WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.375 --> 00:00:04.436 - (suspenseful music) - (static cracks, siren wailing) 2 00:00:04.542 --> 00:00:06.748 (helicopter chuffing) 3 00:00:06.772 --> 00:00:09.000 (man on radio mumbles) 4 00:00:09.083 --> 00:00:11.125 (car horn blares) 5 00:00:13.584 --> 00:00:14.853 - [Lieutenant] I am - Lieutenant (indistinct), 6 00:00:14.959 --> 00:00:17.019 - A member of the Milwaukee - Police Department. 7 00:00:17.125 --> 00:00:18.665 I hereby declare this 8 00:00:18.689 --> 00:00:20.250 assembly to be unlawful 9 00:00:20.334 --> 00:00:21.394 and hereby order 10 00:00:21.418 --> 00:00:22.500 you to disperse. 11 00:00:22.584 --> 00:00:23.394 - (crowd chanting) - (siren wailing) 12 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:24.876 - [Muhibb] They can tell us. 13 00:00:24.959 --> 00:00:26.209 They can tell us 14 00:00:26.292 --> 00:00:28.584 that we 27% more likely 15 00:00:28.667 --> 00:00:29.707 to die in Milwaukee 16 00:00:29.731 --> 00:00:30.792 in Brooklyn, New York, 17 00:00:30.876 --> 00:00:32.751 I'm never leaving. 18 00:00:32.834 --> 00:00:34.644 - [Lieutenant] If you do - not disperse immediately, 19 00:00:34.751 --> 00:00:36.334 You will be arrested. 20 00:00:36.417 --> 00:00:37.626 (siren wailing) 21 00:00:37.709 --> 00:00:39.042 - [Muhibb] They can tell us, 22 00:00:39.125 --> 00:00:41.728 - that we got the highest - incarceration rate in America. 23 00:00:41.834 --> 00:00:42.834 I believe in you. 24 00:00:42.876 --> 00:00:44.167 (audience chanting) 25 00:00:44.250 --> 00:00:46.019 - They can tell us that we - all gonna be locked up, 26 00:00:46.125 --> 00:00:47.542 We all gonna be in jail. 27 00:00:47.626 --> 00:00:49.042 I still believe in you. 28 00:00:49.125 --> 00:00:50.499 They can tell me that black 29 00:00:50.523 --> 00:00:51.918 boys who look just like me, 30 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.082 only 32% of us graduate 31 00:00:53.106 --> 00:00:54.209 from high school. 32 00:00:54.292 --> 00:00:55.542 I still believe in you 33 00:00:55.626 --> 00:00:56.874 and still believe that 34 00:00:56.898 --> 00:00:58.167 they will not break us. 35 00:00:58.250 --> 00:00:59.250 - [Man] Say it again. 36 00:00:59.292 --> 00:01:01.375 (audience clapping) 37 00:01:01.459 --> 00:01:02.792 Say it again. 38 00:01:02.876 --> 00:01:04.459 (man on radio mumbles) 39 00:01:04.542 --> 00:01:05.603 - [Muhibb] Let me talk - to you for a minute. 40 00:01:05.709 --> 00:01:07.125 They will not break us. 41 00:01:07.209 --> 00:01:10.334 (audience clapping) 42 00:01:10.417 --> 00:01:11.250 - [Man] Say it again Muhibb. 43 00:01:11.334 --> 00:01:12.518 - [Muhibb] They cannot break us. 44 00:01:12.542 --> 00:01:13.375 - [Man] Say it. 45 00:01:13.459 --> 00:01:14.709 - They will not break us. 46 00:01:14.792 --> 00:01:15.852 - [Man] They will not break us. 47 00:01:15.876 --> 00:01:16.792 - [Muhibb] They cannot break us. 48 00:01:16.876 --> 00:01:18.083 - [Man] They cannot break us. 49 00:01:18.167 --> 00:01:20.019 - [Muhibb] There are no - trials, no tribulation 50 00:01:20.125 --> 00:01:21.478 - [Both] No pressure, 51 00:01:21.502 --> 00:01:22.876 no pain, no hurricane, 52 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.000 strong enough to stop my people. 53 00:01:25.083 --> 00:01:26.727 We always find our 54 00:01:26.751 --> 00:01:28.417 way back to God. 55 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:29.915 - [Muhibb] Behind 56 00:01:29.939 --> 00:01:31.375 every statistic, 57 00:01:31.459 --> 00:01:32.709 there's a story 58 00:01:33.792 --> 00:01:35.311 and quite frankly the 59 00:01:35.335 --> 00:01:36.876 media frustrates me. 60 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.125 The news frustrates me. 61 00:01:39.918 --> 00:01:41.417 On a nine o'clock nightly news, 62 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:43.292 we hear the story of black boys 63 00:01:43.375 --> 00:01:44.624 who grow up on streets 64 00:01:44.648 --> 00:01:45.918 like Burleigh, Garfield, 65 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:47.602 Galena, Vine, Center, 66 00:01:47.626 --> 00:01:49.250 Holton and Buffum 67 00:01:49.334 --> 00:01:52.292 and they're depicted as savages. 68 00:01:52.375 --> 00:01:53.895 - (suspenseful music) - (crowd chanting) 69 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.977 They're depicted as animals 70 00:01:56.001 --> 00:01:58.000 dying in the streets. 71 00:01:59.167 --> 00:02:02.584 Pretty much throw away children. 72 00:02:02.667 --> 00:02:04.000 (fire cracking) 73 00:02:04.083 --> 00:02:05.769 What the media doesn't 74 00:02:05.793 --> 00:02:07.500 show you or tell you 75 00:02:07.584 --> 00:02:09.751 is what I see in a classroom. 76 00:02:09.834 --> 00:02:11.250 (suspenseful music) 77 00:02:11.334 --> 00:02:12.790 What I see in a classroom 78 00:02:12.814 --> 00:02:14.292 are little black children 79 00:02:14.375 --> 00:02:15.834 who raised their hand and say, 80 00:02:15.918 --> 00:02:18.519 - "Oh, I want to be a business - man, a business woman. 81 00:02:18.626 --> 00:02:19.790 "I wanna own the 82 00:02:19.814 --> 00:02:21.000 Fortune 500 company. 83 00:02:21.083 --> 00:02:22.834 "I wanna rule the world." 84 00:02:22.918 --> 00:02:24.042 (dramatic music) 85 00:02:24.125 --> 00:02:25.832 It's more convenient to 86 00:02:25.856 --> 00:02:27.584 deal with this statistic 87 00:02:27.667 --> 00:02:29.918 and take the humanity out of it. 88 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.102 It's more convenient to 89 00:02:31.126 --> 00:02:32.250 deal with the statistic 90 00:02:32.334 --> 00:02:34.165 and not tell the real 91 00:02:34.189 --> 00:02:36.042 story that these are 92 00:02:36.125 --> 00:02:37.748 children who have hopes 93 00:02:37.772 --> 00:02:39.417 and dreams and aspirations, 94 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:41.459 just like anybody else. 95 00:02:41.542 --> 00:02:43.269 - [Kwabena] Everybody ain't 96 00:02:43.293 --> 00:02:45.042 gonna get this message today. 97 00:02:45.125 --> 00:02:46.144 Everybody ain't 98 00:02:46.168 --> 00:02:47.209 ready for it today. 99 00:02:47.292 --> 00:02:49.102 - You only get out - what you put in. 100 00:02:49.209 --> 00:02:50.918 This is like we on the block. 101 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:51.709 I'ma offer you. 102 00:02:51.792 --> 00:02:52.667 I'ma use this language. 103 00:02:52.751 --> 00:02:54.459 I'm offering you a pack today. 104 00:02:54.542 --> 00:02:55.811 I'm offering you 105 00:02:54.542 --> 00:02:57.125 you can get some bread. 106 00:02:55.835 --> 00:02:57.209 something today, so 107 00:02:57.209 --> 00:02:59.019 - But the difference from - school to the block, 108 00:02:59.125 --> 00:03:00.876 In school they make you stay, 109 00:03:00.959 --> 00:03:02.542 on the block you gotta option. 110 00:03:02.626 --> 00:03:04.334 This is the option today. 111 00:03:04.417 --> 00:03:05.311 - [Daryl] In the education - system, we can activate 112 00:03:05.417 --> 00:03:07.165 The voice of students 113 00:03:07.189 --> 00:03:08.959 by giving them 114 00:03:09.042 --> 00:03:11.477 - avenues to speak to people - who are somewhat like them. 115 00:03:11.584 --> 00:03:12.768 Come from where they come from. 116 00:03:12.792 --> 00:03:14.167 Who look like them. 117 00:03:14.250 --> 00:03:16.269 - Who can kinda understand - where they're coming from. 118 00:03:16.375 --> 00:03:18.019 Many times our students 119 00:03:18.043 --> 00:03:19.709 look at the population 120 00:03:19.792 --> 00:03:21.895 - that teaches them and - say that they don't truly 121 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:23.498 Understand where 122 00:03:23.522 --> 00:03:25.042 I'm coming from. 123 00:03:25.125 --> 00:03:26.334 You're not from my block. 124 00:03:26.417 --> 00:03:27.792 You haven't been on my block. 125 00:03:27.876 --> 00:03:29.417 You haven't walked in my shoes 126 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:30.748 and so you'll never 127 00:03:30.772 --> 00:03:32.042 understand my story. 128 00:03:32.125 --> 00:03:33.186 - [Kwabena] 'Cause if - you stay with doing 129 00:03:33.292 --> 00:03:34.769 - What some of you may - or may not be doing 130 00:03:34.876 --> 00:03:36.751 This is all you'll get. 131 00:03:38.209 --> 00:03:39.834 This is all you'll get. 132 00:03:39.918 --> 00:03:41.250 It has some pictures in it. 133 00:03:41.334 --> 00:03:43.186 - It talk about your - life a little bit 134 00:03:43.292 --> 00:03:44.707 And the only people who will 135 00:03:44.731 --> 00:03:46.167 know you is your brother. 136 00:03:46.250 --> 00:03:47.519 But my young 137 00:03:47.543 --> 00:03:48.834 brothers, young kings, 138 00:03:48.918 --> 00:03:50.749 if you do something 139 00:03:50.773 --> 00:03:52.626 different with your life 140 00:03:52.709 --> 00:03:53.811 you get the right 141 00:03:53.835 --> 00:03:54.959 show on a narrative. 142 00:03:55.042 --> 00:03:56.603 - You'll be able to give - this to a little boy. 143 00:03:56.709 --> 00:03:58.103 See I believe this, 144 00:03:58.127 --> 00:03:59.542 helped me write this. 145 00:03:59.626 --> 00:04:00.666 So when I gave y'all that, 146 00:04:00.709 --> 00:04:02.269 - I'm hoping that - you're gonna take it 147 00:04:02.375 --> 00:04:03.915 And you gonna go in 148 00:04:03.939 --> 00:04:05.500 your neighborhood. 149 00:04:05.584 --> 00:04:07.061 When I was a boy, wilding 150 00:04:07.085 --> 00:04:08.584 out in high school, 151 00:04:08.667 --> 00:04:10.186 - I'm so glad I got some - of y'all attention, 152 00:04:10.292 --> 00:04:12.209 I could see it in your eyes, 153 00:04:12.292 --> 00:04:14.500 acting a fool on the West side, 154 00:04:14.584 --> 00:04:15.853 mad 'cause my father got 155 00:04:15.877 --> 00:04:17.167 killed when I was a boy. 156 00:04:17.250 --> 00:04:18.311 - [David] So the - amount of violence 157 00:04:18.417 --> 00:04:20.227 - That a young person is - exposed to absolutely 158 00:04:20.334 --> 00:04:22.269 Has been shown to affect 159 00:04:22.293 --> 00:04:24.250 brain development. 160 00:04:24.334 --> 00:04:26.060 - You know when you look - at the cortisol levels 161 00:04:26.167 --> 00:04:28.500 That are associated with stress, 162 00:04:28.584 --> 00:04:30.145 particularly what's called 163 00:04:30.169 --> 00:04:31.751 toxic stress in a community, 164 00:04:31.834 --> 00:04:33.269 - that is something that - when people live with that 165 00:04:33.375 --> 00:04:34.894 For a long time 166 00:04:34.918 --> 00:04:36.459 it makes an impact 167 00:04:36.542 --> 00:04:39.000 on their whole life trajectory. 168 00:04:39.083 --> 00:04:40.227 - Raise your hand If - you ever lost a friend 169 00:04:40.334 --> 00:04:43.083 Or a family member to violence. 170 00:04:44.125 --> 00:04:45.375 Hands down. 171 00:04:45.459 --> 00:04:46.834 Raise your hand, 172 00:04:48.125 --> 00:04:49.602 if you grew up in a house 173 00:04:49.626 --> 00:04:51.125 without your father. 174 00:04:51.209 --> 00:04:52.019 - Okay and I want you - to be honest (mumbles) 175 00:04:52.125 --> 00:04:53.334 Look I'm raising my hand too. 176 00:04:53.417 --> 00:04:55.103 What you say in 177 00:04:55.127 --> 00:04:56.834 here stay in here. 178 00:04:56.918 --> 00:04:58.292 I hate to ask the question 179 00:04:58.375 --> 00:04:59.686 but raise your hand if you 180 00:04:59.710 --> 00:05:01.042 don't know your father. 181 00:05:01.125 --> 00:05:02.125 Never seen him? 182 00:05:02.167 --> 00:05:03.417 Know anything about him? 183 00:05:06.876 --> 00:05:07.874 Is he dead? 184 00:05:07.898 --> 00:05:08.918 - No. 185 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.019 - [Kwabena] He just left. - No, he in jail. 186 00:05:11.125 --> 00:05:12.125 - [Kwabena] He in jail? 187 00:05:12.167 --> 00:05:14.709 Do you talk to him at all? 188 00:05:14.792 --> 00:05:15.918 Okay. 189 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.352 - I'm gonna have you - write something for me. 190 00:05:17.459 --> 00:05:19.145 On the top of your paper write 191 00:05:19.169 --> 00:05:20.876 the phrase, "The truth is." 192 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:22.519 Now, when you write 193 00:05:22.543 --> 00:05:24.125 "The truth is", 194 00:05:24.209 --> 00:05:25.584 treat it like this. 195 00:05:25.667 --> 00:05:27.292 Do I want you to write some sad? 196 00:05:27.375 --> 00:05:29.311 - Nope, but I want you - to tell the truth. 197 00:05:29.417 --> 00:05:31.353 Answer from your heart 198 00:05:31.377 --> 00:05:33.334 and not your head. 199 00:05:33.417 --> 00:05:35.209 If you stop, you stop. 200 00:05:35.292 --> 00:05:37.248 If you get stuck, keep 201 00:05:37.272 --> 00:05:39.250 writing "truth is". 202 00:05:39.334 --> 00:05:40.978 - [Daryl] I think the truth 203 00:05:41.002 --> 00:05:42.667 of a student is their truth 204 00:05:42.751 --> 00:05:44.832 and it's kind of hard to 205 00:05:44.856 --> 00:05:46.959 explain that or to define that. 206 00:05:47.042 --> 00:05:49.792 It's more of a definitive truth. 207 00:05:49.876 --> 00:05:51.291 It would be ignorant 208 00:05:51.315 --> 00:05:52.751 of me to think 209 00:05:52.834 --> 00:05:53.874 that every student 210 00:05:53.898 --> 00:05:54.959 that I look at 211 00:05:55.042 --> 00:05:56.375 who comes from an inner city, 212 00:05:56.459 --> 00:05:58.186 a neighborhood or a low 213 00:05:58.210 --> 00:05:59.959 income neighborhood, 214 00:06:00.042 --> 00:06:01.498 is the same as the other 215 00:06:01.522 --> 00:06:03.000 student next to him. 216 00:06:03.083 --> 00:06:05.144 - So sometimes you have - to get them in a circle 217 00:06:05.250 --> 00:06:06.644 And just find out what 218 00:06:06.668 --> 00:06:08.083 their truth actually is. 219 00:06:08.167 --> 00:06:09.334 - [Kwabena] By show of hands, 220 00:06:09.417 --> 00:06:11.626 who could have kept on writing? 221 00:06:11.709 --> 00:06:13.751 I'm glad you shed a tear 222 00:06:13.834 --> 00:06:15.478 because trust me when I 223 00:06:15.502 --> 00:06:17.167 write it I shedded a tear. 224 00:06:17.250 --> 00:06:19.102 - Everybody take a look - at your paper for me. 225 00:06:19.209 --> 00:06:20.459 I want you to read it. 226 00:06:20.542 --> 00:06:22.125 I just want you to look at it. 227 00:06:22.209 --> 00:06:23.707 So first off let me tell 228 00:06:23.731 --> 00:06:25.250 you why you looking at it. 229 00:06:25.334 --> 00:06:26.436 - I know you some - of you emotional. 230 00:06:26.542 --> 00:06:27.626 I can look at your face. 231 00:06:27.709 --> 00:06:28.895 - I'm gonna let you - share it if you want to 232 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:29.728 - But here's where I - want you to think of 233 00:06:29.834 --> 00:06:32.125 When I'm talking to you. 234 00:06:32.209 --> 00:06:35.167 Do you not ever let anybody, 235 00:06:35.250 --> 00:06:37.186 - tell you what you - can and can't do. 236 00:06:37.292 --> 00:06:38.603 Life is either gonna 237 00:06:38.627 --> 00:06:39.959 break you or make you. 238 00:06:40.042 --> 00:06:41.227 - If it break you, - you gonna go back 239 00:06:41.334 --> 00:06:42.749 And be like everybody 240 00:06:42.773 --> 00:06:44.209 on your block. 241 00:06:44.292 --> 00:06:46.186 - You gonna be like - everybody you know. 242 00:06:46.292 --> 00:06:48.060 - If it make you, - you gonna be like, 243 00:06:48.167 --> 00:06:49.477 - "I came from that - but look at me now." 244 00:06:49.584 --> 00:06:51.436 Only thing that gets 245 00:06:51.460 --> 00:06:53.334 in this game is death, 246 00:06:53.417 --> 00:06:56.125 prison, wheelchairs and regret. 247 00:06:57.459 --> 00:06:59.102 - Anybody wanna read - what they wrote? 248 00:06:59.209 --> 00:07:00.226 Let's see what you got my man. 249 00:07:00.250 --> 00:07:00.959 What's your name? 250 00:07:01.042 --> 00:07:02.250 - [Marquell] Marquell. 251 00:07:02.334 --> 00:07:03.144 - [Kwabena] Marquell, - when did it get bad? 252 00:07:03.250 --> 00:07:04.417 What happened? 253 00:07:04.500 --> 00:07:06.186 - [Marquell] Me and my - mom went into it one day 254 00:07:06.292 --> 00:07:07.707 And things just like 255 00:07:07.731 --> 00:07:09.167 started jumping off 256 00:07:09.250 --> 00:07:11.751 of me when I got to deal my mom 257 00:07:11.834 --> 00:07:12.834 and then, 258 00:07:14.125 --> 00:07:15.853 - when she started whooping - me more and stuff like that 259 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.540 And then things just started 260 00:07:17.564 --> 00:07:19.167 jumping off when I was at 14. 261 00:07:19.250 --> 00:07:20.477 - My mom started beating - me with a stitching cord. 262 00:07:20.584 --> 00:07:22.040 I had bruises on my 263 00:07:22.064 --> 00:07:23.542 back and everything. 264 00:07:23.626 --> 00:07:24.834 Called my mom a bitch. 265 00:07:24.918 --> 00:07:25.916 Told her I don't 266 00:07:25.940 --> 00:07:26.959 love her no more 267 00:07:27.042 --> 00:07:29.686 - and I just started trying to - keep my distance away from her. 268 00:07:29.792 --> 00:07:31.227 - [David] When we - talk about violence, 269 00:07:31.334 --> 00:07:32.415 Oftentimes we focus so 270 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:33.542 heavily on gun violence 271 00:07:33.626 --> 00:07:34.957 that we neglect the 272 00:07:34.981 --> 00:07:36.334 fact that sometimes 273 00:07:36.417 --> 00:07:38.144 - the first exposure, - in fact oftentimes, 274 00:07:38.250 --> 00:07:40.125 The first exposure to violence 275 00:07:40.209 --> 00:07:41.541 is interpersonal 276 00:07:41.565 --> 00:07:42.918 domestic violence, 277 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:44.977 intimate partner violence, 278 00:07:45.001 --> 00:07:47.000 violence in the home. 279 00:07:47.083 --> 00:07:48.792 As that being the first exposure 280 00:07:48.876 --> 00:07:50.540 it can really make an 281 00:07:50.564 --> 00:07:52.250 impact on a young person's 282 00:07:52.334 --> 00:07:54.186 learning their physical 283 00:07:54.210 --> 00:07:56.083 development and their whole, 284 00:07:56.167 --> 00:07:57.584 their life course. 285 00:07:57.667 --> 00:07:58.728 So it absolutely 286 00:07:58.752 --> 00:07:59.834 makes an impact. 287 00:07:59.918 --> 00:08:01.686 - [Kwabena] You feel - like your mom love you? 288 00:08:01.792 --> 00:08:03.123 - I don't feel like she 289 00:08:03.147 --> 00:08:04.500 don't love me no more. 290 00:08:04.584 --> 00:08:06.209 - [Kwabena] Did she ever? 291 00:08:06.292 --> 00:08:07.792 - [Marquell] At first she did. 292 00:08:07.876 --> 00:08:09.895 - [Mary] In terms of - how youth will respond 293 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.269 To trauma in the 294 00:08:11.293 --> 00:08:12.584 household varies so much 295 00:08:12.667 --> 00:08:14.832 on how often the 296 00:08:14.856 --> 00:08:17.042 trauma's occurring, 297 00:08:17.125 --> 00:08:20.125 how violent the situation is, 298 00:08:20.209 --> 00:08:21.561 how they respond 299 00:08:21.585 --> 00:08:22.959 to that violence 300 00:08:24.250 --> 00:08:26.959 and so when that happens to us, 301 00:08:27.042 --> 00:08:28.311 some people respond 302 00:08:28.335 --> 00:08:29.626 by pulling in 303 00:08:29.709 --> 00:08:30.894 and some people 304 00:08:30.918 --> 00:08:32.125 become very external. 305 00:08:32.209 --> 00:08:33.728 So it's very dependent 306 00:08:33.752 --> 00:08:35.292 on that child 307 00:08:35.375 --> 00:08:36.626 and that child's reaction 308 00:08:36.709 --> 00:08:37.853 whether they're 309 00:08:37.877 --> 00:08:39.042 going to try to fight 310 00:08:39.125 --> 00:08:40.853 - or whether they're - gonna try to get away 311 00:08:40.959 --> 00:08:42.542 From the experience. 312 00:08:42.626 --> 00:08:43.728 - [Kwabena] Let's see - what you got man, be loud. 313 00:08:43.834 --> 00:08:45.292 Y'all give a brother a hand. 314 00:08:45.375 --> 00:08:48.292 (crowd clapping) 315 00:08:49.375 --> 00:08:50.626 Be loud as you can. 316 00:08:50.709 --> 00:08:51.918 - [Marquell] "The truth is 317 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:52.936 - "that I wish I knew my - dad like everybody else. 318 00:08:53.042 --> 00:08:54.186 "The truth is, I 319 00:08:54.210 --> 00:08:55.375 wish I wasn't alive. 320 00:08:55.459 --> 00:08:57.125 "The truth is, I wanna change. 321 00:08:57.209 --> 00:08:58.290 "The truth is, life 322 00:08:58.314 --> 00:08:59.417 isn't what you make it. 323 00:08:59.500 --> 00:09:00.811 "The truth is that I wanna 324 00:09:00.835 --> 00:09:02.167 be the best person ever. 325 00:09:02.250 --> 00:09:03.603 - "The truth is, I wish - things was the same. 326 00:09:03.709 --> 00:09:05.145 "The truth is, why do 327 00:09:05.169 --> 00:09:06.626 I struggle so much? 328 00:09:06.709 --> 00:09:08.125 "The truth is, why we fighting 329 00:09:08.209 --> 00:09:09.644 - "(stutters) kill - each other every day? 330 00:09:09.751 --> 00:09:11.561 "The truth is, why is 331 00:09:11.585 --> 00:09:13.417 my mom pushing me away? 332 00:09:13.500 --> 00:09:15.311 - "The truth is, sometimes - that I feel alone. 333 00:09:15.417 --> 00:09:17.124 "The truth is, that I try 334 00:09:17.148 --> 00:09:18.876 to be happy but never can. 335 00:09:18.959 --> 00:09:20.959 (paper rustles) 336 00:09:21.042 --> 00:09:23.895 - "The truth is that I feel - like I don't need to be here." 337 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:25.292 - [Kwabena] Give him a hand. 338 00:09:25.375 --> 00:09:27.292 (crowd clapping) 339 00:09:27.375 --> 00:09:28.936 - [Daryl] And so we definitely - have a piece in which 340 00:09:29.042 --> 00:09:31.375 We bring in professionals 341 00:09:31.459 --> 00:09:33.603 - who come in and who - work with the students. 342 00:09:33.709 --> 00:09:34.918 But sometimes it's best 343 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.060 - to bring in some people - from the neighborhood 344 00:09:37.167 --> 00:09:38.167 Who can definitely, 345 00:09:38.250 --> 00:09:39.436 what we say is, "get on 346 00:09:39.460 --> 00:09:40.667 their level" sometimes 347 00:09:40.751 --> 00:09:43.311 - and let them understand - because sometimes they hear you 348 00:09:43.417 --> 00:09:44.834 But they don't hear you 349 00:09:44.918 --> 00:09:47.019 - and sometimes the people - from the neighborhood, 350 00:09:47.125 --> 00:09:48.644 - Those are the people who - they can look in their eyes 351 00:09:48.751 --> 00:09:50.082 And say, "I seen you 352 00:09:50.106 --> 00:09:51.459 from the neighborhood. 353 00:09:51.542 --> 00:09:52.542 "You look like me. 354 00:09:52.584 --> 00:09:53.334 "You act like me. 355 00:09:53.417 --> 00:09:55.000 "You've been in this place 356 00:09:55.083 --> 00:09:57.561 - "and so now I can receive - from you a little bit better 357 00:09:57.667 --> 00:09:58.749 "than I can receive 358 00:09:58.773 --> 00:09:59.876 from the system." 359 00:09:59.959 --> 00:10:01.167 (Kwabena mumbles) 360 00:10:01.250 --> 00:10:02.394 - "He throwing hand - signs in the air. 361 00:10:02.500 --> 00:10:03.519 - "Mom is calling, - he ain't listening. 362 00:10:03.626 --> 00:10:05.352 - "Mom is calling, - he aint listening. 363 00:10:05.459 --> 00:10:07.477 - "Blocks call, he's - standing at attention. 364 00:10:07.584 --> 00:10:08.792 "Three. 365 00:10:08.876 --> 00:10:09.792 "Two. 366 00:10:09.876 --> 00:10:10.626 "One." 367 00:10:10.709 --> 00:10:12.042 - [Muhibb] There's a old, 368 00:10:12.125 --> 00:10:13.876 Billy Holiday song that says, 369 00:10:13.959 --> 00:10:15.916 "God bless the child 370 00:10:15.940 --> 00:10:17.918 that has his own." 371 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:19.602 And I'm reminded of how 372 00:10:19.626 --> 00:10:21.250 important and significant 373 00:10:21.334 --> 00:10:23.209 it is for black children. 374 00:10:23.292 --> 00:10:25.019 Especially growing up in 375 00:10:25.043 --> 00:10:26.792 Milwaukee to have their own. 376 00:10:26.876 --> 00:10:28.603 To have their own talent, 377 00:10:28.627 --> 00:10:30.375 to have their own dreams. 378 00:10:30.459 --> 00:10:32.209 When you have your own, 379 00:10:32.292 --> 00:10:33.853 you possess the power to 380 00:10:33.877 --> 00:10:35.459 close your eyes at night 381 00:10:35.542 --> 00:10:37.040 and dream of something 382 00:10:37.064 --> 00:10:38.584 bigger and something greater. 383 00:10:38.667 --> 00:10:39.685 You dream of being on the stage. 384 00:10:39.709 --> 00:10:41.040 Wherever your 385 00:10:41.064 --> 00:10:42.417 dreams can take you, 386 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:43.540 wherever your 387 00:10:43.564 --> 00:10:44.626 talent can take you, 388 00:10:44.709 --> 00:10:46.792 it indeed is a blessing, 389 00:10:46.876 --> 00:10:48.103 just to be able 390 00:10:48.127 --> 00:10:49.375 to close your eyes 391 00:10:49.459 --> 00:10:51.125 and close your ears 392 00:10:51.209 --> 00:10:52.957 and not being able to hear 393 00:10:52.981 --> 00:10:54.751 the sound of the gunshot. 394 00:10:54.834 --> 00:10:56.249 God bless the child 395 00:10:56.273 --> 00:10:57.709 that's got his own. 396 00:10:57.792 --> 00:10:59.125 - [Fidel] Welcome to True Skool. 397 00:10:59.209 --> 00:11:00.042 - [Tiana] Thank you. 398 00:11:00.125 --> 00:11:00.751 - [Fidel] What's your name? 399 00:11:00.834 --> 00:11:01.542 - [Tiana] Tiana. 400 00:11:01.626 --> 00:11:02.292 - [Fidel] Tiana. 401 00:11:02.375 --> 00:11:03.459 My name is Fidel. 402 00:11:03.542 --> 00:11:04.602 - [Tiana] Nice to meet you. 403 00:11:04.626 --> 00:11:05.477 - So, have you ever - been here before? 404 00:11:05.584 --> 00:11:06.626 - No sir. 405 00:11:06.709 --> 00:11:08.644 - So, I'ma start out and - give you the whole tour 406 00:11:08.751 --> 00:11:10.311 - And tell you a little bit - about the organization. 407 00:11:10.417 --> 00:11:11.603 - Okay. - All right? 408 00:11:11.709 --> 00:11:12.977 - So this is an - after-school organization 409 00:11:13.083 --> 00:11:14.667 For high school students 410 00:11:14.751 --> 00:11:16.083 and we do homework help 411 00:11:16.167 --> 00:11:18.311 - and then they also have - creative media classes. 412 00:11:18.417 --> 00:11:20.144 - So let me show you - the music space. 413 00:11:20.250 --> 00:11:21.894 We all collaborate 414 00:11:21.918 --> 00:11:23.584 and work together 415 00:11:23.667 --> 00:11:24.873 and make original 416 00:11:24.897 --> 00:11:26.125 artwork and music 417 00:11:26.209 --> 00:11:27.582 and it's really about 418 00:11:27.606 --> 00:11:29.000 creating a safe environment 419 00:11:29.083 --> 00:11:30.394 where young people 420 00:11:30.418 --> 00:11:31.751 can express themselves 421 00:11:31.834 --> 00:11:33.978 and explore different mediums 422 00:11:34.002 --> 00:11:36.167 of art and also design 423 00:11:36.250 --> 00:11:37.375 and then we help them 424 00:11:37.459 --> 00:11:39.144 - to develop their - professional portfolio 425 00:11:39.250 --> 00:11:40.769 - So they can get paid - off of those mediums. 426 00:11:40.876 --> 00:11:41.976 That's what we really all about. 427 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:42.876 (Tiana exclaims) 428 00:11:42.959 --> 00:11:43.667 So what's your skill level? 429 00:11:43.751 --> 00:11:44.959 What do you do? 430 00:11:45.042 --> 00:11:46.748 - [Tiana] I write 431 00:11:46.772 --> 00:11:48.500 music, I sing and I rap. 432 00:11:48.584 --> 00:11:50.561 - [Fidel] So the first thing - you say is most important, 433 00:11:50.667 --> 00:11:51.876 You write music. 434 00:11:51.959 --> 00:11:53.728 The students are 435 00:11:53.752 --> 00:11:55.542 not all writers. 436 00:11:55.626 --> 00:11:57.186 - Some of them like to freestyle - and things like that. 437 00:11:57.292 --> 00:11:58.603 - So (stutters) we - develop writers. 438 00:11:58.709 --> 00:12:01.375 (upbeat music) 439 00:12:12.709 --> 00:12:14.125 So what do you think so far? 440 00:12:14.209 --> 00:12:15.042 - [Tiana] I like it. 441 00:12:15.125 --> 00:12:16.245 I like what y'all are doing. 442 00:12:16.292 --> 00:12:17.542 It's positive. 443 00:12:17.626 --> 00:12:18.936 - It's something for - young people to do 444 00:12:19.042 --> 00:12:21.334 'cause I truly feel like 445 00:12:21.417 --> 00:12:22.918 it don't be enough stuff to do 446 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:24.561 or a lot of teenagers 447 00:12:24.585 --> 00:12:26.167 don't know about it 448 00:12:26.250 --> 00:12:27.561 and that's why everybody 449 00:12:27.585 --> 00:12:28.918 out here doing crazy stuff 450 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:30.727 and fighting and not 451 00:12:30.751 --> 00:12:32.500 doing positive stuff so. 452 00:12:32.584 --> 00:12:34.000 - So what brings you here 453 00:12:34.083 --> 00:12:36.352 - is you interested in - participating in the showcase? 454 00:12:36.459 --> 00:12:37.834 - [Tiana] Yes. 455 00:12:37.918 --> 00:12:39.457 - [Fidel] So are you 456 00:12:39.481 --> 00:12:41.042 ready to give me a sample? 457 00:12:41.125 --> 00:12:42.292 - [Tiana] Yeah. 458 00:12:42.375 --> 00:12:44.561 - Of your skills, your - voice, your performance? 459 00:12:44.667 --> 00:12:45.584 Are you comfortable? 460 00:12:45.667 --> 00:12:46.394 - [Tiana] Yeah. - Okay. 461 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:47.603 - [Tiana] Def- - Okay 462 00:12:47.709 --> 00:12:49.144 - And it will, after - we just kind of 463 00:12:49.250 --> 00:12:50.000 Get a taste of it here, 464 00:12:50.083 --> 00:12:51.542 we'll go into the studio 465 00:12:51.626 --> 00:12:53.542 and then we'll record something 466 00:12:53.626 --> 00:12:55.144 - and get the real - feel of the vibe. 467 00:12:55.250 --> 00:12:56.500 - [Tiana] Okay. 468 00:12:59.334 --> 00:13:02.709 ♪ Sincerely ♪ 469 00:13:02.792 --> 00:13:07.500 ♪ Lord can you hear my cry ♪ 470 00:13:07.584 --> 00:13:12.167 ♪ Lord please forgive me ♪ 471 00:13:12.250 --> 00:13:14.602 ♪ I sin but just 472 00:13:14.626 --> 00:13:17.000 know that I try ♪ 473 00:13:17.083 --> 00:13:19.292 ♪ I try to do better for you ♪ 474 00:13:19.375 --> 00:13:20.561 ♪ These demons they 475 00:13:20.585 --> 00:13:21.792 leaching they cruel ♪ 476 00:13:21.876 --> 00:13:24.375 ♪ I think I did all I can do ♪ 477 00:13:24.459 --> 00:13:26.709 ♪ I finally put trust in you ♪ 478 00:13:26.792 --> 00:13:27.978 ♪ My blood racing 479 00:13:28.002 --> 00:13:29.209 my eyes (mumbles) ♪ 480 00:13:29.292 --> 00:13:30.811 ♪ I'm doing wrong 481 00:13:30.835 --> 00:13:32.375 and I know it ♪ 482 00:13:32.459 --> 00:13:35.334 ♪ 2020 I'm focused ♪ 483 00:13:35.417 --> 00:13:36.167 ♪ I'm focused, yeah ♪ 484 00:13:36.250 --> 00:13:37.876 - [Fidel] That's amazing 485 00:13:37.959 --> 00:13:38.895 - (upbeat music) - (Tiana laughs) 486 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:40.143 - [Tiana] So what should I say? 487 00:13:40.167 --> 00:13:41.186 - [Fidel] At the - beginning of that song. 488 00:13:41.292 --> 00:13:42.269 - See if you can - (mumbles) on over here. 489 00:13:42.375 --> 00:13:43.834 (upbeat music continues) 490 00:13:43.918 --> 00:13:45.603 - [Tiana] Oh while - the beat going? 