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(birds chirping)

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- [Albert] I only need about
six more crates, Mr. White.

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I only need six more
crates, five, actually.

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- [Mr. White] You know,
you the man in charge.

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- [Albert] That\'s what they say.

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(children chattering)

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- This gonna be the best
class y\'all have all day.

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- [Child] Do we get to drum, too?

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- Yeah, you get to drum, too.

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Why do you think we got
all those drums out there?

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Yes.

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We\'re gonna have fun today.

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All right.

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First of all, how is everybody?

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- [Children] Good.

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- Now, tell me what\'s good about it.

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[Child] Everything.

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- Everything?

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- [Child] Everything.

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- Say it again.

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It\'s the beat, ain\'t it?

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You got the beat, don\'t you?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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- [Albert] Give me a drum roll, Mr. White.

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Now, everybody raise your right hand.

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(drum tapping)

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Everybody raise your right hand.

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Now, right hand.

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Now, stop, Mr. White.

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Everybody place your hand over your heart.

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If you get really quiet
and really still and listen

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very closely, you can feel
something beating in your chest.

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Anybody feel that?

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Everybody is a drummer,

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because we all come from our mother.

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And if you listen close when
you\'re a baby, the first sound

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that you hear is the sound
of your mother\'s heartbeat.

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So, we are born into the
world with this sound.

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(drum tapping)

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That\'s right.

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- Come on down.

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Come on down.

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(children shouting)

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One, two, come on.

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(percussive music)

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Yeah, yeah.

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Come on.

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(drumsticks clicking)

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(soft music)

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Growing up in Louisville, I was into art,

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but I was discouraged from
doing that kind of stuff.

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It just wasn\'t something that, as a child,

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I was told black males did.

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(ball thudding)

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(drum and cymbal music)

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We built River City Drum Corp

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to connect children to arts and culture.

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Our culture is going to be our savior.

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If we tap back into that culture,

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you\'ll find out that\'s
where the power is at.

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We teach African drumming and drum line,

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but basically what we\'re talking about

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in the drum corps is life skills.

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And here we are, 27 years later.

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- [Girl] I pledge myself to my creator.

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- [Children] I pledge
myself to my creator.

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- [Girl] That I might come to be.

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- [Children] That I might come to be.

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- In harmony with the great purpose.

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- [Children] In harmony
with the great purpose.

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- [Girl] Intended for me.

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- [Children] Intended for me.

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- [Girl] I pledge to my ancestors.

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- [Children] I pledge to my ancestors.

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- [Girl] Whose names I may not know.

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- [Children] Whose names I may not know.

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- [Girl] In respect for
their great struggles.

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- [Children] In respect
for their great struggles.

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- That I might struggle to grow.

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- [Children] That I
might struggle to grow.

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- [Girl] I pledge to my family.

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- [Children] I pledge to my family.

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- A oneness in my soul.

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- [Children] A oneness in my soul.

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- A healthy mind.

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- [Children] A healthy mind.

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- [Girl] A body strong.

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- [Children] A body strong.

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- [Girl] Where their love might unfold.

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- [Group] Where their love might unfold.

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- [Man] Everybody, will
you make some noise

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for the River City Drum
Corps Pipe Drummers?

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(people cheering and applauding)

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(percussive music)

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(audience cheering)

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(people cheering)

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(high-five slapping)

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(chair rattling)

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- Oh.

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(feet scraping)

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- So now, now you got to hold the what?

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You got to hold the nut, because
that nut, what is it doing?

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Is it getting tight,
or is it just turning?

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All right, so how is
it going to get tight?

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- If I keep turning it.

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Yeah, that\'s the one I just did.

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- [Man] Okay.

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(tool clinking)

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(drill whirring)

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- Every drummer got to
carry they own drum.

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So if you\'ve got to carry your own drum,

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you\'ve gotta make it.

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(tools clanging)

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(soft music)

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- I say we live in a throwaway society,

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we throw everything away.

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(tools rattling)

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Society sees our children
as not good at that moment,

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because we\'ve got to put so much stuff

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into them, so we just throw them away.

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I use to be able to just reach down

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and grab one like it was nothing.

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Okay.

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As we started this process,
everything was scrap.

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(tool whirring)

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(animal hide rustling)

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That\'s half of a cow.

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(tool scraping)

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And so what we do is, we let

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children make something productive.

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So, they take the drums
and they design them,

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and they get them nice and beautiful.

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And then, they\'re able to
take their creative spirits,

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that now they found out that hey,

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I am something, I am worth something.

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Please and thank you.

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All right, now Emily, I need you to pull.

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Just wait, let me get it started first.

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Move your hand.

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- I was three or four when I
went to one of their concerts.

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And as soon as I heard
the drum, I fell in love.

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So, I was like Mom, I\'ve
got to be a part of this.

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It does take up your time, but even though

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it takes up your time, it\'s worth it.

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(drum rattling)

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- All I want to hear is

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(scatting percussively)

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(percussive music)

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Hold it up, hold it up,
no clicks, you feel me?

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(drumsticks clicking)

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Now, keep \'em up, no clicks.

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Five, six, here we go.

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(percussive music)

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Keep \'em up, keep \'em up, keep \'em up, and

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(percussive music)

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- Oh, oh, oh.

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And he climbin\', and he climbin\'.

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(laughing)

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Oh.

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- [Albert] All right, that\'s it.

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Put your sticks in your crates,
stand behind your drums.

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- And I told y\'all we
was gonna have a what?

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- [Children] Test.

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- Test, y\'all thought I was fooling,

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y\'all thought I was forgot
about that didn\'t you?

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Okay.

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(drums thudding)

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- If you\'ve turned your
test in, pick your sticks up

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and get in neutral silent
position number three.

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(humming)

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So then, this is the West End.

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This is my neighborhood.

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You know, a lot of rental
properties over here.

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When we get down here, you start

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seeing more and more houses boarded up.

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Yeah, people leave, and
they don\'t come back.

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You see the teddy bears hanging up.

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People just commemorating their lost ones.

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My mother kind of raised me

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to have my antennas up at all times.

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So, you know where not to go, you know

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to stay out the alleys, you
know to keep your shoes laced,

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because you might have
to get your sprint on.

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So, then you got some
neighborhoods over here where a lot

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of people own these properties,
and so, it\'s kept very well.

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Sports-heavy neighborhood.

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Everybody wants to hoop, play football.

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Run the streets.

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Welcome to the River City Drum Corps\'

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annual Kwanzaa celebration.

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Now, the thing about
Kwanzaa is, when it started,

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you couldn\'t go to Walmart
or Target to buy a kinara,

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or the red, black, and green candles.

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So we have to use this next principle.

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Yes, Keyiona knows it.

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- Kujichagulia

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- Everybody say,

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- Kuji-

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- [Group] Kuji-

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- Chagu-

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- [Group] Chagu-

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- Lia

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- [Group] Lia

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- Kujichagulia

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means self-determination.

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Instead of being named.

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- [Group] Instead of being named.

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- [Albert] Defined.

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- [Group] Defined.

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- [Albert] Or spoken for by others.

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- [Group] Or spoken for by others.

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(percussive music)

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(people cheering)

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(audience cheering and applauding)

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- [Mr. White] Well, well,
well, how\'s everybody?

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- [People] Good.

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- Oh God, as I look around,
I see a lot of people

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who were children, and now
they\'re adults and have children.

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There\'s a lot of good things going on

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in our community, if we
would just take the time

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to stop and participate in it.

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If we all come together
and pool our resources

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together, just think how great we can be.

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(people cheering and applauding)

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(soft, soulful music)

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(birds cawing)

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- Yo, this is the neighborhood
that I grew up in.

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This was the original church.

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Okay?

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So it was the center
of the black community,

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because black people
lived in the community,

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but we were all scattered.

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So, this street was all
African-American, black,

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however you want to call it, growing up.

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That yellow house down there,

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my grandmother bought that house in \'25.

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That was the community house.

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My mother and my cousins,
my brothers and my sisters.

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There\'s about 15, 20 people
in that house at one time.

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This was my community.

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There were certain routes that you could

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go through and nobody would bother you.

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But if you got off the route,

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then you would get yourself in trouble.

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Certain streets you could go
through, and as soon as you

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hit the street, by the
time, it was nigger this,

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nigger that, nigger nigger
nigger nigger nigger.

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You hear me?

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Oh my God.

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That\'s me, and that\'s my lovely wife.

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When I met Zambia, I was the director

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of the Boys and Girls Club.

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I saw a whole lot of children
like myself who were artists,

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but this was a sports-based center.

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Zambia\'s the one that
turned me onto the richness

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of African history and culture,
and within that, drums.

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The children said, that\'s
what we want to do.

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From there, it just kind
of took off, and the whole

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art world just opened up
for a whole set of children.

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Albert was one of those children.

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His mother and father were all
types of substance abusers.

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Albert went to probably
six elementary schools

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before he got out of elementary.

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He came under our tutelage, and we

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were able to get him resources.

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He went to the University of Kentucky

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on a vocal scholarship,
so, just think about that.

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- We were all into the
music, we were all into

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what was popular, and
he was trying to show us

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that we could create the popular culture.

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So, now you can walk around
and see people in Dashikis

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and African garb like it\'s popular now,

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but back then in \'94, in my
neighborhood, we got teased.

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You know, what you trying to go

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back to Africa, this, that, and the other.

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They had the jokes for us.

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But Mr. Nardie gave us
cultural connection,

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and taught us about
prominent African-American

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historical figures, that
black people contributed a lot

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to society and a lot to
America and the world.

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He was teaching us this when
we were eight, nine years old,

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just empowering us with this information.

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(slow gospel music)

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♪ Praise Him, ♪

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♪ Praise Him, ♪

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♪ Praise Him. ♪

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♪ Praise Him ♪

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♪ Jesus, ♪

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♪ Blessed savior, ♪

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♪ He\'s worthy to be praised. ♪

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- I don\'t really remember my father

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having a job the majority of my childhood.

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He would have a job and get fired.

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He was living his life and
drugging and in the streets.

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My mother realized that her choices

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in life limited me from certain things,

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and she welcomed Mr. Nardie
and Zambia into my life.

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My mother was not
threatened by that at all.

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My mother learned from
Zambia just as much as I did.

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- [Child] Excuse me.

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- Yes, you\'re excused.

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Here, use one of these
stand crates, right there.

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Here, get one of these.

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(drums beating)

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So now, it\'s got to sound like one drum.

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So, that means everybody has to be

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in the same spot at the same time.

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We\'ll try it again, the group
we\'ve been working with.

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Five, six, seven, eight.

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(drums beating)

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See what I\'m talking about?

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Starting to sound like what?

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- [Children] One drum.

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- One drum.

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Five, six, seven, eight.

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(drums beating)

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We get these kids, all of them have

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these very unique personalities

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that\'s really based on, can
you give me some attention?

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Uh-uh, Emmanuel.

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Emmanuel, go to the end of the line.

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Emmanuel, go to the, to the
end of the line, Emmanuel.

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They take my energy too,
gosh they take my energy.

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Come on, you got it, come on.

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(percussive music)

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- Okay, so start over.

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Everybody get in neutral three.

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So, it\'ll be Jaden, Gabe, Kaden,

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and then we\'ll go into the clicks.

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(percussive music)

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All right, great job, put up.

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Thank you all.

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- [Mr. White] Imani, I
remember when she was born.

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And now, Imani\'s getting ready
to graduate from high school.

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You know, it went like that.

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- [Imani] When I first came
to River City Drum Corp,

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I was having trouble finding myself.

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My sixth grade year was kind of weird,

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it was rocky, it was unstable.

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I was in the principal\'s
office all the time.

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(kids chuckling)

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Mr. White always instilled
in me leadership,

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who are you going to
be, you need to step up.

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(percussive music)

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It\'s interesting, though,
being a female drummer,

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people are always like,
what, you can really do that,

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you can really be on beat, no you can\'t.

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I\'m just like, yeah I
can, yeah I drum, so what?

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- [Woman] Thought they did
a good job on the rehab.

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- They did.

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I\'m really close to my mom.

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She\'s taught me a lot,
as well as my father.

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They got a divorce a couple years ago.

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It\'s been kind of rough,
but I\'m not letting it

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get the best of me, or anything like that.

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(percussive music)

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- When your kid joins drum corps,

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you join drum corps, and
there\'s no getting around it.

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So let\'s see how this concoction tastes.

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I grew up probably on the end of

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that concept where
everybody is your mother.

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Even if my mom wasn\'t home,
I still had somebody looking,

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and it didn\'t look like they were looking

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until I did something I shouldn\'t do,

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and then they\'d be the first
one to run out the door,

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I\'m gonna tell your
mama when she gets home.

