“LENOY” (drama) 2 Minutes

Monologue Description: “LENOY” is a drama about a taste of what it is like living the life of a ghetto thug.

Character Description: In this monologue, Lenoy visits one of his “boyz” houses to pick him up in order to do “a job” with their crew. Unfortunately, Lenoy finds his friend dead in his bed, shot up.

LENOY:

Pfffff! Yo Mez! Yo MEZ! Mez, Pffff! Pffff! Damn yo, come on. Get up nigga, get up! Hey yo, open the door son. Yo MEZ!!(dials on phone)Yo whattup b? Yo he ain’t waking up yo. Yo he locked the door yo. I BEEN doin’ that. I’m knocking on this door and shit and he ain’t coming. Nigga’s dead asleep. Hold on.

(kicks and punches the door and yells)

YO MEZ!!! Open up dog.

(back to phone)

Nah man, I let myself in through the back. Nah, nobodys here kid. Yo I tried that, I called his phone a bunch of times. I hear the shit ringing in his room but he ain’t picking up. Yo, I went around and knocked on his window and shit but nada. Nah, I couldn’t see inside, the blind are down.

What? Break down the door? For real? Yo, I do it but if I do it, you gonna deal with him, not me playa. Yo, I know this is important, whatch you think I’m here fo’!

(sighs)

Aight man, hold up.

YO MEZ!!! MEZ!!!

Aight fuck it.

(Lenoy kicks the door and breaks it wide open)

(Lenoy sees his friend on the bed with blood everywhere. Mez is dead)

Ahhh shit man, ahhh shit, damn yo, damn.

(to phone)

Yo man, he dead. Yo he looks all shot up and shit man. Mez is dead, they got Mez yo.

Yo, of course I’m sure! Whatch you think b? Well, I’m staring right at the nigga with my own two eyes and I ain’t blinking. He’s shot up, DEAD.

Yeah man, I’m leaving now yo…

(he walks away)