Atlanta (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - The Streisand Effect - full transcript
When a blogger begins trashing Paper Boi online, he decides to hunt down the blogger. Darius helps Earn look for a way to make big money fast.
(hip-hop bass thudding)
(sirens wailing faintly)
(hip-hop music over speakers)
Damn, man. It's hot
as hell in there.
Don't be breaks, man.
You know, we could, um...
We could do some
instrumental shit,
you know, like a Kendrick album.
I know the recorder a
little bit, so, like,
we could do a song like
"Pussy Relevance."
You can come in like...
♪ Pussy relevance ♪
- Both: ♪ So intelligent ♪ -
And then I can come in like...
♪ Do, do-do-do, do, do ♪
♪ Do-do-do-do-do, do, do, do ♪
♪ Do-do-do, do, do ♪
And you can be like,
"Bye, everybody,"
- Like, "I'm gonna take a break."
- (coughing)
(laughter)
(laughing)
(sighs)
'Sup, guys? I'm Zan.
Hey! Paper Boi.
Good shit, homey.
You blowing up right
now, my nigga.
Yeah, I don't know you.
But I'm still your
nigga, believe me.
Shit, are you even black?
Of course I am.
You want a hat, Paper Boi?
Nah, we're... We're good, man.
All right.
Peep this. (phone clicks)
Is that a meme depicting
what happens to you
or to bae when they
scroll through the DMs?
(tsks) Man, whatever.
I got those likes.
Guess who saw someone
throw up on the booth?
Hey!
Back the fuck off
Paper Boi, man!
- The fuck, man?
- Whoa.
Oh. My bad.
Is this your boy?
'Sup, man? I'm Zan.
You want a hat?
Nigga.
- Yeah.
- Right on.
Let me get one for the 'gram.
(hoverboard whirring)
Oh, yeah. (camera
shutter clicking)
And one more for Snapchat.
All right, man. That's enough.
What? Are you sure?
I'm a photographer, man.
I took this.
Oh, it's your face
next to a butt.
Wait, I forget.
What's your email?
I never gave it to you.
It's cool, just... just
take my phone number, man.
Yeah, yeah, I'll text you mine.
Maybe we can collab
on a song or shirt.
Or sneakies. Yo!
Me and my mans make baby
sneakers for adults.
We good, bro. Take
that over there.
Yeah, a'ight. I see you, then.
(hoverboard whirring)
(Xavier Wulf's
"Philosopher's Throne")
- ♪ I pull off with my
(...) finna throw a fit ♪
- ♪ Who? Who? ♪ - ♪ I
pull up on a bitch ♪
♪ I don't say shit,
she getting in ♪
♪ But I had to kick her out ♪
♪ 'Cause I ain't tell
her ass to get in ♪
(electronic music slowly
builds over headphones)
♪ ♪
Paper mail.
♪ Paper mail, all
about my paper mail ♪
(chewing) Mm. Mm.
Breakfast cup.
You made that up.
Everything's made up,
nigga, stay woke.
Hey, man.
That dude from last
night talking shit.
What?
"Paper Boi, who getting
"a lot of hype in the
streets for a possible
"involvement with a
murder, is, how you say,
not as talented
as people think."
That's a weird... sentence.
(keys clacking rapidly)
Right, uh, you ready to go?
- Yeah.
- Oh, also,
is it okay if I spend the
night over here again?
Wayne. (hisses)
(cell phones ding)
Damn, bro, you going
off, ain't you?
- (keys clacking)
- Yep.
Yeah, man. Don't bait this dude.
You'll just make it worse.
(keys clacking)
Hey! (light thud)
You're gonna make it worse!
(keys clacking)
AIDS was invented to keep
Wilt Chamberlain from beating
Steve McQueen's sex record.
You know, by '69, he was already
number three on the
all-time list.
By '71, he would have
beat that boy for sure.
I thought AIDS was made by the
government to kill homosexuals.
Oh, yeah, that too,
I mean, but...
Two for one.
Mm-hmm.
Who's Steve McQueen?
(scoffs)
The actor, man. You know.
The King of Cool.
You know, guy from
The Sand Pebbles.
I don't know.
Man, most black people don't
know who Steve McQueen is.
Really?
Yeah, but I thought, you
know, that you'd be
into that kind of
stuff, but guess not.
But you know who Steve
McQueen is, though.
Yeah, well, I'm Nigerian.
Okay.
