Alaska student spits rap out of world's oldest known epic poem03:49
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January 03, 2022

High school junior Tracen Wassily of Dillingham, Alaska, was recently given an English assignment: write something new about an ancient epic poem.

So he decided to rap about the 4,000-year-old text. Izzy Ross of KDLG reports.

This segment aired on January 3, 2022.