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I couldn't eat because even though I'd never met Scoota, I knew who he wanted to be and where he came from. In Baltimore, the young black boys still dream of street stardom — rapping or ball playing — to make it out. I didn't know Lor Scoota, a. The beats were dope, and you could dance to it. Last month, Scoota visited a local elementary school to read to a group of students about the civil rights movement. As Scoota might ask, "Who up next? But most won't, and the dirty little secret is, it's not because of a lack of ambition.

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Fixing a legal loophole for young truckers. Originally the introductory lesson was designed to culminate with an analysis of Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed "Alright," but a student suggested a song by Scoota entitled "Ready or Not. In fact, it's often the exact opposite: But that ambition, scooota drive to leave and give back, is scary to some people.

Lor Scoota may not have been a saint, but he didn't need to be for his life to have mattered. Bold, sensible actions needed to push Md. I'd heard his hit song "Bird Flu," and I kinda liked it.

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Lor Scoota

Scoota discusses the danger of growing up in Baltimore; he poignantly describes the feelings of frustration of being constantly surrounded by death. After Scoota's shooting death last weekend, I saw a picture of my former student, Dallas Cowboys rookie football player Charles Tapper at his draft party in April; he was hugging Scoota and had captioned the shot: I know it because just like Scoota, I was one of svoota young black boys growing up on Baltimore's west side. In Baltimore, the young black boys still dream of street stardom — rapping or ball playing — to make it out.

They fear that Scoota and others like him will reach new heights and never remember where they came from, that they'll leave Baltimore behind.

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But Scoota was much more than that song. You can feel the pain and grit of Baltimore in his lyrics and his voice: But most won't, and the dirty little secret is, it's not because reacy a lack of ambition.

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ScootaUpNext, but I knew of him. So they cut them down first, unable to stand the thought someone might llr out while they're left behind. Still cant understand why the good have to die so young in my city. As Scoota might ask, "Who up next? I didn't know Lor Scoota, a.

Trump makes Captain Queeg look like Captain Kirk. In that song, Scoota represented the lro sounds of Baltimore in the same way that countless other Baltimore entertainers have done before. Sedrick Smith is a history teacher and chair of the social studies department at City College; his email is sedricksmith gmail.

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I know that feeling, the feeling of being trapped and wanting better. Last month, Scoota visited a local elementary school to read to a group of students sxoota the civil rights movement.

It's the ambition that causes so many young black Baltimore boys not to make it out. It was typical Baltimore: He represented the dream of so many of us black Baltimore boys: He, along with another Baltimore rapper, Young Moose, visited schools across the city last year to encourage young people to stay in school.

His death should be a call for all of us young black ambitious boys from Baltimore to support one another, so we can reach new heights and give back to our communities.

And a few have. This past semester I taught a unit on "Hip-Hop and the Black Community," and in it, my students and I analyzed "political" hip-hop songs past and present.