491 00:13:45.709 --> 00:13:47.292 - [Fidel] Yeah. 492 00:13:47.375 --> 00:13:50.042 (Fidel chuckles) 493 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:52.876 (Tiana mumbles) 494 00:13:52.959 --> 00:13:55.292 I seen you do the rap part. 495 00:13:56.626 --> 00:13:58.292 Or do a different rap. 496 00:14:00.709 --> 00:14:01.584 ♪ Hey yo ♪ 497 00:14:01.667 --> 00:14:03.667 ♪ Don't need a crown need pen ♪ 498 00:14:03.751 --> 00:14:05.144 - ♪ It's been a minute - been spinning ♪ 499 00:14:05.250 --> 00:14:06.751 ♪ What time we been ♪ 500 00:14:06.834 --> 00:14:08.249 ♪ I know they listen just 501 00:14:08.273 --> 00:14:09.709 hoping they comprehend ♪ 502 00:14:09.792 --> 00:14:11.498 ♪ After this song that day 503 00:14:11.522 --> 00:14:13.250 you make a dis song again ♪ 504 00:14:13.334 --> 00:14:14.584 ♪ Forgot your feelings ♪ 505 00:14:14.667 --> 00:14:15.561 - ♪ That's the most - they'll put you in ♪ 506 00:14:15.667 --> 00:14:16.959 ♪ They can't stop me ♪ 507 00:14:17.042 --> 00:14:18.977 - ♪ They hardly can even - sit in the spot with me ♪ 508 00:14:19.083 --> 00:14:20.584 ♪ Keep it one hundred ♪ 509 00:14:20.667 --> 00:14:22.102 - ♪ I'm the reason these - bitches don't stand a chance ♪ 510 00:14:22.209 --> 00:14:23.709 ♪ But don't be mad at me ♪ 511 00:14:23.792 --> 00:14:24.978 ♪ I ain't tell your 512 00:14:25.002 --> 00:14:26.209 ass pick up the pen ♪ 513 00:14:26.292 --> 00:14:27.873 ♪ Blaze blah two 514 00:14:27.897 --> 00:14:29.500 nine the block ♪ 515 00:14:29.584 --> 00:14:31.124 ♪ Yummy world you 516 00:14:31.148 --> 00:14:32.709 ridin' or not ♪ 517 00:14:32.792 --> 00:14:33.790 ♪ Push the pedal, 518 00:14:33.814 --> 00:14:34.834 the gas go levels ♪ 519 00:14:34.918 --> 00:14:36.603 - ♪ I gave my whole - life to this world ♪ 520 00:14:36.709 --> 00:14:38.125 ♪ Now I keep seeing the devil ♪ 521 00:14:38.209 --> 00:14:39.459 ♪ Killed or be killed ♪ 522 00:14:39.542 --> 00:14:41.477 - ♪ It's a jungle lions, - tigers and bears ♪ 523 00:14:41.584 --> 00:14:43.186 - ♪ If it's survival - for the fittest ♪ 524 00:14:43.292 --> 00:14:44.751 ♪ Bitch I'm facing my fears ♪ 525 00:14:44.834 --> 00:14:45.918 ♪ Killing my rivals ♪ 526 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:47.728 - ♪ Anything for me to - remain the title ♪ 527 00:14:47.834 --> 00:14:49.561 - ♪ I'm not the idol, - I'm your idol ♪ 528 00:14:49.667 --> 00:14:51.042 ♪ Niggas worship my body ♪ 529 00:14:51.125 --> 00:14:52.334 ♪ Not suicidal ♪ 530 00:14:52.417 --> 00:14:53.977 - ♪ But I hung the - old me with a wire ♪ 531 00:14:54.083 --> 00:14:55.334 ♪ There's no one like me ♪ 532 00:14:55.417 --> 00:14:57.144 - ♪ Is a (mumbles) that - the demon inside me ♪ 533 00:14:57.250 --> 00:14:58.751 ♪ So do not try me ♪ 534 00:14:58.834 --> 00:15:00.477 - ♪ You're gon' see your - soul outside of your body ♪ 535 00:15:00.584 --> 00:15:02.042 ♪ I'm hot like fire ♪ 536 00:15:02.125 --> 00:15:03.561 - ♪ But when I spit is from - the cold heart inside me ♪ 537 00:15:03.667 --> 00:15:06.000 ♪ My nigga ♪ 538 00:15:06.083 --> 00:15:07.292 ♪ I'm still flexing on 'em ♪ 539 00:15:07.375 --> 00:15:08.686 - [Fidel] Okay, - okay, okay, okay. 540 00:15:08.792 --> 00:15:09.876 Don't hurt 'em, goddamn. 541 00:15:09.959 --> 00:15:10.667 (all laughing) 542 00:15:10.751 --> 00:15:11.751 (Fidel exclaims) 543 00:15:11.834 --> 00:15:12.834 Jeez louis. 544 00:15:12.918 --> 00:15:14.853 - [Sharlen] So we - huge disparities 545 00:15:14.959 --> 00:15:17.083 That are going on in the city. 546 00:15:17.167 --> 00:15:19.834 High unemployment, high poverty, 547 00:15:19.918 --> 00:15:22.769 - we're one of the most - segregated cities in the country 548 00:15:22.876 --> 00:15:24.291 And it's important that 549 00:15:24.315 --> 00:15:25.751 young people understand 550 00:15:25.834 --> 00:15:27.417 that they have a drive 551 00:15:27.500 --> 00:15:29.769 - and they have (stutters) - they're talented 552 00:15:29.876 --> 00:15:30.876 And they're creative 553 00:15:30.959 --> 00:15:31.936 - and they can use all - of those elements 554 00:15:32.042 --> 00:15:33.895 - In order to change - the conditions 555 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:35.582 That are currently 556 00:15:35.606 --> 00:15:37.209 existing in Milwaukee. 557 00:15:37.292 --> 00:15:39.060 - [Fidel] So, we will - communicate with you 558 00:15:39.167 --> 00:15:40.811 - About the details - for the showcase. 559 00:15:40.918 --> 00:15:42.811 - Yeah and I wanna talk - to whoever get this beat 560 00:15:42.918 --> 00:15:44.751 'cause I want that beat. 561 00:15:44.834 --> 00:15:45.542 - Absolutely. 562 00:15:45.626 --> 00:15:46.792 Well thank you for coming. 563 00:15:46.876 --> 00:15:48.000 - Thank you. 564 00:15:48.083 --> 00:15:49.352 - [Fidel] Thank - you for stepping up 565 00:15:49.459 --> 00:15:51.459 And not being shy. 566 00:15:51.542 --> 00:15:53.144 - [Muhibb] I was born 567 00:15:53.168 --> 00:15:54.792 on 12th and Burleigh. 568 00:15:54.876 --> 00:15:55.959 In the zip code of 53206. 569 00:15:58.083 --> 00:15:59.792 The most incarcerated zip code 570 00:15:59.876 --> 00:16:02.042 in the United States of America. 571 00:16:02.125 --> 00:16:03.478 The jail suit talks 572 00:16:03.502 --> 00:16:04.876 to us every day 573 00:16:04.959 --> 00:16:07.167 and the jail suit says to us, 574 00:16:07.250 --> 00:16:08.918 "Little black boy wear my suit." 575 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:09.751 (Muhibb chuckles) 576 00:16:09.834 --> 00:16:11.209 And we say, "No. 577 00:16:11.292 --> 00:16:12.459 "'Cause my momma said, 578 00:16:12.542 --> 00:16:14.186 - "if I go to school and - I get a good education, 579 00:16:14.292 --> 00:16:15.292 "I could beat you." 580 00:16:15.375 --> 00:16:16.852 And the jail suit says, 581 00:16:16.876 --> 00:16:18.375 "You can't beat me. 582 00:16:18.459 --> 00:16:19.582 "You gonna be just like 583 00:16:19.606 --> 00:16:20.751 your no good daddy. 584 00:16:20.834 --> 00:16:22.561 - "You gonna be like everybody - who looks like you, 585 00:16:22.667 --> 00:16:24.394 - "who walks like you, - who talks like you, 586 00:16:24.500 --> 00:16:26.603 - "who grew up in the same - neighborhood as you. 587 00:16:26.709 --> 00:16:27.751 "This is where you belong. 588 00:16:27.834 --> 00:16:28.935 "What you wanna be a doctor? 589 00:16:28.959 --> 00:16:31.060 - "No that's for the smart - people of the world 590 00:16:31.167 --> 00:16:32.334 "and everybody knows 591 00:16:32.417 --> 00:16:33.540 "that little black 592 00:16:33.564 --> 00:16:34.709 children ain't smart." 593 00:16:34.792 --> 00:16:36.834 So we put that jail suit on 594 00:16:36.918 --> 00:16:38.811 - and we say, "I'll - wear your suit. 595 00:16:38.918 --> 00:16:40.686 "'Cause after all, what 596 00:16:40.710 --> 00:16:42.500 else do I have to live for?" 597 00:16:42.584 --> 00:16:44.000 But we still have dreams. 598 00:16:44.083 --> 00:16:45.667 We still want more 599 00:16:45.751 --> 00:16:46.918 (door knocks) 600 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:48.602 but it sure is hard to 601 00:16:48.626 --> 00:16:50.250 outrun that jail suit. 602 00:16:50.334 --> 00:16:51.584 - [Sean] Hello. 603 00:16:51.667 --> 00:16:52.186 - [Johnnie] How you doing? - I'm fine. 604 00:16:52.292 --> 00:16:53.083 - Sean Wilson. 605 00:16:53.167 --> 00:16:54.709 - Okay, Johnnie Henderson. 606 00:16:54.792 --> 00:16:55.769 - Program director here at - Next Chapter Living Center 607 00:16:55.876 --> 00:16:57.125 And one of the co-owners. 608 00:16:57.209 --> 00:16:58.709 - Okay. 609 00:16:58.792 --> 00:16:59.311 - [Johnnie] The boys they're - already expecting you today. 610 00:16:59.417 --> 00:17:00.751 - [Sean] Okay. 611 00:17:00.834 --> 00:17:02.269 - [Johnnie] So they're just - playing a video game right now 612 00:17:02.375 --> 00:17:04.519 - And we'll have you go down - into our conference room 613 00:17:04.626 --> 00:17:05.936 - And then once you get - set up and everything 614 00:17:06.042 --> 00:17:07.584 We'll have the boys come down 615 00:17:07.667 --> 00:17:08.686 - for you to talk to them. - [Sean] Okay let's do it. 616 00:17:08.792 --> 00:17:10.751 - [Johnnie] Okay. 617 00:17:10.834 --> 00:17:11.769 - All right, good - morning you guys. 618 00:17:11.876 --> 00:17:13.853 - As I told you guys a - little bit earlier today 619 00:17:13.959 --> 00:17:16.227 - That we did have a guest - speaker that would be here. 620 00:17:16.334 --> 00:17:17.351 His name is Mr. Sean Wilson 621 00:17:17.375 --> 00:17:18.644 and I'm gonna turn 622 00:17:18.668 --> 00:17:19.959 over the floor to him. 623 00:17:20.042 --> 00:17:21.292 - Thank you Johnnie. 624 00:17:21.375 --> 00:17:22.500 How you guys doing? 625 00:17:22.584 --> 00:17:23.584 - [All] Good. 626 00:17:23.667 --> 00:17:24.500 - [Sean] When I look at y'all, 627 00:17:24.584 --> 00:17:26.792 I see a reflection of myself. 628 00:17:26.876 --> 00:17:27.894 When I look at y'all (stutters) 629 00:17:27.918 --> 00:17:29.478 I'm speaking to a 630 00:17:29.502 --> 00:17:31.083 16, 17 year-old Sean. 631 00:17:31.876 --> 00:17:33.959 I grew up on 13th and Burleigh. 632 00:17:34.042 --> 00:17:36.019 - I started to contribute to - the violence in my community, 633 00:17:36.125 --> 00:17:38.269 To the drug, drug 634 00:17:38.293 --> 00:17:40.459 selling in my community. 635 00:17:40.542 --> 00:17:42.417 I started to steal, 636 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:43.644 I started to take 637 00:17:43.668 --> 00:17:44.834 and as a result, 638 00:17:44.918 --> 00:17:46.895 I found myself in 639 00:17:46.919 --> 00:17:48.918 prison at the age of 17. 640 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:50.895 - [John] You know - prosecutors deal with people, 641 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.895 - Whether they're - victims or people 642 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:54.436 - That have been - accused of crimes. 643 00:17:54.542 --> 00:17:56.269 Usually at one of the 644 00:17:56.293 --> 00:17:58.042 lowest times in their life. 645 00:17:58.125 --> 00:17:59.478 In Milwaukee, like 646 00:17:59.502 --> 00:18:00.876 many, many other cities 647 00:18:00.959 --> 00:18:02.626 around the country, 648 00:18:02.709 --> 00:18:05.375 our young people come to us 649 00:18:05.459 --> 00:18:07.186 from situations often 650 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:08.959 of extreme poverty. 651 00:18:10.042 --> 00:18:11.811 - They have oftentimes - been exposed 652 00:18:11.918 --> 00:18:14.417 To really traumatic conditions. 653 00:18:14.500 --> 00:18:15.500 - Let's rewind. 654 00:18:15.584 --> 00:18:17.292 At the age of 13, I went to DT. 655 00:18:20.250 --> 00:18:21.790 Fortunately, I only 656 00:18:21.814 --> 00:18:23.375 did a month in DT. 657 00:18:23.459 --> 00:18:25.477 - After that, that should - have been the wake up call. 658 00:18:25.584 --> 00:18:26.834 I bumped my head. 659 00:18:26.918 --> 00:18:27.792 Ouch! 660 00:18:27.876 --> 00:18:28.959 It hurt. 661 00:18:29.042 --> 00:18:31.186 - I should've woke up - from there but I didn't. 662 00:18:31.292 --> 00:18:33.082 I went right back to 663 00:18:33.106 --> 00:18:34.918 the same community, 664 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.209 hung out with the same guys, 665 00:18:37.292 --> 00:18:39.334 who weren't writing me, 666 00:18:39.417 --> 00:18:40.394 who weren't sending 667 00:18:40.418 --> 00:18:41.418 me no canteen money, 668 00:18:41.500 --> 00:18:43.459 when I was in DT. 669 00:18:43.542 --> 00:18:45.748 - Once that child gets 670 00:18:45.772 --> 00:18:48.000 into the age of 14, 15, 16, 671 00:18:48.083 --> 00:18:49.876 the system changes a little bit 672 00:18:49.959 --> 00:18:51.436 and now we call it 673 00:18:51.460 --> 00:18:52.959 the delinquency system 674 00:18:53.042 --> 00:18:54.936 - and oftentimes what - we're doing there 675 00:18:55.042 --> 00:18:56.623 Is now we're starting to 676 00:18:56.647 --> 00:18:58.250 change more towards prosecution 677 00:18:58.334 --> 00:18:59.894 and balancing public safety 678 00:18:59.918 --> 00:19:01.500 with the needs of the child 679 00:19:01.584 --> 00:19:02.707 and then once they 680 00:19:02.731 --> 00:19:03.876 become 17, guess what? 681 00:19:03.959 --> 00:19:05.500 They're treated as adults 682 00:19:05.584 --> 00:19:06.936 and the system takes a 683 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.334 totally different approach 684 00:19:08.417 --> 00:19:09.811 towards people 685 00:19:09.835 --> 00:19:11.250 committing the offense. 686 00:19:11.334 --> 00:19:13.167 - Three years later, 687 00:19:13.250 --> 00:19:15.542 here I am in DT once again. 688 00:19:17.459 --> 00:19:19.667 Facing a lot of time. 689 00:19:19.751 --> 00:19:21.686 - Facing time that can - possibly send me away 690 00:19:21.792 --> 00:19:24.042 For the rest of my life 691 00:19:24.125 --> 00:19:25.769 and I ultimately received 692 00:19:25.793 --> 00:19:27.459 17 years in prison. 693 00:19:27.542 --> 00:19:29.227 - [John] There's - like a 10 year period 694 00:19:29.334 --> 00:19:32.209 Where that brain is developing. 695 00:19:32.292 --> 00:19:33.561 (John stutters) 696 00:19:33.585 --> 00:19:34.876 The person is changing 697 00:19:34.959 --> 00:19:36.728 and so if you see a 698 00:19:36.752 --> 00:19:38.542 dangerous circumstance 699 00:19:38.626 --> 00:19:40.227 - that a young person - is committing, 700 00:19:40.334 --> 00:19:41.834 The ordinary person would say, 701 00:19:41.918 --> 00:19:42.895 - "Well you've gotta - punish that kid. 702 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:43.998 "You gotta remove 'em 703 00:19:44.022 --> 00:19:45.042 from the community." 704 00:19:45.125 --> 00:19:46.561 - And we have to - then balance that. 705 00:19:46.667 --> 00:19:47.876 We have to say, 706 00:19:47.959 --> 00:19:50.019 - "Yeah but this is gonna - be a different person 707 00:19:50.125 --> 00:19:51.667 "two years from now. 708 00:19:51.751 --> 00:19:53.477 - "It's gonna be a different - person 10 years from now." 709 00:19:53.584 --> 00:19:55.124 And trying to incorporate 710 00:19:55.148 --> 00:19:56.709 that kind of thinking 711 00:19:56.792 --> 00:19:57.811 - takes us in a - different direction. 712 00:19:57.918 --> 00:19:58.978 It doesn't become 713 00:19:59.002 --> 00:20:00.083 about punishment, 714 00:20:00.167 --> 00:20:01.561 it becomes about how 715 00:20:01.585 --> 00:20:03.000 do we fix this problem 716 00:20:03.083 --> 00:20:04.083 for the longterm. 717 00:20:04.167 --> 00:20:06.626 - It took me 17 years 718 00:20:06.709 --> 00:20:08.834 to come to the realization that 719 00:20:08.918 --> 00:20:10.416 this life, this 720 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:11.959 so-called street life, 721 00:20:12.042 --> 00:20:14.498 this hood life, being a street 722 00:20:14.522 --> 00:20:17.000 nigga, being a hood nigga, 723 00:20:17.083 --> 00:20:19.083 it took me 17 years to realize 724 00:20:19.167 --> 00:20:21.125 that there's no future in that. 725 00:20:21.209 --> 00:20:22.292 At all. 726 00:20:22.375 --> 00:20:23.582 I've been home 727 00:20:23.606 --> 00:20:24.834 almost two years now 728 00:20:24.918 --> 00:20:26.584 and I'm the statewide organizer 729 00:20:26.667 --> 00:20:27.873 for criminal justice 730 00:20:27.897 --> 00:20:29.125 reform for the ACLU. 731 00:20:29.209 --> 00:20:30.520 My job title was to cut 732 00:20:30.544 --> 00:20:31.876 the prison population 733 00:20:31.959 --> 00:20:34.918 here in Wisconsin by 50%. 734 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:36.498 Wisconsin locks up 735 00:20:36.522 --> 00:20:38.042 more black males 736 00:20:38.125 --> 00:20:39.894 than any other state 737 00:20:39.918 --> 00:20:41.709 in this country. 738 00:20:41.792 --> 00:20:43.144 - [David] Milwaukee 739 00:20:43.168 --> 00:20:44.542 sends about 6,000, 740 00:20:44.626 --> 00:20:46.500 you know, people, black men, 741 00:20:46.584 --> 00:20:48.686 to the Prison Industrial Complex 742 00:20:48.710 --> 00:20:50.834 of the state of Wisconsin. 743 00:20:50.918 --> 00:20:52.499 You got somewhere 744 00:20:52.523 --> 00:20:54.125 between 20 and 25,000 745 00:20:54.209 --> 00:20:55.393 people locked up in the state. 746 00:20:55.417 --> 00:20:56.394 The overwhelming 747 00:20:56.418 --> 00:20:57.418 majority are black. 748 00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:58.811 Overwhelming majority 749 00:20:58.835 --> 00:21:00.167 come from Milwaukee. 750 00:21:00.250 --> 00:21:02.186 - [Sean] That's good - information to have 751 00:21:02.292 --> 00:21:04.061 Because it lets you know 752 00:21:04.085 --> 00:21:05.876 that you are a target 753 00:21:05.959 --> 00:21:07.209 but it also lets you know 754 00:21:07.292 --> 00:21:08.707 that I need to do 755 00:21:08.731 --> 00:21:10.167 everything in my power 756 00:21:10.250 --> 00:21:12.019 to put myself in the position 757 00:21:12.043 --> 00:21:13.834 where I'm not a statistic 758 00:21:13.918 --> 00:21:15.853 - and not only am - I not a statistic 759 00:21:15.959 --> 00:21:18.207 But I'm helping other brothers 760 00:21:18.231 --> 00:21:20.500 not become a statistic. 761 00:21:20.584 --> 00:21:23.144 - [David] In terms of young - people committing crimes 762 00:21:23.250 --> 00:21:24.540 And I really get away from 763 00:21:24.564 --> 00:21:25.876 the language of crime. 764 00:21:25.959 --> 00:21:27.749 Criminality is about 765 00:21:27.773 --> 00:21:29.584 policing people 766 00:21:29.667 --> 00:21:31.436 as well as their 767 00:21:31.460 --> 00:21:33.250 relationship to resources. 768 00:21:33.334 --> 00:21:35.644 All crime is really unmet 769 00:21:35.668 --> 00:21:38.000 human need at some level 770 00:21:38.083 --> 00:21:40.167 because the people are immoral. 771 00:21:40.250 --> 00:21:41.352 - It's not because of - a value judgment, 772 00:21:41.459 --> 00:21:43.248 It is not because of any 773 00:21:43.272 --> 00:21:45.083 biological difference 774 00:21:45.167 --> 00:21:47.102 - in people of color, - particularly black people 775 00:21:47.209 --> 00:21:48.500 That we can't thrive 776 00:21:48.584 --> 00:21:49.978 but it is those 777 00:21:50.002 --> 00:21:51.417 structural factors 778 00:21:51.500 --> 00:21:52.894 that deny people access 779 00:21:52.918 --> 00:21:54.334 to quality housing, 780 00:21:54.417 --> 00:21:56.269 education that will lift 781 00:21:56.293 --> 00:21:58.167 us into the 21st century 782 00:21:58.250 --> 00:21:59.478 and when there's 783 00:21:59.502 --> 00:22:00.751 concentrated disadvantage, 784 00:22:00.834 --> 00:22:03.000 people respond in survival mode. 785 00:22:03.083 --> 00:22:04.334 - [Sean] What's your story man? 786 00:22:04.417 --> 00:22:05.603 - Tell me a little bit - about yourself man. 787 00:22:05.709 --> 00:22:06.936 - [Brandon] My momma, - she started doing drugs 788 00:22:07.042 --> 00:22:08.603 - And all that 'cause - she lost her house. 789 00:22:08.709 --> 00:22:10.209 I forgot what for or whatever. 790 00:22:10.292 --> 00:22:11.519 - I guess she didn't - have enough money, 791 00:22:11.626 --> 00:22:13.561 - That's nothing to - do with the cases. 792 00:22:13.667 --> 00:22:14.644 So she started doing 793 00:22:14.668 --> 00:22:15.668 drugs and all that. 794 00:22:15.751 --> 00:22:17.061 You know, she had to 795 00:22:17.085 --> 00:22:18.417 find a way for us to live 796 00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:20.352 - and you know, eat and - all the other stuff. 797 00:22:20.459 --> 00:22:22.144 - So we would have to - walk to the store 798 00:22:22.250 --> 00:22:24.457 Like two miles down just to 799 00:22:24.481 --> 00:22:26.709 go to the store and steal 800 00:22:28.667 --> 00:22:30.417 and one day she got caught 801 00:22:30.500 --> 00:22:32.144 - and (stutters) they - took me away from her 802 00:22:32.250 --> 00:22:33.751 And I ended up in foster care. 803 00:22:33.834 --> 00:22:35.709 So I had to wait on my sister 804 00:22:35.792 --> 00:22:37.519 - and my sister took about - like two or three months 805 00:22:37.626 --> 00:22:39.270 To come get me over, 806 00:22:39.294 --> 00:22:40.959 from here in Milwaukee. 807 00:22:41.042 --> 00:22:42.728 - She came all the way down - in Dallas to come get me 808 00:22:42.834 --> 00:22:44.540 And she adopted me and 809 00:22:44.564 --> 00:22:46.292 I was staying with her 810 00:22:46.375 --> 00:22:48.019 but ended up to a point where 811 00:22:48.043 --> 00:22:49.709 it just wasn't working out. 812 00:22:49.792 --> 00:22:50.957 Like, I started being a 813 00:22:50.981 --> 00:22:52.167 little bit disobedient 814 00:22:52.250 --> 00:22:54.019 - 'cause I feel like - I was getting older 815 00:22:54.125 --> 00:22:55.853 - And like it was certain - stuff that I wanted to do 816 00:22:55.959 --> 00:22:57.792 That she told me I couldn't do. 817 00:22:57.876 --> 00:22:59.209 I was like hanging around, 818 00:22:59.292 --> 00:23:00.748 you know like people who 819 00:23:00.772 --> 00:23:02.250 was doing the wrong things. 820 00:23:02.334 --> 00:23:03.603 I ended up starting 821 00:23:03.627 --> 00:23:04.918 smoking at the age of 12. 822 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:06.144 Stealing cars and 823 00:23:06.168 --> 00:23:07.334 stuff like that. 824 00:23:07.417 --> 00:23:10.436 - [David] Violence as it - manifests in the community again 825 00:23:10.542 --> 00:23:11.873 Is a result of an 826 00:23:11.897 --> 00:23:13.250 unmet human need. 827 00:23:13.334 --> 00:23:15.478 So density rates or where 828 00:23:15.502 --> 00:23:17.667 the shootings take place, 829 00:23:17.751 --> 00:23:18.792 if you look at the maps, 830 00:23:18.876 --> 00:23:20.395 they're immediately over 831 00:23:20.419 --> 00:23:21.959 the same type of areas 832 00:23:22.042 --> 00:23:23.644 - where there's - housing instability, 833 00:23:23.751 --> 00:23:24.915 Where there's low 834 00:23:24.939 --> 00:23:26.125 educational attainment, 835 00:23:26.209 --> 00:23:27.311 where there's high 836 00:23:27.335 --> 00:23:28.459 infant mortality, 837 00:23:28.542 --> 00:23:30.978 all of it's concentrated in 838 00:23:31.002 --> 00:23:33.459 most of the same neighborhoods. 839 00:23:34.042 --> 00:23:35.417 - Okay. 840 00:23:35.500 --> 00:23:36.936 - [Brandon] Like, how I got - in here, me and my friend, 841 00:23:37.042 --> 00:23:38.498 We robbed a, we tried to 842 00:23:38.522 --> 00:23:40.000 rob Washington High School 843 00:23:40.083 --> 00:23:41.644 and that's what ended 844 00:23:41.668 --> 00:23:43.250 up, we ended up doing. 845 00:23:43.334 --> 00:23:44.334 - [Sean] Yeah. 846 00:23:44.417 --> 00:23:46.352 - [Brandon] And - so that's the day 847 00:23:46.459 --> 00:23:49.060 - We ended up robbing somebody - else in the midst of it 848 00:23:49.167 --> 00:23:50.874 And we got caught and boom 849 00:23:50.898 --> 00:23:52.626 we got hit with two cases 850 00:23:52.709 --> 00:23:54.540 and now I'm (stutters) in here 851 00:23:54.564 --> 00:23:56.417 and trynna get myself out of. 852 00:23:56.500 --> 00:23:57.894 - [David] If we don't address 853 00:23:57.918 --> 00:23:59.334 the structural factors 854 00:23:59.417 --> 00:24:01.436 of employment, of education, 855 00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:03.500 of remedial education, 856 00:24:03.584 --> 00:24:05.894 of health, of basic 857 00:24:03.584 --> 00:24:08.250 Milwaukee's poor 858 00:24:05.918 --> 00:24:10.709 infrastructure for 859 00:24:10.709 --> 00:24:12.686 and for Milwaukee's 860 00:24:12.710 --> 00:24:14.709 marginalized residents, 861 00:24:14.792 --> 00:24:16.290 if we don't do that, then 862 00:24:16.314 --> 00:24:17.834 violence is gonna continue 863 00:24:17.918 --> 00:24:20.416 to be the social response to 864 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:22.959 the injustice in the society. 865 00:24:23.792 --> 00:24:25.334 - [Sean] That's what's up man. 866 00:24:25.417 --> 00:24:27.477 - I'm glad that you, you know, - took this time to talk to me, 867 00:24:27.584 --> 00:24:29.249 To tell me a little 868 00:24:29.273 --> 00:24:30.959 bit about your story. 869 00:24:31.042 --> 00:24:32.977 - You a very - intelligent young man. 870 00:24:33.083 --> 00:24:34.248 Your future is 871 00:24:34.272 --> 00:24:35.459 definitely very bright 872 00:24:35.542 --> 00:24:36.665 and you just gotta 873 00:24:36.689 --> 00:24:37.834 stay focused man. 874 00:24:37.918 --> 00:24:39.042 You have any more questions? 875 00:24:39.125 --> 00:24:40.334 You have any questions for me? 876 00:24:40.417 --> 00:24:41.227 - [Brandon] Should I - call you on putting me 877 00:24:41.334 --> 00:24:42.375 On the basketball team? 878 00:24:42.459 --> 00:24:43.792 Can you do that? 879 00:24:43.876 --> 00:24:45.227 - [Sean] Shit, we definitely - can figure it out. 880 00:24:45.334 --> 00:24:47.478 I know a few coaches who 881 00:24:47.502 --> 00:24:49.667 got some basketball teams. 882 00:24:49.751 --> 00:24:51.811 - 'Cause I was playing at - ALU and I'm trynna start- 883 00:24:51.918 --> 00:24:52.895 - [Sean] Definitely, - definitely give me a call 884 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:54.019 And I'll definitely 885 00:24:54.043 --> 00:24:55.083 put you in contact 886 00:24:55.167 --> 00:24:56.751 with a couple of coaches. 887 00:24:56.834 --> 00:24:57.834 Anything else? 888 00:24:57.876 --> 00:24:58.626 - [Brandon] No, that's it. 889 00:24:58.709 --> 00:25:00.144 - Okay. - (Sean chuckles) 890 00:25:00.250 --> 00:25:01.292 Love you man. 891 00:25:01.375 --> 00:25:02.250 - [Brandon] I love you too. 892 00:25:02.334 --> 00:25:03.167 - [Muhibb] So I looked the chief 893 00:25:03.250 --> 00:25:04.083 devil dead in the eyes (mumbles) 894 00:25:04.167 --> 00:25:05.000 - [Man] What you say to him. 895 00:25:05.083 --> 00:25:05.626 - [Muhibb] Bring all your plans. 896 00:25:05.709 --> 00:25:06.334 - Say it. 897 00:25:06.417 --> 00:25:07.417 - Fill 'em with dope. 898 00:25:07.459 --> 00:25:08.292 - [Man] What else? 899 00:25:08.375 --> 00:25:09.667 - Drop crack bombs on us. 900 00:25:09.751 --> 00:25:11.102 - Make the whole hood look - like a third world country 901 00:25:11.209 --> 00:25:12.561 - Evict us. - (man mumbles) 902 00:25:12.667 --> 00:25:13.667 Turn our lights off. 903 00:25:13.709 --> 00:25:15.250 Turn our gas off. 904 00:25:15.334 --> 00:25:16.853 Break our windows, 905 00:25:15.334 --> 00:25:18.417 our TVs, our stoves. 906 00:25:16.877 --> 00:25:18.500 our refrigerators, 907 00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:19.667 Even break our minds. 908 00:25:19.751 --> 00:25:20.542 But guess what? 909 00:25:20.626 --> 00:25:22.209 You will never get to my soul. 910 00:25:22.292 --> 00:25:24.477 - You will not break us. - They will not break us. 911 00:25:24.584 --> 00:25:26.644 - You can not break us. - They can not break us. 912 00:25:26.751 --> 00:25:28.895 - You will not break us. - You will not break us. 913 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:31.060 - You can not break us. - You can not break us. 914 00:25:31.167 --> 00:25:32.375 - There are no trials. 915 00:25:32.459 --> 00:25:34.227 - [Both] No tribulation, - no pressure, no pain, 916 00:25:34.334 --> 00:25:35.874 No hurricane strong 917 00:25:35.898 --> 00:25:37.459 enough to stop my people. 918 00:25:37.542 --> 00:25:38.769 We will always find 919 00:25:38.793 --> 00:25:40.042 our way back to God. 920 00:25:40.125 --> 00:25:41.417 - [Man] What else? 921 00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:43.477 - So the Milwaukee community 922 00:25:43.501 --> 00:25:45.500 is a beautiful place. 923 00:25:45.584 --> 00:25:47.207 Full of beautiful people doing 924 00:25:47.231 --> 00:25:48.876 a lot of beautiful things. 925 00:25:48.959 --> 00:25:50.895 There are so many folks 926 00:25:50.919 --> 00:25:52.876 who are committed, 927 00:25:52.959 --> 00:25:54.332 be servants and make 928 00:25:54.356 --> 00:25:55.751 the best contribution 929 00:25:55.834 --> 00:25:57.665 that they can to the 930 00:25:57.689 --> 00:25:59.542 lives of these children. 931 00:25:59.626 --> 00:26:01.436 - These are the people - who are not highlighted 932 00:26:01.542 --> 00:26:03.334 On a regular basis. 933 00:26:03.417 --> 00:26:04.811 If we are going 934 00:26:04.835 --> 00:26:06.250 to tell the story 935 00:26:06.334 --> 00:26:08.269 - of what's going on in - the Milwaukee community, 936 00:26:08.375 --> 00:26:10.144 We can't necessarily keep 937 00:26:10.168 --> 00:26:11.959 telling half the truth. 938 00:26:12.042 --> 00:26:14.269 - We also have to highlight - all the beautiful things 939 00:26:14.375 --> 00:26:15.959 That are going on every day. 940 00:26:16.042 --> 00:26:17.751 (upbeat music) 941 00:26:19.876 --> 00:26:21.457 - On Facebook, 942 00:26:21.481 --> 00:26:23.083 Instagram, on the news, 943 00:26:24.167 --> 00:26:25.644 as you know in the 944 00:26:25.668 --> 00:26:27.167 conversations we had, 945 00:26:27.250 --> 00:26:28.686 - at the end of the - night they show 946 00:26:28.792 --> 00:26:30.123 Black boy, brown 947 00:26:30.147 --> 00:26:31.500 boy shot and killed. 948 00:26:31.584 --> 00:26:32.894 Possibly by another 949 00:26:32.918 --> 00:26:34.250 black or brown boy. 950 00:26:34.334 --> 00:26:36.144 - Possibly these days - by police officers. 951 00:26:36.250 --> 00:26:38.227 - You know we have real - talk conversations. 952 00:26:38.334 --> 00:26:39.542 Ignorance is loud. 953 00:26:39.626 --> 00:26:40.874 They wait till you die 954 00:26:40.898 --> 00:26:42.167 and they put a shrine up 955 00:26:42.250 --> 00:26:43.977 - and people on there - saying how good you are, 956 00:26:44.083 --> 00:26:45.292 Et cetera, et cetera. 957 00:26:45.375 --> 00:26:46.728 - We brought you here - to celebrate you 958 00:26:46.834 --> 00:26:49.269 - While you are in your now - not while you in your later. 959 00:26:49.375 --> 00:26:51.000 Today is a great day for you. 960 00:26:51.083 --> 00:26:53.083 I told you, it's not punishment, 961 00:26:53.167 --> 00:26:55.125 it's a process of preparation. 962 00:26:55.209 --> 00:26:56.728 - I wanna bring these two - young men to the stage. 963 00:26:56.834 --> 00:26:58.186 - Come on show some love - man, give it up for 'em. 964 00:26:58.292 --> 00:26:59.667 (crowd cheering) 965 00:26:59.751 --> 00:27:01.269 - These your peers you should - be more louder than that man. 966 00:27:01.375 --> 00:27:03.751 (crowd cheering) 967 00:27:03.834 --> 00:27:05.769 - [Margaret] One thing - I always encourage 968 00:27:05.876 --> 00:27:07.332 Young people to do, 969 00:27:07.356 --> 00:27:08.834 young black people to do, 970 00:27:08.918 --> 00:27:10.584 is to get engaged and involved 971 00:27:10.667 --> 00:27:11.957 in whatever's happening 972 00:27:11.981 --> 00:27:13.292 in their community. 973 00:27:13.375 --> 00:27:15.186 There's an old saying "the 974 00:27:15.210 --> 00:27:17.042 squeaky wheel gets the grease." 975 00:27:17.125 --> 00:27:18.375 And in the black community, 976 00:27:18.459 --> 00:27:19.603 we need to become 977 00:27:19.627 --> 00:27:20.792 the squeaky wheel 978 00:27:20.876 --> 00:27:22.645 and make sure that we get 979 00:27:22.669 --> 00:27:24.459 the things that we deserve. 980 00:27:24.542 --> 00:27:25.957 - We did some very, very 981 00:27:25.981 --> 00:27:27.417 personal statements, 982 00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:29.000 the young men wrote. 983 00:27:29.083 --> 00:27:30.603 - So one of the main - things they said is, 984 00:27:30.709 --> 00:27:31.791 "Adults are talking to 985 00:27:31.815 --> 00:27:32.918 us and not with us." 986 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.459 So with that being said, 987 00:27:34.542 --> 00:27:36.311 - I wanted to give two - of them an opportunity 988 00:27:36.417 --> 00:27:37.644 - To share what they - got in the class. 989 00:27:37.751 --> 00:27:38.853 - Y'all show them - some love please. 990 00:27:38.959 --> 00:27:42.500 (crowd clapping) 991 00:27:42.584 --> 00:27:43.624 - [Marquell] The truth is, 992 00:27:43.667 --> 00:27:45.561 - I never really met my - dad until the age of 10. 993 00:27:45.667 --> 00:27:48.060 - The truth is, I never really - wanted it to be alive. 994 00:27:48.167 --> 00:27:50.019 - The truth is, I go through - so much, (stutters) 995 00:27:50.125 --> 00:27:51.832 I think that I'm the only one 996 00:27:51.856 --> 00:27:53.584 that's going through so much. 997 00:27:53.667 --> 00:27:55.103 The truth is that I 998 00:27:55.127 --> 00:27:56.584 don't know where to start 999 00:27:56.667 --> 00:27:58.334 but I don't know how to start. 1000 00:27:58.417 --> 00:28:00.019 - Truth is, I wish I - will never die young. 1001 00:28:00.125 --> 00:28:01.977 - The truth is, I'm - not gonna die young. 1002 00:28:02.083 --> 00:28:03.209 - There you go. 1003 00:28:03.292 --> 00:28:04.895 - The truth is, I am - not going to die young. 1004 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:06.125 (all applauding) 1005 00:28:06.209 --> 00:28:07.477 - [Mary] Milwaukee is - gonna have a tough time 1006 00:28:07.584 --> 00:28:09.144 - And continue to - have a tough time 1007 00:28:09.250 --> 00:28:10.707 Until we're really willing 1008 00:28:10.731 --> 00:28:12.209 to look at the realities 1009 00:28:12.292 --> 00:28:13.959 of what's going on in our city. 1010 00:28:14.042 --> 00:28:15.936 We know there are 1011 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:17.876 pockets in our city where 1012 00:28:17.959 --> 00:28:20.186 gun violence is so real 1013 00:28:20.210 --> 00:28:22.459 that kids get used to it. 1014 00:28:22.542 --> 00:28:23.417 That's not okay. 1015 00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:25.500 (crowd clapping) 1016 00:28:25.584 --> 00:28:28.083 (all chanting) 1017 00:28:29.459 --> 00:28:30.394 - [Kwabena] I am great. - [All] I am great. 1018 00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:32.102 - [Kwabena] I am mighty. - [All] I am mighty. 