The Wire | Chair Recognize 

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 "

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

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

MoRiellyMoProblems 😂😂

MoRiellyMoProblems 😂😂😂😂

Lmaoooooo

nigga is u takin notes on a criminal fuckin conspiracy?

that mic never had the makings of a varsity athlete

lol

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

"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.

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.

***** 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.

Lol. He did f that mic up!

ROTFLMMFAO 😭💀

There go a life that had to be snatched.

@@imnotwatchin 😅

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

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.

Business men are Gangsta

Devastating rebuttal 😂😂😂

​@@johnsmile434 bruh 😅😅😅😅

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

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.

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😂😂😂

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

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

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.

"What if they don't cop our reup?"

😂😂 right shit had me dying laughing first time I seen it

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.

@Desmond W 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.

You better learn that the bosses don't like hearing inconvenient truths.

@@kellychante1695 Apparently it wasn't bad for business, since their profits increased

Poot did have tha floor man 😂😂😂

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.

Right like wtf is you talking bout

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?

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.

Maybe his last name is Charles!

@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.

lmao. bruh "they did have the chair".

I know but with these lot its like trying to teach a hippo ballet

Into bidnesmen*

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

There was a bit of that for sure but I think the point they were trying to get across was that as soon as things weren't going Stringer's way he'd drop that "business man" facade and go street which is why he never made it out the game.

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.

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

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?

Just clocked this now

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.

>string theory nice.png

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.

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.

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.

+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!

Poot is one of few who walked away clean from the game

@@terencethomas5063 More like ran away. Literally

His name means "fart"

His downfall was double crossing brother mouzone

And Mr. Charles:)

That old guy in the Kangol hat knew bullshit when he heard it.

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

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.

😂

I KNOW RIGHT

Man he fake and a weasel. He had the right strat but no real loyalty