[gentle music]
- [baby cries] - [heart monitor beeps]
- [soft panting] - [baby coos]
Cootie. [pants] That's your name, baby.
[music continues]
- [playful sounds] - Cootie!
[Martisse groans] Oh boy, you are big.
Heart, head, hands, feet.
- [gentle music] - [playful sounds continue]
[unintelligible children chatter]
Here.
I thought you might like that.
- [music continues] - [floor creaks]
You know, you a big mother fucker.
All the wear and tear that you're putting on this house.
I mean just leaning on the walls, you putting holes in 'em
and I gotta fix this shit myself
'cause I don't want nobody to see your big ass
because if they see you, they gonna try to get the people and turn you in.
I'm sorry.
When this paint dry just make sure you stay on the yellow side.
- [theme song from TV] - [singing] ♪ Auto Area ♪
♪ These are the parts for the autos in your area ♪
[dramatic music]
- [Female Newscaster] Heir to the modern computational
instruments fortune, successful comic book publisher,
Jay Whittle, sold record breaking amounts of The Hero,
but by issue number 12, The Hero would jump off the page
and into the embattled streets of Oakland.
[The Hero] Get your mind right, half wits.
Why do you let him watch this shit?
He doesn't have much, let him have this.
[Female Newscaster] The Daily is about to find out
just what makes the enigmatic entrepreneur tick.
I think that people see in colors
and I see in black and white.
I suppose gray is a color,
but even that color isn't in my color wheel.
It's very simple, really.
People shouldn't have to be afraid.
People shouldn't feel like they have a gun
- [gun cocks] - pointed at their head all the time.
- [ Female Newscaster] Uh- - [suspenseful music plays]
People should feel protected. The law protects people.
The law leads to order.
And order is how we make sure that everyone…
- …is safe. - [suspenseful music]
Jay?
- [music bellows] - [Jay sighs]
I really, I hope that you weren't threatened by that in any way.
- That certainly wasn't my intention. - [Female Newscaster] No, of course.
[Jay] Let me hold your hand.
[unintelligible chatter outside]
- The world is not ready yet. - How could you know, Mom?
You never ask a Gemini how they know things.
- [unintelligible chatter on TV] - [gentle music]
[heavy breathing]
[suspenseful music plays]
I feel like I can't breathe in here.
[Female Newscaster] Last night, the infamous Cocoa Twins
were captured and taken off the open streets for good.
The two men were connected with a cigarette stealing crime spree
that lasted about a month.
- You still watching TV? - It's just the news.
How many hours of reading have you put in?
I told you, 10 hours of book reading, three hours of exercise.
One hour of hygiene and three hours to do what I want.
- I know. I already did my 10. - You need to get discipline.
Is that your feet, your butt, or your arms I smell?
[male Newscaster] Keep it right here…
[Female Advertiser] You want the Bing-Bang Burger
to burger your burger…
…This wet, juicy burger deep in your mouth
for premium satisfaction… Get over here now!
You gonna keep on campaigning, you gonna get elected.
[unintelligible TV chatter]
Come on, let's go. Let's do this. [grunts] Come on.
[all together] Heart, head, hands, feet.
As long as I push, there is no defeat.
[panting, struggling]
Get your right shoulder out Cootie. Stay on the yellow, man.
- Slowly, slowly. - Only on the yellow, man.
- I need- - Stay on the yellow, man.
- Keep it calm, Martisse. - [grunting]
- [boards breaking] - [yelping]
[soft sigh, panting]
- [soft dramatic music plays] - I have to get out of here.
[bright music]
[music continues]
[soft scoff]
- [Martisse] What you think, boy? - Oh! [chuckling]
Whoa! [panting with happiness]
- Ah, ah, shoes. - Oh.
- You know better than that. - [Cootie] Whoa.
Next stop… the world.
- [all chuckling] - Not yet.
Not until your 21st birthday.
Why? What, I'll magically be ready two years from now?
Yeah. Trust us.
Can't trust us, who can you trust?
- What? - [soft chuckling]
A Bing? [soft scoff] It's not poison?
