BOOBOO BOO_BOO CADILLAC CLARENCE CONGREGATION CREW DIZZEE EZEKIEL FAT_ANNIE GRANDMASTER_FLASH JACKIE_MORENO JUNIOR_WL JUNIOR_WL2 LEON MAN MORAN MRS_CRUZ MRS_LOPEZ MS_GREEN MYLENE NAPOLEON PAPA_FUERTE PASTOR_CRUZ RAFE RARA REGINA SHAOLIN_FANTASTIC WANDA WOLF WOMAN YOLANDA YOLANDA_AND_REGINA EZEKIEL Boom. MAN 'Cause we was in the broke down belly of a hungry beast. MAN You remember that day we met? Our very own Grandmaster Flash. GRANDMASTER FLASH Osu, Grasshopper. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Osu, Grandmaster. You're early. GRANDMASTER FLASH No, I'm here right on time RARA Yo, how did he get in here? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Um, this is the Fantastic Four, plus one. Um, yeah, this is the crew. Uh, this is my wordsmith, he's the dude that rocked the mic at your jam. EZEKIEL Uh, osu, Grandmaster. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Over here I got the system set up. Organized just like yours, man. Matching Technique SL-23 turntables, just like yours. If I could just show you. RARA Whoo. GRANDMASTER FLASH All right. Everyone sit Zazen in front of me. PAPA FUERTE MRS CRUZ Que linda. I know this I not how you wanted to spend your summer. MYLENE It's fine. Five days a week in a soup kitchen might be the best thing for me. MRS CRUZ Look at you. My baby's becoming a woman. What happened to your friend Ezekiel? Huh? Papi said he's not playing piano for us no more. MYLENE I don't know. MRS CRUZ What a shame, that boy never missed a beat. PAPA FUERTE Buenos Dias. MRS CRUZ Cisco. I'm surprised to see you here. PAPA FUERTE One for you. The punished girl can have a treat, right? MYLENE My savior. PAPA FUERTE Live out your sentence with dignity and you shall soon be free. Until then, head high. GRANDMASTER FLASH Universal DJ rule 17, Grasshopper. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC “In order to fly, a DJ must trust his wings.” GRANDMASTER FLASH And are these your wings? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Yes, Grandmaster. GRANDMASTER FLASH Then you must learn to trust them. I have in my hand the key, to my Quick Mix Theory. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC A crayon, Grandmaster? RARA What's the crayon for? DIZZEE Nice. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC You're not messing with me, right? GRANDMASTER FLASH Nah. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Well what about the get down? You were supposed to show me how to do what you do. GRANDMASTER FLASH Do not underestimate the crayon. BOO-BOO GRANDMASTER FLASH I promised you the secret, not the answer, Grasshopper. To earn the answer, you must solve the mystery as one. And when you unlock the gate, we will walk through it together, as one. Put your hand out in the position of Sun-Tzu's offering. I hand you the magic, they mystery, the opening, Grasshopper. You have 24 hours or my offer expires. Osu. GRANDMASTER FLASH 24 hours. PASTOR CRUZ Oh. PAPA FUERTE Fixing Jesus, huh? PASTOR CRUZ Si. PAPA FUERTE I thought he was supposed to be fixing us. A little bit to the left there. I brought you an Icee. Lemon Cherry. PASTOR CRUZ I'm not hungry. PAPA FUERTE It ain't steak, bro. PASTOR CRUZ Gracias. Why you here, Francisco? PAPA FUERTE So a little pajarito in the tree tells me, uh, you're struggling to fill seats here. As it happens, I see a bunch of sinners on my walk over, I tell 'em about Sunday service. PASTOR CRUZ Oh is that so? PAPA FUERTE Bro, you're gonna have about a dozen more boricuas here just looking to see the light. You better bring out the secret weapon. PASTOR CRUZ Secret weapon? Oh, you mean Mylene? PAPA FUERTE That's why everybody comes here, right? I mean of course him. You're great, too. Hey, look, I'm just tryin to help, if you want me to tell 'em not to come. PASTOR CRUZ No, no, no, no. you did the right thing. PAPA FUERTE Myle, she, uh, she came to me the other night, pretty rattled. PASTOR CRUZ Because she defied me. PAPA FUERTE Defied you? E-, she's a teenager, that's what they do, they defy. PASTOR CRUZ Yes, but my job is to protect her from herself. PAPA FUERTE and I support that. But y-y your grip man, it-it- it's too tight. You gotta loosen up a little bit. PASTOR CRUZ She's not your daughter. She's my daughter. You, y-y-y you're lucky I don't cut her off from you. PAPA FUERTE Cut her off? MRS CRUZ Ramon. PAPA FUERTE Jesus' pin-up girl. MRS CRUZ Diablo. PASTOR CRUZ We're just finishing here, Lydia. MRS CRUZ Okay. Take your time. PAPA FUERTE You can't cut then cut me off, man. PASTOR CRUZ A-are you threatening me? You're a bad influence! She sees your lifestyle, she sees it. Easy come, easy go the money. PAPA FUERTE Yeah, right-right, the money that paid for the fucking opera house that you had to have! PASTOR CRUZ I can go back to street preaching if I have to. I answer to Christ our savior, not to you. PAPA FUERTE You know, you need to get off of your high proud horse, Ramon. PASTOR CRUZ I need you to speak to me of pride? I know where that sin leads and no daughter of mine is going to go where I have been. Now you stay, aw- oh! You keep away from her, Francisco. PAPA FUERTE I apologize, hermano. Forgive me for trying to talk sense into his holiness. CLARENCE There you are, Inspector Mooch. MORAN Annie. Most days I can tolerate sonny boy here and his charming mirthful disposition, this is not one of those days. FAT ANNIE Get lost awhile, Clarence. CLARENCE But if this concerns the shooting this concerns business. and if this concerns business, this concerns me. FAT ANNIE Say it walking, Clarence. MORAN Better obey Mommy. CLARENCE Devil. FAT ANNIE Yeah, I know the drug business. I'm shutting everything down until this thing calms down. MORAN Good. FAT ANNIE Look, I'm losing money here. Wh's behind shooting up my club? MORAN Don't know yet. But make no mistake, this was a hit. A hit on you. And what I can tell you for certain, is the dead assassin was aa Savage Warlord, El Viejo. He was their chief. So whoever paid them to do this, the Warlords took the gig serious. FAT ANNIE You think Harlem paid them to take me out? MORAN Maybe. FAT ANNIE I want more for my money than maybes, Moran. MORAN you and me both. Look, I'm neck-deep in this myself.i will get to the bottom of this. FAT ANNIE In the meantime I'd love for your boys at Bronx Homicide to get off my back and get my club reopened. I cold handle the rest. MORAN El Viejo had a little brother in the gang. Napoleon. Ave Wolf and Sonny Boy find him, bring him in. FAT ANNIE I can do that. MORAN And please, no more dead bodies or we will have a problem that even I can't solve. MAN I hand you the magic, Grasshopper. EZEKIEL Do not underestimate the . RARA Look at Dizzee EZEKIEL You must solve the mystery as one. RA-RA look at it like that, bro. DIZZEE t's just so elegant. EZEKIEL A hip, a hop. A hip a hip a hop a hip a hop! RARA He's singing. EZEKIEL I don't know what this thing is for but I know this. This for you, Mylene. Bitch can diss but one day it's me she's gonna miss. BOO BOO Right? Nah, you'll get I. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Yo. Be serious, nigga. We only got like 20 hours left. EZEKIEL 24 hours or my offer expires! JACKIE MORENO Hey. Que tal, Cisco. You wanted to see me? PAPA FUERTE This is such bullshit, man. The house is white. The picket fence is white. But do all the model people have to be white? These motherfuckers.they can't even conceive of brown people, black people owning homes, man. JACKIE MORENO That's messed up. Yo, what is all this? PAPA FUERTE That's the future, man. JACKIE MORENO That's 'cause you a visionary, man. PAPA FUERTE And I'm building it. Lopez. Can you bring us a couple of Yoo-hoos? JACKIE MORENO PAPA FUERTE So, how's the music biz, huh, maestro? JACKIE MORENO I need a vacation. I'm producing three albums by two Top 20 artists. On top a which I sold these uptempo ballads to Diana Ross and Tony Orlando. Did you get those, uh, the record albums and the- and the Tangier Records satin jackets that I left for you? PAPA FUERTE I did. JACKIE MORENO Huh? PAPA FUERTE That's not the package I was looking for, Jackie. JACKIE MORENO Cisco, I know I'm, I know I'm, I'm behind, s-, you know, from the poker games, you know, that I owe you. PAPA FUERTE 25 grand, music man. It's not to me. The good brothers of Hijos Boricuas. JACKIE MORENO The house, I know a-an dI-I I and I got the money, but, you know, it's not liquid. It's currently, temporarily. It's accounting, Cisco, you know, it's like these snafus, you know. PAPA FUERTE Oh, Jackie, your payment is long past due. And the Hijos Boricuas, they're not patient like I am. And their club bylaws, the bylaws are very clear. La violencia! Violence is discouraged. But not prohibited. JACKIE MORENO Cisco, me and you got a history. PAPA FUERTE Come on. Man. I mean. JACKIE MORENO Cono. Please. PAPA FUERTE Oh, stop bro. I don't know. I guess, maybe, if you were to do me a favor. JACKIE MORENO Absolutely. Something legal, though, right? PAPA FUERTE Oh it's better than legal, Jackito. This shit is spiritual. RARA Man, what if w- what if there ai'n no mystery, man? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC What you talking about? RARA Look, man, what if what if Flash just straight played us, man? BOO-BOO He right. We're staring at a crayon! A crayon! Like we're Special Ed! And the only mystery I know is that your ass fell for that shit!! CREW Whoa, whoa! EZEKIEL Chill out! SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Grandmaster's real. I'm real. This crayon, I don't understand it yet, but it's real! And if you ain't real it's time to bounce tour little midget ass out a here! Go fond Snow White and the rest of the six dwarves! And you too, nigga! RARA Shao, breathe man, breathe! We still got 18 hours! DIZZEE Oh, sh-. I'm sorr-, I was l- SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Why'd you-! Crayon! My fucking crayon!! DIZZEE Hey bro, I'm sor- your wall is just bumpy, man, I'm fucking sorry, bro! Hey bro, I'm sorry! EZEKIEL! Hey. RARA Yo Sao, chill, man. DIZZEE I'm sorry. I thought if I drew something on the wall, then something would incarnate or like, a portal or something, bro, I'm so fucking sorry, man. It's like Harold, man. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Who the fuck is Harold, Dizzee?! BOOBOO with a god damn magic crayon. I'm gonna tip. Mom making that Rice-A-Roni with that non-Federal cheese, and that ground meat chili. I'm just out, man. DIZZEE I'm sorry Shao. Let's roll Ra. RA-RA Yo, peace, E. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Yeah, you can go too, if you need to, man. EZEKIEL Nah, nah. If I'm a rhyme I need a beat.one that don't retire just 'cause Ma's making Rice-A-Roni with the real cheese and the chili brown meat. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Yo, you can got get yourself some dinner. EZEKIEL I need a DJ who spins, 1010 Wins and don't give up over no crayon, man. Here comes the judge and I'm the lawyer, he Huck Finn and I'm Tom Sawyer. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC All right, I, I get it, man. Y. EZEKIEL If you believe in Flash, then I do, too. EZEKIEL True as the night turns black. This ain't no fairy tale. Never drawn no moon for a midnight stroll. But all them dope fiends . But what if you trade one needle for another? You ain't alone no more 'cause now I'm your brother. Don't gotta look through rose colored glasses to see the shadows rising .me and you, a spinner in a different mode. All we gotta do is crack the code. EZEKIEL Purple crayon.lock and key. From desert sands to forest trees. What could be your mystery? It's quits she said. But I won't quit. Forget blank pages, I wanna live my life amazing, outrageous, shire, but when I step on he stage, whoa. In my head from off the page. But what do you want from me? Can't you see what I could be? Purple crayon. My possibility MYLENE Hey, Mama. MRS CRUZ Mm. MYLENE When you was my age, what did you wanna be? MRS CRUZ I wanted to be a good, obedient daughter. MYLENE No. like if you could have been anything. What would it be? MRS CRUZ I didn't think like that, querida. MYLENE Well I just thought that maybe if you had a dream, you could understand. MRS CRUZ 'allo. MRS LOPEZ Lydia, I need Mylene. I gotta make her a dress. It's gonna be ivory. MRS CRUZ ahora? MRS LOPEZ Mira, it's importante, I had a vision from god. MRS CRUZ Okay. I-. MRS LOPEZ please, pronto ciao, baby. MRS CRUZ Okay. Senora Lopez wants you to go to her dress shop for measurements. She's insisted. MYLENE Me? For what? MRS CRUZ She said she had a vision. From god.and it was you in an ivory dress. MYLENE Of course she has a vision, when I'm locked in soup jail. Dad grounded me. how am I gonna go to the dress shop? MRS. CRUZ I wanted to be a veterinarian. MYLENE What? MRS. CRUZ When I was young. That- that was my dream. Shoot. You know, I gotta send somebody to the store. It'll probably take a long time.it's a big list here. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Tight, right? Okay, let's see. Let's get you out here. Made the coop myself. All right, Penny, meet Zeke. Zeke, meet Penny. Careful. Let her know that you're calm and in control. She'll settle down just like the ladies, right? EZEKIEL Yeah. Dag, this is kinda cool. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC All right, so you ready for the show? Hold this now. Hold it down. Okay, here we go. You ready? EZEKIEL Yeah. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Open it up. Come on. Come on out, come on out guys, come on out, come on out. Come on out, come on out. Come on out. EZEKIEL SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Come on, come on, come on out. Come on come on come on. Come on, come on. Whoo! EZEKIEL They do that natural or they was taught SHAOLIN FANTASTIC They do it natural. Everything they do, it got a natural purpose. Nigger got wings then nigga gotta fly, right? MYLENE Wish I could fly. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Last night you were writing, weren't you? EZEKIEL So? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC So it probably means you're smart. EZEKIEL I mean I ain't dumb. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC So when you're off being all smart and reading and writing and thinking on smart shit you're flying, man. Like Flash. How he controls the crowd. EZEKIEL I guess, yeah. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC How he moves the crowd, man. That's that's gonna be my, my flying. EZEKIEL You ever thought a quitting? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC What? You talking about the crayon? Man we gonna get that shit. EZEKIEL Nah, nah, nah. Inferno. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC You talking about hustling? EZEKIEL You're working for drug dealers.trigger-happy gangsters, shooting people who don't deserve to die. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Man, that's how I earn my keep. But, I do got some money saved up. EZEKIEL Maybe take a summer holiday, focus on the get down. I'll focus on my rhyming. Throw some parties, get some girls, not named Mylene. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC A little vacation could be good. No bosses. EZEKIEL Just music.all day, every day. Nigga got wings nigga gotta fly, right? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Like these pigeons and shit. Circling, spinning. EZEKIEL Spinning and grinning? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Spinning and grinning, Zeke, spinning and grinning, man! EZEKIEL Spinning. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Spinning and spinning. EZEKIEL Yo. MAN Get down. GRANDMASTER FLASH The key to my Quick Mix Theory Do not underestimate the crayon. Quick Mix. Crayon. EZEKIEL Yo, don't forget that one. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC All right. EZEKIEL See, you still gotta find it, right? Maybe this shit will help. . That's it. All right, now bring it back to the top of the break. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Ho. That's how Flash finds the get down so quick. You book-smart motherfucker! I'm calling you Books from now on, man! Whoo! Damn. WANDA Coming. MS GREEN Hi, is Ezekiel home? WANDA Who's asking? LEON Hey, tell then Jehovahs to get the hell outta here. MS GREEN I'm his English teacher, Ms. Green.you must be? WANDA His aunt, Wanda. Isn't school out? MS GREEN I just wanted to check in with him, he left his essay in my office. WANDA Oh. Okay, thank you. MS GREEN I- I also, I wanted to talk to you. Your nephew's one of my brightest students. And there's this program run my Francisco Fuerte. You know, from the community center? Ezekiel could go to college.he can go to an ivy league college. But we really need to start now. WANDA Ivy league? MS GREEN Yes. WANDA Who's gonna pay? You? That kid spends enough time in the clouds, okay? It's hard as it is to keep him here in the real world. This is not helping. MS GREEN Ezekiel knows a whole lot more about the real world than you think. Why don't you do him a favor. Just read that. MYLENE I thought you were gonna help me when you came to the church yesterday. PAPA FUERTE Why you ain't at the dress shop? MYLENE I-. wait, how did you know about that? PAPA FUERTE 'Cause I'm gonna owe Señora Lopez like an arm for fibbing at your mother. MYLENE You set that up? PAPA FUERTE I'm sitting there waiting for you. MYLENE Oh. PAPA FUERTE Now imagine, it's Sunday, you step forward for your solo in your pretty new dress, maybe a flower in your hair. Nothing too decadent. A lily. And in that moment, you gonna shine, nina. I want you to act like it's the last song you ever gonna sing. 