1019 00:28:32.209 --> 00:28:33.417 - [Kwabena] I am- 1020 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:35.019 - [David] You have a lot - of community healers. 1021 00:28:35.125 --> 00:28:37.853 - I mean some of the best examples - we see on ninth and ring. 1022 00:28:37.959 --> 00:28:39.459 With the, "We got this garden." 1023 00:28:39.542 --> 00:28:41.436 - You see this with the, "I - will not die young" campaign. 1024 00:28:41.542 --> 00:28:43.459 You see it with spoken word. 1025 00:28:43.542 --> 00:28:45.167 Nobody told someone, 1026 00:28:45.250 --> 00:28:46.582 "Hey, you know that's a good 1027 00:28:46.606 --> 00:28:47.959 form of trauma therapy." 1028 00:28:48.042 --> 00:28:50.500 It was the innate knowledge 1029 00:28:50.584 --> 00:28:51.707 that if I don't get 1030 00:28:51.731 --> 00:28:52.876 this out somehow 1031 00:28:52.959 --> 00:28:54.165 in a pro-social way, 1032 00:28:54.189 --> 00:28:55.417 in a positive way, 1033 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:56.769 - it's gonna come out - in a negative way. 1034 00:28:56.876 --> 00:28:58.228 So I would rather take 1035 00:28:58.252 --> 00:28:59.626 my frustrations out 1036 00:28:59.709 --> 00:29:01.561 on the pad with a 1037 00:29:01.585 --> 00:29:03.459 pen, than explode. 1038 00:29:03.542 --> 00:29:04.311 - Look at this. - (Marquell mumbles) 1039 00:29:04.417 --> 00:29:05.417 This is your (stutters) 1040 00:29:05.459 --> 00:29:06.584 How many pages? 1041 00:29:06.667 --> 00:29:07.936 - I don't know yet - 'cause I, you know, 1042 00:29:08.042 --> 00:29:10.060 - I just been writing - around, writing and stuff. 1043 00:29:10.167 --> 00:29:10.918 Yeah. 1044 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:12.000 - What's behind this? 1045 00:29:12.083 --> 00:29:13.584 What kicked this off? 1046 00:29:13.667 --> 00:29:14.959 You got quite a bit. 1047 00:29:15.042 --> 00:29:16.748 - I mean because like, how 1048 00:29:16.772 --> 00:29:18.500 you's created your story 1049 00:29:18.584 --> 00:29:20.040 and telling them about 1050 00:29:20.064 --> 00:29:21.542 how you grew up and stuff. 1051 00:29:21.626 --> 00:29:23.125 I mean like, like you said, 1052 00:29:23.209 --> 00:29:24.375 "If you never tell your story 1053 00:29:24.459 --> 00:29:25.603 - "there ain't nobody - gonna never know 1054 00:29:25.709 --> 00:29:26.936 "what good that you 1055 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:28.209 did in the community 1056 00:29:28.292 --> 00:29:30.227 - "or what you did in the - community and stuff like that." 1057 00:29:30.334 --> 00:29:32.019 - So, I mean I got a - chance to tell my story 1058 00:29:32.125 --> 00:29:33.584 So I wanna tell it now. 1059 00:29:33.667 --> 00:29:34.500 - You glowing. 1060 00:29:34.584 --> 00:29:36.167 Like I remember you got a, 1061 00:29:36.250 --> 00:29:37.853 - when I came in you - got this feel to you 1062 00:29:37.959 --> 00:29:39.019 Like you moving in the 1063 00:29:39.043 --> 00:29:40.125 direction you wanna go 1064 00:29:40.209 --> 00:29:40.959 as a flow. 1065 00:29:41.042 --> 00:29:42.042 Right? 1066 00:29:42.125 --> 00:29:43.959 You gon' have some of these. 1067 00:29:44.042 --> 00:29:44.792 Aight? 1068 00:29:44.876 --> 00:29:46.375 You heard some of the men today. 1069 00:29:46.459 --> 00:29:47.626 You gon' have some of these 1070 00:29:47.709 --> 00:29:49.311 - but those some of - these gonna help you. 1071 00:29:49.417 --> 00:29:50.167 You know what I mean? 1072 00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:51.459 So don't worry about it. 1073 00:29:51.542 --> 00:29:52.792 It's fine to focus. 1074 00:29:52.876 --> 00:29:54.542 I think you got a gift. 1075 00:29:54.626 --> 00:29:56.561 - What is it gon' look - like five years from now? 1076 00:29:56.667 --> 00:29:57.936 - Five years from now, 1077 00:29:57.960 --> 00:29:59.250 for me it looking like 1078 00:29:59.334 --> 00:30:00.936 that I'm an author, you 1079 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:02.584 know, publishing my own books 1080 00:30:02.667 --> 00:30:04.936 - and probably might be on - my second one already. 1081 00:30:05.042 --> 00:30:06.103 - [Kwabena] Everybody 1082 00:30:06.127 --> 00:30:07.209 you see who made it 1083 00:30:07.292 --> 00:30:08.623 all of us had to make a 1084 00:30:08.647 --> 00:30:10.000 keen decision in life. 1085 00:30:10.083 --> 00:30:12.060 - We can either go - that way or that way. 1086 00:30:12.167 --> 00:30:13.292 You gotta make a decision 1087 00:30:13.375 --> 00:30:14.352 - and you made a - decision to be here. 1088 00:30:14.459 --> 00:30:15.790 - What I would say to 1089 00:30:15.814 --> 00:30:17.167 young black people, 1090 00:30:17.250 --> 00:30:18.959 especially young black males, 1091 00:30:19.042 --> 00:30:20.500 is they need to follow the model 1092 00:30:20.584 --> 00:30:22.876 of those who came before them. 1093 00:30:22.959 --> 00:30:24.165 The key thing is to 1094 00:30:24.189 --> 00:30:25.417 get an education. 1095 00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:27.125 Once you get an education, 1096 00:30:27.209 --> 00:30:28.457 nobody can ever take 1097 00:30:28.481 --> 00:30:29.751 that away from you 1098 00:30:29.834 --> 00:30:31.728 and it's not so much that 1099 00:30:31.752 --> 00:30:33.667 you learn one plus one is two 1100 00:30:33.751 --> 00:30:35.686 - but you learn how to - function in the world 1101 00:30:35.792 --> 00:30:37.667 When you have a good education 1102 00:30:37.751 --> 00:30:39.582 and how to, you know 1103 00:30:39.606 --> 00:30:41.459 build layers of success. 1104 00:30:41.542 --> 00:30:43.375 You also get to meet people 1105 00:30:43.459 --> 00:30:45.645 who can become lifelong 1106 00:30:45.669 --> 00:30:47.876 friends or supporters of yours. 1107 00:30:50.250 --> 00:30:51.542 - [Johnnie] Hey Brandon, 1108 00:30:51.626 --> 00:30:53.166 can you come upstairs 1109 00:30:53.190 --> 00:30:54.751 for a moment with me? 1110 00:30:59.751 --> 00:31:00.811 - Okay, so I just wanted to - talk to you a little bit 1111 00:31:00.918 --> 00:31:02.020 About your progress 1112 00:31:02.044 --> 00:31:03.167 for this past week 1113 00:31:03.250 --> 00:31:04.290 and your progress 1114 00:31:04.314 --> 00:31:05.375 since you've been here 1115 00:31:05.459 --> 00:31:06.792 at Next Chapter Living Center. 1116 00:31:06.876 --> 00:31:08.375 So, you've been here, 1117 00:31:08.459 --> 00:31:09.686 - you know you've been here - a little over a month. 1118 00:31:09.792 --> 00:31:11.728 - Started out, you know, - a little rocky, you know 1119 00:31:11.834 --> 00:31:13.728 - And over the past few - weeks you've actually 1120 00:31:13.834 --> 00:31:15.561 - Been making some pretty - good choices, you know. 1121 00:31:15.667 --> 00:31:17.728 - We talked about a - little bit on yesterday. 1122 00:31:17.834 --> 00:31:19.042 We've been taking you out, 1123 00:31:19.125 --> 00:31:20.853 - showing you a few - community resources 1124 00:31:20.959 --> 00:31:22.374 Like what to do once you 1125 00:31:22.398 --> 00:31:23.834 finally get on your own 1126 00:31:23.918 --> 00:31:24.978 and how to maneuver 1127 00:31:25.002 --> 00:31:26.083 through that process. 1128 00:31:26.167 --> 00:31:27.561 Still I wanna show 1129 00:31:27.585 --> 00:31:29.000 you places like, 1130 00:31:29.083 --> 00:31:31.019 different maybe shelters, 1131 00:31:31.043 --> 00:31:33.000 resource centers, 1132 00:31:33.083 --> 00:31:34.417 continue to allow you to go like 1133 00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:35.769 - to New Hope Youth - and Family Services 1134 00:31:35.876 --> 00:31:37.311 To find out the services 1135 00:31:37.335 --> 00:31:38.792 they can offer you, 1136 00:31:38.876 --> 00:31:40.561 - going to places - like Zero to 100, 1137 00:31:40.667 --> 00:31:41.918 Meeting different mentors 1138 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:43.519 - and people in the - community as well. 1139 00:31:43.626 --> 00:31:46.500 (all chattering) 1140 00:31:50.125 --> 00:31:52.060 - [Kweku] There's an - old saying that said 1141 00:31:52.167 --> 00:31:54.019 - That, "A woman - can't raise a man" 1142 00:31:54.125 --> 00:31:55.436 But I always say this, "A 1143 00:31:55.460 --> 00:31:56.792 man can't raise a man." 1144 00:31:56.876 --> 00:31:58.186 It takes multiple 1145 00:31:58.210 --> 00:31:59.542 men to raise a man. 1146 00:31:59.626 --> 00:32:01.417 - Chin down, eyes up, okay? 1147 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:02.250 Keep your eyes out. 1148 00:32:02.334 --> 00:32:03.083 You can see me? 1149 00:32:03.167 --> 00:32:03.918 Okay. 1150 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.250 Life is your own journey. 1151 00:32:05.334 --> 00:32:06.561 - Everybody has their own - journey in life, right? 1152 00:32:06.667 --> 00:32:07.603 - But depending on who - you hang around with 1153 00:32:07.709 --> 00:32:08.959 And what you're doing in life, 1154 00:32:09.042 --> 00:32:11.060 - depends on how you - perform in life, right? 1155 00:32:11.167 --> 00:32:12.686 - So if you have bad - training partners, 1156 00:32:12.792 --> 00:32:14.519 - You gon' have a bad fight, - you be a bad fighter. 1157 00:32:14.626 --> 00:32:15.751 All right? 1158 00:32:15.834 --> 00:32:16.895 - So make sure in - life that you have 1159 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:18.667 Really good training partners. 1160 00:32:18.751 --> 00:32:20.728 - People you hang out - with, people you talk to, 1161 00:32:20.834 --> 00:32:21.728 - Make sure they're - really good people, 1162 00:32:21.834 --> 00:32:22.626 People that you wanna be around 1163 00:32:22.709 --> 00:32:23.792 because that's gonna make, 1164 00:32:23.876 --> 00:32:25.167 that's gonna control who you are 1165 00:32:25.250 --> 00:32:27.019 - when you wanna get ready to - be able to perform, all right? 1166 00:32:27.125 --> 00:32:28.728 - [Kweku] Because my - dad as great as he was, 1167 00:32:28.834 --> 00:32:29.834 He had many flaws. 1168 00:32:29.918 --> 00:32:31.603 - So if he was the only - person to teach me, 1169 00:32:31.709 --> 00:32:33.209 I would also have his good ways 1170 00:32:33.292 --> 00:32:34.542 but also his flaws. 1171 00:32:34.626 --> 00:32:35.770 But now that I have 1172 00:32:35.794 --> 00:32:36.959 multiple men in my life, 1173 00:32:37.042 --> 00:32:38.144 I can pull the good 1174 00:32:38.168 --> 00:32:39.292 from all of them 1175 00:32:39.375 --> 00:32:40.728 - and even the negative - that I can see, 1176 00:32:40.834 --> 00:32:42.061 I can say, "Hey, this is 1177 00:32:42.085 --> 00:32:43.334 what I don't wanna do." 1178 00:32:43.417 --> 00:32:45.125 (upbeat music) 1179 00:32:59.209 --> 00:33:00.436 - [David] Oftentimes - when people talk about 1180 00:33:00.542 --> 00:33:01.834 The strengths of a community, 1181 00:33:01.918 --> 00:33:03.561 they talk about people's 1182 00:33:03.585 --> 00:33:05.250 ability to withstand oppression. 1183 00:33:05.334 --> 00:33:06.311 Having someone's 1184 00:33:06.335 --> 00:33:07.335 boot on the neck 1185 00:33:07.417 --> 00:33:08.790 and how you can 1186 00:33:08.814 --> 00:33:10.209 endure despite that. 1187 00:33:10.292 --> 00:33:12.040 We need to move from resilience 1188 00:33:12.064 --> 00:33:13.834 to thriving communities. 1189 00:33:13.918 --> 00:33:15.957 We need to move from the 1190 00:33:15.981 --> 00:33:18.042 ability to survive in spite of 1191 00:33:20.209 --> 00:33:22.311 - to the ability to - advocate for the community 1192 00:33:22.417 --> 00:33:23.853 That you live in 1193 00:33:23.877 --> 00:33:25.334 and that we've come 1194 00:33:25.417 --> 00:33:28.250 to be a part of generationally. 1195 00:33:28.334 --> 00:33:30.334 - Everybody say kumbaya. 1196 00:33:30.417 --> 00:33:32.083 - [All] Kumbaya. 1197 00:33:32.167 --> 00:33:32.918 - [Woman] Kumbaya. 1198 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:34.083 - [All] Kumbaya. 1199 00:33:34.167 --> 00:33:34.977 - [Man] Thank you - everybody for coming out 1200 00:33:35.083 --> 00:33:36.334 To Heal The Hood this year. 1201 00:33:36.417 --> 00:33:38.102 - Give yourself a round of - applause for being here. 1202 00:33:38.209 --> 00:33:41.209 (all applauding) 1203 00:33:41.292 --> 00:33:41.959 - [Marquell] So, 1204 00:33:42.042 --> 00:33:42.876 tell me about this. 1205 00:33:42.959 --> 00:33:44.059 Like, what's this all about man? 1206 00:33:44.083 --> 00:33:45.876 - Man this is our seventh year 1207 00:33:45.959 --> 00:33:47.811 - Heal The Hood block - party and resource fair 1208 00:33:47.918 --> 00:33:49.228 And it's amazing to 1209 00:33:49.252 --> 00:33:50.584 see how far it's come. 1210 00:33:50.667 --> 00:33:51.876 You know, in seven years. 1211 00:33:51.959 --> 00:33:53.394 - Like the first one we - did, we might have had, 1212 00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:54.876 You know, three, four vendors. 1213 00:33:54.959 --> 00:33:56.853 - Now we got you know, - close to 30, 40, 1214 00:33:56.959 --> 00:33:57.792 You know what I'm saying? 1215 00:33:57.876 --> 00:33:58.894 So it's all about progression 1216 00:33:58.918 --> 00:34:00.311 - and it's all about - serving the people man. 1217 00:34:00.417 --> 00:34:02.686 - Yeah I see everybody - getting together, you know 1218 00:34:02.792 --> 00:34:03.977 - And no beefing going on. - None of that. 1219 00:34:04.083 --> 00:34:05.292 - We all playing basketball, 1220 00:34:05.375 --> 00:34:06.603 - eating and stuff. - [Ajamou] Yep. 1221 00:34:06.709 --> 00:34:07.811 - [Marquell] And them - just all getting along 1222 00:34:07.918 --> 00:34:09.227 - And I like that though - because well you know, 1223 00:34:09.334 --> 00:34:10.853 - Most people die, left - and right and stuff. 1224 00:34:10.959 --> 00:34:13.811 - You never know when it's the - last person breath or whatever 1225 00:34:13.918 --> 00:34:15.519 - Or when it's just their - last day or whatever. 1226 00:34:15.626 --> 00:34:16.334 - That's the truth. 1227 00:34:16.417 --> 00:34:17.626 That's the truth. 1228 00:34:17.709 --> 00:34:19.394 - [Derek] People in - 53206 are not weak 1229 00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:21.125 And they're not helpless. 1230 00:34:21.209 --> 00:34:22.709 They can do things. 1231 00:34:22.792 --> 00:34:24.042 They want to do things. 1232 00:34:24.125 --> 00:34:26.459 They're trying to do things 1233 00:34:26.542 --> 00:34:28.103 and I think we can build 1234 00:34:28.127 --> 00:34:29.709 that confidence back 1235 00:34:29.792 --> 00:34:31.292 in that community. 1236 00:34:31.375 --> 00:34:32.873 If we encourage people 1237 00:34:32.897 --> 00:34:34.417 to come together 1238 00:34:34.500 --> 00:34:36.332 and formulate strategies 1239 00:34:36.356 --> 00:34:38.209 and to say to them, 1240 00:34:38.292 --> 00:34:40.040 "There's nothing wrong 1241 00:34:40.064 --> 00:34:41.834 with the people in 53206." 1242 00:34:41.918 --> 00:34:42.998 - [Ajamou] That's the truth 1243 00:34:43.042 --> 00:34:43.853 - and that's what we - try to represent 1244 00:34:43.959 --> 00:34:45.125 At Heal The Hood, 1245 00:34:45.209 --> 00:34:46.436 - because like you said, - somebody asked the other day, 1246 00:34:46.542 --> 00:34:47.060 - "Why do we do it - to this capacity?" 1247 00:34:47.167 --> 00:34:48.584 How we do it 1248 00:34:48.667 --> 00:34:49.811 - and "Why not just have something - nice and small and quiet?" 1249 00:34:49.918 --> 00:34:51.626 I'm like, "A gunshot is loud." 1250 00:34:51.709 --> 00:34:52.459 You know what saying? 1251 00:34:52.542 --> 00:34:53.667 Violence is loud. 1252 00:34:53.751 --> 00:34:54.561 - So we come to the hood - to be even louder. 1253 00:34:54.667 --> 00:34:55.852 Positivity gotta be even louder 1254 00:34:55.876 --> 00:34:57.334 than the nonsense out here man. 1255 00:34:57.417 --> 00:34:58.978 So I choose to serve my people 1256 00:34:59.002 --> 00:35:00.584 the best way I know how. 1257 00:35:00.667 --> 00:35:01.936 - I know that I can't - change the world 1258 00:35:02.042 --> 00:35:03.644 - But I will change - the world around me 1259 00:35:03.751 --> 00:35:05.186 - And so we just do - what we do man. 1260 00:35:05.292 --> 00:35:06.626 I love it. 1261 00:35:06.709 --> 00:35:07.895 - [Marquell] I like that. - (Ajamou mumbles) 1262 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:08.977 - I like that, you know. - [Ajamou] Yes sir. 1263 00:35:09.083 --> 00:35:10.519 - [Ajamou] And we - all got a story man. 1264 00:35:10.626 --> 00:35:11.436 - I used to rip around these - streets like (mumbles) 1265 00:35:11.542 --> 00:35:11.959 You know what I'm saying? 1266 00:35:12.042 --> 00:35:13.125 Like 1267 00:35:13.209 --> 00:35:14.019 - and some days I - still be wanting to- 1268 00:35:14.125 --> 00:35:14.876 You know what I'm saying? 1269 00:35:14.959 --> 00:35:16.000 Get out here. 1270 00:35:16.083 --> 00:35:17.144 - 'Cause it's so easy - to get into trouble. 1271 00:35:17.250 --> 00:35:18.394 - It's so easy to do - what we've always done. 1272 00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:20.227 - It's the same thinking - at the system level 1273 00:35:20.334 --> 00:35:22.584 That it is at the block level. 1274 00:35:22.667 --> 00:35:24.603 - Yes, it would be - easier to pay my bills 1275 00:35:24.709 --> 00:35:26.250 If I just went and got a job 1276 00:35:26.334 --> 00:35:27.644 but the money is faster 1277 00:35:27.668 --> 00:35:29.000 right here on the block 1278 00:35:29.083 --> 00:35:30.394 and so yes, things will 1279 00:35:30.418 --> 00:35:31.751 ultimately (stutters) 1280 00:35:31.834 --> 00:35:33.977 - be better if we - invested in communities 1281 00:35:34.083 --> 00:35:35.417 And invested in peoples 1282 00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:37.394 - but the payout is - so much quicker 1283 00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:38.665 By locking folks up 1284 00:35:38.689 --> 00:35:39.876 and sending them away. 1285 00:35:39.959 --> 00:35:40.959 (upbeat music) 1286 00:35:41.042 --> 00:35:42.144 - [Ajamou] But it - kind of hustling 1287 00:35:42.250 --> 00:35:43.769 - Versus working a - righteous endeavor, 1288 00:35:43.876 --> 00:35:44.853 - Working Heal The Hood, working - my job, working my movement. 1289 00:35:44.959 --> 00:35:46.853 - It's easy to get back - into the streets. 1290 00:35:46.959 --> 00:35:48.209 Make a couple of phone calls 1291 00:35:48.292 --> 00:35:49.477 - and get back out here with - the baggies and scales 1292 00:35:49.584 --> 00:35:51.644 - But I told myself, what - has that given my son? 1293 00:35:51.751 --> 00:35:52.810 What has that given my people? 1294 00:35:52.834 --> 00:35:54.269 - It's a million young - brothers out here 1295 00:35:54.375 --> 00:35:55.977 - Talking about how they - got the two for the 15. 1296 00:35:56.083 --> 00:35:56.876 I don't have time for that. 1297 00:35:56.959 --> 00:35:58.167 I can't be one of them. 1298 00:35:58.250 --> 00:35:59.477 - You understanding - what I'm saying? 1299 00:35:59.584 --> 00:36:01.186 - So as much as I would - love that quick money 1300 00:36:01.292 --> 00:36:02.603 - And all of this and the - other that comes with it, 1301 00:36:02.709 --> 00:36:04.436 - I understand there's - a whole world out here 1302 00:36:04.542 --> 00:36:05.876 And I can't see the world, 1303 00:36:05.959 --> 00:36:07.853 - if I'm on the corner talking - about I got the two for the 15. 1304 00:36:07.959 --> 00:36:08.792 That ain't gon' cut it man. 1305 00:36:08.876 --> 00:36:10.083 So I salute you brother, 1306 00:36:10.167 --> 00:36:10.977 - keep doing what - you're doing family. 1307 00:36:11.083 --> 00:36:12.334 - [Marquell] All right. 1308 00:36:12.417 --> 00:36:13.227 - Keep doing what you - doing little brother. 1309 00:36:13.334 --> 00:36:14.584 However we can support man, 1310 00:36:14.667 --> 00:36:15.311 - we're here for you. - All right, period. 1311 00:36:15.417 --> 00:36:16.250 - Period, period. 1312 00:36:16.334 --> 00:36:17.500 - Good talking to you bro. 1313 00:36:17.584 --> 00:36:18.895 - Love my brother, - growing up Milwaukee. 1314 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:20.477 - [David] One thing that - can be said about Milwaukee 1315 00:36:20.584 --> 00:36:22.061 Is that the people here 1316 00:36:22.085 --> 00:36:23.584 are strong, resilient 1317 00:36:23.667 --> 00:36:25.624 and able to push back but 1318 00:36:25.648 --> 00:36:27.626 also able to turn inward 1319 00:36:27.709 --> 00:36:29.060 - and find healing - amongst ourselves 1320 00:36:29.167 --> 00:36:30.561 And then give a 1321 00:36:30.585 --> 00:36:32.000 solution that would help 1322 00:36:32.083 --> 00:36:32.918 all of the residents. 1323 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:34.542 - [Fidel] When she calls- 1324 00:36:34.626 --> 00:36:35.853 - [Sheldon] Oh we finna do - a FaceTime or something? 1325 00:36:35.959 --> 00:36:36.895 - [Fidel] We gonna do a - FaceTime when she calls. 1326 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:38.061 We'll just have 1327 00:36:38.085 --> 00:36:39.167 her spit some bars. 1328 00:36:40.250 --> 00:36:42.227 - To the beat? - You gotta hear her. 1329 00:36:42.334 --> 00:36:43.334 - To the beat? 1330 00:36:43.375 --> 00:36:44.603 - She's doing to the beat? - I'ma do a- 1331 00:36:44.709 --> 00:36:45.102 - I'ma have her do acapella. - Oh okay. 1332 00:36:45.209 --> 00:36:46.042 She got- 1333 00:36:46.125 --> 00:36:47.167 She can do acapella 1334 00:36:47.250 --> 00:36:48.311 - and you would definitely - get the, get that smoke. 1335 00:36:48.417 --> 00:36:49.417 She's good. 1336 00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:52.311 Let me call her and I 1337 00:36:52.335 --> 00:36:54.167 can get her on the line. 1338 00:36:56.083 --> 00:36:57.083 Hey Tiana. 1339 00:36:57.876 --> 00:36:59.500 - [Tiana] Hey. 1340 00:36:59.584 --> 00:37:01.042 - [Fidel] So, 1341 00:37:01.125 --> 00:37:02.519 it's unfortunate that you 1342 00:37:02.543 --> 00:37:03.959 couldn't be here today 1343 00:37:04.042 --> 00:37:06.374 but we still have our sound 1344 00:37:06.398 --> 00:37:08.751 engineer, Sheldon, here. 1345 00:37:08.834 --> 00:37:10.083 So what we want to do 1346 00:37:10.167 --> 00:37:11.228 is sort of introduce 1347 00:37:11.252 --> 00:37:12.334 you to what I heard 1348 00:37:12.417 --> 00:37:14.102 - the last time you - came to the studio. 1349 00:37:14.209 --> 00:37:15.936 - You might've planned to - be here for the whole week 1350 00:37:16.042 --> 00:37:17.936 - And now we got people here - and everything like that 1351 00:37:18.042 --> 00:37:20.019 But we still want to make 1352 00:37:20.043 --> 00:37:22.042 great use of the time 1353 00:37:22.125 --> 00:37:23.375 and I still want you to know 1354 00:37:23.459 --> 00:37:24.978 that a lot of people showed 1355 00:37:25.002 --> 00:37:26.542 up here on your behalf. 1356 00:37:26.626 --> 00:37:29.250 Like for you, specifically 1357 00:37:29.334 --> 00:37:30.686 and you were supposed to 1358 00:37:30.710 --> 00:37:32.083 be the first one here. 1359 00:37:32.167 --> 00:37:34.209 At like three o'clock. 1360 00:37:36.459 --> 00:37:37.209 Am I on mute? 1361 00:37:37.292 --> 00:37:37.918 Hello? 1362 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:39.000 Is anybody there? 1363 00:37:39.042 --> 00:37:39.751 Hello? 1364 00:37:39.834 --> 00:37:40.626 Hello? 1365 00:37:40.709 --> 00:37:42.102 - Yeah. - (Tiana laughs) 1366 00:37:42.209 --> 00:37:43.209 My bad. 1367 00:37:43.876 --> 00:37:44.709 - [Fidel] It's okay. 1368 00:37:44.792 --> 00:37:45.626 It's okay to say "My bad". 1369 00:37:45.709 --> 00:37:46.334 It's okay to say "I apologize". 1370 00:37:46.417 --> 00:37:47.167 It's okay. 1371 00:37:47.250 --> 00:37:48.042 You know what I mean? 1372 00:37:48.125 --> 00:37:49.834 Things happen. 1373 00:37:49.918 --> 00:37:51.375 We just have to communicate. 1374 00:37:51.459 --> 00:37:52.209 - [Tiana] Got you. 1375 00:37:52.292 --> 00:37:53.792 - All right, great. 1376 00:37:53.876 --> 00:37:56.019 - So now listen, I want - Sheldon to be able to hear 1377 00:37:56.125 --> 00:37:57.292 Everything that I heard. 1378 00:37:59.250 --> 00:38:00.477 - Whenever you're ready, - go ahead and start. 1379 00:38:00.584 --> 00:38:01.769 - I'ma bring the phone - over here by Sheldon 1380 00:38:01.876 --> 00:38:02.895 So we can, so he can 1381 00:38:02.919 --> 00:38:03.959 hear you as well. 1382 00:38:04.042 --> 00:38:05.417 Get in your zone. 1383 00:38:05.500 --> 00:38:07.125 (Tiana laughs) 1384 00:38:07.209 --> 00:38:09.792 (Tiana mumbles) 1385 00:38:09.876 --> 00:38:11.186 - She going somewhere - private and quiet 1386 00:38:11.292 --> 00:38:12.459 Where she can really... 1387 00:38:14.250 --> 00:38:15.167 Oh outside. 1388 00:38:15.250 --> 00:38:16.250 This is great. 1389 00:38:17.417 --> 00:38:18.584 You could be in that car, 1390 00:38:18.667 --> 00:38:20.061 you could have drove 1391 00:38:20.085 --> 00:38:21.500 the True Skool, damn it. 1392 00:38:23.918 --> 00:38:24.709 - We ready? 1393 00:38:24.792 --> 00:38:25.542 - [Fidel] We ready. 1394 00:38:25.626 --> 00:38:26.500 You ready? 1395 00:38:26.584 --> 00:38:27.375 - Yeah. 1396 00:38:27.459 --> 00:38:29.000 - Okay, great. 1397 00:38:29.083 --> 00:38:30.250 - [Tiana] Okay. 1398 00:38:30.334 --> 00:38:32.311 - ♪ Heavenly father I'm - stuck in my ways ♪ 1399 00:38:32.417 --> 00:38:33.540 ♪ Yes I feel guilty 1400 00:38:33.564 --> 00:38:34.709 for choices I made ♪ 1401 00:38:34.792 --> 00:38:36.250 ♪ I'm only human- ♪ 1402 00:38:36.334 --> 00:38:37.334 Move away from my car. 1403 00:38:37.375 --> 00:38:38.417 Why'd you bang my car? 1404 00:38:42.250 --> 00:38:43.250 Like. 1405 00:38:49.125 --> 00:38:51.083 (Tiana exclaims) 1406 00:38:51.167 --> 00:38:52.167 Okay. 1407 00:38:53.626 --> 00:38:55.603 - ♪ Heavenly father I'm - stuck in my ways ♪ 1408 00:38:55.709 --> 00:38:56.853 ♪ Yes I feel guilty 1409 00:38:56.877 --> 00:38:58.042 for choices I made ♪ 1410 00:38:58.125 --> 00:38:59.165 ♪ I'm only human so 1411 00:38:59.189 --> 00:39:00.250 needless to say ♪ 1412 00:39:00.334 --> 00:39:02.603 - ♪ I make mistakes almost - every day, day to day ♪ 1413 00:39:02.709 --> 00:39:04.811 - ♪ Why you had to give me the - parents that you gave me ♪ 1414 00:39:04.918 --> 00:39:07.144 - ♪ That's all on my momma but - the thing she do is shady ♪ 1415 00:39:07.250 --> 00:39:09.269 - ♪ Why I got molested by the - people who had raised me ♪ 1416 00:39:09.375 --> 00:39:11.102 - ♪ Why my daddy never - there to save me ♪ 1417 00:39:11.209 --> 00:39:13.769 - ♪ Why I had cold nights sleeping - in the park I was the baby ♪ 1418 00:39:13.876 --> 00:39:16.227 - ♪ My sister fucked a nigga - that I fucked was (mumbles) ♪ 1419 00:39:16.334 --> 00:39:18.227 - ♪ Every night I get up - on my knees and pray ♪ 1420 00:39:18.334 --> 00:39:19.477 - ♪ And I'm back in - church on Sunday ♪ 1421 00:39:19.584 --> 00:39:21.042 ♪ And I'm still the same ♪ 1422 00:39:21.125 --> 00:39:24.542 ♪ Sincerely ♪ 1423 00:39:24.626 --> 00:39:27.167 ♪ Lord can you hear my cry ♪ 1424 00:39:27.250 --> 00:39:29.060 - You hear where - it's going right? 1425 00:39:29.167 --> 00:39:33.667 ♪ Lord please forgive me ♪ 1426 00:39:33.751 --> 00:39:36.751 ♪ I'm focused, yeah ♪ 1427 00:39:39.083 --> 00:39:40.165 - [Tiana] Yeah, he 1428 00:39:40.189 --> 00:39:41.292 just threw me off so. 1429 00:39:41.375 --> 00:39:42.042 - No, it was good. 1430 00:39:42.125 --> 00:39:43.125 That's good stuff. 1431 00:39:43.167 --> 00:39:44.209 - That was good. 1432 00:39:44.292 --> 00:39:45.476 - [Fidel] That was good stuff. 1433 00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:46.500 So now- 1434 00:39:47.334 --> 00:39:48.375 - [Tiana] No. 1435 00:39:50.167 --> 00:39:51.083 - Where is you parked at? 1436 00:39:51.167 --> 00:39:52.415 - [Tiana] Like- 1437 00:39:52.439 --> 00:39:53.709 (Tiana giggles) 1438 00:39:53.792 --> 00:39:55.250 (man mumbles) 1439 00:39:55.334 --> 00:39:56.209 Boy you- 1440 00:39:56.292 --> 00:39:59.167 (man mumbles) 1441 00:39:59.250 --> 00:40:01.250 Get away from my window. 1442 00:40:02.209 --> 00:40:03.417 Get away from my window. 1443 00:40:06.083 --> 00:40:07.165 I don't know, I don't 1444 00:40:07.189 --> 00:40:08.292 know who that is. 1445 00:40:08.375 --> 00:40:09.834 I don't know nothing about that. 1446 00:40:09.918 --> 00:40:11.459 Get away from my window. 1447 00:40:11.542 --> 00:40:12.998 - [Man] Only thing I 1448 00:40:13.022 --> 00:40:14.500 need is bars and wires. 1449 00:40:14.584 --> 00:40:15.417 - Bars and wires? 1450 00:40:15.500 --> 00:40:16.667 Let me, let me talk to him. 1451 00:40:16.751 --> 00:40:18.250 Let me talk to him. 1452 00:40:18.334 --> 00:40:20.959 Put me on the phone with him. 1453 00:40:21.042 --> 00:40:22.250 She gon' snap. 1454 00:40:26.417 --> 00:40:29.250 You going back in the house? 1455 00:40:29.334 --> 00:40:30.167 Just go back in the house. 1456 00:40:30.250 --> 00:40:31.042 Yo, it's okay. 1457 00:40:31.125 --> 00:40:32.269 - [Tiana] Let me - call y'all back. 1458 00:40:32.375 --> 00:40:33.209 - Don't, go back in the house. 1459 00:40:33.292 --> 00:40:34.292 Don't get nobody beat up. 1460 00:40:34.334 --> 00:40:35.209 Uh-oh. 1461 00:40:35.292 --> 00:40:36.584 That wasn't it. 1462 00:40:36.667 --> 00:40:37.895 - I wanted to like at least - walk her back in the house. 1463 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:38.811 - She like, "I'm getting - his ass beat right now." 1464 00:40:38.918 --> 00:40:40.792 (table thuds) 1465 00:40:40.876 --> 00:40:41.792 (phone rings) 1466 00:40:41.876 --> 00:40:42.751 - [Woman] All right, it's her. 1467 00:40:42.834 --> 00:40:44.209 - [Fidel] Tiana. 1468 00:40:44.292 --> 00:40:45.292 We good? 1469 00:40:46.626 --> 00:40:48.292 We back? 1470 00:40:48.375 --> 00:40:49.375 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1471 00:40:49.417 --> 00:40:50.186 - Everything okay? - [Tiana] Yes. 1472 00:40:50.292 --> 00:40:50.834 - She's smiling. 1473 00:40:50.918 --> 00:40:51.626 That's great. 1474 00:40:51.709 --> 00:40:52.709 All right. 1475 00:40:54.042 --> 00:40:55.792 All right, you safe. 1476 00:40:55.876 --> 00:40:56.584 (Tiana laughs) 1477 00:40:56.667 --> 00:40:58.375 So we will communicate with you 1478 00:40:58.459 --> 00:41:00.144 - probably next week to - try to set up something 1479 00:41:00.250 --> 00:41:02.834 To get the ball rolling 1480 00:41:02.918 --> 00:41:04.375 and get you recording something, 1481 00:41:04.459 --> 00:41:05.645 in order to get 1482 00:41:05.669 --> 00:41:06.876 ready to perform it. 1483 00:41:06.959 --> 00:41:10.250 Did you alleviate that problem? 1484 00:41:10.334 --> 00:41:11.334 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1485 00:41:11.375 --> 00:41:12.042 - All right. 1486 00:41:12.125 --> 00:41:12.959 - [Tiana] People crazy. 1487 00:41:13.042 --> 00:41:14.876 - Absolutely, people crazy. 1488 00:41:14.959 --> 00:41:16.436 - (Tiana laughs) - The world is crazy. 1489 00:41:16.542 --> 00:41:17.936 - So family, even if you 1490 00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:19.375 buried a whole hood alive. 1491 00:41:19.459 --> 00:41:20.644 - [Man] Come on, - I ain't hear you. 1492 00:41:20.751 --> 00:41:22.853 - You see you could bury - the whole hood alive. 1493 00:41:22.959 --> 00:41:24.250 - [Man] Under what? 1494 00:41:24.334 --> 00:41:25.436 - Bury our spirits. - [Man] Come on, (mumbles) 1495 00:41:25.542 --> 00:41:26.561 - Under (mumbles) dreams - under platinum chains, 1496 00:41:26.667 --> 00:41:27.707 Under cars, under clothes. 1497 00:41:27.751 --> 00:41:29.020 Bury our spirits 1498 00:41:29.044 --> 00:41:30.334 under foolish music, 1499 00:41:30.417 --> 00:41:32.102 - under blood money, - under tennis shoes. 1500 00:41:32.209 --> 00:41:33.915 Turn my woman against 1501 00:41:33.939 --> 00:41:35.667 me and me against her. 1502 00:41:35.751 --> 00:41:37.020 Make her every word, 1503 00:41:37.044 --> 00:41:38.334 her every thought, 1504 00:41:38.417 --> 00:41:41.042 her every action, her every poem 1505 00:41:41.125 --> 00:41:42.626 be about my ugliness. 1506 00:41:42.709 --> 00:41:43.834 - What happens? 1507 00:41:43.918 --> 00:41:44.936 - About our nothingness. - What happens? 1508 00:41:45.042 --> 00:41:46.334 - And even still, 1509 00:41:46.417 --> 00:41:47.415 I will always find 1510 00:41:47.439 --> 00:41:48.459 my way back to her 1511 00:41:48.542 --> 00:41:49.978 and she will always 1512 00:41:50.002 --> 00:41:51.459 find a way back to me. 1513 00:41:51.542 --> 00:41:53.292 There is nothing they can do. 1514 00:41:53.375 --> 00:41:55.334 They tried to bury us 1515 00:41:55.417 --> 00:41:57.311 - but they didn't - know we were seeds 1516 00:41:57.417 --> 00:41:59.334 'cause we grew anyway. 