Daniel Youlton

Boys From The Hood

By Daniel Youlton

Unit 42: Radio Drama

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Boys from the hood

Scene one- night- the styles household You hear the sound of water dropping followed by footsteps rapidly approaching and Tre jumps out of bed Tre yo pops think someones in the house

Running intensifies water stops a loud bang can be heard down the hall Tre gasps he hears a gun load and fire with wood cracking and a scream of pain Tre falls to the floor in shock and hears his pops run past him and then opens the door and shouts

Furious Tre Furious Tre

stay away from here you here come round here again and I will pop another round in your ass. you get him pops? nah he got away but I swear I aimed for his head lucky punk this is why I need a gun pops so I can protect myself

Furious slams the door and turns to Tre puts the gun on the table and water continues drip

Furious

guns invite trouble Tre you gotta understand that if you have that kind of protection you will invite trouble the best weapon a young man like yourself can own is the power of knowledge and to know a true man keeps his power in his books not in his bullets, any fool can shoot a nigga but only a man can teach him. yo thats deep pops real deep

Tre

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Furious

you better remember that when you get older, these old bones of mine carry knowledge you better listen up

Theres a lot of people out there thatll tell you, you cant do things what you gotta understand is that these people have grown up here with little or no male influence other than what they see out there which is niggas killing other niggas I dont want you being like them you hear, youre gonna get a good education and youre gonna make something of yourself, always be safe and remember nothing should end in the death of a brother. Tre pops man I wanna get out the hood you know this but sometime a niggas gonna come and try to smoke me, what do I do then?

Furious sighs you hear him comfort Tre

Furious

you just gotta try to stay away from those situations stay away from hood rats like doughboy those types of boys will just get you in trouble no positive influence from his mum and no one even knows who that boys dad is, Ricky however at least had his mom and you dont see him having issues like your worrying about do you, thats cause hes a smart boy like you , youre going to be moving upstate to a college next year and I just want you to learn these lessons before you leave

Tre cries and sounds more upset at the prospect of the death of his friends like his father is Insinuating and you hear his father hug him for what will be the last time this scene (the ruffling of clothes)

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Tre Furious Tre Furious

okay pops good boy, good boy doughboy gets out tomorrow you going to come to the bbq with me? I gotta work so no, bring me back some of that bbq though, Sheila does the best on this block

Scene two- day- baker household

(Carnival music plays throughout) RickyTreRicky Trehey yo Tre yo Ricky whats up its all good man Darren got let out this morning oh hell yeah I forgot, he here now

(You hear the opening of beer and the clinking of glass) Ricky TreRickyyeah man course, why mums throwing this thing right now, its a celebration man yo take me to him man its been too long aite aite come on then

(You hear the door open and close with the music adjusting accordingly)

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Scene Three- Day- Baker household backyard

(Music is much louder than before) (You hear the shuffling of cards on a table)
DarrenTreDarrenyo is that Tre? yeah man your looking buff man you been working out? yeah man nothing else to do in the pen just workout, eat and read yeah man real talk, I got a good job now get discounts on clothes and all sorts of things now that why youre looking like Urkel, shit nigga yo dough leave it out man, least he got a job yeah one sec Im about to rinse these fools

Tre-

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(Yo hear jeers as Darren wins the game and puts down the controller) DarrenRandom guyDarrenRickypay up you lost shit man what was your lil bitch ass whining about now Ricky me and Tre wanna talk to you man we dont want you going back in the pen for killing another brother shit man Im just protecting myself if a fool try an smoke me yo Im'a hear you out man but lemme grab some BBQ for my pops, you two fools coming? yeah hell might as well been a while since I see that old fool anyway sure my brother

Darren-

Tre-

Darren-

Ricky-

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Scene four- day- Styles Household (Door knocking) (Footsteps approaching) (The clink of metal) (Opening of door) FuriousTreFuriousDarrenFuriousDarrenWho dis its me pops, got the boys with me as well aite, Darren you just got out right, good to see you yeah put me back in for smoking that fool on Crenshaw I know you Aint bringing no guns in my house pops you know Im always packing, I ain't giving up my gat for no one you hear me, no one

(Shaking his gun you hear metal clangs) Furiousfool dont you know your inviting that kind of trouble when you carry shit like that around at least I aint going to get smoked by a nigga Darren man come on boys let me show you sumin

DarrenRickyFurious-

(Keys jingle you hear a car as it fades out)

Scene five- evening- Compton (Car comes to a stop doors open you hear a deadly silence) (Music fades in as they walk) (Cars pass every so often) TreFuriousDarrenFuriousDarrenFuriousyo pops this is Compton man its not safe here exactly, and why do you feel that way? cause all these niggas be packing exactly and why they packing for in case niggas try to smoke em And why would they do that

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DarrenFuriouscause they be tripping old man, why we here lets go but I thought you were the big dog Darren, thought you were the shit aint you packing, and I thought you got this man your ass is tripping I aint scared, but something happens to Ricky mums will beat my ass aint nothing gonna happen because we aint here to cause no trouble

Darren-

Furious-

(Footsteps stop and furious bangs on billboard you hear the wind whistle past him and the flutter of coats) FuriousTreFuriousRickyFuriousDarrenFuriousTreFuriousDarrenFuriousRickyFuriouscan any of you gentlemen tell me what this means That billboard? yes Tre it says for sale so houses for sale? exactly and why are people trying to sell their houses? cause this is a bad place to raise a family and whys that cause people get shot up constantly and in and out of jail exactly and why are people getting shot up? Drugs and money exactly and who brought drugs in here in the first place? Dealers? no the white man and who can I add builds drugs and liquor stores on every corner of the hood? The white man they buy all these houses here and sell them to the black folk, when the black folk kill each other the market value of these properties drop they buy them back fix them up and sell them off again, all at a profit, its called gentrification