CALLING ALL: Rap masters, rhyme busters, word smiths, poets and spoken word creatives.
Sancta Maria College students have set the bar high. We gained this choice rap about our Eye on Nature 2020 event theme, Adaptations in NZ - Urutaunga ki Aotearoa.
South Auckland we know you can beat box . . .
(Let’s get ready to rumble) Patting crescendo finish with clap
The meteor arrived, our dinosaurs died
Millions of years later, life evolved beyond a Slater
Land of the long white cloud, had no land based mammals
Let’s listen to my babbles
Clicking and whistling bird mimic
New Zealand is unique
Just give us one peek
See the animals that we keep
We got kakapos galore
But they’re dying by the score
We’ve got to save them guys
We just can’t ignore
New Zealand’s one of a kind
It might have slipped ones mind
We shouldn’t have to remind
That our animals have declined
When the humans arrived
Our animals had to tip-toe
Because they did not know
The threat of a stoat
Set to get your goat
Or the rats that eat all the bounty
No more kaka kakariki
The predators are taking over
The kiwi’s becoming a loner
This might go over your shoulder
But adaptation is a lot slower
Refuse Reduce Reuse
Reset Restore Regenerate
New Zealand is unique
Let’s look after it
Wrap up the rap with these key points:
New Zealand is unique,
Just give us one peek,
Our birds had no need to fly,
So they abandoned our blue sky,
Until the predators took over,
The moa had to look over its shoulder,
Our flightless birds had to tiptoe,
Because adaptation is too slow,
New Zealand is unique,
Let’s look after it.
Thank you Sancta Maria College. We love it and congratulations on gaining NCEA credits for this piece.
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