Wild 'N Out, Oct 16, 2019 #WildNOut #MTV
We celebrated the VMA’s by taking things back to the
classroom and kicking off a new game with 2Chainz . Watch both squads try to hold their own with just a beat bumpin’ on the desk,
following a previous classmates flow.
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"VMA" is an abbreviation for "Video Music Awards"
Total views for this YouTube video as of March 30, 2023 at 4:33 PM EDT= 7 million.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part I of a three part pancocojams series about the rhyming game "Kick 'em Out The Classroom".
This post showcases a YouTube video of Wild 'N Out (American television series') first "Kick 'em Out The Classroom" game. This rhyming game is also called "In the classroom".
Information about the American television series Wild 'N Out and the "Kick em out of the classroom" game are included in this post along with a transcript of that first performance of that game (in October 2014). That transcript is based on the captions for the YouTube video of that first performance. That skit performance occurred in in 2014 on the television series Wild 'N Out.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/03/selected-comments-from-discussion.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. That post showcases the same video as Part I. That post also includes some comments from the discussion for that video and some comments from the discussion thread of another video of a 2014 "Kick 'em out the classroom" game.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/03/black-cultural-influences-on-creation.html for Part III of this pancocojams series. That post presents information about and examples of several Black originated performance arts/recreational activities that remind me of the newly created "Kick 'em out the classroom" freestyle rhyming game.
The content of this post is presented for folkloric, entertainment. and socio-cultural purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Nick Cannon and all of the Wild 'N Out production, writers, casts, and guest rappers who are associated with this showcased skit and all other Wild 'N Out episodes. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
Thanks also to my daughter Tazi Hughes for sharing her experience this week (March 27,2023) of being introduced to this game and joining with some students in playing this game. Read my comment about her experience with that game in the comments section below.
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WARNING - Some of the content of Wild 'N Out's episodes of "Kick 'em out the classroom" include sexual explicit references and/or profanity and other possible problematic content such as very revealing women's blouses. The episode that is showcased in this pancocojams post is the cleanest example of that televised game that I have found online.
The cast of Wild 'N Out's skit "Kick 'em out the classroom" is a multiracial group of young adult males and males. The majority of these actors and their rapper guest/s are Black. In these (probably mostly rehearsed) skits the "students" are shown in a high school or middle school classroom without any teacher or any other adult. The "students" behave in ways that have stereotypically been attributed to urban, and particularly majority African American urban students i.e. constantly throwing paper wads at each other, roasting (dissing/insulting) each other, twerking and doing other dances, using profanity and making sexually suggestive and/or sexually suggestive references, talking about using drugs, and otherwise engaging in behavior or talk that isn't appropriate for school students.
Needless to say, this is NOT the way that all (or I dare say even most) Black (or integrated with majority Black) schools are in the United States.
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INFORMATION ABOUT "NICK CANNON PRESENTS:WILD 'N OUT"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_%27n_Out
"Wild 'N Out is an American sketch comedy and improv game
show series that was created and is hosted by musician and comedian Nick Cannon
currently airing on VH1.[1] It debuted on July 28, 2005 on MTV.
In April 2019, the series had been renewed through Season
16, with 90 new episodes to be produced.[2] On June 19, 2019, it was announced
that Wild 'N Out would expand to VH1, with a special Summer season premiering
on July 7, 2019.[3][4]"...
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As of March 2023, Wild 'N Out has had a total of 18 Seasons.
The teams are made up of a cast of rappers (portraying high school students) who are joined by one or more professional rapper/s.
The names of some of the "Kick 'em out of the classroom" cast is given in the fandom article whose link is below. Some other cast members names with video time stamps are given in Comment #16 of Discussion thread #1 below.
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INFORMATION ABOUT "KICK 'EM OUT THE CLASSROOM"
From https://wild-n-out.fandom.com/wiki/Kick_%27Em_Out_The_Classroom#:~:text=Description,wins%20the%20game.
"Kick 'Em Out The Classroom is one of the recurring improv games that was introduced in Season 14 of the improv comedy show Wild 'N Out on MTV and VH1.
Seasons played- Season 14 to presents
Description
Each team member of both squads must freestyle in this timed
game. If a member gets stuck, messes up the rhyme, or says the same thing a
previous member said in the current round, that member is kicked out the
classroom. The team with the most members at the desk when the time runs out
wins the game."
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Pancocojams Editor's Note:
Notice that the rapping is supposed to flow on the beat from one person to the next. When it doesn't, it destroys the beat. If the person who is supposed to be rappin, doesn't start on the beat, they are said to have "messed up the rhyme". Another way of saying this is that that person is "off beat". A person may "mess up the rhyme" if they rap a sentence that doesn't fit the beat of that game (because that sentence is too short, or too long, or begins after the beat has already begun.