1517 00:41:59.417 --> 00:42:01.373 That is what's going on 1518 00:42:01.397 --> 00:42:03.375 in the city of Milwaukee. 1519 00:42:03.459 --> 00:42:05.145 We have families going through 1520 00:42:05.169 --> 00:42:06.876 trials and tribulation. 1521 00:42:06.959 --> 00:42:08.561 We have children going through 1522 00:42:08.585 --> 00:42:10.209 trials and tribulations 1523 00:42:10.292 --> 00:42:12.125 but I have a firm belief 1524 00:42:12.209 --> 00:42:13.457 that regardless of what 1525 00:42:13.481 --> 00:42:14.751 we go through in life, 1526 00:42:14.834 --> 00:42:17.292 ultimately, there is hope. 1527 00:42:17.375 --> 00:42:18.957 Ultimately, they 1528 00:42:18.981 --> 00:42:20.584 tried to bury us 1529 00:42:20.667 --> 00:42:22.334 but we grew anyway. 1530 00:42:22.417 --> 00:42:23.876 - So my name is Connie. 1531 00:42:23.959 --> 00:42:25.292 - [Tiana] Hi my name's Tiana. 1532 00:42:25.375 --> 00:42:26.394 - Tiana. - [Tiana] Yes. 1533 00:42:26.500 --> 00:42:27.500 - Okay. 1534 00:42:27.542 --> 00:42:28.936 Tell me, so you 1535 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:30.375 were in foster care 1536 00:42:30.459 --> 00:42:31.667 or you were in a group home? 1537 00:42:31.751 --> 00:42:33.167 - I was in a group home. 1538 00:42:33.250 --> 00:42:34.603 - So how did you end - up in the group home? 1539 00:42:34.709 --> 00:42:36.709 How did that happen? 1540 00:42:36.792 --> 00:42:38.792 - [Tiana] Well when I was 13, 1541 00:42:38.876 --> 00:42:41.477 - I was like running away from - home and stuff like that 1542 00:42:41.584 --> 00:42:43.311 And I got pregnant 1543 00:42:43.335 --> 00:42:45.083 with my son at the time 1544 00:42:45.167 --> 00:42:46.374 and me and my mom 1545 00:42:46.398 --> 00:42:47.626 was like, you know, 1546 00:42:47.709 --> 00:42:49.417 like getting into it a lot 1547 00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:50.852 and I ain't feel like 1548 00:42:50.876 --> 00:42:52.250 she was like doing 1549 00:42:52.334 --> 00:42:54.250 what a parent should do. 1550 00:42:54.334 --> 00:42:55.334 So I was leaving 1551 00:42:57.042 --> 00:42:58.686 - and she really couldn't - gain no control on me so. 1552 00:42:58.792 --> 00:43:00.519 - So you, how many group 1553 00:43:00.543 --> 00:43:02.292 homes where you're in total? 1554 00:43:02.375 --> 00:43:03.626 - Like four. 1555 00:43:03.709 --> 00:43:04.895 - And if you liked the - first one, what happened? 1556 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:07.584 Why did you have to leave? 1557 00:43:07.667 --> 00:43:09.209 - Well like, you know like, 1558 00:43:09.292 --> 00:43:11.186 - I don't get along - with a lot of girls. 1559 00:43:11.292 --> 00:43:12.125 - Okay. 1560 00:43:12.209 --> 00:43:13.792 - For reasons I never know. 1561 00:43:13.876 --> 00:43:15.165 Like, cause I don't 1562 00:43:15.189 --> 00:43:16.500 really do nothing 1563 00:43:16.584 --> 00:43:18.417 but make jokes and be cool. 1564 00:43:18.500 --> 00:43:19.957 So, you know but everybody 1565 00:43:19.981 --> 00:43:21.459 got their reasons 1566 00:43:21.542 --> 00:43:23.290 and you know, like 1567 00:43:23.314 --> 00:43:25.083 into (mumbles) 1568 00:43:25.167 --> 00:43:26.542 I fight a lot. 1569 00:43:26.626 --> 00:43:28.936 - So, you know, cause I don't - take no mess from nobody. 1570 00:43:29.042 --> 00:43:29.751 - You don't take no mess? 1571 00:43:29.834 --> 00:43:31.042 - No. 1572 00:43:31.125 --> 00:43:32.352 - So you got into it - with a couple of girls 1573 00:43:32.459 --> 00:43:34.186 - And the situation - happened, you had to leave? 1574 00:43:34.292 --> 00:43:35.000 - Yeah. 1575 00:43:35.083 --> 00:43:35.918 - Okay. 1576 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:37.834 When you aged out what happened? 1577 00:43:37.918 --> 00:43:39.686 - I moved into my - first apartment. 1578 00:43:39.792 --> 00:43:41.060 - Oh, so you had - your own apartment? 1579 00:43:41.167 --> 00:43:42.000 - Yeah. 1580 00:43:42.083 --> 00:43:43.185 - So you, are you still there? 1581 00:43:43.209 --> 00:43:44.417 - No. 1582 00:43:44.500 --> 00:43:45.853 - So what is your - situation like now? 1583 00:43:45.959 --> 00:43:48.417 - You know I just go to work, 1584 00:43:48.500 --> 00:43:50.334 saving up so I can move back out 1585 00:43:50.417 --> 00:43:52.145 to my own place and 1586 00:43:52.169 --> 00:43:53.918 just doing my music. 1587 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:55.644 - What kind of 1588 00:43:55.668 --> 00:43:57.334 music do you like? 1589 00:43:57.417 --> 00:43:58.707 - I really like real 1590 00:43:58.731 --> 00:44:00.042 life, all kind of music. 1591 00:44:00.125 --> 00:44:01.311 Like, I'm diverse when 1592 00:44:01.335 --> 00:44:02.542 it comes to music. 1593 00:44:02.626 --> 00:44:04.459 - [Fidel] Glad you made it. 1594 00:44:04.542 --> 00:44:05.853 - [Tiana] Thank you. - [Fidel] Finally. 1595 00:44:05.959 --> 00:44:06.686 - [Tiana] Glad to be- - We've been waiting for you. 1596 00:44:06.792 --> 00:44:07.959 (Tiana exclaims) 1597 00:44:08.042 --> 00:44:09.561 - [Tiana] When you're an - artist you gotta kinda 1598 00:44:09.667 --> 00:44:11.352 - Accept everything - 'cause you never know 1599 00:44:11.459 --> 00:44:12.709 Who you got to work with, 1600 00:44:12.792 --> 00:44:14.436 - you never know who you - gotta come in contact with. 1601 00:44:14.542 --> 00:44:16.332 So I think it's good to like 1602 00:44:16.356 --> 00:44:18.167 you know all the genres. 1603 00:44:18.250 --> 00:44:19.125 ♪ I got big dreams ♪ 1604 00:44:19.209 --> 00:44:19.918 ♪ Ain't never giving up ♪ 1605 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:21.083 ♪ Love or hate me ♪ 1606 00:44:21.167 --> 00:44:21.959 ♪ I never give up ♪ 1607 00:44:22.042 --> 00:44:23.417 ♪ I stay humble ♪ 1608 00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:24.740 ♪ 'Cause I got it out the mud ♪ 1609 00:44:24.792 --> 00:44:25.584 ♪ Moral of the stories is ♪ 1610 00:44:25.667 --> 00:44:26.751 ♪ My son is enough ♪ 1611 00:44:26.834 --> 00:44:27.918 ♪ I got big dreams ♪ 1612 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.059 ♪ I ain't never giving up ♪ 1613 00:44:29.083 --> 00:44:30.125 ♪ Love or hate me ♪ 1614 00:44:30.209 --> 00:44:31.334 ♪ I never give a fuck ♪ 1615 00:44:31.417 --> 00:44:32.542 ♪ I stay humble ♪ 1616 00:44:32.626 --> 00:44:33.352 - [Connie] So tell - me a little bit 1617 00:44:33.459 --> 00:44:34.000 About your little man. 1618 00:44:34.083 --> 00:44:34.834 How old is he? 1619 00:44:34.918 --> 00:44:35.751 - Oh, he four. 1620 00:44:35.834 --> 00:44:37.060 - He's four? - Yeah. 1621 00:44:37.167 --> 00:44:38.500 - And where is he at? 1622 00:44:38.584 --> 00:44:40.207 - He staying with, I call 1623 00:44:40.231 --> 00:44:41.876 'em like his godparents. 1624 00:44:41.959 --> 00:44:43.459 - Okay. 1625 00:44:43.542 --> 00:44:46.000 So are they foster parents? 1626 00:44:46.083 --> 00:44:47.292 - Yeah. 1627 00:44:47.375 --> 00:44:48.894 - [Connie] Where's 1628 00:44:48.918 --> 00:44:50.459 his biological dad? 1629 00:44:50.542 --> 00:44:51.709 - [Tiana] In prison. 1630 00:44:51.792 --> 00:44:53.519 - [Connie] Now - why is he in jail? 1631 00:44:53.626 --> 00:44:56.542 - For a couple different things. 1632 00:44:56.626 --> 00:44:57.626 - Like... 1633 00:44:58.626 --> 00:45:00.519 - You know, street, - you know, street dude. 1634 00:45:00.626 --> 00:45:01.542 - Oh that's what he is? 1635 00:45:01.626 --> 00:45:02.626 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1636 00:45:02.709 --> 00:45:04.561 - So when you had him, 1637 00:45:04.585 --> 00:45:06.459 where were you at? 1638 00:45:06.542 --> 00:45:07.459 The group home? 1639 00:45:07.542 --> 00:45:08.250 - Mm-hmm. 1640 00:45:08.334 --> 00:45:09.459 - Okay. 1641 00:45:09.542 --> 00:45:10.436 - So when he was - born, what happened? 1642 00:45:10.542 --> 00:45:12.000 He was with me. 1643 00:45:12.083 --> 00:45:13.477 - He was with you - at the group home? 1644 00:45:13.584 --> 00:45:14.876 - Yeah. 1645 00:45:14.959 --> 00:45:15.686 - 'Cause it was a group home - that had moms with babies? 1646 00:45:15.792 --> 00:45:16.918 - Yeah. 1647 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:18.040 - And then how did he 1648 00:45:18.064 --> 00:45:19.125 get taken from you? 1649 00:45:19.209 --> 00:45:20.977 - [Tiana] 'Cause they - came and arrested me. 1650 00:45:21.083 --> 00:45:23.019 - [Connie] So you had - him for a whole year 1651 00:45:23.125 --> 00:45:25.394 - And then after, when he got - ready to turn almost two, 1652 00:45:25.500 --> 00:45:27.000 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1653 00:45:27.083 --> 00:45:27.977 - [Connie] that's when he - got moved to a foster home. 1654 00:45:28.083 --> 00:45:29.292 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1655 00:45:29.375 --> 00:45:30.227 - ♪ Hoping that the - Lord forgive me ♪ 1656 00:45:30.334 --> 00:45:31.542 ♪ Some things I don't mean ♪ 1657 00:45:31.626 --> 00:45:32.519 - ♪ Don't speak about - the seen and unseen ♪ 1658 00:45:32.626 --> 00:45:33.626 ♪ I hate the police ♪ 1659 00:45:33.709 --> 00:45:34.561 - ♪ But shit while - I'm on that topic ♪ 1660 00:45:34.667 --> 00:45:35.959 ♪ Fuck the police ♪ 1661 00:45:36.042 --> 00:45:36.728 - ♪ You bitches gotta - pay for my respect ♪ 1662 00:45:36.834 --> 00:45:37.709 ♪ I need a whole g's ♪ 1663 00:45:37.792 --> 00:45:38.667 ♪ Been fighting with the world ♪ 1664 00:45:38.751 --> 00:45:40.125 ♪ Till I finally had it in me ♪ 1665 00:45:40.209 --> 00:45:41.436 - ♪ If you wanna know - if I'm about it ♪ 1666 00:45:41.542 --> 00:45:42.626 ♪ Then try me and see ♪ 1667 00:45:42.709 --> 00:45:44.060 - ♪ We cut from two - different cloth ♪ 1668 00:45:44.167 --> 00:45:45.352 - ♪ Nigga I'm going through - the shit 15 years ♪ 1669 00:45:45.459 --> 00:45:46.459 ♪ Thank the Lord ♪ 1670 00:45:46.500 --> 00:45:47.417 ♪ Then give it to me ♪ 1671 00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:48.209 ♪ I thank the Lord ♪ 1672 00:45:48.292 --> 00:45:49.542 ♪ Then give it to me ♪ 1673 00:45:49.626 --> 00:45:51.477 - [Connie] So you got - arrested at what age? 1674 00:45:51.584 --> 00:45:52.626 - [Tiana] 15. 1675 00:45:52.709 --> 00:45:54.542 - What'd you do? 1676 00:45:54.626 --> 00:45:57.292 - [Tiana] Strong armed robbery. 1677 00:45:57.375 --> 00:45:58.375 - Tiana. 1678 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.000 Okay, so you have a felony? 1679 00:46:01.083 --> 00:46:02.542 - Yeah. 1680 00:46:02.626 --> 00:46:04.125 - Is that the only felony? 1681 00:46:04.209 --> 00:46:05.542 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1682 00:46:05.626 --> 00:46:08.186 - I just fight a lot, it wasn't - like as bad as it sounds. 1683 00:46:08.292 --> 00:46:09.561 I just beat up a girl, 1684 00:46:09.585 --> 00:46:10.876 buried her in the snow 1685 00:46:10.959 --> 00:46:12.686 - and stuff like that - and just took her money 1686 00:46:12.792 --> 00:46:14.667 But that's because you know 1687 00:46:14.751 --> 00:46:16.644 - her and her little - family tried to jump me 1688 00:46:16.751 --> 00:46:18.352 - And she thought she was - gonna get away with it. 1689 00:46:18.459 --> 00:46:19.666 So you know, I had 1690 00:46:19.690 --> 00:46:20.918 to retaliate but... 1691 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:22.417 - You beat her pretty bad? 1692 00:46:22.500 --> 00:46:23.334 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1693 00:46:23.417 --> 00:46:24.667 - So, (stutters) can, I mean, 1694 00:46:24.751 --> 00:46:26.019 - does she have scars, - they're permanent scar? 1695 00:46:26.125 --> 00:46:27.626 - Yeah she was at the hospital. 1696 00:46:27.709 --> 00:46:29.500 - Oh so beat it that bad. 1697 00:46:29.584 --> 00:46:30.707 Okay and you didn't 1698 00:46:30.731 --> 00:46:31.876 serve any time? 1699 00:46:31.959 --> 00:46:34.060 - [Tiana] Well, I was in - there for like 10 days. 1700 00:46:34.167 --> 00:46:35.792 They was trynna give me 15 years 1701 00:46:35.876 --> 00:46:38.083 but I just had my baby so, 1702 00:46:39.292 --> 00:46:40.436 - he was like, "This - your first case. 1703 00:46:40.542 --> 00:46:41.769 "You kinda gon' get 1704 00:46:41.793 --> 00:46:43.042 you a slap on the hand" 1705 00:46:43.125 --> 00:46:44.144 They put me on 1706 00:46:44.168 --> 00:46:45.209 probation for a year 1707 00:46:45.292 --> 00:46:47.352 - and just told me I like had - to pay her the money back 1708 00:46:47.459 --> 00:46:48.811 - And stuff like that, you - know what I'm saying? 1709 00:46:48.918 --> 00:46:50.394 - Are you still - paying restitution? 1710 00:46:50.500 --> 00:46:51.540 - [Tiana] No, I ain't 1711 00:46:51.564 --> 00:46:52.626 given her nothing. 1712 00:46:52.709 --> 00:46:54.042 No. 1713 00:46:54.125 --> 00:46:55.626 - But you're gonna pay her back? 1714 00:46:55.709 --> 00:46:57.584 - No, never in my life. 1715 00:46:58.667 --> 00:46:59.769 - [Fidel] Do the - song that you did 1716 00:46:59.876 --> 00:47:01.686 - When you first walked - up here the first day. 1717 00:47:01.792 --> 00:47:03.102 - You was talking about - the foster home. 1718 00:47:03.209 --> 00:47:04.667 When you sang it, it was like 1719 00:47:04.751 --> 00:47:06.145 that was real 1720 00:47:06.169 --> 00:47:07.584 different level stuff. 1721 00:47:07.667 --> 00:47:08.667 This is good. 1722 00:47:08.751 --> 00:47:10.209 I'm just saying, 1723 00:47:10.292 --> 00:47:11.603 I want Sheldon to hear 1724 00:47:11.627 --> 00:47:12.959 the other one on this one. 1725 00:47:14.834 --> 00:47:15.959 ♪ Hey yo ♪ 1726 00:47:16.042 --> 00:47:17.060 - ♪ Don't need a - crown, need a pen ♪ 1727 00:47:17.167 --> 00:47:18.186 ♪ It's been a minute 1728 00:47:18.210 --> 00:47:19.250 been spinning ♪ 1729 00:47:19.334 --> 00:47:20.853 - [Connie] So how far, did 1730 00:47:20.877 --> 00:47:22.417 you graduate from high school? 1731 00:47:22.500 --> 00:47:23.334 - [Tiana] No. 1732 00:47:23.417 --> 00:47:24.250 - [Connie] You didn't, okay no. 1733 00:47:24.334 --> 00:47:25.500 What's your goal for that? 1734 00:47:25.584 --> 00:47:26.977 - [Tiana] I don't - really wanna go back. 1735 00:47:27.083 --> 00:47:27.918 - [Connie] You do wanna go back? 1736 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:29.125 - [Tiana] No I don't. 1737 00:47:29.209 --> 00:47:29.977 - But you gonna go - back and get your GED. 1738 00:47:30.083 --> 00:47:31.000 - Yeah. 1739 00:47:31.083 --> 00:47:31.751 - Okay. 1740 00:47:31.834 --> 00:47:32.959 'Cause you wanna do that 1741 00:47:33.042 --> 00:47:34.561 - 'cause you know the - longer you wait sometime 1742 00:47:34.667 --> 00:47:35.686 - You don't do it. - [Tiana] You throw it off. 1743 00:47:35.792 --> 00:47:37.144 - Yeah. - You do. 1744 00:47:37.250 --> 00:47:39.186 - And to be able to get - out of the factory 1745 00:47:39.292 --> 00:47:40.290 And do something 1746 00:47:40.314 --> 00:47:41.334 like you wanna do, 1747 00:47:41.417 --> 00:47:42.728 - with getting jobs, - they always ask you, 1748 00:47:42.834 --> 00:47:44.374 Do you have a high 1749 00:47:44.398 --> 00:47:45.959 school diploma or a GED? 1750 00:47:46.042 --> 00:47:47.644 - And considering it's - gonna take some time 1751 00:47:47.751 --> 00:47:49.417 For the music industry 1752 00:47:49.500 --> 00:47:50.709 and get moving with that 1753 00:47:50.792 --> 00:47:52.686 - 'cause that's what you - sound like you wanna do. 1754 00:47:52.792 --> 00:47:53.792 - Yeah. 1755 00:47:53.876 --> 00:47:55.811 - So and then sometimes - it's good to journal. 1756 00:47:55.918 --> 00:47:58.375 Have you ever journaled? 1757 00:47:58.459 --> 00:47:59.874 - Well I write a lot like 1758 00:47:59.898 --> 00:48:01.334 songs and stuff like that so. 1759 00:48:01.417 --> 00:48:02.561 - I guess that's my- - (Connie stutters) 1760 00:48:02.667 --> 00:48:04.060 - So your songs talk - about your life? 1761 00:48:04.167 --> 00:48:04.876 - Yeah. 1762 00:48:04.959 --> 00:48:05.626 - Okay. 1763 00:48:05.709 --> 00:48:06.626 Then that's good. 1764 00:48:06.709 --> 00:48:07.959 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1765 00:48:08.042 --> 00:48:08.853 - [Connie] But it's good, - 'cause writing period, 1766 00:48:08.959 --> 00:48:10.125 Is good because it helps you, 1767 00:48:10.209 --> 00:48:11.541 sounds like it helps 1768 00:48:11.565 --> 00:48:12.918 you to deal with things. 1769 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.144 - [Fidel] All right if you - having fun, make some noise. 1770 00:48:15.250 --> 00:48:16.334 (crowd cheering) 1771 00:48:16.417 --> 00:48:17.518 If you're enjoying yourself, 1772 00:48:17.542 --> 00:48:18.728 - we appreciate - everybody who came out. 1773 00:48:18.834 --> 00:48:20.227 - That's what it's - all about Milwaukee. 1774 00:48:20.334 --> 00:48:22.519 - Once again, big shout out - to all of our partners 1775 00:48:22.626 --> 00:48:25.000 And our whole team of interns 1776 00:48:25.083 --> 00:48:27.394 - and our staff that helped - us put this together. 1777 00:48:27.500 --> 00:48:28.582 Make sure you holler at 1778 00:48:28.606 --> 00:48:29.709 the True Skool table. 1779 00:48:29.792 --> 00:48:31.019 - We'll see if this - wild card happen. 1780 00:48:31.125 --> 00:48:32.375 How y'all doing Milwaukee? 1781 00:48:32.459 --> 00:48:33.209 (crowd exclaims) 1782 00:48:33.292 --> 00:48:34.000 Y'all good? 1783 00:48:34.083 --> 00:48:35.584 All right. 1784 00:48:35.667 --> 00:48:37.019 - Now this next performer I'm - bringing up to the stage. 1785 00:48:37.125 --> 00:48:38.123 She goes by the 1786 00:48:38.147 --> 00:48:39.167 name of Tiana Gee 1787 00:48:39.250 --> 00:48:40.457 and she's a special 1788 00:48:40.481 --> 00:48:41.709 guest here today 1789 00:48:41.792 --> 00:48:43.728 - and this is part of a - very special project. 1790 00:48:43.834 --> 00:48:45.561 - I need y'all to give her - a warm round of applause. 1791 00:48:45.667 --> 00:48:46.375 Go Milwaukee. 1792 00:48:46.459 --> 00:48:47.500 (crowd cheering) 1793 00:48:47.584 --> 00:48:48.334 Yeah. 1794 00:48:48.417 --> 00:48:49.792 Bring up Tiana Gee. 1795 00:48:49.876 --> 00:48:51.394 - ♪ My sister fuck a nigga - that I fucked (mumbles) ♪ 1796 00:48:51.500 --> 00:48:53.269 - ♪ Every night I get up - on my knees and pray ♪ 1797 00:48:53.375 --> 00:48:54.352 - ♪ And I'm back in - church on Sunday ♪ 1798 00:48:54.459 --> 00:48:55.542 ♪ And I'm still the same ♪ 1799 00:48:55.626 --> 00:48:58.792 ♪ Sincerely ♪ 1800 00:48:58.876 --> 00:49:02.792 ♪ Lord can you hear my cry ♪ 1801 00:49:02.876 --> 00:49:06.292 ♪ Lord please forgive me ♪ 1802 00:49:06.375 --> 00:49:07.644 - [Connie] Do you - have relationships 1803 00:49:07.751 --> 00:49:10.394 - With your mom and your - sisters or your mom and dad? 1804 00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:11.334 - No. 1805 00:49:11.417 --> 00:49:12.792 Well I have a relationship, 1806 00:49:12.876 --> 00:49:14.311 I have a really good 1807 00:49:14.335 --> 00:49:15.792 relationship with my dad now. 1808 00:49:15.876 --> 00:49:17.811 - We see each other - mostly every day. 1809 00:49:17.918 --> 00:49:19.686 - Talk to each other - mostly every day. 1810 00:49:19.792 --> 00:49:21.019 We've been doing a lot of 1811 00:49:21.043 --> 00:49:22.292 stuff as family together. 1812 00:49:22.375 --> 00:49:23.167 So. 1813 00:49:23.250 --> 00:49:24.292 - Okay. 1814 00:49:24.375 --> 00:49:25.728 - Yeah, he really - stepped up a lot lately. 1815 00:49:25.834 --> 00:49:27.918 ♪ I try to do better for you ♪ 1816 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:29.936 - ♪ These demons, they - leaching, they cruel ♪ 1817 00:49:30.042 --> 00:49:31.918 ♪ I think I did all I can do ♪ 1818 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:33.959 ♪ I finally put trust in you ♪ 1819 00:49:34.042 --> 00:49:35.061 ♪ My blood's racing 1820 00:49:35.085 --> 00:49:36.125 my eyes (mumbles) ♪ 1821 00:49:36.209 --> 00:49:37.436 ♪ I'm doing wrong 1822 00:49:37.460 --> 00:49:38.709 and I know it ♪ 1823 00:49:38.792 --> 00:49:41.334 ♪ 2020 I'm focused ♪ 1824 00:49:41.417 --> 00:49:45.000 ♪ I'm focused, yeah ♪ 1825 00:49:45.083 --> 00:49:48.167 (lighthearted music) 1826 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:49.834 - [Fidel] Y'all give it up. 1827 00:49:49.918 --> 00:49:51.167 Give it up for Tiana Gee. 1828 00:49:53.417 --> 00:49:54.311 - [Sharlen] One thing that - I remember about Tiana 1829 00:49:54.417 --> 00:49:55.709 Is just her drive 1830 00:49:55.792 --> 00:49:57.165 and who she was 1831 00:49:57.189 --> 00:49:58.584 as a young person. 1832 00:50:00.042 --> 00:50:02.144 Just very driven, very 1833 00:50:00.042 --> 00:50:04.292 her circumstances 1834 00:50:02.168 --> 00:50:04.375 determined despite 1835 00:50:04.375 --> 00:50:06.603 - and I think, when we look - at a lot of the issues 1836 00:50:06.709 --> 00:50:08.292 That are going on in this city, 1837 00:50:08.375 --> 00:50:10.019 - Tiana is one of - many young people 1838 00:50:10.125 --> 00:50:12.751 That are impacted by a lot of, 1839 00:50:13.834 --> 00:50:15.500 I would say probably trauma, 1840 00:50:15.584 --> 00:50:17.624 a lot of situations that happen 1841 00:50:17.648 --> 00:50:19.709 to communities in Milwaukee 1842 00:50:19.792 --> 00:50:20.832 and (stutters) and 1843 00:50:20.856 --> 00:50:21.918 that impact families 1844 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.457 and so Tiana kind of was 1845 00:50:23.481 --> 00:50:24.959 just a by-product of that 1846 00:50:25.042 --> 00:50:27.876 but that didn't stop her. 1847 00:50:27.959 --> 00:50:29.124 - Hey it was funny 1848 00:50:29.148 --> 00:50:30.334 'cause you was like, 1849 00:50:30.417 --> 00:50:31.918 I was like, "You the first act? 1850 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:33.375 "No." 1851 00:50:33.459 --> 00:50:34.561 - then the next minute, - "Hurry up I'm finna go on." 1852 00:50:34.667 --> 00:50:36.000 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1853 00:50:36.083 --> 00:50:37.728 - 'Cause see, 'cause at - first he kept saying like, 1854 00:50:37.834 --> 00:50:39.811 - "Hold on I'm trynna see where - I can squeeze you in there." 1855 00:50:39.918 --> 00:50:41.209 So we like, "Okay" 1856 00:50:41.292 --> 00:50:43.144 - and then a girl was - up there, so I'm like, 1857 00:50:43.250 --> 00:50:44.853 - That's when you said, - is "I'm the first act" 1858 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:45.686 - But the girl was - already up there. 1859 00:50:45.792 --> 00:50:47.250 So I'm like, "no" cause I ain't. 1860 00:50:47.334 --> 00:50:48.351 'Cause the girl was up there. 1861 00:50:48.375 --> 00:50:49.876 - Oh okay. 1862 00:50:49.959 --> 00:50:50.936 - So he kept saying he - was trynna figure it out. 1863 00:50:51.042 --> 00:50:51.811 - 10 minutes later - he was, "Oh well, 1864 00:50:51.918 --> 00:50:53.584 "like get ready it's time." 1865 00:50:53.667 --> 00:50:54.876 (Tiana's dad mumbles) 1866 00:50:54.959 --> 00:50:56.416 - It's good I told 1867 00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:57.918 him to get out 1868 00:50:58.000 --> 00:50:59.769 - but at least I got - it on film, right? 1869 00:50:59.876 --> 00:51:01.083 - Right. 1870 00:51:01.167 --> 00:51:01.936 - [Sharlen] One of the - things that young people need 1871 00:51:02.042 --> 00:51:04.834 Is that support and I remember 1872 00:51:04.918 --> 00:51:06.541 being able to provide 1873 00:51:06.565 --> 00:51:08.209 that sort of just support 1874 00:51:08.292 --> 00:51:09.582 for Tiana because so 1875 00:51:09.606 --> 00:51:10.918 many of our young people 1876 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:11.977 just need that sort 1877 00:51:12.001 --> 00:51:13.001 of hand holding. 1878 00:51:13.083 --> 00:51:14.623 They need somebody that they 1879 00:51:14.647 --> 00:51:16.209 know that care and love them. 1880 00:51:16.292 --> 00:51:18.977 - [Fidel] You cussed enough - for everybody for the record. 1881 00:51:19.083 --> 00:51:20.977 - Thank you for adding a couple - of extra motherfuckers. 1882 00:51:21.083 --> 00:51:22.584 (Tiana laughs) 1883 00:51:22.667 --> 00:51:23.977 - 'Cause we got a couple of - ignorant people in the crowd 1884 00:51:24.083 --> 00:51:24.895 - And that's the only thing - that gon' hear anyway 1885 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:26.209 And that's aight. 1886 00:51:26.292 --> 00:51:26.811 - Couple other people that's - all they wanna hear, 1887 00:51:26.918 --> 00:51:27.834 That's aight. 1888 00:51:27.918 --> 00:51:28.895 - But you did a great job. - Thank you. 1889 00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:29.918 - How you feel up there? 1890 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:30.644 - It felt good. - It felt good? 1891 00:51:30.751 --> 00:51:31.667 - Yeah. 1892 00:51:31.751 --> 00:51:32.936 - And you killed - it and you left. 1893 00:51:33.042 --> 00:51:33.834 - [Both] Yeah. 1894 00:51:33.918 --> 00:51:34.709 - You killed and you left. 1895 00:51:34.792 --> 00:51:35.852 - I know, you know, like really 1896 00:51:35.876 --> 00:51:37.036 there was the closing speech? 1897 00:51:37.083 --> 00:51:37.834 - [Fidel] Yeah. 1898 00:51:37.918 --> 00:51:39.334 - So I was just like, you know- 1899 00:51:39.417 --> 00:51:41.477 - Next time, you know, introduce - yourself, one last time. 1900 00:51:41.584 --> 00:51:43.040 You should be like you know, 1901 00:51:43.064 --> 00:51:44.542 "Check for me in the future." 1902 00:51:44.626 --> 00:51:45.500 (Fidel exclaims) 1903 00:51:45.584 --> 00:51:46.125 But you did awesome though. 1904 00:51:46.209 --> 00:51:47.375 - Thank you. 1905 00:51:47.459 --> 00:51:48.936 - I Appreciate it. - Thank you. 1906 00:51:49.042 --> 00:51:50.227 - And I'm glad you got a - chance to do some of you like 1907 00:51:50.334 --> 00:51:51.519 - Most important to you. - Thanks for the opportunity. 1908 00:51:51.626 --> 00:51:52.144 - That material right - there is the one. 1909 00:51:52.250 --> 00:51:53.459 That's the one. 1910 00:51:53.542 --> 00:51:54.477 - Yeah, that is my song. - Not the other one. 1911 00:51:54.584 --> 00:51:55.292 That one. 1912 00:51:55.375 --> 00:51:56.083 That's the one. 1913 00:51:56.167 --> 00:51:56.876 (lock buzzes) 1914 00:51:56.959 --> 00:51:59.584 (door squeaks) 1915 00:52:01.959 --> 00:52:02.959 - [Johnnie] All right. 1916 00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:03.834 Here you go. 1917 00:52:03.918 --> 00:52:06.375 I think you need these for this. 1918 00:52:09.876 --> 00:52:12.500 How you doing with 10 and two? 1919 00:52:13.751 --> 00:52:14.791 Are your hands in 1920 00:52:14.815 --> 00:52:15.876 the right place? 1921 00:52:15.959 --> 00:52:16.667 - [Brandon] No. 1922 00:52:16.751 --> 00:52:18.751 - [Johnnie] I'ma say 40. 1923 00:52:19.792 --> 00:52:23.167 - [Brandon] (mumbles) 25. 1924 00:52:25.417 --> 00:52:26.959 That's my momma. 1925 00:52:27.042 --> 00:52:27.936 - (car honks) - (Johnnie stutters) 1926 00:52:28.042 --> 00:52:28.895 - What was that? - My momma. 1927 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:30.227 - Your mother? - Mm-hmm. 1928 00:52:30.334 --> 00:52:32.582 All right, well, we had 1929 00:52:32.606 --> 00:52:34.876 time you could have went in. 1930 00:52:34.959 --> 00:52:36.334 Did a U-turn and said hi. 1931 00:52:42.459 --> 00:52:45.083 (man mumbles faintly) 1932 00:52:45.167 --> 00:52:46.751 (door squeaks) 1933 00:52:46.834 --> 00:52:48.042 - [Ron] Hey how's it going? 1934 00:52:48.125 --> 00:52:48.769 - [Johnnie] All - right, pretty good. 1935 00:52:48.876 --> 00:52:49.792 - [Ron] What's up? 1936 00:52:49.876 --> 00:52:50.667 What's your name man? 1937 00:52:50.751 --> 00:52:52.042 - [Brandon] Brandon. 1938 00:52:52.125 --> 00:52:52.977 - I'm Ron, right. - (Brandon mumbles) 1939 00:52:53.083 --> 00:52:53.792 Nice to meet you brother. 1940 00:52:53.876 --> 00:52:54.292 (Johnnie mumbles) 1941 00:52:54.375 --> 00:52:55.209 - Okay. 1942 00:52:55.292 --> 00:52:56.751 - So he's the owner of Sphinx 1943 00:52:56.834 --> 00:52:57.936 - and I've known Ron - probably for the 20 years 1944 00:52:58.042 --> 00:52:59.561 - Me and his brother went - to high school together. 1945 00:52:59.667 --> 00:53:00.792 We were good friends. 1946 00:53:00.876 --> 00:53:02.227 - Yeah, I was cutting - him in the house. 1947 00:53:02.334 --> 00:53:03.227 - He says you been cutting all - the basketball players bald. 1948 00:53:03.334 --> 00:53:04.499 - Oh yeah, humble man. 1949 00:53:04.523 --> 00:53:05.709 - Not bald. 1950 00:53:05.792 --> 00:53:06.542 (all laughing) 1951 00:53:06.626 --> 00:53:07.292 I said back in the day. 1952 00:53:07.375 --> 00:53:08.584 - Early in the 90's. 1953 00:53:08.667 --> 00:53:09.186 - I was probably your - age cutting hair. 1954 00:53:09.292 --> 00:53:10.292 - Oh really? 1955 00:53:10.959 --> 00:53:12.083 - Real life. 1956 00:53:12.167 --> 00:53:13.561 - I been cutting hair for - (stutters) 25 years. 1957 00:53:13.667 --> 00:53:14.500 - 25 years? 1958 00:53:14.584 --> 00:53:15.959 - 25 years. 1959 00:53:16.042 --> 00:53:17.957 - Okay, well I want 25 years 1960 00:53:17.981 --> 00:53:19.918 experience into this tapered 1961 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:21.334 and this line. 1962 00:53:21.417 --> 00:53:22.895 - You go me on IG, you got - an Instagram page, right? 1963 00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:24.417 - Yeah. 1964 00:53:24.500 --> 00:53:26.019 - Yeah, lemme get your - Instagram page real quick. 1965 00:53:26.125 --> 00:53:27.000 - Okay. 1966 00:53:27.083 --> 00:53:29.000 (machine buzzing) 1967 00:53:29.083 --> 00:53:29.792 - [Johnnie] Oh, so Brandon, 1968 00:53:29.876 --> 00:53:31.250 did I ever tell you 1969 00:53:31.334 --> 00:53:33.853 - that I stopped living with my - mom when I was 15 years old? 1970 00:53:33.959 --> 00:53:35.644 - Stopped living with - my mom, wasn't there. 1971 00:53:35.751 --> 00:53:37.436 She got evicted and she ended 1972 00:53:37.460 --> 00:53:39.167 up moving inside a shelter. 1973 00:53:39.250 --> 00:53:40.895 - So I ended up staying - with my uncle. 1974 00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:42.477 Back when I was in high school 1975 00:53:42.501 --> 00:53:44.000 there was times where Ron, 1976 00:53:44.083 --> 00:53:46.102 - his mom would, you know, - pick me up for school, 1977 00:53:46.209 --> 00:53:47.228 Give me a ride to 1978 00:53:47.252 --> 00:53:48.292 school sometimes, 1979 00:53:48.375 --> 00:53:50.167 give me a ride home. 1980 00:53:51.250 --> 00:53:52.311 - And Brandon, so - that was your mom 1981 00:53:52.417 --> 00:53:53.936 - We saw on 35th and - Center you said? 1982 00:53:54.042 --> 00:53:55.417 Does she have a cell phone? 1983 00:53:55.500 --> 00:53:56.334 - Yes. 1984 00:53:56.417 --> 00:53:57.667 - Do you think you wanna call 1985 00:53:57.751 --> 00:53:59.352 - and see where she - was on her way to? 1986 00:53:59.459 --> 00:54:00.936 - 'Cause I wonder if - she really recognized 1987 00:54:01.042 --> 00:54:02.959 That that was you or not. 1988 00:54:03.042 --> 00:54:04.042 Blowing at her. 1989 00:54:05.042 --> 00:54:06.709 (machine buzzing) 1990 00:54:06.792 --> 00:54:08.834 (phone beeps) 1991 00:54:08.918 --> 00:54:10.125 - [Lydia] Hello. 1992 00:54:10.209 --> 00:54:11.249 - Ma, this is Brandon. 1993 00:54:11.273 --> 00:54:12.334 - [Lydia] Hello. 1994 00:54:12.417 --> 00:54:14.417 That was you driving right? 1995 00:54:14.500 --> 00:54:16.083 - Yeah. 1996 00:54:16.167 --> 00:54:17.751 - [Lydia] Hey, how you doing? 1997 00:54:17.834 --> 00:54:18.542 - I'm good. 1998 00:54:18.626 --> 00:54:19.459 - [Lydia] Did you see? 1999 00:54:19.542 --> 00:54:20.209 Do you like me hair and stuff? 2000 00:54:20.292 --> 00:54:20.959 (Brandon mumbles) 2001 00:54:21.042 --> 00:54:22.667 - Where you at? 2002 00:54:22.751 --> 00:54:24.000 - [Lydia] On the bus. 2003 00:54:24.083 --> 00:54:26.626 - On the bus, where you going? 2004 00:54:26.709 --> 00:54:28.582 - [Lydia] To Dollar 2005 00:54:28.606 --> 00:54:30.500 General on the East side. 2006 00:54:30.584 --> 00:54:32.374 - I say what you doing 2007 00:54:32.398 --> 00:54:34.209 there besides going there? 