Lupe Fiasco has been long regarded as one of the more esteemed voices in Hip Hop, a gifted and intricate rhymer who could teach a course or two on wordplay. Thanks to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Food & Liquor rapper is set to become not only part of the curriculum but become a professor.
On Friday (May 20), MIT announced the appointments for its MLK Visiting Professor program for the 2022-23 school year. Alongside Lupe, associate professor of theater Eunice Ferreira and documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah were named as experts in arts and humanities.
“I been holding this for a while. I’ll put together something more sophisticated later that really captures the nuance and gravity but for now I’ll just say it straight and raw: I’m going to teach Rap at
@MIT,” Lupe tweeted following the announcement.
When a fan claimed learning under Lupe would result in a “useless” degree, Lupe quickly hit back in a since-deleted tweet, writing, “Syllabus isn’t built yet but I’m thinking its fruit to be had in looking at neuromorphic computation through the lens of Rap as a lossless data compression model with a dash of energy efficiency via refining Landauer’s principle applied to cytoarchitectonics. And some rapping…”
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Lupe joins a number of Hip Hop luminaries who added the title of professor to their résumé. In 2020, T.I. teamed up with Dr. Melva K. Williams to teach the “Business of Trap Music” course at Clark Atlanta University. Famed producer 9th Wonder previously taught at North Carolina Central University, the University of Virginia, Duke University and other institutions and is now set to teach at JAY-Z’s Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment at Long Island University.
don’t know what’s more annoying, this n***a face, or the sh!t that come out his face
Cause your still a old as slavery hating crab that’s why. Anything smart and black erks u. You lame that’s what erking
Smart and black is an oxymoron. You are living with the anguish of your angry black momma, boy.
gearing up to shoot innocent people at a supermarket? what happened to “cuck” this and “cuck” that? Guess your hero stole your favorite word. Where is your hero now? He had his big plan to show the world how lousy and terrible black folks are. he was going shoot up that supermarket and SHOW them black folk who whitey really is. And where is your hero now. So troll on cock smoker. a padded cell is waiting for u
we’ll need this again after proud boys assulted us
College has become a joke in the last 10-15 years. When everything has a “degree” you know degrees are worthless. We need to go back to the days where only doctors, nurses, and lawyers needed degrees. When the richest people in the world dont have degrees, it speaks volumes about the concept of college.
Yeah the richesy people in the world got money from their parents to start a business at 12. Thats why… Elon Musk inherented apartheid money
@real talk
The richest people don’t have degrees but they dropped out of Harvard and Yale. They weren’t just some bums who started their own business
School is just a test of you being able to repeat why is told you u! Has no real measure of intelligence. Just memory.
I would say that too if I was stupid af
What a joke! Rap should be taught in prison, thats the only place it has any value
NGL this kinda has to stop ..you have to realize this is slowly disenfranchising the culture …how many black youths have access to MIT not to mention the presence of black people in the tech world is a small percentage ..culture vultures no longer has to evade they just invite now and have it taught
if its not about evil i dont want to take it
yeah i do lol