@@TheBlackKakashi RIP R "Stringer" Bell " A man without a country...... wasn't hard enuff for dis shit right here... and maybe... just maaybee.... not smart enuff for them suits out there "
Perfect symbolism of stringer in one scene. Tries to make the game civilized but as soon as someone challenges him he reverts right back to the street using intimidation/violence. He never committed to one life.
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Lol, reading this reminds me of a Seinfeld quote when Jerry had a bounced check at a corner store and the owner refused to take it down, even though he owned the store. "But it's your bodega" "Even I am not above the policy"
Stringer reminds me of the kid that comes home after his first semester of his freshman year after taking intro to economics and is telling his parents how to manage their finances
But he was always right when it came to it. His approach was wrong for sure. He wanted to clean up gang shit. Not accepting those around him for what they were. No reason the council couldn't work. No reason not to become the silent partner. No reason not to become the Greek. He wanted to be acknowledged for how smart he was which was very dumb.
Except that it was his business. His finances to manage while Avon was away. And he was trying to save their lives. Not that he necessarily cared for them. But they were assets to him.
That guy is one of my favorite bit characters in the whole thing. He's the same dude who was taking minutes at the New Day Co-op meetings. I wish he could admin some of the meetings I have to sit through.
"Do the Chair know we gonna look like punkass bitches out there" Poot was talking sense. Marlo saw Stringer's new "businessman" strategy for what it was: without Avon, he was weak. The shark smelled blood in the water. It was only a matter of time before he made his move.
@@brohan914 Marlo rode the story with so much plot armor it was annoying. He should have been dropped within six episodes of his first appearance without all the lucky breaks he got throughout the show.
@West coast Dre I wouldn't go that far. After all he was the second in command of a long running large drug organization. He wanted to change the way the game is played but that doesn't necessarily make him a pussy
@Lefter Mc Pointing to someone on a layout of photos when two detectives have you in an enclosed room handcuffed to the table? pretty sure he wasnt saying smd like bodie lol
@@BossofBosses111 Yeah I heard that. He probably thought Avon would be the better role because he was the head of the drug empire but Stringer Bell turned out to be the far more interesting character and role.
I love how Slim had enough respect to address him as Chair, knowing this was some straight up nonsense. That's one reason why he made it so far, just played along and taking notes the whole way
stringer just did not seem to understand crime and business could not mix. i think Marlo, Avon and prop Joe knew the difference but stringer kind of thought it was the same thing rolled into one
i mean he confused what he did for legit business instead of crime and thought he could just hit someone like Davis the same way he could hit Omar-he did not seem to know the two realms were very different unlike someone like Avon who was extremely careful, for instance he did not want his liquor license messed up with drug dealing by Orlando..stringer was just too careless in that regard. the underworld cannot just be transformed into meetings with senators, running for office, real estate unless you act with care, other wise you will be conned by the clay Davis types of this world, what Avon called playing away games.
I think once string said we done running corners..what territory we have..etc, the crew lost respect for him cuz he trying to run gangsta shi like a legit business.
Desmond W True. Stringer was really holding council meetings for a drug organization. And giving up three of the 6 towers they had to East side was bad for business. That was the beginning of the end for the Barksdale crew.
@@macksun except, the only reason they 'lost respect' for him for doing that is, they really were too ignorant. If Stringer was dealing with smarter dudes, they'd respect him more not less.
@@MICDaBoss1 poot wasnt telling the truth? Remind me which character got killed at the end of season 3 for trying to turn the game into a legitimate business? And which one actually survived all 5 seasons and made it out the game.
@Robb Dark And Marlo accomplished exactly what Stringer is preaching here - like a straight up G though, no businessman bullshit. Marlo was a hybrid between Avon and Stringer. He took the connect, had the monopoly on the dope, forced people to sell his product - if not, they got ran off their corners or clipped on the spot. He had the real estate and the product AND everybody was eatin, meanwhile Marlo gets the lion's share of course. This is why Marlo won imo.
Nick Parsons he survived because he was at the bottom of the barrel. Most of those guys transition out because they are leaving the bottom and starting at the bottom. Case and point, he started working at a shoe store. Not a very high paying job. Marlo who was top dog became a big time investor. Most people like Marlo never get out alive or free. Because all eyes are on them. Everybody trying to take their spot.
Remember watching the show and when they introduced Slim Charles he just had a presence about him, and he’s the guy who ends up on top when the show ends and has one of the most badass scenes in the entire show to go out on. “That was for Joe...”
Stringer was right but his methods were wrong. The business part was key. But you can’t run a drug business without some bloodshed. If he was smart he would’ve killed both Marlo and Avon. Those 2 were NEVER gonna change
01:34 is the key part of the scene. When poot realises that even the muscle are not buying Into stringers plan, it gives him the confidence to speak up.
@mrcunn02 Exactly, Stringer talking about Ford vs Toyota out of a book. Poot asked the question everyone in that room was thinking... Slim was coming at with more finesse but still saying the same thing. Stringer was a snake and his bad decision making got him killed...
It also shows the flaw in trying to run the drug game like legitimate business. String had good intentions but failed to realize that the drug business has rules and consequences that legitimate business doesn't have to abide by. Some similairites because both are business models but the strategies don't align at all.
