Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019–…): Season 3, Episode 1 - I Can't Go to Sleep - full transcript
RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan have moved to a mansion in the woods of New Jersey and despite the massive success of their recently released album, they've only just begun.
I believe we could do some shit
that could be a game-changer.
I see each and every one
of y'all as fucking stars.
We'll change this
entire fuckin' industry.
Look, I got
more mouths to feed.
I'm ready to get busy.
Shurrie and Infinite is
the most important
things in my life.
And ain't nothing gonna
happen to them on my watch.
- I have my own group.
- Wu-Tang?
I tried to do this
shit by myself and I failed.
I need y'all, man. I
can't do this without you.
If what
you say is true...
the Shaolin and the
Wu-Tang could be dangerous.
These guys
right here are
the next evolutionary
step in hip-hop.
Ooh.
Yo. Yo, that's the sound.
Comin' to
you from Staten Island,
here's the Wu-Tang Clan
with "Protect Ya Neck."
DECK: ♪ Deep in the
dark with the art ♪
♪ To rip the charts apart ♪
♪ The vandal, too
hot to handle ♪
♪ Your battle, you're
saying, "Goodbye" ♪
♪ Like Tevin Campbell ♪
♪ Roughneck, Inspectah
Deck's on the set ♪
Wu-Tang's about to
fucking take over, yo.
Now, you all will be signed
on to Wu-Tang Productions
as a group, and as
individual artists.
I heard you could
sign solo deals
wherever you want.
Def Jam is offering
$150k for Deck.
Elektra has also made an offer.
They're signing to Elektra.
Nigga, stop playin'
with me, son.
Yo, you ain't even call
me to talk about it, man.
Yo, what the...
Yo, chill the fuck out, nigga!
Yo, what the fuck?
The whole industry will
know that Wu-Tang Clan
ain't nothin' to fuck with.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
All my music are on those decks.
Every album.
♪ I came to
bring the pain ♪
♪ Hardcore from the brain ♪
♪ Let's go inside
my astral plane ♪
♪ And find out my mental ♪
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Everybody get in.
Doesn't the pool still
have a leak in it?
Yeah, but that's why we
fillin' it up, shorty.
It looks cold.
Nah, it
ain't that cold.
I got the heat for
you, all right?
Ladies, y'all should
come inside, take a tour.
Yo, the only
tour you givin'
is a tour of the pantry, son.
Yeah,
yeah. Whatever, whatever.
Hey, yo, son, throw
something else at me, god.
Yeah, a'ight. But
whatever, son.
D, when are the
other girls coming?
Come on.
Yeah, this my shit right here.
Fuck yeah.
- Hey, nigga, what's that?
- Oh, it's a calendar.
Divine, where's Bobby?
Giving all our album dates,
tour dates, you
know what I mean?
- Uh, he's down there.
- Hey, hold on.
Meth's on tour for
a fucking month?
Yeah, nigga, it got extended.
See, that's what happens
when your album, you know,
heads past gold and on its
way to platinum, you know?
Yeah, whatever, whatever, son.
Get me my solo deal.
I'm going platinum too.
Just like them red tops,
you know what I mean?
Better than them blue tops.
Man, get the fuck out of here.
Yo, yo, yo, check this out.
Meth just made hip-hop
quotable of the month.
- Oh, shit.
- Know what I'm saying?
- Check that out right there.
- Yo!
Word up. See that?
Hey, yo, son, you ain't
shakin' them dices long enough.
It's like you over here pulling
magic tricks and shit, my nigga.
Ain't not
tricks, just licks, lord.
Hey, yo, this Black
man over here cheatin'.
Come on, son. Come on.
Staten, y'all be making money,
but Brooklyn, Brooklyn,
we be taking it.
Get the fuck
out of here, son.
Yo, son, I got that
good new new right here, man.
Yo, I got the good, new,
fucking George
Foreman grill, son.
This shit different, son.
It's grilling anything.
I'm talking about steak,
chicken, pineapples.
You know what I'm sayin'?
Like, nah, son.
I'm about to fuck the
whole panini game up, god.
- What the fuck is a panini?
- All right, look,
you over here making
up words and shit?
These niggas...
Nah, son, look...
George Foreman really punched
you in the head, my nigga.
Yo, son, I'm
trying to put y'all on.
It's an Italian sandwich.
But I got y'all.
Don't worry about it.
Yo.
Yo, what the hell is that?
Hey, yo, god.
Ooh, that shit is
crazy good, god.
Yo, yo, make me one, too,
and bring that shit up to me.
But don't put no cheese on mine.
That shit be fucking up
my stomach and all that.
Yo...
Bring me some more
weed, too, yo.
I don't even know
where the fuck you are, god.
Yeah, word. Fuckin'...
Hey, yo, that's not it.
That's for the other
song, "Ms. Thang."
If that ain't
it, then what is?
Yo, I'm talking about that
other joint, "Kristin."
Well, that's
it right there.
It's been six
months since the flood.
You ain't getting
anything off of that.
I was able to
salvage sounds off these
for Meth's tour after
the flood, nigga,
and that shit turned
out all right.
Oh, yo, this right here?
Hey, yo, I'm telling
you right now, man,
I'm getting me one
of these plaques too.
I mean, how you gonna put
so many brothers ahead of me
but when it comes to the tracks
you always got me
setting the joint off?
You know what I'm saying?
Yo, take a hit of this, man.
It'll help you think.
Now, you know I
haven't been smokin'
or drinking, nigga.
And you missed the tour.
How's the abbot gonna miss
the whole Wu-Tang tour?
Well, after Tical,
we still owe Geffen GZA's album.
And Dirty's shit
been due to Elektra.
Yo, Dirty's
not even here.
Last I saw him, he
was at the weed spot,
about two weeks ago.
Yeah? How'd he look?
He's all right.
Hey, yo.
Yo, that's it, right?
Motherfucker!
It's freezing.
Nigga, that's...
That's gotta be it, yo.
Nah, that's not it.
Nigga, that's it, yo.
DECK: ♪ Yo, Kristy love
kept a gat in her wig ♪
♪ If a pig tried
to frisk her ♪
♪ He only found a
package of cigs ♪
♪ 5'10" with the
god god pumps ♪
♪ She was the hood centerfold
Playmate of the Month ♪
Hey, yo, I told you, man.
That ain't the right snare.
All right, uh...
yo, fuck it, right?
Forget "Kristin."
Let's just move on to
another song for your demo.
Yeah?
Yo, if label execs
are gonna listen to me
as a solo artist,
it's gotta represent
me to the fullest.
You been down this road yourself
on that Prince Rakeem shit.
Know what I'm saying?
You get it, don't you?
Yeah. Look, I do.
Let's take five.
Hey, yo, I
can help you, man.
You know what I'm saying? You
ain't gotta do this alone.
Hey, yo, yo.
Yo, don't touch my shit, a'ight?
Back up. Thank you.
Yo, you ever think of
giving this to someone else,
an engineer or something?
Maybe they can get something
off of there that you can't.
And if they found
anything on here,
they'd steal it.
Yo.
We on top of the game
right now, right?
Everyone's gunning for us.
Niggas already biting our shit.
The disks stay here.
- A'ight?
- All right.
Peace, god.
That's the
whole five-year plan.
Shit, Wu-Tang
is taking over.
I'm telling you,
that's the competition.
Oh, no, you need
to add paprika to that.
Oh, come on, who you talking to?
It's the chef, know what I mean?
Hey, yo, hey, yo, how
you gonna be eating
- lobster tails when you G-O-D?
- Come on, son.
Come on, they
bottom-feeders, yo.
Hey, yo, look, the fucking...
The grill be taking
all the bad shit out,
know what I mean?
You see how the juices
is flowing out and shit?
- Know what I mean?
- You sound like a pitchman
- or some shit.
- Yo, yo.
That ain't a bad thing.
You know what I'm saying?
'Cause we should be thinking
of business opportunities
outside the music, you
know what I'm saying?
Word, yeah, once I sign
my solo deal with Loud,
sky's the limit, son.
Speaking of limits,
this is everyone's
corporate AmEx card.
Mm. Mm-hmm.
Hey, Deck, come here.
U-ie, come here.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Now, this is for you
guys to build credit,
but you have to pay
it back yourselves
or else I'll just deduct
it from your checks.
Okay, you hear that?
- Yeah. Yeah, son.
- Oh, ho, ho.
Shit, I can
build some credit.
Sorry, Killa,
crew members only.
Hey, cousin.
Hey, yo, yo.
- Yo, peace.
- Peace, peace.
You been staring at this
board all day, nigga.
Yeah, that's because
this board tells us
when the money comes in.
Yo, we got money coming in.
Yo, Tical's almost platinum, yo.
Yeah, but half of
it goes to Meth.
Yeah, and the other half
goes to Wu-Tang Productions.
Which we gotta cut up
between, like, eight members,
minus expenses,
including, you know,
this mansion you
insisted on buying.
Yeah, for work, yo.
The Shaolin built
their temple in nature
because excellence happens
in isolation, nigga.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Speaking of excellence, right?
Um, what's going on
with you and Dirty?
Yo, Bobby, we had to
turn in that album,
like, two months ago.
Tell me you have some of
the tracks done by now.
Yo, how can I even
focus on tracks
if he won't even talk to me, yo?
I understand,
but we're gonna run
out of money soon
if we don't turn
in Dirty's album.
We'll be fine, yo.
Let's just focus on Rae's deal.
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah?
We gonna be fine
for, like, a while.
Uh, okay, Rifkind's gonna
meet us at the club.
So we gotta get going
or we gonna be late.
Hey, what's going on?
I'm, uh...
I'm staying here.
Bobby, um...
I can't be creative
and do everything
business-wise, too, all right?
But look, if there's
any issues with Steve...
Call me, a'ight?
