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This is a motion party. You cannot get in here.

Don Julio on drink gin.

Baby, love me. Chain like a slushy. Wrist like an ice pack. Boy, I really

like that. Bankroll on me. Whole lot of motion.

Two-tone padding.

Y'all snap it. Baby, love me. Chain like a slushy. Wrist like an ice pack. Boy, I

really like that. Bankroll on me. Whole lot of motion.

Two-tone padding. Y'all snap it.

What's your name that you know you some fine?

Where you going after this? Who you rhyme with? I don't want to play with

your baby with your number. I'm a boss, don't even waste your time with a

runner. We don't care about what you have, we ain't see that.

Baby, this is where you want to be at. Nothing but money on my mind, I'ma cash

at it.

I remember when they laughed at me.

Have your IDs ready. Once you're registered, you'll be divided into

cohorts and assigned a human helper.

And yes, cohorts are already established. So don't get creative.

I swear I just had my ID.

I think this is yours, Deborah.

Thank you. God, you saved my life. Here you go. Also, it's Deborah.

Okay. Three syllables.

Beyonce. We get it.

Here's to Amir.

What's up, baby?

Yeah, nice to meet you.

Thank you. Hi, it's me again.

Yeah, why would I trek from the 212 to the 804 if I wasn't enrolled?

I would expect a different type of institution to play in my face.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt, Ms.

Perkins, but anyone who loves Auntie Mary J the way you do understands

hardship and the need for community support in this dancery.

Okay, I know you like that one, so maybe we could check again for my friend.

Please. But only because I want no more drama.

Get it?

It looks like there was an error due to your past deferment.

You are enrolled.

Okay. But you don't have a housing assignment yet.

Shortage.

Okay, see? This is really starting to feel racist.

Miss Wang?

Room 2412?

Miss Wang?

Yep, that's me.

Excuse me. Wait, wait, wait.

We weren't supposed to prepare anything. I just made this little binder about

myself, but you should be fine.

It's a different world than where you come from.

It's a different world than where you come from.

It's a different...

Dr. Langhorne, I would never choose to take migrations of the diaspora at 8 a

.m. or Engineering 101, period.

Baby, take it up with your mama and your daddy.

See, the thing is, I'm really supposed to be at Tisch, you know, embarking on a

collaborative arts degree. Baby, why are you here?

I think you have face reality issues.

According to your records, it was your actions is the reason in why you

rescinded your acceptance.

Those... Alleged actions were a horrific misstep, a deeply, deeply unfortunate

error for me, right? And I take full, full responsibility.

But it wasn't my fault.

You didn't get in anywhere else, did you?

Oh.

Given the magnitude of the incident, the academic board has mandated that you

maintain a 3.0 GPA and that you not incur any further disciplinary

infraction this semester. Understood?

Understood! Yes, yes, 3.0 right out the gate is a little aggressive.

No, can we land at 2.5?

2.75?

Maybe.

Let me tell you like I told your mama you gotta learn how to relax relate and

release First

day

on campus in the u.s. Of a your boy Kojo repping my new chop life tea copy the

link in my bio you get me. Yes. Yes

Where you going to move me? Okay, accent. Where you from? I'm half

Ghanaian, half Niger, by way to UK.

And what makes you think you're worthy enough to be a part of anything I got

going on?

Oh, come on.

I, uh... I, you know, I'm... You ain't ready for all this. No, but I could be.

I could be. I swear I could be. Yo, these American girls are wild.

Oh, get up off me. I don't know you like that.

I didn't mean no disrespect.

All right.

These American boys are wild, too.

While we wait for our last student, two things.

Freshmen have a curfew first semester.

1 a.m. Look, you do not want to be locked out and wake up to the damn

sprinklers going off, all right?

Second, freshman convocation is this weekend.

Dress code, not optional. Hey, hey, Ms. Binder, this group five?

Yep. How'd your meeting go?

It, uh, it went.

But, um...

Between me and you, after waiting in that advising line for 51 hours, I'm

ready to dish the store.

Tillman, your star has arrived and a legend has returned.

Looks like I made the right decision, pops.

All right, you and little Shaquille need to chill out. Put an ice pack on.

Woo! Look who made it.

A week late.

Hey, fine you put that in the NFL.

My bad for missing camp last week, coach. Yeah, we couldn't get him out of

that Nike shoot. That contract is as tight as my fade was in 1987.

That's fantastic.

But when I played running back for the 49ers, nothing came before the game.

