Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Don't look at me like that.
- I don't believe we've met. - Hi.
All right, boys, you… you… d… done…
He stutters, Ma. They say he stutters.
Come on. Let's go. Move it out.
and then he took off one day. I ain't never seen him since.
Ain't nobody studying about you and your shoe.
- He did good. - All you gotta do is set your mind to it.
Go on, tell it your way.
It started getting dark.
Dussie Mae! Sit your ass down and stop flaunting yourself around.
Why y'all keep it so hot in here?
You stay out of the way. Let me handle it.
Oh!
I said, "Excuse me."
I try to take that emptiness and fill it up with something.
You all just leave Levee alone about the white man.
I got things to do.
in the finest clothes you ever seen on a colored man.
and he's trying to figure out what he gonna do,
He gonna do the part. I don't wanna hear any more of this shit
Come on. Sign the forms, huh?
Well, go and handle it then.
I heard her when she call you.
Everybody can't have their own band.
You done stepped on my shoes.
All right. Let's try again.
It don't stop at Sigsbee.
They got some clothes up here they ain't got in Memphis.
play the piece and stop complaining.
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Levee's arrangement.
Whoo!
Okay, Ma. Have it your way,
What you care about how much I read?
Now death? Death got some style.
It was Cutler.
black b… bottom.
I got it all taken care of.
♪ I don't bite my tongue ♪
You stay out of my way about what I do and say.
♪ Hey, Daddy ♪
All right. Now I'm gonna tell you something.
I lets them know it, though. Ma don't stand for no shit.
Pocketful of money, just living the life of a rich man.
and what I call a fool are two different things.
♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
What difference it make to you?
♪ I had the blues so bad ♪
You decided, huh? I'm just a bump on a log.
All right. Don't worry about messing up.
Don't nobody say when it comes to Ma. She gonna do what she wanna do.
got fixed on him wrong and Eliza killed him.
Nigga, God gonna strike you down with that blasphemy you talking.
Good session, Ma. We've got ourselves some winners!
- That's the only way that man... - What I wants to know is, he a man of God.
The people in the big city? They want something with some fire to it.
♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
It don't mean nothing!
I ain't studying Levee nothing. I know what he done to that song.
White folk don't understand about the blues.
- I don't know why you tell that lie. - You let me tell the story?
Slow Drag, where you learn to play that bass at?
She's standing there frying that chicken when them mans come and took a hold of her
Everybody know. It wasn't no secret.
♪ He don't care a thing for me ♪
He keep messing around with Ma's gal, his feet be out there scraping the ground.
Come on and turn your back on me.
till we figure out what's going on with this "Black Bottom."
I ain't gonna be too many more of your fools.
That's the trouble with colored folks, always looking to have a good time.
That's the way it go around here.
standing across the street from the station.
I always got to have some music going on in my head somewhere.
♪ You'll never have to stall Oh, my jelly roll ♪
You can wait till I get my Coca-Cola. Ain't gonna kill you.
We talking about you understanding where you fit in here.
I ain't had no trouble cashing mine.
So, yeah…
You trying to tell me what we is and ain't gonna play,
Excuse me there, Levee.
from Mr. Hallie's widow woman after he done passed on.
You stepped on my shoe with them raggedy-ass clodhoppers.
They don't care nothing about me.
Called me, say, "Levee, you the man of the house now."