I read it completely differently. This isn't some wall street corporate business. This is literally a cut throat I will kill you business to get ahead. Where the guy with the most muscles will take over your operation...Like Morlo. To be feared and respected is the part of the equation Stringer discounted and the fear and respect came from holding those territories and the things other organizations know yours would do if you stepped out on their territories. Avon said it best "I ain't no suite wearing businessman like you. I'm just a gangster I suppose and I want my corners."
@@Cevensities Stringer did not understand what BUNNY COLVIN did (understand). That he was talking to street level people about a MIDDLE MANAGER problem. Or even a BOSS problem. You take this to the bosses first before taking it to your soldiers. Marlo said NO. So that should have been the end of all that talk. Instead Stringer says, "Well, Ima worry about that when it happens??" Dumb.
This whole scene is hilarious he’s talking to these gangsters like it’s a business conference “until then mr Charles, we will handle this shit like businessman” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funny thing is Marlo did the same exact strategy stringer recommended with a little "twist"... Marlo FORCED other crews to take his package, or else it meant war
This is probably one of the best scenes from a tv series I have seen. Socioeconomic lessons and street law in one session. I'm done commenting. Adjourn your asses
Always love it how String acting like "grown up business man" that is smarter than everyone in the game but the minute sometimes ask a relatively hard question he instantly switches to his gangsta persona to answer it instead of convincing them in his own "business sense". Shows how little he understands the reality of different games and how they are played and their own spesific rules.
It wasnt a hard question slim charles already asked a similar question before poot did and stringers response was that fight for those territories is only going disrupt their access to the product and profit as well as bring attention from the police. stringers plan is make the money then buy out the competition and deal with anyone who resists the re-up, but poots to hard head to get that.
@@daddyGbaby Yeah, and poot explains simply you can't "buy out" competition in an unlawful enviroment where other leaders motive can be different than simply making money. String knows this enviroment, he just ignores it.
lmao charles minor here kills me stringer: we no longer gangsters :) poot: gang members will see as as weak sir stringer: *aggressively becomes gangster*
@@dinoXAs2 It does when you're not on some hood shit. Plenty of people sell drugs in non-violent markets. You move discretely and avoid attention from violent idiots because that's what brings heat. Fiends don't tend to have a lot of money either, you're better off targeting yuppies that like to party, just need to be able to hang in the same circles as the professionals.
At 1:34, Poot looks over and sees one of Stringer's upper-level guys shaking his head in frustration when Stringer talks about given up territory for the sake of improving their product. Then, at 2:23, Stringer seems to disregard the notion that they would be in trouble if Prop Joe doesn't keep the supply coming, then you see Poot shake his head. (disagreeing with them having to depend on a rival and ceding ground to do it) Pretty clever secondhand development going on. Since Poot tells Stringer straight to his face exactly what would wind up happening in the end. The plan makes them look weak and it emboldened someone like Marlo to take them on and push them off their own territory.
Problem was this, String looking at this as a boss. Poot, Slim and the rest still understand you are dealing with gangsters. Not businessmen. If you don’t keep a tight lock on what you have it’s gonna get took. Avon and Marlo understood that. That’s why they essentially made it out alive
classic problem in the working world, management is out of touch, the workers out on the floor know alot of their pie-in-the-sky proposals wont hold up in the real world
I don't think string was looking at it long term,he just needed enough money and no heat from tye cops so he could be free of the game but he never thought he'd get done by clay Davis like he did or he'd have all the problems with development
Stringer trying to educated wolves, was the beginning of the downfall for the Barksdale crew. Wolves need to hunt and howl, but Stringer got them in a fucking board meeting lol
Nah Avon fucked it up by not listening to him. He even admitted it once he saw how wasteful war was. String and Prop Joe were revolutionizing the game until they got taken out by some pride-obsessed psychos who wanted to be feared more than they wanted money.
what was stronger revoloutionising?? He dragged prop joe down too. Stinger was fucking up left right and centre. He dismantled avons discipline code. He let soldiers do drugs. He was fucking a fallen soldiers baby momma. He failed to find a new decent supply from new York. The one place he coulda made peace, (with omar) he like a dumbass kid tried to con omar while killing brother mouzon the one man who could truly protect this fuck up from marlo and omar. Stinger was a dumbass. A decent consiglieri but a terrible don . avon had the balls, intelligence and patience bell didn't and avon was street tough and feared as well as a natural born businessman.
actually both stringer and avon were both right. the issue was they didnt balance it out correctly. without stringer avon would of lost alot of money. just like without avon stringer people would lose status
in the end, Avon was going to waste Marlo and return all of the west side to a peaceful place for Barksdale business with the Eastside. It was STRINGER who nailed the coffin shut. Avon made one mistake for every 20 string made. Stringer was a liar and snitched like a woman. Destroyed Baltimore just like that.
Rob M Stringer liked showing off his community college education to junior high drop outs, yeah But once he got in with college grads and law school degrees, he couldn’t handle it. Poot is right, Slim Charles is right, Avon is right - this is business but it’s business without the threat of the coercive violence of the state able to resolve your disputes (other than snitching, which isn’t quite the same as a lawsuit). To be a rational, reasonable businessman you gotta include folks for whom reputation and power itself are the ultimate currency, not gaining those things through money. Stringer, unlike Marlo, wasn’t smart enough to know what he didn’t know. And I imagine if he’d ever dealt with the Greeks directly, they’d have seen him as a pretentious and untrustworthy social climber rather than what they were looking for: a gangster capable of enforcing order himself to sell the drugs that made them money.