- Okay.
- And you tell Steve
to give Rae that 400, a'ight?
400? RZA: Yeah.
- Okay.
- Yeah?
Yeah, we good.
- Yeah, do it.
- I'll do something.
I'ma work my magic.
Peace, peace.
Thought you might be hungry.
It's vegan.
Oh, thank you, baby.
You're not rollin'
to the club with us?
Nah.
I got other business
I gotta handle.
All right, let's
go, let's go, let's go.
- What the fuck is this?
- Who've we got?
We got Power, we got one.
We got two. Hey,
yo, where's Ghost?
- Gho... hey! Let's go.
- Yo.
My nigga, come on, we need...
We need you to get dressed.
Hey, yo, I am dressed, V.
- Was this your idea?
- Hell no. Fuck is that?
Hey, yo, niggas ain't even
up on all of this, god.
It's the new elegance
shit. Know what I mean?
It's silk and all that.
What you mean, what I got on?
Y'all niggas look like
how we looked before
the AmEx cards.
That's what I'm
saying, though, but that's...
You know, that's what
they say about my sign.
You know what
I'm saying? So...
- What's your sign?
- I'm a Leo. I'm a fire sign.
- Me too.
- I could tell.
I'm a fire sign too.
Hold that.
Hey, yo, where you going?
You know, being out in
the woods is meditative.
Yo, you going for a walk
out there?
Man, might be bears and shit.
Yo, being out in the woods,
you ain't gotta
carry no guns, Deck.
It's peaceful out here.
Yo, you really on that
Tina Turner shit, son.
Oh, shit!
Yo! Yo, yo, yo!
Hey, yo, I'm hopping in a whip!
Yo, yo, I'm coming!
Hey, yo! Yo, yo, yo, yo!
Get the
fuck in the car, yo.
Told y'all
niggas I was coming.
Everybody here?
All right. Let's go.
METH: ♪ Bring that shit,
I don't give a fuck ♪
♪ Who lit that shit it
was I the chinky-eye ♪
♪ Chiba-hawk from New
York, Tical Staten Isle ♪
♪ Niggas thought that
they could walk a dog ♪
♪ But they caught
a bad situation ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm a sandwich
short of a picnic ♪
♪ 'Cause you ain't equipped
with the sickening style ♪
Hey, yo, you sure
you ain't trying
to get up with us later?
Fuck you 'bout to
do instead, god?
He probably about to go see
some shorty or some shit, right?
- Yeah, right, right.
- Yeah, tell Kristin I said hi.
Fuck out of here, nigga. Shit.
Hold on.
Yo, what's up, boo? Come here.
We recover data off
water-damaged floppy disks
all the time, no problem.
Yo, NASA gave that to you guys?
Yeah, they're a client of ours.
Cool.
It'll be ready in a day or two.
All right.
♪ Let it go ♪
♪ I don't wanna wake
up without you ♪
Now, let me
tell you, though,
Who?
Was the gangster
of all gangsters.
- Come on, son.
- Really, that was
my dad's world more than mine.
I'm telling you, he
says it, it's gospel.
Hey, yo, no disrespect
to the Jews and all that...
Okay. Here we go.
But ain't nobody got shit
on the Gambinos, Steve.
Castellano lived,
like, a mile away from
us, on top of the hill,
- right, right?
- Okay.
What, you want to live lavish?
Order whatever you want,
then. How's that for lavish?
Oh, that's how
we feelin', Steve?
It's like that? Word.
- It's like that.
- That's easy.
Hey, yo, son, where you
at? Come here, come here.
Hey, yo, yo, yo.
Bring us the best bottle
of champagne you got.
Nah, fuck all that. Bring
the most expensive one.
This one right here. Crystal.
You mean, Cristal?
- Cristal?
- Yo, son, go get us
what you got in
the back, a'ight?
Come on, hurry up, hurry up.
Nah, nah, but this is what
I'm talking about, right?
- Cristal and all that.
- Cristal and shit.
This the new... this the new
elegance shit right here.
Nah, this shit, it's
not even about Wu being
on top of the game and shit.
This... we... know what
I'm saying? Trendsetters.
Which is exactly why
we gotta diversify,
you know what I mean?
You know what I'm saying?
We get the Wu Wear
orders poppin',
you know what I'm saying?
Then we can branch off
into other businesses,
you know what I'm saying?
So we ain't gotta worry
about the music like that.
- Know what I mean?
- What you talking about,
don't worry about the
music? That's what we do.
Yo, my nigga, you expect
to be rapping forever?
Coming from the
nigga that can't rap.
Come on, son. Hold on, hold on.
We just gettin' started.
Know what I mean?
You over there talking
about retirement plans,
when we just getting
started, son.
Where we at with Rae?
I got the deal ready to go.
- $300K?
- That's a great offer.
But, you know, Wu-Tang is
in a different chamber now.
- So...
- I helped get us here.
- I remember.
- And I respect that,
but, listen, GZA got a
half a mil with Geffen.
So we're gonna need you to
put another 100K on that.
400's a go upstairs number.
Okay, well, then, listen,
I'll take the elevator with you.
Meet me at RCA.
Can you do tomorrow morning?
- Yeah, 9:00?
- That works.
- 9:00. Gotcha.
- All right.
Okay. All right.
METH: ♪ Queen with a crown
that be down for whatever ♪
♪ There are a few things
that's forever, my lady ♪
Right on
time. We like that.
Come on, yeah.
Whoo!
Oh, yeah. Yeah, baby.
This shit looks nice.
Yeah, it's real
easy to keep clean.
You haven't slept
in here in a week.
A week? For real?
Yeah, you've been going so hard,
staying up late at night.
You have no concept of time.
Hey, uh, look, I'm sorry, baby.
For real, I could...
I'ma sleep in here
tonight, I promise.
I won't hold you to it.
Your mom sent this.
She made it herself.
Oh, nice. Mm-hmm.
- Yo, this is cool.
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna put this
in the studio.
All right. Thanks, baby.
Ahh, shit.
Fuck, just like that.
- Mm-hmm...
- Hey, boo, you're up.
Hold on, you ain't even
finish the dirt dog.
Don't worry, baby, I got you.
- Oh, shit.
- And I'll be back.
You got this, girl.
Oh, shit, yo.
Yup, oh,
just like that.
What
time you get in?
I don't even know.
Ow, my head is
killing me, though.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I bet.
Come here.
Mm-hmm. Let me see.
Mm.
I'm glad you came home.
It's been, like, three days.
Yep. I was recording.
Bobby got us out there
in the middle of nowhere
working non-stop.
Mm. Non-stop?
Come on, you know what I mean.
Okay.
But we have an agreement.
No matter how hard
you're working, or...
Yo.
- Okay.
- Shit.
Or even if you
livin' that rap life,
you always come
home to your family.
- Do you understand?
- Yeah, all right?
- Damn.
- Okay.
You're my Earth, you know that?
All... all life come from you.
Okay.
And you're my moon.
Nah, I'm more like the sun.
- The sun?
- Mm-hmm.
And if I'm your Earth,
what, I orbit around you?
Nah, it's like... it's like...
Wait, so if you
sayin' I'm the Moon,
then I orbit around you?
That's exactly what
I'm saying, yeah.
- Oh, for real?
- Mm-hmm.
What?
Oh, it's just Infinite.
He in his playpen.
All right.
Relax.
Hey, remember when I took you
to that restaurant
across the street?
Of course I do.
That's where you gave me this.
Mm-hmm.
Now we live across
the street and shit,
could eat there, like,
three or four times a day
if we wanted to.
You don't seem
surprised, though.
It's not that, it's just...
well, I always
envisioned a better life.
I didn't know what the
journey was gonna be like,
but I'm glad that it's with you.
Mm-hmm.
Wait, don't you gotta
meet with the boys?
Yeah.
Okay. Come on,
you gotta get dressed.
Nah, I'm dressed. I'm dressed.
It's that new elegance
shit I be talkin' about.
No.
Let's get you a
outfit.
Meth-Tical coming
through with the suu.
Check it out.
♪ Niggas want to test
my steez, nigga please ♪
♪ I black that eye like peas ♪
♪ You better freeze
in your tracks ♪
♪ A Wu-Tang killer
bee's on your back ♪
♪ I comes for the honey
plus the phat money sack ♪
♪ You want it all ♪
♪ Yeah, I want it
all like that ♪
♪ I stab my own moms in
the back for a stack ♪
♪ Niggas like, "Damn, why
you want it like that?" ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm a dog ♪
♪ And I got no
love for the cat ♪
♪ Attitude's cold like
the north polar cap ♪
♪ Where I do my dirt's ♪
♪ A little further
down the map ♪
Excuse me.
Hi, I'm Divine Diggs.
Divine Diggs?
Uh, yes. Yes, ma'am.
Great stage name.
Actually, I'm not an artist.
I'm an executive.
I'm here to see Skip.
Um, wait here a moment.
How you doing?
Sorry, sir, this area's private.
- Hey, 'sup, Vine?
- Uh...
- Hey. Hey, Steve.
- How we doing?
You know, I'm okay.
Feel like we're signin'.
Yo, how they got all
this Hilfiger shit,
but no XXL? Yo,
they fucking up.
And they ain't got
no fatigues, yo.
Yo, my pops hooked me
up with a manufacturer.
We gonna start doing pants
now, you know what I mean?
Oh, word.
But you know what we
gonna do, though, right?
Check it.
We gonna put drawstrings up
in them motherfuckers, yo.
So niggas ain't gotta
worry about no belts,
you know what I mean?
You know what I'm saying?
Word. I keep
losing my shit too.
Right,
right, right, right.
And you know what
else you need to do,
you need to put
drawstrings on the ankles
so niggas can hold the
biscuit, know what I mean?
Anything I can help you with?
Yeah, um...
