Ragdoll (1999) - full transcript
A teenage rapper uses his Gran's magic powers to help him in his revenge against those who put her in the hospital.
♪ Oh, yeah
♪ Well the ragdoll gonna get you
♪ They're gonna get you tonight
♪ Well you'd better
watch your step
♪ Where you're walking
♪ Don't you know the ragdoll's
♪ Gonna get you
♪ Mama done told me
♪ Oh, and papa done told me too
♪ That if you go round
♪ Somebody's gonna get you
♪ So the ragdoll's gonna get you
♪ You'd better hold yourself
♪ You'd better watch yourself
♪ Cause the ragdoll's
gonna get you
♪ Oh, oh
♪ The ragdoll's gonna get you
♪ You'd better watch your step
♪ Watch your step
♪ You'd better watch
where you're going
♪ You better watch what you say
♪ Cause the ragdoll's
gonna get you
♪ Might get you today
♪ Oh the ragdoll
♪ Is gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna
♪ Gonna, gonna,
gonna get you tonight
♪ Oh, hey hey
♪ I'm tellin' you the ragdoll
♪ Hey, is gonna get you
♪ Yes it is ♪
(crickets chirping loudly)
(suspenseful music)
- Sylvie!
Sylvie!
- [Sylvie] Quiet!
- [Voiceover] Sylvie,
I got an idea.
- No, you can't stop it,
it's come for its' pay!
Take her, take her upstairs!
- I won't.
- No, you can't stop it!
I don't want her to see.
- Come on, Alvie, come on!
- [Alvie] Mama!
No, no, Mama, I
don't want to go!
- Go with your Daddy.
- [Alvie] Mama!
- Go with your Daddy, angel.
(Alvie screams)
- Mama, Mama!
- Keep still, keep
still come, come on.
(clunk)
- I know you.
And what the careless
master did to you.
So you'd come back for
the Shadow Man's pay.
Is that it?
Did you kill like I say?
(screams some
foreign-like phrase)
(Sylvie's terrified screams)
- Come on, I want
you to go with me.
(frantic panting)
I know your mama
told you things,
and I know you got her blood.
But I want you to
see what happens
when you conjure up the
magic of the killing kind.
Come on.
- Mama?
- Hush, baby, hush.
Nothing can save
you when you deal
with the Shadow Man.
(soft mystical music)
- Make my plea smoke,
make my plea fire.
Make my plea go up to heaven
by my magic,
by my charm,
(utters magic phrase)
Send a cure to Mary
Hern's bad back.
By my magic, cassea.
(swishing)
- Hey, you, Gran.
Have you seen my red shirt?
- Hush, Kwame.
Can't you see Gran's
conjuring here?
- Hey, look Gran, I've
got to be in the Club
in like seconds, okay?
- Well, your legs ain't broke.
Go on now, they're
in the laundry.
Gran's got work here.
- Yeah, I can see that.
Look, maybe you could
conjure up my red shirt.
- Maybe I can conjure
my red slipper
upside your head
if you don't scat,
and leave me be.
- Whoo, alright then, Gran.
I'm out of here.
(swishing)
(doorbell chiming)
- [Kwame] Hold on,
hold on, hold on,
I'm coming, I'm coming.
Hey, fellows, how you doing?
- Hey, just fine.
- Come on, Kwame, you
ain't ready yet, man?
- Hey, look man,
all I got to do is
put on a couple of
buttons and I'll be ready.
Damn, Teesha.
You are looking extremely fine.
- Wait a minute.
I don't normally look this good?
- How I look, how
I look, I mean.
- That ain't even
nothing close to what
I'm trying to say to you.
And you, you just ugly.
Look at my face, uh, uh.
- Okay, okay.
- [Teesha] So, wait a minute.
- Cause you making
Bobby Brown look it.
- What?
- Yeah.
- So, I always look like this,
is that what you're saying?
- No, baby, you
ain't hearing me.
I'm not saying
anything like that.
- Come on, yo, they
got this invention,
and it's called time.
- [Kwami] Alright
- We need to be on it.
- You know I don't like
that fussy mama thing.
I'm almost done.
Two more buttons
and I'm out, okay?
- Well, come on it.
- Look, one, two.
- Now, from my boy,
KT Bounce.
- You, you, you give
it up everybody,
give it up!
(cheering and applause)
♪ What
♪ You want to wave hands, do ya
♪ Shocked and
stuff, gonna get up
♪ Like this
♪ Uh huh, what, what
♪ What, what, what
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Uh huh, what, what
♪ Get your hands up, hands up
♪ Let's get up and
a funky funky jam
♪ Have a celebration,
then we'll tell you
♪ Who we am
♪ We KT gonna make you beat
oh you into the lead league
♪ Cause I just want
you to party with me
♪ Get up, get up
♪ And have the funky, funky jam
♪ Get up, huh, and that's
the master, master plan
♪ If you work it like
that, let the beat
♪ Go left, right,
left, right, left, left
♪ Left, right left
♪ And get up
♪ Steppin' with me, what, what
♪ You rollin' with the KKT
♪ Bouncin' in the bass to beat
♪ Teacher, teacher, tell
'em what we're doing
♪ We party and we're
movin' and we're groovin'
♪ And we goin' and we
showin' that was goin'
♪ Yet we never, never knowin'
♪ And if you just
want to hit it with me
♪ You got to get up with
somebody else to see
♪ Get up, get up, get up
♪ Count the people
freakin' put your hands up
♪ Hands up, keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up
and keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get up
♪ Get the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Yeah, get up, and get
those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Everybody say yeah
♪ Say yeah
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Now, scream
♪ Scream
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, get up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ KT don't stop ♪
(cheering and applause)
- Yeah!
(Teesha laughing)
- That was something.
- Aw, God.
- You were good, man, you say
the same thing every time.
- Yeah, man, you was blazing.
I don't know what
you're talking about.
I was pretty damn
good, too, though, huh?
- You was top.
- What about me, what about me?
- Well, I'm going to stay away
from that subject.
- Black and ugly as ever.
- Whoo!
People, what is going on?
How we doing?
- We hanging, what about you?
- Cool, I'm cool.
Look, I want to ask
you guys something.
Who's your rep?
- Our rep?
- Yeah, your agent.
- Well, you know, we kind
of book our own gigs, right?
- Well, look.
I rep a bunch of
groups, nothing big,
but they're happening people.
You guys say the word,
we could make things work.
Look, you guys call up,
you come down, and you see me.
- Shit.
- Ha ha, no shit man.
You ask around.
You guys are all over
18 though, right?
- Yeah.
- [Kwame] Yeah, we straight.
- Uh, yeah.
- Well, we can make
this work then.
So you guys coming down?
- Hell, yeah.
- [Teesha] Heck yeah.
- Well, actually, you
know, we got to talk
about this first, you know?
- No, no problem.
You guys talk about it,
then you come see me.
- Peace.
- [Kwame} Alright.
- Alright, Man.
(laughs)
- I love you guys.
Each and every one of you.
- [Teesha] Peace.
- Alright, man.
Hey, man, you were kind of cold.
- Well, you know
you've got to be.
Someone hands you one of these,
you just got to be
real cool about it,
you know?
- Yeah, baby, you
were really cold.
- Aw, these two.
- Ah, shit, ya'll, this
fool was a real agent.
(cheering)
- Whoo hoo!
KT Bounce, I love ya'll.
Ooh, I'm sorry, we we're fans.
- Hey, uh, Mr. LaHart,
you know, the owner?
He don't allow people
to come down here
with out passes.
- Oh, oh now, don't worry
about him, he ain't
gonna do nothing.
Or he sure ain't
gonna bother us.
- [Kwame] Now look, we
- Oh, I'm sorry, little
rapper, you know
who we are, right?
- Yeah, you're Big
Pere's brothers.
- That's right.
This big motherfucker
over here is Gene,
and I'm Little Mikey.
So now with you
knowing who we are,
am I right, you know who we are?
- Yeah.
- You don't want to be
saying, "Now look," to us.
What you want to be
saying is, "How can I help
"you, brother?"
- How can I help you
brother?
- Okay, here's what we gonna do.
Ya'll go ahead and
pack up all your shit,
get your shit, cause we
going on a little adventure.
Yes, shit.
- We ain't going
nowhere with you.
- No, I didn't say
ask Little Mikey
some bullshit question!
I said, "Get your shit."
- [Gene] For sure.
- Okay, here we are.
Go people, move it.
You ever been to
Big Pere's before?
Of course not.
You wouldn't know class
if it stepped on you.
Oh, these little brat
rappers give me a rash.
Move it!
(soft music)
Marvie, how are you?
It's good to see you.
Glad you can make it.
Big Pere's gonna be with you
in just a little minute, okay?
- If I could talk
to him right now.
- Why don't you go
sit the fuck down
at the end of the bar.
This is your chair here.
What is this, King's Mark,
I like what you've done.
Is this Japanese?
Sit down.
Oh, yes.
- Teesha, Teesha, look.
It's Big Pere.
- How ya'll doing?
No, no, sit your asses down.
That's one talented
motherfucker there.
Kwame.
- Yeah, that's me.
- Shoot, I know.
You the man to talk to.
Am I right?
- Talk to about what?
- About your hoo,
whatever you call it,
uh KT, whatever.
- Look, man, I don't even know
what you're talking about.
What do you want from us?
- You know me, don't you?
- Yeah.
- I mean my reputation.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- Oh, I see, I see,
you try to show your balls.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, sure.
Okay, I see the big
motherfucking things,
now tuck them back
in, why don't you?
Okay.
Well apart from my
reputation being a mean,
crazy ass, fat, black cut
your heart out and eat it
grand motherfucker,
I personally think
of myself as being
in the happy business.
You know.
Whatever make people happy.
Good food, good
weed, good piecing.
(chuckles)
Uh, you know what I mean.
But I know what else
makes people happy.
Music.
So, I say to myself,
Big K, you know there's
some folks you want to
be in business with.
And you know I'm
branching out in all sorts
of directions, and I
always like to showcase.
You know, songs and shit.
See that?
That ain't empty.
That's money in that hand.
That's power.
That's my brains.
My ambition.
That hand, that hand
hold a whole lot
of important shit.
And I want you in there.
- What?
You want us in there?
- What do you mean?
- He means he wants
us to work for him.
- Oh, no, no, no, I
want to work for you.
Next thing you know,
I'm going to get you
places you never
fucking dreamed of.
Kwame, come on, motherfucker,
put your hand there.
Put yourself there.
You won't regret it.
I guarantee it.
- Kwame!
- Come on, man, what's the deal?
- Come on, Kwame,
what you doing?
- Look, we got to
think about it.
- Oh what, you want to
weigh my pros and cons,
it that it?
- Yeah, something like that.
- Alright, well, I'm
nothing if not reasonable.
Ya'll go and think about it.
We're just gonna see
how it all wash out.
Just going to see
how it all wash out.
You want to hold
on just one moment?
See, Marvin here's been waiting.
Come on, Marvin, let's
go talk for a minute.
Now, ya'll be cool, alright?
I'll be right back.
- I don't know man.
He seems like a nice guy.
- Are you stupid?
(stumbling footsteps)
(crash)
- Damn.
(thud)
(boom)
(thud)
(bump)
(bam)
(yelling and pounding)
Let's get the fuck out of here.
(yelling and thumps)
- You know, Kwame, you
ought to talk to somebody
about this.
- Who?
Pastor Charlie?
The social worker at school?
- I mean the police.
- The police.
And what are they gonna do?
Well?
Look, Gran, these guys,
Big Pere and his two brothers,
they're into everything.
Drugs, prostitution,
loansharking,
murder, everything.
Now if the police could
do something about them,
and I'll make them
believe right about now
that they even want to
do something about them,
don't you think they
would have already?
And if they can't do
nothing about them
for all of that,
what makes you think they
gonna swoop their asses
on down here and arrest Big Pere
because he asked
to be our manager?
I mean, he didn't even
threaten us in so many words.
And I'll tell you
something, Gran,
when you see a guy get
his face broke in half,
and shoved into a
bunch of hot grease,
you don't need so many words.
