Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs said Monday night that people shouldn’t wait for the government to fix the education system, as he was receiving an award for starting a charter school.

“As we wait for the government to call a state of emergency on the unfairness of the education system, and how it’s going to be fixed, we have to do it ourselves,” Combs said as he accepted an award from the Harlem based Boys & Girls Harbor, according to the New York Observer.