He got played by Joe and played by Clay the same way. String didn’t realize once everyone has product it’s going be ok and it goes back to who gots spots. The game is the game.
Stringer bell played those fuck away games, his ego told him that he can pull this off on his own. He wanted validation from levy and received a reality check.
My cousins bf works in Wall Street . Damn the stories he tells me of these dudes ripping each other of when their lawyers are caught slipping , damn man legit crooks , all legal .
Cool thing about this scene is how Stringer is standing in the shadows beneath this grand building where Levy probably works most the time (courthouse?) and he comes out to deal with Stringers stupid shit and then goes back to his regular day job as if he isn't involved with the most notorious drug criminals
Multiple rewatches later, the scenes where Stringer is talking to the lawyers, politicians, and other businessmen is so funny compared to when he boastfully tries to educate his drug crews. The white collars just look at him like he's dumb and Levy laughs at his logic with bribing. He took some econ classes and really thought he knew how investments worked with politics 🥴🤣
@marcrose3403 exactly. He wouldn't even know how to retaliate if he was scammed on the street side. You see with D'Angelo, he still kinda messed up and his gangster card was tested when he pitifully tried to put Omar on Mouzone. Avon got on him for questioning Mouzone, too 🤣🤣🤣
@marcrose3403 yeah, Avon put him in his place for the street stuff. You can be as ruthless as they come, but nobody who is trying to stay on top of a drug game wants murders and DEFINITELY not of police or some official. It was great how they showed he wasn't hood enough for the streets and not smart enough for business. He could only ride the fence and he didn't know how to be content with that
I love the acting from Idris Elba here. You can see so much on his face, in his voice - it's like he'd built a house in his head with all these beautiful pillars, and Levy is just knocking them down one by one. He doesn't cuss Levy out, he doesn't threaten him, he's just like "But this--!" and Levy's like "Nope, not that one either". And he's getting more and more angry, but also he's like... he knows that Levy is right but he keeps offering up these arguments hoping that one of them will bail him out. Then the slow fade away as he sits down on a bench, puts his head in his hand like he's still trying to wrap his mind around how much he fucked up - how Davis made him, the hit to his self-image as a businessman and a person of importance, and the visual contrast of him sitting in the shadows next to gleaming City Hall. It's so good: the acting, directing and writing all together.
Yes 💯💯 real shit. Well written. He knows he's grasping for straws at the end outta desperation. Anything to make himself think he's still in the game when he's actually fucked "I seen Chunky.. Chunky Coates" Levy's like yeah? That's all you got?💯💯
@@ArvinYorro oh yeah. Don't think they aren't grabbing from the penal system and in on law enforcement drug money and on and on they go. The worst of society. And it isn't even close.
I don't see any hint of envy in his speech or eyes. Just Pure admiration that the ole dog (clay Davis) was still up to his old tricks and this young pup who his rush handed over his bone to the older much experienced dog. Even tho that ole dog was told him many times not to. Stringer bell must have had hell of charisma to get the 411 on how things operate from everyone who knew. Yet he didn't listen. I guess that is the difference Between real polo tops and the fake ones. The color don't fade on the real ones no matter the weather hence why the price difference. Always go for the original cuz the world is full of clay Davies and most of them unlike Clay Davies won't tell to put your bone back in your pocket. He did warn him countless times.
Nah he wasn’t envious at all, he literally warned Stringer about Clay Davis multiple times. He’s just a bit angry & disappointed that Stringer was dumb enough to fall for Clay’s games when he had a lawyer like him. Stringer should’ve told Levy before making that move. If you have good Lawyers use them.
Agreed, he was definitely smart but made really dumb choices. He wanted to be a businessman in the drug game and a thug in business world. Turns out he couldn't do both and it resulted in his death. Avon called him out for "playing too many away games" And messing around too much thinking he always made the right decisions. Even as ruthless as the drug game is in the wire there were still rules to abide by. Things like green lighting the attack on Omar during the Sunday morning truce was something Avon couldn't stand for. Then ordering Slim to kill Clay Davis after he got screwed over by him. Avon had to put a stop to that before it got out of hand and they had the Feds all over them.