2008 00:54:34.292 --> 00:54:35.375 - [Lydia] Gon' go home. 2009 00:54:35.459 --> 00:54:36.959 Clean my room up. 2010 00:54:37.042 --> 00:54:39.083 Oh yeah, I forgot I gotta go 2011 00:54:39.167 --> 00:54:40.709 to Social Security building 2012 00:54:40.792 --> 00:54:41.998 and see if I can 2013 00:54:42.022 --> 00:54:43.250 do, get my own check 2014 00:54:43.334 --> 00:54:44.415 because (mumbles) took 2015 00:54:44.439 --> 00:54:45.542 herself off of my payee 2016 00:54:45.626 --> 00:54:46.792 thank God. 2017 00:54:46.876 --> 00:54:48.083 I'm sick of her. 2018 00:54:48.167 --> 00:54:49.417 Yeah, so what was you doing? 2019 00:54:49.500 --> 00:54:51.709 That was a driving school? 2020 00:54:51.792 --> 00:54:54.292 - No, I'm with Mr.Johnnie. 2021 00:54:54.375 --> 00:54:56.019 - [Lydia] Oh, he was - letting you drive? 2022 00:54:56.125 --> 00:54:57.459 - Yeah. 2023 00:54:57.542 --> 00:54:59.292 - [Lydia] Oh, that's nice. 2024 00:54:59.375 --> 00:55:00.686 Brandon, the police is 2025 00:55:00.710 --> 00:55:02.042 calling me about Mariah. 2026 00:55:02.125 --> 00:55:03.167 I'll call you back okay? 2027 00:55:03.250 --> 00:55:04.667 - All right. 2028 00:55:04.751 --> 00:55:06.918 - [Lydia] All right. 2029 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:08.227 - [Rick Sr.] So, what - I want you to do, 2030 00:55:08.334 --> 00:55:10.083 I'ma ask you the question today 2031 00:55:10.167 --> 00:55:12.167 and I want a show of hands. 2032 00:55:12.250 --> 00:55:13.727 Do you have expectations 2033 00:55:13.751 --> 00:55:15.250 of yourself? 2034 00:55:15.334 --> 00:55:16.792 - [Derek] It's real important 2035 00:55:16.876 --> 00:55:18.603 that teachers have the highest 2036 00:55:18.627 --> 00:55:20.375 expectation for students 2037 00:55:20.459 --> 00:55:22.332 but once we set a higher 2038 00:55:22.356 --> 00:55:24.250 expectation for our students 2039 00:55:24.334 --> 00:55:26.626 in terms of their performance, 2040 00:55:26.709 --> 00:55:27.915 then it's important 2041 00:55:27.939 --> 00:55:29.167 that we provide support. 2042 00:55:29.250 --> 00:55:30.352 - [Rick Sr.] I'ma go - back to when I used to, 2043 00:55:30.459 --> 00:55:32.311 - When I started my group - in my phrase was always 2044 00:55:32.417 --> 00:55:33.584 "rise and grind" 2045 00:55:33.667 --> 00:55:35.352 - and I'm trying to - teach all of us 2046 00:55:35.459 --> 00:55:37.626 When you rise, you grind 2047 00:55:37.709 --> 00:55:39.227 - because unfortunately - there's a lot of people 2048 00:55:39.334 --> 00:55:40.751 That came rise anymore. 2049 00:55:40.834 --> 00:55:42.977 - I don't want you to just - stop and stand still. 2050 00:55:43.083 --> 00:55:44.269 I want you to go reach 2051 00:55:44.293 --> 00:55:45.500 your expectations 2052 00:55:45.584 --> 00:55:46.417 but y'all this is serious. 2053 00:55:46.500 --> 00:55:48.667 We at the finish line. 2054 00:55:48.751 --> 00:55:50.499 We have one and a half weeks 2055 00:55:50.523 --> 00:55:52.292 before our finals are coming. 2056 00:55:52.375 --> 00:55:54.209 Some of us behind the eight ball 2057 00:55:54.292 --> 00:55:55.792 but still wanna play games 2058 00:55:55.876 --> 00:55:57.728 - and it's nobody else's - fault right now. 2059 00:55:57.834 --> 00:55:59.728 - It ain't momma's fault, - it ain't daddy's fault, 2060 00:55:59.834 --> 00:56:01.125 It ain't your life- 2061 00:56:01.209 --> 00:56:03.311 - It's right now to pick - up that baton and finish. 2062 00:56:03.417 --> 00:56:04.915 - [Derek] If you set a 2063 00:56:04.939 --> 00:56:06.459 high goal or a high target 2064 00:56:06.542 --> 00:56:08.626 for students to obtain 2065 00:56:08.709 --> 00:56:09.749 but you don't 2066 00:56:09.773 --> 00:56:10.834 provide the support, 2067 00:56:10.918 --> 00:56:12.957 emotional support, the 2068 00:56:12.981 --> 00:56:15.042 skills, without that support 2069 00:56:15.125 --> 00:56:16.853 then the kids tend 2070 00:56:16.877 --> 00:56:18.626 to feel alienated. 2071 00:56:18.709 --> 00:56:20.936 - They say, "Well you're - expecting this out of me 2072 00:56:21.042 --> 00:56:22.186 "but where do I 2073 00:56:22.210 --> 00:56:23.375 get the resources? 2074 00:56:23.459 --> 00:56:25.125 "Where do I get the support, 2075 00:56:25.209 --> 00:56:26.500 "so that I can be successful?" 2076 00:56:26.584 --> 00:56:28.227 - [Rick Sr.] In - this week and a half 2077 00:56:28.334 --> 00:56:30.167 You gon' go to your teachers. 2078 00:56:30.250 --> 00:56:31.727 You gon' find out what 2079 00:56:31.751 --> 00:56:33.250 you need to do to finish. 2080 00:56:33.334 --> 00:56:34.167 - [Marquell] Hi Ms. Jacobs. 2081 00:56:34.250 --> 00:56:35.167 I'm coming to you to see like 2082 00:56:35.250 --> 00:56:36.500 how can I bring my grade up 2083 00:56:36.584 --> 00:56:39.417 from a D to either a C or a B. 2084 00:56:39.500 --> 00:56:41.167 - Okay. 2085 00:56:41.250 --> 00:56:43.352 It's not looking like you're 2086 00:56:43.376 --> 00:56:45.500 gonna pass this semester 2087 00:56:45.584 --> 00:56:47.209 (Ms. Jacobs inhales deeply) 2088 00:56:47.292 --> 00:56:49.876 and it's because since February, 2089 00:56:50.918 --> 00:56:53.167 you haven't done a thing 2090 00:56:53.250 --> 00:56:54.290 and you have not 2091 00:56:54.314 --> 00:56:55.375 been here in class. 2092 00:56:55.459 --> 00:56:57.334 Starting in the semester, 2093 00:56:57.417 --> 00:56:58.769 - in the beginning - of the semester, 2094 00:56:58.876 --> 00:57:00.436 - You have every single - thing turned in. 2095 00:57:00.542 --> 00:57:01.853 I'm talking about every 2096 00:57:01.877 --> 00:57:03.209 single assignment. 2097 00:57:03.292 --> 00:57:05.918 Drops off February 20th. 2098 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:07.000 Faces the earth. 2099 00:57:07.083 --> 00:57:07.959 No Marquell. 2100 00:57:08.042 --> 00:57:09.667 You're not in class. 2101 00:57:09.751 --> 00:57:11.292 When you do come to class, 2102 00:57:11.375 --> 00:57:13.042 you leave to go to either group 2103 00:57:13.125 --> 00:57:15.709 or to be an ambassador or late 2104 00:57:15.792 --> 00:57:17.082 or your behavior 2105 00:57:17.106 --> 00:57:18.417 sometimes gets you put out 2106 00:57:18.500 --> 00:57:19.751 and this is the result. 2107 00:57:19.834 --> 00:57:20.874 So it's looking 2108 00:57:20.898 --> 00:57:21.959 like a little bit 2109 00:57:22.042 --> 00:57:23.500 of a downward spiral for you 2110 00:57:23.584 --> 00:57:24.686 and I don't really 2111 00:57:24.710 --> 00:57:25.834 want that for you. 2112 00:57:25.918 --> 00:57:28.334 Last semester, did you pass? 2113 00:57:29.334 --> 00:57:30.167 No. 2114 00:57:30.250 --> 00:57:32.083 Why is that? 2115 00:57:32.167 --> 00:57:33.144 - [Marquell] Well - to be honest really, 2116 00:57:33.250 --> 00:57:34.167 Just my fault basically 2117 00:57:34.250 --> 00:57:36.417 'cause I wasn't really focusing. 2118 00:57:36.500 --> 00:57:37.644 I was goofing off, 2119 00:57:37.668 --> 00:57:38.834 playing around 2120 00:57:38.918 --> 00:57:40.207 and trynna be a class 2121 00:57:40.231 --> 00:57:41.542 clown and stuff like that 2122 00:57:41.626 --> 00:57:43.792 and really knowing that, 2123 00:57:43.876 --> 00:57:45.499 that weeks has gone 2124 00:57:45.523 --> 00:57:47.167 by fast as ever 2125 00:57:47.250 --> 00:57:49.667 just docking down by day by day. 2126 00:57:49.751 --> 00:57:51.895 - And what's really getting - on my nerves right now 2127 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:53.311 Is the fact that you're 2128 00:57:53.335 --> 00:57:54.667 coming in two weeks, 2129 00:57:54.751 --> 00:57:56.375 a week and a half before exams 2130 00:57:56.459 --> 00:57:58.103 and is just now asking, 2131 00:57:58.127 --> 00:57:59.792 what can you do? 2132 00:58:01.542 --> 00:58:03.790 This work has been on Google 2133 00:58:03.814 --> 00:58:06.083 Classrooms since August. 2134 00:58:06.167 --> 00:58:07.603 - Thank you Ms. Jacobs. - No problem. 2135 00:58:07.709 --> 00:58:08.768 - And I'm finna get to class. 2136 00:58:08.792 --> 00:58:10.415 - [Rick Sr.] We gonna 2137 00:58:10.439 --> 00:58:12.083 take this as motivation 2138 00:58:12.167 --> 00:58:13.561 - because I know a lot - of us are sitting there 2139 00:58:13.667 --> 00:58:14.853 - Are seeing who don't - wanna come up here 2140 00:58:14.959 --> 00:58:16.167 And tell their story 2141 00:58:16.250 --> 00:58:18.144 - is going through the - same type of things, 2142 00:58:18.250 --> 00:58:19.834 The same similar situations. 2143 00:58:19.918 --> 00:58:21.792 So use this as motivation. 2144 00:58:21.876 --> 00:58:22.999 When I said set your 2145 00:58:23.023 --> 00:58:24.167 expectations high, 2146 00:58:24.250 --> 00:58:26.918 set 'em high, go for 'em. 2147 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:29.918 It always goes through this. 2148 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:31.000 Okay, so here we go. 2149 00:58:31.042 --> 00:58:32.290 - [Woman] Freshman 2150 00:58:32.314 --> 00:58:33.584 year, it was fun, like, 2151 00:58:33.667 --> 00:58:35.769 - that was the best - freshman year ever like. 2152 00:58:35.876 --> 00:58:37.042 (woman laughs) 2153 00:58:37.125 --> 00:58:38.832 Then, something happened 2154 00:58:38.856 --> 00:58:40.584 to me over the summer. 2155 00:58:43.459 --> 00:58:45.334 I was raped or whatever 2156 00:58:45.417 --> 00:58:47.959 and, then school year started 2157 00:58:50.417 --> 00:58:52.667 and I was just out of it like, 2158 00:58:52.751 --> 00:58:55.250 I was here but I wasn't here. 2159 00:58:55.334 --> 00:58:57.250 It was just a struggle. 2160 00:58:57.334 --> 00:58:58.457 All the way up to now 2161 00:58:58.481 --> 00:58:59.626 it still is a struggle. 2162 00:58:59.709 --> 00:59:01.728 - You know, I get into it - with my daddy all the time. 2163 00:59:01.834 --> 00:59:04.000 My daddy think I'm a hoe. 2164 00:59:04.083 --> 00:59:05.665 Still not caring about school, 2165 00:59:05.689 --> 00:59:07.292 trying to commit suicide. 2166 00:59:07.375 --> 00:59:08.459 You know. 2167 00:59:08.542 --> 00:59:09.769 All that stuff, going 2168 00:59:09.793 --> 00:59:11.042 to the hospital. 2169 00:59:11.125 --> 00:59:12.876 OD'd and all that stuff. 2170 00:59:12.959 --> 00:59:14.227 - I was in the - foster care for like, 2171 00:59:14.334 --> 00:59:16.060 - I don't know how - long (stutters) just, 2172 00:59:16.167 --> 00:59:17.769 - Probably like a month, - maybe three months, 2173 00:59:17.876 --> 00:59:19.082 Maybe three months 2174 00:59:19.106 --> 00:59:20.334 or two, I don't know 2175 00:59:20.417 --> 00:59:22.436 - but, like me and my mom - was never on good terms. 2176 00:59:22.542 --> 00:59:25.125 It was always arguing. 2177 00:59:25.209 --> 00:59:26.876 (Marquell sighs) 2178 00:59:26.959 --> 00:59:29.667 Momma used to sell drugs. 2179 00:59:29.751 --> 00:59:31.626 My dad was never in my life. 2180 00:59:31.709 --> 00:59:33.394 - Then helping my little - brothers and sisters 2181 00:59:33.500 --> 00:59:35.667 With their homework and stuff. 2182 00:59:35.751 --> 00:59:37.250 Taking them like baths and stuff 2183 00:59:37.334 --> 00:59:38.518 because my mom was never here. 2184 00:59:38.542 --> 00:59:39.977 - She was always at - a (mumbles) and me, 2185 00:59:40.083 --> 00:59:41.561 - Going out where - friends and everything. 2186 00:59:41.667 --> 00:59:43.082 I got into an argument 2187 00:59:43.106 --> 00:59:44.542 with her yesterday. 2188 00:59:44.626 --> 00:59:46.102 - She said she was - gonna put me out. 2189 00:59:46.209 --> 00:59:47.459 So I told her, "Okay, 2190 00:59:47.542 --> 00:59:49.394 - "I'ma just call the - social worker tomorrow 2191 00:59:49.500 --> 00:59:50.780 "and make your dream come true." 2192 00:59:50.834 --> 00:59:52.083 So- 2193 00:59:52.167 --> 00:59:53.561 - [Marco] You know, - it's always been that 2194 00:59:53.667 --> 00:59:54.998 The black male has been 2195 00:59:55.022 --> 00:59:56.375 absent of the household 2196 00:59:56.459 --> 00:59:57.876 then now what do we do 2197 00:59:57.959 --> 00:59:59.478 when there's no black 2198 00:59:59.502 --> 01:00:01.042 mother in the household 2199 01:00:01.125 --> 01:00:02.811 - and kids are truly - fending for themselves? 2200 01:00:02.918 --> 01:00:04.812 And I think that we're seeing 2201 01:00:04.836 --> 01:00:06.751 a lot more of that these days, 2202 01:00:06.834 --> 01:00:07.626 unfortunately. 2203 01:00:07.709 --> 01:00:08.852 - [Woman] My daddy left here, 2204 01:00:08.876 --> 01:00:11.125 this last year in November. 2205 01:00:11.209 --> 01:00:13.000 I was in the house by myself. 2206 01:00:13.083 --> 01:00:14.751 I basically had my own house. 2207 01:00:14.834 --> 01:00:15.894 I was paying bills, 2208 01:00:15.918 --> 01:00:17.000 working a job, 2209 01:00:17.083 --> 01:00:19.167 not being at school. 2210 01:00:19.250 --> 01:00:21.269 - At work from seven - o'clock in the morning 2211 01:00:21.375 --> 01:00:23.500 To one o'clock in the morning. 2212 01:00:23.584 --> 01:00:24.686 I used to be out 2213 01:00:24.710 --> 01:00:25.834 here in the streets 2214 01:00:25.918 --> 01:00:29.209 with my friends and didn't care. 2215 01:00:29.292 --> 01:00:30.352 - Hey, I don't got - nothing to live for 2216 01:00:30.459 --> 01:00:32.209 With my momma gone. 2217 01:00:34.542 --> 01:00:35.540 Until this one time, 2218 01:00:35.564 --> 01:00:36.584 I was in the hospital 2219 01:00:36.667 --> 01:00:38.249 for two weeks, I 2220 01:00:38.273 --> 01:00:39.876 almost killed myself. 2221 01:00:41.792 --> 01:00:43.165 - [Rick Sr.] And so I 2222 01:00:43.189 --> 01:00:44.584 guess what I'm finna ask 2223 01:00:44.667 --> 01:00:45.792 everybody in here, 2224 01:00:45.876 --> 01:00:47.101 start being there for somebody. 2225 01:00:47.125 --> 01:00:48.584 When y'all hear these stories, 2226 01:00:48.667 --> 01:00:51.459 hey a kind word goes a long way. 2227 01:00:52.375 --> 01:00:53.667 Everybody understand? 2228 01:00:53.751 --> 01:00:54.417 - [All] Yes. 2229 01:00:54.500 --> 01:00:55.375 - Good, better, best. 2230 01:00:55.459 --> 01:00:56.518 - [All] Good, better, best. 2231 01:00:56.542 --> 01:00:57.417 - I shall not rest. 2232 01:00:57.500 --> 01:00:58.542 - [All] I shall not rest. 2233 01:00:58.626 --> 01:00:59.352 - [Rick Sr.] Till - my good is better. 2234 01:00:59.459 --> 01:01:00.709 - [All] Till my good is better. 2235 01:01:00.792 --> 01:01:01.603 - [Rick Sr.] And - my better is best. 2236 01:01:01.709 --> 01:01:02.852 - [All] And my better is best. 2237 01:01:02.876 --> 01:01:03.519 - [Rick Sr.] Everybody - be great today 2238 01:01:03.626 --> 01:01:04.667 And we must finish. 2239 01:01:04.751 --> 01:01:05.894 - [Muhibb] They can't hurt us. 2240 01:01:05.918 --> 01:01:06.561 - They can't hold us down. - [Man] Come on. 2241 01:01:06.667 --> 01:01:07.918 You gotta go there. 2242 01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:08.977 - They can't stop water - from seeking it's level. 2243 01:01:09.083 --> 01:01:10.375 It's this water, it's is in us. 2244 01:01:10.459 --> 01:01:12.811 - They will never be able to - stop us from seeking the truth. 2245 01:01:12.918 --> 01:01:13.959 It is impossible. 2246 01:01:14.042 --> 01:01:15.500 We are not afraid of your might. 2247 01:01:15.584 --> 01:01:16.751 - [Man] What we do? 2248 01:01:16.834 --> 01:01:18.019 - We're not afraid - of your intelligence. 2249 01:01:18.125 --> 01:01:19.226 We've read the story of Pharaoh. 2250 01:01:19.250 --> 01:01:20.936 We know it's prophesied 2251 01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:22.667 that, they fall, not us. 2252 01:01:22.751 --> 01:01:24.227 - What they gon' do - when we don't wanna be 2253 01:01:24.334 --> 01:01:25.584 A part of their world no more? 2254 01:01:25.667 --> 01:01:26.876 (audience applauding) 2255 01:01:26.959 --> 01:01:27.603 - Come on, give - it up, give it up. 2256 01:01:27.709 --> 01:01:28.918 - What they gonna do 2257 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:29.811 - when we don't wanna - get high no more? 2258 01:01:29.918 --> 01:01:30.751 Don't wanna get drunk no more. 2259 01:01:30.834 --> 01:01:32.751 Not hypnotized by music no more. 2260 01:01:32.834 --> 01:01:34.000 What they gon' do 2261 01:01:34.083 --> 01:01:35.186 - when we don't wanna - be criminals no more? 2262 01:01:35.292 --> 01:01:36.500 We'll be burning their dough. 2263 01:01:36.584 --> 01:01:37.417 Burn their money. 2264 01:01:37.500 --> 01:01:38.792 Burn their guns as a offering 2265 01:01:38.876 --> 01:01:40.145 to the most high God 2266 01:01:40.169 --> 01:01:41.459 to regain his respect, 2267 01:01:41.542 --> 01:01:42.584 what they to do? 2268 01:01:42.667 --> 01:01:44.457 I wish all the 2269 01:01:44.481 --> 01:01:46.292 children on Burleigh, 2270 01:01:46.375 --> 01:01:47.478 all the children on the 2271 01:01:47.502 --> 01:01:48.626 North side of Milwaukee 2272 01:01:48.709 --> 01:01:51.667 knew that there will come a time 2273 01:01:51.751 --> 01:01:53.291 where them struggling 2274 01:01:53.315 --> 01:01:54.876 with obituaries 2275 01:01:57.292 --> 01:02:00.083 or hearing gunshots at night 2276 01:02:00.167 --> 01:02:02.709 or seeing the yellow tape 2277 01:02:02.792 --> 01:02:04.686 and bodies of their 2278 01:02:04.710 --> 01:02:06.626 friends, won't last forever. 2279 01:02:06.709 --> 01:02:08.291 It will eventually be 2280 01:02:08.315 --> 01:02:09.918 replaced with a new spirit. 2281 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:11.727 A new spirit of them 2282 01:02:11.751 --> 01:02:13.500 striving to go to school 2283 01:02:13.584 --> 01:02:15.457 and become educated and 2284 01:02:15.481 --> 01:02:17.375 be different people. 2285 01:02:17.459 --> 01:02:18.582 Walking across the 2286 01:02:18.606 --> 01:02:19.751 stage, graduating 2287 01:02:19.834 --> 01:02:21.999 and not us lining up 2288 01:02:22.023 --> 01:02:24.209 for funeral processions. 2289 01:02:24.292 --> 01:02:25.292 If I had a dream, 2290 01:02:25.375 --> 01:02:27.227 I wish every black 2291 01:02:27.251 --> 01:02:29.125 child would know that. 2292 01:02:31.417 --> 01:02:34.584 (controller rattles) 2293 01:02:37.834 --> 01:02:38.542 (mouth clicks) 2294 01:02:38.626 --> 01:02:40.000 - What the fuck? 2295 01:02:42.959 --> 01:02:44.125 Here's Johnny. 2296 01:02:47.584 --> 01:02:48.959 (door clicks) 2297 01:02:49.042 --> 01:02:49.709 Oh hey mum. 2298 01:02:49.792 --> 01:02:51.000 - [Lydia] Hey darling. 2299 01:02:51.083 --> 01:02:52.083 Hi. 2300 01:03:02.250 --> 01:03:03.394 - [Brandon] Come on. - How you been? 2301 01:03:03.500 --> 01:03:04.811 - [Brandon] I'm - all right, come on. 2302 01:03:04.918 --> 01:03:06.102 - (Lydia mumbles) - What you say? 2303 01:03:06.209 --> 01:03:07.417 - [Lydia] You sleep up here? 2304 01:03:07.500 --> 01:03:08.811 - [Brandon] No I 2305 01:03:08.835 --> 01:03:10.167 sleep downstairs. 2306 01:03:11.334 --> 01:03:12.375 You know what I wanna do? 2307 01:03:12.459 --> 01:03:13.167 - [Lydia] What? 2308 01:03:13.250 --> 01:03:14.250 - [Brandon] Leave here. 2309 01:03:14.334 --> 01:03:15.709 - [Lydia] You wanna leave here? 2310 01:03:15.792 --> 01:03:17.728 - You mean, you mean this - place or leave the state? 2311 01:03:17.834 --> 01:03:19.000 - [Brandon] This place. 2312 01:03:19.083 --> 01:03:20.584 - I know. 2313 01:03:20.667 --> 01:03:21.667 - We gotta go. 2314 01:03:21.709 --> 01:03:22.709 - Yeah. 2315 01:03:22.792 --> 01:03:24.061 Where do you think that 2316 01:03:24.085 --> 01:03:25.375 you might wanna move? 2317 01:03:25.459 --> 01:03:27.209 To, just have to just (stutters) 2318 01:03:27.292 --> 01:03:28.542 like go on vacation sometimes 2319 01:03:28.626 --> 01:03:30.040 and just explore a 2320 01:03:30.064 --> 01:03:31.500 couple of places? 2321 01:03:31.584 --> 01:03:33.519 - Anywhere but here. - Anywhere but here. 2322 01:03:33.626 --> 01:03:34.459 I like Texas. 2323 01:03:34.542 --> 01:03:36.584 I really do but it's hot. 2324 01:03:36.667 --> 01:03:37.918 - I like Vegas. 2325 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:38.751 - You like Vegas. 2326 01:03:38.834 --> 01:03:39.959 How do you know? 2327 01:03:40.042 --> 01:03:41.477 - Yeah, that's - definitely an option. 2328 01:03:41.584 --> 01:03:43.584 I don't wanna stay here. 2329 01:03:44.667 --> 01:03:45.667 No. 2330 01:03:45.751 --> 01:03:47.083 I mean we've been through some, 2331 01:03:47.167 --> 01:03:49.227 - a lot of trials and - tribulations in Milwaukee 2332 01:03:49.334 --> 01:03:50.667 And you know it's getting bad. 2333 01:03:50.751 --> 01:03:52.792 - Everybody's moving anyway. 2334 01:03:52.876 --> 01:03:54.042 - Yeah. 2335 01:03:54.125 --> 01:03:55.603 - It's getting bad but - there's still hope, 2336 01:03:55.709 --> 01:03:56.749 You know, it's all 2337 01:03:56.773 --> 01:03:57.834 about what you do 2338 01:03:57.918 --> 01:04:00.312 but I'm just, I've had it, I 2339 01:04:00.336 --> 01:04:02.751 need a geographical change. 2340 01:04:04.959 --> 01:04:06.519 - [Brandon] I don't - think there's no hope. 2341 01:04:06.626 --> 01:04:07.936 - If you're living - here there's no hope. 2342 01:04:08.042 --> 01:04:09.060 - You don't think there's - any hope living here? 2343 01:04:09.167 --> 01:04:10.709 - [Brandon] No. 2344 01:04:10.792 --> 01:04:12.686 - [Marco] The issues that - young black men are facing 2345 01:04:12.792 --> 01:04:14.728 - Or a few issues that - young black men are facing 2346 01:04:14.834 --> 01:04:15.834 Growing up in Milwaukee, 2347 01:04:15.876 --> 01:04:17.915 I would say is a 2348 01:04:17.939 --> 01:04:20.000 sense of hopelessness. 2349 01:04:20.083 --> 01:04:21.394 A lot of our young men, 2350 01:04:21.418 --> 01:04:22.751 young people of color 2351 01:04:22.834 --> 01:04:24.707 don't come from a good 2352 01:04:24.731 --> 01:04:26.626 foundation of stability 2353 01:04:26.709 --> 01:04:28.791 nor have the resources and 2354 01:04:28.815 --> 01:04:30.918 the individuals around them 2355 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:32.769 to help guide them through 2356 01:04:32.793 --> 01:04:34.584 those trials and tribulations 2357 01:04:34.667 --> 01:04:35.918 that I guess you could say 2358 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:37.060 - that they'll face as - they are growing up 2359 01:04:37.167 --> 01:04:38.895 - Throw their adolescents - and their teens. 2360 01:04:39.042 --> 01:04:39.876 (Lydia sighs) 2361 01:04:39.959 --> 01:04:41.125 - It kinda depends on- 2362 01:04:41.209 --> 01:04:42.876 - [Brandon] People leave here, 2363 01:04:42.959 --> 01:04:44.353 make their money 2364 01:04:44.377 --> 01:04:45.792 and then come back. 2365 01:04:45.876 --> 01:04:47.626 - [Lydia] Yeah, I know. 2366 01:04:47.709 --> 01:04:49.770 Oh, you mean hope as far 2367 01:04:49.794 --> 01:04:51.876 as the career and the jobs, 2368 01:04:53.584 --> 01:04:54.519 - economical wise - Yeah. 2369 01:04:54.626 --> 01:04:56.542 Because we're a low income city. 2370 01:04:56.626 --> 01:04:57.792 - [Lydia] Yeah we are 2371 01:04:57.876 --> 01:04:59.061 but you know that's what 2372 01:04:59.085 --> 01:05:00.292 school is all about. 2373 01:05:00.375 --> 01:05:01.542 You know what I'm saying? 2374 01:05:01.626 --> 01:05:03.019 - [Marco] With that - also mentions stability. 2375 01:05:03.125 --> 01:05:04.977 - You know, I think that - one of the key factors 2376 01:05:05.083 --> 01:05:06.751 For a young person's success 2377 01:05:06.834 --> 01:05:08.686 - is for them to be able to - come from an environment 2378 01:05:08.792 --> 01:05:09.811 Or have a environment 2379 01:05:09.835 --> 01:05:10.876 that is conducive 2380 01:05:10.959 --> 01:05:12.709 to growing up, you know 2381 01:05:12.792 --> 01:05:14.895 - and then also an - environment that accounts 2382 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:17.207 For the challenges that 2383 01:05:17.231 --> 01:05:19.459 they'll face as young of color. 2384 01:05:19.542 --> 01:05:20.603 - [Dia] So how are - you doing here? 2385 01:05:20.709 --> 01:05:21.792 - [Brandon] I'm good. 2386 01:05:21.876 --> 01:05:22.542 - [Dia] Staying out the way? 2387 01:05:22.626 --> 01:05:23.417 - [Brandon] Yeah. 2388 01:05:23.500 --> 01:05:24.250 Trying to. 2389 01:05:24.334 --> 01:05:25.125 - You trying to. 2390 01:05:25.209 --> 01:05:27.584 - What you mean by trying? 2391 01:05:27.667 --> 01:05:29.060 - [Brandon] They - be testing me here. 2392 01:05:29.167 --> 01:05:29.959 - They be testing you. 2393 01:05:30.042 --> 01:05:30.959 Who's they? 2394 01:05:31.042 --> 01:05:32.167 - [Brandon] The kids. 2395 01:05:32.250 --> 01:05:33.292 - Oh yeah (mumbles) 2396 01:05:33.375 --> 01:05:35.000 - That's what y'all all do. 2397 01:05:35.083 --> 01:05:36.167 (Dia laughs) 2398 01:05:36.250 --> 01:05:38.352 - [Brandon] No like, - they be testing me like, 2399 01:05:38.459 --> 01:05:40.603 - There's this (stutters) - the boy downstairs, 2400 01:05:40.709 --> 01:05:42.417 He'd be stealing my studs. 2401 01:05:42.500 --> 01:05:44.227 - [Dia] But besides - that you cool? 2402 01:05:44.334 --> 01:05:45.042 - [Brandon] Yeah. 2403 01:05:45.125 --> 01:05:48.417 - [Dia] That (mumbles) 2404 01:05:49.334 --> 01:05:50.667 (car engine revs) 2405 01:05:50.751 --> 01:05:53.477 - And then it's like this ain't - my first, second, third time 2406 01:05:53.584 --> 01:05:54.643 Putting my parents in the song. 2407 01:05:54.667 --> 01:05:57.709 So it's like, you trynna be, 2408 01:05:57.792 --> 01:05:58.792 be telling for what? 2409 01:05:58.834 --> 01:06:01.000 (car engine revs) 2410 01:06:01.083 --> 01:06:02.603 - [Kierra] The whole song - wasn't about him though. 2411 01:06:02.709 --> 01:06:04.540 You just, you put little parts 2412 01:06:04.564 --> 01:06:06.417 of the situation in a song. 2413 01:06:06.500 --> 01:06:07.853 - [Tiana] I mean if - I'ma make this song, 2414 01:06:07.959 --> 01:06:09.334 I'ma make it real. 2415 01:06:09.417 --> 01:06:10.936 - I'ma be a hundred - percent honest. 2416 01:06:11.042 --> 01:06:12.292 You know what I'm saying? 2417 01:06:12.375 --> 01:06:14.352 - I'ma only state facts - and it is what it is. 2418 01:06:14.459 --> 01:06:16.083 And then I feel like, 2419 01:06:16.167 --> 01:06:17.415 well since music is 2420 01:06:17.439 --> 01:06:18.709 my passion anyway 2421 01:06:18.792 --> 01:06:20.209 you, I are got to express that. 2422 01:06:20.292 --> 01:06:21.478 That hurt like, they 2423 01:06:21.502 --> 01:06:22.709 really hurting me. 2424 01:06:22.792 --> 01:06:24.228 So I feel like I make 2425 01:06:24.252 --> 01:06:25.709 the song personal 2426 01:06:25.792 --> 01:06:27.102 - and you know, most - of my personal songs 2427 01:06:27.209 --> 01:06:29.186 - It always do be about - like my mom or dad. 2428 01:06:29.292 --> 01:06:30.292 So I'm like... 2429 01:06:30.334 --> 01:06:31.000 - [Kierra] Yeah. 2430 01:06:31.083 --> 01:06:32.334 ♪ Music speak for me ♪ 2431 01:06:32.417 --> 01:06:33.269 - ♪ So people they - can't ignore me ♪ 2432 01:06:33.375 --> 01:06:34.584 ♪ Been tolerating bullshit ♪ 2433 01:06:34.667 --> 01:06:35.644 - ♪ From people who - don't care for me ♪ 2434 01:06:35.751 --> 01:06:37.436 - ♪ But fuck it I - had enough of 'em ♪ 2435 01:06:37.542 --> 01:06:38.853 - ♪ Cut 'em which means - I'm done with them ♪ 2436 01:06:38.959 --> 01:06:39.977 - ♪ Love 'em, but do - not fuck with 'em ♪ 2437 01:06:40.083 --> 01:06:41.165 ♪ Love 'em, but cannot 2438 01:06:41.189 --> 01:06:42.292 trust 'em none ♪ 2439 01:06:42.375 --> 01:06:43.102 - ♪ Fuck it if I got - the good heart ♪ 2440 01:06:43.209 --> 01:06:44.876 ♪ That don't mean use me ♪ 2441 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:45.834 ♪ There's only one in me ♪ 2442 01:06:45.918 --> 01:06:47.792 ♪ You gotta respect my honesty ♪ 2443 01:06:47.876 --> 01:06:48.918 ♪ Need no apology ♪ 2444 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:50.644 - ♪ When I die please - don't cry over me ♪ 2445 01:06:50.751 --> 01:06:51.876 ♪ Just look over me ♪ 2446 01:06:51.959 --> 01:06:53.394 - ♪ Remember you - chose them over me ♪ 2447 01:06:53.500 --> 01:06:54.751 ♪ Tiana focus on your dreams ♪ 2448 01:06:54.834 --> 01:06:56.083 ♪ And where you headed to ♪ 2449 01:06:56.167 --> 01:06:57.811 - ♪ I'm trying but - right now I'm done ♪ 2450 01:06:57.918 --> 01:06:58.709 ♪ Nobody there there but you ♪ 2451 01:06:58.792 --> 01:07:00.042 ♪ I'm all you need ♪ 2452 01:07:00.125 --> 01:07:01.811 - ♪ Say fuck it and - let them leave ♪ 2453 01:07:01.918 --> 01:07:04.019 - ♪ Yeah I agree but that - time was taken from me ♪ 2454 01:07:04.125 --> 01:07:06.102 - ♪ And now we see how she - playing like the victim ♪ 2455 01:07:06.209 --> 01:07:07.334 ♪ And she know what's up ♪ 2456 01:07:07.417 --> 01:07:08.709 ♪ I don't wish you luck ♪ 2457 01:07:08.792 --> 01:07:09.895 - ♪ I wish you hell and - hope your karma come ♪ 2458 01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:11.167 ♪ Blood is what we were ♪ 2459 01:07:11.250 --> 01:07:12.769 - ♪ So bloody how I - left you suck it up ♪ 2460 01:07:12.876 --> 01:07:14.186 - ♪ If we ain't had enough, - just let me know ♪ 2461 01:07:14.292 --> 01:07:16.060 - ♪ So we could - catch these words ♪ 2462 01:07:16.167 --> 01:07:17.626 (both exclaiming) 2463 01:07:17.709 --> 01:07:18.709 - Say yeah. 2464 01:07:18.792 --> 01:07:21.792 (both laughing) 2465 01:07:21.876 --> 01:07:23.060 - [Kierra] What made you - want to start singing 2466 01:07:23.167 --> 01:07:24.834 And rapping and stuff like what? 2467 01:07:24.918 --> 01:07:26.207 - [Tiana] Well honestly, 2468 01:07:26.231 --> 01:07:27.542 when I make songs, 2469 01:07:27.626 --> 01:07:29.060 - I can help somebody - get out of a situation. 2470 01:07:29.167 --> 01:07:30.667 If it's a situation you in 2471 01:07:30.751 --> 01:07:32.436 - and you feel like don't - nobody understand, you know, 2472 01:07:32.542 --> 01:07:33.822 Really where you're coming from. 2473 01:07:33.876 --> 01:07:34.999 I wanna be like that 2474 01:07:35.023 --> 01:07:36.167 voice and reasoning 2475 01:07:36.250 --> 01:07:37.727 like, that type of thing 2476 01:07:37.751 --> 01:07:39.250 so I be like, yeah. 2477 01:07:39.334 --> 01:07:41.082 If I could just make 2478 01:07:41.106 --> 01:07:42.876 music all day, every day, 2479 01:07:42.959 --> 01:07:44.769 - make money off of it and - it can inspire people 2480 01:07:44.876 --> 01:07:46.125 And help people and you know, 2481 01:07:46.209 --> 01:07:47.415 people can relate to 2482 01:07:47.439 --> 01:07:48.667 it like, you know. 2483 01:07:48.751 --> 01:07:50.874 I feel like music is 2484 01:07:50.898 --> 01:07:53.042 like, it's therapeutic. 2485 01:07:53.125 --> 01:07:54.769 - I know for myself like - when you can relate 2486 01:07:54.876 --> 01:07:55.918 To what somebody's saying 2487 01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:57.584 or when somebody can make a song 2488 01:07:57.667 --> 01:07:59.103 and you just feel it in your 2489 01:07:59.127 --> 01:08:00.584 soul that's, it's deep like, 2490 01:08:00.667 --> 01:08:02.853 - so I be like, yeah, if - I could make people feel 2491 01:08:02.959 --> 01:08:05.040 Like all the time with my 2492 01:08:05.064 --> 01:08:07.167 music, I love it like, so. 2493 01:08:07.250 --> 01:08:08.667 Feel the breeze? 2494 01:08:09.792 --> 01:08:11.375 (Tiana exhales sharply) 2495 01:08:11.459 --> 01:08:14.500 He like, "I'm just chilling." 2496 01:08:14.584 --> 01:08:15.876 - [Kierra] Yeah. 2497 01:08:15.959 --> 01:08:16.876 Say, "We felt that one. 2498 01:08:16.959 --> 01:08:19.751 "We liked it that one." 2499 01:08:19.834 --> 01:08:21.125 - [Sean] Brandon, what's up man? 2500 01:08:21.209 --> 01:08:22.000 - What's up? 2501 01:08:22.083 --> 01:08:23.083 - How you doing? 2502 01:08:23.125 --> 01:08:24.167 - I'm all right, yourself? 2503 01:08:24.250 --> 01:08:25.876 - Good to see you man. 2504 01:08:25.959 --> 01:08:28.751 Introduce you to the AAU coach. 2505 01:08:30.375 --> 01:08:32.082 He coach a lot of young guys 2506 01:08:32.106 --> 01:08:33.834 in the city of Milwaukee. 2507 01:08:33.918 --> 01:08:34.918 - How you doing? 2508 01:08:34.959 --> 01:08:35.667 How you doing? 2509 01:08:35.751 --> 01:08:36.459 - What's up man. 2510 01:08:36.542 --> 01:08:37.709 This is Brandon. 2511 01:08:37.792 --> 01:08:39.186 - It's who I was - telling you about. 2512 01:08:39.292 --> 01:08:40.957 - As you see our 2513 01:08:40.981 --> 01:08:42.667 program is T.S.A. 2514 01:08:42.751 --> 01:08:44.186 Which it stands for 2515 01:08:44.210 --> 01:08:45.667 Talented Student Athletes. 2516 01:08:45.751 --> 01:08:47.644 - We were formerly - known as The Magic. 2517 01:08:47.751 --> 01:08:49.269 - I mean, 'cause we - were doing things 2518 01:08:49.375 --> 01:08:50.603 That people thought 2519 01:08:50.627 --> 01:08:51.876 that couldn't happen 2520 01:08:51.959 --> 01:08:53.519 with some inner city 2521 01:08:53.543 --> 01:08:55.125 kids, that nobody wanted. 