@@ANTHONY0808able Bruh haven't you heard of Lucky Luciano he believed that war was bad for business. All of the gang land violence will only run off customers and bring the attention of the police. Even the police will allow you make to make a dishonest buck if you keep the shit to a minimum or non existent.
@Rich P. Aw come on bruh, haven't read any history books? Some of the biggest criminals were very savy business men. How do you think that the mafia stayed in power for so, long. They spread the wealth around to cops, judges or anyone who was part of the game.
String wasn't wrong, and he ran the west side for a while with his methods. He died because of his side beef with Omar, and at that point he was already well on his way to transitioning into legitimate business with his criminal money. Like Chad said above, he was following in the footsteps of plenty of wise gangsters who see the way out of the crab bucket into real wealth.
From his very first scene, slim Charles displayed a different kind of street wisdom. He knew from the get go that stringer’s plan wasn’t gonna last. I feel like if some characters introduced in later seasons show how some of the OG characters came to be, then slim is Avon. They both stuck to a strict code and ended up at the top in the end with everyone’s respect
geoff Barksdale's people would still be selling, though. When the corner chiefs accepted the connect it was on the condition that they share territory with Barkdale's people. Bubbles even confirms this when he is sent to report on which crews were running which corners. Kima couldn't figure out how the Barkdales were able to spread out to new territories without dropping bodies.
Ted87 I think his point is that to get the connect in the first place String had to hand off half the towers and low risers, meaning they only need half the labor to work half the space. You up the profit, and cut the cost.
Everyone in that room knows and understands that String was out of his game with the street. Starting with Slim, Poot, the guy to the left of Stringer and lastly Shamrock who didn’t care if Poot had the floor, POOT HAD A SOLID ASS POINT THAT AVON HIMSELF WOULD’VE AGREED WITH!
"You don't have the floor, chair doesn't recognize your ass" I love all of the logistics Stringer integrated over the course of the show from his business classes
I like how the higher members of the crew (like Slim Charles) integrated well into Stringers' academic methods, but lower level ''pawns'' like Bodie and Poot couldn't properly grasp them and couldn't leave the street mentality behind. I think it's interesting when we consider Stringers' statement that they need to look at things ''like grown men''', because he assumes he can teach them out of the street-ways, without considering the mentality of his opposition - which ends up getting him killed
String totally underestimated the importance of real estate, which was ironic, because he understood the power and value of real estate in the legitimate world. Seems who could have just 'bought' some of the corners and then protected the corners with muscle. Not the way the do it in 'the game', but surprising he wouldn't understand the importance of real estate, when he was "Mr. Real Estate", in the legitimate world. Even the 'crew' intuitively knew they needed real estate for the sale of the product. Bodie was basically 'channeling' what Avon would have wanted. After the low-rises fell, Avon would have been snatching up corners left and right.
In my opinion, he didn't underestimate real estate, he overestimated legitimate real estate. He wanted to leave all of this gangster shit behind so bad, that he jumped right into the business trap. I bet Marlo would wind up the same in the end, except for brother Mouzone part.
Makrateli not exactly. Marlo understands that he knows nothing about the legit world and would not arrogantly walk onto a business venture without his lawyer. You see how tight he was with Joe when it came to that shit. Plus Levy told him not to talk to those suits without him in the room. "They'll bleed you."
Dajwon Hurd Well honestly, Stringer DID have meetings with those suits with Levy present. We don’t see it, but we know it because they were at Avon’s homecoming bash at Orlando’s. But Avon, straight-up, said that they weren’t gonna rob HIM, and Avon leaves the table where Levy and the building contractor are sitting at. But in Season 3, Stringer is becoming impatient, with the permits process! And on the federal level, there’s nothing most real estate developers can do, except WAIT your turn. So that’s why Stringer was foolish enough to think that he could “shortcut” that process by throwing money at a Senator, without informing his lawyer.
"N-$$a, you ain't got the floor, chair didn't recognize yo' ass". I wonder if these combination of words were ever uttered in the history of the English language.
String trying to resolve this like a labor dispute while neglecting that the loss of stable territory makes the lives of his corner boys like Boadie and Poot more dangerous
omfg. Idris Elba's such an amazing actor. I'd like to see an alternate ending in which Stringer go legit successfully. The way he went out in the series is disheartening.
I will always be mad at the creators for not giving us our war and shootout between Avon and Marlo. They were gunna destroy Marlo end of season 3 but noooooooooo!
Poot saying what everybody in the meeting... and I DO mean everybody except for String, was thinking. Even levelheaded Big G Slim knew what it was (supposed to be..) when Bodie spoke up.. jus nodding like "hell yeah thats right" XD. String, with his ambitions and mindset, had the money, the means and should've just gtf outta dodge, leave Bmore in the rearview, but he pinned himself against the walls of his own real estate
The undercurrent of the parliamentary rules versus their "street corner mentality" foreshadows the Stringer's conflict to become a legit enterprise. Bodie struggles with the decorum and Stringer loses it, smacks the mic, and explicitly abandons the rules when he gets mad. "Adjourn your asses" sums it up nicely.
“Do the chair know that we gon look like some punk ass bitches out there?” 😂😂😂 one of the best lines in the series
the realest shit said in that meeting 😂😂
String’s reaction was priceless LOL
@@richardkrilljr.8711 because he knew he was right, but he was tryna be a businessman 😂
Poot said sum Avon would say 😂
@@TheBlackKakashi
RIP R "Stringer" Bell
" A man without a country...... wasn't hard enuff for dis shit right here... and maybe... just maaybee....
not smart enuff for them suits out there "
Perfect symbolism of stringer in one scene. Tries to make the game civilized but as soon as someone challenges him he reverts right back to the street using intimidation/violence.
