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Ninth Street Full Movie
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00:00:00In them days, they called Junction City a lot of names.
00:00:28Junctown.
00:00:29Hoville.
00:00:30Why, you could address a letter saying City, Kansas, and they know to deliver it to us.
00:00:39Why?
00:00:40Well, hell, cause of us.
00:00:42Cause of our street.
00:00:44Oh, yeah, they gambled down there, they bootlegged, and them gals did turn tricks for them soldiers,
00:00:52but you're gonna have that in an army town.
00:00:56See, Junction City was the way it was because of them 20,000 soldiers stationed outside
00:01:02of town at Fort Riley.
00:01:05Military payday is big money, baby.
00:01:08That money turned a little country town like this into a boomtown.
00:01:19The streets served us black G.I.s of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.
00:01:23The world-famous Buffalo Soldiers, which I was a proud member of.
00:01:30If that street hadn't been down there, we'd had nowhere to go.
00:01:35We'd gone crazy.
00:01:42It was one whole block of black-owned businesses, Negroes.
00:01:48It was our Harlem in Kansas.
00:01:51Anything a colored man wanted, he could get down there.
00:01:54Yeah, I loved that old street.
00:01:57Yeah, it's a real buddy, and in them days, I loved me some wine, too.
00:02:05I was the wine drinker down there.
00:02:07On the corner, I had a job, see, a role.
00:02:13I offered guidance, told them how to live.
00:02:18My ace-boom-coon, my buddy, was Huddy.
00:02:24Huddy had him a couple of wives.
00:02:27They'd run off, and he got on that wine.
00:02:31Huddy was my friend, my best friend.
00:02:36But primetime, baby, was always at our home, Wino Couch.
00:02:41Wino Couch was Grand Central.
00:02:43Oh, that's where we held court.
00:02:45Everything from street preachers to hole chasers appeared before us.
00:02:51We watched over the street, the kids and whatnot, protected and served.
00:02:56We was regular public servants.
00:03:04There it is, Friday night, payday, party time.
00:03:10Sold your money burns in them jokers' pockets, boy.
00:03:15Them soldier boys spread the word about the street, see?
00:03:18That's how the legend grew.
00:03:20Soldiers partied down there from all over the country.
00:03:24Then they'd go all over the world, talking about the times they had.
00:03:28From Heidelberg, West Germany, to Seoul, South Korea, to Japan,
00:03:33to them Philippine islands, you knew you'd been on the honor ground when
00:03:39you snapped your fingers and shook your behind on the internationally
00:03:44acclaimed, world-renowned block known as Nice Street.
00:03:48Nice Street is a hot street.
00:04:02Nice Street is a cold street.
00:04:16Nice Street is a tough street.
00:04:24Nice Street is a rough street.
00:04:33Come on, you soldier boys.
00:04:35Play with these grown-up jokers.
00:04:39Can't believe your eyes.
00:04:42Soldiers paradise.
00:04:48You can get the high price.
00:04:51Just one roll of the dice.
00:04:56Boys on tour, if you're the man, take a chance.
00:05:02Nice Street is a blue street.
00:05:07Nice Street is a cool street.
00:05:11Got you headless.
00:05:13Chicks so fine.
00:05:16Ears can't blow your mind.
00:05:20If you got the money, you can't get behind me.
00:05:26Come on, you soldier boys.
00:05:32Come on, you soldier boys.
00:05:36Dance to the beat.
00:05:38Feel all that body heat.
00:05:41$10, you can get it out.
00:05:45All your fantasies come true.
00:05:47Nice Street.
00:05:48Nice Street is a dream street.
00:05:56Nice Street is a mean street.
00:06:02I told you no more.
00:06:04Lettie.
00:06:05Now, look here, Lettie.
00:06:08Get out here and stay out.
00:06:13I hope you know you almost made me spill the wine.
00:06:21Lettie.
00:06:25Lettie being my wife,
00:06:27I'd come to accept that life was one ass-whooping after another.
00:06:33But I couldn't stay home much, no how,
00:06:36because Huddy and I, we had the daily requirements
00:06:40of our unlimited partnership, which had its problems.
00:06:46$17.
00:06:48What?
00:06:49$17.
00:06:52$17.
00:06:53What?
00:06:54What, you got some money?
00:06:55Boy, I ain't got a pot to piss in,
00:06:56no boot to pull it out with,
00:06:57ain't got a quarter, nothing.
00:06:59Bird calls.
00:07:01$0.52 and a penny tax.
00:07:05Bubba.
00:07:06Bubba got some money.
00:07:07Oh, no, no.
00:07:08Go ask him.
00:07:09That nigga roll think he shit on a rose bush
00:07:11since he got that job on the city.
00:07:13Mm-mm.
00:07:16You know, I never told you this,
00:07:20but Mama Butler,
00:07:24she got the hots for you,
00:07:27always did.
00:07:29Get out of here.
00:07:31I'm telling you.
00:07:32You know, Mama Butler,
00:07:38she had box, you know.
00:07:43Funny eyes, huh?
00:07:45Funny eyes.
00:07:49Well, hell, what I got to lose?
00:07:51You ain't got nothing to lose, boy.
00:07:53Hell, go on, get the stuff, boy.
00:07:55Whoo!
00:07:56I'm humming this move.
00:07:57Oh, that don't mean nothing, hell.
00:07:59Go on, boy, get the wine, man.
00:08:01Wish me luck.
00:08:02Boy, you don't need no luck, boy.
00:08:04Go on and tell her to send the money
00:08:09That boy as nice as he can be.
00:08:13He ain't got a chance.
00:08:17Hey, Mama.
00:08:18Yes, baby?
00:08:19Tell Willie about Buck.
00:08:20Oh, you want to hear about Buck?
00:08:22Oh, yeah.
00:08:23Okay.
00:08:24When me and my husband first opened up down here,
00:08:27wasn't all this killing up down here?
00:08:29Yeah.
00:08:30Yeah.
00:08:31Yeah.
00:08:32Yeah.
00:08:33Yeah.
00:08:34Yeah.
00:08:35Yeah.
00:08:36Yeah, Willie?
00:08:37Wasn't all this killing and shooting up?
00:08:39The only shooting we had down here
00:08:41Was between Buck and Double J down at the deep hole.
00:08:45Both of them carried four or five guns apiece
00:08:48Because they couldn't shoot worth a shit.
00:08:50Bam, bam, bam, bam!
00:08:55They run out of bullets and have to quit.
00:08:58Ha, ha!
00:09:03Then there was June Buck and Juan Millicent.
00:09:05Oh, I remember you, huh?
00:09:07They'd drink and argue and get mad,
00:09:10and she'd carve in the June bugs behind like a Christmas turkey.
00:09:16She didn't want to kill him, just cut him, you know.
00:09:19But she'd be ready, carry that butcher knife in that purse.
00:09:23One day she hit him and forgot she had that butcher knife in that purse.
00:09:27Stabbed him in the heart.
00:09:29Oh, yeah.
00:09:31Mm. Sad, huh?
00:09:35Then there was Grandma Pope and her grandson Big Dog.
00:09:39Big Dog was one of the baddest jokers that ever come through here.
00:09:43Got in a fight one time when a man bit three of his fingers off.
00:09:46Sure did.
00:09:48But he should have known better than to joke with his grandma.
00:09:51Big Dog come down talking about,
00:09:53Grandma, I'm going home now. Quit fucking with me.
00:09:56I'm Big Dog. Don't nobody run Big Dog.
00:09:59Shit. All of a sudden, bam!
00:10:02Boy, I brought you in this world and I take you out.
00:10:05Now get on in this automobile before I air-condition your ass some more.
00:10:16Honey, knife to change.
00:10:18These soldiers coming through here now, they scare me.
00:10:21They really do.
00:10:23Them gals on the corner, they love them some mama
00:10:26because she'd take them under her wing.
00:10:28Help them. Like Carrie Mae.
00:10:33She did real good last night. She slept all night.
00:10:36Remember, you need to pay Biscuit Friday.
00:10:39I'm going to have your money.
00:10:41Girl, you're looking kind of peaky.
00:10:43You better get some rest.
00:10:45Soldiers' payday tonight,
00:10:47and I know you won't be after some of that money.
00:10:50Did you get the baby them shots I told you she needed?
00:10:59Tippy Toe ran B&W Cab.
00:11:02I admired that joker.
00:11:04Him and his wife got along.
00:11:06They been married I don't know how long.
00:11:09Tip retired off that railroad.
00:11:12That railroad was good to Tip as a government check.
00:11:16But Tip wasn't too good.
00:11:18He wouldn't sit down and have a drink with us.
00:11:21What you say now?