2522 01:08:55.209 --> 01:08:56.478 So we were with the 2523 01:08:56.502 --> 01:08:57.792 name Magic first. 2524 01:08:57.876 --> 01:08:59.603 Then we became, all my 2525 01:08:59.627 --> 01:09:01.375 younger boys became older 2526 01:09:01.459 --> 01:09:03.186 to where we found out about 2527 01:09:03.210 --> 01:09:04.959 the politics of the game 2528 01:09:05.042 --> 01:09:06.415 to where it's all 2529 01:09:06.439 --> 01:09:07.834 about education, 2530 01:09:08.959 --> 01:09:11.167 getting them grades up first 2531 01:09:11.250 --> 01:09:12.373 'cause I don't care 2532 01:09:12.397 --> 01:09:13.542 how talented you are, 2533 01:09:13.626 --> 01:09:14.645 if you can't get 2534 01:09:14.669 --> 01:09:15.709 those books in order 2535 01:09:15.792 --> 01:09:17.167 you can't play the game. 2536 01:09:17.250 --> 01:09:18.957 I'm the same neighborhood 2537 01:09:18.981 --> 01:09:20.709 kid of 15th and Burleigh 2538 01:09:20.792 --> 01:09:22.334 that ran the streets. 2539 01:09:22.417 --> 01:09:24.227 Did Lord knows what and 2540 01:09:24.251 --> 01:09:26.083 he can contest to this 2541 01:09:26.167 --> 01:09:27.895 - there's nothing - that you wanna do 2542 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:29.500 That I haven't done already. 2543 01:09:29.584 --> 01:09:31.478 I still got the big old 2544 01:09:31.502 --> 01:09:33.417 car, big rims, big trucks. 2545 01:09:33.500 --> 01:09:34.959 I still got that. 2546 01:09:35.042 --> 01:09:36.918 Now I got it the legal way. 2547 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:39.751 I do things by using what I do 2548 01:09:39.834 --> 01:09:40.936 in a positive way 2549 01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:42.083 to get what I want 2550 01:09:42.167 --> 01:09:43.374 rather than I did out 2551 01:09:43.398 --> 01:09:44.626 there in the streets 2552 01:09:44.709 --> 01:09:47.103 and that's why it's best for 2553 01:09:47.127 --> 01:09:49.542 kids to find their passion. 2554 01:09:49.626 --> 01:09:51.645 (all chattering) 2555 01:09:51.669 --> 01:09:53.709 (ball dribbling) 2556 01:09:53.792 --> 01:09:54.542 Get to here. 2557 01:09:54.626 --> 01:09:55.542 (Coach Rose mumbles) 2558 01:09:55.626 --> 01:09:56.417 Now (mumbles) 2559 01:09:56.500 --> 01:09:57.125 Yeah, yeah. 2560 01:09:57.209 --> 01:09:58.334 Now do your thing. 2561 01:09:58.417 --> 01:09:59.584 Yeah. 2562 01:09:59.667 --> 01:10:01.417 It's a simple cross. 2563 01:10:01.500 --> 01:10:03.083 Come on, last one. 2564 01:10:04.167 --> 01:10:05.167 Here. 2565 01:10:06.042 --> 01:10:07.083 Yeah. 2566 01:10:07.167 --> 01:10:09.125 (dribbling continues) 2567 01:10:09.209 --> 01:10:10.353 That's how you 2568 01:10:10.377 --> 01:10:11.542 get to the bucket. 2569 01:10:11.626 --> 01:10:13.042 You good man. 2570 01:10:13.125 --> 01:10:14.603 - Whenever you wanna come back - in the gym, just let me know. 2571 01:10:14.709 --> 01:10:16.042 Sean hook us up 2572 01:10:17.125 --> 01:10:18.332 and you're able to 2573 01:10:18.356 --> 01:10:19.584 come in anytime man. 2574 01:10:19.667 --> 01:10:20.417 All right. 2575 01:10:20.500 --> 01:10:22.000 They call me (mumbles) 2576 01:10:22.083 --> 01:10:23.019 - I have somebody there with you - to work with you, all right? 2577 01:10:23.125 --> 01:10:24.125 (Brandon mumbles) 2578 01:10:24.167 --> 01:10:25.417 All the time man. 2579 01:10:25.500 --> 01:10:26.334 All right Sean man. 2580 01:10:26.417 --> 01:10:27.209 Get out of here. 2581 01:10:27.292 --> 01:10:29.542 I appreciate everybody man. 2582 01:10:29.626 --> 01:10:31.353 (athletes chattering) 2583 01:10:31.377 --> 01:10:33.125 (shoes squeaking) 2584 01:10:33.209 --> 01:10:34.728 - [Sean] And it's like 2585 01:10:34.752 --> 01:10:36.292 I told you, you know, 2586 01:10:36.375 --> 01:10:37.540 it's so many people 2587 01:10:37.564 --> 01:10:38.751 man, that care man, 2588 01:10:38.834 --> 01:10:40.957 that care about, you 2589 01:10:40.981 --> 01:10:43.125 know, the next generation. 2590 01:10:43.209 --> 01:10:44.541 So there is people who 2591 01:10:44.565 --> 01:10:45.918 care man, you know. 2592 01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:47.250 Like I told you the first time 2593 01:10:47.334 --> 01:10:49.519 - during the first meeting - man, we love you. 2594 01:10:49.626 --> 01:10:51.250 You know, we want you to excel. 2595 01:10:51.334 --> 01:10:52.876 We want you to be your best. 2596 01:10:52.959 --> 01:10:54.311 - We want you to follow - your dreams, your passion 2597 01:10:54.417 --> 01:10:55.957 And we want you to 2598 01:10:55.981 --> 01:10:57.542 steer away from anything 2599 01:10:57.626 --> 01:10:58.624 that's preventing 2600 01:10:58.648 --> 01:10:59.667 you from doing that. 2601 01:10:59.751 --> 01:11:01.061 So, I know you said that 2602 01:11:01.085 --> 01:11:02.417 you didn't like school 2603 01:11:02.500 --> 01:11:04.019 - because of the drama - surrounding the school 2604 01:11:04.125 --> 01:11:06.227 - But keep in mind that - the only reason you there 2605 01:11:06.334 --> 01:11:07.500 Is to get your education. 2606 01:11:07.584 --> 01:11:08.394 - Right. - You know. 2607 01:11:08.500 --> 01:11:09.602 When you wake up in the morning, 2608 01:11:09.626 --> 01:11:11.334 you get yourself ready. 2609 01:11:11.417 --> 01:11:12.853 When you in the classroom, 2610 01:11:12.877 --> 01:11:14.334 it's your grades. 2611 01:11:14.417 --> 01:11:16.186 - When you do the work, - it's you doing the work, 2612 01:11:16.292 --> 01:11:17.459 Nobody else. 2613 01:11:17.542 --> 01:11:18.707 So your focus is 2614 01:11:18.731 --> 01:11:19.918 on doing the work 2615 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:21.667 doing what you need to do 2616 01:11:21.751 --> 01:11:22.978 to pass to the next grade 2617 01:11:23.002 --> 01:11:24.250 and ultimately graduate 2618 01:11:24.334 --> 01:11:25.250 and go to college 2619 01:11:25.334 --> 01:11:26.584 but I appreciate you. 2620 01:11:26.667 --> 01:11:27.811 - [Kweku] So when we - start talking about 2621 01:11:27.918 --> 01:11:29.291 How do we infuse sports, 2622 01:11:29.315 --> 01:11:30.709 athletic activities, 2623 01:11:30.792 --> 01:11:32.269 - things of that nature to - help people feel better, 2624 01:11:32.375 --> 01:11:34.352 - It's what builds up - your self confidence. 2625 01:11:34.459 --> 01:11:35.728 It teaches you how 2626 01:11:35.752 --> 01:11:37.042 to deal with losses. 2627 01:11:37.125 --> 01:11:39.311 - It teaches you all of those - things that we had to deal 2628 01:11:39.417 --> 01:11:41.000 With in life at an early age 2629 01:11:41.083 --> 01:11:43.000 and once that's infused in you, 2630 01:11:43.083 --> 01:11:43.918 great things can happen. 2631 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:45.167 There's no secret 2632 01:11:45.250 --> 01:11:46.623 that you always see a 2633 01:11:46.647 --> 01:11:48.042 higher graduation rate 2634 01:11:48.125 --> 01:11:50.394 - with those who are involved - in extracurricular activities. 2635 01:11:50.500 --> 01:11:51.751 It's no secret 2636 01:11:51.834 --> 01:11:53.144 - that you start to see - less behavioral problems 2637 01:11:53.250 --> 01:11:55.352 - With those involved in - extracurricular activities. 2638 01:11:55.459 --> 01:11:56.292 Why is that? 2639 01:11:56.375 --> 01:11:57.876 Because you're so busy. 2640 01:11:57.959 --> 01:12:00.102 - It takes away the time - for you to do other things 2641 01:12:00.209 --> 01:12:01.709 That's not productive. 2642 01:12:01.792 --> 01:12:02.936 - [Coach Shane] Notice - that y'all know right now 2643 01:12:03.042 --> 01:12:04.394 - Like normally I'd be - all cool and collective 2644 01:12:04.500 --> 01:12:06.125 But I'm on fire right now. 2645 01:12:06.209 --> 01:12:08.167 - [Team] Be ready! 2646 01:12:08.250 --> 01:12:08.959 - [Man] What? 2647 01:12:09.042 --> 01:12:10.626 - [Team] Be ready! 2648 01:12:10.709 --> 01:12:11.417 - [Man] What? 2649 01:12:11.500 --> 01:12:12.209 Let's go. 2650 01:12:12.292 --> 01:12:14.000 - [Team] Be ready! 2651 01:12:14.083 --> 01:12:16.667 (team chanting) 2652 01:12:17.918 --> 01:12:19.144 - [Coach Shane] - Probably y'all know man, 2653 01:12:19.250 --> 01:12:20.667 When y'all come out here dawg, 2654 01:12:20.751 --> 01:12:22.083 y'all come and play hard. 2655 01:12:22.167 --> 01:12:24.436 - Y'all play to the whistle - and y'all get in 'em. 2656 01:12:24.542 --> 01:12:25.167 Okay? 2657 01:12:25.250 --> 01:12:26.751 - [All] Yes coach. 2658 01:12:26.834 --> 01:12:28.352 - [Coach Shane] Make sure - that they remember who you is 2659 01:12:28.459 --> 01:12:30.375 Because they already nitpicking. 2660 01:12:30.459 --> 01:12:31.959 They already nitpicking. 2661 01:12:32.042 --> 01:12:33.519 I hate people that nitpick 2662 01:12:33.543 --> 01:12:35.042 at stuff for no reason. 2663 01:12:35.125 --> 01:12:36.209 So as you come out here 2664 01:12:36.292 --> 01:12:37.332 and you make sure 2665 01:12:37.356 --> 01:12:38.417 you know who you are. 2666 01:12:38.500 --> 01:12:39.500 Do you understand that? 2667 01:12:39.542 --> 01:12:41.042 - [All] Yes coach. 2668 01:12:41.125 --> 01:12:42.686 - Make sure you come out - here with a lot of passion, 2669 01:12:42.792 --> 01:12:44.873 Enthusiasm and make 2670 01:12:44.897 --> 01:12:47.000 sure we get this damn W. 2671 01:12:47.083 --> 01:12:48.083 Do you understand that? 2672 01:12:48.167 --> 01:12:50.125 - [All] Yes coach. 2673 01:12:50.209 --> 01:12:51.895 - [Coach Shane] I hope y'all - already to play a ball game. 2674 01:12:52.000 --> 01:12:53.334 Let's get their ass out the way. 2675 01:12:53.417 --> 01:12:56.834 (all applauding) 2676 01:12:56.918 --> 01:13:00.334 (applauding intensifies) 2677 01:13:01.751 --> 01:13:04.000 (crowd chattering) 2678 01:13:04.083 --> 01:13:05.834 - [Muhibb] what they gon' do? 2679 01:13:05.918 --> 01:13:06.918 They gon' put us in jail? 2680 01:13:07.000 --> 01:13:07.977 Too late we was 2681 01:13:08.001 --> 01:13:09.001 already born in it. 2682 01:13:09.083 --> 01:13:11.167 What they gon' do? 2683 01:13:11.250 --> 01:13:12.584 They gon' kill us? 2684 01:13:12.667 --> 01:13:14.227 - That'll only give - our children a reason 2685 01:13:14.334 --> 01:13:17.060 - To put our pictures underneath - their pillows at night. 2686 01:13:17.167 --> 01:13:19.352 - Praying hard that the - fairy godmother of justice, 2687 01:13:19.459 --> 01:13:21.227 - Instead of giving them - money for a tooth, 2688 01:13:21.334 --> 01:13:22.584 Give 'em the same courage, 2689 01:13:22.667 --> 01:13:23.853 - same (mumbles) - (man mumbles) 2690 01:13:23.959 --> 01:13:25.603 - Same determination - to be soldiers, 2691 01:13:25.709 --> 01:13:27.269 - Just like their mommas - and their daddies 2692 01:13:27.375 --> 01:13:28.626 When they grow up. 2693 01:13:28.709 --> 01:13:30.102 - There is nothing you can - do, we laughing at you. 2694 01:13:30.209 --> 01:13:31.709 - [Man] All over. 2695 01:13:31.792 --> 01:13:32.769 - Underneath all our pain. - [Man] Come on, give it up. 2696 01:13:32.876 --> 01:13:33.686 - Give it up. - We're laughing at you. 2697 01:13:33.792 --> 01:13:34.334 - [Man] Come on, come on. 2698 01:13:34.417 --> 01:13:35.667 Give it up. 2699 01:13:35.751 --> 01:13:36.686 - Underneath all these tears, - [Man] Come on. 2700 01:13:36.792 --> 01:13:38.250 - we're laughing at you. 2701 01:13:38.334 --> 01:13:39.811 - On Burleigh laughing at you. - [Man] Where else? 2702 01:13:39.918 --> 01:13:41.166 Garfield, Galena, Vine 2703 01:13:41.190 --> 01:13:42.459 we laughing at you. 2704 01:13:42.542 --> 01:13:44.227 - (mumbles) we laughing at you. - [Man] Take it home. 2705 01:13:44.334 --> 01:13:45.394 All poor people, all 2706 01:13:45.418 --> 01:13:46.500 oppressed people, 2707 01:13:46.584 --> 01:13:49.019 - all freedom loving people, - all righteous people 2708 01:13:49.125 --> 01:13:50.042 Are laughing at you. 2709 01:13:50.125 --> 01:13:52.918 Family, they will not break us. 2710 01:13:53.751 --> 01:13:54.959 They can not break us. 2711 01:13:55.042 --> 01:13:56.936 - Black children have - to begin to connect 2712 01:13:57.042 --> 01:13:59.123 With the idea that regardless 2713 01:13:59.147 --> 01:14:01.250 of what we go through 2714 01:14:02.834 --> 01:14:05.125 it's an unbreakable spirit. 2715 01:14:05.209 --> 01:14:06.709 That's a part of their DNA. 2716 01:14:06.792 --> 01:14:08.373 It's an breakable 2717 01:14:08.397 --> 01:14:10.000 part of who they are 2718 01:14:11.209 --> 01:14:12.853 - and then when they begin - to connect with that, 2719 01:14:12.959 --> 01:14:14.059 Then they'll begin to understand 2720 01:14:14.083 --> 01:14:15.227 they have a duty 2721 01:14:15.251 --> 01:14:16.417 and responsibility 2722 01:14:16.500 --> 01:14:19.083 not to just stop because 2723 01:14:19.167 --> 01:14:21.144 - they're enduring struggles - in their neighborhood. 2724 01:14:21.250 --> 01:14:22.834 Not to just stop because 2725 01:14:22.918 --> 01:14:25.144 - they're enduring - struggles in their family. 2726 01:14:25.250 --> 01:14:26.915 We have always made 2727 01:14:26.939 --> 01:14:28.626 a way out of no way 2728 01:14:28.709 --> 01:14:30.603 and they have to continue 2729 01:14:30.627 --> 01:14:32.542 on that tradition for us. 2730 01:14:32.626 --> 01:14:34.769 - [News anchor] 6:39 this - morning and (mumbles) 2731 01:14:34.876 --> 01:14:36.436 - Police investigating a - double death investigation 2732 01:14:36.542 --> 01:14:37.751 On the cities of (mumbles) 2733 01:14:37.834 --> 01:14:40.542 (mumbles) with the update. 2734 01:14:40.626 --> 01:14:42.769 - [News anchor] Hey - and good morning I have 2735 01:14:42.876 --> 01:14:44.853 - The medical examiner - telling us the victims, 2736 01:14:44.959 --> 01:14:46.728 Two adult autopsies are 2737 01:14:46.752 --> 01:14:48.542 scheduled for later today. 2738 01:14:48.626 --> 01:14:50.686 - Police called here through - reports of a shooting 2739 01:14:50.792 --> 01:14:52.250 Just set for two o'clock 2740 01:14:52.334 --> 01:14:54.269 - that was in an alley - about a half a city block 2741 01:14:54.375 --> 01:14:55.852 Between 10th and 11th and 2742 01:14:55.876 --> 01:14:57.375 between Capital and Haven 2743 01:14:57.459 --> 01:14:58.250 and while we were here, 2744 01:14:58.334 --> 01:14:59.209 we saw detectives checking out 2745 01:14:59.292 --> 01:15:01.167 this van behind this (mumbles) 2746 01:15:01.250 --> 01:15:03.227 - Police have cleared - the alley scene where 2747 01:15:03.334 --> 01:15:05.584 The two victims were recovered. 2748 01:15:05.667 --> 01:15:07.832 Police responded to 2749 01:15:07.856 --> 01:15:10.042 a shooting (mumbles) 2750 01:15:10.125 --> 01:15:12.125 (bus squeaks) 2751 01:15:12.209 --> 01:15:14.667 (somber music) 2752 01:15:17.125 --> 01:15:19.500 (engine revs) 2753 01:15:23.209 --> 01:15:25.686 (bell rings) 2754 01:15:25.710 --> 01:15:28.209 (students chattering) 2755 01:15:28.751 --> 01:15:29.751 - I'm tired bro. 2756 01:15:30.959 --> 01:15:32.228 Honestly I am tired don't 2757 01:15:32.252 --> 01:15:33.542 even need to lie to you. 2758 01:15:33.626 --> 01:15:35.561 (chattering continues) 2759 01:15:35.585 --> 01:15:37.542 What's up boy? 2760 01:15:37.626 --> 01:15:38.832 - [Man] This is can 2761 01:15:38.856 --> 01:15:40.083 happen to any man. 2762 01:15:40.167 --> 01:15:42.250 (mumbles) 2763 01:15:42.334 --> 01:15:43.790 You got the second lined 2764 01:15:43.814 --> 01:15:45.292 up over number two. 2765 01:15:45.375 --> 01:15:47.500 Apex in the tackle 2766 01:15:47.584 --> 01:15:49.751 and the second while receiving. 2767 01:15:49.834 --> 01:15:52.042 Watch the hole right here. 2768 01:15:53.375 --> 01:15:54.292 - [Rick Sr.] How you doing man. 2769 01:15:54.375 --> 01:15:55.626 How's your day going? 2770 01:15:55.709 --> 01:15:56.626 - [Marquell] Good. 2771 01:15:56.709 --> 01:15:57.876 - [Rick Sr.] You good? 2772 01:15:57.959 --> 01:15:58.769 - [Marquell] Just wanna - come to talk to you 2773 01:15:58.876 --> 01:16:00.375 About a little stuff, you know. 2774 01:16:00.459 --> 01:16:01.769 - [Rick Sr.] Oh, what's - up, what's going on? 2775 01:16:01.876 --> 01:16:03.394 - [Marquell] We never got a - little chance to talk and stuff. 2776 01:16:03.500 --> 01:16:04.560 - How's your school year going 2777 01:16:04.584 --> 01:16:06.083 since the new school year? 2778 01:16:06.167 --> 01:16:07.375 - I was, it's going good. 2779 01:16:07.459 --> 01:16:08.436 I had a 3.0, then 2780 01:16:08.460 --> 01:16:09.460 it went to a 2.8 2781 01:16:09.542 --> 01:16:11.626 and then it went to a 2.4. 2782 01:16:11.709 --> 01:16:12.542 - Aint that reversed? 2783 01:16:12.626 --> 01:16:14.167 That's the wrong way, you know. 2784 01:16:14.250 --> 01:16:16.375 How was your summer? 2785 01:16:16.459 --> 01:16:17.751 - [Marquell] It was- 2786 01:16:17.834 --> 01:16:20.060 - [Rick Sr.] (mumbles) moms, - I guess is what I should ask. 2787 01:16:20.167 --> 01:16:21.436 - [Marquell] I was just- - (blows raspberry) 2788 01:16:21.542 --> 01:16:22.626 It was just, everywhere. 2789 01:16:22.709 --> 01:16:25.417 - You got to (mumbles) 2790 01:16:25.500 --> 01:16:27.186 - [Marquell] - Everywhere it was just 2791 01:16:27.292 --> 01:16:28.334 Me arguing with her, 2792 01:16:28.417 --> 01:16:30.375 her arguing with me. 2793 01:16:30.459 --> 01:16:31.790 We getting into with 2794 01:16:31.814 --> 01:16:33.167 her, putting me out. 2795 01:16:33.250 --> 01:16:35.375 Me trynna go stay with my dad. 2796 01:16:35.459 --> 01:16:36.769 Me staying with my sister 2797 01:16:36.793 --> 01:16:38.125 and stuff like that. 2798 01:16:38.209 --> 01:16:39.751 If I wanted my relationship 2799 01:16:39.834 --> 01:16:41.686 - with my mom (stutters) - peaches and cream, 2800 01:16:41.792 --> 01:16:43.603 - It'd be like her - understanding where 2801 01:16:43.709 --> 01:16:45.519 A teenager coming 2802 01:16:45.543 --> 01:16:47.375 from her understanding 2803 01:16:47.459 --> 01:16:49.792 that my dad wouldn't like, 2804 01:16:49.876 --> 01:16:51.561 - wasn't real there - Not really there. 2805 01:16:51.667 --> 01:16:52.936 - And wasn't like 2806 01:16:52.960 --> 01:16:54.250 really trynna be there 2807 01:16:54.334 --> 01:16:55.584 in my life right now. 2808 01:16:55.667 --> 01:16:57.644 - Like I'm older now and I - know who my real daddy. 2809 01:16:57.751 --> 01:16:58.853 She don't understand 2810 01:16:58.877 --> 01:17:00.000 that I was like, 2811 01:17:00.083 --> 01:17:01.186 usually I used to cry 2812 01:17:01.210 --> 01:17:02.334 about the situation 2813 01:17:02.417 --> 01:17:03.250 and stuff like that 2814 01:17:03.334 --> 01:17:04.393 but like me crying about it 2815 01:17:04.417 --> 01:17:05.500 it ain't gonna help at all. 2816 01:17:05.584 --> 01:17:06.626 - Okay look. 2817 01:17:06.709 --> 01:17:09.375 Put yourself in her shoes. 2818 01:17:09.459 --> 01:17:10.790 She leaves four days, 2819 01:17:10.814 --> 01:17:12.167 your her first son right? 2820 01:17:12.250 --> 01:17:13.000 - Mm-hmm. 2821 01:17:13.083 --> 01:17:14.083 How would you feel? 2822 01:17:16.209 --> 01:17:17.375 You wouldn't be mad? 2823 01:17:17.459 --> 01:17:19.000 Everyday with peaches and cream? 2824 01:17:19.083 --> 01:17:20.811 - Everything would - be joyful, happy, 2825 01:17:20.918 --> 01:17:22.459 You in heaven right? 2826 01:17:22.542 --> 01:17:23.686 - You wouldn't be mad? - I mean I'd kinda be mad. 2827 01:17:23.792 --> 01:17:25.209 - You, kinda? 2828 01:17:25.292 --> 01:17:26.894 Boy, if that was my son 2829 01:17:26.918 --> 01:17:28.542 I would have beaten his- 2830 01:17:28.626 --> 01:17:29.626 he gone for four days, 2831 01:17:29.667 --> 01:17:30.918 and you don't know where he is. 2832 01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:31.728 - He not texting me, - he not calling me 2833 01:17:31.834 --> 01:17:33.000 You not know nothing. 2834 01:17:33.083 --> 01:17:34.269 - People get mad and - they say stupid stuff. 2835 01:17:34.375 --> 01:17:36.375 She probably don't mean it. 2836 01:17:36.459 --> 01:17:37.459 Right? 2837 01:17:37.500 --> 01:17:39.500 Ask her, talk to her. 2838 01:17:39.584 --> 01:17:41.186 She probably, she really 2839 01:17:41.210 --> 01:17:42.834 don't mean it, most likely. 2840 01:17:42.918 --> 01:17:44.042 If she didn't love you, 2841 01:17:44.125 --> 01:17:45.811 - she would've kicked - you out already. 2842 01:17:45.918 --> 01:17:47.436 - [Kweku] See words - is just the beginning 2843 01:17:47.542 --> 01:17:49.895 - Of our apology, actions - now are the secondary part 2844 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:51.728 - And the one that really - moves the needle. 2845 01:17:51.834 --> 01:17:53.811 - So if somebody wants to - reestablish a relationship 2846 01:17:53.918 --> 01:17:55.125 They have to understand, 2847 01:17:55.209 --> 01:17:56.853 - you have to start - back at ground zero 2848 01:17:56.959 --> 01:17:58.459 And you have to move very slowly 2849 01:17:58.542 --> 01:18:00.811 - and as you start to gain - their trust a little bit 2850 01:18:00.918 --> 01:18:02.145 It becomes a snowball 2851 01:18:02.169 --> 01:18:03.417 in a positive effect 2852 01:18:03.500 --> 01:18:04.751 but it's gotta take time. 2853 01:18:04.834 --> 01:18:06.292 You can't expect them 2854 01:18:06.375 --> 01:18:08.227 - to move at a pace quicker - than what they want. 2855 01:18:08.334 --> 01:18:09.561 You have to understand the 2856 01:18:09.585 --> 01:18:10.834 hesitancy that they have 2857 01:18:10.918 --> 01:18:12.061 and be compassionate 2858 01:18:12.085 --> 01:18:13.250 towards that. 2859 01:18:13.334 --> 01:18:14.915 - [Brillyon] Try to 2860 01:18:14.939 --> 01:18:16.542 build a relationship. 2861 01:18:16.626 --> 01:18:18.415 Not one person could 2862 01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:20.250 just do it by yourself. 2863 01:18:20.334 --> 01:18:21.542 (Marquell mumbles) 2864 01:18:21.626 --> 01:18:22.269 - She acts like she can. - [Brillyon] It's 50-50. 2865 01:18:22.375 --> 01:18:23.167 No, it's a 50-50. 2866 01:18:23.250 --> 01:18:24.250 (Brillyon mumbles) 2867 01:18:24.292 --> 01:18:25.167 You was gone for four days 2868 01:18:25.250 --> 01:18:27.500 how was that trynna fix her? 2869 01:18:27.584 --> 01:18:28.643 - [Marquell] Me leaving would be 2870 01:18:28.667 --> 01:18:30.082 a better decision 2871 01:18:30.106 --> 01:18:31.542 for me and stuff 2872 01:18:31.626 --> 01:18:33.918 there's a group home somewhere. 2873 01:18:34.042 --> 01:18:35.209 (Brillyon mumbles) 2874 01:18:35.292 --> 01:18:36.227 - 'Cause when you - old, when you grown 2875 01:18:36.334 --> 01:18:37.209 They're gon' kick you out. 2876 01:18:37.292 --> 01:18:38.500 (child screaming in distant) 2877 01:18:38.584 --> 01:18:39.603 - [Man] Don't worry - about it (mumbles) 2878 01:18:39.709 --> 01:18:41.436 - Okay I just had - my head (mumbles) 2879 01:18:41.542 --> 01:18:42.918 - [Brillyon] No. 2880 01:18:44.459 --> 01:18:46.290 I'ma need you to stop acting 2881 01:18:46.314 --> 01:18:48.167 like that towards your mother. 2882 01:18:48.250 --> 01:18:49.876 - [Rick Sr.] Let me ask you, 2883 01:18:49.959 --> 01:18:51.561 - what's the real reason - your arguing all the time? 2884 01:18:51.667 --> 01:18:53.667 Why y'all bumping heads? 2885 01:18:54.667 --> 01:18:56.394 - Mainly- - In your opinion. 2886 01:18:56.500 --> 01:18:57.644 - In my opinion. - Yeah. 2887 01:18:57.751 --> 01:18:59.811 - The main reason is - that she be always like, 2888 01:18:59.918 --> 01:19:01.061 She have some type of 2889 01:19:01.085 --> 01:19:02.250 aggressive towards me 2890 01:19:02.334 --> 01:19:04.311 - when she asks me to do - something or whatever 2891 01:19:04.417 --> 01:19:05.811 - And I'm like, "All - right, I'm finna do it." 2892 01:19:05.918 --> 01:19:06.936 - And then she be like, "No, - do it now, do it now." 2893 01:19:07.042 --> 01:19:08.123 I'm like, "Okay I'm 2894 01:19:08.147 --> 01:19:09.250 finna do it right now. 2895 01:19:09.334 --> 01:19:10.853 - "Like, why are you just - getting all aggressive?" 2896 01:19:10.959 --> 01:19:12.936 - Okay, so why you just get - aggressive back with her? 2897 01:19:13.042 --> 01:19:14.250 'Cause that's how you do? 2898 01:19:14.334 --> 01:19:15.709 Instead of arguing with moms 2899 01:19:15.792 --> 01:19:17.895 - 'cause you know how y'all - relationship could be. 2900 01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:19.125 Right? 2901 01:19:19.209 --> 01:19:20.603 - It could be good, it - could be great one day 2902 01:19:20.709 --> 01:19:22.144 - And then one moment - the button push. 2903 01:19:22.250 --> 01:19:24.417 So you just do your part. 2904 01:19:24.500 --> 01:19:26.042 You only control who? 2905 01:19:26.125 --> 01:19:27.042 - On myself. 2906 01:19:27.125 --> 01:19:28.834 - So that's what you gotta do. 2907 01:19:28.918 --> 01:19:30.853 - You already know how the - situation already is, right? 2908 01:19:30.959 --> 01:19:32.125 - Mm-hmm. 2909 01:19:32.209 --> 01:19:33.541 So, always have 2910 01:19:33.565 --> 01:19:34.918 control Marquell. 2911 01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:36.540 So that's what you gotta 2912 01:19:36.564 --> 01:19:38.125 work on with mom for real. 2913 01:19:38.209 --> 01:19:39.667 It's control. 2914 01:19:39.751 --> 01:19:41.603 - So when she knows that - you're controlling, 2915 01:19:41.709 --> 01:19:42.853 - You're doing what - you're supposed to do, 2916 01:19:42.959 --> 01:19:44.584 She's gonna let up. 2917 01:19:44.667 --> 01:19:45.667 I know you don't see it 2918 01:19:45.751 --> 01:19:46.832 'cause you're always 2919 01:19:46.856 --> 01:19:47.959 arguing back with her. 2920 01:19:48.042 --> 01:19:49.644 - So one day you just - go in and just say, 2921 01:19:49.751 --> 01:19:51.918 "Hey, okay, I'ma do it." 2922 01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:53.250 If she say, "Do it now." 2923 01:19:53.334 --> 01:19:54.542 You don't have to respond. 2924 01:19:54.626 --> 01:19:55.626 Just do it. 2925 01:19:55.667 --> 01:19:57.500 - Now that you think about it, 2926 01:19:57.584 --> 01:19:59.083 what you, how do you feel 2927 01:19:59.167 --> 01:20:01.686 - that now that you think - about it, that what you did? 2928 01:20:01.792 --> 01:20:03.519 - You don't feel any guilt? - I kinda feel ashamed. 2929 01:20:03.626 --> 01:20:05.209 - You don't feel ashamed? 2930 01:20:05.292 --> 01:20:07.167 - I kinda feel ashamed, kinda 2931 01:20:07.250 --> 01:20:08.895 - because I didn't let her - know where I was going. 2932 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:09.876 That's about it. 2933 01:20:09.959 --> 01:20:11.519 - (Brandon mumbles) - Okay 2934 01:20:11.626 --> 01:20:12.811 - But you could've - text her saying, 2935 01:20:12.918 --> 01:20:14.228 "I'm okay you don't 2936 01:20:14.252 --> 01:20:15.584 have to worry about me." 2937 01:20:15.667 --> 01:20:16.542 Right? 2938 01:20:16.626 --> 01:20:17.876 (Marquell chuckles) 2939 01:20:17.959 --> 01:20:20.332 No 'cause you was acting 2940 01:20:20.356 --> 01:20:22.751 like a jackass towards her. 2941 01:20:23.667 --> 01:20:24.644 - Not really. - Yes really. 2942 01:20:24.751 --> 01:20:25.477 - You quite an attitude - with her about her 2943 01:20:25.584 --> 01:20:27.876 When she checked up on you man. 2944 01:20:29.167 --> 01:20:30.436 - Well, I guess I'ma 2945 01:20:30.460 --> 01:20:31.751 just and work things out 2946 01:20:31.834 --> 01:20:34.959 and I guess I'ma talk to her. 2947 01:20:35.042 --> 01:20:37.667 - What do you mean I guess? 2948 01:20:37.751 --> 01:20:39.477 - I'm not finna just - jump right into it. 2949 01:20:39.584 --> 01:20:40.853 - "Oh yes, I'm gonna help." - [Brillyon] I mean 2950 01:20:40.959 --> 01:20:42.436 - But you should though. - Yes I'm gonna do everything. 2951 01:20:42.542 --> 01:20:43.834 - You should though. 2952 01:20:43.918 --> 01:20:46.603 - If you wanna fix this - relationship, you should bro. 2953 01:20:46.709 --> 01:20:48.519 - [Rick Sr.] Who's 2954 01:20:48.543 --> 01:20:50.375 in Marquell's way? 2955 01:20:50.459 --> 01:20:52.895 - [Marquell] I don't know. - [Rick Sr.] Marquell. 2956 01:20:53.000 --> 01:20:54.292 Well we started with ma', 2957 01:20:54.375 --> 01:20:55.751 you go back and forth with ma'. 2958 01:20:55.834 --> 01:20:57.500 You said on the football field, 2959 01:20:57.584 --> 01:20:58.728 you can't control... 2960 01:20:58.752 --> 01:20:59.918 - My anger. 2961 01:21:01.167 --> 01:21:03.060 - [Rick Sr.] So it - comes back to who? 2962 01:21:03.167 --> 01:21:04.667 - My anger and myself. 2963 01:21:04.751 --> 01:21:05.728 - [Rick Sr.] And - once you, I told you, 2964 01:21:05.834 --> 01:21:07.165 Once you put your 2965 01:21:07.189 --> 01:21:08.542 mind to it, Marquell, 2966 01:21:08.626 --> 01:21:10.375 the world is yours. 2967 01:21:10.459 --> 01:21:12.375 You're a great kid. 2968 01:21:12.459 --> 01:21:14.751 I tell you that all the time 2969 01:21:14.834 --> 01:21:17.060 - and I know that's the - thing that you really want. 2970 01:21:17.167 --> 01:21:18.707 Just that relationship 2971 01:21:18.731 --> 01:21:20.292 with your mom. 2972 01:21:21.626 --> 01:21:23.876 That's what we gon' build on. 2973 01:21:25.042 --> 01:21:26.290 Ain't nothing wrong 2974 01:21:26.314 --> 01:21:27.584 with shedding tears. 2975 01:21:27.667 --> 01:21:29.000 Let it go. 2976 01:21:29.083 --> 01:21:30.519 Don't hold it in 2977 01:21:30.543 --> 01:21:32.000 just let it out. 2978 01:21:32.083 --> 01:21:33.728 - I still gon' have - the same things. 2979 01:21:33.834 --> 01:21:35.667 Still gon' have the same way. 2980 01:21:35.751 --> 01:21:37.477 - Still gon' have the - same grudge against me. 2981 01:21:37.584 --> 01:21:39.542 Still no point of me trying? 2982 01:21:39.626 --> 01:21:41.227 - [Rick Sr.] Well - let me tell you this, 2983 01:21:41.334 --> 01:21:42.499 As long as you on 2984 01:21:42.523 --> 01:21:43.709 grudge against yourself, 2985 01:21:43.792 --> 01:21:45.000 like I said, 2986 01:21:45.083 --> 01:21:46.895 - you can't control what - other people's thoughts are 2987 01:21:47.000 --> 01:21:48.959 Only what Marquell's is. 2988 01:21:50.250 --> 01:21:51.352 You see that pain, 2989 01:21:51.376 --> 01:21:52.500 that pain for mom 2990 01:21:52.584 --> 01:21:54.000 but you gotta work on that. 2991 01:21:54.083 --> 01:21:57.125 (Marquell sniffs) 2992 01:21:57.209 --> 01:21:59.375 (Rick Sr. mumbles) 2993 01:21:59.459 --> 01:22:00.334 Come on. 2994 01:22:00.417 --> 01:22:01.417 Stay strong. 2995 01:22:05.125 --> 01:22:05.876 - How you been man? 2996 01:22:05.959 --> 01:22:06.709 - I've been aight. 2997 01:22:06.792 --> 01:22:07.792 You've been all right? 2998 01:22:07.834 --> 01:22:08.542 - Yeah. 2999 01:22:08.626 --> 01:22:11.167 - What's been going on lately? 3000 01:22:12.417 --> 01:22:13.853 - I moved out of the - group home to like, 3001 01:22:13.959 --> 01:22:15.918 Another group home and stuff. 3002 01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:16.834 - [Woman] So that's everything 3003 01:22:16.918 --> 01:22:18.375 from the front desk binder 3004 01:22:18.459 --> 01:22:19.626 and the van binder. 3005 01:22:19.709 --> 01:22:21.227 - All of his information - right there. 3006 01:22:21.334 --> 01:22:22.584 - Okay. 3007 01:22:22.667 --> 01:22:23.790 So he was discharged 3008 01:22:23.814 --> 01:22:24.959 on December the 6th. 3009 01:22:25.042 --> 01:22:26.686 - He was doing you - know really good 3010 01:22:26.792 --> 01:22:28.000 Since he came in June. 3011 01:22:28.083 --> 01:22:29.332 He had made a lot 3012 01:22:29.356 --> 01:22:30.626 of good strides 3013 01:22:30.709 --> 01:22:32.353 and he had met some of his 3014 01:22:32.377 --> 01:22:34.042 goals while he was here 3015 01:22:34.125 --> 01:22:35.876 but I know it seems like during 3016 01:22:35.959 --> 01:22:37.542 the month of November he started 3017 01:22:37.626 --> 01:22:39.352 - to just have a lot - of incident reports 3018 01:22:39.459 --> 01:22:41.290 For just pretty much what, 3019 01:22:41.314 --> 01:22:43.167 being defiant with staff. 3020 01:22:43.250 --> 01:22:44.459 - [Woman] Yes. 3021 01:22:44.542 --> 01:22:46.519 - Challenging the staff. - Challenging the staff. 