Well, if we're talking about priorities, where's the red carpet?

Where's the step and repeat?

Where's the last chance you documented my boy coming here to save this sorry

program? Hey, you didn't see how we power washed the sidewalk?

Oh, you got jokes. And you have no hair.

Shaquille, look, we are thrilled to have you here, brother. Get settled in.

Two-a-day start tomorrow.

You got it, coach. I'm there.

Listen, I can make a few calls. Michigan, Ohio State, you're leaving a

lot of cash on the table. Pops, we talked about this already.

Look, I'm trailblazing by coming here. Just give Hillman a chance to see the

ladies. I gave Hillman a chance. At least four, five years, seven maybe of

my life. But you're a five-star recruit.

Hillman's first.

And you need to be treated like it.

My personal favorite place on campus is the math building. Heads up, though, y

'all. It do be smelling like corn chips.

Been listening to your boy?

Depends on who we're talking about.

Ah, let me find out you came to Hillman because you knew I was coming here.

What? Boy,

please. Man, my parents have pushed the Hillman since before they knew my name.

Just like my big brother and sister.

You know what? This is a great school. And I...

I'm going to make the best of it. Prove to Lena Whitley that, you know, I can

crush it.

Retire my party girl era and enter my full studio season. I'm talking full

rebrand. Mmm, yum.

Maybe we can prove our parents wrong together.

There is no we.

We're together.

You know, I didn't hear from you all summer.

That's because you blocked me, right? And you know why.

But I don't live in the past.

But we're here right now, though.

So what's up?

Hazel would like me. Everyone wants to live here since Mrs. Gilbert renovated.

As your RA, I'm here to ensure that you all live up to the Gilbert's legacy.

Now, Hazel. Yes? You'll be right there with Tidra.

Deborah and Rashida.

You two are roommates. Wait, wait, wait. I thought I was gonna have a single. I

have a roommate?

Yes. Uh, that can't be right. My roommate's name is Aaron from the Bronx.

We DM'd and everything.

Wow.

It looks like Bed Bath & Beyond threw up in here.

Hey.

Cappuccino? You know, I haven't had my coffee all day and I'm about to crash

out.

Oh, wow. That's, uh, a lot of awards.

I'm the Simone Biles of school. Top 1%. In your class.

In the country.

Uh, um, Choate.

Choate, women's pickleball.

Most improved.

Two years in a row.

Okay. And I painted this.

A dot.

It's a representation of the unbothered mind. Deborah Wayne, your Chanel suit

for the convocation.

Hey, Ma.

I went back to the Four Seasons.

And you are?

Rashida, my roommate for now.

No need to stay.

Well, I picked a lovely girl for you named Kennedy. She went to Kent, and she

doesn't live far from us in Connecticut.

You really chose a roommate for me?

What, first my glasses, now this?

Well, I'm choosing my roommate.

And it's Rashida.

What?

Rashida.

That's a colorful name.

Major. Criminal justice.

A defender of rights, mother.

To get my cousins out of prison.

GPA? 4.6. Weighted.

Impressive.

Although grades aren't the only indicator of intelligence.

And where are you from?

Compton.

Watch her.

Okay. Well, I'm going to go find Candace and see if she sorted this out.

Yeah.

Dwayne!

Deborah thinks we are micromanaging her.

And the school gave her a roommate.

From Compton.

Come on. Hey, hey, Willie.

Willie.

Everybody got to be from somewhere, okay?

It could be good for Deborah.

That's Deborah, isn't it? Yeah. This is all your fault impregnating me in my

40s. Oh, wait, wait, wait. I didn't hear you saying nothing about it when we was

making her, huh?

You was all like, oh, baby, please, Gloria, your big daddy, you sure do do

me right.

Remember that.

You're too easy on her. You were too hard on her. I put my foot down. You

put...

What did Dr. Henry say?

We're on the same team.

OK. We just have to trust her. How come the first two were easy breezy, and this

one's just trying to take me out?

That's Deebo.

You better tuck your chain, Mrs. Wayne.

Plus,

we were a lot younger then.

Yes. And we weren't separated.

We always made parenting a top priority.

Maybe that was the problem.

We just neglected us.

All right, let me finish helping with Mr. Gaines' dedication for tomorrow,

and, um, we agreed to loosen the reins on Deborah, give her some space, so we

gonna honor that, right?

Okay, there we go, team.

But my dead body.

I heard that.

Ma, the black people here are different. Huh?