[bright music]
[Mom] It's a version of a Bing-Bang burger.
Yeah, it's aversion.
You know we ain't gonna bring that poison in here to you.
You lucky we got your back.
- You ever took my mama to Bing-Bang? - Who? Her?
- Hell nah. - You know who I mean.
Look, my little sister was a beautiful soul.
Okay, I wouldn't give her the poison.
I wouldn't give it to you and I damn sure wouldn't give it to myself.
Heart, head, hands, feet. Come on, come on.
[gentle violin music]
[Together] Heart, head, hands, feet. As long as I push, there's no defeat.
[continues] My discipline is the structure which makes me complete.
A clear mind shall nourish and truth is never weak.
I suffer for the day when all shall gain.
I'll be ready for the world and ready for the pain.
[video game fighting sound effects]
- Get your mind right, half wits. - [man screams]
Get your mind right, half wits.
I ain't trying to go to jail but,
this bitch obviously don't know who she fucking with.
This bitch really don't know who she fucking with.
[gentle music]
Focus on your key words today. Control, magnetic, commanding.
From that day forward,
I knew nothing would stop me from achieving greatness.
From that day forward,
I knew nothing would stop me from achieving greatness.
[jaunty music]
[music continues]
[man] Psst! Hey!
[man] I saw you!
- [knocking on fence] - I saw you man.
Now I understand why Francine and 'Tisse brought in this fence and these trees.
Look man, [laughs] my permit paperwork is so fishy.
Believe me, I'm not trying to blow your spot up
and have the city coming around here. You dig?
I can see the old bay from up there.
I've got two and a half outta five bridges. I'm Lalo, man.
I'm making some tamales for the block party.
I'll sneak some over if you want.
Tamales?
[chuckling] Best in Oakland.
Yes, please.
It ain't no Bing-Bang Burger like your old man 'Tisse loves.
Like, like Martisse loves?
Me and him, we used to fuck a Bing-Bang Burger hardcore style
every other day it seems like.
I figured you must be into it too because you- [talking fades]
[tense music]
[whispers] Mothafucka…
[drumming]
[jaunty music]
- [upbeat music] - [unintelligible chatter]
[Mom] I had to move it out of the way, keep track of your own shit.
[Martisse] It's not even out here.
You doing more of your watching, huh? That's good.
I'm sorry I act ungrateful sometimes. I know you guys just want the best for me.
Like how you don't want me to eat the poison that these corporations feed people
like Bing-Bang Burger.
I know you wouldn't want me to eat something that you haven't ate,
so I'm sorry for acting like a pouty little kid.
Apology accepted.
[lively music]
- [Parent] Hey, where you headed?
- [Scat] We 'finna go to the park. - Y'all gonna be hanging out all night?
[Scat] I don't know, maybe.
[tense music]
[Mom] If you can't trust us, who can you trust? Control.
[Lalo] We used to fuck with Bing-Bang Burger hardcore style.
[overlapping voices echo]
[Jane] This bitch obviously don't know who she fucking with.
- [owl hoots] - [suspenseful music]
[leaves crinkle]
[music intensifies]
- [Cootie] Virgo. - [Man] Yo!
- [unintelligible chatter] - [laughter]
- Bro, what the fuck? - [unintelligible chatter continues]
This is the last, bro, stop buying his cheap shit, bro.
What the fuck is wrong with you? Nasty as fuck.
- [laughing] - Almost burned my fucking throat.
- Damn! - [people laughing]
[Felix] Stop! you're gonna make me pee on myself!
- I'm just sayin'! - Just piss in the bushes. Go!
- Baby bladder! - Shut up!
[laughing]
[sighs] Oh, damn. Okay.
[scoffs] Hey, yo.
- I'm on some high shit. Alright. - [music bellows]
What the…?
Oh shit! [yells] Hey! Hey!
- Come on! - [Friend] What?
- The bush just ran away! - [friends laughing]
It's a damn giant.
[music crescendos]
[Video Narrator] When your mom makes dinner and it's-
[bright electronic music]
[Scat] Let me let my boy Felix tell his version of the story, you dig?
