1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:02,089 --> 00:00:04,110 (suspenseful music) (static cracks, siren wailing) 3 00:00:04,129 --> 00:00:09,000 (helicopter chuffing) (man on radio mumbles) 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:09,019 --> 00:00:11,029 (car horn blares) 6 00:00:13,140 --> 00:00:14,210 - [Lieutenant] I am Lieutenant (indistinct), 7 00:00:14,230 --> 00:00:17,010 a member of the Milwaukee Police Department. 8 00:00:17,030 --> 00:00:20,059 I hereby declare this assembly to be unlawful 9 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,120 and hereby order you to disperse. 10 00:00:22,140 --> 00:00:23,100 (crowd chanting) (siren wailing) 11 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,210 - [Muhibb] They can tell us. 12 00:00:24,230 --> 00:00:26,050 They can tell us 13 00:00:26,070 --> 00:00:28,140 that we 27% more likely 14 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,190 to die in Milwaukee in Brooklyn, New York, 15 00:00:30,210 --> 00:00:32,179 I'm never leaving. 16 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,159 - [Lieutenant] If you do not disperse immediately, 17 00:00:34,179 --> 00:00:36,079 you will be arrested. 18 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:37,149 (siren wailing) 19 00:00:37,170 --> 00:00:39,009 - [Muhibb] They can tell us, 20 00:00:39,030 --> 00:00:41,179 that we got the highest incarceration rate in America. 21 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:42,189 I believe in you. 22 00:00:42,210 --> 00:00:44,039 (audience chanting) 23 00:00:44,060 --> 00:00:46,009 They can tell us that we all gonna be locked up, 24 00:00:46,030 --> 00:00:47,130 we all gonna be in jail. 25 00:00:47,149 --> 00:00:49,009 I still believe in you. 26 00:00:49,030 --> 00:00:51,219 They can tell me that black boys who look just like me, 27 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,049 only 32% of us graduate from high school. 28 00:00:54,070 --> 00:00:55,130 I still believe in you 29 00:00:55,149 --> 00:00:58,039 and still believe that they will not break us. 30 00:00:58,060 --> 00:00:59,049 - [Man] Say it again. 31 00:00:59,070 --> 00:01:01,090 (audience clapping) 32 00:01:01,109 --> 00:01:02,189 Say it again. 33 00:01:02,210 --> 00:01:04,109 (man on radio mumbles) 34 00:01:04,129 --> 00:01:05,150 - [Muhibb] Let me talk to you for a minute. 35 00:01:05,170 --> 00:01:07,030 They will not break us. 36 00:01:07,049 --> 00:01:10,079 (audience clapping) 37 00:01:10,099 --> 00:01:11,060 - [Man] Say it again Muhibb. 38 00:01:11,079 --> 00:01:12,109 - [Muhibb] They cannot break us. 39 00:01:12,129 --> 00:01:13,090 - [Man] Say it. 40 00:01:13,109 --> 00:01:14,170 - They will not break us. 41 00:01:14,189 --> 00:01:15,189 - [Man] They will not break us. 42 00:01:15,210 --> 00:01:16,189 - [Muhibb] They cannot break us. 43 00:01:16,210 --> 00:01:18,019 - [Man] They cannot break us. 44 00:01:18,039 --> 00:01:20,010 - [Muhibb] There are no trials, no tribulation 45 00:01:20,030 --> 00:01:22,210 - [Both] No pressure, no pain, no hurricane, 46 00:01:22,230 --> 00:01:25,000 strong enough to stop my people. 47 00:01:25,019 --> 00:01:28,099 We always find our way back to God. 48 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,090 - [Muhibb] Behind every statistic, 49 00:01:31,109 --> 00:01:32,170 there's a story 50 00:01:33,189 --> 00:01:36,210 and quite frankly the media frustrates me. 51 00:01:36,229 --> 00:01:38,030 The news frustrates me. 52 00:01:39,219 --> 00:01:41,099 On a nine o'clock nightly news, 53 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,069 we hear the story of black boys 54 00:01:43,090 --> 00:01:45,219 who grow up on streets like Burleigh, Garfield, 55 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,060 Galena, Vine, Center, Holton and Buffum 56 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:52,069 and they're depicted as savages. 57 00:01:52,090 --> 00:01:53,219 (suspenseful music) (crowd chanting) 58 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 They're depicted as animals dying in the streets. 59 00:01:59,039 --> 00:02:02,140 Pretty much throw away children. 60 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:04,000 (fire cracking) 61 00:02:04,019 --> 00:02:07,120 What the media doesn't show you or tell you 62 00:02:07,140 --> 00:02:09,180 is what I see in a classroom. 63 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:11,060 (suspenseful music) 64 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,069 What I see in a classroom are little black children 65 00:02:14,090 --> 00:02:15,199 who raised their hand and say, 66 00:02:15,219 --> 00:02:18,129 "Oh, I want to be a business man, a business woman. 67 00:02:18,150 --> 00:02:21,000 "I wanna own the Fortune 500 company. 68 00:02:21,020 --> 00:02:22,199 "I wanna rule the world." 69 00:02:22,219 --> 00:02:24,009 (dramatic music) 70 00:02:24,030 --> 00:02:27,139 It's more convenient to deal with this statistic 71 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:29,219 and take the humanity out of it. 72 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,060 It's more convenient to deal with the statistic 73 00:02:32,079 --> 00:02:36,009 and not tell the real story that these are 74 00:02:36,030 --> 00:02:39,099 children who have hopes and dreams and aspirations, 75 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,110 just like anybody else. 76 00:02:41,129 --> 00:02:45,009 - [Kwabena] Everybody ain't gonna get this message today. 77 00:02:45,030 --> 00:02:47,050 Everybody ain't ready for it today. 78 00:02:47,069 --> 00:02:49,030 You only get out what you put in. 79 00:02:49,050 --> 00:02:50,219 This is like we on the block. 80 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:51,170 I'ma offer you. 81 00:02:51,189 --> 00:02:52,159 I'ma use this language. 82 00:02:52,180 --> 00:02:54,110 I'm offering you a pack today. 83 00:02:54,129 --> 00:02:57,030 I'm offering you something today, so you can get some bread. 84 00:02:57,050 --> 00:02:59,009 But the difference from school to the block, 85 00:02:59,030 --> 00:03:00,210 in school they make you stay, 86 00:03:00,229 --> 00:03:02,129 on the block you gotta option. 87 00:03:02,150 --> 00:03:04,080 This is the option today. 88 00:03:04,099 --> 00:03:05,080 - [Daryl] In the education system, we can activate 89 00:03:05,099 --> 00:03:08,229 the voice of students by giving them 90 00:03:09,009 --> 00:03:11,120 avenues to speak to people who are somewhat like them. 91 00:03:11,139 --> 00:03:12,169 Come from where they come from. 92 00:03:12,189 --> 00:03:14,039 Who look like them. 93 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:16,069 Who can kinda understand where they're coming from. 94 00:03:16,090 --> 00:03:19,170 Many times our students look at the population 95 00:03:19,189 --> 00:03:21,219 that teaches them and say that they don't truly 96 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,009 understand where I'm coming from. 97 00:03:25,030 --> 00:03:26,079 You're not from my block. 98 00:03:26,099 --> 00:03:27,189 You haven't been on my block. 99 00:03:27,210 --> 00:03:29,099 You haven't walked in my shoes 100 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,009 and so you'll never understand my story. 101 00:03:32,030 --> 00:03:33,050 - [Kwabena] 'Cause if you stay with doing 102 00:03:33,069 --> 00:03:34,189 what some of you may or may not be doing 103 00:03:34,210 --> 00:03:36,180 this is all you'll get. 104 00:03:38,050 --> 00:03:39,199 This is all you'll get. 105 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:41,060 It has some pictures in it. 106 00:03:41,079 --> 00:03:43,050 It talk about your life a little bit 107 00:03:43,069 --> 00:03:46,039 and the only people who will know you is your brother. 108 00:03:46,060 --> 00:03:48,199 But my young brothers, young kings, 109 00:03:48,219 --> 00:03:52,150 if you do something different with your life 110 00:03:52,170 --> 00:03:54,229 you get the right show on a narrative. 111 00:03:55,009 --> 00:03:56,150 You'll be able to give this to a little boy. 112 00:03:56,170 --> 00:03:59,129 See I believe this, helped me write this. 113 00:03:59,150 --> 00:04:00,150 So when I gave y'all that, 114 00:04:00,169 --> 00:04:02,069 I'm hoping that you're gonna take it 115 00:04:02,090 --> 00:04:05,120 and you gonna go in your neighborhood. 116 00:04:05,139 --> 00:04:08,139 When I was a boy, wilding out in high school, 117 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:10,050 I'm so glad I got some of y'all attention, 118 00:04:10,069 --> 00:04:12,050 I could see it in your eyes, 119 00:04:12,069 --> 00:04:14,120 acting a fool on the West side, 120 00:04:14,139 --> 00:04:17,040 mad 'cause my father got killed when I was a boy. 121 00:04:17,060 --> 00:04:18,079 - [David] So the amount of violence 122 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:20,060 that a young person is exposed to absolutely 123 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:24,060 has been shown to affect brain development. 124 00:04:24,079 --> 00:04:26,019 You know when you look at the cortisol levels 125 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,120 that are associated with stress, 126 00:04:28,139 --> 00:04:31,180 particularly what's called toxic stress in a community, 127 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:33,069 that is something that when people live with that 128 00:04:33,090 --> 00:04:36,110 for a long time it makes an impact 129 00:04:36,129 --> 00:04:39,000 on their whole life trajectory. 130 00:04:39,019 --> 00:04:40,060 - Raise your hand If you ever lost a friend 131 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:43,019 or a family member to violence. 132 00:04:44,029 --> 00:04:45,090 Hands down. 133 00:04:45,110 --> 00:04:46,199 Raise your hand, 134 00:04:48,029 --> 00:04:51,029 if you grew up in a house without your father. 135 00:04:51,050 --> 00:04:52,009 Okay and I want you to be honest (mumbles) 136 00:04:52,029 --> 00:04:53,079 Look I'm raising my hand too. 137 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:56,199 What you say in here stay in here. 138 00:04:56,220 --> 00:04:58,069 I hate to ask the question 139 00:04:58,090 --> 00:05:01,009 but raise your hand if you don't know your father. 140 00:05:01,029 --> 00:05:02,019 Never seen him? 141 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,100 Know anything about him? 142 00:05:06,209 --> 00:05:08,220 Is he dead? - No. 143 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,009 - [Kwabena] He just left. - No, he in jail. 144 00:05:11,029 --> 00:05:12,019 - [Kwabena] He in jail? 145 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,170 Do you talk to him at all? 146 00:05:14,189 --> 00:05:15,220 Okay. 147 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,089 I'm gonna have you write something for me. 148 00:05:17,110 --> 00:05:20,209 On the top of your paper write the phrase, "The truth is." 149 00:05:20,230 --> 00:05:24,029 Now, when you write "The truth is", 150 00:05:24,050 --> 00:05:25,139 treat it like this. 151 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,069 Do I want you to write some sad? 152 00:05:27,089 --> 00:05:29,079 Nope, but I want you to tell the truth. 153 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:33,079 Answer from your heart and not your head. 154 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:35,050 If you stop, you stop. 155 00:05:35,069 --> 00:05:39,060 If you get stuck, keep writing "truth is". 156 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:42,159 - [Daryl] I think the truth of a student is their truth 157 00:05:42,180 --> 00:05:46,230 and it's kind of hard to explain that or to define that. 158 00:05:47,009 --> 00:05:49,189 It's more of a definitive truth. 159 00:05:49,209 --> 00:05:52,180 It would be ignorant of me to think 160 00:05:52,199 --> 00:05:54,230 that every student that I look at 161 00:05:55,009 --> 00:05:56,090 who comes from an inner city, 162 00:05:56,110 --> 00:05:59,230 a neighborhood or a low income neighborhood, 163 00:06:00,009 --> 00:06:03,000 is the same as the other student next to him. 164 00:06:03,019 --> 00:06:05,040 So sometimes you have to get them in a circle 165 00:06:05,060 --> 00:06:08,019 and just find out what their truth actually is. 166 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,079 - [Kwabena] By show of hands, 167 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:11,149 who could have kept on writing? 168 00:06:11,170 --> 00:06:13,180 I'm glad you shed a tear 169 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:17,040 because trust me when I write it I shedded a tear. 170 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:19,029 Everybody take a look at your paper for me. 171 00:06:19,050 --> 00:06:20,110 I want you to read it. 172 00:06:20,129 --> 00:06:22,029 I just want you to look at it. 173 00:06:22,050 --> 00:06:25,060 So first off let me tell you why you looking at it. 174 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:26,110 I know you some of you emotional. 175 00:06:26,129 --> 00:06:27,149 I can look at your face. 176 00:06:27,170 --> 00:06:28,220 I'm gonna let you share it if you want to 177 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:29,180 but here's where I want you to think of 178 00:06:29,199 --> 00:06:32,029 when I'm talking to you. 179 00:06:32,050 --> 00:06:35,040 Do you not ever let anybody, 180 00:06:35,060 --> 00:06:37,050 tell you what you can and can't do. 181 00:06:37,069 --> 00:06:39,230 Life is either gonna break you or make you. 182 00:06:40,009 --> 00:06:41,060 If it break you, you gonna go back 183 00:06:41,079 --> 00:06:44,050 and be like everybody on your block. 184 00:06:44,069 --> 00:06:46,050 You gonna be like everybody you know. 185 00:06:46,069 --> 00:06:48,019 If it make you, you gonna be like, 186 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:49,120 "I came from that but look at me now." 187 00:06:49,139 --> 00:06:53,079 Only thing that gets in this game is death, 188 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:56,029 prison, wheelchairs and regret. 189 00:06:57,110 --> 00:06:59,029 Anybody wanna read what they wrote? 190 00:06:59,050 --> 00:07:00,040 Let's see what you got my man. 191 00:07:00,060 --> 00:07:00,230 What's your name? 192 00:07:01,009 --> 00:07:02,060 - [Marquell] Marquell. 193 00:07:02,079 --> 00:07:03,040 - [Kwabena] Marquell, when did it get bad? 194 00:07:03,060 --> 00:07:04,100 What happened? 195 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,050 - [Marquell] Me and my mom went into it one day 196 00:07:06,069 --> 00:07:09,040 and things just like started jumping off 197 00:07:09,060 --> 00:07:11,180 of me when I got to deal my mom 198 00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:12,139 and then, 199 00:07:14,029 --> 00:07:15,209 when she started whooping me more and stuff like that 200 00:07:15,230 --> 00:07:19,040 and then things just started jumping off when I was at 14. 201 00:07:19,060 --> 00:07:20,120 My mom started beating me with a stitching cord. 202 00:07:20,139 --> 00:07:23,129 I had bruises on my back and everything. 203 00:07:23,149 --> 00:07:24,199 Called my mom a bitch. 204 00:07:24,220 --> 00:07:26,230 Told her I don't love her no more 205 00:07:27,009 --> 00:07:29,170 and I just started trying to keep my distance away from her. 206 00:07:29,189 --> 00:07:31,060 - [David] When we talk about violence, 207 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:33,129 oftentimes we focus so heavily on gun violence 208 00:07:33,149 --> 00:07:36,079 that we neglect the fact that sometimes 209 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:38,040 the first exposure, in fact oftentimes, 210 00:07:38,060 --> 00:07:40,029 the first exposure to violence 211 00:07:40,050 --> 00:07:42,220 is interpersonal domestic violence, 212 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,000 intimate partner violence, violence in the home. 213 00:07:47,019 --> 00:07:48,189 As that being the first exposure 214 00:07:48,209 --> 00:07:52,060 it can really make an impact on a young person's 215 00:07:52,079 --> 00:07:56,019 learning their physical development and their whole, 216 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,139 their life course. 217 00:07:57,159 --> 00:07:59,199 So it absolutely makes an impact. 218 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:01,170 - [Kwabena] You feel like your mom love you? 219 00:08:01,189 --> 00:08:04,120 - I don't feel like she don't love me no more. 220 00:08:04,139 --> 00:08:06,050 - [Kwabena] Did she ever? 221 00:08:06,069 --> 00:08:07,189 - [Marquell] At first she did. 222 00:08:07,209 --> 00:08:09,220 - [Mary] In terms of how youth will respond 223 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,139 to trauma in the household varies so much 224 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:17,009 on how often the trauma's occurring, 225 00:08:17,029 --> 00:08:20,029 how violent the situation is, 226 00:08:20,050 --> 00:08:22,230 how they respond to that violence 227 00:08:24,060 --> 00:08:26,230 and so when that happens to us, 228 00:08:27,009 --> 00:08:29,149 some people respond by pulling in 229 00:08:29,170 --> 00:08:32,029 and some people become very external. 230 00:08:32,049 --> 00:08:35,070 So it's very dependent on that child 231 00:08:35,090 --> 00:08:36,149 and that child's reaction 232 00:08:36,169 --> 00:08:39,009 whether they're going to try to fight 233 00:08:39,029 --> 00:08:40,210 or whether they're gonna try to get away 234 00:08:40,230 --> 00:08:42,129 from the experience. 235 00:08:42,149 --> 00:08:43,179 - [Kwabena] Let's see what you got man, be loud. 236 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,070 Y'all give a brother a hand. 237 00:08:45,090 --> 00:08:48,070 (crowd clapping) 238 00:08:49,090 --> 00:08:50,149 Be loud as you can. 239 00:08:50,169 --> 00:08:51,220 - [Marquell] "The truth is 240 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:52,230 "that I wish I knew my dad like everybody else. 241 00:08:53,009 --> 00:08:55,090 "The truth is, I wish I wasn't alive. 242 00:08:55,110 --> 00:08:57,029 "The truth is, I wanna change. 243 00:08:57,049 --> 00:08:59,100 "The truth is, life isn't what you make it. 244 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,039 "The truth is that I wanna be the best person ever. 245 00:09:02,059 --> 00:09:03,149 "The truth is, I wish things was the same. 246 00:09:03,169 --> 00:09:06,149 "The truth is, why do I struggle so much? 247 00:09:06,169 --> 00:09:08,029 "The truth is, why we fighting 248 00:09:08,049 --> 00:09:09,159 "(stutters) kill each other every day? 249 00:09:09,179 --> 00:09:13,100 "The truth is, why is my mom pushing me away? 250 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,080 "The truth is, sometimes that I feel alone. 251 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:18,210 "The truth is, that I try to be happy but never can. 252 00:09:18,230 --> 00:09:20,230 (paper rustles) 253 00:09:21,009 --> 00:09:23,220 "The truth is that I feel like I don't need to be here." 254 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,070 - [Kwabena] Give him a hand. 255 00:09:25,090 --> 00:09:27,070 (crowd clapping) 256 00:09:27,090 --> 00:09:28,230 - [Daryl] And so we definitely have a piece in which 257 00:09:29,009 --> 00:09:31,090 we bring in professionals 258 00:09:31,110 --> 00:09:33,149 who come in and who work with the students. 259 00:09:33,169 --> 00:09:34,220 But sometimes it's best 260 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,019 to bring in some people from the neighborhood 261 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:38,039 who can definitely, 262 00:09:38,059 --> 00:09:40,159 what we say is, "get on their level" sometimes 263 00:09:40,179 --> 00:09:43,080 and let them understand because sometimes they hear you 264 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:44,200 but they don't hear you 265 00:09:44,220 --> 00:09:47,009 and sometimes the people from the neighborhood, 266 00:09:47,029 --> 00:09:48,159 those are the people who they can look in their eyes 267 00:09:48,179 --> 00:09:51,110 and say, "I seen you from the neighborhood. 268 00:09:51,129 --> 00:09:52,120 "You look like me. 269 00:09:52,139 --> 00:09:53,080 "You act like me. 270 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:55,000 "You've been in this place 271 00:09:55,019 --> 00:09:57,139 "and so now I can receive from you a little bit better 272 00:09:57,159 --> 00:09:59,210 "than I can receive from the system." 273 00:09:59,230 --> 00:10:01,039 (Kwabena mumbles) 274 00:10:01,059 --> 00:10:02,100 - "He throwing hand signs in the air. 275 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,129 "Mom is calling, he ain't listening. 276 00:10:03,149 --> 00:10:05,090 "Mom is calling, he aint listening. 277 00:10:05,110 --> 00:10:07,120 "Blocks call, he's standing at attention. 278 00:10:07,139 --> 00:10:08,190 "Three. 279 00:10:08,210 --> 00:10:09,190 "Two. 280 00:10:09,210 --> 00:10:10,149 "One." 281 00:10:10,169 --> 00:10:12,009 - [Muhibb] There's a old, 282 00:10:12,029 --> 00:10:13,210 Billy Holiday song that says, 283 00:10:13,230 --> 00:10:17,220 "God bless the child that has his own." 284 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,059 And I'm reminded of how important and significant 285 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,049 it is for black children. 286 00:10:23,070 --> 00:10:26,190 Especially growing up in Milwaukee to have their own. 287 00:10:26,210 --> 00:10:30,090 To have their own talent, to have their own dreams. 288 00:10:30,110 --> 00:10:32,049 When you have your own, 289 00:10:32,070 --> 00:10:35,110 you possess the power to close your eyes at night 290 00:10:35,129 --> 00:10:38,139 and dream of something bigger and something greater. 291 00:10:38,159 --> 00:10:39,149 You dream of being on the stage. 292 00:10:39,169 --> 00:10:42,100 Wherever your dreams can take you, 293 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,149 wherever your talent can take you, 294 00:10:44,169 --> 00:10:46,190 it indeed is a blessing, 295 00:10:46,210 --> 00:10:49,090 just to be able to close your eyes 296 00:10:49,110 --> 00:10:51,029 and close your ears 297 00:10:51,049 --> 00:10:54,179 and not being able to hear the sound of the gunshot. 298 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,169 God bless the child that's got his own. 299 00:10:57,190 --> 00:10:59,029 - [Fidel] Welcome to True Skool. 300 00:10:59,049 --> 00:11:00,009 - [Tiana] Thank you. 301 00:11:00,029 --> 00:11:00,179 - [Fidel] What's your name? 302 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:01,129 - [Tiana] Tiana. 303 00:11:01,149 --> 00:11:02,070 - [Fidel] Tiana. 304 00:11:02,090 --> 00:11:03,110 My name is Fidel. 305 00:11:03,129 --> 00:11:04,129 - [Tiana] Nice to meet you. 306 00:11:04,149 --> 00:11:05,120 - So, have you ever been here before? 307 00:11:05,139 --> 00:11:06,149 - No sir. 308 00:11:06,169 --> 00:11:08,159 - So, I'ma start out and give you the whole tour 309 00:11:08,179 --> 00:11:10,080 and tell you a little bit about the organization. 310 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:11,149 - Okay. - All right? 311 00:11:11,169 --> 00:11:13,000 So this is an after-school organization 312 00:11:13,019 --> 00:11:14,159 for high school students 313 00:11:14,179 --> 00:11:16,019 and we do homework help 314 00:11:16,039 --> 00:11:18,080 and then they also have creative media classes. 315 00:11:18,100 --> 00:11:20,039 So let me show you the music space. 316 00:11:20,059 --> 00:11:23,139 We all collaborate and work together 317 00:11:23,159 --> 00:11:26,029 and make original artwork and music 318 00:11:26,049 --> 00:11:29,000 and it's really about creating a safe environment 319 00:11:29,019 --> 00:11:31,179 where young people can express themselves 320 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,039 and explore different mediums of art and also design 321 00:11:36,059 --> 00:11:37,090 and then we help them 322 00:11:37,110 --> 00:11:39,039 to develop their professional portfolio 323 00:11:39,059 --> 00:11:40,190 so they can get paid off of those mediums. 324 00:11:40,210 --> 00:11:41,220 That's what we really all about. 325 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:42,210 (Tiana exclaims) 326 00:11:42,230 --> 00:11:43,159 So what's your skill level? 327 00:11:43,179 --> 00:11:44,230 What do you do? 328 00:11:45,009 --> 00:11:48,120 - [Tiana] I write music, I sing and I rap. 329 00:11:48,139 --> 00:11:50,139 - [Fidel] So the first thing you say is most important, 330 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:51,210 you write music. 331 00:11:51,230 --> 00:11:55,129 The students are not all writers. 332 00:11:55,149 --> 00:11:57,049 Some of them like to freestyle and things like that. 333 00:11:57,070 --> 00:11:58,149 So (stutters) we develop writers. 334 00:11:58,169 --> 00:12:01,090 (upbeat music) 335 00:12:12,169 --> 00:12:14,029 So what do you think so far? 336 00:12:14,049 --> 00:12:15,009 - [Tiana] I like it. 337 00:12:15,029 --> 00:12:16,049 I like what y'all are doing. 338 00:12:16,070 --> 00:12:17,129 It's positive. 339 00:12:17,149 --> 00:12:18,230 It's something for young people to do 340 00:12:19,009 --> 00:12:21,080 'cause I truly feel like 341 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:22,220 it don't be enough stuff to do 342 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,039 or a lot of teenagers don't know about it 343 00:12:26,059 --> 00:12:28,220 and that's why everybody out here doing crazy stuff 344 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,120 and fighting and not doing positive stuff so. 345 00:12:32,139 --> 00:12:34,000 - So what brings you here 346 00:12:34,019 --> 00:12:36,090 is you interested in participating in the showcase? 347 00:12:36,110 --> 00:12:37,200 - [Tiana] Yes. 348 00:12:37,220 --> 00:12:41,009 - [Fidel] So are you ready to give me a sample? 349 00:12:41,029 --> 00:12:42,070 - [Tiana] Yeah. 350 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:44,139 - Of your skills, your voice, your performance? 351 00:12:44,159 --> 00:12:45,139 Are you comfortable? 352 00:12:45,159 --> 00:12:46,100 - [Tiana] Yeah. - Okay. 353 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:47,149 - [Tiana] Def- - Okay 354 00:12:47,169 --> 00:12:49,039 and it will, after we just kind of 355 00:12:49,059 --> 00:12:50,000 get a taste of it here, 356 00:12:50,019 --> 00:12:51,129 we'll go into the studio 357 00:12:51,149 --> 00:12:53,129 and then we'll record something 358 00:12:53,149 --> 00:12:55,039 and get the real feel of the vibe. 359 00:12:55,059 --> 00:12:56,120 - [Tiana] Okay. 360 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,169 ♪ Sincerely ♪ 361 00:13:02,190 --> 00:13:07,120 ♪ Lord can you hear my cry ♪ 362 00:13:07,139 --> 00:13:12,039 ♪ Lord please forgive me ♪ 363 00:13:12,059 --> 00:13:17,000 ♪ I sin but just know that I try ♪ 364 00:13:17,019 --> 00:13:19,070 ♪ I try to do better for you ♪ 365 00:13:19,090 --> 00:13:21,190 ♪ These demons they leaching they cruel ♪ 366 00:13:21,210 --> 00:13:24,090 ♪ I think I did all I can do ♪ 367 00:13:24,110 --> 00:13:26,169 ♪ I finally put trust in you ♪ 368 00:13:26,190 --> 00:13:29,049 ♪ My blood racing my eyes (mumbles) ♪ 369 00:13:29,070 --> 00:13:32,090 ♪ I'm doing wrong and I know it ♪ 370 00:13:32,110 --> 00:13:35,080 ♪ 2020 I'm focused ♪ 371 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:36,039 ♪ I'm focused, yeah ♪ 372 00:13:36,059 --> 00:13:37,210 - [Fidel] That's amazing 373 00:13:37,230 --> 00:13:38,220 (upbeat music) (Tiana laughs) 374 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,019 - [Tiana] So what should I say? 375 00:13:40,039 --> 00:13:41,049 - [Fidel] At the beginning of that song. 376 00:13:41,070 --> 00:13:42,070 See if you can (mumbles) on over here. 377 00:13:42,090 --> 00:13:43,200 (upbeat music continues) 378 00:13:43,220 --> 00:13:45,149 - [Tiana] Oh while the beat going? 