- Well, maybe you and
Teesha and the others,
maybe you ought to
just give it up.
- Give it up.
Why didn't I think of that?
Give it up.
Yeah.
But you know something, Gran?
I just don't remember
Big Pere offering us that
as an option.
Jeez.
You know, I really
wish that stuff you did
in your conjuring
room really worked.
I would love to send
some big black magic
against Pere right about now.
And shove his ass
in a deep fryer.
Damn him, damn him to hell!
(slap)
- Now, you listen to me, Kwame.
Don't make no mind to me
what you think or don't
about my conjuring, but
the magic's in your blood,
same as it's in mine, same
as it was in my mama's.
And that magic puts
power in your words!
- Gran.
- No, boy.
Some things you
don't speak lightly.
You, you think I,
ain't, ain't got spells
over in my conjuring room?
Magic that can
wither a man's limbs,
or cause them a cancer, or
send out a killing thing?
You think I can't do it?
I could show you things
that'd wither your soul.
But it don't come for free.
Whatever you do
with the art, Kwame,
it comes back on
you, good or bad.
A conjurer can't call up
the magic of the killing
kind unless he's willing
to pay the price.
And that ain't a
price I'm gonna pay.
Nor you neither.
- Don't worry, Gran.
I ain't looking to your
conjuring to solve my problems.
It can't hurt nothing,
and it can't save nothing.
So I guess nothing's
about all it's good for.
But don't ya'll worry.
I'm going to solve my
own problems myself.
- How, Kwame?
Kwame, solve it how?
- I'm going to give
Big Pere his answer.
- So, Big Pere, he's this
big time gangster, right?
What do we care?
We just need somebody
to get us out there.
Somebody to promote us.
- KT, in the house!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
What's all these long faces?
The crowd is hyped,
and ya'll going
on in two minutes.
Not one, uh uh, but two.
Alright?
- Alright.
[Teesha] Okay.
- We'll be there.
- In two.
KT.
- Now.
Look, look, look.
Maybe it's not so bad.
I mean, maybe he can
get us this record deal
finally.
I mean, at least get some
airplay or something,
come on, ya'll.
- Hey, Teesh, you
been pretty quiet.
What do you say?
- What do you want me to say?
If we say yes, we lose.
If we say no, we lose.
When it comes down to
it, what can we do?
- Sh, Miss Negative over here.
- I'm not being negative.
- Yes you are.
- Come on, ya'll, you
act life somebody died.
We KT Bounce.
Come on, man, let's go perform,
besides, I saw some
honeys upstairs.
Yeah.
- That's what I'm talking about.
- [Teesha] He doesn't
want to either.
- You're already there.
- [Kwame] You think so?
Come on.
KT Bounce!
Baby!
Whoo!
♪ I'm gonna give it to you
♪ Anyway that you want me to
♪ Mm, we can do it all night
♪ If you're feeling right
♪ I keep it coming on strong
♪ So slow
♪ And you won't have to wait
♪ No longer
♪ Yeah
♪ Cause I'm going to
give it to ya, yeah
♪ You own it, you need it ♪
(applause and cheers)
- Alright, alright,
let's give it up
my girl April.
Now, let me bring out my boys,
KT Bounce!
(applause and cheers)
- Yes, give it up,
KT Bounce in the house.
- Everybody clap your hands.
- Hold up, hold up, hold up.
Alright ya'll.
I want to dedicate this next set
to an upstanding
fat ass New Orleans
drug pusher, murderer, pimp.
Big Pere, ya'll.
Give it up.
Now you see, he wants
to take KT Bounce over.
But I got an answer for you.
Now, I can't speak
for nobody but myself,
but knowing what's
been in your hand,
there ain't no way
I'm gonna be in it.
So, if you want to
kill me, go ahead.
But you do that shit now.
Otherwise, you get
the fuck out of here!
(applause)
- You know what?
That's for me, too!
- Yeah, me, too.
♪ So check it, get out my face
♪ Why, you comin' here
with all that bullshit
♪ What you think I'm
gonna live and bleed
♪ Hell no, stop sniffing
up them lines, what
♪ What, you think I'm gonna
sign on that dotted line
♪ But I ain't and I
cain't do all that
♪ Because everything I
do is gonna be on track
♪ Listen to the shit I say
♪ Little kid brother
with no delay
♪ I ain't gonna be
playin' no games man
♪ Cause I'm true to
this, not new to this
♪ I know how to get down
with this KT Bounce thang
♪ Nah, you ain't gonna
take this from me
♪ Cause we gonna
make this money, yeah
♪ You better know,
we go toe to toe
♪ With anybody, we
represent that N-O
♪ Hot like songs
all up his legs ♪
(doorbell chimes)
♪ Yeah, you feel that heat, bro
♪ Get out my face,
♪ Get out my face
♪ Get out my face
♪ Get out my face ♪
(telephone ringing)
- Yeah, what?
- What?
Hello?
Oh, my God.
Excuse me.
Could you tell me where
Suzette DeVol's room is?
- Room 117.
- Thank you!
Gran, Gran.
- [Teesha] God, Kwame.
- I knew some kind
of bad shit was gonna
come out of this.
- Shut up, man.
- Hail, hail the
gang's all here.
It's about time ya'll got here.
- You fucking piece of shit!
- [Teesha] No, man.
It's not even worth it.
- You better listen
to your girl, Kwame.
What you gonna do
with that chair, huh?
You gonna beat me
to death with it?
You don't want to
do that, Kwame.
You don't want to do nothing.
Now, take this like it's
coming from a friend.
Don't do nothing's
that's gonna jeopardize
your Granny's recovery.
Cause folks in the
hospital, they get better,
then they get worse
all of a sudden.
And when that happen,
there ain't nothing can
be done to stop it.
There ain't nothing can
be done to change that.
You hear what I'm saying?
Now, I'm gonna come by
your place tomorrow.
I got some shit I
want ya'll to sign.
We gonna go places together.
Yeah, I'm gonna take
real good care of ya'll.
Ya'll my niggers now.
(dark music)
(rustling papers)
(mystical percussion music)
(liquid pouring)
(clinking)
(soft rattle)
- Ah.
(sizzling)
I
call on you
Shadow Man.
I call on you to make a bargain.
And I call on you, Shadow Man
by your secret name.
I call on you, Shadow Man.
(rattling)
(rushing wind)
What, what.
Oh, oh!
- What do you want, Kwame?
- I want, want, wait, what
happened to the lights?
- I did.
Where I am, Kwame,
there's only shadows.
If I stood in the noonday
sun, the whole world
would go dark.
What did you think I'd be like?
- I'm not sure.
- Are you afraid of the dark,
Kwame?
- I'm,
I'm not afraid of you.
- Tell me what you want.
- I want.
I want you to kill Big Pere
and his two brothers.
- I could do that for you.
What will you give me in return?
- I don't know.
Whatever you want.
Except for my Gran.
If anything else
happens to my Gran,
then the deal's off.
- Agreed.
I will take my pay as we go.
Here it is.
Now, where do we put it?
- What is it?
- This is the killing
magic that you bought.
But we got to put
it in something.
- I don't get you.
What do you mean?
- We must put it in
something bad, Kwame.
That will do it.
(spooking tinkling music)
(Shadow Man groans)
(sizzling)
- Whah.
(Shadow Man laughs)
- Oh, my God.
(doll continues to
make demonic sounds)
- Oh, don't be like that.
Old Ragdoll here gonna
get you what you want.
Come and see, come and see,
come and see.
And now, we just
let it do its' work.
(doll hisses and shrieks)
- And the price?
- Oh, don't you worry.
Ragdoll will handle that, too.
It's always a pleasure
doing business
with your family, son.
- But what.
Damn.
- Put your hands together
The war is on,
Voux Doux.
♪ Don't get mad at me
♪ That's your man I see drinking
♪ My thousands got
you balling your fists
♪ It's an embarrassment,
miss, I'm fly
♪ Deal with it, you think
I let some rinky dink
♪ Act run up in this
♪ I'm tryin' to have a good time
♪ Till it hurts, no need to work
♪ I'm confident
that teachers knew
♪ How to party from birth
♪ What you all know
about a Louisiana Creole
♪ The Voux Doux oh,
they got north, east
♪ West, south evil
♪ Just play that ego
and let your body
♪ Do the talkin' when I
walk by all the sister
♪ They stare and stalk and
say well she think she cute
♪ He said it and I'm
agreeing and all the ladies
♪ Hold your hands up in
the cloud and so free
♪ Well, let's put
your hands in the sky
♪ And yell with us, voo voo
voo was Voux Doux fabulous ♪
- There.
- There we go.
Aha, that's a fine
piece of penmanship.
- Oh, yes, that's a
very nice John Hancock.
Oh, I said cock,
didn't I, I'm sorry.
- Now we all friends, huh?
That's a good thang.
- Don't we get a copy?
(laughter)
- Oh, he's full of shit.
- You sure this is gonna go?
- Well, you just watch us.
They're still here.
- I don't think he
chose us at all.
- Now, we all happy, huh?
How about you, little girl, huh?
You happy?
- No, I ain't happy.
But I do what I got to do.
- I got to do what I got to do.
You go ahead and do it, girl.
♪ Do it till you're satisfied
♪ Whatever it is
♪ Do it, do it till
you're satisfied ♪
- What about this
bad ass nigger?
(laughs)
You're start throwing chairs?
Or you gonna do
what you got to do?
Huh?
- I already did
what I got to do.
- I got this rap.
- Mm, mm, mm.
♪ Is it my hair
Whoo!
♪ Is it the clothes I wear
♪ Is it my bit
♪ I'm sorry that I
make more ins than you
♪ So tell me again
♪ Tell me what's my sin
♪ Is it your policy ♪
Whoo!
(doll makes demonic sounds)
(needle scratching vinyl)
What?
♪ You're messing
with mine and me
♪ Yeah, hey, whoo
♪ Hey ♪
- Ah, ah, ah.
Ah.
- What the fuck?
(screaming)
- Oh, my God.
- Hey, fellows, what's up?
- It's seven o'clock.
- [Teesha] Hey.
- Hey, Kwame, did you
hear the good news?
- It's not good news, man.
- Yes it is.
- What good news?
- Pere's brother.
Somebody killed him yesterday.
- [Voiceover] Yeah, and
they skinned his face, too,
just for fun, so bad.
They didn't even put his
picture in the paper.
- Man, you talk about
adding insult to injury.
- Hey, man, that ain't funny.
- What?
- I said that ain't
funny, so don't be making
no smart ass, bullshit
remarks, okay?
- Come on, man,
what's up with you?
- Nothing's up with me,
what the fuck's up with you?
- Yo, Kwame, he's just kidding.
- Damn, man, I don't
know why you're getting
so bent out of shape for, man.
It just means we have
one for less to worry us.
You know what I'm saying?
- [Voiceover] Yo!
- Hey.
What's wrong with you?
What's going on?
- Teesh.
- [Teesha] What?
- It's nothing.
- Tell me.
- Teesh, if you.
If you had to do
something wrong,
you know to stop
somebody from doing
the worse wrong,
would that be wrong at all?
I mean, if it came
out better in the end,
all around.
- I'm not getting you.
- I mean, we all got to
deal with God, right?
When the time comes?
So other than that,
oh man.
- What?
Please talk to me.
- It's nothing.
It's nothing.
Look, if somebody killed
Big Pere's brothers,
then, then that's all
the better for us.
Am I right?
I mean, that's
better for everybody.
Better for the whole damn world.
Ain't nobody got to feel
bad about that shit.
Am I right?
- Sure, Kwame, whatever.
- Yeah, man, whatever
you say, man.
- Yeah, yeah.
Everything's gonna be okay.
- It is.
- Hm, mm.
- Is she going to be okay?
- Yeah.
She'll be okay.
She's just having a bad dream.
Hey, Gran, Gran, take it easy.
It's, it's just a
bad dream, Gran.
You're going to be okay.
It's just a bad dream.
It's okay, Gran.