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You knew better than
going to such-and-such

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and going down that far on the
street, and blah, blah, blah.

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So, that same kind of feeling

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is what I wanted Imani to have.

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Look at this one.

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Even with both parents, you
still need a support network.

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You\'ve got to have one, because you

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can\'t watch your baby all the time.

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(chuckling)

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(percussive music)

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(hands clapping)

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- [All] You want these sticks,

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Come take these sticks.

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(sticks clicking)

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(audience cheering and applauding)

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- All right, y\'all,
y\'all got down with that.

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Did you like that?

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Did we go to school on you, or what?

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All right, you know what time it is.

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Your evening is not
complete until you heard

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from one more person,
the heartbeat, the spirit

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of the drum, the reason why we came,

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our executive director, our founder,

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and our fearless leader,
Mr. Edward Nardie White.

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(audience applauding and cheering)

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(Edward cheering)

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- All right.

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- [Audience Member] We want a battle.

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- Say it again?

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- [Audience Member] We want a battle.

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- Who wants a battle?

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- [Audience Member] We want a battle.

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- I need, y\'all need to answer.

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Y\'all want a battle?

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Y\'all want a battle?

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(audience cheering)

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All right.

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Guess what I\'m gonna give y\'all?

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(audience cheering)

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I\'m gonna give y\'all a battle.

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(percussive music)

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(students chanting)

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- Okay.
- Who are we?

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- Three-D-I.
- Who are we?

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- Three-D-I.
- Three-D-I, big dogs.

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(students howling)

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(percussive music)

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(students chanting)

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- I\'m excited to see the
growth with all the drum lines,

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showcase their talents, and
with the love and shaking hands.

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That\'s what it\'s all about.

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- I like the adrenaline, the rush,

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knowing that you\'ve got to like
play to your full potential.

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You\'ve got to like bring
up the competition.

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- Oh, the battle.

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I would say we won.

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I mean, hey, it is what it is, you know?

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There really isn\'t a winner,
but there is a winner.

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- Everyone that comes in the drum corps,

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no matter how much musical talent you got,

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you\'re gonna start on the pipe drums.

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(percussive music)

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And if you survive that, then you\'re

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gonna get into drum line.

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(percussive music)

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We started this program
to bring drum lines

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from around Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana, and Illinois.

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And all of us travel to these shows.

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So, we was able to make
connection to historically-black

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colleges because of the
development of the drum line.

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When we do our showcase,
there are no judges.

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Everybody goes away happy.

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(drum tapping)

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- When I was younger, I
did sports for four years.

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I tried to do both,
but Mr. White was like,

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you know, this isn\'t going to work.

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You need to balance, you
need to pick and choose.

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It was tough, because I often thought

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we should be able to both.

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You\'re a child, you\'re still growing.

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This is Grambling State.

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Tuition is way too high,
so I\'m not going there,

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but I just keep it for motivation.

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Of course, I have Tennessee State.

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This is North Carolina
A&T, and then Southern.

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This is actually Ms.
Zambia, Mr. White\'s wife.

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She\'s one of the founders of drum corps.

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It\'s pretty cool to remember her

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and I always feel like
she\'s looking at me.

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Growing up, my father was in and out.

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You would see him one year,

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then you wouldn\'t see him another year.

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It was just my mom, grandfathers,
uncles, grandmothers.

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When I was talking to Mr. White,

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I was telling him, some
of the stuff he\'s told me,

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I\'m getting it, it\'s clicking.

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Next year, things are going to change.

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You\'re not going to have
anyone telling you what to do,

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or Jailen clean your room,
or Jailen you need to wash

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your clothes, or Jailen it\'s time to eat.

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- [Woman] Can you get me a butter knife?

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(silverware rattling)

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- [Jailen] It\'s good that I know this now

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before I\'m leaving, so when I get out here

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in this thing called
the world, I\'m not lost.

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- Better?

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Long journey?

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- My goal was to make sure he
was going to beat the odds.

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As a parent, you give them the tools,

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you know they\'re going to be fine,

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but you\'re like, is he okay?

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- Good girl.

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When I was younger, you would
see many people walking.

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It\'d be like, hey man, you need some work,

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or you need this, you need that?

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I\'d be like no, I\'m okay.

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But on the inside, I\'m like,

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oh my God, what\'s going to happen?

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I just told them no.

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What if something does happen?

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(soft, ethereal music)

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As you drive through West
Louisville, it\'s disheartening.

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You see so many people impoverished.

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The thing that you have in
common most of the time if you\'re

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in this part of the town
is, you have little money.

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It\'s very likely to live
next to a white person.

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We\'re all poor, they throw
us all in this community.

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(upbeat xylophone music)

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Are y\'all good with our set?

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- Are you sure?

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- Yeah, don\'t say yes.

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- Don\'t say yes, and the answer\'s no.

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- And then you get
onstage, and start shaking.

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- Yeah, intro is \"This Is How We Do It.\"

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One.

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(fingers snapping)

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Two.

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One, two.

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- [Mr. White] The children
that are graduating

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will be the last of my students.

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(mellow xylophone music)

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That\'s my legacy.

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I was gonna shut the drum corps down.

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I do not have the energy.

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But when Albert said that
this is what he wanted to do,

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then I said all right,
let\'s make it happen.

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(xylophone music)

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♪ I was born by the river ♪

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♪ In a little tent ♪

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♪ And oh, just like that river ♪

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♪ I\'ve been running ever since ♪

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♪ It\'s been a long, a long time coming, ♪

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♪ But I know, a change gonna come ♪

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♪ Oh yes, it will ♪

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♪ It\'s been too hard living, ♪

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♪ But I\'m afraid to die ♪

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♪ Cause I don\'t know what\'s
up there beyond the sky ♪

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♪ It\'s been a long, a long time coming, ♪

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♪ But I know, a change gonna come ♪

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♪ Oh yes, it will ♪

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- This is not about you.

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This is about the
shoulders you stand upon,

00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:26.419
the people who have died
and paved the way for you

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to be able to be in a theater
that was for whites only.

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Black lives matter.

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African and African-American
culture matters.

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It is up to us to keep it going forward.

00:32:40.989 --> 00:32:43.906
(percussive music)

00:32:58.927 --> 00:33:01.927
(students cheering)

00:33:02.906 --> 00:33:05.906
(students cheering)

00:33:16.515 --> 00:33:19.515
(students chanting)

00:33:20.743 --> 00:33:22.843
- [Students] S-O-D Squad.

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(percussive music),

00:33:38.287 --> 00:33:42.537
(audience cheering and applauding)

00:33:45.772 --> 00:33:48.939
(soft acoustic music)

00:34:08.463 --> 00:34:10.728
- [Mr. White] What you
saw today was who we are,

00:34:10.729 --> 00:34:12.374
what we are, and what

00:34:12.375 --> 00:34:17.373
we are capable of when we
have a stage to put it on.

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Just think, ain\'t no
shooting, ain\'t no cussing,

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ain\'t no smoking, ain\'t no
drinking, and guess what else?

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It ain\'t gonna be on
the 6:00 or 11:00 news.

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Black arts matter.

00:34:36.931 --> 00:34:37.969
(audience cheering and applauding)

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So give yourself a round of applause.

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Better than that, give
it up for the children.

00:34:48.877 --> 00:34:53.127
(audience cheering and applauding)

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Now, I\'m getting ready to tell you

00:34:57.141 --> 00:34:59.009
one other thing, you know, so I mention it

00:34:59.010 --> 00:35:00.973
loud and clear and plain and real.

00:35:01.830 --> 00:35:03.179
Mr. Albert Shumake, will you come here

00:35:03.180 --> 00:35:04.580
and stand beside me, please?

00:35:05.591 --> 00:35:06.424
(audience cheering and applauding)

00:35:06.425 --> 00:35:08.803
I met this young man when
he was eight years old.

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Eight years old.

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He is 34 years old now.

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And he stayed at the drum corps,

00:35:16.090 --> 00:35:17.639
and he did what he needed to do.

00:35:17.640 --> 00:35:22.249
Most importantly, he was always with me.

00:35:22.250 --> 00:35:23.607
What I\'ve decided to do is,

00:35:23.608 --> 00:35:27.509
I\'ve decided that Albert is going to be

00:35:27.510 --> 00:35:29.860
the next director of the
River City Drum Corp.

00:35:31.224 --> 00:35:35.217
(audience cheering and applauding)

00:35:35.218 --> 00:35:37.284
Thank you for your time, thank you

00:35:37.285 --> 00:35:40.171
for your energy, and may God bless you.

00:35:48.560 --> 00:35:53.560
A lot of times, we as old
leaders don\'t get out of the way.

00:35:57.790 --> 00:36:01.033
Sometimes you have to say,
when do you let the baby go?

00:36:08.425 --> 00:36:11.039
- All of this can fit right here.

00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:13.582
♪ Said no sucker, freestyle with my bros ♪

00:36:13.583 --> 00:36:15.866
♪ Yeah, so Micah, watch your toes ♪

00:36:15.867 --> 00:36:17.073
♪ Hey, we just killed the show, ♪

00:36:17.074 --> 00:36:19.570
♪ Now we out of here man, close the door ♪

00:36:19.571 --> 00:36:22.571
(students cheering)

00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:26.913
- [Newscaster] Some fun news in baseball.

00:36:28.522 --> 00:36:31.298
Former University of
Louisville star Josh Rogers

00:36:31.299 --> 00:36:34.159
will make his first Major
League start tomorrow night.

00:36:34.160 --> 00:36:34.993
He\'s been called up today and will start

00:36:34.994 --> 00:36:37.415
tomorrow night for the Orioles.

00:36:37.416 --> 00:36:38.583
That\'s sports...

00:36:40.477 --> 00:36:42.807
- [Albert] Do I turn left
right here or go on over?

00:36:42.808 --> 00:36:43.641
- [Man] Keep going.

00:36:43.642 --> 00:36:46.053
- [Albert] Okay, past the light.

00:36:47.030 --> 00:36:48.883
This is the trap over here, boy.

00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:53.349
- [Man] You know, this is
crazy, because a lot of people,

00:36:53.350 --> 00:36:55.544
- [Woman] Everybody gets shot over here.

00:36:55.545 --> 00:36:58.694
- Yeah, I mean, I know a couple dudes

00:36:58.695 --> 00:36:59.909
got murdered right over in front of the,

00:36:59.910 --> 00:37:00.743
- [Man] Long John Silver?

00:37:00.744 --> 00:37:02.009
- No, in front of the little store.

00:37:02.010 --> 00:37:04.660
My cousin got murdered right
over here in this alley.

00:37:07.680 --> 00:37:10.089
- [Newscaster] Two people
shot to death this weekend

00:37:10.090 --> 00:37:12.158
in the middle of the day
on 32nd and Greenwood.

00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:14.849
That\'s in the Parkland neighborhood.

00:37:14.850 --> 00:37:17.529
- [Man] It\'s crazy that you\'ve seen people

00:37:17.530 --> 00:37:20.193
get killed next door, across the street.

00:37:21.076 --> 00:37:23.773
And you\'re like, what\'s going on?

00:37:31.779 --> 00:37:33.419
(cowbell clanging)

00:37:33.420 --> 00:37:35.700
- That\'s your colors, ain\'t it Bryan?

00:37:36.783 --> 00:37:38.383
- [Mr. White] I look at my alumnis.

00:37:39.520 --> 00:37:40.923
Some got it and some didn\'t.

00:37:43.120 --> 00:37:44.773
That\'s the bittersweetness of it.

00:37:45.934 --> 00:37:48.851
(percussive music)

00:38:09.923 --> 00:38:11.941
(audience cheering and applauding)

00:38:11.942 --> 00:38:13.057
- Y\'all pretty good.

00:38:13.058 --> 00:38:15.908
- Pretty good? We was stowing.

00:38:15.909 --> 00:38:17.522
- Yeah, y\'all pretty good.

00:38:17.523 --> 00:38:18.888
You know something?

00:38:18.889 --> 00:38:19.722
It\'s in good hands.

00:38:19.722 --> 00:38:20.705
(chuckling)

00:38:20.706 --> 00:38:22.372
This one right here?

00:38:24.047 --> 00:38:26.919
This one, I worry about this one.

00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:28.613
I been worrying about this one.

00:38:30.918 --> 00:38:31.999
I still worry about this one.

00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:34.313
- I trying to think how many years.

00:38:34.314 --> 00:38:35.629
I was thinking how many years.

00:38:35.630 --> 00:38:38.136
- In my time, you know it\'s long.

