WEBVTT - DONKEY: Teacher Fired Over Her Rap Career Side Hustle

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<v Speaker 1>Your execution on the Donkey of the day is something to.

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<v Speaker 2>Go for you.

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<v Speaker 3>The reason they gave me Donkey of the day and

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<v Speaker 3>I deserve that you.

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<v Speaker 2>Need to know? Would you need to tell them? I am?

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<v Speaker 3>You have the boy, tell them.

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<v Speaker 2>It's time for Donkey of the day.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a read. But you're so good at charlamage. He

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<v Speaker 3>want charlamage to damn chlomamee whore Donna give a dusky

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<v Speaker 3>the other day soon.

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<v Speaker 4>Now, Yes, donkey today for Monday, March twenty fifth, goes

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<v Speaker 4>the tail Of Preparatory High School in Detroit. Slu to

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<v Speaker 4>everyone who listens to us on w j LB in Detroit,

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<v Speaker 4>drop one the clothes.

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<v Speaker 2>Bombs for the day. Detroit.

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<v Speaker 4>We have a small problem this morning. See there's a

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<v Speaker 4>history teacher named Dominique Brown. And if you ask me,

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<v Speaker 4>there is an injustice that happened to Dominique because Dominique

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<v Speaker 4>Brown was let go from her job at Tailor Preparatory

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<v Speaker 4>High School. Yes, let go, fire, terminated, discharged, all because

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<v Speaker 4>they didn't like her side hustle, all because teachers are

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<v Speaker 4>so underpaid in this country that a lot of them

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<v Speaker 4>have to try to find other sources of incomes.

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<v Speaker 2>Are other careers. Okay, trust me.

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<v Speaker 4>My mother was an English teacher in South Carolina, and

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<v Speaker 4>I've said on this radio public school teachers are disgustingly underpaid,

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<v Speaker 4>all right, The humans that we entrust with our most

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<v Speaker 4>prized possessions, our children, are barely getting by. There was

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<v Speaker 4>a survey done by Anya dot org that found teachers

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<v Speaker 4>work more hours per week than other working adults.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, an estimated fifty three.

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<v Speaker 4>Hours per week, seven more hours than the average working adult.

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<v Speaker 4>And teachers, no surprise here, report much less satisfaction with

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<v Speaker 4>their base pay than other working adults, and twenty five

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<v Speaker 4>percent of their work is uncompensated.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you hear what I just said?

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<v Speaker 4>Twenty five percent of all the work teachers do is uncompensated,

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<v Speaker 4>and sixty six percent say their base salary is inadequate,

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<v Speaker 4>compared with thirty nine percent of working adults. Okay, it's terrible,

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<v Speaker 4>horrible for what teachers mean to us in our communities.

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<v Speaker 4>It's actually kind of criminals. So when you have teachers

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<v Speaker 4>like Dominique who clearly love what they do because they're

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<v Speaker 4>really you know, there really is no reason to be

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<v Speaker 4>a teacher other than love, because you know you're gonna

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<v Speaker 4>be overworked and underpaid to If Dominique wants to have

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<v Speaker 4>a side hustle, God bless her. I know what you're thinking, Uncleshalla.

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<v Speaker 4>What you're saying sounds good. But before I agree, what

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<v Speaker 4>is her side hustle? Well, let's go to WTAE Detroit

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<v Speaker 4>for the report.

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<v Speaker 2>Police.

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<v Speaker 1>Dominique Brump, whose rap name is Dripping Honey, has been

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<v Speaker 1>an educator for seven years and started teaching history at

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<v Speaker 1>Taylor Preparatory High School in August, but all that came

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<v Speaker 1>to an abrupt end months later after she says a

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<v Speaker 1>parent came across one of her rap videos.

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<v Speaker 5>The first meeting that I had was like the principal

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<v Speaker 5>dund and they had told me that the parent wished

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<v Speaker 5>to stay anonymous, and she felt as if she didn't

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<v Speaker 5>like my rap career and that I was a bad

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<v Speaker 5>influence on the kids because I rap.

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<v Speaker 1>She said she was fired in February because she's a rapper.

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<v Speaker 1>Before the firing, around Thanksgiving, she says, there were meetings

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<v Speaker 1>and an ultimatum.