♪ Keep stepping with me
♪ You're messing
with the K to the T
♪ Get out my face
♪ Get out my face ♪
(squeaking)
(clang)
- [Ragdoll] Ah.
Whah.
(knocking)
(knocking)
Whah.
- [Voiceover] Kwame!
Whoo hoo.
- [Ragdoll] Ah.
(squeak)
Ah.
- What the fuck?
Ah!
Ah, no!
No, ah!
(Ragdoll chanting demonically)
(screams)
- Thanks for coming with me.
- You know you don't
have to thank me.
So, are you going to be okay?
- Yeah, I will be.
- Everything's
going to be alright.
- Thanks, baby.
- Mm, you're here
all by yourself.
- Hm, yeah I am, aren't I?
- Are you going to invite me in?
- Yeah, come on.
(Teesha gasps)
- [Teesha] Oh, my God!
- [Kwame] Oh my God!
Oh my God!
- [Teesha] Oh, my God!
- [Kwame] It's Gem, Gem!
- Somebody killed him!
- [Kwame] Oh, my God!
Nobody picked this shit!
- [Teesha] Ew!
- Come on, baby, get up.
I want you to go over there
to the Bonaventures, okay?
I want you to call the police!
- No!
- Please, please baby
- [Teesha] Don't leave me!
- Listen to me.
Okay, I've got to get
back to the hospital
and get to Gran, okay?
So just do what I say.
Go, go!
God!
(pounding footsteps)
Where is everybody?
- Well, well, well.
If it isn't the bad motherfucker
I wanted to talk to anyway.
- Why'd you do it?
- Say what?
- If you wanted
to kill somebody,
why the fuck didn't
you come and kill me?
- Kill who?
- Gem, motherfucker,
don't act like you
don't know what
I'm talking about!
- Well, you bad ass
motherfucker, guess what?
I'll tell you whatever the
fuck I want to tell you.
And if I don't want
to tell you shit,
I'll do that, too.
And don't worry about
me lying to your ass,
you want to know why?
Cause a little bad ass
motherfucker like you
ain't worth lying to, cause
nobody give a half a shit
what you know or don't know.
So you know what
you're gonna do now?
You gonna sit your black
ass down right there,
move it, sit your
black ass down!
For you and your granny
ain't gonna have a head
left between the two of you!
Move it!
And keep your eye trained
on that third eye,
because that third eye is
watching you, motherfucker.
Yes, it is.
(thud)
Now, you listen
up, motherfucker.
I don't know shit
about your friend,
and I don't give a
shit about your friend.
You want to know why?
Cause under normal
circumstances, you and your
friends together ain't
but a small piece
of fried shrimp on a
whole plate of shit
I got to eat anyway.
But these ain't
normal circumstances.
Somebody done skinned my
brother's face clean off.
And I been spending
the last couple of days
talking to myself about it.
How about you, you been
spending some time,
talking to yourself about it?
- No, bitch.
I've been too busy celebrating.
- You know, balls don't do a
man no good when they cut off
and sewn to his face, so
I'd watch who the fuck
I'm talking to!
And don't think I don't
know about Granny,
and her conjuring shit.
I know that shit
run in the blood,
don't think I don't know it.
- My Gran ain't got
nothing to do that.
- Shut the fuck up!
Look like Granny here waking up,
maybe she got the answer.
No, no, no, motherfucker!
Sit your black ass
down, unless you want me
to perform some mean ass
brain surgery on grandmother
over here.
Sit down.
Cause you know how
I hate needles.
You hear that, Granny?
Is that what happened?
Kwame been playing
with the family magic,
is that it?
- Man, leave her alone!
- Shut the fuck up!
Is that what he done did?
Huh?
(growling)
What the fuck?
What the fuck is this?
What the fuck is that?
(screams)
(demonic shrieks and sounds)
(agonized screams)
(clunk)
(terrified screams)
- Then the Ragdoll grabbed
onto Little Mikey's face,
and they were wrestling
around on the ground,
and then the Ragdoll stabbed
Little Mikey with a bunch
of hypodermic,
hypodermic needles.
And yes, I had Little Mikey's
gun, but I didn't use it!
- And that's Kwame's statement?
- And he signed that?
- Yep.
- What the fuck you
think's going on here, boy?
You think this is
an X-Files episode?
You think you're on a
fucking TV show here?
Well, let me tell you
something, you stupid
little motherfucker.
Let me tell you something.
You ain't going nowhere
till I get some sense
from you, you hear
what I'm saying?
Yeah, we'll put your
little minor ass
in a real jail
with the big boys,
that's what we'll do with
you, how'd you like that?
(bang)
Dammit you're lucky he's here!
Write some shit like that.
(thud)
(phones ringing)
(dispatcher over police radio)
- I already told you
everything I know.
- And I don't even know that.
- So, what you're
telling me is, Big Pere
wanted to be like repping
your rap group so bad,
that once he makes
you sign the contract,
he turns around and
kills one of you?
That's the idea?
- Maybe.
- Oh, right.
Right.
He figured that in
the whole, wide world,
you four kids were the ones
that did his brother, Gene.
And that's why he did what
he did to your friend, Gem.
That's the idea.
- No, no, the idea
is you go ask him.
Because I would love to
see how you ask Big Pere
questions.
You do that, "That's
the idea" shit with him,
or is it more like, "Thank
you so much, Mr. Pere
"for finding the time to
come down, because we have
"a few questions we'd
like to ask you."
Is that the idea?
- Girl, you put that shit away!
Do you know what
land you're in, baby?
You're in the defendant
shall be tried
as an adult land,
and that's some bad
fucking place to be.
Bad for the both of you, and
bad for your friend, Kwame.
So the next time you open
up your mouth, little girl,
I don't want to be seeing
no fucking attitude coming
out of it.
- Trial?
Trial for what, what
the fuck did we do?
- Well, boy, that's what
we trying to find out.
So you be real careful
about what you gonna say,
cause what you need
to be thinking about,
is what your friend
Kwame is saying about you
in the next room.
You ever hear that
saying, "Last to flip,
"takes the trip"?
Think about it.
I'll be back in a minute.
- What's up, babe?
Did you get anything?
- If they're lying, they're
a pair of Robert DeNiros.
I don't think they
know anything.
They're just a couple of kids.
- Someone's got
to know something.
- Mm.
It's got to be your boy.
Is he coming up with anything?
- Yeah, gave us one
hell of a statement.
You know, the whole
damn thing's just weird.
I don't know.
See, he's not fucking
with us, though.
It don't see that way anyhow.
- Hm?
- Hey, do me a favor.
Keep playing with
those two, alright?
They're too close to
this shit not to get
something splashed on them,
he said something, they
heard something, something.
Alright?
- [Woman] Alright.
Do what I can.
- Alright, thanks.
- You know son, no matter
how you put it together,
it don't work.
- What do you mean?
- Only people ever did
any killing for Pere
was his brothers.
He kept it in the
family that way.
Gene was already a day cold.
Both Pere and Little
Mikey were right here
in this building
answering questions
when your friend got killed.
So even if we leave
out all this magic
doll bullshit,
and even if they had a
reason, which they didn't,
they didn't kill your friend.
Now, maybe that makes
it all nice and neat
in your head, but the
fact is, it doesn't work.
Even if we lay Gene on some
unrelated psycho motherfucker,
or if we chalk Little
Mikey up to self defense,
which is okay by everybody,
it still doesn't work.
So, what do you say you put
on your little thinking cap.
And try again.
- You girl!
Teesha Roy.
- That's me.
- Yeah, how you doing?
Ya'll come with me, okay,
because you're being
charged with
accessory to murder.
- [Teesha] What?
- What?
- Yeah, that's right,
you can just thank
your little friend, Kwame.
- [Teesha] Kwame?
- Just move your little black
ass.
- [Teesha] You don't have
to grab me.
- [Cop] Relax, sweetheart.
- You know, this is
just some good cop,
bad cop shit, I'm not stupid.
- Honey, here we're all bad.
Sit down there.
Fill that out.
- [Teesha] You don't scare me.
- Yeah, well, that
just goes to show
how blonde you are.
Fill it out!
- So, Louis.
- What?
I told you, I don't know nothing
about no murders.
- Cut the bullshit,
Louis, you've been
talking in circles
for a long time.
I'm tired of it.
Look, you ready to join Teesha?
Accessory to murder?
This must be what you want.
(Ragdoll's demonic voice)
Ooh, what the fuck?
(piercing scream)
- Kwame, all you have to
do is tell me the truth.
- Look, I've told you
everything I know.
(shrill ring of telephone)
- How much you want to
bet one of your friends
decided to empty the pot?
- There ain't nothing to em.
(screams over the speaker)
- What the fuck?
Go on, go on!
(agonizing screams)
- Oh, my God.
Oh!
Come on, Teesha!
- [Voiceover] Oh, my God!
Oh!
(Teesha cries out)
- Shit!
Come on, we got to
get out of here.
- Oh my God, what about Louis?
- Louis is dead.
Baby, let's go!
- Get some help!
Get some fucking help in here!
- I don't understand
this, Kwame.
What are you doing?
- I'm copying down this
spell of protection.
I think it should
stop the magic.
I think it should.
I'm not quite sure.
- The magic?
- Yeah.
I used this book,
my Gran's book.
I called up the Shadow
Man is what I did.
But I didn't think
about the price,
and I didn't think
about what I was doing.
- Kwame, are you telling
me that some magic
actually killed people?
- Yeah.
I used the killing
magic to get revenge
on Pere and his brothers
for what they did
to my Gran.
And now the Shadow Man,
he's taken a life for a life.
Gem, Fagene,
Louis, Little Mikey.
And if it takes Big Pere,
well, then, it'll take
payment for that, too.
- Payment?
You mean me?
No, Kwame, that's crazy!
- Oh, baby, it ain't
crazy, I seen it.
And now I got to try to stop it.
Baby, if I can save Big Pere,
then the deal is broken.
And it can't take you.
So go on, baby, go on.
Go on and get me
the phone, okay?
- What?
Who are you calling?
- I got to call Big Pere.
- Welcome to the fort.
- [Teesha] What?
- Don't mind this, little girl.
Come on in!
Move, motherfucker, move!
- [Kwame] Where is everybody?
- I sent them home.
Closed the place up.
Didn't know what
the etiquette was,
whether I suppose to
wear two armbands,
one for each brother,
or let the first one ride
piggyback on the second.
Like old Kwame here ain't
into the black band thang.
He too busy being a mean ass
spell casting motherfucker.
Am I right?
- Yeah.
Whatever you say.
- Whatever I say?
You the one called
me, motherfucker!
- Yeah, that's right.
I did call you.
And you better hear what
I got to say to you,
you fat fuck.
Cause I don't give
a shit about you.
I called the Shadow Man
on you and your brothers
for what you did to my Gran.
And now,
the Shadow Man,
he done put his killing
magic into my Gran's Ragdoll.
- A ragdoll?
You're fucking with me, right?
- Yeah, I'm just
fucking with you.
Only you don't think I am,
on account of you
still here, ain't you?
- I'm listening, that's all.
- Yeah.
Well you listen.
The Ragdoll killed Gene,
and he killed Little Mikey.
And he's coming after you, now,
unless I can stop him.
And believe me, if it
was just your fat ass,
I wouldn't stop him.
I would sit back and cheer
and watch while he cut
you up like the
fucking hog you are!
You hear me?
- I'm listening.
So what, you hate my ass.
What the fuck you here for, huh?
What you here for?
What's all that about?
- You want an answer?
Because for every useless
piece of scumbag shit,
every scumbag shit like
you and your fucking
dead skin brothers,
that the Ragdoll takes,
he takes somebody I care about.
And fucking dough boy,
you just ain't worth it.
So I got to save your
black ass instead.
(Ragdoll moaning)
- Kwame!
I heard something.
- What is it?
- I don't know.
- Alright.
Now, if you want to live,
you move your black ass.
Move.
Take off your shirt.
- What?
- [Kwame] I'm not having
a conversation with you!
You do what I tell you to do.
If you want me to save your ass,
you take off your shirt.
And you better move it,
because if the Ragdoll
ain't here now,
I guarantee you, she's coming.