Yeah Marlo is running wild and Stringer tries to act as a business man in front of him. Clay Davis takes money from Stringer and Stringer tries to act as a thug by trying to kill him.
The great thing about this scene is that it articulates a con that has universal applicability to a number of "respectable" "professions," i.e. medicine, education, etc.
Posting a video of Stringer getting rainmade while, in the description of the very same video, trying to rainmake people with "free stocks"? Sheeeeeeeee-it!
Nah man, the free stock thing is real... but it's like a $5 or $2 dollar single stock though. End of the day you'll loose more money on Robinhood than what you make back.
@@KjWhite-l2h Directly to who needs to be bribed; not use a middle man. Get elected to local government; then just push all grants to your subsidiaries. It's what the corrupt ones do in my town. Own local companies; make sure they get all the action.
Love how this scene is a follow up to Frank Sobotka's "We Used To Build Stuff." EDIT: season 2- Frank Sobotka "We used to make sh*t in this country, build sh*t. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket." Season 3: Levy [to String] "...and Clay Davis? That goniff was born with his hand in someone's pocket."
Carcetti became governor. Rawls, chief of state PD. Cedric retires with a 25 year pension and becomes a lawyer. Valchek becomes commissioner. Naymond gets adopted to a family where he can utilize his potential. Templeton wins a Pulitzer (on BS), Cutty turns his life around, Carver learns from his mistakes and is the next Bunny, Nerese becomes mayor, Pearlman becomes a judge...think all ended up doing pretty damn well and "won."
@@MrPimptastic1 Herc landed on his feet working for Levy, Sydnor became the new badass cop in Baltimore taking McNulty's spot, Michael became the new stick up king taking Omar's place, Marlo got to stay outta jail despite everything he did, Poot walked away from the game with his life, Bubbles got clean, Prez got the hang of being a teacher, Clay Davis beat his case and kept the support of Baltimore voters. Plenty of characters had good endings. It seemed like there were more positive endings than negative.
@@coreyrowe4119 Nix Marlo from your list cause while you and me and most anyone else would see him getting 10 mill and walking away from his collapsed empire relatively unscathed, Marlo ultimately lost the only thing that drove his character to make the moves and plays he been doing ever since he first got introduced. To wear the crown. Watch the last scene where Marlo hits the street and can't even get respect from some low level hoppers who didn't even know who he was much less what he did while they glorify Omar after the hood done immortalized him as going out shooting with a dozen of cops. Just like when Avon talked about getting amd wearing the crown, Marlo's whole existence was to be one of the ones that wore it...and don't nobody remember he did. Errybody else you pointed achieved their goals or had alternate futures in which they came back from scandal or never got damaged. Marlo done and that money couldn't heal his soul none. Watch how he laughs at the ending realizing his cut arm means he ain't King no more.
I looked it up, according the Maryland state government web portal, state legislators are paid $50,330. That’s current. Explains why Clay Davis had his hand in everyone’s pocket. The city council makes more. Somewhere around $70,000.
People shit on Stringer, but he had a good ideal. He was gonna be the first to raise them out of dirty money and move to legit living for generations. This reminds me of a sharecropper trying to go out on their own. Breaks my heart seeing corporate reject him and the streets consume him. Greatest show of all time
Season 3 In the streets his aim was to make things safe and legit no more violence, in the businessman world he wanted to cut corners and do things none legit 🤣 look where it got him poor guy
@@golga14 I am trying to find the scene, but he basically tells Avon they should kill whomever might snitch on them and or if they can't do the time. That's effectively accessory to murder. And the second time was bribing a city judge for access to sworn grand jury testimony.
