Fast Times At Trillmont High
Toussaint Morrison & Dr. Wylie
2013
A new teacher arrives at Trillmont High and quickly learns the ins and outs of the meaning of life through the lens of high school. The soundtrack is Toussaint rapping over pumped-up versions of yesterdecade’s biggest pop radio hits.
In 2012, Morrison was hired to teach hip-hop and theatre to students at Roosevelt High School, a school on the precipice of being shut down due to racial disparity in Minneapolis. To boost attendance, the principal requested he enter each English classroom and give a clinic on the advent of hip-hop and slam poetry. Here, the situation gets almost interesting enough to ornament upon one sheet. Toussaint Morrison proceeded into each English class to rap and perform spoken word, touching on Minneapolis holding the country’s #1-ranked racial disparity in education, death before graduation, and adversity of stratification in the city.
The result turned out the largest attendance to Morrison’s after-school hip-hop program that day, a re-invented vigor to make a go for the 2013 national poetry slam, and a pink slip from the Roosevelt High School principal the next morning. The poem performed in Roosevelt that day had incited a riot and surfaced enough underlying tension to squeeze the air out of a building… including Toussaint.
Disheveled, halfway through the mixtape before you and left to seek employment at the nearest Starbucks, Toussaint Morrison & Dr. Wylie steered the 80’s-pop-infused joyride into a socio-political themed high school beset in the Midwest. Wrought with Morrison’s experience working in Special Ed. as a paraprofessional and Wylie’s unhealthy, newfound addiction to what he calls “All Synth Everything”, the degenerative duo bring you Fast Times At Trillmont High.
Stand-Out Tracks
New Crush
Iowa Gurl Rock
Pep Rally