- (hip-hop music)
- Yo, man, the club,
it's so lit, it's
so lit up in here.
Yo, how you feeling? Lit!
Ooh! Yeah!
(Twitter app whistles)
(jazzy music)
Ah, recording all night
really paid off.
Oh, look, I found
all my mixtapes.
Let's put 'em back
where they belong.
(gas pump clicks)
(store entrance bell chimes)
(relaxed music over radio)
MAN: How much can I
get for this gun?
MAN: I need to get a copy of
your driver's license first.
MAN: That makes sense.
- All right, I'll see you.
- Good luck.
♪ ♪
Yeah, what's up?
EARN: Yeah, um, I got
this phone, it's new.
I want to see how much
I could get for it.
MAN: I got to ask my boss.
EARN: Cool.
Uh, is it cool if I have...
I have something of yours while
you have something of mine
like, like a driver's license
or something like that, just...
- (samurai sword
resounds) MAN: No.
Earn.
Yeah?
Earn!
Yeah?
What?
Get this sword.
Why?
We could trade up on it.
We get you a lot more money.
♪ ♪
I really need this, man.
Well, if you need the
money, take the money.
I'm just saying I
can get you more.
♪ ♪
MAN: $190.
Actually, let me get
this sword, man.
♪ ♪
MAN: You want to swap it out?
- Yeah, I want to swap it out.
♪ ♪
Hey, you know who
Steve McQueen is?
Yeah.
Would you know who
Steve McQueen was
if you didn't work here?
Black people don't know
who Steve McQueen is.
I keep that there
for protection.
If some dude come in here
asking about that poster,
I know he's trying to get me to
turn around so he can rob me.
Sign this.
♪ ♪
Get you a receipt.
Thank you.
I wasn't trying to... rob you.
- (hip-hop music)
- 'Sup, guys?
It's your boy, Zan, with
another mixtape review.
If you like what you hear,
hit this Like button and re-blog
the fuck out of my ass!
Yeah! (air horn blares)
Let's talk about the
current king of stan rap,
Paper Boi.
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper Boi ♪
ZAN: The first L this dude took
is naming himself Paper
Boi in the first place.
There's already a
rapper Paperboy.
He had that song "Ditty."
Or how about this Paper Boi?
Also this Papuh Boi too.
I mean, how am I supposed
to spell "failure"
when you're taking all the Ls?
♪ ♪
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper Boi ♪
♪ Always 'bout that paper, boy ♪
This Paper Boi is hot.
This is the problem with
rap right now, man.
Every nigga can't sell drugs,
just like every nigga can't rap.
But when you're out here
and you can't do both,
what the fuck are
you doing, bro?
(somber rock music)
I mean, really?
♪ ♪
He is kind of funny.
What's his Twitter handle?
Man, shut up.
You told me to watch it.
♪ ♪
Yo, is this nigga Indian?
♪ ♪
I don't like Indian
dudes who say "nigga."
(pool balls clacking,
ball thuds)
It's just the Internet.
It doesn't matter.
Man, he out here saying I
can't rap and I don't move.
Man, that's disrespect.
You don't want people
to know you move.
- Trust me.
- I don't, man,
but I can't have people
out here talking shit.
He messin' with my actual
business, my life.
He don't even know what
he talkin' about, man.
Nobody checking his credentials.
Why he get to attack mine? Shit.
MAN: ♪ You walked into my life ♪
He's one of these misguided
niggas who loves hip-hop.
No, he don't, man.
He out here selling T-shirts.
He exploiting it.
MAN: What he look like?
(inhales)
(scoffs) I mean,
is he Dominican, man? Like...
Somebody was in here
looking for you today,
waiting when I opened.
Really?
This dude?
No, he wasn't Dominican,
I don't think.
But he was different.
Shaved side of his head.
Pink jacket.
And he wasn't a friend.
Sitting in his car
when I opened up.
Dodge Challenger, '70s, tan.
Cleaner than the
board of health.
I'll tell you, smoking a Swisher
with no weed.
Guy gave me the creeps.
(Twitter app whistles)
♪ ♪
Yo. Zan going on now.
(scoffs)
♪ ♪
(chuckling)
The fuck?
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper
Boi, Paper Boi... ♪
What you think?
Bruh.
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper
Boi, Paper Boi... ♪
- What you think?
- ♪ I got... ♪
- Bruh.
- Zan?
Nigga, I know that guy.
