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But I'll take 'em off your hands for you.
We had to go all over Chicago to get it cashed.
Yeah.
I just said there's got to be more to life than just having a good time.
Cutler, this here my nephew Sylvester.
you keep messing around with her.
You don't need that old circus bullshit. I know what I'm talking about.
I can say "yessir" to whoever I please. What you got to do with it?
That Levee and Sturdyvant shit, I ain't going for it.
Irv?
Turn your back on me!
and commenced to dancing.
Ooh! Levee say if it wasn't for Cutler, he wouldn't have no new shoes.
They don't call me Sweet Lemonade for nothing.
I want to get it right the first time and get on out of here.
♪ You can slide across the floor ♪
Just like that.
God can kiss my ass.
You was in my way. I wasn't in your way.
Me and this horn, we's tight.
uh, okra, corn.
Honey, call down there and see about my car. I need my car fixed today.
You take and you make your history with that stew.
Toledo, you always messing with somebody.
The boy stutter. He can't do the part.
Don't make no difference to me, long as we get paid.
I turn to hear this guy's side of the story.
♪ Oh, Lord ♪
- I got me some shoes. - Ooh!
They'll send it over with one of their fellows.
We don't have time. We can't...
Come tell me I'm spooked up by the white man.
And they said, "Yeah, nigger?"
Hell, I'd even help him sign people up.
then you all right with them, otherwise you just a dog in the alley.
You got a stew.
- What you gotta rehearse for? - This a recording session.
- The most disorganized… - Ma?
Come talk about sorry.
I'm the devil. I ain't nothing but the devil.
He stutters right through it every time.
What I care about bad luck?
Your business is to play what I say.
- That's my God! Blaspheme my God. - Let it go! It don't mean nothing!
He got one eye on the gal and the other on his trumpet.
So you can go to hell… n… n… nigga.
Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up. I don't care what you play.
A nigga gonna be dissatisfied no matter what.
and here she come talking this.
Levee Green and his Footstompers.
Levee know what time he's supposed to be here?
When I heard them, they didn't sound like the kind I'm looking for right now.
You handled it last time, remember?
Look at Sylvester with that hat on.
You heard what the man told you.
He found out who they was,
Everything's under control, Mel. I got everything under control.
And that horn player, the one who gave me those songs,
Ain't nobody done nothing to you.
Smile in his face and sell him his land.
Nigga, how you know this man done sold his soul to the devil?
It was you. You the only one…
Levee, I don't doubt that.
That's how bad death is.
How you get so crazy?
and she fixed me up.
Man give me a check last time. What happened?
He don't care nothing about me either.
Just like clockwork.
- A mistake, huh? - Sure, Ma. Made a mistake.
Let's do it without it, huh? Just this one song. What say, boys?
Mr. Irvin get down on his knees and beg her to stay.
He looked at them
understand what I mean,
She tried to fight 'em off.
I'm going to finish this song for Mr. Sturdyvant.
♪ Please come home to me ♪
- Where's the bathroom? - Uh, down that hall.
I had my fellas play your songs.
I'm talking about something I can see. I ain't talking about no molecules.
Keep America White Again!
♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
Yeah, I… I remember pretty g… good.
To this day, I can't say nothing bad about this woman.
- He can sing the whole song. - Well, all right. Thank you.
♪ I got a friend they call Dancin' Sammy ♪
Then two or three more fellas come up and join the other one.
One, two, you know what to do.
♪ All the boys in the neighborhood ♪
No, baby. I knows how to write music.
Hi. I just wanted to see what it look like down here.
who had been with my mama.
♪ I sat down on my floor ♪
Levee's version, it really picks it up.
This ain't your band. Ma tell me to d… do it, I'mma do it.
I know how to handle white folks. I been handling them for 32 years.
Nobody talking about making the lot for the colored man
What we got there, Toledo?
- Assault and what for what? - Sylvester was driving...
That taught me how to handle them.
I'm with you on that score. Don't want to be here all night.
What I got to be jealous of you about?
That's what you say. We gotta check it out.
♪ All the time ♪
All right, boys,
Shoot. That's what get me so mad with Irvin.
Levee's supposed to be here same as we is. I reckon he'll be here in a minute.
Buy her presents and things. Treat her like she want to be treated.
Levee started all that 'cause he too lazy to rehearse.
I'm my own person. Just let me alone.
♪ Soon as the boys Found out that I was there ♪
He'll do the voice intro on "Black Bottom" using the old version.
Well, y'all go on and rehearse, then.
Levee got his eyes in the wrong place. You better school him, Cutler.
Your ass gonna be out there scraping the concrete, lookin' for a job,
Playing ten notes for every one you supposed to play. Don't call for all that.
- Shit. - Damn!