AKALA: And it isnt. 6 why might akala say that we should teach shakespearelegacy stadium schedule. Draw for your sword orSee to it your knees meet and greet the ground,Bow! But lets talk a little bit first. Many people want to find a reason for his 'intelligence' because he didnt go to Oxbridge and people wanted to explain that. This was a boy who had already read Lord of the Rings and was tackling The Autobiography of Malcolm X far ahead of anything he was being taught in school. Id like to read it. But they didnt see being smart as separate from being a tough guy. BARBARA: The horrible ones are the interesting ones, yeah. AKALA: Well, its to think about language, perception of language, language out of context, linguistic techniques, metaphor, simile, alliteration, rhythm. What you gonna do?All you little boys get Tamed like the Shrew.Youre midsummer dreamin,Your tunes aint appealingIm Capulet, youre Montague, I aint feeling.I am the Julius Caesar hear meThe Merchant Of Venice couldnt sell your CDAs for me, Alls Well That Ends WellYour boys like Macbeth, youre going to Hell.Measure for Measure, I am the best hereYoure Merry Wives of WindsornotKing LearI dont know about Timon,I know he was in Athens.When I come back like Hamlet you pay for your actions. Thats not an easy feat and, AKALA: Yeah, exactly, right? Something like this helps hiphop, at its best, be understood. I mean you gotta remember when blues was around, you know, in the UK, we have a paper called the Daily Mail, a favorite right-wing paper. AKALA: Next one, we will go for, I was not born under a rhyming planet.. Got linked here through an article on decolonising shakespeare and one rabbit hole later. damn Akala's good. I really liked him before but my enjoyment of him has been taken to a whole new level due to this. Yes!! If he had been some classical actor and did a sonnet, they would have been on their feet. Maybe its food for the spirit. So, I think, like I said, theres a lot of proeven Received Pronunciation. I am one that I sometimes am critical of mainstream hip-hop and the violence and the misogyny and whatever else. AKALA: Okay. He has inspired thousands of UK Emcees to rap consciously, the future of UK Hip Hop is bright. Garland Scott is the associate producer. However, the Shakespeare of this generation will undoubtedly have a knowledge of Hip-Hop. Learning never stops! Show all results: Artists. The plots we think of as quintessentially Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear, among othersare based on old stories, histories and myths that he reworked into his own material. But many of these stories are not original stories. It's because of the musicality of the rhymes and the flow, it eases the memorisation, and this is partly why hip-hop is so great. Support us to bring Shakespeare and his world to life for everyone. The only differencesometimes iscultural understanding.. without knowledge, how can you understand? Blood, I'm the heir to the throne . BARBARA: Yeah, certainly not in class terms, yeah. The integration of thoughts across the two seemingly separate worlds of Shakespeare and Hip Hop. Many versions of this story about two star-crossed lovers who die sad deaths have been made for the theater and movie. Two-years later and you are still saving lives in English classes. Shakespeare Unlimited comes to you from the Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the worlds largest Shakespeare collection. But some thought I was just a little bit too bright for someone like me. AKALA: Precisely. the messenger tells leonato, governor of messina, that the men are returning from battle. Maybe its hatred I spew. But kids, and adults even, often read Shakespeare before they see it, before they hear it, which just seems so cockeyed. My class and I are speaking of Shakespeare and I will definitely recommend this to my students. Both Hiphop and Shakespeare are examples of the some of the most paramount poetry there is. Part of my job, I think, and part of our job with hip-hop with Shakespeare is to sort of undo this undue reverence. I mean this is. Even an acclaimed Shakespearean actor like Sir Ian McKellen can't always answer correctly. Nothing but intellect and pure truth in the booth . Yeah? As someone who grew up listening to KRS-One and Lauryn Hill and The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and that whole incredible tradition of the music of the African diaspora in America, for me, I never had that problem. I'm a high school English teacher. But also its not seen as cool to be clever it is in Jamaica, its not here. His works are timeless. For me, its that sense of cultural property, of not being told, You are X. I show this video to my high school students every year prior to teaching Shakespeare. The majority of my teachers were really, really good. Finish Akala's sentence: "Rhythm is so intrinsic (or natural) to us because music is imitating _____" A heart beat. Both she and the British Caribbean side of Akalas family encouraged his learning. AKALA: Yeah, I mean the politics of class, really, in the UK, even in a lot of Britains former colonies, actually, theres less of an intimidation, ironically, towards Shakespeare than in the UK itself, where if youre in India, for example, you know, a society where they have their own three millennia long tradition of, you know, literary history, people I worked with in India, I even children from tougher backgrounds were just like, Shakespeares