I really like this right here,
but you ain't got my size.
Sure we do.
Uh, you look like a medium.
No, no, I wear a XXL, B.
It's the style.
We like it baggy.
You know what I
mean? Hip-hop shit.
I'm... I'm so sorry, I'm
not a big hip-hop guy.
- But my boss is.
- Word?
Where your boss at?
See, Wu-Tang isn't
just a rap group.
It's a whole brand.
Know what I mean?
Like, this logo is
all over New York,
just like how you got the
IZOD alligator, right?
Or the Polo horse, you
know what I'm saying?
Give us a shot in your store.
I promise you won't
be disappointed.
Listen, I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan.
I saw your last concert
at the Warehouse.
The RZA wasn't there
for some reason.
Anyways, we have Hilfiger,
polo, almost did Kani.
What does Wu Wear
bring to the game
- that's any different?
- Yeah, but those brands...
They more aspirational menswear.
Our brand is streetwear.
You know what I mean?
We in touch with a demographic
that those labels aren't
because they're
getting complacent.
You know what I mean? They
taking our demographic
for granted, instead
of representing them.
I like everything you're saying,
but do you have any sales
data to back that up,
besides what you're moving
at the mom and pops?
- We working on it.
- Cool.
You know what? Call
me when you're ready.
All right. All right.
So much easier to
get what you're askin' for
when you got a gold record
on its way to going platinum.
What's wrong? You
wanted $400K for Rae
and you got it.
Would I have still
gotten that 400
if you weren't
standing next to me?
Okay, so even with
a check in my pocket
and a gold record on my wall,
they still looking at me
like I'm standing on the corner.
Now, I thought we'd be past that
at this point, Steve.
Okay, look, 'Vine, you know,
the higher these people
are up in the building,
the less they understand
what's happening on the ground.
You know, hip-hop's still
foreign to some of them,
and a Black executive
who doesn't come
from an Ivy League
school, even more so.
Oh, okay, so I guess I won't
step foot on this top floor
without a white
man chaperoning me.
I'm just always gonna hit
that glass ceiling, huh?
I'm saying, break
that ceiling, man.
I'm serious,
if not for you,
for everyone that comes
from where you and
Bobby come from.
Okay, white man,
how do I do that?
Just keep showing your
face here, every day,
until they get used to it.
I still can't believe they
let Leona Helmsley out.
I guess tax evasion isn't
such a big deal after all.
Not if you're rich.
Oh, shit.
Oh, where am I at, son?
Oh... strip club.
I... I mean, strip lounge.
They always want me
to call it a lounge.
Ah, shit.
It look mad different
in the daytime.
Yeah, sure does.
I know you.
You that Bastard
fella, ain't you?
No, no.
Yeah, ODB, OTC, OB...
No, no, son. You
don't know me, son.
Nah, that's not
me. I don't rap.
Well, you
look just like him.
O-T-C-B-O-B.
Oh, shit.
Motherfucker, yo.
Yo, RZA.
Yo!
Yo, come outside,
son, the pool fixed.
Yo!
Yo, come outside, son.
This is fucking bullshit, yo.
Yo.
What's good, nigga?
I'm out here.
Why you acting like that, son?
Like what, yo?
Now, you know damn
well if we had no money
for them lawyers,
both of us would be
locked up somewhere.
Look at this shit, son.
We got our own Wu
logo in the pool.
Basketball court, big-ass house.
Look at the view.
You need to take a moment
and appreciate where we at.
Yeah.
Yeah, I hear you.
All right.
Oh, shit.
♪ Nigga,
hit your district ♪
♪ With the impact
of a twister ♪
♪ Now clear the zone ♪
Yo, 400K? Tss.
You tell Rae yet?
Oh, yeah. He wants
to throw a party.
We just need to get his
album ready for next summer.
- For next summer?
- Mm-hmm.
No,
that's impossible.
What
you talkin' about?
Bobby?
Hey, yo, Bobby!
Bobby, what you mean?
You got plenty of time.
Not if I gotta do
two other artists first.
You know how long it
takes to create an album?
Hey, yo, you were
the one who told me
to get the 400K.
And the only way
they'll give it to us
is if we guarantee
a summer '95 release
because they got
nothing lined up
- for that quarter.
- D, I don't care.
Push it.
Bobby? Bobby!
Hey, yo. Yo, god.
Hey, I'm not...
I'm not going back
into those offices
after I gave them my word.
You know, you're
gonna be having us
looking like amateurs.
Fuck. Yo, fuck, man.
Look, I know. I know there's
a lot for you right now.
You know, you're
trying to be creative
and honor our contracts
with the record labels.
Not just those contracts, yo.
It's the contracts we had
the guys sign over to us.
We can't
let the guys down.
And we won't.
But we have to keep striking
while the iron's hot.
Hey, yo, no, no, no. Fuck that.
We have to keep the
iron hot, period.
My point is, is
that we have to do
everything to hold our
position while we got it.
Bobby, we worked too
hard to get here.
Know what I mean?
I wanted a... I wanted
a Wu solo release
for every quarter, right?
And then come with
the second group album
at the end of the five years.
But the way it's going now...
I've got nothing from
Dirty. GZA's not ready.
Rae, he just signed.
I lost all of Deck's music.
And I don't even fucking
know what I'ma do
with U-God and Ghost.
Fuck.
Uh, not to put
more on your plate...
But...
Yo, just go ahead
and tell me, yo.
In a minute I'm getting
on the phone with Def Jam.
And they want you to
do a remix for Meth
for "All I Need."
Nah, yo, I've... I've
already done that.
Yeah, but they feel
like your version is
more for the streets
and the club.
They want something
that will crack
the national radio.
Meth's album is so
close to going platinum,
Def Jam feels a more
radio-friendly version
of the... of the single will be
the thing that will
send it over the top.
You know?
I don't know, yo.
Oh, especially if I gotta have
Rae's shit done by summer.
No.
Little
bro, are you sure?
Hey, yo, because Def Jam is
just gonna find someone else.
And that would be the first time
an outside producer will
be creating something
for the Wu instead of you.
It's my decision, right?
Well, tell them to
find somebody else.
A'ight.
Yo, I
got that Wu-Tang!
Come fuck with me real quick.
Shit hard!
Hey, yo, son,
come check me out real quick.
I got that new Wu-Tang,
that exclusive shit.
All right.
Yo, shit.
What's wrong with
these idiots, man?
Yo, son, come
check me out real quick.
I got that Wu-Tang, that
exclusive, that new shit.
Yo, man, you can't be
bootlegging Wu-Tang shit, son.
- What's wrong with you?
- Why do you care?
- Fuck.
- Oh, shit.
- Yeah, oh, shit, yeah.
- Yo.
- Hey, yo, son, my bad, yo.
- Yeah, your bad.
Hey, yo, I know this not
Meth's shit right here, son.
Yo, take this down too, man.
No, come on, man. You
not even on that album.
Yo, Meth album is my album, son.
That's how we move.
Wu-Tang like brothers, man.
All right, all right.
So when's your shit coming out?
When my cousin stops trying
to big bro me. Pffft!
- I'm taking this too, son. What?
- Hey!
How'd that blanket
work out for you?
Oh, shit.
I'm sorry, baby.
I am.
Yo, for real, all right?
Oh, shit.
What?
I know you sacrificed
smoking and drinking
- to focus on your
work... - Uh-huh.
But I draw the line at showers.
Yo, what?
Guess you want to
give up sex too.
Hell no, girl.
Damn, this shit can wait.
♪ Oh, boy,
I gotta have it ♪
♪ Gotta make you mine ♪
♪ Give me that magic heart ♪
♪ Make me feel so fine ♪
♪ I need your lovin' ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ All the time ♪
♪ Every single
day I want you ♪
♪ Every kind of way ♪
♪ Oh, boy, I gotta have it ♪
♪ So are you gonna give
it to me real good? ♪
Aw, shit, look who it
is. The fucking thief.
I know you stole my disk, nigga.
Yo, relax.
I took it to a spot
that does shit for NASA.
It's gonna be all good.
Yeah, for NASA, huh?
What they gonna do,
send it up to space?
They probably
stealing my shit, yo.
I'm going to pick
it up right now.
You can thank me later.
By the way, that
shit sounds dope.
You should use that, actually.
Hey.
People are coming over to
celebrate Rae's album deal.
Yeah, I know.
I'ma, uh, I'ma stay
here, you know, just...
Oh, no, no, no. You
need to show your face.
Busta'll be here too.
Look...
Look, I know the flood
fucked up your whole plan,
but plans always get fucked up.
You've already been able to
put pieces back together.
You did it with Tical.
Tical.
That wasn't usually how
I... How I like to work.
You know what I'm saying?
Is this how you usually
like to work normally?
Nah.
Mm.
Okay, well, go on and get ready.
You already took a
shower.
I'ma see you in there, a'ight?
A'ight.
Hey, yo, you got my disk ready?
Uh, unfortunately
we weren't able
to get anything off your disk.
Nothing?
Not a hi-hat? Not a cymbal?
I'm sorry, sir.
The disk wasn't only
damaged by water,
but also by fecal particles.
Would you do NASA like this?
Oh, holy shit, man.
Dude, I'm such a huge fan, man.
All my favorite Wu-Tang
verses are yours.
Um, you got, like, uh, like...
♪ Your neighborhood
Spider-Man ♪
So sick.
Oh, hey, when's your
solo album coming out?
Hey, I'm working on it.
Yo! Yo, yo, what up, K?
Son, what the hell is that?
B!
Oh, word.
Boom. It's the
whip mobile, nigga.
The whip
mobile? - Yeah.
Yeah, so look, that
one right there...
That's Batman. RAE: Uh-huh.
The red
joint, that's Robin.
You copped both
of them guns, son?
- Come on, son.
- What the fuck?