379 00:13:45,169 --> 00:13:47,070 - [Fidel] Yeah. 380 00:13:47,090 --> 00:13:50,009 (Fidel chuckles) 381 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:52,210 (Tiana mumbles) 382 00:13:52,230 --> 00:13:55,070 I seen you do the rap part. 383 00:13:56,149 --> 00:13:58,070 Or do a different rap. 384 00:14:00,169 --> 00:14:01,139 ♪ Hey yo ♪ 385 00:14:01,159 --> 00:14:03,159 ♪ Don't need a crown need pen ♪ 386 00:14:03,179 --> 00:14:05,039 ♪ It's been a minute been spinning ♪ 387 00:14:05,059 --> 00:14:06,179 ♪ What time we been ♪ 388 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,169 ♪ I know they listen just hoping they comprehend ♪ 389 00:14:09,190 --> 00:14:13,059 ♪ After this song that day you make a dis song again ♪ 390 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:14,139 ♪ Forgot your feelings ♪ 391 00:14:14,159 --> 00:14:15,139 ♪ That's the most they'll put you in ♪ 392 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:16,230 ♪ They can't stop me ♪ 393 00:14:17,009 --> 00:14:19,000 ♪ They hardly can even sit in the spot with me ♪ 394 00:14:19,019 --> 00:14:20,139 ♪ Keep it one hundred ♪ 395 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:22,029 ♪ I'm the reason these bitches don't stand a chance ♪ 396 00:14:22,049 --> 00:14:23,169 ♪ But don't be mad at me ♪ 397 00:14:23,190 --> 00:14:26,049 ♪ I ain't tell your ass pick up the pen ♪ 398 00:14:26,070 --> 00:14:29,120 ♪ Blaze blah two nine the block ♪ 399 00:14:29,139 --> 00:14:32,169 ♪ Yummy world you ridin' or not ♪ 400 00:14:32,190 --> 00:14:34,200 ♪ Push the pedal, the gas go levels ♪ 401 00:14:34,220 --> 00:14:36,149 ♪ I gave my whole life to this world ♪ 402 00:14:36,169 --> 00:14:38,029 ♪ Now I keep seeing the devil ♪ 403 00:14:38,049 --> 00:14:39,110 ♪ Killed or be killed ♪ 404 00:14:39,129 --> 00:14:41,120 ♪ It's a jungle lions, tigers and bears ♪ 405 00:14:41,139 --> 00:14:43,049 ♪ If it's survival for the fittest ♪ 406 00:14:43,070 --> 00:14:44,179 ♪ Bitch I'm facing my fears ♪ 407 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:45,220 ♪ Killing my rivals ♪ 408 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,179 ♪ Anything for me to remain the title ♪ 409 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,139 ♪ I'm not the idol, I'm your idol ♪ 410 00:14:49,159 --> 00:14:51,009 ♪ Niggas worship my body ♪ 411 00:14:51,029 --> 00:14:52,080 ♪ Not suicidal ♪ 412 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,000 ♪ But I hung the old me with a wire ♪ 413 00:14:54,019 --> 00:14:55,080 ♪ There's no one like me ♪ 414 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:57,039 ♪ Is a (mumbles) that the demon inside me ♪ 415 00:14:57,059 --> 00:14:58,179 ♪ So do not try me ♪ 416 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,120 ♪ You're gon' see your soul outside of your body ♪ 417 00:15:00,139 --> 00:15:02,009 ♪ I'm hot like fire ♪ 418 00:15:02,029 --> 00:15:03,139 ♪ But when I spit is from the cold heart inside me ♪ 419 00:15:03,159 --> 00:15:06,000 ♪ My nigga ♪ 420 00:15:06,019 --> 00:15:07,070 ♪ I'm still flexing on 'em ♪ 421 00:15:07,090 --> 00:15:08,169 - [Fidel] Okay, okay, okay, okay. 422 00:15:08,190 --> 00:15:09,210 Don't hurt 'em, goddamn. 423 00:15:09,230 --> 00:15:10,159 (all laughing) 424 00:15:10,179 --> 00:15:11,179 (Fidel exclaims) 425 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,200 Jeez louis. 426 00:15:12,220 --> 00:15:14,210 - [Sharlen] So we huge disparities 427 00:15:14,230 --> 00:15:17,019 that are going on in the city. 428 00:15:17,039 --> 00:15:19,200 High unemployment, high poverty, 429 00:15:19,220 --> 00:15:22,190 we're one of the most segregated cities in the country 430 00:15:22,210 --> 00:15:25,179 and it's important that young people understand 431 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,100 that they have a drive 432 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,190 and they have (stutters) they're talented 433 00:15:29,210 --> 00:15:30,210 and they're creative 434 00:15:30,230 --> 00:15:31,230 and they can use all of those elements 435 00:15:32,009 --> 00:15:33,220 in order to change the conditions 436 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,049 that are currently existing in Milwaukee. 437 00:15:37,070 --> 00:15:39,019 - [Fidel] So, we will communicate with you 438 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:40,200 about the details for the showcase. 439 00:15:40,220 --> 00:15:42,200 - Yeah and I wanna talk to whoever get this beat 440 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:44,179 'cause I want that beat. 441 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:45,129 - Absolutely. 442 00:15:45,149 --> 00:15:46,190 Well thank you for coming. 443 00:15:46,210 --> 00:15:48,000 - Thank you. 444 00:15:48,019 --> 00:15:49,090 - [Fidel] Thank you for stepping up 445 00:15:49,110 --> 00:15:51,110 and not being shy. 446 00:15:51,129 --> 00:15:54,190 - [Muhibb] I was born on 12th and Burleigh. 447 00:15:54,210 --> 00:15:55,230 In the zip code of 53206. 448 00:15:58,019 --> 00:15:59,190 The most incarcerated zip code 449 00:15:59,210 --> 00:16:02,009 in the United States of America. 450 00:16:02,029 --> 00:16:04,210 The jail suit talks to us every day 451 00:16:04,230 --> 00:16:07,039 and the jail suit says to us, 452 00:16:07,059 --> 00:16:08,220 "Little black boy wear my suit." 453 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:09,179 (Muhibb chuckles) 454 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,049 And we say, "No. 455 00:16:11,070 --> 00:16:12,110 "'Cause my momma said, 456 00:16:12,129 --> 00:16:14,049 "if I go to school and I get a good education, 457 00:16:14,070 --> 00:16:15,070 "I could beat you." 458 00:16:15,090 --> 00:16:18,090 And the jail suit says, "You can't beat me. 459 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:20,179 "You gonna be just like your no good daddy. 460 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,139 "You gonna be like everybody who looks like you, 461 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:24,100 "who walks like you, who talks like you, 462 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,149 "who grew up in the same neighborhood as you. 463 00:16:26,169 --> 00:16:27,179 "This is where you belong. 464 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,210 "What you wanna be a doctor? 465 00:16:28,230 --> 00:16:31,019 "No that's for the smart people of the world 466 00:16:31,039 --> 00:16:32,080 "and everybody knows 467 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:34,169 "that little black children ain't smart." 468 00:16:34,190 --> 00:16:36,200 So we put that jail suit on 469 00:16:36,220 --> 00:16:38,200 and we say, "I'll wear your suit. 470 00:16:38,220 --> 00:16:42,120 "'Cause after all, what else do I have to live for?" 471 00:16:42,139 --> 00:16:44,000 But we still have dreams. 472 00:16:44,019 --> 00:16:45,159 We still want more 473 00:16:45,179 --> 00:16:46,220 (door knocks) 474 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,059 but it sure is hard to outrun that jail suit. 475 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:51,139 - [Sean] Hello. 476 00:16:51,159 --> 00:16:52,049 - [Johnnie] How you doing? - I'm fine. 477 00:16:52,070 --> 00:16:53,019 - Sean Wilson. 478 00:16:53,039 --> 00:16:54,169 - Okay, Johnnie Henderson. 479 00:16:54,190 --> 00:16:55,190 Program director here at Next Chapter Living Center 480 00:16:55,210 --> 00:16:57,029 and one of the co-owners. 481 00:16:57,049 --> 00:16:58,169 - Okay. 482 00:16:58,190 --> 00:16:59,080 - [Johnnie] The boys they're already expecting you today. 483 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:00,179 - [Sean] Okay. 484 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,070 - [Johnnie] So they're just playing a video game right now 485 00:17:02,090 --> 00:17:04,130 and we'll have you go down into our conference room 486 00:17:04,150 --> 00:17:05,230 and then once you get set up and everything 487 00:17:06,009 --> 00:17:07,140 we'll have the boys come down 488 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,170 for you to talk to them. - [Sean] Okay let's do it. 489 00:17:08,190 --> 00:17:10,180 - [Johnnie] Okay. 490 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,190 All right, good morning you guys. 491 00:17:11,210 --> 00:17:13,210 As I told you guys a little bit earlier today 492 00:17:13,230 --> 00:17:16,059 that we did have a guest speaker that would be here. 493 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:17,069 His name is Mr. Sean Wilson 494 00:17:17,089 --> 00:17:19,230 and I'm gonna turn over the floor to him. 495 00:17:20,009 --> 00:17:21,069 - Thank you Johnnie. 496 00:17:21,089 --> 00:17:22,119 How you guys doing? 497 00:17:22,140 --> 00:17:23,140 - [All] Good. 498 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:24,119 - [Sean] When I look at y'all, 499 00:17:24,140 --> 00:17:26,190 I see a reflection of myself. 500 00:17:26,210 --> 00:17:27,200 When I look at y'all (stutters) 501 00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:31,019 I'm speaking to a 16, 17 year-old Sean. 502 00:17:31,210 --> 00:17:33,230 I grew up on 13th and Burleigh. 503 00:17:34,009 --> 00:17:36,009 I started to contribute to the violence in my community, 504 00:17:36,029 --> 00:17:40,109 to the drug, drug selling in my community. 505 00:17:40,130 --> 00:17:42,099 I started to steal, 506 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,200 I started to take and as a result, 507 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:48,220 I found myself in prison at the age of 17. 508 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,220 - [John] You know prosecutors deal with people, 509 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,220 whether they're victims or people 510 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,109 that have been accused of crimes. 511 00:17:54,130 --> 00:17:58,009 Usually at one of the lowest times in their life. 512 00:17:58,029 --> 00:18:00,210 In Milwaukee, like many, many other cities 513 00:18:00,230 --> 00:18:02,150 around the country, 514 00:18:02,170 --> 00:18:05,089 our young people come to us 515 00:18:05,109 --> 00:18:08,230 from situations often of extreme poverty. 516 00:18:10,009 --> 00:18:11,200 They have oftentimes been exposed 517 00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:14,099 to really traumatic conditions. 518 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:15,119 - Let's rewind. 519 00:18:15,140 --> 00:18:17,069 At the age of 13, I went to DT. 520 00:18:20,059 --> 00:18:23,089 Fortunately, I only did a month in DT. 521 00:18:23,109 --> 00:18:25,119 After that, that should have been the wake up call. 522 00:18:25,140 --> 00:18:26,200 I bumped my head. 523 00:18:26,220 --> 00:18:27,190 Ouch! 524 00:18:27,210 --> 00:18:28,230 It hurt. 525 00:18:29,009 --> 00:18:31,049 I should've woke up from there but I didn't. 526 00:18:31,069 --> 00:18:34,220 I went right back to the same community, 527 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,049 hung out with the same guys, 528 00:18:37,069 --> 00:18:39,079 who weren't writing me, 529 00:18:39,099 --> 00:18:41,099 who weren't sending me no canteen money, 530 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,109 when I was in DT. 531 00:18:43,130 --> 00:18:48,000 - Once that child gets into the age of 14, 15, 16, 532 00:18:48,019 --> 00:18:49,210 the system changes a little bit 533 00:18:49,230 --> 00:18:52,230 and now we call it the delinquency system 534 00:18:53,009 --> 00:18:54,230 and oftentimes what we're doing there 535 00:18:55,009 --> 00:18:58,059 is now we're starting to change more towards prosecution 536 00:18:58,079 --> 00:19:01,119 and balancing public safety with the needs of the child 537 00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:03,210 and then once they become 17, guess what? 538 00:19:03,230 --> 00:19:05,119 They're treated as adults 539 00:19:05,140 --> 00:19:08,079 and the system takes a totally different approach 540 00:19:08,099 --> 00:19:11,059 towards people committing the offense. 541 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:13,039 - Three years later, 542 00:19:13,059 --> 00:19:15,130 here I am in DT once again. 543 00:19:17,109 --> 00:19:19,160 Facing a lot of time. 544 00:19:19,180 --> 00:19:21,170 Facing time that can possibly send me away 545 00:19:21,190 --> 00:19:24,009 for the rest of my life 546 00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:27,109 and I ultimately received 17 years in prison. 547 00:19:27,130 --> 00:19:29,059 - [John] There's like a 10 year period 548 00:19:29,079 --> 00:19:32,049 where that brain is developing. 549 00:19:32,069 --> 00:19:34,210 (John stutters) The person is changing 550 00:19:34,230 --> 00:19:38,130 and so if you see a dangerous circumstance 551 00:19:38,150 --> 00:19:40,059 that a young person is committing, 552 00:19:40,079 --> 00:19:41,200 the ordinary person would say, 553 00:19:41,220 --> 00:19:42,220 "Well you've gotta punish that kid. 554 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,009 "You gotta remove 'em from the community." 555 00:19:45,029 --> 00:19:46,140 And we have to then balance that. 556 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:47,210 We have to say, 557 00:19:47,230 --> 00:19:50,009 "Yeah but this is gonna be a different person 558 00:19:50,029 --> 00:19:51,160 "two years from now. 559 00:19:51,180 --> 00:19:53,119 "It's gonna be a different person 10 years from now." 560 00:19:53,140 --> 00:19:56,170 And trying to incorporate that kind of thinking 561 00:19:56,190 --> 00:19:57,200 takes us in a different direction. 562 00:19:57,220 --> 00:20:00,019 It doesn't become about punishment, 563 00:20:00,039 --> 00:20:03,000 it becomes about how do we fix this problem 564 00:20:03,019 --> 00:20:04,019 for the longterm. 565 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:06,150 - It took me 17 years 566 00:20:06,170 --> 00:20:08,200 to come to the realization that 567 00:20:08,220 --> 00:20:11,230 this life, this so-called street life, 568 00:20:12,009 --> 00:20:17,000 this hood life, being a street nigga, being a hood nigga, 569 00:20:17,019 --> 00:20:19,019 it took me 17 years to realize 570 00:20:19,039 --> 00:20:21,029 that there's no future in that. 571 00:20:21,049 --> 00:20:22,069 At all. 572 00:20:22,089 --> 00:20:24,200 I've been home almost two years now 573 00:20:24,220 --> 00:20:26,140 and I'm the statewide organizer 574 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,029 for criminal justice reform for the ACLU. 575 00:20:29,049 --> 00:20:31,210 My job title was to cut the prison population 576 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:34,220 here in Wisconsin by 50%. 577 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,009 Wisconsin locks up more black males 578 00:20:38,029 --> 00:20:41,170 than any other state in this country. 579 00:20:41,190 --> 00:20:44,130 - [David] Milwaukee sends about 6,000, 580 00:20:44,150 --> 00:20:46,119 you know, people, black men, 581 00:20:46,140 --> 00:20:50,200 to the Prison Industrial Complex of the state of Wisconsin. 582 00:20:50,220 --> 00:20:54,029 You got somewhere between 20 and 25,000 583 00:20:54,049 --> 00:20:55,079 people locked up in the state. 584 00:20:55,099 --> 00:20:57,099 The overwhelming majority are black. 585 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,039 Overwhelming majority come from Milwaukee. 586 00:21:00,059 --> 00:21:02,049 - [Sean] That's good information to have 587 00:21:02,069 --> 00:21:05,210 because it lets you know that you are a target 588 00:21:05,230 --> 00:21:07,049 but it also lets you know 589 00:21:07,069 --> 00:21:10,039 that I need to do everything in my power 590 00:21:10,059 --> 00:21:13,200 to put myself in the position where I'm not a statistic 591 00:21:13,220 --> 00:21:15,210 and not only am I not a statistic 592 00:21:15,230 --> 00:21:20,119 but I'm helping other brothers not become a statistic. 593 00:21:20,140 --> 00:21:23,039 - [David] In terms of young people committing crimes 594 00:21:23,059 --> 00:21:25,210 and I really get away from the language of crime. 595 00:21:25,230 --> 00:21:29,140 Criminality is about policing people 596 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,059 as well as their relationship to resources. 597 00:21:33,079 --> 00:21:38,000 All crime is really unmet human need at some level 598 00:21:38,019 --> 00:21:40,039 because the people are immoral. 599 00:21:40,059 --> 00:21:41,089 It's not because of a value judgment, 600 00:21:41,109 --> 00:21:45,019 it is not because of any biological difference 601 00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:47,029 in people of color, particularly black people 602 00:21:47,049 --> 00:21:48,119 that we can't thrive 603 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:51,099 but it is those structural factors 604 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,079 that deny people access to quality housing, 605 00:21:54,099 --> 00:21:58,039 education that will lift us into the 21st century 606 00:21:58,059 --> 00:22:00,180 and when there's concentrated disadvantage, 607 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,000 people respond in survival mode. 608 00:22:03,019 --> 00:22:04,079 - [Sean] What's your story man? 609 00:22:04,099 --> 00:22:05,150 Tell me a little bit about yourself man. 610 00:22:05,170 --> 00:22:06,230 - [Brandon] My momma, she started doing drugs 611 00:22:07,009 --> 00:22:08,150 and all that 'cause she lost her house. 612 00:22:08,170 --> 00:22:10,049 I forgot what for or whatever. 613 00:22:10,069 --> 00:22:11,130 I guess she didn't have enough money, 614 00:22:11,150 --> 00:22:13,140 that's nothing to do with the cases. 615 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,160 So she started doing drugs and all that. 616 00:22:15,180 --> 00:22:18,099 You know, she had to find a way for us to live 617 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,089 and you know, eat and all the other stuff. 618 00:22:20,109 --> 00:22:22,039 So we would have to walk to the store 619 00:22:22,059 --> 00:22:26,170 like two miles down just to go to the store and steal 620 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,099 and one day she got caught 621 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,039 and (stutters) they took me away from her 622 00:22:32,059 --> 00:22:33,180 and I ended up in foster care. 623 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,170 So I had to wait on my sister 624 00:22:35,190 --> 00:22:37,130 and my sister took about like two or three months 625 00:22:37,150 --> 00:22:40,230 to come get me over, from here in Milwaukee. 626 00:22:41,009 --> 00:22:42,180 She came all the way down in Dallas to come get me 627 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,069 and she adopted me and I was staying with her 628 00:22:46,089 --> 00:22:49,170 but ended up to a point where it just wasn't working out. 629 00:22:49,190 --> 00:22:52,039 Like, I started being a little bit disobedient 630 00:22:52,059 --> 00:22:54,009 'cause I feel like I was getting older 631 00:22:54,029 --> 00:22:55,210 and like it was certain stuff that I wanted to do 632 00:22:55,230 --> 00:22:57,190 that she told me I couldn't do. 633 00:22:57,210 --> 00:22:59,049 I was like hanging around, 634 00:22:59,069 --> 00:23:02,059 you know like people who was doing the wrong things. 635 00:23:02,079 --> 00:23:04,220 I ended up starting smoking at the age of 12. 636 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,079 Stealing cars and stuff like that. 637 00:23:07,099 --> 00:23:10,109 - [David] Violence as it manifests in the community again 638 00:23:10,130 --> 00:23:13,059 is a result of an unmet human need. 639 00:23:13,079 --> 00:23:17,160 So density rates or where the shootings take place, 640 00:23:17,180 --> 00:23:18,190 if you look at the maps, 641 00:23:18,210 --> 00:23:21,230 they're immediately over the same type of areas 642 00:23:22,009 --> 00:23:23,160 where there's housing instability, 643 00:23:23,180 --> 00:23:26,029 where there's low educational attainment, 644 00:23:26,049 --> 00:23:28,109 where there's high infant mortality, 645 00:23:28,130 --> 00:23:33,109 all of it's concentrated in most of the same neighborhoods. 646 00:23:34,009 --> 00:23:35,099 - Okay. 647 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:36,230 - [Brandon] Like, how I got in here, me and my friend, 648 00:23:37,009 --> 00:23:40,000 we robbed a, we tried to rob Washington High School 649 00:23:40,019 --> 00:23:43,059 and that's what ended up, we ended up doing. 650 00:23:43,079 --> 00:23:44,079 - [Sean] Yeah. 651 00:23:44,099 --> 00:23:46,089 - [Brandon] And so that's the day 652 00:23:46,109 --> 00:23:49,019 we ended up robbing somebody else in the midst of it 653 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:52,150 and we got caught and boom we got hit with two cases 654 00:23:52,170 --> 00:23:56,099 and now I'm (stutters) in here and trynna get myself out of. 655 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,079 - [David] If we don't address the structural factors 656 00:23:59,099 --> 00:24:03,119 of employment, of education, of remedial education, 657 00:24:03,140 --> 00:24:08,059 of health, of basic infrastructure for Milwaukee's poor 658 00:24:10,170 --> 00:24:14,170 and for Milwaukee's marginalized residents, 659 00:24:14,190 --> 00:24:17,200 if we don't do that, then violence is gonna continue 660 00:24:17,220 --> 00:24:22,230 to be the social response to the injustice in the society. 661 00:24:23,190 --> 00:24:25,079 - [Sean] That's what's up man. 662 00:24:25,099 --> 00:24:27,119 I'm glad that you, you know, took this time to talk to me, 663 00:24:27,140 --> 00:24:30,230 to tell me a little bit about your story. 664 00:24:31,009 --> 00:24:33,000 You a very intelligent young man. 665 00:24:33,019 --> 00:24:35,109 Your future is definitely very bright 666 00:24:35,130 --> 00:24:37,200 and you just gotta stay focused man. 667 00:24:37,220 --> 00:24:39,009 You have any more questions? 668 00:24:39,029 --> 00:24:40,079 You have any questions for me? 669 00:24:40,099 --> 00:24:41,059 - [Brandon] Should I call you on putting me 670 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:42,089 on the basketball team? 671 00:24:42,109 --> 00:24:43,190 Can you do that? 672 00:24:43,210 --> 00:24:45,059 - [Sean] Shit, we definitely can figure it out. 673 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:49,160 I know a few coaches who got some basketball teams. 674 00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:51,200 - 'Cause I was playing at ALU and I'm trynna start- 675 00:24:51,220 --> 00:24:52,220 - [Sean] Definitely, definitely give me a call 676 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,019 and I'll definitely put you in contact 677 00:24:55,039 --> 00:24:56,180 with a couple of coaches. 678 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,190 Anything else? 679 00:24:57,210 --> 00:24:58,150 - [Brandon] No, that's it. 680 00:24:58,170 --> 00:25:00,039 - Okay. (Sean chuckles) 681 00:25:00,059 --> 00:25:01,069 Love you man. 682 00:25:01,089 --> 00:25:02,059 - [Brandon] I love you too. 683 00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:03,039 - [Muhibb] So I looked the chief 684 00:25:03,059 --> 00:25:04,019 devil dead in the eyes (mumbles) 685 00:25:04,039 --> 00:25:05,000 - [Man] What you say to him. 686 00:25:05,019 --> 00:25:05,150 - [Muhibb] Bring all your plans. 687 00:25:05,170 --> 00:25:06,079 - Say it. 688 00:25:06,099 --> 00:25:07,089 - Fill 'em with dope. 689 00:25:07,109 --> 00:25:08,069 - [Man] What else? 690 00:25:08,089 --> 00:25:09,160 - Drop crack bombs on us. 691 00:25:09,180 --> 00:25:11,029 Make the whole hood look like a third world country 692 00:25:11,049 --> 00:25:12,140 evict us. (man mumbles) 693 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,150 Turn our lights off. 694 00:25:13,170 --> 00:25:15,059 Turn our gas off. 695 00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:18,099 Break our windows, our refrigerators, our TVs, our stoves. 696 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:19,160 Even break our minds. 697 00:25:19,180 --> 00:25:20,130 But guess what? 698 00:25:20,150 --> 00:25:22,049 You will never get to my soul. 699 00:25:22,069 --> 00:25:24,119 You will not break us. - They will not break us. 700 00:25:24,140 --> 00:25:26,160 - You can not break us. - They can not break us. 701 00:25:26,180 --> 00:25:28,220 - You will not break us. - You will not break us. 702 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,019 - You can not break us. - You can not break us. 703 00:25:31,039 --> 00:25:32,089 - There are no trials. 704 00:25:32,109 --> 00:25:34,059 - [Both] No tribulation, no pressure, no pain, 705 00:25:34,079 --> 00:25:37,109 no hurricane strong enough to stop my people. 706 00:25:37,130 --> 00:25:40,009 We will always find our way back to God. 707 00:25:40,029 --> 00:25:41,099 - [Man] What else? 708 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,119 - So the Milwaukee community is a beautiful place. 709 00:25:45,140 --> 00:25:48,210 Full of beautiful people doing a lot of beautiful things. 710 00:25:48,230 --> 00:25:52,210 There are so many folks who are committed, 711 00:25:52,230 --> 00:25:55,180 be servants and make the best contribution 712 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,130 that they can to the lives of these children. 713 00:25:59,150 --> 00:26:01,109 These are the people who are not highlighted 714 00:26:01,130 --> 00:26:03,079 on a regular basis. 715 00:26:03,099 --> 00:26:06,059 If we are going to tell the story 716 00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:08,069 of what's going on in the Milwaukee community, 717 00:26:08,089 --> 00:26:11,230 we can't necessarily keep telling half the truth. 718 00:26:12,009 --> 00:26:14,069 We also have to highlight all the beautiful things 719 00:26:14,089 --> 00:26:15,230 that are going on every day. 720 00:26:16,009 --> 00:26:17,180 (upbeat music) 721 00:26:19,210 --> 00:26:23,019 - On Facebook, Instagram, on the news, 722 00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:27,039 as you know in the conversations we had, 723 00:26:27,059 --> 00:26:28,170 at the end of the night they show 724 00:26:28,190 --> 00:26:31,119 black boy, brown boy shot and killed. 725 00:26:31,140 --> 00:26:34,059 Possibly by another black or brown boy. 726 00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:36,039 Possibly these days by police officers. 727 00:26:36,059 --> 00:26:38,059 You know we have real talk conversations. 728 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:39,130 Ignorance is loud. 729 00:26:39,150 --> 00:26:42,039 They wait till you die and they put a shrine up 730 00:26:42,059 --> 00:26:44,000 and people on there saying how good you are, 731 00:26:44,019 --> 00:26:45,069 et cetera, et cetera. 732 00:26:45,089 --> 00:26:46,180 We brought you here to celebrate you 733 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,069 while you are in your now not while you in your later. 734 00:26:49,089 --> 00:26:51,000 Today is a great day for you. 735 00:26:51,019 --> 00:26:53,019 I told you, it's not punishment, 736 00:26:53,039 --> 00:26:55,029 it's a process of preparation. 737 00:26:55,049 --> 00:26:56,180 I wanna bring these two young men to the stage. 738 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,049 Come on show some love man, give it up for 'em. 739 00:26:58,069 --> 00:26:59,160 (crowd cheering) 740 00:26:59,180 --> 00:27:01,069 These your peers you should be more louder than that man. 741 00:27:01,089 --> 00:27:03,180 (crowd cheering) 742 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,190 - [Margaret] One thing I always encourage 743 00:27:05,210 --> 00:27:08,200 young people to do, young black people to do, 744 00:27:08,220 --> 00:27:10,140 is to get engaged and involved 745 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,069 in whatever's happening in their community. 746 00:27:13,089 --> 00:27:17,009 There's an old saying "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." 747 00:27:17,029 --> 00:27:18,089 And in the black community, 748 00:27:18,109 --> 00:27:20,190 we need to become the squeaky wheel 749 00:27:20,210 --> 00:27:24,109 and make sure that we get the things that we deserve. 750 00:27:24,130 --> 00:27:27,099 - We did some very, very personal statements, 751 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,000 the young men wrote. 752 00:27:29,019 --> 00:27:30,150 So one of the main things they said is, 753 00:27:30,170 --> 00:27:32,220 "Adults are talking to us and not with us." 754 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,109 So with that being said, 755 00:27:34,130 --> 00:27:36,079 I wanted to give two of them an opportunity 756 00:27:36,099 --> 00:27:37,160 to share what they got in the class. 757 00:27:37,180 --> 00:27:38,210 Y'all show them some love please. 758 00:27:38,230 --> 00:27:42,119 (crowd clapping) 759 00:27:42,140 --> 00:27:43,140 - [Marquell] The truth is, 760 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,140 I never really met my dad until the age of 10. 761 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,019 The truth is, I never really wanted it to be alive. 762 00:27:48,039 --> 00:27:50,009 The truth is, I go through so much, (stutters) 763 00:27:50,029 --> 00:27:53,140 I think that I'm the only one that's going through so much. 764 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,140 The truth is that I don't know where to start 765 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,079 but I don't know how to start. 766 00:27:58,099 --> 00:28:00,009 Truth is, I wish I will never die young. 767 00:28:00,029 --> 00:28:02,000 The truth is, I'm not gonna die young. 768 00:28:02,019 --> 00:28:03,049 - There you go. 769 00:28:03,069 --> 00:28:04,220 - The truth is, I am not going to die young. 