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Here it is: The last Week in Rap of the school year. Only we decided to do something special for the high school graduates. This is the past 18 years in rap. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to link to all of the stories. Have a great summer! See you in the fall!

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1992 –

Over 4 million American babies born,

The Brits send the first text message, what’s more,

Rodney King verdict, Bill Clinton is elected,

No more cold war, Yugoslavia’s dissected,

93 – European Union is created,

David Koresh and his cult do not make it,

94 – The year of Nelson Mandela,

And Genocide in Rwanda, I’ll tell you,

Republicans they came in, they followed a Newt,

And Forrest Gump ate a box of chocolates too,

95 – First female secretary of state,

OJ Simpson gets acquitted, he was out in L.A.

Pokémon debuts, but it is a pity,

When a bomb blows up in Oklahoma City,

Gaza and the West Bank, are you feeling them?

They’re not Israeli anymore, they’re Palestinian,

1996 – The Atlanta Olympics,

Mad cow disease spreads, it’s intense,

It doesn’t affect the Bulls or Michael Jordan,

RIP Tupac, he was important,

97 – Mother Teresa dies,

So does B.I.G. and Princess Di,

But Harry Potter is born, so is Dolly the sheep,

NASA puts a rover on Mars – it’s totally sweet,

98 – we balance the budget and save dimes,

Matthew Shepherd gets killed – it’s a hate crime,

99 – The whole nation cries,

When we hear of what happened at Columbine,

Bill Clinton lies about a lady, gets impeached,

We celebrate the millennium and hit the streets,

2000 – Gore wins, no Bush wins or…

In the end it’s decided by the Supreme Court

2001 – Napster takes a permanent nap,

iPods arrive and our genome is mapped,

I bet we all remember the hour,

When we heard that two planes had hit the towers,

September 11^th caused almost 3,000 coffins,

US invaded Afghanistan hunting bin Laden,

02 – American Idol debuts, it’s awesome,

Especially for Kelly Clarkson,

Bush sees an Evil Axis, lowers taxes,

Enron fraud, Spiderman does back flips,

03 – The start of the Iraq war,

While the genocide claims lives in Darfur,

Columbia explodes, SARS is deadly,

Hispanics are now the biggest minority,

04 – Red Sox win, reverse the curse

Facebook is founded by a couple of nerds,

It’s the year the Tsunami hits the shore,

Kerry’s swift-boated, Bush wins four more,

05 –Pope dies, concerts for AIDS,

YouTube, Twilight, Guitar Hero amaze,

London subway bombing, hurricane Katrina,

Baseballers are doping and where is FEMA?

06 – Al Gore makes a movie, it’s true,

Iran gets uranium but is it for nukes?

Nintendo says “Wii,” Scientists find a fish,

Saddam gets hanged, Democrats in Congress,

07 –Virginia Tech and the troop surge,

iPhone drops, and the housing bubble bursts,

We see the first female speaker of the house,

Dixie Chicks win gold, Karl Rove steps down,

08 – the fighting heats up in Gaza,

There’s the first black president, Barack Obama,

Lehman Brothers FAIL, Phelps for the win,

8 gold medals, the boy can swim!

09 – stimulus, Avatar, prop 8,

Gay marriage, moon water, RIP MJ,

H1N1, and Sotomayor

We’re $10 trillion debt, and it’s gonna be more,

2010 – Earthquakes in Chile and Haiti,

Oil spills and ash clouds, it’s crazy,

Tea Party, iPad, 3D’s a nice fad,

New Brit government and health reform passed,

3.3 million high school graduates,

Think of yourself and tell me, are you proud of it?

Channel One, Flocab wishing you congrats,

This has been the last 18 years in rap.