Son, I'm fucking with Batman.
Fucking with these too?
What's this right here?
Ooh, this that good
Cristal we been on, son.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Word. A'ight.
Cristal.
Yo, come get you some, god.
Yo! Ooh, thanks, nigga.
This nigga
been at the pool
for, like, three days, son.
Can't say I
blame him for that.
- Word. Okay, Steve.
- Okay, okay.
Okay.
Yo, I might need
to borrow a pair
of trunks myself.
Know what I mean? RAE: Word.
- For a little dip.
- Word.
Okay, I like
Batman.
Word.
DIRTY: ♪ Shame on
a nigga who tried ♪
♪ To run game on a nigga ♪
♪ Wu buck wild
with the trigger ♪
♪ Shame on a nigga who
tried to run game ♪
Why you
making that face?
We're here to
celebrate your man.
Yeah, I'm celebrating
in my own way.
Know what I mean?
If you say so.
"If you say so."
Hey, yo, you look real familiar.
We know each other?
Oh, word, that's
how you playin' it?
Yo chill, chill, chill.
I'm asking a serious question.
No, you might have
seen me on TV.
For real?
Yeah, I was in a few videos.
Yeah? Which ones?
I was in, um, "Around
the Way Girl."
Ah, you was in "Around
the Way Girl," right?
I should
have been, but no.
Yeah, well, it was,
um...
It was nice meeting you...
Karina.
Karina? KARINA: Yeah.
Word.
You okay?
Yeah, just got this...
Got this... this headache
that been killing me all day.
I can help you with that.
So that's how you want
to play this, huh?
Now you stop.
Okay, I get migraines
all the time.
Look, I can help you with that.
Come on, come on.
Sit down. I got you.
Let me do this.
Okay, so just relax, okay?
- Ooh. Breathe deep.
- Yeah.
Let's take this off.
Yo, ladies. Y'all made it.
Oh, nah, nah, nah.
We... we... ain't none of that.
Ain't none of that.
We done with that.
We gonna put you all
on some good Cristal.
Thank you.
You ever had that before?
Let's put you onto
the Wu elegance.
Know what I mean? Oh, yeah?
It's good
to see another brother
on the top floor.
It's close to 5:00.
What you still doing
delivering mail?
Oh, we have three drops a day,
morning, noon, evening.
Well, I guess junk
mail is still important
to folks on this
floor, too, huh?
Oh, we deliver
internal mail as well.
- Internal?
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, like, right now,
I gotta take all the
execs the reports
for the international
sales meeting
they have every week at 5:30.
International sales, huh?
Well, I never thought
about international.
You know what I mean?
What the
heck was she thinking?
I know, but can
you imagine owning
the Palace Hotel and
then having to live
in a prison cell?
She's just gonna go
right back to her hotel empire.
Well, actually, she
won't be allowed to.
Uh, why's that?
Well, as a convicted felon,
she can't hold a liquor license.
Really? DIVINE: Yeah.
And all her hotels
serve alcohol.
See, if Ms. Helmsley had
just paid them contractors,
this whole mess would
have been avoided.
Exactly.
It's not like she
didn't have the money.
Mm, well, you know,
when you cook the books,
eventually someone's
gonna come around
and, uh, ask where the
smell is coming from.
Are you here
for the international
sales meeting?
Oh. Oh,
no. I... I, uh...
I had some business downstairs
and I got caught
in the elevator.
I'll just let myself
out. You know, excuse me.
When they're all
having that meeting,
the rest of us have a
little cocktail hour.
You're welcome to join.
Uh, hey, let me see.
You know what? I got the time.
- I do too.
- Oh, yeah?
- All right, let's go together.
- Let's.
METH: ♪ Check it,
I'm the fuckin' man ♪
♪ Who they mention ♪
♪ Notice, that other nigga's
rap styles is bogus ♪
♪ Doo doo, prepare for
this verse Tical voodoo ♪
♪ Blazin' the stuff that
ignites stimulation ♪
♪ Inside ya, 'cause I be
that house over water ♪
Not bad, Busta.
I was able to
check out Strapped.
Yo, congrats on that, yo.
That shit was
fuckin'... Fuckin' cool.
Thanks, lord.
But you kind of
late on that one.
I got another one coming
out with John Singleton.
John Singleton?
Damn, pardon me, god.
Shit.
You know I been stuck in
the fucking lab, nigga,
for days, yo. My bad.
Most def.
Yo know what would
make a nigga go crazy?
If me and Dirty did a track.
Where he at?
I don't know.
It can't be easy.
That's why I had
to leave my crew.
Yo, listen, this
shit is like a...
It's like a hot air balloon,
you know what I'm saying?
Sometimes you gotta
drop your shoulders,
drop shit off so
you can fly high.
Flyin' high...
Talk about flying high,
look at all this, yo.
Back when we was, like, 15,
you and me used to play
like we'd get all
this shit one day.
And you actually made it happen.
Salute.
Salute, yo.
My nigga.
Aah.
METH: ♪ It's about to hit
the fan, hit the floor ♪
♪ That's all I can stands,
and I can't stands no more ♪
♪ What is it? Niggas
think they bigger ♪
♪ 'Cause they got they finger
on the trigger of a pistol ♪
♪ They don't know I'm wicked
when I start to kick it ♪
♪ Eat they raw sound, wash
it down with a Mistic ♪
♪ Better yet a Snapple ♪
♪ Nigga want the juice but
he don't want the hassle ♪
♪ Then we try to
overthrow the castle ♪
All right, so we
coming right through here.
Know what I mean? There we go.
Yeah, we put this
together real nice.
It was a project I did
with my mom and all that.
Know what I mean?
Really... I'm really...
I got the flower
right here for you.
Aw. Yeah.
How long y'all in town for?
We're staying around
for the Gang Starr show,
- and then we...
- Don't forget
the Artifacts show the next day.
That's right... we should
change our plane tickets.
A'ight, well, I ain't
never been to Sweden,
but, you know what I'm saying?
I imported this chair
right here from Italy.
We should take a little...
Let's take a little
seat real quick.
Let's get cozy, huh?
Mm.
You matching me?
That's what it is?
You wanted to match my fly, huh?
Yeah, this is new to me.
I'll become a tri-lingual.
I'll try anything. You
know what I'm saying?
Hold on. No, no,
no. Turn that off.
Why?
What you mean?
We don't play non-Wu
shit in the Wu mansion.
Turn that off for me, a'ight?
That's a stupid rule.
Don't you want to know what
the competition's doing?
Ain't no competition, baby.
That's what I'm
trying to tell you.
That's some Wu shit.
Know what I mean?
Come on, now.
Of course it's competition.
You're not putting out
another group project.
You're about to be out
as a solo artist now.
And you're
dropping next summer.
- Same as Big L, Grand Puba...
- AZ.
How y'all even know that?
How do you not know that?
This is who you're up against.
When people go to the
store, they have to decide,
"Am I gonna buy Raekwon's
album or someone else's?"
Yo, yo, yo. What the
fuck going on in here?
You ain't let them
know that it's Wu only
in the mansion?
But don't you think
this song is dope?
Ain't
about whether or not
the song is dope, sweetheart.
It's our time.
Know what I mean?
Wu-Tang versus the world.
Fuck everybody else.
Word. Know what I mean?
Nah, that's what it is.
Let them know, right?
O.C.: ♪ Tell me this
is just a scrimmage ♪
♪ I feel I'm stone ♪
I told y'all.
Y'all over there on the
floor in the corner there.
What we doing? Let's
cheers. Come here.
Yo, let me get
one of those, son.
Hurry up, man.
- On your knees.
- Oh, shit.
- Right the fuck now.
- We ain't even do nothing.
Yeah,
you was about to.
You can't arrest me for
what I'm about to do.
Got a runner.
Oh, shit. Fuck.
Stop, motherfucker!
Oh, shit. Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Oh, fuck.
- Oh. Get out of the way.
- You too?
Watch out, son!
Police!
I'll be
back in ten minutes.
Ow! Yo, man!
What are you doing?
Damn, son. You see that guy?
Check on
it, check on it.
Fuck!
Whoo.
Oh, chill, Cujo.
Yo, chill.
Oh, fuck! Shit! Oh, shit!
Oh!
Hey, yo, I want to...
I want to thank
everybody for being here
and showing love and support,
and celebrating my
motherfucking nigga,
Raekwon the motherfucking Chef.
Nigga!
- Word.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yo, it took a lot of hard work,
and it's still going to.
But it feels good to let loose,
you know what I'm saying?
Yo, uh, to the Wu takeover.
RAE: ♪ Ignorant
and mad young ♪
♪ Wanted to be the one
till I got felt one ♪
♪ Yeah, my pops was
a fiend since 16 ♪
♪ Shootin' that
"that's that shit ♪
♪ In his blood stream ♪
♪ That's the life
of a crimey ♪
You glad you finally
came out of the dungeon?
Yeah. I guess so.
Mm-hmm.
Yo, I can't lie, though.
I'm pretty... I'm pretty
fucked up right now.
You know, all this time
not smoking and drinking...
That's too bad.
I was trying to do
a shot with you.
Who says we can't...
We can't do a shot?
See what they got here.
- What's this?
- Mm-mm-mm.
A'ight.
Yo, RZA. Yo.
What the fuck?
You got a call, son.
Thanks, yo.
Yo, yo.
Yo,
what's up, Rie?
It's Dirty. He's
in the hospital.
♪ Can
you feel it coming ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪ Does it
weigh you down? ♪
♪ Are
you getting nervous? ♪
♪ Mm, oh ♪
♪ Will
you make a sound? ♪
♪ Time to meet your maker ♪
♪ Maker ♪
♪ Pressure ♪
♪ Ooh, I'm gonna
pass your deep desires ♪
♪ And never mind
the when and why ♪
♪ Either you buckle
from the weight ♪
♪ Or show and prove
it's where you thrive ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Pressure ♪
Get on the line!
that could be a game-changer.
