How do you explain to a child
it's a cold planet?
Born into a world full of broken glass,
no shoes, told to run.
By the age of 7 he's stressin'
he's not the only one.
5 years later he's gonna
have to learn to tote a gun.
If he doesn't 
he could get caught lackin'
by someone stuck in the cycle.
How did this all happen?
Nowadays they be sayin'
we don't wanna change.
Nowadays I be stayin'
in my lonely lane.
In too deep, now these streets 
got us chasin' cheddar.
My little brother think he gotta rob
just to make it better.
Oh yeah, I been there,
done that, got the T-shirt.
It's all gun and change
'til somebody gets hurt.
And that's not a rare case.
Retaliation over cash
now that's fair play.
And my girl tryin' to figure out
if she should go away,
off to college, cos right now
it seems to be the only way.
And she's scared to leave me
in this broken place.
And she's scared to see me
gettin' rolled away.
I say speaking of roll,
you got a full ride, Baby.
That's an opportunity
you shouldn't throw away.
And I don't even know
if I'm lyin' to her.
But she gotta try.
I say Baby you're a blue bird.
You gotta fly.
And even thought the truth hurts,
you ain't gotta lie.
I say these streets
ain't where it's at.
My brother hit me, he say
"Meet me at the court."
I meet up with him
and he show me $20,000.
I'm like: "Yo. No.
Where did you get that?"
"Forget that. We need to be
focused on puttin' it back."
But sometimes
it's too late to apologize.
Sometimes it's way
too real to fix.
And they won't even think
about your family first.
My people need change,
they just can't reverse....
Nowadays they be sayin'
we don't wanna change.
Nowadays they be sayin'
we don't wanna change.
Where are you goin'?
This is not going to stop, Son.
I need you to think.
You have siblings here.
There are babies here.
What do you think is gonna happen
if you go out there and retaliate?
You know that they're gonna come here.
And what are we supposed to do?
I need you to be thinking.
Won't you say somethin' to me?
You have nothin' to say?
They gonna pay for it.
Pay for it how?
How?!
You ain't gotta worry about that.
What's the price?
You don't have to worry about that.
I do. Me.
They killed my brother in front of me.
They gonna pay.
How?
You ain't gotta worry about all that.
Give me the gun.
You ain't gotta worry about all that.
Give me the gun.
You want the gun?
Yes, I want the gun.
That's the gun.
Y'all hold on one second.
Funny.
Get away from me!
Get away from me!
"Get away from me?" 
You're tearin' up my property.
What's goin' on?
You gotta talk to me.
Alright. Tough guy.
Talk to me, Man.
You think I'm playin' with you?
You gotta be playin'.
There's two ways
to go about this, Man.
I'm gonna kill him!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
I'm gonna kill him.
Now you're talkin' crazy.
Young Bull, get up!
I know it's burnin' on the inside,
but you gotta find an outlet, Man.
You gotta find a better way.
Dang, Young Bull.
Look at your hand.
I got somethin' for you.
You got to calm down, Man.
There are definitely better ways
to redirect this energy.
The first way is definitely not
vandalizing property.
Get up.
Come on!
Go ahead, hit the bag!
Hit the bag!
Unleash that! 
Hit it!
You're a tough guy.
You're a tough guy
and that's all you have?
Hit the bag!
Hit the bag, Guy.
Come on!
That's it?
Young Bull, come on!
Focus! It's in the mind.
Hit the bag, Man.
Don't make love to it.
Hit the bag.
Focus!
Wake up, many diminishing minds, plenty.
Since when are we not winning?
Divinity not any?
We are stronger.
Open up your mind.
Hold on a little longer.
I know that you see death
around the corner.
But check it;
you can overcome the former.
All that pain hidden
on top of your under armor.
You shed tattoo tears.
Walking down this path, you scared.
My Brother, you don't have to fear.
Life changes, we take losses and we hurt,
ain't no way to reverse
and ain't no play to rehearse.
No script. Just the aftermath
of a cold drift.
The reason we load clips,
the reason we so stiff.
I overstand where you comin' from.
I was the man where you comin' from.
I got the stripes on me.
But all it took was the wrong deed
at the right moment.
Crime pays who?
I spent most of my life on it.
Sounds like a price, don't it?
Twenty years gone.
Just like you, Homie,
I was steered wrong.
Cause what do you do when
the fury and the tears gone?
Brother, make sure that you're hearin' me;
are your ears on?
