The Wire 1X05
| Stringer: | It's been a little hectic down here, right cuz? |
| D'Angelo: | String man, I can't lie, them stick-up boys they caught us dead up. And the knockos? I don't know what that was. |
| Lookout: | 5-0! 5-0 comin' up! 5-0 comin' up y'all! |
| Stringer: | Come on man, what is that? |
| D'Angelo: | What? |
| Stringer: | You gotta get your crew to understand that it's the stick-up crews and the creepers that be givin' us the most trouble. As soon as they start thinkin' like that, we're not gonna have any more surprises, you feel me? Cuz you know, your uncle and me, we think you got a snitch up in the shop. |
| D'Angelo: | What? |
| Stringer: | Someone who tipped off the stick-up crew. Now you gotta be on that, right? We gotta be on that. I'm gonna tell you what you do. What day is it today? Friday? And what happen on Friday? |
| D'Angelo: | Pay day. |
| Stringer: | Not this Friday. |
| D'Angelo: | Why not? |
| Stringer: | Nah, nah, what you gon' do, you gonna call 'em like you gonna pay 'em, and then you crack 'em. You tell them you not happy with what they fuckin' pass as work down here, and when you not happy, they ain't gettin' paid, you feel me? |
| D'Angelo: | Yeah, but String man, you don't pay a nigga and he ain't gon' work for you. |
| Stringer: | What you think a nigga's gon' get a job? *laughs* You think these niggas gon' be like "Fuck it, let me quit this game here and go to college"? Nah, I mean they gonna buck a little, but they not gonna walk. And in the end, you gonna get respect. |
| D'Angelo: | Yeah. |
| Stringer: | And then when that money run out. They're gonna come up to you and roll on you and ask you for an advance and shit, when they flat ass broke, them the niggas that you strike off your list. But that nigga that stay eatin'? The nigga that's steady rollin', ain't askin' you for shit? That's the nigga I wanna hear about. You understand? |