I saw what I saw. It was a 13 foot tall nigga
- [laughing] - with leaves and shit all over, twigs…
Hey, hey, we got t-shirts based off Felix's drawing of the Twamp Monster.
Twamp Monster.
- Hey link in the bio. - [Felix] Link in bio.
- [Scat] Get yours before they go okay? - [Felix] Twamp team, my people soft.
- [hip hop music] - [muffled talking]
[Cootie exhales sharply]
[music, chatter continues]
- Whoo! - [laughter]
She's a rubber. You feel me?
She coming over to me, I'm like, and so we arguing and shit.
I'm like, look, if you talking all of that you must got the wrong tool in your hand…
- [cackling] - …what you really wanna hold?
- [all laugh] - [Cootie laughs]
- Hey! - [suspenseful music]
I told y'all! Hey, bro! I see you!
- Just come out. - [Jones] Hey, what's up?
Holy shit. Hey, you wanna hit this?
- Bro! No! - Chill, chill.
[gentle music]
- [All] Whoa!
This shit is saucy. Hey Scat, come here.
- I really thought they grew weed in here. - [All laughing]
- I'm [stutters] I'm Cootie.
Well it's "Kuti" but you can call me Cootie.
- So, you work at Auto Area? - Uh, I do, yes.
[sings] ♪ Auto Area ♪
♪ We sell the parts for the autos in your area ♪
- ♪ Ba da boom ♪ - Ka-pow!
[Felix and Jones laugh]
Ay bro, honestly, I just work there so I can get parts to fix up my car.
But it's really like the car is my job 'cause it's really… fuck Auto Area.
Yeah. My parents told me that if you don't get a job
they send you directly to jail, so… that make sense.
You know, as a young black man if you walk down the street
and the police see that you don't have a job, they send you directly to jail.
- I know all about it. - [kids laugh]
- Bro, that's not exactly how it is. - I mean metaphorically
- that's how it goes… - [Cootie] Well, shit.
[Felix] Damn!
So, uh, besides when he saw you, you never been out there?
My mom made me some tacos. You guys want some?
She made, [stutters] she made a good amount.
- I'm good, man. - Okay.
[scarfing sounds]
- [Jones] Wow. - Damn, is it good?
Hey yo, I'm just gonna just ask what we all thinking,
- why you so damn big, bro? - [Felix] Facts.
I started to think maybe my size is a sign.
- Yeah, it says step back bitches. - [All laughing]
- It's a signal to do something important. - Important like an overdue bill, or?
- Important like The Hero. - What'd you say your name was again?
- Jones. - Hey yo, The Hero locked my cousin up
for selling weed without a license bro.
Well why was he doing that?
It was either for shits and giggles or rent money. I should ask him.
Um…
You guys wanna see me bench press the Caprice?
- [upbeat music] - [All cheering, laughing]
[Jones] Yo!
Power is something exercised that's put into action.
- Foucault. - Yup.
Power exists only when it's put into action.
It sounds pretty but useless for actual organizing.
- Okay. Hey, we gotta cut y'all. - You have to leave now?
- Just hit the side show with us. - [Scat] Yeah.
I don't know. My mother, she says people get crazy.
Hey brother, the whole hood love you. They already got your t-shirts on.
For real.
[Mom] The world is not ready yet.
[Martisse] I don't want nobody to see your big ass,
'cause if they see you, they gonna try to get the people.
[Mom] Gotta wait till your 21st birthday.
[Man] From that day forward I knew,
nothing would stop me from achieving greatness.
Well, I'm a Virgo and Virgos love adventure.
- Facts! - [Jones] Let's go!
- We showin' up with a giant! - [all laughing]
[ "i" by Kendrick Lamar] ♪ This is the word ♪
♪ I done been through a whole lot ♪
♪ Trial, tribulation, but I know God ♪
♪ Satan wanna put me in a bow tie ♪
♪ Pray that the holy water don't go dry Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ As I look around me So many motherfuckers wanna down me ♪
♪ But enemigo never drown me ♪
♪ In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me ♪
- [cheering, yelling] - ♪ And I love myself ♪
[Cootie] I feel small.