00:38:38.137 --> 00:38:39.602
You know it\'s long.
- 17.

00:38:39.603 --> 00:38:40.547
- If it\'s before my time,

00:38:40.548 --> 00:38:42.257
it\'s long.
- Between this one

00:38:42.258 --> 00:38:43.935
and this one,

00:38:43.936 --> 00:38:45.018
(sighing)

00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:46.888
- [Man] That\'s about 17 years?

00:38:46.889 --> 00:38:49.306
(soft music)

00:39:00.447 --> 00:39:03.530
(seasoning rustling)

00:39:06.070 --> 00:39:08.536
- At least once a week
Albert and I get together

00:39:08.537 --> 00:39:10.789
and have breakfast and strategize

00:39:10.790 --> 00:39:13.963
and make sure everything
is in a right direction.

00:39:16.490 --> 00:39:19.569
- I\'ve been to youth conferences,
and I\'m an old man now.

00:39:19.570 --> 00:39:21.583
- Yeah, I hear you.

00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:27.819
Been feeling kind of melancholy
knowing that this time

00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:29.189
next year, I ain\'t gonna
be doing none of this.

00:39:29.190 --> 00:39:31.969
So, I\'ve got to make
sure that I give Albert

00:39:31.970 --> 00:39:35.118
all the information on how this works.

00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:35.952
- Hut.

00:39:35.952 --> 00:39:36.785
- Hut.

00:39:36.785 --> 00:39:37.618
- Back.

00:39:37.618 --> 00:39:38.451
- Straight.

00:39:38.451 --> 00:39:39.284
- Chest.

00:39:39.284 --> 00:39:40.117
- Out.

00:39:40.117 --> 00:39:40.950
- Shoulders.

00:39:40.950 --> 00:39:41.783
- Back.

00:39:41.783 --> 00:39:42.616
- Eyes.

00:39:42.616 --> 00:39:43.449
- Chin.

00:39:43.449 --> 00:39:44.282
- Chin.

00:39:44.282 --> 00:39:45.115
- Up.

00:39:45.116 --> 00:39:48.899
It\'s hard to be the
authoritative disciplinarian,

00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:53.900
the music teacher, administrator,
cleric, the therapist.

00:39:55.200 --> 00:39:57.389
That\'s a lot of weight for one person,

00:39:57.390 --> 00:39:59.413
and that\'s how Mr. Nardie has done it.

00:40:02.090 --> 00:40:04.469
I have to develop my support system

00:40:04.470 --> 00:40:08.323
so that I don\'t have to wear all the hats.

00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:18.869
After I got out of school
and I started my business

00:40:18.870 --> 00:40:23.239
as a DJ and as an artist,
and Mr. White asked me

00:40:23.240 --> 00:40:27.239
to come back to see the program continue.

00:40:27.240 --> 00:40:29.853
Then, we had the baby, and moved here.

00:40:29.854 --> 00:40:33.021
(truck door clanging)

00:40:34.310 --> 00:40:36.159
My life kind of just got shut down,

00:40:36.160 --> 00:40:38.269
\'cause my mother\'s sick, and I don\'t

00:40:38.270 --> 00:40:40.749
have childcare, so I\'ve been rearranging

00:40:40.750 --> 00:40:43.973
my day schedule and keeping
my daughter all day.

00:40:45.990 --> 00:40:48.579
You know, having a child

00:40:48.580 --> 00:40:53.580
really changes up the way
you get to move and operate.

00:40:55.450 --> 00:40:57.249
And I feel like I\'m sacrificing a lot,

00:40:57.250 --> 00:41:00.843
and I mean, is it really
sacrifice if you have to do it?

00:41:01.770 --> 00:41:02.770
I don\'t know.

00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:07.429
- She didn\'t mind the walk.

00:41:07.430 --> 00:41:08.789
She was used to it.

00:41:08.790 --> 00:41:12.969
Often, she saw a big
yellow bus roll past her,

00:41:12.970 --> 00:41:14.781
but the bus never stopped for her.

00:41:14.782 --> 00:41:16.949
(sighing)

00:41:17.890 --> 00:41:19.053
Was that funny?

00:41:20.220 --> 00:41:22.769
That\'s not funny.

00:41:22.770 --> 00:41:24.434
Is daddy a good daddy?

00:41:24.435 --> 00:41:25.268
(baby cooing)

00:41:25.268 --> 00:41:26.268
Yes.

00:41:27.082 --> 00:41:28.498
(baby cooing)

00:41:28.499 --> 00:41:30.159
(laughing)

00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:30.993
What\'s in here?

00:41:30.994 --> 00:41:32.361
She should be good with that.

00:41:32.362 --> 00:41:33.449
- Okay, well, I\'m gonna eat some more.

00:41:33.450 --> 00:41:34.450
- Oh, okay.

00:41:35.590 --> 00:41:39.083
- I can\'t even explain how fun
it\'s been to have a daughter.

00:41:40.540 --> 00:41:42.569
I mean, she loves the
same stuff that we love.

00:41:42.570 --> 00:41:46.283
She likes music, she likes
to hear herself talk,

00:41:47.130 --> 00:41:49.193
she likes to dance, she likes people.

00:41:50.670 --> 00:41:51.739
- [Woman] Yes, ma\'am.

00:41:51.740 --> 00:41:52.573
(baby cooing)

00:41:52.574 --> 00:41:54.659
- I really want to be an example.

00:41:54.660 --> 00:41:57.159
You can have a child
and life doesn\'t stop,

00:41:57.160 --> 00:41:59.639
you can still do fun stuff.

00:41:59.640 --> 00:42:02.219
You can still be yourself.

00:42:02.220 --> 00:42:04.389
It doesn\'t have to quit.

00:42:04.390 --> 00:42:07.079
And with the kids, help them understand

00:42:07.080 --> 00:42:11.069
that they don\'t just have to
absorb what\'s given to them,

00:42:11.070 --> 00:42:13.216
but they can create the trends themselves.

00:42:13.217 --> 00:42:16.134
(percussive music)

00:42:44.037 --> 00:42:48.287
(audience cheering and applauding)

00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:53.799
- I\'m a founding member of
the River City Drum Corp.

00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:55.829
I get real emotional to see the kids

00:42:55.830 --> 00:42:58.479
doing what they\'re doing
still, and it\'s beautiful.

00:42:58.480 --> 00:42:59.480
It\'s beautiful.

00:43:01.130 --> 00:43:03.419
- The news only talks about all the bad.

00:43:03.420 --> 00:43:05.809
They never talk about the
children who are really trying

00:43:05.810 --> 00:43:08.359
to do something for
themselves, or the parents

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:10.613
who are trying to build these children up.

00:43:11.980 --> 00:43:15.829
- You don\'t have to birth a
child for it to be your child.

00:43:15.830 --> 00:43:17.420
It takes a village.

00:43:20.090 --> 00:43:23.093
- Let\'s give a round of
applause to our past honorees,

00:43:24.628 --> 00:43:27.450
with the Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Freedom Award.

00:43:27.451 --> 00:43:31.701
(audience cheering and applauding)

00:43:34.628 --> 00:43:37.211
(gospel music)

00:43:41.207 --> 00:43:46.207
♪ ♪

00:43:47.006 --> 00:43:50.589
♪ ♪

00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:57.349
- [Pastor] The truth is
people are more like us

00:43:57.350 --> 00:44:01.039
than they are not like
us, and because people

00:44:01.040 --> 00:44:04.239
are just like us, we ought
to want people to sit by us.

00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:06.845
I don\'t know about you, but
God\'s been too good to me.

00:44:06.846 --> 00:44:09.446
(congregation responds)

00:44:09.447 --> 00:44:10.405
Too good to me.

00:44:10.406 --> 00:44:11.548
(congregation clapping)

00:44:11.549 --> 00:44:12.919
Too good to me.

00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.689
I can\'t trip, because
he\'s been too good to me,

00:44:15.690 --> 00:44:18.939
and when he\'s been too good
to you, you want somebody else

00:44:18.940 --> 00:44:20.983
to experience how good he\'s been to you.

00:44:24.074 --> 00:44:27.241
(soft, soulful music)

00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.739
- Since I graduated from high school,

00:44:34.740 --> 00:44:36.923
there\'s never been a plan to my life.

00:44:39.474 --> 00:44:40.839
You know how you just wander,

00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:42.783
it\'s like wandering through the desert.

00:44:46.580 --> 00:44:49.223
Photojournalism was
really my first passion.

00:44:50.490 --> 00:44:52.659
I just happened to see her coming.

00:44:52.660 --> 00:44:54.310
She was an icon in the community.

00:44:55.450 --> 00:44:59.953
Yes, so that is, uh, that
is a good photograph.

00:45:11.070 --> 00:45:14.959
This was another life, pre-drum corps.

00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:17.683
And once I got into drum corps,

00:45:19.260 --> 00:45:22.533
then this had to take a backseat.

00:45:23.570 --> 00:45:24.403
That\'s all I could do.

00:45:24.404 --> 00:45:27.903
All I could do was eat,
sleep, drink drums.

00:45:34.860 --> 00:45:39.860
I could just imagine if I
would\'ve been able to have someone

00:45:42.710 --> 00:45:46.093
in my life like I was in
Albert\'s life at a young age.

00:45:48.080 --> 00:45:52.029
I knew Albert was not an
athlete, I knew Albert

00:45:52.030 --> 00:45:54.016
was an artist, and the reason I knew it

00:45:54.017 --> 00:45:56.453
was because I saw his
heart like I saw mine.

00:46:00.900 --> 00:46:02.900
Black man can\'t make no money doing art.

00:46:04.410 --> 00:46:05.789
That\'s all I heard.

00:46:05.790 --> 00:46:06.793
That\'s all I heard.

00:46:07.790 --> 00:46:11.479
Growing up, I never got to
finish any of my projects.

00:46:11.480 --> 00:46:13.339
It was always basketball practice,

00:46:13.340 --> 00:46:16.059
it was always football practice.

00:46:16.060 --> 00:46:19.010
It was always go up there and
get him out of the art class.

00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:22.113
It makes no sense.

00:46:23.107 --> 00:46:24.107
It makes no sense.

00:46:38.670 --> 00:46:40.259
- See where the Joe Lewis bust is,

00:46:40.260 --> 00:46:42.489
the dark bust right up there?

00:46:42.490 --> 00:46:43.323
- Right over here?

00:46:43.324 --> 00:46:45.089
- [Man] Yeah, see a red figure?

00:46:45.090 --> 00:46:45.923
- Yes.

00:46:45.924 --> 00:46:47.479
- [Man] Pick him up carefully
and bring him up here.

00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:48.669
- Yes, sir.

00:46:48.670 --> 00:46:49.820
- [Man] Don\'t drop him.

00:46:51.131 --> 00:46:52.192
I\'m gonna disown you, son.

00:46:52.193 --> 00:46:53.309
(laughing)

00:46:53.310 --> 00:46:54.143
- Don\'t worry.

00:46:54.144 --> 00:46:56.749
12th grade, Shawnee High School.

00:46:56.750 --> 00:46:59.352
- When I got in art class, I
never knew I could do this,

00:46:59.353 --> 00:47:03.359
because I never did any
clay work like this before.

00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:08.360
But somehow, this happened, and
this is what my art teachers

00:47:09.950 --> 00:47:14.493
saw, oh, shit, that boy got something.

00:47:15.954 --> 00:47:17.269
You hear me?

00:47:17.270 --> 00:47:22.270
Now, somebody had to be able
to say, you got something.

00:47:22.430 --> 00:47:23.619
- [Mr. White] Exactly.

00:47:23.620 --> 00:47:25.579
- And now, I got to help get that,

00:47:25.580 --> 00:47:27.347
out there.
- Exactly.

00:47:27.348 --> 00:47:28.959
Exactly.
- That\'s what you do.

00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:30.319
When children come in here,

00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:31.563
they come in here all,

00:47:34.296 --> 00:47:35.729
and all this looking around.

00:47:35.730 --> 00:47:38.469
Here, Albert, my man, take this bottle.

00:47:38.470 --> 00:47:39.969
Take this bottle.

00:47:39.970 --> 00:47:41.772
Spray this, spray them down.
- Spray \'em down there.

00:47:41.773 --> 00:47:43.199
You remember that, don\'t ya?

00:47:43.200 --> 00:47:44.709
- We were just in the neighborhood,

00:47:44.710 --> 00:47:46.549
leaving Shelby Park or
something like that.

00:47:46.550 --> 00:47:48.749
I\'m about to show you
something, come on over here.

00:47:48.750 --> 00:47:50.246
We knock on the door, we come in.

00:47:50.247 --> 00:47:52.919
It was a Civil War piece, yeah.

