Poetic Stickup: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag

(Music)

譯者: Chien-Yu Lo 審譯者: Pui-Ching Siu

（音樂）

I want everyone to put their hands on top of their head.

我想請大家把手放在頭上。

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your hands on top of your head.

沒錯。把手放在你的頭上。

Just relax. Just stay calm. Everything will be nice

放輕鬆。保持冷靜。

只要你配合並放鬆， 一切都會很好很順利，好嗎？

and smooth if you just participate and just relax, okay?

Yeah. All right, now put your hands down.

很好，現在把手放下來。

Don't be no hero. Put your hands down. Okay?

別逞英雄，手放下，好嗎？

好。現在。很好，很好。

All right. Now. Cool. Good.

I want you to run all that financial aid.

我要你們拿出所有的學費補助金。

Yeah, sucka, put the scholarships in the bag, yeah, yeah.

沒錯，你，把獎學金放到包包裡。

Put the scholarships in the bag. Yeah, you too, yeah, yeah, yeah.

把獎學金放進包包裡。對，你也要。

Yeah, you. Yeah, yeah. You over there, go put the Pell Grants in the bag.

對，你，對，那邊那位。 把佩爾獎學金放到包裡。

Put the Pell Grants in there too. Yeah, you. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

把佩爾獎學金也放進包裡。 對，就是你，快，對。

You, go over to that booth and get me some of them subsidized, some of them subsidized loans.

你，去那個房間 把那些補貼貸款拿給我。

It ain't a game no more. I know you're hiding the money somewhere here.

這不再是個遊戲了。 我知道你在這裏某處藏了錢。

With all this tuition you got me and my homies payin' --

只要得到這些 我和我朋友付的學費——

Woo! -- I'm about to get gangster-scholar up in here.

哇！我就要在這裡變成強盜學者了。

Up in here. I'm about to go N.W.A. meets Beastie Boys

就在這。如果我沒見著現金，兄弟，

我就會像 N.W.A. 遇見野獸男孩一樣。

if I don't see the cash, man.

Cause we're not gonna take it. ♪ Oh ...

因為我們不會去搶， ♪

Oh, you thought I was playing.

喔，你以為我只是說說。

Oh, you thought this was a game. Back up, back up. Mind your business, that's all.

喔，你認為這只是一場遊戲。 後退，後退。你管好自己就好。

What do you, think this is a game? What?

什麼？你也認為這只是場遊戲？

Huh? You don't even know me.

什麼？你根本就不認識我。

I'll say something else. Don't call me crazy.

我要講些其他的。別稱我為瘋子。

Do not call me -- Rives, tell 'em don't call me crazy before I go crazy.

別稱我為——Rives，告訴他們 在我失去理智前，最好別叫我瘋子。

I'm telling you, now I'm about to go crazy. I'm about to go Tupac Thug Life in here.

我即將失去理智。 我要學習圖帕克的 Thug Life。

Like, "I ain't a killer but don't push me. Revenge is like the sweetest joy --" Woo!

像是「我不是殺手，別逼我。 復仇就像是最甜蜜的樂趣。」

I'm about to go Biggie Smalls Brooklyn type, like,

我想走布魯克林大個小子的風格，

"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke --"

「超級任天堂，創世紀。 當我完全破產——」

Woo! I'm about to go KRS-One

哇！我也要成為救世王，

cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs-type wild.

像是 Cocoa Puffs 上的布穀鳥一樣狂野。

Like, "Wa da da dang, wa da da da dang,

就像，「哇噹噹噹，哇噹噹噹，

listen to my nine millimeter go bang." You know what?

聽我的 9 毫米槍聲。」你知道嗎？

You are dumb. You are really dumb.

你很笨，你真的很笨。

Hide your kids, hide your wife, 'cause we gettin' financial aid

把你的孩子、妻子都藏起來， 因為我們要拿學費補助金，

all up and in and around here. You think this is a game?

這一切，你都認為是遊戲嗎？

You think I want to be out here doing this?

