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Transcription: [00:00:07]
[[background noise throughout interview]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
[[Cross Talk]] I know, um, I wanna direct- I wanna dir-- [[laughter]] I wanna direct my answer to your question.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
[[Cross Talk]] Wait. Wait, we have, we have another part of an answer here, so.
[00:00:15]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Um, I know that rapping has helped me a lot in school. I attended high school for international affairs.
[00:00:20]
And, rapping, what I've done with my skills of rapping is that when it comes to a test and studying I like, put together words, rhyme them together and then I make a rap out of my tests or my studies. And--
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{SILENCE}
[00:00:37]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Oh. [[laughter]] Um, Smurf wants me to tell you about a rap that she helped me with my world history test. It's called "International Travels", and what we had to do was learn how to spell all the words and learn all the countries.
[00:00:50]
And what we did was we did a rap called "International Travels", and I'm not gonna do it now. You can hear it later, but that's, it's helped me a lot in school.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Part 3 of the answer. The only study that I know of, to date, that is an academic study of rapping was done by a group of linguists working in Philadelphia on an education project, and it was actually a literacy project where they were working with teachers who were just literally writing off a lot of the students as people who had no literary skills or no skills which could-- which were useful.
[00:01:27]
And yet, these same students-- many of them were just incredible rappers. So the project was developed around rapping and used rapping as the vehicle to, uh, to look at what skills are prevalent in the African American community and how that can be used to the good of the students.
[00:01:48]
So, that's a federal survey too. It's not been published yet, but apparently it will be published by the federal government in whatever department of education, I guess papers.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Okay. Part 2 of the question, and this'll, that'll close it out.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Yeah, this isn't related to the other, but I wanted to know if there's some relationship on what to do and the music of the Caribbean, Calypso, in terms of making central comment [[?]].
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
[[Cross Talk]] Sure. Sure. Uh,
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
[[Cross Talk]] Calypso reggae rhythm blues.