"Gets stuck" means that the person doesn't say anything..
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Additional information about the "Kick 'em out the classroom" game is found in some of the comments that are given in Part II of this pancocojams series.
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE GAME THAT IS EMBEDDED IN THIS POST
Pancocojams Editor's Note
I produced this unofficial transcript from the captions that are given for this video with these minor changes":
I didn't include the portion of Nick Cannon's introduction which refers to the VMA show.
I replaced the word "All" instead of the word "crowd" which is used in those captions. "All"/"Crowd" refers to the total cast and the studio audience saying the refrain "Aye, what you doin in the classroom?" and saying the referain"Aww, kick 'em out the classroom!"
I used "next student" to indicate the person who is rapping a certain line, except for Nick Cannon's name, 2 Chain's name (that skit's guest rapper) , and the name of the DJ who is briefly shown standing behind two turntables. (Although the "students" are shown hitting beats on their desk tops, the beat for this game -purportedly-come from that DJ).
I've also used the names of a few 'students' with their lines. I've identified those few cast members from s reading the discussion threads for some of these "Kick 'em out the classroom" YouTube video. In those cases, I've used those names instead of the referent "next student".
The word "Beep" that is given in those captions and this transcription replaces profanity or other socially unacceptable word on television.
Additions and Corrections are welcome.
Transcription from 0.12 to 3:36
"Nick Cannon - This game is called kick ’em
out the classroom…It’s all about rappin freestylin’, takin it back to school
You get stuck, you mess up the rhyme, you say the same thing, you get kicked out
the classroom. and it’s time game.
At the end of the time, the time with the most people still at their desk wins
the game.
D Wreck.
D. Wreak -Yeah?
Nick Cannon- Let’s get to it.
All of the students and the television studio audience - In the classroom
In the classroom
In the classroom
Aye, what we doin in the classroom?
Nick Cannon- My Versace so fresh-
All- in the classroom
[This refrain is said at the end of each subsequent rap except
for when All say “Kick ‘em out of the classroom.]
Next “student”- You already said that-nothing left-
Next student- “Man, I’m tryin to see some
chest-
Next student- Sharpest [beep] since gas-
Next student – Man, these [beep[ so pressed-
Next student – Man, yo’ weave is the best-
Next student – Well, you know I’m fresh to death-
Next student -You know it’s checkers not chess-
Next student –[makes the sign of the
cross on his body] and says “God bless”-
Next student -Aye, I’m under stress-
Next student – Justina [a student in the
classroom], can I please have sex-
Next student [Justina] -All these boys is
really pests-
Next student- Dat ass I’m not impressed-
Next student – In my class they got the tech-
Next student -Charlie Clips [a “student in the classroom?] ain’t got no neck
Big Mac [a heavyset male] – my back got breast-
Next student – I brush with [beep]-
Next student -Hit man, Hit man then I’m next [“Hit man" is the name a student in
the classroom]
Nick Cannon – Hey dude, to the left
Next student – Don’t nobody really have sex-
All -In the classroom!
Aww, kick ‘em out the classroom!
Aww, kick ‘em out the classroom!
Aye, what we doin in the classroom?
Aye-what we doing in the classroom?
2Chain [guest rapper]- A turkey burger in the classroom
The Next student walks off [because she missed the beginning beat]-
All-Aww, kick ‘em out the classroom!
Aww, kick em out the classroom!
Aye, what we doin in the classroom?
Aye-what we doing in the classroom?
Next student -I been doin geometry in the classroom
Next student – [beep, mumbles]
All-Aww, kick ‘em out the classroom!
Aww, kick em out the classroom!
Aye, what we doin in the classroom?
Aye, what we doin in the classroom?
Next student – I been smokin on big gas-
Next student – Justina got a big ass-
Next student – Ah, I’m not gone pass-
Next Student -Ah, yeah, this [beep] goin’ be your last-
Justina- And I know they tryin to smash-
Next student- Lookin at that ass, I’m goin’ laugh-
Next student - I like all my girls fast-
Next student - I break that booty like glass
Big Mac- Yeah [Instead of standing up to say his rap like most of the other "students", Big Mac says that word while seated at his desk eating a slice
of pizza from a big box.]
-All-Aww, kick
‘em out the classroom!
Aww,
kick em out the classroom!
Aye, what we doin in the classroom?
