Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:31,083 <i>Now that's all there is to it.</i> 564 00:28:31,666 --> 00:28:34,750 <i>Carry my nephew on down there.</i> <i>Introduce him to the band.</i> 565 00:28:34,833 --> 00:28:36,958 <i>I promised my sister I'd look out for him,</i> 566 00:28:37,041 --> 00:28:40,291 <i>so he's gonna do</i> <i>the voice intro to the song my way.</i> 567 00:28:40,375 --> 00:28:41,458 <i>[Irvin] We just figured--</i> 568 00:28:41,541 --> 00:28:45,541 <i>Who's this "we"? What you mean "we"?</i> <i>Come talking this "we" stuff. Who "we"?</i> 569 00:28:46,125 --> 00:28:47,708 <i>Me and Sturdyvant. We decided--</i> 570 00:28:47,791 --> 00:28:50,250 <i>You decided, huh?</i> <i>I'm just a bump on a log.</i> 571 00:28:50,333 --> 00:28:52,125 <i>I'm just gonna go</i> <i>whichever way the river drift.</i> 572 00:28:52,208 --> 00:28:54,000 <i>Is that it? You and Sturdyvant decided?</i> 573 00:28:54,083 --> 00:28:56,125 <i>-No. We just thought--</i> <i>-I ain't got no good sense.</i> 574 00:28:56,208 --> 00:28:59,541 <i>I know nothing about music</i> <i>or what a good song is or what ain't.</i> 575 00:28:59,625 --> 00:29:01,208 <i>You know more about my fans than I do.</i> 576 00:29:01,291 --> 00:29:03,833 <i>It's not that.</i> <i>It's more of what the people want.</i> 577 00:29:05,291 --> 00:29:09,458 <i>Tell you something, Irvin, and you can go</i> <i>up there and you can tell Sturdyvant too.</i> 578 00:29:10,083 --> 00:29:13,375 <i>What you all say</i> <i>don't count with me, you understand?</i> 579 00:29:13,458 --> 00:29:16,375 <i>Ma listen to her heart.</i> <i>Ma listen to the voice inside her.</i> 580 00:29:16,458 --> 00:29:17,833 <i>That's what count with Ma.</i> 581 00:29:18,625 --> 00:29:20,250 <i>Carry my nephew on down there.</i> 582 00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:23,500 <i>Tell Cutler he'll do the voice intro</i> <i>to the "Black Bottom" song.</i> 583 00:29:23,583 --> 00:29:25,166 <i>Levee ain't messing up my song.</i> 584 00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:27,000 <i>If that don't set right</i> <i>with you and Sturdyvant,</i> 585 00:29:27,083 --> 00:29:29,583 <i>I can carry my black bottom</i> <i>on back down South to my tour,</i> 586 00:29:29,666 --> 00:29:31,625 <i>'cause I don't like it up here noways.</i> 587 00:29:32,291 --> 00:29:34,125 <i>Okay, Ma.</i> 588 00:29:35,125 --> 00:29:36,083 <i>I don't care.</i> 589 00:29:38,583 --> 00:29:40,625 <i>-I just thought--</i> <i>-Damn what you thought!</i> 590 00:29:40,708 --> 00:29:43,125 <i>What you look like</i> <i>trying to tell me how to sing my song.</i> 591 00:29:43,208 --> 00:29:45,833 <i>That Levee and Sturdyvant shit,</i> <i>I ain't going for it.</i> 592 00:29:47,708 --> 00:29:51,041 <i>Sylvester, go introduce yourself.</i> <i>I'm through playing with Irvin.</i> 593 00:29:51,125 --> 00:29:53,875 <i>Uh… Where I go? Which way they at?</i> 594 00:29:55,041 --> 00:29:57,375 <i>Come on. I'll carry you down there myself.</i> 595 00:29:57,458 --> 00:29:59,208 <i>Can I go? I want to see the band.</i> 596 00:29:59,291 --> 00:30:00,541 <i>No. Come on, Sylvester.</i> 597 00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:03,708 <i>Okay, Ma. Have it your way,</i> 598 00:30:04,291 --> 00:30:06,166 <i>but we'll be ready to go in 15 minutes.</i> 599 00:30:06,250 --> 00:30:08,291 <i>We'll be ready to go when Madam says so.</i> 600 00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:10,083 <i>That's the way it go around here.</i> 601 00:30:12,166 --> 00:30:13,208 <i>Perfect.</i> 602 00:30:13,291 --> 00:30:14,666 <i>[upbeat music playing]</i> 603 00:30:32,291 --> 00:30:34,250 <i>Cutler, this here my nephew Sylvester.</i> 604 00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:37,541 <i>He'll do the voice intro</i> <i>on "Black Bottom" using the old version.</i> 605 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:39,916 <i>What? Mr. Irvin said</i> <i>we're using my version.</i> 606 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,541 <i>I ain't studying you or Mr. Irvin.</i> 607 00:30:41,625 --> 00:30:43,541 <i>Cutler, get him straightened out</i> <i>on how to do his part.</i> 608 00:30:43,625 --> 00:30:44,750 <i>I ain't thinking about Levee.</i> 609 00:30:44,833 --> 00:30:47,000 <i>These folks done messed</i> <i>with the wrong person.</i> 610 00:30:47,083 --> 00:30:50,791 <i>Cutler gonna teach you how to do</i> <i>your part. Go ahead and get it straight.</i> 611 00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:52,958 <i>Don't worry about what nobody else say.</i> 612 00:30:53,041 --> 00:30:54,125 <i>[Cutler laughing]</i> 613 00:30:55,666 --> 00:30:58,250 <i>Hey, come on in, boy.</i> <i>I'm Cutler. [chuckles]</i> 614 00:30:58,333 --> 00:31:01,875 <i>That's Toledo, Levee,</i> <i>and Slow Drag over there.</i> 615 00:31:01,958 --> 00:31:04,166 <i>-Sylvester, huh?</i> <i>-Sylvester Brown.</i> 616 00:31:04,250 --> 00:31:05,750 <i>I wrote a version of that song,</i> 617 00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:08,541 <i>what picks it up</i> <i>and sets it down in the people's lap,</i> 618 00:31:08,625 --> 00:31:10,416 <i>and here she come talking this.</i> 619 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,000 <i>You don't need that old circus bullshit.</i>