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DONKEY: Teacher Fired Over Her Rap Career Side Hustle · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Your execution on the Donkey of the day is something to.
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  Speaker 2: Go for you.
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  Speaker 3: The reason they gave me Donkey of the day and
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  Speaker 3: I deserve that you.
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  Speaker 2: Need to know? Would you need to tell them? I am?
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  Speaker 3: You have the boy, tell them.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 3: It's a read. But you're so good at charlamage. He
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  Speaker 3: want charlamage to damn chlomamee whore Donna give a dusky
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  Speaker 3: the other day soon.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Yes, donkey today for Monday, March twenty fifth, goes
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  Speaker 4: the tail Of Preparatory High School in Detroit. Slu to
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  Speaker 4: everyone who listens to us on w j LB in Detroit,
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  Speaker 4: drop one the clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Bombs for the day. Detroit.
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  Speaker 4: We have a small problem this morning. See there's a
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  Speaker 4: history teacher named Dominique Brown. And if you ask me,
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  Speaker 4: there is an injustice that happened to Dominique because Dominique
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  Speaker 4: Brown was let go from her job at Tailor Preparatory
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  Speaker 4: High School. Yes, let go, fire, terminated, discharged, all because
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  Speaker 4: they didn't like her side hustle, all because teachers are
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  Speaker 4: so underpaid in this country that a lot of them
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  Speaker 4: have to try to find other sources of incomes.
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  Speaker 2: Are other careers. Okay, trust me.
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  Speaker 4: My mother was an English teacher in South Carolina, and
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  Speaker 4: I've said on this radio public school teachers are disgustingly underpaid,
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  Speaker 4: all right, The humans that we entrust with our most
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  Speaker 4: prized possessions, our children, are barely getting by. There was
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  Speaker 4: a survey done by Anya dot org that found teachers
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  Speaker 4: work more hours per week than other working adults.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, an estimated fifty three.
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  Speaker 4: Hours per week, seven more hours than the average working adult.
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  Speaker 4: And teachers, no surprise here, report much less satisfaction with
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  Speaker 4: their base pay than other working adults, and twenty five
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  Speaker 4: percent of their work is uncompensated.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear what I just said?
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  Speaker 4: Twenty five percent of all the work teachers do is uncompensated,
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  Speaker 4: and sixty six percent say their base salary is inadequate,
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  Speaker 4: compared with thirty nine percent of working adults. Okay, it's terrible,
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  Speaker 4: horrible for what teachers mean to us in our communities.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually kind of criminals. So when you have teachers
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  Speaker 4: like Dominique who clearly love what they do because they're
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  Speaker 4: really you know, there really is no reason to be
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  Speaker 4: a teacher other than love, because you know you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be overworked and underpaid to If Dominique wants to have
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  Speaker 4: a side hustle, God bless her. I know what you're thinking, Uncleshalla.
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  Speaker 4: What you're saying sounds good. But before I agree, what
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  Speaker 4: is her side hustle? Well, let's go to WTAE Detroit
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  Speaker 4: for the report.
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  Speaker 2: Police.
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  Speaker 1: Dominique Brump, whose rap name is Dripping Honey, has been
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  Speaker 1: an educator for seven years and started teaching history at
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Preparatory High School in August, but all that came
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  Speaker 1: to an abrupt end months later after she says a
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  Speaker 1: parent came across one of her rap videos.
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  Speaker 5: The first meeting that I had was like the principal
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  Speaker 5: dund and they had told me that the parent wished
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  Speaker 5: to stay anonymous, and she felt as if she didn't
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  Speaker 5: like my rap career and that I was a bad
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  Speaker 5: influence on the kids because I rap.
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  Speaker 1: She said she was fired in February because she's a rapper.
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  Speaker 1: Before the firing, around Thanksgiving, she says, there were meetings
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  Speaker 1: and an ultimatum.
