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Curt...
you've been out here on Monroe and Fayette a long time.
Who're you telling?
I've been on this corner since that lamppost over there was a *** twig.
I'm a soldier.
I guess you've seen the younger ones coming up.
Seen a lot of people come on the corner for the first time.
Do you know Gary McCullough?
Yeah, Gary.
Gary had it going on.
Money, cars, houses.
Used to play the stock market.
Gary was making crazy money before he stumbled.
- Gave lot of it away, too. - Yeah?
- To who? - People around the way.
Anyone who needed it, really.
Gary was always soft.
Good hearted.
Let me ask you something. Why did he fall?
Started fooling around with that pipe.
Gary McCullough started out on crack?
That ready rock changed the whole game around.
Used to be different.
Used to be rules to this ***.
With that rock...
you saw people becoming drug addicts.
Made *** look like it wasn't ***.
It weren't menfolk either.
Had women on the pipe, children, too.
That's when it really started getting bad.
But in Gary's case...
what led him to the corner at all, do you think?
I look at it like he got hurt.
He gave so much away, and so little came back.
Hey, now.
You know how it is. But the world can be that way.
So he's hiding the hurt in the drugs.
He's just like everybody else, looking for a little love.
Everybody got to have some love.
Is there love in drugs?
***!
So what is there? I mean, I'm asking.
And I'm telling you...
every *** dope fiend out here is chasing after something...
and never quite getting there.
So what are you chasing, Curt?
Let me tell you something.
When you get that first shot of dope...
it's the best *** feeling in your life.
It's better than sex.
And every time after that...
you looking for the first time...
over and over again.
And?
- That's Scalio. - Only in America.
Only in America, in the ghetto, can life be so fine.
This is why they hate us.
*** *** lazing around in the street.
***. My boy. This is a real good couch right here.
- We've got to go to *** work! - *** y'all!
Keep driving, man. What're you looking at?
Yo, Blue. Yo, Curt.
My boy, Tony, he went to go cop for me.
You tell him to get with them gold star.
- They're right as rain. - Oh, man, please.
I had a gold star two days ago. It wasn't much.
That was two days ago. Check out Bread.
Gold stars, yo.
- How'd he do that? - What, the dope fiend lean?
He ain't falling down.
Please. You know gravity don't mean *** when they toking.
I'm *** tired of New York *** taking money for ***...
that don't even get folks out of the gate.
You're a lying ***! Your *** is high as *** right now!
You think I'm out here getting *** high for free?
- *** ain't free! - No, I'm gonna get $10 back.
Or I'm gonna find a phone and call the police.
I should take a bat against your head for even thinking some *** like that.
Do what the *** you got to do, ***!
Yo! Where the *** are you going? Hold up!
- Hold up! - I'd bust that *** in her head.
You ain't ***.
I said, hold up, *** it!
Damn, you're a soft ***.
I'm gonna get you two more pills.
But don't come back with that crying ***...
or I'll whip your *** for sure, most definitely.
***!
You're crazy, girl.
Ronnie baby.
Damn, man.
You're fierce, girl.
Man, you took that Gee Money for what, two of them bags?
That *** knows he's gotta kill me...
or I'm gonna call them jump-out boys on his ***.
- Where are you coming from? - The rec center.
- Aunt Jackie doing all right? - She's good.
You make that call to that place this week?
BRC?
Yeah, I owe them a call.
Man, what the *** is this? ***!
This *** horse pissed on my ***, man!
- ***, you owe me! - I didn't know that was there...
That horse peed all over Tee-Tee's bag.
- I've seen him do it, too. - All right.
Why hit the horse?
That *** do not make sense!
I don't think this could ever happen.
- What do you mean? - I see some crazy things out here...
but that just don't make sense.
You're testing my patience. I don't need to take your *** to the doctor.
- I'm sick of you. - Every time I look, it's the same old ***.
- What you bringing with you? - Death row and a pink top.
Some antibiotics for Rita. Here you go, sweetheart.
- Some what? - Antibiotics.
What kind of antibiotics?
One of my little cousins had a throat infection. Those is what's left over.
How do you figure antibiotics for a throat infection gonna help her arms?
Why're you getting so upset?
- You need to see a doctor. - I know.
Don't say, "I know." Your arms is getting worse and worse.
I don't want you to catch a blood infection or something...
'cause you don't want to leave the house.
I wasn't gonna say nothing, but your arms do look raw.
- I'll go to the hospital and get it checked. - When?
Damn, all of a sudden you act like you know what's best for everybody.
You know what? I was just saying.
And I heard you.
You're not mad at me trying to help you.
Keep saying the same damn thing over and over.
Hey, Scalio, can you give me a shot, man, please?
- Who are you? - Is Joe here?
Where the hell did he go?
- What're you... - Where's he? Or you're going with him.
He went out back.
*** it! I'm tired of this Western district nickel-and-dime ***.
Outside.
- Yo, Cardy, tell them who you is. - This ain't him.
No, our kid's younger.
Y'all got a working man there.
That boy's got a job.
- What're you doing around here, anyway? - Visiting my mother.
Yeah? Where does she live at?
This is a designated drug-free zone. You loiter, you go.
The next time we roll past, you'd best not be around.
Walk on, or take a humble.
*** or fight, gentlemen. I'm serious.
Don't make no sense.
You there. Come here.
- Ma'am? - You want this?
- Thank you, ma'am. - Take it away from my house.
Yeah, you're gonna be stylin'.
- Thank you, ma'am. - Check out that lemon yellow.