He never committed to one life.
Fr fr
Word. Definition of lukewarm. Stringer always been an A- cat.
He wanted it to be one way.
This and the scene where, after getting scammed by DOWNTOWN Clay Davis, he orders Slim to take him out, like if he was some thug from rival corner
Idris played that character perfectly
Just the line "Chair recognize Slim Charles" is inherently funny
lol
@@MasterK-hv4wsThe Wire had so many heartbreaking, dramatic and hilarious moments: The best written show ever! Boardwalk Empire, Banshee, Sharp Objects and Tokyo Vice are all up there as the best crime dramas ever made but The Wire is #1...HBO is king! 👑
I love how Shamrock is just concerned that Poot DID in fact have the floor
Sham was probably the worst of all Stringer bell's hires. He ran the sloppiest ship ever.
Lol, reading this reminds me of a Seinfeld quote when Jerry had a bounced check at a corner store and the owner refused to take it down, even though he owned the store.
"But it's your bodega"
"Even I am not above the policy"
He did tho' 🤣.
Shamrock could have been working for Blackrock had he been born somewhere else
Poot asked the million dollar question
That mic had one day until retirement.
MoRiellyMoProblems 😂😂
MoRiellyMoProblems 😂😂😂😂
Lmaoooooo
nigga is u takin notes on a criminal fuckin conspiracy?
that mic never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Bodies frustration, the dudes constantly interrupting him, and poots question.. This scene is pure comedy 😂
Stringer reminds me of the kid that comes home after his first semester of his freshman year after taking intro to economics and is telling his parents how to manage their finances
P. Bady Absolutely
U know we all had that moment when we wanted to spread some knowledge lol
But he was always right when it came to it. His approach was wrong for sure. He wanted to clean up gang shit. Not accepting those around him for what they were. No reason the council couldn't work. No reason not to become the silent partner. No reason not to become the Greek. He wanted to be acknowledged for how smart he was which was very dumb.
he make it look good tho
Except that it was his business. His finances to manage while Avon was away. And he was trying to save their lives. Not that he necessarily cared for them. But they were assets to him.
"yo, yo string, Poot did have the floor man" Lmaooo
"Shut the fuck up this nigga to ignorant to have the fucking floor"
Poot is straight wild for that line. 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣
Daquan B the look on his face after he says that kills me every time 😂😂
It was an official meeting and he had to keep the rules 😂
That guy is one of my favorite bit characters in the whole thing. He's the same dude who was taking minutes at the New Day Co-op meetings. I wish he could admin some of the meetings I have to sit through.
funny how poot the only one to make it out the game
yeah but his hairline didnt.
@@DrNickRiveria 😂
That's because the exchange is exactly what happens in real company meetings. No one really wants the truth, just agreement.
Weldon Bishop amen, brother
Boy ended up at footlocker
"Do the Chair know we gonna look like punkass bitches out there"
Poot was talking sense. Marlo saw Stringer's new "businessman" strategy for what it was: without Avon, he was weak. The shark smelled blood in the water. It was only a matter of time before he made his move.
*****
Marlo is alive and free at the end of the show. String's dead, Avon's locked up.
Bam!
correction: *ponkass* bitches
"Yo Chris...tell our people to tool up."
@@brohan914 Marlo rode the story with so much plot armor it was annoying. He should have been dropped within six episodes of his first appearance without all the lucky breaks he got throughout the show.
Only stringer can wear glasses and sip tea like a badass.
Leon Delvechio Ramirez Right? Excellent
just be as jacked as Idris Elba theory
Facts 😂😂😂😂
@West coast Dre I wouldn't go that far. After all he was the second in command of a long running large drug organization. He wanted to change the way the game is played but that doesn't necessarily make him a pussy
mcharleau your comment should have more likes
That mic slap was by far the most brutal death in the serie
Lol. He did f that mic up!
ROTFLMMFAO 😭💀
There go a life that had to be snatched.
@@imnotwatchin 😅
Stringer drinking the tea gives away the fact that he is an Englishman.
Ha! I never thought about that.
There's also a scene in season 3 where McNulty is drinking tea during a meeting with Brianna Barksdale. Nice!
U sound dumb
Mr Originality how ? .... please elaborate on how they sound dumb and I’m sure u can’t come up with a answer why
@@Mr.GoodVibesCaLi how tf does drinking tea make you an englishmen?
Spot on
R.I.P to the microphone that lost its life during this scene.
Will B lol! Best. Comment. Ever.
Will B I caught that as well. I wonder if that was ad libbed?
Will B Lmao it didnt stand a chance
RIP to homeboys hairline
Lol
The chair never did recognize Poot's hairline.
1010Huey 😩😩😩😩
It was pushed all the way back
that boy hair line so far back it's still fighting for voting rights!
yoooo😂
Poot's own mother don't recognise that boys hairline.
Shamrock hard like a rock. The audacity to challenge Stringer and defend Poot; he did in fact have the floor.
“Chair ain’t recognize your ass man.” Love how Shamrock acting hard like he wasn’t snitching later on 😂
Who did he snitch on
@@bthaman1855 That man was singing in an interrogation room at the end of the episode when Avon got locked up.
