Drumline: A New Beat Page #2

Okay then, what's your section?

I mean, not that it's not obvious.

Oh, is it?

Oh yeah, I mean, AN always has the baddest

dance team of any band.

So, I'm a dancer?

Yeah, no doubt.

What the?

Hoo!

Welcome to hell week.

Craps.

Bags off craps!

So, word around campus

is y'all think y'all good

enough to drum for ANT.

Get 'em.

As of right now, I'm known

to you all as 'big brother

run tell that.'

- Greetings big brother

run tell that.

You know why?

'Cause when I play, I play

so good, it makes people

want to what bustin'?

Run tell that!

- Run tell that who?

Run tell that big

brother run tell that!

All right.

And I am your

section leader.

You will refer to me

as 'the storm chaser, '

because I'm gonna be

raining down on your ass

all during orientation!

Now, let's see what I'm

working with here craps.

Jayven Lapierre, you

come on pedigree with your

famous pops.

Strap up.

Danielle

Raymond, strap up.

We bought to have an

old fashion drum off.

Not bad... for craps.

So whats up?

Dani the drummer.

Looks like, my skills.

All right, listen up

craps, you're all wearing

white, because right

now you are invisible.

You're nothing, you

have to earn your blue.

And you do that when we

see blood, sweat, and

tears.

Now, who's band is this?

Your band!

Who's band?

Your band big brother oh-ra,

sir!

Oh-ra.

Oh, I beg to differ.

Right now, this band

belongs to no one.

This band will never

belong to anyone, you must

belong to the band

to become champions.

You hear that?

That's ANT 2002.

You serious?

Back when the Marching

Panthers stood for

something.

And you, my friends, are

coasting on the reputation

built on the back of

the old school ANT.

I'll have no identify, no

one knows what ANT stands

for anymore.

And a team with no

identity, is no team.

You have to know who you

were to understand

who you are.

With identity,

comes purpose.

With purpose, comes

change, and with that

change, you will rebuild

this band and win

the classics.

What is the ANT creed?

C'mon, let's go.

Y'all do a push up,

c'mon down, c'mon,

c'mon soldier, let's go.

There we go.

- Yeah.

Score, c'mon,

c'mon, c'mon.

Get up there, get up.

Let's go, let's

go, let's go.

One drops, you all drop.

Move it.

Dani, don't be the reason

we start over, let's go!

Dani, that's not fast

enough, let's move,

let's move.

C'mon Dani, you

can do it, c'mon.

Man, y'all are

sleeping out here.

Yo Jay, wake your

crap brothers up.

Yo, yo, yo, yo,

yo, yo stop playing.

Raymond, who told

you you can play?

I was just- You play when

we say you play,

you got it?

Dude, Dani,

fall back in line.

Ahh.

Ugh.

Oh my god.

Someone needs to remind

"ass-mondi", that hazing

is illegal.

He's treating

you crazy, D.

No, he's treating me like

a drummer, I knew the drum

line was hard core.

He is just trying

to get in my head.

Damn.

Dang girl, that

envelope is hella thick.

My parents stopped

paying my cell phone bill.

You need to

change your plan.

Ugh, I need to get a job.

Just do what I do, I run

up other people's phone bills.

Boy, give me

my phone back!

I'm taking a selfie.

Before you lose a finger.

Excuse me, Dean Phillips,

I read online that you

were looking for an

office assistant.

I'm sorry, but most of the

work study positions go

just as quickly as the notices go up,

you have to be fast.

How's the band going?

Easier than

trying to find a job.

Oh, I remember struggling

being a Marching Panther.

You were in the band?

Dance co-captain by

day, dishwasher by night.

And the owner did not

believe in running dishes

through the machine, so.

Look, if you're willing

to work hard- I am.

Then I'll put in a

call to my old boss.

Thank you, Dean Phillips!

I'm just saying, how are

you going to be a soul

food spot and

a coffee bar?

It's too confusing.

May I have a two piece

dark and a soy mocha,

no whip?

See, that doesn't

even sound right.

You say something?

Guys, Dean Phillips is

awesome, she talked to the

owner, and he's gonna

try me out on a trial run.

A trial run means, I

better not see you hooking

your friends up

with free food.

Let's celebrate, I'll get the table,

you guys get this check?

Well.

Hey.

So, uh, you're the real

deal out there on that

field.

You know, that's

what I'm looking for.

Maybe you should put

in your application.

You must hate that there's

one girl whose not fallen

under the Jayven

Lapierre spell.

Ah ha, really?

I wonder what she

trying to prove.

She could ask

the same thing.

You know, when you have me

play, I ain't got to prove

nothing.

Are you sure?

Because all you do is

throw lines at me and

probably every

other girl in here.

I bet you can't say one

real thing, just one.

Okay, so what?

You think you know me?

Boy, I know

about 20 of yous.

Well okay, Ms. Raymond.

It's been a long three

weeks, tomorrow we'll have

the tree shaking,

auditions to determine your rankings.

P1, P2, you're guaranteed

to march, P3, P4 stick

with it, you want it?

You'll earn it.

Jayven.

Hey, hey, sorry I

didn't hear you.

Wow, you're here late.

Trying to be

ready for tomorrow.

Ahh guilty, guilty, that's why

I've been practicing here each night.

Why do you look shocked?

C'mon Jay, you

know you got this.

But why?

What?

Because of my pops?

Listen, I got hit because

of my skills, not his

connections.

You know, people talk like

they know about my life,

but they don't.

Bet they'd shut up if they

knew the ugly ass truth.

He ain't all that.

I didn't mean- No.

You wanted me to tell you

something real, well there

you go.

You can add a room.

My parents used to argue

a lot when I was younger.

They almost got

a divorce once.

So, I used to spend a

lot of time at Tyree's.

And, he had this drum set,

and at first I was just

messing around, but then

it turned into something.

It felt like everything I

needed to say was in

those sticks.

It still feels like it.

So now you know something

real about me, too.

Guess we all gotta

bring our A game.

I plan to.

Now as is the ANT tradition,

a senior line will determine

the rankings.

Leon, you're first up.

Try to impress me.

P1.

P2, Mr. Murphy.

P1.

P1, congratulations

Mr. Lapierre.

Dani, it's you.

Seniors.

Ms. Raymond, you're P2.

You D, I know you wanted

P1, but you'll get there.

I was good, I

played my ass off.

Oh really, oh that's funny

'cause I can still see it.

All right D, I know you

good, there's no doubt

about that, but maybe

you're just not ready

for the senate.

Did anyone hear the

forecast this morning?

For the next few weeks,

there will be a constant

unrelenting roaring sound.

Can you hear it?

Can you hear it?

You are officially

a part of a legacy.

You are this year's

Marching Panthers.

With identity comes

purpose, and with purpose

comes change.

Knock knock.

Big day tomorrow.

Yeah, first game

sets the tone.

Yeah.

Wow, is that us

back in the day?

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