00:11:24Goddamn Tippy Toe, boy, make some noise.
00:11:27Your old goat ought to clean that shit out your ear.
00:11:33What's going on, Cat?
00:11:35You ever read that thing that said to sit on it?
00:11:39Well, shit, if it ain't piss down here, it's rain.
00:11:43If it ain't rain, it's piss.
00:11:45There he go.
00:11:47What's going on, Cat?
00:11:49Kicking, but not high.
00:11:52Trying to keep that old cab stand from going under.
00:11:56...on rooftops near the compound
00:11:59and are firing on American personnel inside the building.
00:12:02And Pop Bottle Ruby,
00:12:04they was always putting her crazy self
00:12:07in the Topeka State Mental Hospital.
00:12:10Them white folks downtown couldn't figure out
00:12:13why she was always watching that raw on the television.
00:12:17...to Saigon itself.
00:12:20Move it.
00:12:22Hey, dammit, I said move along now, now!
00:12:25Move it!
00:12:27Get!
00:12:37You know me?
00:12:39Only in the spirit.
00:12:41Do you know who I am?
00:12:43My name is Ruby.
00:12:45They call me Pop Bottle Ruby.
00:12:47I'm Father Cody.
00:12:53You scared of me?
00:12:55Should I be?
00:12:57No.
00:12:59What's your favorite Bible story?
00:13:01The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes.
00:13:04Mine is The Woman at the Well.
00:13:06Why?
00:13:08I am the woman at the well.
00:13:12Everybody else, they scared of me.
00:13:20Oh, no, no, it's too much.
00:13:22I'm going to take it back.
00:13:24You sure?
00:13:26Most white folks from town were scared to come down here.
00:13:29He wasn't.
00:13:31He was a Catholic worker.
00:13:33He helped us.
00:13:35He helped a lot of folks.
00:13:37Now, his church told him to keep his mouth shut.
00:13:40His church told him to keep his ass out from around here.
00:13:43Shit, he didn't.
00:13:46Now, I guess I best tell you about Love.
00:13:50Donnie Love.
00:13:52The boy wanted to be like Banker Drysdale.
00:13:55Thing is, he had to put them gals on the corner to get it.
00:13:59Love made big money running them gals across the state line from Fort Sill to Fort Bragg.
00:14:05Oh, he'd find these old gals out in the sticks and take them to the store
00:14:09and buy them a little something-something
00:14:12and turn them straight on out.
00:14:15Love stole from other gal runners.
00:14:17He's not snooky from some negro out of Lawton, Oklahoma.
00:14:22Love sure could get them gals to make that money for him.
00:14:27He knew how to run that game on them.
00:14:35The transportation index was also up nearly 47.
00:14:39Thank you, Marty.
00:14:54What's the matter?
00:14:56Why'd you stop?
00:14:58No, I don't need this from you.
00:15:01That's not why I love you.
00:15:04That's not why I need you.
00:15:07Ever since I met you, I've been trying to show you how I feel about you.
00:15:13Now it's time for you to show me.
00:15:17I'll show you, Love.
00:15:19I'll show you anything you want.
00:15:21Shh.
00:15:24I want you to go get you some rest.
00:15:28And go get prettied up.
00:15:31My soldiers get paid tonight.
00:15:34You can show me how you feel for me.
00:15:55How'd we do?
00:15:58You tell me.
00:16:01Let's have a look at the market.
00:16:07G was Love's muscle, his gun.
00:16:10Together, them bucks gave us old-timers fits.
00:16:15What Love wasn't buying up, G was killing up.
00:16:20They say G will kill a man for $50.
00:16:26What the fuck?
00:16:29I say it's more like five.
00:16:36We saw a lot of jokers go off to Vietnam.
00:16:39Fine young men.
00:16:41Come back here for a drink.
00:16:44A lot of jokers go off to Vietnam.
00:16:47Fine young men.
00:16:49Come back here for nuts.
00:16:51They sure knew how to send them over there.
00:16:53They just didn't know what to do with them when they came back.
00:16:57Huddy and I both knew Knife Street was changing.
00:17:02And not for the better.
00:17:14All right.
00:17:44I want part of the business.
00:17:46You want what?
00:17:48Say that again.
00:17:50I want part of the business.
00:17:53Look here, honey.
00:17:55I'm Jesse James, and I'm robbing this train.
00:17:58This here's a community, and we takes care of one another.
00:18:01That's what I'm saying.
00:18:03White folks wouldn't be having that.
00:18:06We got to start planning and organizing.
00:18:09These weak motherfuckers got to go.
00:18:12You the motherfucker got to go.
00:18:14And my place of business is like a hawk watching a chicken.
00:18:18Child, no little ashy, beady shot head, pigtail ass kid
00:18:22going to steal what me and my husband done worked so hard to build.
00:18:27You're old.
00:18:30And one day they're going to carry you up out of here.
00:18:33Ben, Knife will be mine.
00:18:37And honey, when they do, you still going to be a pussy.
00:18:54Piggy Pop?
00:18:57Come on, I got a whole bag now.
00:18:59Come on, honey, I don't want no Piggy Pop.
00:19:01Put some of that hot sauce on it.
00:19:03You like it with the hot sauce, don't you?
00:19:05Can I talk to you for a minute?
00:19:07First Temple of Faith, we having a revival.
00:19:10People getting filled with that Holy Ghost.
00:19:12Yes, Lord.
00:19:13Either one of you been saved?
00:19:15No, I ain't been saved.
00:19:17You been saved, honey?
00:19:18No, sir, I can't say I have.
00:19:20Y'all interested in getting saved?
00:19:22Shit.
00:19:24Save me.
00:19:27A lot of folks down here like this passage.
00:19:30Happy are those that follow the word of God.
00:19:34The reason you living like this is because you living in sin.
00:19:38What you want me to do?
00:19:41Go sit up in the church all day?
00:19:43You know, I had a problem on these streets.
00:19:46Doing fine now.
00:19:48Got me a job sanitizing bottles.
00:19:50Bought me a new car.
00:19:56Hot damn, it's going to be some shit now.
00:19:59How y'all doing?
00:20:00How y'all doing?
00:20:01Sit on down here and get your teeth.
00:20:03Where is it at?
00:20:06Ruby, hold on now.
00:20:08Ruby, wait a minute now.
00:20:11You know they trying to send me to peak state again.
00:20:14I ain't going.
00:20:16No, I ain't going.
00:20:17Filling me up with all that old dopey medicine so I can't feel.
00:20:22You selling that dope, boy?
00:20:25Found me a whole mess of strays.
00:20:27Somebody done throw it away.
00:20:31Come to the Lord.
00:20:32He'll help you.
00:20:33Oh, that's hot.
00:20:34Put that inside.
00:20:35Got that book sweating like one of these hoes.
00:20:42Like them when something's in them.
00:20:44When they empty.
00:20:49Mr. Honey.
00:20:51I don't know why they scared of me.
00:20:53Oh, yeah.
00:20:57Calling me crazy.
00:20:59Crazy what the damn?
00:21:03Ray Lee?
00:21:06Ray Lee?
00:21:08You know they killed my baby just so they could watch television?
00:21:13Ray Lee?
00:21:20Find any strays.
00:21:21Save them for me.
00:21:22All right now, Ruby.
00:21:29One pound, twenty-eight.
00:21:31One pound, twenty-eight.
00:21:38Six-six.
00:21:40Yeah, I'm not getting anybody.
00:21:43No, Roger.
00:21:45Seven-eight on four now.
00:21:47You out of coals again?
00:21:49Roger.
00:21:50You pull that knob?
00:21:51Yeah.
00:21:53Anything come out?
00:21:54No.
00:21:56Then it ain't nothing in there.
00:21:59I'm going to pick up on search groups and we'll be dropping off...
00:22:04I admire you, Mr. Tippy-toe.
00:22:07You seem content in your place.
00:22:10Well, you can see a lot from down here.
00:22:15Man's character, for one.
00:22:17Uh, if you've got a phone number, please call us because...
00:22:21Yeah.
00:22:23You can learn a lot from the bottom up.
00:22:26But then again, some of us can't handle a goddamn thing.
00:22:31You mean you actually make some money with these raggedy-ass cabs?
00:22:35If I didn't make a damn dime, that's my business.
00:22:40I see this is like a hobby for you.
00:22:45Nigga, I know you think you're Mr. Big Business and all,
00:22:50but don't you come in here talking to me like I'm a goddamn child, yeah?
00:22:56I seen this boy reading the Wall Street Journal.
00:23:00Ain't that the shit?
00:23:03Don't your narrow ass know this ain't no Wall Street?
00:23:06This is Ninth Street!
00:23:10I don't like to be talked to like that.
