sometimes my students like to freestyle towards the end of class during their free time. it's usually unremarkable, or related to something that just happened: [you know i be gettin the answers / cuz i'm payin attention in school] after getting a question right, for example. but, last year, one of my teenage boys dropped a bar so iconic I have not stopped thinking about it since: "keep it strapped like a dyke". his slur to reclaim? absolutely not. but you can't deny its magnetism.