I see each and every one
of y'all as fucking stars.
We'll change this
entire fuckin' industry.
Look, I got
more mouths to feed.
I'm ready to get busy.
Shurrie and Infinite is
the most important
things in my life.
And ain't nothing gonna
happen to them on my watch.
- I have my own group.
- Wu-Tang?
I tried to do this
shit by myself and I failed.
I need y'all, man. I
can't do this without you.
If what
you say is true...
the Shaolin and the
Wu-Tang could be dangerous.
These guys
right here are
the next evolutionary
step in hip-hop.
Ooh.
Yo. Yo, that's the sound.
Comin' to
you from Staten Island,
here's the Wu-Tang Clan
with "Protect Ya Neck."
DECK: ♪ Deep in the
dark with the art ♪
♪ To rip the charts apart ♪
♪ The vandal, too
hot to handle ♪
♪ Your battle, you're
saying, "Goodbye" ♪
♪ Like Tevin Campbell ♪
♪ Roughneck, Inspectah
Deck's on the set ♪
Wu-Tang's about to
fucking take over, yo.
Now, you all will be signed
on to Wu-Tang Productions
as a group, and as
individual artists.
I heard you could
sign solo deals
wherever you want.
Def Jam is offering
$150k for Deck.
Elektra has also made an offer.
They're signing to Elektra.
Nigga, stop playin'
with me, son.
Yo, you ain't even call
me to talk about it, man.
Yo, what the...
Yo, chill the fuck out, nigga!
Yo, what the fuck?
The whole industry will
know that Wu-Tang Clan
ain't nothin' to fuck with.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
All my music are on those decks.
Every album.
♪ I came to
bring the pain ♪
♪ Hardcore from the brain ♪
♪ Let's go inside
my astral plane ♪
♪ And find out my mental ♪
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Everybody get in.
Doesn't the pool still
have a leak in it?
Yeah, but that's why we
fillin' it up, shorty.
It looks cold.
Nah, it
ain't that cold.
I got the heat for
you, all right?
Ladies, y'all should
come inside, take a tour.
Yo, the only
tour you givin'
is a tour of the pantry, son.
Yeah,
yeah. Whatever, whatever.
Hey, yo, son, throw
something else at me, god.
Yeah, a'ight. But
whatever, son.
D, when are the
other girls coming?
Come on.
Yeah, this my shit right here.
Fuck yeah.
- Hey, nigga, what's that?
- Oh, it's a calendar.
Divine, where's Bobby?
Giving all our album dates,
tour dates, you
know what I mean?
- Uh, he's down there.
- Hey, hold on.
Meth's on tour for
a fucking month?
Yeah, nigga, it got extended.
See, that's what happens
when your album, you know,
heads past gold and on its
way to platinum, you know?
Yeah, whatever, whatever, son.
Get me my solo deal.
I'm going platinum too.
Just like them red tops,
you know what I mean?
Better than them blue tops.
Man, get the fuck out of here.
Yo, yo, yo, check this out.
Meth just made hip-hop
quotable of the month.
- Oh, shit.
- Know what I'm saying?
- Check that out right there.
- Yo!
Word up. See that?
Hey, yo, son, you ain't
shakin' them dices long enough.
It's like you over here pulling
magic tricks and shit, my nigga.
Ain't not
tricks, just licks, lord.
Hey, yo, this Black
man over here cheatin'.
Come on, son. Come on.
Staten, y'all be making money,
but Brooklyn, Brooklyn,
we be taking it.
Get the fuck
out of here, son.
Yo, son, I got that
good new new right here, man.
Yo, I got the good, new,
fucking George
Foreman grill, son.
This shit different, son.
It's grilling anything.
I'm talking about steak,
chicken, pineapples.
You know what I'm sayin'?
Like, nah, son.
I'm about to fuck the
whole panini game up, god.
- What the fuck is a panini?
- All right, look,
you over here making
up words and shit?
These niggas...
Nah, son, look...
George Foreman really punched
you in the head, my nigga.
Yo, son, I'm
trying to put y'all on.
It's an Italian sandwich.
But I got y'all.
Don't worry about it.
Yo.
Yo, what the hell is that?
Hey, yo, god.
Ooh, that shit is
crazy good, god.
Yo, yo, make me one, too,
and bring that shit up to me.
But don't put no cheese on mine.
That shit be fucking up
my stomach and all that.
Yo...
Bring me some more
weed, too, yo.
I don't even know
where the fuck you are, god.
Yeah, word. Fuckin'...
Hey, yo, that's not it.
That's for the other
song, "Ms. Thang."
If that ain't
it, then what is?
Yo, I'm talking about that
other joint, "Kristin."
Well, that's
it right there.
It's been six
months since the flood.
You ain't getting
anything off of that.
I was able to
salvage sounds off these
for Meth's tour after
the flood, nigga,
and that shit turned
out all right.
Oh, yo, this right here?
Hey, yo, I'm telling
you right now, man,
I'm getting me one
of these plaques too.
I mean, how you gonna put
so many brothers ahead of me
but when it comes to the tracks
you always got me
setting the joint off?
You know what I'm saying?
Yo, take a hit of this, man.
It'll help you think.
Now, you know I
haven't been smokin'
or drinking, nigga.
And you missed the tour.
How's the abbot gonna miss
the whole Wu-Tang tour?
Well, after Tical,
we still owe Geffen GZA's album.
And Dirty's shit
been due to Elektra.
Yo, Dirty's
not even here.
Last I saw him, he
was at the weed spot,
about two weeks ago.
Yeah? How'd he look?
He's all right.
Hey, yo.
Yo, that's it, right?
Motherfucker!
It's freezing.
Nigga, that's...
That's gotta be it, yo.
Nah, that's not it.
Nigga, that's it, yo.
DECK: ♪ Yo, Kristy love
kept a gat in her wig ♪
♪ If a pig tried
to frisk her ♪
♪ He only found a
package of cigs ♪
♪ 5'10" with the
god god pumps ♪
♪ She was the hood centerfold
Playmate of the Month ♪
Hey, yo, I told you, man.
That ain't the right snare.
All right, uh...
yo, fuck it, right?
Forget "Kristin."
Let's just move on to
another song for your demo.
Yeah?
Yo, if label execs
are gonna listen to me
as a solo artist,
it's gotta represent
me to the fullest.
You been down this road yourself
on that Prince Rakeem shit.
Know what I'm saying?
You get it, don't you?
Yeah. Look, I do.
Let's take five.
Hey, yo, I
can help you, man.
You know what I'm saying? You
ain't gotta do this alone.
Hey, yo, yo.
Yo, don't touch my shit, a'ight?
Back up. Thank you.
Yo, you ever think of
giving this to someone else,
an engineer or something?
Maybe they can get something
off of there that you can't.
And if they found
anything on here,
they'd steal it.
Yo.
We on top of the game
right now, right?
Everyone's gunning for us.
Niggas already biting our shit.
The disks stay here.
- A'ight?
- All right.
Peace, god.
That's the
whole five-year plan.
Shit, Wu-Tang
is taking over.
I'm telling you,
that's the competition.
Oh, no, you need
to add paprika to that.
Oh, come on, who you talking to?
It's the chef, know what I mean?
Hey, yo, hey, yo, how
you gonna be eating
- lobster tails when you G-O-D?
- Come on, son.
Come on, they
bottom-feeders, yo.
Hey, yo, look, the fucking...
The grill be taking
all the bad shit out,
know what I mean?
You see how the juices
is flowing out and shit?
- Know what I mean?
- You sound like a pitchman
- or some shit.
- Yo, yo.
That ain't a bad thing.
You know what I'm saying?
'Cause we should be thinking
of business opportunities
outside the music, you
know what I'm saying?
Word, yeah, once I sign
my solo deal with Loud,
sky's the limit, son.
Speaking of limits,
this is everyone's
corporate AmEx card.
Mm. Mm-hmm.
Hey, Deck, come here.
U-ie, come here.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Now, this is for you
guys to build credit,
but you have to pay
it back yourselves
or else I'll just deduct
it from your checks.
Okay, you hear that?
- Yeah. Yeah, son.
- Oh, ho, ho.
Shit, I can
build some credit.
Sorry, Killa,
crew members only.
Hey, cousin.
Hey, yo, yo.
- Yo, peace.
- Peace, peace.
You been staring at this
board all day, nigga.
Yeah, that's because
this board tells us
when the money comes in.
Yo, we got money coming in.
Yo, Tical's almost platinum, yo.
Yeah, but half of
it goes to Meth.
Yeah, and the other half
goes to Wu-Tang Productions.
Which we gotta cut up
between, like, eight members,
minus expenses,
including, you know,
this mansion you
insisted on buying.
Yeah, for work, yo.
The Shaolin built
their temple in nature
because excellence happens
in isolation, nigga.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Speaking of excellence, right?
Um, what's going on
with you and Dirty?
Yo, Bobby, we had to
turn in that album,
like, two months ago.
Tell me you have some of
the tracks done by now.
Yo, how can I even
focus on tracks
if he won't even talk to me, yo?
I understand,
but we're gonna run
out of money soon
if we don't turn
in Dirty's album.
We'll be fine, yo.
Let's just focus on Rae's deal.
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah?
We gonna be fine
for, like, a while.
Uh, okay, Rifkind's gonna
meet us at the club.
So we gotta get going
or we gonna be late.
Hey, what's going on?
I'm, uh...
I'm staying here.
Bobby, um...
I can't be creative
and do everything
business-wise, too, all right?
But look, if there's
any issues with Steve...
Call me, a'ight?
- Okay.
- And you tell Steve
to give Rae that 400, a'ight?
400? RZA: Yeah.
