The New York Times is doing its annual News Rap contest now. Students 13 to 19 years old can choose from at least four important news stories from the New York Times this year to write their 12- to 16-line rap – and they can be all along one topic (say the Syrian crisis?) to ensure your rap makes more sense. Raps must be submitted by 4 am our time on Tuesday, January 12 as a comment to the post linked to above.

Need some inspiration? Check out Flocab’s Year in Rap for 2014.

As always, if you choose to submit to a contest, that counts as your WWS for the period. Some of you are quite creative rappers – I look forward to seeing what you do!