I thought it was gonna be more, but that's what it is.
If it's really important to you,
you can tell everybody you got a rich white boy on a rope.
I really don't care.
But entre nous?
No fuckin' way.
Oye. What's up, Peoples? Let me keep this.
You know,
you took a big risk...
coming here all by yourself.
Did I?
- Yo, Peoples, can I keep this? - No.
- Forty thousand? - That's what I said.
But this other thing, you can't do for me?
Not on your life.
Not on my life?
-Let me live. Let me keep that ice. -No.
The man gonna need it to raise some money.
You drive a hard bargain, blanquito.
Where the fuck did he go?
Hey!
What is wrong with you, sneakin' around behind me? You wanna die?
- Hey. Come on. Con calma, cono. - Get in the car.
He had this, uh, chabo-- money belt...
stuffed with rocks.
Peoples tell him to cash it in and, vaya que bien, done deal.
You talkin' about Walter Wade, the white boy, right?
Si, si, anglo blanquito from the television.
They're gonna kill that white girl.
Cono, man.
- What's up? - Gettin' to know the lay of the land. How you doin'?
Yeah, I'm havin' a conversation here.
- The courthouse was rough shit. - Right, right.
- You sure you're all right? - Yeah, I'm cool.
? Cono, man! Me voy, huh?
Hey, Shaft, I heard you quit la policia.
So I don't think it's right I gotta do this shit anymore.
Okay, okay. Okay, Shaft, okay.
Mariconaso.
This guy comes in here,
he's got his drawers stuffed with jewelry and he asks me,
"Can you locate somebody?"
And I say yeah, because he's kinda like a celebrity, you know.
You don't want to say no. His coming to me, it's all fattering and shit.
The truth of it is, finding people, that's not really my forte.
So this is what I propose.
You detectives and shit, right?
You detect.
So why don't I subcontract to you?
The guy says the shit'll cash out to 20 G's. He's gonna bring it tonight.
With you I split it down the middle-- 50-50.
Easiest money you'll ever make.
You take half, I take half.
Ten large?
Ten thousand.
All you gotta do is tell me where she's at.
Then what happens?
Easiest money you'll ever make.
You wanna tell him about Tattoo?
Uh, can I talk to you for a moment?
What?
- Wonder what the market did today. - How the fuck should I know?
- All the white boys. - Get the fuck outta here!
Solo lo blanquito.
Sabes, sonso, como es--
Diablo.
lheard you needajob.
But this?
You know when guys like you go down for good?
When they get aspirations.
When they try and rise above their station.
Now, this contract killin' thing you got with Walter Jr.--
Do yourself a favor.
You're a two-bit, three-block dope dealer. Stick to what you know.
Calmate. Stick to what l know?
Fuck you, motherfucker. I'm a star.
Yo soy elmeyeme.
You ain't shit. You ain't even a fuckin' pig no more.
Do you think that makes me less dangerous or more dangerous?
Now, I see you somewhere I think you don't belong,
I will kill you.
Calmate. Calmate.
Mira, mira, mira, mira. Look.
I respect you.
I like you.
That why you always wanna fuck me?
Tenga un buen dia.
Puta, why you finch?
Ms. Palmieri.
Wait here.
Motherfuckers!
She didn't see nothin', and she ain't gonna testify.
- Stay the fuck away from my sister! - No guns! Take it easy!
Well, if your sister didn't see anything, why's she runnin' so hard?
-Just leave her be. - Wade threaten her again?
- Don't move. - This is fuckin' bullshit!
- Look, I can take care of that. - Leave her be.
Frankie.
Mikey.
Ma, go back in the house.
We just wanna talk to her.
Yeah, sure, with those guns. Get lost.
What do you think?
- They shot a blank. - Nothin', right?
Nada.
Come on, Shaft. Lead us to that waitress.
I think we're being tailed.
Roselli and Groves.
They're following us?
They saw me with Tattoo last night.
Now Peoples is probably payin' 'em to find Diane.
So, yeah, they're following us.
First Walter, Peoples.
Now these two.
They like to fuck with people, huh?
I'm gonna have to show 'em what fuckin' with people's all about.
47th and Fifth.
- What you starin' at, bitch? - Punk-ass!
Hey, you better keep steppin', motherfucker.