Life is about 10% of what happened to us
and the other 90% is how we reacted to it.
We got the power to choose;
we never have to do it.
Open up your mind,
cos the body's only half the rubric.
Life goes on.
One light flickers off, you can 
best believe another light goes on.
I know how you feelin' inside.
The whole scenario is killin' your pride.
But you gotta dig deeper. I believe in you!
Nobody believed in me. Believe you me.
I was at my E-N-D. I lost my brother
and my mother in the same night.
It ain't right. But I couldn't win
using the same fight.
I actually didn't; 
it only made it worse.
I threw my life away
two days before my date of birth.
But you don't have to walk that path.
Even though you feel the need
to spark that wrath.
It will never bring him back
to Earth for sure.
Think about your family.
It'll hurt them more.
You are the strength and the protection
that they need right now.
You can make your mind
do great things right now.
You can be the light now.
Brother wake up!
The biggest battle that you have
is in your mind.
The biggest battle to be won
is in your mind.
You know,
when I was 15,
my mother and brother
were shot dead right in front of me.
I was chillin' at home.
Three guys came, kicked in the door.
All had guns.
Killed them. Left me there.
I said I wanted out of the game,
for good.
And you know what they said to me,
after killin' my mother and my brother?
They said: "Now you can get out."
But seein' that, it changed me.
Did somethin' to me. Turned my heart cold.
I knew the clowns who did it.
I went to the spot. Couldn't control myself.
I shot the first one I saw.
Shot him. Ran. 
You know how it goes.
I was scared, Man.
I did a whole lot of time.
Football numbers.
Just for my actions. The same actions
that you're thinking about right now.
You know, while I was in prison,
I met a man.
Wise, well above his years.
He took care of me
while I was in there.
A real OG.
His name was Reggie G.
He said something to me that stuck
with me for the rest of my life.
If you change your mentality ... 
you change your reality.
You know the one thing
that people don't do
that would help them win the fight?
What's that?
They don't press the pause button.
They never seem
to want to analyze.
They never stop
just to think for a second.
That's unfortunate, cos in life,
every move counts. Every move.
You, Young Bull, are the king
of your reactions. So rule wisely.
They don't expect us to break the cycle.
They? 
What do you mean, "they"?
Be a man. Break the cycle.
You're a man, right?
Yeah. I'm a man.
Alright. Come on.
Let's get this pad workin'.
I'm a man.
How am I gonna let you live?
You didn't let him live.
Your breath ain't more important
than the breath of his.
How can I not pull this trigger,
Homie, and just forgive?
You took my heart away;
what's left to give?
There ain't no sympathy; you killed that.
Been plannin' on my get back.
My family got the bad news.
Your family 'bout to get that.
Click clack. This that moment
that I been waitin' on.
Ain't never think that
it would take this long.
You should be dead,
lyin' in a pool full of red
images replayin' in my head
of my brother
my little brother, my little baby
brother who looked up to me.
Ain't no wait now. Hope you told
your momma you love her,
like I wanna say
to my little brother.
You don't know the pain
that I'm feelin'.
The reason why my shoulders hang:
I'm not feelin' too well.
I'm so sorry. I apologize.
I didn't mean to take your 
brother's life; I swear to God.
And ever since that moment,
I've been feelin' dead inside.
And I ain't gonna lie to you,
I'm scared to die; I'm terrified.
You think for one second
I'm gonna listen to you?
I just want to see the effect
of this bullet rippin' through you.
I wanna see your momma cryin'
leanin' over your casket.
Tryin' to figure out
why I ain't blast yet.
Now's the time to hear me through.
I'm sorry for what I did to you.
I never meant for that
to blow out of proportion.
but please think about your life;
that's important.
I messed up, and there ain't no
tellin' how it's comin' back.
Somebody probably chop me down
like a lumberjack.
But if it's you, 
then we both lose.
cos I'll be gone but your freedom's
gonna be old news.
Don't you try to change my mind.
I'm killin' you.
And ain't nobody even gonna know
that it was me who did it,
the same way you walkin' round
like it's all good.
This on my life, Homie,
I don't want to see you livin'.
One shot
and everything is even now.
One shot. I walk away
and leave you bleedin' now.
One shot. I can feel that
as you're talkin' to me
this ain't as easy
as I thought it would be.
I don't wanna let this go.
It's hard for me to let this go.
Press the pause button.
I don't want to let this go.
But I'm gonna let this go.
Boy or girl?
Boy.