00:23:13Well, kiss my ass.
00:23:16Today just ain't your day, is it?
00:23:26RADIO CHATTER
00:23:38If you could beat sense into a dog,
00:23:41you'd be beating him all the time.
00:23:46You afraid of dying, people?
00:23:49I specs I'm more afraid of living than I am of dying.
00:23:53I mean, I don't know, you know.
00:23:56I'm kind of looking forward to this shit, you know.
00:23:59But what have we done with our lives, huh?
00:24:01What have we done? Ain't done nothing.
00:24:03Sat up here, ain't done nothing. Just looking.
00:24:05Looking at what we've done.
00:24:07So we ain't some of them so-called successful people.
00:24:11Well, what makes them right anyhow?
00:24:13Because they made a whole lot of money?
00:24:15Well, what if God wanted everybody to be like us, huh?
00:24:20Shit, we the only ones succeeded.
00:24:23Don't nobody know?
00:24:25I sure hope to hell you right.
00:24:27Damn straight I'm right. Am I ever wrong?
00:24:33Shit.
00:24:35Oh, I don't want them people looking and gawking at me,
00:24:39talking about he wasn't this, he wasn't that.
00:24:42Keep that casket closed. Keep it closed now.
00:24:44Fool, ain't nobody going to be looking at you.
00:24:47Fool, ain't nobody going to be looking at you.
00:24:50You dead. What do you care?
00:24:52Hell, for me, I don't want to lay up in no bed.
00:24:56Boy, I seen too many people get in them deathbeds and never get out.
00:25:00Not me, no, sirree, buddy.
00:25:02See, I want to die standing up with my boots on.
00:25:06Just like that cowboy Randolph Scott.
00:25:09Now, them was real men, boy.
00:25:11You died in the sack.
00:25:13Oh, Bebo, Randolph Scott wasn't nothing but a movie actor.
00:25:17I don't care, Pete. Don't you worry about it.
00:25:21Long as I got my baby here, I ain't worried about nothing.
00:25:25See, it's like that boy Samson.
00:25:27See, his strength be in his hair.
00:25:30This here be my strength.
00:25:32Long as I got my wine, I ain't never going to die.
00:25:37Ahem.
00:25:42Oh, yeah.
00:25:44Looks like you're living on borrowed time, Bebo.
00:25:50Thank you, Pete.
00:25:52Oh, no, Pop, it's on the house.
00:25:54All right, thank you, brother.
00:26:01Not bad for a white man.
00:26:04See you guys later.
00:26:06All right.
00:26:09Yeah, you're going to need all the practice your ass can get.
00:26:13Oklahoma fools better not come around here trying to take my girl,
00:26:17my air-conditioned ass, out, baby.
00:26:20Oh, shoot.
00:26:23Here we go.
00:26:25Hit something.
00:26:27I got this one.
00:26:29Take that!
00:26:31Get the back of the phone.
00:26:37Yeah, you asked me to learn how to aim.
00:26:39I don't need to know how to aim.
00:26:41That's what I got you for.
00:26:43Yeah, I ain't worried about no Oklahoma motherfuckers.
00:26:46I took her, and she's mine.
00:26:48Let me show you how this is done.
00:26:50Love bullets for Mama Butler.
00:26:53Oh, yeah.
00:27:03Ruby, don't you want to come in here and eat?
00:27:05I don't want to be in there with them people, no.
00:27:07Are you sure?
00:27:09Sure I'm sure.
00:27:11All right, have it your way.
00:27:14Praise the Lord and bless the cook.
00:27:17Whoo!
00:27:19Boy, this shit can put tits on a bull, boy.
00:27:23Tip, look here now.
00:27:26You're going to have to take that snuff out your mouth now.
00:27:28Don't do that.
00:27:30You hear that shit?
00:27:32He picky about his wine.
00:27:34Always griping about shit.
00:27:39Give me that.
00:27:41Go on.
00:27:44Good.
00:27:46Gracious and nice.
00:27:48Shit.
00:27:50Tip, my granddaddy used to drink a gallon of corn whiskey a day.
00:27:53Lived to be 102.
00:27:55Yeah, but you're your granddaddy.
00:27:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:59Negro today is salt.
00:28:01Cut him with a butter knife.
00:28:03Sure is.
00:28:05You know, back then, a colored man was a bad mojo.
00:28:07So what?
00:28:09Jesse Owen.
00:28:11Paul Robeson.
00:28:13Remember Satchel Payne?
00:28:15Satchel Payne, go on now.
00:28:17Pitch for the Monarchs.
00:28:19Yeah, now them was some tough Negroes.
00:28:21Jack Johns.
00:28:23Yeah, old Jack.
00:28:25Yeah, but them white gals was on Jack's behind.
00:28:27Boy, that boy couldn't go to the toilet stool
00:28:29without them white gals coming in behind him.
00:28:31Yeah, like them old white gals did.
00:28:33Yes, he did.
00:28:35How you think white folks took that,
00:28:37him having a white woman at home?
00:28:39They took it.
00:28:41Liked it about as much as the plague.
00:28:43Shit, that's one thing the white man don't like.
00:28:45Y'all messing with his women.
00:28:47He don't want nobody abusing him but him.
00:28:51That's the truth.
00:28:53Shit.
00:29:19I'm coming, dammit!
00:29:21I'm coming!
00:29:33Where am I gonna go?
00:29:35What about the baby?
00:29:37How am I gonna quit the life, huh?
00:29:39You seen Luther blow that horn.
00:29:41He's improvising.
00:29:43That's all life is, is improvising.
00:29:45You figure it out, it should go along.
00:29:47You leaving may not make your life no better,
00:29:49but that's the blues.
00:29:51The blues is about possibility, tomorrow,
00:29:53rigging and scuffling and making a way.
00:29:55I may not know much about life,
00:29:57but I know about the blues.
00:29:59And the blues ain't nothing but life,
00:30:01and life is God.
00:30:03The blues is what you ride and hide
00:30:05when you ain't got a pot.
00:30:07Don't be scared of the blues, girl,
00:30:09that's what gives you meaning.
00:30:19Bebo.
00:30:21Bebo.
00:30:23Bebo, look here.
00:30:25Huh?
00:30:27Oh.
00:30:29I bet you...
00:30:31I bet you they looking for that boy
00:30:33that robbed that liquor store last night.
00:30:35You know what? They seen him.
00:30:37They seen him?
00:30:39Yeah.
00:30:41They seen him?
00:30:43Yeah.
00:30:45Yeah.
00:30:47Robbed that liquor store last night?
00:30:49You know what? They say Clifford done it.
00:30:51Clifford? Clifford Jones?
00:30:53Yes, sir.
00:30:55I can believe that.
00:30:57That boy's on some serious narcotic.
00:30:59I seen that boy
00:31:01last week standing right there
00:31:03on that corner, buck naked.
00:31:05Boy didn't have no shirt,
00:31:07no drawers on,
00:31:09no nothing except some tennis shoes so he could run.
00:31:11I bet the whole company.
00:31:13I knew then that boy was upset.
00:31:15They say he beat that white man up
00:31:17awful bad.
00:31:19White man, huh?
00:31:21Old white man.
00:31:23Oh, Clifford.
00:31:25Boy, we won't be seeing your ass
00:31:27for a long time, boy.
00:31:29You know what happened to you after you found him?
00:31:31Oh!
00:31:33Oh!
00:31:35Look here.
00:31:37Look here.
00:31:39Running out of here like chickens with their heads cut off.
00:31:41Yeah, uh-huh.
00:31:43I know you niggas love to talk shit,
00:31:45but when the man come down here,
00:31:47you run out of here making nasty.
00:31:49Bunch of titty suckers!
00:31:51Bunch of natural-born titty suckers!
00:31:53That's what y'all is!
00:31:55Say, Mr. Policeman,
00:31:57I ain't afraid of your goddamn shit!
00:31:59I ain't scared of it, huh?
00:32:01What you gonna do, huh, when you run out of room
00:32:03in the jailhouse, huh?
00:32:05What you gonna do, huh?
00:32:07Goddamn it!
00:32:09Oh!
00:32:11Get down, now!
00:32:13You can't put our niggas in the wall!
00:32:15Can the whores count?
00:32:17You can't do it!
00:32:19Shut up, Bebo!
00:32:21Bebo, you gonna get us in trouble!
00:32:23We're in trouble now!
00:32:27Then you get your money!
00:32:29You ain't supposed to be down here!
00:32:31You're supposed to be on the hill
00:32:33protecting the nation!
00:32:35You can't kill all these black motherfuckers down here!
00:32:37You can't do it!
00:32:39You can't do it, Mr. Policeman!