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  Speaker 5: My mind, in my heart was telling me two things.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just I couldn't see myself like giving up my
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  Speaker 5: other passion just because somebody didn't like it. They said,
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  Speaker 5: erase all your content. That was all and maybe erast
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  Speaker 5: all your content. I'm just like, respectfully, I can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Brown acknowledges the profanity in her lyrics, but she says
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  Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with Taylor Prepp and the
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  Speaker 1: positive impact she's had on her students and the community.
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  Speaker 1: In February, on her last day, she created a music
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  Speaker 1: video with her students that has since gone viral. Christina
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  Speaker 1: Lenz says her son in eleventh grader started a petition
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  Speaker 1: in supportive miss Brown, gathering over two hundred student signatures.
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  Speaker 2: Dropping the Clues Box with Dominique brownieka Dripping.
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  Speaker 4: Honey, Dripping Honey fired because of an anonymous hating as
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  Speaker 4: parent complaining saying she's a bad influence on her students
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  Speaker 4: because she's a rapper.
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  Speaker 2: How you feel like that?
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  Speaker 4: In Detroit, home with some of the most influential people
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  Speaker 4: ever to pick up a microphone, there is nothing but
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of rapidy, rap ass Negroes and Caucasians in Detroit. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: people in Detroit started rapping soon as they come out
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  Speaker 4: the womb, soon as they get smacked on the ass
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  Speaker 4: by the doctor. They don't cry. They start spitting, Boss,
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know what it thought. Trick Trick, Ice
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  Speaker 4: wear Vessel, Side of Babies, Baby Phase Rade forty two,
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  Speaker 4: Doug cast Doll, Royce five nine d twelve, Danny Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he tries Big Sean. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: They got this one guy who's considered by many one
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  Speaker 4: of the greatest of all time. He's not on my
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  Speaker 4: personal list, but objectively speaking, you can't deny his place
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  Speaker 4: in hip hop culture. Marshall matters is that name ring
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  Speaker 4: a bell? What I'm telling you is rapping in Detroit
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  Speaker 4: is like breathing, okay, and being from Detroit. There's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of other side hustles she could be doing that
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  Speaker 4: could be considered a bad influence, but rapp ain't one
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  Speaker 4: of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yo.
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  Speaker 4: Now she got a record, okay. You heard them talk
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  Speaker 4: about it in the news report.
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  Speaker 2: I saw. I watched it on YouTube.
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  Speaker 4: It's called Dripping One on One And in the video
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  Speaker 4: she has some.
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  Speaker 2: Of her students, you know actually in the video.
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  Speaker 4: In the description of the video, it says, Dripping one
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  Speaker 4: on one featuring the best students in the world.
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  Speaker 2: All I hear is a positive anthem.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, a positive anthem okay, encouraging young ladies not to
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  Speaker 4: be ho east. Okay, I don't know how old Dominique
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  Speaker 4: Brown is, but she doesn't look old. And this is
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  Speaker 4: the first time, probably ever in the history of life,
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  Speaker 4: that the age demographics between adults and kids is really
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  Speaker 4: non existent. And what I mean by that is the
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  Speaker 4: stuff we was raised on in the nineteen hundreds and
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  Speaker 4: early two thousands really ain't no different from you know
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  Speaker 4: what these kids is on now. It's the same type
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  Speaker 4: of content. Okay, argue amongst yourselves. We try to act
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  Speaker 4: like our generation was so much better. They might have
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  Speaker 4: been talent wise, but the content is the same.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. How is the generation to raise off?
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  Speaker 4: Nwa Uncle Luke lil Kim three six, Mathia and Eminem.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna judge anybody, Okay, as long as that woman is
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  Speaker 4: doing what she's supposed to be doing in that classroom
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  Speaker 4: and her kids are learning and passing. If she wants
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  Speaker 4: to rap in her spare time, let up. And I
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  Speaker 4: bet you all of those kids trust her more than
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  Speaker 4: they trust any other teacher in the school because she
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  Speaker 4: speaks their language.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, how about this?