00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:54.449
And he just hands me a bottle of water.

00:47:54.450 --> 00:47:57.369
This is what I\'m working
on, here, spray it.

00:47:57.370 --> 00:47:59.799
- The way I can get
you to understand going

00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:04.800
from a wax figure to a bronze,
you\'re gonna take that wax,

00:48:05.900 --> 00:48:09.809
dip it in the slurry, dip it in the sand.

00:48:09.810 --> 00:48:11.479
You take that, put it in the furnace,

00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:13.223
and you burn out the wax.

00:48:14.100 --> 00:48:15.639
Now you know who was doing this?

00:48:15.640 --> 00:48:16.949
I ain\'t talking China, either.

00:48:16.950 --> 00:48:17.783
- It\'s gonna blow your mind

00:48:17.783 --> 00:48:18.710
when he tells you who was doing this.

00:48:18.711 --> 00:48:21.749
- The Benins, your people.

00:48:21.750 --> 00:48:24.139
This was way back.

00:48:24.140 --> 00:48:29.140
So, I\'m just a part of the legacy of that.

00:48:30.680 --> 00:48:32.549
Our children, when they walk outside

00:48:32.550 --> 00:48:34.329
and see a piece out there, well,

00:48:34.330 --> 00:48:35.729
they don\'t know how
that piece got up there.

00:48:35.730 --> 00:48:36.889
Who did that?

00:48:36.890 --> 00:48:38.079
- How\'d that get here?

00:48:38.080 --> 00:48:40.439
Not knowing that Mr. Nardie can knock

00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:42.579
on the door and show you
the person who made it,

00:48:42.580 --> 00:48:43.724
because he\'s still right here.
- He don\'t even know.

00:48:43.725 --> 00:48:46.628
(chuckling)

00:48:46.629 --> 00:48:49.546
(soft piano music)

00:48:54.230 --> 00:48:56.209
With my Lincoln Memorial down

00:48:56.210 --> 00:49:00.449
on the waterfront, my
vision was to have Lincoln

00:49:00.450 --> 00:49:03.383
greeting you as you
come into that setting.

00:49:09.700 --> 00:49:12.859
And then ultimately, you
notice the biggest plaque

00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:16.229
out there would be the
slaves chained together

00:49:16.230 --> 00:49:19.919
being loaded on these boats,
being sent on down south,

00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:24.573
as he had witnessed going
up and down the Ohio.

00:49:27.730 --> 00:49:30.769
As much as we like to
think Louisville was not

00:49:30.770 --> 00:49:35.770
as entrenched in slavery, we
know that existed, you know?

00:49:36.460 --> 00:49:37.667
That\'s the way it was.

00:50:07.499 --> 00:50:09.219
- You know, when I look at this,

00:50:09.220 --> 00:50:10.973
this is all about economics.

00:50:13.350 --> 00:50:14.429
The only thing that they\'ve done

00:50:14.430 --> 00:50:15.853
is just took the chains off.

00:50:19.708 --> 00:50:21.286
You know, it\'s like,
what are you gonna do?

00:50:21.287 --> 00:50:22.943
You\'re free, but where you going?

00:50:26.430 --> 00:50:27.430
We\'re not free.

00:50:28.530 --> 00:50:32.089
We\'re bound in the chains
of poverty, we\'re bound

00:50:32.090 --> 00:50:35.513
in the chains of poor
education, of redlining.

00:50:37.710 --> 00:50:40.183
Keeping he and my next
door neighbor in bondage.

00:50:42.021 --> 00:50:45.188
(ship engine humming)

00:50:49.996 --> 00:50:51.279
- [Children] I pledge to my ancestors.

00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:53.359
- [Children] I pledge to my ancestors.

00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:54.769
- [Children] Whose names I may not know.

00:50:54.770 --> 00:50:56.439
- [Children] Whose names I may not know.

00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:58.254
- [Children] In respect
for their great struggles.

00:50:58.255 --> 00:50:59.888
- [Children] In respect
for their great struggles.

00:50:59.889 --> 00:51:01.363
- [Children] That I struggle to grow.

00:51:01.364 --> 00:51:02.609
- [Children] That I struggle to grow.

00:51:02.610 --> 00:51:03.819
- [Children] I pledge to my family.

00:51:03.820 --> 00:51:05.269
- [Children] I pledge to my family.

00:51:05.270 --> 00:51:06.399
- [Children] A oneness in my soul.

00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:07.771
- [Children] A oneness in my soul.

00:51:07.772 --> 00:51:08.750
- [Children] A healthy mind.

00:51:08.750 --> 00:51:09.710
- [Children] A healthy mind.

00:51:09.710 --> 00:51:10.543
- [Children] A body strong.

00:51:10.543 --> 00:51:11.376
- [Children] A body strong.

00:51:11.377 --> 00:51:12.749
- [Children] Where
their love might unfold.

00:51:12.750 --> 00:51:14.430
- [Children] Where
their love might unfold.

00:51:16.625 --> 00:51:19.792
(marching band music)

00:51:31.636 --> 00:51:33.053
(rap music)

00:51:33.054 --> 00:51:34.028
(hands clapping)

00:51:34.029 --> 00:51:35.572
♪ I walk to the club, show up, ♪

00:51:35.573 --> 00:51:37.226
♪ Tryn\'a rock with it ♪

00:51:37.227 --> 00:51:38.880
♪ Now, walk it out, now walk it out ♪

00:51:38.881 --> 00:51:40.114
- [Announcer] That DJ.

00:51:40.115 --> 00:51:43.036
He\'s only 14 years old.

00:51:43.037 --> 00:51:46.494
He\'s been rapping at our parties.

00:51:46.495 --> 00:51:49.412
(percussive music)

00:51:57.604 --> 00:52:00.771
(soft acoustic music)

00:52:07.940 --> 00:52:11.500
- [Albert] There are
two sides in Louisville.

00:52:12.424 --> 00:52:15.591
(boat whistle blaring)

00:52:15.592 --> 00:52:18.425
(engines humming)

00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:24.129
Here, there are two grocery stores,

00:52:24.130 --> 00:52:26.983
but there\'s a liquor
store on every corner.

00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:35.159
So much violence in this
neighborhood, so much killing,

00:52:35.160 --> 00:52:37.349
so much hostility, it makes it really hard

00:52:37.350 --> 00:52:39.703
for people to want to be around.

00:52:46.374 --> 00:52:49.522
(train whistle blaring)

00:52:49.523 --> 00:52:52.399
(bell chiming)

00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.549
I remember when our
neighborhoods didn\'t have gangs.

00:52:55.550 --> 00:52:57.339
The neighborhood youth boards kept

00:52:57.340 --> 00:53:02.340
that territorial aspect
from becoming super-heavy.

00:53:03.310 --> 00:53:06.449
And then, when that evaporated, now kids

00:53:06.450 --> 00:53:10.023
just have space and time
but nothing to occupy that.

00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:21.599
Zambia\'s granddaughter,
Makeba, was one of those kids

00:53:21.600 --> 00:53:26.600
that didn\'t want to listen to
what her grandmother told her.

00:53:27.620 --> 00:53:30.279
Felt like all this African stuff

00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:32.283
and this culture stuff was boring.

00:53:33.670 --> 00:53:36.873
I know that that really wrecks Mr. Nardie.

00:53:41.430 --> 00:53:42.851
- There\'s Makeba, oh my God.

00:53:42.852 --> 00:53:45.329
(finger tapping)

00:53:45.330 --> 00:53:48.329
You know, as I go through
these pictures, I see her.

00:53:48.330 --> 00:53:49.653
Such a peaceful child.

00:53:50.630 --> 00:53:52.947
But she got hung up into the lifestyle.

00:53:58.460 --> 00:53:59.789
And never in a hundred years did I think

00:53:59.790 --> 00:54:04.663
that I would lose a
granddaughter to violence.

00:54:06.630 --> 00:54:07.630
It\'s crazy.

00:54:09.450 --> 00:54:11.600
I look at my granddaughter
getting involved

00:54:12.668 --> 00:54:16.053
in this culture I cannot get her out of,

00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:19.449
no matter what I do,
no matter what we try,

00:54:19.450 --> 00:54:21.509
no matter where it goes, we cannot

00:54:21.510 --> 00:54:24.093
get her out of this culture, okay?

00:54:27.142 --> 00:54:30.629
(soft guitar music)

00:54:30.630 --> 00:54:33.530
It goes back to that old saying,
good girls like bad boys.

00:54:39.940 --> 00:54:42.499
Her boyfriend, him and these guys,

00:54:42.500 --> 00:54:45.003
they been beefing for years.

00:54:48.540 --> 00:54:51.403
And then, one day, the
beef just boiled over.

00:54:54.260 --> 00:54:55.629
They ended up having a shootout,

00:54:55.630 --> 00:54:57.535
both of them ended up killing each other.

00:54:57.536 --> 00:55:00.023
(gunshots blasting)

00:55:00.024 --> 00:55:00.857
(woman screaming)

00:55:00.858 --> 00:55:04.939
The girlfriend of the other guy that died

00:55:04.940 --> 00:55:09.009
walks up to my granddaughter and says,

00:55:09.010 --> 00:55:12.399
meet your man in hell where my man is,

00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.163
and shoots her 14 times from this close.

00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:20.403
So, not all of us make it.

00:55:21.490 --> 00:55:22.833
Not all of us make it.

00:55:27.210 --> 00:55:29.753
That\'s the battle that we fight.

00:55:35.558 --> 00:55:38.475
(percussive music)

00:55:40.757 --> 00:55:43.674
(children calling)

00:55:55.205 --> 00:55:58.122
(papers crinkling)

00:56:12.490 --> 00:56:14.569
Now you know, in the event that this

00:56:14.570 --> 00:56:16.420
happens again, guess where I\'m going?

00:56:17.421 --> 00:56:18.254
To get Miss. Jackson.

00:56:18.255 --> 00:56:19.969
You know Miss Jackson\'s
not going to be what?

00:56:19.970 --> 00:56:22.523
So, if she ain\'t happy, who
else ain\'t gonna be happy?

00:56:23.527 --> 00:56:24.749
And who else?

00:56:24.750 --> 00:56:25.583
You.

00:56:25.584 --> 00:56:27.374
- [Albert] One, two, three, go.

00:56:27.375 --> 00:56:30.482
(percussive music)

00:56:30.483 --> 00:56:32.232
- [Mr. White] Our community
wants the same thing

00:56:32.233 --> 00:56:33.616
that everybody else wants.

00:56:34.540 --> 00:56:36.509
But, we\'ve got to learn the set of rules

00:56:36.510 --> 00:56:38.739
that\'s going to keep us alive in the hood,

00:56:38.740 --> 00:56:40.259
and the set of rules that\'s going

00:56:40.260 --> 00:56:43.583
to let us be successful
in mainstream society.

00:56:45.180 --> 00:56:48.780
We\'re trying to make
the playing field level.

00:56:56.160 --> 00:56:59.077
(percussive music)

00:57:16.012 --> 00:57:20.239
(audience cheering and applauding)

00:57:20.240 --> 00:57:21.839
- I\'ve been in drum corps for eight years.

00:57:21.840 --> 00:57:26.769
We also do education, so it
brings up most of my grades.

00:57:26.770 --> 00:57:30.039
And we go on lots of trips
where we get to try new things.

00:57:30.040 --> 00:57:33.019
- There is definitely a GPA
requirement to be in drum corps.

00:57:33.020 --> 00:57:35.979
In order to perform,
you have to have a 2.5.

00:57:35.980 --> 00:57:37.789
If you don\'t have a 2.5, you\'ll be

00:57:37.790 --> 00:57:39.959
on probation until the
next grading period.

00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:43.099
Also, one of the unique
things about this year,

00:57:43.100 --> 00:57:45.169
there\'s seven of us, we\'re all seniors,

00:57:45.170 --> 00:57:47.009
so it\'s our last year in drum corps,

00:57:47.010 --> 00:57:48.291
so we\'ll be going off to college.

00:57:48.292 --> 00:57:49.752
(audience applauding)

00:57:49.753 --> 00:57:50.793
Raise your hands, seniors.

00:57:52.668 --> 00:57:55.825
We\'re all out of here next year.

00:57:55.826 --> 00:57:58.826
(crickets chirping)

00:58:00.041 --> 00:58:03.199
(keyboard clicking)

00:58:03.200 --> 00:58:04.200
- Welcoming

00:58:06.850 --> 00:58:07.683
for

00:58:07.684 --> 00:58:08.779
Most of the people that I\'ve known,

00:58:08.780 --> 00:58:12.949
that I\'m used, that I\'m
real close to at drum corps,

00:58:12.950 --> 00:58:14.776
they\'re leaving cause
it\'s their senior year,

00:58:14.777 --> 00:58:18.589
and I\'m like, what, who else
am I gonna hang out with?