Teesha, remember what
I told you to do, okay?
You gonna cooperate, or not?
- Recipe.
The recipe, where is it?
- I got it, I got it right here.
Okay, now.
You see these words?
Now, I want you to read
them from left to right.
In order, okay?
And um, kind of say
them under your breath.
- Under my breath, okay.
- Now you, you
stand where you are.
I'm gonna mark you in.
Um Balla.
To save these legs.
(creepy music)
(utters magic words)
- Alright.
Shit, okay.
Balla, save his arms.
Oh, Balla, save his head.
- Oh, Balla.
Kwame?
- Come on baby, just hurry
up with that stuff, okay?
- I'm hurrying.
- Un Balla, save his heart.
- You got some
chant for my dick?
- Just shut the
fuck up and let me
do this shit, will you?
- Shit!
We don't have any
cayenne pepper!
- What?
- We need cayenne pepper.
- I thought you got
it from the house.
- I thought you got it.
- Over there, over
there on the shelf,
yo, over there on the
shelf by the refrigerator.
(hurried footsteps)
- Where is it?
- Over there, girl, on the
shelf by the refrigerator,
can't you see this boy
putting rigry on me?
You fuck something up
and no telling what's
going to happen
to poor old Pere.
- Oh, yeah.
Poor fucking Pere.
(Ragdoll's demonic voice)
(Ragdoll shrieking)
(Teesha's bloodcurdling screams)
Shit, fuck!
Teesha!
(thud)
- Hey, boy!
- Teesha!
(rattling)
Shit!
Teesha, hold on!
- Hey, boy!
- Look, you just
stay right there.
Stay right there!
- Teesha, Teesha!
(knocking)
Shit!
- Hey, hey, boy?
What's going on over there, boy?
Huh?
- I said stay in the circle!
- Teesha, fuck!
- Hey, boy!
Hey, boy, I'm talking to you.
What's up over there?
- [Ragdolll] Eh, eh.
- No, no, no, Ragdoll,
you don't want to
fuck with Big Pere,
no, no, no.
See, I got this
sawed off shotgun,
and I'll blow your
little ass away.
No, you don't want
to fuck with me, see.
You don't want to fuck with me.
No!
Ah, shit!
(terrified screams)
- Shit!
- Kwame!
I saw it, I saw it, I saw it.
- Let's go!
Let's get the fuck out of here.
Come on, put the
stuff in the bag.
- Where's Pere?
- I don't know, I don't know.
- It's going to kill
me next, isn't it?
Just like it did with
Gem and Louis, isn't it?
- I don't know baby.
Now come on, and help me
get this stuff in here.
- Why?
It didn't do Pere no good.
Bye.
- Baby, I am so terribly sorry.
I understand that
this is all my fault,
and I fucked up big time.
But I want you to
listen to me now, okay?
I want you to listen
to me, and have just
a little bit of faith in me.
Because I'm either
gonna save your life,
you hear me?
I'm either gonna save your life,
or I'm gonna die trying.
So, please, help me.
Come on, come on.
Shit, come on, come on!
Come on!
- Ah, ah.
(Teesha screams)
- Let's get!
- [Voiceover] Talk to me, Ella.
- Oh, Lord, no.
No.
- Mama dia, mama
dia, protect her.
- What time is it?
- I don't know, it's,
I think it's almost morning.
Come on, give me a hand.
- What do you think?
You think if it don't
come by morning,
maybe, maybe, maybe
it just won't come?
- No, baby, it's not no vampire.
Give me your other hand.
Okay.
(says mystical words)
Okay, now turn around.
(rattling and squeaking)
- Did you hear something?
- Oh, yeah.
She's coming!
The Ragdoll's coming.
Okay, come on.
Turn back around.
Alright.
(recites magic words)
- Hurry.
- I'm hurrying.
I'm going as fast as I can.
- I'm scared.
- It's okay.
Shh, just be quiet.
I got to concentrate,
I got to concentrate.
(clunk)
- No, boy.
Them marks won't do no good!
- Gran?
- They can't protect
no promised thing.
- Promised?
- Nothing promised
to the Shadow Man.
What were the exact
words you said to him?
The exact words, boy.
- I said, I said he could
have whatever he wanted.
- Oh, Kwame.
You must've been crazy!
- I said, I said he could
have whatever he wanted,
but he couldn't hurt you.
If anything else happened
to you, that the deal
was off.
That's what I said.
- God help you, Kwame.
What you did.
- I know.
Gran, I know.
I did wrong.
But,
look, I will pay.
I will pay, but first,
Gran, I just want
to save Teesha.
Please.
- Ain't so easy.
You just about promised
him the whole world.
Even my poor mama
made a better deal
with the Shadow Man than that.
She only ended up dead herself.
So all them marks and
words for protecting,
they ain't gonna do no good.
- You mean the
Ragdoll's gonna come?
- Ragdoll's gonna come.
Shadow Man's done his
side of the bargain,
now he wants to get paid.
Kwame promised him
whatever he wanted.
He wants you, because
Kwame loves you.
And the Shadow Man
means to collect.
Dang fool!
Nobody ever made a deal
with the Shadow Man
and come out ahead.
That's why nobody with
sense ever deals with him.
- I didn't know, Gran.
I didn't know!
- Hush now.
You were always two
thirds of a damned fool.
Boy, don't make me wonder
about the last third.
You want old Gran
to save your girl.
- Can you?
- Maybe.
Just maybe.
But if'n you want me to,
you got to make Gran a promise.
- What?
I'll promise anything.
- That's it.
That's the promise
I want.
- What?
- You don't bargain,
and you don't ask
what's to be done.
You simply say the words.
I will give anything
for Teesha to be saved.
Say it!
- I will give anything
for Teesha to be saved.
- You, too, girl.
Trust me, girl, just
trust me and say it.
Swear!
- I swear.
- I don't know if even
that'll be enough.
Come on girl, help
me to my room.
- No!
I'll go.
- No, boy, you stay here.
We'll come and fetch you later.
Girl, come on.
I believe that
love can save you.
Even from the Shadow Man,
if the love is strong enough.
Come on, girl.
(swishing)
Now, listen, girl.
What we got to do
is gonna be hard.
Hard for me, and hard for you.
You must believe that
the powerful good
in this world is much
stronger than any evil,
and you must believe
in me because what we
have to do is gonna
take all the power
in my blood.
And all the faith in your heart.
- I believe.
- Give me your hand.
Hold up your hand.
(uttering magic words)
(sizzling)
- What is this, Teesha?
- This has to be done.
Just sit still.
- Go on girl, go on up
to the top of the stairs,
and do as I ask.
- Teesha, where you going?
- No questions, you promised.
- Where you going, baby?
Come on.
- Look, just remember
that I love you.
I love you with all my heart.
- Teesha.
- [Teesha] I got to go.
- Teesha!
- By the salt of the sea,
and the blood of the earth,
you cannot pass.
- Gran, Gran, why'd
you tie me up?
- By the salt of the sea,
and the blood of the earth,
you cannot pass.
- Gran, untie me, please!
- By the life of the seed,
and the strength of the tree,
you cannot pass.
- By the life of the seed,
and the strength of the tree,
you cannot pass.
- Gran, please, untie me!
(Ragdoll makes demonic sounds)
Gran, Gran!
It's the Ragdoll,
please untie me,
fast as you can and
let me do something!
- I can't.
- What?
Why not?
- I promised.
- Come on, Gran, please!
- By the force of the heart,
and the strength of the bone,
you cannot pass!
(Ragdoll pants and hisses)
(thud)
- You did it, Gran.
The Ragdoll's gone!
You did it.
- No, boy.
Shadow Man don't
give up that easy.
- By the force of the bone,
and the strength of the heart,
you cannot pass.
(demonic sounds of Ragdoll)
(Teesha screams)
Oh, my God, it's coming!
It's coming!
- Teesha!
- She's coming, she's up here!
- Teesha!
Come on Gran, untie me!
Please!
Come on, Gran, let me loose.
I've got to help her, please.
Let me loose!
- Goddammit, Kwame,
shut the fuck up!
(Ragdoll shrieks)
(Teesha cries out)
(rustling and clattering)
(thud)
- [Kwame] Teesha, Teesha!
Teesha, Teesha!
- [Teesha] No, I'm here.
I'm here.
- Teesha, Gran.
- [Teesha] I'm sorry.
- [Kwame] Gran,
- [Teesha] She made me
promise.
- [Kwame] Come on, untie me.
Untie me, untie me.
- No!
- [Kwame] Oh, God!
Gran!
Hey, Gran.
Oh, my God, Gran.
Oh my God.
- I had to make you swear.
I had to break the
Shadow Man's bargain.
I had to make it
kill me, I knew you wouldn't
agree to the price, Kwame.
I had to trick you.
But you see,
I was right after all.
Love can stand even
against the Shadow Man.
- I'm sorry, Gran.
I'm so sorry.
- I love you, Kwame.
- I love you, Gran.
(Gran gasps)
Gran, Gran, Gran?
No, no, Gran.
Gran.
Oh.
(crickets chirping loudly)
♪ Oh, oh, oh
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh
♪ Once there was a baby girl
♪ Brought up in the crazy world
♪ In the time that wasn't pretty
♪ Her mama bid the girl, is gone
♪ Got a grandson to carry on
♪ Yeah
♪ Trying to make
it it ain't easy
♪ Now let your magic show
♪ Shine all over me
♪ Yeah, mm
♪ Nothing more I can say
♪ But I love you
♪ I'm sorry
♪ I never meant to hurt you
♪ I'm so sorry
♪ It's hard to live without you
♪ Your actions more
than set me free
♪ I praise the life
you gave for me
♪ Now I really
know what the power
♪ Of your love is all about
♪ Raised me up with
hands so strong
♪ Showed me all the
rights from wrong
♪ Yeah
♪ Well my hands are so special
♪ The special little
gift you gave to me
♪ Opened up a book
of mysteries, yeah
♪ So be careful what you ask for
♪ Now let your magic show
♪ Shine all over me
♪ Yeah, oh
♪ Nothing more I can say
♪ But I love you
♪ I'm so sorry
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ I'm so sorry
♪ It's hard to live without you
♪ Your actions more
than set me free
♪ I praise the life
you gave for me
♪ Now I really
know what the power
♪ Of your love is all about
♪ Oh, oh, oh, yeah, mm mm
♪ Hold on to your dreams, yeah
♪ Mm, mm, hey, mm
♪ Yeah
♪ Grandma's hands she told me
♪ I'm sorry ♪
♪ Well, she think she cute
♪ He said it, and I'm agreeing
♪ All the ladies hold your
hands up in the cloud and stuff
♪ And all the fellows
put your hands in the sky
♪ And yell with us
♪ Voo, voo, voo is
Voux Doux fabulous
♪ What, you know the drill
on that wild eyed tip
♪ Ya'll know the hook don't
find it you better finish
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Give a little broad, unruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Live a little unruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Let the good times roll
♪ Microphone check one, two
♪ Who's next, the old
U-X-T-O you at the tubler
♪ The two reps that ya'll want
♪ I say yo rep, you the bomb
♪ What's up now
♪ You know, somethin' somethin'
♪ Good butt, twerk, twerk
♪ Beanie weanie, Eddie Bauer
♪ Watch the crowd go nuts
♪ When the emcee announce
♪ Voux Doux
♪ Straight down south,
in that down south
♪ Feeling Voux Doux
down south dippity
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Living the song uruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Living the song unruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Let the good times roll
♪ And across the south
♪ In a funky town
♪ And across the south
♪ In a funky town
♪ I walked up in the place
♪ Dipped in rags and yell hey
♪ They made me stop
for that proper
♪ Sock whazzay nassay
♪ Not bolay, nig
♪ I'm just trying to front cool
♪ There go my girls
holding it down
♪ Like Voux Doux, Voux
♪ No fancy jewels
♪ Just direct me to the stage
♪ And all the ladies
who gave me no play
♪ Was pretending they half gay ♪
♪ Well the ragdoll gonna get you
♪ They're gonna get you tonight
♪ Well you'd better
watch your step
♪ Where you're walking
♪ Don't you know the ragdoll's
♪ Gonna get you
♪ Mama done told me
♪ Oh, and papa done told me too
♪ That if you go round
♪ Somebody's gonna get you
♪ So the ragdoll's gonna get you
♪ You'd better hold yourself
♪ You'd better watch yourself
♪ Cause the ragdoll's
gonna get you
♪ Oh, oh
♪ The ragdoll's gonna get you
♪ You'd better watch your step
♪ Watch your step
♪ You'd better watch
where you're going
♪ You better watch what you say
♪ Cause the ragdoll's
gonna get you
♪ Might get you today
♪ Oh the ragdoll
♪ Is gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna
♪ Gonna, gonna,
gonna get you tonight
♪ Oh, hey hey
♪ I'm tellin' you the ragdoll
♪ Hey, is gonna get you
♪ Yes it is ♪
(crickets chirping loudly)
(suspenseful music)
- Sylvie!