He used to come down
to the old place.
Word?
In fact, I think I
know where he works.
♪ ♪
No.
(hip-hop bass thuds)
♪ ♪
Do you know if you can block
someone on a flip phone?
Why?
'Cause that dude Zan
keeps mass-texting me
every party in Atlanta
and he keeps calling
them "movements"
and I fucking hate him.
Hmm.
Wasn't that dude, like,
half Chinese or something?
I don't know.
Probably.
He was pretty short.
Ni-i-ice!
Chinese people are short
'cause of Genghis Khan.
- Look it up.
- In what?
The Racism Book?
(Keith Ape's "It G MA Remix"
playing over speaker)
Look, this dude
killed enough people
to lower the
temperature on Earth.
And if he conquered you
and you were bigger
than this wheel he had,
crrk, he'd kill you.
♪ ♪
Is that true?
You don't think that had
an effect genetically?
Plus, Chinese people don't
like black people no way.
- Look it up.
- Again, where?
♪ ♪
And he's not Chinese.
I'm not Chinese.
Wait right here, bro.
MAN: ♪ Rambo, rambo, rambo
♪ (machine gun fire)
♪ Rambo, rambo ♪
♪ Bitch, I'm a zombie ♪
(rapping in Korean)
(dice rattling)
(rapping in Korean)
♪ Camo down, you know we going ♪
♪ Harder than a mutha,
mutha(bleep) ape ♪
- ♪ Whoo ♪ - (rapping in Korean)
♪ ♪
He said meet him around back.
No, he didn't.
♪ ♪
(man speaking foreign language)
(speaking foreign
language, crying)
(goat bleating)
(yelling in foreign language)
Oh, yay.
My man.
Thank you very much.
Yeah?
Brother.
Is he going to get the money?
Uh...
Got to make a quick trade up.
It's the last stop.
Come on, Barfight.
(dog growls and barks lightly)
(goats bleating)
(sirens wailing)
Hey, man.
Oh, hey, what's up, man?
Nigga...
- We need to talk.
- Yeah, sure, we can talk.
I just gotta deliver
this, though, uh...
Ride with me. We'll talk.
You coming, bro?
(engine turns over)
(sighs)
So what's up, man?
- You working on a mixtape?
- Look, man.
I don't know if you know
what's happening out here,
but this ain't no game, a'ight?
I'm getting tired of niggas
online harassing me.
Ah, fan engagement.
No, man, you messin'
with my life, man.
This my job.
Helping us get money, though.
Nigga!
There's no money
anywhere near rap.
Now, I know it look fun and
games on The Shade Room,
but... niggas die.
People are forgotten.
Shit is real.
Yo, can I use that?
Use what, man?
What you just said.
Like, if I was recording
this, could I use that?
Nigga, are you recording
me right now?
I record everything, man.
Everything's
valuable to someone.
Okay, so then you admit it.
You ain't no critic
or a photographer.
You... you like a
salesman or something.
What's the difference?
I mean, it's all the game.
We're all just hustling.
You too.
'Cause I have to.
I scare people at ATMs, boy.
So I have to rap.
I mean, that's what rap is...
Making the best
out of a bad situation, brother.
Right. You're exploiting
your situation.
What?
You're exploiting your
situation to make rap,
and I'm exploiting
you exploiting that.
Money, bro.
(exhales)
Whatever, man.
I, like... I could say
some shit right now,
but I ain't trying to go off on
you with your son back there.
That's not my son.
That's my business partner.
We make Vine videos together.
Hos love this little nigga.
He just needs an edge.
We got a catch phrase, though.
Say it!
Sure I know, bitch!
Hmm.
Try the alt.
I... (sustained bleep)
(bleep continues)
on everybody face.
(chuckling) Hmm?
Put your seat belt on, Quentin.
(engine running)
(hip-hop bass thudding)
♪ ♪
(brakes screech)
(gear clicks)
A'ight, let's do this, Quentin.
Wait.
You got this kid
delivering your pizzas?
Word of mouth.
I'm watching him the
whole time, it's cool.
♪ ♪
(knocks on door)
♪ ♪
Wait... hold up, man.
Did he just get robbed, man?
Shit is crazy, B.
(recording button dings)
♪ ♪
(sighs)
(knocking on door) QUENTIN:
Give me the pizza.
Give me (bleep) pizza back.
(bleep) Give me...
Give me (bleep) pizza back!
Give me the (bleep) money!
