Go to college: What are your plans after high school? In a recent viral video, Jay Pharoah of Saturday Night Live, is joined by the first lady, Michelle Obama, in a hilarious, but undeniably catchy rap, “Go to College.”
Pharoah, now in his sixth season at SNL, is a Virginia native known for his impression of the first lady’s husband, Barack Obama. The first lady, a bundle of well-fueled energy, is the down-to-earth, in-the-garden icon for schoolchildren across the nation.
Their rap is well-timed. The dropout rate has tumbled from “12 percent in 1990 to 7 percent in 2013, with most of the decline occurring since 2000,” reports the National Center for Education Statistics. The rate for Hispanic students is 12 percent, the rate for black students is 7 percent and the rate for white students is 5 percent.
Pharoah studied business at Tidewater Community College and Virginia Commonwealth University, according to The Washington Post, while fine-tuning his stand-up skills at local clubs and trying out for SNL. The first lady is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
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