Extremely Dope Teacher Suspended for Allowing Extremely Dope Rap Video to Be Filmed in His Classroom

Augusta rapper OP4's new video for "No Fucks" opens with an off-camera blow job and a message to the class while a lone harpsichord plays in the background. The 19-year-old, also known as Nigel Isaac, reads from his notes: "When it's all said and done, she still wanna come to my place / Even though a nigga only really wanna cum in your face." When the bass drops in, the video shows a marching band's bass drum, the mallet wielded by a girl clad in yellow and green.

That intro was shot at TW Josey High School; specifically, it was shot in OP4's father's classroom. And, combined with separate scenes depicting a 24-year-old woman drinking alcohol and the young rapper sitting in a bath full of breakfast cereal, it's angered the Richmond County School System, who placed the elder Isaac on administrative leave late last week. In a statement last Friday, the board announced that it was "shocked and disappointed by the content of this video." As a result, OP4's father, Benjamin Isaac, has been placed on administrative leave with "the possibility of termination."

"If it was inappropriate for those kids to be in that video because of the content, I don't want to see any goddamn kids in The Godfather or The Sopranos," Benjamin Isaac told Noisey over the phone from Augusta. "I don't want to see no extras in 50 Shades of Grey."

Isaac, who has been a Teacher of the Year at TW Josey High on a number of occasions and was named a "Scholar of Change" by Walden University a year ago, has been working with his son on music projects for more than a decade. He's well-connected to the music scene in the city, and he's become a de facto manager for his son. He says that the story around "No Fucks" has been misreported by the press in Georgia; he received permission to film the video in his classroom, he says, and underage students, who only appeared in the classroom scenes either way, had to have their parents sign a release form in advance.

"You have a black male sitting in a cherry red sports car on a Saturday night," he says of one scene. "You really think bringing that much attention to ourselves in downtown Augusta, we're going to have underage kids drinking alcohol? We had Kool-Aid in the bottle. It was a production. It was a video. It was pretend."

The most frustrating thing, he says, is that both the video to "No Fucks" and the track itself are critiques of hip-hop's zeitgeist, not easy celebrations of it. OP4's third verse attacks his first two, talking about a "formula" to gain attention, criticizing harassment and photocopied verses.

"What they're missing is that the song is really positive. If people manage to get to the third verse, it actually decries everything in the first and second verse. He lays that out very eloquently in the third verse." It's all hysterical hypocrisy, he says. "The same people that are talking about it, they just elected a genitalia-grabbing president."

Besides, he says, "how sexual can you be when you're sitting in a bath of milk and Captain Crunch? They're sitting in the bathtub, they don't even touch each other. There was one damn ass-shot. Everything else, the girl's got a bikini top on. People are over-sexualizing it. They're making it seem like 2 Live Crew, 'Pop that Pussy.'"

Nigel backs his father up. He insists that they had the necessary permission from everyone at the school to shoot the video and that every kid had written permission from their parents to appear as extras. The principal actress in the video, the woman in the bathtub and the car, is 24 years old; Nigel himself is 19, and the only under-18s in the video appear in the classroom scenes, smashing up already-condemned computers. "For them to say that the kids shouldn't have been in the presence of what was going on — these kids experience worse things outside of that," OP4 tells Noisey. "To actually get the experience to be in a music video, be extras, it baffles me that it would go so far left."

The controversy has sprung up at busy time, too. On Friday, OP4 held a listening party for his debut album, West EGG, due out January 31. His father might be "just chilling, waiting to see what they're going to do," but neither Isaac is taking time off from music right now. West EGG is a collaborative project between the father and son, the result of a bond over music that goes back to OP4's early childhood. "We've been recording together, going on trips and freestyling together since I was a kid. Some people go fishing, some people go to the gun range, this is how we bond[…] My dad is a far better lyricist than I am," he concedes.

His father agrees: "I can flow my ass off. He got it all from me."

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