Artifice: Loose Fellowship and Partners

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: And I bear the scars for my association...

And to be perfectly blunt, herpes is a traveling partner

that occasionally taps me on the shoulder and reminds me

of those many many many days.

The stab wound to my side is a constant reminder of those many,

many days, it said not, I said it is said not to associate

with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty.

: I've never believed in prayer,

but you'll be surprise what comes naturally

when your ass is on the line.

This was not supposed to end like this, it just wasn't.

: It is as clear as the clearest of all gems.

I am re-born.

The lord is here.

The lord is with me.

The lord has given me a second chance.

You got that opportunity to have a soul as shinny

as a brand new Cadillac.

: And this is where it all started about three weeks ago.

This is albamarle.

Here in bed stuy, he is the local businessman slash

king ping.

: Keep your voice down.

: I don't give a fuck about them.

: Keep your voice down.

: I don't give a fuck.

Back in the day, if we had a problem, we didn't go

around shooting up place.

: I'm tired of this shit.

How did this shit happen?

: Chris said he was just Manning the store

and the d's just rushed in.

: Fool must've sold them some shit inside the store.

: I seen him at the precinct.

He said he's been doing the same shit for the last ten years.

: He fucked up.

That's that nice guy shit.

That store is a staple in the community.

Nigga try to do right and a bunch of cops raid my shit.

We help motherfuckers in that store.

: What about Billy?

: Billy, Billy is a pussy.

It ain't Billy.

Besides we have an agreement.

: Can't believe you still respecting that shit, man.

They making us run around here

with all this money, man, they fronting.

: Now, if I could go back even further.

Over a year ago, albamale, because he was going

through some new spiritual awaking, he had a meeting

with Billy, Billy fungus.

In a nutshell, they agreed to conduct business much

like they do on wall street, no guns, no knives.

Billy agreed to this deal

because he himself didn't believe he could overthrow

albamale by force.

Same time outside, the two rivals muscles was having a

powwow themselves.

: Yah mon, let us handle it, mon because we run this.

: You're still holding your head on to that.

All you niggas did was destroy your own community

and you niggas talking about you run something.

You niggas ain't never build nothing.

Bunch of clowns running through destroying shit.

The only thing left over is bunch of graveyards

of fuckin beef Patty spots.

: Let me tell you this, this is what left now.

Man like me, who is here to clip a chicken pussy wing like you.

: Well, let me tell you this.

: Well, you know how that goes.

: So you want to go to war.

: I want to do something.

: Nigga I've been warring my whole life,

and I never made a dime from it.

There's no money in war.

: Well, we need to find out what he's doing cause ain't none

of his got hit in a long time.

: Yo man, I heard he is using that black heart shit.

: He's using what?

: The obeah, the card flipping, you know the miss Cleo shit?

: That voodoo.

: So you're trying to tell me

that Billy is getting rich from voodoo.

You motherfuckers are disappointing me

with this shit, man.

: Voodoo is not the issue, man.

: No, it's not the issue.

Look. I don't believe in voodoo, i don't believe in black magic,

I don't believe in witchcraft, but you heard something

and you didn't tell me.

: So like what was I suppose to do, come to you and say,

yo Billy is using voodoo?

How the fuck does that sound?

I would have threw me out if i said some shit like that.

: Regardless, I can't take any more hits like this.

Now you go find that nigga Billy and find out what he's doing

and set up a face to face with me and him.

You got that?

: Got you.

: Hold on, dog.

: You know I grew up in bed-stuy, right?

: Which you always seem to let me know that, yes you have.

: I've got a mom from Jamaica, pops from Trinidad,

so I'm a little familiar with this voodoo shit, man.

Still don't believe in it?

: Here we go with this shit.

I believe in that just like i believe in the tooth fairy.

: You know somebody put a spell on my pops

when I was a kid, right?

: Your daddy told you that?

: Actually it was the craziest thing.

That bitch actually came to my house

and did her spell right there in front of me.

: You a motherfucker liar?

: I kid you not, man.

I was twelve years old.

: Is your father home?

Can I come in?

: That bitch was so fine, I just let her in.

I just opened the door and she asked me if I remember her.

: You might have seen me before with your father.

: She told me her name was Clarence.

: I'm Clarence.

: And I've probably seen her

around with my father a few times.

She asked me if she can use the bathroom.

: Thanks.

: Next thing you know, she turns around

and her makeup was all smeared and all over the place.

I didn't even recognize the lady anymore.

So she goes in my father's room and she opens up his closet

and she starts to spray his clothes with all this stuff.

I have no idea what any of it was

but two months later my father was dead.

: I feel sorry for you.

: Motherfucker was eighty-five pounds when he passed away.

I don't know where the lady went

and I never saw her again afterwards.

But I told myself when I do, I'm going to wrap my hands

around her fucking neck.

: Dude, you really crazy.

: Speaking of, there goes that nigga fafa right there.

: Hey, yo, fafa.

: What do you want?

: Alabamarle wants to meet with Billy, man.

: So?

: So I want you to deliver the message.

: I don't deal with Billy.

: So you can't do this one little simple thing for me?

: Buy a carton.

: Fuck that, man, we not buying anything, dog.

What you think because you got some tattoos

and selling cigarettes you a hustler now?

: So if I buy a carton you gonna deliver the message?

How much?

: Fifty dollars.

: No, we not paying that, man.

Trev, come on put your money back in your pocket.

: Take sixty.

: You gonna deliver that message to him, right?

: Stupid.

: Where we going?

: To get sanctified.

: Yo either tell me where the fuck we're going or turn around.

: Sanctified that's his name.

He used to be a straight thief involved in everything

but then the dude found god.

So I figured if we need to know something about somebody,

why not a crook turned minister?

: Corn, little youngin.

: What's going on, man?

Just passing through.

That's my boy Trevor right here.

: Hey, how you doing Trevor?

: I'd be doing a lot better if I knew why we was here.

: Santified.

: Corn, call me booker.

: Booker?

: Yah, booker Seymour Washington.

: Booker Washington?

: My mother thought that I would become a man

who could make a difference.

: Well, have you?

: Sure, robbing and stealing.

It took a long time for me to recognize the good within me.

We all have good within us no matter how bad we may be.

The only difference between the good and bad is

that the bad don't listen to that little voice.

You see bad is sweet.

Bad is instant gratification.

Bad is sexy.

But it comes with the expense of your soul.

I know, you know I could go on and on like this for days,

but I know you two have a reason for being here.

: Yeah, we want to know about Billy.

Billy fungus.

We ain't cops.

: I know youngin ain't no cop.

: Look man, we came here to avoid a war, all right?