The Next Lesson In High School English Class? Taylor Swift And The Drake-Kendrick Beef.

John Keats and Maya Angelou, please make room on the syllabus for the new kids on the block: Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar.

In some middle school and high school English classes throughout the country, teachers are using Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” album, as well as Lamar and Drake’s very recent rap battle, as a means to get their students pumped up about poetry.

In one widely shared video, a high school English instructor who goes by @stillateacher on TikTok says that her formerly Drake-devoted students are convinced that Lamar has won the dramatic, weekslong lyrical feud.