Aye, what we doin in the classroom"
Next student – Where you goin with the pizza-
Next student – somebody cashed my Visa-
Nick Cannon- I don’t even really see a teacher-
2 Chain – I don’t even really see a preacher-
Next student = You kinda look like a creature- [referring to Justina]
Next student [Bobby J] -I beat your ass for my leisure-
Next student – Jay-Z or Nas speaking
either-
Next student – Charlie Clip got fat sneakers-
Next
student -All those cheerleaders in the bleachers
Justina – I look like Mona Lisa
Next student – You gotta lot of man
features [referring to Justina.]
[Justina hits that student with a book]
All-Aww, kick ‘em out the classroom!
Aww, kick em out the classroom!
Aye, what we doin in the classroom?
[A bell rings signaling the end of this game]
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On March 27, 2023 my daughter Tazi Hughes introduced me to the game "In The Classroom". Tazi is a Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Public elementary school teacher. On March 27, 2023 she accompanied a group of students from her school (Dilworth) to a city wide special music event at a Pittsburgh museum. The teachers and students from her school (including her daughter/my granddaughter) rode a school bus to that event along with teachers and students from a nearby school (Faison). (Dilworth is a magnet school with students who live throughout the city. Dilworth is located in the Highland Park area of Pittsburgh, a middle/upper middle class area of that city. 71% of Dilworth's student population is Black or non-White. Faison is a neighborhood school in Homewood, a working class area of Pittsburgh. 98% of the student population at Faison are Black.)
ReplyDeleteThe majority of the students on that school bus for that special event were Black. On the way to the special event a group of four Black girls and one Black boy from Faison played the game that they called "In The Classroom". Tazi showed interest in that game and eventually joined in the game. On the way back from that special school event, the group playing the game was made up of the same four girls plus my daughter. In addition, At one point a Black teacher from Faison offered a line to this rhyming game. When Tazi said "I'm about to sing in the classroom, a Black teacher from Faison who was also on the bus said "I'm about to let my phone ring in the classroom". Tazi shared with me that the group of students seemed to be excited that teachers were playing that game with them. It appeared that they weren't used to teachers doing that.)
Tazi also shared with me that some students didn't want to play that game because sometimes the girls loudly pressured the other players to be faster when it was their turn to say their line. Perhaps for that reason, the students seemed to stick with the same rhyming words, particularly words like "fight", "aight"(meaning "alright") and "tight" and "ing" words like "sing" and "ring" and "thing", for example "I'mma 'bout to do my thing in the classroom".
One difference between this version of "In The Classroom" and the television version of that game was that the players weren't divided into two groups. Instead, all the players chanted "Aye, what we doin in the classroom/Aye, what we doing in the classroom?" ["Aye" is pronounced like the English word "hey. it is usually elongated like "Aaaaye".]
After that first part, one person begun chanting "I'm about to __ in the classroom". The person to her or his right would then have to come up with a word that rhymes with the word that first person chose. If she or he didn't come up with the right rhyming word at all or fast enough , the rest of the group chanted "Aw, kick 'em out the classroom!/Aw, kick 'em out the classroom!"
In response to my question, my daughter shared with me that no hand clapping or other drum like sound was made by those students or anyone else listening while those students played "In the classroom."
For the record, neither my nine year old granddaughter who was on the school bus nor any other Dilworth students knew that game. Also, none of the Dilworth students riding in that school bus joined in playing that game. My daughter doesn't know if any students from Dilworth know that game.
Btw, my daughter said that "In the classroom" game reminds her of the children's category word game "Concentration". I thought the same thing before she mentioned that to me.
I'll discuss the similarities between "In the classroom"/"Kick 'em out of the classroom", "Concentration", and some other children's recreational games in Part III of this pancocojams series which will be published ASAP.
For those who may not be familiar with this term, being "kicked out the classroom" means that a teacher demands that a student remove themselves from their class because of what the teacher perceives is disruptive behavior.
ReplyDelete"Kicked out of the classroom" means the same thing as "being sent to the [school's] office"
Consequences for being "kicked out of a classroom" may be in-school detention" (having to stay after school), in-home suspension (not being allowed in the school for a period of time), or expulsion from that school (not being permitted to return to that school.)
Here's an excerpt from a 2018 article about the disproportionate rate that Black students in the United States are suspended or expelled from elementary schools:
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"K-12 Education:
Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities" published by U.S. Government Accountability Office, Published: Mar 22, 2018. Publicly Released: Apr 04, 2018
"Black students, boys, and students with disabilities were disproportionately disciplined (e.g., suspensions and expulsions) in K-12 public schools, according to GAO's analysis of Department of Education (Education) national civil rights data for school year 2013-14, the most recent available. These disparities were widespread and persisted regardless of the type of disciplinary action, level of school poverty, or type of public school attended. For example, Black students accounted for 15.5 percent of all public school students, but represented about 39 percent of students suspended from school—an overrepresentation of about 23 percentage points."....