost his wife...

his kids...

their house...

his -- his whole career here.

I need two people here.

- Right here?
- In here.

I need one person,
need a body right here.

Anything, any row.
- Go!

- Make them come back.
- Let's go!

I'm not going
to repeat myself.

I'm not coming in here tomorrow.

I am not losing this contract

because people want
to run a race.

Okay?

You're not taking food
off our our family's table

because y'all in a hurry.

- Anybody need bags?
- I need bags.

Okay. Now you can put
your headphones in,

the whole nine yards,
and it'll stay dry.

- Keep 'em dry?
- Yeah.

Thank you.

We gotta come all the way up?

- Yeah, two times.
- Two. Pharrell!

How far we up?

Okay. Get that strength.

Get that strength.

It's all right.

I know how you feel, babe.

Well, I don't know
how you feel, really.

I know it's something
to go through.

- Straight up.
- Good.

Do you want to hold it here?

Just hold steady.
- Hold steady.

I got the hand.
- It won't hurt you.

You'll just feel it.
One -- Let's count.

One, two...

Okay.

It really hurts.

- Okay. It's in.
- It's in.

Here's a tissue.
Here you go.

That's probably why it hurt,
the way you squeeze your --

Let me make sure your
eyelashes are turned out.

Okay.

Is it?
Yeah. I think so.

Hmm. Think so.

She's squinting
because it's tight.

She doesn't like
the way it feels,

but you'll get used to it.

You okay?
You okay?

You're doing fine.

- You feel achy?
- Yeah.

Okay.

How you feeling?

You can see how it's open more?

Mm-hmm.
Definitely.

But this eye can adjust this
and move this inward

towards her --
move it in towards her nose.

Going to be
a little straighter.

Just get it...

Last week, a young man
was shot and murdered.

It traumatized the community.

Now, prior to that,
in the summertime,

two other gentlemen got shot and
murdered here in our community.

What are the reasons
why people are still trying

to take over these corners
and kill each other?

It's, you know, senseless.

Nine times out of nine,
most of the killings

that's going on now

is the same guy that you ate
peanut butter and jelly with,

same guy that you played
football with out in the snow.

There's a better way.

You have to have something
to offer them.

You got to have something
to offer them.

Blacks in the community,
come out,

especially those that feel
hostage in their own home.

Me and my son
made this last night.

- Morning, Judge.
- Hey, Kim.

Good morning to you.
- Good morning, Father.

- How you feel, baby?
- Morning.

Morning.

Peace in the street.

Take care of your neighbor.

Love your brother.

Love your sister.

- Stop the violence!
- Increase the peace!

- Stop the violence!
- Stop the violence!

- Stop the violence!
- Stop the violence!

- Increase the peace!
- And stop the violence!

- Increase the peace!
- And stop the violence!

Eternal God, we thank you
for this wonderful day.

We thank you for this community,

and we're praying for its health
and safety and security.

Amen.

Amen.

When a gun is fired
in our community,

it ain't only
killing Christians,

it ain't only killing Muslims.

It's killing all of us.

So we must come together.

We should be
creating a movement.

That's right.

I appreciate the politicians
coming out here

for a soundbite.

Where they at now?

I appreciate all that,
but when they're gone,

and they come in here
and ask for your vote,

we the only ones
that's dealing with

this blood on our concretes.

We the only ones that dealing
with those mothers

that got to bury their babies

that never realized
their full potential.

They're getting
younger and younger.

Our last one was
a 13-year-old baby.

13!

He haven't even begin to dream.

How did Meek Mill and Jay-Z
become our leaders?

Where are Meek Mill
and Jay-Z at now?

To the young girls,
where are Rihanna, Beyoncé?

Where they at now?

Our first role models
should be us.

What's up, P.J.?
What you up to?

I heard you working.
- She got her ears on now.

- Huh?
- Mr. Davis talking to you.

- What did you say?
- I said, "What's up?"

What's been going on?
I hear you working.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

How you like your job?

It's all right.

I'm trying to get
my granddaughter a job, man.

Oh, yeah.

- You need help with anything?
- Yeah.

Do these earrings
go with that necklace?

I mean, they blue.
- Which ones?

See the blue?

You lazy.

- How am I lazy?
- She said, "Donations,"

and then you're going
to walk back there.