00:32:41So what you gonna do, huh?
00:32:43What you gonna do, Mr. Policeman?
00:32:47Bebo, take your ass out of the street!
00:32:49Bebo, stay out of this, man!
00:33:01All y'all just get inside!
00:33:03Get your ass on in the house!
00:33:05Hell, y'all ain't shit!
00:33:07Scared of everything!
00:33:09Scared you're gonna die!
00:33:11Hell, y'all was born dead!
00:33:32Don't be throwing no rocks!
00:33:34Throw another one!
00:33:36I'll knock your ass out!
00:33:40You better hush up
00:33:42or one of them jokers come over here
00:33:44and call cocky upside your head!
00:33:46Man get tired of seeing the same thing
00:33:48every day!
00:33:50...
00:33:52...
00:33:54...
00:33:56...
00:33:58...
00:34:00...
00:34:02...
00:34:04People say
00:34:06talking trash is a waste of time,
00:34:08but talking shit
00:34:10is what keeps most black men
00:34:12from going stark raving mad.
00:34:14This might sound foolish here, Bebo,
00:34:16and whatnot, but
00:34:18that's the power for the white man.
00:34:20I do now, I swear!
00:34:22Always having to watch his stuff.
00:34:24I bet he won't blink sometime, you know?
00:34:28See, I just wish
00:34:32things would just turn around, you know?
00:34:34This be our country
00:34:36and they be working for us.
00:34:38See, wouldn't that be something, honey?
00:34:40See, white folks need some money?
00:34:42Got to go to the Negro for a loan.
00:34:44We be handing out the money.
00:34:46Wouldn't be no more of that bull
00:34:48in November, pick the rich white man
00:34:50of your choice for president.
00:34:52Be a colored man?
00:34:54It's our country, ain't it?
00:34:56Hell, boy, white folks couldn't take
00:34:58being a nigger, boy.
00:35:00Be just like in 29, they be jumping
00:35:02out of windows again.
00:35:04A colored president, Abernathy,
00:35:06Thurgood Marshall.
00:35:08Maybe Cassius Clift.
00:35:10Couldn't be no worse than what they got
00:35:12running now.
00:35:14Nixon. He got the nerve
00:35:16to run again.
00:35:18That boy want to be president bad.
00:35:20He look like a crooked man.
00:35:22Oh, you can see it in his eyes.
00:35:24You know, sneaky.
00:35:26Say, he got a good chance of winning.
00:35:28Oh, hell, he'll probably win.
00:35:30See, white folks vote for anybody.
00:35:32See, if I wasn't colored,
00:35:34I'd run for president and win.
00:35:36See, all you got to do
00:35:38is be a trickster,
00:35:40or a con man, or actor,
00:35:42or something like that.
00:35:44And I can ask my ass off, boy.
00:35:46See, I tell them fools what they want to hear.
00:35:48And they'll believe it.
00:35:50They'll believe anything.
00:35:52You see what they did to that young boy Kennedy.
00:35:54Bobby shot that boy down.
00:35:56See, he's going to do a lot for colored people, too.
00:35:58Why you think he dead?
00:36:00Yeah.
00:36:02You can't help nobody when you dead.
00:36:04Well, hell,
00:36:06I lost my leg fighting some people
00:36:08I've never seen before.
00:36:10Can't speak the language.
00:36:12Who's hi-hissing all that shit?
00:36:14But when they kills colored folks over here,
00:36:16we're supposed to be nonviolent.
00:36:18Well, how am I going to be nonviolent
00:36:20when everybody's killing me?
00:36:22Jesus did it.
00:36:24Jesus, Daddy, was God.
00:36:26I ain't got no relatives like that.
00:36:28I guess I never wanted it that bad.
00:36:30Couldn't do the things Mr. Charlie do.
00:36:32It would have been a damn sight
00:36:34better than sitting on that sofa.
00:36:36You must be one, too, then.
00:36:42Well, one of these days, white folks,
00:36:44they going to put the wrong idiot in office.
00:36:46In Russia, one of them going to call him up
00:36:48and talk about his mama,
00:36:50and boom, that crazy son of a gun
00:36:52push that button.
00:36:54Wake up in the morning dead.
00:36:56Would that be a bitch?
00:36:58Then what they going to say?
00:37:00We're sorry. We're sorry.
00:37:02Walking around, picking up shit.
00:37:04You really going to drop something on us?
00:37:06Not unless we can make some money out of it.
00:37:08You know, I was thinking,
00:37:10they going to drop that bomb on them big Kongs,
00:37:12one of them things on them Kongs over there.
00:37:14See, ain't no money in that kind of war.
00:37:16See, you got to use a lot of tanks,
00:37:18airplanes, you know, shit like that.
00:37:20See, how these big shots going to make their money?
00:37:22One big boom make the whole war
00:37:24a bad investment.
00:37:26You sure?
00:37:28Telling you what I know now.
00:37:30Don't you worry about them Russians.
00:37:32Keep your eye on these
00:37:34motherfuckers over here.
00:37:36See, you hear that right there?
00:37:38Yes, sir.
00:37:40Why?
00:37:42Why you think
00:37:44them men's going up on that moon?
00:37:50You want the gospel truth?
00:37:52Of course.
00:37:54You probably won't believe this.
00:37:56What?
00:37:58I believe
00:38:00the government is going up there
00:38:02because
00:38:04one day
00:38:06they going to ship all the niggas up there.
00:38:08Oh.
00:38:10Well, look here now.
00:38:12The moon ain't worth nothing.
00:38:14Ain't nothing but a bunch of big holes in the ground.
00:38:16I reckon.
00:38:18So why they going somewhere it ain't worth nothing?
00:38:20I don't know why.
00:38:22Because they plan on putting
00:38:24all the undesirables,
00:38:26and that's about all of us,
00:38:28on the moon.
00:38:30See, it's like them Russians.
00:38:32Them Russians got this place called Siberia
00:38:34where they put all the Russians
00:38:36that can't get along.
00:38:38So?
00:38:40So that's what this country planning to do.
00:38:42Put all the niggas on the moon, boy.
00:38:44Mark my word, one day, get rid of them.
00:38:46Are you serious?
00:38:48I am serious as the bubonic plague.
00:38:50One by one,
00:38:52the white man going to snatch us up
00:38:54and ship us to the moon.
00:38:56They just wasting money.
00:38:58They just wasting more money.
00:39:00Maybe so.
00:39:02Maybe so.
00:39:04But if one morning you wake up
00:39:06and I ain't here,
00:39:10you know they got me.
00:39:12Oh.
00:39:26The Bible talks about it.
00:39:28Sins of the flesh.
00:39:30Fornication.
00:39:32It's all here.
00:39:34In my opinion,
00:39:36we should run all these whores and harlots
00:39:38out of this street.
00:39:40Scandalous. The Bible talks about it.
00:39:42Here's that casserole I made for your mom.
00:39:44I hope she gets to feeling better.
00:39:46Thank you.
00:39:48Son, you have a church in here.
00:39:50Sinners down here on these streets,
00:39:52some in this room,
00:39:54some in this pit, that lake of fire.
00:39:56What people you talking about?
00:39:58Yeah, Johnny, you got to get out of here.
00:40:00No, uh-uh, uh-uh.
00:40:02Let him stay. I want to hear this.
00:40:04You run in the business of sins,
00:40:06whores and liquor, vice.
00:40:08Your way is hell.
00:40:10Straight to hell.
00:40:12Look at here, boy. I don't play this.
00:40:14Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute, Mama, please.
00:40:16Son, I don't think you realize how disrespectful
00:40:18you're being to this good woman.
00:40:20Disrespectful? Look at you.
00:40:22Now, God, you drink, don't you?
00:40:24Smoke? Who knows what all?
00:40:26How can you ever hope
00:40:28to help someone talking to them like that?
00:40:30The Bible says it.
00:40:32I believe it. That settles it.
00:40:34See, we're all missing the point.
00:40:36The fact is, this street out here
00:40:38is gonna die soon unless he gets some help.
00:40:40The street is sin.
00:40:42The way of sin is death.
00:40:44Y'all come on down to the church, get right.
00:40:46Didn't Dr. King say the church
00:40:48is the place to go forth from?
00:40:50It's the same business, this business of religion.
00:40:52Shouldn't religion make it easier
00:40:54for people to be good?
00:40:56Dr. King, if King had been in the church
00:40:58being Reverend King
00:41:00instead of out there on them streets being Dr. King,
00:41:02he wouldn't be dead now.
00:41:06Maybe you're right.
00:41:08Amen. I know I'm right.
00:41:10God bless you, brother.
00:41:14God don't care about all that marching and going on,
00:41:16being all in the world.