Flocabulary wishing you congrats,

This has been 18 years…

May 21st – Waddap tho/

Flocab with the news listen up let’s go/

In the Gulf/

Oil’s still gushing/

Where’s it going? That’s a whole other discussion/

They’re saying it may have entered the Loop Current/

The residents of Florida are hoping for a deterrent/

Perhaps we can get luck from Kevin Costner/

Whose “Ocean Therapy” invention was offered/

Essentially it acts like a vacuum/

Pulling out oil and pushing the water back through/

That’s cool – but what about Thailand?/

Bangkok’s wilin’/

Covered with violence/

Red Shirts want the Prime to resign/

But the Military’s saying, “Not this time”/

Next though from Mexico/

Their President has come to visit and he wants to let ya know/

He ain’t really feeling the new law/

On immigration that Arizona installed/

But here’s a little good news ya’ll/

One of Time’s top fifty  inventions  was called/

“Fold N Play Speakers”/

They’re made out of paper/

That’s been recycled, alright any takers?/

Move-makers – check out the Dream Act/

Some people dig it and some think it seems wack/

It’s for the children of illegal aliens/

A way to gain citizenship/

Only if they begin/

Military service, or attend college/

Then permanent residence would be acknowledged/

But how about a moment of solace/

Hopefully the war in Kabul will be abolished/

Flocabulary’s coming back real soon/

Until then then see ya next week when you tune in.

I bet ya’ll ain’t know this is National Music Week/

Who’d a thought we’d be rapping the news this week?/

It’s guaranteed we got a lot to say/

Can Flocab get the Week in Rap underway?

First off let’s talk about BP/

The oil spill ought to be all over TV!/

This is classified as a worldwide tragedy/

Oil’s spilling out into the Gulf rapidly/

They’re saying that it may hit the shore/

We don’t even know the half of what we’re in for/

What’s next/

How about New York/

It got more serious than what you thought/

There was a bomb scare out in Times Square/

By now I bet you’re glad that you all were not there/

Apparently they caught the bomber ‘bout to hop a plane/

Real talk, he’s got a lot to explain/

And how about New Jersey/

Teen drivers, ask yourselves, are you worthy?

To have a decal slapped on your plate/

Do you think this will help to make the roads safe?

Wait – how about all the flooding/

Tennessee never even knew what was coming/

The rain translated into pain/

For anyone who had loved ones that were slain/

The weather works however it wants/

You could be safe and then need an emergency response/

But here’s a death that wasn’t a surprise/

Cause she was the oldest person alive/

A week before she would turn one-one-five/

The world was notified that she died/

Right – Flocab’s bringing you the news/

The Week in Rap’s got it on lock/

We’re making moves.

Flocab,

Third week in April,

Can I get a little something from the turntable?

(Scratch)

Did ya’ll know it was the birthday of Earthday?

40 years deep we’ve been celebrating her, hey!

Some of ya’ll even had the prom,

In the middle of the week though,

What’s going on?

And while the DJ was playing your song,

People in West Europe were trying to fly home,

The volcano had covered up the sky,

With ash, making it much harder to fly,

The economics of it might cause a crisis,

There are thousands wondering where there flight is,

Here’s something that ya might miss,

Charlie Crist vetoed SB-6,

A bill being worked on in Florida,

That had all the teachers in an uproar, sorta,

Nearby in the Gulf of Mexico,

An oil rig caught fire, I’m trying to let ya know,

Louisiana’s where it went down,

11 went missing, let’s hope they get found,

Lastly, have you heard about the new hundred?

Apparently, the counterfeiting days are numbered,

I guess Benjamin needed a make-over,

Another Flocab Week in Rap takeover.

Flocab comin at ya, no stallin/

Welcome to the Spring, now watch out for the pollen/

It’s nice though, don’t you hear the birds callin/

But I was on the couch watchin college kids Ballin/

Now the women really had it tough/

Cause U Conn’s legacy was so hard to touch/

It was their 78th straight win/

Ending with a title now on to the Men’s/

It was Butler up against Duke/

The number one seed proved it wasn’t a fluke/

Though it came down to the last shot/

The underdogs were hot/

But Duke was on top/

But what about all the quakes/

Cali and Mexico had to hit the breaks/

7.2 is all that it takes/

For people all across the states to get the shakes/16

They had blasts at the consulate in Pakistan/

It sounds serious/

They are not practicing/

Peace is cool though/

Homie, you can ask a friend/

Over 50 people died we can’t bring em back again/

Something for the internet junkies/

The FCC & Comcast were getting funky/

See Comcast slowed some of its traffic/

So web-based businesses took a bad hit/

Then a US appeals court ruled/

That the FCC had no room to move/

But the government got Toyota/

Allegedly they knew their safety had missed the quota/

So 16 Mil is the fine/

The largest penalty ever made of all time/

Now we’ve made it to the end of the line/

You can call it the Week In Rap/

Or call it The Week in Rhyme/

We gonna shine!