Sylvie!
- [Sylvie] Quiet!
- [Voiceover] Sylvie,
I got an idea.
- No, you can't stop it,
it's come for its' pay!
Take her, take her upstairs!
- I won't.
- No, you can't stop it!
I don't want her to see.
- Come on, Alvie, come on!
- [Alvie] Mama!
No, no, Mama, I
don't want to go!
- Go with your Daddy.
- [Alvie] Mama!
- Go with your Daddy, angel.
(Alvie screams)
- Mama, Mama!
- Keep still, keep
still come, come on.
(clunk)
- I know you.
And what the careless
master did to you.
So you'd come back for
the Shadow Man's pay.
Is that it?
Did you kill like I say?
(screams some
foreign-like phrase)
(Sylvie's terrified screams)
- Come on, I want
you to go with me.
(frantic panting)
I know your mama
told you things,
and I know you got her blood.
But I want you to
see what happens
when you conjure up the
magic of the killing kind.
Come on.
- Mama?
- Hush, baby, hush.
Nothing can save
you when you deal
with the Shadow Man.
(soft mystical music)
- Make my plea smoke,
make my plea fire.
Make my plea go up to heaven
by my magic,
by my charm,
(utters magic phrase)
Send a cure to Mary
Hern's bad back.
By my magic, cassea.
(swishing)
- Hey, you, Gran.
Have you seen my red shirt?
- Hush, Kwame.
Can't you see Gran's
conjuring here?
- Hey, look Gran, I've
got to be in the Club
in like seconds, okay?
- Well, your legs ain't broke.
Go on now, they're
in the laundry.
Gran's got work here.
- Yeah, I can see that.
Look, maybe you could
conjure up my red shirt.
- Maybe I can conjure
my red slipper
upside your head
if you don't scat,
and leave me be.
- Whoo, alright then, Gran.
I'm out of here.
(swishing)
(doorbell chiming)
- [Kwame] Hold on,
hold on, hold on,
I'm coming, I'm coming.
Hey, fellows, how you doing?
- Hey, just fine.
- Come on, Kwame, you
ain't ready yet, man?
- Hey, look man,
all I got to do is
put on a couple of
buttons and I'll be ready.
Damn, Teesha.
You are looking extremely fine.
- Wait a minute.
I don't normally look this good?
- How I look, how
I look, I mean.
- That ain't even
nothing close to what
I'm trying to say to you.
And you, you just ugly.
Look at my face, uh, uh.
- Okay, okay.
- [Teesha] So, wait a minute.
- Cause you making
Bobby Brown look it.
- What?
- Yeah.
- So, I always look like this,
is that what you're saying?
- No, baby, you
ain't hearing me.
I'm not saying
anything like that.
- Come on, yo, they
got this invention,
and it's called time.
- [Kwami] Alright
- We need to be on it.
- You know I don't like
that fussy mama thing.
I'm almost done.
Two more buttons
and I'm out, okay?
- Well, come on it.
- Look, one, two.
- Now, from my boy,
KT Bounce.
- You, you, you give
it up everybody,
give it up!
(cheering and applause)
♪ What
♪ You want to wave hands, do ya
♪ Shocked and
stuff, gonna get up
♪ Like this
♪ Uh huh, what, what
♪ What, what, what
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Uh huh, what, what
♪ Get your hands up, hands up
♪ Let's get up and
a funky funky jam
♪ Have a celebration,
then we'll tell you
♪ Who we am
♪ We KT gonna make you beat
oh you into the lead league
♪ Cause I just want
you to party with me
♪ Get up, get up
♪ And have the funky, funky jam
♪ Get up, huh, and that's
the master, master plan
♪ If you work it like
that, let the beat
♪ Go left, right,
left, right, left, left
♪ Left, right left
♪ And get up
♪ Steppin' with me, what, what
♪ You rollin' with the KKT
♪ Bouncin' in the bass to beat
♪ Teacher, teacher, tell
'em what we're doing
♪ We party and we're
movin' and we're groovin'
♪ And we goin' and we
showin' that was goin'
♪ Yet we never, never knowin'
♪ And if you just
want to hit it with me
♪ You got to get up with
somebody else to see
♪ Get up, get up, get up
♪ Count the people
freakin' put your hands up
♪ Hands up, keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up
and keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up, get up
♪ Get the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get the people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ And keep the party live
♪ Yeah, get up, and get
those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Everybody say yeah
♪ Say yeah
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Now, scream
♪ Scream
♪ Get up, get up, get
the people freakin'
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Put your hands up, get up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Get up, get up
♪ Get those people freakin'
♪ Keep the party live
♪ Hands up, hands up
♪ Keep the party live
♪ KT don't stop ♪
(cheering and applause)
- Yeah!
(Teesha laughing)
- That was something.
- Aw, God.
- You were good, man, you say
the same thing every time.
- Yeah, man, you was blazing.
I don't know what
you're talking about.
I was pretty damn
good, too, though, huh?
- You was top.
- What about me, what about me?
- Well, I'm going to stay away
from that subject.
- Black and ugly as ever.
- Whoo!
People, what is going on?
How we doing?
- We hanging, what about you?
- Cool, I'm cool.
Look, I want to ask
you guys something.
Who's your rep?
- Our rep?
- Yeah, your agent.
- Well, you know, we kind
of book our own gigs, right?
- Well, look.
I rep a bunch of
groups, nothing big,
but they're happening people.
You guys say the word,
we could make things work.
Look, you guys call up,
you come down, and you see me.
- Shit.
- Ha ha, no shit man.
You ask around.
You guys are all over
18 though, right?
- Yeah.
- [Kwame] Yeah, we straight.
- Uh, yeah.
- Well, we can make
this work then.
So you guys coming down?
- Hell, yeah.
- [Teesha] Heck yeah.
- Well, actually, you
know, we got to talk
about this first, you know?
- No, no problem.
You guys talk about it,
then you come see me.
- Peace.
- [Kwame} Alright.
- Alright, Man.
(laughs)
- I love you guys.
Each and every one of you.
- [Teesha] Peace.
- Alright, man.
Hey, man, you were kind of cold.
- Well, you know
you've got to be.
Someone hands you one of these,
you just got to be
real cool about it,
you know?
- Yeah, baby, you
were really cold.
- Aw, these two.
- Ah, shit, ya'll, this
fool was a real agent.
(cheering)
- Whoo hoo!
KT Bounce, I love ya'll.
Ooh, I'm sorry, we we're fans.
- Hey, uh, Mr. LaHart,
you know, the owner?
He don't allow people
to come down here
with out passes.
- Oh, oh now, don't worry
about him, he ain't
gonna do nothing.
Or he sure ain't
gonna bother us.
- [Kwame] Now look, we
- Oh, I'm sorry, little
rapper, you know
who we are, right?
- Yeah, you're Big
Pere's brothers.
- That's right.
This big motherfucker
over here is Gene,
and I'm Little Mikey.
So now with you
knowing who we are,
am I right, you know who we are?
- Yeah.
- You don't want to be
saying, "Now look," to us.
What you want to be
saying is, "How can I help
"you, brother?"
- How can I help you
brother?
- Okay, here's what we gonna do.
Ya'll go ahead and
pack up all your shit,
get your shit, cause we
going on a little adventure.
Yes, shit.
- We ain't going
nowhere with you.
- No, I didn't say
ask Little Mikey
some bullshit question!
I said, "Get your shit."
- [Gene] For sure.
- Okay, here we are.
Go people, move it.
You ever been to
Big Pere's before?
Of course not.
You wouldn't know class
if it stepped on you.
Oh, these little brat
rappers give me a rash.
Move it!
(soft music)
Marvie, how are you?
It's good to see you.
Glad you can make it.
Big Pere's gonna be with you
in just a little minute, okay?
- If I could talk
to him right now.
- Why don't you go
sit the fuck down
at the end of the bar.
This is your chair here.
What is this, King's Mark,
I like what you've done.
Is this Japanese?
Sit down.
Oh, yes.
- Teesha, Teesha, look.
It's Big Pere.
- How ya'll doing?
No, no, sit your asses down.
That's one talented
motherfucker there.
Kwame.
- Yeah, that's me.
- Shoot, I know.
You the man to talk to.
Am I right?
- Talk to about what?
- About your hoo,
whatever you call it,
uh KT, whatever.
- Look, man, I don't even know
what you're talking about.
What do you want from us?
- You know me, don't you?
- Yeah.
- I mean my reputation.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- Oh, I see, I see,
you try to show your balls.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, sure.
Okay, I see the big
motherfucking things,
now tuck them back
in, why don't you?
Okay.
Well apart from my
reputation being a mean,
crazy ass, fat, black cut
your heart out and eat it
grand motherfucker,
I personally think
of myself as being
in the happy business.
You know.
Whatever make people happy.
Good food, good
weed, good piecing.
(chuckles)
Uh, you know what I mean.
But I know what else
makes people happy.
Music.
So, I say to myself,
Big K, you know there's
some folks you want to
be in business with.
And you know I'm
branching out in all sorts
of directions, and I
always like to showcase.
You know, songs and shit.
See that?
That ain't empty.
That's money in that hand.
That's power.
That's my brains.
My ambition.
That hand, that hand
hold a whole lot
of important shit.
And I want you in there.
- What?
You want us in there?
- What do you mean?
- He means he wants
us to work for him.
- Oh, no, no, no, I
want to work for you.
Next thing you know,
I'm going to get you
places you never
fucking dreamed of.
Kwame, come on, motherfucker,
put your hand there.
Put yourself there.
You won't regret it.
I guarantee it.
- Kwame!
- Come on, man, what's the deal?
- Come on, Kwame,
what you doing?
- Look, we got to
think about it.
- Oh what, you want to
weigh my pros and cons,
it that it?
- Yeah, something like that.
- Alright, well, I'm
nothing if not reasonable.
Ya'll go and think about it.
We're just gonna see
how it all wash out.
Just going to see
how it all wash out.
You want to hold
on just one moment?
See, Marvin here's been waiting.
Come on, Marvin, let's
go talk for a minute.
Now, ya'll be cool, alright?
I'll be right back.
- I don't know man.
He seems like a nice guy.
- Are you stupid?
(stumbling footsteps)
(crash)
- Damn.
(thud)
(boom)
(thud)
(bump)
(bam)
(yelling and pounding)
Let's get the fuck out of here.
(yelling and thumps)
- You know, Kwame, you
ought to talk to somebody
about this.
- Who?
Pastor Charlie?
The social worker at school?
- I mean the police.
- The police.
And what are they gonna do?
Well?
Look, Gran, these guys,
Big Pere and his two brothers,
they're into everything.
Drugs, prostitution,
loansharking,
murder, everything.
Now if the police could
do something about them,
and I'll make them
believe right about now
that they even want to
do something about them,
don't you think they
would have already?
And if they can't do
nothing about them
for all of that,
what makes you think they
gonna swoop their asses
on down here and arrest Big Pere
because he asked
to be our manager?
I mean, he didn't even
threaten us in so many words.
And I'll tell you
something, Gran,
when you see a guy get
his face broke in half,
and shoved into a
bunch of hot grease,
you don't need so many words.
