Friday, October 30, 2009

Rapping Chaucer?

I shared these videos with my History of the English Language class today, and I think they are classic enough to gather cult followings...

The first video is Chaucer's Prologue rapped in the vein of a Beastie Boys song:





The second video is academia's attempt at rapping:



I hope you enjoy the videos as much as I (and my HEL students) did!
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Posted by Jessie Sams at 11:12 AM
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  1. Billy LonginoOctober 31, 2009 at 8:12 AM

    Will you be rapping this in class next week now?

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  2. Jessie SamsOctober 31, 2009 at 8:27 AM

    That was the request from my HEL students... I don't know if Structures would understand the sudden break-out of rapping Chaucerian lines in class. Maybe I could rap about diagramming--you know to make the POS labels and phrases and functions more memorable. That professor gives me something to compete with... Just how zany can I be?

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  3. Billy LonginoOctober 31, 2009 at 3:02 PM

    I would just be amazed that someone could make a rap (song?) about that.

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