00:41:18Get right, live right.
00:41:20First Temple of Faith, 704 14th Street.
00:41:22Thank you, Jesus.
00:41:24Come and get saved.
00:41:28Don't play Johnny no mind.
00:41:30I've seen kids like him before.
00:41:32He's afraid. That's all it is.
00:41:34Fear.
00:41:36Come on, let me buy you a beer.
00:41:38All right.
00:41:40How we roll, Mr. Hardy?
00:41:42How y'all doing?
00:41:44Fine. Fine. Same old seven and six.
00:41:46Now, we'd be doing a whole lot better
00:41:48if we had a taste, you know what I mean?
00:41:50Oh, look at me, honey.
00:41:52I'm as broke as the Ten Commandments.
00:41:54Just spent my last dime, though,
00:41:56on this new outfit. What do y'all think?
00:41:58What kind of get-up you call that?
00:42:00This?
00:42:02This what they call hot pants.
00:42:04Shit. Well, them suckers sure love this hot shit.
00:42:06Got me to sweating.
00:42:08Somebody call the firehouse.
00:42:10Fool, you need to quit.
00:42:12Like they say, baby,
00:42:14don't spend money to make money.
00:42:16A toast.
00:42:18To the white man
00:42:20who wants to go to the moon.
00:42:22May that motherfucker stay there.
00:42:24I swear, Bebo,
00:42:26you ain't got a lick of sense.
00:42:28How you make it, girl?
00:42:30Shit. Them Okie Lawton
00:42:32out-of-state Kansas City,
00:42:34Florida hoes, they be taking
00:42:36all the money on payday.
00:42:38Everything be all right, though, if it wasn't for that.
00:42:40Shit.
00:42:42That's a long way from love.
00:42:44Yeah, honey.
00:42:46Cary don't need no nigga.
00:42:48Girl, what you ever see in that joker anyhow?
00:42:50He ain't even pretty.
00:42:52What I see?
00:42:54I see something strong.
00:42:56Strong shit.
00:42:58That boy ain't doodle or squat.
00:43:00Compared to what me and Honey put out nowadays,
00:43:02hell, you just think he's so much
00:43:04because he got money.
00:43:06Baby, that ain't got nothing to do with it.
00:43:08When you be sitting beside love in that car,
00:43:10oh, come on now, Cary.
00:43:12You act like some school gal.
00:43:14Well, maybe I is.
00:43:16Maybe I want to be.
00:43:18Feel good having a man do for you.
00:43:20These lame dudes can't do for me.
00:43:22Shit.
00:43:24Color man been held back a long time.
00:43:26Yeah, I done heard y'all cry about it
00:43:28all my damn life.
00:43:30Now, wait a minute, now.
00:43:32No, you wait a minute.
00:43:34Which one of these men around here gonna do for me?
00:43:36Not nail one, can't do for theyself.
00:43:38Love, that child done got over.
00:43:40Girl, girl, get up off the colored man now.
00:43:42It's the truth.
00:43:44Y'all sitting on a white-o couch
00:43:46acting like y'all part of the world.
00:43:48I'm sorry. Y'all a part of nothing.
00:43:50And that boy Love is, huh?
00:43:52Damn straight he is.
00:43:54Love don't need none of them civil rights.
00:43:56He out there right now equal.
00:43:58If that boy is so damn much,
00:44:00why ain't you with him?
00:44:04Tell you something, Mr. Bebo.
00:44:06I done known y'all since I was a kid.
00:44:10See, I ain't one of them
00:44:12hey-daddy-this-daddy-that women no more.
00:44:14I need a change.
00:44:18I'm getting off this corner.
00:44:22That girl need to get off of that corner.
00:44:26I heard her.
00:44:28She act like she don't want to quit.
00:44:30Karen May doing what she know.
00:44:32Her mama was on that corner.
00:44:34Long as that military got that money,
00:44:36these girls gonna be after these men.
00:44:38On the job and time,
00:44:40they either gonna ma'am, trick them, or both.
00:44:42Let that military leave,
00:44:44and this whole town drive like a broom.
00:44:46Them girls out there got their uniforms on,
00:44:48marching down the street,
00:44:50ready to take orders.
00:44:52Girl, you need to quit.
00:44:54Honey, let me tell you.
00:44:56These soldiers and these hoes,
00:44:58they just the like.
00:45:00They know they being pimp,
00:45:02but they want that money.
00:45:04But why turn tricks?
00:45:06Letting all them no-count men
00:45:08juke all up in you?
00:45:10Oh, no.
00:45:12Oh, shit, Winifred.
00:45:14Why you think all them little young niggas
00:45:16over there killing them Chinamans in Vietnam?
00:45:18Cause some big-shot pimp
00:45:20want them to.
00:45:22Myself, I ain't throwing no stone.
00:45:28By the way,
00:45:30wasn't you hoeing at one time?
00:45:40Fuck!
00:45:42Told Love your motherfucking ass
00:45:44was gonna be trouble.
00:45:46He should've never took you from them Oklahoma motherfuckers.
00:45:48Well, send my ass back then.
00:45:50You know what?
00:45:52Back in the day, you could take a motherfucking hoe.
00:45:54But right now,
00:45:56motherfuckers don't play that shit.
00:45:58I know these guys.
00:46:00They ain't gonna do shit.
00:46:02He should've left your backwoods
00:46:04country ass right where the fuck he found you.
00:46:06Fuck you, G.
00:46:08You just blame me
00:46:10for every goddamn thing.
00:46:12You think cause you loves money,
00:46:14hoe, I can't fuck you up?
00:46:16Well, let me
00:46:18tell you something.
00:46:20Those backwoods country-ass
00:46:22motherfucking Oklahomans
00:46:24will come here and find you belly up
00:46:26in Milford Lake.
00:46:28You got that?
00:46:42You, uh...
00:46:44You love
00:46:46Lettie.
00:46:48Why?
00:46:50You want her? No.
00:46:52You don't want that woman?
00:46:54Just wondering
00:46:56if you loved her.
00:46:58Love.
00:47:00Shit.
00:47:02What does that mean?
00:47:04Hoe,
00:47:06a woman got something everybody want
00:47:08and she know how to use it.
00:47:10Have your nose wide open.
00:47:12You act like I don't know that.
00:47:14You don't.
00:47:16You the one love every woman you run into.
00:47:18So?
00:47:20So you's too good to your women.
00:47:22When you treat a woman good,
00:47:24she think you weak.
00:47:26Well, you treated all your women
00:47:28bad.
00:47:30Look where it got you.
00:47:36Smartass.
00:47:38Hell, I...
00:47:40I wanted to do for Lettie.
00:47:42Couldn't do for myself.
00:47:44She be talking about
00:47:46get a job and
00:47:48quit your drinking and telling me about
00:47:50what the neighbors had to say about me.
00:47:52Hell, I done heard what the neighbors had to say
00:47:54all my damn life.
00:47:56They don't want to let me in that door.
00:47:58Then I don't want in there no more.
00:48:00They can keep it.
00:48:02I ain't all hung up on that mess.
00:48:04Why, she got to be.
00:48:06But she ain't never had a chance to go uptown.
00:48:08She ain't...
00:48:10Well, if she ain't,
00:48:12then it's a blessing.
00:48:14No, Lettie still want me
00:48:16to be like everybody else.
00:48:18She see they won't let me be like
00:48:20everybody else.
00:48:22Once upon a time
00:48:24our love was solid
00:48:26as a rock.
00:48:28What
00:48:30happened to you, baby?
00:48:32What caused that good love
00:48:34to stop?
00:48:40Frank, I...
00:48:4216
00:48:44coaches long
00:48:46and not alone.
00:48:48Need a cab to the post?
00:48:52Can I help you
00:48:54with something?
00:48:56Son?
00:48:58Something?
00:49:04Son?
00:49:16Dad, I got a passenger
00:49:18going to Castordale with the Oak Grove.
00:49:20And an ex-ho
00:49:22like that hoe Midnight,
00:49:24if you can accept
00:49:26her pass,
00:49:28that's the finest woman a man can marry.
00:49:30I ain't going for it.
00:49:32Oh, Pete, you'd a marry her.
00:49:34No, I wouldn't.
00:49:36Yes, you would.
00:49:38No, I wouldn't.
00:49:40I'd a marry her.
00:49:42I'd a marry her too.
00:49:44Hey.
00:49:54Hey.
00:49:56We all brothers down here on the block.
00:49:58Boy, get your hands off me, love.
00:50:00I ain't one of your bitches.
00:50:02Now, straight up now, because I don't play with kids, boy.
00:50:04Son, I don't like you.
00:50:06You or none of these other
00:50:08half-ass gangsters around here.