@Lefter Mc Pointing to someone on a layout of photos when two detectives have you in an enclosed room handcuffed to the table? pretty sure he wasnt saying smd like bodie lol
Is you taking notes on a mutha*fucking criminal conspiracy Shamrock YES lol singing like a canary
He was with the rest of the crew getting sentenced though
idris played stringer to the absolute best
The guy that played Carver auditioned for Stringer 😂
Svahn 😭😭😭😭
@@StephNuggs Idris auditioned for Avon lol
@@BossofBosses111 🤔
@@BossofBosses111 Yeah I heard that. He probably thought Avon would be the better role because he was the head of the drug empire but Stringer Bell turned out to be the far more interesting character and role.
that microphone had hopes and dreams
Lol
Now they're dead and buried like Squidward's
These are the most hilarious comments I have ever read. Y'all are just too funny😂😂😂
I love how Slim had enough respect to address him as Chair, knowing this was some straight up nonsense. That's one reason why he made it so far, just played along and taking notes the whole way
"What if they don't cop our reup?"
What's so funny bout this was stringer talking bout no killing yet he tried to kill a state senator!
stringer just did not seem to understand crime and business could not mix. i think Marlo, Avon and prop Joe knew the difference but stringer kind of thought it was the same thing rolled into one
i mean he confused what he did for legit business instead of crime and thought he could just hit someone like Davis the same way he could hit Omar-he did not seem to know the two realms were very different unlike someone like Avon who was extremely careful, for instance he did not want his liquor license messed up with drug dealing by Orlando..stringer was just too careless in that regard. the underworld cannot just be transformed into meetings with senators, running for office, real estate unless you act with care, other wise you will be conned by the clay Davis types of this world, what Avon called playing away games.
stinger didn't have a quarter of avons brains or balls
Because like all criminals he's a hypocrite.
Stringer was basically a fool.
Stringer trying to turn street corner dudes into business men is hilarious
“Do the chair know we gone look like some PONK ASS BITCHES out there” 😂😂😂 best line of this scene. Poot was only telling the truth
😂😂 right shit had me dying laughing first time I seen it
I think once string said we done running corners..what territory we have..etc, the crew lost respect for him cuz he trying to run gangsta shi like a legit business.
Desmond W True. Stringer was really holding council meetings for a drug organization. And giving up three of the 6 towers they had to East side was bad for business. That was the beginning of the end for the Barksdale crew.
@@kellychante1695 lol another good point @ holding council meetings for drug dealers. Lol "chair recognizes Slim Charles" lol
@@macksun except, the only reason they 'lost respect' for him for doing that is, they really were too ignorant.
If Stringer was dealing with smarter dudes, they'd respect him more not less.
chair recognize slim charles
Poot's line was CLASSIC
Poot just telling the truth.....
Dennis Pierre no he wasn’t like stringer said start thinking like grown men
@Robb Dark and that's why you buy police protection
@@MICDaBoss1 poot wasnt telling the truth? Remind me which character got killed at the end of season 3 for trying to turn the game into a legitimate business? And which one actually survived all 5 seasons and made it out the game.
@Robb Dark And Marlo accomplished exactly what Stringer is preaching here - like a straight up G though, no businessman bullshit. Marlo was a hybrid between Avon and Stringer. He took the connect, had the monopoly on the dope, forced people to sell his product - if not, they got ran off their corners or clipped on the spot. He had the real estate and the product AND everybody was eatin, meanwhile Marlo gets the lion's share of course. This is why Marlo won imo.
Nick Parsons he survived because he was at the bottom of the barrel. Most of those guys transition out because they are leaving the bottom and starting at the bottom. Case and point, he started working at a shoe store. Not a very high paying job. Marlo who was top dog became a big time investor. Most people like Marlo never get out alive or free. Because all eyes are on them. Everybody trying to take their spot.
Remember watching the show and when they introduced Slim Charles he just had a presence about him, and he’s the guy who ends up on top when the show ends and has one of the most badass scenes in the entire show to go out on.
“That was for Joe...”
Is it safe to say that Poot was right all along?
Chaos ZT 💯Oh yeah!
Avon would have told String to shut the fuck up and take those corners that day. No talking.
Stringer was right but his methods were wrong. The business part was key. But you can’t run a drug business without some bloodshed. If he was smart he would’ve killed both Marlo and Avon. Those 2 were NEVER gonna change
Most definitely. That's how Marlo was able to get a foothold. He saw Stringer as weak, especially when String tried to parley with him.
Poot made it out alive. I'd say he was right.
01:34 is the key part of the scene. When poot realises that even the muscle are not buying Into stringers plan, it gives him the confidence to speak up.
Just clocked this now
The phucking eyes on You. Thanks for figuring that shit up.
Good catch!
I loved this scene because it shows some people are who they are. You can show them a different way of doing things, but they're set in their ways.
@mrcunn02 Exactly, Stringer talking about Ford vs Toyota out of a book. Poot asked the question everyone in that room was thinking... Slim was coming at with more finesse but still saying the same thing. Stringer was a snake and his bad decision making got him killed...
It also shows the flaw in trying to run the drug game like legitimate business. String had good intentions but failed to realize that the drug business has rules and consequences that legitimate business doesn't have to abide by. Some similairites because both are business models but the strategies don't align at all.
I read it completely differently. This isn't some wall street corporate business. This is literally a cut throat I will kill you business to get ahead. Where the guy with the most muscles will take over your operation...Like Morlo. To be feared and respected is the part of the equation Stringer discounted and the fear and respect came from holding those territories and the things other organizations know yours would do if you stepped out on their territories.