- Okay.
- Yeah?
Yeah, we good.
- Yeah, do it.
- I'll do something.
I'ma work my magic.
Peace, peace.
Thought you might be hungry.
It's vegan.
Oh, thank you, baby.
You're not rollin'
to the club with us?
Nah.
I got other business
I gotta handle.
All right, let's
go, let's go, let's go.
- What the fuck is this?
- Who've we got?
We got Power, we got one.
We got two. Hey,
yo, where's Ghost?
- Gho... hey! Let's go.
- Yo.
My nigga, come on, we need...
We need you to get dressed.
Hey, yo, I am dressed, V.
- Was this your idea?
- Hell no. Fuck is that?
Hey, yo, niggas ain't even
up on all of this, god.
It's the new elegance
shit. Know what I mean?
It's silk and all that.
What you mean, what I got on?
Y'all niggas look like
how we looked before
the AmEx cards.
That's what I'm
saying, though, but that's...
You know, that's what
they say about my sign.
You know what
I'm saying? So...
- What's your sign?
- I'm a Leo. I'm a fire sign.
- Me too.
- I could tell.
I'm a fire sign too.
Hold that.
Hey, yo, where you going?
You know, being out in
the woods is meditative.
Yo, you going for a walk
out there?
Man, might be bears and shit.
Yo, being out in the woods,
you ain't gotta
carry no guns, Deck.
It's peaceful out here.
Yo, you really on that
Tina Turner shit, son.
Oh, shit!
Yo! Yo, yo, yo!
Hey, yo, I'm hopping in a whip!
Yo, yo, I'm coming!
Hey, yo! Yo, yo, yo, yo!
Get the
fuck in the car, yo.
Told y'all
niggas I was coming.
Everybody here?
All right. Let's go.
METH: ♪ Bring that shit,
I don't give a fuck ♪
♪ Who lit that shit it
was I the chinky-eye ♪
♪ Chiba-hawk from New
York, Tical Staten Isle ♪
♪ Niggas thought that
they could walk a dog ♪
♪ But they caught
a bad situation ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm a sandwich
short of a picnic ♪
♪ 'Cause you ain't equipped
with the sickening style ♪
Hey, yo, you sure
you ain't trying
to get up with us later?
Fuck you 'bout to
do instead, god?
He probably about to go see
some shorty or some shit, right?
- Yeah, right, right.
- Yeah, tell Kristin I said hi.
Fuck out of here, nigga. Shit.
Hold on.
Yo, what's up, boo? Come here.
We recover data off
water-damaged floppy disks
all the time, no problem.
Yo, NASA gave that to you guys?
Yeah, they're a client of ours.
Cool.
It'll be ready in a day or two.
All right.
♪ Let it go ♪
♪ I don't wanna wake
up without you ♪
Now, let me
tell you, though,
Who?
Was the gangster
of all gangsters.
- Come on, son.
- Really, that was
my dad's world more than mine.
I'm telling you, he
says it, it's gospel.
Hey, yo, no disrespect
to the Jews and all that...
Okay. Here we go.
But ain't nobody got shit
on the Gambinos, Steve.
Castellano lived,
like, a mile away from
us, on top of the hill,
- right, right?
- Okay.
What, you want to live lavish?
Order whatever you want,
then. How's that for lavish?
Oh, that's how
we feelin', Steve?
It's like that? Word.
- It's like that.
- That's easy.
Hey, yo, son, where you
at? Come here, come here.
Hey, yo, yo, yo.
Bring us the best bottle
of champagne you got.
Nah, fuck all that. Bring
the most expensive one.
This one right here. Crystal.
You mean, Cristal?
- Cristal?
- Yo, son, go get us
what you got in
the back, a'ight?
Come on, hurry up, hurry up.
Nah, nah, but this is what
I'm talking about, right?
- Cristal and all that.
- Cristal and shit.
This the new... this the new
elegance shit right here.
Nah, this shit, it's
not even about Wu being
on top of the game and shit.
This... we... know what
I'm saying? Trendsetters.
Which is exactly why
we gotta diversify,
you know what I mean?
You know what I'm saying?
We get the Wu Wear
orders poppin',
you know what I'm saying?
Then we can branch off
into other businesses,
you know what I'm saying?
So we ain't gotta worry
about the music like that.
- Know what I mean?
- What you talking about,
don't worry about the
music? That's what we do.
Yo, my nigga, you expect
to be rapping forever?
Coming from the
nigga that can't rap.
Come on, son. Hold on, hold on.
We just gettin' started.
Know what I mean?
You over there talking
about retirement plans,
when we just getting
started, son.
Where we at with Rae?
I got the deal ready to go.
- $300K?
- That's a great offer.
But, you know, Wu-Tang is
in a different chamber now.
- So...
- I helped get us here.
- I remember.
- And I respect that,
but, listen, GZA got a
half a mil with Geffen.
So we're gonna need you to
put another 100K on that.
400's a go upstairs number.
Okay, well, then, listen,
I'll take the elevator with you.
Meet me at RCA.
Can you do tomorrow morning?
- Yeah, 9:00?
- That works.
- 9:00. Gotcha.
- All right.
Okay. All right.
METH: ♪ Queen with a crown
that be down for whatever ♪
♪ There are a few things
that's forever, my lady ♪
Right on
time. We like that.
Come on, yeah.
Whoo!
Oh, yeah. Yeah, baby.
This shit looks nice.
Yeah, it's real
easy to keep clean.
You haven't slept
in here in a week.
A week? For real?
Yeah, you've been going so hard,
staying up late at night.
You have no concept of time.
Hey, uh, look, I'm sorry, baby.
For real, I could...
I'ma sleep in here
tonight, I promise.
I won't hold you to it.
Your mom sent this.
She made it herself.
Oh, nice. Mm-hmm.
- Yo, this is cool.
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna put this
in the studio.
All right. Thanks, baby.
Ahh, shit.
Fuck, just like that.
- Mm-hmm...
- Hey, boo, you're up.
Hold on, you ain't even
finish the dirt dog.
Don't worry, baby, I got you.
- Oh, shit.
- And I'll be back.
You got this, girl.
Oh, shit, yo.
Yup, oh,
just like that.
What
time you get in?
I don't even know.
Ow, my head is
killing me, though.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I bet.
Come here.
Mm-hmm. Let me see.
Mm.
I'm glad you came home.
It's been, like, three days.
Yep. I was recording.
Bobby got us out there
in the middle of nowhere
working non-stop.
Mm. Non-stop?
Come on, you know what I mean.
Okay.
But we have an agreement.
No matter how hard
you're working, or...
Yo.
- Okay.
- Shit.
Or even if you
livin' that rap life,
you always come
home to your family.
- Do you understand?
- Yeah, all right?
- Damn.
- Okay.
You're my Earth, you know that?
All... all life come from you.
Okay.
And you're my moon.
Nah, I'm more like the sun.
- The sun?
- Mm-hmm.
And if I'm your Earth,
what, I orbit around you?
Nah, it's like... it's like...
Wait, so if you
sayin' I'm the Moon,
then I orbit around you?
That's exactly what
I'm saying, yeah.
- Oh, for real?
- Mm-hmm.
What?
Oh, it's just Infinite.
He in his playpen.
All right.
Relax.
Hey, remember when I took you
to that restaurant
across the street?
Of course I do.
That's where you gave me this.
Mm-hmm.
Now we live across
the street and shit,
could eat there, like,
three or four times a day
if we wanted to.
You don't seem
surprised, though.
It's not that, it's just...
well, I always
envisioned a better life.
I didn't know what the
journey was gonna be like,
but I'm glad that it's with you.
Mm-hmm.
Wait, don't you gotta
meet with the boys?
Yeah.
Okay. Come on,
you gotta get dressed.
Nah, I'm dressed. I'm dressed.
It's that new elegance
shit I be talkin' about.
No.
Let's get you a
outfit.
Meth-Tical coming
through with the suu.
Check it out.
♪ Niggas want to test
my steez, nigga please ♪
♪ I black that eye like peas ♪
♪ You better freeze
in your tracks ♪
♪ A Wu-Tang killer
bee's on your back ♪
♪ I comes for the honey
plus the phat money sack ♪
♪ You want it all ♪
♪ Yeah, I want it
all like that ♪
♪ I stab my own moms in
the back for a stack ♪
♪ Niggas like, "Damn, why
you want it like that?" ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm a dog ♪
♪ And I got no
love for the cat ♪
♪ Attitude's cold like
the north polar cap ♪
♪ Where I do my dirt's ♪
♪ A little further
down the map ♪
Excuse me.
Hi, I'm Divine Diggs.
Divine Diggs?
Uh, yes. Yes, ma'am.
Great stage name.
Actually, I'm not an artist.
I'm an executive.
I'm here to see Skip.
Um, wait here a moment.
How you doing?
Sorry, sir, this area's private.
- Hey, 'sup, Vine?
- Uh...
- Hey. Hey, Steve.
- How we doing?
You know, I'm okay.
Feel like we're signin'.
Yo, how they got all
this Hilfiger shit,
but no XXL? Yo,
they fucking up.
And they ain't got
no fatigues, yo.
Yo, my pops hooked me
up with a manufacturer.
We gonna start doing pants
now, you know what I mean?
Oh, word.
But you know what we
gonna do, though, right?
Check it.
We gonna put drawstrings up
in them motherfuckers, yo.
So niggas ain't gotta
worry about no belts,
you know what I mean?
You know what I'm saying?
Word. I keep
losing my shit too.
Right,
right, right, right.
And you know what
else you need to do,
you need to put
drawstrings on the ankles
so niggas can hold the
biscuit, know what I mean?
Anything I can help you with?
Yeah, um...
I really like this right here,
but you ain't got my size.
Sure we do.
Uh, you look like a medium.
No, no, I wear a XXL, B.
