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Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Word.
That's nobody's business but the haters.
Robert Van Winkle Elementary?
Is the school motto, "GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO!"?
if not I will be seriously disappointed.
NINJA, NINJA RAP!
I suppose they could be the Robert Van Winkle Ninjas.
Home of the Fighting We Used To Be Somebodies.
Actually it would be Home of the Fighting House Renovators/Occaisional Home Remodeling Reality TV Show that also occasionally features The Amish.
Vanilla Ice still raps – he's signed to Hatchet House (Psychopathic Records' sub-label).
Good luck getting THAT to fit on a sports team jersey
Every kid needs copies of TMBG cd's to go to sleep with every night, Here comes Science, abc, and 123's are a great start!
My parents gave me Tom Lehrer and Flanders and Swann tapes. My (theoretical) kid will get TMBG and Weird Al, and my grtandkids will probably get something I find banal or incomprehensible because Kids These Days.
I gave her Here Come The ABC's and NO! when she was maybe 3 years old and they didn't stick. Might try again now that she can appreciate the music more than the lessons.
Joel, you'd be better off letting your kids education be handled by old episodes of Sesame Street than the Texas public school system.
My daughter watched Sesame Street IN ABUNDANCE for as long as it was age appropriate. She got a lot out of it. Lots of conceptual lessons about how to be a good person that are hard to explain to a kid are much easier to grasp when they can see it acted out in front of them. I'm very grateful to Seseme Street.
That's a pretty low bar; a pack of wild coyotes are better than the Texas public school system.
No offence (and my sympathies) to anyone who's trying to change that.
To be fair, we've been really lucky with Kiddo's school. The teachers and administrators have all been great, and we haven't encountered any bullshit… yet.
It's like the difference between a person and "people". Schools can be great, the school system needs some work.
So none of that stuff about how all the founding fathers were Protestants and slavery wasnt that bad as long as they didnt get uppity?
The bullshit starts in middle school
Regulators…….Mount up!
Jesus, this just makes me want to rap the entire song.
What about PAC , wu-tang clan or Eminem
If you don't have the lyrics to Regulate and Gangsters Paradise down before your 13th birthday your parents have failed you.
Quite a bee in your bonnet, Joel.
May I suggest building a little birdhouse in your soul?
Though I'd respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job.
Hehe.
You Argonaut-killing bastard.
Well, at least the alt text finally found an awesome song to play.
Remember, you're older than you've ever been and now you're even older
and now your older still
Would it be more confusing to expose her to, like, bluegrass covers of rap songs? Like the Gourds doing Gin & Juice?
I unironically LOVE that Gourds cover so incredibly hard.
Child friendly hip hop is SO hard to find.
Most of MC Frontalot might be good, though
You could always cue up some Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch and tell the story of how one man tried to live up to his boy band singer brother's shadow and surpass it only to run away from it years later. It's both musical history and theater all in one!
Say Hello to your mother for me.
my name is Particle Man and I'm here to say, that Triangle man is the biggest busta in the USA! Word to yer mutha…
Well, at least he's not Person Man?
You have to expose kids to a broad range of classic rock and rap so they can truly appreciate Weird Al later in life.
Amish paradise
you said TMBG, I am in love with you. No, wait, I’m in love with They Might Be Giants.