- Rick James - And for that girl backstage
may make it publicly clear
- Nevermind who you thought I was?
I'm Rick James, bitch.
(horn sounding)
(audience clapping)
Will Smith - Thank you. Thank you .
- We had black horses for rehearsal
but they was tripping.
(drum beat playing)
Meek Mill - (singing) We scream Black Lives Matter
but we still totin' ladders.
Watching our own brothers trying to get at us
Dreams get shattered when a scene full of
And they charge you with some you ain't do
You like, "what happened?"
We go get lawyers to say, we don't know how to talk
They told us to hate each other before we learn how to walk
Mama taught you how to fight, fight,
before she taught you how to write, right
And daddy locked down in the cell,
can't kiss you night, night'
- My first 10 movies were all about her subconsciously
wanting her to know that she was worthy,
wanting Black women to know you're worthy.
You're special.
You're powerful.
You're amazing.
- All of that was about helping her cross.
When I started hiring people like Taraji and Viola Davis
and Idris Elba, they couldn't get jobs in this town
but God blessed me to be
in a position to be able to hire them.
I was trying to help somebody cross.
- Nipsey Hussle King this, King this.
The marathon continues.
John Legend.
(singing)
- Nipsey Hussle
- (singing) You keep taking me higher, higher (Yeah)
But don't you know that the devil is a liar? (I know)
They'd rather see me down, put my soul in the fire
But we keep goin' higher, higher
- (singing) When
I
had you
I treated you bad
and wrong I did
- Hey, wait.
That's mine, that's mine Let me handle this.
Better chill. You better lay low.
What?
(Hip Hop beat playing)
- Charlie Wilson has really been an uncle
to a new generation of artists.
(Hip Hop beat playing)
- (singing) Even if I told you
still wouldn't understand what happened.
Rather be myself.
if people look at me don't matter
A rockstar, just tryna keep it kosher
Try to keep my eyes on my own paper like my teachers told me
Soon as think it's over (Poof)
Number one on the charts, I'm there vicariously
Oh, there they go
Biasedly pushin' negative narratives, I'm ready, though
Cops wanna pull me over, embarrass me
Abusin' power, you never knew me, thought I was arrogant
As a juvenile,
police pulled their guns like they scared of me
And we're used to how
treat us, now that's the scary thing
Want anything we good at and we cherish it
Now we all fed up and comin' back for everything
Rockstars
- What we've been doing is looking at the data
and we know that police somehow manage to
deescalate, disarm and not kill white people every day.
So what's going to happen is we're going to
have equal rights and justice in our own country
or we will restructure their function and ours.
We've been floating this country
on credit for centuries, yo, and we're done watching
and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses
and abuses us. Burying black people out of sight
and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars
our entertainment, like oil, black gold.
Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations, then stealing them
gentrifying our genius, and then trying us on like costumes
before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.
The thing is though
the thing is that
just because we're magic
doesn't mean we're not real.
Jesse Williams - Thank you.