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[Edwards Middle School teacher David] Yancey, 31, has been teaching at the school for eight years, and while he's always had a passion for educating, when he realized his students were struggling to understand government, he had to find a new way to help them retain each lesson.
"Students have always hated social studies since the dawn of time," Yancey told NBC News in an email. "I realized that students almost choose to be disconnected from the material. In an attempt to bridge the gap, I chose to ask my mentoring group 'What songs are in right now?'"
[...] In videos posted on YouTube, Yancey is seen rapping his own lyrics along to Migos' "Bad and Boujee," which he tweaked to "Mad and Losing," and devoted to a lesson about General Ulysses S. Grant and the Civil War.
[...] While Yancey isn't completely sure if the raps have improved his students' grades, he said some of his former pupils have told him they still remember his lyrics years later and are able to put them to use.
Rapping Teacher Turns Social Studies Lessons Into Songs
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @08:22PM (1 child)
Well I wrote this song for the Christian youth
I wanna teach kids the Christian truth
If you wanna reach those kids on the street
Then you gotta do a rap to a hip-hop beat
I gave my sermon an urban kick
My rhymes are fly, my beats are sick
My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger
That's cause Jesus Christ is my nigga
He's a life-changer, miracle-arranger
Born to the virgin mom in a manger
Water to wine, he's a drink exchanger
And he died for your sins
I preach the word, that's my gig
And I rhyme better than Notorious BIG
Other emcees, I wish them well
But if you live in sin, you burn in hell
Now I'ma pass the mic to my lovely wife
She's a fly emcee and the light of my life
So to bust a rhyme without further ado
Take it away, Mary Sue!
Jesus Christ is my nigga
He's the son of the original G
And he was sent to Earth to elucidate the way that we should be
(What?)
Like if another MC says
"You're a freak!
You're a lame-butt rapper
And your rhymes are weak!"
I don't get mad and I don't critique
I forgive him, and turn the other cheek
I don't blaspheme and I don't brag
I don't cuss, and my pants don't sag
I do exude a little Christian swag
And I'm proud to be an American!
Jesus Christ is our nigga
Let his light shine through ya!
Let his love pop a cap in your butt and say HALLELUJAH!
Jesus Christ is my nigga
He's a homie MC JC UC?
He's an honest, caring, peace-loving nigga
Like me
If you do drugs and think you're cool
You need to come to Sunday school!
Put those drugs in the garbage can
Stand up tall, you're a Christian man!
Word up!
I'm freestyling!
Hit me!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:03PM
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