(upbeat music) ♪ Bringing that verbal graffiti.

♪ ♪ Lyrical illustrator ♪ with skill to take a ♪ ♪ thought and make patterns of poetry ♪ ♪ caught in time with the rhythm ♪ ♪ building layers of colors ♪ ♪ feeling the way that I'm ♪ moving my jaw and lips ♪ ♪ is like drawing rips ♪ and tears and paper.

♪ ♪ How I treat a hater ♪ ♪ Face of brother holding a two ♪ ♪ for all the fools the eraser.

♪ ♪ Case a brother be coming off, ♪ ♪ thinking I never saw ♪ ♪ sinking deeper ♪ ♪ in scenery painted over you mean to me ♪ ♪ with nothing to nothing means ♪ ♪ no comparison ever seen.

♪ ♪ I render masterpieces of design.

♪ ♪ You scribble lines.

♪ ♪ Dean of artistry ♪ ♪ part of me ♪ ♪ dreams of being regular ♪ ♪ back to reality ♪ ♪ Get a hold down the gallery.

♪ ♪ Every mark a new standard ♪ ♪ My neighborhood is my canvas.

♪ ♪ Can you stand it so vivid?

♪ ♪ I give it life when ♪ I spit it, spray it.

♪ ♪ Hey, it's created ♪ ♪ for viewers to play it back.

♪ ♪ Keep an eye till all this paint dry ♪ ♪ get this aerosol contact ♪ ♪ no other bro, making it colorful ♪ ♪ like the Mac and I'm smacking ♪ ♪ fakers who brag ♪ ♪ to the wall I could tag.

♪ ♪ You're it see ♪ ♪ I take a Vic frame then in ♪ ♪ like a portrait, let 'em hang when ♪ ♪ they forfeit.

Let 'em ♪ burn when I scorch it.

♪ ♪ Animate the whole landscape, ♪ ♪ make it move.

♪ ♪ Can't wait.

♪ ♪ Great the stroke of the master.

♪ ♪ When I blast the citizens, ♪ ♪ rendering my vision.

♪ ♪ My mission is simple and plain.

♪ ♪ My tempo may change, ♪ ♪ still it be the art that I bring.

♪ ♪ Images in my mind, ♪ ♪ start with a line, and no time is too, ♪ ♪ before you know when I'm through.

♪ ♪ I illustrate for you ♪ ♪ with different tones of hue.

♪ ♪ Shadows and shades are made.

♪ ♪ This concept is made true.

♪ ♪ This what I do as a trade, ♪ ♪ get paid.

♪ ♪ keeping everything ♪ in proper perspective ♪ ♪ Tight managing the vanishing point ♪ ♪ is my objective.

♪ ♪ Converging on the center.

♪ ♪ Merging lines to send ♪ 'em off of the dome.

♪ ♪ Ron Mac is the artist.

♪ ♪ So regard this ♪ ♪ say Ho!

♪ Stacey and Billy: Ho!

Stacey: Hello my dear, sweet, beautiful, brilliant Rise and Shiners.

I am Stacey McAdoo, your forever 2019 Arkansas Teacher of the Year and today I have with me my nephew Billy.

Billy.

And you just heard from Mr. Mac.

Billy, what was Mr. Mac, what genre was he demonstrating?

He was rapping.

He was rapping.

Mr. Mac: That's right.

Do you know how to rap?

I could try.

OK, I can rap just a little bit.

I want to start by telling you a little bit about rap music.

Did you know that rap music was started 50 years ago?

Way, way, a long, long time ago, way before I was born.

But it was started by little boys and girls, Preteens and teens, just like you, Billy.

Did you know that?

Billy: No.

So these these little people, little humans like you, started rap music.

But as complicated as it sounds, it's really not that difficult.

Rap music is basically just couplets.

You know what couplets are?

Billy: Uh, no.

So couplets are a form of poetry, and they are two lines where the last word rhymes.

That's all.

Let's practice making a rap couplet.

All right, can, can you help me make a beat?

I can help you.

Stacey: OK?

And clap.

OK, here I go.

Y'all ready?

My name is Stacey.

Learning is cool.

I rock all grades and Rise and Shine is my school.

(clapping) Billy?

My name is Billy.

Learning is cool.

I rock the 5th grade in the Rise and Shine school.

Oh, oh, Mr. Mac.

Rise and Shine and... (hollow clapping) (Stacey laughs) (clapping) Alright, good job.

You guys did an amazing job.

Thank you all for joining us.

And maybe next time we're together, we can make a complete rap song.

What do you think about that?

Mr. Mac: Definitely.

All right, until next time.

See you later.

Let's show 'em.

Science and reading skills, math and art, color wheels.

Let's go to class.

It's a blast!

You're a great student so we know that you can do it.

Rise and shine.

Get up off your feet.

Ah, ooo, ooo.

It's time to rise and shine.