♪ I love myself ♪
♪ I love my ♪
Hey, Cootie!
You ever hear six woofers coming outta the trunk?
♪ Party wanna pull our big pics up ♪
["Big Subwoofer" by Mount Westmore, Snoop Dogg & Ice Cube plays]
♪ Big subwoofer bouncin' like a trampoline ♪
♪ Glass shake when I roll past the scene ♪
♪ Candy apple paint Drippin' classic green ♪
[Cootie] Hold on, hold on I wanna hear.
♪ Everybody eatin', you can ask the team ♪
♪ Fast and mean, speakers bumpin', tags is clean ♪
♪ Keep me somethin' to smoke on ♪
♪ Bad bitch to poke on, bass hittin' like a earthquake ♪
[distorted voice] I love this!
♪ Hit the block and roll on My bitch got ass like two eighteens ♪
♪ Her favorite Too $hort song is In Those Jeans ♪
On the yellow line. Stay on the yellow line.
[Jones] Come on, Cootie, we gotta go.
[hip hop music playing softly]
From that day forward,
I knew that nothing would stop me from achieving greatness.
What? [laughing]
It's a saying, people say it all the time.
- People don't be talkin' like that bro. - [laughing]
Gotta help Jones with something.
First, take the wheat paste, put it on the wall, then you put the poster up.
And then you go back over with the wheat paste.
- [Cootie] Can I help? - [Felix] Yes sir.
[hip hop continues softly]
What the hell? Damn, he could do the whole block.
He really could do the whole block.
Well my mom tells me that people get on a FBI list,
- you know when they- - Yo, everybody's on the FBI list anyway.
- Might as well be for good reason. - Who? You on the FBI list…
- You on the FBI list too. - And you too…
- [Felix] Damn. - [Jones] Man, the power company
be cutting our shit whenever just to save money.
[Felix smacks lips] Let's go!
- [lively music] - [lively chatter]
Alright, I see you. Aye, que rico!
- [tires squeeling] - [crowd cheers]
[car rumbles] - [Jones] Yay!
- [crowd cheers] - [tires squeal]
[hip hop music plays]
- [engine revs] - [crowd cheers]
- [Scat] Hold on! - [shoes skid]
[music intensifies]
[tires squealing]
- [Cootie] Punch that shit Felix! - Whooo!
- [music continues] - [cheering]
[crowd cheers]
[panting with joy] Yeah!
- Y'all ain't got no giant! - Yeah!
Cootie, leave 'em wanting more.
[crowd continues to cheer]
[tires squeal]
[loud cheering]
- [All cheering] - [Felix] That shit was hard.
- Whoo! - [Felix] You feel me!
[All laughing]
Hey bro, this car is my life, bro.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this nigga's dick got steering fluid.
- [All laughing] - Tonight you made her a legend.
- [Felix] Hey bro, you a real one. - I am?
[All] Yes!
- Ruh-roh. - [helicopter flies overhead]
[Cootie] For reals?
It's him?
Spotlight. You are above the approved decimal levels.
I'll check your vehicle registration numbers and impound these vehicles.
In California, more than three people gathered together wearing similar clothes
- can be prosecuted as a gang - [upbeat music intensifies]
Get your mind right, half wits.
Turn my music down, how about this motha…
[plays through phone] ♪ Fuck the police, fuck the police, fuck 'em ♪
♪ Fuck the police, fuck the police, fuck 'em ♪
[door opening]
[Martisse] What the hell's wrong with you coming in--
Shh! What are you thinking?
- What? - What do you mean what?
It's a word attempting to specifically locate the object of one's inquiry.
- Boy, I wish I was eight foot taller. - [Mom] Have you been listening to me?
Have I been wasting my breath?
You can't waste or save it because it comes out either way.
Man, this dude is crazy.
You do not appreciate what we put aside to keep you safe and to keep you fed--
I didn't ask for it… I didn't ask for it!
To become the man that you are. I gave up-
What? Bing-Bang Burgers? Hmm? Y'all used to eat Bing-Bang Burgers.