'Cause in the crowd, there's gonna be a man in a fancy suit, not me. A music producer. MYLENE I knew it!! I fucking knew it! PAPA FUERTE Hey-hey. MYLENE Sorry, . PAPA FUERTE This has gotta be a secret. Your parents cannot know. MYLENE Love you, Tio. PAPA FUERTE Ah, dah-dah-dah-. Now get to the dress shop before we both get found out. MYLENE Okay. PAPA FUERTE Nina. MYLENE Hm? PAPA FUERTE You make us all proud, huh? Oh yeah, it's Francisco. MRS LOPEZ Hola. PAPA FUERTE Myle's on her way. MRS LOPEZ Tambien. PAPA FUERTE Remember what I said about the dress. Make it simple but modest. MRS LOPEZ Pero, quiero que acentue su cuerpo- PAPA FUERTE No-no-no! Don't accentuate nothing, I mean it! She gotta shine, but she gotta do it god's house. MRS LOPEZ Claro, Franscisco. Muy sencillo. No te precupe. PAPA FUERTE Yeah, don't worry. Don't worry my ass. FAT ANNIE Ooh, that looks lovely. Siddown and have some with me. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC I like my steak well done; FAT ANNIE Oh, I like my mens well done. But a good steak's like a prize fight. It ain't good unless it's bloody. Check that. Mm. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Can I talk to you a minute? FAT ANNIE Mm hm. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC I got an opportunity, Annie. FAT ANNIE Opportunity? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC It's nothing that competes with what's going on here. FAT ANNIE You leaving here? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Just for a while. I mean yes. Yes, I'm leaving here. Can I have your blessing? FAT ANNIE I've invested in you. I've been grooming you. I was about to promote you. I'm disappointed. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC it's something good for me, Annie. and I'm good at it. A music thing, you know? FAT ANNIE You got the gift for graft, boy. And you wanna go blow a horn? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC It's not a horn. It- it's- FAT ANNIE It doesn't matter what it is. You overestimate yourself. Another ghetto clown thinks he's Miles Davis. End up miles from puttin food on the table or roof overhead. Okay. Hm. When you need the other half of this you come see Annie. But it ain't gonna be so easy here for you next time. GRANDMASTER FLASH Well done. You've unlocked the secret of the crayon. But that's only the first step. GRANDMASTER FLASH Now one you've marked the get down part you must dig. Dig, dog, dig a tunnel where the get down sits. All right. Now pay attention and listen to this. That is a void of useless nothing, the wackness. But! Here we go. That is life and destiny. That is the get down beat, that is what the B boys get down to! GRANDMASTER FLASH Now, because he possesses two turntables, a DJ exists in two time zones, all right?one DJ plays music that the dancers are partying to right now, and the other is playing music that they will be partying to in the imminent future. Now. Future. All right? Check this out. Now pay attention. And watch my hands. Remember Grasshopper, it's all about math.watch the mark. GRANDMASTER FLASH So, be in the moment yes, EZEKIEL But give the future your utmost attention. GRANDMASTER FLASH Exactly, wordsmith.making sure the get down part is ready to depart. All right? One. Two. Three, four. Check. Under the needle. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Wait. What is what does under the needle mean? GRANDMASTER FLASH That means the beat is locked, loaded, and ready to go. Now that beat is fresh, right? But, you're racing against the imminent wackness. So, remember it's all about math, Grasshopper. Two, three, four. Check. Under the needle. One, two, three, four. Uh. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Whoo! You see that? GRANDMASTER FLASH Two, three, four. Check, under the needle. One, two, three, four. You must be like Bruce Lee, Grasshopper, flow like water, all right? You must be zen, in the moment, it's a sonic and physical fight. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Ooh, look at him go, Books. GRANDMASTER FLASH Never in disarray. Every time. Arrive, depart. Arrive, depart. Now first, you must master one record. Manifest one single, infinite beat. And Grasshopper. Choose one you can live with for a long time. So choose wisely, or madness be thy name. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Madness? GRANDMASTER FLASH Oh you'll see. Excruciating torment, Chinese water torture madness. EZEKIEL How did you do that, Grandmaster? GRANDMASTER FLASH I know time. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC You fucking see that, man?! SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Oh man, I fucking told you! !i told you, man. REGINA Your uncle got a hot record producer coming to hear you sing in church. YOLANDA Listen, you gotta sing better than Donna and Gloria and Thelma put together. REGINA Yeah. Some next level shit. What you gonna sing? MYLENE You ready? Okay. YOLANDA Mylene. No. REGINA You can't sing that crusty Jesus shit to some hotshot music man. MYLENE Hello. Are you forgetting where I'm singing? At least the song shows my range. REGINA Please tell me you're joking. YOLANDA Oh fuck, you're not ! MYLENE You're right. No way a producer's gonna be like, yo that girl right there praising Jesus, she's the next disco star of America. What the fuck do I do? REGINA This is my join right here! Oh. YOLANDA No, wait. REGINA That's what you gotta do, you gotta turn that beat around. YOLANDA Listen to Vicky. MYLENE What? REGINA Oh my god, it's like a sign. YOLANDA You gotta take that holy beat and switch it up! Turn it around! MYLENE Hey. yo. Vicky is right. I gotta turn this shit around. YOLANDA And if you had the right backup like on the piano. REGINA Oh my god, don't tell me it's that old mothballs lady who forgets the song halfway through? YOLANDA She ain't gonna make it disco. REGINA You fucked. MYLENE There's only one person I know who could turn this crusty beat around. EZEKIEL Fantastic man with the fluid hands Shao sounds so nice, Shao play it twice. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Ah. EZEKIEL He's almost nice but not quite twice. YOLANDA AND REGINA Ezekiel! MYLENE I can't ask him! REGINA You've gotta! YOLANDA This is your one shot. He'd want you to take it! MYLENE Okay. All right. Okay! I'm gonna ask him! I'm going to. Okay. BOOBOO Oh! RARA You know, Obi-Wan Kenobi says a jedi can feel the force moving through him. RARA eyes can deceive you. Let your conscious self depart and arrive on instinct. BOOBOO Please, no more! DIZZEE I kinda dig it. RARA Can't you try something else? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Look. If you were here, chump you woulda heard the Grandmaster. I have to master one continuous beat. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Yo. Y'all didn't tell nobody where my crib is, right? BOOBOO No. RARA It's Mylene. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Who?! EZEKIEL What? Shit. BOOBOO It's only Zeke's butter pecan praline queen. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Yo, you told that bitch? EZEKIEL Don't call her a bitch. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Man, how the fuck did she get here?! EZEKIEL I don't know! BOOBOO Yo, you chill, yo chill.i mighta told my sister. RARA What, Boo?! What? BOOBOO She asked. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC The dojo is a sacred place. BOOBOO Sorry, Shao. EZEKIEL Why you here, Mylene? MYLENE I never thanked you for the other night. For getting me out of Les Inferno. And for getting me my favorite record. And that dance. EZEKIEL Yo, I thought we don't do this no more, you and me. MYLENE Just because we don't got a thing no more it don't mean we're losing our friendship. EZEKIEL I don't wanna be your friend. MYLENE But we go together. you always said that. Like pancakes and syrup. And pancakes ain't as good without syrup. EZEKIEL Oh my god, Mylene, sometimes I wish I never fucking met you. MYLENE Don't say that shit, no matter what, we've always been there for each other. Through everything. How could we just lose that. EZEKIEL Pancakes don't just get syrup whenever they want. Syrup's got standards. MYLENE I gotta ask you something. i'm singing a hymn on Sunday. You know the one that goes Ante le gracia de dios. EZEKIEL What about it? MYLENE Well I need to dust it off, you know, shake it up. Turn it upside down. Nail that beat to the syncopated rhythm with a rat tat tat tat tat tat tat on the drum. EZEKIEL Wait, for service? MYLENE Yeah. I need and Ezekiel special. EZEKIEL What are you up to? MYLENE I'm not up to anything. EZEKIEL Come on, let's hear it. MYLENE Okay, there's a record guy coming to see me and I really, really want to impress him, you know? EZEKIEL That's what this was about. Fuck you, Mylene. MYLENE I wouldn't have asked you if it wasn't truly important to me! You know that, right?! RARA Yo, wha was all that, man? EZEKIEL She wanted me to help her with some song 'cause she's gonna sing, a music guy coming in. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC And what'd you tell her? EZEKIEL Fuck no is what I told her. