Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

All right, Ma. Officer, can I speak to you for a minute?
You go on up there, and you tell Sturdyvant
But don't go telling me that door wasn't there.
Where's Ma? She with ya?
Okay, that's good, Ma. That sounded great. Good job, boys.
The way everybody else play it.
with all them buttons and dials, and then too cheap to buy you a Coca-Cola.
What you think I was saying? Things change. The air and everything.
Aw. It just makes me sick.
handing out $100 bills on the spot
on that bass spanking like you spank a baby?
Nigga, you stepped on my shoe.
♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
Hmm. You done made your history and it's still there.
Is there a problem?
Why didn't God strike down them crackers
Caught up with him, hung him…
I heard him. Seen him too. Shuffling them feet.
What I care about Bessie? I don't care if she sell a million record.
I ain't thinking about Bessie.
♪ "Wanna see the dance They call your big black bottom" ♪
if that's all there is to be got out of it.
and your potatoes over here.
Look here, sugar.
I don't know why y'all want to pick with me about it.
He's only getting one chance. The cost of this...
If you sayin' I can't do that, Ma'll just have to go to hell.
You ain't no King Oliver or Buddy Bolden.
or Cutler, Slow Drag, anybody else.
♪ Crazy as I can be ♪
I done made them more money from my records
♪ I wanna learn that dance ♪
Ma Rainey's gonna show you her b… b… b…
My daddy went and smiled in the face of one of them crackers
Is you all gonna rehearse the music or ain't you?
Slow Drag, watch them big-ass shoes you got.
Had him a string of women he run around with
We ain't talking about the paper.
Testing, testing, one, two, three
Until you get your own band where you can play what you want,
He was waiting on a calf to be born, and he say he ain't had time to see me.
Well, come on. Let's do it then. All right?
else she wouldn't have been up there at the church.
Hmm. I sure wish I knew where he went.
Oh, now Toledo ain't said nothing to you. Don't get Toledo started now.
A woman like me need a man to bring it and put it in my hand.
- Dussie Mae, Sylvester, come on. - Ma, sign the forms.
Go on and fix that one.
♪ I stopped to talk ♪
I'm holding you responsible. You keep her in line.
More niggas have got killed trying to have a good time
And you tell Sturdyvant,
We done went from the air to the skin to the door and now trains.
It ain't just me, fool. I said everybody.
This is an accompaniment band. You play Ma's music when you're here.
and whacked me across the chest with it.
- You play what I say. - I don't care what you play.
Tell him if he don't pay the boy his own money,
I'm just gonna go whichever way the river drift.
He keep walking.
♪ "Get on up and show your old man Your black bottom" ♪
One, one, one, two, check, one...
That dress look nice.
than trying to have a good time all the time.
♪ Hmm… ♪
That's the question. Don't come telling me this burning-in-hell shit.
Did you turn your back?
- Shit. - Ma? Ma!
Let's rehearse so the boy can get it right.
But I ain't never been the same fool twice.
and give it to Sylvester.
Who's this "we"? What you mean "we"? Come talking this "we" stuff. Who "we"?
The only mistake…
and here you is one yourself.
That's why I brought my nephew in here to do the voice intro.
- Ma! - I'm talking...
When I walked up on the incident, this lady...
Folks ask what done happened to make him change,
I ain't thinking about Levee or his shoes.
Show you Levee know how to treat a woman.
Tell this man who he's messing with.
You come in an hour late...
Come on and sign these forms, huh?
I done told you time and again. Ma say what to play, not you.
Why didn't God strike some of them crackers down? Tell me that.
See a nigga with a check, first thing they think is he stole it.
That's the best sense you made all day, talking about being a fool.
Uh… Where I go? Which way they at?