They have Chanel suits and British accents and Lambos. The girl they have

me rooming with is so unserious.

Pretty sure her mom is a fan.

Baby, you're meeting new people. That's a good thing.

Remember when I first met your Auntie Carolyn? I couldn't stand her big hat

wear itself.

But underneath that hat?

Lots of love.

You're gonna meet your people, all right? You gotta give it time, baby.

And try to loosen up a bit, you know? Try to have some fun.

Okay.

I'll try.

Okay. I love you. I love you more.

Nah, but for real, if you stay here, you become one of us.

Yeah, we help each other.

When I was struggling to get waves during my second senior year, they

taught me how. Now when this rag come off, it's Oceans 11.

Mm-hmm.

And, and, and, anything y'all need, someone here knows how to cop it. Now

that's what I'm talking about. I like that. Yeah, well, I need to cop me a

room, so.

Yo, you can crash in. All right.

On this couch.

Until you get your housing settled, all right?

Touchdown.

You don't even want to talk. I didn't beat you.

Why are you even in the dorm, man? You know, with that NIL though, shouldn't

you be at a place where people wonder how you can afford it? Forget the dorm.

Why are you here, brother?

I heard with this NIL thing, bigger schools mean bigger checks.

No, everything ain't about money, yo.

That's cute, man. Talk to my parents.

No, they only let me come here if I promise to study hard, get a good job,

and send money back to help train up my siblings.

But I, now I came to Hillman for this.

Look, I'm just happy to be here. The plot was kind of rough back home. Now

look at me, sleeping on the couch at Hillman. Dreams do come true.

I do want the real Hillman.

You want that real, real?

Then hit the in-the-building party tonight.

Superstar? In-the-building party?

Yeah, I'm not mad at the party.

Rashida, please?

Okay. I just think us being roommates could be so much fun. We could be

accountability partners.

You just don't want a room with...

Kennedy from Connecticut.

Okay, two things can be true.

Please don't make me knock-knock.

They're hosting a Black Girl Missing marathon in the common room.

Who's down? They're starting with the HBCU one.

Ooh, I love me some Garcelle, girl. See, my mama said I should have some fun, so

I'm down. Right.

You know what?

It's our first night in college.

Hello, we should do it up.

Celebrate by getting to the in-the-building party tonight.

Hey, Shakun, the boys are going and I heard it's not to be missed. I've never

really been to a party before.

Except those thrown by my church youth group. We call them Bible study.

Huh? We're hot girls, girl.

With the curfew. Trust me, the last thing is to get in trouble right now.

Come on, I'll make sure we get back in time.

Let's show him what we're working with.

Minks in Miami sure they know that I'm a winner.

Killed my little man so you know I gotta get him. Losing all my homies got me

living with regrets.

Blood, sweat, and tears help me get up out of debt.

Looking to the eyes of a mother.

bros struggle growing up i refuse to take a loss getting to the money and i

hope it lasts forever lonely at the top but life couldn't be better jetta new

orleans mentioned in the french quarter all my jewels on me like the legend rich

porter pretty boy swag with a rick ross aura had to call it back cause she

squirt that water ain't no party like a hillman party cause a hillman party

don't stop we got a special treat for y'all

Going out was the right decision.

Thank you Light work.

I don't want to look up in four years and think damn all I did was study Maybe

we can

Rub off on one another?

Okay.

Rumi. Get out my way.

You're blocking my view of Devon culture.

Turns over

caught in 4k um my bad my bad you know i promise I promised them we'd

get back in time, but then the Uber driver, he had a flat tire, and he got

out to fix it, and then he got hit by a car, and then the police came, and then

the ambulance came, and the ambulance took us all the way to the hospital, so

we had to run all the way back here to get back in time, and then Hazel fell,

and she lost her shoe, but we're here. So how'd you get all wet?

Look, I love a saga.

But I got to write y'all up and let the disciplinary board decide.

Wait, wait, wait.

Would that impact my scholarship? Like I said, the board will decide.

Are you going to tell our parents?

Worse. I'm going to tell God.

What? No, no, no, no.

Candace Candy, baby.

Can't you cut us a break? You and I both know that your mother, the Whitley

Gilbert, wouldn't want me to let this slide.

Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Whitley Gilbert, the beauty mogul, is your mother?

OMG! I have, like, every Glitter Bite Gilbert product. The foundation really

changed my life.

I don't admit this very often, but I have acne.

This is your mother's building?