Fuckin' white boy.
Everynight on thestreets
Here's a little piece that's comin' from me
When a boy begins slippin' in a bar
Smokin' at a red light in the car
I don't know but it's plain to see
Men are just out here foolin' with kids
Without introducin' let me slide on by
'Cause everybody wants to be a tough guy
Freeze, mofo, 'fore I bust a cap in your dome!
Fuck!
- How'd I sound? - How'd you sound?
"Freeze, mofo, 'fore I bust a cap in your dome."
Oh, pure, notorious P.I.G.
Thank you, man. That means a lot coming from you.
- Howmuch we get? - Hang on. You are so controlling.
42,000-- that's a lot of count for a simple murder.
I know cats that'd take out a whole zip code for that kind of cheese.
Anyways, it's a onetime favor, okay?
I owe you one.
You still a motherfuckin' cracker. You know that, right?
Fuck you too, corn bread.
I'm out.
Well, I gotta tell you--
Flaco, busca elmaterial para el.
Uh, the wheels already is in motion.
You know what I'm saying? Can't just turn off the dogs of war.
Look, I got fuckin' mugged.
I have no money.
I hear you, I hear you, I hear you.
Calma. Calma.
Well, I guess you just got to earn it back.
Huh?
Ounces are a thousand.
Eight-ball's 200. A gram's 80. It's all prebagged.
And I tell you like I tell all my boys--
If you cut it any more, you can say good-bye to repeat customers.
You gotta be shittin' me.
You keep coming back, re-up with me nine orten times,
we should be even-steven in about...
- six, eight months.
Is this a fuckin' joke?
To keep in touch.
- Hello?
- Mom, you called me? - Those detectives came around.
- I'm not testifying! - I know. I know.
I'm not a bad person. I'm not.
I know you're not.
I won't testify!
- Baby-- - Mom,just keep 'em away from me.
- Diane?
71 8-555-2473.
I need a number check.
718-555-2473.
Comes up Tony DeCarlo,
1 14 Cromwell Street, Marine Park.
And hey, tell Shaft get that bastard.
He's probably gettin' one of those Simonize jobs.
Let's play games.
- How you doin, partner? - You ready, Leon?
Let's roll.
Come on, Shaft. Lead us to the prize, baby.
Bro, I gotta pee.
He's sittin' right over there. He'll lead you right to the girl.
- You got our money? - Oh, yeah.
That boy, the celebrity, he got mugged.
- He what? - He showed up all, "No tengo dinero, boss."
Do I look like a fuckin' fool to you?
- I don't know. - Yo, where's our money?
I just told you he got mugged.
That's like-- that's like an act of God. You know, obra de Dios.
- Where is our fuckin' money? - He got mugged. Ask him.
Dangerous times are here now. You got to watch your back too.
- You watch yours too. - New World Order got to be careful.
Yo, yo, give me Peoples, man.
Hello?
Who the fuck is this? Hello?
Say exactly what I told you, word for word.
- I'll blow his brains out. - Take it easy. Just be ready.
- What? - Hey, them two you fuckin' with?
They robbed the white boy. They got the money under the seat.
They playin' you, dude.
Step out of the car, please.
Excuse me?
Yo, yo, yo, what's up?
What's this about, huh? What?
What? What?
Diablo.
!La puneta! !Mira, mira, mira!
- Let's roll, soul.
Oh, shit.
I know what this is gonna sound like, but we had no idea.
- You know what that's gonna sound like? - Come on, easy, easy.
If we thought of it, which we didn't, we would've taken him out ourselves.
We're none of us nice people here.
But that being said, we delivered. You got your dough.
- Now give us our cut. - Your cut?
- I'll give you your cut! - Give us our fuckin' money!
- We'll kill you, motherfucker! - Someone's gotta go! Let's all die!
Hold it! Yo, Peoples!
- I saw Shaft. He drove off. - What?
- I saw Shaft. He drove off. - Shaft?
Then who the fuck is that?
Ha ha! What?
He's playin' us. Shaft is playin' us.
- You got it, right? - I got it, baby.
Hello, can I speak to Diane "Palm-eye-ri," please?
No, Rasaan. Palmieri.
Palmieri! I said I got it, dude.
What the fuck you lookin' at me like that for, anyway?