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  Speaker 4: Instead of stopping teachers side hustles, how about improving pay
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  Speaker 4: because a lot of teachers are getting out of the
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  Speaker 4: teaching business, and a lot of teachers aren't looking to
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people aren't even looking to get into
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  Speaker 4: the teaching business. So if you want to recruit and
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  Speaker 4: retain educators, get their money up, but not only that,
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  Speaker 4: improve the number of hours worked in their overall working conditions.
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  Speaker 4: That's how you gonna keep teachers wanting to be teachers.
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  Speaker 2: And then the mean time.
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  Speaker 4: You shouldn't try to stop them from rapping to potentially
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  Speaker 4: find the career to make its meat. You should be
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  Speaker 4: ashamed that they have to attempt to rap to find
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  Speaker 4: a career that make ins meat because you not paying
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  Speaker 4: them enough as a teacher. Please give Preparatory High School
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  Speaker 4: in Detroit the biggest s hull.
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  Speaker 2: What y'all is giggling at looking at her?
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  Speaker 3: It's going through videos.
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  Speaker 2: But she got a bunch of them only so one
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  Speaker 2: what else you got? I saw drive on Driffer one
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  Speaker 2: on one. It was there was then there was the
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  Speaker 2: about getting it is that her?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that's her dripping honey, driven honey, that's
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  Speaker 4: miss honey. No, yes it is, Yes, it is how.
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  Speaker 2: You spell driven d R I P P I N.
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  Speaker 3: Space honey that is dripping.
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  Speaker 2: No, she got it.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, as a person who used to be
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  Speaker 4: a student, Okay, we like the teachers that got that
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  Speaker 4: back down to take that class.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you ain't got no choice public school.
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  Speaker 4: But I can't remember a teacher right now who had
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  Speaker 4: adult at Berkeley Middle School and.
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  Speaker 3: He was all in that class. It was there every
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  Speaker 3: day on time.
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  Speaker 4: She was also a very nice person though, right, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to say yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he wasn't saying that about.
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  Speaker 5: We were just saying while he was preaching.
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  Speaker 3: In the circle, climbing up the walls. Okay, what what
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  Speaker 3: what this middle high what is it?
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  Speaker 2: The name of the song is called Nigga No hold up,
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  Speaker 2: but that's another song. I just got to say that.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, so this is elementary school he's at? It just
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  Speaker 4: said the preparatory school more than this high school.
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  Speaker 2: It might be high school. Yeah, the kids looked older.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I say, I went to a college
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  Speaker 4: preparatory school that was high school.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm being honest, some of the kids in the
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  Speaker 2: video look older than her. Yeah, okay, choice, it's more
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  Speaker 2: than likely a high school. Okay, rough out there they
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  Speaker 2: grew up rough they all right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, dripping honey, dripping honey, three one three, go follow
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  Speaker 4: her on YouTube. She only got three thousand subscribers, like
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  Speaker 4: a little over there, a little over three thousand subscribers.
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  Speaker 2: Go follow her on YouTube because she won't have a
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  Speaker 2: job right now.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yes, you have plenty offers by the end of
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  Speaker 4: the show, So that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dripping one, Drip one on one got ninety four
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  Speaker 3: thousand views, that's.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest one. Yeah, and then Nigga No got ten
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  Speaker 2: thus had Nigga got ten thousands? And then the don't
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  Speaker 2: call no cheat cold you know, cheat code.
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  Speaker 3: Then the dripping honey, the rumors freestyle, that's the one
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  Speaker 3: that uh you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And just go down this dripping honey rabbit hole real quick.
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  Speaker 3: Then there's the the Let's go to the Beach Swimsuit
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  Speaker 3: edition slutter you, dripping honey, dripping honey.
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  Speaker 4: It's disgusting what they do to public public school teachers
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  Speaker 4: out here in the street, overworked and underpaid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well that is the donkey of the day, Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: What a doubt?
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