- Well, maybe you and
Teesha and the others,
maybe you ought to
just give it up.
- Give it up.
Why didn't I think of that?
Give it up.
Yeah.
But you know something, Gran?
I just don't remember
Big Pere offering us that
as an option.
Jeez.
You know, I really
wish that stuff you did
in your conjuring
room really worked.
I would love to send
some big black magic
against Pere right about now.
And shove his ass
in a deep fryer.
Damn him, damn him to hell!
(slap)
- Now, you listen to me, Kwame.
Don't make no mind to me
what you think or don't
about my conjuring, but
the magic's in your blood,
same as it's in mine, same
as it was in my mama's.
And that magic puts
power in your words!
- Gran.
- No, boy.
Some things you
don't speak lightly.
You, you think I,
ain't, ain't got spells
over in my conjuring room?
Magic that can
wither a man's limbs,
or cause them a cancer, or
send out a killing thing?
You think I can't do it?
I could show you things
that'd wither your soul.
But it don't come for free.
Whatever you do
with the art, Kwame,
it comes back on
you, good or bad.
A conjurer can't call up
the magic of the killing
kind unless he's willing
to pay the price.
And that ain't a
price I'm gonna pay.
Nor you neither.
- Don't worry, Gran.
I ain't looking to your
conjuring to solve my problems.
It can't hurt nothing,
and it can't save nothing.
So I guess nothing's
about all it's good for.
But don't ya'll worry.
I'm going to solve my
own problems myself.
- How, Kwame?
Kwame, solve it how?
- I'm going to give
Big Pere his answer.
- So, Big Pere, he's this
big time gangster, right?
What do we care?
We just need somebody
to get us out there.
Somebody to promote us.
- KT, in the house!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
What's all these long faces?
The crowd is hyped,
and ya'll going
on in two minutes.
Not one, uh uh, but two.
Alright?
- Alright.
[Teesha] Okay.
- We'll be there.
- In two.
KT.
- Now.
Look, look, look.
Maybe it's not so bad.
I mean, maybe he can
get us this record deal
finally.
I mean, at least get some
airplay or something,
come on, ya'll.
- Hey, Teesh, you
been pretty quiet.
What do you say?
- What do you want me to say?
If we say yes, we lose.
If we say no, we lose.
When it comes down to
it, what can we do?
- Sh, Miss Negative over here.
- I'm not being negative.
- Yes you are.
- Come on, ya'll, you
act life somebody died.
We KT Bounce.
Come on, man, let's go perform,
besides, I saw some
honeys upstairs.
Yeah.
- That's what I'm talking about.
- [Teesha] He doesn't
want to either.
- You're already there.
- [Kwame] You think so?
Come on.
KT Bounce!
Baby!
Whoo!
♪ I'm gonna give it to you
♪ Anyway that you want me to
♪ Mm, we can do it all night
♪ If you're feeling right
♪ I keep it coming on strong
♪ So slow
♪ And you won't have to wait
♪ No longer
♪ Yeah
♪ Cause I'm going to
give it to ya, yeah
♪ You own it, you need it ♪
(applause and cheers)
- Alright, alright,
let's give it up
my girl April.
Now, let me bring out my boys,
KT Bounce!
(applause and cheers)
- Yes, give it up,
KT Bounce in the house.
- Everybody clap your hands.
- Hold up, hold up, hold up.
Alright ya'll.
I want to dedicate this next set
to an upstanding
fat ass New Orleans
drug pusher, murderer, pimp.
Big Pere, ya'll.
Give it up.
Now you see, he wants
to take KT Bounce over.
But I got an answer for you.
Now, I can't speak
for nobody but myself,
but knowing what's
been in your hand,
there ain't no way
I'm gonna be in it.
So, if you want to
kill me, go ahead.
But you do that shit now.
Otherwise, you get
the fuck out of here!
(applause)
- You know what?
That's for me, too!
- Yeah, me, too.
♪ So check it, get out my face
♪ Why, you comin' here
with all that bullshit
♪ What you think I'm
gonna live and bleed
♪ Hell no, stop sniffing
up them lines, what
♪ What, you think I'm gonna
sign on that dotted line
♪ But I ain't and I
cain't do all that
♪ Because everything I
do is gonna be on track
♪ Listen to the shit I say
♪ Little kid brother
with no delay
♪ I ain't gonna be
playin' no games man
♪ Cause I'm true to
this, not new to this
♪ I know how to get down
with this KT Bounce thang
♪ Nah, you ain't gonna
take this from me
♪ Cause we gonna
make this money, yeah
♪ You better know,
we go toe to toe
♪ With anybody, we
represent that N-O
♪ Hot like songs
all up his legs ♪
(doorbell chimes)
♪ Yeah, you feel that heat, bro
♪ Get out my face,
♪ Get out my face
♪ Get out my face
♪ Get out my face ♪
(telephone ringing)
- Yeah, what?
- What?
Hello?
Oh, my God.
Excuse me.
Could you tell me where
Suzette DeVol's room is?
- Room 117.
- Thank you!
Gran, Gran.
- [Teesha] God, Kwame.
- I knew some kind
of bad shit was gonna
come out of this.
- Shut up, man.
- Hail, hail the
gang's all here.
It's about time ya'll got here.
- You fucking piece of shit!
- [Teesha] No, man.
It's not even worth it.
- You better listen
to your girl, Kwame.
What you gonna do
with that chair, huh?
You gonna beat me
to death with it?
You don't want to
do that, Kwame.
You don't want to do nothing.
Now, take this like it's
coming from a friend.
Don't do nothing's
that's gonna jeopardize
your Granny's recovery.
Cause folks in the
hospital, they get better,
then they get worse
all of a sudden.
And when that happen,
there ain't nothing can
be done to stop it.
There ain't nothing can
be done to change that.
You hear what I'm saying?
Now, I'm gonna come by
your place tomorrow.
I got some shit I
want ya'll to sign.
We gonna go places together.
Yeah, I'm gonna take
real good care of ya'll.
Ya'll my niggers now.
(dark music)
(rustling papers)
(mystical percussion music)
(liquid pouring)
(clinking)
(soft rattle)
- Ah.
(sizzling)
I
call on you
Shadow Man.
I call on you to make a bargain.
And I call on you, Shadow Man
by your secret name.
I call on you, Shadow Man.
(rattling)
(rushing wind)
What, what.
Oh, oh!
- What do you want, Kwame?
- I want, want, wait, what
happened to the lights?
- I did.
Where I am, Kwame,
there's only shadows.
If I stood in the noonday
sun, the whole world
would go dark.
What did you think I'd be like?
- I'm not sure.
- Are you afraid of the dark,
Kwame?
- I'm,
I'm not afraid of you.
- Tell me what you want.
- I want.
I want you to kill Big Pere
and his two brothers.
- I could do that for you.
What will you give me in return?
- I don't know.
Whatever you want.
Except for my Gran.
If anything else
happens to my Gran,
then the deal's off.
- Agreed.
I will take my pay as we go.
Here it is.
Now, where do we put it?
- What is it?
- This is the killing
magic that you bought.
But we got to put
it in something.
- I don't get you.
What do you mean?
- We must put it in
something bad, Kwame.
That will do it.
(spooking tinkling music)
(Shadow Man groans)
(sizzling)
- Whah.
(Shadow Man laughs)
- Oh, my God.
(doll continues to
make demonic sounds)
- Oh, don't be like that.
Old Ragdoll here gonna
get you what you want.
Come and see, come and see,
come and see.
And now, we just
let it do its' work.
(doll hisses and shrieks)
- And the price?
- Oh, don't you worry.
Ragdoll will handle that, too.
It's always a pleasure
doing business
with your family, son.
- But what.
Damn.
- Put your hands together
The war is on,
Voux Doux.
♪ Don't get mad at me
♪ That's your man I see drinking
♪ My thousands got
you balling your fists
♪ It's an embarrassment,
miss, I'm fly
♪ Deal with it, you think
I let some rinky dink
♪ Act run up in this
♪ I'm tryin' to have a good time
♪ Till it hurts, no need to work
♪ I'm confident
that teachers knew
♪ How to party from birth
♪ What you all know
about a Louisiana Creole
♪ The Voux Doux oh,
they got north, east
♪ West, south evil
♪ Just play that ego
and let your body
♪ Do the talkin' when I
walk by all the sister
♪ They stare and stalk and
say well she think she cute
♪ He said it and I'm
agreeing and all the ladies
♪ Hold your hands up in
the cloud and so free
♪ Well, let's put
your hands in the sky
♪ And yell with us, voo voo
voo was Voux Doux fabulous ♪
- There.
- There we go.
Aha, that's a fine
piece of penmanship.
- Oh, yes, that's a
very nice John Hancock.
Oh, I said cock,
didn't I, I'm sorry.
- Now we all friends, huh?
That's a good thang.
- Don't we get a copy?
(laughter)
- Oh, he's full of shit.
- You sure this is gonna go?
- Well, you just watch us.
They're still here.
- I don't think he
chose us at all.
- Now, we all happy, huh?
How about you, little girl, huh?
You happy?
- No, I ain't happy.
But I do what I got to do.
- I got to do what I got to do.
You go ahead and do it, girl.
♪ Do it till you're satisfied
♪ Whatever it is
♪ Do it, do it till
you're satisfied ♪
- What about this
bad ass nigger?
(laughs)
You're start throwing chairs?
Or you gonna do
what you got to do?
Huh?
- I already did
what I got to do.
- I got this rap.
- Mm, mm, mm.
♪ Is it my hair
Whoo!
♪ Is it the clothes I wear
♪ Is it my bit
♪ I'm sorry that I
make more ins than you
♪ So tell me again
♪ Tell me what's my sin
♪ Is it your policy ♪
Whoo!
(doll makes demonic sounds)
(needle scratching vinyl)
What?
♪ You're messing
with mine and me
♪ Yeah, hey, whoo
♪ Hey ♪
- Ah, ah, ah.
Ah.
- What the fuck?
(screaming)
- Oh, my God.
- Hey, fellows, what's up?
- It's seven o'clock.
- [Teesha] Hey.
- Hey, Kwame, did you
hear the good news?
- It's not good news, man.
- Yes it is.
- What good news?
- Pere's brother.
Somebody killed him yesterday.
- [Voiceover] Yeah, and
they skinned his face, too,
just for fun, so bad.
They didn't even put his
picture in the paper.
- Man, you talk about
adding insult to injury.
- Hey, man, that ain't funny.
- What?
- I said that ain't
funny, so don't be making
no smart ass, bullshit
remarks, okay?
- Come on, man,
what's up with you?
- Nothing's up with me,
what the fuck's up with you?
- Yo, Kwame, he's just kidding.
- Damn, man, I don't
know why you're getting
so bent out of shape for, man.
It just means we have
one for less to worry us.
You know what I'm saying?
- [Voiceover] Yo!
- Hey.
What's wrong with you?
What's going on?
- Teesh.
- [Teesha] What?
- It's nothing.
- Tell me.
- Teesh, if you.
If you had to do
something wrong,
you know to stop
somebody from doing
the worse wrong,
would that be wrong at all?
I mean, if it came
out better in the end,
all around.
- I'm not getting you.
- I mean, we all got to
deal with God, right?
When the time comes?
So other than that,
oh man.
- What?
Please talk to me.
- It's nothing.
It's nothing.
Look, if somebody killed
Big Pere's brothers,
then, then that's all
the better for us.
Am I right?
I mean, that's
better for everybody.
Better for the whole damn world.
Ain't nobody got to feel
bad about that shit.
Am I right?
- Sure, Kwame, whatever.
- Yeah, man, whatever
you say, man.
- Yeah, yeah.
Everything's gonna be okay.
- It is.
- Hm, mm.
- Is she going to be okay?
- Yeah.
She'll be okay.
She's just having a bad dream.
Hey, Gran, Gran, take it easy.
It's, it's just a
bad dream, Gran.
You're going to be okay.
It's just a bad dream.
It's okay, Gran.
