Blak Prophetz at Bentley West school career day.
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