Lupe Fiasco has been announced as a professor of Hip Hop at Johns Hopkins University.
Lupe, who already lectures on Hip Hop at MIT and is currently undergoing a fellowship at Yale, revealed the news on Instagram on Wednesday (January 1).
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Alongside a picture of himself wearing a Johns Hopkins baseball cap, the Chicago native wrote: “Let’s hit the ground running in 2025… Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the faculty at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Fall 2025 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, teaching Rap as part of the groundbreaking new 4-year Hip Hop Degree Program led by the visionary Professor @wendelpatrickofficialmusic.
“The @peabodyinstitute is one of the oldest music conservatories in America. World renowned for its rigorous training and for producing some of the world’s greatest musicians, and I’m honored to contribute to this legacy doing what I love most, Rap.”
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He added: “I’ll continue my teaching at @mit and pursuing my fellowship at @yale while advancing Rap studies and practice into the upper echelons of higher education at large. See you soon Baltimore.”
In the comments section, Lupe received some love from the likes of Freeway, Robert Glasper, Bun B and Twista, among others.
The 42-year-old had a busy 2024, dropping his ninth album Samurai and briefly reviving the Child Rebel Soldier side project he originally created with Kanye West and Pharrell.
“I’m gonna reboot CRS in the next six months, maybe next year,” he said in an interview with Stereogum last summer. “Tyler, [The Creator] has one of the CRS records. But it’s gonna go back to the original energy, which was me rapping over Radiohead beats.”
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Lupe kept his word and soon after released “Shrink,” a freestyle over the British rock band’s Kid A track “Optimistic.”
However, he later took down the track and revealed that Radiohead sent him “the biggest cease-and-desist” over the sample.
“Radiohead was like, ‘Fuck all that,’” he said on Sway in the Morning in October, prompting laughter from the veteran radio host.
In that same interview, the Food & Liquor lyricist also explained what happened to the star-studded supergroup, jokingly lamenting that “the two richest n-ggas in the group” were the reason it never continued.
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“P’s eating caviar golden sandwiches, Ye is stitching up two different Rick Owens coats to wear in the shower. I’m trying to corral these two,” he laughed.
He added: “There [was] a lot of fan momentum around it as a movement [following the release of ‘Us Placers’]. We always talked about [the group, but] it kind of fell to the wayside… And then again, n-ggas get rich and crazy and shit goes left.”