Avon said it best "I ain't no suite wearing businessman like you. I'm just a gangster I suppose and I want my corners."
they want it to be one way, but its the other way...
@@Cevensities Stringer did not understand what BUNNY COLVIN did (understand). That he was talking to street level people about a MIDDLE MANAGER problem. Or even a BOSS problem. You take this to the bosses first before taking it to your soldiers. Marlo said NO. So that should have been the end of all that talk. Instead Stringer says, "Well, Ima worry about that when it happens??" Dumb.
I love how it ends,
"Adjourn your asses"
Lmao
Leon Delvechio Ramirez I texted that to a friend of mine the other day, rewatching the series. new favorite String quote for the moment.
How fun would it be to actually end a board meeting with that line?
Can imagine Avon getting out of prison and seeing how Stringer was holding meetings lol
Right like wtf is you talking bout
I can’t count how many times i’ve used that “ayo chair ain’t recognize yo ass mane” line on my friends when they just butt in on the convo
Shamrock and his Robert's Rules Book was a whole story arc in itself 😂
Bro read that shit diligently 😂
Lol I love him calling him "Mr. Charles" like Slim is his first name
Maybe his last name is Charles!
2:41 when someone says they couldn't watch wire cos it was boring
lmao. bruh "they did have the chair".
@@200iqpoints9choottt da PHUCK up man. Them ppl who don't watch the Wire are too ignorant to have a phucking floor. Let alone a chair.
This whole scene is hilarious he’s talking to these gangsters like it’s a business conference “until then mr Charles, we will handle this shit like businessman” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funny thing is Marlo did the same exact strategy stringer recommended with a little "twist"...
Marlo FORCED other crews to take his package, or else it meant war
Stringer feared war cause he feared death or doing time not realizing that police presence is apart of the game no matter how clean you appear
that's why marlo got caught
Stringer was only doing the whole civilized act just so he can get away from the game and do his real estate shit
war? Snoop and Chris would have been brief with em like they said haha
He tried to turn gangstas into businessmen lol
I know but with these lot its like trying to teach a hippo ballet
Into bidnesmen*
This is probably one of the best scenes from a tv series I have seen. Socioeconomic lessons and street law in one session. I'm done commenting. Adjourn your asses
1:36 poot already knew what was really going on
Couldn’t even answer Slims second question😂
That's how you knew it was a terrible idea lol
Stringer Bell knocked the shit out of that microphone at the end.
Lol
Always love it how String acting like "grown up business man" that is smarter than everyone in the game but the minute sometimes ask a relatively hard question he instantly switches to his gangsta persona to answer it instead of convincing them in his own "business sense".
Shows how little he understands the reality of different games and how they are played and their own spesific rules.
It wasnt a hard question slim charles already asked a similar question before poot did and stringers response was that fight for those territories is only going disrupt their access to the product and profit as well as bring attention from the police. stringers plan is make the money then buy out the competition and deal with anyone who resists the re-up, but poots to hard head to get that.
@@daddyGbaby Yeah, and poot explains simply you can't "buy out" competition in an unlawful enviroment where other leaders motive can be different than simply making money. String knows this enviroment, he just ignores it.
lmao charles minor here kills me
stringer: we no longer gangsters :)
poot: gang members will see as as weak sir
stringer: *aggressively becomes gangster*
Adjourn your asses. I think I'll have to use that at my next meeting.
What’s crazy is that Stringer is just reemphasizing what D wanted to do all along. Just sell it and move along.
Too bad it doesn't work in this game.
@@dinoXAs2 It does when you're not on some hood shit. Plenty of people sell drugs in non-violent markets. You move discretely and avoid attention from violent idiots because that's what brings heat. Fiends don't tend to have a lot of money either, you're better off targeting yuppies that like to party, just need to be able to hang in the same circles as the professionals.
@@johnnycigar3240 these hood and turf gangsters arent those people
At 1:34, Poot looks over and sees one of Stringer's upper-level guys shaking his head in frustration when Stringer talks about given up territory for the sake of improving their product.
Then, at 2:23, Stringer seems to disregard the notion that they would be in trouble if Prop Joe doesn't keep the supply coming, then you see Poot shake his head. (disagreeing with them having to depend on a rival and ceding ground to do it)
Pretty clever secondhand development going on. Since Poot tells Stringer straight to his face exactly what would wind up happening in the end. The plan makes them look weak and it emboldened someone like Marlo to take them on and push them off their own territory.
Problem was this, String looking at this as a boss. Poot, Slim and the rest still understand you are dealing with gangsters. Not businessmen. If you don’t keep a tight lock on what you have it’s gonna get took. Avon and Marlo understood that. That’s why they essentially made it out alive
Be honest, if Stringer would’ve killed them both first, he could’ve ran the Co-op exactly the way he wanted to.
@@l.alexsharp8666 Another Marlo would’ve risen up. Avon said it best, no Marlo no game
classic problem in the working world, management is out of touch, the workers out on the floor know alot of their pie-in-the-sky proposals wont hold up in the real world
I don't think string was looking at it long term,he just needed enough money and no heat from tye cops so he could be free of the game but he never thought he'd get done by clay Davis like he did or he'd have all the problems with development
@@user-sk4wf3ve6z Clay Davis? The Clay Davis? Downtown Clay Davis?