(bleep).
I know where you live!
- (insects chirping)
- (humming)
(engine shuts off)
(birds cawing and chirping)
Oh, come on, come
on, come on, buddy.
(sighs)
(dog panting)
How much we getting for him?
Uh, about 2 to 4K.
Hell yeah.
Hell. Yeah.
Hey, hey.
Hey, D.
Ah, here he blows.
Yeah.
So what you think?
Yeah. Yeah, this a good dog.
Uh-huh.
Cool?
All right.
- Here you are.
- Good deal.
I'll catch you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
(whispers) Let's go, buddy.
Yes.
(exhales)
Hey, you going to get the money?
Yeah. Yeah, in September.
What?
Yeah, he's gonna take that
Cane Corso and breed it
with his other Cane Corso.
They're gonna have
Cane Corso puppies.
They gonna sell them
pups for 2K each.
And you get half.
Man, you 'bout to come up
off that phone, brother.
Are you joking?
No.
You all right, brother?
No, no, I'm actually
kind of fucked.
Van needed that money.
My daughter needed
that money, okay?
Not in September, but today.
Okay? See, I'm poor, Darius.
Okay? And poor people
don't have time for investments
because poor people are too busy
trying not to be poor, okay?
I need to eat today,
not in September.
Right, I asked you
at the pawn shop,
if you needed the money,
to take the money.
And you said you
wanted more money,
so I got you more money.
(birds chirping and twittering)
Look.
Here, trade this in.
- No, it's cool, man...
- No, no, it's fine.
I'm just stressed. I
got a lot going on.
No, it's fine. It's fine.
I get a new one every month.
Make sure they
ain't tracking me.
Thank you.
We're friends now.
(car door thuds closed)
(birds chirping)
(Michael Kiwanuka's
"Home Again" plays)
♪ ♪
KIWANUKA: ♪ Born
again, born again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ One day I know ♪
♪ I'll feel strong again ♪
♪ I lift my head ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Lost again, lost again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ One day I know ♪
♪ Our paths will cross again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Smile again, smile again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ One day I hope ♪
♪ To make you smile again ♪
♪ I won't hide ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Many times I've been told ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Speak your mind ♪
♪ Just be bold ♪
♪ So I close my eyes ♪
♪ Won't look behind ♪
(sirens wailing faintly)
(hip-hop music over speakers)
Damn, man. It's hot
as hell in there.
Don't be breaks, man.
You know, we could, um...
We could do some
instrumental shit,
you know, like a Kendrick album.
I know the recorder a
little bit, so, like,
we could do a song like
"Pussy Relevance."
You can come in like...
♪ Pussy relevance ♪
- Both: ♪ So intelligent ♪ -
And then I can come in like...
♪ Do, do-do-do, do, do ♪
♪ Do-do-do-do-do, do, do, do ♪
♪ Do-do-do, do, do ♪
And you can be like,
"Bye, everybody,"
- Like, "I'm gonna take a break."
- (coughing)
(laughter)
(laughing)
(sighs)
'Sup, guys? I'm Zan.
Hey! Paper Boi.
Good shit, homey.
You blowing up right
now, my nigga.
Yeah, I don't know you.
But I'm still your
nigga, believe me.
Shit, are you even black?
Of course I am.
You want a hat, Paper Boi?
Nah, we're... We're good, man.
All right.
Peep this. (phone clicks)
Is that a meme depicting
what happens to you
or to bae when they
scroll through the DMs?
(tsks) Man, whatever.
I got those likes.
Guess who saw someone
throw up on the booth?
Hey!
Back the fuck off
Paper Boi, man!
- The fuck, man?
- Whoa.
Oh. My bad.
Is this your boy?
'Sup, man? I'm Zan.
You want a hat?
Nigga.
- Yeah.
- Right on.
Let me get one for the 'gram.
(hoverboard whirring)
Oh, yeah. (camera
shutter clicking)
And one more for Snapchat.
All right, man. That's enough.
What? Are you sure?
I'm a photographer, man.
I took this.
Oh, it's your face
next to a butt.
Wait, I forget.
What's your email?
I never gave it to you.
It's cool, just... just
take my phone number, man.
Yeah, yeah, I'll text you mine.
Maybe we can collab
on a song or shirt.
Or sneakies. Yo!
Me and my mans make baby
sneakers for adults.
We good, bro. Take
that over there.
Yeah, a'ight. I see you, then.