It's the style.
We like it baggy.
You know what I
mean? Hip-hop shit.
I'm... I'm so sorry, I'm
not a big hip-hop guy.
- But my boss is.
- Word?
Where your boss at?
See, Wu-Tang isn't
just a rap group.
It's a whole brand.
Know what I mean?
Like, this logo is
all over New York,
just like how you got the
IZOD alligator, right?
Or the Polo horse, you
know what I'm saying?
Give us a shot in your store.
I promise you won't
be disappointed.
Listen, I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan.
I saw your last concert
at the Warehouse.
The RZA wasn't there
for some reason.
Anyways, we have Hilfiger,
polo, almost did Kani.
What does Wu Wear
bring to the game
- that's any different?
- Yeah, but those brands...
They more aspirational menswear.
Our brand is streetwear.
You know what I mean?
We in touch with a demographic
that those labels aren't
because they're
getting complacent.
You know what I mean? They
taking our demographic
for granted, instead
of representing them.
I like everything you're saying,
but do you have any sales
data to back that up,
besides what you're moving
at the mom and pops?
- We working on it.
- Cool.
You know what? Call
me when you're ready.
All right. All right.
So much easier to
get what you're askin' for
when you got a gold record
on its way to going platinum.
What's wrong? You
wanted $400K for Rae
and you got it.
Would I have still
gotten that 400
if you weren't
standing next to me?
Okay, so even with
a check in my pocket
and a gold record on my wall,
they still looking at me
like I'm standing on the corner.
Now, I thought we'd be past that
at this point, Steve.
Okay, look, 'Vine, you know,
the higher these people
are up in the building,
the less they understand
what's happening on the ground.
You know, hip-hop's still
foreign to some of them,
and a Black executive
who doesn't come
from an Ivy League
school, even more so.
Oh, okay, so I guess I won't
step foot on this top floor
without a white
man chaperoning me.
I'm just always gonna hit
that glass ceiling, huh?
I'm saying, break
that ceiling, man.
I'm serious,
if not for you,
for everyone that comes
from where you and
Bobby come from.
Okay, white man,
how do I do that?
Just keep showing your
face here, every day,
until they get used to it.
I still can't believe they
let Leona Helmsley out.
I guess tax evasion isn't
such a big deal after all.
Not if you're rich.
Oh, shit.
Oh, where am I at, son?
Oh... strip club.
I... I mean, strip lounge.
They always want me
to call it a lounge.
Ah, shit.
It look mad different
in the daytime.
Yeah, sure does.
I know you.
You that Bastard
fella, ain't you?
No, no.
Yeah, ODB, OTC, OB...
No, no, son. You
don't know me, son.
Nah, that's not
me. I don't rap.
Well, you
look just like him.
O-T-C-B-O-B.
Oh, shit.
Motherfucker, yo.
Yo, RZA.
Yo!
Yo, come outside,
son, the pool fixed.
Yo!
Yo, come outside, son.
This is fucking bullshit, yo.
Yo.
What's good, nigga?
I'm out here.
Why you acting like that, son?
Like what, yo?
Now, you know damn
well if we had no money
for them lawyers,
both of us would be
locked up somewhere.
Look at this shit, son.
We got our own Wu
logo in the pool.
Basketball court, big-ass house.
Look at the view.
You need to take a moment
and appreciate where we at.
Yeah.
Yeah, I hear you.
All right.
Oh, shit.
♪ Nigga,
hit your district ♪
♪ With the impact
of a twister ♪
♪ Now clear the zone ♪
Yo, 400K? Tss.
You tell Rae yet?
Oh, yeah. He wants
to throw a party.
We just need to get his
album ready for next summer.
- For next summer?
- Mm-hmm.
No,
that's impossible.
What
you talkin' about?
Bobby?
Hey, yo, Bobby!
Bobby, what you mean?
You got plenty of time.
Not if I gotta do
two other artists first.
You know how long it
takes to create an album?
Hey, yo, you were
the one who told me
to get the 400K.
And the only way
they'll give it to us
is if we guarantee
a summer '95 release
because they got
nothing lined up
- for that quarter.
- D, I don't care.
Push it.
Bobby? Bobby!
Hey, yo. Yo, god.
Hey, I'm not...
I'm not going back
into those offices
after I gave them my word.
You know, you're
gonna be having us
looking like amateurs.
Fuck. Yo, fuck, man.
Look, I know. I know there's
a lot for you right now.
You know, you're
trying to be creative
and honor our contracts
with the record labels.
Not just those contracts, yo.
It's the contracts we had
the guys sign over to us.
We can't
let the guys down.
And we won't.
But we have to keep striking
while the iron's hot.
Hey, yo, no, no, no. Fuck that.
We have to keep the
iron hot, period.
My point is, is
that we have to do
everything to hold our
position while we got it.
Bobby, we worked too
hard to get here.
Know what I mean?
I wanted a... I wanted
a Wu solo release
for every quarter, right?
And then come with
the second group album
at the end of the five years.
But the way it's going now...
I've got nothing from
Dirty. GZA's not ready.
Rae, he just signed.
I lost all of Deck's music.
And I don't even fucking
know what I'ma do
with U-God and Ghost.
Fuck.
Uh, not to put
more on your plate...
But...
Yo, just go ahead
and tell me, yo.
In a minute I'm getting
on the phone with Def Jam.
And they want you to
do a remix for Meth
for "All I Need."
Nah, yo, I've... I've
already done that.
Yeah, but they feel
like your version is
more for the streets
and the club.
They want something
that will crack
the national radio.
Meth's album is so
close to going platinum,
Def Jam feels a more
radio-friendly version
of the... of the single will be
the thing that will
send it over the top.
You know?
I don't know, yo.
Oh, especially if I gotta have
Rae's shit done by summer.
No.
Little
bro, are you sure?
Hey, yo, because Def Jam is
just gonna find someone else.
And that would be the first time
an outside producer will
be creating something
for the Wu instead of you.
It's my decision, right?
Well, tell them to
find somebody else.
A'ight.
Yo, I
got that Wu-Tang!
Come fuck with me real quick.
Shit hard!
Hey, yo, son,
come check me out real quick.
I got that new Wu-Tang,
that exclusive shit.
All right.
Yo, shit.
What's wrong with
these idiots, man?
Yo, son, come
check me out real quick.
I got that Wu-Tang, that
exclusive, that new shit.
Yo, man, you can't be
bootlegging Wu-Tang shit, son.
- What's wrong with you?
- Why do you care?
- Fuck.
- Oh, shit.
- Yeah, oh, shit, yeah.
- Yo.
- Hey, yo, son, my bad, yo.
- Yeah, your bad.
Hey, yo, I know this not
Meth's shit right here, son.
Yo, take this down too, man.
No, come on, man. You
not even on that album.
Yo, Meth album is my album, son.
That's how we move.
Wu-Tang like brothers, man.
All right, all right.
So when's your shit coming out?
When my cousin stops trying
to big bro me. Pffft!
- I'm taking this too, son. What?
- Hey!
How'd that blanket
work out for you?
Oh, shit.
I'm sorry, baby.
I am.
Yo, for real, all right?
Oh, shit.
What?
I know you sacrificed
smoking and drinking
- to focus on your
work... - Uh-huh.
But I draw the line at showers.
Yo, what?
Guess you want to
give up sex too.
Hell no, girl.
Damn, this shit can wait.
♪ Oh, boy,
I gotta have it ♪
♪ Gotta make you mine ♪
♪ Give me that magic heart ♪
♪ Make me feel so fine ♪
♪ I need your lovin' ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ All the time ♪
♪ Every single
day I want you ♪
♪ Every kind of way ♪
♪ Oh, boy, I gotta have it ♪
♪ So are you gonna give
it to me real good? ♪
Aw, shit, look who it
is. The fucking thief.
I know you stole my disk, nigga.
Yo, relax.
I took it to a spot
that does shit for NASA.
It's gonna be all good.
Yeah, for NASA, huh?
What they gonna do,
send it up to space?
They probably
stealing my shit, yo.
I'm going to pick
it up right now.
You can thank me later.
By the way, that
shit sounds dope.
You should use that, actually.
Hey.
People are coming over to
celebrate Rae's album deal.
Yeah, I know.
I'ma, uh, I'ma stay
here, you know, just...
Oh, no, no, no. You
need to show your face.
Busta'll be here too.
Look...
Look, I know the flood
fucked up your whole plan,
but plans always get fucked up.
You've already been able to
put pieces back together.
You did it with Tical.
Tical.
That wasn't usually how
I... How I like to work.
You know what I'm saying?
Is this how you usually
like to work normally?
Nah.
Mm.
Okay, well, go on and get ready.
You already took a
shower.
I'ma see you in there, a'ight?
A'ight.
Hey, yo, you got my disk ready?
Uh, unfortunately
we weren't able
to get anything off your disk.
Nothing?
Not a hi-hat? Not a cymbal?
I'm sorry, sir.
The disk wasn't only
damaged by water,
but also by fecal particles.
Would you do NASA like this?
Oh, holy shit, man.
Dude, I'm such a huge fan, man.
All my favorite Wu-Tang
verses are yours.
Um, you got, like, uh, like...
♪ Your neighborhood
Spider-Man ♪
So sick.
Oh, hey, when's your
solo album coming out?
Hey, I'm working on it.
Yo! Yo, yo, what up, K?
Son, what the hell is that?
B!
Oh, word.
Boom. It's the
whip mobile, nigga.
The whip
mobile? - Yeah.
Yeah, so look, that
one right there...
That's Batman. RAE: Uh-huh.
The red
joint, that's Robin.
You copped both
of them guns, son?
- Come on, son.
- What the fuck?
Son, I'm fucking with Batman.
Fucking with these too?
What's this right here?
Ooh, this that good
Cristal we been on, son.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Word. A'ight.
