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Hands down, the sure-shot hit of the summer is “Bodak Yellow,” by Bronx, N.Y., rapper Cardi B, now officially in the classroom via the genius of one creative teacher.

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Erica Buddington, a self-described arts educator, recently posted a video on Twitter, rapping the “map version” of the hit song as her class goes awf in the background.

https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/900880011158315009

Buddington later posted the lyrics, in what she calls an exercise of “meeting the kids where they are.”

https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/901163051516387328

She said that the kids in her class knew the words the very next day and that the entire school has now got “longitude.”

https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/901163771217031168

Shoutout to Buddington for making a dumb song smart. Y’all know that song don’t make no sense (but I still luuuuh me some Belcalis, who, incidentally, luuuuhs the “map” song).

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