Lupe Fiasco continues his college run.
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins College has introduced it’ll launch the first-ever Bachelor of Music in Hip Hop program, bringing the primary undergraduate hip-hop diploma to the primary conservatory in the US. Lupe Fiasco has joined as college on the prestigious college as a visiting artist.
In line with the press launch, “the brand new program will mix the assets and strengths of Peabody’s industry-leading Music Engineering and Expertise (MET) applications with the Conservatory’s lengthy historical past of innovation and excellence in efficiency coaching.”
The Hip Hop curriculum will heart on the abilities of rapping, beatboxing, turntablism, and producing, alongside lessons on the cultural historical past and evolution of hip-hop type, method, and expertise. The inaugural college is led by composer, producer, beatmaker, pianist, and professor Wendel Patrick.
“With Wendel Patrick’s considerate management, a burgeoning curiosity in applications on the intersection of music and expertise, and Peabody’s dedication to increasing the definition of Twenty first-century creative coaching, this is a vital alternative to direct Peabody’s strengths towards a vital American cultural motion that has been a driving creative drive for greater than half a century,” mentioned Peabody Institute Dean Fred Bronstein. “Peabody has been a pacesetter on the intersection of artwork and schooling for over 150 years, and we couldn’t be extra excited to foster and assist the skills of future generations of hip-hop artists in collaboration with those that are pushing the artwork type ahead, and to take action in a metropolis, Baltimore, that itself has lengthy been fertile floor for the voices of hip-hop.”
“I’m honored to be becoming a member of the college of the distinguished Peabody Conservatory doing what I like most, rap,” mentioned Lupe. “I stay up for advancing the research and apply of rap and hip-hop into the higher echelons of upper schooling inside a program that may encompass the core efficiency coaching with coursework within the cultural historical past and sociopolitical atmosphere that gave rise to hip-hop and the style’s reputation and affect.”
Lupe is at present a visiting scholar and professor at MIT in addition to a Henry Crown Fellow on the Aspen Institute.