TEDYouth 2011
Carvens Lissaint: "Put the financial aid in the bag"
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At TEDYouth 2011, performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken-word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible.
Carvens Lissaint - Performance artist
Carvens Lissaint is a slam poet, performance artist, and member of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe. Full bio
Carvens Lissaint is a slam poet, performance artist, and member of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe. Full bio
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I want everyone to put their hands on top of their head.
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みんな 両手を頭の上に！
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your hands on top of your head.
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そう 両手は頭の上だ！
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Just relax. Just stay calm. Everything will be nice
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静かに じっとしてろ
言った通りにしてりゃ
悪いようにはしねえ 分かったか？
悪いようにはしねえ 分かったか？
00:39
and smooth if you just participate and just relax, okay?
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00:42
Yeah. All right, now put your hands down.
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よし 下ろしていいぞ
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Don't be no hero. Put your hands down. Okay?
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変な気 起こすなよ
下ろしゃいいんだ
下ろしゃいいんだ
おう そうだ
よし それでいい
よし それでいい
00:48
All right. Now. Cool. Good.
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00:51
I want you to run all that financial aid.
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奨学金をあらいざらい出しな
00:56
Yeah, sucka, put the scholarships in the bag, yeah, yeah.
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いいから奨学金を出せ
01:00
Put the scholarships in the bag. Yeah, you too, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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そう お前もだ いいぞ
お前も そこのお前もだ
給付金も入れな
給付金も入れな
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Yeah, you. Yeah, yeah. You over there, go put the Pell Grants in the bag.
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Put the Pell Grants in there too. Yeah, you. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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お前もだよ よし
お前 そこのお前 窓口行って
奨学金ローンも出せ
奨学金ローンも出せ
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You, go over to that booth and get me some of them subsidized, some of them subsidized loans.
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01:12
It ain't a game no more. I know you're hiding the money somewhere here.
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遊びじゃねえぞ どっかにカネを
隠してるのはお見通しだからな
隠してるのはお見通しだからな
01:15
With all this tuition you got me and my homies payin' --
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俺にも ダチにも
授業料をふっかけやがって
授業料をふっかけやがって
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Woo! -- I'm about to get gangster-scholar up in here.
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オラ！ ギャング奨学生のお出ましだ
「今ここで そうここで」ってな
「今ここで そうここで」ってな
01:21
Up in here. I'm about to go N.W.A. meets Beastie Boys
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タチの悪さはN.W.A.
＋ビースティ・ボーイズ
＋ビースティ・ボーイズ
01:24
if I don't see the cash, man.
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金を拝まなきゃ収まらねえ
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Cause we're not gonna take it. ♪ Oh ...
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「やってらんねーよ」ってな
01:29
Oh, you thought I was playing.
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俺がふざけてるって？
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Oh, you thought this was a game. Back up, back up. Mind your business, that's all.
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どうせゲームだろって？ うるせえ
てめぇのことだけ心配してろ
てめぇのことだけ心配してろ
01:35
What do you, think this is a game? What?
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どこがゲームだってんだ？ ええ？
01:38
Huh? You don't even know me.
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ああ？ 俺のことなど
知りもしねえくせに
知りもしねえくせに
01:41
I'll say something else. Don't call me crazy.
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そんな話じゃねえ
俺はイカレてねえぞ
俺はイカレてねえぞ
01:43
Do not call me -- Rives, tell 'em don't call me crazy before I go crazy.
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本当にイカれちまう前に
イカれ者扱いすんなっての
イカれ者扱いすんなっての
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I'm telling you, now I'm about to go crazy. I'm about to go Tupac Thug Life in here.
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ああ そろそろマジでイカれちまう
２パック系ならず者風に
２パック系ならず者風に
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Like, "I ain't a killer but don't push me. Revenge is like the sweetest joy --" Woo!
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「俺は人殺しじゃねえが怒らすな
復讐は甘美な喜びだしな」
復讐は甘美な喜びだしな」
01:52
I'm about to go Biggie Smalls Brooklyn type, like,
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ブルックリン派のビギー風に
ラップ始めちまうぞ
ラップ始めちまうぞ
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"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke --"
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「スーパーニンテンドー セガ ジェネシス
あの頃 俺はすっからかん」
あの頃 俺はすっからかん」
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Woo! I'm about to go KRS-One
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KRS・ワンみたいなのはどうだ
02:02
cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs-type wild.
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昔のCMに出てくるハイテンションで
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Like, "Wa da da dang, wa da da da dang,
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「ズダダダン ズダダダダン
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listen to my nine millimeter go bang." You know what?
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９ミリ口径が火を吹くぜ」ってな
ていうか「お前バカだろ
マジでバカだろ
マジでバカだろ
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You are dumb. You are really dumb.
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02:13
Hide your kids, hide your wife, 'cause we gettin' financial aid
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子供を隠せ 女房隠せ
奨学金かき集めちゃうぜ」
奨学金かき集めちゃうぜ」
02:16
all up and in and around here. You think this is a game?
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これでも遊びだってか？
02:19
You think I want to be out here doing this?
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やりたくてやってると思うか？
02:22
Do you know how hard it was to find these guns?
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銃の調達だってクソ大変なんだぞ！
02:24
All right, I'm sorry. You understand?
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おう すまん
分かってくれるな？
分かってくれるな？
02:27
I'm just trying to get my education. You know what I mean?
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俺は ただ教育を受けたいだけなんだよ
02:29
I'm just trying to fight for the opportunity that my great-great-great-grandfather died for, you know what I'm saying?