770 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,029 (all applauding) 771 00:28:06,049 --> 00:28:07,119 - [Mary] Milwaukee is gonna have a tough time 772 00:28:07,140 --> 00:28:09,039 and continue to have a tough time 773 00:28:09,059 --> 00:28:12,049 until we're really willing to look at the realities 774 00:28:12,069 --> 00:28:13,230 of what's going on in our city. 775 00:28:14,009 --> 00:28:17,210 We know there are pockets in our city where 776 00:28:17,230 --> 00:28:22,109 gun violence is so real that kids get used to it. 777 00:28:22,130 --> 00:28:23,099 That's not okay. 778 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,119 (crowd clapping) 779 00:28:25,140 --> 00:28:28,019 (all chanting) 780 00:28:29,109 --> 00:28:30,099 - [Kwabena] I am great. - [All] I am great. 781 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,029 - [Kwabena] I am mighty. - [All] I am mighty. 782 00:28:32,049 --> 00:28:33,099 - [Kwabena] I am- 783 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,009 - [David] You have a lot of community healers. 784 00:28:35,029 --> 00:28:37,210 I mean some of the best examples we see on ninth and ring. 785 00:28:37,230 --> 00:28:39,109 With the, "We got this garden." 786 00:28:39,130 --> 00:28:41,109 You see this with the, "I will not die young" campaign. 787 00:28:41,130 --> 00:28:43,109 You see it with spoken word. 788 00:28:43,130 --> 00:28:45,039 Nobody told someone, 789 00:28:45,059 --> 00:28:47,230 "Hey, you know that's a good form of trauma therapy." 790 00:28:48,009 --> 00:28:50,119 It was the innate knowledge 791 00:28:50,140 --> 00:28:52,210 that if I don't get this out somehow 792 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:55,099 in a pro-social way, in a positive way, 793 00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:56,190 it's gonna come out in a negative way. 794 00:28:56,210 --> 00:28:59,150 So I would rather take my frustrations out 795 00:28:59,170 --> 00:29:03,109 on the pad with a pen, than explode. 796 00:29:03,130 --> 00:29:04,079 - Look at this. (Marquell mumbles) 797 00:29:04,099 --> 00:29:05,089 This is your (stutters) 798 00:29:05,109 --> 00:29:06,140 How many pages? 799 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,230 - I don't know yet 'cause I, you know, 800 00:29:08,009 --> 00:29:10,019 I just been writing around, writing and stuff. 801 00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:10,220 Yeah. 802 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000 - What's behind this? 803 00:29:12,019 --> 00:29:13,140 What kicked this off? 804 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,230 You got quite a bit. 805 00:29:15,009 --> 00:29:18,119 - I mean because like, how you's created your story 806 00:29:18,140 --> 00:29:21,130 and telling them about how you grew up and stuff. 807 00:29:21,150 --> 00:29:23,029 I mean like, like you said, 808 00:29:23,049 --> 00:29:24,089 "If you never tell your story 809 00:29:24,109 --> 00:29:25,150 "there ain't nobody gonna never know 810 00:29:25,170 --> 00:29:28,049 "what good that you did in the community 811 00:29:28,069 --> 00:29:30,059 "or what you did in the community and stuff like that." 812 00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:32,009 So, I mean I got a chance to tell my story 813 00:29:32,029 --> 00:29:33,140 so I wanna tell it now. 814 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,119 - You glowing. 815 00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:36,039 Like I remember you got a, 816 00:29:36,059 --> 00:29:37,210 when I came in you got this feel to you 817 00:29:37,230 --> 00:29:40,029 like you moving in the direction you wanna go 818 00:29:40,049 --> 00:29:40,230 as a flow. 819 00:29:41,009 --> 00:29:42,009 Right? 820 00:29:42,029 --> 00:29:43,230 You gon' have some of these. 821 00:29:44,009 --> 00:29:44,190 Aight? 822 00:29:44,210 --> 00:29:46,089 You heard some of the men today. 823 00:29:46,109 --> 00:29:47,150 You gon' have some of these 824 00:29:47,170 --> 00:29:49,079 but those some of these gonna help you. 825 00:29:49,099 --> 00:29:50,039 You know what I mean? 826 00:29:50,059 --> 00:29:51,109 So don't worry about it. 827 00:29:51,130 --> 00:29:52,190 It's fine to focus. 828 00:29:52,210 --> 00:29:54,130 I think you got a gift. 829 00:29:54,150 --> 00:29:56,140 What is it gon' look like five years from now? 830 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,059 - Five years from now, for me it looking like 831 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:02,140 that I'm an author, you know, publishing my own books 832 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,230 and probably might be on my second one already. 833 00:30:05,009 --> 00:30:07,049 - [Kwabena] Everybody you see who made it 834 00:30:07,069 --> 00:30:10,000 all of us had to make a keen decision in life. 835 00:30:10,019 --> 00:30:12,019 We can either go that way or that way. 836 00:30:12,039 --> 00:30:13,069 You gotta make a decision 837 00:30:13,089 --> 00:30:14,089 and you made a decision to be here. 838 00:30:14,109 --> 00:30:17,039 - What I would say to young black people, 839 00:30:17,059 --> 00:30:18,230 especially young black males, 840 00:30:19,009 --> 00:30:20,119 is they need to follow the model 841 00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:22,210 of those who came before them. 842 00:30:22,230 --> 00:30:25,099 The key thing is to get an education. 843 00:30:25,119 --> 00:30:27,029 Once you get an education, 844 00:30:27,049 --> 00:30:29,180 nobody can ever take that away from you 845 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,160 and it's not so much that you learn one plus one is two 846 00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:35,170 but you learn how to function in the world 847 00:30:35,190 --> 00:30:37,160 when you have a good education 848 00:30:37,180 --> 00:30:41,109 and how to, you know build layers of success. 849 00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:43,089 You also get to meet people 850 00:30:43,109 --> 00:30:47,210 who can become lifelong friends or supporters of yours. 851 00:30:50,059 --> 00:30:51,130 - [Johnnie] Hey Brandon, 852 00:30:51,150 --> 00:30:54,180 can you come upstairs for a moment with me? 853 00:30:59,180 --> 00:31:00,200 Okay, so I just wanted to talk to you a little bit 854 00:31:00,220 --> 00:31:03,039 about your progress for this past week 855 00:31:03,059 --> 00:31:05,089 and your progress since you've been here 856 00:31:05,109 --> 00:31:06,190 at Next Chapter Living Center. 857 00:31:06,210 --> 00:31:08,089 So, you've been here, 858 00:31:08,109 --> 00:31:09,170 you know you've been here a little over a month. 859 00:31:09,190 --> 00:31:11,180 Started out, you know, a little rocky, you know 860 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,180 and over the past few weeks you've actually 861 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,140 been making some pretty good choices, you know. 862 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,180 We talked about a little bit on yesterday. 863 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,009 We've been taking you out, 864 00:31:19,029 --> 00:31:20,210 showing you a few community resources 865 00:31:20,230 --> 00:31:23,200 like what to do once you finally get on your own 866 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:26,019 and how to maneuver through that process. 867 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:29,000 Still I wanna show you places like, 868 00:31:29,019 --> 00:31:33,000 different maybe shelters, resource centers, 869 00:31:33,019 --> 00:31:34,099 continue to allow you to go like 870 00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:35,190 to New Hope Youth and Family Services 871 00:31:35,210 --> 00:31:38,190 to find out the services they can offer you, 872 00:31:38,210 --> 00:31:40,140 going to places like Zero to 100, 873 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,220 meeting different mentors 874 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,130 and people in the community as well. 875 00:31:43,150 --> 00:31:46,119 (all chattering) 876 00:31:50,029 --> 00:31:52,019 - [Kweku] There's an old saying that said 877 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:54,009 that, "A woman can't raise a man" 878 00:31:54,029 --> 00:31:56,190 but I always say this, "A man can't raise a man." 879 00:31:56,210 --> 00:31:59,130 It takes multiple men to raise a man. 880 00:31:59,150 --> 00:32:01,099 - Chin down, eyes up, okay? 881 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:02,059 Keep your eyes out. 882 00:32:02,079 --> 00:32:03,019 You can see me? 883 00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:03,220 Okay. 884 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,059 Life is your own journey. 885 00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:06,140 Everybody has their own journey in life, right? 886 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,150 But depending on who you hang around with 887 00:32:07,170 --> 00:32:08,230 and what you're doing in life, 888 00:32:09,009 --> 00:32:11,019 depends on how you perform in life, right? 889 00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:12,170 So if you have bad training partners, 890 00:32:12,190 --> 00:32:14,130 you gon' have a bad fight, you be a bad fighter. 891 00:32:14,150 --> 00:32:15,180 All right? 892 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,220 So make sure in life that you have 893 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,160 really good training partners. 894 00:32:18,180 --> 00:32:20,180 People you hang out with, people you talk to, 895 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,180 make sure they're really good people, 896 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,150 people that you wanna be around 897 00:32:22,170 --> 00:32:23,190 because that's gonna make, 898 00:32:23,210 --> 00:32:25,039 that's gonna control who you are 899 00:32:25,059 --> 00:32:27,009 when you wanna get ready to be able to perform, all right? 900 00:32:27,029 --> 00:32:28,180 - [Kweku] Because my dad as great as he was, 901 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:29,200 he had many flaws. 902 00:32:29,220 --> 00:32:31,150 So if he was the only person to teach me, 903 00:32:31,170 --> 00:32:33,049 I would also have his good ways 904 00:32:33,069 --> 00:32:34,130 but also his flaws. 905 00:32:34,150 --> 00:32:36,230 But now that I have multiple men in my life, 906 00:32:37,009 --> 00:32:39,069 I can pull the good from all of them 907 00:32:39,089 --> 00:32:40,180 and even the negative that I can see, 908 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,079 I can say, "Hey, this is what I don't wanna do." 909 00:32:43,099 --> 00:32:45,029 (upbeat music) 910 00:32:59,049 --> 00:33:00,109 - [David] Oftentimes when people talk about 911 00:33:00,130 --> 00:33:01,200 the strengths of a community, 912 00:33:01,220 --> 00:33:05,059 they talk about people's ability to withstand oppression. 913 00:33:05,079 --> 00:33:07,079 Having someone's boot on the neck 914 00:33:07,099 --> 00:33:10,049 and how you can endure despite that. 915 00:33:10,069 --> 00:33:13,200 We need to move from resilience to thriving communities. 916 00:33:13,220 --> 00:33:18,009 We need to move from the ability to survive in spite of 917 00:33:20,049 --> 00:33:22,079 to the ability to advocate for the community 918 00:33:22,099 --> 00:33:25,079 that you live in and that we've come 919 00:33:25,099 --> 00:33:28,059 to be a part of generationally. 920 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:30,079 - Everybody say kumbaya. 921 00:33:30,099 --> 00:33:32,019 - [All] Kumbaya. 922 00:33:32,039 --> 00:33:32,220 - [Woman] Kumbaya. 923 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,019 - [All] Kumbaya. 924 00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:35,000 - [Man] Thank you everybody for coming out 925 00:33:35,019 --> 00:33:36,079 to Heal The Hood this year. 926 00:33:36,099 --> 00:33:38,029 Give yourself a round of applause for being here. 927 00:33:38,049 --> 00:33:41,049 (all applauding) 928 00:33:41,069 --> 00:33:41,230 - [Marquell] So, 929 00:33:42,009 --> 00:33:42,210 tell me about this. 930 00:33:42,230 --> 00:33:44,000 Like, what's this all about man? 931 00:33:44,019 --> 00:33:45,210 - Man this is our seventh year 932 00:33:45,230 --> 00:33:47,200 Heal The Hood block party and resource fair 933 00:33:47,220 --> 00:33:50,140 and it's amazing to see how far it's come. 934 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,210 You know, in seven years. 935 00:33:51,230 --> 00:33:53,099 Like the first one we did, we might have had, 936 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:54,210 you know, three, four vendors. 937 00:33:54,230 --> 00:33:56,210 Now we got you know, close to 30, 40, 938 00:33:56,230 --> 00:33:57,190 you know what I'm saying? 939 00:33:57,210 --> 00:33:58,200 So it's all about progression 940 00:33:58,220 --> 00:34:00,079 and it's all about serving the people man. 941 00:34:00,099 --> 00:34:02,170 - Yeah I see everybody getting together, you know 942 00:34:02,190 --> 00:34:04,000 and no beefing going on. - None of that. 943 00:34:04,019 --> 00:34:05,069 - We all playing basketball, 944 00:34:05,089 --> 00:34:06,150 eating and stuff. - [Ajamou] Yep. 945 00:34:06,170 --> 00:34:07,200 - [Marquell] And them just all getting along 946 00:34:07,220 --> 00:34:09,059 and I like that though because well you know, 947 00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:10,210 most people die, left and right and stuff. 948 00:34:10,230 --> 00:34:13,199 You never know when it's the last person breath or whatever 949 00:34:13,219 --> 00:34:15,130 or when it's just their last day or whatever. 950 00:34:15,150 --> 00:34:16,079 - That's the truth. 951 00:34:16,099 --> 00:34:17,150 That's the truth. 952 00:34:17,170 --> 00:34:19,099 - [Derek] People in 53206 are not weak 953 00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:21,030 and they're not helpless. 954 00:34:21,050 --> 00:34:22,170 They can do things. 955 00:34:22,190 --> 00:34:24,010 They want to do things. 956 00:34:24,030 --> 00:34:26,110 They're trying to do things 957 00:34:26,130 --> 00:34:29,170 and I think we can build that confidence back 958 00:34:29,190 --> 00:34:31,070 in that community. 959 00:34:31,090 --> 00:34:34,099 If we encourage people to come together 960 00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:38,050 and formulate strategies and to say to them, 961 00:34:38,070 --> 00:34:41,199 "There's nothing wrong with the people in 53206." 962 00:34:41,219 --> 00:34:42,230 - [Ajamou] That's the truth 963 00:34:43,010 --> 00:34:43,210 and that's what we try to represent 964 00:34:43,230 --> 00:34:45,030 at Heal The Hood, 965 00:34:45,050 --> 00:34:46,110 because like you said, somebody asked the other day, 966 00:34:46,130 --> 00:34:47,019 "Why do we do it to this capacity?" 967 00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:48,139 How we do it 968 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:49,199 and "Why not just have something nice and small and quiet?" 969 00:34:49,219 --> 00:34:51,150 I'm like, "A gunshot is loud." 970 00:34:51,170 --> 00:34:52,110 You know what saying? 971 00:34:52,130 --> 00:34:53,159 Violence is loud. 972 00:34:53,179 --> 00:34:54,139 So we come to the hood to be even louder. 973 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:55,190 Positivity gotta be even louder 974 00:34:55,210 --> 00:34:57,079 than the nonsense out here man. 975 00:34:57,099 --> 00:35:00,139 So I choose to serve my people the best way I know how. 976 00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:01,230 I know that I can't change the world 977 00:35:02,010 --> 00:35:03,159 but I will change the world around me 978 00:35:03,179 --> 00:35:05,050 and so we just do what we do man. 979 00:35:05,070 --> 00:35:06,150 I love it. 980 00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:07,219 - [Marquell] I like that. (Ajamou mumbles) 981 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000 I like that, you know. - [Ajamou] Yes sir. 982 00:35:09,019 --> 00:35:10,130 - [Ajamou] And we all got a story man. 983 00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:11,110 I used to rip around these streets like (mumbles) 984 00:35:11,130 --> 00:35:11,230 you know what I'm saying? 985 00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:13,030 Like 986 00:35:13,050 --> 00:35:14,010 and some days I still be wanting to- 987 00:35:14,030 --> 00:35:14,210 you know what I'm saying? 988 00:35:14,230 --> 00:35:16,000 Get out here. 989 00:35:16,019 --> 00:35:17,039 'Cause it's so easy to get into trouble. 990 00:35:17,059 --> 00:35:18,099 It's so easy to do what we've always done. 991 00:35:18,119 --> 00:35:20,059 - It's the same thinking at the system level 992 00:35:20,079 --> 00:35:22,139 that it is at the block level. 993 00:35:22,159 --> 00:35:24,150 Yes, it would be easier to pay my bills 994 00:35:24,170 --> 00:35:26,059 if I just went and got a job 995 00:35:26,079 --> 00:35:29,000 but the money is faster right here on the block 996 00:35:29,019 --> 00:35:31,179 and so yes, things will ultimately (stutters) 997 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:34,000 be better if we invested in communities 998 00:35:34,019 --> 00:35:35,099 and invested in peoples 999 00:35:35,119 --> 00:35:37,099 but the payout is so much quicker 1000 00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:39,210 by locking folks up and sending them away. 1001 00:35:39,230 --> 00:35:40,230 (upbeat music) 1002 00:35:41,010 --> 00:35:42,039 - [Ajamou] But it kind of hustling 1003 00:35:42,059 --> 00:35:43,190 versus working a righteous endeavor, 1004 00:35:43,210 --> 00:35:44,210 working Heal The Hood, working my job, working my movement. 1005 00:35:44,230 --> 00:35:46,210 It's easy to get back into the streets. 1006 00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:48,050 Make a couple of phone calls 1007 00:35:48,070 --> 00:35:49,119 and get back out here with the baggies and scales 1008 00:35:49,139 --> 00:35:51,159 but I told myself, what has that given my son? 1009 00:35:51,179 --> 00:35:52,179 What has that given my people? 1010 00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:54,070 It's a million young brothers out here 1011 00:35:54,090 --> 00:35:56,000 talking about how they got the two for the 15. 1012 00:35:56,019 --> 00:35:56,210 I don't have time for that. 1013 00:35:56,230 --> 00:35:58,039 I can't be one of them. 1014 00:35:58,059 --> 00:35:59,119 You understanding what I'm saying? 1015 00:35:59,139 --> 00:36:01,050 So as much as I would love that quick money 1016 00:36:01,070 --> 00:36:02,150 and all of this and the other that comes with it, 1017 00:36:02,170 --> 00:36:04,110 I understand there's a whole world out here 1018 00:36:04,130 --> 00:36:05,210 and I can't see the world, 1019 00:36:05,230 --> 00:36:07,210 if I'm on the corner talking about I got the two for the 15. 1020 00:36:07,230 --> 00:36:08,190 That ain't gon' cut it man. 1021 00:36:08,210 --> 00:36:10,019 So I salute you brother, 1022 00:36:10,039 --> 00:36:11,000 keep doing what you're doing family. 1023 00:36:11,019 --> 00:36:12,079 - [Marquell] All right. 1024 00:36:12,099 --> 00:36:13,059 - Keep doing what you doing little brother. 1025 00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:14,139 However we can support man, 1026 00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:15,079 we're here for you. - All right, period. 1027 00:36:15,099 --> 00:36:16,059 - Period, period. 1028 00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:17,119 - Good talking to you bro. 1029 00:36:17,139 --> 00:36:18,219 - Love my brother, growing up Milwaukee. 1030 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,119 - [David] One thing that can be said about Milwaukee 1031 00:36:20,139 --> 00:36:23,139 is that the people here are strong, resilient 1032 00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:27,150 and able to push back but also able to turn inward 1033 00:36:27,170 --> 00:36:29,019 and find healing amongst ourselves 1034 00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:32,000 and then give a solution that would help 1035 00:36:32,019 --> 00:36:32,219 all of the residents. 1036 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,130 - [Fidel] When she calls- 1037 00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:35,210 - [Sheldon] Oh we finna do a FaceTime or something? 1038 00:36:35,230 --> 00:36:36,219 - [Fidel] We gonna do a FaceTime when she calls. 1039 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,039 We'll just have her spit some bars. 1040 00:36:40,059 --> 00:36:42,059 - To the beat? - You gotta hear her. 1041 00:36:42,079 --> 00:36:43,070 - To the beat? 1042 00:36:43,090 --> 00:36:44,150 She's doing to the beat? - I'ma do a- 1043 00:36:44,170 --> 00:36:45,030 I'ma have her do acapella. - Oh okay. 1044 00:36:45,050 --> 00:36:46,010 She got- 1045 00:36:46,030 --> 00:36:47,039 She can do acapella 1046 00:36:47,059 --> 00:36:48,079 and you would definitely get the, get that smoke. 1047 00:36:48,099 --> 00:36:49,070 She's good. 1048 00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:54,039 Let me call her and I can get her on the line. 1049 00:36:56,019 --> 00:36:56,210 Hey Tiana. 1050 00:36:57,210 --> 00:36:59,119 - [Tiana] Hey. 1051 00:36:59,139 --> 00:37:01,010 - [Fidel] So, 1052 00:37:01,030 --> 00:37:03,230 it's unfortunate that you couldn't be here today 1053 00:37:04,010 --> 00:37:08,179 but we still have our sound engineer, Sheldon, here. 1054 00:37:08,199 --> 00:37:10,019 So what we want to do 1055 00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:12,079 is sort of introduce you to what I heard 1056 00:37:12,099 --> 00:37:14,030 the last time you came to the studio. 1057 00:37:14,050 --> 00:37:15,230 You might've planned to be here for the whole week 1058 00:37:16,010 --> 00:37:17,230 and now we got people here and everything like that 1059 00:37:18,010 --> 00:37:22,010 but we still want to make great use of the time 1060 00:37:22,030 --> 00:37:23,090 and I still want you to know 1061 00:37:23,110 --> 00:37:26,130 that a lot of people showed up here on your behalf. 1062 00:37:26,150 --> 00:37:29,059 Like for you, specifically 1063 00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:32,019 and you were supposed to be the first one here. 1064 00:37:32,039 --> 00:37:34,050 At like three o'clock. 1065 00:37:36,110 --> 00:37:37,050 Am I on mute? 1066 00:37:37,070 --> 00:37:37,219 Hello? 1067 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:38,230 Is anybody there? 1068 00:37:39,010 --> 00:37:39,179 Hello? 1069 00:37:39,199 --> 00:37:40,150 Hello? 1070 00:37:40,170 --> 00:37:42,030 - Yeah. (Tiana laughs) 1071 00:37:42,050 --> 00:37:43,000 My bad. 1072 00:37:43,210 --> 00:37:44,170 - [Fidel] It's okay. 1073 00:37:44,190 --> 00:37:45,150 It's okay to say "My bad". 1074 00:37:45,170 --> 00:37:46,079 It's okay to say "I apologize". 1075 00:37:46,099 --> 00:37:47,039 It's okay. 1076 00:37:47,059 --> 00:37:48,010 You know what I mean? 1077 00:37:48,030 --> 00:37:49,199 Things happen. 1078 00:37:49,219 --> 00:37:51,090 We just have to communicate. 1079 00:37:51,110 --> 00:37:52,050 - [Tiana] Got you. 1080 00:37:52,070 --> 00:37:53,190 - All right, great. 1081 00:37:53,210 --> 00:37:56,010 So now listen, I want Sheldon to be able to hear 1082 00:37:56,030 --> 00:37:57,070 everything that I heard. 1083 00:37:59,059 --> 00:38:00,119 Whenever you're ready, go ahead and start. 1084 00:38:00,139 --> 00:38:01,190 I'ma bring the phone over here by Sheldon 1085 00:38:01,210 --> 00:38:03,230 so we can, so he can hear you as well. 1086 00:38:04,010 --> 00:38:05,099 Get in your zone. 1087 00:38:05,119 --> 00:38:07,030 (Tiana laughs) 1088 00:38:07,050 --> 00:38:09,190 (Tiana mumbles) 1089 00:38:09,210 --> 00:38:11,050 She going somewhere private and quiet 1090 00:38:11,070 --> 00:38:12,110 where she can really... 1091 00:38:14,059 --> 00:38:15,039 Oh outside. 1092 00:38:15,059 --> 00:38:15,110 This is great. 1093 00:38:17,099 --> 00:38:18,139 You could be in that car, 1094 00:38:18,159 --> 00:38:21,119 you could have drove the True Skool, damn it. 1095 00:38:23,219 --> 00:38:24,170 - We ready? 1096 00:38:24,190 --> 00:38:25,130 - [Fidel] We ready. 1097 00:38:25,150 --> 00:38:26,119 You ready? 1098 00:38:26,139 --> 00:38:27,090 - Yeah. 1099 00:38:27,110 --> 00:38:29,000 - Okay, great. 1100 00:38:29,019 --> 00:38:30,059 - [Tiana] Okay. 1101 00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:32,079 ♪ Heavenly father I'm stuck in my ways ♪ 1102 00:38:32,099 --> 00:38:34,170 ♪ Yes I feel guilty for choices I made ♪ 1103 00:38:34,190 --> 00:38:36,059 ♪ I'm only human- ♪ 1104 00:38:36,079 --> 00:38:37,070 Move away from my car. 1105 00:38:37,090 --> 00:38:38,099 Why'd you bang my car? 1106 00:38:42,059 --> 00:38:43,000 Like. 1107 00:38:49,030 --> 00:38:51,019 (Tiana exclaims) 1108 00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:51,230 Okay. 1109 00:38:53,150 --> 00:38:55,150 ♪ Heavenly father I'm stuck in my ways ♪ 1110 00:38:55,170 --> 00:38:58,010 ♪ Yes I feel guilty for choices I made ♪ 1111 00:38:58,030 --> 00:39:00,059 ♪ I'm only human so needless to say ♪ 1112 00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:02,150 ♪ I make mistakes almost every day, day to day ♪ 1113 00:39:02,170 --> 00:39:04,199 ♪ Why you had to give me the parents that you gave me ♪ 1114 00:39:04,219 --> 00:39:07,039 ♪ That's all on my momma but the thing she do is shady ♪ 1115 00:39:07,059 --> 00:39:09,070 ♪ Why I got molested by the people who had raised me ♪ 1116 00:39:09,090 --> 00:39:11,030 ♪ Why my daddy never there to save me ♪ 1117 00:39:11,050 --> 00:39:13,190 ♪ Why I had cold nights sleeping in the park I was the baby ♪ 1118 00:39:13,210 --> 00:39:16,059 ♪ My sister fucked a nigga that I fucked was (mumbles) ♪ 1119 00:39:16,079 --> 00:39:18,059 ♪ Every night I get up on my knees and pray ♪ 1120 00:39:18,079 --> 00:39:19,119 ♪ And I'm back in church on Sunday ♪ 1121 00:39:19,139 --> 00:39:21,010 ♪ And I'm still the same ♪ 1122 00:39:21,030 --> 00:39:24,130 ♪ Sincerely ♪ 1123 00:39:24,150 --> 00:39:27,039 ♪ Lord can you hear my cry ♪ 1124 00:39:27,059 --> 00:39:29,019 - You hear where it's going right? 1125 00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:33,159 ♪ Lord please forgive me ♪ 1126 00:39:33,179 --> 00:39:36,179 ♪ I'm focused, yeah ♪ 1127 00:39:39,019 --> 00:39:41,070 - [Tiana] Yeah, he just threw me off so. 1128 00:39:41,090 --> 00:39:42,010 - No, it was good. 1129 00:39:42,030 --> 00:39:43,019 That's good stuff. 1130 00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:44,050 - That was good. 1131 00:39:44,070 --> 00:39:45,099 - [Fidel] That was good stuff. 1132 00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:45,130 So now- 1133 00:39:47,079 --> 00:39:48,090 - [Tiana] No. 1134 00:39:50,039 --> 00:39:51,019 - Where is you parked at? 1135 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:53,170 - [Tiana] Like- (Tiana giggles) 1136 00:39:53,190 --> 00:39:55,059 (man mumbles) 1137 00:39:55,079 --> 00:39:56,050 Boy you- 1138 00:39:56,070 --> 00:39:59,039 (man mumbles) 1139 00:39:59,059 --> 00:40:01,059 Get away from my window. 1140 00:40:02,050 --> 00:40:03,099 Get away from my window. 1141 00:40:06,019 --> 00:40:08,070 I don't know, I don't know who that is. 1142 00:40:08,090 --> 00:40:09,199 I don't know nothing about that. 1143 00:40:09,219 --> 00:40:11,110 Get away from my window. 1144 00:40:11,130 --> 00:40:14,119 - [Man] Only thing I need is bars and wires. 1145 00:40:14,139 --> 00:40:15,099 - Bars and wires? 1146 00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:16,159 Let me, let me talk to him. 1147 00:40:16,179 --> 00:40:18,059 Let me talk to him. 1148 00:40:18,079 --> 00:40:20,230 Put me on the phone with him. 1149 00:40:21,010 --> 00:40:22,059 She gon' snap. 1150 00:40:26,099 --> 00:40:29,059 You going back in the house? 1151 00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:30,039 Just go back in the house. 1152 00:40:30,059 --> 00:40:31,010 Yo, it's okay. 1153 00:40:31,030 --> 00:40:32,070 - [Tiana] Let me call y'all back. 1154 00:40:32,090 --> 00:40:33,050 - Don't, go back in the house. 1155 00:40:33,070 --> 00:40:34,059 Don't get nobody beat up. 1156 00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:35,050 Uh-oh. 1157 00:40:35,070 --> 00:40:36,139 That wasn't it. 1158 00:40:36,159 --> 00:40:37,219 I wanted to like at least walk her back in the house. 1159 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:38,199 She like, "I'm getting his ass beat right now." 1160 00:40:38,219 --> 00:40:40,190 (table thuds) 1161 00:40:40,210 --> 00:40:41,190 (phone rings) 1162 00:40:41,210 --> 00:40:42,179 - [Woman] All right, it's her. 1163 00:40:42,199 --> 00:40:44,050 - [Fidel] Tiana. 1164 00:40:44,070 --> 00:40:45,010 We good? 1165 00:40:46,150 --> 00:40:48,070 We back? 1166 00:40:48,090 --> 00:40:49,079 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1167 00:40:49,099 --> 00:40:50,050 - Everything okay? - [Tiana] Yes. 1168 00:40:50,070 --> 00:40:50,199 - She's smiling. 1169 00:40:50,219 --> 00:40:51,150 That's great. 1170 00:40:51,170 --> 00:40:52,110 All right. 