(hoverboard whirring)
(Xavier Wulf's
"Philosopher's Throne")
- ♪ I pull off with my
(...) finna throw a fit ♪
- ♪ Who? Who? ♪ - ♪ I
pull up on a bitch ♪
♪ I don't say shit,
she getting in ♪
♪ But I had to kick her out ♪
♪ 'Cause I ain't tell
her ass to get in ♪
(electronic music slowly
builds over headphones)
♪ ♪
Paper mail.
♪ Paper mail, all
about my paper mail ♪
(chewing) Mm. Mm.
Breakfast cup.
You made that up.
Everything's made up,
nigga, stay woke.
Hey, man.
That dude from last
night talking shit.
What?
"Paper Boi, who getting
"a lot of hype in the
streets for a possible
"involvement with a
murder, is, how you say,
not as talented
as people think."
That's a weird... sentence.
(keys clacking rapidly)
Right, uh, you ready to go?
- Yeah.
- Oh, also,
is it okay if I spend the
night over here again?
Wayne. (hisses)
(cell phones ding)
Damn, bro, you going
off, ain't you?
- (keys clacking)
- Yep.
Yeah, man. Don't bait this dude.
You'll just make it worse.
(keys clacking)
Hey! (light thud)
You're gonna make it worse!
(keys clacking)
AIDS was invented to keep
Wilt Chamberlain from beating
Steve McQueen's sex record.
You know, by '69, he was already
number three on the
all-time list.
By '71, he would have
beat that boy for sure.
I thought AIDS was made by the
government to kill homosexuals.
Oh, yeah, that too,
I mean, but...
Two for one.
Mm-hmm.
Who's Steve McQueen?
(scoffs)
The actor, man. You know.
The King of Cool.
You know, guy from
The Sand Pebbles.
I don't know.
Man, most black people don't
know who Steve McQueen is.
Really?
Yeah, but I thought, you
know, that you'd be
into that kind of
stuff, but guess not.
But you know who Steve
McQueen is, though.
Yeah, well, I'm Nigerian.
Okay.
- (hip-hop music)
- Yo, man, the club,
it's so lit, it's
so lit up in here.
Yo, how you feeling? Lit!
Ooh! Yeah!
(Twitter app whistles)
(jazzy music)
Ah, recording all night
really paid off.
Oh, look, I found
all my mixtapes.
Let's put 'em back
where they belong.
(gas pump clicks)
(store entrance bell chimes)
(relaxed music over radio)
MAN: How much can I
get for this gun?
MAN: I need to get a copy of
your driver's license first.
MAN: That makes sense.
- All right, I'll see you.
- Good luck.
♪ ♪
Yeah, what's up?
EARN: Yeah, um, I got
this phone, it's new.
I want to see how much
I could get for it.
MAN: I got to ask my boss.
EARN: Cool.
Uh, is it cool if I have...
I have something of yours while
you have something of mine
like, like a driver's license
or something like that, just...
- (samurai sword
resounds) MAN: No.
Earn.
Yeah?
Earn!
Yeah?
What?
Get this sword.
Why?
We could trade up on it.
We get you a lot more money.
♪ ♪
I really need this, man.
Well, if you need the
money, take the money.
I'm just saying I
can get you more.
♪ ♪
MAN: $190.
Actually, let me get
this sword, man.
♪ ♪
MAN: You want to swap it out?
- Yeah, I want to swap it out.
♪ ♪
Hey, you know who
Steve McQueen is?
Yeah.
Would you know who
Steve McQueen was
if you didn't work here?
Black people don't know
who Steve McQueen is.
I keep that there
for protection.
If some dude come in here
asking about that poster,
I know he's trying to get me to
turn around so he can rob me.
Sign this.
♪ ♪
Get you a receipt.
Thank you.
I wasn't trying to... rob you.
- (hip-hop music)
- 'Sup, guys?
It's your boy, Zan, with
another mixtape review.
If you like what you hear,
hit this Like button and re-blog
the fuck out of my ass!
Yeah! (air horn blares)
Let's talk about the
current king of stan rap,
Paper Boi.
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper Boi ♪
ZAN: The first L this dude took
is naming himself Paper
Boi in the first place.
There's already a
rapper Paperboy.
He had that song "Ditty."
Or how about this Paper Boi?
Also this Papuh Boi too.
I mean, how am I supposed
to spell "failure"
when you're taking all the Ls?