Stringer trying to educated wolves, was the beginning of the downfall for the Barksdale crew. Wolves need to hunt and howl, but Stringer got them in a fucking board meeting lol
+denmark555 Trying to educate.
Nah Avon fucked it up by not listening to him. He even admitted it once he saw how wasteful war was. String and Prop Joe were revolutionizing the game until they got taken out by some pride-obsessed psychos who wanted to be feared more than they wanted money.
what was stronger revoloutionising?? He dragged prop joe down too. Stinger was fucking up left right and centre. He dismantled avons discipline code. He let soldiers do drugs. He was fucking a fallen soldiers baby momma. He failed to find a new decent supply from new York. The one place he coulda made peace, (with omar) he like a dumbass kid tried to con omar while killing brother mouzon the one man who could truly protect this fuck up from marlo and omar. Stinger was a dumbass. A decent consiglieri but a terrible don . avon had the balls, intelligence and patience bell didn't and avon was street tough and feared as well as a natural born businessman.
actually both stringer and avon were both right. the issue was they didnt balance it out correctly. without stringer avon would of lost alot of money. just like without avon stringer people would lose status
in the end, Avon was going to waste Marlo and return all of the west side to a peaceful place for Barksdale business with the Eastside. It was STRINGER who nailed the coffin shut. Avon made one mistake for every 20 string made. Stringer was a liar and snitched like a woman. Destroyed Baltimore just like that.
Man still one of my favorites and one the funniest scenes of the wire lol
I woulda broke character and been crying laughing when Stringer slapped that mic
"You with prop joe now?" "I never would've thought." "Yea life strange"
Look at String trying to apply Robert's Rules of Order to the ghetto where the rules of "The Game" are as understood as string theory.
>string theory
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Rob M Stringer liked showing off his community college education to junior high drop outs, yeah
But once he got in with college grads and law school degrees, he couldn’t handle it.
Poot is right, Slim Charles is right, Avon is right - this is business but it’s business without the threat of the coercive violence of the state able to resolve your disputes (other than snitching, which isn’t quite the same as a lawsuit). To be a rational, reasonable businessman you gotta include folks for whom reputation and power itself are the ultimate currency, not gaining those things through money.
Stringer, unlike Marlo, wasn’t smart enough to know what he didn’t know. And I imagine if he’d ever dealt with the Greeks directly, they’d have seen him as a pretentious and untrustworthy social climber rather than what they were looking for: a gangster capable of enforcing order himself to sell the drugs that made them money.
"This ain't ya business classes String, its that other thing." boy he needed Avon badly here
Adjourn your asses. I am gonna strat using that in my meetings. 😂
poot stayed alive from season 1 to the end hes the real king
Here we go, me on another Wire clip binge. It just popped in my head
This is a heartbreaking moment for Poot but also his realization that growing up and thinking about the game like a man means getting out of that life
I like how Slim just soaking up the learning.
String: ". . and later, for that gangsta bullshit."
*get mildly challenged*
String: **right back to that gangsta bullshit**
It annoys me at how much Stringer was believing his own fantasy in that he could change and evolve the game.
String was too clever by half.
Yes Rich, String thought the game could be run like Apple or Microsoft....NOPE
@@ANTHONY0808able Bruh haven't you heard of Lucky Luciano he believed that war was bad for business. All of the gang land violence will only run off customers and bring the attention of the police. Even the police will allow you make to make a dishonest buck if you keep the shit to a minimum or non existent.
@Rich P. Aw come on bruh, haven't read any history books? Some of the biggest criminals were very savy business men. How do you think that the mafia stayed in power for so, long. They spread the wealth around to cops, judges or anyone who was part of the game.
String wasn't wrong, and he ran the west side for a while with his methods. He died because of his side beef with Omar, and at that point he was already well on his way to transitioning into legitimate business with his criminal money. Like Chad said above, he was following in the footsteps of plenty of wise gangsters who see the way out of the crab bucket into real wealth.
Lol poot said what everyone else was thinking
It is under rated how funny and entertaining wire is apart from being so real.
one does not simply not fuck with Poot lol thats my guy
+Gregg Washington lol!!!! I can see the Ned Stark/ Sean Bean meme now!
Myk McGrane right lol
Gregg Washington Say what you want about him the dude is a survivor. Big Poot!
From his very first scene, slim Charles displayed a different kind of street wisdom. He knew from the get go that stringer’s plan wasn’t gonna last. I feel like if some characters introduced in later seasons show how some of the OG characters came to be, then slim is Avon. They both stuck to a strict code and ended up at the top in the end with everyone’s respect
Poot was a legend
Poot is one of few who walked away clean from the game
@@terencethomas5063 More like ran away. Literally
His name means "fart"
Shamrock holding a copy of Robert’s rules of order 🤣🤣
Strings way he the only one making money. If the hoppers don't have a corner they have no income nor do they have a purpose
geoff Barksdale's people would still be selling, though. When the corner chiefs accepted the connect it was on the condition that they share territory with Barkdale's people. Bubbles even confirms this when he is sent to report on which crews were running which corners. Kima couldn't figure out how the Barkdales were able to spread out to new territories without dropping bodies.
Ted87 I think his point is that to get the connect in the first place String had to hand off half the towers and low risers, meaning they only need half the labor to work half the space. You up the profit, and cut the cost.
Everyone in that room knows and understands that String was out of his game with the street. Starting with Slim, Poot, the guy to the left of Stringer and lastly Shamrock who didn’t care if Poot had the floor, POOT HAD A SOLID ASS POINT THAT AVON HIMSELF WOULD’VE AGREED WITH!