1171 00:40:54,010 --> 00:40:55,190 All right, you safe. 1172 00:40:55,210 --> 00:40:56,139 (Tiana laughs) 1173 00:40:56,159 --> 00:40:58,090 So we will communicate with you 1174 00:40:58,110 --> 00:41:00,039 probably next week to try to set up something 1175 00:41:00,059 --> 00:41:02,199 to get the ball rolling 1176 00:41:02,219 --> 00:41:04,090 and get you recording something, 1177 00:41:04,110 --> 00:41:06,210 in order to get ready to perform it. 1178 00:41:06,230 --> 00:41:10,059 Did you alleviate that problem? 1179 00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:11,070 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1180 00:41:11,090 --> 00:41:12,010 - All right. 1181 00:41:12,030 --> 00:41:12,230 - [Tiana] People crazy. 1182 00:41:13,010 --> 00:41:14,210 - Absolutely, people crazy. 1183 00:41:14,230 --> 00:41:16,110 (Tiana laughs) The world is crazy. 1184 00:41:16,130 --> 00:41:19,090 - So family, even if you buried a whole hood alive. 1185 00:41:19,110 --> 00:41:20,159 - [Man] Come on, I ain't hear you. 1186 00:41:20,179 --> 00:41:22,210 - You see you could bury the whole hood alive. 1187 00:41:22,230 --> 00:41:24,059 - [Man] Under what? 1188 00:41:24,079 --> 00:41:25,110 - Bury our spirits. - [Man] Come on, (mumbles) 1189 00:41:25,130 --> 00:41:26,139 - Under (mumbles) dreams under platinum chains, 1190 00:41:26,159 --> 00:41:27,159 under cars, under clothes. 1191 00:41:27,179 --> 00:41:30,079 Bury our spirits under foolish music, 1192 00:41:30,099 --> 00:41:32,030 under blood money, under tennis shoes. 1193 00:41:32,050 --> 00:41:35,159 Turn my woman against me and me against her. 1194 00:41:35,179 --> 00:41:38,079 Make her every word, her every thought, 1195 00:41:38,099 --> 00:41:41,010 her every action, her every poem 1196 00:41:41,030 --> 00:41:42,150 be about my ugliness. 1197 00:41:42,170 --> 00:41:43,199 - What happens? 1198 00:41:43,219 --> 00:41:44,230 - About our nothingness. - What happens? 1199 00:41:45,010 --> 00:41:46,079 - And even still, 1200 00:41:46,099 --> 00:41:48,110 I will always find my way back to her 1201 00:41:48,130 --> 00:41:51,110 and she will always find a way back to me. 1202 00:41:51,130 --> 00:41:53,070 There is nothing they can do. 1203 00:41:53,090 --> 00:41:55,079 They tried to bury us 1204 00:41:55,099 --> 00:41:57,079 but they didn't know we were seeds 1205 00:41:57,099 --> 00:41:59,079 'cause we grew anyway. 1206 00:41:59,099 --> 00:42:03,090 That is what's going on in the city of Milwaukee. 1207 00:42:03,110 --> 00:42:06,210 We have families going through trials and tribulation. 1208 00:42:06,230 --> 00:42:10,050 We have children going through trials and tribulations 1209 00:42:10,070 --> 00:42:12,030 but I have a firm belief 1210 00:42:12,050 --> 00:42:14,179 that regardless of what we go through in life, 1211 00:42:14,199 --> 00:42:17,070 ultimately, there is hope. 1212 00:42:17,090 --> 00:42:20,139 Ultimately, they tried to bury us 1213 00:42:20,159 --> 00:42:22,079 but we grew anyway. 1214 00:42:22,099 --> 00:42:23,210 - So my name is Connie. 1215 00:42:23,230 --> 00:42:25,070 - [Tiana] Hi my name's Tiana. 1216 00:42:25,090 --> 00:42:26,099 - Tiana. - [Tiana] Yes. 1217 00:42:26,119 --> 00:42:27,110 - Okay. 1218 00:42:27,130 --> 00:42:30,090 Tell me, so you were in foster care 1219 00:42:30,110 --> 00:42:31,159 or you were in a group home? 1220 00:42:31,179 --> 00:42:33,039 - I was in a group home. 1221 00:42:33,059 --> 00:42:34,150 - So how did you end up in the group home? 1222 00:42:34,170 --> 00:42:36,170 How did that happen? 1223 00:42:36,190 --> 00:42:38,190 - [Tiana] Well when I was 13, 1224 00:42:38,210 --> 00:42:41,119 I was like running away from home and stuff like that 1225 00:42:41,139 --> 00:42:45,019 and I got pregnant with my son at the time 1226 00:42:45,039 --> 00:42:47,150 and me and my mom was like, you know, 1227 00:42:47,170 --> 00:42:49,099 like getting into it a lot 1228 00:42:49,119 --> 00:42:52,059 and I ain't feel like she was like doing 1229 00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:54,059 what a parent should do. 1230 00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:54,170 So I was leaving 1231 00:42:57,010 --> 00:42:58,170 and she really couldn't gain no control on me so. 1232 00:42:58,190 --> 00:43:02,070 - So you, how many group homes where you're in total? 1233 00:43:02,090 --> 00:43:03,150 - Like four. 1234 00:43:03,170 --> 00:43:04,219 - And if you liked the first one, what happened? 1235 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,139 Why did you have to leave? 1236 00:43:07,159 --> 00:43:09,050 - Well like, you know like, 1237 00:43:09,070 --> 00:43:11,050 I don't get along with a lot of girls. 1238 00:43:11,070 --> 00:43:12,030 - Okay. 1239 00:43:12,050 --> 00:43:13,190 - For reasons I never know. 1240 00:43:13,210 --> 00:43:16,119 Like, cause I don't really do nothing 1241 00:43:16,139 --> 00:43:18,099 but make jokes and be cool. 1242 00:43:18,119 --> 00:43:21,110 So, you know but everybody got their reasons 1243 00:43:21,130 --> 00:43:25,019 and you know, like into (mumbles) 1244 00:43:25,039 --> 00:43:26,130 I fight a lot. 1245 00:43:26,150 --> 00:43:28,230 So, you know, cause I don't take no mess from nobody. 1246 00:43:29,010 --> 00:43:29,179 - You don't take no mess? 1247 00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:31,010 - No. 1248 00:43:31,030 --> 00:43:32,090 - So you got into it with a couple of girls 1249 00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:34,050 and the situation happened, you had to leave? 1250 00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:35,000 - Yeah. 1251 00:43:35,019 --> 00:43:35,219 - Okay. 1252 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,199 When you aged out what happened? 1253 00:43:37,219 --> 00:43:39,170 - I moved into my first apartment. 1254 00:43:39,190 --> 00:43:41,019 - Oh, so you had your own apartment? 1255 00:43:41,039 --> 00:43:42,000 - Yeah. 1256 00:43:42,019 --> 00:43:43,030 - So you, are you still there? 1257 00:43:43,050 --> 00:43:44,099 - No. 1258 00:43:44,119 --> 00:43:45,210 - So what is your situation like now? 1259 00:43:45,230 --> 00:43:48,099 - You know I just go to work, 1260 00:43:48,119 --> 00:43:50,079 saving up so I can move back out 1261 00:43:50,099 --> 00:43:53,219 to my own place and just doing my music. 1262 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,079 - What kind of music do you like? 1263 00:43:57,099 --> 00:44:00,010 - I really like real life, all kind of music. 1264 00:44:00,030 --> 00:44:02,130 Like, I'm diverse when it comes to music. 1265 00:44:02,150 --> 00:44:04,110 - [Fidel] Glad you made it. 1266 00:44:04,130 --> 00:44:05,210 - [Tiana] Thank you. - [Fidel] Finally. 1267 00:44:05,230 --> 00:44:06,170 - [Tiana] Glad to be- - We've been waiting for you. 1268 00:44:06,190 --> 00:44:07,230 (Tiana exclaims) 1269 00:44:08,010 --> 00:44:09,139 - [Tiana] When you're an artist you gotta kinda 1270 00:44:09,159 --> 00:44:11,090 accept everything 'cause you never know 1271 00:44:11,110 --> 00:44:12,170 who you got to work with, 1272 00:44:12,190 --> 00:44:14,110 you never know who you gotta come in contact with. 1273 00:44:14,130 --> 00:44:18,039 So I think it's good to like you know all the genres. 1274 00:44:18,059 --> 00:44:19,030 ♪ I got big dreams ♪ 1275 00:44:19,050 --> 00:44:19,219 ♪ Ain't never giving up ♪ 1276 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,019 ♪ Love or hate me ♪ 1277 00:44:21,039 --> 00:44:21,230 ♪ I never give up ♪ 1278 00:44:22,010 --> 00:44:23,099 ♪ I stay humble ♪ 1279 00:44:23,119 --> 00:44:24,170 ♪ 'Cause I got it out the mud ♪ 1280 00:44:24,190 --> 00:44:25,139 ♪ Moral of the stories is ♪ 1281 00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:26,179 ♪ My son is enough ♪ 1282 00:44:26,199 --> 00:44:27,219 ♪ I got big dreams ♪ 1283 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,000 ♪ I ain't never giving up ♪ 1284 00:44:29,019 --> 00:44:30,030 ♪ Love or hate me ♪ 1285 00:44:30,050 --> 00:44:31,079 ♪ I never give a fuck ♪ 1286 00:44:31,099 --> 00:44:32,130 ♪ I stay humble ♪ 1287 00:44:32,150 --> 00:44:33,090 - [Connie] So tell me a little bit 1288 00:44:33,110 --> 00:44:34,000 about your little man. 1289 00:44:34,019 --> 00:44:34,199 How old is he? 1290 00:44:34,219 --> 00:44:35,179 - Oh, he four. 1291 00:44:35,199 --> 00:44:37,019 - He's four? - Yeah. 1292 00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:38,119 - And where is he at? 1293 00:44:38,139 --> 00:44:41,210 - He staying with, I call 'em like his godparents. 1294 00:44:41,230 --> 00:44:43,110 - Okay. 1295 00:44:43,130 --> 00:44:46,000 So are they foster parents? 1296 00:44:46,019 --> 00:44:47,070 - Yeah. 1297 00:44:47,090 --> 00:44:50,110 - [Connie] Where's his biological dad? 1298 00:44:50,130 --> 00:44:51,170 - [Tiana] In prison. 1299 00:44:51,190 --> 00:44:53,130 - [Connie] Now why is he in jail? 1300 00:44:53,150 --> 00:44:56,130 - For a couple different things. 1301 00:44:56,150 --> 00:44:57,099 - Like... 1302 00:44:58,150 --> 00:45:00,130 - You know, street, you know, street dude. 1303 00:45:00,150 --> 00:45:01,130 - Oh that's what he is? 1304 00:45:01,150 --> 00:45:02,150 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1305 00:45:02,170 --> 00:45:06,110 - So when you had him, where were you at? 1306 00:45:06,130 --> 00:45:07,110 The group home? 1307 00:45:07,130 --> 00:45:08,059 - Mm-hmm. 1308 00:45:08,079 --> 00:45:09,110 - Okay. 1309 00:45:09,130 --> 00:45:10,110 So when he was born, what happened? 1310 00:45:10,130 --> 00:45:12,000 He was with me. 1311 00:45:12,019 --> 00:45:13,119 - He was with you at the group home? 1312 00:45:13,139 --> 00:45:14,210 - Yeah. 1313 00:45:14,230 --> 00:45:15,170 - 'Cause it was a group home that had moms with babies? 1314 00:45:15,190 --> 00:45:16,219 - Yeah. 1315 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,030 - And then how did he get taken from you? 1316 00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:21,000 - [Tiana] 'Cause they came and arrested me. 1317 00:45:21,019 --> 00:45:23,010 - [Connie] So you had him for a whole year 1318 00:45:23,030 --> 00:45:25,099 and then after, when he got ready to turn almost two, 1319 00:45:25,119 --> 00:45:27,000 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1320 00:45:27,019 --> 00:45:28,000 - [Connie] that's when he got moved to a foster home. 1321 00:45:28,019 --> 00:45:29,070 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1322 00:45:29,090 --> 00:45:30,059 ♪ Hoping that the Lord forgive me ♪ 1323 00:45:30,079 --> 00:45:31,130 ♪ Some things I don't mean ♪ 1324 00:45:31,150 --> 00:45:32,130 ♪ Don't speak about the seen and unseen ♪ 1325 00:45:32,150 --> 00:45:33,150 ♪ I hate the police ♪ 1326 00:45:33,170 --> 00:45:34,139 ♪ But shit while I'm on that topic ♪ 1327 00:45:34,159 --> 00:45:35,230 ♪ Fuck the police ♪ 1328 00:45:36,010 --> 00:45:36,179 ♪ You bitches gotta pay for my respect ♪ 1329 00:45:36,199 --> 00:45:37,170 ♪ I need a whole g's ♪ 1330 00:45:37,190 --> 00:45:38,159 ♪ Been fighting with the world ♪ 1331 00:45:38,179 --> 00:45:40,030 ♪ Till I finally had it in me ♪ 1332 00:45:40,050 --> 00:45:41,110 ♪ If you wanna know if I'm about it ♪ 1333 00:45:41,130 --> 00:45:42,150 ♪ Then try me and see ♪ 1334 00:45:42,170 --> 00:45:44,019 ♪ We cut from two different cloth ♪ 1335 00:45:44,039 --> 00:45:45,090 ♪ Nigga I'm going through the shit 15 years ♪ 1336 00:45:45,110 --> 00:45:46,099 ♪ Thank the Lord ♪ 1337 00:45:46,119 --> 00:45:47,099 ♪ Then give it to me ♪ 1338 00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:48,050 ♪ I thank the Lord ♪ 1339 00:45:48,070 --> 00:45:49,130 ♪ Then give it to me ♪ 1340 00:45:49,150 --> 00:45:51,119 - [Connie] So you got arrested at what age? 1341 00:45:51,139 --> 00:45:52,150 - [Tiana] 15. 1342 00:45:52,170 --> 00:45:54,130 - What'd you do? 1343 00:45:54,150 --> 00:45:57,070 - [Tiana] Strong armed robbery. 1344 00:45:57,090 --> 00:45:58,030 - Tiana. 1345 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,000 Okay, so you have a felony? 1346 00:46:01,019 --> 00:46:02,130 - Yeah. 1347 00:46:02,150 --> 00:46:04,030 - Is that the only felony? 1348 00:46:04,050 --> 00:46:05,130 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1349 00:46:05,150 --> 00:46:08,050 I just fight a lot, it wasn't like as bad as it sounds. 1350 00:46:08,070 --> 00:46:10,210 I just beat up a girl, buried her in the snow 1351 00:46:10,230 --> 00:46:12,170 and stuff like that and just took her money 1352 00:46:12,190 --> 00:46:14,159 but that's because you know 1353 00:46:14,179 --> 00:46:16,159 her and her little family tried to jump me 1354 00:46:16,179 --> 00:46:18,090 and she thought she was gonna get away with it. 1355 00:46:18,110 --> 00:46:20,219 So you know, I had to retaliate but... 1356 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,099 - You beat her pretty bad? 1357 00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:23,079 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1358 00:46:23,099 --> 00:46:24,159 - So, (stutters) can, I mean, 1359 00:46:24,179 --> 00:46:26,010 does she have scars, they're permanent scar? 1360 00:46:26,030 --> 00:46:27,150 - Yeah she was at the hospital. 1361 00:46:27,170 --> 00:46:29,119 - Oh so beat it that bad. 1362 00:46:29,139 --> 00:46:31,210 Okay and you didn't serve any time? 1363 00:46:31,230 --> 00:46:34,019 - [Tiana] Well, I was in there for like 10 days. 1364 00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:35,190 They was trynna give me 15 years 1365 00:46:35,210 --> 00:46:38,019 but I just had my baby so, 1366 00:46:39,070 --> 00:46:40,110 he was like, "This your first case. 1367 00:46:40,130 --> 00:46:43,010 "You kinda gon' get you a slap on the hand" 1368 00:46:43,030 --> 00:46:45,050 They put me on probation for a year 1369 00:46:45,070 --> 00:46:47,090 and just told me I like had to pay her the money back 1370 00:46:47,110 --> 00:46:48,199 and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying? 1371 00:46:48,219 --> 00:46:50,099 - Are you still paying restitution? 1372 00:46:50,119 --> 00:46:52,150 - [Tiana] No, I ain't given her nothing. 1373 00:46:52,170 --> 00:46:54,010 No. 1374 00:46:54,030 --> 00:46:55,150 - But you're gonna pay her back? 1375 00:46:55,170 --> 00:46:57,139 - No, never in my life. 1376 00:46:58,159 --> 00:46:59,190 - [Fidel] Do the song that you did 1377 00:46:59,210 --> 00:47:01,170 when you first walked up here the first day. 1378 00:47:01,190 --> 00:47:03,030 You was talking about the foster home. 1379 00:47:03,050 --> 00:47:04,159 When you sang it, it was like 1380 00:47:04,179 --> 00:47:07,139 that was real different level stuff. 1381 00:47:07,159 --> 00:47:08,159 This is good. 1382 00:47:08,179 --> 00:47:10,050 I'm just saying, 1383 00:47:10,070 --> 00:47:12,230 I want Sheldon to hear the other one on this one. 1384 00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:15,230 ♪ Hey yo ♪ 1385 00:47:16,010 --> 00:47:17,019 ♪ Don't need a crown, need a pen ♪ 1386 00:47:17,039 --> 00:47:19,059 ♪ It's been a minute been spinning ♪ 1387 00:47:19,079 --> 00:47:22,099 - [Connie] So how far, did you graduate from high school? 1388 00:47:22,119 --> 00:47:23,079 - [Tiana] No. 1389 00:47:23,099 --> 00:47:24,059 - [Connie] You didn't, okay no. 1390 00:47:24,079 --> 00:47:25,119 What's your goal for that? 1391 00:47:25,139 --> 00:47:27,000 - [Tiana] I don't really wanna go back. 1392 00:47:27,019 --> 00:47:27,219 - [Connie] You do wanna go back? 1393 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,030 - [Tiana] No I don't. 1394 00:47:29,050 --> 00:47:30,000 - But you gonna go back and get your GED. 1395 00:47:30,019 --> 00:47:31,000 - Yeah. 1396 00:47:31,019 --> 00:47:31,179 - Okay. 1397 00:47:31,199 --> 00:47:32,230 'Cause you wanna do that 1398 00:47:33,010 --> 00:47:34,139 'cause you know the longer you wait sometime 1399 00:47:34,159 --> 00:47:35,170 you don't do it. - [Tiana] You throw it off. 1400 00:47:35,190 --> 00:47:37,039 Yeah. - You do. 1401 00:47:37,059 --> 00:47:39,050 And to be able to get out of the factory 1402 00:47:39,070 --> 00:47:41,079 and do something like you wanna do, 1403 00:47:41,099 --> 00:47:42,179 with getting jobs, they always ask you, 1404 00:47:42,199 --> 00:47:45,230 do you have a high school diploma or a GED? 1405 00:47:46,010 --> 00:47:47,159 And considering it's gonna take some time 1406 00:47:47,179 --> 00:47:49,099 for the music industry 1407 00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:50,170 and get moving with that 1408 00:47:50,190 --> 00:47:52,170 'cause that's what you sound like you wanna do. 1409 00:47:52,190 --> 00:47:53,190 - Yeah. 1410 00:47:53,210 --> 00:47:55,199 - So and then sometimes it's good to journal. 1411 00:47:55,219 --> 00:47:58,090 Have you ever journaled? 1412 00:47:58,110 --> 00:48:01,079 - Well I write a lot like songs and stuff like that so. 1413 00:48:01,099 --> 00:48:02,139 I guess that's my- (Connie stutters) 1414 00:48:02,159 --> 00:48:04,019 - So your songs talk about your life? 1415 00:48:04,039 --> 00:48:04,210 - Yeah. 1416 00:48:04,230 --> 00:48:05,150 - Okay. 1417 00:48:05,170 --> 00:48:06,150 Then that's good. 1418 00:48:06,170 --> 00:48:07,230 - [Tiana] Yeah. 1419 00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:08,210 - [Connie] But it's good, 'cause writing period, 1420 00:48:08,230 --> 00:48:10,030 is good because it helps you, 1421 00:48:10,050 --> 00:48:12,219 sounds like it helps you to deal with things. 1422 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,039 - [Fidel] All right if you having fun, make some noise. 1423 00:48:15,059 --> 00:48:16,079 (crowd cheering) 1424 00:48:16,099 --> 00:48:17,110 If you're enjoying yourself, 1425 00:48:17,130 --> 00:48:18,179 we appreciate everybody who came out. 1426 00:48:18,199 --> 00:48:20,059 That's what it's all about Milwaukee. 1427 00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:22,130 Once again, big shout out to all of our partners 1428 00:48:22,150 --> 00:48:25,000 and our whole team of interns 1429 00:48:25,019 --> 00:48:27,099 and our staff that helped us put this together. 1430 00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:29,170 Make sure you holler at the True Skool table. 1431 00:48:29,190 --> 00:48:31,010 We'll see if this wild card happen. 1432 00:48:31,030 --> 00:48:32,090 How y'all doing Milwaukee? 1433 00:48:32,110 --> 00:48:33,050 (crowd exclaims) 1434 00:48:33,070 --> 00:48:34,000 Y'all good? 1435 00:48:34,019 --> 00:48:35,139 All right. 1436 00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:37,010 Now this next performer I'm bringing up to the stage. 1437 00:48:37,030 --> 00:48:39,039 She goes by the name of Tiana Gee 1438 00:48:39,059 --> 00:48:41,170 and she's a special guest here today 1439 00:48:41,190 --> 00:48:43,179 and this is part of a very special project. 1440 00:48:43,199 --> 00:48:45,139 I need y'all to give her a warm round of applause. 1441 00:48:45,159 --> 00:48:46,090 Go Milwaukee. 1442 00:48:46,110 --> 00:48:47,119 (crowd cheering) 1443 00:48:47,139 --> 00:48:48,079 Yeah. 1444 00:48:48,099 --> 00:48:49,190 Bring up Tiana Gee. 1445 00:48:49,210 --> 00:48:51,099 ♪ My sister fuck a nigga that I fucked (mumbles) ♪ 1446 00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:53,070 ♪ Every night I get up on my knees and pray ♪ 1447 00:48:53,090 --> 00:48:54,090 ♪ And I'm back in church on Sunday ♪ 1448 00:48:54,110 --> 00:48:55,130 ♪ And I'm still the same ♪ 1449 00:48:55,150 --> 00:48:58,190 ♪ Sincerely ♪ 1450 00:48:58,210 --> 00:49:02,190 ♪ Lord can you hear my cry ♪ 1451 00:49:02,210 --> 00:49:06,070 ♪ Lord please forgive me ♪ 1452 00:49:06,090 --> 00:49:07,159 - [Connie] Do you have relationships 1453 00:49:07,179 --> 00:49:10,099 with your mom and your sisters or your mom and dad? 1454 00:49:10,119 --> 00:49:11,079 - No. 1455 00:49:11,099 --> 00:49:12,190 Well I have a relationship, 1456 00:49:12,210 --> 00:49:15,190 I have a really good relationship with my dad now. 1457 00:49:15,210 --> 00:49:17,199 We see each other mostly every day. 1458 00:49:17,219 --> 00:49:19,170 Talk to each other mostly every day. 1459 00:49:19,190 --> 00:49:22,070 We've been doing a lot of stuff as family together. 1460 00:49:22,090 --> 00:49:23,039 So. 1461 00:49:23,059 --> 00:49:24,070 - Okay. 1462 00:49:24,090 --> 00:49:25,179 - Yeah, he really stepped up a lot lately. 1463 00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:27,219 ♪ I try to do better for you ♪ 1464 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,230 ♪ These demons, they leaching, they cruel ♪ 1465 00:49:30,010 --> 00:49:31,219 ♪ I think I did all I can do ♪ 1466 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,230 ♪ I finally put trust in you ♪ 1467 00:49:34,010 --> 00:49:36,030 ♪ My blood's racing my eyes (mumbles) ♪ 1468 00:49:36,050 --> 00:49:38,170 ♪ I'm doing wrong and I know it ♪ 1469 00:49:38,190 --> 00:49:41,079 ♪ 2020 I'm focused ♪ 1470 00:49:41,099 --> 00:49:45,000 ♪ I'm focused, yeah ♪ 1471 00:49:45,019 --> 00:49:48,039 (lighthearted music) 1472 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:49,199 - [Fidel] Y'all give it up. 1473 00:49:49,219 --> 00:49:51,039 Give it up for Tiana Gee. 1474 00:49:53,099 --> 00:49:54,079 - [Sharlen] One thing that I remember about Tiana 1475 00:49:54,099 --> 00:49:55,170 is just her drive 1476 00:49:55,190 --> 00:49:58,139 and who she was as a young person. 1477 00:50:00,010 --> 00:50:04,070 Just very driven, very determined despite her circumstances 1478 00:50:04,090 --> 00:50:06,150 and I think, when we look at a lot of the issues 1479 00:50:06,170 --> 00:50:08,070 that are going on in this city, 1480 00:50:08,090 --> 00:50:10,010 Tiana is one of many young people 1481 00:50:10,030 --> 00:50:12,179 that are impacted by a lot of, 1482 00:50:13,199 --> 00:50:15,119 I would say probably trauma, 1483 00:50:15,139 --> 00:50:19,170 a lot of situations that happen to communities in Milwaukee 1484 00:50:19,190 --> 00:50:21,219 and (stutters) and that impact families 1485 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,230 and so Tiana kind of was just a by-product of that 1486 00:50:25,010 --> 00:50:27,210 but that didn't stop her. 1487 00:50:27,230 --> 00:50:30,079 - Hey it was funny 'cause you was like, 1488 00:50:30,099 --> 00:50:31,219 I was like, "You the first act? 1489 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,090 "No." 1490 00:50:33,110 --> 00:50:34,139 then the next minute, "Hurry up I'm finna go on." 1491 00:50:34,159 --> 00:50:36,000 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1492 00:50:36,019 --> 00:50:37,179 'Cause see, 'cause at first he kept saying like, 1493 00:50:37,199 --> 00:50:39,199 "Hold on I'm trynna see where I can squeeze you in there." 1494 00:50:39,219 --> 00:50:41,050 So we like, "Okay" 1495 00:50:41,070 --> 00:50:43,039 and then a girl was up there, so I'm like, 1496 00:50:43,059 --> 00:50:44,210 that's when you said, is "I'm the first act" 1497 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:45,170 but the girl was already up there. 1498 00:50:45,190 --> 00:50:47,059 So I'm like, "no" cause I ain't. 1499 00:50:47,079 --> 00:50:48,070 'Cause the girl was up there. 1500 00:50:48,090 --> 00:50:49,210 - Oh okay. 1501 00:50:49,230 --> 00:50:50,230 - So he kept saying he was trynna figure it out. 1502 00:50:51,010 --> 00:50:51,199 10 minutes later he was, "Oh well, 1503 00:50:51,219 --> 00:50:53,139 "like get ready it's time." 1504 00:50:53,159 --> 00:50:54,210 (Tiana's dad mumbles) 1505 00:50:54,230 --> 00:50:57,219 - It's good I told him to get out 1506 00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,190 but at least I got it on film, right? 1507 00:50:59,210 --> 00:51:01,019 - Right. 1508 00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:01,230 - [Sharlen] One of the things that young people need 1509 00:51:02,010 --> 00:51:04,199 is that support and I remember 1510 00:51:04,219 --> 00:51:08,050 being able to provide that sort of just support 1511 00:51:08,070 --> 00:51:10,219 for Tiana because so many of our young people 1512 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,000 just need that sort of hand holding. 1513 00:51:13,019 --> 00:51:16,050 They need somebody that they know that care and love them. 1514 00:51:16,070 --> 00:51:19,000 - [Fidel] You cussed enough for everybody for the record. 1515 00:51:19,019 --> 00:51:21,000 Thank you for adding a couple of extra motherfuckers. 1516 00:51:21,019 --> 00:51:22,139 (Tiana laughs) 1517 00:51:22,159 --> 00:51:24,000 'Cause we got a couple of ignorant people in the crowd 1518 00:51:24,019 --> 00:51:24,219 and that's the only thing that gon' hear anyway 1519 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,050 and that's aight. 1520 00:51:26,070 --> 00:51:26,199 Couple other people that's all they wanna hear, 1521 00:51:26,219 --> 00:51:27,199 that's aight. 1522 00:51:27,219 --> 00:51:28,219 But you did a great job. - Thank you. 1523 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:29,219 - How you feel up there? 1524 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:30,159 - It felt good. - It felt good? 1525 00:51:30,179 --> 00:51:31,159 - Yeah. 1526 00:51:31,179 --> 00:51:32,230 - And you killed it and you left. 1527 00:51:33,010 --> 00:51:33,199 - [Both] Yeah. 1528 00:51:33,219 --> 00:51:34,170 - You killed and you left. 1529 00:51:34,190 --> 00:51:35,190 - I know, you know, like really 1530 00:51:35,210 --> 00:51:37,000 there was the closing speech? 1531 00:51:37,019 --> 00:51:37,199 - [Fidel] Yeah. 1532 00:51:37,219 --> 00:51:39,079 - So I was just like, you know- 1533 00:51:39,099 --> 00:51:41,119 - Next time, you know, introduce yourself, one last time. 1534 00:51:41,139 --> 00:51:44,130 You should be like you know, "Check for me in the future." 1535 00:51:44,150 --> 00:51:45,119 (Fidel exclaims) 1536 00:51:45,139 --> 00:51:46,030 But you did awesome though. 1537 00:51:46,050 --> 00:51:47,090 - Thank you. 1538 00:51:47,110 --> 00:51:48,230 - I Appreciate it. - Thank you. 1539 00:51:49,010 --> 00:51:50,059 - And I'm glad you got a chance to do some of you like 1540 00:51:50,079 --> 00:51:51,130 most important to you. - Thanks for the opportunity. 1541 00:51:51,150 --> 00:51:52,039 - That material right there is the one. 1542 00:51:52,059 --> 00:51:53,110 That's the one. 1543 00:51:53,130 --> 00:51:54,119 - Yeah, that is my song. - Not the other one. 1544 00:51:54,139 --> 00:51:55,070 That one. 1545 00:51:55,090 --> 00:51:56,019 That's the one. 1546 00:51:56,039 --> 00:51:56,210 (lock buzzes) 1547 00:51:56,230 --> 00:51:59,139 (door squeaks) 1548 00:52:01,230 --> 00:52:02,219 - [Johnnie] All right. 1549 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:03,199 Here you go. 1550 00:52:03,219 --> 00:52:06,090 I think you need these for this. 1551 00:52:09,210 --> 00:52:12,119 How you doing with 10 and two? 1552 00:52:13,179 --> 00:52:15,210 Are your hands in the right place? 1553 00:52:15,230 --> 00:52:16,159 - [Brandon] No. 1554 00:52:16,179 --> 00:52:18,179 - [Johnnie] I'ma say 40. 1555 00:52:19,190 --> 00:52:23,039 - [Brandon] (mumbles) 25. 1556 00:52:25,099 --> 00:52:26,230 That's my momma. 1557 00:52:27,010 --> 00:52:27,230 (car honks) (Johnnie stutters) 1558 00:52:28,010 --> 00:52:28,219 - What was that? - My momma. 1559 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:30,059 - Your mother? - Mm-hmm. 1560 00:52:30,079 --> 00:52:34,210 All right, well, we had time you could have went in. 1561 00:52:34,230 --> 00:52:36,079 Did a U-turn and said hi. 1562 00:52:42,110 --> 00:52:45,019 (man mumbles faintly) 1563 00:52:45,039 --> 00:52:46,179 (door squeaks) 1564 00:52:46,199 --> 00:52:48,010 - [Ron] Hey how's it going? 1565 00:52:48,030 --> 00:52:48,190 - [Johnnie] All right, pretty good. 1566 00:52:48,210 --> 00:52:49,190 - [Ron] What's up? 1567 00:52:49,210 --> 00:52:50,159 What's your name man? 1568 00:52:50,179 --> 00:52:52,010 - [Brandon] Brandon. 1569 00:52:52,030 --> 00:52:53,000 - I'm Ron, right. (Brandon mumbles) 1570 00:52:53,019 --> 00:52:53,190 Nice to meet you brother. 1571 00:52:53,210 --> 00:52:54,070 (Johnnie mumbles) 1572 00:52:54,090 --> 00:52:55,050 - Okay. 1573 00:52:55,070 --> 00:52:56,179 - So he's the owner of Sphinx 1574 00:52:56,199 --> 00:52:57,230 and I've known Ron probably for the 20 years 1575 00:52:58,010 --> 00:52:59,139 me and his brother went to high school together. 1576 00:52:59,159 --> 00:53:00,190 We were good friends. 1577 00:53:00,210 --> 00:53:02,059 - Yeah, I was cutting him in the house. 1578 00:53:02,079 --> 00:53:03,059 - He says you been cutting all the basketball players bald. 1579 00:53:03,079 --> 00:53:05,170 - Oh yeah, humble man. - Not bald. 1580 00:53:05,190 --> 00:53:06,130 (all laughing) 1581 00:53:06,150 --> 00:53:07,070 I said back in the day. 1582 00:53:07,090 --> 00:53:08,139 - Early in the 90's. 1583 00:53:08,159 --> 00:53:09,050 I was probably your age cutting hair. 1584 00:53:09,070 --> 00:53:09,079 - Oh really? 1585 00:53:10,230 --> 00:53:12,019 - Real life. 1586 00:53:12,039 --> 00:53:13,139 I been cutting hair for (stutters) 25 years. 1587 00:53:13,159 --> 00:53:14,119 - 25 years? 1588 00:53:14,139 --> 00:53:15,230 - 25 years. 1589 00:53:16,010 --> 00:53:19,219 - Okay, well I want 25 years experience into this tapered 1590 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,079 and this line. 1591 00:53:21,099 --> 00:53:22,219 - You go me on IG, you got an Instagram page, right? 