This rap is will be like my life's zenith,
So take a seat while I prove you wrong,
and blog about Lang through the use of song.
You see I am not like Jay Z or MC Hammer.
They rap about girls; I rap about grammar.
They say "You're, a geek, a, dork, a, nerd"
but I reply that their comma splice is just absurd.
I tell 'em to sit down with a grammar book
and finally give grammar a second look.
It is honestly not as hard as it seems.
Just remember- except after c, it's always i before e.
The hoodlums were surprised at what they found,
as they highlighted verbs and circled the nouns.
They finally started to see grammar as fun.
"I got 99 problems but grammar ain't one"
"Isn't" I corrected Mr.Z,
as Ludacris started to explain a synecdoche.
"Atlanta might be where the player plays,
but it is the world where humanity balls all day"
My boys had moved on from laughing at Shakespeare's use of phallus;
now they were doing complex literary analysis!
We talked about Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter.
"Hester just wanted to change her and Pearl's life to better."
We then moved on to Ernest Hemingway.
"Yo Eminem I loved the ending" said Dr. Dre.
"I wonder if him carrying the mast is a biblical allusion,
as he walks home both proud and somewhat disillusioned."
I looked around and to my face came a grin,
seeing rappers read, screaming "ALL WE DO IS WIN"
Not a whine, or a wail or a mope or a moan,
just Mr.Kanye West - definitely in his zone!
But eventually our fun had to come to a close,
as we closed our books filled with epic prose.
I figured this was like their holy penance,
for all those years of rapping with one long run on sentence.
We were all APLangstaz filled with new knowledge.
Not that high school junk, naw this course was COLLEGE!
We finally said all of our goodbyes
and Jay screamed "Forget Broklyn, AP LANG TILL I DIE"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM - semi related
"Just remember- except after c, its always i before e."
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ooh the irony
ReplyDeleteOh my god this is so good.
ReplyDeleteHoly s-word, Batman. This was hilarious. Can't decide if I love the way you rhymed phallus with analysis or the stanza about Hemingway. Literally wiping tears from my eyes.
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Making your AP teacher cry over the word "Phallus"...priceless