[Martisse] Yes, I did.
I did eat Bing-Bang Burgers but I stopped.
- Okay. How about subwoofers then? - Huh?
You guys always play music from these tiny little speakers.
So, you basically kept one of the greatest inventions from me.
It moves through your body like, like waves.
Okay? And it sings to your bones
and you can feel the ground and the sky at the same time.
[stuttering] As if, as if you,
as if you're the thing that's keeping it together. You know?
I'm 19 and I heard bass for the first time.
That's abuse!
You know what, no one's ever took me away.
Y'all are just paranoid and y'all are lying to me.
- Take a look at this. - [Cootie] No, no.
- [Mom] Come on, sit down. - Mama.
[Martisse] Come on man.
It gives me nightmares every time, please. Tomorrow.
Sit down.
[Mom] We are not lying about this.
This is how we keep them just nightmares.
[suspenseful music]
[suspenseful music continues]
None of them are related to me. None of them?
[softly] No…
But there's one just like you every generation somewhere.
People are always afraid. And you are a 13 foot tall black man.
They fear you.
They were excited to see me, mama. They were excited.
- Come on. - No, no.
- [Mom] Heart, head, hands, feet. - No, no, no.
Not tonight. I don't want to do that tonight.
You know, Cootie, soon people are gonna try to figure out
how to use you and when they can't use you no more…
They gonna try to get rid of you.
I have one question.
- Did she used to go to Bing-Bang Burger? - Aw man…
Mama tell me, did she eat…
- Bing-Bang Burgers? - Yes.
- [friends laughing in car] - [hip hop plays from car]
[Jones] Oh, shit.
[gentle music plays]
[male crooning through speakers] ♪ Is it me ♪
♪ Or is the moonlight shining brighter than it usually does ♪
[camera shutters]
♪ Is it me ♪
♪ Or is tonight the most amazing night that there ever was ♪
♪ Can you see the stars ♪
[music plays softly]
Next?
Welcome to Bing-Bang Burger. What can I bop you with?
Um. I'll take seven Bing-Bang burgers, please.
Your's is ready, big man.
[unintelligible murmuring]
[music continues softly]
[cook] Hey.
- [thump] - Oh…
[softly] What?
- [Cootie grunts] - [Jones] Oh!
- [car squeaks] - [All] Oh! [laughing]
- Scat. - Thank you.
- Jones. - Oh, damn!
- Felix. - [Felix] Yessir.
- [Felix] This right here! - [Jones] Now you want to do a food van?
- [unintelligible chatter] - [street noise]
- [Jones] This sauce, bro! - [Scat] This sauce, bro!
- [Jones] The sauce! - [Scat] There's crack in this sauce.
-[Jones] Come on. - [Felix sings] That Bing-Bang sauce!
- Bing-Bang sauce! -[Jones] What they put in this?
- [Felix] I dunno, this shit hits. - [Jones chewing] Always.
- [Felix] Hit, hit. - [Jones] Mmm.
What you think? Good, right?
[mouth full] Mh hm! [muffled chuckle, groan]
[spits]
It's actually very disgusting.
- [All laughing] - [Jones] What?
It's really very bad.
[Jones] That's 'cause this nigga' be eating spinach pies.
- [All laughing] - [melancholy music crescendos]
- [upbeat music] - [car alarm]
- [lively club music] - [unintelligible chatter]
- [hip hop plays] - ♪ I'm outta this world ♪
♪ My name is Furl ♪
- Aye, bruh, you ain't dancin', man? - [Cootie] Huh?
[distorted chatter]
- What? - You ain't gon' dance?
Oh! Nah, nah.
- I ain't never danced before, so. - Well at least like holler
- at some females or something bro. - It's my first time at a club.
Hey bro, if you don't just down those shots and get on the dance floor
and holler at some females, me and you gonna fight.
You messing with me… that's what friends do.
- [chuckles] - Okay!
I always wondered what having a friend was, now I know it's like bass
because like the bass coming out this speaker,
friends can help you feel the inside of yourself
and the rest of the world at the same time.