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<v Speaker 5>My mind, in my heart was telling me two things.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm just I couldn't see myself like giving up my

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<v Speaker 5>other passion just because somebody didn't like it. They said,

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<v Speaker 5>erase all your content. That was all and maybe erast

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<v Speaker 5>all your content. I'm just like, respectfully, I can't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>Brown acknowledges the profanity in her lyrics, but she says

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<v Speaker 1>that has nothing to do with Taylor Prepp and the

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<v Speaker 1>positive impact she's had on her students and the community.

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<v Speaker 1>In February, on her last day, she created a music

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<v Speaker 1>video with her students that has since gone viral. Christina

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<v Speaker 1>Lenz says her son in eleventh grader started a petition

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<v Speaker 1>in supportive miss Brown, gathering over two hundred student signatures.

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<v Speaker 2>Dropping the Clues Box with Dominique brownieka Dripping.

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<v Speaker 4>Honey, Dripping Honey fired because of an anonymous hating as

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<v Speaker 4>parent complaining saying she's a bad influence on her students

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<v Speaker 4>because she's a rapper.

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<v Speaker 2>How you feel like that?

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<v Speaker 4>In Detroit, home with some of the most influential people

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<v Speaker 4>ever to pick up a microphone, there is nothing but

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<v Speaker 4>a bunch of rapidy, rap ass Negroes and Caucasians in Detroit. Okay,

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<v Speaker 4>people in Detroit started rapping soon as they come out

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<v Speaker 4>the womb, soon as they get smacked on the ass

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<v Speaker 4>by the doctor. They don't cry. They start spitting, Boss,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't even know what it thought. Trick Trick, Ice

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<v Speaker 4>wear Vessel, Side of Babies, Baby Phase Rade forty two,

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<v Speaker 4>Doug cast Doll, Royce five nine d twelve, Danny Brown.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh he tries Big Sean. Oh.

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<v Speaker 4>They got this one guy who's considered by many one

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<v Speaker 4>of the greatest of all time. He's not on my

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<v Speaker 4>personal list, but objectively speaking, you can't deny his place

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<v Speaker 4>in hip hop culture. Marshall matters is that name ring

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<v Speaker 4>a bell? What I'm telling you is rapping in Detroit

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<v Speaker 4>is like breathing, okay, and being from Detroit. There's a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of other side hustles she could be doing that

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<v Speaker 4>could be considered a bad influence, but rapp ain't one

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<v Speaker 4>of them.

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<v Speaker 2>Yo.

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<v Speaker 4>Now she got a record, okay. You heard them talk

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<v Speaker 4>about it in the news report.

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<v Speaker 2>I saw. I watched it on YouTube.

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<v Speaker 4>It's called Dripping One on One And in the video

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<v Speaker 4>she has some.

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<v Speaker 2>Of her students, you know actually in the video.

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<v Speaker 4>In the description of the video, it says, Dripping one

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<v Speaker 4>on one featuring the best students in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>All I hear is a positive anthem.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, a positive anthem okay, encouraging young ladies not to

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<v Speaker 4>be ho east. Okay, I don't know how old Dominique

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<v Speaker 4>Brown is, but she doesn't look old. And this is

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<v Speaker 4>the first time, probably ever in the history of life,

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<v Speaker 4>that the age demographics between adults and kids is really

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<v Speaker 4>non existent. And what I mean by that is the

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<v Speaker 4>stuff we was raised on in the nineteen hundreds and

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<v Speaker 4>early two thousands really ain't no different from you know

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<v Speaker 4>what these kids is on now. It's the same type

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<v Speaker 4>of content. Okay, argue amongst yourselves. We try to act

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<v Speaker 4>like our generation was so much better. They might have

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<v Speaker 4>been talent wise, but the content is the same.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. How is the generation to raise off?

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<v Speaker 4>Nwa Uncle Luke lil Kim three six, Mathia and Eminem.

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<v Speaker 4>Gonna judge anybody, Okay, as long as that woman is

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<v Speaker 4>doing what she's supposed to be doing in that classroom

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<v Speaker 4>and her kids are learning and passing. If she wants

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<v Speaker 4>to rap in her spare time, let up. And I

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<v Speaker 4>bet you all of those kids trust her more than

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<v Speaker 4>they trust any other teacher in the school because she

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<v Speaker 4>speaks their language.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, how about this?

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<v Speaker 4>Instead of stopping teachers side hustles, how about improving pay

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<v Speaker 4>because a lot of teachers are getting out of the

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<v Speaker 4>teaching business, and a lot of teachers aren't looking to

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<v Speaker 4>a lot of people aren't even looking to get into

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<v Speaker 4>the teaching business. So if you want to recruit and

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<v Speaker 4>retain educators, get their money up, but not only that,

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<v Speaker 4>improve the number of hours worked in their overall working conditions.