00:50:10Boy, 9th Street used to be a paradise
00:50:12till y'all come down here.
00:50:14Yeah, we hustle,
00:50:16but we wasn't into all that gangster shit.
00:50:18We didn't just use people
00:50:20and put them in the street.
00:50:22Nobody want to hear that shit.
00:50:34What's it going to be?
00:50:36Give me a raisin, love.
00:50:38Mama Butlin,
00:50:40some of these boot-licking toms.
00:50:42Scared they're going to close
00:50:44these tired, hunky tunks.
00:50:46Oh, shit. Here I go.
00:50:48Leonardo Strassi.
00:50:50And I do wear a hundred alligators.
00:50:52And our plan is to be
00:50:54the first nigga in town
00:50:56to get me one of them cold-blooded
00:50:5869 El Dorados,
00:51:00knocking them dead.
00:51:02Boy, that make you somebody.
00:51:04Boy, I got dirty drums on,
00:51:06and I know I'm somebody.
00:51:089th done changed.
00:51:10You think I like whooping my hoes?
00:51:12Gia tell you,
00:51:14everybody wants tough.
00:51:16You got to be tough.
00:51:18Tough? What the hell is that?
00:51:20My hoes call me Westmoreland
00:51:22because I gives them a Vietnam-ass kicking.
00:51:24You know a woman
00:51:26loves a good beating every now and then.
00:51:28Love? You make my ass sick, boy.
00:51:30I get a kick out of you old fossils.
00:51:32Fossils?
00:51:34Ain't that a bitch.
00:51:36Try and understand this, old man.
00:51:38Life. Good life.
00:51:40In order to have it,
00:51:42you got to kick a little ass sometimes.
00:51:44It ain't just giving to you.
00:51:46You got to earn it, baby.
00:51:48As y'all should know.
00:51:50It's called progress, you dig?
00:51:52Progress?
00:51:54You know, building buildings and shit.
00:51:56I don't even know why I talk to y'all.
00:51:58It's the same shit every week.
00:52:00Bebo talking about the system.
00:52:02Hell, ain't nothing wrong with this shit.
00:52:04America's numero uno, baby.
00:52:06It'd work for y'all
00:52:08if you got off your dead fossilized asses
00:52:10and do something.
00:52:12Ain't we doing something?
00:52:14Y'all ain't helping shit.
00:52:16I'm trying to help you.
00:52:18Gee.
00:52:24That gets you an opinion.
00:52:26Stick with me,
00:52:28I'll get you in the mainstream.
00:52:30Boy,
00:52:32I wouldn't go around the block with your ass.
00:52:34You fossils got to learn how to compromise.
00:52:36How many times I got to tell y'all that?
00:52:38Never no more.
00:52:44Y'all heard people speak in tongues?
00:52:46Just them people uptown, boy.
00:52:48You know,
00:52:50this street been cursed.
00:52:52Lord done cursed this street.
00:52:54Now, what we done did
00:52:56that the Lord want to curse us, huh?
00:52:58Y'all full of sin.
00:53:00Ain't a soul down here that's free of sin.
00:53:02Curse, shit.
00:53:04Boy, ain't nobody in your church
00:53:06love God and ain't shit.
00:53:08I mean, you know, love God and ain't successful.
00:53:10You get off that sofa, you could be.
00:53:12Somebody shut the door on me, boy.
00:53:14Lazy excuses.
00:53:16Y'all just like being down here
00:53:18with these low-life losers.
00:53:20Boy, Jesus was a loser.
00:53:22Cause, boy, hell,
00:53:24the boy who's the world's greatest failure
00:53:26on these turns.
00:53:28Your turns.
00:53:30Boy, the boy could've had everything.
00:53:32Got hung to a tree.
00:53:34Hell, you talking that money bullshit.
00:53:36With Jesus, I'm a free man, boy.
00:53:38I'm a free man, shit.
00:53:40Go on, live your life, wino.
00:53:42I can't believe. Do you know Jesus?
00:53:44Do I know Jesus?
00:53:46Do I know Jesus?
00:53:48Talked to the nigga on the telephone a week ago Sunday.
00:53:50Oh, that's the devil talking.
00:53:52Look here, boy, I done played enough with God for one day.
00:53:54Let me tell you something.
00:53:56Jesus, oh, he coming back.
00:53:58But don't think he come and sit up in your church.
00:54:00Cause if you read your Bible,
00:54:02you'll see that Jesus kept
00:54:04coming in with the prostitutes.
00:54:06Wine drinkers, tax collectors.
00:54:08And, uh, let me tell you this
00:54:10before you go.
00:54:12Don't be sitting up waiting for Jesus
00:54:14in his house.
00:54:16Cause, uh, you don't stay home much.
00:54:18He like visiting for us.
00:54:20You want to see Jesus,
00:54:22come on down here to Nice Street.
00:54:24He'll probably be over there
00:54:26talking to one of them hoes.
00:54:38Please come.
00:54:42No, son.
00:54:44I think I'm best off
00:54:46right here.
00:54:52I'm sorry, honey.
00:54:54Go on with him if you want to.
00:54:56I ain't going no place.
00:54:58I'm waiting for him.
00:55:08Ten and two, baby.
00:55:10And I'll take you around the world.
00:55:12Ten dollars?
00:55:14God damn.
00:55:16What do you say I give you about five or six dollars
00:55:18if you drop me off in St. Louis?
00:55:20Baby,
00:55:22if this ain't the goodwill,
00:55:24I'm out here for the money.
00:55:26I'll make a man pat his pocket.
00:55:28Pat your happy ass on the head.
00:55:30Come on.
00:55:32You know better than to be on my corner?
00:55:34Pepper, I ain't never had to sit
00:55:36on your corner to make it.
00:55:38So why don't you take that mammy made ass
00:55:40and that bale of straw out of my face?
00:55:42Listen to Miss Nice next.
00:55:44You sure got ugly ways, girl.
00:55:46But I forget,
00:55:48you present another whore junior, right?
00:55:50Shhh.
00:55:52She's something, Miss Parkey.
00:55:54Girl, this was love
00:55:56the last time.
00:55:58Spot on his arm like he had a Jones for.
00:56:00Whip my ass, but you the winner.
00:56:02Tell me to get up off of his woman.
00:56:04You ain't nothing but another
00:56:06nice street hoe.
00:56:08And that makes two of us.
00:56:10Carrie Mae.
00:56:12Heard you was putting his life down.
00:56:14Heard you was going to get off the corner.
00:56:16You going to get off the corner, huh?
00:56:18I see your feet still on it.
00:56:20You going to get off the corner?
00:56:22Kiss my ass, motherfucker.
00:56:24Keep your mama off the street
00:56:26and she won't get fucked.
00:56:28Stop her, fool.
00:56:30Motherfucker, let me go.
00:56:36Come here.
00:56:38Didn't I tell you not to mess with her?
00:56:40You understand me?
00:56:46Go on.
00:56:58Going to Kansas City.
00:57:00Kansas City, here I come.
00:57:04Going to Kansas City.
00:57:06Kansas City, here I come.
00:57:10They got crazy little women
00:57:12and I'm going to get me one.
00:57:14I'm going to get me one.
00:57:18I'll be standing on the corner
00:57:20of 12th and Vine.
00:57:26Lord, boy, don't talk about Vine.
00:57:28Hurts me to my heart.
00:57:30Kansas City, Missouri, boy.
00:57:32Good times.
00:57:34Them women on Vine was fine.
00:57:36You remember old Clary's Walker, don't you?
00:57:38What about Georgia Tee?
00:57:40Georgia Tee.
00:57:42Boy, that nasty was tight
00:57:44as a bark on a tree, boy.
00:57:46How'd you know that?
00:57:48He don't know.
00:57:50A whole lot of them big names
00:57:52used to drop down on 9th, too.
00:57:54Big Nick Nicholas.
00:57:56Where's my Kansas City, baby?
00:57:58My bottle of Kansas City wine?
00:58:00Oh, yeah!
00:58:04Bird.
00:58:12Joker stopped down there
00:58:14to the Flamingo Club.
00:58:16Had a jam session.
00:58:18Boy played that straight-ahead jazz.
00:58:20Won't Charlie be having a fit on that hose?
00:58:22Yeah, he do.
00:58:24Bird get to sweating that funky jazz.
00:58:26Man, man, man.
00:58:30Man, you can feel them booze
00:58:32all the way down in your...
00:58:34Whoo!
00:58:36Hey, nice!
00:58:38Hey!
00:58:40Doop-a-doop-a-doop!
00:58:42Doop-a-doop-a-doop!
00:58:44Hey, nice!
00:58:46Hey, baby!
00:58:48Hey!