3022 01:22:46.626 --> 01:22:48.334 Oh and I did share with him 3023 01:22:48.417 --> 01:22:49.790 that if he wanted 3024 01:22:49.814 --> 01:22:51.209 to reach out to us 3025 01:22:51.292 --> 01:22:53.019 - or especially even - me that he could 3026 01:22:53.125 --> 01:22:54.834 You know call me at any time. 3027 01:22:54.918 --> 01:22:56.207 Yeah and I know he was 3028 01:22:56.231 --> 01:22:57.542 very kind of remorseful 3029 01:22:57.626 --> 01:22:59.186 - and that last night - before he had to go 3030 01:22:59.292 --> 01:23:00.686 - It seems like he - just didn't believe 3031 01:23:00.792 --> 01:23:02.373 That we were really going to 3032 01:23:02.397 --> 01:23:04.000 go through with our removal. 3033 01:23:04.083 --> 01:23:05.542 He thought he was going to get, 3034 01:23:05.626 --> 01:23:07.042 you know, more and more chances. 3035 01:23:07.125 --> 01:23:08.665 - [Sean] Okay, why you 3036 01:23:08.689 --> 01:23:10.250 move out the last one? 3037 01:23:10.334 --> 01:23:11.561 - The one they got - me going to now 3038 01:23:11.667 --> 01:23:12.728 It's more towards like 3039 01:23:12.752 --> 01:23:13.834 an independent living, 3040 01:23:13.918 --> 01:23:14.918 - Okay. 3041 01:23:14.959 --> 01:23:16.311 - Group home versus - the other one. 3042 01:23:16.417 --> 01:23:18.102 - It was just for like, - all boys sort of. 3043 01:23:18.209 --> 01:23:19.250 - Yeah. 3044 01:23:19.334 --> 01:23:20.125 - Well yeah. 3045 01:23:20.209 --> 01:23:22.167 - How you liking this one? 3046 01:23:22.250 --> 01:23:23.459 - [Brandon] It's all right. 3047 01:23:23.542 --> 01:23:24.540 - [Sean] It's okay? 3048 01:23:24.564 --> 01:23:25.584 (Brandon mumbles) 3049 01:23:25.667 --> 01:23:26.852 - I can manage and deal with it, 3050 01:23:26.876 --> 01:23:28.125 you know what I'm saying? 3051 01:23:28.209 --> 01:23:30.751 - [Sean] How you manage it? 3052 01:23:30.834 --> 01:23:31.834 - [Brandon] You know, 3053 01:23:31.918 --> 01:23:32.728 - just trynna keep in - touch with people 3054 01:23:32.834 --> 01:23:33.834 Like my momma, 3055 01:23:33.918 --> 01:23:34.918 - [Sean] Okay. 3056 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:36.144 - [Brandon] and like my - other family members, 3057 01:23:36.250 --> 01:23:37.853 - You know, when I got - (mumbles) reasons, 3058 01:23:37.959 --> 01:23:38.977 - [Sean] Yeah. - [Brandon] I call up on them. 3059 01:23:39.083 --> 01:23:40.603 - [Sean] What school - you going to now? 3060 01:23:40.709 --> 01:23:42.082 - I'm at Lad Lake Synergy 3061 01:23:42.106 --> 01:23:43.500 it's an alternative School. 3062 01:23:43.584 --> 01:23:45.895 - [Sean] That's the one you - was at last time we met? 3063 01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:47.644 - [Brandon] No, I - was at Bradley Tech. 3064 01:23:47.751 --> 01:23:48.834 - [Sean] What happened, 3065 01:23:48.918 --> 01:23:50.060 - why you don't go - to Bradley no more? 3066 01:23:50.167 --> 01:23:51.042 - [Brandon] I got kicked out. 3067 01:23:51.125 --> 01:23:51.918 - [Sean] What? 3068 01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:52.667 - [Brandon] Yeah. 3069 01:23:52.751 --> 01:23:54.250 - [Sean] For what man? 3070 01:23:54.334 --> 01:23:55.561 - [Brandon] I ripped this - girl's eyebrows off her face. 3071 01:23:55.667 --> 01:23:56.375 - [Sean] What? 3072 01:23:56.459 --> 01:23:57.876 (both laughing) 3073 01:23:57.959 --> 01:23:59.209 - [Brandon] With a lighter? 3074 01:23:59.292 --> 01:24:01.876 That's why (mumbles) 3075 01:24:01.959 --> 01:24:03.292 - [Sean] You did what? 3076 01:24:03.375 --> 01:24:04.375 - I took a lighter, 3077 01:24:04.417 --> 01:24:05.667 - [Sean] Yeah. 3078 01:24:05.751 --> 01:24:07.186 - And a blow torch and - I was trynna you know, 3079 01:24:07.292 --> 01:24:08.542 Create a flame out of it. 3080 01:24:08.626 --> 01:24:09.751 - Yeah. 3081 01:24:09.834 --> 01:24:10.895 - But she was - standing next to me 3082 01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:12.769 - And you know I - wasn't aware of that, 3083 01:24:12.876 --> 01:24:15.436 - You know, I was just in the - spirit of moment type stuff 3084 01:24:15.542 --> 01:24:16.834 And I did this 3085 01:24:16.918 --> 01:24:18.311 - but it was like big enough - to catch flame like, 3086 01:24:18.417 --> 01:24:20.292 Like the size of this. 3087 01:24:20.375 --> 01:24:21.542 - So it wasn't intentional? 3088 01:24:21.626 --> 01:24:22.626 - No, it was on accident. 3089 01:24:22.709 --> 01:24:23.728 - [Lydia] They were 3090 01:24:23.752 --> 01:24:24.792 actually a little, 3091 01:24:24.876 --> 01:24:26.686 - I guess a little - empathetic to the situation 3092 01:24:26.792 --> 01:24:29.186 - Because he could have been - expelled from MPS period. 3093 01:24:29.292 --> 01:24:30.542 - Yeah. 3094 01:24:30.626 --> 01:24:32.415 - But instead he got, I 3095 01:24:32.439 --> 01:24:34.250 guess, expelled into a, 3096 01:24:34.334 --> 01:24:35.728 - what do you call it? - Alternative school. 3097 01:24:35.834 --> 01:24:37.519 - Alternative school - that's still a part of MPS. 3098 01:24:37.626 --> 01:24:39.250 - I'm glad that you know, 3099 01:24:39.334 --> 01:24:41.102 - us communicating with - each other, you know, 3100 01:24:41.209 --> 01:24:42.500 It's having an impact on you. 3101 01:24:42.584 --> 01:24:44.186 You allowing my story 3102 01:24:44.210 --> 01:24:45.834 and what I went through 3103 01:24:45.918 --> 01:24:47.459 have an impact on you. 3104 01:24:47.542 --> 01:24:49.311 Oh I want you, as you find 3105 01:24:49.335 --> 01:24:51.125 yourself in this new school 3106 01:24:51.209 --> 01:24:52.644 - and as you continue - to transition 3107 01:24:52.751 --> 01:24:54.125 Through this new group home, 3108 01:24:54.209 --> 01:24:55.832 I want you to have these 3109 01:24:55.856 --> 01:24:57.500 checkpoints along the way. 3110 01:24:57.584 --> 01:24:59.811 - I want you to question every - decision that you make. 3111 01:24:59.918 --> 01:25:01.375 I want you to ask yourself, 3112 01:25:01.459 --> 01:25:03.436 - how is this going to affect - me first and foremost? 3113 01:25:03.542 --> 01:25:05.375 Is it gonna be beneficial to me? 3114 01:25:05.459 --> 01:25:07.352 - [Muhibb] So even if you - dried the whole hood up. 3115 01:25:07.459 --> 01:25:08.709 - [Man] Say it again. 3116 01:25:08.792 --> 01:25:09.977 - Or if you dried - all the center up 3117 01:25:10.083 --> 01:25:11.584 Make it look like a desert. 3118 01:25:11.667 --> 01:25:12.749 Leave us with no 3119 01:25:12.773 --> 01:25:13.876 money, no opportunity, 3120 01:25:13.959 --> 01:25:15.792 no home, no chances, no mothers, 3121 01:25:15.876 --> 01:25:17.876 no fathers, make dope dealing 3122 01:25:17.959 --> 01:25:19.292 the only way of life. 3123 01:25:19.375 --> 01:25:21.311 - Have us robbin' each - other over your scraps. 3124 01:25:21.417 --> 01:25:22.626 - [Man] What else? 3125 01:25:22.709 --> 01:25:23.519 - Killing each other - over your crumbs. 3126 01:25:23.626 --> 01:25:24.459 - [Man] Come on, go down. 3127 01:25:24.542 --> 01:25:25.667 - Make 18 a good age to die. 3128 01:25:25.751 --> 01:25:27.644 - Put our faces on - t-shirts memorialized. 3129 01:25:27.751 --> 01:25:29.000 Gives us the worst everything. 3130 01:25:29.083 --> 01:25:29.834 - What? 3131 01:25:29.918 --> 01:25:31.459 - Worst education, worst food, 3132 01:25:31.542 --> 01:25:33.394 - worst clothing, worst jobs - and after all of that, 3133 01:25:33.500 --> 01:25:34.853 - We will still look - you dead in your eye 3134 01:25:34.959 --> 01:25:36.000 And ask you, 3135 01:25:36.083 --> 01:25:37.584 - [Both] Is that all you got? 3136 01:25:37.667 --> 01:25:38.709 (audience cheering) 3137 01:25:38.792 --> 01:25:40.040 - [Muhibb] I used to get 3138 01:25:40.064 --> 01:25:41.334 the worst of everything. 3139 01:25:41.417 --> 01:25:42.624 We'll be in classroom and 3140 01:25:42.648 --> 01:25:43.876 they talk about the pain, 3141 01:25:43.959 --> 01:25:45.082 the pain of not having 3142 01:25:45.106 --> 01:25:46.250 a father in their life, 3143 01:25:46.334 --> 01:25:48.436 - the pain of not having - their mother in their life 3144 01:25:48.542 --> 01:25:50.083 Or their mother being on drugs. 3145 01:25:50.167 --> 01:25:51.394 The pain of 3146 01:25:51.418 --> 01:25:52.667 witnessing homicides, 3147 01:25:52.751 --> 01:25:53.728 - their best friends - getting killed, 3148 01:25:53.834 --> 01:25:55.290 Walking around with 3149 01:25:55.314 --> 01:25:56.792 rest in peace t-shirts 3150 01:25:56.876 --> 01:25:58.478 and many times that pain 3151 01:25:58.502 --> 01:26:00.125 might be self-inflicted 3152 01:26:00.209 --> 01:26:02.123 and it might be inflicted 3153 01:26:02.147 --> 01:26:04.083 upon them by their family. 3154 01:26:04.167 --> 01:26:05.228 Maybe the solutions 3155 01:26:05.252 --> 01:26:06.334 to their pain 3156 01:26:06.417 --> 01:26:08.186 - is not really coming - to pass because 3157 01:26:08.292 --> 01:26:10.061 It's a whole lot of 3158 01:26:10.085 --> 01:26:11.876 us that make money 3159 01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:13.394 off of our children being 3160 01:26:13.418 --> 01:26:14.834 the way that they are. 3161 01:26:14.918 --> 01:26:17.250 (woman humming melodically) 3162 01:26:17.334 --> 01:26:19.477 - Hey. - [Tiana] Nice to meet you. 3163 01:26:19.584 --> 01:26:20.811 - Nice to meet you. - [Tiana] My name is Tiana. 3164 01:26:20.918 --> 01:26:22.417 - [Man] How you doing? 3165 01:26:22.500 --> 01:26:23.584 So we gon' get on today? 3166 01:26:23.667 --> 01:26:25.250 (humming continues) 3167 01:26:25.334 --> 01:26:27.103 - [Tiana] I wanna 3168 01:26:27.127 --> 01:26:28.918 record this song. 3169 01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:30.334 It's called "Pain". 3170 01:26:30.417 --> 01:26:32.667 ♪ Pain ♪ 3171 01:26:32.751 --> 01:26:34.020 ♪ Tired of going 3172 01:26:34.044 --> 01:26:35.334 through all this pain ♪ 3173 01:26:35.417 --> 01:26:38.209 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 3174 01:26:38.292 --> 01:26:39.728 ♪ Tired of going 3175 01:26:39.752 --> 01:26:41.209 through all this pain ♪ 3176 01:26:41.292 --> 01:26:42.853 - ♪ Look lately I've - been at my lowest ♪ 3177 01:26:42.959 --> 01:26:44.042 ♪ I've been losing focus ♪ 3178 01:26:44.125 --> 01:26:45.167 ♪ It's fuck everybody ♪ 3179 01:26:45.250 --> 01:26:46.603 - ♪ 'Cause everybody - don't do me bogus ♪ 3180 01:26:46.709 --> 01:26:47.959 ♪ Can't trust nobody ♪ 3181 01:26:48.042 --> 01:26:49.227 - ♪ These demons covered - in sheep clothing ♪ 3182 01:26:49.334 --> 01:26:50.977 - ♪ And lord please don't - have mercy on them ♪ 3183 01:26:51.083 --> 01:26:52.000 ♪ When Karma's approaching ♪ 3184 01:26:52.083 --> 01:26:53.143 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] To let go. 3185 01:26:53.167 --> 01:26:54.977 - To truly let go and - go through the process 3186 01:26:55.083 --> 01:26:56.269 Instead of trying 3187 01:26:56.293 --> 01:26:57.500 to jump around it. 3188 01:26:57.584 --> 01:26:59.250 'Cause the more you go around it 3189 01:26:59.334 --> 01:27:00.436 the more it's gon' 3190 01:27:00.460 --> 01:27:01.584 plague your life 3191 01:27:01.667 --> 01:27:03.603 - and then the deeper - roots is gonna grow. 3192 01:27:03.709 --> 01:27:05.394 - 'Cause it's - basically like a seed 3193 01:27:05.500 --> 01:27:07.936 - And if that seed continues - to keep growing roots 3194 01:27:08.042 --> 01:27:09.352 - It's gonna continue - to keep coming out 3195 01:27:09.459 --> 01:27:11.000 At every stage of your life. 3196 01:27:11.083 --> 01:27:12.083 ♪ Karma's approaching ♪ 3197 01:27:12.125 --> 01:27:13.500 ♪ My thoughts keep me woken ♪ 3198 01:27:13.584 --> 01:27:14.834 ♪ My music, my freedom ♪ 3199 01:27:14.918 --> 01:27:16.125 ♪ I'm mentally broken ♪ 3200 01:27:16.209 --> 01:27:17.417 ♪ My soul is the reason ♪ 3201 01:27:17.500 --> 01:27:19.352 - I feel like, I'm - a disappointment 3202 01:27:22.042 --> 01:27:24.459 To people or like my family. 3203 01:27:26.459 --> 01:27:28.394 I feel like I'm a 3204 01:27:28.418 --> 01:27:30.375 disappointment to my mom. 3205 01:27:30.459 --> 01:27:32.459 On what the things I do. 3206 01:27:36.083 --> 01:27:37.894 I try to express my 3207 01:27:37.918 --> 01:27:39.751 feelings to people. 3208 01:27:39.834 --> 01:27:41.644 I only talk to one 3209 01:27:41.668 --> 01:27:43.500 person about my feelings 3210 01:27:43.584 --> 01:27:45.500 and it hurts sometimes. 3211 01:27:46.959 --> 01:27:48.540 I try to not be hurt 3212 01:27:48.564 --> 01:27:50.167 but I don't know. 3213 01:27:52.834 --> 01:27:54.103 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] I've 3214 01:27:54.127 --> 01:27:55.417 had the same feeling. 3215 01:27:55.500 --> 01:27:57.792 Regardless of what someone, 3216 01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:01.185 whether they're expressing that 3217 01:28:01.209 --> 01:28:02.459 that you're a disappointment 3218 01:28:02.542 --> 01:28:03.728 or whether you feel that 3219 01:28:03.752 --> 01:28:04.959 you're a disappointment, 3220 01:28:05.042 --> 01:28:06.894 I think the healing is 3221 01:28:06.918 --> 01:28:08.792 going to come in realizing 3222 01:28:08.876 --> 01:28:10.145 all the things that 3223 01:28:10.169 --> 01:28:11.459 you are and not 3224 01:28:11.542 --> 01:28:12.790 looking at all the things 3225 01:28:12.814 --> 01:28:14.083 that you feel you're not. 3226 01:28:14.167 --> 01:28:16.477 - ♪ I don't love that much to let - nobody had they way with me ♪ 3227 01:28:16.584 --> 01:28:17.876 ♪ I'm (mumbles) ♪ 3228 01:28:17.959 --> 01:28:18.811 - ♪ Aint gon' trust - fucked up nigga ♪ 3229 01:28:18.918 --> 01:28:20.125 ♪ If they not changing me ♪ 3230 01:28:20.209 --> 01:28:21.436 - I Just been on - my own for so long 3231 01:28:21.542 --> 01:28:23.332 I just don't see the 3232 01:28:23.356 --> 01:28:25.167 need in gettin' happy 3233 01:28:26.918 --> 01:28:28.311 - 'cause I'd rather just - stay like I am like, 3234 01:28:28.417 --> 01:28:30.248 Any piece of happiness 3235 01:28:30.272 --> 01:28:32.125 that I have I lose. 3236 01:28:32.209 --> 01:28:33.811 That's why I don't allow 3237 01:28:33.835 --> 01:28:35.459 myself to get happy. 3238 01:28:35.542 --> 01:28:37.519 I think I just run to the 3239 01:28:37.543 --> 01:28:39.542 wrong people for love. 3240 01:28:40.709 --> 01:28:42.165 I give all the toxic 3241 01:28:42.189 --> 01:28:43.667 people everything I have 3242 01:28:43.751 --> 01:28:44.751 and I like- 3243 01:28:46.125 --> 01:28:47.915 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] What 3244 01:28:47.939 --> 01:28:49.751 if I told you that 3245 01:28:49.834 --> 01:28:50.936 the placement and being 3246 01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:52.083 put back together, 3247 01:28:52.167 --> 01:28:53.959 you have to be broken. 3248 01:28:56.500 --> 01:28:58.042 - Why me? 3249 01:28:58.125 --> 01:28:59.000 - Why any of us? 3250 01:28:59.083 --> 01:29:00.542 We all feel broken in some area 3251 01:29:00.626 --> 01:29:02.249 in some way, shape 3252 01:29:02.273 --> 01:29:03.918 or form in our lives 3253 01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:06.584 but we get to make those choices 3254 01:29:07.792 --> 01:29:09.436 to put it, like put 3255 01:29:09.460 --> 01:29:11.125 it back together. 3256 01:29:11.209 --> 01:29:12.125 ♪ They not changing me ♪ 3257 01:29:12.209 --> 01:29:13.542 ♪ I damn cried so much ♪ 3258 01:29:13.626 --> 01:29:14.977 - ♪ Where I don't felt I - couldn't cry no more ♪ 3259 01:29:15.083 --> 01:29:16.167 ♪ Lost my baby brother ♪ 3260 01:29:16.250 --> 01:29:17.436 - ♪ Made me really - rethink life some more ♪ 3261 01:29:17.542 --> 01:29:18.977 - ♪ Like if he stayed - on life support ♪ 3262 01:29:19.083 --> 01:29:20.227 - ♪ Like did he have - the right support ♪ 3263 01:29:20.334 --> 01:29:21.519 - ♪ Like is the people - in my corner ♪ 3264 01:29:21.626 --> 01:29:22.728 ♪ Really gon' be 3265 01:29:22.752 --> 01:29:23.876 the right support ♪ 3266 01:29:23.959 --> 01:29:26.375 - [Boy] Shots rang out. 3267 01:29:26.459 --> 01:29:28.000 I got pulled it to the house. 3268 01:29:28.083 --> 01:29:29.417 I looked through the window 3269 01:29:29.500 --> 01:29:31.436 - and I just see a - body on the ground 3270 01:29:31.542 --> 01:29:33.332 And the dude was 3271 01:29:33.356 --> 01:29:35.167 standing over him. 3272 01:29:35.250 --> 01:29:36.582 You could hear him say 3273 01:29:36.606 --> 01:29:37.959 like, "I love you." 3274 01:29:38.042 --> 01:29:39.792 Dude, he didn't care about that, 3275 01:29:39.876 --> 01:29:42.250 he said, "I don't give a fuck." 3276 01:29:42.334 --> 01:29:43.415 Shot him three more 3277 01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:44.542 times in the head. 3278 01:29:48.667 --> 01:29:50.144 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] - It's not your fault 3279 01:29:50.250 --> 01:29:52.207 And I know that you probably 3280 01:29:52.231 --> 01:29:54.209 heard that from someone else 3281 01:29:54.292 --> 01:29:55.394 but there are certain 3282 01:29:55.418 --> 01:29:56.542 things in this life 3283 01:29:56.626 --> 01:29:57.834 that we can not control. 3284 01:29:57.918 --> 01:29:59.167 ♪ Give me sometime ♪ 3285 01:29:59.250 --> 01:30:00.102 - ♪ They sometime they - want to be you ♪ 3286 01:30:00.209 --> 01:30:01.083 ♪ I had to separate myself ♪ 3287 01:30:01.167 --> 01:30:02.292 ♪ Our mottoes wasn't equal ♪ 3288 01:30:02.375 --> 01:30:03.626 ♪ And I still pray for them ♪ 3289 01:30:03.709 --> 01:30:05.186 - ♪ 'Cause they need it - more than I need it ♪ 3290 01:30:05.292 --> 01:30:07.644 - ♪ And I'm for certain I'ma make - it before the next season ♪ 3291 01:30:07.751 --> 01:30:10.186 - ♪ And you can doubt me - now next year you gon be ♪ 3292 01:30:10.292 --> 01:30:11.707 - My dad shot 3293 01:30:11.731 --> 01:30:13.167 himself in the head. 3294 01:30:17.125 --> 01:30:18.727 He just decided to give 3295 01:30:18.751 --> 01:30:20.375 up, you know, just leave us 3296 01:30:20.459 --> 01:30:21.582 and this is a husband, 3297 01:30:21.606 --> 01:30:22.751 this is a father. 3298 01:30:22.834 --> 01:30:24.250 You know what I'm saying, 3299 01:30:24.334 --> 01:30:26.061 this ain't just anybody 3300 01:30:26.085 --> 01:30:27.834 like, we depended on him. 3301 01:30:27.918 --> 01:30:29.520 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] You can 3302 01:30:29.544 --> 01:30:31.167 forgive each and every day 3303 01:30:31.250 --> 01:30:33.165 and until you truly 3304 01:30:33.189 --> 01:30:35.125 deep down believe it, 3305 01:30:35.209 --> 01:30:36.959 then you'll let it go 3306 01:30:37.042 --> 01:30:38.352 - and that comes in - forgiving yourself 3307 01:30:38.459 --> 01:30:39.436 Too for feeling the 3308 01:30:39.460 --> 01:30:40.460 way that you feel. 3309 01:30:40.542 --> 01:30:42.519 You need to forgive him 3310 01:30:42.543 --> 01:30:44.542 and forgive yourself. 3311 01:30:44.626 --> 01:30:46.207 ♪ Tried of going 3312 01:30:46.231 --> 01:30:47.834 through all this pain ♪ 3313 01:30:47.918 --> 01:30:49.603 - Last summer, that was back 3314 01:30:49.627 --> 01:30:51.334 when I was doing dumb stuff 3315 01:30:51.417 --> 01:30:53.311 (mumbles) selling weed, 3316 01:30:53.335 --> 01:30:55.250 selling literally, 3317 01:30:55.334 --> 01:30:56.769 I ain't even lying, selling 3318 01:30:56.793 --> 01:30:58.250 crack cocaine, all that. 3319 01:30:58.334 --> 01:31:00.250 I found that I was having a baby 3320 01:31:00.334 --> 01:31:01.584 then it really got real. 3321 01:31:03.626 --> 01:31:04.626 Then, 3322 01:31:05.918 --> 01:31:07.209 it's like, bro, 3323 01:31:07.292 --> 01:31:08.895 - I wanted to run away - from everything. 3324 01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:10.417 Every single thing bro. 3325 01:31:10.500 --> 01:31:13.292 Like I just wanted to run away. 3326 01:31:13.375 --> 01:31:14.540 I was separating 3327 01:31:14.564 --> 01:31:15.751 myself from my family, 3328 01:31:15.834 --> 01:31:17.334 snapping on my momma. 3329 01:31:17.417 --> 01:31:19.000 (man sobs) 3330 01:31:19.083 --> 01:31:21.834 I was snapping on my momma bro. 3331 01:31:21.918 --> 01:31:24.834 (sobbing continues) 3332 01:31:24.918 --> 01:31:26.603 - ♪ And I'ma make it - before the next season ♪ 3333 01:31:26.709 --> 01:31:27.918 ♪ And you can doubt me now ♪ 3334 01:31:28.000 --> 01:31:29.269 - ♪ Next year you - gon' be a believer ♪ 3335 01:31:29.375 --> 01:31:30.603 - ♪ And lord forgive - me for my sins ♪ 3336 01:31:30.709 --> 01:31:31.792 ♪ And crucify my demons ♪ 3337 01:31:31.876 --> 01:31:32.751 ♪ Trynna fight back tears ♪ 3338 01:31:32.834 --> 01:31:34.334 ♪ But this pain and I ain't ♪ 3339 01:31:34.417 --> 01:31:36.145 - The biggest strengths are 3340 01:31:36.169 --> 01:31:37.918 found in our weaknesses. 3341 01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:39.792 Plain and simple. 3342 01:31:39.876 --> 01:31:41.082 So in that moment 3343 01:31:41.106 --> 01:31:42.334 or in these moments 3344 01:31:42.417 --> 01:31:43.540 or where you think 3345 01:31:43.564 --> 01:31:44.709 you feel weak, 3346 01:31:44.792 --> 01:31:46.477 - you are actually the - strongest person. 3347 01:31:46.584 --> 01:31:49.375 (woman humming) 3348 01:31:51.542 --> 01:31:52.936 - [Rick Sr.] Y'all 3349 01:31:52.960 --> 01:31:54.375 give me strength. 3350 01:31:54.459 --> 01:31:55.334 Y'all give me strength. 3351 01:31:55.417 --> 01:31:56.876 Rick I ain't going nowhere. 3352 01:31:56.959 --> 01:31:58.792 You ain't pushing me far enough. 3353 01:31:58.876 --> 01:32:01.000 I ain't drowned, I ain't going. 3354 01:32:01.083 --> 01:32:02.936 I'm letting you know 3355 01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:04.834 that now I ain't going. 3356 01:32:04.918 --> 01:32:06.644 - Y'all know I'm here, - I'm gonna be here 3357 01:32:06.751 --> 01:32:08.374 But see my strength, 3358 01:32:08.398 --> 01:32:10.042 I'm so blessed. 3359 01:32:10.125 --> 01:32:11.584 That's my strength. 3360 01:32:12.709 --> 01:32:15.019 I couldn't go through 3361 01:32:15.043 --> 01:32:17.375 what he go through. 3362 01:32:17.459 --> 01:32:18.751 That's my dude. 3363 01:32:19.876 --> 01:32:21.540 ♪ Tried of going 3364 01:32:21.564 --> 01:32:23.250 through all this pain ♪ 3365 01:32:23.334 --> 01:32:25.918 (woman humming) 3366 01:32:33.000 --> 01:32:34.500 - [Rick Jr.] Let it all out. 3367 01:32:34.584 --> 01:32:35.667 Just let it out. 3368 01:32:35.751 --> 01:32:36.935 ♪ Till I heal from this pain ♪ 3369 01:32:36.959 --> 01:32:38.125 ♪ When I'm constantly hurt ♪ 3370 01:32:38.209 --> 01:32:39.227 - ♪ That's why I - hope for the best ♪ 3371 01:32:39.334 --> 01:32:40.584 ♪ But I prepare for the worst ♪ 3372 01:32:40.667 --> 01:32:42.060 - ♪ Seem like my - whole life in hell ♪ 3373 01:32:42.167 --> 01:32:43.394 - ♪ I tend to go - through the most ♪ 3374 01:32:43.500 --> 01:32:44.561 - ♪ I've been trapped - up in the dark ♪ 3375 01:32:44.667 --> 01:32:46.292 ♪ And I don't know where to go ♪ 3376 01:32:46.375 --> 01:32:48.459 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 3377 01:32:48.542 --> 01:32:50.561 - Y'all got people here 3378 01:32:50.585 --> 01:32:52.626 for y'all just let us in. 3379 01:32:52.709 --> 01:32:53.751 - I wish I had this. 3380 01:32:53.834 --> 01:32:55.040 I wish I was able to 3381 01:32:55.064 --> 01:32:56.292 release these things 3382 01:32:56.375 --> 01:32:58.167 when I was your age. 3383 01:32:58.250 --> 01:33:00.125 I'm just now learning this. 3384 01:33:00.209 --> 01:33:01.435 That's why I wanna give it back 3385 01:33:01.459 --> 01:33:03.686 - because I want everybody - to feel how I feel 3386 01:33:03.792 --> 01:33:05.457 Even when I'm going 3387 01:33:05.481 --> 01:33:07.167 through something myself. 3388 01:33:07.250 --> 01:33:08.459 'Cause we always gon' go, 3389 01:33:08.542 --> 01:33:09.665 we either in something, 3390 01:33:09.689 --> 01:33:10.834 we go into something 3391 01:33:10.918 --> 01:33:12.186 or we coming out of 3392 01:33:12.210 --> 01:33:13.500 something always. 3393 01:33:13.584 --> 01:33:15.375 That's life's cycle 3394 01:33:15.459 --> 01:33:16.540 but it's how you 3395 01:33:16.564 --> 01:33:17.667 respond to that. 3396 01:33:17.751 --> 01:33:18.811 - ♪ I've been trapped - up in the dark ♪ 3397 01:33:18.918 --> 01:33:20.375 ♪ And don't know where to go ♪ 3398 01:33:20.459 --> 01:33:22.834 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 3399 01:33:22.918 --> 01:33:24.207 ♪ Tired of going 3400 01:33:24.231 --> 01:33:25.542 through all this pain ♪ 3401 01:33:25.626 --> 01:33:28.292 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 3402 01:33:28.375 --> 01:33:30.124 ♪ Tired of going 3403 01:33:30.148 --> 01:33:31.918 through all this pain ♪ 3404 01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:33.102 - [Marco] I think - that the best way 3405 01:33:33.209 --> 01:33:35.082 That we build confidence 3406 01:33:35.106 --> 01:33:37.000 is to provide them 3407 01:33:37.083 --> 01:33:38.667 with the sense of value. 3408 01:33:38.751 --> 01:33:41.124 You know, young, black 3409 01:33:41.148 --> 01:33:43.542 men, more specifically, 3410 01:33:44.626 --> 01:33:46.269 - don't have a high - sense of value. 3411 01:33:46.375 --> 01:33:47.728 - If you wanna just - give us a little bit 3412 01:33:47.834 --> 01:33:49.227 - Or give me a little - bit of something 3413 01:33:49.334 --> 01:33:51.083 Who do you think who is Brandon? 3414 01:33:51.167 --> 01:33:52.957 Just tell me a just a 3415 01:33:52.981 --> 01:33:54.792 little bit about you. 3416 01:33:54.876 --> 01:33:57.209 - Brandon is just, you know, 3417 01:33:57.292 --> 01:33:58.790 transitioning into 3418 01:33:58.814 --> 01:34:00.334 every day manhood, 3419 01:34:01.751 --> 01:34:02.959 you know what I'm saying? 3420 01:34:03.042 --> 01:34:04.728 Being that I'm 16 and 3421 01:34:04.752 --> 01:34:06.459 only have two years left 3422 01:34:06.542 --> 01:34:08.918 to be you know, legally grown. 3423 01:34:09.792 --> 01:34:10.894 Figuring out a lot of things 3424 01:34:10.918 --> 01:34:12.645 and you know, just kinda 3425 01:34:12.669 --> 01:34:14.417 catching on to the world 3426 01:34:14.500 --> 01:34:16.334 and what I wanna do. 3427 01:34:18.375 --> 01:34:19.709 I don't know. 3428 01:34:19.792 --> 01:34:21.103 It's just like I got 3429 01:34:21.127 --> 01:34:22.459 options, a lot of options 3430 01:34:22.542 --> 01:34:24.019 and I gotta try to balance 3431 01:34:24.043 --> 01:34:25.542 them all out at one time. 3432 01:34:25.626 --> 01:34:27.020 So it'd be, you know, 3433 01:34:27.044 --> 01:34:28.459 kind of stressing me out. 3434 01:34:28.542 --> 01:34:30.269 - [Mr. Ward] Sometimes you 3435 01:34:30.293 --> 01:34:32.042 wanna do things Brandon's way 3436 01:34:32.125 --> 01:34:33.540 and the purpose of me 3437 01:34:33.564 --> 01:34:35.000 being an instructor 3438 01:34:35.083 --> 01:34:36.227 being your teacher is 3439 01:34:36.251 --> 01:34:37.417 to give you guidance 3440 01:34:37.500 --> 01:34:39.417 and you have to take structure. 3441 01:34:39.500 --> 01:34:41.584 If you don't take structure 3442 01:34:41.667 --> 01:34:42.978 and listen and get the 3443 01:34:43.002 --> 01:34:44.334 wisdom and knowledge 3444 01:34:44.417 --> 01:34:45.978 from somebody that is 3445 01:34:46.002 --> 01:34:47.584 able to give it to you, 3446 01:34:47.667 --> 01:34:48.686 it's going to hurt 3447 01:34:48.710 --> 01:34:49.751 you in your future 3448 01:34:49.834 --> 01:34:51.082 but I believe in 3449 01:34:51.106 --> 01:34:52.375 you and that's why 3450 01:34:52.459 --> 01:34:53.874 I wanna give you this 3451 01:34:53.898 --> 01:34:55.334 personal assignment of growth 3452 01:34:55.417 --> 01:34:56.667 and this is something next time 3453 01:34:56.751 --> 01:34:58.459 I want you to look back on 3454 01:34:58.542 --> 01:34:59.894 and say this is 3455 01:34:59.918 --> 01:35:01.292 where I was at then 3456 01:35:01.375 --> 01:35:04.542 and this is where I'm at now. 3457 01:35:04.626 --> 01:35:06.436 - [Marco] To instilled into 3458 01:35:06.460 --> 01:35:08.292 them that they are worthy. 3459 01:35:08.375 --> 01:35:10.728 - You know, that, you know, - despite their circumstances 3460 01:35:10.834 --> 01:35:12.186 That, you know, 3461 01:35:12.210 --> 01:35:13.584 there's value that 3462 01:35:13.667 --> 01:35:15.103 A, we see in them as people, 3463 01:35:15.127 --> 01:35:16.584 you know, successful, 3464 01:35:16.667 --> 01:35:17.959 you know, people of color 3465 01:35:18.042 --> 01:35:19.853 - but then also we have - to get them to a point 3466 01:35:19.959 --> 01:35:21.561 - Where they see the - value in themselves 3467 01:35:21.667 --> 01:35:23.811 - And part of that is just - deconstructing the myths 3468 01:35:23.918 --> 01:35:25.228 That they've embraced 3469 01:35:25.252 --> 01:35:26.584 and inherited, you know 3470 01:35:26.667 --> 01:35:27.867 throughout most of their lives 3471 01:35:27.918 --> 01:35:29.811 - and so I think that - once we do that 3472 01:35:29.918 --> 01:35:32.561 - And we can really be - intentional about doing that, 3473 01:35:32.667 --> 01:35:34.311 - I think that young - people will start 3474 01:35:34.417 --> 01:35:35.707 To see that value that 3475 01:35:35.731 --> 01:35:37.042 we see in them as well. 3476 01:35:37.125 --> 01:35:38.436 - [Mr. Wards] Are you - willing to do the assignment 3477 01:35:38.542 --> 01:35:40.519 - And do it to your fullest - and the best of your ability? 3478 01:35:40.626 --> 01:35:42.334 I need to know this. 3479 01:35:42.417 --> 01:35:43.834 - [Brandon] Yeah I'm willing. 3480 01:35:43.918 --> 01:35:44.709 I will try. 3481 01:35:44.792 --> 01:35:46.209 - [Mr. Wards] I need commitment 3482 01:35:46.292 --> 01:35:47.936 'cause commitment is you 3483 01:35:47.960 --> 01:35:49.626 have to do it you know, 3484 01:35:49.709 --> 01:35:51.436 - even going to school, - it's a daily routine, 3485 01:35:51.542 --> 01:35:52.834 A daily chore to get up 3486 01:35:52.918 --> 01:35:54.728 but that's how you are 3487 01:35:54.752 --> 01:35:56.584 gonna be prosperous 3488 01:35:56.667 --> 01:35:57.876 if you stay committed 3489 01:35:57.959 --> 01:36:00.375 'cause if you do it half way 3490 01:36:01.542 --> 01:36:03.394 - that's what you're gonna - get a halfway result 3491 01:36:03.500 --> 01:36:05.311 - And I see, I've been working - with a lot of students 3492 01:36:05.417 --> 01:36:07.227 For a long time, they want 3493 01:36:07.251 --> 01:36:09.083 the big goal right away 3494 01:36:09.167 --> 01:36:10.584 and then they get frustrated. 3495 01:36:10.667 --> 01:36:13.060 - So that's why I wanna give - you small measurable steps 3496 01:36:13.167 --> 01:36:15.167 To complete that goal. 3497 01:36:15.250 --> 01:36:18.250 (people chattering) 3498 01:36:29.000 --> 01:36:30.186 - [Chad] You're gonna - have a good time. 3499 01:36:30.292 --> 01:36:31.644 - We have some amazing - things this year. 3500 01:36:31.751 --> 01:36:34.102 - It's different from last - year and the years prior. 3501 01:36:34.209 --> 01:36:35.500 I want y'all to make sure 3502 01:36:35.584 --> 01:36:37.519 - you take advantage of - everything that's going on. 3503 01:36:37.626 --> 01:36:39.292 All the opportunities here. 3504 01:36:39.375 --> 01:36:41.373 The goal that Rico say every 3505 01:36:41.397 --> 01:36:43.417 year is, "Not to come to us 3506 01:36:43.500 --> 01:36:44.792 "but to network with yourself", 3507 01:36:44.876 --> 01:36:46.707 because your partner 3508 01:36:46.731 --> 01:36:48.584 in production 3509 01:36:48.667 --> 01:36:50.102 - or your partner in crime - in the music industry 3510 01:36:50.209 --> 01:36:51.394 - Might be sitting - right next to you 3511 01:36:51.500 --> 01:36:52.667 Or right across from me. 3512 01:36:52.751 --> 01:36:53.644 - Give yourselves a - round of applause. 3513 01:36:53.751 --> 01:36:54.644 - We gonna get - started in a second. 3514 01:36:54.751 --> 01:36:57.876 (audience applauding) 3515 01:36:59.751 --> 01:37:01.459 - [Rico] What's up everybody? 3516 01:37:01.542 --> 01:37:03.500 (audience exclaims) 3517 01:37:03.584 --> 01:37:04.584 How y'all doing? 3518 01:37:04.626 --> 01:37:05.751 (audience mumbles) 3519 01:37:05.834 --> 01:37:07.936 - Welcome to the "We - Love Music" conference. 3520 01:37:08.042 --> 01:37:09.584 This is our fourth year. 3521 01:37:09.667 --> 01:37:10.918 I wanna stress to you all 3522 01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:12.352 - the importance of - this conference. 3523 01:37:12.459 --> 01:37:14.459 If your hunger is to be great, 3524 01:37:14.542 --> 01:37:16.603 if your hunger is to perfect 3525 01:37:16.627 --> 01:37:18.709 your gift and your ability 3526 01:37:18.792 --> 01:37:20.227 - then this is where - you come for that. 3527 01:37:20.334 --> 01:37:21.494 If you wanna be around people 3528 01:37:21.542 --> 01:37:23.042 who believe what you believe 3529 01:37:23.125 --> 01:37:25.584 who want the same thing as you 3530 01:37:25.667 --> 01:37:27.459 then you're in the right place. 