Levy’s not stupid enough to fuck with a drug lord’s money. Besides, why would he needs to steal when he’s making more than enough off their cases, AND topping it off with a cut of whatever business dealings he sets up for them through shell companies? In the end, we never see Avon, Stringer, Prop Joe, or Marlo EVER get screwed out of any money by Levy and he always gets them the best outcomes they can in court. And he’s handsomely compensated for that both in money and reputation. He looks out for his clients best interest because that attracts new clients, pure long con.
Since we viewers were seeing ignorant drug dealers, we were led to believe that Stringer was some kind of criminal mastermind, when he actually was a little bit intelligent, but still a guy from the projects who only had a community college degree
Poor Stringer, He thought his community college business classes was gonna help him with legit crooks.
Playing those away games
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A smaller predator who never really realized they were in the presence of a much bigger, more lethal predator
He got played by Joe and played by Clay the same way. String didn’t realize once everyone has product it’s going be ok and it goes back to who gots spots. The game is the game.
@@lorenzoramirez3063Clay played him for 250K & Joe played him for his very short extra short sighted life
Only levy could get away laughing at stringer to his face. Avon too.
His laugh makes me laugh 😂
And Clay Davis
He loved Avon
What do you mean Avon too??
Avon is the boss not Stringer.
Yes
If you have a good lawyer, use them.
Stringer bell played those fuck away games, his ego told him that he can pull this off on his own. He wanted validation from levy and received a reality check.
It is in this scene that we learn who the real gangsters are and it’s not the guys in the streets!
Follow the money
No shit lmao
You not a gangster if you allowed to do something
My cousins bf works in Wall Street . Damn the stories he tells me of these dudes ripping each other of when their lawyers are caught slipping , damn man legit crooks , all legal .
@@july9566The real crooks & criminals are legal seating in Politician seats & other places just like those WallStreet folks
Cool thing about this scene is how Stringer is standing in the shadows beneath this grand building where Levy probably works most the time (courthouse?) and he comes out to deal with Stringers stupid shit and then goes back to his regular day job as if he isn't involved with the most notorious drug criminals
Also funny that he's talking about how Clay's guy met him in the lobby, while Levy is also meeting Stringer outside
The establishment stands large and powerful, a game beyond the game, stringer is in over his head
Multiple rewatches later, the scenes where Stringer is talking to the lawyers, politicians, and other businessmen is so funny compared to when he boastfully tries to educate his drug crews. The white collars just look at him like he's dumb and Levy laughs at his logic with bribing. He took some econ classes and really thought he knew how investments worked with politics 🥴🤣
😂😂😂 the funny thing is he got scammed like he was in the streets.
@marcrose3403 exactly. He wouldn't even know how to retaliate if he was scammed on the street side. You see with D'Angelo, he still kinda messed up and his gangster card was tested when he pitifully tried to put Omar on Mouzone. Avon got on him for questioning Mouzone, too 🤣🤣🤣
@@ashkeygii9449 he would have killed him… remember he tried to force slim Charles to kill him n Avon walked in on that convo
@marcrose3403 yeah, Avon put him in his place for the street stuff. You can be as ruthless as they come, but nobody who is trying to stay on top of a drug game wants murders and DEFINITELY not of police or some official. It was great how they showed he wasn't hood enough for the streets and not smart enough for business. He could only ride the fence and he didn't know how to be content with that
@@ashkeygii9449 I think him being connected to Avon n his family he really thought he was tough
I love the acting from Idris Elba here. You can see so much on his face, in his voice - it's like he'd built a house in his head with all these beautiful pillars, and Levy is just knocking them down one by one. He doesn't cuss Levy out, he doesn't threaten him, he's just like "But this--!" and Levy's like "Nope, not that one either". And he's getting more and more angry, but also he's like... he knows that Levy is right but he keeps offering up these arguments hoping that one of them will bail him out. Then the slow fade away as he sits down on a bench, puts his head in his hand like he's still trying to wrap his mind around how much he fucked up - how Davis made him, the hit to his self-image as a businessman and a person of importance, and the visual contrast of him sitting in the shadows next to gleaming City Hall. It's so good: the acting, directing and writing all together.
