(music). all right, listen up. this ain t kid stuff any more. this is war. everybody attack, all the gangs beating on us, now it s time we take back the hood. we re going to tag it up big and reclaim the store. my cousin coming strapped for back-up so if anything happens. hey, what s up, man? what y all planning. we hit them back and we hit them hard. listen to me, all of you. go home. go home before you get yourselves killed. what are you talking about? can t you see what s going on in your own hood? you think we re going to let that happen? no, i m not. come on, tibo, you re a leader. yeah, but i also want to (inaudible). i want to lead as many of these kids out of here as i can. we ain t playing no more, this is real. three of our kids are dead now. a coward would stay home and let you get shot over something stupid. go home and lead. the rest of us got work to do. you don t have to do this. you don t have to buy this kind of trouble. you can go
go home and lead. the rest of us got work to do. you don t have to do this. you don t have to buy this kind of trouble. you can good a little further and do the right thing. what s that? i don t know, but it ain t this. this is negative. kids die young over this kind of stuff. we re in a war. no you re not. it s a stupid war, then. go home, all of y all. go home now!. hey, come back here right now. come back here right now. that s it, heat, you ain t my folk. i am your folk. you ain t my folk. i am your best friend. i can take that but i m not going to your funeral, man. i ain t going to no more funerals. come back. let s look at what happens to (inaudible) and tibo yo what s up, man? not much, man. what you been up to since last we talked? i just been thinking a lot about what you said. i didn t mean to come off so hard. that s just it, you were right. do the right thing. i m heading to college, art class. go ahead, i m proud of you, m
in our city. i tell them it s art, you got to express yourself but you cannot damage other people s property. i usually say how many of you have a little brother or sister, you don t want to teach them to steal. how do you feel when they mess up your stuff? that s how i approach it. also we try to leave that at the end where tibo, played by anthony over here, that s basically how the character evolves throughout the play, being this leader of this crew and, you know, he kind of teaches everybody but says, yeah, you have a leader but i ain t going to do what you are going to do. robert over here who plays damage, he s the antagonist. he s kind of damaged but at the end, you know, these guys, oh, hey, you know what, you gt a talent, let s turn that into some artistic talent, he s going to go to college to try to improve his artistic skills. that s the kind of direction we want it to go. question over here? what schools will you be visiting this year? we do a tour. we
now!. hey, come back here right now. come back here right now. that s it, heat, you ain t my folk. i am your folk. you ain t my folk. i am your best friend. i can take that but i m not going to your funeral, man. i ain t going to no more funerals. come back. let s look at what happens to (inaudible) and tibo yo what s up, man? not much, man. what you been up to since last we talked? i just been thinking a lot about what you said. i didn t mean to come off so hard. that s just it, you were right. do the right thing. i m heading to college, art class. go ahead, i m proud of you, man. bad boys, bad boys. believe it or not, for a tragedy, it does have a happy ending but it raises some questions to talk about like what is the value of your human life. what can you do as an individual who live a positive life? where does that begin? how will you choose? before we come to talk to you about it, i think you need to hear this. (music). now is question a