00:58:18.590 --> 00:58:20.399
But, there\'s like more members coming in,

00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.189
and then after that it\'s gonna be me

00:58:22.190 --> 00:58:24.616
being the seniors and everything.

00:58:24.617 --> 00:58:27.200
(drum beating)

00:58:28.471 --> 00:58:29.902
- Right, thunder.

00:58:29.903 --> 00:58:31.770
Keep your arms high.

00:58:31.771 --> 00:58:34.689
(drum beating)

00:58:34.690 --> 00:58:38.529
- Drum corps has become
a part of who she is.

00:58:38.530 --> 00:58:40.409
That makes it a little easier for me

00:58:40.410 --> 00:58:43.939
to be the father of a young lady

00:58:43.940 --> 00:58:46.023
coming into her teenage years.

00:58:46.980 --> 00:58:50.209
When she\'s maybe not around
her drum corps peers,

00:58:50.210 --> 00:58:52.323
she knows she belongs to something.

00:58:53.550 --> 00:58:56.467
(percussive music)

00:58:58.399 --> 00:59:01.149
(engine humming)

00:59:02.859 --> 00:59:04.909
- I haven\'t got any sleep
for real last night,

00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.569
because I was doing my
PowerPoint and stuff.

00:59:09.570 --> 00:59:11.049
And then the concert, you know, I didn\'t

00:59:11.050 --> 00:59:12.789
get home from the concert
until about 10 something.

00:59:12.790 --> 00:59:16.841
I\'ve got to go give the speech.

00:59:16.842 --> 00:59:17.675
- Oh, okay.

00:59:17.676 --> 00:59:18.944
- I\'m not trying to,
- Well, I\'ll see you.

00:59:18.945 --> 00:59:19.778
Just let me know.

00:59:19.778 --> 00:59:20.778
- All right.

00:59:23.860 --> 00:59:25.749
When I\'ve been doing these performances

00:59:25.750 --> 00:59:29.149
that I usually do every year
for about eight years in a row,

00:59:29.150 --> 00:59:32.043
it\'s like, wow, this
is really my last one?

00:59:32.910 --> 00:59:35.439
It won\'t hit me probably until
like the end of the year,

00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.159
like what, this is really over?

00:59:38.160 --> 00:59:39.843
Like, it\'s my last year.

00:59:41.081 --> 00:59:43.581
(jazzy music)

00:59:45.150 --> 00:59:49.739
After graduation, I plan
to attend Simmons College,

00:59:49.740 --> 00:59:51.579
Louisville\'s HBCU, where I\'ll be

00:59:51.580 --> 00:59:53.180
marching in their marching band.

00:59:54.720 --> 00:59:57.499
I\'ll be still continuing
band, because that\'s actually

00:59:57.500 --> 01:00:01.039
what I want to go into,
is being a music major,

01:00:01.040 --> 01:00:03.233
so I can teach high school band.

01:00:04.888 --> 01:00:07.689
(laughing)

01:00:07.690 --> 01:00:09.379
- You see where the green, my green is?

01:00:09.380 --> 01:00:11.449
- Yes.
- I laid that down.

01:00:11.450 --> 01:00:12.579
- [Recording] \"Dedicated to providing...\"

01:00:12.580 --> 01:00:16.149
I just laid that down
from here, just for time.

01:00:16.150 --> 01:00:18.657
- [Recording] \"On this
morning in the early..\"

01:00:18.658 --> 01:00:19.827
(mouse clicking)

01:00:19.828 --> 01:00:20.828
- Okay.

01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:28.284
- Jordan would not stop
playing, so I had to keep going.

01:00:28.285 --> 01:00:30.637
(humming)

01:00:30.638 --> 01:00:31.471
I\'m like,

01:00:31.472 --> 01:00:33.259
(humming)

01:00:33.260 --> 01:00:35.679
I\'m going, I\'m like bruh.

01:00:35.680 --> 01:00:36.900
- You\'re gonna come play?

01:00:36.901 --> 01:00:37.734
- [Girl] Don\'t ask me.

01:00:37.735 --> 01:00:39.984
(laughing)

01:00:51.751 --> 01:00:54.668
(slow jazzy music)

01:00:59.517 --> 01:01:02.850
(train whistle blaring)

01:01:04.490 --> 01:01:07.073
(bell chiming)

01:01:11.009 --> 01:01:14.592
(electric trimmer buzzing)

01:01:18.887 --> 01:01:22.287
(blow dryer whirring)

01:01:22.288 --> 01:01:24.729
- One thing about Jailen
is he likes to stay fly.

01:01:24.730 --> 01:01:27.359
He gets a shape-up, a
haircut for everything.

01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:30.219
I mean, if he\'s going to get his license,

01:01:30.220 --> 01:01:32.909
he had to get a haircut

01:01:32.910 --> 01:01:35.069
for his driver\'s permit, his license.

01:01:35.070 --> 01:01:38.010
I was like, dang man,
just take the picture.

01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:41.938
He just grew his beard too, within a year.

01:01:41.939 --> 01:01:44.089
(chuckling)

01:01:44.090 --> 01:01:45.499
I remember sometimes, he used to say,

01:01:45.500 --> 01:01:46.876
man, don\'t cut my beard.

01:01:46.877 --> 01:01:48.603
I\'m like man, what beard, man?

01:01:50.620 --> 01:01:52.246
\"No, right here, you see it coming in?\"

01:01:52.247 --> 01:01:53.629
(chuckling)

01:01:53.630 --> 01:01:55.649
(electric razor buzzing)

01:01:55.650 --> 01:01:58.807
Just proud of the brother,
man, just really proud of him.

01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:02.359
We\'re not going to save
every child, you know.

01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:04.439
But at least if you\'re able to save one,

01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:06.113
you\'ve done your job, you know?

01:02:07.260 --> 01:02:11.399
That way, he can go back to his community

01:02:11.400 --> 01:02:13.039
and his friends and let them know,

01:02:13.040 --> 01:02:15.009
hey look, this is what I\'ve done.

01:02:15.010 --> 01:02:17.039
I once was in the West End.

01:02:17.040 --> 01:02:20.093
And was impoverished, but I made it out,

01:02:20.094 --> 01:02:24.196
you know what I mean?

01:02:24.197 --> 01:02:25.180
Straight?

01:02:25.181 --> 01:02:26.829
- [Jailen] Yeah.

01:02:26.830 --> 01:02:28.603
- Snapchat, you know what it is.

01:02:28.604 --> 01:02:29.749
I\'m here with your boy Jailen,

01:02:29.750 --> 01:02:31.754
the exceptional one, check him out.

01:02:31.755 --> 01:02:33.525
Look at him, groomed.

01:02:33.526 --> 01:02:34.703
Groomed.

01:02:34.704 --> 01:02:36.954
(laughing)

01:02:39.705 --> 01:02:42.122
(jazz music)

01:02:46.232 --> 01:02:48.899
(cicadas chirping)

01:03:03.770 --> 01:03:08.179
- When I moved back to
Louisville, I had a daughter,

01:03:08.180 --> 01:03:11.409
I had all this job responsibility,

01:03:11.410 --> 01:03:13.959
and like a total mind-shift from being

01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:16.533
just an artist and a free-spirited person.

01:03:21.050 --> 01:03:25.269
The work that I\'ve grown to
love doing, creating art,

01:03:25.270 --> 01:03:28.129
DJing, studying of the
world and the music,

01:03:28.130 --> 01:03:30.580
I feel like I have to put
that on the back burner,

01:03:31.470 --> 01:03:34.069
but I can\'t erase them from my life.

01:03:34.070 --> 01:03:35.899
I just have to find a way

01:03:35.900 --> 01:03:39.373
to weave it all into what\'s going on.

01:04:01.317 --> 01:04:04.234
(percussive music)

01:04:09.130 --> 01:04:10.876
- They\'re paid, because he has his money,

01:04:10.877 --> 01:04:12.659
and I don\'t want it to be the ninth hour.

01:04:12.660 --> 01:04:16.075
So far, one, two, three, we
have four alumni that have paid

01:04:16.076 --> 01:04:17.582
- Well alright.

01:04:17.583 --> 01:04:18.912
- And this morning, Bryan Hamilton.

01:04:18.913 --> 01:04:21.020
- Shana Brown, she coming.
- She\'s coming?

01:04:21.021 --> 01:04:22.072
I was like, are you sure?

01:04:22.073 --> 01:04:24.109
- I\'m hoping that will

01:04:24.110 --> 01:04:25.533
open some doors for us.
- Open some doors.

01:04:25.534 --> 01:04:26.520
- That would be great.
- Yes, definitely.

01:04:26.521 --> 01:04:28.993
So, she\'ll be there,
David James will be there.

01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:32.989
My son\'s graduating, so I\'m a parent

01:04:32.990 --> 01:04:36.163
of a senior, but, facilitating everything.

01:04:37.323 --> 01:04:38.939
Hi.

01:04:38.940 --> 01:04:40.230
- [Albert] How are you?

01:04:40.231 --> 01:04:41.140
- Exhausted.

01:04:41.141 --> 01:04:43.129
- Well, been up since 6:30 this morning.

01:04:43.130 --> 01:04:44.269
- Me too.

01:04:44.270 --> 01:04:46.103
- Yeah, you know how it goes.

01:04:47.150 --> 01:04:48.850
Can I speak to you in your office?

01:04:50.045 --> 01:04:53.511
My mama can\'t come,
Damien ain\'t buying one.

01:04:53.512 --> 01:04:54.794
Everybody kind of backed out on me.

01:04:54.795 --> 01:04:55.628
- Okay.

01:04:55.629 --> 01:04:58.500
- And so I\'ve been kind of
just trying to chase down money

01:04:58.501 --> 01:05:01.439
and do all this other
stuff, and I ain\'t been able

01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:03.534
to do what I thought I
was gonna be able to do.

01:05:03.535 --> 01:05:04.751
- Okay, that\'s understandable.

01:05:04.752 --> 01:05:06.190
I thought you were going
to tell me something bad.

01:05:06.191 --> 01:05:07.998
That\'s not the greatest news.

01:05:07.999 --> 01:05:10.211
I was like, do I need to sit down?

01:05:10.212 --> 01:05:14.182
- But I got money for
Bianca and my ticket.

01:05:14.183 --> 01:05:16.430
- I\'ll get his ticket
number for his receipt.

01:05:16.431 --> 01:05:18.196
- [Woman] A yo-yo.

01:05:18.197 --> 01:05:20.130
- I got them stashed.
- I got a jar full of them.

01:05:20.131 --> 01:05:20.964
- [Woman] Do you have a blue one?

01:05:20.965 --> 01:05:22.672
- I do have a blue one,
I\'ve got two blue ones.

01:05:22.673 --> 01:05:23.506
- [Woman] May I have it?

01:05:23.507 --> 01:05:25.819
- But this is like, this is
not your regular yo-yo, though?

01:05:25.820 --> 01:05:26.899
- [Woman] It lights?

01:05:26.900 --> 01:05:29.049
- It doesn\'t light, but this is, like,

01:05:29.050 --> 01:05:31.437
- [Woman] I know, it\'s like professional.

01:05:31.438 --> 01:05:32.271
- You know what I\'m saying, yeah,

01:05:32.271 --> 01:05:33.104
I was a nerd in high school.

01:05:33.104 --> 01:05:34.042
(yo-yo rattling)

01:05:34.043 --> 01:05:36.959
(percussive music)

01:05:44.746 --> 01:05:47.496
(engine humming)

01:05:48.830 --> 01:05:53.830
We are going to Cave Hill
Cemetery, the resting place

01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:58.489
of Zambia Nkrumah, the
most important person

01:05:58.490 --> 01:06:01.119
in that cemetery, if you ask me.

01:06:01.120 --> 01:06:03.709
It\'s where Muhammad Ali
is buried too, I believe.

01:06:03.710 --> 01:06:05.669
- [Mr. White] Yeah, Muhammad Ali\'s there,

01:06:05.670 --> 01:06:08.423
the illustrious Colonel Sanders is there.

01:06:10.620 --> 01:06:12.919
- [Albert] Yeah, she was a powerful lady.

01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:15.973
She always brought the best out of people.

01:06:17.529 --> 01:06:20.259
There was never any bad energy around her.

01:06:20.260 --> 01:06:22.159
- She had a couple sayings,
but the one I remember

01:06:22.160 --> 01:06:24.385
the most was about the closed fist.