- [music continues] - [club chatter continues]
- Yeah! Hey bruh, that's real as fuck. - Right?
Yes. Alright, look, I declare us friends.
Well then I want to help you feel the inside of yourself too.
[Felix laughs] Hey, you need another one right?
- Hey, can I get one more for my boy? - I think I'm drunk.
Good. Just hold it otherwise you look weird.
- Okay. - Hey, there go one looking.
You ready? Beautiful! In the black dress.
Hey, look, look, just don't let silence happen, okay?
Silence is a killer. Beautiful, beautiful.
Yes. This is the big man. Just don't stop talking, okay?
[music continues]
- Your dress is really pretty. - Thanks.
I think you could be in the background of a music video or something.
Cardi B or Beyoncé or somebody big.
I mean, you pick what music video you want to be the background in and…
They'll put you in it.
You know, as long as they don't have enough pretty girls.
But I'm sure you would show up early though…
Because you look punctual.
- Virgos are punctual, I'm a Virgo-- - I'm sorry, I don't speak English.
[hip hop dance song plays] ♪ Tell me when to go ♪
[all] Go Cootie! Go Cootie!
♪ Tell me when to go Tell me when to go ♪
♪ Dum, dum, dum, dum ♪
♪ Tell me when to go Tell me when to go ♪
♪ Dum, dum, dum, dum ♪
- [music cuts out] - [crowd boos]
- [Man] Man, for real? - [unintelligible chatter]
Excuse me!
We were just talking and, um, we wanna see that dick.
- [girls laugh] - [unintelligible chatter]
- [Jones] Cootie! - Felix!
- [Felix] Yo, what's up? - What's going on with your boy, man?
Can't say excuse me? I mean, the nigga knocked me down.
I'm just looking for an "excuse me".
Aw, bro. [chuckles] Hey.
I'm--I'm very sorry.
- [crowd chattering] - That's socially unacceptable, bro.
Grab ya mans, Felix. I'm not feeling the love right now, bro.
Just let me know where you want to feel the love
and I can put it right there.
- You twamp niggas. - [crowd laughing]
Act like you forgot what the cement taste like, homie.
- What the semen tastes like? - The cement, muthafucka!
You going to taste the cement you fucking Slim Jim ass, built-ass nigga.
[laughing]
[yelling]
[suspenseful music]
- [unintelligible crowd yelling] - [Cootie groaning]
Tall ass…Slim Jim… [grunting while punching] Grumpy-built ass nigga…
[continues] Mark-ass nigga…
He getting scared! He getting tired!
Come on, get off!
[crowd groans]
- [Jones] We told you to get off! - Bro, he's big, bro!
Get up, bro. Get up, bro. Hey man, nigga's from Lower Bottoms, bro.
- You got us fucked up. - [men groan]
[crowd groans in unison]
[Felix] You jumped on him, bro. Like what you thought?
- Take y'all drunk asses home! - [Cootie] I'm sorry!
- Good night. - [Felix] Wait Bear…
- I'm gonna call you bro. - [siren wails]
[Female Newscaster] Many claimed it was a hoax.
There's a giant man in Oakland with a penchant for sideshows,
- dancing, burgers and brawls. - [men groan]
[Female Newscaster] Police stopped the suspect
known as the Twamp Monster,
after a melee between him and five other men.
[unintelligible crowd chatter]
[Female Newscaster] But video by onlookers shown to police
clearly shows the giant man acting in self-defense.
- Police are releasing him without arrest. - Mute.
[AI responds in Bill Cosby voice] Muting.
[dramatic music plays]
Measure threat level of the Twamp Monster.
[AI responds in Bill Cosby voice] Measuring now.
[Jones] You're not trying to get anybody's story.
You have us sitting on the ground here. Are you serious?
- Fuck. - We knew it was gonna happen.
[dramatic music plays]
- Just wish it didn't happen so soon. - He ain't ready, but we are.
When was the last time you checked?
[gentle knocking in pattern]
[music intensifies]
We ready.
[dramatic sting]
[theme music plays]
♪ ♪