
Empire
Damn. Had I known
what I know now.
But today cats are different.
We all know selling and competition,
that's what this country's built on.
It's all about one thing:
making money.
Money, baby.
Simple as that.
Everything else is just bullshit.
Money is why people come here
from every country in the world.
It's what the American dream
is all about.
You think people come here from all over
the world to live in East New York...
in Harlem, the South Bronx...
because of the beautiful views,
because of the fucking quality of life?
My name is Victor Rosa.
I'm young, Latin and good-looking,
and I call it like I see it, baby.
'Cause I'm gonna tell you what I think
whether you wanna hear it or not.
'Cause you're not gonna get
bullshit from me. Uh-uh.
I'm a businessman, an entrepreneur...
like Rockefeller and Carnegie.
And in my time a geek motherfucker
like Bill Gates. That's right.
They all did it themselves.
Fought the odds and made a fortune.
So why can't I?
Like them, I got a product.
I sell it aggressively
and I make money- a lot of it.
It doesn't take advertising to sell my
product- it pretty much sells it self.
and survive in this business.
And that may have been the same
for Rockefeller as it is for Gates...
but in what I do, you f*ck up, you don't
just lose one of your stock options.
So we run out of
my boy Jimmys crib.
Me and Jimmy, we got into this together
when we was just kids out there...
and we worked our way
from lookouts.
It's my crew, but I honestly
couldnt't do it without Jimmy.
And Chedda.
Chedda's a monster, yo.
Not because of his size,
but because he's all heart, baby.
Blackest motherfucker I know.
Jay. Well, Jay
is a special case.
He's what you call simple-
an idiot savant.
Sometimes more "idiot " than "savant. "
What we make here is my product-
a heroin mix I call "Empire. "
Okay, it works like this.
who work this area beside me.
You got Hector's "Exorcist. "
You got Tito
who sells his "Severe. "
And then there's Negro.
That motherfucker's a legend.
Damn good businessman
for a faggot.
Not that I got anything against faggots,
but I gotta give it up to him.
"Dancing Queen " is a dope-ass name
for his shit too.
We al I get our supply
from the same connect-
La Colombiana,
Joanna Menendez.
We all sell the same product-just mix
it differently, put our own label on it.
I cut mine the least
because I believe in purity.
Tito, though, cuts his shit
as deep as he can...
and gets more packets
per ounce that way...
But I get loyal buyers.
People know Empire
and they look for it.
But dumb-ass Tito can't even begin
to understand how that works.
That's why he's
always in some shit.
It's a funny thing,
and it might seem hazardous to you...
but we all hang out
in the same places.
No need to step
on each other's toes, right?
But for those of you who have
never been in my neighborhood...
we 're split up
into four separate areas.
The meat of it belongs to me.
Exorcist's got some decent spots.
And Negro's is below that-
around Buckner Boulevard.
Severe's got spots next to mine.
As you can see, sometimes they tend
to slip and overlap into my spot.
And when that happens,
you got trouble.
You trying n' to f*ck up my shot, right?.
Vic! Vic!
- What's up?.
- Beef right now, nigga.
- Are you waiting on this shit?.
- F*ck this motherfuckin' game, man!
Yo, word is they got David layin'
in the street like a little bitch, son.
- They beat the shit out of him, kid.
- Let's do this motherfucker.
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