1592 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,099 - Yeah. 1593 00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:26,010 - Yeah, lemme get your Instagram page real quick. 1594 00:53:26,030 --> 00:53:27,000 - Okay. 1595 00:53:27,019 --> 00:53:29,000 (machine buzzing) 1596 00:53:29,019 --> 00:53:29,190 - [Johnnie] Oh, so Brandon, 1597 00:53:29,210 --> 00:53:31,059 did I ever tell you 1598 00:53:31,079 --> 00:53:33,210 that I stopped living with my mom when I was 15 years old? 1599 00:53:33,230 --> 00:53:35,159 Stopped living with my mom, wasn't there. 1600 00:53:35,179 --> 00:53:39,039 She got evicted and she ended up moving inside a shelter. 1601 00:53:39,059 --> 00:53:40,219 So I ended up staying with my uncle. 1602 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,000 Back when I was in high school there was times where Ron, 1603 00:53:44,019 --> 00:53:46,030 his mom would, you know, pick me up for school, 1604 00:53:46,050 --> 00:53:48,070 give me a ride to school sometimes, 1605 00:53:48,090 --> 00:53:50,039 give me a ride home. 1606 00:53:51,059 --> 00:53:52,079 And Brandon, so that was your mom 1607 00:53:52,099 --> 00:53:53,230 we saw on 35th and Center you said? 1608 00:53:54,010 --> 00:53:55,099 Does she have a cell phone? 1609 00:53:55,119 --> 00:53:56,079 - Yes. 1610 00:53:56,099 --> 00:53:57,159 - Do you think you wanna call 1611 00:53:57,179 --> 00:53:59,090 and see where she was on her way to? 1612 00:53:59,110 --> 00:54:00,230 'Cause I wonder if she really recognized 1613 00:54:01,010 --> 00:54:02,230 that that was you or not. 1614 00:54:03,010 --> 00:54:03,079 Blowing at her. 1615 00:54:05,010 --> 00:54:06,170 (machine buzzing) 1616 00:54:06,190 --> 00:54:08,199 (phone beeps) 1617 00:54:08,219 --> 00:54:10,030 - [Lydia] Hello. 1618 00:54:10,050 --> 00:54:12,079 - Ma, this is Brandon. - [Lydia] Hello. 1619 00:54:12,099 --> 00:54:14,099 That was you driving right? 1620 00:54:14,119 --> 00:54:16,019 - Yeah. 1621 00:54:16,039 --> 00:54:17,179 - [Lydia] Hey, how you doing? 1622 00:54:17,199 --> 00:54:18,130 - I'm good. 1623 00:54:18,150 --> 00:54:19,110 - [Lydia] Did you see? 1624 00:54:19,130 --> 00:54:20,050 Do you like me hair and stuff? 1625 00:54:20,070 --> 00:54:20,230 (Brandon mumbles) 1626 00:54:21,010 --> 00:54:22,159 - Where you at? 1627 00:54:22,179 --> 00:54:24,000 - [Lydia] On the bus. 1628 00:54:24,019 --> 00:54:26,150 - On the bus, where you going? 1629 00:54:26,170 --> 00:54:30,119 - [Lydia] To Dollar General on the East side. 1630 00:54:30,139 --> 00:54:34,050 - I say what you doing there besides going there? 1631 00:54:34,070 --> 00:54:35,090 - [Lydia] Gon' go home. 1632 00:54:35,110 --> 00:54:36,230 Clean my room up. 1633 00:54:37,010 --> 00:54:39,019 Oh yeah, I forgot I gotta go 1634 00:54:39,039 --> 00:54:40,170 to Social Security building 1635 00:54:40,190 --> 00:54:43,059 and see if I can do, get my own check 1636 00:54:43,079 --> 00:54:45,130 because (mumbles) took herself off of my payee 1637 00:54:45,150 --> 00:54:46,190 thank God. 1638 00:54:46,210 --> 00:54:48,019 I'm sick of her. 1639 00:54:48,039 --> 00:54:49,099 Yeah, so what was you doing? 1640 00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:51,170 That was a driving school? 1641 00:54:51,190 --> 00:54:54,070 - No, I'm with Mr.Johnnie. 1642 00:54:54,090 --> 00:54:56,010 - [Lydia] Oh, he was letting you drive? 1643 00:54:56,030 --> 00:54:57,110 - Yeah. 1644 00:54:57,130 --> 00:54:59,070 - [Lydia] Oh, that's nice. 1645 00:54:59,090 --> 00:55:02,010 Brandon, the police is calling me about Mariah. 1646 00:55:02,030 --> 00:55:03,039 I'll call you back okay? 1647 00:55:03,059 --> 00:55:04,159 - All right. 1648 00:55:04,179 --> 00:55:06,219 - [Lydia] All right. 1649 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,059 - [Rick Sr.] So, what I want you to do, 1650 00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:10,019 I'ma ask you the question today 1651 00:55:10,039 --> 00:55:12,039 and I want a show of hands. 1652 00:55:12,059 --> 00:55:15,059 Do you have expectations of yourself? 1653 00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:16,190 - [Derek] It's real important 1654 00:55:16,210 --> 00:55:20,090 that teachers have the highest expectation for students 1655 00:55:20,110 --> 00:55:24,059 but once we set a higher expectation for our students 1656 00:55:24,079 --> 00:55:26,150 in terms of their performance, 1657 00:55:26,170 --> 00:55:29,039 then it's important that we provide support. 1658 00:55:29,059 --> 00:55:30,090 - [Rick Sr.] I'ma go back to when I used to, 1659 00:55:30,110 --> 00:55:32,079 when I started my group in my phrase was always 1660 00:55:32,099 --> 00:55:33,139 "rise and grind" 1661 00:55:33,159 --> 00:55:35,090 and I'm trying to teach all of us 1662 00:55:35,110 --> 00:55:37,150 when you rise, you grind 1663 00:55:37,170 --> 00:55:39,059 because unfortunately there's a lot of people 1664 00:55:39,079 --> 00:55:40,179 that came rise anymore. 1665 00:55:40,199 --> 00:55:43,000 I don't want you to just stop and stand still. 1666 00:55:43,019 --> 00:55:45,119 I want you to go reach your expectations 1667 00:55:45,139 --> 00:55:46,099 but y'all this is serious. 1668 00:55:46,119 --> 00:55:48,159 We at the finish line. 1669 00:55:48,179 --> 00:55:52,070 We have one and a half weeks before our finals are coming. 1670 00:55:52,090 --> 00:55:54,050 Some of us behind the eight ball 1671 00:55:54,070 --> 00:55:55,190 but still wanna play games 1672 00:55:55,210 --> 00:55:57,179 and it's nobody else's fault right now. 1673 00:55:57,199 --> 00:55:59,179 It ain't momma's fault, it ain't daddy's fault, 1674 00:55:59,199 --> 00:56:01,030 it ain't your life- 1675 00:56:01,050 --> 00:56:03,079 It's right now to pick up that baton and finish. 1676 00:56:03,099 --> 00:56:06,110 - [Derek] If you set a high goal or a high target 1677 00:56:06,130 --> 00:56:08,150 for students to obtain 1678 00:56:08,170 --> 00:56:10,199 but you don't provide the support, 1679 00:56:10,219 --> 00:56:15,010 emotional support, the skills, without that support 1680 00:56:15,030 --> 00:56:18,150 then the kids tend to feel alienated. 1681 00:56:18,170 --> 00:56:20,230 They say, "Well you're expecting this out of me 1682 00:56:21,010 --> 00:56:23,090 "but where do I get the resources? 1683 00:56:23,110 --> 00:56:25,030 "Where do I get the support, 1684 00:56:25,050 --> 00:56:26,119 "so that I can be successful?" 1685 00:56:26,139 --> 00:56:28,059 - [Rick Sr.] In this week and a half 1686 00:56:28,079 --> 00:56:30,039 you gon' go to your teachers. 1687 00:56:30,059 --> 00:56:33,059 You gon' find out what you need to do to finish. 1688 00:56:33,079 --> 00:56:34,039 - [Marquell] Hi Ms. Jacobs. 1689 00:56:34,059 --> 00:56:35,039 I'm coming to you to see like 1690 00:56:35,059 --> 00:56:36,119 how can I bring my grade up 1691 00:56:36,139 --> 00:56:39,099 from a D to either a C or a B. 1692 00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:41,039 - Okay. 1693 00:56:41,059 --> 00:56:45,119 It's not looking like you're gonna pass this semester 1694 00:56:45,139 --> 00:56:47,050 (Ms. Jacobs inhales deeply) 1695 00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:49,210 and it's because since February, 1696 00:56:50,219 --> 00:56:53,039 you haven't done a thing 1697 00:56:53,059 --> 00:56:55,090 and you have not been here in class. 1698 00:56:55,110 --> 00:56:57,079 Starting in the semester, 1699 00:56:57,099 --> 00:56:58,190 in the beginning of the semester, 1700 00:56:58,210 --> 00:57:00,110 you have every single thing turned in. 1701 00:57:00,130 --> 00:57:03,050 I'm talking about every single assignment. 1702 00:57:03,070 --> 00:57:05,219 Drops off February 20th. 1703 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,000 Faces the earth. 1704 00:57:07,019 --> 00:57:07,230 No Marquell. 1705 00:57:08,010 --> 00:57:09,159 You're not in class. 1706 00:57:09,179 --> 00:57:11,070 When you do come to class, 1707 00:57:11,090 --> 00:57:13,010 you leave to go to either group 1708 00:57:13,030 --> 00:57:15,170 or to be an ambassador or late 1709 00:57:15,190 --> 00:57:18,099 or your behavior sometimes gets you put out 1710 00:57:18,119 --> 00:57:19,179 and this is the result. 1711 00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:21,230 So it's looking like a little bit 1712 00:57:22,010 --> 00:57:23,119 of a downward spiral for you 1713 00:57:23,139 --> 00:57:25,199 and I don't really want that for you. 1714 00:57:25,219 --> 00:57:28,079 Last semester, did you pass? 1715 00:57:29,079 --> 00:57:30,039 No. 1716 00:57:30,059 --> 00:57:32,019 Why is that? 1717 00:57:32,039 --> 00:57:33,039 - [Marquell] Well to be honest really, 1718 00:57:33,059 --> 00:57:34,039 just my fault basically 1719 00:57:34,059 --> 00:57:36,099 'cause I wasn't really focusing. 1720 00:57:36,119 --> 00:57:38,199 I was goofing off, playing around 1721 00:57:38,219 --> 00:57:41,130 and trynna be a class clown and stuff like that 1722 00:57:41,150 --> 00:57:43,190 and really knowing that, 1723 00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:47,039 that weeks has gone by fast as ever 1724 00:57:47,059 --> 00:57:49,159 just docking down by day by day. 1725 00:57:49,179 --> 00:57:51,219 - And what's really getting on my nerves right now 1726 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,159 is the fact that you're coming in two weeks, 1727 00:57:54,179 --> 00:57:56,090 a week and a half before exams 1728 00:57:56,110 --> 00:57:59,190 and is just now asking, what can you do? 1729 00:58:01,130 --> 00:58:06,019 This work has been on Google Classrooms since August. 1730 00:58:06,039 --> 00:58:07,150 - Thank you Ms. Jacobs. - No problem. 1731 00:58:07,170 --> 00:58:08,170 - And I'm finna get to class. 1732 00:58:08,190 --> 00:58:12,019 - [Rick Sr.] We gonna take this as motivation 1733 00:58:12,039 --> 00:58:13,139 because I know a lot of us are sitting there 1734 00:58:13,159 --> 00:58:14,210 are seeing who don't wanna come up here 1735 00:58:14,230 --> 00:58:16,039 and tell their story 1736 00:58:16,059 --> 00:58:18,039 is going through the same type of things, 1737 00:58:18,059 --> 00:58:19,199 the same similar situations. 1738 00:58:19,219 --> 00:58:21,190 So use this as motivation. 1739 00:58:21,210 --> 00:58:24,039 When I said set your expectations high, 1740 00:58:24,059 --> 00:58:26,219 set 'em high, go for 'em. 1741 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,219 It always goes through this. 1742 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:30,230 Okay, so here we go. 1743 00:58:31,010 --> 00:58:33,139 - [Woman] Freshman year, it was fun, like, 1744 00:58:33,159 --> 00:58:35,190 that was the best freshman year ever like. 1745 00:58:35,210 --> 00:58:37,010 (woman laughs) 1746 00:58:37,030 --> 00:58:40,139 Then, something happened to me over the summer. 1747 00:58:43,110 --> 00:58:45,079 I was raped or whatever 1748 00:58:45,099 --> 00:58:47,230 and, then school year started 1749 00:58:50,099 --> 00:58:52,159 and I was just out of it like, 1750 00:58:52,179 --> 00:58:55,059 I was here but I wasn't here. 1751 00:58:55,079 --> 00:58:57,059 It was just a struggle. 1752 00:58:57,079 --> 00:58:59,150 All the way up to now it still is a struggle. 1753 00:58:59,170 --> 00:59:01,179 You know, I get into it with my daddy all the time. 1754 00:59:01,199 --> 00:59:04,000 My daddy think I'm a hoe. 1755 00:59:04,019 --> 00:59:07,070 Still not caring about school, trying to commit suicide. 1756 00:59:07,090 --> 00:59:08,110 You know. 1757 00:59:08,130 --> 00:59:11,010 All that stuff, going to the hospital. 1758 00:59:11,030 --> 00:59:12,210 OD'd and all that stuff. 1759 00:59:12,230 --> 00:59:14,059 - I was in the foster care for like, 1760 00:59:14,079 --> 00:59:16,019 I don't know how long (stutters) just, 1761 00:59:16,039 --> 00:59:17,190 probably like a month, maybe three months, 1762 00:59:17,210 --> 00:59:20,079 maybe three months or two, I don't know 1763 00:59:20,099 --> 00:59:22,110 but, like me and my mom was never on good terms. 1764 00:59:22,130 --> 00:59:25,030 It was always arguing. 1765 00:59:25,050 --> 00:59:26,210 (Marquell sighs) 1766 00:59:26,230 --> 00:59:29,159 Momma used to sell drugs. 1767 00:59:29,179 --> 00:59:31,150 My dad was never in my life. 1768 00:59:31,170 --> 00:59:33,099 Then helping my little brothers and sisters 1769 00:59:33,119 --> 00:59:35,159 with their homework and stuff. 1770 00:59:35,179 --> 00:59:37,059 Taking them like baths and stuff 1771 00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:38,110 because my mom was never here. 1772 00:59:38,130 --> 00:59:40,000 She was always at a (mumbles) and me, 1773 00:59:40,019 --> 00:59:41,139 going out where friends and everything. 1774 00:59:41,159 --> 00:59:44,130 I got into an argument with her yesterday. 1775 00:59:44,150 --> 00:59:46,030 She said she was gonna put me out. 1776 00:59:46,050 --> 00:59:47,110 So I told her, "Okay, 1777 00:59:47,130 --> 00:59:49,099 "I'ma just call the social worker tomorrow 1778 00:59:49,119 --> 00:59:50,179 "and make your dream come true." 1779 00:59:50,199 --> 00:59:52,019 So- 1780 00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:53,139 - [Marco] You know, it's always been that 1781 00:59:53,159 --> 00:59:56,090 the black male has been absent of the household 1782 00:59:56,110 --> 00:59:57,210 then now what do we do 1783 00:59:57,230 --> 01:00:01,010 when there's no black mother in the household 1784 01:00:01,030 --> 01:00:02,199 and kids are truly fending for themselves? 1785 01:00:02,219 --> 01:00:06,179 And I think that we're seeing a lot more of that these days, 1786 01:00:06,199 --> 01:00:07,150 unfortunately. 1787 01:00:07,170 --> 01:00:08,190 - [Woman] My daddy left here, 1788 01:00:08,210 --> 01:00:11,030 this last year in November. 1789 01:00:11,050 --> 01:00:13,000 I was in the house by myself. 1790 01:00:13,019 --> 01:00:14,179 I basically had my own house. 1791 01:00:14,199 --> 01:00:17,000 I was paying bills, working a job, 1792 01:00:17,019 --> 01:00:19,039 not being at school. 1793 01:00:19,059 --> 01:00:21,070 At work from seven o'clock in the morning 1794 01:00:21,090 --> 01:00:23,119 to one o'clock in the morning. 1795 01:00:23,139 --> 01:00:25,199 I used to be out here in the streets 1796 01:00:25,219 --> 01:00:29,050 with my friends and didn't care. 1797 01:00:29,070 --> 01:00:30,090 Hey, I don't got nothing to live for 1798 01:00:30,110 --> 01:00:32,050 with my momma gone. 1799 01:00:34,130 --> 01:00:36,139 Until this one time, I was in the hospital 1800 01:00:36,159 --> 01:00:39,210 for two weeks, I almost killed myself. 1801 01:00:41,190 --> 01:00:44,139 - [Rick Sr.] And so I guess what I'm finna ask 1802 01:00:44,159 --> 01:00:45,190 everybody in here, 1803 01:00:45,210 --> 01:00:47,010 start being there for somebody. 1804 01:00:47,030 --> 01:00:48,139 When y'all hear these stories, 1805 01:00:48,159 --> 01:00:51,110 hey a kind word goes a long way. 1806 01:00:52,090 --> 01:00:53,159 Everybody understand? 1807 01:00:53,179 --> 01:00:54,099 - [All] Yes. 1808 01:00:54,119 --> 01:00:55,090 - Good, better, best. 1809 01:00:55,110 --> 01:00:56,110 - [All] Good, better, best. 1810 01:00:56,130 --> 01:00:57,099 - I shall not rest. 1811 01:00:57,119 --> 01:00:58,130 - [All] I shall not rest. 1812 01:00:58,150 --> 01:00:59,090 - [Rick Sr.] Till my good is better. 1813 01:00:59,110 --> 01:01:00,170 - [All] Till my good is better. 1814 01:01:00,190 --> 01:01:01,150 - [Rick Sr.] And my better is best. 1815 01:01:01,170 --> 01:01:02,190 - [All] And my better is best. 1816 01:01:02,210 --> 01:01:03,130 - [Rick Sr.] Everybody be great today 1817 01:01:03,150 --> 01:01:04,159 and we must finish. 1818 01:01:04,179 --> 01:01:05,199 - [Muhibb] They can't hurt us. 1819 01:01:05,219 --> 01:01:06,139 They can't hold us down. - [Man] Come on. 1820 01:01:06,159 --> 01:01:07,219 You gotta go there. 1821 01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:09,000 - They can't stop water from seeking it's level. 1822 01:01:09,019 --> 01:01:10,090 It's this water, it's is in us. 1823 01:01:10,110 --> 01:01:12,199 They will never be able to stop us from seeking the truth. 1824 01:01:12,219 --> 01:01:13,230 It is impossible. 1825 01:01:14,010 --> 01:01:15,119 We are not afraid of your might. 1826 01:01:15,139 --> 01:01:16,179 - [Man] What we do? 1827 01:01:16,199 --> 01:01:18,010 - We're not afraid of your intelligence. 1828 01:01:18,030 --> 01:01:19,039 We've read the story of Pharaoh. 1829 01:01:19,059 --> 01:01:22,159 We know it's prophesied that, they fall, not us. 1830 01:01:22,179 --> 01:01:24,059 What they gon' do when we don't wanna be 1831 01:01:24,079 --> 01:01:25,139 a part of their world no more? 1832 01:01:25,159 --> 01:01:26,210 (audience applauding) 1833 01:01:26,230 --> 01:01:27,150 - Come on, give it up, give it up. 1834 01:01:27,170 --> 01:01:28,219 - What they gonna do 1835 01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:29,199 when we don't wanna get high no more? 1836 01:01:29,219 --> 01:01:30,179 Don't wanna get drunk no more. 1837 01:01:30,199 --> 01:01:32,179 Not hypnotized by music no more. 1838 01:01:32,199 --> 01:01:34,000 What they gon' do 1839 01:01:34,019 --> 01:01:35,050 when we don't wanna be criminals no more? 1840 01:01:35,070 --> 01:01:36,119 We'll be burning their dough. 1841 01:01:36,139 --> 01:01:37,099 Burn their money. 1842 01:01:37,119 --> 01:01:38,190 Burn their guns as a offering 1843 01:01:38,210 --> 01:01:41,110 to the most high God to regain his respect, 1844 01:01:41,130 --> 01:01:42,139 what they to do? 1845 01:01:42,159 --> 01:01:46,070 I wish all the children on Burleigh, 1846 01:01:46,090 --> 01:01:48,150 all the children on the North side of Milwaukee 1847 01:01:48,170 --> 01:01:51,159 knew that there will come a time 1848 01:01:51,179 --> 01:01:54,210 where them struggling with obituaries 1849 01:01:57,070 --> 01:02:00,019 or hearing gunshots at night 1850 01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:02,170 or seeing the yellow tape 1851 01:02:02,190 --> 01:02:06,150 and bodies of their friends, won't last forever. 1852 01:02:06,170 --> 01:02:09,219 It will eventually be replaced with a new spirit. 1853 01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,119 A new spirit of them striving to go to school 1854 01:02:13,139 --> 01:02:17,090 and become educated and be different people. 1855 01:02:17,110 --> 01:02:19,179 Walking across the stage, graduating 1856 01:02:19,199 --> 01:02:24,050 and not us lining up for funeral processions. 1857 01:02:24,070 --> 01:02:25,070 If I had a dream, 1858 01:02:25,090 --> 01:02:29,030 I wish every black child would know that. 1859 01:02:31,099 --> 01:02:34,139 (controller rattles) 1860 01:02:37,199 --> 01:02:38,130 (mouth clicks) 1861 01:02:38,150 --> 01:02:40,000 - What the fuck? 1862 01:02:42,230 --> 01:02:44,030 Here's Johnny. 1863 01:02:47,139 --> 01:02:48,230 (door clicks) 1864 01:02:49,010 --> 01:02:49,170 Oh hey mum. 1865 01:02:49,190 --> 01:02:51,000 - [Lydia] Hey darling. 1866 01:02:51,019 --> 01:02:51,210 Hi. 1867 01:03:02,059 --> 01:03:03,099 - [Brandon] Come on. - How you been? 1868 01:03:03,119 --> 01:03:04,199 - [Brandon] I'm all right, come on. 1869 01:03:04,219 --> 01:03:06,030 (Lydia mumbles) What you say? 1870 01:03:06,050 --> 01:03:07,099 - [Lydia] You sleep up here? 1871 01:03:07,119 --> 01:03:10,039 - [Brandon] No I sleep downstairs. 1872 01:03:11,079 --> 01:03:12,090 You know what I wanna do? 1873 01:03:12,110 --> 01:03:13,039 - [Lydia] What? 1874 01:03:13,059 --> 01:03:14,059 - [Brandon] Leave here. 1875 01:03:14,079 --> 01:03:15,170 - [Lydia] You wanna leave here? 1876 01:03:15,190 --> 01:03:17,179 You mean, you mean this place or leave the state? 1877 01:03:17,199 --> 01:03:19,000 - [Brandon] This place. 1878 01:03:19,019 --> 01:03:20,139 - I know. 1879 01:03:20,159 --> 01:03:21,150 - We gotta go. 1880 01:03:21,170 --> 01:03:22,170 - Yeah. 1881 01:03:22,190 --> 01:03:25,090 Where do you think that you might wanna move? 1882 01:03:25,110 --> 01:03:27,050 To, just have to just (stutters) 1883 01:03:27,070 --> 01:03:28,130 like go on vacation sometimes 1884 01:03:28,150 --> 01:03:31,119 and just explore a couple of places? 1885 01:03:31,139 --> 01:03:33,130 Anywhere but here. - Anywhere but here. 1886 01:03:33,150 --> 01:03:34,110 I like Texas. 1887 01:03:34,130 --> 01:03:36,139 I really do but it's hot. 1888 01:03:36,159 --> 01:03:37,219 - I like Vegas. 1889 01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:38,179 - You like Vegas. 1890 01:03:38,199 --> 01:03:39,230 How do you know? 1891 01:03:40,010 --> 01:03:41,119 Yeah, that's definitely an option. 1892 01:03:41,139 --> 01:03:43,139 I don't wanna stay here. 1893 01:03:44,159 --> 01:03:45,159 No. 1894 01:03:45,179 --> 01:03:47,019 I mean we've been through some, 1895 01:03:47,039 --> 01:03:49,059 a lot of trials and tribulations in Milwaukee 1896 01:03:49,079 --> 01:03:50,159 and you know it's getting bad. 1897 01:03:50,179 --> 01:03:52,190 - Everybody's moving anyway. 1898 01:03:52,210 --> 01:03:54,010 - Yeah. 1899 01:03:54,030 --> 01:03:55,150 It's getting bad but there's still hope, 1900 01:03:55,170 --> 01:03:57,199 you know, it's all about what you do 1901 01:03:57,219 --> 01:04:02,179 but I'm just, I've had it, I need a geographical change. 1902 01:04:04,230 --> 01:04:06,130 - [Brandon] I don't think there's no hope. 1903 01:04:06,150 --> 01:04:07,230 If you're living here there's no hope. 1904 01:04:08,010 --> 01:04:09,019 - You don't think there's any hope living here? 1905 01:04:09,039 --> 01:04:10,170 - [Brandon] No. 1906 01:04:10,190 --> 01:04:12,170 - [Marco] The issues that young black men are facing 1907 01:04:12,190 --> 01:04:14,179 or a few issues that young black men are facing 1908 01:04:14,199 --> 01:04:15,190 growing up in Milwaukee, 1909 01:04:15,210 --> 01:04:20,000 I would say is a sense of hopelessness. 1910 01:04:20,019 --> 01:04:22,179 A lot of our young men, young people of color 1911 01:04:22,199 --> 01:04:26,150 don't come from a good foundation of stability 1912 01:04:26,170 --> 01:04:30,219 nor have the resources and the individuals around them 1913 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,139 to help guide them through those trials and tribulations 1914 01:04:34,159 --> 01:04:35,219 that I guess you could say 1915 01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,019 that they'll face as they are growing up 1916 01:04:37,039 --> 01:04:38,219 throw their adolescents and their teens. 1917 01:04:39,010 --> 01:04:39,210 (Lydia sighs) 1918 01:04:39,230 --> 01:04:41,030 - It kinda depends on- 1919 01:04:41,050 --> 01:04:42,210 - [Brandon] People leave here, 1920 01:04:42,230 --> 01:04:45,190 make their money and then come back. 1921 01:04:45,210 --> 01:04:47,150 - [Lydia] Yeah, I know. 1922 01:04:47,170 --> 01:04:51,210 Oh, you mean hope as far as the career and the jobs, 1923 01:04:53,139 --> 01:04:54,130 economical wise - Yeah. 1924 01:04:54,150 --> 01:04:56,130 Because we're a low income city. 1925 01:04:56,150 --> 01:04:57,190 - [Lydia] Yeah we are 1926 01:04:57,210 --> 01:05:00,070 but you know that's what school is all about. 1927 01:05:00,090 --> 01:05:01,130 You know what I'm saying? 1928 01:05:01,150 --> 01:05:03,010 - [Marco] With that also mentions stability. 1929 01:05:03,030 --> 01:05:05,000 You know, I think that one of the key factors 1930 01:05:05,019 --> 01:05:06,179 for a young person's success 1931 01:05:06,199 --> 01:05:08,170 is for them to be able to come from an environment 1932 01:05:08,190 --> 01:05:10,210 or have a environment that is conducive 1933 01:05:10,230 --> 01:05:12,170 to growing up, you know 1934 01:05:12,190 --> 01:05:14,219 and then also an environment that accounts 1935 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:19,110 for the challenges that they'll face as young of color. 1936 01:05:19,130 --> 01:05:20,150 - [Dia] So how are you doing here? 1937 01:05:20,170 --> 01:05:21,190 - [Brandon] I'm good. 1938 01:05:21,210 --> 01:05:22,130 - [Dia] Staying out the way? 1939 01:05:22,150 --> 01:05:23,099 - [Brandon] Yeah. 1940 01:05:23,119 --> 01:05:24,059 Trying to. 1941 01:05:24,079 --> 01:05:25,030 - You trying to. 1942 01:05:25,050 --> 01:05:27,139 - What you mean by trying? 1943 01:05:27,159 --> 01:05:29,019 - [Brandon] They be testing me here. 1944 01:05:29,039 --> 01:05:29,230 - They be testing you. 1945 01:05:30,010 --> 01:05:30,230 Who's they? 1946 01:05:31,010 --> 01:05:32,039 - [Brandon] The kids. 1947 01:05:32,059 --> 01:05:33,070 - Oh yeah (mumbles) 1948 01:05:33,090 --> 01:05:35,000 - That's what y'all all do. 1949 01:05:35,019 --> 01:05:36,039 (Dia laughs) 1950 01:05:36,059 --> 01:05:38,090 - [Brandon] No like, they be testing me like, 1951 01:05:38,110 --> 01:05:40,150 there's this (stutters) the boy downstairs, 1952 01:05:40,170 --> 01:05:42,099 he'd be stealing my studs. 1953 01:05:42,119 --> 01:05:44,059 - [Dia] But besides that you cool? 1954 01:05:44,079 --> 01:05:45,010 - [Brandon] Yeah. 1955 01:05:45,030 --> 01:05:48,099 - [Dia] That (mumbles) 1956 01:05:49,079 --> 01:05:50,159 (car engine revs) 1957 01:05:50,179 --> 01:05:53,119 - And then it's like this ain't my first, second, third time 1958 01:05:53,139 --> 01:05:54,139 putting my parents in the song. 1959 01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:57,170 So it's like, you trynna be, 1960 01:05:57,190 --> 01:05:58,179 be telling for what? 1961 01:05:58,199 --> 01:06:01,000 (car engine revs) 1962 01:06:01,019 --> 01:06:02,150 - [Kierra] The whole song wasn't about him though. 1963 01:06:02,170 --> 01:06:06,099 You just, you put little parts of the situation in a song. 1964 01:06:06,119 --> 01:06:07,210 - [Tiana] I mean if I'ma make this song, 1965 01:06:07,230 --> 01:06:09,079 I'ma make it real. 1966 01:06:09,099 --> 01:06:10,230 I'ma be a hundred percent honest. 1967 01:06:11,010 --> 01:06:12,070 You know what I'm saying? 1968 01:06:12,090 --> 01:06:14,090 I'ma only state facts and it is what it is. 1969 01:06:14,110 --> 01:06:16,019 And then I feel like, 1970 01:06:16,039 --> 01:06:18,170 well since music is my passion anyway 1971 01:06:18,190 --> 01:06:20,050 you, I are got to express that. 1972 01:06:20,070 --> 01:06:22,170 That hurt like, they really hurting me. 1973 01:06:22,190 --> 01:06:25,170 So I feel like I make the song personal 1974 01:06:25,190 --> 01:06:27,030 and you know, most of my personal songs 1975 01:06:27,050 --> 01:06:29,050 it always do be about like my mom or dad. 1976 01:06:29,070 --> 01:06:30,059 So I'm like... 1977 01:06:30,079 --> 01:06:31,000 - [Kierra] Yeah. 1978 01:06:31,019 --> 01:06:32,079 ♪ Music speak for me ♪ 1979 01:06:32,099 --> 01:06:33,070 ♪ So people they can't ignore me ♪ 1980 01:06:33,090 --> 01:06:34,139 ♪ Been tolerating bullshit ♪ 1981 01:06:34,159 --> 01:06:35,159 ♪ From people who don't care for me ♪ 1982 01:06:35,179 --> 01:06:37,110 ♪ But fuck it I had enough of 'em ♪ 1983 01:06:37,130 --> 01:06:38,210 ♪ Cut 'em which means I'm done with them ♪ 1984 01:06:38,230 --> 01:06:40,000 ♪ Love 'em, but do not fuck with 'em ♪ 1985 01:06:40,019 --> 01:06:42,070 ♪ Love 'em, but cannot trust 'em none ♪ 1986 01:06:42,090 --> 01:06:43,030 ♪ Fuck it if I got the good heart ♪ 1987 01:06:43,050 --> 01:06:44,210 ♪ That don't mean use me ♪ 1988 01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:45,199 ♪ There's only one in me ♪ 1989 01:06:45,219 --> 01:06:47,190 ♪ You gotta respect my honesty ♪ 1990 01:06:47,210 --> 01:06:48,219 ♪ Need no apology ♪ 1991 01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:50,159 ♪ When I die please don't cry over me ♪ 1992 01:06:50,179 --> 01:06:51,210 ♪ Just look over me ♪ 1993 01:06:51,230 --> 01:06:53,099 ♪ Remember you chose them over me ♪ 1994 01:06:53,119 --> 01:06:54,179 ♪ Tiana focus on your dreams ♪ 1995 01:06:54,199 --> 01:06:56,019 ♪ And where you headed to ♪ 1996 01:06:56,039 --> 01:06:57,199 ♪ I'm trying but right now I'm done ♪ 1997 01:06:57,219 --> 01:06:58,170 ♪ Nobody there there but you ♪ 1998 01:06:58,190 --> 01:07:00,010 ♪ I'm all you need ♪ 1999 01:07:00,030 --> 01:07:01,199 ♪ Say fuck it and let them leave ♪ 2000 01:07:01,219 --> 01:07:04,010 ♪ Yeah I agree but that time was taken from me ♪ 2001 01:07:04,030 --> 01:07:06,030 ♪ And now we see how she playing like the victim ♪ 2002 01:07:06,050 --> 01:07:07,079 ♪ And she know what's up ♪ 2003 01:07:07,099 --> 01:07:08,170 ♪ I don't wish you luck ♪ 2004 01:07:08,190 --> 01:07:09,219 ♪ I wish you hell and hope your karma come ♪ 2005 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,039 ♪ Blood is what we were ♪ 2006 01:07:11,059 --> 01:07:12,190 ♪ So bloody how I left you suck it up ♪ 2007 01:07:12,210 --> 01:07:14,050 ♪ If we ain't had enough, just let me know ♪ 2008 01:07:14,070 --> 01:07:16,019 ♪ So we could catch these words ♪ 2009 01:07:16,039 --> 01:07:17,150 (both exclaiming) 2010 01:07:17,170 --> 01:07:18,170 - Say yeah. 2011 01:07:18,190 --> 01:07:21,190 (both laughing) 2012 01:07:21,210 --> 01:07:23,019 - [Kierra] What made you want to start singing 2013 01:07:23,039 --> 01:07:24,199 and rapping and stuff like what? 2014 01:07:24,219 --> 01:07:27,130 - [Tiana] Well honestly, when I make songs, 2015 01:07:27,150 --> 01:07:29,019 I can help somebody get out of a situation. 