Candace, we can work this out, right? Well, what'll it take? I can get you

free laundry service for a year. I can't be bought.

But if I could be sponsored?

It would be with the marketing internship at Glitter by Gilbert.

Done. I'm gonna go repent.

Hard. Tell him I said hi.

I mean, wow.

I mean, this is how you go through life.

Just unbothered about curfew or consequences.

You're just floating off your mother's name.

No. You know what?

You and Kennedy...

Y'all would have been a better fit.

Come on.

Rashida.

Rashida, please.

I appreciate y'all bros opening up y'all.

Our fathers like brothers. They actually met here at Hilton.

That's poetic as hell. Trying to spin the block.

I had to do that a little one time, but man, Dee, she's beautiful.

Talking smart, talented.

She could be a little extra, though. But, you know, it just seemed like our

timing always off. But now that we both at Hillman, it seemed like it may be

destiny. You know what I mean? But destiny never hurt nobody. Never hurt

nobody now, brother.

Shaquille, get your shit. We are finding you a better place to stay.

Can y'all give me a minute?

Yeah, absolutely.

I appreciate it.

I ain't leaving.

They don't even have a suite for you, son.

You're a five-star athlete in this two-star dormitory? Hodge. This is not

what I talked to the provost about. That whole situation's got me pissed off. But

this is not what you work for. So let's, come on, come on. I promised Mom.

What?

I promised Mom that I'd come to heal me.

It was a thing between her and I before she passed.

She thought coming here would help build me up so I could be ready for the world

and be like you. And you're just telling me that?

Because you never want to talk about it.

So, you know what?

I'm going to call you later.

Presence has taught us

They sing the rhyme!

And I don't mind saying it louder for the people in the back.

Am I right or am I right?

To mark our 145th convocation, we're mixing it up a bit from

tradition and have it in the theater of our brand new library.

Yeah, yeah. Take it in.

Take it in. It's majestic.

continues its legacy as an institution for young black minds set to lead and

shape the nation into something new. Now to lead us in the dedication of this

beautiful building is alumnus and newly appointed Provost Wayne.

This has been my honor to help bring this library to life.

which is dedicated to the father of the pit, Mr. Vernon Gaines.

Mr. Gaines was our griot.

He nurtured our souls through his stories, his wisdom, his tough love, and

the best damn collie greens you ever had.

He was Hillman. I'm sorry about last night.

How can I make it up to you?

Yeah? This is a watershed moment.

where this country that we built is trying to erase our black history,

our gains, our culture.

They want to demoralize us.

They want to deport us. They want to jail us. They want to shoot us down in

the streets.

But you, you all are their greatest threat.

You, future leaders who care about justice and community and each other.

I know you will stand up.

I know you will fight, build, and you will change the world.

Now let's get to it.

Provost Wayne is taking us to church up in here, yes?

Was that a word? Or was that a word?

And the word here is... What?

What? No. What's wrong?

What's going on?

The financial aid office is saying that Rashida lost one of her grants. What?

Why? Not because of last night.

Students!

Okay, listen, everybody settle down, settle down.

We've got about three more hours, but I can make it four.

President Davenport, something's going on. Oh, my God. My friend just received

an alert that she lost one of her grants.

And I'm unhoused. Y'all heard that? Miss Wayne, Miss Wayne, now is not the place

or time.

You know better. This is a convocation.

Listen very carefully. I will not tolerate outbursts. Yeah, but they

worked hard to get here, and they deserve answers.

Deborah, that's enough. Everybody calm down, okay? Calm down.

Take me. Just strap me down.

No, no, no. Tell us where is the money? What are you not telling us?

Where is it? Where is the money?

Where is the money? Where is the money?

4,500 on a Hummer, no gas.

89 price on the ticket.

Exercise, eat off my vestibule, cause I'm decimally bout hit, bitch.

Stuntin' by the Hunters, gonna come in no fast.

Shut it, gon' bag it, lick it.

Get wrapped, pack it, ship it.

If I'm ragged, the rich is on. Dumb, act like you on no rush.

On the front porch in a function.

I check in my sneakers, no checks on my sneakers. Just from a Gabby, you're the

goody girl. Pull up to the church in my hoodie, then. I'm about to get money,

but should he, then? I ride around in an all-pink Mercedes.

Yeah.

Do anything for a new check?

Nowadays, these days, you can do anything for a blue check. Check. When

center shoes have to check. Or three stripes on the side. Wait before Puma

cut the check. Yeah. Three stripes.