01:06:24.386 --> 01:06:26.389
(chuckling)

01:06:26.390 --> 01:06:28.299
Closed fist gets nothing.

01:06:28.300 --> 01:06:29.280
- [Albert] And it gives nothing.

01:06:29.281 --> 01:06:30.649
- And it gives nothing.

01:06:30.650 --> 01:06:32.363
As long as that hand\'s balled up,

01:06:33.350 --> 01:06:34.839
nothing\'s coming in, nothing\'s going out.

01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:36.223
You should turn right here.

01:06:36.224 --> 01:06:37.057
- [Albert] Uh-huh.

01:06:37.057 --> 01:06:38.040
- Yes.

01:06:38.041 --> 01:06:40.669
- I used to stay after school and help her

01:06:40.670 --> 01:06:44.929
grade papers and clean
her classroom, you know.

01:06:44.930 --> 01:06:46.230
Look at those flowers.

01:06:46.231 --> 01:06:48.648
(soft music)

01:06:57.340 --> 01:06:58.843
- She got sick.

01:07:00.850 --> 01:07:04.069
That\'s when they found out
that she had breast cancer.

01:07:04.070 --> 01:07:06.023
By then, it was stage four.

01:07:07.720 --> 01:07:08.970
And she lived five years.

01:07:13.860 --> 01:07:16.053
The first year and the last year were bad.

01:07:18.210 --> 01:07:20.679
But the in-between, I guess God said,

01:07:20.680 --> 01:07:22.973
I\'m gonna give you time to play.

01:07:29.040 --> 01:07:30.523
This is my lovely wife.

01:07:32.942 --> 01:07:34.943
You know, she believed in dragonflies.

01:07:36.010 --> 01:07:37.683
The day that we put her here,

01:07:38.630 --> 01:07:40.580
the place was just full of dragonflies.

01:07:41.676 --> 01:07:42.676
I said, oh my God.

01:07:43.580 --> 01:07:44.580
Oh my God.

01:07:48.550 --> 01:07:52.109
She taught me how to live,
and how to understand

01:07:52.110 --> 01:07:56.249
what life can be if you are doing

01:07:56.250 --> 01:07:58.869
what you need to do,
if you\'re on your path.

01:07:58.870 --> 01:08:01.020
Because all of us come
here with a purpose.

01:08:17.831 --> 01:08:20.498
(marimba music)

01:08:31.621 --> 01:08:32.540
- These two.

01:08:32.541 --> 01:08:34.349
The world needs people to take charge

01:08:34.350 --> 01:08:37.643
and get involved for the
betterment of tomorrow\'s youth.

01:08:40.220 --> 01:08:41.979
I plan on making major changes,

01:08:41.980 --> 01:08:44.603
and this scholarship
will benefit me greatly.

01:08:46.060 --> 01:08:47.809
I am on a quest for greatness,

01:08:47.810 --> 01:08:49.513
and I will make you all proud.

01:08:51.710 --> 01:08:54.323
May 25th, 2000.

01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:03.123
And I can remember, jeez,

01:09:08.508 --> 01:09:09.713
writing this out.

01:09:11.120 --> 01:09:16.120
Ms. Zambia, no change
that, do this, no do that.

01:09:16.283 --> 01:09:17.383
That ain\'t right.

01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:19.560
You can do better.

01:09:21.020 --> 01:09:23.510
I mean, I\'ve wanted to do
this, it\'s 20 years later,

01:09:23.511 --> 01:09:28.059
and I\'m doing it, because I
shouldn\'t have made it, man.

01:09:28.060 --> 01:09:29.529
My friends are dead.

01:09:29.530 --> 01:09:31.459
The dudes I grew up with are locked up.

01:09:31.460 --> 01:09:36.460
They are, you know, products
of the system, victims.

01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:40.263
And I should\'ve been.

01:09:41.790 --> 01:09:45.899
And that\'s why I know that there is a God.

01:09:45.900 --> 01:09:49.549
That\'s why I know that there\'s
something greater in life,

01:09:49.550 --> 01:09:52.779
because people from my
neighborhood get counted out.

01:09:52.780 --> 01:09:55.773
We don\'t have advocates.

01:09:57.660 --> 01:09:59.760
Teacher told me I wasn\'t gonna be nothing.

01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:03.660
\"You don\'t know how to act,
you can\'t handle your business.

01:10:04.651 --> 01:10:06.843
You ain\'t gonna be nothing.\"

01:10:08.510 --> 01:10:11.226
And I go and tell Ms. Zambia that,

01:10:11.227 --> 01:10:12.619
(nose sniffling)

01:10:12.620 --> 01:10:16.086
and she said, \"She don\'t know
what she\'s talking about.

01:10:16.087 --> 01:10:18.287
\"I\'m gonna make sure
you get up out of here.

01:10:19.307 --> 01:10:21.870
\"You stick with me, I got you.\"

01:10:27.163 --> 01:10:29.580
(soft music)

01:11:01.793 --> 01:11:04.710
(students talking)

01:11:06.743 --> 01:11:07.576
- Are you still joking?

01:11:07.577 --> 01:11:09.385
- Yeah, I\'m on Brandon now.

01:11:09.386 --> 01:11:11.227
- You the only dude I know
that still wear Daisy Dukes.

01:11:11.228 --> 01:11:13.299
(laughing)

01:11:13.300 --> 01:11:15.165
Your socks is longer than your shorts.

01:11:15.166 --> 01:11:17.102
(laughing)

01:11:17.103 --> 01:11:20.313
Your shoes is longer than
your socks and your shorts.

01:11:20.314 --> 01:11:23.314
(students shouting)

01:11:25.845 --> 01:11:28.512
(drums beating)

01:11:29.790 --> 01:11:32.769
- We travel a lot, going
to different performances

01:11:32.770 --> 01:11:34.789
and doing this, going for fun,

01:11:34.790 --> 01:11:38.249
like we go to Atlanta for
Battle of the Bands every year.

01:11:38.250 --> 01:11:40.279
You just go, meet up with a lot

01:11:40.280 --> 01:11:42.863
of different percussionists
from all over the world.

01:11:44.033 --> 01:11:46.866
- I\'ve been to Cleveland, Atlanta.

01:11:49.989 --> 01:11:53.892
A lot of places, I
can\'t think of them all.

01:11:53.893 --> 01:11:56.109
- I feel like everybody
needs to see other things,

01:11:56.110 --> 01:11:58.386
because what can you
just see in Louisville?

01:11:58.387 --> 01:12:00.242
In Evansville, that\'s
actually the first time

01:12:00.243 --> 01:12:03.239
I\'ve actually seen stars all over the sky.

01:12:03.240 --> 01:12:06.169
It\'s nice, and everybody needs
to experience that, you know?

01:12:06.170 --> 01:12:08.356
You ain\'t gotta stick in one city.

01:12:08.357 --> 01:12:10.857
- [Albert] Now, where\'s he at?

01:12:12.227 --> 01:12:14.644
(soft music)

01:12:17.873 --> 01:12:20.706
(people cheering)

01:12:23.754 --> 01:12:26.671
(percussive music)

01:12:27.988 --> 01:12:29.695
- [Albert] All right, ladies
and gentlemen, we\'re gonna

01:12:29.696 --> 01:12:32.243
go ahead and get this
exhibition showcase started.

01:12:38.513 --> 01:12:41.513
(students chanting)

01:12:42.473 --> 01:12:45.709
It is my pleasure to bring
you the spirit of the drum.

01:12:45.710 --> 01:12:47.769
S.O.D. Squad from Louisville, Kentucky,

01:12:47.770 --> 01:12:49.663
the River City Drum Corp.

01:12:57.768 --> 01:13:00.685
(percussive music)

01:13:18.440 --> 01:13:20.139
- [Mr. White] You see this here,

01:13:20.140 --> 01:13:22.469
but the most important thing we do

01:13:22.470 --> 01:13:25.139
is making sure our children are connected

01:13:25.140 --> 01:13:29.619
to educational opportunities,
because education

01:13:29.620 --> 01:13:32.120
is gonna set you free and
take you out of bondage.

01:13:35.628 --> 01:13:38.795
(soft, soulful music)

01:14:24.220 --> 01:14:27.085
This is the only time you
gonna see me doing this.

01:14:27.086 --> 01:14:27.919
Oh, my God.

01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:30.169
(laughing)

01:14:32.379 --> 01:14:34.959
- They say I\'m Mr. Sanford, Fred Sanford

01:14:34.960 --> 01:14:36.562
and his son, what was his name?

01:14:36.563 --> 01:14:38.274
- LaMont.
- LaMont.

01:14:38.275 --> 01:14:39.108
Yeah, I\'m gonna leave you.

01:14:39.109 --> 01:14:40.687
(laughing)

01:14:40.688 --> 01:14:42.135
You don\'t treat me right.

01:14:42.136 --> 01:14:43.823
I\'m gonna go get my own place.

01:14:45.220 --> 01:14:47.883
- Oh my God, he\'s paying his dues.

01:14:48.930 --> 01:14:50.729
And I\'m out of his way,
because if I don\'t,

01:14:50.730 --> 01:14:51.670
we\'re gonna have an argument.

01:14:51.671 --> 01:14:52.929
So, I\'m just gonna come over

01:14:52.930 --> 01:14:56.069
and I\'m gonna set down,
for real, for real.

01:14:56.070 --> 01:14:58.653
Because he said, we think different.

01:15:00.300 --> 01:15:02.423
Mine\'s old-school, he\'s new-school.

01:15:04.957 --> 01:15:05.790
- But I respect the old-school.

01:15:05.790 --> 01:15:06.623
- Yes, you do.

01:15:06.623 --> 01:15:07.623
Yes, you do.

01:15:25.585 --> 01:15:27.430
- Thank you.

01:15:27.431 --> 01:15:28.581
- How y\'all doing?

01:15:28.582 --> 01:15:29.665
- Good, good.

01:15:34.056 --> 01:15:35.056
- Hey.

01:15:35.914 --> 01:15:37.288
Are you on point?

01:15:37.289 --> 01:15:38.255
- Yes sir.

01:15:38.256 --> 01:15:39.409
Because you know if you\'re not,

01:15:39.410 --> 01:15:41.319
I\'m not gonna be happy, don\'t you?

01:15:41.320 --> 01:15:42.153
All right?

01:15:42.154 --> 01:15:43.929
Thank you very much.

01:15:43.930 --> 01:15:45.459
Thank you.

01:15:45.460 --> 01:15:46.869
Is that you?

01:15:46.870 --> 01:15:48.745
Is that you?
- What\'s up, Mr. White?

01:15:48.746 --> 01:15:49.579
- Is that you?

01:15:49.579 --> 01:15:50.519
- He dazzling.

01:15:50.520 --> 01:15:52.769
(laughing)

01:15:54.970 --> 01:15:55.970
Oh, my God.

01:15:56.690 --> 01:15:57.690
Hello.

01:15:59.791 --> 01:16:01.298
I had his son.

01:16:01.299 --> 01:16:03.452
- Yeah, you had my son,
if he was still here.

01:16:03.453 --> 01:16:07.760
He probably be somewhere
makin\' me some money.

01:16:07.761 --> 01:16:10.178
(soft music)

01:16:12.141 --> 01:16:13.078
- [Albert] Good evening, everyone.

01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:14.609
- [Audience] Good evening.

01:16:14.610 --> 01:16:17.399
Welcome to the Living the Legacy Gala.

01:16:17.400 --> 01:16:19.149
I\'m Albert Shumake.

01:16:19.150 --> 01:16:22.419
I am soon to be the director
of the River City Drum Corp.,

01:16:22.420 --> 01:16:26.889
and I am here to deliver a
statement of purpose for tonight.

01:16:26.890 --> 01:16:30.709
Tonight, we are here to honor

01:16:30.710 --> 01:16:33.434
the legacy of Ms. Zambia Nkrumah.

01:16:33.435 --> 01:16:36.602
(audience applauding)

01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:42.079
We are taught that we, as black people,

01:16:42.080 --> 01:16:43.939
as people of African descent,

01:16:43.940 --> 01:16:46.849
when we say someone\'s name,
whether they are here with us

01:16:46.850 --> 01:16:51.059
or not, when you speak their
name they inhabit our presence.

01:16:51.060 --> 01:16:54.379
So, if everyone could say
Zambia with me on three.

01:16:54.380 --> 01:16:55.649
One, two, three.

01:16:55.650 --> 01:16:57.209
- [All] Zambia.

01:16:57.210 --> 01:16:59.340
- Yes, that is who we are here for today.