yeah, hes another writer. Dive deep into the worlds largest Shakespeare collection and access primary sources from the early modern period. His characters are timeless. But I do think its interesting that a lot of people who dont know hip-hop have this negative opinion of it without even knowing it. The question is, why are some people then turned off it and others not? While there are certainly Shakespeare-ian phrases and a few pronunciations that exist in the Appalachian dialect, it's disingenuous to say that the accent is the same or close to what they spoke like. Whos watching this because your teacher assigned it to you????????? The assignment is like two weeks late . So, in a lot of so our last production as a company was of Richard II which was, we did essentially a concept, rock opera, if you like, think, you know. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. AKALA: describes it as jazz. BARBARA: Right, and the haths and the whatever. Lyrics, Meaning & Videos: That Boy Akala, That Boy, -That Boy Akala-, Dat Boy Akala, That Boy Akala (Pure Exclus 2006), Akala - That Boy Akala, The Edge, Akala - Shakespeare, Akala feat Low Deep - That BOy Akala. That why I think Shakespeare shouldn't be taught in . AKALA: I think theres a lot of different things and it depends where you are. #1 Universal appeal. So if you write a verse on a regular tempo sort of hip-hop beat, 70 to 90 BPM, its very difficult to write the verse in such a way that it transfers onto what we in the UK call grime, which is 140 beats per minute. I mean its listen, I dont like to embarrass people but we did a workshop, one of our launch workshops. Shakespeare is a literary heavyweight, and just bringing up his name strikes a chord with readers and writers (you can see eyes growing wide with affection at the very utterance of his name). so happy to find akala. Feel free to go check out Mongomery's book, A Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, he's written other things but that one should suffice.Since youtube doesn't want me to link it, google "Shakespeare's Accent: How did the Bard really sound?" Who needs to revise for history/English exams when you have Akala! And to their power of imagination characters in stories Ive read are like my friends, to me they live and if they die I grieve for them. Skespeare wrote in the 1600s. Why might Akala say that we should teach Shakespeare? I wish she showed us more of him. England still has this Victorian hangover in the way we teach Shakespeare, Akala explains. And even he got a couple wrong. Prove it. We . You know, youre being poetic but at the same time youve put these very serious constraints on you but what the iambic pentameter, I think, gives you, it makes it a lot easier to memorize and as weve now discovered, you know, we can see that over modern music is a pretty good way for a person to learn how to flow. Turns out you can't syncopate every word lol. AKALA: He was like, I like this stuff. And if you think of the millions of people all around the world, that rap, only a handful of them are actually genuinely incredible. So, when I came to Shakespeare, I was starting from a radically different point to anyone in my class because Id grown up with equally with the tradition of theater and with the Jamaican sound system. They need more exposure. Wise is the man that knows hes a fool.Tempt not a desperate man with a jewel.Why take from Peter to go pay Paul?Some rise by sin and by virtue fall. Answer: He claims that they share rhythm. -DJing -MCing -Break dancing -Graffiti art -Knowledge 5.) I reccomend people who are interested in this point watch his interview on Russia Today where he discusses the causes in detail. BARBARA: Now, you said even when you then change the rhythm its fine. A lot of young boys dont know how to express their emotions and that leads to conflict because they end up articulating them with their fists or worse.. - continued, whOS WAtChIng tHIs BeCaUSe oF SchOOl yeah ok but who got the answers, @Little_Dino_OwO Oml thank you, I really needed this. His points about Wu Tang are really interesting. This culture needs more like him My level of appreciation for Shakespearean plays went up a few notches after listening to the play on a rap beat. MCs! This is a wonderful lecture. So what weve been trying to do is in keeping with its educational tradition.. You should never speak it, it is not a secret. What is the rhythm of IAMBIC PENTAMETER? So, for those who dont know what that is, Im gonna do my BBC accent now. Absolutely gripping. Theres lots of stuff that doesnt rhyme anymore because the accent of English has changed. AKALA: I am reckless what I do to spite the world.. Thank you. You know, Othello is okay. He then goes on to explain how many people who often criticize hip-hop dont actually understand it. It helps us to get the word out to people who havent heard it, people who might enjoy it. "Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define" Hip Hop Shakespeare 7. What is special about hiphop is the fact that it can vividly describe part of american culture that's hidden behind of a veil in such a keen, vicarious, and rebellious way. This guy is smart asf! Annunciation means something quite different (its the visitation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary). You know, if youre 12 how would you understand the fact its even called the Mystery of Iniquity or RZA, 12 Jewelz, hes gotta rap about physics, right? Well