Yes 💯💯 real shit. Well written. He knows he's grasping for straws at the end outta desperation. Anything to make himself think he's still in the game when he's actually fucked "I seen Chunky.. Chunky Coates" Levy's like yeah? That's all you got?💯💯
"he came down to the lobby" 😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"What did I tell you about them away games"
powerful scene here... shows that the biggest con-men wear suit and ties (aka Clay Davis)...
Career politicians at their worst.
Yep,.
Levy, Clay Davis, the Mayor, the council men. They all created or compounded on the system that allowed crime to proliferate.
@@ArvinYorro oh yeah. Don't think they aren't grabbing from the penal system and in on law enforcement drug money and on and on they go. The worst of society. And it isn't even close.
Con man Davis
I think Levy was kind of envious at how Clay swindled his money
How?
@@golga14 Because all laywers are crooked. One thing you cab know for sure about attorneys, is they lie to you with the absolute truth.
@@13Gangland I guess you’re right
I don't see any hint of envy in his speech or eyes. Just
Pure admiration that the ole dog (clay Davis) was still up to his old tricks and this young pup who his rush handed over his bone to the older much experienced dog. Even tho that ole dog was told him many times not to.
Stringer bell must have had hell of charisma to get the 411 on how things operate from everyone who knew.
Yet he didn't listen.
I guess that is the difference
Between real polo tops and the fake ones. The color don't fade on the real ones no matter the weather hence why the price difference. Always go for the original cuz the world is full of clay Davies and most of them unlike Clay Davies won't tell to put your bone back in your pocket.
He did warn him countless times.
Nah he wasn’t envious at all, he literally warned Stringer about Clay Davis multiple times.
He’s just a bit angry & disappointed that Stringer was dumb enough to fall for Clay’s games when he had a lawyer like him.
Stringer should’ve told Levy before making that move.
If you have good Lawyers use them.
Wait THE Clay Davis? DOWNTOWN Clay Davis??
What that supposed to mean something to me man
Clay so grimy that he got an introduction like that 😂
@@michaelrussell8587 I don't know string murder ain't a thing but this some assassination shit
@@fjerome5958nigga I gotta remind you who tf you work for?!
@@fjerome5958 "I tell you your getting somebody you gettin them, I ain't askin"
This is what happened when Stringer started trying to run with the real criminals.
Stringer Bell was just Ziggy with books
😂 now thats some well earned disrespect youre giving poor Stringer
Stringer never had the makings of varsity buisnessman.
Yvette is making brisket.
To be one of the more educated characters on The Wire, Stringer was kinda dumb.
It goes to show you that educated is not a synonym for intelligent. Their people to have college degrees and still don’t have common sense
Agreed, he was definitely smart but made really dumb choices.
He wanted to be a businessman in the drug game and a thug in business world. Turns out he couldn't do both and it resulted in his death. Avon called him out for "playing too many away games" And messing around too much thinking he always made the right decisions.
Even as ruthless as the drug game is in the wire there were still rules to abide by. Things like green lighting the attack on Omar during the Sunday morning truce was something Avon couldn't stand for. Then ordering Slim to kill Clay Davis after he got screwed over by him. Avon had to put a stop to that before it got out of hand and they had the Feds all over them.
@@Richard-Espanol I think he was a thug in the drug game as well. He ordered a hit on Wallace. Businessmen don't do that.
Yeah Marlo is running wild and Stringer tries to act as a business man in front of him. Clay Davis takes money from Stringer and Stringer tries to act as a thug by trying to kill him.
He was BOOK smart......but that's it.
The great thing about this scene is that it articulates a con that has universal applicability to a number of "respectable" "professions," i.e. medicine, education, etc.
