Knowing Dallas Wayde

A story about a high schooler whose fame garnered ridicule

Alexander Razin
3 min readAug 25, 2022
He sort of looks like this. Photo by ArtHouse Studio from Pexels

It looks like another dull high school assembly in the gymnasium. Thankfully, I can sit where I please; the top of the gym bleachers seems okay. My friends and I can speak freely about life here. We hoped our rapport would promptly make the announcements and the school band performance end.

Like every other assembly day, it ran its course, yet the school had a fun surprise. The teachers brought Dallas Wade McFadden, or simply Dallas Wayde, upfront on the gymnasium floor to sing one of his hip-hop songs. Before he began, we knew the performance wouldn’t end well since the school felt spiteful and jealous of Dallas Wayde, given his nepotism and rapping ability. My classmates and I would’ve been okay with him rapping and singing, but he was neither.

Our disdain was apparent when the assemblies’ boos proved we disliked Dallas for everything he stood for.

Spite and envy run deep, it appears.

Soon after the assembly, the feud continued on Twitter, as he denounced the haters, and one student should’ve thought about what he posted before submitting a comment on Dallas’s tweet:

Why were they booing?

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Alexander Razin

Aficionado and connoisseur of obscure and experimental music, movies, and TV. Fictional and nonfictional pieces have their place here, too