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This be an empty world without the blues

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

This be an empty world without the blues. Yeah. I try to take that emptinessand fill it...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom • 2020

This be an empty world without the blues. [both laugh] Yeah. I try to take that emptiness
and fill it up with something. Ooh! [chuckles] I ain't started blues way of singing.
Blues always been there. But if they wanna
call me the Mother of Blues, that's all right with me.
It don't hurt none. [both laugh] Sure did take y'all a long time.
Sylvester, get Irvin. Tell him we ready to go. I'll grab Levee

Full Transcript

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This be an empty world without the blues.

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[both laugh]

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Yeah.

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I try to take that emptiness and fill it up with something.

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Ooh! [chuckles]

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I ain't started blues way of singing. Blues always been there.

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But if they wanna call me the Mother of Blues,

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that's all right with me. It don't hurt none.

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[both laugh]

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Sure did take y'all a long time. Sylvester, get Irvin.

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Tell him we ready to go.

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I'll grab Levee.

Duration

30 seconds

Views

54

Timestamp in Movie

00:55:20

Uploaded

May 31, 2025

Genres

Production

Escape Artists,Mundy Lane Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.