2016 01:07:29,039 --> 01:07:30,159 If it's a situation you in 2017 01:07:30,179 --> 01:07:32,110 and you feel like don't nobody understand, you know, 2018 01:07:32,130 --> 01:07:33,190 really where you're coming from. 2019 01:07:33,210 --> 01:07:36,039 I wanna be like that voice and reasoning 2020 01:07:36,059 --> 01:07:39,059 like, that type of thing so I be like, yeah. 2021 01:07:39,079 --> 01:07:42,210 If I could just make music all day, every day, 2022 01:07:42,230 --> 01:07:44,190 make money off of it and it can inspire people 2023 01:07:44,210 --> 01:07:46,030 and help people and you know, 2024 01:07:46,050 --> 01:07:48,159 people can relate to it like, you know. 2025 01:07:48,179 --> 01:07:53,010 I feel like music is like, it's therapeutic. 2026 01:07:53,030 --> 01:07:54,190 I know for myself like when you can relate 2027 01:07:54,210 --> 01:07:55,219 to what somebody's saying 2028 01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:57,139 or when somebody can make a song 2029 01:07:57,159 --> 01:08:00,139 and you just feel it in your soul that's, it's deep like, 2030 01:08:00,159 --> 01:08:02,210 so I be like, yeah, if I could make people feel 2031 01:08:02,230 --> 01:08:07,039 like all the time with my music, I love it like, so. 2032 01:08:07,059 --> 01:08:08,159 Feel the breeze? 2033 01:08:09,190 --> 01:08:11,090 (Tiana exhales sharply) 2034 01:08:11,110 --> 01:08:14,119 He like, "I'm just chilling." 2035 01:08:14,139 --> 01:08:15,210 - [Kierra] Yeah. 2036 01:08:15,230 --> 01:08:16,210 Say, "We felt that one. 2037 01:08:16,229 --> 01:08:19,180 "We liked it that one." 2038 01:08:19,199 --> 01:08:21,029 - [Sean] Brandon, what's up man? 2039 01:08:21,050 --> 01:08:22,000 - What's up? 2040 01:08:22,020 --> 01:08:23,010 - How you doing? 2041 01:08:23,029 --> 01:08:24,039 - I'm all right, yourself? 2042 01:08:24,060 --> 01:08:25,210 - Good to see you man. 2043 01:08:25,229 --> 01:08:28,180 Introduce you to the AAU coach. 2044 01:08:30,090 --> 01:08:33,199 He coach a lot of young guys in the city of Milwaukee. 2045 01:08:33,220 --> 01:08:34,210 - How you doing? 2046 01:08:34,229 --> 01:08:35,159 How you doing? 2047 01:08:35,180 --> 01:08:36,109 - What's up man. 2048 01:08:36,130 --> 01:08:37,170 This is Brandon. 2049 01:08:37,189 --> 01:08:39,050 It's who I was telling you about. 2050 01:08:39,069 --> 01:08:42,159 - As you see our program is T.S.A. 2051 01:08:42,180 --> 01:08:45,159 Which it stands for Talented Student Athletes. 2052 01:08:45,180 --> 01:08:47,159 We were formerly known as The Magic. 2053 01:08:47,180 --> 01:08:49,069 I mean, 'cause we were doing things 2054 01:08:49,090 --> 01:08:51,210 that people thought that couldn't happen 2055 01:08:51,229 --> 01:08:55,029 with some inner city kids, that nobody wanted. 2056 01:08:55,050 --> 01:08:57,189 So we were with the name Magic first. 2057 01:08:57,210 --> 01:09:01,090 Then we became, all my younger boys became older 2058 01:09:01,109 --> 01:09:04,229 to where we found out about the politics of the game 2059 01:09:05,010 --> 01:09:07,199 to where it's all about education, 2060 01:09:08,229 --> 01:09:11,039 getting them grades up first 2061 01:09:11,060 --> 01:09:13,130 'cause I don't care how talented you are, 2062 01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:15,170 if you can't get those books in order 2063 01:09:15,189 --> 01:09:17,039 you can't play the game. 2064 01:09:17,060 --> 01:09:20,170 I'm the same neighborhood kid of 15th and Burleigh 2065 01:09:20,189 --> 01:09:22,079 that ran the streets. 2066 01:09:22,100 --> 01:09:26,020 Did Lord knows what and he can contest to this 2067 01:09:26,039 --> 01:09:27,220 there's nothing that you wanna do 2068 01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,119 that I haven't done already. 2069 01:09:29,140 --> 01:09:33,100 I still got the big old car, big rims, big trucks. 2070 01:09:33,119 --> 01:09:34,229 I still got that. 2071 01:09:35,010 --> 01:09:36,220 Now I got it the legal way. 2072 01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,180 I do things by using what I do 2073 01:09:39,199 --> 01:09:42,020 in a positive way to get what I want 2074 01:09:42,039 --> 01:09:44,149 rather than I did out there in the streets 2075 01:09:44,170 --> 01:09:49,130 and that's why it's best for kids to find their passion. 2076 01:09:49,149 --> 01:09:53,170 (all chattering) (ball dribbling) 2077 01:09:53,189 --> 01:09:54,130 Get to here. 2078 01:09:54,149 --> 01:09:55,130 (Coach Rose mumbles) 2079 01:09:55,149 --> 01:09:56,100 Now (mumbles) 2080 01:09:56,119 --> 01:09:57,029 Yeah, yeah. 2081 01:09:57,050 --> 01:09:58,079 Now do your thing. 2082 01:09:58,100 --> 01:09:59,140 Yeah. 2083 01:09:59,159 --> 01:10:01,100 It's a simple cross. 2084 01:10:01,119 --> 01:10:03,020 Come on, last one. 2085 01:10:04,039 --> 01:10:05,029 Here. 2086 01:10:06,010 --> 01:10:07,020 Yeah. 2087 01:10:07,039 --> 01:10:09,029 (dribbling continues) 2088 01:10:09,050 --> 01:10:11,130 That's how you get to the bucket. 2089 01:10:11,149 --> 01:10:13,010 You good man. 2090 01:10:13,029 --> 01:10:14,149 Whenever you wanna come back in the gym, just let me know. 2091 01:10:14,170 --> 01:10:16,010 Sean hook us up 2092 01:10:17,029 --> 01:10:19,140 and you're able to come in anytime man. 2093 01:10:19,159 --> 01:10:20,100 All right. 2094 01:10:20,119 --> 01:10:22,000 They call me (mumbles) 2095 01:10:22,020 --> 01:10:23,010 I have somebody there with you to work with you, all right? 2096 01:10:23,029 --> 01:10:24,020 (Brandon mumbles) 2097 01:10:24,039 --> 01:10:25,100 All the time man. 2098 01:10:25,119 --> 01:10:26,079 All right Sean man. 2099 01:10:26,100 --> 01:10:27,050 Get out of here. 2100 01:10:27,069 --> 01:10:29,130 I appreciate everybody man. 2101 01:10:29,149 --> 01:10:33,029 (athletes chattering) (shoes squeaking) 2102 01:10:33,050 --> 01:10:36,069 - [Sean] And it's like I told you, you know, 2103 01:10:36,090 --> 01:10:38,180 it's so many people man, that care man, 2104 01:10:38,199 --> 01:10:43,029 that care about, you know, the next generation. 2105 01:10:43,050 --> 01:10:45,220 So there is people who care man, you know. 2106 01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:47,060 Like I told you the first time 2107 01:10:47,079 --> 01:10:49,130 during the first meeting man, we love you. 2108 01:10:49,149 --> 01:10:51,060 You know, we want you to excel. 2109 01:10:51,079 --> 01:10:52,210 We want you to be your best. 2110 01:10:52,229 --> 01:10:54,079 We want you to follow your dreams, your passion 2111 01:10:54,100 --> 01:10:57,130 and we want you to steer away from anything 2112 01:10:57,149 --> 01:10:59,159 that's preventing you from doing that. 2113 01:10:59,180 --> 01:11:02,100 So, I know you said that you didn't like school 2114 01:11:02,119 --> 01:11:04,010 because of the drama surrounding the school 2115 01:11:04,029 --> 01:11:06,060 but keep in mind that the only reason you there 2116 01:11:06,079 --> 01:11:07,119 is to get your education. 2117 01:11:07,140 --> 01:11:08,100 - Right. - You know. 2118 01:11:08,119 --> 01:11:09,130 When you wake up in the morning, 2119 01:11:09,149 --> 01:11:11,079 you get yourself ready. 2120 01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:14,079 When you in the classroom, it's your grades. 2121 01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:16,050 When you do the work, it's you doing the work, 2122 01:11:16,069 --> 01:11:17,109 nobody else. 2123 01:11:17,130 --> 01:11:19,220 So your focus is on doing the work 2124 01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:21,159 doing what you need to do 2125 01:11:21,180 --> 01:11:24,060 to pass to the next grade and ultimately graduate 2126 01:11:24,079 --> 01:11:25,060 and go to college 2127 01:11:25,079 --> 01:11:26,140 but I appreciate you. 2128 01:11:26,159 --> 01:11:27,199 - [Kweku] So when we start talking about 2129 01:11:27,220 --> 01:11:30,170 how do we infuse sports, athletic activities, 2130 01:11:30,189 --> 01:11:32,069 things of that nature to help people feel better, 2131 01:11:32,090 --> 01:11:34,090 it's what builds up your self confidence. 2132 01:11:34,109 --> 01:11:37,010 It teaches you how to deal with losses. 2133 01:11:37,029 --> 01:11:39,079 It teaches you all of those things that we had to deal 2134 01:11:39,100 --> 01:11:41,000 with in life at an early age 2135 01:11:41,020 --> 01:11:43,000 and once that's infused in you, 2136 01:11:43,020 --> 01:11:43,220 great things can happen. 2137 01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:45,039 There's no secret 2138 01:11:45,060 --> 01:11:48,010 that you always see a higher graduation rate 2139 01:11:48,029 --> 01:11:50,100 with those who are involved in extracurricular activities. 2140 01:11:50,119 --> 01:11:51,180 It's no secret 2141 01:11:51,199 --> 01:11:53,039 that you start to see less behavioral problems 2142 01:11:53,060 --> 01:11:55,090 with those involved in extracurricular activities. 2143 01:11:55,109 --> 01:11:56,069 Why is that? 2144 01:11:56,090 --> 01:11:57,210 Because you're so busy. 2145 01:11:57,229 --> 01:12:00,029 It takes away the time for you to do other things 2146 01:12:00,050 --> 01:12:01,170 that's not productive. 2147 01:12:01,189 --> 01:12:02,229 - [Coach Shane] Notice that y'all know right now 2148 01:12:03,010 --> 01:12:04,100 like normally I'd be all cool and collective 2149 01:12:04,119 --> 01:12:06,029 but I'm on fire right now. 2150 01:12:06,050 --> 01:12:08,039 - [Team] Be ready! 2151 01:12:08,060 --> 01:12:08,229 - [Man] What? 2152 01:12:09,010 --> 01:12:10,149 - [Team] Be ready! 2153 01:12:10,170 --> 01:12:11,100 - [Man] What? 2154 01:12:11,119 --> 01:12:12,050 Let's go. 2155 01:12:12,069 --> 01:12:14,000 - [Team] Be ready! 2156 01:12:14,020 --> 01:12:16,159 (team chanting) 2157 01:12:17,220 --> 01:12:19,039 - [Coach Shane] Probably y'all know man, 2158 01:12:19,060 --> 01:12:20,159 when y'all come out here dawg, 2159 01:12:20,180 --> 01:12:22,020 y'all come and play hard. 2160 01:12:22,039 --> 01:12:24,109 Y'all play to the whistle and y'all get in 'em. 2161 01:12:24,130 --> 01:12:25,039 Okay? 2162 01:12:25,060 --> 01:12:26,180 - [All] Yes coach. 2163 01:12:26,199 --> 01:12:28,090 - [Coach Shane] Make sure that they remember who you is 2164 01:12:28,109 --> 01:12:30,090 because they already nitpicking. 2165 01:12:30,109 --> 01:12:31,229 They already nitpicking. 2166 01:12:32,010 --> 01:12:35,010 I hate people that nitpick at stuff for no reason. 2167 01:12:35,029 --> 01:12:36,050 So as you come out here 2168 01:12:36,069 --> 01:12:38,100 and you make sure you know who you are. 2169 01:12:38,119 --> 01:12:39,109 Do you understand that? 2170 01:12:39,130 --> 01:12:41,010 - [All] Yes coach. 2171 01:12:41,029 --> 01:12:42,170 - Make sure you come out here with a lot of passion, 2172 01:12:42,189 --> 01:12:47,000 enthusiasm and make sure we get this damn W. 2173 01:12:47,020 --> 01:12:48,020 Do you understand that? 2174 01:12:48,039 --> 01:12:50,029 - [All] Yes coach. 2175 01:12:50,050 --> 01:12:51,220 - [Coach Shane] I hope y'all already to play a ball game. 2176 01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:53,079 Let's get their ass out the way. 2177 01:12:53,100 --> 01:12:56,199 (all applauding) 2178 01:12:56,220 --> 01:13:00,079 (applauding intensifies) 2179 01:13:01,180 --> 01:13:04,000 (crowd chattering) 2180 01:13:04,020 --> 01:13:05,199 - [Muhibb] what they gon' do? 2181 01:13:05,220 --> 01:13:06,220 They gon' put us in jail? 2182 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,000 Too late we was already born in it. 2183 01:13:09,020 --> 01:13:11,039 What they gon' do? 2184 01:13:11,060 --> 01:13:12,140 They gon' kill us? 2185 01:13:12,159 --> 01:13:14,060 That'll only give our children a reason 2186 01:13:14,079 --> 01:13:17,020 to put our pictures underneath their pillows at night. 2187 01:13:17,039 --> 01:13:19,090 Praying hard that the fairy godmother of justice, 2188 01:13:19,109 --> 01:13:21,060 instead of giving them money for a tooth, 2189 01:13:21,079 --> 01:13:22,140 give 'em the same courage, 2190 01:13:22,159 --> 01:13:23,210 same (mumbles) (man mumbles) 2191 01:13:23,229 --> 01:13:25,149 same determination to be soldiers, 2192 01:13:25,170 --> 01:13:27,069 just like their mommas and their daddies 2193 01:13:27,090 --> 01:13:28,149 when they grow up. 2194 01:13:28,170 --> 01:13:30,029 There is nothing you can do, we laughing at you. 2195 01:13:30,050 --> 01:13:31,170 - [Man] All over. 2196 01:13:31,189 --> 01:13:32,189 - Underneath all our pain. - [Man] Come on, give it up. 2197 01:13:32,210 --> 01:13:33,170 Give it up. - We're laughing at you. 2198 01:13:33,189 --> 01:13:34,079 - [Man] Come on, come on. 2199 01:13:34,100 --> 01:13:35,159 Give it up. 2200 01:13:35,180 --> 01:13:36,170 - Underneath all these tears, - [Man] Come on. 2201 01:13:36,189 --> 01:13:38,060 - we're laughing at you. 2202 01:13:38,079 --> 01:13:39,199 On Burleigh laughing at you. - [Man] Where else? 2203 01:13:39,220 --> 01:13:42,109 Garfield, Galena, Vine we laughing at you. 2204 01:13:42,130 --> 01:13:44,060 (mumbles) we laughing at you. - [Man] Take it home. 2205 01:13:44,079 --> 01:13:46,119 All poor people, all oppressed people, 2206 01:13:46,140 --> 01:13:49,010 all freedom loving people, all righteous people 2207 01:13:49,029 --> 01:13:50,010 are laughing at you. 2208 01:13:50,029 --> 01:13:52,220 Family, they will not break us. 2209 01:13:53,180 --> 01:13:54,229 They can not break us. 2210 01:13:55,010 --> 01:13:56,229 Black children have to begin to connect 2211 01:13:57,010 --> 01:14:01,060 with the idea that regardless of what we go through 2212 01:14:02,199 --> 01:14:05,029 it's an unbreakable spirit. 2213 01:14:05,050 --> 01:14:06,170 That's a part of their DNA. 2214 01:14:06,189 --> 01:14:10,000 It's an breakable part of who they are 2215 01:14:11,050 --> 01:14:12,210 and then when they begin to connect with that, 2216 01:14:12,229 --> 01:14:14,000 then they'll begin to understand 2217 01:14:14,020 --> 01:14:16,100 they have a duty and responsibility 2218 01:14:16,119 --> 01:14:19,020 not to just stop because 2219 01:14:19,039 --> 01:14:21,039 they're enduring struggles in their neighborhood. 2220 01:14:21,060 --> 01:14:22,199 Not to just stop because 2221 01:14:22,220 --> 01:14:25,039 they're enduring struggles in their family. 2222 01:14:25,060 --> 01:14:28,149 We have always made a way out of no way 2223 01:14:28,170 --> 01:14:32,130 and they have to continue on that tradition for us. 2224 01:14:32,149 --> 01:14:34,189 - [News anchor] 6:39 this morning and (mumbles) 2225 01:14:34,210 --> 01:14:36,109 Police investigating a double death investigation 2226 01:14:36,130 --> 01:14:37,180 on the cities of (mumbles) 2227 01:14:37,199 --> 01:14:40,130 (mumbles) with the update. 2228 01:14:40,149 --> 01:14:42,189 - [News anchor] Hey and good morning I have 2229 01:14:42,210 --> 01:14:44,210 the medical examiner telling us the victims, 2230 01:14:44,229 --> 01:14:48,130 two adult autopsies are scheduled for later today. 2231 01:14:48,149 --> 01:14:50,170 Police called here through reports of a shooting 2232 01:14:50,189 --> 01:14:52,060 just set for two o'clock 2233 01:14:52,079 --> 01:14:54,069 that was in an alley about a half a city block 2234 01:14:54,090 --> 01:14:57,090 between 10th and 11th and between Capital and Haven 2235 01:14:57,109 --> 01:14:58,060 and while we were here, 2236 01:14:58,079 --> 01:14:59,050 we saw detectives checking out 2237 01:14:59,069 --> 01:15:01,039 this van behind this (mumbles) 2238 01:15:01,060 --> 01:15:03,060 Police have cleared the alley scene where 2239 01:15:03,079 --> 01:15:05,140 the two victims were recovered. 2240 01:15:05,159 --> 01:15:10,010 Police responded to a shooting (mumbles) 2241 01:15:10,029 --> 01:15:12,029 (bus squeaks) 2242 01:15:12,050 --> 01:15:14,159 (somber music) 2243 01:15:17,029 --> 01:15:19,119 (engine revs) 2244 01:15:23,050 --> 01:15:28,050 (bell rings) (students chattering) 2245 01:15:28,180 --> 01:15:28,199 - I'm tired bro. 2246 01:15:30,229 --> 01:15:33,130 Honestly I am tired don't even need to lie to you. 2247 01:15:33,149 --> 01:15:37,130 (chattering continues) What's up boy? 2248 01:15:37,149 --> 01:15:40,020 - [Man] This is can happen to any man. 2249 01:15:40,039 --> 01:15:42,060 (mumbles) 2250 01:15:42,079 --> 01:15:45,069 You got the second lined up over number two. 2251 01:15:45,090 --> 01:15:47,119 Apex in the tackle 2252 01:15:47,140 --> 01:15:49,180 and the second while receiving. 2253 01:15:49,199 --> 01:15:52,010 Watch the hole right here. 2254 01:15:53,090 --> 01:15:54,069 - [Rick Sr.] How you doing man. 2255 01:15:54,090 --> 01:15:55,149 How's your day going? 2256 01:15:55,170 --> 01:15:56,149 - [Marquell] Good. 2257 01:15:56,170 --> 01:15:57,210 - [Rick Sr.] You good? 2258 01:15:57,229 --> 01:15:58,189 - [Marquell] Just wanna come to talk to you 2259 01:15:58,210 --> 01:16:00,090 about a little stuff, you know. 2260 01:16:00,109 --> 01:16:01,189 - [Rick Sr.] Oh, what's up, what's going on? 2261 01:16:01,210 --> 01:16:03,100 - [Marquell] We never got a little chance to talk and stuff. 2262 01:16:03,119 --> 01:16:04,119 - How's your school year going 2263 01:16:04,140 --> 01:16:06,020 since the new school year? 2264 01:16:06,039 --> 01:16:07,090 - I was, it's going good. 2265 01:16:07,109 --> 01:16:09,109 I had a 3.0, then it went to a 2.8 2266 01:16:09,130 --> 01:16:11,149 and then it went to a 2.4. 2267 01:16:11,170 --> 01:16:12,130 - Aint that reversed? 2268 01:16:12,149 --> 01:16:14,039 That's the wrong way, you know. 2269 01:16:14,060 --> 01:16:16,090 How was your summer? 2270 01:16:16,109 --> 01:16:17,180 - [Marquell] It was- 2271 01:16:17,199 --> 01:16:20,020 - [Rick Sr.] (mumbles) moms, I guess is what I should ask. 2272 01:16:20,039 --> 01:16:21,109 - [Marquell] I was just- (blows raspberry) 2273 01:16:21,130 --> 01:16:22,149 It was just, everywhere. 2274 01:16:22,170 --> 01:16:25,100 - You got to (mumbles) 2275 01:16:25,119 --> 01:16:27,050 - [Marquell] Everywhere it was just 2276 01:16:27,069 --> 01:16:28,079 me arguing with her, 2277 01:16:28,100 --> 01:16:30,090 her arguing with me. 2278 01:16:30,109 --> 01:16:33,039 We getting into with her, putting me out. 2279 01:16:33,060 --> 01:16:35,090 Me trynna go stay with my dad. 2280 01:16:35,109 --> 01:16:38,029 Me staying with my sister and stuff like that. 2281 01:16:38,050 --> 01:16:39,180 If I wanted my relationship 2282 01:16:39,199 --> 01:16:41,170 with my mom (stutters) peaches and cream, 2283 01:16:41,189 --> 01:16:43,149 it'd be like her understanding where 2284 01:16:43,170 --> 01:16:47,090 a teenager coming from her understanding 2285 01:16:47,109 --> 01:16:49,189 that my dad wouldn't like, 2286 01:16:49,210 --> 01:16:51,140 wasn't real there - Not really there. 2287 01:16:51,159 --> 01:16:54,060 - And wasn't like really trynna be there 2288 01:16:54,079 --> 01:16:55,140 in my life right now. 2289 01:16:55,159 --> 01:16:57,159 Like I'm older now and I know who my real daddy. 2290 01:16:57,180 --> 01:17:00,000 She don't understand that I was like, 2291 01:17:00,020 --> 01:17:02,079 usually I used to cry about the situation 2292 01:17:02,100 --> 01:17:03,060 and stuff like that 2293 01:17:03,079 --> 01:17:04,079 but like me crying about it 2294 01:17:04,100 --> 01:17:05,119 it ain't gonna help at all. 2295 01:17:05,140 --> 01:17:06,149 - Okay look. 2296 01:17:06,170 --> 01:17:09,090 Put yourself in her shoes. 2297 01:17:09,109 --> 01:17:12,039 She leaves four days, your her first son right? 2298 01:17:12,060 --> 01:17:13,000 - Mm-hmm. 2299 01:17:13,020 --> 01:17:13,180 How would you feel? 2300 01:17:16,050 --> 01:17:17,090 You wouldn't be mad? 2301 01:17:17,109 --> 01:17:19,000 Everyday with peaches and cream? 2302 01:17:19,020 --> 01:17:20,199 Everything would be joyful, happy, 2303 01:17:20,220 --> 01:17:22,109 you in heaven right? 2304 01:17:22,130 --> 01:17:23,170 You wouldn't be mad? - I mean I'd kinda be mad. 2305 01:17:23,189 --> 01:17:25,050 - You, kinda? 2306 01:17:25,069 --> 01:17:28,130 Boy, if that was my son I would have beaten his- 2307 01:17:28,149 --> 01:17:29,140 he gone for four days, 2308 01:17:29,159 --> 01:17:30,220 and you don't know where he is. 2309 01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:31,180 He not texting me, he not calling me 2310 01:17:31,199 --> 01:17:33,000 you not know nothing. 2311 01:17:33,020 --> 01:17:34,069 People get mad and they say stupid stuff. 2312 01:17:34,090 --> 01:17:36,090 She probably don't mean it. 2313 01:17:36,109 --> 01:17:37,100 Right? 2314 01:17:37,119 --> 01:17:39,119 Ask her, talk to her. 2315 01:17:39,140 --> 01:17:42,199 She probably, she really don't mean it, most likely. 2316 01:17:42,220 --> 01:17:44,010 If she didn't love you, 2317 01:17:44,029 --> 01:17:45,199 she would've kicked you out already. 2318 01:17:45,220 --> 01:17:47,109 - [Kweku] See words is just the beginning 2319 01:17:47,130 --> 01:17:49,220 of our apology, actions now are the secondary part 2320 01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:51,180 and the one that really moves the needle. 2321 01:17:51,199 --> 01:17:53,199 So if somebody wants to reestablish a relationship 2322 01:17:53,220 --> 01:17:55,029 they have to understand, 2323 01:17:55,050 --> 01:17:56,210 you have to start back at ground zero 2324 01:17:56,229 --> 01:17:58,109 and you have to move very slowly 2325 01:17:58,130 --> 01:18:00,199 and as you start to gain their trust a little bit 2326 01:18:00,220 --> 01:18:03,100 it becomes a snowball in a positive effect 2327 01:18:03,119 --> 01:18:04,180 but it's gotta take time. 2328 01:18:04,199 --> 01:18:06,069 You can't expect them 2329 01:18:06,090 --> 01:18:08,060 to move at a pace quicker than what they want. 2330 01:18:08,079 --> 01:18:10,199 You have to understand the hesitancy that they have 2331 01:18:10,220 --> 01:18:13,060 and be compassionate towards that. 2332 01:18:13,079 --> 01:18:16,130 - [Brillyon] Try to build a relationship. 2333 01:18:16,149 --> 01:18:20,060 Not one person could just do it by yourself. 2334 01:18:20,079 --> 01:18:21,130 (Marquell mumbles) 2335 01:18:21,149 --> 01:18:22,069 She acts like she can. - [Brillyon] It's 50-50. 2336 01:18:22,090 --> 01:18:23,039 No, it's a 50-50. 2337 01:18:23,060 --> 01:18:24,050 (Brillyon mumbles) 2338 01:18:24,069 --> 01:18:25,039 You was gone for four days 2339 01:18:25,060 --> 01:18:27,119 how was that trynna fix her? 2340 01:18:27,140 --> 01:18:28,140 - [Marquell] Me leaving would be 2341 01:18:28,159 --> 01:18:31,130 a better decision for me and stuff 2342 01:18:31,149 --> 01:18:33,220 there's a group home somewhere. 2343 01:18:34,010 --> 01:18:35,050 (Brillyon mumbles) 2344 01:18:35,069 --> 01:18:36,060 'Cause when you old, when you grown 2345 01:18:36,079 --> 01:18:37,050 they're gon' kick you out. 2346 01:18:37,069 --> 01:18:38,119 (child screaming in distant) 2347 01:18:38,140 --> 01:18:39,149 - [Man] Don't worry about it (mumbles) 2348 01:18:39,170 --> 01:18:41,109 - Okay I just had my head (mumbles) 2349 01:18:41,130 --> 01:18:42,220 - [Brillyon] No. 2350 01:18:44,109 --> 01:18:48,039 I'ma need you to stop acting like that towards your mother. 2351 01:18:48,060 --> 01:18:49,210 - [Rick Sr.] Let me ask you, 2352 01:18:49,229 --> 01:18:51,140 what's the real reason your arguing all the time? 2353 01:18:51,159 --> 01:18:53,159 Why y'all bumping heads? 2354 01:18:54,159 --> 01:18:56,100 - Mainly- - In your opinion. 2355 01:18:56,119 --> 01:18:57,159 - In my opinion. - Yeah. 2356 01:18:57,180 --> 01:18:59,199 - The main reason is that she be always like, 2357 01:18:59,220 --> 01:19:02,060 she have some type of aggressive towards me 2358 01:19:02,079 --> 01:19:04,079 when she asks me to do something or whatever 2359 01:19:04,100 --> 01:19:05,199 and I'm like, "All right, I'm finna do it." 2360 01:19:05,220 --> 01:19:06,229 And then she be like, "No, do it now, do it now." 2361 01:19:07,010 --> 01:19:09,060 I'm like, "Okay I'm finna do it right now. 2362 01:19:09,079 --> 01:19:10,210 "Like, why are you just getting all aggressive?" 2363 01:19:10,229 --> 01:19:12,229 - Okay, so why you just get aggressive back with her? 2364 01:19:13,010 --> 01:19:14,060 'Cause that's how you do? 2365 01:19:14,079 --> 01:19:15,170 Instead of arguing with moms 2366 01:19:15,189 --> 01:19:17,220 'cause you know how y'all relationship could be. 2367 01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,029 Right? 2368 01:19:19,050 --> 01:19:20,149 It could be good, it could be great one day 2369 01:19:20,170 --> 01:19:22,039 and then one moment the button push. 2370 01:19:22,060 --> 01:19:24,100 So you just do your part. 2371 01:19:24,119 --> 01:19:26,010 You only control who? 2372 01:19:26,029 --> 01:19:27,010 - On myself. 2373 01:19:27,029 --> 01:19:28,199 - So that's what you gotta do. 2374 01:19:28,220 --> 01:19:30,210 You already know how the situation already is, right? 2375 01:19:30,229 --> 01:19:32,029 - Mm-hmm. 2376 01:19:32,050 --> 01:19:34,220 So, always have control Marquell. 2377 01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:38,029 So that's what you gotta work on with mom for real. 2378 01:19:38,050 --> 01:19:39,159 It's control. 2379 01:19:39,180 --> 01:19:41,149 So when she knows that you're controlling, 2380 01:19:41,170 --> 01:19:42,210 you're doing what you're supposed to do, 2381 01:19:42,229 --> 01:19:44,140 she's gonna let up. 2382 01:19:44,159 --> 01:19:45,159 I know you don't see it 2383 01:19:45,180 --> 01:19:47,229 'cause you're always arguing back with her. 2384 01:19:48,010 --> 01:19:49,159 So one day you just go in and just say, 2385 01:19:49,180 --> 01:19:51,220 "Hey, okay, I'ma do it." 2386 01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:53,060 If she say, "Do it now." 2387 01:19:53,079 --> 01:19:54,130 You don't have to respond. 2388 01:19:54,149 --> 01:19:55,140 Just do it. 2389 01:19:55,159 --> 01:19:57,119 - Now that you think about it, 2390 01:19:57,140 --> 01:19:59,020 what you, how do you feel 2391 01:19:59,039 --> 01:20:01,170 that now that you think about it, that what you did? 2392 01:20:01,189 --> 01:20:03,130 You don't feel any guilt? - I kinda feel ashamed. 2393 01:20:03,149 --> 01:20:05,050 - You don't feel ashamed? 2394 01:20:05,069 --> 01:20:07,039 - I kinda feel ashamed, kinda 2395 01:20:07,060 --> 01:20:08,220 because I didn't let her know where I was going. 2396 01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:09,210 That's about it. 2397 01:20:09,229 --> 01:20:11,130 (Brandon mumbles) - Okay 2398 01:20:11,149 --> 01:20:12,199 but you could've text her saying, 2399 01:20:12,220 --> 01:20:15,140 "I'm okay you don't have to worry about me." 2400 01:20:15,159 --> 01:20:16,130 Right? 2401 01:20:16,149 --> 01:20:17,210 (Marquell chuckles) 2402 01:20:17,229 --> 01:20:22,180 No 'cause you was acting like a jackass towards her. 2403 01:20:23,159 --> 01:20:24,159 - Not really. - Yes really. 2404 01:20:24,180 --> 01:20:25,119 You quite an attitude with her about her 2405 01:20:25,140 --> 01:20:27,210 when she checked up on you man. 2406 01:20:29,039 --> 01:20:31,180 - Well, I guess I'ma just and work things out 2407 01:20:31,199 --> 01:20:34,229 and I guess I'ma talk to her. 2408 01:20:35,010 --> 01:20:37,159 - What do you mean I guess? 2409 01:20:37,180 --> 01:20:39,119 - I'm not finna just jump right into it. 2410 01:20:39,140 --> 01:20:40,210 "Oh yes, I'm gonna help." - [Brillyon] I mean 2411 01:20:40,229 --> 01:20:42,109 but you should though. - Yes I'm gonna do everything. 2412 01:20:42,130 --> 01:20:43,199 - You should though. 2413 01:20:43,220 --> 01:20:46,149 If you wanna fix this relationship, you should bro. 2414 01:20:46,170 --> 01:20:50,090 - [Rick Sr.] Who's in Marquell's way? 2415 01:20:50,109 --> 01:20:52,220 - [Marquell] I don't know. - [Rick Sr.] Marquell. 2416 01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:54,069 Well we started with ma', 2417 01:20:54,090 --> 01:20:55,180 you go back and forth with ma'. 2418 01:20:55,199 --> 01:20:57,119 You said on the football field, 2419 01:20:57,140 --> 01:20:59,220 you can't control... - My anger. 2420 01:21:01,039 --> 01:21:03,020 - [Rick Sr.] So it comes back to who? 2421 01:21:03,039 --> 01:21:04,159 - My anger and myself. 2422 01:21:04,180 --> 01:21:05,180 - [Rick Sr.] And once you, I told you, 2423 01:21:05,199 --> 01:21:08,130 once you put your mind to it, Marquell, 2424 01:21:08,149 --> 01:21:10,090 the world is yours. 2425 01:21:10,109 --> 01:21:12,090 You're a great kid. 2426 01:21:12,109 --> 01:21:14,180 I tell you that all the time 2427 01:21:14,199 --> 01:21:17,020 and I know that's the thing that you really want. 2428 01:21:17,039 --> 01:21:20,069 Just that relationship with your mom. 2429 01:21:21,149 --> 01:21:23,210 That's what we gon' build on. 2430 01:21:25,010 --> 01:21:27,140 Ain't nothing wrong with shedding tears. 2431 01:21:27,159 --> 01:21:29,000 Let it go. 2432 01:21:29,020 --> 01:21:32,000 Don't hold it in just let it out. 2433 01:21:32,020 --> 01:21:33,180 - I still gon' have the same things. 2434 01:21:33,199 --> 01:21:35,159 Still gon' have the same way. 2435 01:21:35,180 --> 01:21:37,119 Still gon' have the same grudge against me. 2436 01:21:37,140 --> 01:21:39,130 Still no point of me trying? 