*Lupe Fiasco has reportedly arrived at Yale University to begin the Saybrook Associate Fellow program.
As Moguldom reports, Fellows and Associate Fellows participate in this distinguished program over a 4-year period. Fiasco is working with the university to organize lectures and possibly teach a course.
“He’s a big fan of Yale because he’s essentially participated in every one of the Open Yale Courses online on YouTube,” said Head of College Thomas Near, Yale Daily News reported.
“Lupe represents the kind of thinker that Yale champions,” Yale Assistant Professor Brandon Ogbunu GRD told the publication. “He had a very big impact on MIT.”
The Chicago native gushed about the fellowship program in March, writing, “Proud to announce I’ve been chosen to be a Saybrook Fellow at my OTHER favorite school in the whole wide world outside of MIT…@Yale,” he tweeted. “Shout to Tom Near for nominating me to a place where against all odds two Chicagoans found a home in the Ivy League.”
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Here’s more from Yale Daily News:
Fiasco’s journey to becoming a Fellow started at an entirely different academic institution: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fiasco has been at MIT for a year as part of its MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program, where he taught a course at MIT called Rap Theory and Practice, a technical exploration into the creation of rap music.
Fiasco also worked with MIT faculty to understand the neurophysiology of spoken word art and rap. While there, he met computational biologist and Yale Assistant Professor Brandon Ogbunu GRD ’10, a member of the same program.
He and Ogbunu collaborated on projects and talked, and eventually Ogbunu invited him to take part in a College Tea at Saybrook.
Lupe Fiasco released his debut album “Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor” in September 2006, earning three Grammy nominations. In June 2022, he released his latest album, “Drill Music in Zion.”
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