00:58:50Ha-ha!
00:58:58Whoo-hoo-hoo!
00:59:00Get it!
00:59:02Get it now!
00:59:10All right!
00:59:12Let me show you, boy.
00:59:14Let me show what I can do.
00:59:16I can slide.
00:59:18There it is.
00:59:20That's the life.
00:59:22Don't shine this, boy.
00:59:24Yeah!
00:59:26Whoo!
00:59:28Yeah!
00:59:40Mama Butler told me Vine ain't nothin' but a shell now.
00:59:46Ain't nothin' down there.
00:59:49Vine Street? A shell?
00:59:53Mm-hmm.
00:59:56Well, nothin' lasts forever.
01:00:00Even mine wears out.
01:00:04Mm-mm-mm.
01:00:07Mm-mm-mm.
01:00:14Mm.
01:00:16See, I told him don't go down there.
01:00:19Then here they come in them suits they wear when they tryin' them pressin' things.
01:00:23Talkin' that USA, Heavenly Father, glory, glory shit.
01:00:28Mixed that witch's brew up.
01:00:31Had them colors comin'.
01:00:33Hero smoke bubblin' up from the pot.
01:00:36Ray Lee gone and breathed it.
01:00:38Lord Almighty, he breathed it in.
01:00:43Baby breathed it in and ain't been the same never no more.
01:00:47You know, they took his mind.
01:00:50Stars and striped men.
01:00:53Ray Lee wanted somethin' to believe in.
01:00:56Of course, lookin' at all them pictures on the wall they had.
01:01:00He wanted somethin'.
01:01:02Needed somethin'.
01:01:04Lord knows he did.
01:01:07You understand.
01:01:09I know that you do.
01:01:11They fooled them kids.
01:01:13They fooled.
01:01:15I know.
01:01:16I know they game.
01:01:18Sendin' me all them letters.
01:01:21Dollar money.
01:01:23Talkin' that hero shit.
01:01:26I want my boy.
01:01:28I don't want no more damn letters.
01:01:31I want to feel again.
01:01:33Everybody hear me?
01:01:38You understand.
01:01:40God knows you do.
01:01:42Don't breathe that smog whatever you do.
01:01:46Stay clear of the smog.
01:01:48I used to be fine.
01:01:51Till I breathed it in.
01:01:54Got me.
01:01:56Sure did.
01:01:57Cause it got my baby.
01:01:59Got my boy.
01:02:14Them Oklahoma motherfuckers in town.
01:02:17They been askin' about you.
01:02:20Man, fuck the motherfuckers.
01:02:25Carrie May in here?
01:02:27Yeah.
01:02:28She's in tomorrow.
01:02:42Let me buy you a drink.
01:02:49Why don't you leave that girl alone?
01:02:51You know you don't mean her no good.
01:02:54No.
01:02:55Your nose is too long.
01:02:57Get you some goddamn business.
01:03:25Why you wanna run?
01:03:28We had something special.
01:03:31I never treated you like you was a commodity.
01:03:35You was my lady.
01:03:38You remember how we talked about
01:03:41Quittin' the life.
01:03:43Gettin' out of this damn town.
01:03:45Go somewhere.
01:03:47Just you and me.
01:03:50You my heart.
01:03:53Come on back home.
01:04:24This is me, Fossils.
01:04:2669 El Dorado.
01:04:29Son, you all in the Kool-Aid
01:04:31and don't know what flavor it is?
01:04:34Look here, Antique.
01:04:36I'm out here tryin' to make a living.
01:04:38Somethin' to make a living.
01:04:40I'm not gonna make a living
01:04:42if I don't make a living.
01:04:44I'm not gonna make a living
01:04:46if I don't make a living.
01:04:48I'm gonna make a living
01:04:50if I don't make a living.
01:04:52Somethin' y'all ain't never done.
01:04:54You right, Stan.
01:04:56There ain't about to be no motherfucker like you.
01:04:58Son, that's a terrible way to think now.
01:05:00Terrible.
01:05:02Maybe if you thought like me, Mr. Huddy,
01:05:04your ass wouldn't be sittin' here now.
01:05:08Let me tell you somethin'.
01:05:10All them things you be talkin' about,
01:05:13they ain't nothin' but dead dreams.
01:05:16You and all them things you hold up so high,
01:05:20so high,
01:05:22die.
01:05:26Boy,
01:05:28you best find you somethin' don't die.
01:05:46Hey, D.
01:05:47The white trick Brenda you lookin' for,
01:05:49she ain't here.
01:05:50You see them two colored bitches over there?
01:05:52I'll get you both of them
01:05:54for the price of the white trick.
01:05:56Is that cool?
01:05:58Yeah.
01:05:59Bet.
01:06:04Sellin' that Gap goody.
01:06:06Fifty-five dollars.
01:06:08Cash money, baby.
01:06:10Can't touch his ass with a red apple now.
01:06:13Boy, somebody gonna set your ass a-dustin'.
01:06:20Winos think they the smartest motherfuckers in the world.
01:06:30Tippy.
01:06:37Tippy.
01:06:40Tippy!
01:06:41What?
01:06:42Fake cars, boy. What the hell?
01:06:44Hippy.
01:06:46Chosen?
01:06:47I'm good.
01:06:50Hittin' one for myself.
01:06:52There it is.
01:06:53Twenty-one.
01:06:54Blackjack.
01:06:55Negro, what you doin'?
01:06:57What?
01:06:58You had 17 and now you hittin' yourself again.
01:07:02That's the rules.
01:07:03I'm the dealer.
01:07:05What rules?
01:07:06The rules of the game, Tippy.
01:07:09What game?
01:07:11The game we playin'.
01:07:13The game we playin', the game they plays in Las Vegas,
01:07:16it's called blackjack, where the dealer hits himself.
01:07:19Not if the player got over 16 and you had 17, fool.
01:07:25I know the Las Vegas rules.
01:07:27What you know about Las Vegas?
01:07:29I know what I know about the Las Vegas rules.
01:07:36Las Vegas rules my ass.
01:07:39What you is, is just plain law.
01:07:43You lost then, and I can see that you lost now.
01:07:47Let me see.
01:07:50What about this goddamn...
01:07:55That ain't even 21.
01:08:05I know the Las Vegas rules.
01:08:07Las Vegas rules?
01:08:09Shit.
01:08:10Homemade rules.
01:08:13No, I got the blues bad, boy.
01:08:15Like Oedipus.
01:08:17Like who?
01:08:18Oedipus, you know, the king.
01:08:21You know the story, Oedipus.
01:08:24I don't know that story.
01:08:25Oh, you ought to read that, boy.
01:08:27It's a motherfucker.
01:08:33Say, man, is this a nice street?
01:08:38Is this a nice street?
01:08:40Is this a nice street?
01:08:42Boy, this here is the internationally acclaimed,
01:08:46world-renowned block known as Nice Street.
01:08:50Feel privileged, boy.
01:08:52Where the women at, pops?
01:08:54I heard this place be jumping.
01:08:56What kind of women you looking for, son?
01:08:58All y'all got down here is a bunch of hoes.
01:09:00You didn't come down here looking for love, did you?
01:09:03Boy, this is nice.
01:09:05This how we serves the community.
01:09:07That's how we serves it.
01:09:09What's your name, boy?
01:09:11Jackson's my name.
01:09:12You been to war?
01:09:14What you mean?
01:09:15Real war?
01:09:16Boy, let me show you something here.
01:09:20Come here.
01:09:21Let me show you something.
01:09:23Are you nuts?
01:09:24You just stabbed yourself in the leg.
01:09:26Yeah.
01:09:27Wood leg.
01:09:28Shit.
01:09:29You always doing that to people, fool.
01:09:31Scared the shit out of me.
01:09:33You always doing that to people, fool.
01:09:35Scared you, didn't I?
01:09:36That's right, boy.
01:09:37I gave my leg to the U.S. government.
01:09:39Fighting them Jerrys, them Nazis in WW2.
01:09:42Northern Africa, Sicily.
01:09:441941, 42.
01:09:46You know the year they didn't make no cars.
01:09:48Just because it happened to you,
01:09:49don't mean it's going to happen to me.
01:09:51What they want from you?
01:09:52I got to go to Nam and kill some VC.
01:09:55It ain't nothing.
01:09:57Hey, what are y'all?
01:09:59Some of them hippies talking anti-war shit?
01:10:01Uh, son, I was hippie before they was born.
01:10:05Color man ain't got no business over there.
01:10:07Know how.
01:10:08What you protecting, boy?
01:10:10This shit?
01:10:11Better than standing on it.
01:10:12Son, when you're dying of thirst,
01:10:14you want anything to look like water.