2437 01:21:39,149 --> 01:21:41,060 - [Rick Sr.] Well let me tell you this, 2438 01:21:41,079 --> 01:21:43,170 as long as you on grudge against yourself, 2439 01:21:43,189 --> 01:21:45,000 like I said, 2440 01:21:45,020 --> 01:21:46,220 you can't control what other people's thoughts are 2441 01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:48,229 only what Marquell's is. 2442 01:21:50,060 --> 01:21:52,119 You see that pain, that pain for mom 2443 01:21:52,140 --> 01:21:54,000 but you gotta work on that. 2444 01:21:54,020 --> 01:21:57,029 (Marquell sniffs) 2445 01:21:57,050 --> 01:21:59,090 (Rick Sr. mumbles) 2446 01:21:59,109 --> 01:22:00,079 Come on. 2447 01:22:00,100 --> 01:22:01,100 Stay strong. 2448 01:22:05,029 --> 01:22:05,210 - How you been man? 2449 01:22:05,229 --> 01:22:06,170 - I've been aight. 2450 01:22:06,189 --> 01:22:07,180 You've been all right? 2451 01:22:07,199 --> 01:22:08,130 - Yeah. 2452 01:22:08,149 --> 01:22:11,039 - What's been going on lately? 2453 01:22:12,100 --> 01:22:13,210 - I moved out of the group home to like, 2454 01:22:13,229 --> 01:22:15,220 another group home and stuff. 2455 01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:16,199 - [Woman] So that's everything 2456 01:22:16,220 --> 01:22:18,090 from the front desk binder 2457 01:22:18,109 --> 01:22:19,149 and the van binder. 2458 01:22:19,170 --> 01:22:21,060 All of his information right there. 2459 01:22:21,079 --> 01:22:22,140 - Okay. 2460 01:22:22,159 --> 01:22:24,229 So he was discharged on December the 6th. 2461 01:22:25,010 --> 01:22:26,170 He was doing you know really good 2462 01:22:26,189 --> 01:22:28,000 since he came in June. 2463 01:22:28,020 --> 01:22:30,149 He had made a lot of good strides 2464 01:22:30,170 --> 01:22:34,010 and he had met some of his goals while he was here 2465 01:22:34,029 --> 01:22:35,210 but I know it seems like during 2466 01:22:35,229 --> 01:22:37,130 the month of November he started 2467 01:22:37,149 --> 01:22:39,090 to just have a lot of incident reports 2468 01:22:39,109 --> 01:22:43,039 for just pretty much what, being defiant with staff. 2469 01:22:43,060 --> 01:22:44,109 - [Woman] Yes. 2470 01:22:44,130 --> 01:22:46,130 Challenging the staff. - Challenging the staff. 2471 01:22:46,149 --> 01:22:48,079 Oh and I did share with him 2472 01:22:48,100 --> 01:22:51,050 that if he wanted to reach out to us 2473 01:22:51,069 --> 01:22:53,010 or especially even me that he could 2474 01:22:53,029 --> 01:22:54,199 you know call me at any time. 2475 01:22:54,220 --> 01:22:57,130 Yeah and I know he was very kind of remorseful 2476 01:22:57,149 --> 01:22:59,050 and that last night before he had to go 2477 01:22:59,069 --> 01:23:00,170 it seems like he just didn't believe 2478 01:23:00,189 --> 01:23:04,000 that we were really going to go through with our removal. 2479 01:23:04,020 --> 01:23:05,130 He thought he was going to get, 2480 01:23:05,149 --> 01:23:07,010 you know, more and more chances. 2481 01:23:07,029 --> 01:23:10,060 - [Sean] Okay, why you move out the last one? 2482 01:23:10,079 --> 01:23:11,140 - The one they got me going to now 2483 01:23:11,159 --> 01:23:13,199 it's more towards like an independent living, 2484 01:23:13,220 --> 01:23:14,210 - Okay. 2485 01:23:14,229 --> 01:23:16,079 - group home versus the other one. 2486 01:23:16,100 --> 01:23:18,029 It was just for like, all boys sort of. 2487 01:23:18,050 --> 01:23:19,060 - Yeah. 2488 01:23:19,079 --> 01:23:20,029 - Well yeah. 2489 01:23:20,050 --> 01:23:22,039 - How you liking this one? 2490 01:23:22,060 --> 01:23:23,109 - [Brandon] It's all right. 2491 01:23:23,130 --> 01:23:25,140 - [Sean] It's okay? (Brandon mumbles) 2492 01:23:25,159 --> 01:23:26,189 - I can manage and deal with it, 2493 01:23:26,210 --> 01:23:28,029 you know what I'm saying? 2494 01:23:28,050 --> 01:23:30,180 - [Sean] How you manage it? 2495 01:23:30,199 --> 01:23:31,199 - [Brandon] You know, 2496 01:23:31,220 --> 01:23:32,180 just trynna keep in touch with people 2497 01:23:32,199 --> 01:23:33,199 like my momma, 2498 01:23:33,220 --> 01:23:34,220 - [Sean] Okay. 2499 01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:36,039 - [Brandon] and like my other family members, 2500 01:23:36,060 --> 01:23:37,210 you know, when I got (mumbles) reasons, 2501 01:23:37,229 --> 01:23:39,000 - [Sean] Yeah. - [Brandon] I call up on them. 2502 01:23:39,020 --> 01:23:40,149 - [Sean] What school you going to now? 2503 01:23:40,170 --> 01:23:43,119 - I'm at Lad Lake Synergy it's an alternative School. 2504 01:23:43,140 --> 01:23:45,220 - [Sean] That's the one you was at last time we met? 2505 01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:47,159 - [Brandon] No, I was at Bradley Tech. 2506 01:23:47,180 --> 01:23:48,199 - [Sean] What happened, 2507 01:23:48,220 --> 01:23:50,020 why you don't go to Bradley no more? 2508 01:23:50,039 --> 01:23:51,010 - [Brandon] I got kicked out. 2509 01:23:51,029 --> 01:23:51,220 - [Sean] What? 2510 01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:52,159 - [Brandon] Yeah. 2511 01:23:52,180 --> 01:23:54,060 - [Sean] For what man? 2512 01:23:54,079 --> 01:23:55,140 - [Brandon] I ripped this girl's eyebrows off her face. 2513 01:23:55,159 --> 01:23:56,090 - [Sean] What? 2514 01:23:56,109 --> 01:23:57,210 (both laughing) 2515 01:23:57,229 --> 01:23:59,050 - [Brandon] With a lighter? 2516 01:23:59,069 --> 01:24:01,210 That's why (mumbles) 2517 01:24:01,229 --> 01:24:03,069 - [Sean] You did what? 2518 01:24:03,090 --> 01:24:04,079 - I took a lighter, 2519 01:24:04,100 --> 01:24:05,159 - [Sean] Yeah. 2520 01:24:05,180 --> 01:24:07,050 - and a blow torch and I was trynna you know, 2521 01:24:07,069 --> 01:24:08,130 create a flame out of it. 2522 01:24:08,149 --> 01:24:09,180 - Yeah. 2523 01:24:09,199 --> 01:24:10,220 - But she was standing next to me 2524 01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:12,189 and you know I wasn't aware of that, 2525 01:24:12,210 --> 01:24:15,109 you know, I was just in the spirit of moment type stuff 2526 01:24:15,130 --> 01:24:16,199 and I did this 2527 01:24:16,220 --> 01:24:18,079 but it was like big enough to catch flame like, 2528 01:24:18,100 --> 01:24:20,069 like the size of this. 2529 01:24:20,090 --> 01:24:21,130 - So it wasn't intentional? 2530 01:24:21,149 --> 01:24:22,149 - No, it was on accident. 2531 01:24:22,170 --> 01:24:24,189 - [Lydia] They were actually a little, 2532 01:24:24,210 --> 01:24:26,170 I guess a little empathetic to the situation 2533 01:24:26,189 --> 01:24:29,050 because he could have been expelled from MPS period. 2534 01:24:29,069 --> 01:24:30,130 - Yeah. 2535 01:24:30,149 --> 01:24:34,060 - But instead he got, I guess, expelled into a, 2536 01:24:34,079 --> 01:24:35,180 what do you call it? - Alternative school. 2537 01:24:35,199 --> 01:24:37,130 - Alternative school that's still a part of MPS. 2538 01:24:37,149 --> 01:24:39,060 - I'm glad that you know, 2539 01:24:39,079 --> 01:24:41,029 us communicating with each other, you know, 2540 01:24:41,050 --> 01:24:42,119 it's having an impact on you. 2541 01:24:42,140 --> 01:24:45,199 You allowing my story and what I went through 2542 01:24:45,220 --> 01:24:47,109 have an impact on you. 2543 01:24:47,130 --> 01:24:51,029 Oh I want you, as you find yourself in this new school 2544 01:24:51,050 --> 01:24:52,159 and as you continue to transition 2545 01:24:52,180 --> 01:24:54,029 through this new group home, 2546 01:24:54,050 --> 01:24:57,119 I want you to have these checkpoints along the way. 2547 01:24:57,140 --> 01:24:59,199 I want you to question every decision that you make. 2548 01:24:59,220 --> 01:25:01,090 I want you to ask yourself, 2549 01:25:01,109 --> 01:25:03,109 how is this going to affect me first and foremost? 2550 01:25:03,130 --> 01:25:05,090 Is it gonna be beneficial to me? 2551 01:25:05,109 --> 01:25:07,090 - [Muhibb] So even if you dried the whole hood up. 2552 01:25:07,109 --> 01:25:08,170 - [Man] Say it again. 2553 01:25:08,189 --> 01:25:10,000 - Or if you dried all the center up 2554 01:25:10,020 --> 01:25:11,140 make it look like a desert. 2555 01:25:11,159 --> 01:25:13,210 Leave us with no money, no opportunity, 2556 01:25:13,229 --> 01:25:15,189 no home, no chances, no mothers, 2557 01:25:15,210 --> 01:25:17,210 no fathers, make dope dealing 2558 01:25:17,229 --> 01:25:19,069 the only way of life. 2559 01:25:19,090 --> 01:25:21,079 Have us robbin' each other over your scraps. 2560 01:25:21,100 --> 01:25:22,149 - [Man] What else? 2561 01:25:22,170 --> 01:25:23,130 - Killing each other over your crumbs. 2562 01:25:23,149 --> 01:25:24,109 - [Man] Come on, go down. 2563 01:25:24,130 --> 01:25:25,159 - Make 18 a good age to die. 2564 01:25:25,180 --> 01:25:27,159 Put our faces on t-shirts memorialized. 2565 01:25:27,180 --> 01:25:29,000 Gives us the worst everything. 2566 01:25:29,020 --> 01:25:29,199 - What? 2567 01:25:29,220 --> 01:25:31,109 - Worst education, worst food, 2568 01:25:31,130 --> 01:25:33,100 worst clothing, worst jobs and after all of that, 2569 01:25:33,119 --> 01:25:34,210 we will still look you dead in your eye 2570 01:25:34,229 --> 01:25:36,000 and ask you, 2571 01:25:36,020 --> 01:25:37,140 - [Both] Is that all you got? 2572 01:25:37,159 --> 01:25:38,170 (audience cheering) 2573 01:25:38,189 --> 01:25:41,079 - [Muhibb] I used to get the worst of everything. 2574 01:25:41,100 --> 01:25:43,210 We'll be in classroom and they talk about the pain, 2575 01:25:43,229 --> 01:25:46,060 the pain of not having a father in their life, 2576 01:25:46,079 --> 01:25:48,109 the pain of not having their mother in their life 2577 01:25:48,130 --> 01:25:50,020 or their mother being on drugs. 2578 01:25:50,039 --> 01:25:52,159 The pain of witnessing homicides, 2579 01:25:52,180 --> 01:25:53,180 their best friends getting killed, 2580 01:25:53,199 --> 01:25:56,189 walking around with rest in peace t-shirts 2581 01:25:56,210 --> 01:26:00,029 and many times that pain might be self-inflicted 2582 01:26:00,050 --> 01:26:04,020 and it might be inflicted upon them by their family. 2583 01:26:04,039 --> 01:26:06,079 Maybe the solutions to their pain 2584 01:26:06,100 --> 01:26:08,050 is not really coming to pass because 2585 01:26:08,069 --> 01:26:11,210 it's a whole lot of us that make money 2586 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:14,199 off of our children being the way that they are. 2587 01:26:14,220 --> 01:26:17,060 (woman humming melodically) 2588 01:26:17,079 --> 01:26:19,119 - Hey. - [Tiana] Nice to meet you. 2589 01:26:19,140 --> 01:26:20,199 - Nice to meet you. - [Tiana] My name is Tiana. 2590 01:26:20,220 --> 01:26:22,100 - [Man] How you doing? 2591 01:26:22,119 --> 01:26:23,140 So we gon' get on today? 2592 01:26:23,159 --> 01:26:25,060 (humming continues) 2593 01:26:25,079 --> 01:26:28,220 - [Tiana] I wanna record this song. 2594 01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:30,079 It's called "Pain". 2595 01:26:30,100 --> 01:26:32,159 ♪ Pain ♪ 2596 01:26:32,180 --> 01:26:35,079 ♪ Tired of going through all this pain ♪ 2597 01:26:35,100 --> 01:26:38,050 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 2598 01:26:38,069 --> 01:26:41,050 ♪ Tired of going through all this pain ♪ 2599 01:26:41,069 --> 01:26:42,210 ♪ Look lately I've been at my lowest ♪ 2600 01:26:42,229 --> 01:26:44,010 ♪ I've been losing focus ♪ 2601 01:26:44,029 --> 01:26:45,039 ♪ It's fuck everybody ♪ 2602 01:26:45,060 --> 01:26:46,149 ♪ 'Cause everybody don't do me bogus ♪ 2603 01:26:46,170 --> 01:26:47,229 ♪ Can't trust nobody ♪ 2604 01:26:48,010 --> 01:26:49,060 ♪ These demons covered in sheep clothing ♪ 2605 01:26:49,079 --> 01:26:51,000 ♪ And lord please don't have mercy on them ♪ 2606 01:26:51,020 --> 01:26:52,000 ♪ When Karma's approaching ♪ 2607 01:26:52,020 --> 01:26:53,020 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] To let go. 2608 01:26:53,039 --> 01:26:55,000 To truly let go and go through the process 2609 01:26:55,020 --> 01:26:57,119 instead of trying to jump around it. 2610 01:26:57,140 --> 01:26:59,060 'Cause the more you go around it 2611 01:26:59,079 --> 01:27:01,140 the more it's gon' plague your life 2612 01:27:01,159 --> 01:27:03,149 and then the deeper roots is gonna grow. 2613 01:27:03,170 --> 01:27:05,100 'Cause it's basically like a seed 2614 01:27:05,119 --> 01:27:07,229 and if that seed continues to keep growing roots 2615 01:27:08,010 --> 01:27:09,090 it's gonna continue to keep coming out 2616 01:27:09,109 --> 01:27:11,000 at every stage of your life. 2617 01:27:11,020 --> 01:27:12,010 ♪ Karma's approaching ♪ 2618 01:27:12,029 --> 01:27:13,119 ♪ My thoughts keep me woken ♪ 2619 01:27:13,140 --> 01:27:14,199 ♪ My music, my freedom ♪ 2620 01:27:14,220 --> 01:27:16,029 ♪ I'm mentally broken ♪ 2621 01:27:16,050 --> 01:27:17,100 ♪ My soul is the reason ♪ 2622 01:27:17,119 --> 01:27:19,090 - I feel like, I'm a disappointment 2623 01:27:22,010 --> 01:27:24,109 to people or like my family. 2624 01:27:26,109 --> 01:27:30,090 I feel like I'm a disappointment to my mom. 2625 01:27:30,109 --> 01:27:32,109 On what the things I do. 2626 01:27:36,020 --> 01:27:39,180 I try to express my feelings to people. 2627 01:27:39,199 --> 01:27:43,119 I only talk to one person about my feelings 2628 01:27:43,140 --> 01:27:45,119 and it hurts sometimes. 2629 01:27:46,229 --> 01:27:50,039 I try to not be hurt but I don't know. 2630 01:27:52,199 --> 01:27:55,100 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] I've had the same feeling. 2631 01:27:55,119 --> 01:27:57,189 Regardless of what someone, 2632 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:01,029 whether they're expressing that 2633 01:28:01,050 --> 01:28:02,109 that you're a disappointment 2634 01:28:02,130 --> 01:28:04,229 or whether you feel that you're a disappointment, 2635 01:28:05,010 --> 01:28:08,189 I think the healing is going to come in realizing 2636 01:28:08,210 --> 01:28:11,109 all the things that you are and not 2637 01:28:11,130 --> 01:28:14,020 looking at all the things that you feel you're not. 2638 01:28:14,039 --> 01:28:16,119 ♪ I don't love that much to let nobody had they way with me ♪ 2639 01:28:16,140 --> 01:28:17,210 ♪ I'm (mumbles) ♪ 2640 01:28:17,229 --> 01:28:18,199 ♪ Aint gon' trust fucked up nigga ♪ 2641 01:28:18,220 --> 01:28:20,029 ♪ If they not changing me ♪ 2642 01:28:20,050 --> 01:28:21,109 - I Just been on my own for so long 2643 01:28:21,130 --> 01:28:25,039 I just don't see the need in gettin' happy 2644 01:28:26,220 --> 01:28:28,079 'cause I'd rather just stay like I am like, 2645 01:28:28,100 --> 01:28:32,029 any piece of happiness that I have I lose. 2646 01:28:32,050 --> 01:28:35,109 That's why I don't allow myself to get happy. 2647 01:28:35,130 --> 01:28:39,130 I think I just run to the wrong people for love. 2648 01:28:40,170 --> 01:28:43,159 I give all the toxic people everything I have 2649 01:28:43,180 --> 01:28:44,159 and I like- 2650 01:28:46,029 --> 01:28:49,180 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] What if I told you that 2651 01:28:49,199 --> 01:28:52,020 the placement and being put back together, 2652 01:28:52,039 --> 01:28:53,229 you have to be broken. 2653 01:28:56,119 --> 01:28:58,010 - Why me? 2654 01:28:58,029 --> 01:28:59,000 - Why any of us? 2655 01:28:59,020 --> 01:29:00,130 We all feel broken in some area 2656 01:29:00,149 --> 01:29:03,220 in some way, shape or form in our lives 2657 01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:06,140 but we get to make those choices 2658 01:29:07,189 --> 01:29:11,029 to put it, like put it back together. 2659 01:29:11,050 --> 01:29:12,029 ♪ They not changing me ♪ 2660 01:29:12,050 --> 01:29:13,130 ♪ I damn cried so much ♪ 2661 01:29:13,149 --> 01:29:15,000 ♪ Where I don't felt I couldn't cry no more ♪ 2662 01:29:15,020 --> 01:29:16,039 ♪ Lost my baby brother ♪ 2663 01:29:16,060 --> 01:29:17,109 ♪ Made me really rethink life some more ♪ 2664 01:29:17,130 --> 01:29:19,000 ♪ Like if he stayed on life support ♪ 2665 01:29:19,020 --> 01:29:20,060 ♪ Like did he have the right support ♪ 2666 01:29:20,079 --> 01:29:21,130 ♪ Like is the people in my corner ♪ 2667 01:29:21,149 --> 01:29:23,210 ♪ Really gon' be the right support ♪ 2668 01:29:23,229 --> 01:29:26,090 - [Boy] Shots rang out. 2669 01:29:26,109 --> 01:29:28,000 I got pulled it to the house. 2670 01:29:28,020 --> 01:29:29,100 I looked through the window 2671 01:29:29,119 --> 01:29:31,109 and I just see a body on the ground 2672 01:29:31,130 --> 01:29:35,039 and the dude was standing over him. 2673 01:29:35,060 --> 01:29:37,229 You could hear him say like, "I love you." 2674 01:29:38,010 --> 01:29:39,189 Dude, he didn't care about that, 2675 01:29:39,210 --> 01:29:42,060 he said, "I don't give a fuck." 2676 01:29:42,079 --> 01:29:44,130 Shot him three more times in the head. 2677 01:29:48,159 --> 01:29:50,039 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] It's not your fault 2678 01:29:50,060 --> 01:29:54,050 and I know that you probably heard that from someone else 2679 01:29:54,069 --> 01:29:56,130 but there are certain things in this life 2680 01:29:56,149 --> 01:29:57,199 that we can not control. 2681 01:29:57,220 --> 01:29:59,039 ♪ Give me sometime ♪ 2682 01:29:59,060 --> 01:30:00,029 ♪ They sometime they want to be you ♪ 2683 01:30:00,050 --> 01:30:01,020 ♪ I had to separate myself ♪ 2684 01:30:01,039 --> 01:30:02,069 ♪ Our mottoes wasn't equal ♪ 2685 01:30:02,090 --> 01:30:03,149 ♪ And I still pray for them ♪ 2686 01:30:03,170 --> 01:30:05,050 ♪ 'Cause they need it more than I need it ♪ 2687 01:30:05,069 --> 01:30:07,159 ♪ And I'm for certain I'ma make it before the next season ♪ 2688 01:30:07,180 --> 01:30:10,050 ♪ And you can doubt me now next year you gon be ♪ 2689 01:30:10,069 --> 01:30:13,039 - My dad shot himself in the head. 2690 01:30:17,029 --> 01:30:20,090 He just decided to give up, you know, just leave us 2691 01:30:20,109 --> 01:30:22,180 and this is a husband, this is a father. 2692 01:30:22,199 --> 01:30:24,060 You know what I'm saying, 2693 01:30:24,079 --> 01:30:27,199 this ain't just anybody like, we depended on him. 2694 01:30:27,220 --> 01:30:31,039 - [Rick Sr. Jr.] You can forgive each and every day 2695 01:30:31,060 --> 01:30:35,029 and until you truly deep down believe it, 2696 01:30:35,050 --> 01:30:36,229 then you'll let it go 2697 01:30:37,010 --> 01:30:38,090 and that comes in forgiving yourself 2698 01:30:38,109 --> 01:30:40,109 too for feeling the way that you feel. 2699 01:30:40,130 --> 01:30:44,130 You need to forgive him and forgive yourself. 2700 01:30:44,149 --> 01:30:47,199 ♪ Tried of going through all this pain ♪ 2701 01:30:47,220 --> 01:30:51,079 - Last summer, that was back when I was doing dumb stuff 2702 01:30:51,100 --> 01:30:55,060 (mumbles) selling weed, selling literally, 2703 01:30:55,079 --> 01:30:58,060 I ain't even lying, selling crack cocaine, all that. 2704 01:30:58,079 --> 01:31:00,060 I found that I was having a baby 2705 01:31:00,079 --> 01:31:01,140 then it really got real. 2706 01:31:03,149 --> 01:31:03,170 Then, 2707 01:31:05,220 --> 01:31:07,050 it's like, bro, 2708 01:31:07,069 --> 01:31:08,220 I wanted to run away from everything. 2709 01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:10,100 Every single thing bro. 2710 01:31:10,119 --> 01:31:13,069 Like I just wanted to run away. 2711 01:31:13,090 --> 01:31:15,180 I was separating myself from my family, 2712 01:31:15,199 --> 01:31:17,079 snapping on my momma. 2713 01:31:17,100 --> 01:31:19,000 (man sobs) 2714 01:31:19,020 --> 01:31:21,199 I was snapping on my momma bro. 2715 01:31:21,220 --> 01:31:24,199 (sobbing continues) 2716 01:31:24,220 --> 01:31:26,149 ♪ And I'ma make it before the next season ♪ 2717 01:31:26,170 --> 01:31:27,220 ♪ And you can doubt me now ♪ 2718 01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:29,069 ♪ Next year you gon' be a believer ♪ 2719 01:31:29,090 --> 01:31:30,149 ♪ And lord forgive me for my sins ♪ 2720 01:31:30,170 --> 01:31:31,189 ♪ And crucify my demons ♪ 2721 01:31:31,210 --> 01:31:32,180 ♪ Trynna fight back tears ♪ 2722 01:31:32,199 --> 01:31:34,079 ♪ But this pain and I ain't ♪ 2723 01:31:34,100 --> 01:31:37,220 - The biggest strengths are found in our weaknesses. 2724 01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:39,189 Plain and simple. 2725 01:31:39,210 --> 01:31:42,079 So in that moment or in these moments 2726 01:31:42,100 --> 01:31:44,170 or where you think you feel weak, 2727 01:31:44,189 --> 01:31:46,119 you are actually the strongest person. 2728 01:31:46,140 --> 01:31:49,090 (woman humming) 2729 01:31:51,130 --> 01:31:54,090 - [Rick Sr.] Y'all give me strength. 2730 01:31:54,109 --> 01:31:55,079 Y'all give me strength. 2731 01:31:55,100 --> 01:31:56,210 Rick I ain't going nowhere. 2732 01:31:56,229 --> 01:31:58,189 You ain't pushing me far enough. 2733 01:31:58,210 --> 01:32:01,000 I ain't drowned, I ain't going. 2734 01:32:01,020 --> 01:32:04,199 I'm letting you know that now I ain't going. 2735 01:32:04,220 --> 01:32:06,159 Y'all know I'm here, I'm gonna be here 2736 01:32:06,180 --> 01:32:10,010 but see my strength, I'm so blessed. 2737 01:32:10,029 --> 01:32:11,140 That's my strength. 2738 01:32:12,170 --> 01:32:17,090 I couldn't go through what he go through. 2739 01:32:17,109 --> 01:32:18,180 That's my dude. 2740 01:32:19,210 --> 01:32:23,060 ♪ Tried of going through all this pain ♪ 2741 01:32:23,079 --> 01:32:25,220 (woman humming) 2742 01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:34,119 - [Rick Jr.] Let it all out. 2743 01:32:34,140 --> 01:32:35,159 Just let it out. 2744 01:32:35,180 --> 01:32:36,210 ♪ Till I heal from this pain ♪ 2745 01:32:36,229 --> 01:32:38,029 ♪ When I'm constantly hurt ♪ 2746 01:32:38,050 --> 01:32:39,060 ♪ That's why I hope for the best ♪ 2747 01:32:39,079 --> 01:32:40,140 ♪ But I prepare for the worst ♪ 2748 01:32:40,159 --> 01:32:42,020 ♪ Seem like my whole life in hell ♪ 2749 01:32:42,039 --> 01:32:43,100 ♪ I tend to go through the most ♪ 2750 01:32:43,119 --> 01:32:44,140 ♪ I've been trapped up in the dark ♪ 2751 01:32:44,159 --> 01:32:46,069 ♪ And I don't know where to go ♪ 2752 01:32:46,090 --> 01:32:48,109 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 2753 01:32:48,130 --> 01:32:52,149 - Y'all got people here for y'all just let us in. 2754 01:32:52,170 --> 01:32:53,180 - I wish I had this. 2755 01:32:53,199 --> 01:32:56,069 I wish I was able to release these things 2756 01:32:56,090 --> 01:32:58,039 when I was your age. 2757 01:32:58,060 --> 01:33:00,029 I'm just now learning this. 2758 01:33:00,050 --> 01:33:01,090 That's why I wanna give it back 2759 01:33:01,109 --> 01:33:03,170 because I want everybody to feel how I feel 2760 01:33:03,189 --> 01:33:07,039 even when I'm going through something myself. 2761 01:33:07,060 --> 01:33:08,109 'Cause we always gon' go, 2762 01:33:08,130 --> 01:33:10,199 we either in something, we go into something 2763 01:33:10,220 --> 01:33:13,119 or we coming out of something always. 2764 01:33:13,140 --> 01:33:15,090 That's life's cycle 2765 01:33:15,109 --> 01:33:17,159 but it's how you respond to that. 2766 01:33:17,180 --> 01:33:18,199 ♪ I've been trapped up in the dark ♪ 2767 01:33:18,220 --> 01:33:20,090 ♪ And don't know where to go ♪ 2768 01:33:20,109 --> 01:33:22,199 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 2769 01:33:22,220 --> 01:33:25,130 ♪ Tired of going through all this pain ♪ 2770 01:33:25,149 --> 01:33:28,069 ♪ What'd you know about pain ♪ 2771 01:33:28,090 --> 01:33:31,220 ♪ Tired of going through all this pain ♪ 2772 01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:33,029 - [Marco] I think that the best way 2773 01:33:33,050 --> 01:33:37,000 that we build confidence is to provide them 2774 01:33:37,020 --> 01:33:38,159 with the sense of value. 2775 01:33:38,180 --> 01:33:43,130 You know, young, black men, more specifically, 2776 01:33:44,149 --> 01:33:46,069 don't have a high sense of value. 2777 01:33:46,090 --> 01:33:47,180 - If you wanna just give us a little bit 2778 01:33:47,199 --> 01:33:49,060 or give me a little bit of something 2779 01:33:49,079 --> 01:33:51,020 who do you think who is Brandon? 2780 01:33:51,039 --> 01:33:54,189 Just tell me a just a little bit about you. 2781 01:33:54,210 --> 01:33:57,050 - Brandon is just, you know, 2782 01:33:57,069 --> 01:34:00,079 transitioning into every day manhood, 2783 01:34:01,180 --> 01:34:02,229 you know what I'm saying? 2784 01:34:03,010 --> 01:34:06,109 Being that I'm 16 and only have two years left 2785 01:34:06,130 --> 01:34:08,220 to be you know, legally grown. 2786 01:34:09,189 --> 01:34:10,199 Figuring out a lot of things 2787 01:34:10,220 --> 01:34:14,100 and you know, just kinda catching on to the world 2788 01:34:14,119 --> 01:34:16,079 and what I wanna do. 2789 01:34:18,090 --> 01:34:19,170 I don't know. 2790 01:34:19,189 --> 01:34:22,109 It's just like I got options, a lot of options 2791 01:34:22,130 --> 01:34:25,130 and I gotta try to balance them all out at one time. 2792 01:34:25,149 --> 01:34:28,109 So it'd be, you know, kind of stressing me out. 2793 01:34:28,130 --> 01:34:32,010 - [Mr. Ward] Sometimes you wanna do things Brandon's way 2794 01:34:32,029 --> 01:34:35,000 and the purpose of me being an instructor 2795 01:34:35,020 --> 01:34:37,100 being your teacher is to give you guidance 2796 01:34:37,119 --> 01:34:39,100 and you have to take structure. 2797 01:34:39,119 --> 01:34:41,140 If you don't take structure 2798 01:34:41,159 --> 01:34:44,079 and listen and get the wisdom and knowledge 2799 01:34:44,100 --> 01:34:47,140 from somebody that is able to give it to you, 2800 01:34:47,159 --> 01:34:49,180 it's going to hurt you in your future 2801 01:34:49,199 --> 01:34:52,090 but I believe in you and that's why 2802 01:34:52,109 --> 01:34:55,079 I wanna give you this personal assignment of growth 2803 01:34:55,100 --> 01:34:56,159 and this is something next time 2804 01:34:56,180 --> 01:34:58,109 I want you to look back on 2805 01:34:58,130 --> 01:35:01,069 and say this is where I was at then 2806 01:35:01,090 --> 01:35:04,130 and this is where I'm at now. 2807 01:35:04,149 --> 01:35:08,069 - [Marco] To instilled into them that they are worthy. 2808 01:35:08,090 --> 01:35:10,180 You know, that, you know, despite their circumstances 2809 01:35:10,199 --> 01:35:13,140 that, you know, there's value that 2810 01:35:13,159 --> 01:35:16,140 A, we see in them as people, you know, successful, 2811 01:35:16,159 --> 01:35:17,229 you know, people of color 2812 01:35:18,010 --> 01:35:19,210 but then also we have to get them to a point 2813 01:35:19,229 --> 01:35:21,140 where they see the value in themselves 2814 01:35:21,159 --> 01:35:23,199 and part of that is just deconstructing the myths 2815 01:35:23,220 --> 01:35:26,140 that they've embraced and inherited, you know 2816 01:35:26,159 --> 01:35:27,199 throughout most of their lives 2817 01:35:27,220 --> 01:35:29,199 and so I think that once we do that 2818 01:35:29,220 --> 01:35:32,140 and we can really be intentional about doing that, 2819 01:35:32,159 --> 01:35:34,079 I think that young people will start 2820 01:35:34,100 --> 01:35:37,010 to see that value that we see in them as well. 2821 01:35:37,029 --> 01:35:38,109 - [Mr. Wards] Are you willing to do the assignment 2822 01:35:38,130 --> 01:35:40,130 and do it to your fullest and the best of your ability? 2823 01:35:40,149 --> 01:35:42,079 I need to know this. 2824 01:35:42,100 --> 01:35:43,199 - [Brandon] Yeah I'm willing. 2825 01:35:43,220 --> 01:35:44,170 I will try. 2826 01:35:44,189 --> 01:35:46,050 - [Mr. Wards] I need commitment 2827 01:35:46,069 --> 01:35:49,149 'cause commitment is you have to do it you know, 2828 01:35:49,170 --> 01:35:51,109 even going to school, it's a daily routine, 2829 01:35:51,130 --> 01:35:52,199 a daily chore to get up 2830 01:35:52,220 --> 01:35:56,140 but that's how you are gonna be prosperous 2831 01:35:56,159 --> 01:35:57,210 if you stay committed 2832 01:35:57,229 --> 01:36:00,090 'cause if you do it half way 2833 01:36:01,130 --> 01:36:03,100 that's what you're gonna get a halfway result 2834 01:36:03,119 --> 01:36:05,079 and I see, I've been working with a lot of students 2835 01:36:05,100 --> 01:36:09,020 for a long time, they want the big goal right away 2836 01:36:09,039 --> 01:36:10,140 and then they get frustrated. 2837 01:36:10,159 --> 01:36:13,020 So that's why I wanna give you small measurable steps 2838 01:36:13,039 --> 01:36:15,039 to complete that goal. 2839 01:36:15,060 --> 01:36:18,060 (people chattering) 2840 01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:30,050 - [Chad] You're gonna have a good time. 2841 01:36:30,069 --> 01:36:31,159 We have some amazing things this year. 2842 01:36:31,180 --> 01:36:34,029 It's different from last year and the years prior. 2843 01:36:34,050 --> 01:36:35,119 I want y'all to make sure 2844 01:36:35,140 --> 01:36:37,130 you take advantage of everything that's going on. 2845 01:36:37,149 --> 01:36:39,069 All the opportunities here. 2846 01:36:39,090 --> 01:36:43,100 The goal that Rico say every year is, "Not to come to us 2847 01:36:43,119 --> 01:36:44,189 "but to network with yourself", 2848 01:36:44,210 --> 01:36:48,140 because your partner in production 2849 01:36:48,159 --> 01:36:50,029 or your partner in crime in the music industry 2850 01:36:50,050 --> 01:36:51,100 might be sitting right next to you 2851 01:36:51,119 --> 01:36:52,159 or right across from me. 2852 01:36:52,180 --> 01:36:53,159 Give yourselves a round of applause. 