Unh-unh!

Why are you laughing at me?

Hey.

I used to just like people,
but I just never said anything.

I was scared what people
was going to think.

And then that's when, like,
in eighth grade --

that's when everybody,
like, really knew.

But my dad, he was like,

"I noticed that you been
hanging around gay people

all of a sudden,
and it's obvious,

and, like, are you gay?"

And I was like,
"Mm. I guess."

I don't hide it.

And this time of day,

it's like the whole
generation gay.

Like -- Like, everybody just...

I mean, some people just do it

because they think
it's like a fad,

but, like, they just be
trying to follow along,

but I'm not doing it
because of that

because, I don't know,
I really think I am.

♪ Raven hair ♪

One day, she had something
around her neck,

something a friend gave her,

and I said,
"Where'd you get that from?"

She said, "From my girlfriend,"

so I said, "Your girlfriend,
or your girlfriend, girlfriend?"

And she looked at me like,

" Come on, Mom.
My girlfriend."

I don't know what to say.

Like, what can you say?

You know, I don't want to be
the rebellious parent, like,

"You're not going to
be like that,"

because you can't tell somebody

what they going to be
when they grow up.

It's just,
long as it doesn't change

what's going on
in my household...

Right.

...I can't complain about it.

It's not my right.

There's so many levels
of being gay now.

It's, like, you know,
I thought it was just

either you gay or you not.

You know, now you -- just added
a third gay, or you're...

LGBT.
And what's the other two?

I forget.

Next week, I want to take her
to Deana and get her hair done

because, as I explained to her,

"You are stuck
with this picture."

But I'm going to ask Deana
to do it because --

Why? You keep saying --

I notice you keep saying,
"Deana." Why Deana?

- Let me finish.
- I -- You know --

The reason why she went
the direction she went

is because,
every time I had an idea,

you disagreed, and she agreed,

and then y'all accused me
of not doing enough with her

when you reinforced everything
I ever tried to do with her.

Please stop blaming me
for what your children went through...

I love you with all my heart.

...because it's not
my fault that she...

- I'm not saying...
- I didn't change her mind.

...it's your fault
or you changed her mind.

- You just did.
- But every time I try to do --

Majority of the time,
when I try to do something

that was some type of
feminine with my child...

- Don't do that to me.
- ...Daddy always intervene...

Don't put me in the middle

of what you and P.J.'s --
what she doing.

Well, all I'm asking you to do
is stop disagreeing,

and let me do
something with her.

Instead of you
using your boy idea,

let her run with being a girl
for a change.

Mm-mm.

Remember when
she was 2 years old

and you bought her
a little plaid boy outfit?

- Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
- Anyway...

- Hmm, hmm, hmm.
- ...that's real crazy.

No, what's real crazy
is the fact that...

- Can I wash your hair, then?
- ...you want to blame me

for everything that
you didn't do with P.J.,

like I just stopped P.J. and you
from living y'all entire life.

That's what's crazy.

Maybe one thing here and there,

but that did not decide
her fate of what she's doing.

Mm.

Right now, I'm kind of just
living life day by day,

not even thinking
about the future.

I'm still dealing with
side effects of the cancer.

You know, I still have
swollen hands, and I have...

My whole body's kind of swollen.

When I was getting my radiation,

I was looking at a waste bin
in a hospital,

and I just felt radioactive
at the time,

so I got this tattoo.

It means biohazard
or infectious waste,

because it's how
I feel all the time --

like a waste of space, you know?

I'm frustrated.

Every day.

And it's hard to deal with it.

They really just
pulled my man over.

- What're you doing?
- Yeah.

It's my husband,
so I'm going to make sure

my husband is all right.

This is crazy, man.

Move out the way.
You in the way.

Did something happen
around here?

Somebody bad
that look like him.

What?

Everybody...

No, I don't know what to do.
You -- Listen.

Last time --
- I just told you.

All right. All right.
Okay.

- What's your last name?
- Rainey.

- Rainey?
- Rainey, R-A-I-N-E-Y.

What they say?
- You fit the description.

I fit the average description
of the character --

jeans, yeah, white shirt,
baseball cap, jeans.

I'm like, "That's, like --
like, every person

in this neighborhood,
everybody's neighborhood."

Like, I know they know
they got the wrong person

because they didn't seem
like they was alarmed.

