Plot
Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young black children of America, supatime.
Keywords: armed-robbery, axe, based-on-sketch-comedy, blaxploitation, blonde, bloopers-during-credits, botched-robbery, burger, buxom, character-name-in-title
Too cool for words
J.B.: Pootie Tang will draw you a picture of how he gonna kick your ass, then mail it to you ten days in advance. The picture gets there right? You're goin', "What the hell is this?" and then Pootie Tang knocks on your door, Promptly kicks your ass and you still won't know what happened to you!
Pootie Tang: Dirty Dee, you're a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai!
Pootie Tang: Sa da tay!
Pootie Tang: Sepatown!
Dirty Dee: Pootie Tang! I come to call you out, maggoty eatin' *bitch*!::Pootie Tang: Ain't come one, but many tine tanies!
Trucky: You can't beat a ho with a belt... they like that shit.
Dirty Dee: Yeah hehehehe Cappatown my ASS!
Pootie Tang: Kapa-Chow.
Narrator: Dirty Dee is still dirty... because he's Dirty Dee dammit!
Biggie Shorty: You think that just cuz a girl likes to dress fancy and stand on the corner next to some whores, that she's hookin?
Pootie Tang is an American comedy film written and directed by Louis C.K. and released in 2001. It was adapted from a comedy sketch that first appeared on The Chris Rock Show. The character Pootie Tang is a satire of the stereotyped characters who appeared in old blaxploitation films. His speech, which vaguely resembles pidgin, is mostly unintelligible to the audience, but the other characters in the film have no problem understanding him.
Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther), born in "a small city outside Gary, Indiana", is portrayed as a ladies' man who is "too cool for words", even as a young child. His life is marked by the deaths of his mother "Momma Dee", and shortly thereafter his father "Daddy Tang" (Chris Rock), who dies after being mauled by a gorilla during his shift at the steel mill (the third time someone had suffered that particular fate). Just before Daddy Tang's death, Pootie inherits his father's belt and is told that (as long as he has right on his side) he can "whoop anyone's ass with just that belt."
Baby come back, hear me out
Is there any way to reach you now
Sitting on the edge
Thinking out loud
Maybe there is something that you know
Something that only you know
Crying out loud, i wanna do good
I do it all for you if i could
The way it looks now
From where i stood
Maybe there is something that you know
Something that only you know
Running away isn't the way
Cause if you want it bad enough
You'll get it if you dont give up
Running away isn't the way
Cause if you want it bad enough
You'll get it if you dont give up
If you want it bad enough
If you want it bad (2x)
If you want it bad enough
If you want it bad (2x)
If you want it bad enough
Take a little time
Think this through
See it from another point of view
Putting myself in any ol shoes
Maybe there is somewhere that you go
Somewhere that only you go
Trying to move on
All the way down
Waiting for your head to hit the ground
Whatever you're in
We'll figure it out
Maybe there is something i do now
That wherever you go
(Repeat Chorus)
all in your head
all in your head
it's all in your head
you can fight this illusion
all in your head
all in your head
you can fight this illusion
all in your head
it's all in your head
you can fight this illusion
all in your head
it's all in your head
you can fight this illusion
Where have been? I don’t want to know
Probably some place I wouldn’t want to go
Who were you with? What did you see?
Whatcha talk about? Whatcha say about me?
Where have you been? I won’t let it drop
What were you thinking? When you gonna stop?
What were you thinking? When you gonna learn?
When you gonna give anything in return?
What were you thinking? It better be good
When you gonna act like you know you should?
When you gonna act like you know you should?
When you gonna do like you said you would?
Well it goes all night like a broken record
You know it wouldn’t take all that muchTo bring me down from all that pressureI guess you just know when it’s bad enough
Well it goes all night like a broken record
We come right back to the same old stuff
We don’t back down and it don’t get betterI guess you just now when it’s bad enough
The car’s on the curb, the key’s in the lock
Houses all dark up and down the block
Swaying on the sidewalk, sneaking through the door
Waitin’ for the sound of your shoes on the floor
Waiting for the gallows, waiting for the noose
Waiting for the sound of your combat boots
‘Cause the order’s come down to launch the attach
You tell me that you're leavin'..
And do you ever get used to runnin' away?
Everything that you are..
And everywhere that you came from..
Does the pressure just build inside you?
Do you feel you need change?
All that you've become..
All that you would become..
I know it hurts sometimes..
Do you want it bad..
Do you want it bad enough?
I know someday you'll shine..
If you want it bad..
If you want it bad..
Do you want it bad enough?
Now people around have been askin'..
They're wonderin' where you've been..
Hopefully you're still breathin'..
Hopin' that you're believin'..
In all of the good inside you..
'Cuz you never need to change..
All that you've become..
All you would become..
I know it hurts sometimes..
Do you want it bad..
Do you want it bad enough?
I know someday you'll shine..
If you want it bad..
If you want it bad..
Do you want it bad enough?
So you tell me that you're leavin'..
And do you ever get used to runnin'?
I know it hurts sometimes..
Do you want it bad..
Do you want bad enough?
I know someday you'll shine..
If you want it bad..
Do you want it bad enough?
I know it hurts sometimes..
Do you want it bad..
Do you want it bad enough?
I know someday you'll shine..
If you want it bad..
If you want it bad..
You want it bad..