Evolution: Rap It Up!

Deborah B. Asbell

Target age:	Middle School-High School.
Class time required:	5-10 minutes depending on whether you want a performance.
Materials and equipment:	Optional-cassette player and cassette of the female rap group Salt-N Pepa containing the single "None of Your Business."
Summary of activity:	There are very few books or activities related to inner city students and their interests. This activity will show an interest on your part in their world.
Teacher instructions:	Pick up a disk or CD of the rap group Salt-N-Pepa that includes their hit single "None of Your Business."

Evolution: Rap It Up!

(When rapping, follow the rhythm of
Salt-N-Pepa's "None of Your Business.")

Chorus
If I want to teach tonight. Evolution? Right!
None of your business.
If you want to be a freak 'n teach it on the weekend,
None of my business.
What chu doin' with their lives
Leavin' evolution out?
Don't chu think that you should make a stand
and stop the doubts? Ha!
Darwin, Mayer, Watson, Crick,
Mendel(son) 'n old Lamarck,
Retro-, transpo-, hepadn-,
Makes you want to barf? Right!
Flu is evolution too
And you thought you were so safe.
AIDS 'n cold sores-scary stuff but
Changes we've all met. So. . . .
Now you know just what IT is.
Change and Evolution. Same!
Don't be suckered into playing
Brown vs. Board games.
(Chorus).
If I want to teach tonight. Evolution? Right!
None of your business.
If you want to be a freak 'n teach it on the weekend,
None of my business.

Go for it.

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