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ひいひいひひひひひいじいさんが
求めたものを 手にしようとしてるだけだ
求めたものを 手にしようとしてるだけだ
02:35
You know how my ancestors did sit-ins,
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ご先祖様は座り込みをしてくれた
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just so I can sit in a classroom.
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子孫の俺が教室に座れるようにってな
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And all these years, all y'all been doing
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お前らがずっと
してきたことといえば
してきたことといえば
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is strangling the life out of my bank statement,
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俺の口座から
搾り取ることばかり
搾り取ることばかり
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leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.
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おかげで財布は空っぽさ
まるで空の駐車場
まるで空の駐車場
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Professor Willie Lynch taught you well, huh?
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昔の領主様の
奴隷の扱い方に倣ったんだろ
奴隷の扱い方に倣ったんだろ
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Keep the body, take the money.
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「体は傷めず 金は奪え」ってか？
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Force feed my people deception and failure.
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欺瞞と失敗へと
俺たちを追い込み
俺たちを追い込み
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Condition our brains to malfunction at the sight
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成功が目に入ると
脳みそがパニクるよう—
脳みそがパニクるよう—
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of success. Just keep the cycle going.
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条件づけを延々と繰り返す
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Make us pay for an education that will end up failing us.
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役にも立たない教育に
金をかけさせ
金をかけさせ
03:15
Put us in debt so we're giving back
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借金を負わせる
キツい仕事で得た金で
返済を続けるようにな
返済を続けるようにな
03:18
the money we earned from our back-breaking work.
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03:20
This seems all too familiar.
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飽きるほど聞いた話じゃねえか
03:23
Sounds like the rust of shackles locking their way onto my degree.
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まるで学位取得を妨害する
錆びた足枷
錆びた足枷
03:27
Sounds like the Thirteenth Amendment in reverse.
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まるで奴隷制禁止条項の裏返し
03:30
Lecture halls shouldn't feel like cotton fields,
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講義室は まるで綿花畑さながら
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shouldn't sound like muffled freedom songs trapped
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夢見る世代の喉に詰まって
かき消された自由の歌さながら
かき消された自由の歌さながら
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in the jaws of a generation's dreams. Oho! Oh, it all makes sense.
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ああ！ なるほどな
03:39
Give us enough to get by but not enough to provide for ourselves.
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死にはしないが
自立は無理って額しか渡さない
自立は無理って額しか渡さない
03:42
Keep us psychologically feeble so we lose our purpose in the process.
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弱気なままにさせておいて
やる気を失わせる
やる気を失わせる
03:46
Stop thieving our aspirations out of our sleep.
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俺たちの意欲を
寝てる間にかすめ取るのはやめろ
寝てる間にかすめ取るのはやめろ
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Don't call it financial aid
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「資金援助」なんて言い方はやめろ
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if you're not helping anyone with it.
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その金で誰も助けちゃいねえだろ
03:56
We have fought.
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俺たちは戦ってきた
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We have fought way too hard
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必死過ぎるほど戦ってきた
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to let green paper build a barricade in front of our futures.
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緑色の札束に
未来を封じられないためにな
未来を封じられないためにな
04:07
I will not let you potentially rob food out of my children's stomach.
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お前らのせいで将来 俺の子供たちが
食いっぱぐれるなんて真っ平だ
食いっぱぐれるなんて真っ平だ
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Best believe I'm going out blasting.
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ひと暴れしてやろうじゃねえか
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I ain't no killer, but don't push me.
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俺は人殺しじゃねえが怒らすな
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I wish it didn't come to this, but I have to for my cousins
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こんなことはしたくねえ
けどハイチの従兄弟たちのためだ
けどハイチの従兄弟たちのためだ
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in Haiti who don't even know what a college looks like,
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大学がどんなところかも
知らない奴ら
知らない奴ら
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for my best friend Raymond sitting in cell block nine
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そして 親友レイモンドのためだ
奴が入ったのは
大学どころか刑務所の独房
大学どころか刑務所の独房
04:26
instead of a university,
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04:28
for the nooses hanging my GPA by its neck.
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おまけに 俺の成績表は
首吊り状態で死にかけ
首吊り状態で死にかけ
04:31
There is no other option.
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他に 選択肢は ねえんだ
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There is no other way.
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これしかねえんだよ
04:38
Just, please, put the money in the bag.
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お願いだから
袋に金を入れてくれ
袋に金を入れてくれ
04:42
Put the money in the bag. I just want to go to school, man.
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袋に金を入れてくれよ
ただ学校に行きたいだけなんだ
ただ学校に行きたいだけなんだ
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I just want to get my education. I just want to learn. I just want to grow.
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教育を受けたいだけだ
学びたいんだ 成長したいんだ
学びたいんだ 成長したいんだ
04:51
Put the money in the bag, please.
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お願いだ 袋に金を
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Just put the money in the bag.
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どうか袋に 金を入れて
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carvens Lissaint - Performance artistCarvens Lissaint is a slam poet, performance artist, and member of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe.
Why you should listen
Carvens Lissaint is a Haitian American performance artist. Raised in Upper West Side Harlem, New York, he lives in Washington Heights. He established himself as a spoken word artist in 2006 and went on to win multiple poetry slams across the country and coach award-winning teams. He made his transition into musical theater in 2007 as a part of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe, working with Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School in collaboration with the Metropolitan Theater Opera Guild. He also debuted his high-energy one-man show Walk (directed and co-developed by Queen God-Is, choreographed by Nicco Anann) at Dance Theater Workshop and off Broadway at the 2009 Hip Hop Theater Festival. Carvens lives, eats and breathes art hoping to share his light and become a better being of the Universe.
Carvens Lissaint | Speaker | TED.com