Malcolm, when I see stuff like this personal essay, I think you're not taking the process seriously. I'm... I'm taking it seriously, Mr. Bailey. I promise. I'm talking about something that I love. I mean, it's well-reasoned, supported with historical data, it shows creativity, critical thinking. If Neil deGrasse Tyson was writing about Ice Cube, this is what it would look like. I suggest you go in a different direction. Write something personal about you. Your family, your life.
Dope
39.6s
Hey-hey! You know the program, niggas. Shoe program. Turn around. Let me see what the fuck you working with. Oh, shit, man. All these motherfuckers got small feet around this bitch. Goddamn. Nigga, I don't know why you was looking. Hey-hey! My nigga, my G. Oh, man. Where the fuck you goin', man? Goddamn. What's up with you? Hey, them last shoes you gave me, man, I was feeling them. Classics. The Force 2s? Yeah, I was liking those. What's these you got on? Bro, these are straight from the flea market. Shut the fuck up, nigga. These the J-3s with the red mark on 'em. Oh, yes. Come up out those right now.
Dope
5.6s
Shit. All I want to do is a zoom, zoom, zoom and the boom, boom.
Dope
8.2s
Damn. This nigga's speaking African or some shit, like he don't speak what we speak. This nigga always... Hey!
Dope
2.1s
Let's go, man.
Dope
1.6s
May I touch you?
Dope
3.3s
Nobody's going to suspect a thing. We're just geeks doing what geeks do.
Dope
1.8s
Yeah.
Dope
1m7s
Yo, yo, yo. It's cool. It's cool. Let 'em in. Look, I ca... I can't let you do that. These kids are underage and I cannot lose my license tonight. Not tonight. I don't mind having this discussion with you. I actually enjoy the thoughtful exchange of ideas. And you do bring up a valid point. Know what I'm sayin'? But see, you put me in a bit of a spot, nigga. 'Cause I can't have you back-talkin' me in front of my niggas... without at least fuckin' your ass up. You feel me? You don't have to do that. I kinda do though. I don't want to. It's my birthday and shit. But there's principles to this shit, and I'm a principled man. - They in, Dom. It's all good. - I know they got in. That's my point. But I got this nigga telling me what he can't let me do and shit. Like I give a fuck. Man, if I let this shit slide, we got what they call a slippery slope. You know what a slippery slope is, nigga? No. I don't... I don't know what a slippery... Anyone? Do it got anything to do with skiing? Nigga, sit your ass down, man. I know using your brain is a challenge and shit. You use skis on a slope... You might fuck around, give yourself a concussion. It's a small event that leads to a chain reaction of events... with unintended consequences... that were unforeseen at the time of the inciting event.
Dope
18.9s
Not too much older than you. So you know Dominique? Excuse me? You... You probably know him as Dom. No. Sorry. Why do you ask? Dom gave me something... to deliver to someone.
Dope
42.4s
As crazy as it seems, I-I think that someone is you. This Dom person... What did he say that, uh, I should have to do with this, uh, delivery? I don't know. I just know that he told me to deliver it to A.J., so... And why did you do it? - I didn't have a choice. - Oh, come on, Malcolm. Come on. You always have a choice. You could have done a lot of things with that package. You're a smart kid. I'm sure you thought about all of them. But you chose to make the delivery for this Dom person... because you thought it was, what, in your best interest?
Dope
1.7s
Yeah.
Dope
20.6s
You're Nigerian. My dad, um... He... He went back to Nigeria before I was born. Sorry to hear that. I know what it's like to grow up without a father. That's why I spend a lot of time and a lot of money with the Boys Club. Those, um... Those kids...
Dope
2.6s
So, where we setting up shop?
Dope
54.8s
So let's do this. Let's reschedule this interview... for a few weeks from now. Give it a little time. Go out there. Make the delivery for which you have claimed responsibility... to the appropriate consumers... so that the suppliers of this product... can be whole. Metaphorically speaking, of course. If you're able to do this, it shows me more about you... than any interview ever could. And I would then make it my business... to make you a man of Harvard. I want you to get out of The Bottoms just like I did. I know from growing up there it's very, very dangerous... and that your family or your friends could get killed at any moment... just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Dope
32.1s
So, you should take responsibility... for the choice that you've made. Now, you know I'm not the person or persons... for whom this delivery was intended. Something happened along the way. It's like, uh, Amazon. If you order a Rick Ross or Macklemore CD... I would not order a Macklemore CD. That wouldn't happen. All right. Who, then? Casey Veggies. Casey Veggies? That's... That's an artist?
Dope
21.4s
Now close your eyes. Picture each of these kids and tell me what you see. Be honest. No one's going to judge you. Now open your eyes. So, am I student "A" or student "B"? Am I a geek or a menace? For most of my life, I've been caught in between who I really am... and how I'm perceived, in between categories and definition.
Dope
17.5s
Here. Here? Yeah. Here. Are you fuckin' retarded? No. It's actually genius, bro. We have a science lab. We want to enter the Google Science Fair. All we need you to do is open up the science labs, and we can do everything else.