Hi. Good morning. I'm from Publisher's Clearinghouse.
Is Diane "Palm-eye-ri" home at the moment?
- I don't know who you're talking about. - Wait a second.
Wait! You got some dough comin'!
Go. Go, go, go.
I ain't bullshittin'!
Wish this fool'd hurry up so we could get outta here.
- Aaah! - It's okay. It's okay!
- Leave me alone! - Listen to me!
Mikey, get your brother and get over here now.
Yo, Shaft! Yo!
Vayan por adelante y por atras.
Shit. Motherfucker bring me out here for this bullshit.
!Matalos, cono! I should be in there, man.
- Let me go. - I said stay!
Atrasde la casa. ?Ahora!
- Yo, Shaft! - Start the fuckin' car!
- Come on!
No.
- Get the broad in the car! - Open the door!
No! You killed my little brother!
You best kill me!
You best kill me, motherfucker!
You best kill me, motherfucker! You best kill me!
- Get in the car. - You best kill me, motherfucker!
You best kill me!
- Let my sister go! - Diane! Diane!
- Get out of here, Rasaan! - Let her go!
- Diane! - Fuck you, motherfucker.
- Calm down! - I'll choke that motherfucker! Didn't see nothin'!
-What the fuck are you doing to her? -Go, goddamn it!
- You got me out here with no--
- Mikey!
- You fucked him!
Fuck!
- Damn it! - You motherfucker, I'll--
Mikey! Mikey!
This is fucked.
Oy, mi-- Hermanito.
Oy, mi Dios.
You follow them.
- Peoples, at this point-- - Look at my little brother!
You follow them, you find out where they go,
and you call me.
I'll take it from there. Don't worry about it, you puerco sucio.
Motherfucker, you owe me now,
Mr. Big-time Shaft.
I tell you, before we get up in here I'm gon' warn y'all.
I gave the cleaning lady a few years off.
You know, let her get her shit together.
Once I pick some of this shit up, light some candles and incense,
everything'll be just cool.
Goddamn, Rasaan, this is like a biohazard in here.
You're welcome. Why don't you sit down, relax.
You first. That's nasty.
What? Sit down.
Go ahead. Sit down.
Man, this is some repugnant shit.
Hermanito.
- Fuck! - Aaaah!
Aah! Wait! What the fuck is g-- Whoa!
You come, next thing I know Shaft put my brother in a box.
- What? - Snatched that bitch and put my brother in a box.
- He what? - You got something in your ear?
Huh? Huh?
No! Aaah! Aaah!
I come back later, put this in your ass.
Aaah!
You fuckin'--
Hey, Carmen, I gotJohn Shaft on the line.
Yeah, Peoples.
6850 Norstrom Avenue, between Prospect Place and Park Place.
We'll sit tight in case he makes a move.
Let's go! Let's go!
What about the blow?
Yo, Ras.
Hey, yo, big man. What are you doin' over there?
Come on. Let's get going over there.
Yeah, real funny.
- I wanna check on my brother. -Allright, paisan.
Go check on your fratello.
Look, it's just the two of us here.
You saw it, didn't you?
And it's like a big, fat stone layin' on your chest.
You gotta let go of it, Diane.
Trust me on this.
Just let it go.
I was on my break.
l went out front to have a cigarette.
l was out there about ten minutes.
I see the black kid, Trey, comin' out, and he was pissed.
Talkin' to himself, like, pacin' and cursin'.
He didn't see me.
Then, like...
a minute later the Wade guy comes out.
He doesn't even breaks tride.
He snatches up this silver, I don't know, pole.
And the Trey kid turns to him, and he saw him.
He saw it comin'.
Just bashes him.
The spray, you know.
Blood.
Oh!
Then he sees me.
Wade.
I wanted to run. My legs wouldn't move.
And he comes over and pushes me.
- Aah! - Give me your wallet.
I didn't understand.
Diane Palmieri.
You see that? Huh?
You want a taste of that? You want a taste?
You're gonna go back inside,
you're gonna finish your shift.
Then you're gonna go home.
Somebody will call you later tonight.
Do you understand me?
I don't even remember going back inside.
I remember talkin' to you,
I remember duckin' out the back and goin' home,
and I got a call like he said I would.
Some guy.
Very smooth, very--
And the next day I just started runnin'.
