Rapping educators welcome kids back to school and they ‘like it’

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Drop the mic! Two educators at Snipes Academy Art and Design in Wilmington are pumping up students for another school year with rhymes and raps.

Snipes Academy posted a video on their Facebook page of school social worker Suzanna Whitfield and counselor Webster Guthrie rapping about school to the beat of Cardi B’s song “I like it”.

According to school officials, they say it was a way to “welcome our students back.” During class Guthrie gave a lesson and then invited Whitfield to join in on a rap session the students would never forget.

The video has been viewed more than a 1,000 times and shared by dozens on Facebook.

Snipes Academy of Arts and Design is a magnet school and states on their website that they have a diverse population and a large cross-section of cultures.