Blak Prophetz at Bentley West school career day.

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Blak Prophetz at Bentley West Primary school, Walsall.

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00:00So that's one of the rhyming things you can say on a sailboat, then float like a butterfly

00:07and then push them and knock them out and sting them just like a worker bee.

00:11Now I'm going to play you something which is quite fun.

00:14Rap went on and turned into a very skilful lyrical form.

00:20There's a band here called Black Venetians doing a song called Alphabetic Aerobics.

00:25Now when you listen to him say what he's going to say

00:28I want you to tell me if you recognise a pattern in what he's doing. Here we go.

00:59Demonstration on Don Donner that you don't know

01:02He and other editors with each and every energetic, epileptic episode

01:06Elevated, etiquette, furious, fat fabulous, fantastic

01:09Flurries of heartfelt feelings of fanatics

01:12Gift got great global goods going glorious

01:14Getting godly in this game with the glorious

01:17Hit them high, have a hype, historical, hey

01:19Holocaust, M-serum, holler at your homeboy

01:21Imitators of the life are intimidated in an instant

01:24I rise in a irate state to storm a chance like Jerry Curl stock

01:28And joyously assist me writing my journal

01:30Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of cake

01:32All karate kick tight ribs in my cage

01:34Let me live a small life, please

01:36With my faces out when I'm on it like a bone

01:38I'm about to turn it up

01:39My mind ain't marvelous, too fast

01:41It's marvelous, too many mock was past it

01:43Now and when I'm nice, naturally

01:45Knack never lies, make do intentionally

01:47Operates in opposition, all time functional

01:49How does time go my way?

01:52Now hold my side, mama leave

01:55White, white, blue, keep quiet and strong

01:57Moral of the game, the corner of the sea

01:59I'm not really worried

02:00Riding up, I'm really riding up

02:02Radio activities in return

02:04Hold down first song

02:05Time to keep up, my steps never stop

02:07Nelson, Hamilton, please don't just take that

02:09Hamilton, please don't come from New York

02:11Don't you need to reflect?

02:12How do those who read it?

02:13They're all hunched up

02:14Bird, white, you are victorious, sound it

02:16Violet, Bob, now the baby is on it

02:18Bob, all over the whiteboard

02:19Blue, blue, sweep it up, sweep it up

02:21On my way to zero, I smash

02:22Ready, 84, 64, 65, 76

02:24Now I'm on my way, so my steps, I'll show one more

02:27Get to the top, or till I die

02:29Big thanks, I'll be doing till the end

02:30Zero in the door for myself

02:32Let's run, see ya

02:36Now, did you notice anything about that?

02:38It was slightly faster in India

02:40And through the summer

02:42So, the beat got faster

02:45It got quicker

02:46Did you notice anything about the words

02:48That they were using?

02:49It started with A

02:51Everything rhymed with A

02:52And then everything rhymed with B

02:53Yeah, did you notice that?

03:00Of the alphabets

03:01Yeah, and it went right through to

03:03What Americans would say C

03:05What we'd say Z

03:06Right?

03:07So that's a rap called alphabetic aerobics

03:10So it got very skillful

03:12And when the gentleman over there said he likes Eminem

03:14Who is it?

03:15Eminem uses a lot of those tricks

03:17When he raps

03:18And if you listen to rap

03:20There's good rap and there's bad rap, obviously

03:22But rap began as a tool

03:25For the rough and tough areas of the ghettos

03:28Where they would use it as a method

03:31Of getting their message across

03:33To, say, the government

03:35Or people that they wanted to hear

03:37Wanted to express themselves to

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