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