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Good for you, man. Sometimes you just gotta teach these l EZEKIEL Don't. RARA Z Ezekiel. That was the dumbest shit you ever did in your life, Zeke. Look. You was the one who said she was in shock at Les Inferno. now she's out of shock, now she's reassessing the landscape. You guys have been playing the now we kiss and now we don't game since the eight grade. EZEKIEL She's just trying to use me right now. RARA The way I see it. All of us here on this planet, and we're on a journey. And it is a mystery. Who knows who's gonna end up where with who. Right? It's just sad to lose a friend, though. it's like, that's the hardest thing to come by. CADILLAC I was under the impression that it's a Saturday night. But not a single fine ass bird in this joint. Anybody here got a notion why that might be? Let's make these motherfucker think we gonna kill their asses. NAPOLEON No fucking snitching. CADILLAC Whoo! CADILLAC I would ask your brother, little man, where everybody is but he don't seem to be doing much talking these days. Motherfucker left a stain on my disco ball. Well look at it. Look at it. CADILLAC Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. NAPOLEON Ah!! GRANDMASTER FLASH Well each passing ying now approaches the yen of the get down part. Wacky.you gotta memorize the kick high hat. Backwards. Right on time. Madness be thy name. GRANDMASTER FLASH Arrive, depart.. Never miss. EZEKIEL Yo! Did you just arrive and depart? Right on time? Yo yo! Yo! Hey, hey, wake up! RA-RA Yo! come on! WOLF Hey man, easy that shit is loaded. CADILLAC Now who shot up my motherfucker club? RAFE All right I can't stand it! CADILLAC What the fuck, man? WOLF You was the one waving this shit around all careless and shit. It just went off. CADILLAC The motherfucker was gonna squeal. I was being careful. I said we were just gonna scare 'em not kill em, and you! You! WOLF It was just an accident! CADILLAC You big dumb, fat candyass motherfucker. Now we in real trouble thanks to you. I'm gonna go figure out how to keep my mom from killing us, you clean up this motherfucking dead kid on my motherfucking floor. WOLF Now what we do with this other motherf-. Motherfucker! Boom. That's what I heard. Then there was crash. The shattering of glass. What did that bullet do, it came so fast. EZEKIEL It was so loud, if someone cared about the Bronx this shouldn't be allowed. EZEKIEL Boom. Life would never be the same. My word is my bond, and my bond with you is gone. But I'll carry on. RARA But it just. EZEKIEL It's like a dream. You finally cracked the code, Shao. Tonight you earned that holiday, nigga. RARA Yeah, you did. EZEKIEL Yeah. BOOBOO Your hands was lightening flashy shit .but where you gonna go? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Cooling here. BOOBOO I'd do Montego Bay, Jamaica. RARA Man, what you gonna do down there, Boo? BOOBOO In my kingdom, I'm a motorboat big-ass Jamaican titties on a motorboat and I wanna. EZEKIEL Nah, forget Jamaica. France is where it's at. RARA Man, I hear French girls go topless in their motorboats. EZEKIEL I hear that, too. BOOBOO For real? EZEKIEL Yeah. Yeah. BOOBOO How Mylene topless? EZEKIEL Shut up. BOOBOO Yo! SHAOLIN FANTASTIC He don't know. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC You don't. EZEKIEL Stop. RA-RA Hey, we're gonna get to that topless yacht in France one day, though. All right? And we gonna sail to Montego Bay. BOOBOO There we go. RARA Mark my words. I got big plans. BOOBOO Fantastic Four plus one. RARA You guys keep practicing. All right, we gonna promote. All right? We'll have a party. Shao's gonna spin. Books is gonna rhyme. Boo-Boo's our record boy. Dizz can make some fly ass fliers. And we gonna charge. RARA Ooh! Ah! Yeah. JUNIOR WL I don't know, man. It just doesn't seem like Napoleon to skip out on a job. JUNIOR WL2 One word, pussy. JUNIOR WL So who's this for, anyway? JUNIOR WL2 That guy who claims to be helping the South Bronx when he's paying us to burn it. JUNIOR WL I think I know the cat you're talking about. Tall right? RARA Damn. You know they must be paying kids good money for burning. Cash. BOOBOO I know. I never get why though. EZEKIEL Collect the insurance money. If it's more than they'e making in rent, it's profitable, I guess. RARA Yo, is that our spot? BOOBOO Why would that be our spot when we live over there? EZEKIEL Shao! SHAOLIN FANTASTIC My fucking