I been kinda runnin' ever since.
Okay.
Now here's the good news.
You are about to stop running.
- This trial is gonna-- - You don't get it, do you?
I took money.
Uh--
The man who called me offered me $1 00,000 to get lost--
half right then, and half after the disposition of the case.
And I said yes.
ltook$50, 000, andldisappeared.
See, I told myself, I pointed him out to you.
I fingered that son of a bitch, and I got him arrested.
And I told myself that was enough.
But obviously it wasn't.
I mean, obviously.
I'm so sorry.
These last two years,
they must've been hell on you.
What?
I could be home trading stocks on the Internet.
- I could be watching the Knicks. - Yeah.
Oh, shit!
- Could she know about us? - How the fuck do I know?
- Oh,Jesus Christ. - She's coming this way.
Play it easy. Stay with me.
Yeah.
- How you doin'? - Hey. Hey.
- What are you guys doin' here? - Watching your back.
I just got here. My back?
Your back, Shaft's back. You know.
Well, he never said where he was gonna be.
The drums. You hear things.
Drums?
He picked a pretty tough neighborhood to lay lowin.
- You wearin' your vest? - Nah.
Jesus Christ!
Hey!
- Shit. - Police business.
- What the fuck you shootin' at now?
Shootin' at your ass if you don't get out of my face!
- Hey, fuck you! - Step off. Get a life, girls.
- Hey, get these nuts, cops! - Go piss in the bed, boy.
- What? - Yeah, keep walkin'. Keep walkin'.
- Yeah. - Bitch-ass cops.
Oh, shit.
Vamonos.
What next, maestro?
We finish what we started.
-What the fuck I do with these keys? -Rasaan!
- Hurry up. Come on. - Be right there. Don't rush me.
- You ready? Come on, Diane. - Yeah, let's go.
Let's go see the D.A.
Get out the window, now!
Oh, shit!
Out! Out! Go!
You got my house fucked up!
Go. Let's get 'em.
- Stay behind me. Come on!
Come on! Come on, Diane!
Go! Go!
- They went out the window!
Hurry the fuck up!
Come on.
Oh, fuck, man!
Go to the car! Go to the car!
Come on, go, go! This way.
Why?
My kids. You can't believe what private schools are charging.
This is breakin' my heart.
Shoot him.
It's Guiliani time.
Stylin'.
Go!
!La esquina! !Al carro! !Al carro! !Vamos! !Manejen!
Yo, Shaft, get in the car!
I'm 'bout to leave all you motherfuckers, man!
What the fuck y'all doin'? Shut the fuck up and drive!
- Oh, shit! Fuck! Shit! Fuckin'--
Hold on, y'all!
Shoot his ass!
Oh, shit! The car!
Watch that shit!
You fuckin' up my car, you pussies!
Just drive, goddamn it! Drive!
Aaaah!
Oh, shit!
- Whoo! - Shoot them motherfuckers!
- Yeah! Yeah!
- Okay, calm down. Calm down.
They can't fuck with us! They can't fuck with us!
You know how I hold it behind the wheel. They can't fuck with me.
- Hey, Shaft!
No more Tefon don, yo.
No more hot shit, babe.
I'm a motherfucking deadman.
First to admit it.
Maybe you kill me, or the cops.
Maybe I kill myself. What do you think?
Look, this is between you and me.
- Let her go. - You know, that's the funny thing.
I'm not your enemy. I'm Peoples.
- They your enemy. - Hey! Hey!
I know your enemy.
- They your enemy.
- You're doing Wade's dirty work ? - You gon' shoot me, Shaft?
All I got is this. Let's go, man.
Okay.
All right, I'm putting the gun down.
Mano a mano. Come on.
Let's go.
Ta bueno. Ta bueno.
Vamo a pelear.
Take your woman!
Ta bueno.
I'm not your enemy.
I'm Peoples.
Come on, motherfucker. Come on.
- You through? - Vamos, anciano.
Vamos a pelear, ami. Yo soy Peoples.
- It's okay.
- The son of developer Walter Wade,
who fled the country more than two years ago,
has been out on bail awaiting this day...
to try and convince a jury of his innocence.
- Hey, she passes through. - Come on through.
Everybody else, back up, please.
Hey.
This morning we got a whole new lineup.