Hip-hop is not dead, it just needs some medcine,
Week in Rap is back – your doctor is in,
Health reform passed! Wow it took a minute,
But Democrats have numbers in the House and in the Senate,
So they passed the bill and sent it to President,
Who got to sign his whole name all up in it,
Yeah Barack Obama, he caused a lot of drama,
Cuz Republicans think it might swell the deficit,
But if the law could speak, for real,
It’d be like “scuse me but I’m kind of a big deal,”
The biggest law to get passed since the sixties,
Who remembers that? At least a couple hippies!
We polled teens on the national debt,
And the question had a lot of you scratching your heads,
The debt’s going sky high like a passenger jet,
Should we stop it? That hasn’t been happening yet,
Google’s trying to change the way things work,
They want to give Chinese people the freedom to search,
China thinks Google has gone wrong,
By switching their Chinese base to Hong Kong,
They disagree like Mississippi over the prom,
Where a gay girl couldn’t have her date on her arm,
Now Israel wants to keep building settlements,
But that’s protested by Palestinian residents,
And now some Americans are getting involved,
With tough words from Clinton giving them pause,
Um, what else?
There’s other things happening affecting your health,
They’re gonna list the calories where you can easily see,
In the hopes Americans will get less obese,
And eat fewer burgers that are covered in cheese,
I got cheese in my wallet, not the kind you can eat,
For all the kids struggling, going through things,
Know the number one contender is not always the king,
Just look at Kansas, only thing’s for sure
Week in Rap in two weeks we’ll be back with some more…

It’s Flocab with the World News tactics/

Hoping that you wore green for St. Patrick’s/

There’s a lot of news that you may have missed/

So let me break it down so you can get the jist/

First off – and this is for you/

Many changes to education have gone through/

- Rewind back/

Remember the “No Child Left Behind Act”?/

Obama wants to rework it/

But it’ll take time till its perfect/

Until then/

You know how it goes/

Detroit and Missouri saw a lot of schools close/

They all took cuts from their budget/

That’s just how it is man, nobody loves it/

New subject – how bout the banks/

They’re ‘bout to make some changes and ya’ll can say thanks/

Have you ever had an overdraft fee?/

Bank of America’s gonna change their policy/

So now instead of getting charged/

You just can’t spend money that isn’t yours/

This will put it back into focus/

Thailand had a big political protest/

They thought the government was a dud/

So they gave up a whole bunch of blood/

And poured it on the gates of the home/

Of the government that they wanna de-throne/ 26

Back in the States/

Jihad Jane may be feeling out of place/

But there’s plenty now on the list/

Of Americans supposedly switched to terrorists/

But – Flocab stays calm/

We’re just here to tell ya’ll what’s going on/

This has been another Week in Rap song/

See ya next week, till then we’re gone/

Good morning, welcome all to a recap,
Flocab with The Week in Rap.
Bringing you the news in high magnitude,

Like the earthquake in Chile that made a city move,
10 feet to the west
The location moved on the GPS.
In Iraq, searching for a new direction,
2000 women are running in the election,
Campaigning, searching for change in the
Operation that’s male-dominated.
The prez and the first lady had an event
To celebrate international women’s day.
The prez gave praises and well wishes
To those serving leadership positions
In his administration. We face a reality
Marked by unfairness and inequalities
For too many women. Instead of making one group a victim
Make the world equal for both genders.
The oscars proved it pays to have a hurt locker
“And the Oscar goes to” Kathryn Bigelow,
First-female director to receive an
Academy Award. round of applause.
Because of a disagreement between
Cablevision and ABC i almost didn’t see it.
There’s a debate on the possible soda tax
A penny-per-ounce. That’s like 12 cents a soda can.
The question I thought of is
Ahould I pay extra cash or just stick to water?
I have to acknowledge how 100 % of an
All-boys chicago charter school is college bound,
UrbanPrep earned a good reputation
With every student furthering their education.
And Duncan is making it his duty to
Give students of all races equal opportunity
To learn, stepping up enforcement
Of civil rights violations in schools, so we learn the same courses
Of course this is Flocabulary,
The week in rap, we’ll be back in a hurry.