DONKEY: Teacher Fired Over Her Rap Career Side Hustle

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Now, Yes, donkey today for Monday, March twenty fifth, goes the tail Of Preparatory High School in Detroit. Slu to everyone who listens to us on w j LB in Detroit, drop one the clothes.

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We have a small problem this morning. See there's a history teacher named Dominique Brown. And if you ask me, there is an injustice that happened to Dominique because Dominique Brown was let go from her job at Tailor Preparatory High School. Yes, let go, fire, terminated, discharged, all because they didn't like her side hustle, all because teachers are so underpaid in this country that a lot of them have to try to find other sources of incomes.

Are other careers. Okay, trust me.

My mother was an English teacher in South Carolina, and I've said on this radio public school teachers are disgustingly underpaid, all right, The humans that we entrust with our most prized possessions, our children, are barely getting by. There was a survey done by Anya dot org that found teachers work more hours per week than other working adults.

Yes, an estimated fifty three.

Hours per week, seven more hours than the average working adult. And teachers, no surprise here, report much less satisfaction with their base pay than other working adults, and twenty five percent of their work is uncompensated.

Did you hear what I just said?

Twenty five percent of all the work teachers do is uncompensated, and sixty six percent say their base salary is inadequate, compared with thirty nine percent of working adults. Okay, it's terrible, horrible for what teachers mean to us in our communities.

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Dominique Brump, whose rap name is Dripping Honey, has been an educator for seven years and started teaching history at Taylor Preparatory High School in August, but all that came to an abrupt end months later after she says a parent came across one of her rap videos.

The first meeting that I had was like the principal dund and they had told me that the parent wished to stay anonymous, and she felt as if she didn't like my rap career and that I was a bad influence on the kids because I rap.

She said she was fired in February because she's a rapper. Before the firing, around Thanksgiving, she says, there were meetings and an ultimatum.

My mind, in my heart was telling me two things. I'm just I couldn't see myself like giving up my other passion just because somebody didn't like it. They said, erase all your content. That was all and maybe erast all your content. I'm just like, respectfully, I can't do that.

Brown acknowledges the profanity in her lyrics, but she says that has nothing to do with Taylor Prepp and the positive impact she's had on her students and the community. In February, on her last day, she created a music video with her students that has since gone viral. Christina Lenz says her son in eleventh grader started a petition in supportive miss Brown, gathering over two hundred student signatures.

Dropping the Clues Box with Dominique brownieka Dripping.

Honey, Dripping Honey fired because of an anonymous hating as parent complaining saying she's a bad influence on her students because she's a rapper.

How you feel like that?

In Detroit, home with some of the most influential people ever to pick up a microphone, there is nothing but a bunch of rapidy, rap ass Negroes and Caucasians in Detroit. Okay, people in Detroit started rapping soon as they come out the womb, soon as they get smacked on the ass by the doctor. They don't cry. They start spitting, Boss, I don't even know what it thought. Trick Trick, Ice wear Vessel, Side of Babies, Baby Phase Rade forty two, Doug cast Doll, Royce five nine d twelve, Danny Brown.

Oh he tries Big Sean. Oh.

They got this one guy who's considered by many one of the greatest of all time. He's not on my personal list, but objectively speaking, you can't deny his place in hip hop culture. Marshall matters is that name ring a bell? What I'm telling you is rapping in Detroit is like breathing, okay, and being from Detroit. There's a lot of other side hustles she could be doing that could be considered a bad influence, but rapp ain't one of them.

Yo.

Now she got a record, okay. You heard them talk about it in the news report.

I saw. I watched it on YouTube.

It's called Dripping One on One And in the video she has some.

Of her students, you know actually in the video.

In the description of the video, it says, Dripping one on one featuring the best students in the world.

All I hear is a positive anthem.

Okay, a positive anthem okay, encouraging young ladies not to be ho east. Okay, I don't know how old Dominique Brown is, but she doesn't look old. And this is the first time, probably ever in the history of life, that the age demographics between adults and kids is really non existent. And what I mean by that is the stuff we was raised on in the nineteen hundreds and early two thousands really ain't no different from you know what these kids is on now. It's the same type

Okay. How is the generation to raise off?

Nwa Uncle Luke lil Kim three six, Mathia and Eminem. Gonna judge anybody, Okay, as long as that woman is doing what she's supposed to be doing in that classroom and her kids are learning and passing. If she wants to rap in her spare time, let up. And I bet you all of those kids trust her more than they trust any other teacher in the school because she speaks their language.

Okay, how about this?

Instead of stopping teachers side hustles, how about improving pay because a lot of teachers are getting out of the teaching business, and a lot of teachers aren't looking to a lot of people aren't even looking to get into the teaching business. So if you want to recruit and retain educators, get their money up, but not only that, improve the number of hours worked in their overall working conditions. That's how you gonna keep teachers wanting to be teachers.

And then the mean time.

You shouldn't try to stop them from rapping to potentially find the career to make its meat. You should be ashamed that they have to attempt to rap to find a career that make ins meat because you not paying them enough as a teacher. Please give Preparatory High School in Detroit the biggest s hull.

What y'all is giggling at looking at her?

It's going through videos.

But she got a bunch of them only so one what else you got? I saw drive on Driffer one on one. It was there was then there was the about getting it is that her?

I don't think that's her dripping honey, driven honey, that's miss honey. No, yes it is, Yes, it is how.

You spell driven d R I P P I N.

Space honey that is dripping.

No, she got it.

But you know, as a person who used to be a student, Okay, we like the teachers that got that back down to take that class.

I mean, you ain't got no choice public school.

But I can't remember a teacher right now who had adult at Berkeley Middle School and.

He was all in that class. It was there every day on time.

She was also a very nice person though, right, I don't want to say yeah.

I mean, he wasn't saying that about.

We were just saying while he was preaching.

In the circle, climbing up the walls. Okay, what what what this middle high what is it?

The name of the song is called Nigga No hold up, but that's another song. I just got to say that.

Wait, so this is elementary school he's at? It just said the preparatory school more than this high school.

It might be high school. Yeah, the kids looked older.

You know what I say, I went to a college preparatory school that was high school.

If I'm being honest, some of the kids in the video look older than her. Yeah, okay, choice, it's more than likely a high school. Okay, rough out there they grew up rough they all right?

Well, dripping honey, dripping honey, three one three, go follow her on YouTube. She only got three thousand subscribers, like a little over there, a little over three thousand subscribers.

Go follow her on YouTube because she won't have a job right now.

Okay, yes, you have plenty offers by the end of the show, So that's amazing.

Yeah, Dripping one, Drip one on one got ninety four thousand views, that's.

The biggest one. Yeah, and then Nigga No got ten thus had Nigga got ten thousands? And then the don't call no cheat cold you know, cheat code.

Then the dripping honey, the rumors freestyle, that's the one that uh you're talking about.

And just go down this dripping honey rabbit hole real quick.

Then there's the the Let's go to the Beach Swimsuit edition slutter you, dripping honey, dripping honey.

It's disgusting what they do to public public school teachers out here in the street, overworked and underpaid.

Yeah, all right, well that is the donkey of the day, Detroit.

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All right, Well, when we come back, Nina Turner and Derek Dowdell will be joining us.

That says last name right. I don't think so.

It's dow Down all right, So we're gonna kick it with Nina turning Derek dow Dale when we come back.

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