But he said it three times,

and he got more aggressive

every time he said it.
- Yeah.

That's what made me feel the
urgency to pull my camera out

because I saw that
he was already agitated.

I guess that, well,
they figured, you know,

I mean, they needed somebody
to check, you know?

Everybody is a suspect
until proven innocent.

It's just that
once I hear the beat,

this is how it's
going to run down.

Oh...

This a fresh one?

- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

This how we going to do that.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

♪ Yo, they thought
I wouldn't make it ♪

♪ They thought
I wouldn't take it ♪

♪ The title, smash your idol ♪

♪ We ball hard, it's something
like archrivals ♪

♪ I make them haters go west
like Fievel ♪

♪ Playing the game,
this homicide suicidal ♪

♪ Yeah, tell you
straight to your face ♪

♪ Ain't never
been scared of you ♪

♪ Better be prepared ♪

♪ Because y'all niggas wear ♪

♪ Trying to fit into my circle
when y'all are squares ♪

♪ Had it locked down from Philly
down to Delaware ♪

♪ But we ain't even care,
walk around with no fear ♪

♪ Cops on the block every day,
we ain't care ♪

♪ We moved out everywhere
where we went with no fear ♪

♪ They want me in the zone ♪

♪ They say, "Man,
just leave him alone" ♪

♪ Because you ain't
from the streets I roam ♪

I understand
what you're saying.

You don't have what you need
and what you want.

I can only give
but so much for --

I don't even need --

To be honest, I need
binders and papers...

- Mm-hmm.
- ...and, like, three books.

That's it.

Well, we got the three books.
We got one pad of paper.

We still need more paper.

Binders can be got on pay day.

I know you want to go to school
and look like you fly.

You know, just about
everything you want

costs, like, $100 apiece.

You want one pair
of sneakers cost $100.

Sneakers are different
from everything...

You spent majority of your
paycheck on one outfit.

- I did.
- That's $200.

You got one --
- I do not get $200, Mom.

I get $87 every check because
I have to buy a TransPass.

$87, you knew
that's not nothing,

and then I go shopping this --

Patricia, I bust my ass
at my job,

and when I come home,
from my paycheck,

you know how much money
I bring home?

About $234.

So I don't know how far
you expect that to stretch...

Mom, I wasn't even trying --

...when the gas bill
by itself is over $200.

Okay?

You get mad at us because we
don't got enough money for you.

I'm not even getting mad.

But you're getting an attitude,

and you're changing
your tone up...

- I'm frustrated.
- ...and this, that.

Yeah, I'm frustrated, too.

We're all frustrated.

We're not rich, and I'm sorry
that Oprah Winfrey is not here

to give you the wardrobe
that you need.

All things come in time.
You got to be patient.

You want your Wi-Fi to stay on?

I got to still work.

Bills got to come before
any piece of clothing.

Mom, I don't want
to talk about this.

Because it's not
going your way.

I understand.
Okay.

Poverty, rejection,

horrible education,

no housing, no homes,
no ownership,

crime at levels
that nobody has seen.

You can go to war zones in
countries that we're fighting,

and it's safer than living
in some of our inner cities!

To the African Americans,

what the hell
do you have to lose?

Give me a chance.
I'll straighten it out.

What do you you have to lose?

It is a disaster,

the way African Americans
are living, in many cases...

- You don't know how we live.
- ...and, in many cases,

the way Hispanics are living.

What do you have to lose?
I will straighten it out.

Holla.

Yeah.

You missed out.

♪ Oh, I lose control ♪

♪ Can't seem to get enough,
uh-huh ♪

♪ When I wake from dreaming ♪

♪ Tell me, is it really love ♪

♪ Ooh, how will I know ♪

Today, we know from reading
your paperwork,

we're definitely going to be
doing your plain drape

for the yearbook,
plus your cap and gown,

so when you get back here,
you're going to take pictures

with that hair over your eye?

- Yeah.
- I got it.

Just got it pressed
for the guy.

Oh, okay.
That's fine.

Um, so that's okay?
All right.

Just want to make sure you're
going to be happy with that.

Cell and your E-mail address,
sweetheart.

All righty.
So we're all done?

All right, so that'll be
just $20 today.

- Thank you.
- Okay. You're all set.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Hey, y'all.