01:10:16If I was you,
01:10:17I'd haul my ass up north with them politicians, son.
01:10:21Dessert?
01:10:23Hell, dessert, lunch, dinner, hell.
01:10:25I call it keeping my ass amongst the living.
01:10:28You wild.
01:10:29Son, that war business is what's wild.
01:10:33Let me tell you, son,
01:10:35when I lost my leg,
01:10:37used to hurt me down here.
01:10:40When my leg was gone,
01:10:42wasn't nothing there and it still hurt me.
01:10:46Don't hurt me there no more.
01:10:48Hurt me in here.
01:10:51How you mean?
01:10:52How I mean?
01:10:55I mean I shouldn't have come back to this country after the war.
01:10:58They tried to make me stay.
01:11:00No, I come back to this country thinking things have changed.
01:11:07Shit.
01:11:11Oh, don't pay him no mind, boy.
01:11:14He'll be all right.
01:11:17Lord will watch you, boy.
01:11:19He'll watch you.
01:11:23Here's a...
01:11:25little something here so you don't be forgetting.
01:11:31Go on.
01:11:36Hey, well, you better go and get you one of them bitches
01:11:41before they all gone.
01:11:45Yo, dudes, take care.
01:11:47All right, sir.
01:11:51You think he gonna be all right?
01:11:53He look like he can run fast.
01:11:56But you sure got messed up in that war.
01:11:59Your leg, your arm there.
01:12:04I didn't hurt my arm in no war.
01:12:07You didn't?
01:12:08How you do that?
01:12:13Done it to myself.
01:12:15How you mess your arm up all like that?
01:12:21Trying to cut the black off.
01:12:30Yeah, you gotta start taking care of business, girl, okay?
01:12:36And get the baby's shots.
01:12:39Can I help you, baby?
01:12:41Yeah, mate.
01:12:43Shit.
01:12:45You gonna have to speak English, honey.
01:12:47We don't speak that language here.
01:12:49Dig me up, mate.
01:12:53Dig me up, mate.
01:12:58Dig me up, mate.
01:13:03Dig me up, mate.
01:13:05Dig me up, mate.
01:13:06Oh, my God.
01:13:07Dig me up, mate.
01:13:08Dig me up, mate.
01:13:09Don't hurt nobody up in here, okay?
01:13:11Take it easy.
01:13:12Take it easy.
01:13:13Take it easy, honey.
01:13:14Take it easy.
01:13:17Calm down.
01:13:19Calm down now.
01:13:22Take it easy.
01:13:24I'm your friend.
01:13:27I'm your friend.
01:13:32I'm your friend.
01:13:47Dice up.
01:14:18No!
01:14:19Oh, my God!
01:14:21No!
01:14:24My goodness!
01:14:26My goodness!
01:14:29My goodness!
01:14:34No!
01:15:05Hey!
01:15:06Hey, you!
01:15:07Crazy lady!
01:15:08You won't find her there.
01:15:10She's dead.
01:15:11Soldier done blowed her head clean off.
01:15:14She's in hell now.
01:15:16Amen.
01:15:18No, no, no.
01:15:22No, no, no.
01:15:26No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:15:34Never kick me down.
01:15:48Yeah.
01:15:51Yeah.
01:15:54Yeah.
01:15:55Shame about Mama Butler.
01:15:59Real shame.
01:16:01She was the last of the old times
01:16:06Sup y'all
01:16:20Yourself something that won't rock you goddamn guts out
01:16:31Yeah
01:16:34No, man keep it no him take your money we don't need I didn't mean
01:16:47You all fossils fuck you
01:16:58You know as bad as we needed that money
01:17:02I'm glad we didn't take it
01:17:05Yeah, that's our problem. We never took their money
01:17:11We're commanded by the gospel to follow the nonviolent Jesus and
01:17:16My church is in bed with the state on the Vietnam War
01:17:20Where can that possibly lead? I?
01:17:23Wonder about my work here whether it had any worth
01:17:28Sometimes I wonder if I ever should have come down here on 9th Street
01:17:31but I love the life here the
01:17:34Powerful nourishment that gave me and I wanted to take that nourishment to my parishioners. Mm-hmm
01:17:41And I proved only to be a scandal for him
01:17:44That's why they're transferring me. Mm-hmm
01:17:48Scandalous behavior, but you wanna know something the worst scandal of all is Jesus Christ himself because the more you think and act like a
01:17:55nonviolent Jesus
01:17:57The more scandalous you're bound to become
01:18:01I thought you know
01:18:31Oh
01:19:01Oh
01:19:24Night got so rough
01:19:26Them big shots would come down here need a cab
01:19:30Tippi told his tippy-toe that
01:19:33Treat me like a goddamn child
01:19:36People ain't shit son. They're walking around D
01:19:42Ain't done much with what God give me ain't done much what you talking about?
01:19:51Set up your bed
01:19:53dependent
01:19:54Tip I had me two fine wives good women. I couldn't keep
01:20:00That drink that drink been my downfall
01:20:06What local love this here, huh
01:20:10They gonna look why no
01:20:12honey, honey
01:20:14every man I
01:20:16Said every man got a part of him. He can't do nothing with now
01:20:21The Lord don't expect none from nobody. I don't want the Lord to understand tip. I don't don't now
01:20:29You talk about that job shit again, ain't you?
01:20:33Fool see it job. Don't give you meaning live in what give you meaning
01:20:43Honey
01:20:47Just cause a man ain't got much don't mean he ain't got nothing to give
01:21:00I
01:21:02Didn't mean
01:21:03We never talk like that
01:21:06Or we philosophize and such but not them things not the important things. I
01:21:13Should have told that boy his life had meaning when I had the chance
01:21:19See what I'm gonna do first knock all that dough shit out
01:21:24Right see then then I'm gonna put up some of them double doors
01:21:29All kind of lights around it love you promised me you take me to the store, man
01:21:34Let me take this bitch to the stove
01:21:59I
01:22:29I
01:22:52Asked a little red mama bother me
01:22:59Well
01:23:03Mama butler
01:23:11So slow down when you get old
01:23:17Yeah
01:23:21Got time to do all the things we used to want to do now, we can't do
01:23:29Ain't that a kick in the head too much damn time boy
01:23:36You know, hey, but one thing what's it and being old
01:23:45Being old and poor I know she's gonna say that
01:23:54Yeah, I wish I could work
01:23:59Now that came
01:24:02Something
01:24:04Anything
01:24:06Done got a week now
01:24:09Forgetful
01:24:11You know, he's nobody
01:24:15You're used to me well, so am I gonna lie to
01:24:22If I didn't have you boy be a dull existence
01:24:29That's
01:24:35You know, I remember I remember the first time I saw you boy
01:24:41You was coming out of club. Talk to the bricks
01:24:45Had that conquer lean in your head
01:24:48And about a pound of Murray's pomade on top of that
01:24:52Swearing to God you was Billy
01:24:56You should have seen you
01:24:58Had a gal on each arm
01:25:00They move on a toe shoe little blue
01:25:04Chain hanging down to the ground
01:25:08We've been in this liquor we'd all slid out the middle of the street
01:25:16Yeah one night
01:25:20Nice and good
01:25:23We've been good tonight
01:25:28Yeah
01:25:42The nice tree may live well
01:25:48It's all the cats we don't see come up and down this hill block this
01:25:58I
01:26:28See
01:26:58Oh
01:27:19Give me a bottle here. Oh, yeah
01:27:28Oh
01:27:31Don't wonder why no
01:27:42Goddamn boy wake up
01:27:49You sick
01:27:51Hey boy, wake up, honey
01:27:57Honey
01:27:59boy, uh
01:28:01Wake up now. Oh, honey, you know, come on. You got to wake up now. Come on see
01:28:10Yeah, it's gonna be all right goes
01:28:13Come on my sister and open chill just in boys
01:28:19Hey, let's see the movie stars
01:28:49I
01:29:19I
01:29:28Have to hurry pass I went live with my sister
01:29:32Checked into the VA and dried out. Why I had a drink in 20 years
01:29:37In 1976 the city got tired. They told a street down. It's a parking lot now
01:29:44What I think on the street being gone it don't make me sad it's like hoodie always said
01:29:51Some things just don't die
01:30:13Street
01:30:43You
01:31:13Oh
01:31:39Thank you
01:31:43Thinking about what I should have been trying to be anything but what I am
01:31:53Play the game
01:31:55It's a blues, right
01:31:59It's a blue
01:32:13I hear the echoes from joint long gone
01:32:17Big Joe shouts that bird in the car
01:32:21Lord this street done live this mom
01:32:25Jennifer's bounce to
01:32:30Fingers pop crying for some boy
01:32:55You