Wu-Tang: An American Saga

The fuck you think was gonna happen?

Jah robbed the nigga.

Everybody loved Jah Son. Everybody.

What up, nigga?

Why you coming at me like that?

You know Jah was my man too!

Tell Cressy we'd rather starve

than to fuck with y'all niggas.

You and D just burned that bridge with Haze, right?

Couldn't put out for another key anyway.

Lost all our shit in the fire.

It ain't about taking out a single enemy.

It's about taking out the entire competition.

Yo, the money? Nothing?

Fuck!

All that money's going towards that lawyer.

If I can argue that it's for personal use,

you'll get a lighter sentence.

I ain't no goddamn crackhead.

You are going to admit to being the biggest crackhead

if it means you get to come home.

Why don't make music with my brother anymore?

Yo, I'm out here putting in work.

It look like I got time to be messing with all that?

- Rap battle, son. - $5,000.

Surprised to see your ass, nigga.

You know I'm just trying to snatch that cake,

know what I mean?

That's to get your brother out.

Does Bobby know you're fucking his sister?

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- Hey, y'all. - What's up?

Hey girl, I like your skirt.

Hey, yo.

Damn, y'all looking fine as hell today.

You know you wanna give me that number.

Ain't nobody gonna give you shit.

Come on, why you gotta be like that?

Because numbers lead to fucking,

and you ain't ready for all of this.

Oh, really?

Why don't you just give me them digits

and we could find out?

- Unless you scared. - "Scared"?

Boy, if I gave you a piece of this,

you'd lose your mind.

- I'ma call you. - Oh, yeah?

Nah.

- He ain't shit. - He cute, though.

"Cute"? Nah, he fine as hell.

Been trying to get up in me for I don't know how long.

For real?

I might let him in once or twice at the prom.

What?

I'm too loud for you?

Can't concentrate on your book?

This bitch on some preppy white girl shit.

Reading Little Women.

Well, the back of the bus is for niggas.

You right about that.

Oh, so you a smart-ass bitch?

I don't think you know who you fucking with.

I'm fucking with some bitch who gonna let that nigga

"slide up in her once or twice at prom",

end up with his baby,

and then two months later, he gonna end up in jail

while she end up riding the back of this bus

for the rest of her life.

Yo, it's Dennis.

Hey, you know I can see you, right?

Divine ain't here yet.

Yeah, well, he told me to meet him here.

So I'm supposed to wait outside?

Come on, it's baking out here.

I got seven minutes of quiet

before hurricane Randy gets here, so shh.

Yo, chill, I'll be quiet.

What you got? Like, homework or something?

Geometry quiz tomorrow.

Well, maybe I could help you.

You know, I be knowing triangles and shit.

"Circumference"?

Yo, ain't that what the Jews be getting?

Hey, yo, what's good with the TV?

Uh, that's just 'cause it's hooked up to the VCR.

When Randy gets home, he likes to watch his, uh, Voltron

and, uh, Speed Racer.

Yeah, my brothers be the same way.

Yo, Shaolin versus Wu Tang?

Yo, this my shit right here.

I been trying... I been trying to rent this

from the video store for, like, months now.

Yeah, my brother ain't giving that one back.

- Yo, let me borrow it. - That's Bobby's.

Bobby gon' let me borrow it.

- Yo, what up, Randy? - 'Sup?

- How's school? - Good.

Oh....

You spill it, you watch it from the kitchen.

Ain't nobody gonna spill nothing.

Okay.

Rie, fix me something to eat.

And put ice in my drink. The heat's killing me already.

Yo, what up?

I was just with Power.

Me and him... we done.

Hey, yo, what you mean "y'all done"?

We ain't working together no more.

Yo, but son...

I don't want to speak on it. Not now.

I need you to be my right-hand man now, D.

I got you.

It's nothing.

Helps if you scrape the food off the plate, Vine.

I'm putting it in the sink. What else do you want?

If you don't scrape it, then we got bugs.

Hey, yo, just leave it.

Come on, I'm dragging your ass out in the heat.

Yo, let's go!

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Uh-uh.

Not in here.

My brother only smokes in the basement.

Yo.

"Yo".

Mm-hmm.

What would Vine and Bobby think?

Me being here with you.

I don't know.

You wanna tell them?

Why not?

Boy, stop being stupid.

I heard you were great at the Park Villa last week.

Yeah, well, I lost, so...

- That's not the point. - Then what's the point?

Hey, yo, wouldn't you... wouldn't you rather

be with a dude that's more like you?

Into books and shit?

If I was, I would be.

Come on.

We gotta get up.

I'm tired, Divine.

Tired of paying for collect phone calls.

Tired of paying for your lawyer.

Driving across town just to see my son,

who could take a plea deal.

It's not just you up in here.

It's us.

Your family.

Once you realize that...

maybe you do the right thing.

I'll take the deal.

All done here.

'Cause you got to understand everything in life,

'cause everything in life is.

A man must obtain knowledge of himself

in order to survive here in the wilderness

of North America.

He must know his ledge before he falls off the edge

into the pits of this civilization.

Black people are the original people

and father of civilization,

and we out living other than our what?

Self!

Hey!

Stop ringing that damn bell of Nimrod.

The brother's trying to teach.

Yo, Rakeem!

Need some help, young blood?

No, I'm good.

Get your mind together right.

You know, I've had this tie since I was... eight years old.

I still can't get it right.

- So why you trying now? - Applying for jobs.

I need money, and this seems to be the place to be.

Sure is.

For this, that, and the other.

Looks to me like you got a whole lotta

weight on your spirit.

But there ain't gonna be no excuse

for the ass whipping I'm about to lay on you.

I just got an ass whooping at this battle.

If I would have won, I would have been on course.

I wouldn't be sitting here

tying this fucking noose around my neck.

Well, let me tell you something.

The reason why most people lose

is because they can't see the win right in front of them.

Your move!

Mm-hmm.

Can you, uh, hand me the butter?

Hey, Bobby.

Hey. What up, Dennis?

- Yo, what up? - What you doing here?

So I was, uh, brainstorming some ways

for us to make some dough.

I wanted to run some ideas past you

before we both run out of food in the fridge.

And I said he might as well stay for dinner, so...

All right.