01:16:59.341 --> 01:17:00.707
(audience applauding and cheering)

01:17:00.708 --> 01:17:02.756
- [Announcer] Ladies and Gentlemen,

01:17:02.757 --> 01:17:04.923
welcome our two honorees

01:17:06.657 --> 01:17:08.398
Mr. Ed \"Nardie\" White

01:17:09.357 --> 01:17:11.639
and Zambia Nkrumah.

01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:12.640
This is your night.

01:17:13.915 --> 01:17:15.855
This is your celebration.

01:17:15.856 --> 01:17:17.114
We honor you.

01:17:19.940 --> 01:17:23.323
- What I would like to
say is that the seed,

01:17:24.360 --> 01:17:29.360
the seed of service, of
giving, begins very young.

01:17:30.740 --> 01:17:35.740
We must give to our young people something

01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:40.459
that we all wake up in the morning with,

01:17:40.460 --> 01:17:44.619
like the millionaire, like
the man on the street.

01:17:44.620 --> 01:17:46.637
We must give them time.

01:17:48.394 --> 01:17:49.394
Be present.

01:17:50.541 --> 01:17:51.541
Be there.

01:17:52.940 --> 01:17:55.151
That is the most important.

01:17:55.152 --> 01:17:58.099
(audience applauding)

01:17:58.100 --> 01:18:00.365
- One of the last conversations
I had with Zambia,

01:18:00.366 --> 01:18:05.239
she said when I close my eyes,
you\'re gonna quit drum corps.

01:18:05.240 --> 01:18:06.240
I said, yeah.

01:18:07.210 --> 01:18:10.099
I said soon as your eyes close, honey,

01:18:10.100 --> 01:18:12.833
I\'m closing all this shit,
I\'m selling everything,

01:18:13.830 --> 01:18:18.024
and I\'m getting in my car,
and I\'m driving out of here.

01:18:18.025 --> 01:18:18.858
I don\'t know where I\'m going,

01:18:18.859 --> 01:18:20.320
but I know I\'m going out of here.

01:18:21.604 --> 01:18:22.437
She said, you ain\'t doing that,

01:18:22.438 --> 01:18:23.740
you might as well forget that.

01:18:26.670 --> 01:18:27.679
I said, why you say that?

01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:28.680
She said, no.

01:18:29.460 --> 01:18:32.263
She said, drum corps is too important.

01:18:33.600 --> 01:18:35.750
And so, that\'s a promise
you gotta make me.

01:18:38.780 --> 01:18:42.063
And I said, okay Zambia,
I\'m gonna do that for you.

01:18:44.760 --> 01:18:46.159
And so, here I am.

01:18:46.160 --> 01:18:51.160
But, Albert said that this
is what he wants to do,

01:18:52.705 --> 01:18:54.649
now I can give him the keys.

01:18:54.650 --> 01:18:56.110
I fulfilled my promise.

01:19:21.160 --> 01:19:24.029
- [Jailen] I dedicate
this speech to my mom,

01:19:24.030 --> 01:19:27.463
and everyone else that\'s played
a pivotal role in my life.

01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:32.209
Did you hear about the
rose that grew from a crack

01:19:32.210 --> 01:19:37.173
in the concrete, proving
nature\'s law is wrong?

01:19:38.560 --> 01:19:40.933
It learned to walk without having feet.

01:19:42.010 --> 01:19:46.819
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,

01:19:46.820 --> 01:19:48.983
it learned to breathe fresh air.

01:19:49.870 --> 01:19:53.809
Long live the rose that
grew from concrete,

01:19:53.810 --> 01:19:56.029
when no one else ever cared.

01:19:56.030 --> 01:19:58.654
That is a quote from Tupac.

01:19:58.655 --> 01:19:59.655
(audience clamoring)

01:20:02.780 --> 01:20:05.899
You see, you will never fully understand

01:20:05.900 --> 01:20:10.639
the symbol of the rose in the
concrete unless your ancestors

01:20:10.640 --> 01:20:15.640
have been beaten, buried, and
just horrified for 350 years.

01:20:20.324 --> 01:20:22.369
(audience clamoring)

01:20:22.370 --> 01:20:26.859
Who would have thought a
young black male from 34th

01:20:26.860 --> 01:20:31.860
and Jefferson would be the
class president of 400+?

01:20:32.045 --> 01:20:36.295
(audience cheering and applauding)

01:20:37.508 --> 01:20:39.591
- Oh my God, that\'s my boy.

01:20:42.170 --> 01:20:43.438
- [Announcer] Imani Keith.

01:20:43.439 --> 01:20:47.689
(audience cheering and applauding)

01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:50.573
- We did it.

01:20:50.574 --> 01:20:52.349
We\'re done, man.
- We\'re out of here.

01:20:52.350 --> 01:20:53.505
What\'s up, mom?

01:20:53.506 --> 01:20:55.714
- Congratulations.

01:20:55.715 --> 01:20:56.548
- Thank you so much.

01:20:56.549 --> 01:20:58.342
- You did great today.
- Thank you, man.

01:20:58.343 --> 01:20:59.320
(laughing)

01:20:59.321 --> 01:21:00.975
- I haven\'t seen very many high school

01:21:00.976 --> 01:21:04.328
commencement speeches that
start with a Tupac poem.

01:21:04.329 --> 01:21:05.535
(laughing)

01:21:05.536 --> 01:21:10.253
And then go into the middle passage.

01:21:11.403 --> 01:21:14.130
And you shout your hood
out, all in your speech.

01:21:18.399 --> 01:21:21.316
(electronic music)

01:21:39.912 --> 01:21:42.829
(percussive music)

01:22:34.031 --> 01:22:37.031
(children shouting)

01:22:38.217 --> 01:22:40.339
- All I can say is, what we do works,

01:22:40.340 --> 01:22:43.069
because we\'re in it for the long haul.

01:22:43.070 --> 01:22:44.885
Miss Countess Williams.

01:22:44.886 --> 01:22:48.529
(cheering and applauding)

01:22:48.530 --> 01:22:49.814
Better known as who?

01:22:49.815 --> 01:22:51.147
- [All] Who cares!

01:22:51.148 --> 01:22:53.049
(jazzy music)

01:22:53.050 --> 01:22:57.080
- Mr. Jailen Maurice Leavell.

01:22:57.081 --> 01:22:58.278
(cheering and applauding)

01:22:58.279 --> 01:23:00.929
J-Mo.

01:23:00.930 --> 01:23:01.930
Mr. President.

01:23:03.440 --> 01:23:05.140
- Step forward please, Miss Imani.

01:23:07.090 --> 01:23:09.340
(laughing)

01:23:10.399 --> 01:23:11.642
- Thank you, Mr. White.

01:23:11.643 --> 01:23:12.643
- Thank you.

01:23:14.679 --> 01:23:15.679
Oh, my God.

01:23:16.452 --> 01:23:17.707
- Thank you so much.

01:23:17.708 --> 01:23:19.958
(laughing)

01:23:22.749 --> 01:23:23.582
- Jada Smith.

01:23:23.583 --> 01:23:25.192
(audience applauding)

01:23:25.193 --> 01:23:26.739
Cherya Smith.

01:23:26.740 --> 01:23:27.740
Yes.

01:23:28.410 --> 01:23:29.824
Nisha Todd.

01:23:29.825 --> 01:23:32.789
(audience cheering and applauding)

01:23:32.790 --> 01:23:33.790
Mr. Mac.

01:23:34.723 --> 01:23:38.819
(audience cheering and applauding)

01:23:38.820 --> 01:23:41.959
- Congratulations on an excellent season.

01:23:41.960 --> 01:23:44.899
To have two class
presidents, another officer,

01:23:44.900 --> 01:23:48.789
people going off to college,
getting ready to start life.

01:23:48.790 --> 01:23:50.669
I guess I\'m first generation drum corps.

01:23:50.670 --> 01:23:53.839
My mama is the first
parent to send her child

01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:56.923
off to college from what
the drum corps does.

01:23:56.924 --> 01:23:59.424
(jazzy music)

01:24:01.646 --> 01:24:03.896
(laughing)

01:24:07.467 --> 01:24:10.300
(water splashing)

01:24:13.298 --> 01:24:16.089
(children shouting)

01:24:16.090 --> 01:24:17.650
- [Mr. White] They\'re not kids anymore.

01:24:19.430 --> 01:24:22.909
I\'ve heard each one of them
say, now I\'m ready for life,

01:24:22.910 --> 01:24:24.910
but you and I both know that\'s not true.

01:24:25.890 --> 01:24:27.440
You just got in the game, baby.

01:24:29.150 --> 01:24:31.003
At my age, I\'m not ready for life.

01:24:31.920 --> 01:24:35.160
Because every day it\'s
something different.

01:24:44.382 --> 01:24:45.762
- There you go.

01:24:45.763 --> 01:24:47.693
You see the ironing board?

01:24:47.694 --> 01:24:49.277
- Yeah, I got that.

01:25:05.174 --> 01:25:06.665
- Thank you.

01:25:06.666 --> 01:25:08.574
All right, I\'ll see y\'all.

01:25:17.155 --> 01:25:19.655
(jazzy music)

01:25:29.872 --> 01:25:32.539
(drums playing)

01:25:40.949 --> 01:25:43.199
(laughing)

01:25:47.612 --> 01:25:50.445
(leaves rustling)

01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:00.369
- So, did you have any dreams last night?

01:26:00.370 --> 01:26:01.389
(humming)

01:26:01.390 --> 01:26:03.233
What\'d you dream about?

01:26:03.234 --> 01:26:05.401
- Um... mmm

01:26:07.746 --> 01:26:08.774
- Laila.

01:26:08.775 --> 01:26:10.211
- Laila?

01:26:10.212 --> 01:26:12.339
- Lai..aya

01:26:12.340 --> 01:26:15.973
See, one day I will understand
your language completely.

01:26:17.648 --> 01:26:19.072
- Look Daddy.

01:26:19.073 --> 01:26:20.280
What about it?

01:26:20.281 --> 01:26:21.349
- The leaf.

01:26:21.350 --> 01:26:22.183
- The leaves?

01:26:22.184 --> 01:26:25.973
Yeah, they are falling
off the trees every day.

01:26:27.915 --> 01:26:30.748
(leaves rustling)

01:26:31.770 --> 01:26:34.999
This time last year, my
mother started having

01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:37.543
these recurring issues with pneumonia.

01:26:39.750 --> 01:26:42.869
As time went on, she got
weaker and weaker and weaker,

01:26:42.870 --> 01:26:46.023
but she was just smiling through the pain.

01:26:47.750 --> 01:26:52.750
We were trying to reassure her
that she could be satisfied

01:26:52.940 --> 01:26:55.569
with her life and what she had done,

01:26:55.570 --> 01:26:58.113
and close the book if she wanted.

01:27:00.480 --> 01:27:04.329
Now, as I\'m a parent, I can
look past all her flaws and all

01:27:04.330 --> 01:27:08.887
of the things I felt like I
didn\'t get, or that I wanted.

01:27:10.230 --> 01:27:12.899
I know that there is no perfect situation,

01:27:12.900 --> 01:27:16.759
and you\'ve just got to do
whatever you\'ve got to do

01:27:16.760 --> 01:27:19.507
to make it happen, and
that\'s what my mother did.

01:27:36.168 --> 01:27:37.209
- You made it.

01:27:40.926 --> 01:27:43.417
What\'s up? How you doing?

01:27:46.313 --> 01:27:47.270
(giggling)

01:27:47.271 --> 01:27:48.558
- Everyone say Umoja.

01:27:48.559 --> 01:27:50.182
- [All] Umoja.

01:27:50.183 --> 01:27:51.509
Umoja means unity.

01:27:51.510 --> 01:27:52.806
Everybody say unity.

01:27:52.807 --> 01:27:53.969
- [All] Unity.

01:27:53.970 --> 01:27:54.803
- Unity.

01:27:54.804 --> 01:27:56.323
We need unity.

01:27:57.160 --> 01:27:58.839
Why do we need unity?

01:27:58.840 --> 01:27:59.833
Yes, Cameron?

01:27:59.833 --> 01:28:00.666
- Teamwork makes the dream work.

01:28:00.667 --> 01:28:03.016
Teamwork makes the dream work.

01:28:03.017 --> 01:28:04.259
That\'s a good one.

01:28:04.260 --> 01:28:06.099
Anybody else got any good catch phrases

01:28:06.100 --> 01:28:08.677
about working together
and why it\'s important?

01:28:11.070 --> 01:28:13.507
Yes, we need to work together.

01:28:14.990 --> 01:28:17.249
- I\'ve threw so much stuff away,

01:28:17.250 --> 01:28:20.423
and I guess the hard part of
it is, it\'s a part of you.