2853 01:36:53,180 --> 01:36:54,159 We gonna get started in a second. 2854 01:36:54,180 --> 01:36:57,210 (audience applauding) 2855 01:36:59,180 --> 01:37:01,109 - [Rico] What's up everybody? 2856 01:37:01,130 --> 01:37:03,119 (audience exclaims) 2857 01:37:03,140 --> 01:37:04,130 How y'all doing? 2858 01:37:04,149 --> 01:37:05,180 (audience mumbles) 2859 01:37:05,199 --> 01:37:07,229 Welcome to the "We Love Music" conference. 2860 01:37:08,010 --> 01:37:09,140 This is our fourth year. 2861 01:37:09,159 --> 01:37:10,220 I wanna stress to you all 2862 01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:12,090 the importance of this conference. 2863 01:37:12,109 --> 01:37:14,109 If your hunger is to be great, 2864 01:37:14,130 --> 01:37:18,170 if your hunger is to perfect your gift and your ability 2865 01:37:18,189 --> 01:37:20,060 then this is where you come for that. 2866 01:37:20,079 --> 01:37:21,109 If you wanna be around people 2867 01:37:21,130 --> 01:37:23,010 who believe what you believe 2868 01:37:23,029 --> 01:37:25,140 who want the same thing as you 2869 01:37:25,159 --> 01:37:27,109 then you're in the right place. 2870 01:37:27,130 --> 01:37:28,170 You sitting next to somebody 2871 01:37:28,189 --> 01:37:31,130 who can absolutely relate to you. 2872 01:37:32,220 --> 01:37:35,210 - So talk to me about what you're trynna do with music. 2873 01:37:35,229 --> 01:37:38,140 - My goal in music is to be a star. 2874 01:37:38,159 --> 01:37:39,159 - A star. 2875 01:37:39,180 --> 01:37:41,060 - I sing and I rap. 2876 01:37:41,079 --> 01:37:42,159 So I do both. 2877 01:37:42,180 --> 01:37:44,180 - I heard some of your stuff and I was impressed. 2878 01:37:44,199 --> 01:37:49,100 I just wanna know what do you think a star is to you? 2879 01:37:49,119 --> 01:37:50,170 - Somebody who make music 2880 01:37:50,189 --> 01:37:54,119 and it touch a lot of people around the world. 2881 01:37:55,159 --> 01:37:56,210 - [Chad] Got you. 2882 01:37:56,229 --> 01:37:58,100 One thing I always tell people is never settle, 2883 01:37:58,119 --> 01:37:59,220 never compromise who you are 2884 01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:01,050 because at the end of the day 2885 01:38:01,069 --> 01:38:02,199 you can't go backwards. 2886 01:38:02,220 --> 01:38:03,229 - [Tiana] Right. - You can always move forward. 2887 01:38:04,010 --> 01:38:05,069 You can always miss opportunities 2888 01:38:05,090 --> 01:38:06,149 but opportunities are gonna continue to come 2889 01:38:06,170 --> 01:38:08,000 but you can't go backwards 2890 01:38:08,020 --> 01:38:09,130 because you settled for an opportunity. 2891 01:38:09,149 --> 01:38:10,180 You understand what I'm saying? 2892 01:38:10,199 --> 01:38:13,079 Your best ability as an artist or a creator 2893 01:38:13,100 --> 01:38:14,069 is your availability. 2894 01:38:14,090 --> 01:38:15,130 As long as you're available 2895 01:38:15,149 --> 01:38:16,229 opportunities present itself. 2896 01:38:17,010 --> 01:38:18,100 If an opportunity presents itself in L.A., you in Milwaukee 2897 01:38:18,119 --> 01:38:19,109 it does you no good. 2898 01:38:19,130 --> 01:38:20,170 - [Tiana] Right. 2899 01:38:20,189 --> 01:38:22,109 - So it's basically being in the right place 2900 01:38:22,130 --> 01:38:25,000 at the right time with the right preparation 2901 01:38:25,020 --> 01:38:26,079 'cause you gotta be prepared for 2902 01:38:26,100 --> 01:38:27,119 the opportunity when it presents itself. 2903 01:38:27,140 --> 01:38:28,180 - As in or it is, 2904 01:38:28,199 --> 01:38:31,189 how do you get into the industry? 2905 01:38:31,210 --> 01:38:33,000 - [Chad] Well the goal is basically 2906 01:38:33,020 --> 01:38:34,140 you start with building a fan base. 2907 01:38:34,159 --> 01:38:36,050 Obviously you have good music. 2908 01:38:36,069 --> 01:38:37,090 So it's the goal is just the base, 2909 01:38:37,109 --> 01:38:38,170 build a fan base around the music 2910 01:38:38,189 --> 01:38:40,010 that you already have 2911 01:38:40,029 --> 01:38:42,210 and get it fan by fan, follower by follower, 2912 01:38:44,170 --> 01:38:46,149 it's a grind, it's a marathon. 2913 01:38:46,170 --> 01:38:48,029 Like Nipsey said, "A marathon continues", 2914 01:38:48,050 --> 01:38:49,050 it's a marathon, it's not a sprint. 2915 01:38:49,069 --> 01:38:51,229 So what you do is you go city to city, 2916 01:38:52,010 --> 01:38:55,039 fan by fan, little hole in the wall places 2917 01:38:55,060 --> 01:38:57,149 to theaters, which you're moving now to stadiums. 2918 01:38:57,170 --> 01:39:00,000 - So I write my own content 2919 01:39:00,020 --> 01:39:03,119 but how can I start writing for other artists? 2920 01:39:03,140 --> 01:39:04,180 - [Chad] Well the key is to make sure 2921 01:39:04,199 --> 01:39:07,039 that you demo everything out to the fullest. 2922 01:39:07,060 --> 01:39:09,020 Demo as if it's your record 2923 01:39:09,039 --> 01:39:11,140 and then start submitting to other artists 2924 01:39:11,159 --> 01:39:13,039 and as you perform around the country, 2925 01:39:13,060 --> 01:39:14,069 you bump into artists and as you bump it to artist 2926 01:39:14,090 --> 01:39:16,079 say, "I might have a record for you?" 2927 01:39:16,100 --> 01:39:17,170 Or "Maybe we should get in and do some work." 2928 01:39:17,189 --> 01:39:19,020 You wanna tap in with the artist 2929 01:39:19,039 --> 01:39:20,090 or the artist team directly 2930 01:39:20,109 --> 01:39:22,100 as opposed to tapping in with an ANR. 2931 01:39:22,119 --> 01:39:23,170 It was a pleasure meeting you. 2932 01:39:23,189 --> 01:39:24,180 Good talking to you darling. (Tiana mumbles) 2933 01:39:24,199 --> 01:39:25,170 Good luck with everything. 2934 01:39:25,189 --> 01:39:27,170 - [Tiana] Thank you. - Yeah. 2935 01:39:27,189 --> 01:39:29,060 - [Marco] Hey how's it going? 2936 01:39:29,079 --> 01:39:30,039 - [Brandon] Good. - [Marco] Marco Morrison. 2937 01:39:30,060 --> 01:39:31,090 - [Brandon] Brandon Haney. 2938 01:39:31,109 --> 01:39:32,069 - [Marco] All right, good to meet. 2939 01:39:32,090 --> 01:39:33,010 - [Brandon] Nice to meet you. 2940 01:39:33,029 --> 01:39:33,189 - [Marco] Have a seat. 2941 01:39:33,210 --> 01:39:35,090 Thank you for, you know, 2942 01:39:35,109 --> 01:39:37,100 obviously taking out the time to come in and meet me. 2943 01:39:37,119 --> 01:39:39,210 You know, obviously I've heard some things about you 2944 01:39:39,229 --> 01:39:42,039 and you know, upon hearing about, 2945 01:39:42,060 --> 01:39:43,199 you know, you and your story, 2946 01:39:43,220 --> 01:39:46,000 I was definitely interested in you know, in meeting you 2947 01:39:46,020 --> 01:39:48,029 and my understanding is you had an assignment 2948 01:39:48,050 --> 01:39:50,020 that you were challenged with doing 2949 01:39:50,039 --> 01:39:51,100 by one of your teachers 2950 01:39:51,119 --> 01:39:53,149 and so if you can just share with me 2951 01:39:53,170 --> 01:39:55,180 some results of that assignment that you're working on. 2952 01:39:55,199 --> 01:39:56,210 - [Brandon] Yeah. 2953 01:39:56,229 --> 01:39:59,079 My past has been like really tough 2954 01:39:59,100 --> 01:40:03,050 but I didn't let that like break me, you know. 2955 01:40:05,039 --> 01:40:08,170 Experiences made me who I am as a person. 2956 01:40:10,039 --> 01:40:11,210 It made me smarter. 2957 01:40:11,229 --> 01:40:13,039 It made me think more. 2958 01:40:13,060 --> 01:40:15,079 It made me watch who I hang around. 2959 01:40:15,100 --> 01:40:16,199 - You know, you get it, you know 2960 01:40:16,220 --> 01:40:19,170 and a lot of times, especially for men of color, 2961 01:40:19,189 --> 01:40:22,149 our growth is usually predicated 2962 01:40:24,189 --> 01:40:26,189 on having to go through hardships. 2963 01:40:26,210 --> 01:40:27,210 I've gone through a lot of, you know, 2964 01:40:27,229 --> 01:40:30,020 hardships as a kid, you know. 2965 01:40:30,039 --> 01:40:31,199 Not having food, living in a house 2966 01:40:31,220 --> 01:40:33,079 without lights, you know. 2967 01:40:33,100 --> 01:40:34,189 I was a kid that most people 2968 01:40:34,210 --> 01:40:37,119 and even people in my family thought wouldn't make it. 2969 01:40:37,140 --> 01:40:39,199 Is there anybody that you place blame 2970 01:40:39,220 --> 01:40:43,079 for when it comes to those things? 2971 01:40:43,100 --> 01:40:44,210 - God. 2972 01:40:44,229 --> 01:40:48,050 That's the only person that I blame. 2973 01:40:48,069 --> 01:40:50,199 'Cause without him there would be no life. 2974 01:40:50,220 --> 01:40:53,119 No pain, no struggle. 2975 01:40:53,140 --> 01:40:57,180 So I wouldn't blame it on anybody particularly 2976 01:40:57,199 --> 01:41:00,029 here in this world but him. 2977 01:41:03,140 --> 01:41:07,020 I just feel like I could be better than who I am now. 2978 01:41:09,079 --> 01:41:12,020 I feel like I can grow and develop my skill set, 2979 01:41:14,149 --> 01:41:18,020 you know enough to be successful in life. 2980 01:41:18,039 --> 01:41:20,159 - And so what separates you from everybody else 2981 01:41:20,180 --> 01:41:23,039 is what you invest in to you, you know? 2982 01:41:23,060 --> 01:41:25,090 And so, making sure that you go on to school, 2983 01:41:25,109 --> 01:41:27,229 making sure that you're getting the grades, you know, 2984 01:41:28,010 --> 01:41:30,149 if you got a job, making sure that when you go to work 2985 01:41:30,170 --> 01:41:32,079 you're the best employee that they have. 2986 01:41:32,100 --> 01:41:33,060 - Right. 2987 01:41:33,079 --> 01:41:34,109 - Coming from my circumstances 2988 01:41:34,130 --> 01:41:36,090 I always thought about, you know, 2989 01:41:36,109 --> 01:41:37,149 what would it have been like 2990 01:41:37,170 --> 01:41:39,189 if I had somebody that was in my corner. 2991 01:41:39,210 --> 01:41:41,130 With that being said, 2992 01:41:43,029 --> 01:41:44,159 I'm gonna give you a job. 2993 01:41:44,180 --> 01:41:45,109 - Really? 2994 01:41:45,130 --> 01:41:46,189 - [Marco] Yeah. - Oh. 2995 01:41:46,210 --> 01:41:47,199 - I'll give you a job, I'll give you a job. 2996 01:41:47,220 --> 01:41:50,130 I see that we need each other. 2997 01:41:51,130 --> 01:41:52,199 - Yeah. 2998 01:41:52,220 --> 01:41:54,050 - That's what I see. 2999 01:41:54,069 --> 01:41:56,000 I think that as much as you might need me 3000 01:41:56,020 --> 01:41:57,170 I think that I need you all the same 3001 01:41:57,189 --> 01:42:00,119 because we have too much in common 3002 01:42:01,229 --> 01:42:03,199 and the fact that, you know, 3003 01:42:03,220 --> 01:42:07,159 I am evolving continuously into the man that I am, 3004 01:42:07,180 --> 01:42:09,229 my goal is for you to be better than me. 3005 01:42:10,010 --> 01:42:11,170 Hey brother, I'ma say thank you for your time. 3006 01:42:11,189 --> 01:42:12,130 I appreciate it. 3007 01:42:12,149 --> 01:42:13,109 - I appreciate it. 3008 01:42:13,130 --> 01:42:14,050 - All right. - Yeah. 3009 01:42:14,069 --> 01:42:14,229 - Guys listen to me. 3010 01:42:15,010 --> 01:42:16,029 There are no whips. 3011 01:42:16,050 --> 01:42:17,010 - [Man] What. 3012 01:42:17,029 --> 01:42:18,189 - No chains. - [Man] Come on. 3013 01:42:18,210 --> 01:42:20,020 - No water hose. - [Man] Come on. 3014 01:42:20,039 --> 01:42:21,079 - No jail time. - [Man] Come on, give it up. 3015 01:42:21,100 --> 01:42:22,140 - No death. - [Man] Come on. 3016 01:42:22,159 --> 01:42:23,210 - No depression. - What. 3017 01:42:23,229 --> 01:42:25,090 - No problems. - [Man] Yes. 3018 01:42:25,109 --> 01:42:28,180 - No nothing, no trials, no tribulation, 3019 01:42:28,199 --> 01:42:31,220 no pressure, no pain, no hurricane, 3020 01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:34,090 strong enough to stop my people? 3021 01:42:34,109 --> 01:42:36,229 How do we change the narrative? 3022 01:42:37,010 --> 01:42:39,149 First and foremost, we have to be more diligent 3023 01:42:39,170 --> 01:42:41,229 about telling black children the truth 3024 01:42:42,010 --> 01:42:45,119 and the truth is there are more black males 3025 01:42:46,229 --> 01:42:48,100 that are in college. 3026 01:42:48,119 --> 01:42:52,180 I think the statistic was 1.3 million in college 3027 01:42:52,199 --> 01:42:56,170 and 840,000 that's locked up in prison. 3028 01:42:56,189 --> 01:42:58,010 If we gonna give the statistics 3029 01:42:58,029 --> 01:42:59,119 we have to give all the statistics 3030 01:42:59,140 --> 01:43:00,189 and not just some of them. 3031 01:43:00,210 --> 01:43:02,130 Second thing we have to do, 3032 01:43:02,149 --> 01:43:04,060 is we have to look them dead in the eye 3033 01:43:04,079 --> 01:43:06,100 and we have to tell them that, 3034 01:43:06,119 --> 01:43:09,199 "little black child you are the author of your own story. 3035 01:43:09,220 --> 01:43:12,189 "You hold the pen, the pages are blank 3036 01:43:12,210 --> 01:43:15,000 "and whatever you write shall be. 3037 01:43:15,020 --> 01:43:16,079 "So what will you write about?" 3038 01:43:16,100 --> 01:43:17,060 - Burns. 3039 01:43:17,079 --> 01:43:18,079 - [Daryl] Marquell, what it do? 3040 01:43:18,100 --> 01:43:19,229 Got the nice little jacket on. 3041 01:43:20,010 --> 01:43:20,229 Looking good. 3042 01:43:21,010 --> 01:43:21,180 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 3043 01:43:21,199 --> 01:43:23,000 - How was the game? 3044 01:43:23,020 --> 01:43:24,060 - The game was pretty impressive. 3045 01:43:24,079 --> 01:43:25,180 Pretty impressive, pretty good. 3046 01:43:25,199 --> 01:43:27,000 - I know the game was good. 3047 01:43:27,020 --> 01:43:28,159 What position they got you at right now? 3048 01:43:28,180 --> 01:43:31,229 - Raw receiver, (mumbles) got, finally got me on defense. 3049 01:43:32,010 --> 01:43:33,029 - [Daryl] I see you. - Now I'm middle linebacker. 3050 01:43:33,050 --> 01:43:34,210 - I see you play a little bit of defense. 3051 01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:36,020 - Yeah, also I was- 3052 01:43:36,039 --> 01:43:37,149 - Thought you a little soft for defense. 3053 01:43:37,170 --> 01:43:39,130 Defense's for people that's pretty hard. 3054 01:43:39,149 --> 01:43:41,069 - I'm really hard, I'm really hard. 3055 01:43:41,090 --> 01:43:42,229 I like it. - All right, cool. 3056 01:43:43,010 --> 01:43:44,050 How was a weekend? 3057 01:43:44,069 --> 01:43:45,140 - Weekend was pretty a little bit of rough 3058 01:43:45,159 --> 01:43:46,229 but you know, I tried to keep my, 3059 01:43:47,010 --> 01:43:48,119 I was keeping my head high 3060 01:43:48,140 --> 01:43:51,029 and you know, praying for better days and stuff like that. 3061 01:43:51,050 --> 01:43:52,000 - [Daryl] Okay, okay. 3062 01:43:52,020 --> 01:43:53,159 So you saying it was rough. 3063 01:43:53,180 --> 01:43:56,199 What does rough mean like, issues in the neighborhood? 3064 01:43:56,220 --> 01:43:58,109 Something with the family? 3065 01:43:58,130 --> 01:43:59,079 What makes it rough? 3066 01:44:01,180 --> 01:44:02,170 - Issues with the family 3067 01:44:02,189 --> 01:44:04,100 and like me personally, myself, 3068 01:44:04,119 --> 01:44:05,079 you know, working on myself, 3069 01:44:05,100 --> 01:44:07,010 getting myself better first 3070 01:44:07,029 --> 01:44:08,149 because I can't help nobody else 3071 01:44:08,170 --> 01:44:09,229 and I can't do, you know, 3072 01:44:10,010 --> 01:44:11,039 help the community, help everybody else 3073 01:44:11,060 --> 01:44:12,100 if I can't help myself first. 3074 01:44:12,119 --> 01:44:13,130 - Right. 3075 01:44:13,149 --> 01:44:14,199 You ever heard about what they says 3076 01:44:14,220 --> 01:44:17,060 like, "putting your own oxygen mask on first"? 3077 01:44:17,079 --> 01:44:18,210 You know what that means? 3078 01:44:18,229 --> 01:44:20,220 - Putting yours first on then helping somebody else's? 3079 01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:22,130 - Yeah like how could you help somebody else 3080 01:44:22,149 --> 01:44:24,079 if you can't help yourself first? 3081 01:44:24,100 --> 01:44:25,220 And it's not selfish 3082 01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:28,000 because I know in the hood we always talk about, 3083 01:44:28,020 --> 01:44:28,199 you know, like you gotta do this 3084 01:44:28,220 --> 01:44:30,149 and you gotta do that or whatever 3085 01:44:30,170 --> 01:44:33,029 you gotta help your brother help your family or whatever 3086 01:44:33,050 --> 01:44:35,020 but how can you help your family 3087 01:44:35,039 --> 01:44:36,079 if you don't got a job, 3088 01:44:36,100 --> 01:44:38,069 if you don't got an education yourself, you know? 3089 01:44:38,090 --> 01:44:39,079 How can you tell you a little brother how to grow up? 3090 01:44:39,100 --> 01:44:42,020 So that's where that term come from, 3091 01:44:42,039 --> 01:44:44,020 "putting your own oxygen mask on first", 3092 01:44:44,039 --> 01:44:45,229 giving yourself your own life blood 3093 01:44:46,010 --> 01:44:48,039 so that you can help other people, so. 3094 01:44:48,060 --> 01:44:50,039 All right man, well it's good to see you bro. 3095 01:44:50,060 --> 01:44:51,100 (Marquell mumbles) 3096 01:44:51,119 --> 01:44:52,039 Have a good day. (Marquell mumbles) 3097 01:44:52,060 --> 01:44:52,220 All right, all right. 3098 01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:53,180 Good, I'm proud of you. 3099 01:44:53,199 --> 01:44:54,159 - All right. 3100 01:44:54,180 --> 01:44:55,100 - [Daryl] That look good. 3101 01:44:55,119 --> 01:44:56,020 (Marquell laughs) 3102 01:44:56,039 --> 01:44:57,039 Real good. 3103 01:44:57,060 --> 01:44:58,010 - Hello guys. 3104 01:44:58,029 --> 01:44:59,159 My name is Marquell Jenkins. 3105 01:44:59,180 --> 01:45:01,140 So yeah man, it's my senior year now 3106 01:45:01,159 --> 01:45:03,189 and I don't even know what to do now. 3107 01:45:03,210 --> 01:45:07,050 Like, I don't even know what's next for Marquell. 3108 01:45:07,069 --> 01:45:10,039 I just wanna, you know, what's next for me? 3109 01:45:10,060 --> 01:45:12,119 Well, a little bit what's next for me is, 3110 01:45:12,140 --> 01:45:14,039 you know, writing my own book. 3111 01:45:14,060 --> 01:45:16,180 Like I've been, you know, I've been, 3112 01:45:16,199 --> 01:45:19,130 I took a very long, you know, break of it 3113 01:45:19,149 --> 01:45:21,069 because of the family issues that I was going through 3114 01:45:21,090 --> 01:45:24,020 but the journey has just only began. 3115 01:45:24,039 --> 01:45:28,050 So I'ma, you know, get those to a part and you know, 3116 01:45:28,069 --> 01:45:31,119 get that family bond going again and you know, 3117 01:45:31,140 --> 01:45:33,060 trynna have the best connection with my mom 3118 01:45:33,079 --> 01:45:36,010 as possible and you know, interact with my brothers 3119 01:45:36,029 --> 01:45:38,029 and sisters more often 3120 01:45:39,109 --> 01:45:42,109 but I got, you know, self love and work on myself 3121 01:45:42,130 --> 01:45:44,189 first before I can help anybody else. 3122 01:45:44,210 --> 01:45:47,029 Even though I'm this outstanding man that I am 3123 01:45:47,050 --> 01:45:49,199 and you know, this young talent, 3124 01:45:49,220 --> 01:45:52,050 intelligent young man, I am, 3125 01:45:52,069 --> 01:45:53,130 I gotta help myself first. 3126 01:45:53,149 --> 01:45:56,220 So yeah man, this is the end of this vlog today 3127 01:45:57,000 --> 01:45:59,020 but I'ma keep you guys updated and posted 3128 01:45:59,039 --> 01:46:02,229 but you know, just pray for me, wish to have better days. 3129 01:46:03,010 --> 01:46:05,029 Love, peace and hair grease. 3130 01:46:05,050 --> 01:46:08,100 - [Muhibb] We hope and we pray that you write a story 3131 01:46:08,119 --> 01:46:12,199 that says all 196,940,400 square miles of this earth 3132 01:46:15,020 --> 01:46:17,119 belongs to you and you are not relegated 3133 01:46:20,119 --> 01:46:23,180 to dying on the block that's 1/8th mile long 3134 01:46:23,199 --> 01:46:26,149 in an alley of insignificance. 3135 01:46:26,170 --> 01:46:30,079 We hope you write a story that suggests 3136 01:46:30,100 --> 01:46:32,140 that you could go wherever you want. 3137 01:46:32,159 --> 01:46:35,050 You can do whatever you wanna do. 3138 01:46:35,069 --> 01:46:37,119 The sky's the limit, truly for you. 3139 01:46:37,140 --> 01:46:41,020 - So what's next for me in my journey is, 3140 01:46:41,039 --> 01:46:45,020 I'll be moving to Phoenix, Arizona for a couple months 3141 01:46:45,039 --> 01:46:47,060 just to really figure out, you know, 3142 01:46:47,079 --> 01:46:50,010 what I'm doing and just to be in a new environment 3143 01:46:50,029 --> 01:46:51,119 and to really better myself 3144 01:46:51,140 --> 01:46:55,090 'cause Milwaukee is like a huge destruction for me. 3145 01:46:55,109 --> 01:46:58,000 I like having fun and kicking it with all my friends 3146 01:46:58,020 --> 01:47:00,170 and then I transition to Chicago 3147 01:47:00,189 --> 01:47:03,170 where I will stay probably for you know, 3148 01:47:03,189 --> 01:47:06,130 a longer period of time and just work on my music 3149 01:47:06,149 --> 01:47:10,170 and branding myself and you know, 3150 01:47:10,189 --> 01:47:13,079 just figuring out my life from there. 3151 01:47:13,100 --> 01:47:17,069 What I have learned this far in my journey is, 3152 01:47:18,100 --> 01:47:21,170 you know, number one to be myself. 3153 01:47:21,189 --> 01:47:24,100 Number two, to never give up and you know, 3154 01:47:27,159 --> 01:47:30,220 just do the best that you can 3155 01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:32,119 and you know, to reset myself 3156 01:47:34,130 --> 01:47:36,189 'cause people just give me a lot of BS 3157 01:47:36,210 --> 01:47:41,050 but yeah, 2020 I feel shall be a great year for me. 3158 01:47:42,140 --> 01:47:45,060 I feel like a lot of good things are gonna happen. 3159 01:47:45,079 --> 01:47:47,029 So, that's really all. 3160 01:47:49,029 --> 01:47:50,159 - [Muhibb] We can't continue 3161 01:47:50,180 --> 01:47:55,109 to accept the role that this society gives to us, 3162 01:47:55,130 --> 01:47:58,060 saying that, "We can only be the thugs, 3163 01:47:58,079 --> 01:47:59,119 "We can only be the hustlers, 3164 01:47:59,140 --> 01:48:01,140 "We can only be the criminals." 3165 01:48:01,159 --> 01:48:03,010 No. 3166 01:48:03,029 --> 01:48:06,050 The time is now for us to play a new role. 3167 01:48:06,069 --> 01:48:09,149 A role of being a father, a role of being a mother, 3168 01:48:09,170 --> 01:48:12,029 a role of being a doctor or a lawyer, 3169 01:48:12,050 --> 01:48:16,060 or a president or anything that we aspire to be. 3170 01:48:16,079 --> 01:48:18,140 - So what's next for Brandon? 3171 01:48:20,130 --> 01:48:23,079 To be honest, I really don't know 3172 01:48:23,100 --> 01:48:25,079 but I feel like it's a lot of things 3173 01:48:25,100 --> 01:48:27,010 that I got to work on. 3174 01:48:27,029 --> 01:48:30,090 Especially being with my character. 3175 01:48:30,109 --> 01:48:32,220 I feel like I gotta work on my personality. 3176 01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,060 I feel like I gotta work on my traits. 3177 01:48:35,079 --> 01:48:36,130 I just feel like I got to do better 3178 01:48:36,149 --> 01:48:40,039 and strive more as a person, you know, 3179 01:48:40,060 --> 01:48:42,140 so I can get to where I wanna be in life 3180 01:48:42,159 --> 01:48:44,079 because where I'm at now, 3181 01:48:44,100 --> 01:48:45,180 it's not looking too hot, 3182 01:48:45,199 --> 01:48:47,119 you know, my situation 3183 01:48:47,140 --> 01:48:51,050 but I feel like better days are coming. 3184 01:48:51,069 --> 01:48:54,140 I'm not like a (stutters) a hundred percent sure of that 3185 01:48:54,159 --> 01:48:57,060 but people, you know, always say, "keep your head up 3186 01:48:57,079 --> 01:49:01,159 "and keep going and don't let things bring you down." 3187 01:49:03,090 --> 01:49:05,130 So, you know, I hold people to those standards 3188 01:49:05,149 --> 01:49:10,109 and them words hoping that things will change. 3189 01:49:11,100 --> 01:49:12,210 Yeah. 3190 01:49:12,229 --> 01:49:16,109 So as for what's next, I guess we will have to see. 3191 01:49:16,130 --> 01:49:18,220 - [Muhibb] The way we change the narrative 3192 01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:21,109 is by writing our own stories 3193 01:49:21,130 --> 01:49:23,199 and part of writing our own stories 3194 01:49:23,220 --> 01:49:26,189 is writing our way out of the mess 3195 01:49:26,210 --> 01:49:29,079 that we currently find ourselves in. 3196 01:49:29,100 --> 01:49:31,159 (upbeat music) 3197 01:49:31,180 --> 01:49:33,090 We will always, listen to me. 3198 01:49:33,109 --> 01:49:35,020 - [Man] Get at their heart. 3199 01:49:35,039 --> 01:49:37,140 - We will always, listen to me. 3200 01:49:37,159 --> 01:49:38,210 - [Man] Get at it. 3201 01:49:38,229 --> 01:49:41,079 - We will always, find our way back to truth. 3202 01:49:41,100 --> 01:49:42,060 - [Man] What else? 3203 01:49:42,079 --> 01:49:43,180 - Find our way back to love. 3204 01:49:43,199 --> 01:49:44,149 - [Man] What else? 3205 01:49:44,170 --> 01:49:46,079 - Find our way back to freedom. 3206 01:49:46,100 --> 01:49:48,159 The people will always 3207 01:49:48,180 --> 01:49:50,220 find our way back to God. 3208 01:49:52,149 --> 01:49:55,199 (audience applauding) 3209 01:49:57,130 --> 01:49:59,090 ♪ Well this is motivation music all in your ear to ♪ 3210 01:49:59,109 --> 01:50:01,140 ♪ Rise ♪ 3211 01:50:01,159 --> 01:50:05,210 ♪ Milwaukee home ♪ 3212 01:50:05,229 --> 01:50:07,050 ♪ We 'bout to rise ♪ 3213 01:50:07,069 --> 01:50:08,039 ♪ Shake dust off dust off your feet ♪ 3214 01:50:08,060 --> 01:50:09,140 ♪ Milwaukee get ready to eat ♪ 3215 01:50:09,159 --> 01:50:10,210 ♪ We 'bout eat ♪ 3216 01:50:10,229 --> 01:50:12,100 ♪ They think we can't do this right here ♪ 3217 01:50:12,119 --> 01:50:13,079 ♪ Well this is motivation music all in your ear to ♪ 3218 01:50:13,100 --> 01:50:15,229 ♪ Rise ♪ 3219 01:50:16,010 --> 01:50:19,210 ♪ Milwaukee home ♪ 3220 01:50:19,229 --> 01:50:21,010 ♪ We 'bout to rise ♪ 3221 01:50:21,029 --> 01:50:22,100 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 3222 01:50:22,119 --> 01:50:23,159 ♪ Milwaukee get ready to eat ♪ 3223 01:50:23,180 --> 01:50:25,000 ♪ We 'bout to eat ♪ 3224 01:50:25,020 --> 01:50:26,119 ♪ They think we can't do this right here ♪ 3225 01:50:26,140 --> 01:50:28,220 ♪ Well this motivation music all in your ear to ♪ 3226 01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:30,069 ♪ Put in that work ♪ 3227 01:50:30,090 --> 01:50:31,199 ♪ Get off your butt and go put in work ♪ 3228 01:50:31,220 --> 01:50:34,000 ♪ Rise from the dirt, you can do it ♪ 3229 01:50:34,020 --> 01:50:35,170 ♪ Through pain and hurt ♪ 3230 01:50:35,189 --> 01:50:37,079 ♪ I know you scared ♪ 3231 01:50:37,100 --> 01:50:39,010 ♪ Go and take courage ♪ 3232 01:50:39,029 --> 01:50:41,010 ♪ Don't look for no handouts ♪ 3233 01:50:41,029 --> 01:50:42,090 ♪ Go and you earn it ♪ 3234 01:50:42,109 --> 01:50:43,199 ♪ We got something beautiful ♪ 3235 01:50:43,220 --> 01:50:44,229 ♪ But on the inside you gotta believe it ♪ 3236 01:50:45,010 --> 01:50:47,050 ♪ Even though we look like dirt in the field ♪ 3237 01:50:47,069 --> 01:50:48,130 ♪ Gotta have visionary eyes and go see it ♪ 3238 01:50:48,149 --> 01:50:51,050 ♪ You see this, I see that ♪ 3239 01:50:51,069 --> 01:50:52,210 ♪ You see red, I see black ♪ 3240 01:50:52,229 --> 01:50:54,100 ♪ Green, white, blue, yellow ♪ 3241 01:50:54,119 --> 01:50:56,109 ♪ It's your choice you don't even gotta settle ♪ 3242 01:50:56,130 --> 01:50:57,079 ♪ We weak and despised ♪ 3243 01:50:57,100 --> 01:50:58,180 ♪ All in they eyes ♪ 3244 01:50:58,199 --> 01:51:00,029 ♪ Well that's the perfect situation from God ♪ 3245 01:51:00,050 --> 01:51:02,100 ♪ Get up and build your muscle ♪ 3246 01:51:02,119 --> 01:51:03,170 ♪ Have faith and hustle ♪ 3247 01:51:03,189 --> 01:51:05,060 ♪ He uses the foolish things ♪ 3248 01:51:05,079 --> 01:51:06,210 ♪ Foolish things to confound the wise ♪ 3249 01:51:06,229 --> 01:51:07,199 ♪ May live in the ghetto ♪ 3250 01:51:07,220 --> 01:51:09,039 ♪ But you aint gotta settle ♪ 3251 01:51:09,060 --> 01:51:10,180 ♪ To the lifestyle and believe it's lies ♪ 3252 01:51:10,199 --> 01:51:12,079 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 3253 01:51:12,100 --> 01:51:14,029 ♪ Sister get ready to eat ♪ 3254 01:51:14,050 --> 01:51:15,060 ♪ Oh you think you can't do this right here ♪ 3255 01:51:15,079 --> 01:51:18,039 ♪ Well this motivation music all in your ear ♪ 3256 01:51:18,060 --> 01:51:19,090 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 3257 01:51:19,109 --> 01:51:21,020 ♪ Brother get ready to eat ♪ 3258 01:51:21,039 --> 01:51:22,180 ♪ Why you think you can't do this right here ♪ 3259 01:51:22,199 --> 01:51:24,170 ♪ Well this motivation music all in your ear to ♪ 3260 01:51:24,189 --> 01:51:27,020 ♪ Rise ♪ 3261 01:51:27,039 --> 01:51:31,000 ♪ Milwaukee home ♪ 3262 01:51:31,020 --> 01:51:32,039 ♪ We 'bout to rise ♪ 3263 01:51:32,060 --> 01:51:33,100 ♪ Shake dust off your feet ♪ 3264 01:51:33,119 --> 01:51:34,159 ♪ Milwaukee get ready to eat ♪ 3265 01:51:34,180 --> 01:51:35,149 ♪ We 'bout to eat ♪ 3266 01:51:35,170 --> 01:51:39,010 ♪ They think we can't do this ♪