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<v Speaker 4>That's how you gonna keep teachers wanting to be teachers.

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<v Speaker 2>And then the mean time.

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<v Speaker 4>You shouldn't try to stop them from rapping to potentially

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<v Speaker 4>find the career to make its meat. You should be

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<v Speaker 4>ashamed that they have to attempt to rap to find

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<v Speaker 4>a career that make ins meat because you not paying

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<v Speaker 4>them enough as a teacher. Please give Preparatory High School

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<v Speaker 4>in Detroit the biggest s hull.

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<v Speaker 2>What y'all is giggling at looking at her?

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<v Speaker 3>It's going through videos.

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<v Speaker 2>But she got a bunch of them only so one

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<v Speaker 2>what else you got? I saw drive on Driffer one

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<v Speaker 2>on one. It was there was then there was the

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<v Speaker 2>about getting it is that her?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't think that's her dripping honey, driven honey, that's

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<v Speaker 4>miss honey. No, yes it is, Yes, it is how.

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<v Speaker 2>You spell driven d R I P P I N.

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<v Speaker 3>Space honey that is dripping.

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<v Speaker 2>No, she got it.

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<v Speaker 4>But you know, as a person who used to be

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<v Speaker 4>a student, Okay, we like the teachers that got that

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<v Speaker 4>back down to take that class.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you ain't got no choice public school.

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<v Speaker 4>But I can't remember a teacher right now who had

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<v Speaker 4>adult at Berkeley Middle School and.

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<v Speaker 3>He was all in that class. It was there every

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<v Speaker 3>day on time.

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<v Speaker 4>She was also a very nice person though, right, I

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<v Speaker 4>don't want to say yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, he wasn't saying that about.

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<v Speaker 5>We were just saying while he was preaching.

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<v Speaker 3>In the circle, climbing up the walls. Okay, what what

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<v Speaker 3>what this middle high what is it?

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<v Speaker 2>The name of the song is called Nigga No hold up,

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<v Speaker 2>but that's another song. I just got to say that.

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<v Speaker 4>Wait, so this is elementary school he's at? It just

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<v Speaker 4>said the preparatory school more than this high school.

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<v Speaker 2>It might be high school. Yeah, the kids looked older.

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<v Speaker 4>You know what I say, I went to a college

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<v Speaker 4>preparatory school that was high school.

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<v Speaker 2>If I'm being honest, some of the kids in the

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<v Speaker 2>video look older than her. Yeah, okay, choice, it's more

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<v Speaker 2>than likely a high school. Okay, rough out there they

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<v Speaker 2>grew up rough they all right?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, dripping honey, dripping honey, three one three, go follow

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<v Speaker 4>her on YouTube. She only got three thousand subscribers, like

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<v Speaker 4>a little over there, a little over three thousand subscribers.

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<v Speaker 2>Go follow her on YouTube because she won't have a

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<v Speaker 2>job right now.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, yes, you have plenty offers by the end of

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<v Speaker 4>the show, So that's amazing.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Dripping one, Drip one on one got ninety four

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<v Speaker 3>thousand views, that's.

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<v Speaker 2>The biggest one. Yeah, and then Nigga No got ten

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<v Speaker 2>thus had Nigga got ten thousands? And then the don't

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<v Speaker 2>call no cheat cold you know, cheat code.

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<v Speaker 3>Then the dripping honey, the rumors freestyle, that's the one

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<v Speaker 3>that uh you're talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>And just go down this dripping honey rabbit hole real quick.

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<v Speaker 3>Then there's the the Let's go to the Beach Swimsuit

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<v Speaker 3>edition slutter you, dripping honey, dripping honey.

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<v Speaker 4>It's disgusting what they do to public public school teachers

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<v Speaker 4>out here in the street, overworked and underpaid.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, all right, well that is the donkey of the day, Detroit.

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<v Speaker 2>What a doubt?

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<v Speaker 3>All right, Well, when we come back, Nina Turner and

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<v Speaker 3>Derek Dowdell will be joining us.

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<v Speaker 2>That says last name right. I don't think so.

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<v Speaker 4>It's dow Down all right, So we're gonna kick it

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<v Speaker 4>with Nina turning Derek dow Dale when we come back.

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