3531 01:37:27.542 --> 01:37:28.709 You sitting next to somebody 3532 01:37:28.792 --> 01:37:30.144 who can absolutely 3533 01:37:30.168 --> 01:37:31.542 relate to you. 3534 01:37:32.918 --> 01:37:34.374 - So talk to me about what 3535 01:37:34.398 --> 01:37:35.876 you're trynna do with music. 3536 01:37:35.959 --> 01:37:37.249 - My goal in music 3537 01:37:37.273 --> 01:37:38.584 is to be a star. 3538 01:37:38.667 --> 01:37:39.667 - A star. 3539 01:37:39.751 --> 01:37:41.250 - I sing and I rap. 3540 01:37:41.334 --> 01:37:42.667 So I do both. 3541 01:37:42.751 --> 01:37:44.728 - I heard some of your - stuff and I was impressed. 3542 01:37:44.834 --> 01:37:47.103 I just wanna know what do 3543 01:37:47.127 --> 01:37:49.417 you think a star is to you? 3544 01:37:49.500 --> 01:37:50.709 - Somebody who make music 3545 01:37:50.792 --> 01:37:52.623 and it touch a lot of 3546 01:37:52.647 --> 01:37:54.500 people around the world. 3547 01:37:55.667 --> 01:37:56.876 - [Chad] Got you. 3548 01:37:56.959 --> 01:37:58.394 - One thing I always tell - people is never settle, 3549 01:37:58.500 --> 01:37:59.918 Never compromise who you are 3550 01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:01.209 because at the end of the day 3551 01:38:01.292 --> 01:38:02.834 you can't go backwards. 3552 01:38:02.918 --> 01:38:03.936 - [Tiana] Right. - You can always move forward. 3553 01:38:04.042 --> 01:38:05.269 - You can always - miss opportunities 3554 01:38:05.375 --> 01:38:06.603 - But opportunities are - gonna continue to come 3555 01:38:06.709 --> 01:38:08.000 But you can't go backwards 3556 01:38:08.083 --> 01:38:09.519 - because you settled - for an opportunity. 3557 01:38:09.626 --> 01:38:10.810 You understand what I'm saying? 3558 01:38:10.834 --> 01:38:12.061 Your best ability as 3559 01:38:12.085 --> 01:38:13.334 an artist or a creator 3560 01:38:13.417 --> 01:38:14.292 is your availability. 3561 01:38:14.375 --> 01:38:15.542 As long as you're available 3562 01:38:15.626 --> 01:38:16.959 opportunities present itself. 3563 01:38:17.042 --> 01:38:18.394 - If an opportunity presents - itself in L.A., you in Milwaukee 3564 01:38:18.500 --> 01:38:19.500 It does you no good. 3565 01:38:19.542 --> 01:38:20.709 - [Tiana] Right. 3566 01:38:20.792 --> 01:38:22.436 - So it's basically - being in the right place 3567 01:38:22.542 --> 01:38:23.748 At the right time with 3568 01:38:23.772 --> 01:38:25.000 the right preparation 3569 01:38:25.083 --> 01:38:26.363 'cause you gotta be prepared for 3570 01:38:26.417 --> 01:38:27.477 - the opportunity when - it presents itself. 3571 01:38:27.584 --> 01:38:28.751 - As in or it is, 3572 01:38:28.834 --> 01:38:30.290 how do you get 3573 01:38:30.314 --> 01:38:31.792 into the industry? 3574 01:38:31.876 --> 01:38:32.977 - [Chad] Well the - goal is basically 3575 01:38:33.083 --> 01:38:34.561 - You start with - building a fan base. 3576 01:38:34.667 --> 01:38:36.209 Obviously you have good music. 3577 01:38:36.292 --> 01:38:37.352 - So it's the goal - is just the base, 3578 01:38:37.459 --> 01:38:38.686 - Build a fan base - around the music 3579 01:38:38.792 --> 01:38:40.042 That you already have 3580 01:38:40.125 --> 01:38:41.478 and get it fan by fan, 3581 01:38:41.502 --> 01:38:42.876 follower by follower, 3582 01:38:44.709 --> 01:38:46.626 it's a grind, it's a marathon. 3583 01:38:46.709 --> 01:38:48.102 - Like Nipsey said, "A - marathon continues", 3584 01:38:48.209 --> 01:38:49.186 - It's a marathon, - it's not a sprint. 3585 01:38:49.292 --> 01:38:50.603 So what you do is 3586 01:38:50.627 --> 01:38:51.959 you go city to city, 3587 01:38:52.042 --> 01:38:53.582 fan by fan, little 3588 01:38:53.606 --> 01:38:55.167 hole in the wall places 3589 01:38:55.250 --> 01:38:57.603 - to theaters, which you're - moving now to stadiums. 3590 01:38:57.709 --> 01:39:00.000 - So I write my own content 3591 01:39:00.083 --> 01:39:01.769 but how can I start 3592 01:39:01.793 --> 01:39:03.500 writing for other artists? 3593 01:39:03.584 --> 01:39:04.728 - [Chad] Well the - key is to make sure 3594 01:39:04.834 --> 01:39:05.978 That you demo everything 3595 01:39:06.002 --> 01:39:07.167 out to the fullest. 3596 01:39:07.250 --> 01:39:09.083 Demo as if it's your record 3597 01:39:09.167 --> 01:39:10.353 and then start submitting 3598 01:39:10.377 --> 01:39:11.584 to other artists 3599 01:39:11.667 --> 01:39:13.144 - and as you perform - around the country, 3600 01:39:13.250 --> 01:39:14.269 - You bump into artists and - as you bump it to artist 3601 01:39:14.375 --> 01:39:16.311 - Say, "I might have - a record for you?" 3602 01:39:16.417 --> 01:39:17.686 - Or "Maybe we should get - in and do some work." 3603 01:39:17.792 --> 01:39:19.083 You wanna tap in with the artist 3604 01:39:19.167 --> 01:39:20.375 or the artist team directly 3605 01:39:20.459 --> 01:39:22.394 - as opposed to tapping - in with an ANR. 3606 01:39:22.500 --> 01:39:23.709 It was a pleasure meeting you. 3607 01:39:23.792 --> 01:39:24.728 - Good talking to you darling. - (Tiana mumbles) 3608 01:39:24.834 --> 01:39:25.709 Good luck with everything. 3609 01:39:25.792 --> 01:39:27.686 - [Tiana] Thank you. - Yeah. 3610 01:39:27.792 --> 01:39:29.250 - [Marco] Hey how's it going? 3611 01:39:29.334 --> 01:39:30.144 - [Brandon] Good. - [Marco] Marco Morrison. 3612 01:39:30.250 --> 01:39:31.375 - [Brandon] Brandon Haney. 3613 01:39:31.459 --> 01:39:32.269 - [Marco] All - right, good to meet. 3614 01:39:32.375 --> 01:39:33.042 - [Brandon] Nice to meet you. 3615 01:39:33.125 --> 01:39:33.792 - [Marco] Have a seat. 3616 01:39:33.876 --> 01:39:35.375 Thank you for, you know, 3617 01:39:35.459 --> 01:39:37.394 - obviously taking out the - time to come in and meet me. 3618 01:39:37.500 --> 01:39:39.853 - You know, obviously I've - heard some things about you 3619 01:39:39.959 --> 01:39:41.040 And you know, upon 3620 01:39:41.064 --> 01:39:42.167 hearing about, 3621 01:39:42.250 --> 01:39:43.834 you know, you and your story, 3622 01:39:43.918 --> 01:39:45.977 - I was definitely interested - in you know, in meeting you 3623 01:39:46.083 --> 01:39:48.102 - And my understanding is - you had an assignment 3624 01:39:48.209 --> 01:39:50.060 - That you were - challenged with doing 3625 01:39:50.167 --> 01:39:51.417 By one of your teachers 3626 01:39:51.500 --> 01:39:52.540 and so if you can 3627 01:39:52.564 --> 01:39:53.626 just share with me 3628 01:39:53.709 --> 01:39:55.728 - some results of that assignment - that you're working on. 3629 01:39:55.834 --> 01:39:56.876 - [Brandon] Yeah. 3630 01:39:56.959 --> 01:39:58.124 My past has been 3631 01:39:58.148 --> 01:39:59.334 like really tough 3632 01:39:59.417 --> 01:40:01.290 but I didn't let that 3633 01:40:01.314 --> 01:40:03.209 like break me, you know. 3634 01:40:05.167 --> 01:40:06.915 Experiences made me 3635 01:40:06.939 --> 01:40:08.709 who I am as a person. 3636 01:40:10.167 --> 01:40:11.876 It made me smarter. 3637 01:40:11.959 --> 01:40:13.167 It made me think more. 3638 01:40:13.250 --> 01:40:14.269 It made me watch 3639 01:40:14.293 --> 01:40:15.334 who I hang around. 3640 01:40:15.417 --> 01:40:16.834 - You know, you get it, you know 3641 01:40:16.918 --> 01:40:18.291 and a lot of times, 3642 01:40:18.315 --> 01:40:19.709 especially for men of color, 3643 01:40:19.792 --> 01:40:22.626 our growth is usually predicated 3644 01:40:24.792 --> 01:40:25.769 on having to go 3645 01:40:25.793 --> 01:40:26.793 through hardships. 3646 01:40:26.876 --> 01:40:27.853 - I've gone through - a lot of, you know, 3647 01:40:27.959 --> 01:40:30.083 Hardships as a kid, you know. 3648 01:40:30.167 --> 01:40:31.811 - Not having food, - living in a house 3649 01:40:31.918 --> 01:40:33.334 Without lights, you know. 3650 01:40:33.417 --> 01:40:34.792 I was a kid that most people 3651 01:40:34.876 --> 01:40:37.477 - and even people in my family - thought wouldn't make it. 3652 01:40:37.584 --> 01:40:38.686 Is there anybody 3653 01:40:38.710 --> 01:40:39.834 that you place blame 3654 01:40:39.918 --> 01:40:41.603 for when it comes 3655 01:40:41.627 --> 01:40:43.334 to those things? 3656 01:40:43.417 --> 01:40:44.876 - God. 3657 01:40:44.959 --> 01:40:46.561 That's the only 3658 01:40:46.585 --> 01:40:48.209 person that I blame. 3659 01:40:48.292 --> 01:40:49.540 'Cause without him 3660 01:40:49.564 --> 01:40:50.834 there would be no life. 3661 01:40:50.918 --> 01:40:53.500 No pain, no struggle. 3662 01:40:53.584 --> 01:40:55.645 So I wouldn't blame it 3663 01:40:55.669 --> 01:40:57.751 on anybody particularly 3664 01:40:57.834 --> 01:41:00.125 here in this world but him. 3665 01:41:03.584 --> 01:41:05.311 I just feel like I could be 3666 01:41:05.335 --> 01:41:07.083 better than who I am now. 3667 01:41:09.334 --> 01:41:10.686 I feel like I can grow 3668 01:41:10.710 --> 01:41:12.083 and develop my skill set, 3669 01:41:14.626 --> 01:41:16.332 you know enough to be 3670 01:41:16.356 --> 01:41:18.083 successful in life. 3671 01:41:18.167 --> 01:41:19.394 - And so what separates 3672 01:41:19.418 --> 01:41:20.667 you from everybody else 3673 01:41:20.751 --> 01:41:21.936 is what you invest 3674 01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:23.167 in to you, you know? 3675 01:41:23.250 --> 01:41:25.352 - And so, making sure that - you go on to school, 3676 01:41:25.459 --> 01:41:27.936 - Making sure that you're - getting the grades, you know, 3677 01:41:28.042 --> 01:41:30.603 - If you got a job, making - sure that when you go to work 3678 01:41:30.709 --> 01:41:32.311 - You're the best - employee that they have. 3679 01:41:32.417 --> 01:41:33.250 - Right. 3680 01:41:33.334 --> 01:41:34.518 - Coming from my circumstances 3681 01:41:34.542 --> 01:41:36.352 - I always thought - about, you know, 3682 01:41:36.459 --> 01:41:37.626 What would it have been like 3683 01:41:37.709 --> 01:41:39.769 - if I had somebody - that was in my corner. 3684 01:41:39.876 --> 01:41:41.542 With that being said, 3685 01:41:43.125 --> 01:41:44.667 I'm gonna give you a job. 3686 01:41:44.751 --> 01:41:45.459 - Really? 3687 01:41:45.542 --> 01:41:46.769 - [Marco] Yeah. - Oh. 3688 01:41:46.876 --> 01:41:47.811 - I'll give you a job, - I'll give you a job. 3689 01:41:47.918 --> 01:41:50.542 I see that we need each other. 3690 01:41:51.542 --> 01:41:52.834 - Yeah. 3691 01:41:52.918 --> 01:41:54.209 - That's what I see. 3692 01:41:54.292 --> 01:41:55.977 - I think that as much - as you might need me 3693 01:41:56.083 --> 01:41:57.686 - I think that I need - you all the same 3694 01:41:57.792 --> 01:41:59.123 Because we have 3695 01:41:59.147 --> 01:42:00.500 too much in common 3696 01:42:01.959 --> 01:42:03.834 and the fact that, you know, 3697 01:42:03.918 --> 01:42:05.770 I am evolving continuously 3698 01:42:05.794 --> 01:42:07.667 into the man that I am, 3699 01:42:07.751 --> 01:42:08.832 my goal is for you 3700 01:42:08.856 --> 01:42:09.959 to be better than me. 3701 01:42:10.042 --> 01:42:11.686 - Hey brother, I'ma say - thank you for your time. 3702 01:42:11.792 --> 01:42:12.542 I appreciate it. 3703 01:42:12.626 --> 01:42:13.459 - I appreciate it. 3704 01:42:13.542 --> 01:42:14.186 - All right. - Yeah. 3705 01:42:14.292 --> 01:42:14.959 - Guys listen to me. 3706 01:42:15.042 --> 01:42:16.125 There are no whips. 3707 01:42:16.209 --> 01:42:17.042 - [Man] What. 3708 01:42:17.125 --> 01:42:18.769 - No chains. - [Man] Come on. 3709 01:42:18.876 --> 01:42:20.060 - No water hose. - [Man] Come on. 3710 01:42:20.167 --> 01:42:21.311 - No jail time. - [Man] Come on, give it up. 3711 01:42:21.417 --> 01:42:22.561 - No death. - [Man] Come on. 3712 01:42:22.667 --> 01:42:23.853 - No depression. - What. 3713 01:42:23.959 --> 01:42:25.352 - No problems. - [Man] Yes. 3714 01:42:25.459 --> 01:42:27.082 - No nothing, no 3715 01:42:27.106 --> 01:42:28.751 trials, no tribulation, 3716 01:42:28.834 --> 01:42:30.353 no pressure, no 3717 01:42:30.377 --> 01:42:31.918 pain, no hurricane, 3718 01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:34.375 strong enough to stop my people? 3719 01:42:34.459 --> 01:42:36.959 How do we change the narrative? 3720 01:42:37.042 --> 01:42:38.311 First and foremost, we 3721 01:42:38.335 --> 01:42:39.626 have to be more diligent 3722 01:42:39.709 --> 01:42:40.811 about telling black 3723 01:42:40.835 --> 01:42:41.959 children the truth 3724 01:42:42.042 --> 01:42:43.748 and the truth is there 3725 01:42:43.772 --> 01:42:45.500 are more black males 3726 01:42:46.959 --> 01:42:48.417 that are in college. 3727 01:42:48.500 --> 01:42:50.603 I think the statistic was 3728 01:42:50.627 --> 01:42:52.751 1.3 million in college 3729 01:42:52.834 --> 01:42:54.749 and 840,000 that's 3730 01:42:54.773 --> 01:42:56.709 locked up in prison. 3731 01:42:56.792 --> 01:42:58.042 If we gonna give the statistics 3732 01:42:58.125 --> 01:42:59.477 - we have to give - all the statistics 3733 01:42:59.584 --> 01:43:00.792 And not just some of them. 3734 01:43:00.876 --> 01:43:02.542 Second thing we have to do, 3735 01:43:02.626 --> 01:43:04.227 - is we have to look - them dead in the eye 3736 01:43:04.334 --> 01:43:06.417 And we have to tell them that, 3737 01:43:06.500 --> 01:43:08.144 "little black child you are 3738 01:43:08.168 --> 01:43:09.834 the author of your own story. 3739 01:43:09.918 --> 01:43:11.332 "You hold the pen, 3740 01:43:11.356 --> 01:43:12.792 the pages are blank 3741 01:43:12.876 --> 01:43:13.915 "and whatever you 3742 01:43:13.939 --> 01:43:15.000 write shall be. 3743 01:43:15.083 --> 01:43:16.334 "So what will you write about?" 3744 01:43:16.417 --> 01:43:17.250 - Burns. 3745 01:43:17.334 --> 01:43:18.393 - [Daryl] Marquell, what it do? 3746 01:43:18.417 --> 01:43:19.959 Got the nice little jacket on. 3747 01:43:20.042 --> 01:43:20.959 Looking good. 3748 01:43:21.042 --> 01:43:21.751 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 3749 01:43:21.834 --> 01:43:23.000 - How was the game? 3750 01:43:23.083 --> 01:43:24.227 - The game was - pretty impressive. 3751 01:43:24.334 --> 01:43:25.751 Pretty impressive, pretty good. 3752 01:43:25.834 --> 01:43:27.000 - I know the game was good. 3753 01:43:27.083 --> 01:43:28.644 - What position they - got you at right now? 3754 01:43:28.751 --> 01:43:30.332 - Raw receiver, (mumbles) got, 3755 01:43:30.356 --> 01:43:31.959 finally got me on defense. 3756 01:43:32.042 --> 01:43:33.102 - [Daryl] I see you. - Now I'm middle linebacker. 3757 01:43:33.209 --> 01:43:34.853 - I see you play a - little bit of defense. 3758 01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:36.083 - Yeah, also I was- 3759 01:43:36.167 --> 01:43:37.603 - Thought you a little - soft for defense. 3760 01:43:37.709 --> 01:43:39.519 - Defense's for people - that's pretty hard. 3761 01:43:39.626 --> 01:43:41.269 - I'm really hard, - I'm really hard. 3762 01:43:41.375 --> 01:43:42.936 - I like it. - All right, cool. 3763 01:43:43.042 --> 01:43:44.209 How was a weekend? 3764 01:43:44.292 --> 01:43:45.561 - Weekend was pretty - a little bit of rough 3765 01:43:45.667 --> 01:43:46.936 - But you know, I - tried to keep my, 3766 01:43:47.042 --> 01:43:48.500 I was keeping my head high 3767 01:43:48.584 --> 01:43:51.102 - and you know, praying for - better days and stuff like that. 3768 01:43:51.209 --> 01:43:52.000 - [Daryl] Okay, okay. 3769 01:43:52.083 --> 01:43:53.667 So you saying it was rough. 3770 01:43:53.751 --> 01:43:55.270 What does rough mean like, 3771 01:43:55.294 --> 01:43:56.834 issues in the neighborhood? 3772 01:43:56.918 --> 01:43:58.459 Something with the family? 3773 01:43:58.542 --> 01:43:59.542 What makes it rough? 3774 01:44:01.751 --> 01:44:02.751 - Issues with the family 3775 01:44:02.792 --> 01:44:04.417 and like me personally, myself, 3776 01:44:04.500 --> 01:44:05.334 you know, working on myself, 3777 01:44:05.417 --> 01:44:07.042 getting myself better first 3778 01:44:07.125 --> 01:44:08.626 because I can't help nobody else 3779 01:44:08.709 --> 01:44:09.959 and I can't do, you know, 3780 01:44:10.042 --> 01:44:11.144 - help the community, - help everybody else 3781 01:44:11.250 --> 01:44:12.417 If I can't help myself first. 3782 01:44:12.500 --> 01:44:13.542 - Right. 3783 01:44:13.626 --> 01:44:14.811 - You ever heard - about what they says 3784 01:44:14.918 --> 01:44:16.061 Like, "putting your own 3785 01:44:16.085 --> 01:44:17.250 oxygen mask on first"? 3786 01:44:17.334 --> 01:44:18.876 You know what that means? 3787 01:44:18.959 --> 01:44:20.895 - Putting yours first on - then helping somebody else's? 3788 01:44:21.000 --> 01:44:22.519 - Yeah like how could - you help somebody else 3789 01:44:22.626 --> 01:44:24.311 - If you can't help - yourself first? 3790 01:44:24.417 --> 01:44:25.918 And it's not selfish 3791 01:44:26.000 --> 01:44:27.977 - because I know in the - hood we always talk about, 3792 01:44:28.083 --> 01:44:28.834 You know, like you gotta do this 3793 01:44:28.918 --> 01:44:30.603 - and you gotta do - that or whatever 3794 01:44:30.709 --> 01:44:33.102 - You gotta help your brother - help your family or whatever 3795 01:44:33.209 --> 01:44:35.083 But how can you help your family 3796 01:44:35.167 --> 01:44:36.334 if you don't got a job, 3797 01:44:36.417 --> 01:44:38.269 - if you don't got an - education yourself, you know? 3798 01:44:38.375 --> 01:44:39.311 - How can you tell you a little - brother how to grow up? 3799 01:44:39.417 --> 01:44:40.727 So that's where 3800 01:44:40.751 --> 01:44:42.083 that term come from, 3801 01:44:42.167 --> 01:44:44.060 - "putting your own - oxygen mask on first", 3802 01:44:44.167 --> 01:44:45.936 - Giving yourself - your own life blood 3803 01:44:46.042 --> 01:44:47.082 So that you can help 3804 01:44:47.106 --> 01:44:48.167 other people, so. 3805 01:44:48.250 --> 01:44:50.144 - All right man, well it's - good to see you bro. 3806 01:44:50.250 --> 01:44:51.417 (Marquell mumbles) 3807 01:44:51.500 --> 01:44:52.144 - Have a good day. - (Marquell mumbles) 3808 01:44:52.250 --> 01:44:52.918 All right, all right. 3809 01:44:53.000 --> 01:44:53.751 Good, I'm proud of you. 3810 01:44:53.834 --> 01:44:54.667 - All right. 3811 01:44:54.751 --> 01:44:55.417 - [Daryl] That look good. 3812 01:44:55.500 --> 01:44:56.083 (Marquell laughs) 3813 01:44:56.167 --> 01:44:57.167 Real good. 3814 01:44:57.250 --> 01:44:58.042 - Hello guys. 3815 01:44:58.125 --> 01:44:59.667 My name is Marquell Jenkins. 3816 01:44:59.751 --> 01:45:01.561 - So yeah man, it's - my senior year now 3817 01:45:01.667 --> 01:45:02.707 And I don't even 3818 01:45:02.731 --> 01:45:03.792 know what to do now. 3819 01:45:03.876 --> 01:45:05.520 Like, I don't even know 3820 01:45:05.544 --> 01:45:07.209 what's next for Marquell. 3821 01:45:07.292 --> 01:45:08.707 I just wanna, you know, 3822 01:45:08.731 --> 01:45:10.167 what's next for me? 3823 01:45:10.250 --> 01:45:11.352 Well, a little bit 3824 01:45:11.376 --> 01:45:12.500 what's next for me is, 3825 01:45:12.584 --> 01:45:14.167 you know, writing my own book. 3826 01:45:14.250 --> 01:45:15.478 Like I've been, you 3827 01:45:15.502 --> 01:45:16.751 know, I've been, 3828 01:45:16.834 --> 01:45:18.165 I took a very long, 3829 01:45:18.189 --> 01:45:19.542 you know, break of it 3830 01:45:19.626 --> 01:45:21.269 - because of the family issues - that I was going through 3831 01:45:21.375 --> 01:45:22.706 But the journey has 3832 01:45:22.730 --> 01:45:24.083 just only began. 3833 01:45:24.167 --> 01:45:26.165 So I'ma, you know, get those 3834 01:45:26.189 --> 01:45:28.209 to a part and you know, 3835 01:45:28.292 --> 01:45:29.873 get that family bond 3836 01:45:29.897 --> 01:45:31.500 going again and you know, 3837 01:45:31.584 --> 01:45:33.227 - trynna have the best - connection with my mom 3838 01:45:33.334 --> 01:45:34.665 As possible and you know, 3839 01:45:34.689 --> 01:45:36.042 interact with my brothers 3840 01:45:36.125 --> 01:45:38.125 and sisters more often 3841 01:45:39.459 --> 01:45:40.936 but I got, you know, self 3842 01:45:40.960 --> 01:45:42.459 love and work on myself 3843 01:45:42.542 --> 01:45:43.644 first before I can 3844 01:45:43.668 --> 01:45:44.792 help anybody else. 3845 01:45:44.876 --> 01:45:47.102 - Even though I'm this - outstanding man that I am 3846 01:45:47.209 --> 01:45:49.834 And you know, this young talent, 3847 01:45:49.918 --> 01:45:52.209 intelligent young man, I am, 3848 01:45:52.292 --> 01:45:53.542 I gotta help myself first. 3849 01:45:53.626 --> 01:45:55.249 So yeah man, this is the 3850 01:45:55.273 --> 01:45:56.918 end of this vlog today 3851 01:45:57.000 --> 01:45:59.060 - but I'ma keep you guys - updated and posted 3852 01:45:59.167 --> 01:46:01.040 But you know, just pray for 3853 01:46:01.064 --> 01:46:02.959 me, wish to have better days. 3854 01:46:03.042 --> 01:46:05.125 Love, peace and hair grease. 3855 01:46:05.209 --> 01:46:06.790 - [Muhibb] We hope and we 3856 01:46:06.814 --> 01:46:08.417 pray that you write a story 3857 01:46:08.500 --> 01:46:10.644 that says all 196,940,400 3858 01:46:10.668 --> 01:46:12.834 square miles of this earth 3859 01:46:15.083 --> 01:46:16.269 belongs to you and 3860 01:46:16.293 --> 01:46:17.500 you are not relegated 3861 01:46:20.500 --> 01:46:22.103 to dying on the block 3862 01:46:22.127 --> 01:46:23.751 that's 1/8th mile long 3863 01:46:23.834 --> 01:46:26.626 in an alley of insignificance. 3864 01:46:26.709 --> 01:46:28.499 We hope you write a 3865 01:46:28.523 --> 01:46:30.334 story that suggests 3866 01:46:30.417 --> 01:46:31.478 that you could go 3867 01:46:31.502 --> 01:46:32.584 wherever you want. 3868 01:46:32.667 --> 01:46:33.915 You can do whatever 3869 01:46:33.939 --> 01:46:35.209 you wanna do. 3870 01:46:35.292 --> 01:46:36.373 The sky's the limit, 3871 01:46:36.397 --> 01:46:37.500 truly for you. 3872 01:46:37.584 --> 01:46:39.311 - So what's next for 3873 01:46:39.335 --> 01:46:41.083 me in my journey is, 3874 01:46:41.167 --> 01:46:43.102 I'll be moving to Phoenix, 3875 01:46:43.126 --> 01:46:45.083 Arizona for a couple months 3876 01:46:45.167 --> 01:46:46.186 just to really 3877 01:46:46.210 --> 01:46:47.250 figure out, you know, 3878 01:46:47.334 --> 01:46:48.665 what I'm doing and just 3879 01:46:48.689 --> 01:46:50.042 to be in a new environment 3880 01:46:50.125 --> 01:46:51.500 and to really better myself 3881 01:46:51.584 --> 01:46:53.457 'cause Milwaukee is like 3882 01:46:53.481 --> 01:46:55.375 a huge destruction for me. 3883 01:46:55.459 --> 01:46:57.977 - I like having fun and kicking - it with all my friends 3884 01:46:58.083 --> 01:47:00.709 And then I transition to Chicago 3885 01:47:00.792 --> 01:47:02.228 where I will stay 3886 01:47:02.252 --> 01:47:03.709 probably for you know, 3887 01:47:03.792 --> 01:47:05.144 a longer period of time 3888 01:47:05.168 --> 01:47:06.542 and just work on my music 3889 01:47:06.626 --> 01:47:08.645 and branding myself 3890 01:47:08.669 --> 01:47:10.709 and you know, 3891 01:47:10.792 --> 01:47:12.040 just figuring out 3892 01:47:12.064 --> 01:47:13.334 my life from there. 3893 01:47:13.417 --> 01:47:15.332 What I have learned this 3894 01:47:15.356 --> 01:47:17.292 far in my journey is, 3895 01:47:18.417 --> 01:47:20.040 you know, number 3896 01:47:20.064 --> 01:47:21.709 one to be myself. 3897 01:47:21.792 --> 01:47:23.082 Number two, to never 3898 01:47:23.106 --> 01:47:24.417 give up and you know, 3899 01:47:27.667 --> 01:47:30.918 just do the best that you can 3900 01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:32.500 and you know, to reset myself 3901 01:47:34.542 --> 01:47:35.644 'cause people just 3902 01:47:35.668 --> 01:47:36.792 give me a lot of BS 3903 01:47:36.876 --> 01:47:39.020 but yeah, 2020 I feel shall 3904 01:47:39.044 --> 01:47:41.209 be a great year for me. 3905 01:47:42.584 --> 01:47:43.894 I feel like a lot of good 3906 01:47:43.918 --> 01:47:45.250 things are gonna happen. 3907 01:47:45.334 --> 01:47:47.125 So, that's really all. 3908 01:47:49.125 --> 01:47:50.667 - [Muhibb] We can't continue 3909 01:47:50.751 --> 01:47:53.082 to accept the role that 3910 01:47:53.106 --> 01:47:55.459 this society gives to us, 3911 01:47:55.542 --> 01:47:56.873 saying that, "We can 3912 01:47:56.897 --> 01:47:58.250 only be the thugs, 3913 01:47:58.334 --> 01:47:59.500 "We can only be the hustlers, 3914 01:47:59.584 --> 01:48:01.584 "We can only be the criminals." 3915 01:48:01.667 --> 01:48:03.042 No. 3916 01:48:03.125 --> 01:48:04.644 The time is now for 3917 01:48:04.668 --> 01:48:06.209 us to play a new role. 3918 01:48:06.292 --> 01:48:07.936 A role of being a father, 3919 01:48:07.960 --> 01:48:09.626 a role of being a mother, 3920 01:48:09.709 --> 01:48:10.894 a role of being a 3921 01:48:10.918 --> 01:48:12.125 doctor or a lawyer, 3922 01:48:12.209 --> 01:48:14.207 or a president or anything 3923 01:48:14.231 --> 01:48:16.250 that we aspire to be. 3924 01:48:16.334 --> 01:48:18.584 - So what's next for Brandon? 3925 01:48:20.542 --> 01:48:21.915 To be honest, I 3926 01:48:21.939 --> 01:48:23.334 really don't know 3927 01:48:23.417 --> 01:48:25.311 - but I feel like - it's a lot of things 3928 01:48:25.417 --> 01:48:27.042 That I got to work on. 3929 01:48:27.125 --> 01:48:28.727 Especially being 3930 01:48:28.751 --> 01:48:30.375 with my character. 3931 01:48:30.459 --> 01:48:31.666 I feel like I gotta 3932 01:48:31.690 --> 01:48:32.918 work on my personality. 3933 01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:34.102 I feel like I gotta 3934 01:48:34.126 --> 01:48:35.250 work on my traits. 3935 01:48:35.334 --> 01:48:36.519 - I just feel like - I got to do better 3936 01:48:36.626 --> 01:48:38.374 And strive more as 3937 01:48:38.398 --> 01:48:40.167 a person, you know, 3938 01:48:40.250 --> 01:48:41.394 so I can get to where 3939 01:48:41.418 --> 01:48:42.584 I wanna be in life 3940 01:48:42.667 --> 01:48:44.334 because where I'm at now, 3941 01:48:44.417 --> 01:48:45.751 it's not looking too hot, 3942 01:48:45.834 --> 01:48:47.500 you know, my situation 3943 01:48:47.584 --> 01:48:49.374 but I feel like better 3944 01:48:49.398 --> 01:48:51.209 days are coming. 3945 01:48:51.292 --> 01:48:52.915 I'm not like a (stutters) a 3946 01:48:52.939 --> 01:48:54.584 hundred percent sure of that 3947 01:48:54.667 --> 01:48:57.227 - but people, you know, always - say, "keep your head up 3948 01:48:57.334 --> 01:48:59.478 "and keep going and don't 3949 01:48:59.502 --> 01:49:01.667 let things bring you down." 3950 01:49:03.375 --> 01:49:05.519 - So, you know, I hold - people to those standards 3951 01:49:05.626 --> 01:49:08.020 And them words hoping 3952 01:49:08.044 --> 01:49:10.459 that things will change. 3953 01:49:11.417 --> 01:49:12.876 Yeah. 3954 01:49:12.959 --> 01:49:14.686 So as for what's next, I 3955 01:49:14.710 --> 01:49:16.459 guess we will have to see. 3956 01:49:16.542 --> 01:49:17.707 - [Muhibb] The way we 3957 01:49:17.731 --> 01:49:18.918 change the narrative 3958 01:49:19.000 --> 01:49:21.459 is by writing our own stories 3959 01:49:21.542 --> 01:49:22.665 and part of writing 3960 01:49:22.689 --> 01:49:23.834 our own stories 3961 01:49:23.918 --> 01:49:25.332 is writing our way 3962 01:49:25.356 --> 01:49:26.792 out of the mess 3963 01:49:26.876 --> 01:49:28.082 that we currently 3964 01:49:28.106 --> 01:49:29.334 find ourselves in. 3965 01:49:29.417 --> 01:49:31.667 (upbeat music) 3966 01:49:31.751 --> 01:49:33.375 We will always, listen to me. 3967 01:49:33.459 --> 01:49:35.083 - [Man] Get at their heart. 3968 01:49:35.167 --> 01:49:37.584 - We will always, listen to me. 3969 01:49:37.667 --> 01:49:38.876 - [Man] Get at it. 3970 01:49:38.959 --> 01:49:40.124 - We will always, find 3971 01:49:40.148 --> 01:49:41.334 our way back to truth. 3972 01:49:41.417 --> 01:49:42.250 - [Man] What else? 3973 01:49:42.334 --> 01:49:43.751 - Find our way back to love. 3974 01:49:43.834 --> 01:49:44.626 - [Man] What else? 3975 01:49:44.709 --> 01:49:46.334 - Find our way back to freedom. 3976 01:49:46.417 --> 01:49:48.667 The people will always 3977 01:49:48.751 --> 01:49:50.918 find our way back to God. 3978 01:49:52.626 --> 01:49:55.834 (audience applauding) 3979 01:49:57.542 --> 01:49:59.352 - ♪ Well this is motivation - music all in your ear to ♪ 3980 01:49:59.459 --> 01:50:01.584 ♪ Rise ♪ 3981 01:50:01.667 --> 01:50:05.876 ♪ Milwaukee home ♪ 3982 01:50:05.959 --> 01:50:07.209 ♪ We 'bout to rise ♪ 3983 01:50:07.292 --> 01:50:08.144 - ♪ Shake dust off - dust off your feet ♪ 3984 01:50:08.250 --> 01:50:09.584 ♪ Milwaukee get ready to eat ♪ 3985 01:50:09.667 --> 01:50:10.876 ♪ We 'bout eat ♪ 3986 01:50:10.959 --> 01:50:12.394 - ♪ They think we can't - do this right here ♪ 3987 01:50:12.500 --> 01:50:13.311 - ♪ Well this is motivation - music all in your ear to ♪ 3988 01:50:13.417 --> 01:50:15.959 ♪ Rise ♪ 3989 01:50:16.042 --> 01:50:19.876 ♪ Milwaukee home ♪ 3990 01:50:19.959 --> 01:50:21.042 ♪ We 'bout to rise ♪ 3991 01:50:21.125 --> 01:50:22.417 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 3992 01:50:22.500 --> 01:50:23.700 ♪ Milwaukee get ready to eat ♪ 3993 01:50:23.751 --> 01:50:25.000 ♪ We 'bout to eat ♪ 3994 01:50:25.083 --> 01:50:26.477 - ♪ They think we can't - do this right here ♪ 3995 01:50:26.584 --> 01:50:28.895 - ♪ Well this motivation - music all in your ear to ♪ 3996 01:50:29.000 --> 01:50:30.292 ♪ Put in that work ♪ 3997 01:50:30.375 --> 01:50:31.811 - ♪ Get off your butt - and go put in work ♪ 3998 01:50:31.918 --> 01:50:32.936 ♪ Rise from the 3999 01:50:32.960 --> 01:50:34.000 dirt, you can do it ♪ 4000 01:50:34.083 --> 01:50:35.709 ♪ Through pain and hurt ♪ 4001 01:50:35.792 --> 01:50:37.334 ♪ I know you scared ♪ 4002 01:50:37.417 --> 01:50:39.042 ♪ Go and take courage ♪ 4003 01:50:39.125 --> 01:50:41.042 ♪ Don't look for no handouts ♪ 4004 01:50:41.125 --> 01:50:42.375 ♪ Go and you earn it ♪ 4005 01:50:42.459 --> 01:50:43.834 ♪ We got something beautiful ♪ 4006 01:50:43.918 --> 01:50:44.936 - ♪ But on the inside - you gotta believe it ♪ 4007 01:50:45.042 --> 01:50:47.186 - ♪ Even though we look - like dirt in the field ♪ 4008 01:50:47.292 --> 01:50:48.519 - ♪ Gotta have visionary - eyes and go see it ♪ 4009 01:50:48.626 --> 01:50:51.209 ♪ You see this, I see that ♪ 4010 01:50:51.292 --> 01:50:52.876 ♪ You see red, I see black ♪ 4011 01:50:52.959 --> 01:50:54.417 ♪ Green, white, blue, yellow ♪ 4012 01:50:54.500 --> 01:50:56.436 - ♪ It's your choice you - don't even gotta settle ♪ 4013 01:50:56.542 --> 01:50:57.334 ♪ We weak and despised ♪ 4014 01:50:57.417 --> 01:50:58.751 ♪ All in they eyes ♪ 4015 01:50:58.834 --> 01:51:00.102 - ♪ Well that's the perfect - situation from God ♪ 4016 01:51:00.209 --> 01:51:02.417 ♪ Get up and build your muscle ♪ 4017 01:51:02.500 --> 01:51:03.709 ♪ Have faith and hustle ♪ 4018 01:51:03.792 --> 01:51:05.250 ♪ He uses the foolish things ♪ 4019 01:51:05.334 --> 01:51:06.853 - ♪ Foolish things to - confound the wise ♪ 4020 01:51:06.959 --> 01:51:07.834 ♪ May live in the ghetto ♪ 4021 01:51:07.918 --> 01:51:09.167 ♪ But you aint gotta settle ♪ 4022 01:51:09.250 --> 01:51:10.728 - ♪ To the lifestyle and - believe it's lies ♪ 4023 01:51:10.834 --> 01:51:12.334 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 4024 01:51:12.417 --> 01:51:14.125 ♪ Sister get ready to eat ♪ 4025 01:51:14.209 --> 01:51:15.227 - ♪ Oh you think you can't - do this right here ♪ 4026 01:51:15.334 --> 01:51:16.728 ♪ Well this motivation 4027 01:51:16.752 --> 01:51:18.167 music all in your ear ♪ 4028 01:51:18.250 --> 01:51:19.375 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 4029 01:51:19.459 --> 01:51:21.083 ♪ Brother get ready to eat ♪ 4030 01:51:21.167 --> 01:51:22.728 - ♪ Why you think you can't - do this right here ♪ 4031 01:51:22.834 --> 01:51:24.686 - ♪ Well this motivation - music all in your ear to ♪ 4032 01:51:24.792 --> 01:51:27.083 ♪ Rise ♪ 4033 01:51:27.167 --> 01:51:31.000 ♪ Milwaukee home ♪ 4034 01:51:31.083 --> 01:51:32.167 ♪ We 'bout to rise ♪ 4035 01:51:32.250 --> 01:51:33.417 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 4036 01:51:33.500 --> 01:51:34.700 ♪ Milwaukee get ready to eat ♪ 4037 01:51:34.751 --> 01:51:35.626 ♪ We 'bout to eat ♪ 4038 01:51:35.709 --> 01:51:39.042 ♪ They think we can't do this ♪