1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 (Music) 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,000 I want everyone to put their hands on top of their head. 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your hands on top of your head. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Just relax. Just stay calm. Everything will be nice 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 and smooth if you just participate and just relax, okay? 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Yeah. All right, now put your hands down. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Don't be no hero. Put your hands down. Okay? 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 All right. Now. Cool. Good. 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 I want you to run all that financial aid. 10 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Yeah, sucka, put the scholarships in the bag, yeah, yeah. 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Put the scholarships in the bag. Yeah, you too, yeah, yeah, yeah. 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Yeah, you. Yeah, yeah. You over there, go put the Pell Grants in the bag. 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Put the Pell Grants in there too. Yeah, you. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,000 You, go over to that booth and get me some of them subsidized, some of them subsidized loans. 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 It ain't a game no more. I know you're hiding the money somewhere here. 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 With all this tuition you got me and my homies payin' -- 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Woo! -- I'm about to get gangster-scholar up in here. 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Up in here. I'm about to go N.W.A. meets Beastie Boys 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 if I don't see the cash, man. 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Cause we're not gonna take it. ♪ Oh ... 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Oh, you thought I was playing. 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Oh, you thought this was a game. Back up, back up. Mind your business, that's all. 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 What do you, think this is a game? What? 24 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Huh? You don't even know me. 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 I'll say something else. Don't call me crazy. 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Do not call me -- Rives, tell 'em don't call me crazy before I go crazy. 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 I'm telling you, now I'm about to go crazy. I'm about to go Tupac Thug Life in here. 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Like, "I ain't a killer but don't push me. Revenge is like the sweetest joy --" Woo! 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 I'm about to go Biggie Smalls Brooklyn type, like, 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke --" 31 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Woo! I'm about to go KRS-One 32 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs-type wild. 33 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Like, "Wa da da dang, wa da da da dang, 34 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 listen to my nine millimeter go bang." You know what? 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 You are dumb. You are really dumb. 36 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Hide your kids, hide your wife, 'cause we gettin' financial aid 37 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 all up and in and around here. You think this is a game? 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 You think I want to be out here doing this? 39 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Do you know how hard it was to find these guns? 40 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 All right, I'm sorry. You understand? 41 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 I'm just trying to get my education. You know what I mean? 42 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 I'm just trying to fight for the opportunity that my great-great-great-grandfather died for, you know what I'm saying? 43 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000 You know how my ancestors did sit-ins, 44 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 just so I can sit in a classroom. 45 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 And all these years, all y'all been doing 46 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 is strangling the life out of my bank statement, 47 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots. 48 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Professor Willie Lynch taught you well, huh? 49 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Keep the body, take the money. 50 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Force feed my people deception and failure. 51 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Condition our brains to malfunction at the sight 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 of success. Just keep the cycle going. 53 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Make us pay for an education that will end up failing us. 54 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Put us in debt so we're giving back 55 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 the money we earned from our back-breaking work. 56 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 This seems all too familiar. 57 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Sounds like the rust of shackles locking their way onto my degree. 58 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Sounds like the Thirteenth Amendment in reverse. 59 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Lecture halls shouldn't feel like cotton fields, 60 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 shouldn't sound like muffled freedom songs trapped 61 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 in the jaws of a generation's dreams. Oho! Oh, it all makes sense. 62 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Give us enough to get by but not enough to provide for ourselves. 63 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Keep us psychologically feeble so we lose our purpose in the process. 64 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Stop thieving our aspirations out of our sleep. 65 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Don't call it financial aid 66 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 if you're not helping anyone with it. 67 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 We have fought. 68 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 We have fought way too hard 69 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 to let green paper build a barricade in front of our futures. 70 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 I will not let you potentially rob food out of my children's stomach. 71 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Best believe I'm going out blasting. 72 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 I ain't no killer, but don't push me. 73 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 I wish it didn't come to this, but I have to for my cousins 74 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 in Haiti who don't even know what a college looks like, 75 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 for my best friend Raymond sitting in cell block nine 76 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 instead of a university, 77 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 for the nooses hanging my GPA by its neck. 78 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 There is no other option. 79 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 There is no other way. 80 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Just, please, put the money in the bag. 81 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Put the money in the bag. I just want to go to school, man. 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000 I just want to get my education. I just want to learn. I just want to grow. 83 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Put the money in the bag, please. 84 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Just put the money in the bag.