♪ ♪
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper Boi ♪
♪ Always 'bout that paper, boy ♪
This Paper Boi is hot.
This is the problem with
rap right now, man.
Every nigga can't sell drugs,
just like every nigga can't rap.
But when you're out here
and you can't do both,
what the fuck are
you doing, bro?
(somber rock music)
I mean, really?
♪ ♪
He is kind of funny.
What's his Twitter handle?
Man, shut up.
You told me to watch it.
♪ ♪
Yo, is this nigga Indian?
♪ ♪
I don't like Indian
dudes who say "nigga."
(pool balls clacking,
ball thuds)
It's just the Internet.
It doesn't matter.
Man, he out here saying I
can't rap and I don't move.
Man, that's disrespect.
You don't want people
to know you move.
- Trust me.
- I don't, man,
but I can't have people
out here talking shit.
He messin' with my actual
business, my life.
He don't even know what
he talkin' about, man.
Nobody checking his credentials.
Why he get to attack mine? Shit.
MAN: ♪ You walked into my life ♪
He's one of these misguided
niggas who loves hip-hop.
No, he don't, man.
He out here selling T-shirts.
He exploiting it.
MAN: What he look like?
(inhales)
(scoffs) I mean,
is he Dominican, man? Like...
Somebody was in here
looking for you today,
waiting when I opened.
Really?
This dude?
No, he wasn't Dominican,
I don't think.
But he was different.
Shaved side of his head.
Pink jacket.
And he wasn't a friend.
Sitting in his car
when I opened up.
Dodge Challenger, '70s, tan.
Cleaner than the
board of health.
I'll tell you, smoking a Swisher
with no weed.
Guy gave me the creeps.
(Twitter app whistles)
♪ ♪
Yo. Zan going on now.
(scoffs)
♪ ♪
(chuckling)
The fuck?
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper
Boi, Paper Boi... ♪
What you think?
Bruh.
MAN: ♪ Paper Boi, Paper
Boi, Paper Boi... ♪
- What you think?
- ♪ I got... ♪
- Bruh.
- Zan?
Nigga, I know that guy.
He used to come down
to the old place.
Word?
In fact, I think I
know where he works.
♪ ♪
No.
(hip-hop bass thuds)
♪ ♪
Do you know if you can block
someone on a flip phone?
Why?
'Cause that dude Zan
keeps mass-texting me
every party in Atlanta
and he keeps calling
them "movements"
and I fucking hate him.
Hmm.
Wasn't that dude, like,
half Chinese or something?
I don't know.
Probably.
He was pretty short.
Ni-i-ice!
Chinese people are short
'cause of Genghis Khan.
- Look it up.
- In what?
The Racism Book?
(Keith Ape's "It G MA Remix"
playing over speaker)
Look, this dude
killed enough people
to lower the
temperature on Earth.
And if he conquered you
and you were bigger
than this wheel he had,
crrk, he'd kill you.
♪ ♪
Is that true?
You don't think that had
an effect genetically?
Plus, Chinese people don't
like black people no way.
- Look it up.
- Again, where?
♪ ♪
And he's not Chinese.
I'm not Chinese.
Wait right here, bro.
MAN: ♪ Rambo, rambo, rambo
♪ (machine gun fire)
♪ Rambo, rambo ♪
♪ Bitch, I'm a zombie ♪
(rapping in Korean)
(dice rattling)
(rapping in Korean)
♪ Camo down, you know we going ♪
♪ Harder than a mutha,
mutha(bleep) ape ♪
- ♪ Whoo ♪ - (rapping in Korean)
♪ ♪
He said meet him around back.
No, he didn't.
♪ ♪
(man speaking foreign language)
(speaking foreign
language, crying)
(goat bleating)
(yelling in foreign language)
Oh, yay.
My man.
Thank you very much.
Yeah?
Brother.
Is he going to get the money?
Uh...
Got to make a quick trade up.
It's the last stop.
Come on, Barfight.
(dog growls and barks lightly)
(goats bleating)
(sirens wailing)
Hey, man.
Oh, hey, what's up, man?
Nigga...
- We need to talk.
- Yeah, sure, we can talk.
I just gotta deliver
this, though, uh...
Ride with me. We'll talk.
You coming, bro?
(engine turns over)
(sighs)
So what's up, man?
- You working on a mixtape?
- Look, man.
I don't know if you know
what's happening out here,
but this ain't no game, a'ight?
