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Taking Hip Hop Shakespeare across England, UK rapper Akala is a true role model for young inner city kids.

After attending my first Hip Hop Shakespeare workshop I was impressed with the participation from the young ones. With many of them having no experience of MC'ing, they would had you fooled my the end of the workshop.

The idea of the class is to incorporate Shakespeare and Hip Hop together, to illustrate that the two still have similar concepts - such as themes, language and rhythm. To understand how it works: Akala would read a line from Shakespeare or from a Hip Hop song and ask the kids to guess it's origin. This task even had me buffed.

Akala would then hand over a Shakespeare script and ask the kids to rap two line each, which was pulled of a as theatrical play. Throughout the class Akala stayed focused and ensured the kids did not mention anything negative and if they did, Akala was on their case. The workshop ended with the kids performing their own masterpiece they created themselves.

During the course of the workshop kids were interacting and talking to each other and really getting into character.

However, there was this particular kid that did not want to take part, but was happy to follow the cameraman round.

To find out when the next workshop is happening, click here.

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