Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Cutler, your boys' sandwiches are here.

And have another session, so you can make some more money.

See, that's the shit I'm talking about.

Last I heard, he headed up north with that bag of his,

I'm gonna show you how spooked up I was by the white man.

Cutler, get him straightened out on how to do his part.

What are you doing?

Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant. I got it right here.

♪ They say "Your black bottom is really good" ♪

Okay, I'll tell you what. I'll give you $5 apiece for 'em.

Cutler, here's the list of songs we're going to record.

- You keep messing with me... - Nobody studying you.

"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Moonshine Blues."

We? That's every living colored man in the world

Devil came by and he upped and sold him his soul.

- What you want me to do, huh? - Wanna go and fuck up my shoe like that.

Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, Chicago.

Ma was the first. Don't you forget it.

Me and Sturdyvant. We decided...

B… Boy, ain't nobody studying you. Cutler, go on and fix that.

Then he heard a gunshot. Yeah. He stopped then, you know.

and give him a bottle of whiskey.

He went around working for the devil and everybody knowed it.

You gonna tell me how to do it?

Now I tried to talk him out of it,

Eh, Slow Drag's right. I wouldn't worry about it.

You supposed to rehearse what you gonna play.

Yeah, you got, uh, monoxide, hydrogen, changing all the time.

Why didn't you tell me that when I first give them to you?

♪ When my daddy stay out late ♪

Trying to talk to that gal Ma had with her.

I know if the peoples hear the music, they'll buy it.

Nigga talking about life is fair and ain't got a pot to piss in.

Don't get Toledo mixed up in nothing.

Nobody said nothing about all that.

The train come up through Thomasville, then past Moultrie,

Oh, Christ Almighty!

The price is $5 apiece. Just like now.

Ain't but four songs on the list.

Mr. Irvin the one putting out the record.

Find somebody else. He the ringtail leader.

I can play some good music now.

I was eight years old

♪ Jumping over in the sea ♪

God take the nigga's prayers and throw them in the garbage.

Ma, can we just do it without the…

I'm through with it. Try talking to a fool.

You know more about my fans than I do.

It ain't got no balls.

I'm gonna give your God a chance.

I'll tell you why. I'll tell you the truth.

I got eyes, you got eyes. What are you gonna do?

♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪

Honest. Cutler, he stepped on my shoe.

Irv? Something happened with the recording. Check that mic.

I wrote a version of that song,

Ever since I was a little girl. I don't care what nobody else do.

I don't need nobody to tell me nothing.

The band plays the intro, and then you say,

Christ sakes, get your Coke.

- No. We just thought... - I ain't got no good sense.

She won't let him get a word in edgeways.

I'm not putting up with any shenanigans. You hear, Irv? Irv?

I'm with Slow Drag. Let's go and get it rehearsed.

that he better pay the boy his own money.

Soon she figured she hooked up to a heathen.

Trying to tell us how to play.

Hell, it ain't my fault. I ain't done nothing.

I married a woman. A good woman.

If you want to be one of them, uh, what you call virtuosos or something,

You gonna travel with the show, you gotta look nice.

Hey, I know how to have a good time as well as the next man.

"Now I'm gonna show you the best."

What's the problem?

And Irvin, he right there with the rest of them.

Sylvester, tuck your clothes in.

got to do his share, got to do his part.

Sylvester, go introduce yourself. I'm through playing with Irvin.

Better not let Ma see you ask her. That's what the man's trying to tell you.

"But can you dance?"

- You ain't got nothing to do with it. - I don't care.

- That's the way they taught me. - That's what I'm trying to say.

Uh… Ma, the boys say he can't do it.

We doing my version. That's what Mr. Irvin told me.

I could look at Toledo and see what kind of band it is.

I don't care if he do.

I'mma tell you something. Reverend Gates.