Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." One, two, you know what to do.
Levee all right.
They ask who he was. He said he was Reverend Gates
What sense it make to rehearse the wrong version?
The day I get jealous of you, I may as well lay down and die.
But it don't last long.
One of the fellas of them gals he was messing with
Shit. I taught Bessie. Bessie ain't doing nothing but imitating me.
Just standing there, watching him.
Don't cost but a nickel a bottle.
Coward motherfucker!
and asked them if they wanted to sell theirs, too,
Figured he'd check the schedule
Uh…
Gonna be a bit more things before I'm finished with it.
And… that stew is still there.
with a straight razor when my grandma hung out the wash.
when he hear, "Hey, nigger."
Ma got her Coke, Levee. We about ready to start.
I'll grab Levee.
Ma, come back here! Ma, please!
That is all I am asking, Ma. Just 15 minutes.
The man come in here, call you a boy,
Fifteen minutes. We'll be ready to go.
They call him some more. He kept walking.
What the hell I care what you're tired of? I wasn't talking to you.
There you go. That's what he told you.
♪ Please come home to me ♪
It was all a mistake. It was all a mistake.
Gentlemen, the band room.
We'd be up there finishing up.
That's what people want now, Ma. They want something they can dance to.
I just gotta finish the last part of this song.
They need one of them jug bands for this.
Fifteen minutes.
♪ You can swing it You can bring it ♪
Let me. Ma, listen.
Y'all gonna fire me. I don't care. I'll go get my own band anyway.
You ain't gotta rehearse that.
with a gang of white mans.
You gonna mess up the song, Cutler, and you know it.
I'm just telling you he got off at Sigsbee.
That's Toledo, Levee, and Slow Drag over there.
Soon as I get my band together
They crowded around him.
♪ Grandpa told Grandma, I heard him say ♪
It's just, "Show me a good time. That's all I want."
and acted like he done accepted the facts of what happened.
Okay, Ma.
Looking for this woman to put me in my grave,
I don't think nobody give a damn. Sylvester, look here.
I'm talking about the room, I ain't talking about no skin and air.
Levee, you gonna burn in hell.
And I knew where he kept it. I went and got it.
And that's all there is to it. He don't stutter all the time.
You boys go ahead and take a break.
Sure, Ma. I got it right here.
I don't like to sing it that way. I'm doing it the old way.
You in the band just like everybody else.
and record them songs Mr. Sturdyvant done told me I can make,
I ain't gonna mess up nothing. Ma say...
That ain't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about art.
Shoot.
We moved over with relations in Caldwell.
Nigga, you stepped on my shoe, you know that?
Hell, she can't even get a cab up here in the North.
- Yeah! - Hey, let's do "Moonshine Blues" next?
And you mix it up, cook it real good to where the flavors flow through.
Uh, Mr. Sturdyvant, sir?
The cord's all chewed up. We need another cord.
Levee, I don't want no shit. You rehearse like everybody else.
He got four of them before they got him.
All right, nigga.
Oh. Them ain't the songs Ma told me.
Ain't nobody thinking about what kind of life,
Well, you go ahead.
just like you take hold of a mule and make it do what you want.
any more mistakes and I can make my records someplace else.
What is you doing?
I done told y'all you don't know me. You don't know what I'll do.
but she went out and joined the church.
It's your God, huh? Is that right?
and then we announced we was moving out that county.
Life ain't shit.
Irvin, get away from me. Shit.
Levee ain't gonna let nothing happen to him.
The colored folks made Ma a star.
Eight years old.
♪ Oh, my jelly roll ♪
- Keep the change. - Yes, ma'am.
I straightened everything out.
He sees where the sun's getting low in the sky,
They're in the band room.
She got her people. I got mine. I don't care what nobody else do.
That was a good session you boys put in.
Well, what is you doing, nigga?