♪ Keep stepping with me
♪ You're messing
with the K to the T
♪ Get out my face
♪ Get out my face ♪
(squeaking)
(clang)
- [Ragdoll] Ah.
Whah.
(knocking)
(knocking)
Whah.
- [Voiceover] Kwame!
Whoo hoo.
- [Ragdoll] Ah.
(squeak)
Ah.
- What the fuck?
Ah!
Ah, no!
No, ah!
(Ragdoll chanting demonically)
(screams)
- Thanks for coming with me.
- You know you don't
have to thank me.
So, are you going to be okay?
- Yeah, I will be.
- Everything's
going to be alright.
- Thanks, baby.
- Mm, you're here
all by yourself.
- Hm, yeah I am, aren't I?
- Are you going to invite me in?
- Yeah, come on.
(Teesha gasps)
- [Teesha] Oh, my God!
- [Kwame] Oh my God!
Oh my God!
- [Teesha] Oh, my God!
- [Kwame] It's Gem, Gem!
- Somebody killed him!
- [Kwame] Oh, my God!
Nobody picked this shit!
- [Teesha] Ew!
- Come on, baby, get up.
I want you to go over there
to the Bonaventures, okay?
I want you to call the police!
- No!
- Please, please baby
- [Teesha] Don't leave me!
- Listen to me.
Okay, I've got to get
back to the hospital
and get to Gran, okay?
So just do what I say.
Go, go!
God!
(pounding footsteps)
Where is everybody?
- Well, well, well.
If it isn't the bad motherfucker
I wanted to talk to anyway.
- Why'd you do it?
- Say what?
- If you wanted
to kill somebody,
why the fuck didn't
you come and kill me?
- Kill who?
- Gem, motherfucker,
don't act like you
don't know what
I'm talking about!
- Well, you bad ass
motherfucker, guess what?
I'll tell you whatever the
fuck I want to tell you.
And if I don't want
to tell you shit,
I'll do that, too.
And don't worry about
me lying to your ass,
you want to know why?
Cause a little bad ass
motherfucker like you
ain't worth lying to, cause
nobody give a half a shit
what you know or don't know.
So you know what
you're gonna do now?
You gonna sit your black
ass down right there,
move it, sit your
black ass down!
For you and your granny
ain't gonna have a head
left between the two of you!
Move it!
And keep your eye trained
on that third eye,
because that third eye is
watching you, motherfucker.
Yes, it is.
(thud)
Now, you listen
up, motherfucker.
I don't know shit
about your friend,
and I don't give a
shit about your friend.
You want to know why?
Cause under normal
circumstances, you and your
friends together ain't
but a small piece
of fried shrimp on a
whole plate of shit
I got to eat anyway.
But these ain't
normal circumstances.
Somebody done skinned my
brother's face clean off.
And I been spending
the last couple of days
talking to myself about it.
How about you, you been
spending some time,
talking to yourself about it?
- No, bitch.
I've been too busy celebrating.
- You know, balls don't do a
man no good when they cut off
and sewn to his face, so
I'd watch who the fuck
I'm talking to!
And don't think I don't
know about Granny,
and her conjuring shit.
I know that shit
run in the blood,
don't think I don't know it.
- My Gran ain't got
nothing to do that.
- Shut the fuck up!
Look like Granny here waking up,
maybe she got the answer.
No, no, no, motherfucker!
Sit your black ass
down, unless you want me
to perform some mean ass
brain surgery on grandmother
over here.
Sit down.
Cause you know how
I hate needles.
You hear that, Granny?
Is that what happened?
Kwame been playing
with the family magic,
is that it?
- Man, leave her alone!
- Shut the fuck up!
Is that what he done did?
Huh?
(growling)
What the fuck?
What the fuck is this?
What the fuck is that?
(screams)
(demonic shrieks and sounds)
(agonized screams)
(clunk)
(terrified screams)
- Then the Ragdoll grabbed
onto Little Mikey's face,
and they were wrestling
around on the ground,
and then the Ragdoll stabbed
Little Mikey with a bunch
of hypodermic,
hypodermic needles.
And yes, I had Little Mikey's
gun, but I didn't use it!
- And that's Kwame's statement?
- And he signed that?
- Yep.
- What the fuck you
think's going on here, boy?
You think this is
an X-Files episode?
You think you're on a
fucking TV show here?
Well, let me tell you
something, you stupid
little motherfucker.
Let me tell you something.
You ain't going nowhere
till I get some sense
from you, you hear
what I'm saying?
Yeah, we'll put your
little minor ass
in a real jail
with the big boys,
that's what we'll do with
you, how'd you like that?
(bang)
Dammit you're lucky he's here!
Write some shit like that.
(thud)
(phones ringing)
(dispatcher over police radio)
- I already told you
everything I know.
- And I don't even know that.
- So, what you're
telling me is, Big Pere
wanted to be like repping
your rap group so bad,
that once he makes
you sign the contract,
he turns around and
kills one of you?
That's the idea?
- Maybe.
- Oh, right.
Right.
He figured that in
the whole, wide world,
you four kids were the ones
that did his brother, Gene.
And that's why he did what
he did to your friend, Gem.
That's the idea.
- No, no, the idea
is you go ask him.
Because I would love to
see how you ask Big Pere
questions.
You do that, "That's
the idea" shit with him,
or is it more like, "Thank
you so much, Mr. Pere
"for finding the time to
come down, because we have
"a few questions we'd
like to ask you."
Is that the idea?
- Girl, you put that shit away!
Do you know what
land you're in, baby?
You're in the defendant
shall be tried
as an adult land,
and that's some bad
fucking place to be.
Bad for the both of you, and
bad for your friend, Kwame.
So the next time you open
up your mouth, little girl,
I don't want to be seeing
no fucking attitude coming
out of it.
- Trial?
Trial for what, what
the fuck did we do?
- Well, boy, that's what
we trying to find out.
So you be real careful
about what you gonna say,
cause what you need
to be thinking about,
is what your friend
Kwame is saying about you
in the next room.
You ever hear that
saying, "Last to flip,
"takes the trip"?
Think about it.
I'll be back in a minute.
- What's up, babe?
Did you get anything?
- If they're lying, they're
a pair of Robert DeNiros.
I don't think they
know anything.
They're just a couple of kids.
- Someone's got
to know something.
- Mm.
It's got to be your boy.
Is he coming up with anything?
- Yeah, gave us one
hell of a statement.
You know, the whole
damn thing's just weird.
I don't know.
See, he's not fucking
with us, though.
It don't see that way anyhow.
- Hm?
- Hey, do me a favor.
Keep playing with
those two, alright?
They're too close to
this shit not to get
something splashed on them,
he said something, they
heard something, something.
Alright?
- [Woman] Alright.
Do what I can.
- Alright, thanks.
- You know son, no matter
how you put it together,
it don't work.
- What do you mean?
- Only people ever did
any killing for Pere
was his brothers.
He kept it in the
family that way.
Gene was already a day cold.
Both Pere and Little
Mikey were right here
in this building
answering questions
when your friend got killed.
So even if we leave
out all this magic
doll bullshit,
and even if they had a
reason, which they didn't,
they didn't kill your friend.
Now, maybe that makes
it all nice and neat
in your head, but the
fact is, it doesn't work.
Even if we lay Gene on some
unrelated psycho motherfucker,
or if we chalk Little
Mikey up to self defense,
which is okay by everybody,
it still doesn't work.
So, what do you say you put
on your little thinking cap.
And try again.
- You girl!
Teesha Roy.
- That's me.
- Yeah, how you doing?
Ya'll come with me, okay,
because you're being
charged with
accessory to murder.
- [Teesha] What?
- What?
- Yeah, that's right,
you can just thank
your little friend, Kwame.
- [Teesha] Kwame?
- Just move your little black
ass.
- [Teesha] You don't have
to grab me.
- [Cop] Relax, sweetheart.
- You know, this is
just some good cop,
bad cop shit, I'm not stupid.
- Honey, here we're all bad.
Sit down there.
Fill that out.
- [Teesha] You don't scare me.
- Yeah, well, that
just goes to show
how blonde you are.
Fill it out!
- So, Louis.
- What?
I told you, I don't know nothing
about no murders.
- Cut the bullshit,
Louis, you've been
talking in circles
for a long time.
I'm tired of it.
Look, you ready to join Teesha?
Accessory to murder?
This must be what you want.
(Ragdoll's demonic voice)
Ooh, what the fuck?
(piercing scream)
- Kwame, all you have to
do is tell me the truth.
- Look, I've told you
everything I know.
(shrill ring of telephone)
- How much you want to
bet one of your friends
decided to empty the pot?
- There ain't nothing to em.
(screams over the speaker)
- What the fuck?
Go on, go on!
(agonizing screams)
- Oh, my God.
Oh!
Come on, Teesha!
- [Voiceover] Oh, my God!
Oh!
(Teesha cries out)
- Shit!
Come on, we got to
get out of here.
- Oh my God, what about Louis?
- Louis is dead.
Baby, let's go!
- Get some help!
Get some fucking help in here!
- I don't understand
this, Kwame.
What are you doing?
- I'm copying down this
spell of protection.
I think it should
stop the magic.
I think it should.
I'm not quite sure.
- The magic?
- Yeah.
I used this book,
my Gran's book.
I called up the Shadow
Man is what I did.
But I didn't think
about the price,
and I didn't think
about what I was doing.
- Kwame, are you telling
me that some magic
actually killed people?
- Yeah.
I used the killing
magic to get revenge
on Pere and his brothers
for what they did
to my Gran.
And now the Shadow Man,
he's taken a life for a life.
Gem, Fagene,
Louis, Little Mikey.
And if it takes Big Pere,
well, then, it'll take
payment for that, too.
- Payment?
You mean me?
No, Kwame, that's crazy!
- Oh, baby, it ain't
crazy, I seen it.
And now I got to try to stop it.
Baby, if I can save Big Pere,
then the deal is broken.
And it can't take you.
So go on, baby, go on.
Go on and get me
the phone, okay?
- What?
Who are you calling?
- I got to call Big Pere.
- Welcome to the fort.
- [Teesha] What?
- Don't mind this, little girl.
Come on in!
Move, motherfucker, move!
- [Kwame] Where is everybody?
- I sent them home.
Closed the place up.
Didn't know what
the etiquette was,
whether I suppose to
wear two armbands,
one for each brother,
or let the first one ride
piggyback on the second.
Like old Kwame here ain't
into the black band thang.
He too busy being a mean ass
spell casting motherfucker.
Am I right?
- Yeah.
Whatever you say.
- Whatever I say?
You the one called
me, motherfucker!
- Yeah, that's right.
I did call you.
And you better hear what
I got to say to you,
you fat fuck.
Cause I don't give
a shit about you.
I called the Shadow Man
on you and your brothers
for what you did to my Gran.
And now,
the Shadow Man,
he done put his killing
magic into my Gran's Ragdoll.
- A ragdoll?
You're fucking with me, right?
- Yeah, I'm just
fucking with you.
Only you don't think I am,
on account of you
still here, ain't you?
- I'm listening, that's all.
- Yeah.
Well you listen.
The Ragdoll killed Gene,
and he killed Little Mikey.
And he's coming after you, now,
unless I can stop him.
And believe me, if it
was just your fat ass,
I wouldn't stop him.
I would sit back and cheer
and watch while he cut
you up like the
fucking hog you are!
You hear me?
- I'm listening.
So what, you hate my ass.
What the fuck you here for, huh?
What you here for?
What's all that about?
- You want an answer?
Because for every useless
piece of scumbag shit,
every scumbag shit like
you and your fucking
dead skin brothers,
that the Ragdoll takes,
he takes somebody I care about.
And fucking dough boy,
you just ain't worth it.
So I got to save your
black ass instead.
(Ragdoll moaning)
- Kwame!
I heard something.
- What is it?
- I don't know.
- Alright.
Now, if you want to live,
you move your black ass.
Move.
Take off your shirt.
- What?
- [Kwame] I'm not having
a conversation with you!
You do what I tell you to do.
If you want me to save your ass,
you take off your shirt.
And you better move it,
because if the Ragdoll
ain't here now,
I guarantee you, she's coming.