Got a new judge, the D.A. himself is running the prosecution,
and we have an eyewitness.
Today we're gonna get our money's worth.
I know we will.
- Shaft, can we have a word? - How you doin'?
Mrs. Howard, do you have a comment on the new prosecutor?
Hey.
- I'm scared to death. - Hey, look, you're gonna be fine.
If you feel yourself tightenin' up--
-Just look for you. - I'll be there.
- Oh, Jesus. - Uh-uh.
-You don't even have to look at him. - Okay.
- Hmm? - Okay. Okay.
- Hope you die a slow death! - Back off! Back off!
- Guilty! - Back it off! Let's go!
Oh! No, don't!
- Get down!
Let her go! Let her go! Let her go! Let her go!
You still determined to be a private eye?
- I think you're making a mistake. - Idon't.
- Why don't you come in with us? - I like what I do.
Yeah, right.
- You Detective Shaft? - Used to be.
I need to file me an assault charge against my boyfriend.
People say I should talk to you.
This is Detective Vasquez. She's--
She's unavailable at the moment.
See that guy on the phone? When he's done, he'll help you.
- They said I should talk to you. - I don't work here anymore.
Have a seat. When he's done, he'll help you.
Write the asshole's name where I can find him.
Uh-uh. You can't do that.
- One for the road. - Hmmph.
Why don't you get that looked at. I'll see what I can do.
Now what?
I gotta pull this asshole's coat. Wanna back me up?
Back you up?
Bye.
Good luck to you.
You damn jerk.
Yo, Shaft, man, we gotta talk, dawg.
- What's the deal, son? - The deal is, my life is fucked.
You know what I mean? I ain't got no car. I ain't got no business.
I can't eat.
You done came by the apartment and shot up the whole fuckin' building.
- Landlady wants me in the street. - It ain't that bad.
- What? - It ain't all that.
Fuck both of y'all then. It's my motherfuckin' life.
Rasaan, Rasaan, shut up. Here.
What you giving me that for?
Th-This is for me?
Oooh-ooh! Ooh-ooh-ooh!
This is my shit?
That's why I love you, baby.
Oooh, brother, what the fuck you doin'?
You always take care ofme. I love you for that, baby.
- Let's roll. We got work to do. - You call this work?
Ooh, yeah, cat. Yo, Shaft, I been thinkin'.
Y'all should make me an associate in this detective game y'all got..
I wouldn't do no hard-core detective work.
I wanna take pictures of broads cheatin' on their husbands.
- I just wanna hold a camera, dawg.
- All you'll be holdin' is the wheel.
Yeah, "bruddah, "yeah. We off into the sunset, "bruddah. "
Who's the black private dick
That's the sex machine to all the chicks
Shaft
You damn right
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man
Shaft
Can you dig it
Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about
Shaft
Right on
They say this cat Shaft is a badmother--
Shut your mouth
- I'm talkin' about Shaft - Well, we can dig it
He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
John Shaft
You see, really I don't...
give a damn what you may think of me.
Think you a bad-ass? I gon' do what I'm gon' do, say what I'm gon' say.
You think you a bad-ass, nigga?
- You understand what I'm sayin'?
Well, you better. Yeah.
I was born in these streets Raised in these streets
Walked in these streets Taught by these streets
Lived in these streets Hustled in these streets
Arrested in these streets Protected by these streets
Yea, though I walk through the valley of these streets
I shall not leave these streets
Because I run these streets
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa - And I paid my dues
With borrowed pennies
And now
I'm a badman
I'm not ashamed of it
A badman, yeah
I don't needno love
I'm a badman, yeah
I'm not ashamed of it
I'm a badman
My life's lately lost
I stood on these blocks Rode hood on these blocks
Got paid on these blocks Strayed on these blocks
Moved in on these blocks Put out on these blocks
I been around the block Been watched on these blocks
Yea, though l walk through the valley of these blocks
I shall not leave these blocks
Because I run these blocks
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa - Yeah, paid my dues
With borrowed pennies
And now
I'm a badman
There was no father there fo rme, hey
- And, ooh, sometimes - A badman, yeah
We would just have to go without eatin'
Hey How do you like me now
- I'm a badman - Give my life for my brother
See, I'm a badmother Shut your mouth
Go on, go on