Busta Rhymes, seen here on stage at the 2023 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, applauds Bearden and her staff for encouraging kids to learn through music.

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Other modern minstrel rap tunes include “Chicken Noodle Soup” and “Fry That Chicken,” both of which have videos showing kids dancing little jigs while grinning and eating soul food.

But we're also doing some really cool things to make it really authentic, what we have launching for back-to-school our own rap platform. We call it WRAP—writing rhymes with academic purpose.

In simpler terms, she calls it Rap, Rhythm, and Rhyme. Ball and her unorthodox methods have helped inspire two nationally acclaimed charter schools—one in Houston, the other in New York.

Thousands of kids and adults across the globe aspire to be famous rappers, and tens of thousands more just rap as a hobby.