01:28:21.460 --> 01:28:23.239
And only I can throw my stuff away.

01:28:23.240 --> 01:28:25.779
I\'m not going to let
nobody throw my stuff away.

01:28:25.780 --> 01:28:29.113
It\'s been tough, but I\'m okay with it now.

01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:31.563
I\'m really okay with it.

01:28:33.360 --> 01:28:35.693
You know, it\'s just time.

01:28:37.270 --> 01:28:38.797
30 years.

01:28:38.798 --> 01:28:41.548
(ethereal music)

01:28:43.240 --> 01:28:44.369
- Are we ready to go y\'all?

01:28:44.370 --> 01:28:46.269
Alright, ladies and gentlemen,

01:28:46.270 --> 01:28:50.149
we have the pipe drummers
of the River City Drum Corp.

01:28:50.150 --> 01:28:52.950
Y\'all make some noise for
them as we raise this curtain.

01:28:54.416 --> 01:28:56.754
(percussive music)

01:28:56.755 --> 01:29:01.005
(audience cheering and applauding)

01:29:20.492 --> 01:29:22.232
Make some noise for the kids.

01:29:22.233 --> 01:29:23.561
Make some noise, make some noise.

01:29:23.562 --> 01:29:26.562
(audience cheering)

01:29:33.128 --> 01:29:35.296
From the depths of the West End.

01:29:35.297 --> 01:29:38.343
The RCDC S.O.D. squad.

01:29:40.041 --> 01:29:43.041
(students cheering)

01:29:55.500 --> 01:29:59.463
From Louisville, Kentucky,
it\'s Simmons College,

01:29:59.464 --> 01:30:02.047
y\'all make some noise for them.

01:30:10.380 --> 01:30:13.380
(students chanting)

01:30:23.667 --> 01:30:26.667
(students chanting)

01:30:32.882 --> 01:30:34.777
Your kids did great.

01:30:34.778 --> 01:30:36.793
That\'s your squad right there.

01:30:36.794 --> 01:30:38.085
- Thank you.

01:30:38.086 --> 01:30:39.302
They did.

01:30:39.303 --> 01:30:40.136
They did.

01:30:40.137 --> 01:30:41.619
I was like, okay.

01:30:41.620 --> 01:30:43.494
- [Albert] I have to be a good steward

01:30:43.495 --> 01:30:45.545
of what I have been given.

01:30:49.490 --> 01:30:52.649
The things I feel are my
strengths are my superpowers,

01:30:52.650 --> 01:30:56.709
I won\'t let circumstances stop that.

01:30:56.710 --> 01:30:58.849
That\'s the battle of everyday life.

01:30:58.850 --> 01:31:00.969
People who give up or who don\'t know how

01:31:00.970 --> 01:31:05.109
to fight the battle end up unhappy,

01:31:05.110 --> 01:31:06.393
and I don\'t plan on doing that.

01:31:06.394 --> 01:31:08.015
I\'m just gonna keep fighting.

01:31:09.271 --> 01:31:10.212
- Detail.

01:31:10.213 --> 01:31:11.320
Atten-hut.

01:31:11.321 --> 01:31:12.839
- [All] Hut.

01:31:12.840 --> 01:31:15.119
I pledge to myself to my creator.

01:31:15.120 --> 01:31:16.542
- [Student] That I might come to be

01:31:16.543 --> 01:31:18.213
- [All] That I might come to be.

01:31:18.214 --> 01:31:19.554
- [Student] In harmony
with the great purpose.

01:31:19.555 --> 01:31:21.079
- [All] In harmony with the great purpose.

01:31:21.080 --> 01:31:22.390
- [Student] Intended for me.

01:31:22.391 --> 01:31:23.509
- [All] Intended for me.

01:31:23.510 --> 01:31:24.675
- [Student] I pledge to my planet.

01:31:24.676 --> 01:31:26.194
- [All] I pledge to my planet.

01:31:26.195 --> 01:31:27.135
- [Student] A readiness to serve.

01:31:27.136 --> 01:31:28.579
- [All] A readiness to serve.

01:31:28.580 --> 01:31:29.674
- [Student] Redemption and conservation.

01:31:29.675 --> 01:31:31.115
- [All] Redemption and conservation.

01:31:31.588 --> 01:31:32.546
- [Student] To rebalance the earth.

01:31:32.546 --> 01:31:33.480
- [All] To rebalance the earth.

01:31:33.480 --> 01:31:34.450
- [Student] I pledge to myself.

01:31:34.451 --> 01:31:35.692
- [All] I pledge to myself.

01:31:35.693 --> 01:31:37.269
- [Student] Love and self-respect.

01:31:37.270 --> 01:31:38.509
- [All] Love and self-respect.

01:31:38.510 --> 01:31:39.687
- [Student] Eagerness to learn.

01:31:39.688 --> 01:31:40.521
- [All] Eagerness to learn.

01:31:40.521 --> 01:31:41.354
- And willingness to accept.

01:31:41.355 --> 01:31:43.209
- And willingness to accept.

01:31:43.210 --> 01:31:44.615
- The truth about myself and others.

01:31:44.616 --> 01:31:46.207
- The truth about myself and others.

01:31:46.208 --> 01:31:47.631
- And the world itself.

01:31:47.632 --> 01:31:50.465
- And the world itself.

01:31:55.448 --> 01:31:58.448
(soft, jazzy music)

01:32:12.544 --> 01:32:15.211
(soulful music)

01:32:18.685 --> 01:32:20.209
- [Man] No cuss words, please.

01:32:20.210 --> 01:32:21.393
(laughing)

01:32:21.394 --> 01:32:23.532
- [Woman] \'Course.

01:32:23.533 --> 01:32:24.502
♪ He was late as heaven, ♪

01:32:24.503 --> 01:32:27.075
♪ CP time at 12:00, it\'s
sometime after 7:00 ♪

01:32:27.076 --> 01:32:29.115
♪ We must do better for these kids, ♪

01:32:29.116 --> 01:32:29.992
♪ They\'re the future ♪

01:32:29.993 --> 01:32:32.272
♪ Presently, look at what
he did for the future, ♪

01:32:32.273 --> 01:32:34.723
♪ Booking shows in venues
that don\'t even exist yet ♪

01:32:34.724 --> 01:32:36.052
♪ They say he has a big head, ♪

01:32:36.053 --> 01:32:37.395
♪ Nah, he\'s just a big threat ♪

01:32:37.396 --> 01:32:39.433
♪ Blood, sweat, and tears from the work, ♪

01:32:39.434 --> 01:32:40.469
♪ He just drips sweat ♪

01:32:40.470 --> 01:32:43.957
♪ Back up off the fam rhyme,
he grew up on dipset ♪

01:32:43.958 --> 01:32:45.797
♪ Grass, schools, summer ♪

01:32:45.798 --> 01:32:48.075
♪ Matt B is killin\' bills like Uma ♪

01:32:48.076 --> 01:32:50.462
♪ Understatement to say
that the state is a mess ♪

01:32:50.463 --> 01:32:53.023
♪ Every single day I
pray, I pray for JCPS ♪

01:32:53.024 --> 01:32:54.704
♪ It breaks my heart to
see how many students ♪

01:32:54.705 --> 01:32:56.920
♪ That they arrest, or
how many young black men ♪

01:32:56.921 --> 01:32:58.378
♪ Get laid to rest ♪

01:32:58.379 --> 01:33:01.320
♪ So, knock down every
Confederate statue ♪

01:33:01.321 --> 01:33:03.903
♪ New Testament, Book of Matthew ♪

01:33:03.904 --> 01:33:06.411
♪ Now, it\'s less shows
but even more money ♪

01:33:06.412 --> 01:33:08.886
♪ So if they real,
notice people act funny ♪

01:33:08.887 --> 01:33:11.519
♪ I don\'t speak their jargon,
language of Parkland, ♪

01:33:11.520 --> 01:33:14.135
♪ Now I\'m at events and
chilling with Dr. Hargis ♪

01:33:14.136 --> 01:33:15.654
♪ But I don\'t have a best friend, ♪

01:33:15.655 --> 01:33:17.014
♪ I just have the West End, ♪

01:33:17.015 --> 01:33:19.589
♪ And my little brothers and
sisters, my God bless them ♪

01:33:19.590 --> 01:33:21.182
♪ When it comes to adversity, ♪

01:33:21.183 --> 01:33:22.132
♪ I\'ve climbed a lot of mountains ♪

01:33:22.133 --> 01:33:24.793
♪ Catch me drinking from the
whites-only water fountain ♪

01:33:24.794 --> 01:33:27.520
♪ Don\'t even speak unless
you say something brilliant ♪

01:33:27.521 --> 01:33:30.251
♪ All I can ever do is
keep it one zillion ♪

01:33:30.252 --> 01:33:32.594
♪ I\'ve dedicated my
life to these children ♪

01:33:32.595 --> 01:33:33.907
♪ We have to build them ♪

01:33:33.908 --> 01:33:38.908
♪ I\'ve been running for a long time, ♪

01:33:39.837 --> 01:33:44.837
♪ Finally I\'ve found how to fly ♪

01:33:45.813 --> 01:33:50.525
♪ All by myself, ♪

01:33:50.526 --> 01:33:55.526
♪ Way up on Cloud 12 ♪

01:33:56.109 --> 01:34:00.771
♪ I\'ve been running for a long time, ♪

01:34:00.772 --> 01:34:05.772
♪ Finally I\'ve found how to fly ♪

01:34:06.613 --> 01:34:11.409
♪ All by myself, ♪

01:34:11.410 --> 01:34:16.410
♪ Way up on Cloud 12 ♪

01:34:17.582 --> 01:34:19.803
♪ This is the face of accomplishment ♪

01:34:19.804 --> 01:34:22.576
♪ May my brothers be cool,
calm, and confident ♪

01:34:22.577 --> 01:34:25.025
♪ This is the face of accomplishment ♪

01:34:25.026 --> 01:34:27.997
♪ May my sisters be cool,
calm, and confident ♪

01:34:27.998 --> 01:34:29.993
♪ This is the face of accomplishment ♪

01:34:29.994 --> 01:34:32.663
♪ May my world be cool,
calm, and confident ♪

01:34:32.664 --> 01:34:34.783
♪ May we stay away from those
that live with malice, ♪

01:34:34.784 --> 01:34:38.623
♪ Live the healthy life with
positivity and balance ♪

01:34:38.624 --> 01:34:40.665
♪ I kiss my long day goodnight, ♪

01:34:40.666 --> 01:34:43.128
♪ Fall asleep and wake up
to the beaming ultralight ♪

01:34:43.129 --> 01:34:45.563
♪ Pick up my bro, go to
work and teach children ♪

01:34:45.564 --> 01:34:49.059
♪ Hey Mr. Arthur, we saw
your face on a building, ♪

01:34:49.060 --> 01:34:51.429
♪ So they can never, ever bring me down ♪

01:34:51.430 --> 01:34:52.630
♪ I\'m way up high, I\'m in the sky, ♪

01:34:52.631 --> 01:34:53.494
♪ I\'m on the safety Cloud ♪

01:34:53.495 --> 01:34:55.879
♪ Cloud Nine, Cloud 10, Cloud 11, ♪

01:34:55.880 --> 01:34:59.937
♪ I\'m on Cloud 12, living
right next to heaven ♪

01:34:59.938 --> 01:35:01.341
♪ Living right next to heaven, ♪

01:35:01.342 --> 01:35:04.733
♪ I\'m on Cloud 12 living
right next to heaven ♪

01:35:04.734 --> 01:35:07.297
♪ Living right next to
heaven, I\'m on Cloud 12 ♪

01:35:07.298 --> 01:35:10.153
♪ Living right next to heaven ♪

01:35:10.154 --> 01:35:11.743
♪ Living right next to heaven, ♪

01:35:11.744 --> 01:35:14.247
♪ I\'m on Cloud 12 living
right next to heaven ♪

01:35:14.248 --> 01:35:17.461
♪ I\'m way up on Cloud 12 ♪

01:35:17.462 --> 01:35:19.400
♪ Sing along, sing it ♪

01:35:19.401 --> 01:35:22.201
♪ I\'m way up on Cloud 12 ♪

01:35:22.202 --> 01:35:24.483
♪ Sing along, clap along, feeling good ♪

01:35:24.484 --> 01:35:27.514
♪ I\'m way up on Cloud 12, ♪

01:35:27.515 --> 01:35:29.766
♪ When they ask where
you at, just tell them, ♪

01:35:29.767 --> 01:35:33.184
♪ I\'m way up on Cloud 12 ♪