Cristal.
Yo, come get you some, god.
Yo! Ooh, thanks, nigga.
This nigga
been at the pool
for, like, three days, son.
Can't say I
blame him for that.
- Word. Okay, Steve.
- Okay, okay.
Okay.
Yo, I might need
to borrow a pair
of trunks myself.
Know what I mean? RAE: Word.
- For a little dip.
- Word.
Okay, I like
Batman.
Word.
DIRTY: ♪ Shame on
a nigga who tried ♪
♪ To run game on a nigga ♪
♪ Wu buck wild
with the trigger ♪
♪ Shame on a nigga who
tried to run game ♪
Why you
making that face?
We're here to
celebrate your man.
Yeah, I'm celebrating
in my own way.
Know what I mean?
If you say so.
"If you say so."
Hey, yo, you look real familiar.
We know each other?
Oh, word, that's
how you playin' it?
Yo chill, chill, chill.
I'm asking a serious question.
No, you might have
seen me on TV.
For real?
Yeah, I was in a few videos.
Yeah? Which ones?
I was in, um, "Around
the Way Girl."
Ah, you was in "Around
the Way Girl," right?
I should
have been, but no.
Yeah, well, it was,
um...
It was nice meeting you...
Karina.
Karina? KARINA: Yeah.
Word.
You okay?
Yeah, just got this...
Got this... this headache
that been killing me all day.
I can help you with that.
So that's how you want
to play this, huh?
Now you stop.
Okay, I get migraines
all the time.
Look, I can help you with that.
Come on, come on.
Sit down. I got you.
Let me do this.
Okay, so just relax, okay?
- Ooh. Breathe deep.
- Yeah.
Let's take this off.
Yo, ladies. Y'all made it.
Oh, nah, nah, nah.
We... we... ain't none of that.
Ain't none of that.
We done with that.
We gonna put you all
on some good Cristal.
Thank you.
You ever had that before?
Let's put you onto
the Wu elegance.
Know what I mean? Oh, yeah?
It's good
to see another brother
on the top floor.
It's close to 5:00.
What you still doing
delivering mail?
Oh, we have three drops a day,
morning, noon, evening.
Well, I guess junk
mail is still important
to folks on this
floor, too, huh?
Oh, we deliver
internal mail as well.
- Internal?
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, like, right now,
I gotta take all the
execs the reports
for the international
sales meeting
they have every week at 5:30.
International sales, huh?
Well, I never thought
about international.
You know what I mean?
What the
heck was she thinking?
I know, but can
you imagine owning
the Palace Hotel and
then having to live
in a prison cell?
She's just gonna go
right back to her hotel empire.
Well, actually, she
won't be allowed to.
Uh, why's that?
Well, as a convicted felon,
she can't hold a liquor license.
Really? DIVINE: Yeah.
And all her hotels
serve alcohol.
See, if Ms. Helmsley had
just paid them contractors,
this whole mess would
have been avoided.
Exactly.
It's not like she
didn't have the money.
Mm, well, you know,
when you cook the books,
eventually someone's
gonna come around
and, uh, ask where the
smell is coming from.
Are you here
for the international
sales meeting?
Oh. Oh,
no. I... I, uh...
I had some business downstairs
and I got caught
in the elevator.
I'll just let myself
out. You know, excuse me.
When they're all
having that meeting,
the rest of us have a
little cocktail hour.
You're welcome to join.
Uh, hey, let me see.
You know what? I got the time.
- I do too.
- Oh, yeah?
- All right, let's go together.
- Let's.
METH: ♪ Check it,
I'm the fuckin' man ♪
♪ Who they mention ♪
♪ Notice, that other nigga's
rap styles is bogus ♪
♪ Doo doo, prepare for
this verse Tical voodoo ♪
♪ Blazin' the stuff that
ignites stimulation ♪
♪ Inside ya, 'cause I be
that house over water ♪
Not bad, Busta.
I was able to
check out Strapped.
Yo, congrats on that, yo.
That shit was
fuckin'... Fuckin' cool.
Thanks, lord.
But you kind of
late on that one.
I got another one coming
out with John Singleton.
John Singleton?
Damn, pardon me, god.
Shit.
You know I been stuck in
the fucking lab, nigga,
for days, yo. My bad.
Most def.
Yo know what would
make a nigga go crazy?
If me and Dirty did a track.
Where he at?
I don't know.
It can't be easy.
That's why I had
to leave my crew.
Yo, listen, this
shit is like a...
It's like a hot air balloon,
you know what I'm saying?
Sometimes you gotta
drop your shoulders,
drop shit off so
you can fly high.
Flyin' high...
Talk about flying high,
look at all this, yo.
Back when we was, like, 15,
you and me used to play
like we'd get all
this shit one day.
And you actually made it happen.
Salute.
Salute, yo.
My nigga.
Aah.
METH: ♪ It's about to hit
the fan, hit the floor ♪
♪ That's all I can stands,
and I can't stands no more ♪
♪ What is it? Niggas
think they bigger ♪
♪ 'Cause they got they finger
on the trigger of a pistol ♪
♪ They don't know I'm wicked
when I start to kick it ♪
♪ Eat they raw sound, wash
it down with a Mistic ♪
♪ Better yet a Snapple ♪
♪ Nigga want the juice but
he don't want the hassle ♪
♪ Then we try to
overthrow the castle ♪
All right, so we
coming right through here.
Know what I mean? There we go.
Yeah, we put this
together real nice.
It was a project I did
with my mom and all that.
Know what I mean?
Really... I'm really...
I got the flower
right here for you.
Aw. Yeah.
How long y'all in town for?
We're staying around
for the Gang Starr show,
- and then we...
- Don't forget
the Artifacts show the next day.
That's right... we should
change our plane tickets.
A'ight, well, I ain't
never been to Sweden,
but, you know what I'm saying?
I imported this chair
right here from Italy.
We should take a little...
Let's take a little
seat real quick.
Let's get cozy, huh?
Mm.
You matching me?
That's what it is?
You wanted to match my fly, huh?
Yeah, this is new to me.
I'll become a tri-lingual.
I'll try anything. You
know what I'm saying?
Hold on. No, no,
no. Turn that off.
Why?
What you mean?
We don't play non-Wu
shit in the Wu mansion.
Turn that off for me, a'ight?
That's a stupid rule.
Don't you want to know what
the competition's doing?
Ain't no competition, baby.
That's what I'm
trying to tell you.
That's some Wu shit.
Know what I mean?
Come on, now.
Of course it's competition.
You're not putting out
another group project.
You're about to be out
as a solo artist now.
And you're
dropping next summer.
- Same as Big L, Grand Puba...
- AZ.
How y'all even know that?
How do you not know that?
This is who you're up against.
When people go to the
store, they have to decide,
"Am I gonna buy Raekwon's
album or someone else's?"
Yo, yo, yo. What the
fuck going on in here?
You ain't let them
know that it's Wu only
in the mansion?
But don't you think
this song is dope?
Ain't
about whether or not
the song is dope, sweetheart.
It's our time.
Know what I mean?
Wu-Tang versus the world.
Fuck everybody else.
Word. Know what I mean?
Nah, that's what it is.
Let them know, right?
O.C.: ♪ Tell me this
is just a scrimmage ♪
♪ I feel I'm stone ♪
I told y'all.
Y'all over there on the
floor in the corner there.
What we doing? Let's
cheers. Come here.
Yo, let me get
one of those, son.
Hurry up, man.
- On your knees.
- Oh, shit.
- Right the fuck now.
- We ain't even do nothing.
Yeah,
you was about to.
You can't arrest me for
what I'm about to do.
Got a runner.
Oh, shit. Fuck.
Stop, motherfucker!
Oh, shit. Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Oh, fuck.
- Oh. Get out of the way.
- You too?
Watch out, son!
Police!
I'll be
back in ten minutes.
Ow! Yo, man!
What are you doing?
Damn, son. You see that guy?
Check on
it, check on it.
Fuck!
Whoo.
Oh, chill, Cujo.
Yo, chill.
Oh, fuck! Shit! Oh, shit!
Oh!
Hey, yo, I want to...
I want to thank
everybody for being here
and showing love and support,
and celebrating my
motherfucking nigga,
Raekwon the motherfucking Chef.
Nigga!
- Word.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yo, it took a lot of hard work,
and it's still going to.
But it feels good to let loose,
you know what I'm saying?
Yo, uh, to the Wu takeover.
RAE: ♪ Ignorant
and mad young ♪
♪ Wanted to be the one
till I got felt one ♪
♪ Yeah, my pops was
a fiend since 16 ♪
♪ Shootin' that
"that's that shit ♪
♪ In his blood stream ♪
♪ That's the life
of a crimey ♪
You glad you finally
came out of the dungeon?
Yeah. I guess so.
Mm-hmm.
Yo, I can't lie, though.
I'm pretty... I'm pretty
fucked up right now.
You know, all this time
not smoking and drinking...
That's too bad.
I was trying to do
a shot with you.
Who says we can't...
We can't do a shot?
See what they got here.
- What's this?
- Mm-mm-mm.
A'ight.
Yo, RZA. Yo.
What the fuck?
You got a call, son.
Thanks, yo.
Yo, yo.
Yo,
what's up, Rie?
It's Dirty. He's
in the hospital.
♪ Can
you feel it coming ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪ Does it
weigh you down? ♪
♪ Are
you getting nervous? ♪
♪ Mm, oh ♪
♪ Will
you make a sound? ♪
♪ Time to meet your maker ♪
♪ Maker ♪
♪ Pressure ♪
♪ Ooh, I'm gonna
pass your deep desires ♪
♪ And never mind
the when and why ♪
♪ Either you buckle
from the weight ♪
♪ Or show and prove
it's where you thrive ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Pressure ♪
Get on the line!