Teesha, remember what
I told you to do, okay?
You gonna cooperate, or not?
- Recipe.
The recipe, where is it?
- I got it, I got it right here.
Okay, now.
You see these words?
Now, I want you to read
them from left to right.
In order, okay?
And um, kind of say
them under your breath.
- Under my breath, okay.
- Now you, you
stand where you are.
I'm gonna mark you in.
Um Balla.
To save these legs.
(creepy music)
(utters magic words)
- Alright.
Shit, okay.
Balla, save his arms.
Oh, Balla, save his head.
- Oh, Balla.
Kwame?
- Come on baby, just hurry
up with that stuff, okay?
- I'm hurrying.
- Un Balla, save his heart.
- You got some
chant for my dick?
- Just shut the
fuck up and let me
do this shit, will you?
- Shit!
We don't have any
cayenne pepper!
- What?
- We need cayenne pepper.
- I thought you got
it from the house.
- I thought you got it.
- Over there, over
there on the shelf,
yo, over there on the
shelf by the refrigerator.
(hurried footsteps)
- Where is it?
- Over there, girl, on the
shelf by the refrigerator,
can't you see this boy
putting rigry on me?
You fuck something up
and no telling what's
going to happen
to poor old Pere.
- Oh, yeah.
Poor fucking Pere.
(Ragdoll's demonic voice)
(Ragdoll shrieking)
(Teesha's bloodcurdling screams)
Shit, fuck!
Teesha!
(thud)
- Hey, boy!
- Teesha!
(rattling)
Shit!
Teesha, hold on!
- Hey, boy!
- Look, you just
stay right there.
Stay right there!
- Teesha, Teesha!
(knocking)
Shit!
- Hey, hey, boy?
What's going on over there, boy?
Huh?
- I said stay in the circle!
- Teesha, fuck!
- Hey, boy!
Hey, boy, I'm talking to you.
What's up over there?
- [Ragdolll] Eh, eh.
- No, no, no, Ragdoll,
you don't want to
fuck with Big Pere,
no, no, no.
See, I got this
sawed off shotgun,
and I'll blow your
little ass away.
No, you don't want
to fuck with me, see.
You don't want to fuck with me.
No!
Ah, shit!
(terrified screams)
- Shit!
- Kwame!
I saw it, I saw it, I saw it.
- Let's go!
Let's get the fuck out of here.
Come on, put the
stuff in the bag.
- Where's Pere?
- I don't know, I don't know.
- It's going to kill
me next, isn't it?
Just like it did with
Gem and Louis, isn't it?
- I don't know baby.
Now come on, and help me
get this stuff in here.
- Why?
It didn't do Pere no good.
Bye.
- Baby, I am so terribly sorry.
I understand that
this is all my fault,
and I fucked up big time.
But I want you to
listen to me now, okay?
I want you to listen
to me, and have just
a little bit of faith in me.
Because I'm either
gonna save your life,
you hear me?
I'm either gonna save your life,
or I'm gonna die trying.
So, please, help me.
Come on, come on.
Shit, come on, come on!
Come on!
- Ah, ah.
(Teesha screams)
- Let's get!
- [Voiceover] Talk to me, Ella.
- Oh, Lord, no.
No.
- Mama dia, mama
dia, protect her.
- What time is it?
- I don't know, it's,
I think it's almost morning.
Come on, give me a hand.
- What do you think?
You think if it don't
come by morning,
maybe, maybe, maybe
it just won't come?
- No, baby, it's not no vampire.
Give me your other hand.
Okay.
(says mystical words)
Okay, now turn around.
(rattling and squeaking)
- Did you hear something?
- Oh, yeah.
She's coming!
The Ragdoll's coming.
Okay, come on.
Turn back around.
Alright.
(recites magic words)
- Hurry.
- I'm hurrying.
I'm going as fast as I can.
- I'm scared.
- It's okay.
Shh, just be quiet.
I got to concentrate,
I got to concentrate.
(clunk)
- No, boy.
Them marks won't do no good!
- Gran?
- They can't protect
no promised thing.
- Promised?
- Nothing promised
to the Shadow Man.
What were the exact
words you said to him?
The exact words, boy.
- I said, I said he could
have whatever he wanted.
- Oh, Kwame.
You must've been crazy!
- I said, I said he could
have whatever he wanted,
but he couldn't hurt you.
If anything else happened
to you, that the deal
was off.
That's what I said.
- God help you, Kwame.
What you did.
- I know.
Gran, I know.
I did wrong.
But,
look, I will pay.
I will pay, but first,
Gran, I just want
to save Teesha.
Please.
- Ain't so easy.
You just about promised
him the whole world.
Even my poor mama
made a better deal
with the Shadow Man than that.
She only ended up dead herself.
So all them marks and
words for protecting,
they ain't gonna do no good.
- You mean the
Ragdoll's gonna come?
- Ragdoll's gonna come.
Shadow Man's done his
side of the bargain,
now he wants to get paid.
Kwame promised him
whatever he wanted.
He wants you, because
Kwame loves you.
And the Shadow Man
means to collect.
Dang fool!
Nobody ever made a deal
with the Shadow Man
and come out ahead.
That's why nobody with
sense ever deals with him.
- I didn't know, Gran.
I didn't know!
- Hush now.
You were always two
thirds of a damned fool.
Boy, don't make me wonder
about the last third.
You want old Gran
to save your girl.
- Can you?
- Maybe.
Just maybe.
But if'n you want me to,
you got to make Gran a promise.
- What?
I'll promise anything.
- That's it.
That's the promise
I want.
- What?
- You don't bargain,
and you don't ask
what's to be done.
You simply say the words.
I will give anything
for Teesha to be saved.
Say it!
- I will give anything
for Teesha to be saved.
- You, too, girl.
Trust me, girl, just
trust me and say it.
Swear!
- I swear.
- I don't know if even
that'll be enough.
Come on girl, help
me to my room.
- No!
I'll go.
- No, boy, you stay here.
We'll come and fetch you later.
Girl, come on.
I believe that
love can save you.
Even from the Shadow Man,
if the love is strong enough.
Come on, girl.
(swishing)
Now, listen, girl.
What we got to do
is gonna be hard.
Hard for me, and hard for you.
You must believe that
the powerful good
in this world is much
stronger than any evil,
and you must believe
in me because what we
have to do is gonna
take all the power
in my blood.
And all the faith in your heart.
- I believe.
- Give me your hand.
Hold up your hand.
(uttering magic words)
(sizzling)
- What is this, Teesha?
- This has to be done.
Just sit still.
- Go on girl, go on up
to the top of the stairs,
and do as I ask.
- Teesha, where you going?
- No questions, you promised.
- Where you going, baby?
Come on.
- Look, just remember
that I love you.
I love you with all my heart.
- Teesha.
- [Teesha] I got to go.
- Teesha!
- By the salt of the sea,
and the blood of the earth,
you cannot pass.
- Gran, Gran, why'd
you tie me up?
- By the salt of the sea,
and the blood of the earth,
you cannot pass.
- Gran, untie me, please!
- By the life of the seed,
and the strength of the tree,
you cannot pass.
- By the life of the seed,
and the strength of the tree,
you cannot pass.
- Gran, please, untie me!
(Ragdoll makes demonic sounds)
Gran, Gran!
It's the Ragdoll,
please untie me,
fast as you can and
let me do something!
- I can't.
- What?
Why not?
- I promised.
- Come on, Gran, please!
- By the force of the heart,
and the strength of the bone,
you cannot pass!
(Ragdoll pants and hisses)
(thud)
- You did it, Gran.
The Ragdoll's gone!
You did it.
- No, boy.
Shadow Man don't
give up that easy.
- By the force of the bone,
and the strength of the heart,
you cannot pass.
(demonic sounds of Ragdoll)
(Teesha screams)
Oh, my God, it's coming!
It's coming!
- Teesha!
- She's coming, she's up here!
- Teesha!
Come on Gran, untie me!
Please!
Come on, Gran, let me loose.
I've got to help her, please.
Let me loose!
- Goddammit, Kwame,
shut the fuck up!
(Ragdoll shrieks)
(Teesha cries out)
(rustling and clattering)
(thud)
- [Kwame] Teesha, Teesha!
Teesha, Teesha!
- [Teesha] No, I'm here.
I'm here.
- Teesha, Gran.
- [Teesha] I'm sorry.
- [Kwame] Gran,
- [Teesha] She made me
promise.
- [Kwame] Come on, untie me.
Untie me, untie me.
- No!
- [Kwame] Oh, God!
Gran!
Hey, Gran.
Oh, my God, Gran.
Oh my God.
- I had to make you swear.
I had to break the
Shadow Man's bargain.
I had to make it
kill me, I knew you wouldn't
agree to the price, Kwame.
I had to trick you.
But you see,
I was right after all.
Love can stand even
against the Shadow Man.
- I'm sorry, Gran.
I'm so sorry.
- I love you, Kwame.
- I love you, Gran.
(Gran gasps)
Gran, Gran, Gran?
No, no, Gran.
Gran.
Oh.
(crickets chirping loudly)
♪ Oh, oh, oh
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh
♪ Once there was a baby girl
♪ Brought up in the crazy world
♪ In the time that wasn't pretty
♪ Her mama bid the girl, is gone
♪ Got a grandson to carry on
♪ Yeah
♪ Trying to make
it it ain't easy
♪ Now let your magic show
♪ Shine all over me
♪ Yeah, mm
♪ Nothing more I can say
♪ But I love you
♪ I'm sorry
♪ I never meant to hurt you
♪ I'm so sorry
♪ It's hard to live without you
♪ Your actions more
than set me free
♪ I praise the life
you gave for me
♪ Now I really
know what the power
♪ Of your love is all about
♪ Raised me up with
hands so strong
♪ Showed me all the
rights from wrong
♪ Yeah
♪ Well my hands are so special
♪ The special little
gift you gave to me
♪ Opened up a book
of mysteries, yeah
♪ So be careful what you ask for
♪ Now let your magic show
♪ Shine all over me
♪ Yeah, oh
♪ Nothing more I can say
♪ But I love you
♪ I'm so sorry
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ I'm so sorry
♪ It's hard to live without you
♪ Your actions more
than set me free
♪ I praise the life
you gave for me
♪ Now I really
know what the power
♪ Of your love is all about
♪ Oh, oh, oh, yeah, mm mm
♪ Hold on to your dreams, yeah
♪ Mm, mm, hey, mm
♪ Yeah
♪ Grandma's hands she told me
♪ I'm sorry ♪
♪ Well, she think she cute
♪ He said it, and I'm agreeing
♪ All the ladies hold your
hands up in the cloud and stuff
♪ And all the fellows
put your hands in the sky
♪ And yell with us
♪ Voo, voo, voo is
Voux Doux fabulous
♪ What, you know the drill
on that wild eyed tip
♪ Ya'll know the hook don't
find it you better finish
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Give a little broad, unruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Live a little unruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Let the good times roll
♪ Microphone check one, two
♪ Who's next, the old
U-X-T-O you at the tubler
♪ The two reps that ya'll want
♪ I say yo rep, you the bomb
♪ What's up now
♪ You know, somethin' somethin'
♪ Good butt, twerk, twerk
♪ Beanie weanie, Eddie Bauer
♪ Watch the crowd go nuts
♪ When the emcee announce
♪ Voux Doux
♪ Straight down south,
in that down south
♪ Feeling Voux Doux
down south dippity
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Living the song uruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Eh, eh, eh, eh
♪ Living the song unruly
♪ Maybe I'll find a way
♪ Let the good times roll
♪ And across the south
♪ In a funky town
♪ And across the south
♪ In a funky town
♪ I walked up in the place
♪ Dipped in rags and yell hey
♪ They made me stop
for that proper
♪ Sock whazzay nassay
♪ Not bolay, nig
♪ I'm just trying to front cool
♪ There go my girls
holding it down
♪ Like Voux Doux, Voux
♪ No fancy jewels
♪ Just direct me to the stage
♪ And all the ladies
who gave me no play
♪ Was pretending they half gay ♪