你覺得我想拋頭露面做這些嗎？

Do you know how hard it was to find these guns?

你知道要找到這些槍有多難嗎？

All right, I'm sorry. You understand?

我很抱歉。你明白嗎？

I'm just trying to get my education. You know what I mean?

我只是嘗試要得到教育。你懂嗎？

I'm just trying to fight for the opportunity that my great-great-great-grandfather died for, you know what I'm saying?

我只是正在努力爭取我先祖 到死都在爭取的機會。你懂嗎？

You know how my ancestors did sit-ins,

你知道我的祖先怎麼靜坐示威，

just so I can sit in a classroom.

我才能坐在教室裏。

And all these years, all y'all been doing

多年以來，你們一直在做的

is strangling the life out of my bank statement,

就是把我的銀行帳單榨乾，

leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.

讓我錢包跟停車場一樣空空如也。

Professor Willie Lynch taught you well, huh?

Wille Lynch 教授把你教得真好，啊？

Keep the body, take the money.

為了維持生計而拿了這些錢。

Force feed my people deception and failure.

強迫我的人民受欺騙及失敗。

Condition our brains to malfunction at the sight

讓我們的大腦無法接受成功。

of success. Just keep the cycle going.

只是一直無限的循環。

Make us pay for an education that will end up failing us.

讓我們付錢買下失敗的教育。

Put us in debt so we're giving back

讓我們先欠債，再用我們 汗水賺來的錢來償還。

the money we earned from our back-breaking work.

This seems all too familiar.

這些都太耳熟能詳了。

Sounds like the rust of shackles locking their way onto my degree.

聽起來像是生銹的手銬 銬住了我的學習之路。

Sounds like the Thirteenth Amendment in reverse.

聽起來像是推翻 第 13 修正案一樣。

Lecture halls shouldn't feel like cotton fields,

大學講堂不應該像棉花田一樣，

shouldn't sound like muffled freedom songs trapped

也不該像模糊不清的自由歌曲， 困於幾代人的夢想當中。

in the jaws of a generation's dreams. Oho! Oh, it all makes sense.

哦！這一切都很合理。

Give us enough to get by but not enough to provide for ourselves.

讓我們勉強過活，但無法自給自足。

Keep us psychologically feeble so we lose our purpose in the process.

讓我們一直無法堅強起來， 所以在過程中失去了目的。

Stop thieving our aspirations out of our sleep.

別在我們睡覺時 搶走我們遠大的志向。

Don't call it financial aid

如果你不用它來幫助任何人，

if you're not helping anyone with it.

就別稱它為學費補助金。

We have fought.

我們一直都在爭取。

We have fought way too hard

這條路雖然艱辛，

to let green paper build a barricade in front of our futures.

我們也不會讓鈔票阻擋我們的未來。

I will not let you potentially rob food out of my children's stomach.

我不會讓你剝奪孩子們的食物。

Best believe I'm going out blasting.

勸你相信我能做到。

I ain't no killer, but don't push me.

我不是殺手，可是也別逼我。

I wish it didn't come to this, but I have to for my cousins

我希望我不需要說這些， 但我不得不。

in Haiti who don't even know what a college looks like,

我在海地的表親甚至 不知道大學是什麼樣子，

for my best friend Raymond sitting in cell block nine

我最好的朋友 Raymond 不是正在上大學，

instead of a university,

而是坐在牢房 9 號裡。

for the nooses hanging my GPA by its neck.

絞索吊著我的學分。

There is no other option.

我別無選擇。

There is no other way.

也別無他路可走。

Just, please, put the money in the bag.

求你了，把錢放到包裡。

Put the money in the bag. I just want to go to school, man.

把錢放到包裡，我只是想去上學。

I just want to get my education. I just want to learn. I just want to grow.

我只想獲得教育、我只想要學習、 我只是想要成長。

Put the money in the bag, please.

請把錢放到包裡。

Just put the money in the bag.

只要把錢放到包裡就好。