This is poots best scene in the show. 😂
Here just for Stringer's priceless reaction LOL
"Adjourn your asses" might be one of the most impactful lines from a tv show to date.
1.58 The way that hand comes in is one of the best bits of direction on The Wire.
"You don't have the floor, chair doesn't recognize your ass"
I love all of the logistics Stringer integrated over the course of the show from his business classes
I like how the higher members of the crew (like Slim Charles) integrated well into Stringers' academic methods, but lower level ''pawns'' like Bodie and Poot couldn't properly grasp them and couldn't leave the street mentality behind. I think it's interesting when we consider Stringers' statement that they need to look at things ''like grown men''', because he assumes he can teach them out of the street-ways, without considering the mentality of his opposition - which ends up getting him killed
Mr. Bodie lol
And Mr. Charles:)
String totally underestimated the importance of real estate, which was ironic, because he understood the power and value of real estate in the legitimate world. Seems who could have just 'bought' some of the corners and then protected the corners with muscle. Not the way the do it in 'the game', but surprising he wouldn't understand the importance of real estate, when he was "Mr. Real Estate", in the legitimate world. Even the 'crew' intuitively knew they needed real estate for the sale of the product. Bodie was basically 'channeling' what Avon would have wanted. After the low-rises fell, Avon would have been snatching up corners left and right.
In my opinion, he didn't underestimate real estate, he overestimated legitimate real estate. He wanted to leave all of this gangster shit behind so bad, that he jumped right into the business trap. I bet Marlo would wind up the same in the end, except for brother Mouzone part.
Makrateli not exactly. Marlo understands that he knows nothing about the legit world and would not arrogantly walk onto a business venture without his lawyer. You see how tight he was with Joe when it came to that shit. Plus Levy told him not to talk to those suits without him in the room. "They'll bleed you."
Dajwon Hurd Well honestly, Stringer DID have meetings with those suits with Levy present. We don’t see it, but we know it because they were at Avon’s homecoming bash at Orlando’s. But Avon, straight-up, said that they weren’t gonna rob HIM, and Avon leaves the table where Levy and the building contractor are sitting at. But in Season 3, Stringer is becoming impatient, with the permits process! And on the federal level, there’s nothing most real estate developers can do, except WAIT your turn. So that’s why Stringer was foolish enough to think that he could “shortcut” that process by throwing money at a Senator, without informing his lawyer.
"N-$$a, you ain't got the floor, chair didn't recognize yo' ass". I wonder if these combination of words were ever uttered in the history of the English language.
3:00 I felt some "Training Day" Denzel Washington charisma in this scene.
1:57 the hand coming into the shot and dude just saying “come on man” sends me every time.
String trying to resolve this like a labor dispute while neglecting that the loss of stable territory makes the lives of his corner boys like Boadie and Poot more dangerous
2:40 RIP my guy, Mike
Adjourn your asses!!! Lol
The irony in this scene is EXCELLENT. Stringer made Poot look like an absolute punk after he asked his question lol.
omfg. Idris Elba's such an amazing actor. I'd like to see an alternate ending in which Stringer go legit successfully. The way he went out in the series is disheartening.
Man he fake and a weasel. He had the right strat but no real loyalty
We almost lost Poot in that scene. He did the right thing in that situation by just shutting up and sitting down. Stringer was towering above poot.
😂
Idris Elba absolutely nailed this role. He was the best part of the show.
Every character in wire did an amazing job at acting
I did not like him in the beginning, felt a little staged, but it's true he was excellent
1:34 Love this shot
That old guy in the Kangol hat knew bullshit when he heard it.
A very deep scene, Stringer makes the same mistake economists make: tunnel vision
This is where Stringer fuked up. Got soft on territory and let people like Marlo rise up, which inevitably turned out to be his downfall.
His downfall was double crossing brother mouzone
I will always be mad at the creators for not giving us our war and shootout between Avon and Marlo. They were gunna destroy Marlo end of season 3 but noooooooooo!
I KNOW RIGHT
All throughout Stringers aquaintence with poot, he must be thinking , "who recruited this dumb maw fucker!". He hated poot. lol
RIP to that Mic... and RIP to Poots Hairline
Poot saying what everybody in the meeting... and I DO mean everybody except for String, was thinking.
Even levelheaded Big G Slim knew what it was (supposed to be..) when Bodie spoke up.. jus nodding like "hell yeah thats right" XD. String, with his ambitions and mindset, had the money, the means and should've just gtf outta dodge, leave Bmore in the rearview, but he pinned himself against the walls of his own real estate
Do The Chair Know We Gonna Look Like Some Punk Ass Bitchez Out There - Poot
Stringer's strategy made a lot of sense, he just reached further than his grasp.
What did the microphone do to deserve that?
It wasn't recognized by the chair.
Deserve got nothin' to do with it.
The microphone was just a little slow; a little late.
@@CrewMate-r1m - like a 40 degree day!
The undercurrent of the parliamentary rules versus their "street corner mentality" foreshadows the Stringer's conflict to become a legit enterprise. Bodie struggles with the decorum and Stringer loses it, smacks the mic, and explicitly abandons the rules when he gets mad. "Adjourn your asses" sums it up nicely.
Stringer was listening to too much Jay-Z in this time
I have been rewatching these Wire clips, but I always search the comments for Poot related stuff. Always the best.