The guys that shot P.J.
are still running the streets.

No one's come forward.

The pain is great.

I think about it a lot.

I'm just happy that she's here.

And I want her to have all the
chances that everybody else has.

All right.
10 minutes.

What's up with y'all, though?

People are always
questioning me,

"Well, why you do it?

Why do you keep
your studio open?"

I'm not going to take shelter
because of what happened to P.J.

It was a horrible,
tragic accident.

I wouldn't wish that on nobody,

but for me to run away
would not solve anything,

and to this day,
my doors are still open

every Freestyle Friday,

you know, for those same guys
that's in the neighborhood.

They still come to the studio.

That's just how we live.

♪ We surrounded by
violence, chaos, and conflict ♪

♪ Everybody in this world
have strengths and talents ♪

♪ Those who struggle
with mental illness ♪

♪ No matter who they are ♪

♪ They still living
poverty-stricken ♪

♪ Great people
with drug addictions ♪

♪ Transitional employment,
business before enjoyment ♪

♪ In the present, we build it,
and the past, we destroy it ♪

"Price Is Right,"
let me hear that one.

Oh, yeah. Oh, he ain't
hear the new cut

of "The Price Is Right."
- Yeah.

I can hear the beat now.

We ran through it, I'd say,
like, eight to nine years ago.

♪ Duh-duh, duh, duh ♪

♪ Duh-duh, duh, duh ♪

♪ Duh-duh, duh, duh, duh, duh ♪

♪ Duh-duh, duh-duh,
duh-duh, duh-duh, duh-duh ♪

♪ Duh, duh-duh, duh,
duh-duh, duh, duh ♪

I would like to introduce
a very good friend of mine.

He's a co-writer of most
of the songs that we do.

His name is Price.

I messed up.

We could've recorded
that whole thing.

That was -- That was art.

Man.

- Back to normal.
- That junk was art a little.

It could've been
our little practice run.

I'm about to be
Zaytoven out here.

You know Zaytoven?
- Zaytoven?

- Yeah.
- Somebody named Zaytoven?

- He a beat maker.
- Oh, okay.

Get it? He tough on the piano.

That's why he call himself
Zaytoven.

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Four, three, two, one.

Kick!
Got you!

Ha!

All right.
You need to stop jumping now.

Okay.

I don't know how he unties
his shoes like that, though.

It's like, when he walk,
he just go like this.

It just comes out.

All right.
No more jumping.

All right?
- All right.

Hey, Mom.

I do not have cancer anymore.

I'm in remission, and I just
moved into this new place --

two-bedroom, one-bathroom.

I don't want to live under
assisted living for long,

but it's a place where I can
cook my own meals and sleep.

All right.
Bye.

It's fun being a dad sometimes.

It's a lot of work all the time.

Yes.

His room, he found my markers
and wrote on the walls.

Now I got to fix all that.

I don't know what I would do
without Isaiah.

He's been there the whole time.

You know,
it's only been four years.

I felt like he been here,
like, my entire life.

Zay?

Isaiah Byrd?

Like that.

No. Like that.

Ah.

I love seeing the small
version of my children.

It's kind of fun seeing
my son be a father.

He's doing a lot better than
he did when he had the cancer.

He's a good father.

He loves his boy.

You know, I like
this grandma thing.

You know, I can take care
of him, spoil him rotten,

and send him back home.

It's kind of decent.

Please leave your message.

Hey, Will.
It's your mom.

I was calling to check up on you
and to ask you if you voted yet.

Give me a call.
Let me know.

Talk to you later.
Bye.

P.J. out running around
right now.

I'm trying to figure out
what time she going to come home

because she said she had
something to do after school.

She really starting to worry
about how she looks.

Now she saying, "Dad,
I think my eyes too small.

I think I need a bigger eye."

Somebody must have said
something to her about it.

Mm.

But, you know, I experienced
ignorance like that.

I had children refer to my burns
and say, "What? You can't cook?"

But...

You know, sometimes I actually
forget about you got burned?

Mm.

Like, like, I'm so used
to being with you,

and we been together so long.

It's almost 20 years now.

Mm-hmm.

Dad?

Dad?
- Yeah.

Can you help me?

That was -- Now you was
underneath it, but you...

- No, I never had it.
- Yeah.

Is it straight?

Yeah.