Boom 2 Tha Beat
The Beat Maker
“It’s Shyheim the young beat maker an ill line sayer and you a candy rapper henceforth now and later. Nestle crunching this beat, but you blessed it’s Payday but with Zero bars you just a Sugar Baby. Just watch this StarBurst cause I’m a winner and you’s a dude left swiped on Tinder….”
Shyheim! If you’re finished taking us on a tour of Candy Land, we would love an answer to number 3. As in number 3 on page 422 of the closed green book on your desk.
Yo, aight teach, but you know it was dope! Ok dope. Alright, alright. Let’s see, 420, 421, 422. Ahem. Number 3. Describe the U.S. Entrance into World War I.
You can probably tell by now that Shyheim the Beat Maker is “that” kid in the classroom. You know, the all around kid that can rap, dance, and probably even cook. And by the way he answered Number 3 on page 422, he will most likely score in the high 20s on the ACT test.
Now, before you finish the story in your mind, the Beat Maker isn’t that smart black kid from the hood with untapped talent that gets shot at the end of the story. But, before we dive too far in the life and times of Shyheim, let’s find out who else is in the class.
The Class
For starters, I’m the teacher. Twenty-seven year old J.C. Robinson from Mobile, Alabama. My career as a teacher snuck up on me.
As a 17 year old senior at LeFlore High School, I just knew that I would go to college, then law school, and put away bad guys, as I used to say.
But, a summer internship with the Children’s Defense Fund steered me into the classroom.
As for as the other kids in the class, let’s see. There is the Short Stork, because she is 4’10” and knows all of the news at school. Sometimes she informs me of information before I get an e-mail.
In the back of the class sits Skinny Larry. Now, Larry is not skinny and although I normally don’t let students sit in the back of the class, Larry is a nice kid that is self-conscious about his weight. Larry is also one of the baddest trumpet players this side of the Mississippi River.
In case you’re wondering, I don’t call the kids these nicknames to their faces. In my first year of teaching, I had 37 kids in one class and had to create these little nicknames to remind myself of who each kid was.
That being said, the last student is Tinker Hatfield. Real name, Marcus Tyrell. If the name Tinker Hatfield doesn’t ring a bell, then he is the man that designed the Air Jordans.
Marcus got this nickname because one day in class he was cleaning his Jordan 11 Concords, instead of completing a Great Depression timeline. So I say, “I bet the person that made those shoes finished their Great Depression assignments.
He replies, “Tinker Hatfield was an architecture major so he didn’t take many history classes.” He was Tinker Hatfield from that point forward.
Welcome to the classroom…..
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