Mr. Foster vs. Mr. Flippo/Rap Meanings

Mr. Flippo:
'''Asseyez-vous, son. It's time for me to teach you a lesson'''

("Asseyez-vous" means "sit down" and was often used by Mr. Flippo towards his students. He is saying that he is going to teach Mr. Foster a lesson, or beat him at rap battling.)

Don't go messing with the best man in the entire teaching profession

(Mr. Flippo is claiming that he is the best teacher ever.)

'''I'm dressed for success. You look like a lumberjack'''

(Mr. Flippo often wore a suit jacket with a plaid shirt and jeans while Mr. Foster is often known for wearing flannel/plaid, which, combined with his beard, makes him look like a lumberjack.)

'''All you do is crack jokes. Your whole class is a hack!'''

(Mr. Flippo accuses Mr. Foster of making more jokes than teaching and says this makes his class inferior to Flippo's.)

'''My language is elegant. Yours is a complicated mess'''

(French is a romance language with an arguably more rhythmic flow than Japanese, an Asiatic language. French also uses the same alphabet as English while Japanese has its own writing system, some of which it shares with Chinese, supposedly the hardest language for English-speakers to learn.)

I'd need eight syllables just to tell you how useless it is

(One of the translations for the word "useless" is eight syllables long.)

So come on and fight me, man, don't you know karate?

(Flippo assumes that, since Foster teaches Japanese, he must know karate and is therefore able to fight Flippo.)

I teach the language of love, you teach the language of anime

(French is often called "the language of love", while most anime is in Japanese.)

Mr. Foster:
<p style="font-weight:normal;">This French hipster's spent a bit too long in my château 

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Mr. Flippo's dressing style was often referred to as "hipster-like". A chateau is a castle and rhymes with "shadow", as in "living in my shadow", or not being as well known as someone.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">I'll Flippo your verse, make you die hard like yippee kayo 

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Mr. Foster uses Mr. Flippo's last name as a pun as in "flip your verse [on its head]". 'Die Hard' is the name of a movie, and "yippee kayo" is a play on words of "yippee ki yay", a phrase used in the movie. "Kayo" means knockout.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''You wanna Nihon-go? Your kids got nothing on mine, Barry'''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">("Nihongo" is the word for the Japanese language in Japanese and sounds like "You wanna go?" Mr. Foster is also saying that Mr. Flippo's students are not as good as his because of what he says in the next line...) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''I'm so fly they even dressed up as me during homecoming! '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(During homecoming one year, several of Mr. Foster's students dressed in plaid to mimic him.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''Mess? I think you mean complex '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Mr. Foster responds to Mr. Flippo's claim that Japanese is a "mess" by saying instead that it is complex.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''I'm the most likable language teacher in the East Annex! '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Mr. Foster is arguably the most popular language teacher from the East Annex, or the largest eastern building on the White Station campus.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''You're getting schooled. My flows are just 2 へび, yours are lame and weak '''

("You're getting schooled" is a phrase that means "you're getting beaten"; this also serves as a pun relating to White Station. 'へび means "snake" in Japanese, and the phrase "2 へび" is a pun meaning "too heavy". ) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''So hang a white flag on your door. Better yet, have a funassyi! '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(A white flag is a symbol of surrender, which France has often done throughout its history. Mr. Foster is telling Mr. Flippo to surrender. "Funassyi" is the unofficial mascot of Funabashi, Chiba, Japan and resembles a pear. This is a subtle workaround to the phrase "grow a pair", meaning to "man up".)

Mr. Flippo:
<p style="font-weight:normal;">I'll rip your style from your loafers to your Paul Bunyan beard 

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Mr. Flippo attacks Mr. Foster's dressing style again.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''You haven't been able to organize a class trip in three years! '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(As of the making of the battle, the last class trip Mr. Foster organized was in 2011, which was actually four years before 2015 but did not flow as well as "three".)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''You're done, Thomas. Clean out your desk and get on outta here '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Mr. Flippo tells Mr. Foster to clean out his desk and leave, which is what often happens when one is fired.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Cause it's a faculty army versus one Japanese teacher! '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Mr. Foster is the only Japanese teacher at White Station, whereas most of the other languages have at some point had multiple teachers.)

Mr. Foster:
<p style="font-weight:normal;">'''What's your favorite student's name? Oh, right, it's Benjamin '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(Benjamin Liggett took French when Mr. Flippo was at White Station.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">He came in my room one day and asked he me for a translation 

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(During the filming of "The Making of It Just Might Work", Benjamin asked Mr. Foster the Japanese translations for several words.)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">I said ラップをやめ、医療学校に行く

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Which means, quit rapping and go on to medical school!

<p style="font-weight:normal;">(After the 2014-2015 school year, Mr. Flippo retired from teaching in order to pursue a medical degree.)