Yardie

'When I was a boy,

'Piper would always ask me, "Which way are you going to go?""

""Will you go with the righteous?

""Or will you go with the damned?""

'This is a story about the path I chose.

'My name is D.

'D. for Dennis.'

'Back in '73, there was a long-running war

'between two gangs for control of the streets in West Kingston.'

Kinnock Street! Smash up the Spicer boys!

'Tappa versus Spicer.

'That's Skeets. The don for the Tappa crew.'

Move!

'This here is King Fox. The don for the Spicer.'

Yvonne!

'The rest of us were caught in between them.

'Then Claudette got killed in the crossfire.'

Claudette!

- D.! - Claudette!

D., go in the truck!

Go in the truck, D.!

Yvonne, go home!

Beverley, go get your mother! Bombaclaat!

Fuck!

We're killing the children now.

'And that's my brother, Jerry Dread.

'My only family.'

Am I going to school tomorrow?

No, man.

You stay home with Piper. Kingston? Kingston's too dangerous.

But nothing ever happened to me!

Like nothing ever happened to Claudette?

'Jerry and I lived up in the hills with Piper, the village elder.

'Away from Kingston.

'For now.'

Chop the onion and tomato.

Jerry?

- Jerry, where are you going? - Stay with Piper.

- Is Jerry DJ-ing today? - Where Jerry's going, it's not for you.

- Not for him, neither. - D., you can't come with me today!

- No, I'm going with Jerry. - No, Jerry says you have to stay with me.

You understand?

Dennis, downtown is too dangerous!

This bloodclaat youth.

'People, now is the time to come out

'and put an end to this war between Tappa and Spicer.

'Too much blood shed, man.

'Jerry Dread says no more war.

'And if this is your stance, come out to no man's land.

'Don't let Claudette's death be in vain.

'You know Jerry Dread's sound system is gonna nice up the place

'with positive vibes.

'Come out!

'Be brave!'

'No man's land. A dangerous place.

'On one side...Tappa.

'On the other...Spicer.

'Nobody set foot there for a long time.

'It was Claudette's death that drove Jerry onto the front line.

'To use his sound system to bring people together.'

'Wherever my brother go, I go too.'

What are you doing, little brother? What are you doing?

Me said stay with Piper!

Bombaclaat, man!

So why do you have the sound system here?

Alright, how much more youths do you want get shot,

because of this Spicer and Tappa crew madness?

This shit's dangerous, man!

I'm trying to protect you, but you don't see it.

But no one's coming out. I'm trying to protect you, brother!

D., lion up, man!

Me talked to King Fox, and him give me his word.

- You talked to King Fox? - Yes, I.

Piper says you can't trust King Fox. Me seen him kill them Tappa crews.

Youth, this is me and King Fox.

We go a way back. Long, long time ago, see?

So, help me with the box there, man.

Tune!

D.!

Later. Bye.

You like him!

Go look for D.!

'And this is Yvonne.

'The love of my life.

'A real Jamaican girl.'

"No more war in the ghetto"?

- Foolishness. - No, man!

Jerry Dread's Sound System is gonna nice up the place with positive.

Yvonne? Saviour Lord, child!

- Come away from that dirty boy now! - Coming, Grandma!

I have to go home now, you know, D.

Well, wherever you go, I will always come and find you.

Don't you know, when I call you, you must come to me?

Don't I tell you, when school is over, you must come straight home?

Hold this. Ah!

Selector, man.

Shit. Yeah!

Put on a big tune. You know how to use a turntable?

- Yeah, man! - You sure?

Of course, you know. Jerry Dread teach you!

Come on!

No more war in the ghetto!

Jerry...

'The people wanted peace. I was proud to see them do it.'

- Welcome the people then, brother. - 'Proud to see them come out. '

Welcome! Jerry Dread Sound System.

'Proud of Jerry. No more war in the ghetto.'

Peace! Peace in the ghetto!

And that is my little brother, you know! Love this Youth!

For the lovers inside the house.

What do you say?

Jerry Dread's Sound System with the vibes.

Some real good vibes.

Tune!

Sing it. Don't you know it? It ain't at all business.

- What's wrong? - Him face look familiar.

I don't want to see no one by themselves right now.

That's Clancy Hibbert.

'And this is Clancy.

'Clancy Hibbert. We went to the same school.

'I saw him try and stab a teacher.'

- D.! - Come.

'A boy trying to be man.'

King Fox, I invite you to the stage.

To show the people it's love we're dealing.

Skeets, I invite you to the stage.

OK... Let me stop this one.

King Fox.

Welcome.

Let him through.

Joyful, joyful, joyful!

Behave yourselves!

Yes!

Jerry Dread just want a peaceful neighbourhood.

- Shake hands, man! - See that man!

And show the people themselves...

I'm watching him, I'm watching him.

...it's love we're dealing.

No more war in the ghetto!

No more war.

No more war. Yes!

No more war! No more war!

No more war!

No more war! No more war!

Stay down! Me come to you!

Perfidy!

D.! D.!

No, Yvonne! No!

Shit.

Me see the killer.

Clancy Hibbert. I see him.

D.!

Me see the killer.

It was Clancy Hibbert!

Jerry, me see him!

The wicked... The wicked can't hide, D.

Little brother!

Jerry!

Brother! Please don't leave!

Me need you, brother.

- Please! - Skeets!

Tappa crew! Them do this wicked thing!

Deceitful!

'Nine nights after a death,

'it is a Jamaican tradition to send the spirit off well,

'with offerings of food and rum.'

No! A foolishness!

- 'If it is disrupted...' - Dennis!

- '...the spirit becomes trapped. ' - No!

'We call it a duppy, a ghost.'

Youth! Hear me now, hear me now.

It's a long, long journey the dead have to travel, Youth.

If you leave your brother hungry,

he's going to walk the earth and create mischief.

Jerry has to go.

'I wasn't ready for Jerry to fly away and leave me.

'I held on to him.'

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

'Six years later and the war between Tappa and Spicer was long forgotten.

'Everybody forget about Jerry the peacemaker.

'Except for me.

'And then I worked for King Fox. He gave me a home after Jerry died.

'Treated me like a son. King Fox now ruled.'

You still not working, eh?

Me? What do you mean? Me work all the time.

What you call work is not work, young man, you know that!

Butt Lord... Good?

Youth!

Give me a hug, now. Hug me up, Gran.

'Fox ran a record business.

'The home of the hits.'

Boss, the radio station said him not play the tune.

- What him say? - He says it's not a hit.

But this is home of the bloodclaat hits! What does he know about hit songs?

Next time, you have to get this yourself, yeah?

Yo, I'm going to come back, General. I'm going to come back.

Let me tell you this.

Everything you come to know as a hit song,

that you listen to and sing along to, has been paid for.

- Where do you want your food? - Put it down there somewhere.