Posting a video of Stringer getting rainmade while, in the description of the very same video, trying to rainmake people with "free stocks"? Sheeeeeeeee-it!
Look man, I do what I can to help y'all. But the game is out there, and it's either play or get played. (Robinhood is actually pretty legit af)
Nah man, the free stock thing is real... but it's like a $5 or $2 dollar single stock though. End of the day you'll loose more money on Robinhood than what you make back.
😂 fuccc u i got hiccups cuz I choked on my water 😂 good one even tho im 2 years late
@@letsbepandas So your rationale is "If I don't do it, someone else will"
Every unintelligent scumbag on earth had used that very same rationale.
lmao
The thing is; bribes do happen; he just did it incorrectly.
How would you have gone about it ? Lobby’d & Donated it to the guys charity ?
@@KjWhite-l2h I wouldn't; they wouldn't take bribes from me. I'm not a player in that game.
@@RoganBits I’m speaking hypothetically of course ? I was asking how stringer “should’ve” went about it
@@KjWhite-l2h Directly to who needs to be bribed; not use a middle man. Get elected to local government; then just push all grants to your subsidiaries.
It's what the corrupt ones do in my town.
Own local companies; make sure they get all the action.
@@RoganBits and by “make sure they get all the action” you mean the new local companies that he would’ve now owned ?
0:05-0:24-0:49The look on Levy's face is like Stringer has been played😂😂😂😂
It's like watching Michael Jordan playing Double AA Baseball...lol
String got played so bad by Clay Davis that Levy has a term for that................🤣🤣🤣
Love how this scene is a follow up to Frank Sobotka's "We Used To Build Stuff."
EDIT: season 2- Frank Sobotka "We used to make sh*t in this country, build sh*t. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."
Season 3: Levy [to String] "...and Clay Davis? That goniff was born with his hand in someone's pocket."
Levy was the only character in The Wire that wins in the end.
and the greeks, never got caught and probably never will be with that federal guy they had on payroll
Carcetti became governor. Rawls, chief of state PD. Cedric retires with a 25 year pension and becomes a lawyer. Valchek becomes commissioner. Naymond gets adopted to a family where he can utilize his potential. Templeton wins a Pulitzer (on BS), Cutty turns his life around, Carver learns from his mistakes and is the next Bunny, Nerese becomes mayor, Pearlman becomes a judge...think all ended up doing pretty damn well and "won."
Yup. He just moves on to marlo than Mike and so on and so on
@@MrPimptastic1 Herc landed on his feet working for Levy, Sydnor became the new badass cop in Baltimore taking McNulty's spot, Michael became the new stick up king taking Omar's place, Marlo got to stay outta jail despite everything he did, Poot walked away from the game with his life, Bubbles got clean, Prez got the hang of being a teacher, Clay Davis beat his case and kept the support of Baltimore voters. Plenty of characters had good endings. It seemed like there were more positive endings than negative.
@@coreyrowe4119 Nix Marlo from your list cause while you and me and most anyone else would see him getting 10 mill and walking away from his collapsed empire relatively unscathed, Marlo ultimately lost the only thing that drove his character to make the moves and plays he been doing ever since he first got introduced. To wear the crown.
Watch the last scene where Marlo hits the street and can't even get respect from some low level hoppers who didn't even know who he was much less what he did while they glorify Omar after the hood done immortalized him as going out shooting with a dozen of cops.
Just like when Avon talked about getting amd wearing the crown, Marlo's whole existence was to be one of the ones that wore it...and don't nobody remember he did.
Errybody else you pointed achieved their goals or had alternate futures in which they came back from scandal or never got damaged. Marlo done and that money couldn't heal his soul none. Watch how he laughs at the ending realizing his cut arm means he ain't King no more.