I'm getting tired of niggas
online harassing me.
Ah, fan engagement.
No, man, you messin'
with my life, man.
This my job.
Helping us get money, though.
Nigga!
There's no money
anywhere near rap.
Now, I know it look fun and
games on The Shade Room,
but... niggas die.
People are forgotten.
Shit is real.
Yo, can I use that?
Use what, man?
What you just said.
Like, if I was recording
this, could I use that?
Nigga, are you recording
me right now?
I record everything, man.
Everything's
valuable to someone.
Okay, so then you admit it.
You ain't no critic
or a photographer.
You... you like a
salesman or something.
What's the difference?
I mean, it's all the game.
We're all just hustling.
You too.
'Cause I have to.
I scare people at ATMs, boy.
So I have to rap.
I mean, that's what rap is...
Making the best
out of a bad situation, brother.
Right. You're exploiting
your situation.
What?
You're exploiting your
situation to make rap,
and I'm exploiting
you exploiting that.
Money, bro.
(exhales)
Whatever, man.
I, like... I could say
some shit right now,
but I ain't trying to go off on
you with your son back there.
That's not my son.
That's my business partner.
We make Vine videos together.
Hos love this little nigga.
He just needs an edge.
We got a catch phrase, though.
Say it!
Sure I know, bitch!
Hmm.
Try the alt.
I... (sustained bleep)
(bleep continues)
on everybody face.
(chuckling) Hmm?
Put your seat belt on, Quentin.
(engine running)
(hip-hop bass thudding)
♪ ♪
(brakes screech)
(gear clicks)
A'ight, let's do this, Quentin.
Wait.
You got this kid
delivering your pizzas?
Word of mouth.
I'm watching him the
whole time, it's cool.
♪ ♪
(knocks on door)
♪ ♪
Wait... hold up, man.
Did he just get robbed, man?
Shit is crazy, B.
(recording button dings)
♪ ♪
(sighs)
(knocking on door) QUENTIN:
Give me the pizza.
Give me (bleep) pizza back.
(bleep) Give me...
Give me (bleep) pizza back!
Give me the (bleep) money!
(bleep).
I know where you live!
- (insects chirping)
- (humming)
(engine shuts off)
(birds cawing and chirping)
Oh, come on, come
on, come on, buddy.
(sighs)
(dog panting)
How much we getting for him?
Uh, about 2 to 4K.
Hell yeah.
Hell. Yeah.
Hey, hey.
Hey, D.
Ah, here he blows.
Yeah.
So what you think?
Yeah. Yeah, this a good dog.
Uh-huh.
Cool?
All right.
- Here you are.
- Good deal.
I'll catch you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
(whispers) Let's go, buddy.
Yes.
(exhales)
Hey, you going to get the money?
Yeah. Yeah, in September.
What?
Yeah, he's gonna take that
Cane Corso and breed it
with his other Cane Corso.
They're gonna have
Cane Corso puppies.
They gonna sell them
pups for 2K each.
And you get half.
Man, you 'bout to come up
off that phone, brother.
Are you joking?
No.
You all right, brother?
No, no, I'm actually
kind of fucked.
Van needed that money.
My daughter needed
that money, okay?
Not in September, but today.
Okay? See, I'm poor, Darius.
Okay? And poor people
don't have time for investments
because poor people are too busy
trying not to be poor, okay?
I need to eat today,
not in September.
Right, I asked you
at the pawn shop,
if you needed the money,
to take the money.
And you said you
wanted more money,
so I got you more money.
(birds chirping and twittering)
Look.
Here, trade this in.
- No, it's cool, man...
- No, no, it's fine.
I'm just stressed. I
got a lot going on.
No, it's fine. It's fine.
I get a new one every month.
Make sure they
ain't tracking me.
Thank you.
We're friends now.
(car door thuds closed)
(birds chirping)
(Michael Kiwanuka's
"Home Again" plays)
♪ ♪
KIWANUKA: ♪ Born
again, born again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ One day I know ♪
♪ I'll feel strong again ♪
♪ I lift my head ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Lost again, lost again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ One day I know ♪
♪ Our paths will cross again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Smile again, smile again ♪
♪ ♪
♪ One day I hope ♪
♪ To make you smile again ♪
♪ I won't hide ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Many times I've been told ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Speak your mind ♪
♪ Just be bold ♪
♪ So I close my eyes ♪
♪ Won't look behind ♪