OOOHHHH, my life. How often do people have experiences like the ones I have? I am in school, studying, singing to myself... when all of a sudden, Gary Ricketts (an english teacher) walks into the room just I am belting "used to know a bitch named maggie mae, I would be up in those guts like everyday" and I look up. There he is, laughing and asks, "what are you singing?" obviously embarrassed I reply, "uuuhhh Ben Folds." With this he continues on to start a conversation about the song Bitches Ain't Shit. Now see, normally, I love a deep conversation about white man covers of west coast gangster rap, but this was so much different. The thing about Gary Ricketts is that, although he may be awkward, uncomfortable, a human dictionary? But in real life he is a very intelligent, cultured, and interesting man, I enjoy talking to him very much. I hope you understand how potentially wrong this entire situation could go, and if you don't, stop now... So, here I am singing my dirty rap song (you better have caught that reference)and Gary Ricketts, bless his heart, asks me if I knew what the song was actually about. Naturally, I don't, I prefer to let the poetry of Dr. Dre to just have it's effect. I had no idea that there was some sort of falling out between Dr. Dre and Easy E and how they had a dispute over a ho who eventually left both of them to become a prostitute. This where the conversation should have ended, no? Oh, of course not! We then, both of us, use textual support to back up the story of Dre, E, and maggie mae. The 31 year old English teacher and the 16 year old student begin to recite lyrics such as, "hanging with the white bitch doing the shit she do, sucking on his dick just a buck or two" and "I see my little cousin taz and he's fucking my ho." I guess, if ever questioned I can say that perhaps it was for educational purposes. Even so, I can now say I have a cultured, intellegent perspective on west coast gangster rap. Thank you, Gary Ricketts.