Deep down inside I really wanted Clay to not be conning String
Levy is by far the biggest gangster of all the characters in the whole series
Lawyer
yewish
I got the shotgun, he's got the briefcase. It's All in the game
You not a gangster if your allowed to do something
What about Clay Davis, The Greek and Andy Krawczyk?
Alt storyline "who we hitting string?' "Maurice" "Maurice? Lawyer Maurice?"
I looked it up, according the Maryland state government web portal, state legislators are paid $50,330. That’s current. Explains why Clay Davis had his hand in everyone’s pocket. The city council makes more. Somewhere around $70,000.
People shit on Stringer, but he had a good ideal. He was gonna be the first to raise them out of dirty money and move to legit living for generations. This reminds me of a sharecropper trying to go out on their own. Breaks my heart seeing corporate reject him and the streets consume him. Greatest show of all time
that fucking gonif
"PLAYING THOSE AWAY GAMES"
“A quarter million you gave him.”
Hell even Avon said he seen it coming 😂😂😂
The Wire is the only show that I can think of that got huge after it was canceled
It got huge because of TH-cam
It did not get canceled it ended.
It wasn’t canceled
Arrested Development
He came down to the lobby 😂😂😂
Clay Davis really is that brazy
I love the part where Levy laughs when Bell tells him "He came down to the lobby."
I've seen chunky....chunky cult👀
you can tell Levy is protected by Avon in this scene.
Imagine Levy and Saul Goodman working together………
That would be a powerhouse defence team, you’d have all the bases covered.
Levy is like the best of Chuck and Jimmy combined into one
Imagine him and Clay Davis working together, they'd scam the whole world
@@Tony-fq5bnthey already was and for every dollar Clay Davis took Levy get a good portion of it
@@tyronegreen1961 I meant Saul and Clay
@@Tony-fq5bn well it's good u said that in case someone else don't realize Levy was in on the embezzlement
Avon already told String about those "Away Games".
Too many away games.
Well, at least, there were no bribes.
Season 3 In the streets his aim was to make things safe and legit no more violence, in the businessman world he wanted to cut corners and do things none legit 🤣 look where it got him poor guy
By THE Clay Davis? DOWNTOWN Clay Davis?
I guarantee Levy was also scamming Stringer and probably illegally too. At least twice on this show, Levy is shown to be breaking the law.
Wait how?
@@golga14 I am trying to find the scene, but he basically tells Avon they should kill whomever might snitch on them and or if they can't do the time. That's effectively accessory to murder. And the second time was bribing a city judge for access to sworn grand jury testimony.
@@ajitkirpekar4251 yeah the parking garage scene
Lawyers and politicians are the real gangsters.
Levy’s not stupid enough to fuck with a drug lord’s money. Besides, why would he needs to steal when he’s making more than enough off their cases, AND topping it off with a cut of whatever business dealings he sets up for them through shell companies?
In the end, we never see Avon, Stringer, Prop Joe, or Marlo EVER get screwed out of any money by Levy and he always gets them the best outcomes they can in court. And he’s handsomely compensated for that both in money and reputation. He looks out for his clients best interest because that attracts new clients, pure long con.
Where was this filmed?
Didn’t stringer bet against the cell phone industry too? lol
Stringer playing away games
Can I use this clip for a video?
He rain made ya
0:37
Since we viewers were seeing ignorant drug dealers, we were led to believe that Stringer was some kind of criminal mastermind, when he actually was a little bit intelligent, but still a guy from the projects who only had a community college degree
AWAY GAMES!
There are no brives 🗣️
1:51 foreshadowing the government runs and controls the game
SHEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
Shiiiiiiite! :)
He said Brazy😂
Funniest part 😂
He said "brazen"
@@Tres_Nueve ok I actually believe that
@@tocsradio2k24 because that's what he said.
first! Can I get a reply
I know it's a year later, But Whats Up?!
I know its 3 years later but hey, every year someone needs to reply :)
@@ATomRileyA lol ty
@@eamonwright7488 sup haha
What up