records! DIZZEE I got the turntable. RARA Yo-yo-yo you hurt? EZEKIEL What about the rest of the gear? RARA You left the rest of. EZEKIEL Shao! EZEKIEL Yo Shao! Shao! Shao wait up! Hey! Shao wait up! Shao. Shao. At least Diz got a turntable, you see that? I mean it's kinda crispy, but right? You okay, Shao? SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Never better, B. Never better. You tender-hearted, Books. I like that about you. But that shit back there ain't nothing more than supply and demand. Now we the ones in need of supply, cash for our new equipment. And we gotta go out there and demand it. EZEKIEL Shaolin, I shoulda known you was already on to masterminding a new master plan. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC So what you think? Tomorrow, go to Les Infernos, see Fat Annie. She give us some work, we make crazy loot. Quick fast, in a hurry. EZEKIEL I don't like that place. Definitely don't like that motherfucking Cadillac. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Yo, it ain't about what you like. You down for the cause or not? EZEKIEL I'm down by law, B. fantastic Four plus one all day. But yo, I mean my uncle, he, he-he's a handyman, you know he's always hustling, he could hire us for some extra help. We could make money, replace everything we lost without selling our asses to Fat Annie and wrong motherfuckers like that. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Selling our ass? Yo, who the fuck is selling the ass, not me. EZEKIEL Nah, I'm saying- SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Not me, nigga. EZEKIEL I'm just saying let's go see my uncle. SHAOLIN FANTASTIC I ain't counting pennies with your damn uncle. EZEKIEL Well I ain't working for Fat Annie! SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Then get out my way. Step aside, nigga! EZEKIEL No, I can't. 'Cause you and me we a team, remember? I got your back. And not in that fake corny, where- wherever you go I go mack bullshit kinda way, no I mean for real. Me, you, and the crew man, tonight, Shao, man, we were the fucking Fantastic Four plus one. And I quote my DJ when I say one day we'll be bigger than the Yankees, biggest thing in the whole Bronx, biggest thing in the whole motherfucking world. Fantastic Four plus One has our own plan of attack, we don't need to sell out to no gangsta motherfuckers- SHAOLIN FANTASTIC Shut the fuck up, man! I'm Shaolin Fantastic, B! I make magic, you make excuses! This ain't Disneyland, this shit is the fucking Bronx! Either you be strong or you be gone! All I find all I keep! Either you beat the world or you get beat! Yo, you ever see me again, nigga, cross the street. Fucking wordsmith. Wonderbread ass. EZEKIEL Ante de la gracia de dios, ahi voy yo. EZEKIEL A pious man and his gal. They had a child. Raised in the Bronx. In a place so wild. And year after year, the girl has to hear, the do's the don'ts and the dears. MRS CRUZ Si, we all love Mrs. Carmela, but, well, the church needs more people like you, Ezekiel, talented and lively and bright. We'd be happy to have yo play for us today. EZEKIEL Gracias, Señora Cruz. PASTOR CRUZ Mylene. I have examined my soul. I have made a mistake. I realize it now. I have nurtured in you a cardinal sin of pride. MYLENE What do you mean? PASTOR CRUZ They come to hear you sing, es la verdad? I put you in the spotlight because I want to fill seats, to save souls. Ignoring the damage to my own daughter's soul. And from now on, you will sing at the back of the chorus. MYLENE What? Papi, my solo. PASTOR CRUZ No-no-no-no, no more solos. MYLENE Por favor, Papi. PASTOR CRUZ I am sorry. I wish I had come to it sooner. May the lord forgive us both. Now you go. JACKIE MORENO Jackie. PASTOR CRUZ Jackie, welcome, Jackie! Jackie, the lord has a message for you! Paciencia y fe! Paciencia y fe! Praise him! Praise god! Por que murio Jesu-Cristo! CONGREGATION For our sins! PASTOR CRUZ Por que murio Jesu-Cristo!? CONGREGATION For our sins! PASTOR CRUZ Por que murio Jesu-Cristo?! CONGREGATION For our sins! PASTOR CRUZ And by whose grace do we walk?! PASTOR CRUZ Praise him! Praise him! Let him fill you with conviccion profunda. Praise him, praise god. PASTOR CRUZ Let him fill you with the holy spirit! Espiritu santo! Espiritu santo! WOMAN Hallelujah! WOMAN2 I see evil in your eyes. You have many talents. Why have do you throw them away?! MYLENE A pious man and his gal, they had a child. Raised in the Bronx, in a place so wild.