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My name is Malik Bishop
and I'm a professional hit man.
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Until a month ago,
I was the hardest, coldest bastard...
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...to screw a silencer on a pistol.
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I know what you're thinking:
"What kind of a moral existence is that?
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"Professional hit man."
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The way I see it, the world is full of people that,
quite frankly, we all could do without.
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Some will argue that I'm one of them,
but I digress.
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I would say that I was a custodian
of anthropological refuse.
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Meaning, I kill motherfuckers that are worthless.
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Which leads me to my current dilemma.
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That's my target, Cynda Griffie.
Kind of cute, huh?
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So, check this: 7:00 a.m.,
she does 30 minutes on the treadmill...
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...followed by yoga, then a hot bath.
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Me? I do 30 minutes of shadowboxing
followed by calisthenics...
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...watching her take a hot bath.
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You can see by now that I'm one of those,
what you call, complex black men.
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Yeah, that's right, I'm complex.
But don't get it twisted.
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I'm not like one of those Eric Benet,
open-toe-sandal-wearin', poetry-recitin'...
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...Jill-Scott-listenin'-to, latte-drinkin',
not-afraid-to-cry, snob motherfuckers.
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I'm somethin' different.
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10:00 p.m., she's writin' in her diary.
I'm writin' in mine.
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1 1:00 p.m., she's hittin' the sack. So am I.
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For all intents and purposes,
we're like a married couple.
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Which is no good,
'cause when the call comes in...
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...I'm supposed to take her off
this mortal-fuckin' coil.
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And now, I'm havin' doubts.
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What the fuck was it?
A momentary bout of consciousness, maybe?
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It was a lot more.
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I trace it back to when I was doing hits...
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...for a loud-mouth rock dealer named...
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Frenchy Davis was the number-one employer
of downwardly mobile black youths...
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...in the neighborhood.
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The area underneath the Sixth Street Bridge
was the corporate headquarters.
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And he was always lookin' for new executives.
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If I say I wanna motherfucker smoked,
that's just what the fuck I want...