today was a multicultural assembly
\nand i was an MC<\/p>\n
the first assembly went routinely enough
\nit was cool<\/p>\n
the second, though, had a glitch
\napparently one of the wires had broken and this was a key wire for the stage lights
\ni was hanging with the stage crew, and everything was ready for the show to go, except for those lights
\nso they told me to go down and tell the audience what was going on, i joked maybe i should rap (the previous day at rehearsals at i had rapped “jump around”)
\nthey said, good idea, and that i should do it
\nso i told them, fine, turn on the music when i give the cue<\/p>\n
then i went down to the pit
\ngrabbed a mic, and alerted the audience as to what was going on with the lights
\nthen i said “how many of you remember the house of pain?”
\nsome cheers
\nthen the music started, and there was more cheering
\nthen i sort of started dancing — just moving to the music
\nand then i started rapping
\nand everyone was taken by utter surprise
\nvirtually everyone i talked to was simply expecting me to introduce the song and that was it, they were really surprised when i started rapping myself
\n(also, imagine a brown guy in shalwar khameez rapping)<\/p>\n
but it was great, i’d definitely do it again<\/p>\n
in fact, they cut me off (they’d decided to go ahead without the stage lights, made some improv)
\nand so i had one whole section to go when they cut me off
\ni feel like i have unfinished business (I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE, MU HA HA)
\nbut it was pretty cool<\/p>\n
the audience seemed to enjoy it a lot<\/p>\n
and the rest of the show was cool, too<\/p>\n
so that was that<\/p>\n
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