what happens when you hear rappers rap in French or in Brazilian Portuguese or inI went to ZimbabweShona. Love them both! I rap Shakespeare and the secret's out now. And I get that point of reference. This site is using cookies under cookie policy . This is a totally manufactured way of speaking. I really do enjoy his intelligence expressed in his passion in hip hop. They call blues devils music and they called it the Negros revenge. Thats an actual quote from the Daily Mail. This man is here to expand our minds Looking for a cogent paradigmThe way he spits lyrics and can instantly sampleThose who dont understand want a good example. Even. And then you have this tradition that youre talking about which comes and tell us a little bit more about that because it comes out of this the griot and the drum circle that came out of the African diaspora. There is a close focus on education in the book - and not much of . Hip-hop Shakespeare brings together several strands of Akalas own life: his music, his knowledge of theatre (his step-dad was Stage Manager at the Hackney Empire) and the huge value he places on education. Alaka believed in the idea of uniting people under music and poetry, and Shakespeare has been appealing to all different types of people. Our doors are reopening in Fall 2023! So, sitting people down and forcing them to read Shakespeare Performance poetry has to be performance first. Miles Davis, of course hes a genius. Its similar with hip-hop. Since 2009, under the auspices of his Hip-hop Shakespeare Company, Akala has been going to community centers, prisons, and schools in immigrant and underserved communities using the tools of hip-hop to spread an understanding of the relevance of Shakespeares poetry. Most of his audience was unabl to even read or write.Hip Hop means "Intelligent Movement".The 5 elements of Hip Hop are: DJ, MC, break dance, graffiti art, and knowledge.The appeal of the Wu Tang Clan was that it united people that listened to all different kinds of music.The "custodian of knowledge" means enlightened, having ideas and doing activities that unite people. Well, like this. Im gonna say thats not Shakespeare. This doesnt belong to you. But the evidence from his recent trip to Jamaica contradicts this. very old; of a long time ago. His plays delve into the issues of love, loss, treachery, honor, tenderness, anger, despair, jealousy, contempt, fear, courage, and wonder. He needs to represent in high schools. And performance, you know, go I think for me, culture is has I unapologetically see culture as a tool for liberation, for people to come together, to better human society. I mean if I gave you Lauryn Hill, The Mystery of Iniquity, one of the most complicated but brilliant raps, ever, [CLIP of Lauryn Hills The Mystery of Iniquity.]. So, I dont have a problem with some of the negativity in hip-hop. BARBARA: This is The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company, your company? 16:09 - 16:12 What are we training the . Akala is on another level! I found it fascinating, enlightening and extremely educational. Find the lyrics and meaning of any song, and watch its music video. You know, it can appeal to you. As Akala points out there are over 100 songs in Shakespeare's plays and iambic pentameter - a poetic meter with five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables per line - is used as much in hip-hop songs as it was in the sonnets. BARBARA: Well, thats a really important and controversial point because theres this huge amount of skill required in that level of rap, right? Some people can't even get past the language, sucks for them. This statement has been disproven many times by academics. Cause theyre not that interesting. BARBARA: So, youre talking about the work that you do with The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company. Hey guys !Ive gotta say something..I would not write a comment down here if my teacher hadnt told me to do it. So, for example, if we take the end of The Tempest: But release me from my bandsWith the help of your good hands.Gentle breath of yours my sailsMust fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. What he has to say is relevant to many act forms. So I felt it would be radical to take this symbol of elitism and say no, thats not what he was in his time and he is still relevant today.. I'm a teacher, and my students and I love this performance. The definition of hip hop he gave was fascinating. @Truth Hurts I think my comment got caught by the spam filters, because it had a few links to outside of youtube (it was on NPR), and it will have to be manually approved by the person who uploaded this video. In the UK, Shakespeare has become a symbol, in many ways, of the British class system, and theres a perception that you have to be like basically as smart as Albert Einstein to enjoy Shakespeare. Yeah, I'm sure Akala would do a real bang up job explaining Lagrangian mechanics and the solution of partial differential equations. BARBARA: And as with everything that came before it, its just this blank slate. BARBARA: I want to start by picking up on something you use at the beginning of the presentations that you do, usually, and its the, Is it hip-hop or Shakespeare? bit. Listed below what? What are the 5 elements of hip-hop? AJ says: "Because hip-hop tells stories, Shakespeare is a good subject. [CLIP from Comedy Tragedy History continues].
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