WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.000 (Music) 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:18.000 I want everyone to put their hands on top of their head. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your hands on top of your head. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.000 Just relax. Just stay calm. Everything will be nice 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.000 and smooth if you just participate and just relax, okay? 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.000 Yeah. All right, now put your hands down. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 Don't be no hero. Put your hands down. Okay? 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.000 All right. Now. Cool. Good. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.000 I want you to run all that financial aid. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.000 Yeah, sucka, put the scholarships in the bag, yeah, yeah. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.000 Put the scholarships in the bag. Yeah, you too, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.000 Yeah, you. Yeah, yeah. You over there, go put the Pell Grants in the bag. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.000 Put the Pell Grants in there too. Yeah, you. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 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. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.000 It ain't a game no more. I know you're hiding the money somewhere here. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.000 With all this tuition you got me and my homies payin' -- 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.000 Woo! -- I'm about to get gangster-scholar up in here. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.000 Up in here. I'm about to go N.W.A. meets Beastie Boys 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.000 if I don't see the cash, man. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.000 Cause we're not gonna take it. ♪ Oh ... 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.000 Oh, you thought I was playing. 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. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.000 What do you, think this is a game? What? 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.000 Huh? You don't even know me. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.000 I'll say something else. Don't call me crazy. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.000 Do not call me -- Rives, tell 'em don't call me crazy before I go crazy. 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. 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! 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.000 I'm about to go Biggie Smalls Brooklyn type, like, 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.000 "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke --" 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.000 Woo! I'm about to go KRS-One 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.000 cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs-type wild. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.000 Like, "Wa da da dang, wa da da da dang, 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.000 listen to my nine millimeter go bang." You know what? 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.000 You are dumb. You are really dumb. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.000 Hide your kids, hide your wife, 'cause we gettin' financial aid 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.000 all up and in and around here. You think this is a game? 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.000 You think I want to be out here doing this? 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.000 Do you know how hard it was to find these guns? 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.000 All right, I'm sorry. You understand? 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.000 I'm just trying to get my education. You know what I mean? 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? 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:25.000 You know how my ancestors did sit-ins, 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.000 just so I can sit in a classroom. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.000 And all these years, all y'all been doing 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.000 is strangling the life out of my bank statement, 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.000 leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots. 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:44.000 Professor Willie Lynch taught you well, huh? 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.000 Keep the body, take the money. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.000 Force feed my people deception and failure. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.000 Condition our brains to malfunction at the sight 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.000 of success. Just keep the cycle going. 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.000 Make us pay for an education that will end up failing us. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:03.000 Put us in debt so we're giving back 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.000 the money we earned from our back-breaking work. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 This seems all too familiar. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.000 Sounds like the rust of shackles locking their way onto my degree. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.000 Sounds like the Thirteenth Amendment in reverse. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.000 Lecture halls shouldn't feel like cotton fields, 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:21.000 shouldn't sound like muffled freedom songs trapped 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:24.000 in the jaws of a generation's dreams. Oho! Oh, it all makes sense. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.000 Give us enough to get by but not enough to provide for ourselves. 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.000 Keep us psychologically feeble so we lose our purpose in the process. 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:35.000 Stop thieving our aspirations out of our sleep. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.000 Don't call it financial aid 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.000 if you're not helping anyone with it. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.000 We have fought. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.000 We have fought way too hard 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:52.000 to let green paper build a barricade in front of our futures. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:57.000 I will not let you potentially rob food out of my children's stomach. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.000 Best believe I'm going out blasting. 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.000 I ain't no killer, but don't push me. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.000 I wish it didn't come to this, but I have to for my cousins 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.000 in Haiti who don't even know what a college looks like, 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.000 for my best friend Raymond sitting in cell block nine 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.000 instead of a university, 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:16.000 for the nooses hanging my GPA by its neck. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.000 There is no other option. 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:23.000 There is no other way. 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:27.000 Just, please, put the money in the bag. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:32.000 Put the money in the bag. I just want to go to school, man. 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. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.000 Put the money in the bag, please. 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.000 Just put the money in the bag.